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Speaker 1: know from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome
Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles W. Chuck
Speaker 1: Bryant and Chuck May. I say kulu uma unto be
Speaker 1: care a salama they come to you, my friend? So,
Speaker 1: um chu can I speaking Arabic to one another? Um,
Speaker 1: what did you say? I said, May you be well
Speaker 1: throughout the year. Okay, I should say that. I want
Speaker 1: to qualify that by that's the translation presented in the
Speaker 1: House to Folks article. It's not babel fish. I said
Speaker 1: peace be with you, Peace be upon you. Thanks. That's
Speaker 1: general greeting. Well, those are very nice greetings. They're particularly appropriate,
Speaker 1: um to uh say to one another. The whole reason
Speaker 1: we're speaking Arabic to one another right now is because
Speaker 1: you may or may not know this. If you're one
Speaker 1: of the um sixth of the world's population who practice Islam,
Speaker 1: you're probably well aware of this. But for the other
Speaker 1: five six Um it's Ramadan right now. That's right. It's
Speaker 1: a big month, one point three billion. I'd like to
Speaker 1: say a sixth, second largest religion behind Christianity of course,
Speaker 1: And uh, well are you sure Christianity really? Of course?
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? I thought they are way
Speaker 1: more Muslims than Christians. U, there's like over two billion Christians.
Speaker 1: I did not know that. You thought that it was
Speaker 1: the number one religion and that or maybe Buddhism Christianity.
Speaker 1: Are you sure? Oh? Yeah, I do. Christianityes they're number one.
Speaker 1: They've got that missionary outreach program. I guess it's been effective.
Speaker 1: They got a downpat So July eighteen, I'm sorry, July
Speaker 1: nine through August eighteenth this year, and we will explain
Speaker 1: why it's this year because it falls at a different
Speaker 1: time every year. Yeah, well we can explain why now
Speaker 1: because they use a lunar calendar. We got smacked down
Speaker 1: for this. Remember, No, in one of our shows a
Speaker 1: year or two ago, we said something about Ramadan falls
Speaker 1: on this and people write intersaid, actually it falls at
Speaker 1: a different time every It was probably the fastening episode. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that was. It would makes sense. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: we were like, oh wow, we need to educate ourselves
Speaker 1: and we did. Yeah, we spent the last year and
Speaker 1: a half studying. Uh, Islam. Yeah, this is the culmination
Speaker 1: of a year and a half of Islamic studies that
Speaker 1: you and I undertook to do the Ramadan episode. All right,
Speaker 1: So lenar calendar, that's where it all starts. Okay, is
Speaker 1: that where we're starting. Well, you already mentioned it, so
Speaker 1: I'm just bringing it back, all right, Well, the luard.
Speaker 1: You know, we're used to the solar calendar, the one
Speaker 1: that UM is used in the West, the sixty five
Speaker 1: day calendar based on the cycle of the sun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lunar calendar. UM breaks months down by when a
Speaker 1: new moon is sighted and then the next time a
Speaker 1: new moon is sighted. And there's a lot of UM
Speaker 1: disagreement about what sighting a new moon means. But the
Speaker 1: point is it's based on the cycle of the moon.
Speaker 1: In America, Muslims in America generally adhere to the Islamic
Speaker 1: Society of North America, and when they get together and
Speaker 1: they say, this is when Ramadan starts this year, right,
Speaker 1: So Ramadan starts as the ninth month of the Muslim calendar.
Speaker 1: So it's the ninth new moon of the year. And
Speaker 1: what it kicks off is the holiest, most joyful, most
Speaker 1: introspective most um charitable month of the year for Muslims.
Speaker 1: Basically Ramadan, it's the name of the month, but it's
Speaker 1: also the name of this month long celebration. Um is
Speaker 1: basically like the come back to Islam month for all
Speaker 1: you Muslims and those of you who aren't maybe coome
Speaker 1: get acquainted, but it is all about like getting back
Speaker 1: to your religious roots as a Muslims. That's pretty much
Speaker 1: the point of Ramadan this right, and the ninth month
Speaker 1: you mentioned is significant because in a d that was
Speaker 1: a camel trader named Mohammed traveling through the desert and
Speaker 1: he had a vision from Saudi Arabia Modernday, Saudi Arabia
Speaker 1: outside Mecca, and he uh had a vision from an angel,
Speaker 1: the Angel Gabriel, and said basically, you are the chosen one, dude,
Speaker 1: and you will receive the word of God to dispense
Speaker 1: to the people. And that was in the ninth month.
Speaker 1: So that's why Ramadan happens in the ninth month. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like the most blessed month because that was two Muslims,
Speaker 1: the most significant thing that's ever happened in the history
Speaker 1: of Earth, and the words that came through Mohammed was
Speaker 1: ended up being the Kuran. Yeah, I was transcribed. So
Speaker 1: as part of Ramadan, the entire Koran is reading, is
Speaker 1: read out loud at mosques around the world. Um, and
Speaker 1: they read a little bit every night, and so about
Speaker 1: a thirty of the Koran is read, and over the
Speaker 1: course of the month the whole thing is read. Bam
Speaker 1: Koran read Ramadan dunne and the prayer where they read
Speaker 1: him it's called the Taawi. And I need to say
Speaker 1: a special thank you too. Uh Ki Deer Azali put
Speaker 1: out a call on Facebook. We got any Muslims out there,
Speaker 1: we need some help, or I guess I could have
Speaker 1: said Arabic speakers in general. Sure, but I wanted you know,
Speaker 1: I wanted it from the horse's mouth. So key Deer
Speaker 1: emailed me and I had a list of words, and
Speaker 1: he gave me his best shot at phonetic pronunciations. And
Speaker 1: so thanks a lot man, Yeah, thanks a lot, Key Deer,
Speaker 1: big big help. I mean, that's a chuck's doing great
Speaker 1: because of you. Well, I just don't want to stumble
Speaker 1: through this and the thin people like we know. I'm
Speaker 1: with you. I think it was a good move. So
Speaker 1: the prayer that in which in the mosque that you
Speaker 1: were adding the Koran or the Koran, I guess that
Speaker 1: is how I said. It is tara wheat, that's the
Speaker 1: prayer and you say that every night. That's right, that's
Speaker 1: the nightly prayer during Ramadan, right, Yeah, And I think
Speaker 1: it's not required this part, but it is highly encouraged
Speaker 1: that you do stuff like this. Well, yeah, it's the
Speaker 1: it's the whole point. I think. Like also, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I would guess that there's Um it's the same
Speaker 1: with like say Christmas time and when Christians there's people
Speaker 1: who like us the the Christmas season to reflect and
Speaker 1: to be charitable and to right or during Lent fasting.
Speaker 1: Does that equal like fastening every day or giving up
Speaker 1: chocolate or something like that for forty days. I think
Speaker 1: it probably depends on the depth of your adherents. But
Speaker 1: the point is Ramadan is there so that you can
Speaker 1: come back and just kind of get back in touch
Speaker 1: with Islam and yourself too, because the main component, aside
Speaker 1: from the nightly um, the nightly prayers and the reading
Speaker 1: of the Kuran and its entirety during that month is fasting,
Speaker 1: which is the big the big part. Yeah, so um,
Speaker 1: Fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam. There's fasting,
Speaker 1: there's alms giving um, there is daily prayer uh. And
Speaker 1: then there's a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in
Speaker 1: your lifetime if you're able to. Yeah, they give you
Speaker 1: a break if you know you can't afford it or
Speaker 1: you're you know, like infirmed or something, right, um. And
Speaker 1: then there's Shahadah, which is um the the I guess
Speaker 1: the first pillar probably basically the belief in the creed
Speaker 1: of Islam, which is that Allah is God and Mohammed's
Speaker 1: his prophet. So you've got those five pillars. So if
Speaker 1: if the belief in God and fasting are on the
Speaker 1: same level, that's a big deal. And so this is
Speaker 1: the month that you really do it, and there's specific
Speaker 1: guidelines laid out for how you fast and in you
Speaker 1: fast right. Yeah. You start at the age of twelve,
Speaker 1: which is um in Islam. Is I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's when they consider you an adult, but that's when
Speaker 1: most of the that's when you get involved in Islam.
Speaker 1: As you know, as far as fasting and stuff like
Speaker 1: that goes, you're I guess you're no longer considered like
Speaker 1: a child. So at twelve years old you can start fasting.
Speaker 1: And Um. One of the big parts about the fast
Speaker 1: is not just that you say, you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to eat during the daytime from sun up
Speaker 1: to sundown. I'm just not gonna eat. I could lose
Speaker 1: a few pounds, and you know, it can kill two
Speaker 1: birds with one stone. The really important part and the
Speaker 1: really the only way for the fast account is uh
Speaker 1: has to do with a word called nia and I
Speaker 1: y y a h and that literally means intention. And
Speaker 1: what I gather from this is that if like the
Speaker 1: fastest to truly come from your heart for the sole
Speaker 1: purpose of praising Allah. Right, it's not like you said,
Speaker 1: like you want to lose a little weight, or you
Speaker 1: know you're um, you're an ira, a prisoner or something
Speaker 1: like that for political reasons. It's like you're doing it
Speaker 1: to be closer to God or to be a good Muslim. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if you don't. In the scripture, it says quote
Speaker 1: whoever does not make nia before dawn would not have fasted.
Speaker 1: So unless you've really feel it in your heart, then
Speaker 1: it doesn't count. So make it count. But everything counts
Speaker 1: like a little more during Ramadan apparently, so this is
Speaker 1: a very special month. Um. During this month, according to
Speaker 1: the Koran, the gates of heaven are open, so angels
Speaker 1: are coming freely down to Earth to help out, but
Speaker 1: the gates of Hell are locked and all the demons
Speaker 1: within are chained. So you are basically the path is
Speaker 1: cleared for you to really just kind of shed all
Speaker 1: of your baggage from the year. Your prayers that are
Speaker 1: done it every night are a way to um, basically
Speaker 1: clear off, clear your conscience of any wrongdoing you've done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they should make the demons locked away like twelve months
Speaker 1: out of the year. No, well, here's here's here's the thing.
Speaker 1: There's there's an answer to that. If you if the
Speaker 1: demons were locked up twelve months a year, then um,
Speaker 1: it would be all on you. That's the point during Ramadan.
Speaker 1: If you do wrongdoing or evil, that is all you.
Speaker 1: I can take that. I can take that pressure, can
Speaker 1: you sure? Why not? Uh? And not to make light
Speaker 1: of it, I'm just choking around you know. Um. So
Speaker 1: the actual practice of of fasting, what happens is you
Speaker 1: wake up early, you know, before dawn if you want
Speaker 1: to have anything to eat, and you eat a meal
Speaker 1: called sahure and that gets you going through the day.
Speaker 1: Sun comes up, then you can't eat at all, right,
Speaker 1: or drink water yea, yeah, yeah, it's gotta be like nothing.
Speaker 1: That's a good point. Um. Then when the sun sets,
Speaker 1: you break the fast, which with the meal called if tar,
Speaker 1: not to be confused with ishtar, No confuse anything. And
Speaker 1: this is your meal after the sun sets to kind
Speaker 1: of replenish your body. So you probably start off eating
Speaker 1: like some sweet drinking some sweet drinks, and dates, eating, yeah,
Speaker 1: eating dates, and basically that you want to like give
Speaker 1: some energy to your body to get it going again.
Speaker 1: And I was reading an article on the BBC about
Speaker 1: Ramadan and it was written by a Muslim scholar um
Speaker 1: and he was basically kind of chastising people who stock
Speaker 1: up as he put it, for ramadon which it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we didn't eat all days. We're gonna eat like two
Speaker 1: days worth of food at night. And he was like,
Speaker 1: that's not the point. You can't do that. So well,
Speaker 1: it says you can. Now, it says you can eat
Speaker 1: whatever you how however much you want, right, you can.
Speaker 1: But this guy he's saying like, yes you can. He's
Speaker 1: a purist. He was being a purist, gotcha. He was saying,
Speaker 1: that's not the point, all right, Well so sissy, Um,
Speaker 1: the it's a rich meal because it's gotta tie you over, obviously,
Speaker 1: unless you're just picking out on McDonald's two in the morning.
Speaker 1: And um, it includes a dessert called a kanafa or
Speaker 1: a kata if. And the kata if looks sort of
Speaker 1: like an impanada from what I can tell. And the
Speaker 1: kanafa is a cake made of wheat, sugar, honey and
Speaker 1: raisins and nuts, and it looks sort of like just
Speaker 1: a sheet cake, like a single layer sheet cake. And
Speaker 1: they both look quite delicious. I would like to try each.
Speaker 1: If there's other ones too, like baklava is one. That's
Speaker 1: a good one. Classic. Yeah, um, so chuck, you've got
Speaker 1: your uh ista iftar. Yeah, I actually did confuse the istar.
Speaker 1: That's the nighttime meal, right, Yeah, that's the nighttime meal.
Speaker 1: You go to bed, you wake up, you have a saher,
Speaker 1: and then the the day begins where you're fasting. If
Speaker 1: you are sick um, if you are chronically or acutely
Speaker 1: ill um. The Koran specifically exempts you from fasting during Ramadan.
Speaker 1: It basically says like, all I want you to be well,
Speaker 1: and you need food and water during this time, so
Speaker 1: just go ahead and take care of yourself. Apparently, a
Speaker 1: lot of Muslims still who are sick fast during Ramadan,
Speaker 1: so um Muslim doctors are doctors in the Muslim world
Speaker 1: have had to kind of think on their feet a
Speaker 1: little more to figure out how to take care of
Speaker 1: these patients who are like, I'm not putting anything in
Speaker 1: my mouth the whole time I'm open, so uh that
Speaker 1: they use like time release capsules, um transdermal patches, that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, because you can't take a pill that's
Speaker 1: breaking your fast, but they don't consider that breaking the fast.
Speaker 1: I guess as long as it doesn't into your mouth,
Speaker 1: that's that's how I took it. It's called the workaround
Speaker 1: in the modern world, but that's that's pretty devout, Umpandon.
Speaker 1: Apparently the it's most dangerous of all two um diabetics
Speaker 1: who are must lament trying to fast, and it's like
Speaker 1: you can give it a shot, but if your blood
Speaker 1: sugar goes low, like you need to break your fast immediately,
Speaker 1: so you can't even take like an insulin shot or
Speaker 1: you can. You could take an insulin shop. But I think,
Speaker 1: like that's right, you want to try to keep your
Speaker 1: blood sugar up naturally. First, well, I'm glad they at least,
Speaker 1: you know, take care of the sick. Well it's specifically exempted. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess like the pilgrimage too, if you're able to
Speaker 1: write like, we don't want you to break your back
Speaker 1: or if you can't afford it, you can't go. Uh.
Speaker 1: So fasting is is a big deal and it's not
Speaker 1: it's symbolic a UM. It means that you're not paying
Speaker 1: attention to your earthly needs. Um that opens you up
Speaker 1: to be more inviting for Allah to you know, to
Speaker 1: have that personal connection with Allah frees you up, which
Speaker 1: is a big deal. And it's also um a one
Speaker 1: too punch because you are supposed to feel hungry and
Speaker 1: know what it's like for those who maybe can't afford food.
Speaker 1: So like a big part of it is the connection
Speaker 1: with the needy and those who might be going hungry
Speaker 1: because they can't help it. Right, because again it's one
Speaker 1: of the more charitable times of the year when it's
Speaker 1: you know, kind of everybody gives that little extra sure um.
Speaker 1: And then also check it also practices self control, which
Speaker 1: is a good one. Yeah, cleansing. Yeah, so you you've
Speaker 1: got there. You're going through Ramadan, You're you're going along
Speaker 1: at a pretty steady clip, and in the last ten
Speaker 1: days um you enter this time where it becomes basically
Speaker 1: the holy of the holies as far as the year
Speaker 1: is concerned, as far as the Muslim calendar is concerned,
Speaker 1: there's this night called lilttle cutter. Did he give you
Speaker 1: the pronunciation for that one? No, I didn't. I don't
Speaker 1: know anything about that. I think I got that one.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping. So that was the night that Mohammed first
Speaker 1: started reciting the Koran. As far as I could tell,
Speaker 1: it wasn't the night. I don't think it was the
Speaker 1: night that the archangel Gabriel came down and said, hey, man,
Speaker 1: prepare for transmission, because you're about to get the holy
Speaker 1: word of allah Um. I think it was the night
Speaker 1: that he did start saying the Koran and what was
Speaker 1: eventually transcribed into the Koran. Okay, it's a very holy night.
Speaker 1: The thing was, it was not recorded the date, so
Speaker 1: no one knows when it was. They just know that
Speaker 1: it was in the last ten days of Ramadan. Traditionally,
Speaker 1: it's celebrated on the twenty seven day of Ramadan. And
Speaker 1: this is the day where you do your prayers. What
Speaker 1: are the prayers called during Ramadan? The tarawi Um. You
Speaker 1: do your nightly prayer on this night. They say that
Speaker 1: it is has the um, it has It's worth more
Speaker 1: than a thousand months of worship. Like if you do,
Speaker 1: if you praying like you're a good devout Muslim on
Speaker 1: this one night, like it just takes care of everything. Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then after that, Um, You've got a couple more
Speaker 1: days of Ramadan, and then the end a big party. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you fasted that long. It's time to celebrate. When you
Speaker 1: break the fast, you say, talk beer, which talk beer.
Speaker 1: The literal translation is Um, Allah is the greatest. Allah
Speaker 1: is the greatest. There is no deity worth worthy of
Speaker 1: worship but Allah, and Allah is greatest. Allah is the greatest,
Speaker 1: and all praise is due to Allah. And this can
Speaker 1: be said. There's a variety of moments uh in a
Speaker 1: Muslim's life on a monthly basis that they will say this.
Speaker 1: You know, It's not just at the end of Ramanan.
Speaker 1: Could be battle cry, it could be in times of need.
Speaker 1: Basically it's just an expression that nothing is greater than Allah.
Speaker 1: And when you have completed this really important task at
Speaker 1: the end of Ramedan, this is what they say. Men
Speaker 1: are supposed to say it out loud, women are supposed
Speaker 1: to just think it. No comment on that. But basically
Speaker 1: that's the end of Ramadan. And then it's time for
Speaker 1: the celebration the d al faittier, right, which is you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a party, and everybody says D mobarik,
Speaker 1: which means a blessed D. That's right. Yeah, D means festivity.
Speaker 1: The tier means breaking the fast, yea. So this is
Speaker 1: the party where you break the fast and everybody gets
Speaker 1: gustied up and dressed to the nine and they go
Speaker 1: seek out the poor. They chase them down in the
Speaker 1: streets and then give them money and food. They light
Speaker 1: up their houses the what with lanterns and stuff. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very beautiful. It's not Muslim Christmas. I know. People
Speaker 1: in the Western world always like to like say, well,
Speaker 1: this is like Easter. This is like, you know, fourth
Speaker 1: of July is the Sinco de Mayo in Mexico. It's like,
Speaker 1: none of this is true. That was a good thing
Speaker 1: to point out, Chuck, I'm glad you did that. Um.
Speaker 1: And so what else happens after that? With adolph A
Speaker 1: Tier I didn't get from this UM article how long
Speaker 1: it lasts? Like is it a one night is it
Speaker 1: like a week long? Thing? Does depend on how the
Speaker 1: economy is doing that year, that's a good question. I
Speaker 1: didn't get to that either. Well, I'm sure someone will
Speaker 1: inform us. But it is a big party and UM
Speaker 1: lots of generosity and gratitude among each other, and like
Speaker 1: you said, towards the poor, which is pretty great. Uh
Speaker 1: So in the end, um Ramadan accomplishes a bunch of
Speaker 1: things that's gonna strengthen your relationship with Allah, very important.
Speaker 1: It's gonna enforce patients and determination. I imagine going through
Speaker 1: a month long sun up to sundown fast. We'll do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's gotta be times during that month where
Speaker 1: you're like, I'm having a really bad day and I
Speaker 1: want cheeseburger. Yeah. Sure. Uh promotes the principles of sincerity
Speaker 1: by making a shy away from arrogance and showing off.
Speaker 1: That's kind of cool. Like I like all these tenants.
Speaker 1: Promotes good character and truthfulness, which is a good one,
Speaker 1: UM encourage you to do with way with bad habits.
Speaker 1: I guess if you've got some bad habits, Ramadan would
Speaker 1: be a good time to watch those away because the
Speaker 1: whole thirty days theory of you know, starting a new habit,
Speaker 1: plus your practicing self restrain already anyway, exactly enhance his
Speaker 1: generosity and hospitality, reinforces the commonality and the feeling of
Speaker 1: brotherhood with other Muslims, which is a big deal. UM
Speaker 1: observance of the value of time, which makes sense because
Speaker 1: you know, if it were me, I'd be watching that
Speaker 1: that sun go down each night. And well plus also
Speaker 1: you're not just wandering around looking for food and stuffing
Speaker 1: your face. You have more time, so do something with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it makes you value time, I guess. And UM teaches children,
Speaker 1: uh to perform acts of like servitude and obedience, be
Speaker 1: kind of the poor, that kind of thing. Yeah. Basically,
Speaker 1: get your life back in balance, get your spiritual life
Speaker 1: back in balance. A good Muslim, that's what it's saying.
Speaker 1: That's right. So this year, UM, since it's a lunar calendar,
Speaker 1: it falls on at different times of the year every year,
Speaker 1: and not even like different like oh this this is
Speaker 1: just this year it's July one, and the next year
Speaker 1: it's gonna be like July five or something. It's like
Speaker 1: in five or six years or something like that, it
Speaker 1: will be in like November. Yeah, it's like it's all
Speaker 1: over the the twelve month map, right right, So, um,
Speaker 1: this year, if you're in the United States, Uh, the
Speaker 1: um North the Islamic Society of North America, you said, um.
Speaker 1: They they said, okay, the new moon sided on July
Speaker 1: and then is astronomical calculations. And there's a big debate
Speaker 1: over you know, whether um, that's okay, and they're saying, yes,
Speaker 1: of course, it's okay. We're we're it's actually more precise.
Speaker 1: You don't have to see it. There's nothing in the
Speaker 1: Koran that says you have to see it. Other people
Speaker 1: say no, in the Koran, it's when the new moon
Speaker 1: is cited. You can't sight it with astronomical calculations, have
Speaker 1: to use your peoper. So there's a debate apparently all
Speaker 1: this Yeah, but apparently all this goes away like during
Speaker 1: like once Ramadan started service, Like okay, whatever, qu um.
Speaker 1: But there's two arguments on whether to like, if you're
Speaker 1: in North America, that's not Mecca. So there's different arguments.
Speaker 1: In One argument for using a local sighting is, well,
Speaker 1: these are the people that you're celebrating Ramadan with your community.
Speaker 1: What's one of the reasons for it is to be
Speaker 1: part of the local community. Another But then the other
Speaker 1: argument um to use like say the Mecca sighting, where
Speaker 1: you know when the New Moon of peers over Mecca,
Speaker 1: is that it unites Muslims around the world in this
Speaker 1: in their Muslim nous at the center of it. Those
Speaker 1: are both good points, but neither one settled. I mean,
Speaker 1: in the US they still use the Islamic Society of
Speaker 1: North America mainly. So is it a hot debate or
Speaker 1: is it I don't think. I think it's an ongoing debate.
Speaker 1: But again I think what's Ramadan starts? It's like, which
Speaker 1: is the important thing? Is that we're all together exactly? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it. Pretty interesting stuff and I didn't know
Speaker 1: much about it. I knew those fasting but it's good
Speaker 1: to you know, I've always said one of the coolest
Speaker 1: classes I took in college at Georgia was my religion class. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very interesting stuff. I think it's good to open yourself
Speaker 1: up to learn about stuff, whether or not you subscribe
Speaker 1: to any of it. Knowledge you know, and just listening
Speaker 1: to this podcast is a good start, agreed um. And
Speaker 1: if August nine he comes around and you have a
Speaker 1: Muslim friend, make sure to wish them. Uh, I'd move
Speaker 1: bark because that's all fatier this year August in North America.
Speaker 1: That's right. Uh, okay, that's it for Ramadan. If you
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Speaker 1: dark chocolate in bacon cookies, which means that you know
Speaker 1: us and you love us. Uh and they were delicious
Speaker 1: and good. Lucky graduate School, Bailey, Um, Jenny and Brian
Speaker 1: sent us some spam flavored macadamia nuts from Hawaii. Grassius.
Speaker 1: Mine are still sitting up there. I know I'm waiting
Speaker 1: for like just the right moment. Well, I hope I'm around. Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't get any You didn't know that you have
Speaker 1: the you been keeping him hostage. Well we'll we'll split him,
Speaker 1: We'll get Jerry One and will E the rest. Uh.
Speaker 1: We got a book from Samuel Samuel Little called gold Star,
Speaker 1: and we certainly appreciate that I have not ready yet,
Speaker 1: but it's on the shelf. Thanks sam Um. I wanna
Speaker 1: put in a special shout out to our buddies Glen
Speaker 1: and Sonja for the bottle of champagne that they sent us.
Speaker 1: Of course, Um for reaching the million dollar loanedmark on
Speaker 1: Kiva and they sent me and you me a bottle
Speaker 1: of champagne to congratulate us for our wedding. What did
Speaker 1: they have a champagne factory or something? Bought it all themselves.
Speaker 1: Pillow mob. Everyone you have seen the Chuck pillow. There
Speaker 1: was a Josh pillow it you haven't really I keep
Speaker 1: the thing in hiding. When I opened the box and
Speaker 1: I saw that it activated the part of my brain
Speaker 1: that would be activated if it had been a human head.
Speaker 1: Like that's what was activated when I looked in the box.
Speaker 1: It's scared well. I love my Chuck pillow. It's made
Speaker 1: appearances all over my house to freak out Emily, like
Speaker 1: in the microwave because I know she could have put
Speaker 1: her coffee and there each morning and sometimes I'll put
Speaker 1: it in bed and when I go out of town
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Anyway, pillow Mob is I think
Speaker 1: they're out of Seattle and they're pretty funny gifts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're awesome. What's do you get one for somebody? What's
Speaker 1: their website pillow mob dot com. I'm not sure, but
Speaker 1: it's pretty easy to find search pillow mob lazy. I've
Speaker 1: got one. Illustrator Kevin Cornell sent it's his book Sixpenny
Speaker 1: Anthems Volume two. Uh. He's specifically asked not to be
Speaker 1: plugged because he didn't want the gift to be disingenuous.
Speaker 1: Well t s for you. Um. It's a really good
Speaker 1: compilation on the comics he's worked on, and you can
Speaker 1: find it at bear skin Rug dot c O dot uk.
Speaker 1: Kevin Cornell, heck of a guy, awesome comics. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: Man of Leisure sent from Missoula, Montanas and as moonshine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like four jars and you tried it. I tried it
Speaker 1: at work at my desk. I know I watched to
Speaker 1: do it. It was delicious because I wouldn't touch mine
Speaker 1: until you drank here. Yeah, I tried the cinnamon. Um. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Josh was like try it, try it. I want to
Speaker 1: see if you drop dead. And I tried the centnamon
Speaker 1: and man it was hot and delicious. I've got the
Speaker 1: citrus one and is just right. Have you tried it? Yeah? Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: let's see. We got a postcard from the Spam muse Museum,
Speaker 1: the Spam Museum from Julie G and Austin, Texas. Thank you.
Speaker 1: We got a book called Swing from Alan Girl and
Speaker 1: he is a dude who found out that his birth
Speaker 1: father was Louis Prima. Cool, so he says, yeah, pretty amazing. Uh,
Speaker 1: Jennifer sent us a cat ball. Those are my to
Speaker 1: you because I don't have cats. I use it all
Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, cat ball dot com. Yeah it's basically
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sorry d cat ball dot com th
Speaker 1: G C A T B A L L dot com. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's a big hollow open on two sides, sort of
Speaker 1: fabricy ball that the cats can climb inside. And uh,
Speaker 1: my cat's just laying it. But otherways probably play more
Speaker 1: active cats play Liz at Little Bit Sweets as always. Uh,
Speaker 1: you're candy and is delicious and your chocolate is delicious,
Speaker 1: and we have an invite went next time where in
Speaker 1: New York to come by and learn how to make chocolate.
Speaker 1: And supposedly they're coming by on their book tour. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: So go to a little Bit l I D D
Speaker 1: A B I T Sweets and support them because they're
Speaker 1: like handmaking these delicious things and by their book which
Speaker 1: I don't on the name in front of me, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure they have the information at the Little Bit
Speaker 1: Sweets website. I would imagine, Um, Claire from Summit, New
Speaker 1: Jersey s it's a very nice handwritten lighter. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much for that, Claire. That's um, that's a dying art.
Speaker 1: It is, uh And I got one more and then
Speaker 1: I feel like we should probably continue this another time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Maya from the Brooklyn Brewery. Remember they sent us a
Speaker 1: big box of stuff including beach towels and stickers and
Speaker 1: couzies and books including the brew Masters Table and Beer School.
Speaker 1: So I've been drinking Brooklyn Brewery for a long time
Speaker 1: since I lived in New Jersey many years ago. And
Speaker 1: this delicious stuff, it is great stuff from that area.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know it well, but not to seek
Speaker 1: it out. Thanks guys, Thanks to all of you, guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: more to come. I guess next time if you want to.
Speaker 1: If you send us something and you weren't included, you
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