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Speaker 1: Listener Mail. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick,

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Speaker 1: and it's Monday, the day of the week that we

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Speaker 1: read back some messages from the mail bag, messages you

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Speaker 1: Let's see, Robbie mind if I start off here with

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Speaker 1: this message from Justina? Go for it. Okay. This is

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Speaker 1: actually response to a much older episode our series on

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Speaker 1: the Seven Day Week in the origins UH and effects

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Speaker 1: of grouping days into chunks of seven. So justina writes. Hi,

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Speaker 1: Robert and Joe. I'm about six months behind on my

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Speaker 1: podcast feed, so I just listen to your seven day

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Speaker 1: week episodes. When you started musing about what it would

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Speaker 1: be like to live on two different week lengths simultaneously,

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Speaker 1: like some ancient cultures might have done, I heard the call.

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Speaker 1: I know what it's like, and so do millions of

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Speaker 1: school children. I was in the first class in my

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Speaker 1: school district to experience the six day cycle. This was

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Speaker 1: back in nineteen eighty one to eighty two, and the

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Speaker 1: idea was new. Instead of having a class schedule that

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Speaker 1: followed Monday to Friday, we now had days a through F.

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Speaker 1: The reasons behind the six day cycle were twofold. One,

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Speaker 1: it let the different academic classes happen at different times

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Speaker 1: of day. This way, math class wasn't always period one

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Speaker 1: of the day of the week. What made the whole

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Speaker 1: six day cycle only applied to our academic classes. Other

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Speaker 1: classes like Jim, music, shop and the like stayed on

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Speaker 1: were truly living two different weeks simultaneously. What did it

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Speaker 1: feel like? It felt well normal. We had a system,

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Speaker 1: The fact that we might have English before music one

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Speaker 1: imagine the people in ancient cultures living two different cycles

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Speaker 1: also adapted easily. I suspect that the convergence to a

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Speaker 1: These days, school calendars are totally wild. Take, for example,

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Speaker 1: times of day in a balanced way and, oh, also

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Speaker 1: this madness, but the kids, they do it, they understand it,

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Speaker 1: and eight day week would have been a piece of cake.

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Speaker 1: Smiley face, thanks for making my favorite podcast. All the best,

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Speaker 1: Justina W oh well, that's interesting. Yeah, I didn't even

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Speaker 1: think about academic calendars, but that's that's a wonderful example.

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Speaker 1: Kenny writes in regarding our episode, or was it an

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Speaker 1: episode or episodes on the paradig series. Yeah, serious, yeah,

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Speaker 1: rob's request, here are some of my favorite opening paragraphs.

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Speaker 1: Some are probably pretty obvious. So Kenny sites the gunslinger

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Speaker 1: home brewed. I think this is a d and d reference. Right, yes, okay, that,

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Speaker 1: sin says. Hi, Robert, Joe and Seth, thanks for reviewing

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Speaker 1: glave replica on that's all right. Would be careful. The

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Speaker 1: referenced in a recent core episode. Troy right, right, and

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