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Speaker 1: Brought to you by the all new Toyota Corolla. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to you Stuff you should Know from House Stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Murray

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Speaker 1: Head with me as always as Charles W. Chuck Bryant

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Speaker 1: and uh Steffe should know Mary Head. And here's the

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Speaker 1: guy who did One Night in Bangkok. Oh, I know,

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Speaker 1: I just don't get the reference. Oh, it's about Bobby. Sure,

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Speaker 1: it's from the musical Chess. What we talked about this before.

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Speaker 1: I have no idea what you're talking in an episode? Jerry?

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Speaker 1: Did we not? I'm almost positive we did. Jerry doesn't listen.

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Speaker 1: What a yeah? I think I have a faint memory.

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Speaker 1: One Night in Bangkok is from the the musical Chess,

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Speaker 1: which I didn't know existed, right, And it's based loosely

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Speaker 1: on the story of Bobby Fisher. Okay, I do remember

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Speaker 1: that now, and I think I was just as surprised

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Speaker 1: back then. It's but it's the truth. Tell me in

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Speaker 1: another couple of years, and again, what's with Murray Head.

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Speaker 1: That can't be the guy's real name? And why would

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Speaker 1: that be a name you adopted although it's perfect for

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Speaker 1: five I bet that's his name. Murray Head. Well, look

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Speaker 1: into it. What parents name their kid Murray head? Was

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Speaker 1: his last name was head, right, I'm saying yeah, but

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Speaker 1: no doctor and mrs Head. Maybe doctor and doctor head.

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Speaker 1: Maybe so maybe his parents are both doctors, but don't

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Speaker 1: you think that. Probably then if his last name really

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Speaker 1: was Head, it was actually like Hedowski or something like that,

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Speaker 1: Murray Hedowski. I can live with Murray Head. It's terrible

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Speaker 1: that we Chuck's checking his watch, which is the universal

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Speaker 1: sign for me to hurry things along. Now I'm not.

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Speaker 1: And I need to apologize to you because, uh, it's

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Speaker 1: a it's a busy week for me. And I said, hey,

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Speaker 1: let's do one that is, uh, it's not super tough.

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Speaker 1: And I sent you chess. You were like today, You're like,

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Speaker 1: I've never played chess before. I'm not in my life. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I had no idea. I apologize for some reason. I

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Speaker 1: don't even know how to play checkers. Yeah, And now

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Speaker 1: that I think about it, I don't see you as

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Speaker 1: a chess player until now. I don't know you more

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Speaker 1: as a type of person who would walk in and

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Speaker 1: like drop a bowling ball on the chess board and say,

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Speaker 1: I went, you got me way wrong. You're not like

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Speaker 1: super strategic and tactical. What he's a big stick? Oh,

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Speaker 1: I can be both ways. You you're just talking about

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Speaker 1: your own experience with me. Oh yeah, I've can play

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Speaker 1: chess and I intend to. Are you gonna play? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: After researching to say emailed you, I was like, we

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Speaker 1: have to start playing chess. She said her dad taught

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Speaker 1: her like the basic moves when she was a kid,

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Speaker 1: but she never really got into it. So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: start playing chess. Well I never got into it, got

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Speaker 1: into it, but I did learn when I was probably

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Speaker 1: a young teenager. And uh, my brother and I played

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Speaker 1: for a little while. Who won? I think he always won?

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Speaker 1: But I never ever learned strategy. I was like, I

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Speaker 1: learned how the pieces moved, and then as a dumb

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Speaker 1: trying to get the king in checkmate. Right, you sold

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Speaker 1: your Detective Comics number one and stopped playing the piano,

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I started drinking beer. By the way, I

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Speaker 1: looked at Murray Head. I rarely do this. His name

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Speaker 1: is Murray Seafield St. George Head. So his name really

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Speaker 1: is Murray Head. Yeah, why didn't he go by Murray St.

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Speaker 1: George or Seafield St. George. That's awesome. Yeah, it sounds

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Speaker 1: like you should be wearing a cravat anytime you say that.

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Speaker 1: All right, so let's play some chess. Okay. So, um,

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Speaker 1: you were just saying that you stopped playing chess and

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Speaker 1: you really never got strategy. No, but I remember, like

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Speaker 1: probably could too after reading this article eighteen times. Um.

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Speaker 1: But the the thing that I gathered from this article

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Speaker 1: And I think I remember probably getting a little better.

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Speaker 1: But unless you know, like the bona fide bona fide strategies, uh,

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Speaker 1: It's bona fide as like a descriptor. But if it

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Speaker 1: my bona fide is like are that I'm great? But

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Speaker 1: that and I thought was I was just mispronouncing as

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Speaker 1: very cool to me that chess the brainiest nerds in

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Speaker 1: walk by Washington Square Park and seeing these old Kajars

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Speaker 1: or the kid from fresh It really played chess speed chess.

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Speaker 1: So it really just is it spans ages and races

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Speaker 1: It's not like just like like some snooty game, you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: was with sixty four squares on the board, but the

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Speaker 1: that original Indian game and not some of these other ones.

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Speaker 1: We actually don't know the rules of Kataraga. It was

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Speaker 1: do know that it did exist. We I think we

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Speaker 1: have our hands on Katarango boards and it's obviously the

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Speaker 1: Time magazine. It's about this guy named Irving Finkel, and

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Speaker 1: that a great name, believing Finkel. Yeah, And he works

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's worked on Kataranga or what,

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Speaker 1: Like it seems like most cultures had a similar like

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Speaker 1: separated by a moat. Well that's the part that I

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Speaker 1: compass and square of the masons. Interesting. Oh and the

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Speaker 1: That's the only move you can make at that point. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a minute. That's write something magical. Um, you can't jump

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Speaker 1: This I think it's just so basic that the article

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Speaker 1: and when you move to that square, you take them

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Speaker 1: back in, can't come backain. And what you've just done

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Speaker 1: by doing that is weakening the defenses against your opposing king. Exactly.

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Speaker 1: Um onto the bishop topped with a meter. Like you said,

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Speaker 1: But like the rook, you can go and however far

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Speaker 1: you have to go or else you lose a turn.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Then you've got your queen. It's worth nine points.

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Speaker 1: She's a little shorter, but man, the Queen is a

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Speaker 1: She can't turn right, she's so that makes her um

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Speaker 1: and you're like, oh man, I cannot wait to play

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Speaker 1: I think I just need to. I don't know who

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he probably speaks Chinese while he plays chess.

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Speaker 1: He probably like shook his head when he heard you

424
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 1: pronounce the Chinese version of He probably plays that. Sure, Um,

425
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:42,000
Speaker 1: just as a bunny. He dressed up in my gremlin

426
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,439
Speaker 1: outfit today. I was walking around there today again. How

427
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,199
Speaker 1: did he do it already? Yeah? I thought you like

428
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:49,480
Speaker 1: tweeted a picture Facebook the picture of him wearing the

429
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: gremlin outfit. I mean that happened today, It happened like

430
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 1: weeks before too. Wouldn't mean, Um, Ben Bowling, you should

431
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 1: support his awesome show. Two of them stuff they don't

432
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: want you to know and car stuff one of our colleagues. Um.

433
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,160
Speaker 1: So finally, onto the king. Uh. The King can also

434
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:13,640
Speaker 1: move in any direction, but just one at a time, um,

435
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 1: which is good for getting out of the way. But

436
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 1: the King is generally not like much of an attacker.

437
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:24,680
Speaker 1: He's kind of a milktoast really like the queen wears

438
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 1: the pants in this relationship, she's she's the bad dude. Uh.

439
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:30,399
Speaker 1: And like we said, if the king is threatened and

440
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 1: in check, he has to move to save himself. Yeah.

441
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 1: And if he goes, well, if I move here, I'm screweding.

442
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,920
Speaker 1: If I move here, I'm screwing it. There's wait, there's

443
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: nowhere for me to move to get out of being attacked.

444
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 1: That's checkmate, baby. That's when the guy across from me

445
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,440
Speaker 1: is very smug and just sitting there waiting for you

446
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 1: to realize it. Yeah. Or actually, traditionally you would call

447
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:56,680
Speaker 1: out of here and checkmate, yes you know, checkmate? Uh?

448
00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,440
Speaker 1: Or actually I would say check and mate. I don't understand,

449
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 1: and it's probably super obnoxious and wrong. And then you

450
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 1: have your little ponds, the eight little guys up front,

451
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 1: the foot soldiers. They're basically cannon fodder pretty much. But ponds.

452
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 1: Some say there in lies the key. If you play

453
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 1: your ponds right, then you're in good shape. Did you know? Ponds?

454
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:20,639
Speaker 1: Originally in the I think twelve thirteenth century, just to

455
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,640
Speaker 1: make a more interesting each pond, depending on its place

456
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 1: on the rank, um had a name, like there was

457
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 1: the Gambler. Yeah, there was the doctor, the the Coward

458
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 1: of the county. Probably were they all Kenny Rogers songs? Yeah, exactly?

459
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 1: Um what else was there? There are a couple others

460
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 1: that were pretty interesting, but um, apparently it didn't stick.

461
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 1: The innkeeper the islands in the stream, right, so the

462
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: ponds can they're only worth one point? Um? They are defenders. Basically,

463
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 1: they only move one square at a time. I can't

464
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,239
Speaker 1: go backwards, that can only go forwards, and they can

465
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:05,639
Speaker 1: only attack diagonally right, So you can't I can't just

466
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 1: move upon. Like let's say you're upon and I'm upon.

467
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 1: I can't just come at you from straight ahead and

468
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 1: knock you out. We're basically just kind of staring at

469
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: each other. But if I was to the left or

470
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 1: right in front of you, I could go diagonally and

471
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 1: get get ahold of you. That makes sense, yes, okay,

472
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 1: it does I'm trying to visually, it's just as hard

473
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 1: to visualize. Yeah, and it's it's the kind of game

474
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 1: that sounds complicated, but once you play at once, you're like, okay,

475
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: this isn't so hard. So then the pawn can move um,

476
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:39,399
Speaker 1: five directions left or right forward and then diagonally forward

477
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: or to the left or diagonally forward to the right right. No, no, no,

478
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: it cannot move left or right. Okay, So it can

479
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 1: only move forward diagonally to the left or diagonally to

480
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 1: the right. Correct three directions. And when you start the game,

481
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 1: it's the only time you can move your pond two spaces,

482
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 1: So you can move out upon two spaces on the

483
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 1: front row only um. After that, it can only move

484
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 1: one space at a time. Gotcha? All right, okay, so um,

485
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 1: let's talk about some rules like we haven't been already. Yeah,

486
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 1: the timer thing is, I never realized what the timer

487
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 1: was all about. I can't imagine how stressful that is. Yeah,

488
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 1: I thought the timer. I thought you had like each

489
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: player has like sixty seconds to complete a move or

490
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: something That is not true. No, Like those clocks with

491
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,400
Speaker 1: the two faces and the buttons on top of each

492
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 1: face Um, they keep a predetermined amount of time a

493
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: total time, so say like an hour, so you have

494
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: an hour for this game, each have an hour, or okay,

495
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 1: so you each have an hour, so there's two hours

496
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 1: for the whole game. You divided the two hours into

497
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: one hour for each and then when it's your turn, Um,

498
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 1: your clock is running, and when you're done with your move,

499
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 1: you hit the button on top of your side and

500
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: it stops your clock and starts your opponent's clock. So

501
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: now they're eating away from that two hours. And then

502
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: if your opponent's time runs out, then you win just

503
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: based on that. Yeah, which is way cooler than I thought,

504
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: which was like you each have like two minutes to

505
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: complete a move. In this way, towards the end of

506
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 1: the game, you might have ten minutes left on your

507
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: clock and your opponent might have thirty minutes because you

508
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: took way too much time at the beginning, and then

509
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: you're forced into playing like way faster towards the end. Right,

510
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: pretty cool, So in my my the impression I have

511
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: is that this is something that you take up once

512
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: you've mastered chess, So well, that's kind of boring playing normally.

513
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: You have never played with it because I imagine it

514
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 1: changes everything. Alright, so let's play. Let's play with these

515
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: rules here. Why it always goes first, It always goes first. Um,

516
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: you cannot skip a turn. Nope, And therefore no player

517
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: can move twice in a row. Yeah, you can't, like

518
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: say I passed, you gotta move. Yeah, you can take

519
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: back a move, but only under a very specific circumstance.

520
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: We said that capturing the king is an illegal move. Ye,

521
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 1: So if you move your king into a place where

522
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: he will inevitably be captured, you moved him into check,

523
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: that's an illegal move, and the opponent's supposed to tell you,

524
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: and then you can take that move back. That's the

525
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: only move you can take back. So I think the

526
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: rule of thumb is once you take your hand off

527
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: of your piece. I comed, but that's how I always played. Yeah,

528
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 1: it seems legitimate. And also, now that I have not

529
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: played it and I'm a little older, I bet you that, uh,

530
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: it's better to try and do this stuff in your

531
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: head than move your pieces all around with your finger

532
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: on it, because I would imagine that would sort of

533
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 1: tip off your strategy somewhat. Um, I bet, like real

534
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: real pros do this in their head. They don't be like, go,

535
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: hmm right, no, my finger is still on it. And

536
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 1: then I think they played with the clock to don't

537
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 1: they probably? Yeah? Uh? And do you want to say

538
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: part part of strategy, you want to be thinking at

539
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: least three moves ahead anyway. Yeah, I imagine that's very tough.

540
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: Good luck with that beginner. Well, what else you said

541
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: that you can't move upon more than one squared a

542
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: time except for to start. Yeah, it's each pond's first

543
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 1: move can either be one or two. It's not necessarily

544
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: like at the beginning of the game. Um, oh, I

545
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: like this one. You know the words stalemate, Yeah, stalemate

546
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: is a chess term. It happens when, uh, if the

547
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: king isn't under attack, but any direction that you move

548
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: him in would place him in check so that there

549
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 1: there's no checkmate going or coming. It's just you just

550
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: happened to end up making a terrible move. That's a stalemate.

551
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: No one wins. Sorry, everybody goes home a loser. That's

552
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: no fun. All right, here's some other rules which I

553
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 1: did not know about. I have never played with these rules,

554
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: and they were really confusing to me. Yeah, I had

555
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: to do some supplemental research. Yeah, like YouTube videos and

556
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: stuff where Englishmen explained exactly what castling is. I think

557
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: I have a decent hand on it. But go ahead,

558
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: well castling in this article it says that it has

559
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: to be done at the beginning of the game. I

560
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: didn't see that anywhere else. I think it can only

561
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 1: be done once a game. Well, here's the deal I

562
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: got to the bottom of this. It can be done

563
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: as long as the king and the rook that you're

564
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: going to use to castle with has not moved yet, right, So,

565
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: as long as they are still in their original positions,

566
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: you can castle. Yeah, but that doesn't necessarily have to

567
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: happen at the beginning of the game. Um, but you

568
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: can move your king two pieces and then move the

569
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: rook that hasn't moved. That's your your castle right um,

570
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: to the last space the king past. So that means

571
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: basically what you're doing is you're moving your king over

572
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: and you're moving your rook next to it so that

573
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: your rook can protect your king more more better better. Yeah,

574
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: and you can only do this if they're nothing in

575
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: between the two. Um, and you can do it on

576
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: either side. You can do a on the king's side

577
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: or the queen's side, and it's the only move where

578
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: you can move two pieces at once and you don't

579
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 1: have to but it strategically, it's a very smart move

580
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: to castle anytime you can. Yeah, I still don't fully

581
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: get it or or the benefits. I know it's a

582
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: defensive move. I don't understand why you have to move

583
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: the king. Why not just move the rook next to

584
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: the king like that seems like that would be the

585
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: same thing. Yeah. I think someone will be able to

586
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: explain this in a dummies fashion via email and then

587
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: we're going to get a good one. But I think

588
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: that is what it amounts to. It's a defensive move

589
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: to make the rook put it in a better position

590
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: to protect the king. Um, there's pawn promotion. Never heard

591
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: of that. So there is pawn promotion where you said, like,

592
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: if the pawn just makes it all the way across

593
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: the board, your opposing rank either the first rank or

594
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: the eighth rank, depending on where your opponent is, you

595
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: could promote your pawn. I never heard of this. Most

596
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:04,479
Speaker 1: people choose to promote their pond to queen, but in

597
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: certain instances I have no idea what they are, but

598
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 1: I just saw that in certain and instance is it's

599
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: better it might be better to promote it to something

600
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: else other than queen, and that would be a different

601
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 1: type of promotion. It's um like not a full proo promotion.

602
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: I can't have I can't remember what the name of

603
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: it is. But yeah, so typically you'd want to promote

604
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,280
Speaker 1: it to the queen because that's the best piece. And

605
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: then you have two queens on the board. Yeah you

606
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 1: have if you still have your queen that is. Yeah.

607
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: And I I don't know, I've never heard of these,

608
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 1: so I don't know if they're just seldom used or

609
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: if it's just really rare that upon actually makes it

610
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,359
Speaker 1: to the other side, because that would seem pretty rare

611
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: to me. I think they're fairly well used um or

612
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 1: frequently used sell rules. Okay, I know this last one

613
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: is not for fact, it's not a frequently used rule.

614
00:34:56,200 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: It's really obscure, so much so that the term m

615
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: poissance is used in other sports to describe little known

616
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 1: obscure rules. So it's become kind of a just a

617
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: catch all term. Just has really had a huge cultural

618
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 1: impact on the world, like an all sense of strange

619
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: ways huh, yeah, just stalemate. So on poissant means in passing.

620
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: It's pretty tricky. It allows a pond to capture an

621
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: opponent's pawn by doing nothing, though without landing on the square. No, So,

622
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 1: from what I understand this, this article is a little wrong.

623
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 1: Basically it allows it allows you to capture a pond

624
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 1: as if the pond had only moved one square, and

625
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: it can only be played after a two square advance. Confusing, Right,

626
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 1: So if a pawn moves two squares and happens to

627
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:49,479
Speaker 1: pass an opposing pawn, yes, then the pond that moved

628
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: two squares to made the move is out. Yeah. It's

629
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 1: almost like it can attack from the side, I think,

630
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 1: but it's ultimately is attacking itself. The pond that's just

631
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: sitting there captures that pawn that made the move. Yes,

632
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,720
Speaker 1: so you basically just made a bone head move because

633
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 1: you just lost your pawn. Yeah. It can only be

634
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Speaker 1: done too, if the pond comes from home base and

635
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Speaker 1: moves two squares, which can only happen once a game, Right,

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Speaker 1: I think, man can't can't we didn't We just say

637
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: a pawn can only move two squares in one like

638
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Speaker 1: at the beginning of a game each pond. Yeah, yeah,

639
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 1: so that could Yeah, that's that is obscure. Yeah, I've

640
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: never heard of it, and I don't. I think I

641
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: found that not many people use it. Nice, So those

642
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: are the rules, and yeah, um let's talk strategy, man,

643
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, protect your king, capture the opponent's pieces, and

644
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 1: attack the king, attack him like you hate him. That's

645
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: not really strategy. I mean, that's just the basic like

646
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,799
Speaker 1: what you're trying to do. There are like real strategies

647
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 1: that people have worked out with names. Yeah, they have

648
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 1: like names kings, gambit connected, the shuffle, the fork attack,

649
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 1: or the geto in Italian makes a kiss sound. Yeah

650
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: see and then a vowel makes a sound. Yeah. I

651
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 1: don't and I don't know much about these strategies, but um,

652
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:24,800
Speaker 1: I know if you want to get better at jess

653
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: than you would do yourself a favor by trying to

654
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:30,439
Speaker 1: learn one or two instead of just being like, well,

655
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Speaker 1: this guy goes this way and I don't like horses,

656
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna attack the night, which is how I

657
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: play strategy. But what are some other basic strategies? Like

658
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: let's say you're a beginner, like you, Okay, what should

659
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: you try to do, I would be well served to

660
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: not rush. Um. I want to consider what your next

661
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: move would be after I made my move. But I

662
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,280
Speaker 1: want to do all this with my arms folded across

663
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: my chest in my head, very quietly, so as not

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Speaker 1: to give away my strategy. Um, I want to castle

665
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: whenever possible, castle the king with the rook. Yeah, so

666
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: that must be like a real light common thing. Yeah,

667
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,720
Speaker 1: I need. I feel like I missed out. You didn't castle.

668
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:13,359
Speaker 1: That's how your brother beat. You had no idea. I'll

669
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Speaker 1: betty castle and you were like what did you just do?

670
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 1: And he's like never mind. Uh. Like we said, the

671
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: center of the board is where you would like to

672
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: control things. Um, you want to use all your pieces? Yeah,

673
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: move them around smartly though. Yeah. Those ponds, like we said,

674
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: are important. You gotta you gotta bring them out so

675
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: you can start attacking. Don't like it's not a good strategy.

676
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: Just be like, all right, I'm just gonna surround my

677
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,919
Speaker 1: king with ponds and just leave them all there, right,

678
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Speaker 1: Like you want to get that clean out And like

679
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 1: we said, you can't jump, so you gotta move stuff

680
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: out of the way so everything can get out there.

681
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: And start warring exactly. Uh, like I said, you want

682
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: to plan three moves ahead. Um. And and as you

683
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: were saying, like, you want to get your stuff out

684
00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 1: on the board, but you want to do it strategically.

685
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: You want to um, set yourself up, take your time,

686
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: don't attack too quickly because again that leaves your king overexposed. UM.

687
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: And you you never want to sacrifice a piece of

688
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,439
Speaker 1: higher value for lesser value. Yeah, that's the big one.

689
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: I think that's the one. Even I think I remember

690
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: trying to employ not successfully, but uh yeah, no, you

691
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 1: don't wanna um. You don't want to lose a rook

692
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 1: to a pawn. You're just a sucker. And then probably

693
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: the most important strategy is to have fun and not

694
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: get discouraged, which I think I think that probably makes

695
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 1: a lot of sense. Like I don't think chess is

696
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: something you just come out and play well the first time.

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Speaker 1: No one in the history of the world since has

698
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 1: ever played chess or shadow Anger or anything. If you're

699
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:55,439
Speaker 1: a beginner, I think you should just concentrate your first

700
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 1: few games on getting the moves correct and then you

701
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: can start working about everything else. But I mean, if

702
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 1: you want to get better very quickly. In addition to playing,

703
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 1: there's all sorts of websites, books, people you can talk to, UM,

704
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of info out there to learn

705
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: how to play chess. Yeah, and now that I'm thinking

706
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 1: about it, I don't know that I've I've ever won

707
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 1: a single game of chess. I always play people better

708
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: than me. I think my record is like oh and

709
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Speaker 1: sixty three and I quit playing. Yeah, I can see that,

710
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: but I mean, you know, maybe play a little kid

711
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Speaker 1: if you're not that great. A kid who sucks at chess.

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Speaker 1: I was about to say, that's even more right now,

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Speaker 1: a kid that sucks at chess. Just don't gloat too

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Speaker 1: much because it's a kid. No, I'd glowed. So that's

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Speaker 1: everything there is to know about chess. Do you got

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Speaker 1: it will bring up this article. And since I said

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Speaker 1: search bar, it means it's time for listener mail. And

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this Maori love. And like we said,

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Speaker 1: the Kiwi's Love a little light shining on them, and

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Speaker 1: so we have heard back from them in spades. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever seen Bad Taste? Oh no, I don't

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Speaker 1: think so, because Peter Jackson's first movie. Yeah, I never

727
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: saw that one. I saw the other one he did,

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Speaker 1: Um Dead Alive I saw that one too. Yeah, I

729
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 1: didn't see Bad Taste. I like Bad Taste Boy the Hobbit.

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Speaker 1: I liked that Alive though, two in in the just

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Speaker 1: the schlockiest way you can like something. Sure. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: didn't see The Hobbit, but this next Hobbit sequel in

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Speaker 1: the never ending parade of Hobbit movies, actually looks kind

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Speaker 1: of interesting. Yeah. I didn't see all of The Hobbit.

735
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: I watched some of it the other night and I

736
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Speaker 1: just couldn't do it. Have you ever heard of Rob Delaney,

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Speaker 1: the Twitter guy? He had this tweet he was like, um,

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Speaker 1: it was in all caps. He goes, I'm in the

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Speaker 1: Hobbit right now. It's eight and a half hours long.

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Speaker 1: They won't let anybody leave, please send, and then like

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Speaker 1: it just runts down and heavenly creatures. Did you ever

742
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Speaker 1: see that? No, man, that was really good. That was

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Speaker 1: the first time I had seen Kate Winslet in a movie,

744
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: really good movie. Al Right, enough about Peter Jackson, onto

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Speaker 1: the Maori. I thought you guys, thought it'd send you

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Speaker 1: a quick email that sincerely congratulate you and how you

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00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: handled the Maori podcast production. Pronunciation of Maori words and

748
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 1: phrases uses a style of linguistic that is totally different

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Speaker 1: to most languages. See I don't feel so bad now

750
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 1: like the pronounced yeah. Well, we're getting to that. As

751
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,240
Speaker 1: a twenty year old kily I often mispronounced Maori words myself,

752
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 1: and due to the nature of trying to put a

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00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 1: largely oral language into words, spelling and pronunciation often changed

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00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 1: through the years. Still, why would you choose W for

755
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 1: F sound? I thought I'd give you some Maori words

756
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 1: and easy up their pronunciation for you guys. So that

757
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: white white tangy, he said, The treaty um is pronounced

758
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: why tangy? What's is the W sound? Is a W

759
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: sound in that one? Yeah, that's what he says. He

760
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:07,840
Speaker 1: said this as though you're questioning someone's recipe for salsa.

761
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Uh. People in New Zealand know about salsa.

762
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: That's weird. Um uh a r t Aura or Land

763
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 1: of the Long White Cloud is pronounced alta roa al

764
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: ta roa Okay, and that's that was that's New Zealand.

765
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: It's the Maori word for New Zealand, right, I think

766
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 1: so words that begin with the w h prefects you

767
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,240
Speaker 1: were talking about are almost always pronounced as an F sound,

768
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: So waka papa sounds more like papa, which sounds weird

769
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:43,240
Speaker 1: to us and even dirty. But it's not that sounds

770
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 1: pronounced but that's how the Maori pronounced the word that

771
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: we butchered all over our episode, basically, yeah, exactly. Or

772
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: the town of wanga Nui is pronounced funga nui. Yeah,

773
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: it's so weird and hard to get used too. But

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite guys is a small town of

775
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: but hold hold on, it is weird. It's weird to us,

776
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: and like the the fuka papa word sounds hilarious, especially

777
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: if you're in sixth grade or whatever. Exactly, But I

778
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: mean this is again, that's how it's pronounced in Maori,

779
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: and therefore, if you're saying a Maori word, you can't

780
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: really just change the pronunciation because based on your own west.

781
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 1: So here's this final one is the small town of Wakika,

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Speaker 1: come out. Kyle is pronounced way kick a muko if

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00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: you know the correct pronunciation the second time. Why did

784
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: you what? Well? I mean I was just reading it

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00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 1: as if I was oh, which I am, like basically

786
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 1: during our Maori episode. Again, I'm really surprised that we

787
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,719
Speaker 1: got a lot of praise for this one. Yeah. I

788
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: think that they're delighted that we talked about them and

789
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,360
Speaker 1: probably got a good laugh because no one can pronounce

790
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:02,400
Speaker 1: these words. Yeah, somebody wrote in and said they faced

791
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: palm like times. Yeah, but they probably laughed about it

792
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: on the whole though. Guys that wouldn't worry about offending

793
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: Kiwi's too much. We're a small nation and we're usually

794
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 1: just happy if we find out people in other countries. No,

795
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Speaker 1: we exists as a separate entity. Plus in Australia they

796
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Speaker 1: produced Play of the Concords, which is a pretty big

797
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Speaker 1: that's a big production. Thanks again, that's from Tom. Thanks Tom.

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Speaker 1: How would you say Tom and Kiwi? No, it's actually TLM,

799
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Speaker 1: not the weird t h o M. Yeah, like Tom York. Yeah,

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00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:37,280
Speaker 1: that's he dealing with Yorky. Yeah, that's what I call him. Uh,

801
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: he's good though he's great. Um, well, thank you very much, Tom.

802
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,399
Speaker 1: We appreciate that, and thank you to everybody who wrote

803
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Speaker 1: in to say way to go on, Maori, we were

804
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Speaker 1: blown away. I'm glad to hear from you guys down there. Um,

805
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: we're up there, depending on what direction you're traveling. UM,

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00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: if you want to let us know that we did

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00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 1: so so or really great or not that great on

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Speaker 1: any episode, or if you have any great explanations on

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00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 1: anything about chess, any tips, any tricks, any strategy, we'd

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00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:11,879
Speaker 1: love to share it with everybody. Basic strategies, right, we'll

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Speaker 1: get too weird with the King scambit. Yes, well, um,

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00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 1: but I'll bet that's like a totally basic strategy. Um.

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