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Welcome to Aspain, Guten Morgan, Tanya.
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Oh, we're moving into German now,
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please.
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I'm having a hard enough time with
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Spanish. Can we stick with Spanish?
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Okay. Um, what was it? Buenos. Tanya.
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Buenos. There you go. I mean, I'm more
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than happy to learn another language,
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but I feel like I should perfectish my
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Spanish first. We should learn the one
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we're in the country we're at.
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Exactly. Anyway, welcome to sunny Spain.
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We finally having some nice weather.
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Loving it.
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I mean, it's not as hot. I'm not I I
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went walking around yesterday and I I
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wasn't dying. So, that was nice.
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Nice change.
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As we've said, July and August is part
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of our favorite time in Valencia. So,
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let's not let's not lie right off the
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bat.
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Exactly.
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So, do you have any uh Spain moments for
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you this week?
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I do. I do. I have a good one. Yeah, I
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think I have a good one that will lead
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us into what we're going to talk about
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today, which is um very, shall we say.
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Okay.
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Um so, I was I took Blaze up to the
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mountains. We took a nice hike and um
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since it got a little bit cooler, that
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was possible without us all dying. And
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I'm not getting up at 5:00 a.m. to do
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this. So,
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7:00 a.m., you know, and so a lot of the
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places that I hike because this part of
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um this area, Naka, it's all horse
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stables. I mean, if you're a horsey
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person, this is a great place to live
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because you can go riding in like 15
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different places.
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Maybe not quite that many, but anyway.
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So, there's a lot of horses. They take
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trails around the mountains, too. So,
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some of the hikes that I go on, there's
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also horses. And
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so, let me guess, you have to watch out
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for some horse poo. Actually, you do.
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Yes. Sometimes you'll come across a
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horse poop. Um, not that often. But what
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I found today, which was very cool, was
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a random horseshoe.
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Like when you're walking around the city
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and you see a random sneaker, there's
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just a horseshoe laying on the ground.
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I've never seen one before. I don't know
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if it'll ever happen again, but it was a
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random horseshoe that must have fallen
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off a horse.
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And I So, of course, I picked it up and
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I washed it off and which takes longer
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than you think actually. You got to get
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the little nails out of it and stuff.
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Anyway, so once I got it all nice and
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shiny, I've hung it up in the on in by
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the front door for
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for good luck.
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Okay. As you're supposed to bring in
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luck into your home and all those things
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and all those good things. Yeah, that's
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what they say. So that's what I'm doing.
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Now, who's they in Spain or is this just
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back a back home tradition? Is
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so I don't know. That's definitely an
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English thing and I think pretty sure a
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an American thing. Um, I should have
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looked up whether that's also a Spanish
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thing, but we will look into now anyway
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the 10 quirky superstitions in Spain
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that we have found. Some of them we come
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across and some of them we, you know,
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have researched, but they're quite fun
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and I think um I think that you'll enjoy
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everything here.
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Yes. I mean, I was I have fun I've had
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fun with this list and I've had some of
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this list um as you said happen to me.
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I've happened upon in my life. Uh the
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the the first one that we have is
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Tuesday the 13th now because that's
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their bad luck date. It's not Friday the
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13th. And when I read this I was like um
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I don't remember there being a Tuesday
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the 13th movie. It's Friday the 13th.
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This is true. It doesn't have Yeah. It
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doesn't have quite the same ring to us,
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right? Because because of all the the
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the pop culture that has gone along with
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Friday the 13th. It's become quite a
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thing, hasn't it? Now, Tuesday actually
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makes sense because I did do some
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research on why Friday the 13th, and I
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actually like the reasoning behind
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Tuesday the 13th better. So, apparently
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this is something that is both in Spain
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and in Greece. And the reason for
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Tuesday, if you do know a little bit of
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your Spanish, Martes, right, is Tuesday.
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And it is Tuesday is associated with the
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Roman god of war, Mars, which so that
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makes sense. So that's Tuesday is
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because of So it's you know the god of
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war that's chaos. Right.
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Right. Right.
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And then I think everywhere the number
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13. So it makes more sense that Tuesday
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and the 13th go go go together maybe
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than Friday. But that's why it is here.
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But in England it's Friday the 13th.
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Correct.
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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So so but here we don't know about the
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rest of Europe. Maybe the maybe a lot of
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you know Roman conquered but Roman con
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the Romans conquered England too. So who
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knows right.
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Yeah. But we didn't take on the language
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in that regard, I guess, because we
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still have Tuesday. We don't have martes
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or I, you know, I think in some of these
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other languages in Europe, it's more
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closer to that,
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right,
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word for Tuesday. So, so that's, you
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know, it kind of makes sense. Um, I
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haven't really come across it that much
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here with people saying it, but I also
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do think that's sometimes more of a kid
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thing that it's like, oh my gosh, you
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know, you make a big deal about it. So,
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I don't know. But what I would have to
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find out, are there like Tuesday the
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13th movies here? You know, I don't know
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anything about Spanish horror cinema. So
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now this is going to be like a little
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thing I'm gonna have to research because
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we are a horror movie loving family. So
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maybe we certainly are. I'm still I'm
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trying to get over it. I'm trying to
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ignore the fact that you all watch
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horror films. I'm wondering, you know,
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if it's one of those things when they
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did Friday the 13th, whether they
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renamed it in Spain to Tuesday the 13th,
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right? We don't know.
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In order to market it. So, you'll have
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to look that one up and let us know
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because that would be what one would do,
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right? Sometimes
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one would think, but who knows? But the
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movie is all about Friday. Who knows?
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Who knows? But
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I know you'll find this shocking. I
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haven't watched it. So,
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I know you're a wimp. I don't understand
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you. Uh, we look at you with shame.
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I am absolutely a wimp. I am not going
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to lie, not watching that stuff.
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Um, so should we move on to number two?
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Sure. What's number two? Number two is
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no hats on a bed. Now, I feel like I
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might have heard this, but I it's
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definitely not some it's definitely not
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a superstition that has come into like
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our family circle.
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I don't know this one either, like in
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from my life, you know. Mhm.
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So, what it is is it's the superstition
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that if you put your hats on the bed, it
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it's um people are bringing their evil
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spirits, I guess, in their heads and
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their hair and if you put the hat on the
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bed, their evil spirits are being left
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behind in your house. So, that's
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right.
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That's it's a weird one. It's kind of an
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odd one to explain, I think, because I
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think there's a lot overall I'm seeing a
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bit of a pattern of, you know, you want
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to keep evil spirits out of your house.
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Basically, your house should be a
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tranquil, happy place, which makes
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perfect sense. And all the evil spirits
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are running around outside the house,
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hopefully.
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So, a lot of this is about keeping good
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energy in your house, which I which is
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always a good idea. So,
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all right. So, then I think I have a
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million-dollar Shark Tank idea for
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spring. I'll come up with like a outside
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hat rack. You know what I mean? So,
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bring those evil spirits into the house,
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let alone make them to the bed, you
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know?
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Well, I do think it is directly related
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to the bed. So, I think it's okay to
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have your hat take your hat off like in
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the front at the beginning, the foyer of
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your house and then have a hat rack
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there. I think that's probably
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acceptable because it seems to be very
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directly related to a bed, which is
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where you're sleeping, right? So, maybe
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the amount of time you're spending in
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bed.
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Yeah. But, you know what? I don't think
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we should be taking any chances. I'm
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gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna up this
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superstition and make a million dollars
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out of it. Okay.
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Okay. No hats in the house. That's it.
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Million euros. Sorry. A million euros.
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I'm going to make I'd rather have a
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million euros anyway.
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Yeah, better. So, okay. So, that's good.
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So number three has to do a little bit
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again with warding off evil spirits and
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that is um you're supposed to put cactus
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or cacti and place them in the window
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sills
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which I have to say I've seen a lot of
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and I did not know that was a
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superstition but even in the city like
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I've seen a lot of um cacti in the
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window and I can even look out my
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balcony and the balconies across the
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street have big cacti on their balconies
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and I was like why are you putting that
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out there? because you know I mean cacti
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are nice and all but I mean it's not the
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prettiest plant. You know some of these
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you know they get ratty in this hot sun
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and all that but now I know why they're
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there because
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but I will say I have started to really
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love cacti. I was never really a big fan
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but they're easy to take care of. I
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can't really kill them. I haven't
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managed to kill one yet. And when you
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start getting into them I have a friend
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who's really into them and the variety
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and if you can get them to flower are
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like amazing. So there is there is
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something about them that people might
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just be loving because they're an easy
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plant to keep. So they they have that
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going for them as well, which is
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probably a good thing that the plant
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that you're placing in your window sill
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to ward off evil spirits doesn't die.
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Yeah. I mean, you'll want to put a fern
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because I've never kept a fern alive,
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you know. So,
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but we've all had them. Start a plant.
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Yes, we've all had them. I bought them
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many times. There are certain plants I
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buy and I'm like, "This will never be a
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forever plant, but it's cheaper than a
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bouquet of flowers." So
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there you go. Exactly. And if you're
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going to ward off evil spirits, I think
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um you should not be whistling indoors
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either. That's another thing, you know,
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related to that.
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Yes. Have you heard that elsewhere?
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Because I've never heard that.
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Never.
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Never.
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Yeah. But I mean, I have to say not a
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big whistler myself. Um don't know a lot
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of people that do. So I don't know that
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it's something that would have come up
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like in my life that much. No, I mean I
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do whistle with my kids outside just to
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embarrass them, but not, you know.
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Okay.
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Well, that's a whole other episode of
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all the things we do to embarrass our
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children on purpose.
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Yeah, that's we should do that. An
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episode of how to embarrass your
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children in Spain.
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Is it I don't think it's that different
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from other countries, but sure.
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So, a thing that I find interesting and
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kind of cool is that our number four is
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uh when you're giving gifts, you should
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not give scissors or knives. Not that I
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was often giving scissors and knives and
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as gifts, but the symbolism is if you
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give a knife or a a scissor as a gift,
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it's it's how do you say representing
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severing the friendship, severing the
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relationship. So, the person receiving
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the gift is supposed to give a couple
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coins to the giftgiver. So, it's not a
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gift and it's a an it's an exchange,
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which I think is kind of cool.
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I think that's cool. And you're very
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welcome to buy me a 200 euro knife and
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I'll give you a penny. Like, I'm so
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happy for that exchange.
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What about cars? Do they have you can
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gift me a car and I'll give you a give
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you a a euro a euro token or two?
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Maybe we can start a superstition just
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so that we can find some great gifts.
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But I think that's I do think that's
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kind of interesting. I mean, I think
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like you said, a pair of scissors. I
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mean, there are some really fancy
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scissors, but I mean, knives are great.
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I I will disagree with you on that. I
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think knives are great gifts because
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there are some really beautiful, very
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expensive knives that maybe people will
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get them as wedding gifts or something.
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So,
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right. I mean, I'm not saying you
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couldn't give me one. I'm just saying I
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don't normally give them out as gifts.
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No. And if you do, you will get a penny.
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Penny. So you ain't get no nice knife.
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You're going to get cheap one.
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One from the Chinese store apparently.
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Exactly.
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Oh my goodness. Yeah, that is kind of
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fun though. Um number five, I do think
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number five, there's a lot of variations
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of this uh around the world in places
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that I've lived, but this particular one
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is um seems is one that I have not come
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across, which is uh salt. Passing the
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salt shaker from hand to hand is
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considered bad luck. You need to place
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it on the table for somebody to pick up.
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And Gotcha.
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That's interesting. I haven't come
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across that particular salt
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superstition.
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Oh, and because I were used to like, you
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know, if you spill some salt, you throw
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it over your your left shoulder.
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Um, but I did find out something else
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that I'm going to surprise you with
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because it's not on our list and it
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wasn't in our our previous list of
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research because we went through a big
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list, people of like 20 and we narrowed
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it down to 10 for you. So there was
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there was thinking going on here and
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curating
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but this is what I didn't even share
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with you. It's also like bad luck if you
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filling glasses should only be done on
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the table. You shouldn't fill like a
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glass with water in your hand. You
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should put it on the table.
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Oh, interesting.
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Yeah.
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What? And you could fill So you could
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fill it on the table in the kitchen and
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then bring it out onto the dining room
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table or something,
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right? But you wouldn't do it while
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holding it. Yeah. Well, that kind of
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makes it difficult for champagne, which
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is something that I love because you're
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supposed to sort of tilt the glass and
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pour it in. And that might be hard if
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you're trying to also touch the glass to
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the table.
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I I just saw that it was like water. So,
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I don't know. Maybe it's just water.
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Maybe it's just water. Yeah, because
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you're not supposed to cheers with water
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either. Now, we've really gone off
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track. Um, but you not supposed to
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cheers with water. So, water has its own
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set of So, it might just be a water
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thing. But I also think it'll be
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interesting to find out why salt is
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associated with so many superstitions. I
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don't know why that is.
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Well, that's your homework.
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That's my homework.
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And I do have to say if we didn't go off
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on a tangent, then it wouldn't be our
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show.
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That's true.
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[Music]
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So, I have also found out why I've been
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single my whole life.
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Yes. Number six. This one's for you.
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Number six is if sweeping the floor,
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avoid sweeping over the feet of an
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unmarried person because that's believed
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to prevent them from getting married. So
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I think in my life people have been
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sweeping over my feet and I don't
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remember it because um still no ring on
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it as they say.
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There you go. Well, maybe you had some
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very clean people living that you were
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living with when you were younger and
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they were just sweeping everywhere and
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just happened to go over your feet
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several times because I don't know how
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often it it you have to do that for it
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to take. But for all the unmarried
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people that maybe didn't want to be
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unmarried, I guess because there's
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plenty plenty that are like, "Please
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sweep over my feet."
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Not necessarily.
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Now, you didn't have anything like that
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back in your home country. A sweeping
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over the feet. Do you have any
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Oh, that that one seems something where
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well, I mean, not that marriage isn't
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isn't a very coveted thing in England
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before. Um, but that seems like
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something that comes from cultures maybe
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where marriage is a much much bigger
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thing like
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I would say. Um, so and maybe it's an
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older thing that just kind of sort of
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disappeared. I don't have no idea. Yeah.
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Well, and they do a lot of sweeping
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here. I mean, you know, they do sweep a
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lot here. There's always the cleaning of
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the sidewalks and the washing, right?
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There's this this kind of
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Yeah,
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the dust. I don't know.
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That's true. No, I have seen a lot of
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people also like sweeping in front of
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their houses like and you know, we were
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talking about
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how everyone has
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I mean it's probably this is similar in
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America. You're kind of you're kind of
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in charge of the public space in front
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of your house, in front of your like if
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you live in out outside of the city like
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the outside of your wall, you know? I
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mean, it's not really your
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responsibility, but everyone that is
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kind of your responsibility to keep it
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looking nice. So, you know, people are
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sweeping out there. So, you maybe you
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were going for walks and people were
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just sweeping over your feet, you know.
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Who knows? Who knows?
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Who knows? But that is kind of a fun
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one. Um, very not none of them are
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provable. So, who knows? Um,
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now our number seven, you have to um
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remember this is a familyfriendly
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podcast. So reviewed your words wisely
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when translating this.
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Okay. So much
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which means a lot of are we allowed to
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say this word? A lot of poo poo. A lot
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of kaka
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poo poo. Kaka.
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This is instead of break a leg. So
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obviously this is a I mean you can say
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this in any particular situation but
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it's obviously very very much more in
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the theatrical context of um when
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someone's about to go up on stage or
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something and then it's just I can't
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imagine saying this. I mean this this is
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one of those things that feels like
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unless I hear 50 people say it first,
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I'm not I'm not jumping in on that one.
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Oh, I'm going to use it now. This is a
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good for like, you know, when your kids
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have their exams coming up. You that's a
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good way to wish them off and kind of
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make light of the morning too. You know,
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you
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send them off to go stress out on their
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exams all day. Wish them a little much.
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Yeah. Exactly.
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Mia. I got to do it my proper accent.
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Exactly. Well, I do feel like it's one
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of those things that
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if you are if it's your language, you
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don't even realize maybe how silly it
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sounds, right? But if you're learning
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another language, suddenly you're like,
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"Oh, when you put those words together
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and it's not a phrase that we have in
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English, it suddenly, you know, it means
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something completely different in
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English." Um, then it it feels weird. It
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sounds weird to say it,
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right?
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Yeah. But that that is kind of fun. Like
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you said, make fun of the moment,
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right? Well, yeah. I mean, that's the
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whole point, right? That's even when you
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break a leg, you want to release the
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stress. Yeah. You want to release the
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stress.
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Yeah. Exactly.
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I like theatrical. No, I'm I'm kind of
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understated.
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I mean, in the sense of like you like
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that kind of thing and I could see you
17:43
on stage. I could imagine you on stage.
17:45
I can't imagine myself on stage acting
17:47
in a play, but I could see you doing
17:48
that for fun
17:50
once or twice. I did it in my in my past
17:52
lives.
17:55
In your past lives, how many lives do
17:56
you have? Well, this one I think I've
17:58
had a lot so far,
18:01
but but in my youth I was an actor and a
18:03
singer and all those things. And then
18:05
then I became a dad.
18:06
There you go.
18:07
That that's just my job now. Ding.
18:09
Daddy.
18:12
Things change. Parenting.
18:14
Parenting changes everything, right? Um
18:17
so which leads us to number eight.
18:21
A
18:22
salude.
18:23
Oh, thank you.
18:24
Let's do that. That was so forced.
18:30
there. There um we're not improv actors.
18:33
No, we're not.
18:35
I waited too long. I need to come in
18:36
while you're speaking.
18:40
So, here they say salude instead of
18:42
bless you for um when someone sees this.
18:46
In case you didn't get that, that's
18:47
where we're headed. But they also will
18:49
say Jesus. Um, but I think that's more
18:52
of a Latin American thing from what I've
18:53
heard, but from what I've heard, but
18:55
they will say that here they'll say
18:57
Jesus. Something else I heard, um, was
19:00
that they'll say like Jesus, Mary, and
19:02
God, but like in Spanish. So if you had
19:04
three sneezes,
19:06
and they'll do that here, but I think
19:08
that's more of a Latin American thing,
19:10
but here it's
19:10
Right.
19:12
Well, and speaking of sneezes, I mean,
19:13
in in the sneezes arena, I've heard like
19:17
three sneezes is good luck,
19:20
right? I've heard that. Yeah. In
19:22
And I don't know you. I love a sneeze. I
19:24
love a sneeze.
19:26
I think
19:26
clears everything up. Opens your head
19:28
up, you know.
19:30
Not if you're actually got a cold, but
19:31
if you're just sneezing, Yes. then it's
19:33
fun.
19:34
Yes.
19:34
Because if you have a cold and you're
19:36
really sneezing a lot, that can start to
19:38
hurt, you know. But now in postcoid,
19:42
right? Well, be postcoid for another 10
19:44
years. You seize on the street like
19:46
you're so embarrassed and everyone's
19:47
looking at you like you're going to kill
19:48
the whole street still.
19:49
Or on a plane. I mean, if you're on a
19:51
plane and you sneeze, you still have
19:53
that feeling of like, oh my god,
19:54
everybody here thinks I've got
19:56
something, right?
19:57
Yes.
19:59
I don't know how long that'll take to go
20:01
away. Probably never.
20:04
Not in our lifetime, probably. Right.
20:06
That you've got to be born out of it.
20:08
Like, have you not known? I think so.
20:09
Yeah, I think so. We would just
20:11
It'll probably be a new superstition,
20:12
right? Probably a new superstition will
20:15
develop out of this in the next 20 to 50
20:18
years of sneezing and what's a new
20:20
response, right?
20:24
But I do think Yeah, that's kind of
20:26
that's kind of a good one to know if
20:27
you're coming into another country
20:28
because I it's one of those things
20:30
that's so built in to just be like, "Oh,
20:32
bless you." or whatever when someone
20:33
sneezes that you don't think about the
20:35
fact that you need to say that in
20:37
another language because it's just this
20:38
auto thing that you do. So salude, which
20:42
is also cheers, right? Salude. I mean,
20:44
you can use that for a lot of things.
20:46
Um,
20:46
it's it's a well-being, right? So,
20:49
yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yeah.
20:51
With health with health.
20:53
With health.
20:54
Without co
20:56
without co
20:58
excuse me, I had a little cough there.
21:00
Which did not require a salute.
21:02
That will not be a salute.
21:04
No.
21:06
Now, do you want to lead us with number
21:07
nine?
21:08
Number nine. Yes, this is always a good
21:11
this is always good advice. Your best
21:13
foot forward. So, this is one of those
21:15
things I haven't really I feel like I've
21:17
heard this. It's never been something
21:19
I've thought about, but now of course
21:20
that we're talking about it, I'm going
21:21
to do it all the time, which is you it
21:24
is considered misfortune to enter the
21:27
room with your left foot. So, you need
21:30
to walk into a room with your right
21:32
foot. And that seems like a lot of work.
21:36
I mean, I would imagine a house, not a
21:38
room. I mean, you can't do this around
21:39
your house. You'd go crazy. So, I would
21:42
say going walking into someone's house
21:44
or walking into a new building perhaps,
21:45
but every room that seems insane.
21:48
Well, I think every room I think you
21:49
need to develop a new OCD. And
21:54
this seems like a terrible way to go
21:55
about your day.
21:56
Yeah.
21:57
But I would think most of us start
21:59
walking anywhere with our right foot,
22:01
right? I feel like we lead with our
22:02
right foot. So, maybe it's not that
22:04
hard. You're well, it depends on whether
22:06
you're whether you're rightfooted or or
22:10
goofy. Isn't that what they say in
22:11
surfing? And and what in uh uh
22:14
are people right footed and left footed
22:16
like they are like
22:17
people are Exactly. Exactly. So if you
22:19
if you surf or if you um if you do uh
22:22
snowboarding, they want to know which
22:25
foot you are because you want to have
22:26
that the strongest foot. Well, now I
22:28
don't even know if that's in the front
22:29
or the back, but anyway, you have to put
22:31
your feet properly whether you're goofy
22:33
or normal. So, normal I think would be
22:35
right footed. I would imagine goofy
22:36
would be left footed, but I will
22:38
probably be corrected on that. But
22:40
that's what I'm saying. When you're
22:40
walking around your house, you're just
22:42
walking around. So, to do that would be
22:44
very hard. You're not going to But when
22:46
you're when you're standing outside a
22:47
front door and then you step in. Yes, I
22:49
think you're absolutely correct. You're
22:50
stand You're standing and then you're
22:52
stepping. You would probably do it with
22:53
your right foot. Hm. Well, now I'm going
22:56
to be obsessed to find out which one I
22:58
do I lead with. And is it the same as my
23:00
hand? I'm right-handed. Am I right
23:02
footed? Or does it is it cross over?
23:04
Not necessarily. Opened up a whole can
23:06
of worms.
23:07
Not necessarily. And then but this also
23:08
seems very anti-left people, you know.
23:11
So it's like you can't, you know,
23:13
because there was a time when it when it
23:14
was considered you were evil if you if
23:17
you were left-handed, like they were
23:19
forcing children to be right-handed.
23:21
I still think it's true. Those are evil
23:23
people. No, I love left-handed people.
23:25
Do not cancel me, please. I do.
23:28
Well, that was a big flip-flop. I don't
23:29
know where you stand now.
23:32
I mean,
23:33
guessing.
23:33
Yeah, exactly. So, I mean, they used to
23:35
stop children from being left-handed,
23:36
right? So, I mean, that was a very that
23:38
was a big thing. So, I could see that
23:40
for some reason being left, you know,
23:42
having left foot being your strong foot
23:45
would be something that would be
23:46
considered, you know, technically evil,
23:48
I guess. So, that's why you got to step
23:50
into a house with your right foot.
23:52
Seems like a lot of work to me though.
23:55
Now, now number 10, I have to say um for
23:59
two new years is in a two new years is
24:03
in a row. I have prepared these but did
24:07
not but did not accomplish it in time
24:10
because I was so caught up in the moment
24:12
of the clock striking 12 that I forgot
24:14
to whip out the 12 grapes that were
24:17
stuck in my jacket pocket because at
24:19
midnight um at the 12 seconds before
24:21
midnight you're supposed to eat a grape
24:22
for every second and finish them before
24:25
midnight strikes to welcome a good luck
24:28
for your for the new year and um I
24:32
haven't done it but I would have to say
24:34
it's completely been a bad luck year the
24:36
past two years, you know. So,
24:38
so maybe it's okay.
24:40
Maybe. But this year I'm gonna try. I
24:42
mean, I bring them then we forget about
24:44
them.
24:44
So, I don't know if it has to be whole
24:45
grapes. This seems like a choking hazard
24:47
for somebody that used to and may still
24:50
cut grapes in half just for sometimes
24:54
I'm cutting the sometimes I'm cutting
24:56
the seeds out because I don't like
24:57
those. So anyway, but
25:00
I would always when Zena was younger cut
25:02
her grapes in half so that they were
25:03
less of a choking hazard and then I just
25:05
became a habit of doing it. So to have a
25:07
child just stuffing 12 grapes in their
25:10
mouth every 12 for like for 12 seconds
25:13
in a row
25:14
seems like I think it's I think that's
25:17
amazing because it just goes against
25:18
everything we
25:19
just put all 12 in your mouth at once
25:21
and chew really good. I mean that seems
25:23
a lot easier because that's a lot of
25:24
movement. One grape. One grape. One
25:26
grape. One grape. Gee, that's a lot.
25:28
I mean, I do think ultimately you're
25:29
going to end up with 12 grapes in your
25:31
mouth to chew. There's no way you can
25:33
eat a grape every second. I don't think.
25:34
But we might have to, you know, one day
25:37
when we're interviewing someone that's
25:38
Spanish, I like find out how this
25:40
actually really works. Um, because it
25:42
does seem like it would be quite hard
25:44
and as you know, unless you allowed like
25:47
a tiny piece of grape and you can just
25:49
pop in 12 little bits. I don't know.
25:51
I don't think I don't think you're
25:52
allowed to cut things. I think you're
25:53
supposed to cheat on good luck. Do you
25:55
know what I mean? I don't think
25:57
shortcuts to good luck. You you're
25:59
you're whole hog when it comes to good
26:01
luck. You know, you got to do the whole
26:03
thing. You know, there's, you know, if
26:06
you're gonna you don't do like like
26:08
sometimes you have to cross yourself,
26:10
right? You know, like the the you don't
26:12
do half across like you got to do all
26:14
three, you know.
26:15
Speaking speaking of holog, I mean, this
26:17
is fame. Why couldn't it be 12 pieces of
26:18
ham on like why is it 12?
26:20
That would be easy. I could get that
26:22
down. Yeah,
26:25
I would prefer that.
26:29
Oh my goodness.
26:29
I know.
26:30
And there are other New Year's um
26:33
superstitions, but we'll get into that
26:35
closer to New Year just to make sure we
26:37
can't give it all the way.
26:38
No, but we'll prepare you. Don't worry.
26:40
We'll prepare you.
26:41
We'll have a we'll have a New Year's
26:43
special or something, right?
26:47
Yeah. Well, that is 10
26:50
fun and quirky Spanish superstitions
26:53
that kind of mesh, but not quite really
26:55
with maybe ones that we've heard of. So,
26:57
we're all going to be jumping around in
27:00
a completely different way for the next
27:02
week until we're like, "This is way too
27:03
much work.
27:05
I'm not going to ask anyone to pass me
27:07
the salt. I'm going to be careful what
27:09
I'm sweeping. I'm going to be You know
27:11
what? I have to go now. I have to run
27:13
out and buy a cactus and put it out on
27:15
the balcony in front of so evil spirits.
27:18
I've I've got a lot of work to do today.
27:19
I don't know about you.
27:20
Yeah, this is a lot of work. I've got to
27:21
walk around the house and make sure I
27:23
walk into every single room with my
27:24
right foot. This is going to be this is
27:26
going to take up my whole day basically.
27:31
Well, good luck with that.
27:33
Oh, yeah.
27:36
Not like I'm not going to be walking
27:37
down our hallway and being like, "Which
27:39
one's foot? What foot am I walking in
27:41
with now?"
27:42
Oh my goodness. Yeah, I think this will
27:44
be I think this will be fun. Well, we
27:46
hope you all enjoyed our our 10
27:49
superstitions. And if you're like us,
27:51
you'll be thinking about them for a
27:53
little while and maybe crossing some of
27:55
them off your list is too much work.
27:58
Exactly.
28:00
All right, everyone. Well, aego Tanya,
28:06
we don't know that in German, I guess.
28:08
Avidane.
28:09
Oh, a yes. There we go.
28:12
Yeah,
28:12
nice. Look at us.
28:14
Look at a Spain has become a Europe.
28:16
We We know three words in multiple
28:18
languages.
28:20
So many languages.
28:21
We're so We know so much.
28:25
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