How Ramadan Works

It's the holiest month of the Muslim calendar, and for good reason. It was during the month of Ramadan that Mohammed began to issue the Koran. Learn about the customs and traditions behind observing Ramadan in this episode of Stuff You Should Know.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera.
It's ready. Are you welcome to you stuff you should
know from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome
to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles W. Chuck
Bryant and Chuck May. I say kulu uma unto be

(00:24):
care a salama they come to you, my friend? So,
um chu can I speaking Arabic to one another? Um,
what did you say? I said, May you be well
throughout the year. Okay, I should say that. I want
to qualify that by that's the translation presented in the
House to Folks article. It's not babel fish. I said

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peace be with you, Peace be upon you. Thanks. That's
general greeting. Well, those are very nice greetings. They're particularly appropriate,
um to uh say to one another. The whole reason
we're speaking Arabic to one another right now is because
you may or may not know this. If you're one
of the um sixth of the world's population who practice Islam,

(01:09):
you're probably well aware of this. But for the other
five six Um it's Ramadan right now. That's right. It's
a big month, one point three billion. I'd like to
say a sixth, second largest religion behind Christianity of course,
And uh, well are you sure Christianity really? Of course?

(01:30):
What are you talking about? I thought they are way
more Muslims than Christians. U, there's like over two billion Christians.
I did not know that. You thought that it was
the number one religion and that or maybe Buddhism Christianity.
Are you sure? Oh? Yeah, I do. Christianityes they're number one.
They've got that missionary outreach program. I guess it's been effective.

(01:53):
They got a downpat So July eighteen, I'm sorry, July
nine through August eighteenth this year, and we will explain
why it's this year because it falls at a different
time every year. Yeah, well we can explain why now
because they use a lunar calendar. We got smacked down
for this. Remember, No, in one of our shows a
year or two ago, we said something about Ramadan falls

(02:15):
on this and people write intersaid, actually it falls at
a different time every It was probably the fastening episode. Yeah,
I think that was. It would makes sense. Yeah, and
we were like, oh wow, we need to educate ourselves
and we did. Yeah, we spent the last year and
a half studying. Uh, Islam. Yeah, this is the culmination
of a year and a half of Islamic studies that
you and I undertook to do the Ramadan episode. All right,

(02:36):
So lenar calendar, that's where it all starts. Okay, is
that where we're starting. Well, you already mentioned it, so
I'm just bringing it back, all right, Well, the luard.
You know, we're used to the solar calendar, the one
that UM is used in the West, the sixty five
day calendar based on the cycle of the sun. Yeah,
a lunar calendar. UM breaks months down by when a

(03:00):
new moon is sighted and then the next time a
new moon is sighted. And there's a lot of UM
disagreement about what sighting a new moon means. But the
point is it's based on the cycle of the moon.
In America, Muslims in America generally adhere to the Islamic
Society of North America, and when they get together and

(03:22):
they say, this is when Ramadan starts this year, right,
So Ramadan starts as the ninth month of the Muslim calendar.
So it's the ninth new moon of the year. And
what it kicks off is the holiest, most joyful, most
introspective most um charitable month of the year for Muslims.

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Basically Ramadan, it's the name of the month, but it's
also the name of this month long celebration. Um is
basically like the come back to Islam month for all
you Muslims and those of you who aren't maybe coome
get acquainted, but it is all about like getting back
to your religious roots as a Muslims. That's pretty much

(04:09):
the point of Ramadan this right, and the ninth month
you mentioned is significant because in a d that was
a camel trader named Mohammed traveling through the desert and
he had a vision from Saudi Arabia Modernday, Saudi Arabia
outside Mecca, and he uh had a vision from an angel,
the Angel Gabriel, and said basically, you are the chosen one, dude,

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and you will receive the word of God to dispense
to the people. And that was in the ninth month.
So that's why Ramadan happens in the ninth month. Yeah,
it's like the most blessed month because that was two Muslims,
the most significant thing that's ever happened in the history
of Earth, and the words that came through Mohammed was
ended up being the Kuran. Yeah, I was transcribed. So

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as part of Ramadan, the entire Koran is reading, is
read out loud at mosques around the world. Um, and
they read a little bit every night, and so about
a thirty of the Koran is read, and over the
course of the month the whole thing is read. Bam
Koran read Ramadan dunne and the prayer where they read

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him it's called the Taawi. And I need to say
a special thank you too. Uh Ki Deer Azali put
out a call on Facebook. We got any Muslims out there,
we need some help, or I guess I could have
said Arabic speakers in general. Sure, but I wanted you know,
I wanted it from the horse's mouth. So key Deer
emailed me and I had a list of words, and

(05:39):
he gave me his best shot at phonetic pronunciations. And
so thanks a lot man, Yeah, thanks a lot, Key Deer,
big big help. I mean, that's a chuck's doing great
because of you. Well, I just don't want to stumble
through this and the thin people like we know. I'm
with you. I think it was a good move. So
the prayer that in which in the mosque that you
were adding the Koran or the Koran, I guess that

(06:02):
is how I said. It is tara wheat, that's the
prayer and you say that every night. That's right, that's
the nightly prayer during Ramadan, right, Yeah, And I think
it's not required this part, but it is highly encouraged
that you do stuff like this. Well, yeah, it's the
it's the whole point. I think. Like also, I don't know,
but I would guess that there's Um it's the same

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with like say Christmas time and when Christians there's people
who like us the the Christmas season to reflect and
to be charitable and to right or during Lent fasting.
Does that equal like fastening every day or giving up
chocolate or something like that for forty days. I think

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it probably depends on the depth of your adherents. But
the point is Ramadan is there so that you can
come back and just kind of get back in touch
with Islam and yourself too, because the main component, aside
from the nightly um, the nightly prayers and the reading
of the Kuran and its entirety during that month is fasting,

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which is the big the big part. Yeah, so um,
Fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam. There's fasting,
there's alms giving um, there is daily prayer uh. And
then there's a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in
your lifetime if you're able to. Yeah, they give you
a break if you know you can't afford it or

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you're you know, like infirmed or something, right, um. And
then there's Shahadah, which is um the the I guess
the first pillar probably basically the belief in the creed
of Islam, which is that Allah is God and Mohammed's
his prophet. So you've got those five pillars. So if
if the belief in God and fasting are on the

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same level, that's a big deal. And so this is
the month that you really do it, and there's specific
guidelines laid out for how you fast and in you
fast right. Yeah. You start at the age of twelve,
which is um in Islam. Is I don't know if
that's when they consider you an adult, but that's when
most of the that's when you get involved in Islam.

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As you know, as far as fasting and stuff like
that goes, you're I guess you're no longer considered like
a child. So at twelve years old you can start fasting.
And Um. One of the big parts about the fast
is not just that you say, you know what, I'm
not going to eat during the daytime from sun up
to sundown. I'm just not gonna eat. I could lose
a few pounds, and you know, it can kill two

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birds with one stone. The really important part and the
really the only way for the fast account is uh
has to do with a word called nia and I
y y a h and that literally means intention. And
what I gather from this is that if like the
fastest to truly come from your heart for the sole

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purpose of praising Allah. Right, it's not like you said,
like you want to lose a little weight, or you
know you're um, you're an ira, a prisoner or something
like that for political reasons. It's like you're doing it
to be closer to God or to be a good Muslim. Yeah,
and if you don't. In the scripture, it says quote
whoever does not make nia before dawn would not have fasted.

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So unless you've really feel it in your heart, then
it doesn't count. So make it count. But everything counts
like a little more during Ramadan apparently, so this is
a very special month. Um. During this month, according to
the Koran, the gates of heaven are open, so angels

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are coming freely down to Earth to help out, but
the gates of Hell are locked and all the demons
within are chained. So you are basically the path is
cleared for you to really just kind of shed all
of your baggage from the year. Your prayers that are

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done it every night are a way to um, basically
clear off, clear your conscience of any wrongdoing you've done. Yeah,
they should make the demons locked away like twelve months
out of the year. No, well, here's here's here's the thing.
There's there's an answer to that. If you if the
demons were locked up twelve months a year, then um,

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it would be all on you. That's the point during Ramadan.
If you do wrongdoing or evil, that is all you.
I can take that. I can take that pressure, can
you sure? Why not? Uh? And not to make light
of it, I'm just choking around you know. Um. So
the actual practice of of fasting, what happens is you

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wake up early, you know, before dawn if you want
to have anything to eat, and you eat a meal
called sahure and that gets you going through the day.
Sun comes up, then you can't eat at all, right,
or drink water yea, yeah, yeah, it's gotta be like nothing.
That's a good point. Um. Then when the sun sets,
you break the fast, which with the meal called if tar,

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not to be confused with ishtar, No confuse anything. And
this is your meal after the sun sets to kind
of replenish your body. So you probably start off eating
like some sweet drinking some sweet drinks, and dates, eating, yeah,
eating dates, and basically that you want to like give
some energy to your body to get it going again.

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And I was reading an article on the BBC about
Ramadan and it was written by a Muslim scholar um
and he was basically kind of chastising people who stock
up as he put it, for ramadon which it's like, Okay,
we didn't eat all days. We're gonna eat like two
days worth of food at night. And he was like,
that's not the point. You can't do that. So well,

(11:49):
it says you can. Now, it says you can eat
whatever you how however much you want, right, you can.
But this guy he's saying like, yes you can. He's
a purist. He was being a purist, gotcha. He was saying,
that's not the point, all right, Well so sissy, Um,
the it's a rich meal because it's gotta tie you over, obviously,
unless you're just picking out on McDonald's two in the morning.

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And um, it includes a dessert called a kanafa or
a kata if. And the kata if looks sort of
like an impanada from what I can tell. And the
kanafa is a cake made of wheat, sugar, honey and
raisins and nuts, and it looks sort of like just
a sheet cake, like a single layer sheet cake. And

(12:34):
they both look quite delicious. I would like to try each.
If there's other ones too, like baklava is one. That's
a good one. Classic. Yeah, um, so chuck, you've got
your uh ista iftar. Yeah, I actually did confuse the istar.
That's the nighttime meal, right, Yeah, that's the nighttime meal.

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You go to bed, you wake up, you have a saher,
and then the the day begins where you're fasting. If
you are sick um, if you are chronically or acutely
ill um. The Koran specifically exempts you from fasting during Ramadan.
It basically says like, all I want you to be well,

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and you need food and water during this time, so
just go ahead and take care of yourself. Apparently, a
lot of Muslims still who are sick fast during Ramadan,
so um Muslim doctors are doctors in the Muslim world
have had to kind of think on their feet a
little more to figure out how to take care of
these patients who are like, I'm not putting anything in

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my mouth the whole time I'm open, so uh that
they use like time release capsules, um transdermal patches, that
kind of stuff, because you can't take a pill that's
breaking your fast, but they don't consider that breaking the fast.
I guess as long as it doesn't into your mouth,
that's that's how I took it. It's called the workaround

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in the modern world, but that's that's pretty devout, Umpandon.
Apparently the it's most dangerous of all two um diabetics
who are must lament trying to fast, and it's like
you can give it a shot, but if your blood
sugar goes low, like you need to break your fast immediately,
so you can't even take like an insulin shot or
you can. You could take an insulin shop. But I think,

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like that's right, you want to try to keep your
blood sugar up naturally. First, well, I'm glad they at least,
you know, take care of the sick. Well it's specifically exempted. Well,
I guess like the pilgrimage too, if you're able to
write like, we don't want you to break your back
or if you can't afford it, you can't go. Uh.
So fasting is is a big deal and it's not

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it's symbolic a UM. It means that you're not paying
attention to your earthly needs. Um that opens you up
to be more inviting for Allah to you know, to
have that personal connection with Allah frees you up, which
is a big deal. And it's also um a one
too punch because you are supposed to feel hungry and

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know what it's like for those who maybe can't afford food.
So like a big part of it is the connection
with the needy and those who might be going hungry
because they can't help it. Right, because again it's one
of the more charitable times of the year when it's
you know, kind of everybody gives that little extra sure um.

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And then also check it also practices self control, which
is a good one. Yeah, cleansing. Yeah, so you you've
got there. You're going through Ramadan, You're you're going along
at a pretty steady clip, and in the last ten
days um you enter this time where it becomes basically

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the holy of the holies as far as the year
is concerned, as far as the Muslim calendar is concerned,
there's this night called lilttle cutter. Did he give you
the pronunciation for that one? No, I didn't. I don't
know anything about that. I think I got that one.
I'm hoping. So that was the night that Mohammed first

(16:09):
started reciting the Koran. As far as I could tell,
it wasn't the night. I don't think it was the
night that the archangel Gabriel came down and said, hey, man,
prepare for transmission, because you're about to get the holy
word of allah Um. I think it was the night
that he did start saying the Koran and what was

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eventually transcribed into the Koran. Okay, it's a very holy night.
The thing was, it was not recorded the date, so
no one knows when it was. They just know that
it was in the last ten days of Ramadan. Traditionally,
it's celebrated on the twenty seven day of Ramadan. And
this is the day where you do your prayers. What
are the prayers called during Ramadan? The tarawi Um. You

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do your nightly prayer on this night. They say that
it is has the um, it has It's worth more
than a thousand months of worship. Like if you do,
if you praying like you're a good devout Muslim on
this one night, like it just takes care of everything. Wow. Yeah.
And then after that, Um, You've got a couple more

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days of Ramadan, and then the end a big party. Yeah,
you fasted that long. It's time to celebrate. When you
break the fast, you say, talk beer, which talk beer.
The literal translation is Um, Allah is the greatest. Allah

(17:36):
is the greatest. There is no deity worth worthy of
worship but Allah, and Allah is greatest. Allah is the greatest,
and all praise is due to Allah. And this can
be said. There's a variety of moments uh in a
Muslim's life on a monthly basis that they will say this.
You know, It's not just at the end of Ramanan.

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Could be battle cry, it could be in times of need.
Basically it's just an expression that nothing is greater than Allah.
And when you have completed this really important task at
the end of Ramedan, this is what they say. Men
are supposed to say it out loud, women are supposed
to just think it. No comment on that. But basically

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that's the end of Ramadan. And then it's time for
the celebration the d al faittier, right, which is you know,
it's kind of a party, and everybody says D mobarik,
which means a blessed D. That's right. Yeah, D means festivity.
The tier means breaking the fast, yea. So this is

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the party where you break the fast and everybody gets
gustied up and dressed to the nine and they go
seek out the poor. They chase them down in the
streets and then give them money and food. They light
up their houses the what with lanterns and stuff. Yeah, yeah,
it's very beautiful. It's not Muslim Christmas. I know. People
in the Western world always like to like say, well,

(19:05):
this is like Easter. This is like, you know, fourth
of July is the Sinco de Mayo in Mexico. It's like,
none of this is true. That was a good thing
to point out, Chuck, I'm glad you did that. Um.
And so what else happens after that? With adolph A
Tier I didn't get from this UM article how long
it lasts? Like is it a one night is it

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like a week long? Thing? Does depend on how the
economy is doing that year, that's a good question. I
didn't get to that either. Well, I'm sure someone will
inform us. But it is a big party and UM
lots of generosity and gratitude among each other, and like
you said, towards the poor, which is pretty great. Uh
So in the end, um Ramadan accomplishes a bunch of

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things that's gonna strengthen your relationship with Allah, very important.
It's gonna enforce patients and determination. I imagine going through
a month long sun up to sundown fast. We'll do that. Yeah,
I mean there's gotta be times during that month where
you're like, I'm having a really bad day and I
want cheeseburger. Yeah. Sure. Uh promotes the principles of sincerity

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by making a shy away from arrogance and showing off.
That's kind of cool. Like I like all these tenants.
Promotes good character and truthfulness, which is a good one,
UM encourage you to do with way with bad habits.
I guess if you've got some bad habits, Ramadan would
be a good time to watch those away because the
whole thirty days theory of you know, starting a new habit,

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plus your practicing self restrain already anyway, exactly enhance his
generosity and hospitality, reinforces the commonality and the feeling of
brotherhood with other Muslims, which is a big deal. UM
observance of the value of time, which makes sense because
you know, if it were me, I'd be watching that

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that sun go down each night. And well plus also
you're not just wandering around looking for food and stuffing
your face. You have more time, so do something with it. Yeah,
it makes you value time, I guess. And UM teaches children,
uh to perform acts of like servitude and obedience, be
kind of the poor, that kind of thing. Yeah. Basically,

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get your life back in balance, get your spiritual life
back in balance. A good Muslim, that's what it's saying.
That's right. So this year, UM, since it's a lunar calendar,
it falls on at different times of the year every year,
and not even like different like oh this this is
just this year it's July one, and the next year
it's gonna be like July five or something. It's like

(21:36):
in five or six years or something like that, it
will be in like November. Yeah, it's like it's all
over the the twelve month map, right right, So, um,
this year, if you're in the United States, Uh, the
um North the Islamic Society of North America, you said, um.
They they said, okay, the new moon sided on July

(21:59):
and then is astronomical calculations. And there's a big debate
over you know, whether um, that's okay, and they're saying, yes,
of course, it's okay. We're we're it's actually more precise.
You don't have to see it. There's nothing in the
Koran that says you have to see it. Other people
say no, in the Koran, it's when the new moon
is cited. You can't sight it with astronomical calculations, have

(22:21):
to use your peoper. So there's a debate apparently all
this Yeah, but apparently all this goes away like during
like once Ramadan started service, Like okay, whatever, qu um.
But there's two arguments on whether to like, if you're
in North America, that's not Mecca. So there's different arguments.

(22:43):
In One argument for using a local sighting is, well,
these are the people that you're celebrating Ramadan with your community.
What's one of the reasons for it is to be
part of the local community. Another But then the other
argument um to use like say the Mecca sighting, where
you know when the New Moon of peers over Mecca,
is that it unites Muslims around the world in this

(23:05):
in their Muslim nous at the center of it. Those
are both good points, but neither one settled. I mean,
in the US they still use the Islamic Society of
North America mainly. So is it a hot debate or
is it I don't think. I think it's an ongoing debate.
But again I think what's Ramadan starts? It's like, which
is the important thing? Is that we're all together exactly? Yeah,

(23:27):
I love it. Pretty interesting stuff and I didn't know
much about it. I knew those fasting but it's good
to you know, I've always said one of the coolest
classes I took in college at Georgia was my religion class. Yeah,
very interesting stuff. I think it's good to open yourself
up to learn about stuff, whether or not you subscribe
to any of it. Knowledge you know, and just listening

(23:49):
to this podcast is a good start, agreed um. And
if August nine he comes around and you have a
Muslim friend, make sure to wish them. Uh, I'd move
bark because that's all fatier this year August in North America.
That's right. Uh, okay, that's it for Ramadan. If you

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want to learn more about it, you can type that
into the search bar at how stuff works dot com.
R A M A D A n uh. And I
said search bar, which means time for a listener, Mael.
Now it's not, Josh, it is time for So this

(24:33):
is gonna span a couple of shows because it's pretty long.
We've had an ongoing list are actually, and that's just
the ones you've compiled so far. I still have like
a backlog myself. So let me give you this page,
and I'll take this one and just sort of mark
where you left off and we'll we'll finish up. There's
like three pages, all right. So first of all, Bobby Duke,

(24:55):
my man, the wood carver, awesome, awesome stuff he carved us,
this handmade stuff. He you nothing I've promoted before it's
on our TV show and it's like, it's really awesome.
And if you're into woodcarving, you want to support Bobby
um Duke. Wood Carving dot com is where you can go. Yeah. Um, okay,
I got one for you with the dot com. Dan
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(25:17):
S H I R T e R. Send us some
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That's pretty cool, giving a bear of Haymaker. I believe.
I love that. We've got stickers of that too. Um.
You can find him also at um the Eastern Market
in d C. That's right, Bailey Denmark, you sent us
dark chocolate in bacon cookies, which means that you know

(25:39):
us and you love us. Uh and they were delicious
and good. Lucky graduate School, Bailey, Um, Jenny and Brian
sent us some spam flavored macadamia nuts from Hawaii. Grassius.
Mine are still sitting up there. I know I'm waiting
for like just the right moment. Well, I hope I'm around. Okay,
I didn't get any You didn't know that you have
the you been keeping him hostage. Well we'll we'll split him,

(26:02):
We'll get Jerry One and will E the rest. Uh.
We got a book from Samuel Samuel Little called gold Star,
and we certainly appreciate that I have not ready yet,
but it's on the shelf. Thanks sam Um. I wanna
put in a special shout out to our buddies Glen
and Sonja for the bottle of champagne that they sent us.
Of course, Um for reaching the million dollar loanedmark on

(26:24):
Kiva and they sent me and you me a bottle
of champagne to congratulate us for our wedding. What did
they have a champagne factory or something? Bought it all themselves.
Pillow mob. Everyone you have seen the Chuck pillow. There
was a Josh pillow it you haven't really I keep
the thing in hiding. When I opened the box and
I saw that it activated the part of my brain

(26:46):
that would be activated if it had been a human head.
Like that's what was activated when I looked in the box.
It's scared well. I love my Chuck pillow. It's made
appearances all over my house to freak out Emily, like
in the microwave because I know she could have put
her coffee and there each morning and sometimes I'll put
it in bed and when I go out of town
and stuff like that. Anyway, pillow Mob is I think

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they're out of Seattle and they're pretty funny gifts. Yeah,
they're awesome. What's do you get one for somebody? What's
their website pillow mob dot com. I'm not sure, but
it's pretty easy to find search pillow mob lazy. I've
got one. Illustrator Kevin Cornell sent it's his book Sixpenny
Anthems Volume two. Uh. He's specifically asked not to be
plugged because he didn't want the gift to be disingenuous.

(27:29):
Well t s for you. Um. It's a really good
compilation on the comics he's worked on, and you can
find it at bear skin Rug dot c O dot uk.
Kevin Cornell, heck of a guy, awesome comics. Yeah, a
Man of Leisure sent from Missoula, Montanas and as moonshine. Yeah,
like four jars and you tried it. I tried it

(27:52):
at work at my desk. I know I watched to
do it. It was delicious because I wouldn't touch mine
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Josh was like try it, try it. I want to
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let's see. We got a postcard from the Spam muse Museum,

(28:14):
the Spam Museum from Julie G and Austin, Texas. Thank you.
We got a book called Swing from Alan Girl and
he is a dude who found out that his birth
father was Louis Prima. Cool, so he says, yeah, pretty amazing. Uh,
Jennifer sent us a cat ball. Those are my to

(28:35):
you because I don't have cats. I use it all
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And supposedly they're coming by on their book tour. Oh yeah,
So go to a little Bit l I D D
A B I T Sweets and support them because they're

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like handmaking these delicious things and by their book which
I don't on the name in front of me, but
I'm sure they have the information at the Little Bit
Sweets website. I would imagine, Um, Claire from Summit, New
Jersey s it's a very nice handwritten lighter. Thank you
very much for that, Claire. That's um, that's a dying art.
It is, uh And I got one more and then
I feel like we should probably continue this another time. Yeah.

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Maya from the Brooklyn Brewery. Remember they sent us a
big box of stuff including beach towels and stickers and
couzies and books including the brew Masters Table and Beer School.
So I've been drinking Brooklyn Brewery for a long time
since I lived in New Jersey many years ago. And
this delicious stuff, it is great stuff from that area.
I'm sure you know it well, but not to seek

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it out. Thanks guys, Thanks to all of you, guys. Yeah,
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