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Ye gods with Scott Carter is the podcast that makes sense of how we make sense of life.

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Hello, welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack to Tappert Brothers,

and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for Unapplied Mathematics here at Car Talk Plaza.

Now, I'm going to step back, way back, while my brother alienates yet another huge portion of the NPR audience.

So go ahead.

You've got the floor, the ceiling, the walls, everything.

Go, go for it. And they're all padded.

And it may well be that I alienate all those people, but this is something that needs to be said.

And who better to say it?

Who better?

And it's one of those situations where some very small incident erupts into a tremendous insight.

And here's the incident.

As you know, this past summer, I fulfilled a lifelong dream and bought a fountain for my backyard.

Yes, we know.

Right?

And this fountain has four lions out of whose mild spew water into this large, what do you call

that, like a cistern thing.

A vessel.

A vessel, which is octagonally shaped.

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