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Greetings to you, sweet friends.

It is I, D.Trossel and you are listening to the Duncan Trussle Family Hour Podcast.

I don't remember where I read it, but I read somewhere that if something magical happens

to you, you should announce that something magical has happened to you.

Actually now that I think about it, I think that the idea is that if you cast a spell that

works, you're supposed to say that the spell worked?

I can't remember.

Wizard rules, right?

I mean, they're so difficult to remember.

But there are rules out there for wizards and witches and warlocks.

I think one of the main rules is that we have to be very careful about what we say because

sometimes, not all the time, sometimes the things that you say actually do come true.

This can happen in big ways and it can also happen in really small ways.

Today happened in a really small way, which is that I was having a meeting and I was talking

with someone that I'm working with and we're just discussing, you know, having dogs around

and what it's like to have dogs in an office.

And he told me a really sad story, which is that during a meeting, someone's dog had

shit on the floor of the office and they had accidentally rolled their chair backwards

into the shit.

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