325. How to Train Your Dragon Child

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🗓️ 15 March 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Every 12 years, there's a spike in births among certain communities across the globe, including the U.S. Why? Because the Year of the Dragon, according to Chinese folk belief, confers power, fortune, and more. We look at what happens to Dragon babies when they grow up, and why timing your kid's birth based on the zodiac isn't as ridiculous it sounds.

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0:00.0	From an American perspective, the most amazing story of the 2018 Winter Olympics was the
0:08.2	story of Chloe Kim, the 17-year-old gold medal snowboarder from California.
0:13.0	It wasn't only that she was so young and so, so good at her sport.
0:18.1	98-25 Chloe Kim, you're a little bit champion.
0:22.1	It wasn't only that she's so likable and so calm under pressure.
0:26.3	It's so rare that people can live up to the hype.
0:30.3	Chloe Kim absolutely did that today.
0:33.2	Nora was it just the fact that her Korean immigrant family, especially your father,
0:37.6	had devoted themselves so thoroughly to her Olympic goal.
0:41.2	It's helped me so much on this crazy journey and giving up his job and like being away from
0:46.5	my mom and being away from home for that much just because of me.
0:50.5	No, the most amazing part of the Chloe Kim story is that her story was destined to happen.
0:57.5	Why?
0:59.5	Because Chloe Kim is a dragon child.
1:03.9	That's right, she was born in April of 2000 during the auspicious year of the dragon
1:10.1	and that is what her father reminded her by text the day she was going for the gold.
1:15.3	I text her this morning just the time to be a dragon.
1:20.9	This is the time to be a dragon.
1:25.6	Did Kim really win a gold medal because she's a dragon child?
1:29.6	Of course not.
1:30.6	That's not how the world works.
1:32.4	Is it?
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