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get a free domain name. Friends, I've been trying to record the intro to this podcast. I'm having

some difficulty doing it because I'm in Hana Maui, gazing out from my porch on a beautiful

sloth of incredible Hawaii. All of Hawaii is beautiful. All of Maui is beautiful, but Hana is

particularly exquisite to the point where recording intros is nearly impossible because it sounds

like I've been sucking back great plumes of high-powered hashish mixed in with opium. I'm just

raving. I sound like somebody out of a cold-ridge poem or a HP Lovecraft story just babbling about

how I think I can talk to the bird. So I don't know how much longer I'm going to attempt to record

these intros. And also I don't I don't have much choice because the battery is running out on my

recorder here. So we just got to jump right into this episode, but I do want to say I've discovered

something incredible that I hope you will investigate. I was looking into Ganesh. If you don't know

who Ganesh is, Ganesh is the elephant-headed Hindu god who has a really amazing backstory. The way

Ganesh ended up with an elephant had this pretty amazing, but I realized Ganesh rides around on a

mouse or a shrew. And I was really curious about that. So I looked it up and it's pretty interesting

man. You should definitely check it out because of all the vehicles is there called. All the Hindu

gods have vehicles that they ride around in and the way that there's like mounts and world of

warcraft. The Hindu gods, some of them ride around on, I don't know, eagles I think or dragons or

whatever, but Ganesh, the remover of obstacles, the god that represents the grace that allows you

to get past what appears to be some of the most impossible barriers in your life chose as his mount

a shrew or a mouse. And in some of the paintings, the rat and some of the paintings, the rat

kind of looks like a little bit like a dick. Like it doesn't, you know, like it's some of the paintings

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