Episode 533: A Container for Your Future Plans

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🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

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DISCUSSED: Part one of a deep dive into calendars.

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0:00.0	I'm a mom.
0:01.4	I'm a mom.
0:02.9	I'm a mom.
0:03.9	Hello.
0:05.9	Hello, Merlin.
0:06.9	Man, how are you today?
0:08.9	Good morning, rabbit rabbit.
0:10.4	Yes, rabbit rabbit is the Tuesday, the auspicious day.
0:14.2	Mm-hmm.
0:15.2	We don't always, well, because of the vagaries of the calendar,
0:18.9	we don't always land on exactly the rabbit.
0:21.2	You know, I want to just make a suggestion to whoever controls
0:24.1	the calendar thing.
0:25.2	We should make every month 30 days
0:27.2	and they should always start on a Tuesday.
0:30.2	Mm-hmm.
0:31.2	So you're always starting out with an optimistic rabbit rabbit?
0:33.4	You can't not have an optimistic day and an auspicious day.
0:38.4	Yeah.
0:39.4	Yeah, it is kind of, maybe nice if we had something more
0:43.4	like the metric system for almost everything.
0:45.4	I'm saying, in fact, why not make every month 20 days?
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