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🗓️ 27 June 2012
⏱️ 55 minutes
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0:00.0 | On this early summer eve, I'd like to share one of my favorite stories, one of the legends |
0:24.3 | from King Arthur. |
0:26.4 | And if you've been with me before, I think about a year and a half, I might have shared |
0:30.2 | it. |
0:31.2 | And if this is a familiar legend, then I'd like to invite you as you're listening to |
0:36.2 | sense what characters you identify with, okay? |
0:41.3 | So in this story, King Arthur is out wandering and, you know, doing his hunting and going through |
0:46.4 | the deep forest and encounters an enemy. |
0:49.6 | He encounters a shadow knight who has great powers and he casts a spill over King Arthur |
0:57.2 | that renders him terrified and powerless. |
1:02.0 | And he basically says, I'll give you your life and your freedom. |
1:06.3 | If you can return in seven days with the answer to a question, and the question is, what |
1:13.3 | is it that all women most desire? |
1:18.8 | That's the question, okay? |
1:20.6 | So you can start thinking about that if you haven't heard the answer already. |
1:24.7 | So he agreed and he went around asking anyone he encountered to ask the girl, herding |
1:29.8 | geese and the L.Y. if he asked great ladies. |
1:33.2 | And, you know, they said different things, but none of their responses really rang true. |
1:40.2 | So he, the final morning, he was very heavy-hearted because he realized that he would have to |
1:49.3 | submit and die, he didn't know the answer. |
1:53.2 | So I'm going to read you one of my favorite versions of it, I'll read you the rest of the |
1:57.3 | story. |
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