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The Kevin Miller Podcast

The 10 Cow Story

The Kevin Miller Podcast

Kevin Miller

Nutrition, Relationships, Mental Health, Education, Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Medicine, Life Sciences, How To

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2011

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

This is a Blast Box Media Podcast.

0:03.0

Welcome to the Ziegler Inspire Podcast.

0:07.0

Welcome to the Ziegler Inspire Podcast.

0:11.0

Ziegler Inspire Podcast. I'm talking about?

0:22.8

Let's listen to our friend and mentor Zigziegler,

0:24.9

and I'll be back to recap.

0:29.0

I'm gonna tell you a little story.

0:31.8

Some people think it's just a fairy tale, but take my word for it. It is not.

0:40.2

On the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian islands.

0:44.0

They used to have a most unusual custom.

0:48.0

And that is that when there was a bride available,

0:52.0

the suitors barded for them with cows. A standard wife

0:59.3

went for three cows. Now if she was below norm you might say a little bit she went for two

1:06.8

cows if she was phenomenal I'm in a gorgeous hunk of femininity with all of the charms and graces and whatnot, then she would go for

1:16.6

four cows. There was a rumor, and I hasten to add it was a rumor, it was never confirmed that in the distant past in the northernmost area of

1:26.5

the island one bride had actually gone for the unheard of price of five cows. Well there was this man who had two daughters. Now the younger

1:37.6

daughter was absolutely beautiful. She was the bell of the ball. She was

1:41.8

bright and articulate in everything desirable in a wife.

1:46.5

The older girl would be described as the runt of the litter. She was what some people would call a reject. An old dad

1:56.2

knew there's no way on earth he was ever going to get the full price of

2:00.1

three cows for her. As a matter of fact, deep down he knew he wasn't going to get two cows.

2:05.3

And if reality came to light, he knew that one cow would be a good deal for him. And if the truth

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