Utsuro Bune

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🗓️ 29 August 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Utsuro-bune (うつろ舟 'hollow ship'), also Utsuro-fune, and Urobune, refers to an unknown object that allegedly washed ashore in 1803 in Hitachi province on the eastern coast of Japan.When defining Utsuro-bune, the bune part means "boat" while Utsuro means empty, or hollow. Accounts of the tale appear in three texts: Toen shōsetsu (1825), Hyōryū kishū (1835) and Ume-no-chiri (1844).

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0:00.0	Well, could you mail it maybe?
0:04.1	Mm-hmm.
0:05.1	Oh, thank you, can mail deep dish pizza though.
0:08.5	What?
0:09.5	Okay, so your answer already indicates you don't want to try.
0:11.4	I feel like you definitely didn't want to try there.
0:13.4	Okay, guys, you ready?
0:15.2	No, already hard, no.
0:18.0	So look, after our live show in Chicago, I've been thinking, what's the best way to reach
0:24.0	new listeners?
0:25.6	Is there any chance at all you're going to say put out a good product and hope people
0:29.1	notice and tell their friends about it?
0:30.9	There is not.
0:31.9	There is not sure why you asked.
0:33.2	That's.
0:34.2	Yeah, no, that's on me.
0:35.4	And then I was reading the script for this week's episode, right?
0:38.4	And it hit me.
0:39.6	Boat messages.
0:40.6	We get some models, you know, con girls.
0:43.7	We put them on a boat and then they wash up on shore.
0:47.6	Boom.
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