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<v Speaker 1>Roses are red, violets are blue. What you think you

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<v Speaker 3>What is happening and what is up?

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<v Speaker 1>Hold out your glass because we're about to feel the

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<v Speaker 4>You know, look at it from a different perspective, different perspective.

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<v Speaker 3>Hey, what is happening and what is up?

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<v Speaker 1>it up. Welcome to the Prometheus Lins Podcast, the place

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<v Speaker 1>where the conversations are always enlightening. I'm your host, Doc Brown,

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<v Speaker 1>helps push it to new readers. But now Valentine's Day

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<v Speaker 1>is upon us, ladies and gentlemen. It's the time of love, flowers, candy,

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<v Speaker 1>and empty wallets. It's no secret how This holiday is

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<v Speaker 1>highly commercialized, and during this time, a twenty dollars dozen

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<v Speaker 1>of roses magically becomes a hundred. The tradition that we

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<v Speaker 1>know is Valentine's Day made its way into the New

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<v Speaker 1>World with Hallmark mass producing cards in nineteen nineteen. And ladies,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not trying to spoil your day, but today we're

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<v Speaker 1>going to take a dive into the dark roots of

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<v Speaker 1>this holiday. This is a festival with dark pagan roots.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll explore this holiday and the gods behind them. But

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<v Speaker 1>without further delay, my prometheanites, let's go steal some fire.

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<v Speaker 1>The most common imagery associated with this holiday is the cute, little, chubby,

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<v Speaker 1>diapered baby with wings, known as Cupid, who flies around

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<v Speaker 1>shooting his arrows of love not only at humanity, but

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<v Speaker 1>to the gods themselves. He is a cherub them. For

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<v Speaker 1>those unfamiliar with the biblical texts, cherub them are not

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<v Speaker 1>chubby little babies with wings. From the Book of Genesis,

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<v Speaker 1>we know Cherubim were placed at the east of Eden

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<v Speaker 1>to guard the way into Eden and the Tree of life.

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<v Speaker 1>We get a good description of these guys from Ezekiel one.

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<v Speaker 1>They each had four faces and four wings, and from

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<v Speaker 1>the accountant revelation we see that these guys are thrown

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<v Speaker 1>guardians with four faces that are the four cardinal points

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<v Speaker 1>of the Babylonian Mazarath. Ezekiel twenty eight says that Satan

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<v Speaker 1>was an anointed guardian Cherub. It wasn't until classical antiquity

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<v Speaker 1>that these guys morphed into the cute, little winged babies

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<v Speaker 1>that we see today. Cupid is the counterpart to the

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<v Speaker 1>Greek god of love Eros. Various legends and stories surround

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<v Speaker 1>this god's parents. Some say that his parents were Nix

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<v Speaker 1>and Erebus. Nix is the goddess and representation of knight

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<v Speaker 1>and the offspring of Chaos. Erebus was a representation of darkness,

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<v Speaker 1>also the offspring of chaos. He's also referred to as

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<v Speaker 1>the underworld and sometimes used as a synonym for Tartarus itself.

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<v Speaker 1>Some say his parents for Aphrodite and Ares, and others

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<v Speaker 1>say Aphrodite and Zeus. But according to Aristophanes and his

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<v Speaker 1>orphic hymn, in the beginning was only Chaos, the dark

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<v Speaker 1>knight at Tartarus. These two primordial entities made it and

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<v Speaker 1>burst Eros, the god of love. Eros himself mated with

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<v Speaker 1>dark chaos and hatched forth the human race. Eros is

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<v Speaker 1>not only the god of love, but also of lust

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<v Speaker 1>and sex. The name Cupid we use today comes from

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<v Speaker 1>the Latin, which means desire. According to Hesiod, he was

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<v Speaker 1>the first born of the gods. Not only that he

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<v Speaker 1>claimed to be the mightiest of the gods, and that

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<v Speaker 1>he will died influence over the gods themselves. And is

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<v Speaker 1>it not I said today that love conquers all. It's

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<v Speaker 1>often overlooked, but the major role Eros played in many

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<v Speaker 1>of the famous Greek legends and epix was very important.

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<v Speaker 1>We shouldn't forget that the arrow of arrows that struck Medea,

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<v Speaker 1>infecting her with such passion for the Greek hero Jason.

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<v Speaker 1>Without the help of this great sorceress, Jason would have

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<v Speaker 1>failed in his quest for the Golden Fleece. The same

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<v Speaker 1>goes for Odysseus in the Odyssey. Athena kept saving him,

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<v Speaker 1>but it was because of Arros. Arros made Athena fall

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<v Speaker 1>in love with Odysseus. Love was the driving force behind

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<v Speaker 1>many of our favorite epics and stories, and the Dionysica.

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<v Speaker 1>Aros pierces Dionysus with the arrow, driving him madly in

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<v Speaker 1>love for Aura, but the god of Love wasn't immune

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<v Speaker 1>to love himself. He falls in love with a human

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<v Speaker 1>woman named Psyche. Symbolically, this is the marriage of Love

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<v Speaker 1>and the human Psyche. In this story, his mother is Afrodite,

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<v Speaker 1>and Afrodite becomes jealous of the beauty of a human

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<v Speaker 1>girl named Psyche. Psyche was so beautiful that people made

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<v Speaker 1>the bold claim that she was even more beautiful than

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<v Speaker 1>Afrodite herself. Psyche's blessing was also her biggest curse. She

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<v Speaker 1>was so beautiful that no man dare approach her, as

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<v Speaker 1>every man thought her to be unattainable. All of her

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<v Speaker 1>sisters found love and husband's while she was left alone.

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<v Speaker 1>With all the attention Psyche was getting, people turned away

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<v Speaker 1>from Afrodite and her temple was left empty. In a rage,

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<v Speaker 1>she commanded her son Eros to go down and shoot

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<v Speaker 1>her with one of his arrows, forcing her to fall

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<v Speaker 1>in love with the first man she saw. Thus she

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<v Speaker 1>would pursue him. With Psyche married, everyone returned back to

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<v Speaker 1>the temples of Aphrodite once more. Aros goes down to

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<v Speaker 1>earth to obey his mother's wishes, but one look at

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<v Speaker 1>the beautiful Psyche. Eros, the god of love was smitten.

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<v Speaker 1>IROs spent many days watching Psyche and noticed her depression.

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<v Speaker 1>Every day she cried of loneliness and longed for a

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<v Speaker 1>husband like her sister's. Her father, the king, also worried

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<v Speaker 1>for his daughter and went to the seers at Delphi

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<v Speaker 1>to seek the help of Apollo. Apollo tells the king

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<v Speaker 1>his daughter is destined to marry not a man, but

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<v Speaker 1>a beast, a winged serpent, something more terrible than they

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<v Speaker 1>could ever imagine. So let's take a quick time out. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>did you guys catch that a winged serpent immediately? That

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<v Speaker 1>should send out some alarms in your head. I mentioned

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<v Speaker 1>earlier that Satan the Nakash was described as a cherub them.

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<v Speaker 3>This word in.

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<v Speaker 1>Hebrew can mean serpent, but can also mean the shining one,

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<v Speaker 1>the one who practices divination. John refers to him as

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<v Speaker 1>that ancient twisting serpent. Now remember, Scripture tells us he

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<v Speaker 1>runs around portraying himself as an angel of light, and

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<v Speaker 1>according to the Book of Enoch, the fallen angels became

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<v Speaker 1>subject to the Nakash. So this Greek mythos is aligning

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<v Speaker 1>with Scripture here. So yes, Eros can even inflict lust

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<v Speaker 1>on the gods themselves moving right along. In our story,

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<v Speaker 1>Apollo tells the king that he must take his daughter

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<v Speaker 1>to a high mountain, say his goodbyes, and leave her

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<v Speaker 1>there for her husband to collect her. There was great

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<v Speaker 1>sadness in mourning from the family. They prepared for a

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<v Speaker 1>few funeral instead of a joyous wedding. They led her

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<v Speaker 1>to a high place, said their goodbyes, and left Psyche

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<v Speaker 1>to her fate. Brought to tears and sadness, Psyche cried

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<v Speaker 1>herself to sleep. It was at this time that zephyrs,

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<v Speaker 1>the western wind, picked her up and whisked her away

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<v Speaker 1>into the air to meet her fate. When she woke,

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<v Speaker 1>she found herself in a peaceful grove, and in the

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<v Speaker 1>distance was a large, beautiful palace filled with the finest

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<v Speaker 1>things in life. It was what she imagined heaven would

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<v Speaker 1>be like. Sweet music filled the place, and for once

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<v Speaker 1>she felt happy. A soft, tender voice tells her this

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<v Speaker 1>house is for you. Do not be afraid. The voice

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<v Speaker 1>of her husband spoke to her throughout the day, but

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<v Speaker 1>didn't reveal himself to her. She hoped that when the

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<v Speaker 1>night came that he would come to her, and he

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<v Speaker 1>did under the cover of night. She couldn't see him,

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<v Speaker 1>but she could feel him against her, and she knew

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<v Speaker 1>that he was no monster, but the love that she

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<v Speaker 1>had long awaited for. Every night they would make passionate

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<v Speaker 1>love together, but come the morning, she would always wake

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<v Speaker 1>up alone, only hearing the voice of her husband throughout

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<v Speaker 1>the day. After a time, although happy, she began to

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<v Speaker 1>miss her family. That night, she requested that her family

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<v Speaker 1>come to visit her in her new home. Aros, the

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<v Speaker 1>god of love, couldn't refuse, but he did have one

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<v Speaker 1>request to not let her sisters influence her.

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<v Speaker 3>At the arrival of.

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<v Speaker 1>Her sisters, they were awe struck at the beauty of

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<v Speaker 1>their sister's new beautiful home, and as Psyche showed them

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<v Speaker 1>around the palace and talked about how sweet her new

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<v Speaker 1>husband was, their happy quickly turned to jealousy. The sisters

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<v Speaker 1>began to sow seeds of doubt. They began to question

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<v Speaker 1>her on why she has yet to see her husband,

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<v Speaker 1>and then they reminded her of Apollo's prophecy that she

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<v Speaker 1>was destined to marry a monster. But the more they talked,

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<v Speaker 1>their questions and seeds took root. The sisters left, and

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<v Speaker 1>Psyche began to question her situation and her new husband.

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<v Speaker 1>She decided that that night, while her husband slept, she

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<v Speaker 1>would light a candle and gaze upon him, and just

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<v Speaker 1>in case he was a monster, she'd have a dagger

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<v Speaker 1>to slay him. That night, after they had made love

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<v Speaker 1>and Arrows fell asleep, she lit her candle and grabbed

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<v Speaker 1>her dagger. As the lights exposed her husband on the bed,

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<v Speaker 1>she seen right away he was no monster. He was

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<v Speaker 1>the most handsome and beautiful man that she had ever seen,

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<v Speaker 1>and it was at this time point that she realized

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<v Speaker 1>who her husband was. He was Eros, the God of love.

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<v Speaker 1>She stared in amazement and admiration at his beauty, but

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<v Speaker 1>her gaze lasted too long. Leaning down over him with

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<v Speaker 1>the candle, the hot wax fell and hit Arrow in

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<v Speaker 1>the chest, burning him, waking him up in a rage.

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<v Speaker 1>Feeling betrayed, Aros gets to his feet and proclaims to Psyche,

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<v Speaker 1>love cannot live without trust, and he flies away. Psyche

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<v Speaker 1>was devastated. The entire day was void of her husband's voice.

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<v Speaker 1>She hoped that he would returned during the night, but

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<v Speaker 1>he did not. Several days passed like this, Psyche crying

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<v Speaker 1>herself to sleep. One day in desperation, she goes to

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<v Speaker 1>the temple of Aphrodite. As she knew she was the

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<v Speaker 1>mother of Eros, she would beg her new mother in

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<v Speaker 1>law for help and gain the forgiveness of her husband.

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<v Speaker 1>Psyche was unaware of the past jealousy of the goddess

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<v Speaker 1>and her plot against her and to torture her. Aphrodite

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<v Speaker 1>Aphrodittti returns enraged. Unknown to Psyche, Eros had come to

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<v Speaker 1>return to Psyche. Each task given to her from the

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<v Speaker 1>Goddess grew harder and harder without fail. Psyche completed each

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<v Speaker 1>waterfall by an eagle. Each completed task, Psyche's hope grew,

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<v Speaker 1>Aphrodite told Psyche she must go into Hades itself. She

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<v Speaker 1>After hearing of her journey, she decides to help in

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<v Speaker 1>But like Pandora, her curiosity would not let her leave

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<v Speaker 3>She thought that if she took just a.

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<v Speaker 1>Little bit of the beauty for herself after that he

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<v Speaker 1>she was even more beautiful than before. She opens the

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<v Speaker 1>When Psyche awakes, she's back in her palace in her

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<v Speaker 1>Her mission was now complete. Eros petitioned Zeus that Psyche

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<v Speaker 1>together and death shall never separate them again. Zeus ruled

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<v Speaker 1>in their favor, but also ruled that Afrodite was to

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<v Speaker 1>never interfere in their love again. Psyche was then given

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<v Speaker 1>the Ambrosia, the drink of the gods, thus turning her

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<v Speaker 1>he immortal. Psyche convinces Eros to forgive his mother and

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<v Speaker 1>that they all lived happily ever after. The story reminds

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<v Speaker 1>us once again of that famous line, Love conquers all. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>with the background of the god associated with this holiday

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<v Speaker 1>that we call Valentine's out of the way, let's take

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<v Speaker 1>a look at the history of this holiday. We need

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<v Speaker 1>look no further than to ancient Rome. We can trace

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<v Speaker 1>the beginnings of this holiday to the ancient Roman festival

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<v Speaker 1>of luper Kalia, and this was celebrated February the thirteenth

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<v Speaker 1>through the fifteenth and this was a fertility festival dedicated

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<v Speaker 1>to fawnas the wild Man, the fertility and agricultural god.

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<v Speaker 3>This is a subject that I dive.

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<v Speaker 1>In pretty deep in my newly released book, The Epic

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<v Speaker 1>of Esau, The Birthright and Seed War. In that book,

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<v Speaker 1>I deep dive into Esau. That's the question, could Esau

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<v Speaker 1>be in what we call today a bigfoot? And in

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<v Speaker 1>that book I take a deep dive into the wild

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<v Speaker 1>a lengthy section about faunas he was a wild man

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<v Speaker 1>of the woods covered in hair like Esau was described

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<v Speaker 1>fawnas was closely associated with Rome's founders, the twins Romulus

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<v Speaker 1>and Remus. The Leupra Kai, which was the name of

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<v Speaker 1>the priests who overseen these festivities, would go to a

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<v Speaker 1>sacred cave. Something about caves when we talk about these

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<v Speaker 1>wild men and Nephelum giants, they seemed to really like

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<v Speaker 1>their caves, and this cave was said to have been

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<v Speaker 1>by the she wolf or Lupa. There they would sacrifice

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<v Speaker 1>a goat for futility and a dog for purification. I

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<v Speaker 1>talk about this fascination with goats of these wild men

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<v Speaker 1>in my book, and the Bible calls them harry goat demons.

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<v Speaker 1>In the Book of Isaiah talks about how they dance

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<v Speaker 1>in the wilderness and also in desolate cities, and once

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<v Speaker 1>they make their sacrifices to start this festival, they would

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<v Speaker 1>remove the goat's fur and cut them into strips and

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<v Speaker 1>soak them in the blood from the sacrifice. They would

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<v Speaker 1>then drink and drug themselves into a frenzy to invite

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<v Speaker 1>the gods within them to be possessed. They would then

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<v Speaker 1>remove their clothes and parade through the streets of Rome.

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<v Speaker 1>They would then take these blood soak strips and beat

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<v Speaker 1>the women of the town with these blood soaked garments. So, men,

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<v Speaker 1>this Valentine's Day, forget the flowers, the cards, the candy.

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<v Speaker 1>Just come home drunk, take off your belts, soak them

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<v Speaker 1>Of course, I'm joking, joking. I do not condone domestic

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<v Speaker 1>violence on the show, But isn't that while though, I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>think of that, this is the original practices of this holiday,

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<v Speaker 1>and they didn't have to chase these women either. They

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<v Speaker 1>hit with these blood soak strips. They believed if they

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<v Speaker 1>were hit by these that their wound would be blessed

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<v Speaker 1>with fertility, and also their crops for the coming year

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<v Speaker 3>Also.

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<v Speaker 1>These festivities also included a matchmaking lottery. All the unmarried

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<v Speaker 1>women of the town would have their names put into

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<v Speaker 1>a large jar or an urn. Then the town's bachelors

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<v Speaker 1>would come in and draw names one at a time.

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<v Speaker 1>The name they drew would be their partners for the

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<v Speaker 1>rest of the year. These matches often ended in marriage,

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<v Speaker 1>as they believed that these were heavenly inspired matches by Eros,

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<v Speaker 1>the god of Love himself. Emperor Claudius the Second he

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<v Speaker 1>he killed two men by the name of Valentine on

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<v Speaker 1>February fourteenth in different years during the third century. Some

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<v Speaker 1>believe these gentlemen is where we draw the names for

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<v Speaker 1>our modern holiday. Their martyrdom was honored by the Catholic

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<v Speaker 1>Church when they declared this day Valentine's Day. When Christianity

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<v Speaker 1>took over Rome, an Emperor Constantine converted. They took many

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<v Speaker 1>of the pagan holidays and christianized them to convert more people.

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<v Speaker 1>This way, they could hold on to some of their

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<v Speaker 1>traditions that they were familiar with and practice for years.

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<v Speaker 1>Christmas is another one of these holidays. In ancient Rome,

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<v Speaker 1>this was known as Saturnalia. Valentine's Day comes later after

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<v Speaker 1>Constantine in the fifth century. The Catholic Church honors three

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<v Speaker 1>martyrs with the name Valentine. One of these men served

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<v Speaker 1>as a priest during the third century. In Rome, Claudius

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<v Speaker 1>the second said that single men made better soldiers and

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<v Speaker 1>issued a decree that outlawed marriage for young men. This

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<v Speaker 1>Valentine defied the orders of the emperor and secretly married

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<v Speaker 1>young couples. Valentine was captured and put into prison, and

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<v Speaker 1>there it is said that he fell in love with

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<v Speaker 1>the warden's daughter, and just before his execution, he wrote

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<v Speaker 1>and he signed it from your Valentine, a phrase often

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<v Speaker 1>using cards and letters to this day. Pope joe Assis,

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<v Speaker 1>the first in the fifth century, was the one who

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<v Speaker 1>combined who combined Saint Valentine's Day with luper Kelia to

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<v Speaker 1>get more converts. Around the same time, people celebrated Golatin's Day,

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<v Speaker 1>and Galatin meant lover of women. Over the years, the

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<v Speaker 1>holidays softened through the help of Chaucer and Shape through

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<v Speaker 1>their romance writings, and began to grow in popularity. During

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<v Speaker 1>this time, it was said to be the height of

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<v Speaker 1>bird mating season, thus being the height of romance. Geoffrey

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<v Speaker 1>Saucer was the first to write about how this day

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<v Speaker 1>poem all right, guys, you got the background info on

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<v Speaker 1>Valentine's Day, the god that is associated with it, and

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<v Speaker 1>now it's time for the Prometheus perspective. Ladies, I told

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<v Speaker 1>you in the beginning, I'm not trying to spoil your day.

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<v Speaker 1>I may spoil this particular day, but I'm going to

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<v Speaker 1>improve the quality of your lives today. Men, listen up.

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<v Speaker 1>Boycott Valentine's Day, not because it has pagan roots. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>if you go back far enough, everything has pagan roots.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, I'm not a.

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<v Speaker 1>Legalistic pharisee like that. Boycott this day to save your

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<v Speaker 1>hard earned dough and stop paying five times the normal

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<v Speaker 1>amount of things just because of the day that you

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<v Speaker 1>buy it. You are following other sheep into the slaughterhouse

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<v Speaker 1>and fattening the wallets of people whose wallet is already

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<v Speaker 1>so fat they got back problem from sitting lopsided. Now

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<v Speaker 1>the ladier, like Doc, you said you weren't going to

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<v Speaker 1>ruin our day and that you were going to improve.

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<v Speaker 3>The quality of our lives. How does this help us? Well,

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<v Speaker 3>here it is fell us.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, with all that money that you just saved, you're

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<v Speaker 1>going to reinvest those funds back into flowers, cards, candy

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<v Speaker 1>and weekend getaways. The only difference is now you're going

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<v Speaker 1>to plan five days throughout the year to do the

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<v Speaker 1>same thing you did on Valentine's Day. It will cost

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<v Speaker 1>you no extra money, and your lady will feel special

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<v Speaker 1>throughout the year.

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<v Speaker 3>You're welcome.

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<v Speaker 1>The overall modern message of Valentine's Day, I can get

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<v Speaker 1>down with. Show your love and appreciation for your fellow

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<v Speaker 1>man and one man. You know, this is something even

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<v Speaker 1>Jesus true importance too. He said, love fulfills the law,

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<v Speaker 1>and his two greatest commandments were love the Lord with

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<v Speaker 1>all your heart, love your neighbor like you love yourself.

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<v Speaker 1>And hey, I love you, my Promethean kites. And until

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<v Speaker 1>next time, torch is high, guys.

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<v Speaker 3>One thing