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  My mother said,

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  Hi, this is Aaron and I'm with my nine year old son Beckett.

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  We're washing or shuffling the tiles as we prepare to teach our next Majong lesson in Atlanta,

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  Kylums, New Jersey.

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  This podcast was recorded at 12.23 p.m. on Tuesday, October 28, 2025.

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  Things may have changed by the time you hear this.

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  But we'll have completed the Charleston with a new set of Majong players.

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  That's so cute.

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  Yeah,

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  I was just talking to Elena more about wanting to learn that game I've never played it feels like a good thing to know how to do and I don't know how to do it Yeah,

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  and I did think I don't know when you heard that I knew was board games I knew was something game adjacent.

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  I thought it was Mancala board game activation, right?

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