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Chuck Bryant

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Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

Humans, because it's no good for you.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

It's toxic to us.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

I mean, I don't know if it could kill you.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

You'd probably have to eat a ton of those, and you'd probably be vomiting long before you died, such that you would say, hey, maybe don't eat those.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

But yeah, nausea, bad, bad stomachache, so don't eat those red berries, which is big for kids, because when you see that red berry in your kid, it looks like something you should pick off and eat.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

Pretty good.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

No, don't do that.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

But what you could do if you're into carving things, apparently the holly's wood is very hard, great for carving.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

And a lot of chess pieces can be made out of holly wood because holly wood, which I think is kind of cool because I, my friend, have started playing chess for the first time since probably high school.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

Because Ruby is in chess club, and she's asked me to play chess with her.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

So we've been playing every night, and I'm having a ball playing chess with her.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

Is that why you picked this episode?

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

No, it's not why, but it's pretty interesting because I dabbled in chess in high school.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

I was never good or learned any chess.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

strategy or technique or took any classes or clubs.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

So it's all just intuition.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

And so I'm basically at the point where she is at 10 years old and her, you know, kind of learning strategy a little bit.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

And so we're like pretty evenly matched and it's just a lot of fun.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

Like I'm, it's opening brain pathways that I did like strategical pathways that aren't tapped into very much for me.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

And so I'm really digging it.