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EP19 - Did English take the day off? · Oh And One More Thing

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Oh, and one more thing. Hey, I'm Brian.
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Welcome to Owen. One more thing.
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Hi I'm. Rob, how are we doing today,
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Brian? I'm doing great, had a nice busy
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day. It was a good day.
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Nice, nice. How?
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How was your weekend? Oh, the weekend was good.
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We're up at the cabin as. Always as always, Yeah, that
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time of year, it's got a little Julier weather.
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Yep, little fall colors are turning.
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Yep, it was great. Love the.
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Weather my favorite time of the year, I.
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Didn't go into the water, no. So it was cold.
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Well, it's still 70s. I took the sailboat out though.
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Oh. How was that it?
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Was hard. Yeah, it was it.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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I had to get the whole family to help lift it.
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I really got to come up with a new system.
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Yeah, You know what's funny about the water temperatures?
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My mom visiting from Arizona, we did not go in the water because
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it was too cold. The water temps are like 75° for
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Minnesotans. That's great and like
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temperatures. That's pretty nice.
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Fantastic. We go down there in Arizona in
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the winter. The pool is pretty consistent
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90°. Oh, see, that's a little too
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warm, right? It's like bath.
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You're like you're sweating in the pool.
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No, I want to Do you want to chill out in the pool?
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Right. It's hot down there.
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Yeah, right. That's weird anyway.
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Did you ever have one of those days where you feel like your
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brain is speeding down the freeway but your mouth is stuck
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in traffic? That's daily, yes.
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Happens to me all the time. I get tongue tied and twisted
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and blah blah blah blah blah, but I can't figure out what the
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Frick I'm going to say happens somewhere in between my brain
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and my lips, you know? It all falls.
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Apart. Yeah, it happens.
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You know, the older we get, the more it seems like the English
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language is playing tricks on us.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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The other day I told someone I was being facetious, but instead
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it came out as facetious. What was that?
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Facetious. It sounds like a Roman emperor
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that told too many dad jokes. Hey, way to get that joke in
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here. That's good.
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I like that. Let's get it out of the way.
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But it doesn't help when some really weird and crazy words are
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out there, like Zarf the saucerus and Bumfuzzle.
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Do you know those are real words?
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Those are not real words. Yeah, they're real words.
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It's part of the English language.
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No, no, it's not. What do they mean?
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Well, let's tell you a Zarf. ZARF is the holder for the
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coffee cup with hot coffee cups. If you go into a store and
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you're going to get a coffee and it comes in a paper cup, that
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sleeve that goes around it, that is called azarf.
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And if you don't believe me, look it up.
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It's real. That's not just called the cup
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sleeve thing, it's just it's actually called Azarf.
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It's Azarf. Well that changes my luck on
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coffee all the other now. A saucyris is a soft murmur or
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whisper. Saucyris.
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Yes, with saucyris. Saucyris.
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Let's use that in a sentence, OK?
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And a bum puzzle is to confuse or fluster.
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I'm clearly bum puzzled on these 3 words.
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I am usually always bum puzzled. Yeah, yeah.
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So interesting. Some of the more weird words in
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the English language have fascinating and unexpected
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origins, often revealing cultural Shields,
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misunderstandings, or even historical events.
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Should we discuss I. Totally think we should.
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All right. I think that should be our our
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podcast of the day. I like it.
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I like it. Let's.
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Start off with indubitably. Indubitably.
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Indubitably means without a doubt, or certainly it is a
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formal way of expressing strong affirmation or agreement.
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That's that's formal. That's formal.
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Yeah. I've I never grew up thinking
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that was formal, ever. I'd like to go on record that
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I'm going to butcher these words.
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You and me both, my friend, it. Is going to be one for the
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records book because it's not going to be good.
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It's going to be ugly. Let's start it off.
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All right. I'll give you #1.
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Number one petty Fogger. What the What's a petty Fogger?
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Again, I'm trusting you since you wrote this episode.
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Well I can only go off of this is what Google told.
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OK so and we all know Google AI isn't always honest.
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Hey, if it's on the web, it's true.
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Right. If it's on the web, yes, as our
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listeners know it's. True.
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It's true. All right, So all these are real
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petty Fogger. And it's not a pedophile.
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Well, thank God for that. Not a pedophile.
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It is a lawyer who takes on trivial or disruptible disrupt.
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This is another hard word. Disreputable cases.
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Really. That's what it says.
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That's a pettifogger. That's what it says.
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Isn't that almost like, I don't mean to right, just on the
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lawyers, but a lot of them. And that totally doesn't even
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sound like a legal term, right? Like, how does that work?
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They're all like based in Latin. And that sounds like somebody
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made it up in the back of a Doctor Seuss book.
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OK, how about this one? Cacophony.
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Cacophony is a harsh, discordant mix of sounds.
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Cacophony. I don't like this podcast.
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This is a harsh, discordant mix of sounds.
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Right. I honestly think I've heard that
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word before, though I think I've you have never used it by any
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means, buddy. I think I've heard that word
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before. And all your upper schooling.
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Yeah, right. I grew up on the other side of
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the tracks. So did I.
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Wait, wait, which side were you on?
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I was on the side that wasn't considered the best.
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Well, me too. I Oh my gosh, I'm still going to
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butcher all these. Clip again, a clip again.
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Clip again having it well shaped buttocks.
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Wow. OK, sorry.
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In all the years of my 20s I never whistle.
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Let a girl said nice calipican. Nice.
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Calipican ever. First of all, you probably
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wouldn't even have said nice. Buttocks.
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I was, I was, I was. I was way too shy.
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I never would have whistled anybody back in the day or even
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now. I still wouldn't do it.
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The only. Time you to use the word
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buttocks is when you're lifting weights.
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You know, we should ask our our friend Jeff at coffee if you've
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ever in his Hammer stories if you've ever used this word
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calipic. Yeah.
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Where's my hammer? Did you see that clip again?
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Did. You see that clip again?
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All right, I got the next one. OK, Philodox.
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A person who loves their own opinion.
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I think I'm a Philodox. Do you think a lot of yourself
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you have Philhodox? I do think a lot of myself and
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people know it. The definition is it's etymology
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tracks back to ancient Greek, combining the word Philo, love
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and doxa, opinion or glory, and the term was later adopted but
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in the Middle French as Philhodox before being adopted
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into English. OK, all right, so I get it.
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I again the word I probably would never use on a regular
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basis. I don't know why and where you'd
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use that. Right, right.
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You know it's all going to be words for like spelling bees.
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Sure, that would make a lot of sense.
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Right. Especially with the next one
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that you're going to give. Us.
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Yeah, Next one's easy choir. Which I would think would be
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singing, right? But it's not because not English
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is weird. English is weird.
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This is choir spelled QUIR. E What does it mean?
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It means 25 sheets of paper. What?
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Right. Isn't that odd?
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Well, I know a reem right is 500 sheets of paper.
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And a bundle is 1000. OK, I didn't know that.
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How much is 5000? I don't know what that is.
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Either a Bale. A Bale, right?
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So how do they get choir out of 25?
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I have no idea. Maybe.
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Do you? Do you sing as you count your 25
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sheets of paper? I suppose it was a measuring a
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way to measure. Probably, yeah.
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Because you're talking about a ream.
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It was 500, then a bundle and then a Bale.
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Must have been a way to measure and weight or something like
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that. That makes sense.
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It also sounds like a very like like old English European type
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word because. All of these seem really old,
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yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Like they they if I was a king in the 14th century.
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You are a king. Bring me a choir.
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I must write my thoughts. Right.
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All right. The next.
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How about Katty Wampus? I have heard this one too.
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Yeah, it's crooked. Or Askew.
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Yeah, but we always used to say Kittywompus.
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You're right. I say Kittywompus too.
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I don't. Know if that's a regional thing
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or or not? You're right.
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I wonder if that's a Minnesota thing or if that's just the kind
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of like duck, duck, Gray duck. Because the correct way to do
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duck duck Gray duck, not duck duck goose.
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Excuse me, we'll get into that. That's an.
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Upcoming episode? I'm so confused.
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I can't believe you spoiled it. Spoiler alert.
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Spoiler Kittywompus. Next one Colliewobbles.
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What the a collie wobble? Collie wobble.
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Stomach discomfort or anxiety? Oh, I've got a lot of collie
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wobbles. Yeah, the stomach discomfort or
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anxiety or both. Both.
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Yeah. I probably have anxieties, yes,
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but I do have collie wobbles in my stomach.
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Wait, I think I had collie wobbles last night.
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What did you eat something funny so.
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Tammy ate a really, really good apple crisp.
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Oh it's delicious to the Arboretum apple house this
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weekend and we got the is it called the is the first kiss is
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the new one. I think it came out like 8 years
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ago at the the Apple. Oh, I don't.
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I don't know. I believe it's first kiss.
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OK, It's the sister of the Honey Crisp.
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Oh, got it. I knew they were coming out.
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Yeah, next to the honey. Crisp, phenomenal, phenomenal.
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And it lasts according to their signage, 5 months in the
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refrigerator. No most apples, most apples like
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5-6 weeks right there. They said this sucker lasts 5
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months. Wow.
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And it's it is so good. It is so.
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Good kind of chemicals are inside of that I.
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Have no idea but it's it's amazing.
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Love it. And she made an apple crisp.
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Well, I don't, yeah. I don't know if that was it
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because last night when I was trying to fell fall asleep I had
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a little collie wobbles in my tummy.
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Caddy collie wobbles. Yeah, not.
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Caddy wobbles. Look Collie wobble.
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Collie wobbles. In your tummy.
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But it's phenomenal and I will have some more tonight.
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So we'll find out. Find out that that was it.
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Please report back. It can also may have been the
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three scoops of vanilla ice cream that went with it.
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See, you might be allergic to dairy.
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Maybe. Did you have any gas?
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Movie 9. All right.
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Rigamarole. Rigamarole.
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I've heard this one too. Yep, I, we my parents use it all
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the time. Really a long, complicated and
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confusing procedure or story. OK, so I know some people who
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rigamarole out of story. All the time.
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I think you're talking to one of them.
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What? Is this falling to?
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I can't. That's the next steps.
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I can't talk about it. Yes, you can.
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No, don't. I was.
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Going to say this fall into the Minnesota goodbye is yeah.
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Is that a rigmarole? We'll discuss that when we talk
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about Minnesota All. Right.
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All right, Def defenstration, defenstration, defenestration.
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Now, whatever it is, it's the act of throwing someone or
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something out of a window, OK? First of all.
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All right, hang up. Back up Someone.
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Someone. Isn't that called murder?
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Yeah. Not unless they live.
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It's not murder, that's true. It's just attempted murder.
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Wow, OK, defonstration. All right.
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Good to know. The term was coined around the
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time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618, which
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became the spark that started the 30 Years War.
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That's interesting. Oh, that's definitely.
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They definitely threw a person. Back through a person.
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We better name that act, right? Great.
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Yeah. You see Braveheart, we've talked
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about this. Yeah.
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You remember the scene where the king is talking to this, his
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Princess, his little advisory he has and he hates, yeah, hates
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advice. Guys put his arm around him and
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takes over the window and such. Talks very calmly to him and
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then defensation shows about the window the.
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Window. Yeah.
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So they use this in the. Movies I'm I'm totally gonna
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watch that movie in a whole different light now.
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Yeah, this. Is going to be great man.
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OK, how about this one Skedaddle?
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Skedaddle. It's to leave or flee quickly,
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obviously. I think skedaddle, We got a
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skedaddle. We got a skedaddle.
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Yeah. I don't think we use it the way
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it's intended. I think we tend to meander more
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than skedaddle. I would completely agree, but I
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think we're going to skedaddle to hear a word from our favorite
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So this week's Spring Green Minute, we're going to talk
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about leaves on the lawn since it is fall time.
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OK, leaves on the lawn don't told me.
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Yes, don't rake them. Well, that's not 100% true.
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OK, so I only hear what I want to hear.
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So what? What do you normally do with
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your leaves in the fall? I mulch them up into my lawn.
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Perfect. See you do listen.
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I do listen because you told me. Yes, don't rake them, mulch
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them, mulch lawn. Why do you do that?
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I don't know. Why?
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Let me tell you why. Because Rob.
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Told me to do it. It's actually really good
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compost for your turf, so as long as the leaves aren't so
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thick or just bogs up your mole and you're leaving trails, it
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just basically like you're that first kind of first layer of the
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things that fall. If you can keep up with it,
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Mulchem is the best way to do it.
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Great feed for your turf. It it just turns into really
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good compost. OK.
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It also saves from having to bag your leaves and have a big truck
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come away and haul away. It's a very environmentally
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friendly thing to do. Yeah, 'cause it gets so tiring
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having to bag up all your leaves and so I just try to mow more
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often as the leaves are falling. Yep.
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Absolutely. And sometimes you have a choice.
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Sometimes you have so many trees and you have to bag them and
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that's fine. But yeah, if you can mulch them,
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best thing you can do. Just cut a couple trees down.
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Cut a. Couple trees don't have that
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problem anymore, right? OK, so is that all we need to
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know about leaves in the lawn? That's it.
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Pretty simple. Awesome.
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So we're going to go back to the unusual words from the English
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language, like discombobulate. Discombobulate.
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What does that mean? Another one I've kind of used
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once in a while. I've used it, yeah, to confuse
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or unsettle. I think I've probably used it in
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that same tone. Yeah.
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I don't know. I have yet it.
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Yeah, I don't. Think I've used it in that exact
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definition, but I definitely say I feel discombobulated.
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Yeah, so confused. Confused.
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Yeah, I suppose. I think I just use more common
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words versus the more difficult, Yeah, discombobulated words.
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I. Think I'm confused in whether
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I've used this word before. You're discombobulated.
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Discombobulated, but I have used it.
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I do know. We're stuck on this word, right?
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How about this one nipple? It is not what you're thinking.
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Sounds inappropriate. It's the mouthpiece of a wind
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instrument. What?
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Yeah, it's if you ever played the clarinet thing.
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That little Reed. The thing holds a Reed.
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Called a Fipple FIPPLE. The little plastic part that
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holds a Reed? That's the fipple.
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Well, I don't know the mouthpiece, I don't know what I
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never, I never used a wind in wind instrument.
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I play trombone. You did.
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How long did you play trombone? Six years?
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Seven years, Six. Really. 5th grade through 12th.
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So what is that 7 Mathis? So I don't know if you know
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this. I also took up an instrument in,
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I don't know, 7th grade. I think it was the accordion,
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the trombone. I did not know.
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That you didn't know that, did you?
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We're boner bomber, the brothers.
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I don't think we should talk about totally.
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Can't say that on a podcast. It's what?
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Do not say that no, but OK the the difference between your six
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years two weeks over here you. Made it a whole 2.
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I made it a whole 2 weeks and I gave it up you.
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Know the only reason I stayed in band the entire time was for the
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easy A. It wasn't 'cause I enjoyed
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playing. I just wanted easy and I kind of
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want to be in March of band and pet band.
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That's kind of fun. Get into all the sport that is.
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Cool for free. 'Cause it is football season, so
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yeah. I always wanted to play the
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drums. I did 2 and I got swayed away
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from that, which haunts me to this day.
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Yeah, I was talking to younger folks this weekend and one of
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the kids is going into band for the first time and they're
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talking about what instruments and playing.
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I said we should totally play the drums, and apparently now if
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you want to play the drums, you have to have a minimum of two
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years. Piano really 'cause you have to
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learn. You have to learn scales and.
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Rhythms, that kind of thing. Yeah, that was surprising to me,
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'cause it's just tap, tap, tippy tap.
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No, you have to actually like, learn music.
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Yeah, exactly. My daughter, who is a choir
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teacher, she played piano. She grew up playing piano, but
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she also plays percussion because they are simultaneously
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are together. Very similar, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I didn't know that that those I know.
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I guess I don't know for sure, but 98% positive.
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Back in my day, you could just I want to play drums in the handy
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sticks and you go figure it out. Here you go.
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Yeah. OK, how about this next 1A
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snolligaster? A snolligaster is a shrewd or
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unprincipled person, especially in politics.
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Oh, that makes sense then. Yeah, OK, politics.
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OK. Yeah, I mean, how many
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snolligasters do you know? The list is long.
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The list is long. We're not going to take sides
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here, but they're on both sides. Correct.
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I would agree. Yeah, all right, here's a very
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family friendly one. Titty Nope.
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A tippy Nope. Titty Nope.
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Titty titty. Nope, Titty, just.
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Said Titty titty. Nope, it's one word.
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I thought you said tippy with AP but I did.
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Not it's, it's the other one titty with AT.
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So that's a small quantity of something, particularly food,
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that is leftover, no? It's not OK again.
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I didn't write this, but wouldn't that just be called
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leftovers? I don't know where the heck that
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word came. From OK so it's your next family
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function. I want to say hey ask some food
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leftover. Do you want to get home?
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Sure, I'll gather my titty nopes up.
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Or you could just say, do you want to take these titty nopes
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home? Who are the looks you're going
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to get? I'm still using this I.
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Can't wait to use. That I'm still using this at the
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holidays. OK, here's another one.
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Flipper to gibbet. I don't know what I just said.
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Flipper to gibbet. Flipper to gibbet.
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Flipper to gibbet. Flipper to gibbet.
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Yeah, get. The I got it right.
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Is it? Yeah, Flipper to get it, Yeah.
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Flipper to gibbet a frivolous, excessively talkative person.
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So why can't you just say a talkative person?
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Right. I don't know why you need that
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difficult word that's. Like 15 letters not word.
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I know it's you're just talkative.
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You're a talkie, Talkerson. Move on with the.
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Life just like both of us, because all we do is talk, talk,
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talk for a living all day long. It's kind of like gobbledygook.
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Gobbledygook. Yeah, nonsensical or technical
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solving language. Oh, that is gobbledygook.
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OK, so this is funny. So my mom used that word the
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other day. Really.
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And she was actually talking about something she doesn't
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understand. OK, so nonsensical.
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She doesn't understand whatever we were trying to to tell her.
18:57
And she used the word gobbledygook.
18:59
Yeah. So I grew up on that.
19:00
OK, Yeah. See that?
19:01
That sounds like a word that you know, I understand we're doing a
19:03
podcast on midlife, but that sounds like something people
19:06
older than us when he was on a regular basis.
19:07
Right, right. And it proved it right because
19:10
my mother used it makes. Sense.
19:12
How about Oh my, what is this word?
19:15
Ultra Sepidearian Ultra. Sepidearian.
19:21
Ultra sepidearian so all you brainiacs out there know what I
19:26
just tried to say, but it's one who speaks beyond their
19:29
knowledge. Kind of like this.
19:33
We we know what we're doing, don't leave.
19:36
Devastray, Brian. It's kind of true though, kind.
19:40
Of true, It's kind of true, yeah.
19:42
Fake it till you till you break it.
19:43
Fake it till you make it all that too.
19:45
Is that what you said? I said fake it till you break
19:48
it. That is not what we want to do.
19:50
I know, I know. All right, next one Womble.
19:54
A Womble A. Queasy or an easy feeling in the
19:56
stomach? Well, I think you had a womble
19:58
last night. I think it was a womble and not
20:00
not wait, not a what was the other one?
20:03
Not a Snolly Gossard, that's. The political one.
20:05
Collie wobbs. Dolly wobbles.
20:07
No, what's what's the throwing for somebody else to win a
20:09
defenestration? No, that's not that.
20:11
Collie wobbles. You said that already.
20:13
You just said it. Collie wobbles.
20:14
Discomfort. That's Kelly Wobble, no a
20:15
womble. He had a womble.
20:17
So the kind of the same thing but different.
20:19
Yeah, I don't know why you'd have two different queasy
20:22
feelings. Well, I I could do so if you're,
20:24
if you're at like in amusement park, like you're at Valley Fair
20:28
and you're, you're taking the roller coaster up the long.
20:30
So you get that. Is that the?
20:32
Womble gut. That's the Womble.
20:33
OK, yeah, but that's more like anxiety to me.
20:37
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see that.
20:39
Too So it so if I'm having anxiety and I feel that in my
20:41
stomach, that's a womble. OK, I'm with you.
20:43
OK, how about this one? Hulla Hulla.
20:46
Boo. Oh my gosh.
20:48
Hullabaloo, hullabaloo, hullabaloo.
20:51
Thank you for saying that better than me.
20:52
Hullabaloo. It's a noisy fuss or commotion.
20:55
Yeah, commotion I get. I don't think I've ever used it
20:56
as a noisy fuss. But I think my again, it's like
21:00
an old term because I know my parents used it do.
21:03
You want to know an even older term?
21:05
Yes, whipper snapper. The definition is.
21:10
A young, overconfident person. So yeah, definitely heard that
21:13
from the older generation talking about me when I was
21:17
young, right? I think like Elmer Fudd used it
21:18
in Bugs Bunny cartoons in the. 40s always in the cartoon.
21:21
Right young whipper steppers. Yeah, exactly.
21:24
How about a? Kerfuffle.
21:25
Oh, I hear this all the time. I mean I use.
21:28
Kerfuffle. I do too.
21:28
Yeah, totally do. Yeah, I hear this actually on a
21:31
couple of the radio stations I listen to.
21:33
They use this all the time. So I didn't know that, you know,
21:35
I I guess you knew that there were words, but it was just part
21:38
of your normal language that a kerfuffle.
21:41
But I didn't really realize there's an actual definition.
21:44
A disturbance were a fuss, right?
21:46
Makes sense. Which makes total sense because
21:47
that's how we use it. Yeah.
21:49
Just for me. Yeah, you can do the next one.
21:50
Oh my. Gosh, anytime there's an X
21:53
involved like it's a Zerd. OK, Zerd.
21:55
Yeah. Why?
21:55
Why does the X sound like AZ? I don't know.
21:58
Let's consider the English language.
22:01
That's true. There's there are words in the
22:03
English language that just don't.
22:04
What the hell? They don't make sense.
22:05
Yeah. Zertz, XERTZ, Zertz.
22:09
Zertz, I would only think it would be Zertz.
22:11
I would think it like a breath mint.
22:13
That's Zert. Oh, that's right.
22:16
So but a zertz is to gulp something down greedily.
22:19
Oh, like your apple? Apple crisp Apple crisp Your
22:24
apple crisp. I definitely gulped it on
22:25
greedily with with with the ice cream.
22:27
Let's use that in a sentence. Yeah, use Zertz, the apple crisp
22:31
and then felt wombly. Wombly words, a collie wobbled.
22:37
How about a lolly gag? Oh, I've used that all the time.
22:39
Yeah, I've used lolly gag. Yeah, it's to dwaddle or be
22:42
lazy. Oh, absolutely.
22:43
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Initially, lollygag carried a
22:46
more playful, sometimes even suggestive meaning related to
22:50
dawdling, which again, another weird word, or fooling around,
22:54
or even flirting or making out. Whoa, back up.
22:58
I have never used lollygag and. But now in our time, of course
23:02
we don't use it that way. But back when it became a word.
23:05
But anyway, over time the meaning shifted more towards
23:08
wasting time versus the other flirting portions.
23:11
Yeah, So I just. I just can't imagine anybody
23:13
like him. Well, you can't.
23:15
I'm gonna go to a movie with my girlfriend.
23:18
Something about. Yeah, we're gonna love.
23:19
Ali gag. But you can't.
23:21
You can't see that now. No.
23:23
But you know, let's say in 1910. Yeah.
23:26
You know, where it was totally different than what we'd ever
23:29
experienced. Right.
23:29
I can understand. Sure.
23:31
Sure. Not that I'd know how to use it.
23:32
Right. Or how to flirt.
23:34
Yeah, next one, Yaffle. Isn't it a waffle?
23:37
That's a yaffle with a YYFFLE to eat or drink and noisily.
23:43
Oh, sadly my wife would agree that I awful all.
23:46
The time, yeah, isn't that again, just like, annoying?
23:49
Yeah, I, I mean, I, I have to imagine.
23:52
Yes, it's annoying. I'm not annoyed by it.
23:55
Of course not because this guy does it.
23:57
I don't. Think it'll be too noisily?
23:59
Don't you? No, not really.
24:00
Let's call it my wife Amy. Just kidding.
24:07
OK, how about this one? Malarkey.
24:09
I've used malarkey a lot. All the time.
24:11
Nonsense or foolish? Talk.
24:12
Yeah, that's a bunch of malarkey.
24:14
But it's not the same as Brian Malarkey.
24:16
Was that the famous chef on Food Network?
24:19
Oh, clearly famous because I'd never heard of them.
24:21
Yeah, well, you should watch Food Network more often.
24:24
Yeah, that sounds like cooking. It's about cooking.
24:25
That sounds like a yeah. I'm yeah you.
24:27
Could learn to do it yourself. Did you not hear what I did for
24:29
dinner tonight? Yeah, you burned something.
24:30
I burned something in the air fryer.
24:32
Yeah, that's hard to. Do, by the way, you know why?
24:34
Because I'm a moron. Because.
24:36
Cooking is not. No, because, OK, here's what
24:38
happened. So we have these little paper
24:41
kind of liners that go into the the air fire.
24:44
Yeah. So you don't make it clean your
24:46
air fire a lot easier. You put the food on top a little
24:47
bit, right. Well didn't realize when you're
24:49
preheating the air fire like don't put the paper in before
24:51
you put the food in because the paper gets sucked up into the
24:53
top fire fire and starts on fire.
24:55
I can't believe he did that. I had no idea.
24:58
I'm like, my wife comes in and I'm like, honey, is this
25:00
supposed to make the sound and smell like this?
25:02
She comes running over No. No.
25:04
Starting the house on fire. Let's keep keep my ass out of
25:07
the kitchen. I grilled burgers and with fried
25:09
onions and it's. Delicious.
25:11
I can grill, I'm a great. Griller.
25:12
I know you're a good griller. I just can't cook.
25:14
So you got to learn to. Cook Yeah, All right.
25:16
Go to the next one. OK?
25:17
I dare you to say it. OK, I've I have to research so I
25:20
have to get the pronunciation right.
25:21
So it is nudius. Nudius.
25:25
I'm already screwed it up. Nudius tertian.
25:27
What I said exactly. Nudius.
25:31
Tertian. NUDIUSTERTIAN.
25:36
OK, what does that mean? I've never heard it before.
25:38
It is. Referring to the day before.
25:40
The day before. I don't know, but it seems to me
25:43
that if it take that long to learn how to pronounce the dumb
25:45
word like, why would you ever use it?
25:47
Yeah, exactly. Wouldn't it just be?
25:49
The day before. The day before, 2 days ago.
25:51
Do you need? Do you need a word to say the
25:53
day before? It's weird, I don't know.
25:55
I'm not a fan of that one. Nope.
25:56
Yeah, How about Zugswang? Zugswang.
25:59
It's actually a a chess situation where any move worsens
26:04
your position. OK, Do you play chess?
26:05
I do play chess. I've never played chess.
26:07
Oh my gosh, we have to teach you how to play chess.
26:09
Oh. God, that sounds like work.
26:11
No, it's actually quite interesting.
26:13
My daughter who wants to play chess all the time and I'm just
26:17
kind of tired of playing chess because we've played a lot.
26:19
But I do play with her and she's gradually trying to learn how to
26:24
play better and better. I think she has beaten me one
26:27
time, but sometimes our matches are just I, I have terrible
26:31
moves, she has terrible moves. We're just as bad at at the game
26:35
as each other, so it's fun alright.
26:37
Well, sometimes if you need an ego boost, give me a holler and
26:39
you can teach me how to play. Chess.
26:40
I'll teach you how to play chess.
26:41
It's very easy. Easy one for you, all right,
26:44
pendiculation. And what did you say?
26:47
Pendiculation. And what does it mean?
26:50
You mean stretching and yawning simultaneously?
26:53
Oh, I pendiculate all the time. Every day, right?
26:58
And can you say pendiculate? I'm pendiculating.
27:02
OK, that doesn't sound good at. All that sounds so
27:05
inappropriate, but it's. Not Oh my gosh.
27:09
So the English language contains many intriguing and unusual
27:12
words. Obviously, as we just read read
27:15
them to you, each with a unique origin story.
27:18
These I don't even know. Etymologies.
27:21
Thank you, The words are hard for me.
27:23
These etymologies often reflect cultural evolution, historical
27:27
events, or even single misunderstandings.
27:30
Simple. Sorry, let's just get the words
27:32
right. Simple misunderstandings like
27:33
that. But here are some examples for
27:36
you. All right, so quarantine,
27:37
quarantine. The word comes from the Italian
27:40
quarantine, meaning 40. OK, that's Italian for 40.
27:44
I didn't know. That's what it says.
27:45
During the Black Death. Black Death in the 14th century,
27:48
ships arriving in Venice had to wait 40 days before passengers
27:51
could disembark to prevent the spread of disease, and that
27:54
evolved into the word quarantine.
27:56
Really. 40 days? That's how the word came about,
28:00
right? That's that is very interesting
28:02
by the way. Yeah, I'm I, it is very
28:04
interesting. And I'm pretty sure our the
28:05
pandemic was longer than 40 days because I kept use the word
28:08
quarantine all the time. It was longer than 40 days.
28:10
A. Year was like a.
28:12
Year, a year and a half, it's horrible.
28:15
How about the word? Clue.
28:16
That's a good one. It originates from the word clue
28:19
but spelled differently. CLEW, which originally meant a
28:22
ball of thread or yarn, so. Like things cats play with.
28:26
So interesting, right? That's how did it come into the
28:29
word that it is? Well, the meanings linked to a
28:32
Greek myth of Theseus and the labyrinth.
28:37
Say that right Labyrinth where Theseus used a ball of thread or
28:41
a clue CLEW to find his way out after killing the Minotaur.
28:47
Over time, the word clue evolved to mean anything that guides or
28:52
directs in a difficult situation, and its spelling was
28:57
altered to clue. CLUE.
28:59
Oh, that makes sense then. OK.
29:01
Do you ever play the game Clue? Love the game Clue.
29:03
Do you Professor Plumb with the knife and the study?
29:06
Yeah. Exactly.
29:07
Love that game. Yeah, I.
29:08
Haven't played that forever. We should.
29:10
We should do that on our next game night.
29:11
We should do that play clue. Do you have the the wooden box
29:15
get version of it? Do you do so do we do really?
29:18
Yeah. We should totally play.
29:19
OK, we're on, I also think. We should play risk, but I'd
29:21
also don't have six days to commit to that.
29:23
I grew up playing Risk. I love.
29:25
Risk, but it does take like a. Fortnight it takes.
29:28
It takes forever. I would stay over when I was a
29:30
kid at my friend Tony's house and we would play Risk for a
29:34
weekend. Yeah, totally can.
29:36
Yeah, or we play Monopoly for a weekend.
29:38
Yeah, yeah, totally. Can.
29:40
I love those games now. I just play monopoly go, it's
29:42
much easier and quicker. No, you got to do the old board
29:45
game. I know, I know.
29:47
How about the word muscle? Muscle.
29:49
It seems like a normal word, right?
29:50
Comes from the Latin word musculus.
29:52
Makes sense, which means little mouse.
29:55
No. Does not make sense.
29:56
That does not make sense. People in the 16th century
29:59
observed that contracting that contracting muscles resembled
30:03
mice moving under the skin. Oh, creepy.
30:06
Yeah, that's weird. But I understand that if you
30:09
flex, you know, if you got big muscles like not me, but if you
30:12
flex, it would appear it could appear like something's under
30:15
the skin, not. Like me?
30:17
See how you snuck that in? You can't tell from the picture
30:23
online. I don't look like you're hiding
30:25
under the short. Mortgage a word we use all the
30:29
time, but mortgage combines the old French word mort meaning
30:34
death, and gauge, meaning pledge, meaning a death pledge,
30:39
which kind of makes. Sense totally makes sense when.
30:42
You have to take a mortgage and analysis.
30:43
It's a death pledge. You're signing, you're literally
30:46
is that kind of where the term you're signing your life away.
30:47
Exactly. Must be.
30:49
It has to make total sense. Total sense.
30:51
I would, I'm going to think of that totally different from now
30:52
on. Absolutely.
30:53
And I hope everybody listening also thinks of it differently.
30:56
Mortgage signing your life away. God, See how we disconnect the
30:58
pieces here. It's what we do.
30:59
That's what we do. We help you get from point A to
31:02
point B all. Right, last one on the list.
31:05
Awful, awful. Yep.
31:06
So initially it meant full of awe, AWE later shifting to it's
31:11
more common meaning of really bad.
31:13
Yeah, but when could it ever have meant full of awe, full of
31:16
awe, full of awe and wonder? Awful.
31:19
That makes sense. Awe.
31:20
And you're full of it. Awe.
31:21
Full, full of awe. Now just really bad, right?
31:26
So interesting. Weird, but did you know anything
31:27
about why the English language calls a group of crows a murder
31:31
of crows? No.
31:32
I've heard of murder of crows, OK, but I don't know why those
31:35
things exist, OK? So as a matter of fact, I do.
31:40
A group of crows is called a murder primarily due to the
31:43
historical folklore and superstitions, while the proper
31:46
term for a group of crows is simply flock.
31:48
The term murder is a collective noun originated from older
31:51
beliefs about crows, where they were seen as Harvard and
31:54
Carpenters of death and somebody's even judged and
31:57
executed their own kind. I Yeah, I've heard crows are,
32:01
can be, you know that kind of vicious and turn on you, right?
32:05
It's kind of crazy. OK how about this one?
32:07
A gaggle of geese. It's specifically used when the
32:11
geese are on the ground when in flight.
32:13
They're a skein of geese. Skein.
32:16
I don't know how you come up with a gaggle of geese, but it's
32:19
kind of fun to say. Yeah, it rhymes.
32:22
Yeah, it's better than a Skena geese.
32:23
Right, Nobody wants a Skena geese.
32:25
What about a flamboyance of flamingos?
32:28
There is no better word than private group of stunningly pink
32:32
birds. They're.
32:32
Definitely stunning. How about a coalition of
32:37
cheetahs? Why is it a coalition?
32:39
Why is it a coalition? Well, a group of male cheetahs
32:42
that live together and hunt together is a coalition.
32:45
It's used to increase hunting success and defend their
32:48
territory from other males. Yeah.
32:49
OK. So that kind of makes sense.
32:51
OK, well, I mean the list goes on and on, but I I think we've
32:53
worn out our welcome but. But.
32:56
I do. I have heard you have some more
32:58
recent ones which I am unaware of some of these.
33:02
Yeah, there's some age, current, more pop culture slang terms
33:07
that I don't know I've never used well.
33:09
The only one I hear used a lot by my children is.
33:12
Bra, hey, bra, bra. Or when something happens,
33:15
you're like bra bra. So to me, that's our version of
33:19
dude. Do you think it is?
33:20
Maybe it is, maybe it is. I think it.
33:22
Totally is. I still say dude.
33:24
I say dude occasionally. I don't usually like it that
33:26
much but or bro. I don't like bro.
33:29
I don't say bro. No, but I don't and I will never
33:32
say bra bra. That's.
33:34
It's very short. Bro, that's dumb.
33:36
Yeah. Well, I won't say it's dumb.
33:39
How about this one? OK, Riz.
33:41
Never heard of it. It is.
33:43
This is a current term that's like being used in the
33:45
vernacular. The younger generation, What
33:48
would that be? The alphas.
33:50
Oh my God. I think the alphas.
33:53
But it's effortless. Flirt or charisma.
33:55
Rizz, Rizz, you got rizz. 100% rizz, you got rizz.
34:00
How about no cap? Yeah, no cap is is swear.
34:04
It's the truth. That's what it means.
34:06
And if you say cap, that's a straight up lie.
34:09
Wait, so wait, no cap is the truth.
34:11
No cap is the truth. Cap is a lie.
34:13
Cap is a lie. You wonder why I'm confused.
34:16
OK. All right, now you've heard your
34:18
girls talk about girl math. What?
34:20
I mean, I've heard talk about, but it actually means something.
34:23
Well, so this my daughter filled me in on what girl math is.
34:26
So if you've got cash in your pocket and you buy something,
34:29
it's basically free because the only time you actually pay for
34:34
it is a used credit card. This is but she told me.
34:38
I don't get it, but this is what she said.
34:40
My God, I'm going to be so straight after this.
34:42
You are. Straight.
34:44
I didn't know any of those. And if you're mid, yeah, you're
34:47
so mid you're painfully average. I am definitely mid then
34:53
because. You're mid to late is what you
34:56
are. I'm.
34:57
Yeah, well, pushing late for sure.
34:59
So wow, that. How about you got drip, man?
35:02
You got drip No killer style. I'm so out of touch.
35:12
You, you slay. So OK, I heard that one.
35:15
What does it mean? You Rock, You look flawless.
35:18
OK, find that too. OK, you rock.
35:20
You rock. All right?
35:22
I think it's time to end this. Hey.
35:23
On this list, guess what just came up.
35:25
But brah. Shocker.
35:30
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35:31
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36:01
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36:03
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36:06
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36:07
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36:15
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