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- 0:31Speaker 1: those things your family and friends usually came up with,
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- 0:37Speaker 1: they actually made sense. Well, they had to start somewhere,
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- 0:53Speaker 1: The goal of these episodes is to help preserve not
- 0:55Speaker 1: only a language, but lessons in life. My name is
- 0:59Speaker 1: air h Row. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Say what, yeah, yeah, don't throw the baby out with
- 1:07Speaker 1: the bathwater. I wasn't shocked to hear that this is
- 1:09Speaker 1: coming from my good friend and researcher Todd Carlson, who
- 1:12Speaker 1: actually travels the world for long periods of time. Don't
- 1:16Speaker 1: throw out the baby with the bathwater. It's absolutely an
- 1:20Speaker 1: idiom strong warning here to not accidentally discard something of
- 1:25Speaker 1: value while trying to get rid of something unwanted. The
- 1:28Speaker 1: baby itself represents the essential, valuable as useful in our
- 1:33Speaker 1: system of choices. The bathwater represents negative useless. It's part
- 1:39Speaker 1: of the system where we just need to get rid
- 1:42Speaker 1: of something. So where does the idiom actually even come from? Well,
- 1:47Speaker 1: in Germany it comes from an old proverb dating back
- 1:50Speaker 1: to fifteen twelve. It was introduced to the English in
- 1:54Speaker 1: eighteen forty nine by Scottish scholar Thomas Carlyle. It was
- 1:59Speaker 1: used in an say abolishing get this slavery. Here's the
- 2:03Speaker 1: strange twist. Historians also reveal that during the medieval period,
- 2:09Speaker 1: families would share the same exact bathwater ew The last
- 2:14Speaker 1: to dive into the water the baby. The water was
- 2:18Speaker 1: so murky and dirty that you couldn't see the baby.
- 2:22Speaker 1: The small child was easy to toss out. Don't throw
- 2:27Speaker 1: the baby out with the bathwater. Whoa something our parents
- 2:32Speaker 1: would say? My name is arrow,