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Something Our Parents Would Say Sh t For Brains · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Oh man, those old saints phrases and idioms. Roll your
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  Speaker 1: eyes now, because we're gonna dive into it. You know
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  Speaker 1: those things your family and friends usually came up with.
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  Speaker 1: They came from out of nowhere, and only sometimes they
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  Speaker 1: actually made sense. Well, they had to start somewhere, right, Who, what, where, why, when?
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  Speaker 1: And how? Some of those old saynts are not only ancient,
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  Speaker 1: but today they still carry a powerful punch. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I live by one of those old saints. Winning is
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  Speaker 1: a choice. The goal of these episodes is to help
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  Speaker 1: preserve not only a language, but lessons in life. My
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  Speaker 1: name is Arrow. Warning. Oh no, yeah, warning. This episode
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  Speaker 1: features bad words. Now, while most of us use these
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  Speaker 1: on the everyday street, a curse word is still a
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  Speaker 1: curse word. Today we're going to be using one of them,
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  Speaker 1: shit for brains wordsmith say. The phrase feels timeless because
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  Speaker 1: it is it really is. Shit for brains is looked
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  Speaker 1: upon as being a crude metaphor that arrived in the
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  Speaker 1: early part of the mid twentieth century. Now this one
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  Speaker 1: comes from linguistic roots. The English have endlessly used bodily
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  Speaker 1: functions to symbolize moral and intellectual failure. Variations of the
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  Speaker 1: phrase appeared on the streets of the World War Two soldiers.
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  Speaker 1: That was the generation of harsh, fast, dehumanizing language. And
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  Speaker 1: although your grandparents might not admit to it, but it
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  Speaker 1: was very common to accuse someone for having shit for brains.
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  Speaker 1: By the mid nineteen sixties, the phrase began to appear
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  Speaker 1: in mainstream through counterculture comedy and of course rock lyrics
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  Speaker 1: and let it be known as blunt as it is.
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  Speaker 1: It is meant to insult rather than be a battlefield cry.
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  Speaker 1: Shit for brains is a pressure valve which releases frustration.
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  Speaker 1: It says the conversation is pretty much over, and it
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  Speaker 1: does have the strength to protect emotional energy. Oh oh,
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  Speaker 1: and research shows the phrase is usually used when you've
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  Speaker 1: got nothing else to say you've got shit for brains, dude,
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  Speaker 1: something our parents would say. My name is Arrow,