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Something Our Parents Would Say He's A Leak In The Attic · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: So we've created this podcast network. It's called Arrow dot
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  Speaker 1: Net a r oe dot Net. Twenty different podcasts to
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  Speaker 1: choose from daily. One of the biggest plays on there
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  Speaker 1: right now is called something our parents would say. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: we all said it, and it had to start somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: and it usually came from your parents, your grandparents, your
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  Speaker 1: great grandparents. What is the history of what people say?
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  Speaker 1: You'll find it on Arrow dot net aarr oe dot Net.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy your exploration. Hey there you are. You know those
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  Speaker 1: old saints phrases and idioms, the things that your family
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  Speaker 1: and friends usually came up with, and they came from
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  Speaker 1: out of nowhere, and only sometimes they actually made sense.
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  Speaker 1: It was like what what did you just say? Well,
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  Speaker 1: they had to start somewhere, who, what, where, when and why.
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  Speaker 1: Some of those old saints are not only ancient, but
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  Speaker 1: they still carry a powerful punch even today. 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, it's a lifestyle. The goal of these episodes
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  Speaker 1: is to help preserve not ownly a language, but lessons
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  Speaker 1: in life. My name is Arrow. He's a leak in
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  Speaker 1: the attic. Never heard of that term. He's a leak
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  Speaker 1: in the attic. Wow, it's actually a global idiom. Beyond
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  Speaker 1: the walls of English wordplay. It's seen as a metaphor
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  Speaker 1: for the mind. He's a leak in the attic. It
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  Speaker 1: pretty much means something isn't right. A person with such
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  Speaker 1: a leak in the attic is considered to be flawed
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  Speaker 1: or isn't thinking the way that others do. It's someone
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  Speaker 1: who was confused, eccentric, or unstable. The attic has always
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  Speaker 1: been symbolized as the brain or upper mind. He's a
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  Speaker 1: leak in the attic can easily be connected to other phrases,
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  Speaker 1: such as a few tiles short, the lights are on,
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  Speaker 1: but nobody's home. How about this one? Bat's in the Belfrey.
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  Speaker 1: The phrase or idiom would have worked in Hamlet or
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  Speaker 1: in the days of Sigmund Freud. Use of the idiom
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  Speaker 1: came in the mid twentieth century. It's actually very American,
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  Speaker 1: appearing first on the Twilight Zone. So how has it
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  Speaker 1: affected us? Well, it's normalized joking around about mental instability.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not so much today because it's not so politically correct.
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  Speaker 1: He's a leak in the attic puts distance in our
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  Speaker 1: direct language by softening the actual blow. This is no
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  Speaker 1: different than talking about the toys in your attic, which
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  Speaker 1: is a euphemism for insanity. Don't we all have a
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  Speaker 1: leak in the attic, something our parents would say. My
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  Speaker 1: name is Erro.