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Something Our Parents Would Say Steal My Thunder · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: I really do love it when people say, your podcast
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  Speaker 1: is all over the place. You're not focused. I know.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly the way that we lead our lives, right?
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  Speaker 1: different podcasts to explore. Now, It's time for you to
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  Speaker 1: accept the journey and go grow forward. Those old sayings, phrases, idioms,
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  Speaker 1: you know those things your family and friends usually came
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  Speaker 1: up with and they came from out of nowhere and
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  Speaker 1: only sometimes they actually made sense? It was one of those, huh, moments.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they had to start somewhere, right? Who, what, where, why, when,
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  Speaker 1: and how? Some of those old sayings are not only ancient,
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  Speaker 1: but they still carry a powerful punch today. Something our
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  Speaker 1: parents would say. My name is Arrow. Steal my thunder. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: One of very few quotes in history whose actual origin
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  Speaker 1: is known like the dot on a map. The year
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  Speaker 1: was 1709. What? Not from this generation? Nope. 1709. English
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  Speaker 1: playwright and critic John Dennis created a theatrical sound effect
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  Speaker 1: that imitated the physical sound of honest-to-God real thunder. His play...
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  Speaker 1: was a total failure. But get this. In the days ahead,
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  Speaker 1: he attended another production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, which featured the
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  Speaker 1: very clap of thunder that he used in that failed production.
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  Speaker 1: Those in charge of Macbeth in 1709 used his clap
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  Speaker 1: of thunder sound effect, to which John couldn't hold back
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  Speaker 1: in letting them know exactly how he felt. He's quoted
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  Speaker 1: to say, they will not let my play run, but
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  Speaker 1: they steal my thunder? When you take someone's creation and
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  Speaker 1: make it your own, that feeling of being upstaged by
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  Speaker 1: the competition, stealing my thunder. Oh, it's had a major
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  Speaker 1: impact because it deals with real feelings and emotions. The
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  Speaker 1: irony is that while John Dennis's play has been long
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  Speaker 1: gone and forgotten, the phrase he inspired has become part
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  Speaker 1: of our everyday language. Yeah. He lost a huge chunk
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  Speaker 1: of his art while the rest of us have a
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  Speaker 1: permanent place in our language. Don't steal my thunder. Now,
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  Speaker 1: here's a strange twist that comes directly from my experiences
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  Speaker 1: as a broadcaster of 47 years. I, for the longest time,
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  Speaker 1: have always said as an instructor of broadcasting, steal my art.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, I wanted them to learn from my
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  Speaker 1: skills and my experiences and as a broadcaster of 47 years,
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  Speaker 1: because how many people make it this close to 50?
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  Speaker 1: Steal my art. Now, they've made it the point, don't
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  Speaker 1: steal my thunder, and yet I was saying steal my art.
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  Speaker 1: And they did. And they challenged me. And I defeated them.
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  Speaker 1: Because it was like, it's a phrase, but it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean that you have to steal what I have created.
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  Speaker 1: And that they tried to do, but did not win.
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  Speaker 1: Don't steal my thunder. Something our parents would say. My
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  Speaker 1: name is Arrow.