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Libfixes, Diving Boards, and Generosity · I Hate Talking

• 0:29
  I Hate Talking: Welcome to episode 73 of I Hate Talking.
• 0:32
  I Hate Talking: Hi everyone.
• 0:33
  I Hate Talking: Now I still did not successfully find the word that was from 2 episodes ago, maybe 3 episodes ago, that we were gonna have as our word or phrase of the episode, and at this point I think I've given up.
• 0:45
  I Hate Talking: OK, but if you, our listeners do encounter a particular word that Either of us use during an episode that you think would be an interesting word to dive into the specific definition and etymology, that is something that you can suggest through a comment, email, or text, but for this particular episode, we will be talking about a word called lib fix.
• 1:14
  I Hate Talking: OK?
• 1:14
  I Hate Talking: So, this describes words that are used as a suffix.
• 1:21
  I Hate Talking: In a particular word and then that latter half of the compound word is reanalyze or reuse as a suffix for other words.
• 1:33
  I Hate Talking: So the example given here is a word for aesthetics or scandals, and those words respectively are core and gait.
• 1:44
  I Hate Talking: Wait, what?
• 1:46
  I Hate Talking: So think of things like hardcore or other words that end in core.
• 1:54
  I Hate Talking: OK, so the suffix came from an original word that had that prefix and suffix combined.
• 2:02
  I Hate Talking: And then that word core became used as an aesthetic for other words.
• 2:08
  I Hate Talking: But you're saying that.
• 2:11
  I Hate Talking: Core and gate.
• 2:14
  I Hate Talking: I'm confused at what you said, that doesn't make sense.
• 2:17
  I Hate Talking: I get the concept of like a suffix, the ending of a word, but I don't get what core and gate have to do with it.
• 2:27
  I Hate Talking: Well, they're both separate examples, so core being the first example, gate being the second example where that will be something that describes a scandal, so like Watergate, Pizza Gate, Elsa Gate, those are.
• 2:43
  I Hate Talking: Suffixes that are reused from that original word, which maybe is the original was Watergate.
• 2:49
  I Hate Talking: I'm not sure.
• 2:50
  I Hate Talking: To me, but like colloquially, we use it as scandal.
• 2:54
  I Hate Talking: Like we know that means scandal.
• 2:55
  I Hate Talking: Yes, as a suffix for when that word gate is added to the end of whatever the subject.
• 3:01
  I Hate Talking: I thought you were saying that gate was the suffix of scandal, and I was like, that does not make sense.
• 3:07
  I Hate Talking: That's not true.
• 3:07
  I Hate Talking: That's true, yes, so I was trying to describe two different examples from this particular post that I saw, core and gate.
• 3:17
  I Hate Talking: I see.
• 3:17
  I Hate Talking: I thought you said that core and gate were the suffix of scandal, and I was confused.
• 3:24
  I Hate Talking: OK, I'm with you now.
• 3:25
  I Hate Talking: So the word lib fix has other examples, so some of the Examples given here are burger, not exactly sure how that would be used as a suffix.
• 3:42
  I Hate Talking: Obviously we have a hamburger, but I guess if you have other things that are mashed together in like a sandwich style, then it's a burger cation, so like vacation and then you have staycation.
• 3:53
  I Hate Talking: Holi is a pretty common one I think, which you would have words like alcoholic that is then transcribed into things like workaholic or things like that.
• 4:05
  I Hate Talking: So all those usages of a suffix that came from some original word that are then used for suffixes in other words that are, to use the technical term reanalyzed, but essentially means reused or used in another way, that particular -- thing is called a lib -- fix.
• 4:26
  I Hate Talking: Oh, OK.
• 4:27
  I Hate Talking: And lib fix does not really have that complicated of an etymology because it itself is two words that were shortened and mashed together.
• 4:39
  I Hate Talking: And it came from the phrase liberated suffix.
• 4:44
  I Hate Talking: So what makes them different than a regular suffix?
• 4:48
  I Hate Talking: Because they are used in a way that is not necessarily their original intent.
• 4:55
  I Hate Talking: So I think Watergate is the prime example of that where that was that particular scandal and then other scandals are the subject matter or topic plus gate to describe that thing.
• 5:09
  I Hate Talking: And I think the same could be argued for like cation, that is like vacation.
• 5:15
  I Hate Talking: And then that's used in staycation or other things like that.
• 5:19
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 5:19
  I Hate Talking: So I thought that was an interesting word or phrase, lib fix, maybe one that we don't run into, but you actually may run into the use of liberated suffixes in everyday language, and now you know what to call it.
• 5:34
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I'll probably end up calling it Madlibs because that's what I keep thinking about.
• 5:39
  I Hate Talking: And it's not that dissimilar from Madlibs, I suppose.
• 5:42
  I Hate Talking: So that is our word or phrase of the episode, Lib fix, and we can continue on a variety of topics.
• 5:52
  I Hate Talking: I think we pretty well covered our Chicago trip and some of the things that we discussed last time with self-care versus self-indulgence.
• 6:02
  I Hate Talking: So anything to springboard off of that or go a completely different direction.
• 6:06
  I Hate Talking: I don't think there's been any scandals recently.
• 6:09
  I Hate Talking: I don't know.
• 6:10
  I Hate Talking: I haven't listened to the news in a while.
• 6:12
  I Hate Talking: I don't suppose so.
• 6:15
  I Hate Talking: And I don't know if there's been any core functions.
• 6:19
  I Hate Talking: That we've participated in.
• 6:22
  I Hate Talking: No, I mean, school starting, Cub Scouts started.
• 6:26
  I Hate Talking: The pools continuing.
• 6:28
  I Hate Talking: Well, there you go.
• 6:30
  I Hate Talking: So it sounds like that is a pretty hardcore schedule that we have to maintain.
• 6:35
  I Hate Talking: Mhm.
• 6:36
  I Hate Talking: Especially the pool schedule.
• 6:38
  I Hate Talking: So tell our listeners about what we are doing for our pool this month and hopefully not next month.
• 6:46
  I Hate Talking: -- Are you talking about the diving -- board?
• 6:48
  I Hate Talking: I am talking about the diving board.
• 6:49
  I Hate Talking: OK, so I am not an expert on pools, so this may not be a thing in other places of the world or even in other states.
• 6:59
  I Hate Talking: But for our state, the rule is, we have a diving board.
• 7:04
  I Hate Talking: If the diving board is on installed, we have to have a lifeguard present and on shift.
• 7:12
  I Hate Talking: If we take the diving board off, we can do swim at your own risk.
• 7:16
  I Hate Talking: And not have a lifeguard.
• 7:19
  I Hate Talking: So, school's back in session.
• 7:22
  I Hate Talking: Most of our lifeguards are teenagers.
• 7:24
  I Hate Talking: They are super busy with school and other extracurriculars, so we have way less lifeguards.
• 7:30
  I Hate Talking: So, we are going every day when school ends and installing the diving board, so that a lifeguard can work, and I mean, I guess theoretically a lifeguard can work without the diving board, but it's a lot more fun to have one.
• 7:46
  I Hate Talking: And then every night we go back and take it off, and in the morning return to open the pool without a diving board so that people can swim at their own risk, and then we return in the afternoon to install it again.
• 8:01
  I Hate Talking: Every weekday.
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  I Hate Talking: Yes, it hasn't been that hard, but it's just another mental load thing.
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  I Hate Talking: It's just another thing you have to do.
• 8:09
  I Hate Talking: We have to be there at such and such time.
• 8:12
  I Hate Talking: And again, we're volunteers.
• 8:14
  I Hate Talking: This is not paid at all.
• 8:16
  I Hate Talking: The lifeguards are paid, but we're not.
• 8:18
  I Hate Talking: So it's just out of the generosity of our hearts that we do this.
• 8:23
  I Hate Talking: Indeed, so maybe we should figure out a better schedule next year because it is, like you said, not entirely too taxing, but it is.
• 8:31
  I Hate Talking: A daily activity that takes time and you have to remember to do it and get there at the right time and so on and so forth.
• 8:38
  I Hate Talking: Right.
• 8:39
  I Hate Talking: And we just agreed today to continue on for September.
• 8:44
  I Hate Talking: Usually we close on Labor Day.
• 8:48
  I Hate Talking: And it's warm still here.
• 8:51
  I Hate Talking: It's starting to cool off, but it is still warm enough in the September to swim during the day, not at night.
• 8:58
  I Hate Talking: So we agreed to do it, but I did agree to only lifeguards on the weekends, because I'm not going to do all of September going there 2 or 3 times a day.
• 9:09
  I Hate Talking: So, they did agree to that, the rest of the board, and they did say that they'd help a little bit more, do some stuff.
• 9:16
  I Hate Talking: So I'm not there so many times a day.
• 9:18
  I Hate Talking: Indeed, and sometimes I get confused when you talk about the board because so often the diving board is the subject of discussion, but then at other times it is quite literally the board members.
• 9:30
  I Hate Talking: Right, I guess I don't think about it because I know which one I'm talking about, but yes, the pool is community ran and community owned.
• 9:39
  I Hate Talking: And it's ran by board members that are all volunteers.
• 9:45
  I Hate Talking: So, yes, we call them the board, but then also there's the diving board.
• 9:49
  I Hate Talking: And that's the biggest part of my job is lifeguards and the diving board and cleaning and stuff, so, I can see your confusion, even though I always know which board I'm talking about.
• 10:03
  I Hate Talking: Indeed.
• 10:04
  I Hate Talking: And then I suppose the other thing that we're busy with, like you said, is Cub Scouts and in Cub Scouts, the first few months of the school year are popcorn fundraising.
• 10:14
  I Hate Talking: And that has been more work than we expected earlier in the year because our person that was the original volunteer is no longer volunteering.
• 10:26
  I Hate Talking: But I suppose that's a whole another story, but for the current time being, you and I are doing the majority of the fundraising coordination.
• 10:36
  I Hate Talking: Right?
• 10:36
  I Hate Talking: The other day, several people thanked me for doing it, like, oh, thank you for being the popcorn kernel is kind of a fun way, what we call them.
• 10:46
  I Hate Talking: And I very quickly first said, I'm not the popcorn kernel.
• 10:50
  I Hate Talking: It's a, a community effort here.
• 10:52
  I Hate Talking: We're all pitching in, and I keep reiterating that cause I want more people to help.
• 10:57
  I Hate Talking: So it's very time consuming and it's hard because we have inventory and, you know, we have to track the scouts, all the different scouts and their money, like what they're doing online and stuff.
• 11:08
  I Hate Talking: So it is time-consuming at least and tedious.
• 11:12
  I Hate Talking: Yes, and popped popcorn inside a poly bag, mylar bag style packaging is not the most easy thing to transport either.
• 11:22
  I Hate Talking: No, it takes up so much room too.
• 11:25
  I Hate Talking: And the amount of times different people have tried to sit on boxes of it and like get, you can't sit on that.
• 11:32
  I Hate Talking: You're gonna bust the bags.
• 11:34
  I Hate Talking: But it's fine.
• 11:35
  I Hate Talking: It's only for a little while.
• 11:37
  I Hate Talking: And y'all, if you see scouts, not even necessarily ours, but just in general, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, anything, and they're in front of Home Depot or places like that, y'all should just give them at least 5 bucks because it makes their day.
• 11:53
  I Hate Talking: They're so happy.
• 11:54
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 11:56
  I Hate Talking: They have not learned necessarily the exact value of money, but someday they will.
• 12:00
  I Hate Talking: And I guess supposedly through this process, they may learn a little bit about that.
• 12:06
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I think they're learning more and I mean, it's teaching them to look at people in the eye and talk clearly and advocate for yourself is kind of points of why we stand in front of stores and sell.
• 12:19
  I Hate Talking: Indeed, and there was one particular scout that got a $100 bill donation, and that made their year, I think.
• 12:27
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, that's huge, that's so cool.
• 12:30
  I Hate Talking: I would love to one day be able to do that kind of thing.
• 12:32
  I Hate Talking: How cool would that be?
• 12:34
  I Hate Talking: Well, hopefully our podcasting career takes off and we'll be able to do that someday maybe.
• 12:40
  I Hate Talking: But you're talking about not understanding the value of money.
• 12:44
  I Hate Talking: It reminded me of our youngest lost his 1st and 2nd tooth in the same day.
• 12:51
  I Hate Talking: And did we talk about this already?
• 12:54
  I Hate Talking: I don't think so.
• 12:55
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 12:56
  I Hate Talking: And I'm usually the tooth fairy, but you had the privilege of assisting the tooth fairy that day.
• 13:04
  I Hate Talking: And in your wallet, you had a 5, and you're like, I'll just put that in.
• 13:08
  I Hate Talking: I was like, no, because he doesn't understand that a 5 is more money than we normally would give.
• 13:14
  I Hate Talking: He's gonna see one bill and think he got gypped for two teeth.
• 13:19
  I Hate Talking: And so we had to scrounge up another $1 cause he would have been happier with 2 $1 bills than 15 because he lost two teeth.
• 13:29
  I Hate Talking: Precisely.
• 13:31
  I Hate Talking: So we did give the 1 and the $5 and then indicated that the 5 was for the first tooth so as not to have him expect $5 for every tooth.
• 13:42
  I Hate Talking: No, I'd get very expensive.
• 13:44
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I think that's what, like when we're people are donating or buying, the kids, a lot of them, the younger ones are more impressed at a couple of dollars than a $20.
• 13:55
  I Hate Talking: Even though as adults, we're like, oh, the 20 really helps the pack way better, it's fun to see how excited they are.
• 14:03
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, and sometimes they actually are more excited about donations than selling product.
• 14:08
  I Hate Talking: We have one of our kids likes to eat it too.
• 14:13
  I Hate Talking: He self funds because he tries to get money to buy his own popcorn to eat.
• 14:19
  I Hate Talking: That he does.
• 14:20
  I Hate Talking: There was someone else we're talking about generosity.
• 14:23
  I Hate Talking: This didn't happen to our kid, it was a friend.
• 14:26
  I Hate Talking: But I guess somebody came up to him and asked, What's your favorite kind?
• 14:29
  I Hate Talking: And that's a very common question.
• 14:31
  I Hate Talking: People are like, What's the most popular?
• 14:32
  I Hate Talking: What do you like best?
• 14:34
  I Hate Talking: And he told them, and then the person bought it for him and opened it and gave it to him.
• 14:38
  I Hate Talking: And this year?
• 14:40
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, that just happened the other day, so the parent was telling me, so how cool is that?
• 14:45
  I Hate Talking: Like that's even that's fun if they don't want to eat it themselves to buy it for the kid.
• 14:50
  I Hate Talking: Yes, that is a good methodology as well, if you don't wanna actually consume the product but still want to support in some form or fashion.
• 15:00
  I Hate Talking: So, obviously we have a lot of things going on, so we'll probably keep this episode a bit shorter and maybe we'll be inspired to do back to our normal length of episodes in the near future or maybe we'll still be busy and just do shorter episodes, but.
• 15:18
  I Hate Talking: We'll find out.
• 15:19
  I Hate Talking: Now one thing before we do wrap up, I did want to return to the core as the lib fix because I did not have any very good examples besides hardcore.
• 15:29
  I Hate Talking: So I did a little bit of research on that and it seems like this particular term typically originated as the lib fix with description of music genres.
• 15:42
  I Hate Talking: So things like metal core, grindcore, Death core in terms of the musical aesthetic that is described by whatever that thing is.
• 15:54
  I Hate Talking: And then apparently in Animal Crossing, it's also a thing because there's actually the different quote unquote biomes that are described in Animal Crossing such as Tropicore, which is the tropical core of Animal Crossing biome for that particular thing.
• 16:12
  I Hate Talking: And then another particular lib fix that also has to do with entertainment, particularly movies is punk.
• 16:22
  I Hate Talking: So supposedly that originally came from cyberpunk.
• 16:27
  I Hate Talking: And then there's other things like steampunk, diesel punk, atom punk, and things of that nature that came from those particular stories and movies that described some sort of dystopian society and then that punk lib fix became used for other things in that same type of genre description.
• 16:47
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 16:47
  I Hate Talking: So hopefully that was enlightening and you either learn something about lib fixes or generosity or all the crazy things that we do in our lives so that people can use a diving board.
• 17:01
  I Hate Talking: Yes.
• 17:01
  I Hate Talking: So from your friends at I hate Talking, until next time, remember, it is only through talking that we begin the journey to understanding.