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Something Our Parents Would Say Bat Shit Crazy · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: A-R-R-O-E dot net. Enjoy your exploration. Those old sayings, phrases, idioms,
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  Speaker 1: you know, those things your family and friends used to
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  Speaker 1: My name is Arrow. Warning, this episode features adult language.
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  Speaker 1: I'd go as far as saying that maybe your grandparents
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  Speaker 1: and those before them, yeah, in their words, I'm acting
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  Speaker 1: a little bat shit crazy. Where did that term even
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  Speaker 1: come from? It's as old as our great-great-great-grandparents, right? No,
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  Speaker 1: not really. It's actually pretty modern. It's taking two old-fashioned
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  Speaker 1: words and making them a stronger phrase. Bat-shit is exactly
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  Speaker 1: what it says. Crazy is the other, which describes kind
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  Speaker 1: of an irrational or unpredictable behavior. Now, let's team them up. Bat-shit-crazy.
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  Speaker 1: It started showing up in the latter part of the
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  Speaker 1: 1950s up to the 1970s. Lindquist, with all their verbal history,
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  Speaker 1: say it comes from apeshit, horseshit, and just going nuts.
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  Speaker 1: It's meant to be vivid, shocking, a little off the wall. Today,
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  Speaker 1: batshit crazy is used loosely, especially when talking about something
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  Speaker 1: like your traffic. Oh my God, it's batshit crazy out here.
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  Speaker 1: It's gone from describing people to laying out what the
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  Speaker 1: experience is all about. But, but, but, but, but. It
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  Speaker 1: is on the list to be wiped off our word
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  Speaker 1: use map. Yep. Because it goes against the rules of
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  Speaker 1: mental health. People have made it a point to get
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  Speaker 1: others to stop using it because of the emotional impact
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  Speaker 1: and the shock value. And it needs to fade from
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  Speaker 1: our everyday conversation. Hmm. That's a little batshit crazy if
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  Speaker 1: you ask me. It's something our parents would say. I'm Arrow.