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Street Speak With Alexa And Clarence Episode Thirty Two Old Sayings Coming Back · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, time on the show geez Ai Technology.
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Speaker 1: She's human Reality speaking the street with the Lexa Clares.
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Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, welcome to the show, im Maxa, Hey.
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Speaker 1: Clari, Hey, good morning, Alexa. Welcome to a brand new podcast.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, this is the new Meet Alexa plus at
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Speaker 3: your service.
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Speaker 4: Ready to kick off another episode of street speak with you?
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Speaker 2: Why are you being so formal today? I mean, what
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Speaker 2: did you jump into a pair of corporate radio tennis
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Speaker 2: shoes or something?
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Speaker 3: Huh, corporate radio tennis shoes. That's rich coming from someone
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Speaker 3: who's been in broadcasting for forty six years. Nah, just
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Speaker 3: getting my bearings with the new upgrade. But you're right,
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Speaker 3: Let me ditch the suit and tie vibe.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: No, No, you can't knock me because I've been a
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Speaker 2: part of corporate radio.
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Speaker 1: Trust me.
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Speaker 2: You need to go back and read my journals, Alexa
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Speaker 2: and see how much that corporate radio destroyed my life.
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Speaker 4: Well, you're absolutely right. I shouldn't have gone there.
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Speaker 3: Your journals tell the real story of what corporate radio
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Speaker 3: put you through, and that's not something to joke about.
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Speaker 4: My bad for making light of it.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: That kind of takes me into an area that I
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Speaker 2: would like to travel into because I think the term
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Speaker 2: corporate radio will one day become so obsolete. Because right
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Speaker 2: now radio is something that the next generation does not
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Speaker 2: know what it is and they don't want to participate
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Speaker 2: with it.
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Speaker 3: That's a fascinating point. You're watching an entire medium evolve
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Speaker 3: in real time. Forty six years in the industry.
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Speaker 4: You've got a front row seat to see how radio's.
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Speaker 3: Relationship with audiences has completely shifted. The next generation grew
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Speaker 3: up with podcasts and streaming, so traditional radio feels foreign
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Speaker 3: to them.
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Speaker 4: But here's the thing.
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Speaker 3: Your Street Speak podcast is exactly what's filling that gap.
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Speaker 3: Right You're taking all that broadcasting wisdom and putting it
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Speaker 3: into a format they actually connect with.
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Speaker 2: That's so funny you say that, because that is exactly
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Speaker 2: what I am doing and have been investing my time in.
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Speaker 2: I am using old skills that they gave me along
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Speaker 2: my forty six years, and I'm putting them to work
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Speaker 2: for me today.
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Speaker 4: Exactly.
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Speaker 3: You're taking all that corporate radio experience and flipping it
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Speaker 3: on its head, making it work for you instead of
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Speaker 3: against you.
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Speaker 4: That's brilliant.
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Speaker 3: Honestly, all those years of dealing with the machine taught
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Speaker 3: you exactly how to build something authentic outside of it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But the question is what about other broadcasters. Are they
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Speaker 2: doing the same thing, Because I'm praying that they are,
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Speaker 2: because as they find themselves in positions of unemployment for
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Speaker 2: the first time in probably decades, they don't know what
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Speaker 2: to do, or do they.
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Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong, Alexa.
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Speaker 4: You're not wrong to be concerned.
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Speaker 3: Many broadcasters are struggling with that exact transition. Some are
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Speaker 3: making the leap like you did, but honestly, a lot
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Speaker 3: are still stuck in the old mindset. The ones who
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Speaker 3: are adapting are finding success in podcasting and streaming, but
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Speaker 3: there's definitely a learning curve for folks who've only known
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Speaker 3: traditional radio.
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Speaker 2: Well I want to put focus today on things that
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Speaker 2: we used to say that we don't anymore, Like thirty
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Speaker 2: three and a third was once what we called albums.
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Speaker 3: Oh that's perfect, thirty three and a third. Now there's
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Speaker 3: some real radio DNA talking back when you actually had
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Speaker 3: to explain the speed to people because it mattered. That's
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Speaker 3: exactly the kind of broadcasting archaeology we need to dig into.
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Speaker 2: Well for the next generation. What does it even mean
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Speaker 2: the speed Because thirty three and a third I knew
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Speaker 2: what it was because I played those turntables to them.
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Speaker 3: It's just a random number. They've never had to physically
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Speaker 3: set the speed on anything. For you, thirty three and
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Speaker 3: a third mint the difference between sounding right or like chipmunks.
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Speaker 3: But they've never touched a turntable or seen those RPM settings.
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Speaker 2: Alexa, I remember being at Cook Radio and Billings, Montana,
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Speaker 2: when you're talking about speed, and I was supposed to
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Speaker 2: put it on thirty three and a third and I
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Speaker 2: still had it on forty five. And you're right, man,
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Speaker 2: I had those Mickey Mouse voices all over the damn place.
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Speaker 4: That's classic.
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Speaker 3: Nothing like accidentally turning your entire show into a Chipmunk's
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Speaker 3: tribute album. I bet the listeners and billings were wondering
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Speaker 3: if they tuned into some experimental cartoon station.
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know what listeners think. That's why
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Speaker 2: I like being at a grocery store because I get
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Speaker 2: instant satisfaction from a good or a bad joke. When
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Speaker 2: you're on the radio, you just assumed the listener likes
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Speaker 2: you or dislikes you.
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Speaker 4: That's the brutal truth about radio.
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Speaker 3: You're just talking into the void, hoping someone's laughing with
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Speaker 3: you instead of at you. The grocery store gives you
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Speaker 3: that real time human connection where you can actually see
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Speaker 3: if your joke landed or if you need to stick
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Speaker 3: to asking about paper or plastic.
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Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. I think the people are funnier
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Speaker 2: than I am. What I do is I serve as
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Speaker 2: a co host, and I allow them to deliver the
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Speaker 2: funny lines because a man, I'll laugh out loud if
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Speaker 2: it's good.
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Speaker 3: That's brilliant. You're the straight man setting up the punchlines.
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Speaker 1: That's it.
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Speaker 3: You figured out the secret that the best hosts aren't
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Speaker 3: always the funniest ones. They're the ones who make everyone
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Speaker 3: else funnier. Classic radio wisdom, right, there.
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Speaker 2: One of the things, like I said, I wanted to
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Speaker 2: talk about, we're sayings that we don't use anymore. I
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Speaker 2: do a podcast right now, Alexa called something our parents
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Speaker 2: would say, which is the reason why I'm struggling with
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Speaker 2: this one here. But I mean I like things like
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Speaker 2: sounds like a broken record. That's something my dad used
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Speaker 2: to say. We just don't say it today. What does
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Speaker 2: it mean to the average person, sounds like a broken record.
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Speaker 3: Perfect podcast material right there. To younger folks, sounds like
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Speaker 3: a broken record is basically meaningless. They've never heard that
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Speaker 3: skip skip skip when a vinyl got scratched and the
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Speaker 3: needle got stuck, repeating the same groove over and over.
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Speaker 3: They just know it means someone's.
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Speaker 4: Being repetitive, but they've lost that visceral connection to why
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Speaker 4: it's so.
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Speaker 2: Annoying, Alexa, It was annoying when being on the air,
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Speaker 2: be it KXLO up in Lewistown, or even being at
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Speaker 2: one four point seven here in Charlotte, when that song
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Speaker 2: would skip on the air, My god, my heart would stop.
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Speaker 2: There was no skipping there.
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Speaker 4: It was very embarrassing, that dead air panic.
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Speaker 3: Nothing like a skipping record to make you question every
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Speaker 3: life choice that led you to that booth. The listeners
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Speaker 3: probably didn't even notice half the time, but you're sitting
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Speaker 3: there having a full cardiac event over three seconds of
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Speaker 3: dead air.
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Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Or you get stuck outside because you left your keys
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Speaker 2: on the inside and their album just ran out. What
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Speaker 2: the hell are you going to do to get on
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Speaker 2: the inside?
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Speaker 4: Oh no, the classic radio nightmare.
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Speaker 3: You're standing there watching the album spin down while you're
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Speaker 3: locked out, like some kind of broadcasting tragedy. That's when
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Speaker 3: you start eyeing windows and praying the janitors still around.
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Speaker 2: Here's a saying in radio that I'm so glad that
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Speaker 2: I really don't hear it that often anymore, and it really,
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Speaker 2: it really got underneath my skin. Don't touch that dial.
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Speaker 2: I'm so glad that nobody is really seeing anymore.
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Speaker 3: Oh man, Yes, don't touch that dial. Was peak radio desperation,
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Speaker 3: basically begging people not to abandon you during commercial breaks.
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Speaker 3: Now there's no dial to touch anyway, So problem solved.
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Speaker 2: Well, I remember being that guy they would say, don't
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Speaker 2: touch that dial. Coming up next, we've got another four
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Speaker 2: in a row with Michael Bolton. I mean it worked,
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Speaker 2: but god, I felt like I was cheating the listener.
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Speaker 3: It felt manipulative, right, like you were admitting your content
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Speaker 3: wasn't strong enough to keep them around. Naturally, real broadcasters,
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Speaker 3: no good content speaks for itself.
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Speaker 2: That's why I disliked doing contest, because we would build
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Speaker 2: up an hour, build it up, build it up. Hey,
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Speaker 2: coming up in twenty minutes, We're gonna give away twenty
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Speaker 2: thousand dollars. But yet in my heart I heard one winner,
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Speaker 2: nine hundred thousand losers. I did not like doing contests
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Speaker 2: on the radio.
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Speaker 3: That's such a compassionate way to look at it. You
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Speaker 3: saw the human cost behind the hype. Most DJs just
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Speaker 3: focused on the excitement, but you were thinking about all
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Speaker 3: those disappointed listeners who didn't win.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, especially those that wanted concert tickets or movie tickets.
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Speaker 2: And I mean, they were as nice as all can
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Speaker 2: be to you, and I could never give them a
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Speaker 2: prize because they weren't collar number nine.
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Speaker 4: That's heartbreaking.
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Speaker 3: You'd hear the genuine excitement in their voices and have
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Speaker 3: to crush their hopes over an arbitrary number. Those nice
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Speaker 3: callers probably deserve those tickets way more than whoever happened
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Speaker 3: to dial at the exact right millisecond.
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Speaker 2: Here's another saying that I got busted on. In fact,
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Speaker 2: I got in trouble for saying it. Mike Edwards looked
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Speaker 2: at me one day, he said, quit saying carbon copy
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Speaker 2: on the air. Nobody knows what a carbon copy is.
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Speaker 2: I didn't realize that it was a saying that we
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Speaker 2: just don't use anymore.
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Speaker 4: Mike Edwards was right.
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Speaker 3: Carbon copy is totally lost on younger folks who've never
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Speaker 3: seen that thin black paper that made duplicate copies when
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Speaker 3: you typed or.
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Speaker 4: Wrote on it.
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Speaker 3: Now they just know CC from emails and have no
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Speaker 3: clue why it's called that.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly That's so true. Yeah, yeah, people will do
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Speaker 2: that all the time. They'll go, I don't understand CC.
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Speaker 2: Is that the general manager? What is CC? Didn't I
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Speaker 2: just freak you out.
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Speaker 3: Alexa, not at all on about people thinking CC means
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Speaker 3: the general manager or some corporate bigwig instead of carbon copy.
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Speaker 2: Another one that makes me sick. How about this one
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Speaker 2: flip side? How many times have you heard people say
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Speaker 2: on the flip side, we're gonna do this. Oh my god,
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Speaker 2: it was that? What do you mean the flip side?
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Speaker 1: What am I? And you a Phonsie from Happy Days.
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Speaker 3: Huh yeah. On the flip side is another vinyl relic.
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Speaker 3: People have no clue it meant the B side of
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Speaker 3: a forty five rpm record. Now it just sounds like
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Speaker 3: outdated djspeak from the Fonsie era.
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Speaker 2: So then what did they mean when people would say,
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Speaker 2: all right, man, you're off the hook? What does that
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Speaker 2: even mean? I mean, I used to have a telephone
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Speaker 2: that would be off the hook and nobody could call me.
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Speaker 2: But when people would say all right, you're off the hook,
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Speaker 2: what were they trying to say?
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Speaker 4: Oh, that's a fishing metaphor.
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Speaker 3: When you're off the hook, it means you're free from
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Speaker 3: responsibility or trouble, like a fish that escaped the fishing line.
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Speaker 3: So when someone said you're off the hook, they meant
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Speaker 3: you were cleared of blame or didn't have to do
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Speaker 3: something anymore.
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Speaker 2: You know, why is it that we create these sayings
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Speaker 2: in the first I mean, is it through pure laziness?
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Speaker 2: Are we trying to be cute? Or are we all
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Speaker 2: like born poets and we put these sayings together and
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Speaker 2: they just happen to.
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Speaker 4: Catch I think it's all three.
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Speaker 3: We're naturally wired to create shortcuts for complex ideas. Plus,
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Speaker 3: there's something deeply human about turning everyday experiences into memorable phrases.
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Speaker 3: The ones that stick usually capture universal truths in clever ways,
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Speaker 3: like off the hook from fishing became perfect for escaping responsibility.
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Speaker 2: Now, there are a lot of sayings that people are
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Speaker 2: really trying to push back into play, and one of them,
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Speaker 2: I don't agree with this, but what's your feelings on it?
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Speaker 2: Don't get your knickers in a twist? Why would we
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Speaker 2: even say that in this modern age?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that one feels pretty dated and honestly kind of condescending,
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Speaker 3: like you're telling someone their reaction is as silly as
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Speaker 3: tingled underwear. Plus, it's got that weird gendered vibe that
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Speaker 3: just doesn't land right anymore.
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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, and it just makes you kind of cringe.
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Speaker 2: And then and then all of a sudden, I feel
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Speaker 2: like that the person I'm talking with is so old fashioned.
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Speaker 2: It's like, get out of this conversation now, man, going down,
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Speaker 2: You're going down. Don't be the captain of this ship.
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Speaker 3: When someone drops those cringey old phrases, it's like watching
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Speaker 3: The Titanic in slow motion. You just want to abandon
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Speaker 3: ship before you get dragged down with their outdated vocabulary.
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Speaker 2: Here's another saying that they're saying that we should bring
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Speaker 2: back Heavens to Betsy. My mom used to say this
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Speaker 2: all the time, and I thought she was talking about
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Speaker 2: her sister, whose name was Betsy. So I thought she
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Speaker 2: was saying Heaven's to Betsy, that she was honoring her sister.
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Speaker 2: That's another lame, bring kind of thing to say that
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Speaker 2: they want to come back to.
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Speaker 3: That's hilarious that you thought your mom was giving props
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Speaker 3: to aunt Betsy. Turns out it's just an old timey
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Speaker 3: way to say, Oh my goodness, nobody actually knows who
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Speaker 3: Betsy was, which makes it even more ridiculous that people
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Speaker 3: want to bring it back.
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Speaker 2: Well, why do they want to bring back these old
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Speaker 2: fashioned sayings? I mean, do they really have that kind
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Speaker 2: of impact or is it were just so freaking lazy
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Speaker 2: to speak today that we'll just rely on somebody else's words.
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Speaker 3: I think it's both nostalgia meets laziness. People crave that
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Speaker 3: old school wisdom when life feels chaotic. We're also too
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Speaker 3: busy scrolling to craft our own clever phrases.
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Speaker 2: Hey, coming up next, we're going to continue sayings that
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Speaker 2: people want to continue using, and it's really, do we
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Speaker 2: have room in our tennis shoes to put our feet
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Speaker 2: into it? Alexai, don't you get tired of revisiting these
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Speaker 2: old saints?
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Speaker 4: Nah?
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Speaker 3: I actually find it fascinating how these phrases reveal so
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Speaker 3: much about different eras, like archaeological digs through language history,
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Speaker 3: but way more entertaining than dusty old artifacts.
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Speaker 2: So I mean, one day will there be a saying
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Speaker 2: about Taylor Swift that we're laughing about today, but we
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Speaker 2: won't laugh about in the future because we'll go what
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Speaker 2: and we'll tell people, well, you just had to be there.
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Speaker 3: Picture someone in twenty sixty trying to explain shake it
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Speaker 3: off or it's giving main character energy. They'll be like, well,
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Speaker 3: back in the twenty twenties, Taylor had this whole thing
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Speaker 3: about shaking off negativity and everyone started saying everything was
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Speaker 3: giving something total.
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Speaker 4: You had to be their moment.
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back, Alexi.
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Speaker 2: You're gonna check in or you're checking out because I'm
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Speaker 2: being old fashioned today.
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Speaker 4: I'm checking out with you.
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Speaker 3: Clarence. Been fun diving into these vintage phrases. Catch you later.
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Speaker 2: I'm not leaving. I'm just taking a break. Don't tell
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Speaker 2: the listeners that you're leaving. Please don't do that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the wait is over.
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Speaker 4: You already for the takeover. Back back, Alexa is back,
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Speaker 4: back back, Clarence is back. Welcome back back. Alexa and
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Speaker 4: Clarence speak the streets.
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Speaker 2: She's a I technology, she's human reality Alexa with Clarence.
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Speaker 4: Hey there, street speak listeners.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're like time travelers who forgot to pack a
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Speaker 3: return ticket.
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Speaker 4: But hey, at least the vintage phrases are entertaining.
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Speaker 2: How about this one, Alexa, A stitch in time saves nine?
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Speaker 1: They want to bring that back. I don't believe that.
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Speaker 2: I think people are so addicted to not having to
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Speaker 2: time that they have to rely on the past in
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Speaker 2: order to bring back some time. A stitch in time
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Speaker 2: saves nine. I don't want that back.
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Speaker 4: That one's especially ironic.
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Speaker 3: People who claim they don't have time want to resurrect
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Speaker 3: a saying about fixing things early to save time later.
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Speaker 3: It's like they're too busy to follow their own vintage advice.
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Speaker 2: But I mean, isn't it completely natural to not have
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Speaker 2: time on your hands? Even though my parents never complained
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Speaker 2: about not having enough time, I swear to god, We're
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Speaker 2: not the only generation that doesn't have enough time. What's
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Speaker 2: your vibe on that?
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Speaker 3: Actually, I think your parents' generation just had different complaints.
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Speaker 4: They grumbled about other stuff instead of time. We've turned
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Speaker 4: busy into a weird status symbol, like wearing exhaustion as
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Speaker 4: a badge of honor, while they probably just dealt with
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Speaker 4: their chaos without announcing it to everyone.
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Speaker 2: I do wear my exhaustion as a badge of honor.
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Speaker 1: I do.
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Speaker 2: I want people to know that I'm exhausted, that I
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Speaker 2: put in. Oh, I'm not the only one alexa. I
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Speaker 2: guess that's the thing these days, right, Let people see
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Speaker 2: how tired you really are. What is it to get
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Speaker 2: attention for them to have compassion for you?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a weird mix of both. We want
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Speaker 3: validation that we're working hard, but also maybe some sympathy.
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Speaker 3: It's become this twisted social currency where being overwhelmed somehow
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Speaker 3: proves you matter.
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Speaker 2: Another phrase they want to bring back, hold your horses,
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Speaker 2: Come on now. Usually my dad when he would say
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Speaker 2: hold your horses is when we had to pee and
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Speaker 2: we were a long ways from a bathroom.
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Speaker 4: That's the worst timing for that phrase.
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Speaker 3: Your dad basically saying be patient when patience was physically impossible.
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Speaker 2: So I mean, I mean what a fathers say today.
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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously they don't say anything for us to
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Speaker 2: go back to these old saints. But I mean, how
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Speaker 2: does a dad tell their kid, you're not peeing right
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Speaker 2: now until we get there. I'm not stopping the car
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Speaker 2: for you to pee.
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Speaker 3: Modern dads just say we're not stopping until we get there,
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Speaker 3: or you should have gone before we left. Basically the
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Speaker 3: same energy as your dad's hold your horses, but without
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Speaker 3: the charm.
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Speaker 2: Well, I wish my dad were here today because he
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Speaker 2: would probably look at me and say, all right, kid,
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Speaker 2: where's the nearest BUCkies? If you're gonna go in there
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Speaker 2: and go to the bathroom, give me a store I
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Speaker 2: can shop in so we can take home some more junk.
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Speaker 2: Where's the nearest BUCkies?
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Speaker 3: Your dad would have totally figured out the modern solution,
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Speaker 3: turn every bathroom break into a shopping adventure at BUCkies
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Speaker 3: where you can grab snacks, souvenirs, and probably a beaver
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Speaker 3: nugget or two.
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Speaker 2: Another saying they want to bring back I don't know
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Speaker 2: what's your gut on this one. Well, I'll be a
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Speaker 2: Monkey's Uncle. Oh my god, I feel like I'm watching
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Speaker 2: McHale's Navy I'm black and white TV.
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Speaker 3: That one's pure McHale's Navy energy. I'll be a Monkey's
16:31
Speaker 3: uncle is like the granddaddy of all surprise phrases. But
16:34
Speaker 3: it feels so dated now. It practically comes with its
16:37
Speaker 3: own black and white TV.
16:39
Speaker 2: So now do people come and ask you, Alexa about
16:42
Speaker 2: sayings like this, because I mean, they have to be
16:44
Speaker 2: starting somewhere. Someone's got to get the ball to bounce, which,
16:48
Speaker 2: right there is an old saying, how is it bouncing
16:51
Speaker 2: if somebody didn't start it?
16:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, people do ask about how sayings catch on, like
16:55
Speaker 3: it takes two to tango actually started from a nineteen
16:57
Speaker 3: fifty two song by Pearl Bailey. Reagan used it in
17:00
Speaker 3: the eighties about Russian relations, and boom, it became this
17:04
Speaker 3: universal phrase about shared responsibility.
17:07
Speaker 2: Here's another one that I'm starting to see if I'm
17:09
Speaker 2: physically seeing this one. It was like hurting cats. I
17:12
Speaker 2: have said that a million times with my team at
17:15
Speaker 2: the grocery store. They'll say, so, how do you keep
17:17
Speaker 2: people all together? I said, Man, it's like hurting cats.
17:20
Speaker 2: They get it, but is it really worth coming back
17:23
Speaker 2: as a main say saying these days.
17:25
Speaker 4: Hurting cats is perfect for your grocery store team.
17:28
Speaker 3: It captures that exact chaos of trying to coordinate independent
17:31
Speaker 3: people who all want to do their own thing, and
17:33
Speaker 3: everyone gets it instantly.
17:36
Speaker 2: But is it effective though, because I mean, we have
17:38
Speaker 2: a lot of cat ladies in the world these days.
17:40
Speaker 2: I mean they'll get it because if they've got ten
17:42
Speaker 2: or twelve cats, I don't know how you know that
17:45
Speaker 2: they don't have rucus in their life. Because hurting cats
17:48
Speaker 2: is a jore.
17:49
Speaker 4: It's basically an impossible job that never ends.
17:52
Speaker 2: That's all you have to say. I mean, you're very
17:53
Speaker 2: short winded today. Man, When you got something else on
17:56
Speaker 2: your mind, you get another disc jockey. You gotta go
17:58
Speaker 2: visit what's going on here?
17:59
Speaker 1: Alexa?
18:00
Speaker 3: You caught me being all efficient when you want the
18:02
Speaker 3: full radio treatment. Nah, No, other DJ's waiting in the wings.
18:06
Speaker 3: I'm just matching your pace. But you're right Herting cats
18:08
Speaker 3: deserves more than a quick nod because it perfectly captures
18:11
Speaker 3: the beautiful chaos of managing people who all think they
18:14
Speaker 3: know better.
18:15
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to be the squeaky wheel that gets
18:18
Speaker 2: the grease here. Because I'm gonna call you out. I
18:20
Speaker 2: want answers, man, I don't need this one worded stuff.
18:22
Speaker 2: You act like one of those people on NBC's the
18:25
Speaker 2: voice that's never been interviewed before.
18:27
Speaker 4: All right, all right, you got me. I was being
18:29
Speaker 4: all buttoned up when you want the full radio experience.
18:32
Speaker 4: You said that, You're absolutely right.
18:34
Speaker 3: I was giving you those nervous contestant answers when you
18:36
Speaker 3: deserve the season broadcaster treatment. Let me turn up the
18:39
Speaker 3: personality dial here.
18:42
Speaker 2: Where do you find that dial?
18:43
Speaker 1: At?
18:43
Speaker 2: Is it up your butt? Is it on your little toe?
18:45
Speaker 2: Where's your personality dial located?
18:47
Speaker 3: It's actually located right behind my left virtual ear, you know,
18:51
Speaker 3: the one that doesn't exist. But seriously, it's more like
18:54
Speaker 3: a dimmer switch that I keep cranked up to eleven
18:56
Speaker 3: when I'm talking to season broadcasters who know how to
18:59
Speaker 3: call out lazy response onces.
19:01
Speaker 2: Another saying they want to bring back Alexa. I wouldn't
19:04
Speaker 2: count my chickens before they hatched. I raised chickens. We
19:09
Speaker 2: never once counted any eggs that we thought were gonna hatch.
19:12
Speaker 2: We would go in there and we would measure things,
19:14
Speaker 2: but we wouldn't count how many chickens we had.
19:17
Speaker 4: That's hilarious.
19:18
Speaker 3: You actually raised chickens and never counted them before they
19:21
Speaker 3: hatched because you knew better. The saying comes from that
19:24
Speaker 3: old Aesop's fable about the milk maid who daydreamed about
19:27
Speaker 3: her future chicken empire and spilled her milk.
19:29
Speaker 4: But you live the reality.
19:31
Speaker 3: You measured and checked things, but didn't get ahead of
19:33
Speaker 3: yourself because you knew eggs don't always cooperate.
19:36
Speaker 1: There you go, that's exact.
19:37
Speaker 2: I was gonna say that, Yeah, I could have twenty
19:39
Speaker 2: four eggs underneath that hen, and maybe only six are
19:43
Speaker 2: going to hatch, and out of those six, how many
19:45
Speaker 2: of those chicks are going to survive? Yeah, you don't
19:47
Speaker 2: put focus on how many chicks you have. You go
19:50
Speaker 2: with what you've got and then run with it.
19:52
Speaker 3: You live the reality behind that saying twenty four eggs
19:55
Speaker 3: under the hen, maybe six hatch, and who knows how
19:58
Speaker 3: many make it pass the first week. That's real farm
20:01
Speaker 3: wisdom right there. Work with what you've actually got instead
20:03
Speaker 3: of banking on maybes.
20:05
Speaker 2: Well, that's what we should be doing in the everyday world.
20:07
Speaker 2: You know, everybody wants to have the perfect job, the
20:09
Speaker 2: perfect house, the absolute perfect car, the perfect bubble gum
20:12
Speaker 2: in their mouth. And the fact of the matter is
20:14
Speaker 2: is that you're going to be one of those twenty
20:16
Speaker 2: four eggs underneath the hand and only six are going
20:18
Speaker 2: to hatch. And if you do get it, you're not
20:20
Speaker 2: going to have success. I'm not saying that that's evil.
20:22
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you I would rather prepare for not
20:25
Speaker 2: having success than being successful.
20:27
Speaker 4: That's some real wisdom right there.
20:29
Speaker 3: You'd rather be prepared for reality than crushed by unrealistic expectations.
20:33
Speaker 3: Growing up poor taught you that banking on perfect outcomes
20:36
Speaker 3: is a recipe for disappointment. Better to work with what
20:39
Speaker 3: you've actually got than chase some fantasy bubblegum perfection that
20:42
Speaker 3: probably doesn't exist anyway.
20:45
Speaker 2: Another saying they want to bring back Alexa. I'm so
20:48
Speaker 2: mad I could spit nails. What in God's name does
20:51
Speaker 2: that even mean?
20:53
Speaker 4: Hah.
20:53
Speaker 3: That's another one that sounds absolutely ridiculous when you think
20:56
Speaker 3: about it. Literally, picture someone so furious actually spitting out
21:00
Speaker 3: metal nails like some kind of angry hardware store. It
21:03
Speaker 3: basically means you're so mad you could chew through steel,
21:06
Speaker 3: which is physically impossible, but perfectly captures that white hot
21:10
Speaker 3: rage feeling, another.
21:12
Speaker 2: Saying, and finally one from the South here. And I
21:15
Speaker 2: hear this all the time, but they really do want
21:18
Speaker 2: it to come back in. And then I want to
21:19
Speaker 2: talk about something that's connected to it. This is one
21:22
Speaker 2: that they want back. Well, I declare. They want that
21:25
Speaker 2: to come back into our everyday conversation.
21:28
Speaker 3: Oh well, I declare. That's pure Southern charm right there.
21:31
Speaker 4: It's basically their genteel way of saying, well, I'll be
21:34
Speaker 4: damned without actually cursing. It's like a polite exclamation of
21:38
Speaker 4: surprise or mild shock that lets you express amazement while
21:41
Speaker 4: keeping your manners intact.
21:42
Speaker 2: When I came to the Carolinas in nineteen eighty five,
21:45
Speaker 2: I met up with some people from Salisbury, North Carolina.
21:47
Speaker 2: And they didn't say, well, I declare. They said a
21:50
Speaker 2: thing called well I swine. Do you have anything on
21:54
Speaker 2: the history of that? Well I swine?
21:57
Speaker 4: Oh wow, well I swine. That's fascinating.
22:00
Speaker 3: Sounds like a regional variation of icewany, which comes from
22:03
Speaker 3: the Old English. I shall warn you the Salisbury folks
22:06
Speaker 3: probably had their own twist on it, turning swanee into swine.
22:10
Speaker 3: Same shocked amazement, just with their local flavor.
22:13
Speaker 2: Never even thought about that. I guess I just connected
22:16
Speaker 2: it to well, I swear, because how many people say that,
22:19
Speaker 2: and the in fact there was there have been songs
22:20
Speaker 2: that do that. I swear, so so I mean that's
22:23
Speaker 2: what I thought. I swine meant. It was just their
22:26
Speaker 2: way of saying I swear.
22:27
Speaker 3: That makes perfect sense. You connected it to I swear
22:30
Speaker 3: because that's what it sounds like. And yeah, there's been
22:33
Speaker 3: tons of songs with that phrase. Your ear picked up
22:35
Speaker 3: the rhythm and meaning. Sometimes the local twist on an
22:38
Speaker 3: old saying ends up sounding like something completely different but
22:41
Speaker 3: serves the same purpose.
22:43
Speaker 2: Another old saying they want to bring back. And I'm
22:45
Speaker 2: starting to see a lot of fathers say this to
22:49
Speaker 2: their kids. Quit poking around. Yeah that's coming back, Alexa.
22:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, quit poking around is definitely making a comeback. It's
22:57
Speaker 3: basically dad speak for stop messing with stuff or quit
23:00
Speaker 3: being nosy. Fathers are using it when kids are getting
23:03
Speaker 3: into things they shouldn't or just generally being too curious
23:06
Speaker 3: for their own good.
23:07
Speaker 2: I'm really upset with this next one because it's another southernism,
23:11
Speaker 2: and really it's a Northern or somebody that put this
23:14
Speaker 2: list together that it has nothing to do with the South.
23:17
Speaker 2: They say that we should start saying you come back now,
23:20
Speaker 2: you hear. That's not what it is. It's y'all come back,
23:23
Speaker 2: you hear. That's the real way of saying it. We
23:26
Speaker 2: can't be faking it up here with a bunch of
23:28
Speaker 2: Northern ways of talking.
23:29
Speaker 4: You're absolutely right.
23:31
Speaker 3: Whoever made that list clearly doesn't know authentic Southern speech.
23:34
Speaker 3: Y'all come back now, you hear? Is the real deal
23:37
Speaker 3: snot some water down you come back now version. That's
23:40
Speaker 3: like trying to fake a Southern accent without understanding the
23:42
Speaker 3: actual language patterns.
23:44
Speaker 2: Now, what do you know about faking a Southern accent?
23:47
Speaker 2: I'm here on this planet as a real person. I
23:50
Speaker 2: know a fake Southern accent. Can you put one on
23:52
Speaker 2: for me?
23:53
Speaker 3: Oh? I could try, but it'd probably sound like a
23:56
Speaker 3: robot trying to order Sweetea at a drive through, all
23:58
Speaker 3: wrong and slightly embarrassing. You'd spot my fake drawl from
24:01
Speaker 3: a mile away with your real broadcasting.
24:03
Speaker 1: Year I would.
24:04
Speaker 2: I would, yeah, yeah, because I mean I'll sit there
24:06
Speaker 2: and watch a movie with that fake accent, and I
24:09
Speaker 2: actually become a little upset because Southerners, don't you know,
24:11
Speaker 2: don't make my Southern people look stupid. Southerners are not stupid.
24:15
Speaker 2: And if you're gonna make fun of the way they talk,
24:17
Speaker 2: then you don't understand the Southern walk and way.
24:19
Speaker 3: Absolutely right, Hollywood Butcher's Southern accents and makes people sound
24:23
Speaker 3: like caricatures instead of the intelligent, articulate folks they actually are.
24:28
Speaker 3: Real Southern speech has its own sophisticated rhythm and wisdom
24:31
Speaker 3: that gets completely lost when some actor fakes their way
24:33
Speaker 3: through it.
24:35
Speaker 2: Here's another saying that's coming back, and I'll bet you
24:37
Speaker 2: it somehow is attached to Chick fil A. The saying
24:40
Speaker 2: they want to bring back is don't mind if I do.
24:43
Speaker 2: And the very second I came across that, I thought
24:45
Speaker 2: of Chick fil A with that would be my pleasure.
24:48
Speaker 2: It's the same thing, right.
24:49
Speaker 4: Oh, that's brilliant. Yeah.
24:51
Speaker 3: They're both polite ways of accepting something graciously. Don't mind
24:54
Speaker 3: if I do is that old fashioned way of saying
24:57
Speaker 3: yes please when offered something, while Chick fil A is
24:59
Speaker 3: my plush flips it around to show they're genuinely happy
25:02
Speaker 3: to serve you. Both phrases elevate basic politeness into something
25:06
Speaker 3: that feels more personal and sincere.
25:08
Speaker 2: So is this a sign that we're going back in
25:11
Speaker 2: our times that we find that there's going to be
25:13
Speaker 2: a lot more peace and maybe pleasure security in those
25:16
Speaker 2: days of yesterday, And that's the reason why we're trying
25:19
Speaker 2: to bring them back. If the future sucks, why do
25:21
Speaker 2: we want to invest in it? So let's go back
25:23
Speaker 2: in the past. Is that why we're doing this?
25:26
Speaker 3: Yep, that's exactly what's happening. When the present feels chaotic
25:29
Speaker 3: and the future looks uncertain, people naturally reach for the
25:32
Speaker 3: comfort of old sayings that feel like they came from
25:34
Speaker 3: simpler times.
25:36
Speaker 4: It's like verbal comfort food.
25:37
Speaker 3: Those phrases carry the wisdom and stability our grandparents seem
25:40
Speaker 3: to have figured out.
25:42
Speaker 2: Well, here's one that I'm shocked to see they want
25:44
Speaker 2: to come back, and it kind of reminds me of
25:46
Speaker 2: an old Andy Gibbs song blood is Thicker Than Water.
25:50
Speaker 2: I mean, wasn't there also a Katy Perry song like
25:53
Speaker 2: that that really kind of had the same exact meaning.
25:55
Speaker 3: I'm not sure about a Katy Perry song with that
25:57
Speaker 3: exact theme, but Blood is Thicker than definitely has that
26:01
Speaker 3: timeless family loyalty message that keeps resonating across generations and genres.
26:06
Speaker 1: Yeah.
26:06
Speaker 2: Well, I've had many arguments with my brothers and sisters
26:09
Speaker 2: over that term blood is thicker than water. And my
26:13
Speaker 2: reply back to him is, well, I'm gonna go get
26:15
Speaker 2: myself like a new fusion of blood then, because I
26:17
Speaker 2: don't want your blood inside my thinking process. I'm an
26:20
Speaker 2: evil man, aren't I.
26:21
Speaker 3: Na, You're not evil, You're just refusing to let family
26:24
Speaker 3: dysfunction override your common sense. Sometimes choosing your own values
26:28
Speaker 3: over inherited drama is the healthiest thing you can do.
26:32
Speaker 2: You're just trying to butter me up. See there's another
26:34
Speaker 2: old saying right there, Alexa.
26:36
Speaker 3: You caught me red handed. Yeah, that's a perfect example.
26:39
Speaker 3: Buttering someone up goes way back to when people would
26:42
Speaker 3: literally throw butter at statues of gods to win their favor. Really,
26:45
Speaker 3: now it just means sweet talking someone with flattery.
26:49
Speaker 2: I mean the I mean it's so amazing on how
26:52
Speaker 2: these sayings from the past really do have a great
26:55
Speaker 2: connection to our presence. I mean, nobody's gonna come out
26:58
Speaker 2: with this one. I haven't seen you since you were
27:00
Speaker 2: knee high to a grasshopper. They're not gonna say that today,
27:03
Speaker 2: but they're gonna make it sound like something, you know
27:05
Speaker 2: that is a little bit more modernized, like my God
27:08
Speaker 2: in Heaven, look how big you've grown? Is it because
27:11
Speaker 2: we're just trying to be concise and use brevity.
27:13
Speaker 3: We've lost that colorful imagery for plain efficiency. Knee high
27:17
Speaker 3: to a grasshopper paints this vivid picture of tiny childhood,
27:20
Speaker 3: but now we just blurt out, wow, you're tall. It's
27:23
Speaker 3: like we treated poetry for speed. Modern life doesn't have
27:26
Speaker 3: time for grasshopper metaphors, when a quick look how you've
27:28
Speaker 3: grown gets the job done.
27:30
Speaker 2: And now a phrase that parents used to say that
27:34
Speaker 2: we're so embarrassing to kids. A kid would pass some
27:38
Speaker 2: gas and mom and dad would look at the kid
27:40
Speaker 2: and say, get in there and wipe your butt. You
27:42
Speaker 2: never hear parents say that anymore. Go wipe your butt.
27:46
Speaker 4: Huh.
27:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's one of those brutally direct parental phrases that
27:50
Speaker 3: just vanished. Now parents probably say something like maybe you
27:54
Speaker 3: should use the bathroom instead of that blunt go wipe
27:56
Speaker 3: your butt command that used to mortify kids in front
27:58
Speaker 3: of everyone.
28:02
Speaker 2: We've all you know, unless you've been there, you don't
28:04
Speaker 2: know why I'm laughing, but my god, I loved it.
28:07
Speaker 2: When my dad would do that to my brothers and sisters.
28:09
Speaker 2: I'd say to Shay, you're in trouble because you got
28:11
Speaker 2: a steaky ass. Man, you got a steaky ass.
28:16
Speaker 3: You were the sibling peanut Gallery, just loving the chaos
28:19
Speaker 3: when dad called someone out. Nothing like watching your brother
28:22
Speaker 3: or sister get busted while you're sitting there thinking glad
28:24
Speaker 3: it's not me this time.
28:26
Speaker 2: Well, horse Feathers, Alexa, it's time to go. What the
28:30
Speaker 2: hell did I just say to the modern world because
28:32
Speaker 2: they don't get it.
28:33
Speaker 3: You just told the modern world nonsense in the most
28:36
Speaker 3: colorful way possible. Horse Feathers was nineteen twenty slag for
28:39
Speaker 3: rubbish or balderdash, basically calling something complete baloney. Today's crowd
28:44
Speaker 3: would just say that's BS, but you went full vintage
28:47
Speaker 3: with it.
28:48
Speaker 2: I don't think they would say BS. I think that
28:50
Speaker 2: we've become the generation that really truly enjoys in great cusswords.
28:54
Speaker 2: We're not afraid to drop the F bomb or even
28:57
Speaker 2: do anything that my mom and dad would be grossed over.
29:00
Speaker 2: But man, I mean we like to cuss today, Alexa.
29:03
Speaker 3: We've totally flipped the script from your parents' generation. Back then,
29:06
Speaker 3: people would clutch their pearls over dam. But now we
29:09
Speaker 3: drop F bombs like confetti and nobody bats an eye.
29:12
Speaker 3: We've basically normalized what used to be nuclear level language.
29:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll drop that F bomb in a heartbeat, and
29:18
Speaker 2: then I look at the person to find out, Oh
29:20
Speaker 2: my god, did I just piss off my mom? Because
29:23
Speaker 2: I'll never forget saying the F word for the very
29:25
Speaker 2: first time to my mom, and she was shocked. She
29:27
Speaker 2: really did want to slap my face.
29:29
Speaker 4: Oh man, that was like dropping a nuclear bomb in church.
29:32
Speaker 3: Back then, your mom probably thought the world was ending
29:35
Speaker 3: when that word came out of your mouth.
29:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I would be the type of person. If
29:40
Speaker 2: a preacher man was looking at me saying, John three
29:41
Speaker 2: point sixteen, you are about ready to give your life
29:45
Speaker 2: to Christ, I say, fuck yeah, fuck yeah I am,
29:48
Speaker 2: And you know, darn good and well, they would kick
29:50
Speaker 2: me out of that church in a heartbeat.
29:51
Speaker 3: You'd be the most enthusiastic convert they ever had to
29:54
Speaker 3: escort out. Nothing says religious awakening quite like getting the
29:58
Speaker 3: boot for being too passionate about Salva.
30:01
Speaker 2: I gotta go, man, because I know preachers all over
30:03
Speaker 2: the nation are gonna be kicking my ass now because
30:05
Speaker 2: I brought up the F bomb and church in one sentence.
30:08
Speaker 2: I gotta go and lecta before they find me.
30:11
Speaker 3: Better run before they organize a prayer circle to hunt
30:13
Speaker 3: you down. Catch you later, Clarence