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46.2: Killer Diller Literal Idioms
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QUESTIONS ARE HERE! Yes, we did a real episode about what kind of common phrases or idioms, that if literal, would be absolutely horrifying... so break a leg out there!
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Podcast Introduction and Question Teaser
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gonna you know what let's just see what happens no let's just get right into it okay my brain still hurts because uh after we stopped what was it 46.1 yes uh there was another rant for 25 minutes it wasn't a rant it was a discussion thank you very much
00:00:22
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you had input on it as well thank you i don't want to hear it you had input as well sir
00:00:30
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Hello,
Truman Show Influence and Character Naming
00:00:31
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everybody. Welcome back to That's Our Q. I'm doing the intro this time because Adam is going to ask the question, and I swear we're actually asking questions this time. ah How are you doing, Adam?
00:00:42
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I'm still coming down, but I'm good. all right. Glad to hear it. I'm Danny. That was Adam, your hosts with the most. And yes, good morning, afternoon, and evening there. I'm stealing your thing. You can't do anything about it.
00:00:57
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ah Welcome back to TOQ. That's all I got, Adam. Would you like to get right into it? You know, I got to tell you, i i realized recently that good morning, good afternoon, and good good evening.
00:01:12
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I think I subconsciously channeled the Truman Show in some way, because he always says, like, have a good morning, good afternoon, a good ah good something. He always ends with telling me you stole our intro.
00:01:28
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No, he says something. i think just I was kind of like, I think I was inspired by that at some point because I don't remember how he says, and if I don't see you, have a good morning, good afternoon, and a good night is something like like that that he says.
00:01:41
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But it's always like a I'm leaving, not like an introductory thing. So i don't remember when I started saying it, but I realized recently i was like, you know, that might be kind of that might have inspired that at some point. and i just didn't realize it because it doesn't exactly sound the same because he uses it as like ah as ah as a farewell.
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But anyway, I oh You know what's really bad is I read a book series called The Wheel of Time a long time ago, right? And recently the TV show had come out about it.
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um And I realized a lot of my dungeons and Dungeons and Dragons characters, I subconsciously took their names from this book series. ah Ah. When I was hearing characters' names for the first time in like 15 years again, i was like,
00:02:28
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huh, that's what named that character. and That's what I named that other character of that town.
Terrifying Idioms: Literal Interpretations
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I'm like, shit, I just stole all of these names without even realizing it. Yep.
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So yeah there you go. Sometimes you just those little subconscious implantations, you know? Yeah. um I don't think implantation is a word. i think just implants. Anyway. um
00:02:53
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Yeah, so here's a question. I got a question. It's right here. Hit me with your question. got it in front of you. The question that I have comes from the Random Thoughts at Reddit page from GreetingsHuman404.
00:03:04
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And they ask, what's a common phrase or idiom that, if taken literally, would be absolutely terrifying? Okay. um And I don't know if the first one that I'm thinking of... Well, you know what? Actually, let me have you say yours first, because I almost always answer first.
00:03:24
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I got two that basically immediately came to my mind. um
00:03:30
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One is costs an arm and a leg. Oh, yeah. That would be terrifying because you can only buy two things then. That's the terrifying part. Don't question it. um And the other one isn't so much the idiom itself, but what the idiom would mean for people.
00:03:50
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ah By the skin of your teeth. I don't want my teeth to have skin. I think that's disgusting and terrifying. Yeah, I gotta look that up. I don't even know where that one comes from. Mm-hmm.
00:04:02
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Where does by the skin of your teeth originate? We're keeping all of this in there, by the way, that we don't edit this out. So you're in for the long haul now.
00:04:14
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They say comes from a King James Bible translation. has...
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The translation of Job, 1920. Job has suffered through an illness that left him very thin, skin and bones, but he expresses thanks that he has escaped with the skin of my teeth. That's like the... Huh.
00:04:34
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Interesting. that really You know, that is not one I would have ever pegged as a religious idiom. Yeah. i am Yeah, I don't... really i guess it's just something they wrote. There's not like any sort of vast...
00:04:49
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Like, oh, this guy translating the Bible wrote down was like, you know, that's pretty good. I'm going to steal that. yeah i' Yeah, I don't know. I'm going to use that one that comes to mind for me. I was thinking about this earlier because somebody at work laughed about it when I said it.
00:05:04
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Well, I said, I'd love to pick your brain about that. And like it was a gal that I was driving with and she's kind of left out a giggle. She goes, I mean, I guess if you want to, I don't know what's in there. And I was just sort of thinking like, oh, you know, like you take an axe pick to the brain or you just start picking things out of the brain or like, you know, you start chipping things out that you need.
00:05:20
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And so like, let me pick your brain was like, that could be pretty graphic, pretty horrifying. You know, it's like, oh, my God, Adam, what are you doing? I'm like, I'm picking her brain, you know, picking your brain. Just wanted to see. she said I could.
00:05:31
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She was there. You
Personal Experiences with Idioms
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saw you heard it. I have consent. Yeah. So there's a let's see. Break a leg. Sorry, I pulled up a list. ah You put up a list. A pull-up list.
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ah Break a leg. I never understood how break a leg is like, do good out there. maybe it was Maybe it's like ah you know like mobsters who are like, you're like all right, go out there break a leg. I'm like, I will, boss. and you know Yeah, like you got it, boys. I'll break the leg real good.
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Yeah, it's like a way to like wish, like, you know, get out there and do a good job. You know, go break a leg. He's like, all right, yeah, it's Or maybe it's like a Tonya Harding thing, you know? Yeah, I'll break all the legs, boys. Yeah, you got it, boys. Yeah, sorry, I'm... Oh, i did a five act I just thought of another one. ah What was it? Step on a crack, break your mom's back.
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Oh, I remember that one. Like, you just imagine, like, oh my God, Mom, I'm so sorry. Okay, okay. I'm sorry. How about... This one isn't terrifying, but I always just like this one and I want it to be real.
00:06:31
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Cut the mustard. Like it doesn't cut the mustard? Yeah. Like, I don't know. Cut the mustard it always seems so weird. Like, why are you cutting mustard?
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I guess you cut mustard if it's like on a sandwich and then you cut the sandwich. You're cutting mustard, right? I guess. I don't know. that that one oh I don't really know where that one came from. It struck weird one.
00:06:55
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yeah there's not actually all that many scary ones in this list um like well think think of ones that are like just i just had it like when um oh my god butterflies in my stomach but oh yeah oh yeah oh that would be terrifying you're like oh god how did they get in there um oh Oh, I thought of it.
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like Like when it's really hot and you say, like, I'm sweating my ass off. Oh, well actually, what if it, like, melted off? What if your ass is literally just, like, slid off your body because, like, you were sweating so bad?
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ah Like midway through a marathon, you just have no ass? Oh, no, my ass. I hate it happens. Or like... a I was sweating anything, sweating my anything off. Like I'm sweating my balls off. You know?
00:07:50
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ah Oh God. I didn't even think of that. Yeah. Like my, my aunt used to say sweating my tits off, you know? So like, just think like anything, sweating my anything off. And you're like, Oh God. ah Yeah. So like that one's, um, yeah.
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I'm trying to think of any other ones that I say on a regular basis. Like, ah Like, gag me with a spoon. Oh, God, Adam.
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ah Gag me with a spoon. Or, yeah, or, yeah, I'm just trying to think of shit like that, like, ah common expressions that just, like, what do I say on a regular basis? ah You know, like, fuck me running.
00:08:34
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Get bent out of shape. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Um, what if you just told someone go to hell? Like originally, just like a gate of hell opens up, like, you know? Damn you! What about wrap your head around something?
00:08:51
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Yeah, I never quite, yeah, I'm curious where that one even comes from, because how do you wrap your head around anything? That's gotta be a comment. You just slam it into your face real hard.
00:09:02
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Yeah. That's gotta Actually, here's another one. ah Your guess is as good as mine, Adam, i don't know.
00:09:10
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Rhett? Your guess is as good as mine. I don't know how you wrap your head around something. oh Oh, yeah, yeah. I think. What's the other one? what's ah Oh, i ah but my buddy my buddy Corey used to say this all the time. used to say, screw the pooch.
00:09:26
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Oh, I like screw the pooch. I know. It's like, what a weird fucking saying that is. That probably that's got to come from a bad time. I don't know why my brain tells me that's just not something that's probably like some old like pre like some some during like some segregation shit. I don't know why, but in my gut, I'm just like that comes from a bad time. I don't know why.
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I always hated
Absurdity of Animal Idioms
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um kill two birds with one stone. I'm a yeah giant bird lover and fuck you. No, but wait, hang on. Wait, you're a giant bird lover.
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You love giant birds. You're a giant who loves birds.
00:10:04
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That I'm going to leave to your imagination. Yeah. So I got be honest with you. Most birds I would punch in the head so fast. Like just so fast.
00:10:14
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Why? Because du most birds are just not good. They're mean to other animals and each other on a very regular basis. I know, but they do it in an cute way, except for geese. Fuck those things. But the thing is, is if you don't i see, I'm just like, you know, all penguins are so cute. Penguins are assholes.
00:10:34
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They're just not nice. we like cats cats are assholes they are i i tolerate most cats i don't love cats i don't love dogs either dogs are great but i don't love them but like birds birds shit on my stuff they're mean to each other they knock other people fucking birds eggs out of nests so they can squat on them uh you know they just pick on other birds they pick on other creatures they're just they don't mean it they're just misunderstood They have a little God complex. and I just want to throw a couple of stones at them and hit a couple with one. no
00:11:10
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yeah If someone says I got to kill two birds with one stone, I'm like, I got it. And I just go outside with a rock in my hand. Like I got this. No. Fly birds, fly. There's a lot of geese out but beside our food bank. I'm like, I can probably have geese the geese you could have Have you ever seen a baby goose? Cause it's baby season right now and they're getting big. But like I saw a baby goose for the first time a couple of weeks ago.
00:11:31
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ah They're like real fucking tiny, but they get big so fast. We had shitter
00:11:40
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we had a wild turkey outside of work one day trying to get into the door. He probably really needed whatever it is that you do. what's your but What do you do? I forget what your job is again.
00:11:52
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Well, I'm basically just an accountant. I just handle the money. Maybe he needs some numbers crunched. Well, you know what? I said, get out of here, you, and he ran for it. Oh, man.
00:12:03
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I had to get in. i Look, my boss isn't going to be like, ah I understand you were late to work today because there was a wild turkey outside. They'll be like, well, that's too bad. writing you up.
00:12:15
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That's a dang shame, man. That's foul. That's some foul stuff right there. Oh, what about it's raining cats and dogs?
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Right? That would be terrifying. Yeah? Yeah.
Johnny The Homicidal Maniac Discussion
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I remember there was a show that did that where it literally rained cats and dogs. And it was hu just they they took it like in a dark direction. And it was really if anybody remembers what the show was, but like they all started like breaking their backs and everything because they were falling.
00:12:48
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Oh, was bad. Oh, Danny, this is supposed to be an upbeat show. They come for the laughs. And you're talking about fucking dogs breaking their backs in pavement, you motherfucker. I yelled at Adam. I yelled at Adam between the episodes first for what happened in 64, 46.1 FM, where the music comes to die. Was it called Fetch?
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I don't know, maybe. I looked up like what... what's the show that has cats, that's raining cats and dogs? And it says, the 11th episode, oh no, it just says that's the name of it. I want to know, we're like, what's the show where it literally rains cats and dogs?
00:13:28
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Let's see. Was it Cat Dog? Say What? Is it called Say What? don't know. The Garfield Show? I doubt that's the one I'm thinking of. Ha ha ha!
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Or it's raining men. Hallelujah. It's raining men. Amen. Have you ever thought about that? I doubt it.
00:13:54
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Yeah, I can't think of any other ones off my head right now, except for like... Maybe I just dreamed it. Maybe I'm just ah all kinds of screwed up in the head. Maybe. I feel like it would have been something like an Invader Zim episode or something.
00:14:08
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I mean, it very well could have been. It sounds something so dark that, what's that guy's name? Jock Jonan? What the fuck's the guy's name? I don't know. Jockies? Sure. Yeah, that guy. Who wrote Johnny the Homicidal Maniac?
00:14:24
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Jonan Vasquez. That's his name. Yeah. Yeah. john You know, Jonan. I know Jonan. Have you ever read Johnny the Homicidal Maniac? Because that was a crazy ass series. I did not. It's like a graphic novel, a series of graphic novels.
00:14:37
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Very, very wild. He has this like, i don't, I can't remember if it's real or if it's just in his head, but like, because been so long as I've read it. But he has to keep painting one of his walls in blood.
00:14:49
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Because he thinks it keeps like a dark entity from coming through it and destroying Earth. And so he kidnaps people and murders them so he can save the world by painting his wall in blood to appease whatever a hellish thing is on the other side of it.
00:15:05
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And it's wild because like it's a dark comedy. Like it's funny. It's very Invader Zim like. It's very silly, and very yeah wild, the silly shit that he says. But then he's like, but I got to go murder now. And then he just takes a turn and he has like a really deep. talk I can't remember the guy's name. but It's one of the most famous parts of the series where he has like a real long in-depth talk with philosophical talk with his victim who like actually starts asking questions about him.
00:15:28
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you know, who are you? What made you this way? Like, what's your motivation? And Johnny opens up to him and then tells him why he never told anybody why he has to do it before. And then like, they have like this real heart to heart that Johnny's like, but you're here and I can't not kill you. And then he kills him anyway.
00:15:41
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It was like wild. It was like fucking incredible story. I can't think remember who the character's name was, but it was real famous ah scene, but I would highly recommend it because it's not just as dark murdery thing.
00:15:53
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It's like Dexter, but like it does have light moments like invaders in and shit like that. No, the only, the only like quote unquote scary or horror book, if you could even call it that I read was Gil's all fright diner. And that's about a hillbilly werewolf and a hillbilly, uh, vampire called Duke and Earl.
00:16:13
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Is it Edgar? Edgar is his name. Edgar is the one look up at least the story with him and Edgar, Johnny, the homicide. I mean, I promise I was listening by the way, but I was also trying to remember what that was. No, it's all good. Um,
00:16:25
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uh but i just i'm used to doing things like answering questions and talking like i know what i'm doing and people don't care you know like the show i'm used to yeah that show yeah that that one show begins with t it's like uh i don't know tiktok or something yeah i'm like that i can't remember yeah know look up johnny the homicidal maniac and edgar i can't remember what the i can't remember what the name of that chapter or part of it's a chapter can't remember though fuck, man, I should go back and reread that. See if I appreciate as an adult like I did as a, as a, like a 17 year old.
00:16:59
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um My girlfriend at the time was obsessed with it and like was like, Adam, you have to read it. And so I did. And I was like, wow, okay. Then when I found out that he helped write like Invader Zim down the road, I was like, like, cause I noticed the art style was very similar and dib like Zim's nemesis looks so similar to like a kid version of Johnny, the homicidal maniac.
00:17:17
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And I was like, I bet you that was like, he probably, that was like a little nod to like, that's pretty cool.
Voice Actor's Interview and Humility Rant
00:17:23
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Jonan Vasquez as a person, though, I don't think he's particularly that great. Like, he's not like some problematic dude. He's just kind of like not great with people. I think he's just not good with people.
00:17:32
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But like his work is very, very well. I mean, I i could see that, you know, you can't be the the most... ah
00:17:44
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socially normal person and come up with the stuff that he does. Yeah. Like he doesn't do well in interviews. He's always very like, he gets annoyed that people try to ask him about the work. And i'm like, well, that's why you agreed to the interview. But he just like, he just assumes you should just get it.
00:17:58
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Like you should just get his work. And so he just kind of gets a little annoyed to answer questions. I like, I don't think he just does well in this format. know Like i none of this is to say he's bad or like it's an insult or anything. It does not what we're doing.
00:18:12
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No, I just, it as i as a 17, 18 year old watching his interviews, I was like, man, he's kind of a penis to the interviewers. And I don't really understand why. But as an adult, I'm like, I just don't think he does well in those those kind of styles, but like, cause I would read like written articles of his questions and answers and they were a lot more refined, but in a sit down with anybody interviewing him, he just does at least the ones I watched. He didn't do a good job.
00:18:37
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I was like, Oh, I kind of don't like you as a person, but like, I like your work though. That, that actually reminds me of um a interview I watched with a famous voice actor. um Where one of the questions was like, how did you get your start?
00:18:53
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And the guy was like, you know what? Fine. I'll, I'm going to put it here so that, you know, you guys can tell everybody how I do it. Cause I'm so sick of people being like, Oh, I want to be a voice actor. And I want to, you know, how, how did you start? How can I start? And I, I almost immediately shut the whole thing off. I was like, I'm so sorry. You got the job that like everybody, you know, all these people want. I'm so sorry. You got,
00:19:17
Speaker
You know, that lucky break that everybody wishes they could have. You poor you. it bothered me so bad. Yeah, it's very strange. Like, I get it. It could be annoying that everybody's asking you how you got started. But like, that's only because you got what everybody wants.
00:19:34
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Don't be a butt about it. Right, like, don't forget where you came from, they're just asking where you came from, they're not for, like, an easy track, they don't know to get
Exploration of 1940s Slang
00:19:41
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started. And worst was, like, I listened to the story, and he was literally like, yeah, my friend was making a show, and he called me up and was like, hey, you want to voice a character? And the show took off.
00:19:50
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Right, you lucky, you were privileged. So you literally just got lucky. Yeah, you were privileged, you had a connection, like, not everybody has that, bruh. Be humble, motherfucker. Don't make me get started on being humble.
00:20:01
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Don't make me rant! Oh, no. Oh, no. Don't you make me rant about being humble. i will un humble Don't you dare rant. Don't. Ooh. Why I order.
00:20:18
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You want to do us any sort of side segment before we wrap up or what? I would love to. yeah You want to hear some slang from the 1940s? I would love to. Because, hold my God, there's a lot that we still use today.
00:20:33
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Apparently the 40s just never died.
00:20:37
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ah Let's see, we got... i know I've used this one. Ace, for a person who's got a high-level experience. Like, hey, you're aces. Yeah, yeah, yeah i think we I think that one was also in the 30s. I think that one, they probably put that on the 40s list because it kept on going even in the 30s. Probably. ah This is apparently where calling a cowardly person a chicken came from.
00:21:00
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Oh, and he's just a big chicken. Yeah, it's fine. Curious how that happened. A bald man. Chrome dome. Oh, I still hear that one. Yeah. Chrome dome. To burst out laughing, being called cracked up or cracking up.
00:21:18
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ah Yeah, I mean, that's still that's still is absolutely still used. I'm cracking up. ah It's not used as much anymore, but i feel like everybody still knows Dame as a woman. Sure, I don't think people say it, but they know it. Oh, you dame? Look at that dame over there. Yeah.
00:21:32
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Right. um
00:21:36
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Oh, I don't know that one. Dish, an attractive person? I don't know that one. I mean, I guess I could see that in like, oh, oh they they look like a good dish or something, but like, yeah, I think people say now they just, they ate.
00:21:51
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Yeah. Or they're serving, there's they're serving sea next Tuesday. ah Oh, A very handsome man is a dreamboat. Oh, what a dreamboat.
00:22:03
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Interesting. I mean, and we all know that one. i don't think people really say dreamboat, but. No, but we've all heard it. Yeah, certainly. Here's another one kind of in that same vein, an eager beaver.
00:22:14
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Somebody who's very enthusiastic to do something. Man, you're an eager beaver. A real eager beaver you are to go chew that wood. Oh, fathead calling somebody a fathead or saying they have a fathead. hmm.
00:22:26
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A geezer as an old person apparently came from the 1940s. I still say geezer. Yep. That's great word. I say it about myself at this point. God, I'm turning into an old geezer. Apparently hipster came from the 1940s.
00:22:42
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That honestly makes, i would have guessed 1920s, but that makes sense to some degree. Somebody who's very tuned into popular culture and current trends. So kind of the opposite of what a hipster is today.
00:22:53
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Right. Yeah. Which makes sense because you were hip. You were a hipster. If you think about it, a hipster then is a hipster now because a hipster now was attuned to the hipsterness of then.
00:23:05
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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Right? So they're a modern-day hipster of the 40s, which would have been they would have been a modern-day hipster then. So they're still hit by 40s standards, but just not hit by twenty twenty standards.
00:23:18
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Apparently, nineteen forty s is when Sugar Daddy became a thing. Really? Yeah. ah Sugar daddy. Sugar daddy. wonder if that's a literal sugar thing. wealthy man who supports a woman.
00:23:31
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Sugar daddy. I learned the term sugar baby from a girl I used to date moons ago. Wait, what's a sugar baby? A sugar baby is the person who has a sugar daddy. Oh, the, the, okay. The other person in the relationship. Yeah. i know And there are ways you can just find sugar daddies. They're like, I just want someone to have dinner with once a month. So then then I'll buy you an iPhone.
00:23:51
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There's gotta be sugar mamas too, right? Oh, for sure. But yeah, oh sugar daddy, sugar mamas are still there, but sugar babies are what you're called. If you are the recipient of whatever gift right that the sugar person gives you. Yeah.
00:24:03
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Uh, Oh, above my pay grade. was from 1940. Still say that. Really? Wow. That's above my pay grade. I hear that a lot at work. Brainchild is another one I still hear a lot.
00:24:14
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Same. Yep, yep, yep. Yeah, like that is my brainchild. That was my idea. Cooking with gas, doing progress. I absolutely still hear that one. Yeah, I think that has the evolved.
00:24:26
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Well, I don't know if I'd call it evil evolved. People say, like, let them cook. but Oh, yeah. Let them cook. I still say now I'm cooking with gas and now we're cooking with Crisco or something like that. Holy mackerel was from the 1940s. I love.
00:24:38
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Oh, I love shit. like Holy mackerel. Holy mackerel. Hot diggity dog. I love hot dickety dog. That's great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In Cahoots. That's another one i I use a lot. Holy shit. Really? They're in Cahoots. Yeah. That does sound like such an old time. Like when you say it like, of course, that's an old time. course. like Absolutely.
00:24:59
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Some of these are so 1940s, too, that I didn't hear like Killer Diller. Killer Diller? Yeah, actually, you know what? We're combining them ah today.
00:25:11
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For your compliment, ah your your compliment quest, your compliment thing, ah word I'm forgetting, ah challenge, that's the word.
00:25:22
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You need to tell somebody that they are killer diller. It means they are the best. They are the best. They are amazing. Tell your friend, tell your parents, tell whoever your kids, whoever listens, you know what, man, Adam, you're You're Killer Diller, man.
00:25:40
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You are Killer Diller. it spelled just like it sounds? Yeah. Yep. Is it like Killer hyphen Diller? Nope. Just two words. Killer Diller. My dude, you're pretty Killer Diller.
00:25:52
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Killer Diller. Gadzooks. You're Killer Diller. Gadzooks. You are Killer Diller. ah Let's see. Stick around to stay.
00:26:03
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on the nose. Yep. Off the hook. Yep. Off the hook. Like letting someone off the hook. Gotcha. Interesting.
00:26:15
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Oh, these are the insults. all right let's let look What a great time for white people to be alive. I know, right? A bum rap being a false accusation. Yeah, like I got a bum rap.
00:26:27
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ah Oh, saying something went belly up. Hmm. Saying you got bub kiss. Bub kiss I use a lot. Is it bub or bup? Because i always thought it B-U-P.
00:26:40
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It's P. Bup kiss. Yeah, he Yeah, bup kiss. Yeah, okay. But when you say it fast, it turns into a B. Let's be real. Not mine. I make that P sound. Bup. It's a bup kiss.
00:26:51
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It's a bup kiss. Bup. Kiss my bup. Don't. yeah Look, man, I'm just busting your chops. There's another one. Yeah, definitely. That's a longie. Oh, long no that's different.
00:27:06
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So busting your chops meant to scold someone or to chastise them. I mean, that's close to how we still use it, but not like. Well, now we do it like ironically, like, ah, I'm just messing. I'm just busting your chops. Right. You do it. Back then it meant it was serious.
00:27:23
Speaker
Interesting. ah I'm going to go bust his chops for shorten my dame a couple of dollars on a paycheck. Yeah. It's bupkis. Oh, flip your wig and i want to lose your temper.
00:27:35
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ye Dude's flipping his wig. Gobbly gook. Love gobbly gook. I still use gobbly gook. ah That's talking nonsense. Yo, that stuff Adam just said, that was all gobbly gook. Don't worry about it.
00:27:48
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You know, I bet you that turkey when he tried to get an accountant was looking for some gobbly gook. Mm-hmm. Some gobbly gook. Uh-huh. Saying something is in the sticks, as in in the middle of nowhere.
00:28:01
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ah See, i a short side story on that. My brother in law. Thinks that every place that has buildings taller than like one story is the ghetto.
Regional Dialects and Language Quirks
00:28:14
Speaker
That's because he's so sorry. He's so used to living out in the fucking country away from everybody where houses are farther apart than anytime he has to go to Pittsburgh or Monroeville or any place around here that has like multi story buildings.
00:28:28
Speaker
Like, ah or a lot of them that looks more city ask, even if it's not the city itself, he calls it the ghetto because he just hates driving it. So he thinks that means ghetto. and i was like, that's not what ghetto means, first of all, but that's what he thinks. But the reason I bring this up is because I always tell him he lives out in the sticks.
00:28:45
Speaker
And he says, i don't know. Or I say out in the sticks or out in the boonies. He says, if we're not in the sticks. We're not in the boonies. There's like, there's a store a few miles down the road, like all this other shit. And he gets so offended to be told that he lives in this. He lives in like literally his home is surrounded by a forest on almost every single side. like, you live literally in sticks.
00:29:04
Speaker
I don't understand like why you don't think that, but he gets so fucking offended. And if there isn't like a perfect situation, metaphor for people who can dish it out but can't take it in he just cannot hear that he lives in the sticks or the ghettos or he lives in the sticks or the boonies when he says every place that's not where he lives is the ghettos it's i love the guy to death he's a good man but it just goes to show that he has not moved far from where he grew up and like he just says shit like that and like how do you but you're such a smart individual how do you still think that
00:29:40
Speaker
Oh, man. Hey, it's hard to, you know, old dog, new tricks. It's hard. He's like, oh i don't want to drive out there. It's the ghetto. I was like, no, it's Monroeville. There's nothing ghetto about it. I can take you to some places that would probably be considered ghetto.
00:29:52
Speaker
But like, this is not it. Like I say about like five miles down from where I live, there is what I would call like a ghetto like area. But like, he just doesn't know that until like, i was like, let me show you the difference.
00:30:06
Speaker
And the reason why these places that are considered ghetto exists in the first place, systematic problems, by the way, I'm not going to rant, but, I was waiting for it. was like, this is getting dangerously close to Iran.
00:30:18
Speaker
I'm just saying, I'm just saying that like he could dish it out and be like, oh, this is all the ghettos. And I was like, you love out in the fucking booties. And it just face turns red and he hates it. You live in the sticks, Nick. No, I don't. It's not the fucking stick. This ain't the stick. like There's a store five miles down the road. We have a Dollar General out here.
00:30:36
Speaker
was and dollar generals pop up in the sticks because that's where dollar generals are built in rural areas. Fuck yourself. I know what i'm talking
English Language Peculiarities
00:30:44
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about. so Anyway, um want to end it on on some very great ones that need to come back.
00:30:53
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OK, and this is slang terms for everyday items, just like normal stuff. ah Armored heifer for canned milk. What? Yep. Canned milk was called armored heifers.
00:31:05
Speaker
That's incredible. focus I love that. I don't think that's going to catch on, but that's pretty. Honestly, what I think you should do is start your own business of canning milk.
00:31:16
Speaker
And then armored call it the armored heifer armored. heifer My logo is just going to be a cow in like full armor. it's It's a cow in a tank, you know, she ah eggs like a blast. boys But a cow eggs were called hen fruit.
00:31:32
Speaker
Hen fruit. Interesting. and fruit That was not as fun to say, but I like the concept of hen fruit. love it. I'm going to go outside and grab some of the hen fruit. I think if I said it without the H like herb, i think I sound like n fruit.
00:31:45
Speaker
But it's hen. I know. But an herb is still an herb, even if you don't pronounce the H. Yeah, but you do pronounce the H in hen. People pronounce the H in herb, too. Just we don't.
00:31:58
Speaker
So why do i have to pronounce the H in hen? Stop shoving your H's yeah down my throat, Danny. No, eat the H. I'm not eating the fucking H. I don't want it. I want the N fruit. It sounds weird when you do it like that. and do you want do Do you want to hear something else, Danny?
00:32:13
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I don't pronounce the second G in egg either.
00:32:19
Speaker
You son of a bitch. ah That's like a G can go to hell. I don't need it. The first G suffices just enough. I got, ah in high school, i got shamed into changing how I say egg and leg.
00:32:33
Speaker
Did you say egg? Yes. I used to say leg and egg. i so people breath I still hear leg sometimes. Every time I said that, my friend would chime in and be like, it's an E, not an A. Uh-huh.
00:32:46
Speaker
To the point where I switched it and I got so used to it, I have to think about it to say egg now instead of egg. It actually worked. First of all, if it were an A, it would be egg.
00:32:58
Speaker
What they're saying is you're putting an A-Y-G, But I've heard that before. It could be A-E-G, egg egg. Yeah, I guess.
00:33:10
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I guess. Yeah, that could kind of work like Aether or Aegis. um But can I tell you something just to give you a just to pick on you just a smidge? Of course. I'd say the thing that I noticed that you and your wife say with your regional accent is is the word forward forward.
00:33:32
Speaker
Like when you guys are saying it in the middle of a sentence, you almost never say the r Oh, so we say forward. You say forward. Yes, yeah I do say forward. Yeah. When it's in the middle of a sentence, you never say the R. You say, oh, I'm going to go forward like to this place or when it's at the end. If you just say the word by itself, usually you guys you guys will say it, which is why I think it's so interesting that you don't pronounce the R when you're in a sentence. But if you say it by itself, you usually say the R. Really?
00:34:00
Speaker
Yeah. So I almost always notice you say forward when you're in the middle of talking. But just now when I said, say forward, you said forward. You said the did. I did say forward. Well, because I'm thinking about it right now.
00:34:11
Speaker
Right. I didn't even realize what you were getting at until you said you don't say the R. And I said it to myself and I was like, yeah, that is usually awkward forward. Yeah, you say forward. I noticed at first when Beluga came on role players and for like for the first time and she was like building out the monster of the week extended universe.
00:34:28
Speaker
And, you know, in monster of the week, you give forwards to other players depending on how you roll. And she's like, I'm going to give a forward to Malcolm. And I'm like, just say forward. This is fucking say forward.
00:34:41
Speaker
Where's our I say that word. It's a fake forward. Right. It's a forward. But to be fair, I noticed like my own, like, I think I might've said this on the, on the show before, but I noticed that like in certain words, I don't say the T ah in my own last name. I don't most of the time, unless I want someone to spell it right.
00:35:00
Speaker
Like if I said my email address, I'll say it's like a Morton's cause I want people on the phone to hear it's a T. But if I just say my name's Adam Morton, like I just say, I don't say a T I just say, o and I don't know why I do that.
00:35:14
Speaker
Um, but it's very common around here. Actually, a lot of places, i think, unless you're in England, who pronounces the T's more often, and then you think they're weird because they pronounce the letter that's in the fucking word.
00:35:25
Speaker
But, you know. Well, look, all right, they add use to shit. Don't worry about Well, they didn't add use to shit. They add use. We removed use from shit. We cut out the unnecessary use, all right? They were extraneous use. We don't need them.
00:35:42
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But then think at the same time about, let's go back to egg versus leg, right? Why is there an extra G in egg, but there's only one G in leg? If we want to be efficient, let's just take that extra G out of there.
00:35:55
Speaker
You know what? Let's just do that. You can't just do that. Leg minus L is egg. Okay. You can't, you can't just do that though. Do you not agree? like miles ha It's okay to remove the use from their words, but you can't just remove the G from our words.
00:36:12
Speaker
That's totally different. Why is it not A-Y-G for egg? That way people like you can say it right again. don't know. It should be. You know? my leg My leg, my choice.
00:36:25
Speaker
just think Lego. Oh, I say it. Lego has one G, but Eggo has two. What the fuck? Maybe it's that second G that changes it. I don't know. That's all I'm saying is that our language still has a long way to go.
00:36:40
Speaker
English is... Look. I feel so sorry for you if English is your non-first language. Agreed. It's the worst fucking language to learn. It truly is. It doesn't even follow its own goddamn rules half the time.
00:36:54
Speaker
It does not. It does not. I love the whole, like, the the full version of I before E is the best ah example I could think of. Yes, because that's not true at all. Yeah.
00:37:06
Speaker
Let me see. It has some merit, but it's not always the case. Yeah. like feign you know like that is not that doesn't follow the accept after sea rule rain does not follow the accept after sea rule uh let's see what's another one off the top my head uh um I had another one, Fane, Rain.
Episode Conclusion and Creative Goals
00:37:31
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There's another one that kind of follows that same idea, like ah veins, V-E-I-N-S, excuse you.
00:37:40
Speaker
um So, you know, it doesn't always work. doesn't always work. It's not a golden rule, so don't follow it. It's dumb.
00:37:49
Speaker
What are you looking at? Where is it?
00:37:53
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So the very beginning of it, that it's like a full thing. I remember a comedian said it, but it's I before E except after C or what, or when sounded as a, and is it in neighbor and way.
00:38:05
Speaker
And then he went on and did like a whole, like, like a whole paragraph of things. Yeah. we're just having an A sound in them, such as neighbor way eight vein or veil are spelled with the E before the eye.
00:38:19
Speaker
Yep. ah I hate English. See, here's another thing I just noticed, like, was I just. ah Fuck, I just said a word that had a T in it and I just forgot what it was just there.
00:38:31
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I did it again where i didn't pronounce the T. Oh, my God, I didn't even notice. You know, the one that I really get, though, like I notice in certain instances where I don't say it.
00:38:43
Speaker
But. um There are some people like who are like a little bit more kind of old fashioned, like they grew up a little bit earlier than I did. And they say skeleton, but without the T, they say skeleton. And that one just doesn't make any sense. Yeah. Skeleton.
00:39:01
Speaker
Yeah. like I don't know how that bleeds in because just the way that that word flows, it doesn't make sense to take it to you. Like skeleton comes out easy for me, but i and I would never do skeleton skeleton. Why is it skeleton?
00:39:14
Speaker
And, you know, you we both just did this one, but and this happens in a lot of places, but replacing T's with D's. Right. Like when we were saying notice, we say no this. Right. If there's a notice. But if somebody but if somebody from out of country learning the language says, I didn't notice, you say, why the fuck do you talk like that? Yeah. Why are you so? because it's um Why are you correct?
00:39:37
Speaker
Is what we're saying. Why are you sounding so pomp and arrogant and right? Right. Exactly. Why are you right about the language? It's my first language that I'm saying wrong. That is like how it comes off is like it comes off as pompous. Like, oh, I'm sorry. I didn didn't notice. and Yeah. No, it is correct.
00:39:53
Speaker
Yeah. And you know what? I wonder if that actually goes back to like ah the whole like. ah What was it called?
00:40:04
Speaker
where Where like wealthier people had different names for things. Right. Well, or just the fact that, you know, the poor people would have their own almost. dialect right so i wonder if it sounds pompous to us because you know the risk rich sophisticated people would say notice uh but the people down more in the dregs they just be yeah i don't know this right but also like they were less educated because the rich like yeah their peasants are stupid and they come up with their own languages that's how it works guys
00:40:38
Speaker
That's just how it works. And we are the peasants right now saying notice while the people in their ivory towers and their space rockets say notice. I think it had to with animals and their meats being different words.
00:40:52
Speaker
Like why is when you get served cow, why do you say it's beef, not cow or pork? Because cow makes it sound less. Or pork or ham instead of pig.
00:41:04
Speaker
I think it had something to do with like the, the, the, richer people would call it beef. Right. And then the poor people, they don't have to, it's because they don't, and it's because they don't have to do the butchering. They don't need, they don't want to know where it came from. They just see it as food. They call it cow. They, you know, it makes it less appetizing, but like, that's where it came from, bro. Just cause you don't see how the sausage is made. Doesn't mean it changes where the sausage comes from.
00:41:33
Speaker
Yep. It's cause you change its name. Doesn't change what it is, bruh. And the fact that people pay for tartar, it's just raw fucking meat, bro. Why?
00:41:44
Speaker
why though? hu Like beef tartar is just raw beef. Essentially. Well, now you also got raw beef. Now you also got those, um, like that alpha male wolf type guys that are like, oh yeah, you have to like let your inner beast down and just eat raw meat.
00:42:02
Speaker
You know what? You let them. And when they develop ah an infection and die, they'll learn this time. You know, or, you know, maybe when they have to get their stomach pumped and get tubes of their ass. It's a problem that'll solve itself.
00:42:12
Speaker
They'll feel less like an alpha bro. Exactly. You know what? That is exactly... What's the law? The one where... Darwin. Darwin. They can win their own Darwin Awards by eating raw beef. You guys go right the fuck ahead and you ahead and do that. Did RFK tell you to do that?
00:42:27
Speaker
Go ahead. Fucking go ahead. Eat it right off the sidewalk, you sons of bitches. I'm sorry. I'm not going to rant. I told you I wouldn't. What you talking about? No, it's And you know what? the thing The thing with, like, the whole alpha male... uh, manosphere thing.
00:42:41
Speaker
I can't think of a less manly thing that you could do than try and convince everyone how manly you are. Connor. I know. Danny, if you don't want me to rant, we can't go on. All right. All right. Yeah. Well, well, look, we're already way above time. You don't want to just end this episode before the rants begin.
00:43:00
Speaker
Cause you know what? Now we're getting into shit that I could rant about too. Oh yeah. Um, So let's say let's just cut it here. Hey, call somebody a killer dealer person. Yeah, call somebody a killer dealer. You're beautiful and we love you. And thank you so much for listening.
00:43:15
Speaker
ah I almost said the thing I used to say, but I'm not going to say it. You can say it. I don't mean shame it. This a dream come true for me and I love you all. Thank you. And hey, but if you made it this far into the episode, thank you so much.
00:43:29
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00:43:42
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00:43:56
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00:44:07
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00:44:26
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00:44:48
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00:45:04
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00:45:15
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um But right now it's still pretty rudimentary. We're just trying to make the presentation look nice before we change anything. um So fun. asology network I love you. Yeah. but Yeah. Same cast. weer We love you. We love your face.
00:45:26
Speaker
Um, and so if you want to have a quick link to that, I almost always put it in the show notes. It's like the second line. It's always highlighted in blue. It'll say click here or say hi to us or something like that. it just, if you click that whole thing, it should take you right to the website. So made it easier for you so you don't have to look it up.
00:45:42
Speaker
So make sure you do that. Make sure, uh, you give cast some love in the letters and then, um, Yeah, that's all I got. Danny, I just want to make sure I spent some time talking about that because I want to make sure works that's good. See that?
00:45:54
Speaker
That's a good rant. That's a good one. That's fine. We can do that. Support your local food bank, y'all. God damn it!