Where Do Idioms Come From?

Everyone knows funny little sayings that are specific to a town, region or country. We explore idioms and their origins. We welcome back Anne and Karen from Sugar Coated Murder for Game Time and we give the answer to last weeks' song quiz.

Special Shoutouts:
The after mentioned Anne and Karen from Sugar Coated Murder
La'Kendra Garrison
Gavin Belson from Be There With Belson
Dan and Lou from Casting Views
The makers of those children's construction bricks

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This week on Super Familiar with the Wilsons.

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We dive into the history of idioms.

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We have the song quiz.

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And our friends from Sugar Coated Murder join us for game time.

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Let's go. Search your feelings. You know it to be true. My feelings? Well, I like them french fried potatoes. Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons. I'm Josh.

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I'm Amanda.

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Amanda, I'm very excited about our episode. We're going to talk about idioms.

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I am as well. We do a lot of thinking about language. I do a lot of thinking about language because I write for a living. But also... With having a five-year-old who's learning language as he goes, it sometimes strikes me how we say something and he's like, what do you mean? Now, we've taught him to love sarcasm very early, at least understand it very early in his life. But there still are those expressions that just don't make sense unless you're aware of the cultural connotation of them.

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So we're going to talk about that. But first... This week... Had a very interesting weekend.

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It's been a long weekend.

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That it has been, and I've discovered that place where time stands still.

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What place is that?

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We took the five-year-old little, what do we call him? Winthrop.

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Yes.

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to a trampoline. It's

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an indoor trampoline park.

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There you go. And I purposely didn't take my phone because I don't always need to have my phone on me. And without something to distract me, I swear to God, we were in there for 25 hours.

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Never the mind that I was with you to distract you, but it just still drug right on along. Well, you

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experienced the same damn thing. So don't give me that.

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It was. So you go into this place and you pay your$25 or whatever it is And you get two hours. My Lord, I thought we had been in there at least... two hours and it had only been 40 minutes.

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Here's the thing. With a place like that with a five-year-old, you've got, first of all, you've got people, quote unquote, kids with full-on beards and mustaches, the oldest looking supposed under 18-year-olds I've ever seen running around at breakneck speed. So it's not like we could just sit and relax and chat. We had to follow him everywhere he went. And let me tell you something. I've discovered something about myself. Never ever entrust me to be a lifeguard at any sort of public pool or any situation like that because I will get fed up after a while.

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Well, and at least there were two of us, but there was this. So we decided he's not getting enough exercise now that he's not in school right now. So and we've been going to the pool every day, but it was going to storm. And so this is the thing that we can do indoors, right? To get him some exercise. And he did. He expended energy for a full two hours, but they have a Four-story indoor playground. And adults are only allowed on the bottom floor of this thing. But your child can go up four more flights and get stuck up there. And then you just have to will them down. I was watching one mom try to convince her child who was crying to come back down the ladder or the slide or whatever. And there's all these giant foam pits, which... I can't think about what's in them, but I mean, they were fun things. He had a nice time, but it just took so long. And when I went on my journey to find the restroom, there were a bank of massage recliners that you could put money into or like your card into for 15 minutes and sit there and get massages. But this is not, and there's also a bar at this place. This is not for people with five-year-olds.

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No, absolutely. Or maybe it is. All right. So before we get going on our main topic, Let's hear a little news. A new Florida statute that went into effect July 1st makes it unlawful for anyone in a vehicle to turn up their radio loud enough to be heard from 25 feet away. It enables law enforcement to give tickets for loud music coming from your car that is plainly audible for 25 feet. Now, I am all for this. Are you? Oh my gosh. Are you kidding? Now, this is old man Wilson coming out here. I absolutely hate, hate, hate having to listen to other people's music from their car through the closed windows of my car. 25 feet. Forget about it. You're at a stoplight. I'm hearing every beat and every pulsing rhythm coming from the car next to me, and I don't Like it.

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Before you became this grumpy old man, did you listen to music loudly in your car?

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No, you know what? I would turn down the music at stoplights. I'm from Miami. And the thing about Miami when I was growing up is the bass music. Yeah, yeah.

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Everything rattles,

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right?

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Yeah.

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I have never seen you make that face

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ever. And you're next to that, and it's shaking your car. I'm afraid things are coming loose in the engine compartment. Absolutely not. So as a result, I would always turn my music down when I'm at stoplights. Here's the new thing. When we were talking about this with the boys from Casting Views today, people don't understand, and this is my warning to you, You don't understand how loud your telephone conversation is when it is hooked up to your car speaker system through Bluetooth. It is so loud that it will absolutely, number one, give your business to everyone around, and number two, violate the new Florida statute about being able to be heard 25 feet away. Everyone's hearing your business. Everyone's hearing your business.

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It's a true story.

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Turn that stuff down. This has been a public service announcement from Josh Wilson to you.

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If you're a parent, you recognize that sound. Someone else has stepped on a Lego. In fact, right now, thousands of innocent parents are navigating post-playtime living room minefields. But it doesn't have to be this way. The Wilsons are now making available to the first 150 desperate parents to contact us plans to make shoes made out of Legos. That's right, this revolutionary footwear spares you the pain of unwanted Lego discovery while simultaneously picking up those little nuisance toys. And, as an added benefit, the more you use them, the progressively taller you get. New Lego shoes. A parent's only hope in dealing with those goddamn little pain bricks. This message has not been approved by Lego. All right, Amanda, let's talk about idioms.

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So idioms are interesting.

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But wait, I have a theme song.

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Okay.

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I've got a jingle for this.

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Okay, go. Do you want to be an American idiom?

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Huh? What do you think of that?

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Okay. So I'm not actually familiar with the American Idiot song. I'm aware that it's Green Day. I'm aware that it was a show, but I'm going to trust you that that's what

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that is. That wasn't the song. That was a parody of the song, which is absolutely allowed under copyright, what have you, parodies. That's a parody. Parodies. That's called American Idiom by Josh Wilson.

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I appreciate it. All right. So idiom. So I've been thinking about this a lot, as I said in the intro that we have, you know, we're trying to explain language and English is a really hard thing, especially when you're trying to learn how to read it. As we started talking about idioms and we've had a few episodes where we've gone into Southern idioms with our friend, La Kendra. We've talked about American idioms and British idioms with our friends, the Belsons.

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Well, here, let me, let me play a couple of those just so you get the flavor of how we talk about it. It's, this is La Kendra, our friend, La Kendra Garrison and Gavin Belson. All right, here's one I'd never heard of. Oh, foot. I say that every day. I have never heard that. What? You do really? I

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absolutely do. Oh, tell me the story. Paint the picture. I don't know the origin, but it's just another, it's like a declaration. It can be a replacement for a cuss.

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Yeah.

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So like if I say, if I say something like, well, I'm hungry. I'm going to go to McDonald's and get me something to eat. Foot. I've declared it, and I'm going to do

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it. I have never heard that.

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That is amazing. I thought for sure no one. It's one of my favorites. Oh, and that's just something you heard around? Like, where'd you get that from? Well,

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see, we're from the country. So we're country and Southern. So I think that there's also a difference there. I think you have some Southern country speak, and I think foot is one of them, along with some other things that you just won't hear broadly in the South. Okay, well, good. That's hilarious that you brought that

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up. Good to know. All right, if you're in Georgia and someone says that they just burked, B-U-R-K, burk,

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to burk, I burked, she burked. I'm just going to say, it turns out that I know very little slang.

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Well, no, sir. These are really dumb slang words that we don't use, so don't feel bad.

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Okay, first of all, they use them in Georgia, and so to all of our Georgia listeners, and we have quite a few, she knows not what she says.

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My dad was born in Georgia. And

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also, they might burk if they hear you say this.

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Okay, so does it mean to balk, to be upset about something, to be affronted by something?

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I was going to say to vomit.

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Oh, brilliant. You're the first one to get any of these right.

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Okay.

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And it has to do with vomiting. That is great. There you go. What's the colorful euphemism for doing that over there? I

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think it's one of those ones where you have loads of different words. Spew is always one. That's over here.

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Don't you all refer

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to it as sick? Sick, yeah. Being sick. So you can be sick and that's vomiting and you can also be sick and just be ill.

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It says a lot about a culture that the main word for being ill is also the main word for vomiting. We'll talk about drinking culture later. Thank you.

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Yes, go ahead. It's just really fun to me to hear what other people's sayings other people might have that we don't typically say or get their idea of what we mean. And so really quickly, an idiom is just a group of words that if you took them on their own and their dictionary definition would not make sense. So for instance, raining cats and dogs. We understand rain, we understand cats, we understand dogs, but that doesn't give you the idea of just a torrential downpour. So the idea of idioms, the origin of idioms, it's from a French word, I don't even know how to say it, which looks like idiom, but with an E at the end of it.

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Idioma. Yeah, that's right. I'm quite certain that it's got the E sound in it.

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Yes.

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So it's idioma.

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Right, that's exactly it. Or there's also a Greek word. Please try to say this.

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Idioma.

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Basically, it translates to private property. It just means something to you and the people that you're communicating with. So it's derived from make one's own... like own private or private property, right? So thinking about this and why are, especially when you're trying to teach people who are new to a language, the idioms, it's very, very difficult because we can understand the definition of the word as we've learned it, doesn't make any sense. I have a colleague who her native language is Spanish. And so she tries to teach me these idioms. And I think there's one in a complete... be getting this completely wrong, but it's something it translates to, she didn't have a quince, and it's supposed to mean like she's not attractive or something. Oh, very nice. The idea of the idiom is so interesting that there are linguists who just devote their careers to finding the origins of idioms and trying to understand where these came from. So I'm going to give you, I have a few American idioms. to go with your theme song and see if you know, not what it means, but the origin. If you could maybe possibly ascertain the origin of where these idioms come from.

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So

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the first one is to turn a blind eye.

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To turn a blind eye towards someone is to like pretend, to intentionally not see, right? So turn a blind eye goes back to 1827. Sir Thomas Kinkade was the famous blind magistrate. and they would pay him money, and he would physically, in a symbolic act, look away from the people that he was rendering judgment on so that he can take his cash and be bribed.

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So I love that you really committed to that, and you're right, it means I'll turn a blind eye now, but I may see it later, so... There are many proposed origins that are disputed, but it's commonly accepted that turning a blind eye comes from a comment made by British Admiral Horatio Nelson.

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Ah, yes. Was that the one with the one arm?

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No, one eye.

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Oh, one of them had one arm though.

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Well, maybe it's not turn a blind arm. So I don't know. It's not in here. But in 1801, he led the attack alongside Admiral Sir Hyde Parker in the Battle of Copenhagen. Nelson was blind in one eye. Parker communicated to Nelson at one point via flags that he needed to retreat and disengage. Nelson was convinced they should push forward. And so he looked through the telescope with his blind eye and said, oh, don't see any of the signals and just kept Okay. All right, feeling under the weather.

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Feeling under the weather. So obviously you're not feeling well. I think that that goes back to the tendency that whenever it's raining, you kind of don't feel good. You don't feel well. It kind of makes you blue, gets you down physically. It has physical manifestations. Often when it rains, things on me start to swell and I sweat. It's because we're old. And it doesn't feel good. Yeah. It's that.

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Well, I can see that, but it's actually nautical in nature. When a sailor was feeling ill, he would go below deck to get some rest and get away from adverse conditions if it was bad weather. And so therefore, a sailor who was sick could be described as being under the weather.

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Now, when Admiral Nelson was sick, he would just close his good

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eye. That's right. Yes. All right. So beat around the bush.

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Beat around the bush. That means to equivocate. That means to not get to the subject. So what they would do is they would... they would all of them would approach the bush with a bunch of bats and paddles and they would beat the bush trying to to get this the snipe now as everyone knows there's no such thing as as snipe snipes don't exist and so it's folly because you'll you'll beat around the bush but you'll never see the snipe that's the original saying beat around the bush never see the snipe

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well you're actually very very close and i realize what i've done is that i've said these are american idioms they're not they're they're english idioms and so it's So far, two of my examples have been from Britain. So this common phrase is thought to have originated in the response to game hunting in Britain. While hunting birds, participants would beat bushes in order to draw out the birds. So you're correct in that, except that there were no snipes, they were birds. And so, therefore, they were... Snipe is a bird. They were... Oh, okay. Well, that's cool. Therefore, they were beating around the bush before getting to the main point of the hunt, actually capturing the birds. So you beat around the bush. Yeah, no, I got that one right. I thought a snipe was a thing from Harry Potter, but that's Snape. No, that's a Snape. So I was confused. And then I thought... we were talking about a golden snitch, and I went somewhere totally different in my head.

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You're deep into Potterhead right now.

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Yep. All right, reading someone the riot act.

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So that's, I'm so glad that you asked me about this. There was a three-part play, right? And the first part was the riot, the second part was we're gonna take a rest, and then the third part was we're gonna go beat around the bush. And so... What they would do, they'd sit down at a table read.

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Do the table read, yes.

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And the actors would read the riot act. And it was often unpleasant because, of course, it's a riot. There's lots of screaming. And they really get into their role. So they're hitting each other with the wooden swords and whatnot. And so the riot act was a very unpleasant act. And true story, they would do this play once. And then they'd have to get a whole new cast because the riot act would do All

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right, so this dates back to King George I. In 1714, the British government passed the Riot Act to prevent unruly assemblies. And so when 12 or more people were assembled, they would actually come and read them the Riot Act to get the unruliness to stop.

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Okay.

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12 that's such a specific it's very apostolic that yes it's like is this 12 of you it's fine you can go eat with baby jesus and and you're fine but 13 is right out

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all right so here here's my my last one there are more on here this is from the um encyclopedia britannica but this one is american so i'm going to end on it it's the idea don't look at the picture because you'll know it's the idiom i've got it in the bag what is no what does that mean when you say i've got it in the bag

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well that's easy like actually everyone knows that it's when they used to collect all of the town feral cats no no don't laugh this is true they would collect the feral cats and and they would there would be a you've heard of dog catcher there was there was cat snatcher and what they would do is they the cat snatcher was head out of town and he would tell the town crier i've got them in the bag and so the town crier would then tell the town um and then he'd go throw him in the river sad story

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oh that's really sad so it means secured success like i've got it like i'm gonna succeed at this right there are other recorded usage the version of this idiom has become so widely accepted that we're going to think that this is where it originated it was the new york giants which are now the san francisco giants baseball team and it began as a superstition in 1916 the giants had a run of 26 consecutive wins a bag filled with 72 extra baseballs would be put on the playing field at the beginning of each game and And then the balls were switched out of the balls. If they hit a home run, if the balls were, it was a hit into the seat, if it became too dirty. And so when the giants were on this crazy winning streak, they developed the superstition that they were, if they were in the lead during the ninth inning, carrying the ball bag off the field would ensure their win because according to the team, they had captured the game in the bag.

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So whose ball bag would they carry out the

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field? Yeah. All right. So in a few minutes, we're going to try this with Karen and Ann from Sugar Coated Murder and see if they know anything about swans balls.

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Amanda,

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it's song quiz time. No, no, no. We're doing that again. Amanda, it's song quiz time.

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Yay.

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Oh God, tepid at best. All right, yay, song quiz, woo. All right, so do you remember last week's song quiz?

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Come here, go away, come here, go away. The

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song is, oh, come here, come here. No, no, no, go away, go away, come here. And the artist is me. Me?

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So is it, should I stay or should I go now?

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Ooh, that's a good one, but it's not it.

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Oh, then I don't know. That's all I had.

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The song, the answer to the song is With or Without

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You. And then You Too? Me?

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Me? You Too. With or Without You by You Too. All right. That's when I enjoyed them. They were very

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good back then. Right, right. You're not enjoying them anymore?

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Nah, Bono's turning into a bit of a knobhead, so. Okay. Right? Okay, so now this week's clue is, is quite simply, let me look it up. This week's clue is, what happened when you don't see when they shine a light on that lady's rear end?

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What happens when you don't see when they shine a light? What happens when you don't see?

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You didn't see when they shine, I'll rephrase it. You didn't see when they shine the light on that lady's rear end. What happened there?

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Okay.

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That's the song.

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Okay, sure.

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The band is Manson... Dahmer, and The Ripper.

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Oh, good Lord. That is a tragic name.

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All right, so if you think you know the answer to this week's song quiz, contact us at familiarwilsons at gmail.com or find us on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram. But do DM us the answers if you're going to approach us on the social media because, you know, we don't want to spoil the fun for the other kids.

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All

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right, so now it's game time. And Amanda, we have... Something that we recorded a little bit earlier with Karen and Anne of Sugar Coated Murders.

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Always a fun time when we have the ladies on.

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Always a fun time. They are a laugh right, they are a scream. So you should check out their podcast. And also, check out this game of idioms. Let's go. So what I have here is I have some phrases around the world. I'm going to give you the phrase and then you tell me what it means. So these are little colloquialisms that should be super easy as most of the quizzes we have on this show are.

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And they're very international. So

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we're going to start with A phrase that's in English, right? It's actually Australian, which is a version of English.

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All

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right, and Amanda's going to play too. I'm not

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looking.

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She always cheats.

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If I'm not cheating, you're not trying, honey. If

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you put the questions in front of me, I'm going to look at them. It's human

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nature. Come on, just like murder.

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That's how

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I stay alive.

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In Australia, if someone says that they are flat out like a lizard drinking, what are they saying? Flat out like a lizard drinking. What are they saying about themselves?

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I feel like if you're flat out like a lizard drinking. So let's think about a lizard. He's been run over by a car for sure. So he's dried up. I think they're dehydrated. But he's drinking water. He's not dead. Like a flattened lizard that's drinking. Maybe he's flat broke. Oh,

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but what about the drink? You spent all your money on your bourbon.

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Oh, this is a little biographical here.

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Yeah, and I forgot it was not heyday. I think it doesn't just mean that you're just really drunk.

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Okay. I feel

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like

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it

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means that you're broke. And I think you've been hit by a car. What is it? Anne thinks you're dead. It means you're dead. What is it, Josh?

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Down under, that's in Australia. That's another phrase I should have used. The term flat out is Australian slang for busy. While the lizard isn't a particularly busy fellow, lizards move their tongues quickly when drinking and serves as the busiest as they'll ever really get.

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That is so stupid. Busy as a bee. You Australians need to get it together. It means you're broke. It means you've been hit by a truck. It means you're busy. You're so busy.

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Yes, it means you're extremely busy.

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Because you're broke.

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Okay, if a Norwegian says that it's like a raisin in the sausage... What are they saying?

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It's like a raisin in the sausage.

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Again, I want to see you all are experts at figuring out things, figuring out crime, putting these things together.

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And you're culinary. Go for it. Culinary. Culinary. How do you know that are culins? Okay, let's work this out. Okay, so I don't think that a raisin is supposed to be in the sausage.

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Okay.

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I don't think so. But at the same time, it's almost like a sweet spot, right? Oh, a sweet spot. That's what it is. We got it. It's a sweet spot. It's almost like a silver. Every cloud has a silver lining. It's like every sausage has a raisin. It's like the sweet spot of the spicy, bitter part of life. It's the sunshine on a cloudy day. Yeah. Yeah. Like sunshine on a cloudy day. Or like when you're on a golden... Oh, right. That's Willy Wonka. Like, oh, I've got an itch and then you find the itch and you itch it and it's like, oh, that's a sweet spot.

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I can't wait to tell my son, you know, he's broken up with someone and say, it's okay, son, there's a raisin in the sausage.

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That's what I think. If there's a raisin in this sausage, bud, you just got to find it.

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Maybe that's why they broke up because there was a raisin in the sausage.

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Oh, God. Yeah, we could have gone a whole different way. That's like a medical issue. That is a medical issue. That's a medical issue. Not a medical phrase. It's a medical problem. This is something you seek treatment

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for. There's got to be a cream for that yeah

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yeah it might take like surgery if you've got a raisin it's got to be removed from your sausage specialist needs

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you all were actually you were correct earlier or you were close to correct you were close to correct um it means it just means a delightful surprise in something that's already great

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So

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there in Norway, by the way, Norway is consistently rated as the happiest place to live, I guess, because

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that's right here. That's because they've got raisin in their sausage.

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That's right. That's right. So there you go. In Mexico, if someone yells at you, aguas or waters,

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waters,

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if someone yells waters at you, waters, what does it mean?

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That means you've peed your pants.

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I was going to say, or your water broke.

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And they're letting you know you peed your pants. You get so hot down here, you won't know it. But you've peed your pants.

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I didn't think that that would happen. After all, I had a raisin in my sausage. I thought that took

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care of everything. You're a peer. No, but maybe the sausage came out in the pee. I don't know, but I'm just saying. The sausage came out in the pee? Yeah. The sausage, the raisin came out in the pee from the sausage.

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Okay, so if someone yells waters to you in Mexico, it means be careful.

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No

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way. Because you're

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getting ready to pee on yourself. Because you're

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going

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to pee yourself.

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Be careful. You're about to pee yourself. Or

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drown.

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So, for example, if you're in Mexico City, right, and you see your friend step out in the street and you spot a car coming by, you would yell, waters, to, you know, be like duck or be careful.

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But I would look up, like, where? Right. Where is the water coming from? I would think, like, from the heavens? It would make me run faster because I'd be like, ooh, flood. Flood. Or, oh, I'm peeing and I didn't know I'm on the wrong way. Go to the bathroom.

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So, I have been to Mexico. No one yelled waters at me.

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Well, because you weren't ever in danger of falling over or something.

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But do you know what I... The children that say chicklet, chicklet. You know what? I yelled at the people in Mexico, though. I yelled at the people in Mexico. All right,

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colonizer, let's hear

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it. No. So I had a couple years of high school Spanish, and I thought I knew some stuff. And so I'm walking through...

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Oh, ugly American.

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I'm walking through the city, and I thought that I was saying... excuse me but I was yelling escuche me which is listen to me so I was just a crazy American going around the city listen to me listen to me but really I thought I was saying excuse me when I was like walking through them

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remember that tiny really short American woman who just went through our streets like a town crier yelling listen

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to me but she never had anything to say

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she never had anything to

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say we don't know the rest of the story

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I thought I was being super polite and saying excuse me when I was bumping into people instead I was just yelling for them to listen to

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me. So in college, I took Latin. As a matter of fact, in high school, I took Latin. And then in college, I took intermediate Latin because I had so much in high school. And my roommate in college had never had Latin. So she decided to take Latin our first year of college. She's my completely boring, but whatever. That's a work of literature. Yes, we did the Odyssey as well in second semester. But she got confused and she would walk into a group and go, a Greek Goliath, because she thought that was a greeting, like a Greek Goliath. It means... Farmer. Why do you continue to walk in and say farmer? She's like, what am I saying farmer? I'm saying agricoli. I'm like, that's farmer. As a matter of fact, it's a female farmer. None of this makes any sense. She's like, oh, God, I've been saying that like all over campus. Like, hello, agricoli. First of all, there's only a handful of us that even know Latin at this point. And second of all.

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I was going to say, most of the people are like, oh, she's saying water.

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Right, I was going to say. It's like the yelling of the water. Yeah, exactly.

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All right. So if you're in Serbia,

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which I often am, by the way,

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he's ripping clouds with his nose.

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Oh, he's snoring.

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He's snoring. Oh,

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that's too easy. I think it means he's stuck up. Like he's got his... He's like got his, like his ego.

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I think it's similar to that, but I think it means like you have your head in the clouds. Like you're not, like you're a little. Like you're

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ditzy maybe or not with

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it. Yeah, you're a little too, like I'm not down. I'm like not thinking about reality. I'm a little cloudy.

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The answer is he's very conceited.

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I'm in freaking jeopardy already. Come on.

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There you go. Did you?

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What happened? I did. I didn't get it, but the girl that tried out with me got it and got

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on the show. Oh, so you got a cut, right?

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No, she didn't win anything. Well, there you go. But I got my puzzle right in the tryout, and she didn't. It's just all about who's interesting. And I wasn't interesting enough. I thought I was kind of boring, but now when I hit my 50, I stopped giving a crap. I appreciate that.

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All right, so if you're in France... And they say that you have long teeth. What does that mean? You're old.

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You're long in the tooth. You're long in the tooth. You're old. That means you're old. You're old. Or too tall. You have to come up with one or the other, Miss French. I took French. Which one is it? It's the right one.

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It's

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the

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right one.

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Whichever one's the right one, that's what I said. It's the one that's right. Whichever one is correct, that's the one we're going

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with. Okay. Okay. So neither of those then, right?

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No, but when you're long in the tooth, it means you're old. So is that just a southern saying then? Do the French have a different interpretation?

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The French are different with pretty much everything. Maybe it

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means you have a big

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shoe size. That means something else.

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You never know with the French.

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consider what it means uh what it takes for a lion or tiger to successfully bring home a full meal so having long teeth could be desirable

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oh i thought it meant hungry which would make

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sense long teeth is a reference for being hungry and so there it's a really short leap to being very ambitious so that's what it means to have long teeth is to be very

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insane that's not right oh my gosh with that we have to like go around mountains and up and down like that's just a long drive to get to town we're redoing it the French are going to have to undo that we don't accept it no we reject that theory we reject the French sorry France but we're rejecting that that's a solid no we're not going with that one

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the dog the dog hates it as well

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he hates the French I mean, I don't know what the problem is. I don't have a problem with French people, but obviously this dog does.

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All right. I got a couple more here. Ready? Yes. If you're in Japan and someone says to you, in Japanese, of course, my hand is coming out of my throat. Nope. What are they saying?

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That's a terrifying movie. That's a weird Japanese horror film. Isn't that

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alien? But in Japan, it could be. There's... Your hand is coming out of your throat. It's a gripping story. Oh, you're gripping. Yes. That's it. We're going with that

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one. Oh my goodness. Are you serious? That's what you're guessing?

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Yes. He's totally being an ass.

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I don't know. It means that you really want something. Coming from the fact that the etymology is being so hungry that you really want to eat. We're hungry

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again. It's more

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popular. Yeah, yeah. So it means that you really want something. Which, get out of here. That's very poetic. That's much better than anything in the audience. What are

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you saying? If a hand is coming out of my throat, I have a tapeworm. That's what it means.

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Sorry, tapeworm is bad enough, but if your tapeworms have hands, we're sending you to the special clinic.

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We're going to the sausage with the raisin. We're going to the sausage plant. Straight to the CDC for you. Yeah,

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exactly. Two more. Ready? Yes, give

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them to us. I love these. So good

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at them. If you're in Germany and someone says, Einer Schweinhund.

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Nope.

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Einer Schweinhund.

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Einer.

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Or inner pig dog. So

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rude. Inner pig dog. Like, that is really

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rude. So they're referring to your inner pig dog. Oh, wow.

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I'm

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just happy that I can say that

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one. I think it's tenacity. It's like, oh, she's got inner pig dog. Like, she's tough and she's tenacious. I think she's got a problem. We know about those really tenacious breeds of pig dogs. Maybe pancreatitis. Maybe it's heartburn. I think you have some sort of a digestive issue. You think so? Because they do eat a lot of ground.

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Yeah.

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Dog. I need to know, is this a pig that looks like a dog, or is this a dog that was bred to find pigs? What's a pig dog?

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What is a pig dog?

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I don't know, but I knew the term Sveinhund. I've known that term for a

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long time. Why is that a thing you know? I don't know. There's a lady that's German on General Hospital, and she says that about people. She says what? I'm Sveinhund. Speaking to those people is

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fine. That's fine.

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I'm going to give up.

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So inner pig dog is referring to that scoundrel inside you that Encourages you to be lazy and not

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productive.

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So it's completely the

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opposite

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of tenacious.

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It's your inner pig dog. I don't like this.

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That's my inner Leroy Brown.

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Yeah. So I have stories for all of these places. I don't know what any of these things mean. But I taught preschool for a really long time. And we had a lot of, because we're a major university, we had a lot of people coming in to do research. And so we'd have their kids. And so we have a ton of kids who did not speak English. And one year I had five that spoke five different languages. So they couldn't even talk to each other. But I had a five-year-old who would curse at us in German because we didn't know. And so she would say scheiße to us all of the time. Scheiße? Yeah. What's that mean? Which is?

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Scheiße.

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Scheiße. That means shit. Oh, cool. I can start saying that

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on the podcast. Mama will never know.

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But our office manager was born in German. So she came in our classroom. She was born in German. Born in German. She was born in German. Yeah, you're my spouse. You're my She

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was completely American, but all of the staff was speaking German when she was born. It's Germany! Hush!

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Then she came in and was like, I know what you're saying, stop saying it. But yeah, I used to get cursed at in German by a five-year-old. I

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have called people Schweinhund before, because it's just...

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Big pig dog. Schweinhund.

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Lastly... He is like an octopus. In Italy, if someone says he is like an octopus, what are they saying to you?

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He's very handsy.

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I think he's very handsy. He's a little bit of a pervert. He's slick. He's slimy. You're slick. You're slimy. You've got tentacles in your section. You're sticky. I don't like you.

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She's getting very emotional.

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I'm just like, I don't know. I'm breaking it down. You're breaking it down.

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So

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all

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of the things you said were really good. It's like an octopus means that he is very clingy.

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Oh, that makes sense. Your puppy is like an octopus.

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You said slobby, sticky. Like you went through the whole thing. You really went through. I feel like you were just like throwing spaghetti out there to see which one stuck. And one did. Like an octopus. Okay, let's just give her that one.

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She basically went into the vocab test with a dictionary and says, here.

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She was like, oh, I have a thesaurus. Let me just see what I can come up

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with. There's our quiz. You've had a Wilson quiz. What did you think about that?

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Oh, it feels so awesome. I feel so bestowed

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upon. We definitely did something upon you.

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I'm just so happy when people join us to this gets inflicted upon other people instead of just me. So thank you for being here.

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You're such a good sport. I listen to y'all. Listen, there are days where maybe I'm not the best mood and I'm listening to y'all. And when Josh goes, hey, write this down.

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I'm like,

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Josh, write it yourself.

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It's only because it's a bit. If it was real life, I'd be like, do your own tweet. I'm not

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doing that. I know. I've been waiting for you to say, you have a pen. What's wrong with

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it? You understand that the characters we play, Amanda plays someone who talks only about 35% of the podcast, and I play someone who's grumpy, who's actually pretending like they're in control. Both of those are roles that we play.

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In real life, I'm in control and talk most of the time.

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No one likes to be told what to do.

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And now is the time in the podcast where we tell you what to do. So I have a recommendation for you. Slow down and drive safe. We did a lot of driving this weekend, but also the last couple of weeks, I don't know what it is. People have been driving like idiots.

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Yeah, it's crazy. And every time we could pull up next to somebody who's driving crazy, they're on their phone.

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They are on their phones. Put your phones down. Listen, TikTok will wait. So don't rush to get home and don't rush to look at your phone while you're driving. It's ridiculous. Also, while you're at it, turn down your music and be mindful that I don't want to hear your breakup story at the traffic light.

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I do though. I'm kind of nosy. So my mom used to have a saying and I don't know that it's an idiom because it doesn't, it makes sense standing on its own. It's just a saying, but she would say, we have more time than we have lives. When I was hurrying somewhere or driving too fast, she'd always say, we have more time than we have live. It seems like it's a really big thing at the time, but comparatively, it's not. Slow down. Get off your phones. God, we sound like such old people. Slow down. Turn on your music. Get off your phone.

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Get out of my yard while you're

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at it. That's right.

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Amanda, that's all there is. There is no more.

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But it was a fun time.

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It was a fun time. It was had by most. It was very good.

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I would pause it all.

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Oh, well, I hope so. Listen, if you had a fun time, let us know. Again, the way you reach us, at familiarwilsons at gmail.com or you find us on the socials and you stalk us in the best possible way.

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All right, friends. So

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until next week, teach a squirrel to read. Go

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be nice.

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Bye. Bye. No, I'm going to say that a third time because I fucked it up the first two. Ready?