You are about to be trampled underfoot. A lot of the sixties music videos
footage, the cameramen love to jiggle the camera or display some weird and they
ruined a lot of good usable for our standards today, like Ye Do It
in post, let It, Leave it Alone. It was all part of
that psychedelic style. They did it on TV two, where you can go
back and you can find episodes of Rowan and Martin's laugh in from like sixty
I want to say sixty eight, sixty nine, but nineteen seventy as well,
when the whole psychedelic thing was big and like they would have a dancer
out there just dancing away, sometimes Goldie Hawns, sometimes Judy Carnes, sometimes
somebody else, but they're out there, dent away and everything, and the
camera is panning, swinging wild to the left and right, zooming in and
coming out stuff it. It was all over the place. It was that
high energy. We're not the Ed Sullivan Show with a frozen camera sitting there
pointing here and then cut over to this one which is pointing over there.
You know. Well, they ruined um cream with Eric Clapton, Jack what
was his name, the bass player Jack, Jack, Bruce and Ginger Baker
and Ginger. They ruined their last concert where they're like when it was going
no, no, no, and they're like shaking it. The damn cameraman
is shaking the camera. They totally ruined, and a lot of those shows
they ruined so you could nowadays, but they didn't have that idea. Even
then. They could do a clean at it and then take it and then
mess with it, but no, they messed with it on site. The
stuff there is probably clean footage out there because not all cameramen did that.
That was a lot of that was up to the director. And while one
camera was busy doing that kind of stuff, the other cameras were basically stable
because they had you know, there was no need for them to be moving
around and jerking around. But even today they do that today, and news
cameraman will tell you that that's something they do on purpose. They will whoa
and jiggle around the camera and everything when nothing is really happening out there,
to kind of give a little bit more of a of a an illusion of
more excitement than there actually is. Right, but for connoisseurs and stuff,
I would have preferred to see Eric Clapton's long solos without like for instance.
And this is the last I'll say of it, because actually I have something
else too. I don't know this is all Steve's fault anyhow. Um you
know because if you if if you for every action, there's an equal and
opposite action, right. I don't know if that's true factually, but it
sounds good and it might be true, yes, And in human in human
interaction, you always get like that that old a bunch of buddies are gonna
go eat Burger King and then they say, no, let's go to talk
about No, let's go to Arby's. No, let's go to here.
And you can't get people to agree on anything, you know what I'm saying.
But um, oh go ahead, go ahead. No, I'm just
saying, you're absolutely right. Yeah, So they ruined his darn contrast Eric
Clapton Cream with and again sorry for extending the music talk kneel in um.
Eric Clapton's Cream compared to a concert that was filmed in a bar, like
Stevie Ray Vaughan at the Elma Combo. They filmed him Steady is as you
know, as it goes, and you got all the shots you could see
the sweat dripping, though not these psychedelic people. They were like to end
us shaking the fricking cameras, so they ruined it. But anyways, I
I didn't mean to go into a whole tire with that. I do um
ask for for for your forgive forgiveness. Uh kneeling over there, you're you're
assuming he's still watching, he's waiting for his cue to post links. He's
probably waiting up. Um. So now I did want to say that I
did do Uh I did. I have to confess that we have a title
and it's called you can't fix stupid m hm um uh victimhood. It's fine.
I'm used. I'm used to it being my fault and I can always
use a nap um okay, so so and I just fully around obviously.
But the title, you know, back in the day talking about sorry Steve
talking about music from back in the day, they used to come up with
titles willy nilly and people, for instance, the Beatles. They people would
buy the records and really like examine the titles and what do they mean?
What's the you know, deep meaning behind oo blah do blah dah and whatever
and they'd ask the Beatles, they said, we were just smoking dope and
came up with the lyricture. They'd say something so simplistic, right, And
people read into things a lot, you know, and there are things that
need reading into, but whatever. So the title, which is you Can't
Fix Stupid, is a culmination of a bunch of stuff that's been going on
as I've been watching people expressing outrage and expressing this, this and that,
and so what I did was, as I had to look for a title,
I really didn't have to, but I thought about I said, you
can't fix stupid, and the art, the art of it is a hand
a finger pointing that says you can't fix stupid, or something to that effect.
I don't know, I have to go back or I'm with stupid.
It's got that finger, you know that classic Hi, I'm stupid. And
then you have the two shirts that go matching, pointing in the right direction
if you're if you're not stupid, but um, and then there's a mirror
on the opposite side. Did you notice that or no? I did.
It took me a minute to figure out what that was, but then I
figured out, oh, it's a mirror. In a frame nice one.
Yeah, And so the reason I say that is that, you know,
I cannot as much as I'd love to, and I'll use you as an
example. Thanks. Wow, no problem. I cannot, for the life
of me, if I'm honest in my mind, think all the calculations that
you make in your head to arrive at whatever conclusion on whatever amount of topics
there is in this world that conform to your particular you know, area,
thought, process, focus and all that. I'm basically by that title calling
out arrogant control freak people in a very double entendre or you know, sort
of like easter egg type way. These people out there that they know more
about other people than than the other people. They know so much. And
I've always lived my life more so, no, I've always because my dad
taught me. My dad taught me, you know, say lave, you
know, let others go about their business as long as it does not interfere
with yours. In fact, my mom taught me, my grandparents taught me
that on both sides. It wasn't even a one side, doubtful thing.
I was taught down the line. You know, two people have their ways
and this and that and you can. You can if you're willing to partake.
But this arrogance that I've seen, it's too much. If you know
what I mean. Well, see you have a higher threshold than I do,
because I look at the difference between ignorance and stupid you know, and
it's a profound difference. Ignorance means you just don't know, and you only
know what you know. You don't really know what you don't know because you
don't know it. And if you don't know, find I mean, we're
all ignorant on one level of it or another. Nobody in this world knows
everything. It can't be. But the difference between ignorance and stupidity as ignorance
as you don't know, stupidity is you know and you do it anyway.
To me, that that's what I was taught, was the difference between ignorance
and stupidity. If you're driving nails and you hit your thumb with the hammer,
you know, stuff happens. It happens to the best of us.
I got a mark on a finger right now where I smacked my finger with
a hammer. It's when you know that you're gonna hit your thumb if you
keep it on the head of that nail, and you keep it there anyway.
It is not the hammer's fault. It's not the nail's fault. And
it's not the job of either company to make you independently wealthy because you stuck
your hammer there and then hit it, you know. And I'm not gonna
lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I've used hammer
my life in various applications and none of them were busting store windows. I
can add that. But but um, while nailing in and you know,
a nail, I've struck my thumb various times, even though and I know
you know, but there's a situation, so we're liable to make the same
mistakes again. Sure, as human beings, you know, you know,
things happen. I mean, it's all a part of being human. But
it's when you know better, you know better than to stick a screw driver
into the light socket. If you do it anyway, that's not ignorance.
Yes, agreed, Um, well, I'll throw in we have um anna
be And she says ignorance means also that you just don't want to know.
There's a lot of people that also want to not know, and be it
what it is, and you know, you could live a happier life without
the excess things that come in on you. So I understand that as well.
We can't know everything anyhow, and we do need to filter things that
come into our our screen because if not, we'd go bonkers, right like
somebody, if like you right now said eloy um freaking rocket science, and
then you know, we went down that I probably couldn't digest that, you
know, and so we have to choose to sort of navigate. But my
point, especially if you're not interested in it, well yeah, you know,
if you're not interested in it, I could I could very easily start
sounding like Charlie Brown's school teacher in a very short period of time, where
it's just and the words just aren't registering off the back of your head.
You don't want to know, so that I mean, her point is true.
But whether you want to know or not, if you don't know,
you just simply don't know. And I can forgive that, I really can't.
What I can't forgive is the general overall stupidity. It depends on the
application, and it depends on the scenario. Because we do have to we
do have to have a specific um set of sort of guidelines that we go
about. Because I know that I am me as best as I can tell,
I'm not you. I know I have a certain amount of confidence that
I'm me and that I'm not you, because when I stub my toe,
you don't scream. I'm the one that screams I'm not. I have a
certain amount of confidence that that I am me and I'm not you, because
when I have to pay a bill, I don't. I don't hear you,
you know, going, oh crap, and I hear me. So
the reason I say that is that because of that fact, it implies that
I am responsible for me. It implies that and you're someone else there.
Now we have to operate at a certain levels. So it would not be
right for me to I hate to bring it up, go to you and
take those bills out of your wallet in order to pay my stuff, unless
I thought, Unless I thought erroneously, because it doesn't work out at the
end if you do the math. If I thought that, well, what's
mine is yours and what's is mine because you're me and it you can have
that transcendental ideology. But we all know that the things that come out of
our mouth are our responsibility. The things that we act upon are our responsibility.
And so that's why I did the art that people can point their thumbs
at others and we're all guilty of it to a greater or lesser degree.
We're hearing it, we're doing it now. Well, I'm analyzing it as
as as an obrian. We are doing it now at a very real level.
But I'm doing it from the level of this to conclude at least my
portion of it. Whereas others are saying, and you must, I'm saying
because that's the conclusion, where others are saying that you must point that finger
at the mirror. What I'm saying is I control my existence and you control
yours. You would be responsible for yours, I'll be responsible for mine.
And because there's a thing called don't steal, we don't steal because it's not
beneficial to anybody. I could go ahead and rob and I'm taking from someone,
but see, I wouldn't want people to take from me. So there's
a golden rule that occurs. So that's what I'm saying, is that everybody
do as they please, you know, don't interfere with my stuff. Don't
interfere with me, And and that's the golden rule. And I was taught
that, and you know, maybe down the line all my people were wrong.
Yeah, maybe maybe the idea is you want freaking um you know,
your your electronic do hookies, you go get them, You break that way,
you go inside, you take that thing. If you see someone in
your way, you go ahead and smash them upside that. If you see
a car that's better, you go ahead and take the What I'm trying to
say is that I call bullshit on all of them. Oops. Sorry,
sure, edit, and I'll stop you when I disagree. Yeah, well,
you know, I mean, so that's the point. That's the thing
about the finger. You know, we're responsible for ourselves. You know.
Well, I'm with you one hundred percent on that entire mirror thing, because
half of the people that are pointing outward need to stand in front of a
mirror when they do that and really stop and think of it. But then
again, that requires, you know, that requires a little bit of introspection
and maybe a little bit of working on yourself first. And it's just just
a heck of a lot easier to call people names. Well, yeah,
I mean we're all. We're all guilty of just about everything is. We're
human. But what I'm trying to say is that, you know, do
the least damage others. I'm with you, I'm with you, and that
applies across the board. Do the least damage to others, because at the
end of the day, we um you know, and I see it,
you know, and I'll be I'll have a moment of a little bit more
seriousness. So to me, you know, I was as every teenage maybe
a little bit more, a bit wild, and then there were wilder people,
but I really was wild in many ways. I never went about the
business of trying to hurt other people because of I guess what I was taping.
I didn't have it in my heart, man, I don't have it
in my heart to go after other people. I don't have it in my
heart too, to kick someone when they're down. I just don't have it.
I don't have the will. I don't have the will. I don't
even know what the benefit is of that. I just don't understand. Yeah,
I can't think of another benefit, I mean, other than ego or
just you know, simple psychopath or sociopath or one or the other. You
know, pick your path. It's yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
it's not in me either. I just look in the final bit that I'll
say to me this is this is a sincere thing that I'll say everybody that
I interact with throughout my life. There's greater moments and lesser moments and stuff,
but interactions, especially as as and I've always known instinctually, but I
kind of know better now. These interactions are special moments because there's more.
There are moments that one shares between people, friendship, family, Um,
these are moments that that you share that if you understand life is a beginning,
a journey, and an end. If you understand that block of existence
and you have kind of a little bit of a heart meaning you can put
your your your feet in someone else's shoes a little bit meaning you're not the
only person in existence in the world. There's other people dealing with similar and
way worse and sometimes less, but we all are on a journey. If
you understand all these things, or at least they crossed your mind, you
know, um, you know you don't want to you don't want to damage
other people. So it hurt me a lot, and it depressed me a
lot, you know, to see the evil all across the board random as
well. You could do the math and say that it's not random and say
no, because it's the cause. And look coming from parents that were Cuban,
that lost you know, everything, they owned, their businesses, and
just because people the ego, the arrogance, the fricking using a you know,
nobody cares, Nobody talks about that, all these all these it's not
their experience. You know, you could shout it from the mountain, but
at the end of the day, you know, it's it's too much.
People think that they're eternal, and I call bull crap on them, all
of them, like across the board, like this prom bullcrap. And that
is why, um, you know, at the end of the day,
you know, um, I don't know, man, just the idea of
harm towards others randomly because of race status. Listen, I just like just
about I'm not down with that plan and and and being a robot for one
particular side or the none of that. It's too much. But I digress.
That was a twenty one minute digression. But it's cool. I'm with
you. I get you. Yeah, So with that set, oh go
ahead. No, no, no, you go ahead. I got something
for you, but you go ahead. No, no, go for it.
I just want to revisit this later on if we have time. Oh
no, let's revisit. Let's do it now and then. I don't want
to up the flow. You've got a couple of things up. It's your
edit. I don't care all tap dance now, son of a gun.
No, go ahead, while we're hot, while we're hot, do it,
man, do it. I want to hear what you got. No
what It's gonna take a while. So that's why it is a divergence from
all of this. Okay, Well, this kind of devetails in because I'm
gonna be honest with you that when I saw that you can't fix stupid,
the first thing that popped into my brain was the dar one Awards. So
I didn't know if that's where you were going or not. No, you
know what the dar one Awards are, don't you. I don't even know.
Hey, I'm ignorant on that, and and and a million other things.
Oh my gosh. This started out back in the eighties when people were
faxing stuff back and forth to one another, just little funnies of how people
basically took themselves out of the gene pool. And that's what the Darwin Awards
are. It's basically recognizing individual who have contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves
to be taken out of the gene pool, either via death or sterility.
Okay, but the thing about it is is they had to do it themselves,
and it's through stupidity. Geez, that's horrible. Mark, It is
horrible. It is dark, but it illustrates stupidity. For instance, there
was a gentleman in India. This was in twenty eighteen. He pulled off
to the side of the road to use the restroom and his family was in
the car as he's off in the underbrush going to the bathroom. Oh,
I thought it was a proper toilet. But no, he sees what he
thinks is an injured bear off the side of the road. So did he
call the authorities or just get out of there. No, he decides to
whip out his cell phone and take a selfie next to him. He put
his paw around the back and he picked took his cell phone out of his
pocket, got closer, got closer, got closer, and turned around to
take a selfie. Well, the bear wasn't injured at all, it was
just chilling out. He got up there, the bear turned around and basically
made a meatball out of him. The bear just ripped him to shreds.
That is stupidity. Yeah, I mean, let me just we'll go ahead,
go ahead, because it's things like that, you know, Yeah,
no, because I mean because there, okay, how can I put this?
There is some sort of thing that we call instinct in our heads,
like a spider sense, a spider man sense that lights up and says,
eloy, you should wait for the green light. Yeah, Eloy, wait
till the check this out. Eloy, wait till the the escalator, you
know, the automatic escalator. Wait till the step is fully visible so that
your foot will plant direct, because you know, you could be bold and
stuff. And I'm using that ridiculous example. But these are little things that
as you're doing your whatnot across you know, a series of days, months,
years, you have these little red flags that pop up to say,
watch out, oh look at that guy walking across the road. That that
that's you know, I'm gonna go ahead and not you know, or you
know, hey, I'm gonna walk in this it's just whatever. Um.
We have a sort of thing called a gut instinct, use it right unless
unless you're psychotic. Let me let let me give you an example. You
live just right down the road from the Everglades. You lived in the ever
lived, you worked in the Everglades for several years. Is there anything at
all about a bear that makes you think, oh, sylphie. No,
I didn't mention the other funny part of this. He had a car full
of family, wife, a couple of kids. They all whipped out their
foams and started filming this. Oh geez, the family. Yeah, the
family are just sitting there filming watching dad get ripped to shreds. The dog
was the only smart one of the bunch. The dog jumped out of the
car and took off for the hills. The dog split. He's like,
nope, there could be papers to sign. I gotta get out of here.
Yeah. I don't know, man, h they watched him get mauled
and filmed it. I mean, you can't fix stupid. I mean,
and those people I hate to say, well, you know it's so you
can't. You can't fix stupid, and and you know, and then there's
also a thing where people there you know, everybody has a degree of intelligence,
you know, um where they're aware of a multitude of things. But
there's a intelligence, and then there's decency for your fellow man. Right,
And when you start picking and choosing by a color or class of people,
when you do group groupings of people and you start telling them because you know
what, when you start with that, you know, boy, you gotta
be a fricking genius. But I'll tell you what, the same people would
not like the things happening to them. In other words, it's hypocrisy,
it's arrogance, it's all these things. And I've seen a lot of that.
I've seen a lot of arrogance and stuff. I'm gonna I'm gonna have
to call it. I'm not part of that group of people. I'm gonna
have to call it. I don't have that heart. I don't have it
in me. I can't do that. Um, we all are capable of
like minded things. But there's just it's just I don't know, man,
I don't know. I don't know. I'm not down with the plant.
So yeah, so the Darwin Awards, Wow, okay, well that was
just one example. Um, you know, there, I could, I
could go down the list. There's a whole bunch more. Um. You
know, they also give honorable mentions to people who didn't take themselves out,
but only because they were lucky, like the genius in U down in California
who attached a couple of weather balloons filled with helium to a lawn chair and
had a begun so that he could shoot out the weather balloons and bring him
back down. He got up to sixteen thousand feet in a lawn chair and
crept into controlled airspace basically, I don't remember if it was Ontario Airport or
LAX, but he got close to their flight path and then had to shoot
out the couple of the weather balloons so that he weighed more than what it
was able to hold up, and he landed. He survived, He went
to jail for a little while. But there's no part of me that says
that isn't stupid. I'm sorry, I don't care if you think it's funny.
I don't care if you think it's a thrill or what have you.
But that's just stupid because he could just as easily the minute he let go
of the rope to start taking off he could have shot up to thirty thousand
and just froze to death or asphyxiated himself to death. But see, here's
the thing. There's a difference between that where he's doing it to himself.
Oh yeah, that's all. That's all the dar One awards. They're doing
it to yourself, that's right thing. You know. Well, I'm just
saying that the doing it to yourself although not benign because it affects the person
doing it, but it's benign for the golden rule, you know, it's
it's you don't hurt others. So if you're gonna do something stupid that only
hurts you, well, I mean, um, I would suggest you don't.
But guess what if you do, as long as you don't hurt others,
you know, because you know, that's I don't know if I'm I'm
making sense or not, but to me, that's that's that's the way.
That's the line, right, um and so yeah, so uh so,
anyways, so the whole bit about um, I'm with stupid is kind of
a cultural term. There's other terms that we use. And although this list
is not an exhaustive list, and although this list is not let's say unheard
of. But I just want to hear what you guys think about this list
that I'm about to if you don't mind, these are weird English phrases,
less emphasis on the weird, because a lot of them are. Probably most
of them are completely understandable to all of us, but maybe not, maybe
not, Maybe we don't know some of these phrases. So, um,
do you mind me sharing? Yeah, go for it. Okay, I'm
waiting on you. So this is weird English phrases, and you tell me
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their meaning. Okay, well meaning we'll leave out because maybe you realize,
of course you're talking to a word nerd that studied English. So I'm double
I'm double dangerous on this, but go for it. I want to see
if you um what you glean from some of these and if if, if
they're they're they're exact or I think you're gonna do real good on this one.
But um, we'll see so over the moon, over the moon,
if you need me to put it in a sentence or whatever English saying over
the moon, I'd kind of like to hear what the site that your drawdy
is from has to say about it, just to get that because I don't
really have a definition I know what it means. It's just like to be
you know, ecstatic or extremely happy about something that's but where the root is
I really don't know where that came from. Okay, so that's absolutely the
case. It's to be, um, absurd absurdly happy about something. Um
and they say taken for mean nursery rhyme about a very happy cow. I
wondered about the cow over the moon. So you know, you were a
spot on on it, and I think that, um, a lot of
our are our viewers here as well. So here's another one. Under the
weather very easy. Oh yeah, under the water is sick, you know,
or not feeling very well. Some places it's a euphemism for having a
hangover. Yeah, yeah, to be ill not well, I'm feeling a
bit under the weather right now. I don't know where that came from,
if it was just a general kind of feeling because of a rainy, stormy
day or what. Right, But it's an interesting We'll have to revisit meanings
or origins later. Here's one that I don't know. I never heard that
one hit for six, hit for say and use it in a sentence.
I could, but then you'd get it. Hit for six. I'm completely
hit for six over that. Nope, got no idea, Got no idea.
The only thing that comes to mind is football and maybe catching a forward
pass. Thankie was hit. Frankie was hit for six, hit for six.
So to be completely overwhelmed by something this comes from cricket. A six
is when the batsman hits the ball over the entire field and it's and it
lands outside the limits of the pitch, gaining six points. Okay, see,
yeah, I'm I don't know the rules about the only thing I know
about cricket is how to spell it, all right. So here we go
with beat around the bush yep, beat around the bush was rather it comes
from hunting, I believe, Rather than go in directly to drive like say
a pheasant or a duck or what have you, out of a dove or
something out of the You would kind of beat around the bush, then flush
it, you know, to kind of drive your query into a certain area
where you were ready for it and then go for the direct So not quite
getting to the point. Yeah, that's that's how I would term it.
That's how I would define it. I'd say, you know, look,
look dude, stop beating around the bush. Just tell me what the story
is, you know. Um. So that's how I and so what they
say here is to be indirect and perhaps even reluctant or tricky in saying or
doing something to hold back from being director straight. And it's commonly heard as
stop beating around the bush, you know the words get on with it.
So yeah, um, here's another one that I think that. I mean,
it's all relevant to us, I believe, but it's blow your socks
off, blow your socks off, or knock your socks off, just something
that's gonna surprise or astonish you. Okay, And you know where I get
that. I don't know if this is the case or not, but when
I hear phrases like this, I think the old comic books, the old
funny papers. Right where you've got somebody who is just staggered by this revelation,
and you can see they they're kind of lifted up off the ground,
kind of spread eagled in midair, and their shoes and socks are off,
their gloves are off, their hats about a foot and a half off their
head. Just astonishment. That's where it comes from. I wonder if the
origin of it. I mean, because it's a it's an interesting so blow
your socks or knock your socks right, either way, nobody is going to
put explosives in your shoes. This is yet another non literal one. Something
which blows your socks off is an astonishing good thing. To blow someone's socks
off is to make a very deep or positive impression. So they don't give
us the origin, but we might have to revisit origins of certain sayings in
a future episode. Okay, okay, go for it, easy does it,
Slow and steady wins the race. Just relax, calm down, easy
does it? You know what I think when I when I first read it,
when when I was prepping for the thing. Um, when I read
that, I said, I thought in my mind, someone backing up,
you know, from a driveway or car park or whatever you want to call
it, and someone saying, all right, come on, easy does it?
Easy does it? And someone slamming on the fricking accelerator and scraping the
side of the car. Yeah, that works right there, Yep, exactly.
But it's an interesting easy does it? Easy does it? So the
phrase doesn't really make any sense on its own. British people use say it
usually to accompany a challenging task lifting a wardrobe up a tight flight of stairs,
which is kind of the same thing as the car thing that we've just
talked about, often in a state of high concentration, and it basically means
be careful, go gentle. So yeah, they don't say the origin.
We might have to revisit origins at some time in the future or you know
it. Yeah, well, I was just trying to think of the route
and where it came from and everything else, and the easy would be in
quotes easy does it asked fast? Doesn't you know? Just right? Easy
does it? Relax? I'll throw this one at you. Okay, I
haven't read the thing, so I'll just say barking up the wrong tree.
That is kind of I know what it means and what it's used as,
but origin wise, who the heck? No barking up the wrong tree?
Coon hunting, raccoon hunting. They would send the dogs out to tree the
raccoons because they were easier to shoot when they were up a tree and dog
chase the trees. Get a dog chase the coons, not the trees.
Trees are really easy to chase. They don't move. Dog chase the raccoon.
Raccoon goes up the tree and the dog barks around the base, barking
up towards the raccoon. He's just tree. Well, if you're barking up
the wrong tree, the raccoon's over here. You have made a mistake.
You've got the wrong tree. You've got the wrong person, You've got the
wrong address. This is the wrong house. You're barking up the wrong tree.
Okay, this is a great phrase. It means to air in your
judgment. Barking up the wrong tree has its origin. There you go,
Mark damn. In hunting, where dogs were the key part of the pack,
sniffing out the animals as it scrambled for refuge up in a tree,
or bush every now and then their great sense of smell would fail and they
would bark up the wrong tree. Hence the phrase right, pretty awesome,
dude, Yep, thank you? Okay to get the wrong end of the
stick. There's other ways to say it that are not as nice. Right,
the wrong end of the stick basically means you the snot end of the
Yeah, you you, you were, you were, you were the unlucky
one. Now, the origin of that one, I don't know. I'm
not sure. It could be any number of things, but yeah, given
the wrong end of the stick, could it just means you were the unlucky
one? And it could go wild If you have a yes imagination, then
yes it could. Oh man. So here's one bite the bullets that would
That's actually a fairly easy one, and it's portrayed a lot in westerns basically
to toughen it out, you know, just steal yourself up and tough it
out and get through it. And that comes from the old days, pre
anesthetic, where you've seen it in lots of Western movies where they give somebody
the bullet to bite them while they're digging a bullet out of their leg or
something like that. We're setting a broken lamb or something like that. Yeah,
And I think it's actually an old wives tale about the bullet, you
know, Western folklore, because number one, who can waste the ammunition?
Number Two, it's easier to find a stick to shove in the guy's mouth
so he doesn't scream. You know, here, bite on this. It's
not gonna hurt anymore. But it gives you something to do. Well,
wasn't it? Wasn't it? Don't you have it? So they always I
think it's it's the progression. They always take like a whiskey bottle and the
cork it. They give the guy drink some of this and he's like,
ouglug and then um, then they'll say here, now bite on this,
and then the freaking surgery occurs, and it's like that's the anesthetic plus your
yeah, grip on the side of it. I don't know, you know.
Yeah, so it says here again, it's well. And by the
way, I always thought I correlated it with kicking the bucket, m which
to me, kicking the bucket means you know, croaking, saling over or
whatever, dying. Yeah, So that's what I thought. Um, so
let's see what they say, I mean, I don't take I think it
could mean both. I didn't use that terminology that I didn't think that it
was that. But and it says again, please don't take this literally.
When this phrase first came in common into common usage, it meant a person
without any sign of fear who acts with courage in the face of adversity.
The phrase re collects a dangerous army practice in the eighteen fifties, including the
US and the UK, where soldiers were equipped with the British Endfield rifle and
in order to use it, they had to bite off the head of the
cartridge to expose the explosives of the spark which would ignite it. The producer
was obviously potentially fatal or I'm sorry. The procedure yeah, fatal, particularly
so in the middle of a battle. So anyone who who did it was
considered valiant. Now, however, the phrase seems to be closer to stop
beating around the bush. It says, or something you encourage someone to do
despite the bullet. Man, So I guess now, say, I have
never heard that story about biting the cartridge, because that's not the bullet,
but that you're you're biting off the end of the paper that wraps up the
powder charge to pour down the muzzle, tamp tamp, throw in the bullet
which was the actual ball the projectile, and then you know, tap tap
boom. Yeah. I have never heard that in associated with biting. Doubted
or do you? Or it's not that I doubted. I just saying that
I've not heard that. It just depends on where the source is. But
a lot of these fray. A lot of the sources for some of these
phrases, I can't say or can be wrong, especially if it's an American
site. Some of them get it wrong. Oh yeah, yeah. So
by the way, we could if if if folks want to, we can
always revisit this topic and look for origins of sayings and such. So you
know, let us know over on the Trampled Underfoot podcast on Facebook Facebook.
Ye. Yeah, And that wasn't for dramatic effect. I literally had a
brain fart, right, I went mine earlier was for dramatic effect, but
I don't know how dramatic it was. But hey, um so an arm
in the leg that cost me an arm and a leg. Yeah, it
cost a lot of money, but I don't know where it came from.
I don't know. This may be apocryphal as well. It may be one
of those legends years ago, before it was turned into the zoo they had
it was called a menagerie in London and it ran for six hundred years,
and people paid admission to go in to this menagerie and see the animals,
see the lions, and see the tigers and giraffes and elephants and what have
you. But if you brought in animals or animal parts to feed the animals,
you got in admission free. You didn't have to pay to get in.
So if you brought in a you know, a leg from a hog
or from a goat or what have you to feed one of the animals,
you didn't pay any admission. That's very weird. So it cost an arm
and a leg. That's the only thing I can think of. It may
or may not be true. Okay, As far as the the the official
definition of or why we use it, you're you're on the money right.
It's expensive. Something costs me. As far as the origin, we don't
know. We will have to explore, or people could offer it up over
or there on the website. Either way, whatever floats your boat. Oh
yeah, that one's completely different. But imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an
imaginary menagerie. Wow. Well, you know, and I do want to
say that years and years and years ago, I saw Star Trek the Menagerie,
and I said, I have to look up what the heck that word
means, because I really didn't know. And I just kept watching the episode,
and I never, you know, I got involved in it, but
never never took a moment to read up on the definition of menagerie. And
I wonder how many people out there likewise have no freaking idea that was basically
used to mean a collection of animals and that and that plays in with that
episode of Star Track incidentally, in a roundabout way. It was it was
it was a collection of animals that were not there for zoological research or to
you know, uh breed for scientific purposes, or even for study. It
wasn't there for any kind of a purpose other than to say, look at
me, I've got a collection of these animals. That to me was the
difference of what's what I learned was the difference between a menagerie and a zoo
or a zoological garden. So yeah, and and I'll just you know,
I usually don't break into because the way we do the conversation is I I
we typically just focus on the conversation and we have our way. But I
just see Charles sasons. He's he's visiting us for the first time. He
said it's it's track, not Track Star Trek. I probably said Star track
Star Trek and stuff. And that's very petty of you, m Charles,
prompting from the studio audience. Please um, so here's the next one.
Crying over spilled milk basically having a strong emotional reaction over something insignificant, you
know, for fear, especially as a kid, for fear you're gonna get
in trouble. Yeah. No, yeah, I'm with you. I mean,
stop crying over spilt milk. Okay, you know, hi, stop
right so quick. Stop making a mountain out of a mole hill. Yeah.
So I think that that's something, But I wonder what the origins of
that. I mean, I could well spilt milk in this case simply means
anything that happened in the past. The most common phrase, there's no use
crying over spilt milk. There's no point worrying about things that have already happened,
and a similar phrase would be it's all water under the bridge. Okay
is what they say here. Okay, that's a piece of cake. I
wouldn't know where the well, it means something easy or simple, um,
but I wouldn't know the uh, the root of that. I mean,
I'm not a baker, so to make a piece of cake maybe a little
more difficult to make. In fact, can you make a piece of cake?
I think you can make a cake, but I don't think you can
make a piece of cake, not in the if you have that wedge with
all the interior layers exposed. I don't know. Well, yeah you could.
No, yeah, I don't think you can make a piece of cake.
You can slice a piece of cake, but no matter how small you
make that cake, it's still a cake. You would have to take a
piece off of it. No, No, it's a muffin, then a
triangular muffin. I don't no, I'm no, I'm no. I'm no
bakery expert here, so I'm not gonna don't don't quote me on that one.
It's it's kind of like, you know, if you're gonna cut a
pyramid in half horizontally and you lift the top off of that pyramid. The
bottom is a base, yeah, but the top is still a pyramid,
so you know it. You can't make I don't think you can make a
piece of cake. You can only make a cake and then cut a piece
of that. So that may be more difficult than it needs to be,
but I think it's a valid point. But wait a second. Can you
make a cake in the shape and form of a piece of cake. I'm
sure somebody out there can, but it's not me. But you have still
made a cake right in the shape of a piece of cake. Right,
all right, here's one and with this one we conclude the list. Stealing
someone's thunder, oh, telling the punch line to somebody else's joke, or
making the argument before someone else has a chance to make that argument. So
and has had ever happened to you recently? And maybe in hangouts with friends?
Can get I can tell you only on a day that ends with why
you know it happens? I mean, especially when you have people who think
along the same lines, yeah, about anything, But there is no excuse,
no excuse, And there's a special room, you know where for people
who will steal the punchline of the joke. You go through and you tell
the joke, and you get up to the very end and somebody else gives
up your punchline. I think it's legally okay to stab them with a fork.
That's one of them may be wrong, but if it's not, it
should be that dude. I'm sorry, but you're right. And there's look,
there's actually an Abbot and Costello skit where they do just that. It's
about going to fish, going fishing, and Costello says, all right,
Abbot, I've got a story to tell you, and I just don't want
any interruptions. And the whole skit, Abbot is interrupting him, but Castello
keeps pushing forward, and the laughter is in the interruptions because he keeps asking
the question what fishing hole did they go to? What kind of fish was
it? What kind of this? He kept messing up his story, and
at the end, to top it off, he says, don't tell me,
you're gonna don't tell me that your punchline is the old fish story.
Da da da da da, And he tells the punchline by using that method.
And it was all part of their skin, and it's the funniest thing
Dade, not of today's time, but really great. Yeah. Yeah,
there's a lot of that style. I'm gonna find it. I'm gonna find
look every every forgive me for for I'm just going I'm gonna find it.
I'm gonna post it as one of my today's video. We always post something,
you know, when we when we have something over on our Facebook page
Trampled Underfoot Podcast the Facebook page, and I'll post that abbot in Castello.
I know that it's easy for people to find, but I'll post it over
there and you guys can check it out. So that's my contribution today.
Okay, were you going to post it over on the Trampled Underfoot Podcast Facebook
page? Okay, okay, damn you made me say that twice that you
were you Where you going to get it from? From a site that offers
videos which I shall not name because it's hopefully which we're on right now.
Just no, we're on right now. We're we also have a YouTube page
which is where we're broadcasting, and we broadcast oh every Tuesday at nine thirty
Eastern six thirty Pacific time, and then we post these the same Tuesday in
the morning. The previous episode. So you can get us on Tuesdays every
which way but loose. And you know what, not a single person has
picked up on the fact that it's two for Tuesday. You get the audio
podcast Tuesday morning and then this live recording of next week's audio podcast Tuesday evening.
It's two for Tuesday, folks, double your pleasure, double your fun.
That's right around the clock Tuesday. So so, um, do you
have anything for us other than what we've gone through? Nope, I don't
have. I that was it. I just kind of wanted to throw a
few things out there and see where they landed. But you know, just
basically, you know, um, do the right thing. Don't be stupid.
You know, if you have to think about it more than once,
if you have to go, wait a minute, should I do that?
You probably shouldn't. You probably should. I Just think of one thing when
you said that, and see, this is the this is the reason you
cannot, you know, judge people. Like when you go to the store
and there and it's easy to do because what's it's not my fault. You're
having a crummy day. You go to the store and like the attendee is
like slow or rude or whatever the case might be. You don't know that
that person didn't just have some sort of horrific car breakdown family issues, and
you don't know that they're in that dis like we don't. There's so much
we don't. We're actually speaking the same language here, But even on that
level, people have different reactions and sort of you know, ideas of definitions
in their mind over certain words, and if you put them in a specific
way together and offer that to another person, you might be thinking to the
giving them something polite, and they might be taking like this guy is trying
to freaking massacre me. Just we are navigating waters that appear to be charted,
but people are worlds universes onto themselves, so we can't really what you
call, make sense of it. We can only sort of take care of
our business, is what I'm trying to You just went to a big,
old long list of American phrases, and what you're talking about right now reminded
me one of my grandmother's favorites, which was either ten to or mine,
but basically mind your own rat killing, And that was basically mind your own
business. You worry about, you don't worry about somebody else. Yeah,
mind your own rat killing or tend to your own rat killing. That's pretty
savage. Yeah, well you know, East Texas. What do you want?
So yeah, so yeah, so, um, I was I kind
of got sidetracked when I was telling you all the lead up to whatever I
started to say, and I forgot what I started to say a part.
But um, but yeah, I've got nothing more for you. So if
you're good, well good, I'm great. All right, So listen,
guys, thanks for hanging out with us. We hope that you enjoy our
time here and go ahead and you know, share it with folks if you
feel compelled. It's sure would do us good. And we'll catch one more
thing real quick. I'm sorry to interrupt, more or less like bud abbott
um, but if you've got any of those favorite phrases from your grandpa grandma,
Like Grandpa used to say when he was giving somebody directions, go up
up the road a fur piece, make a left. It was a fur
piece. It wasn't go down the road about a mile up fur piece.
You got anything like that, throw them over to us. Throw them over
now. Just go over to Trampled Underfoot Podcast Facebook page and you know,
leave us a comment, and uh, well, well I'd like these little
collections of a little you know phrases. You know, I only chew my
cabbage once. You know, I won't repeat myself. Don't throw the baby
out with the bathwater. No, don't do that. Don't do that.
Yeah, other than going head on over to the Facebook page and leave us
a few of your little gems, I like them. I liked stuff like
that. All right, Um, catch you guys next time and enjoy the
rest of your week. Oh, come on bye. He did it again,
Dude, I'm going to continue to do it. Trampled underfoot