And so we're live. Welcome to Trampled Underfoot Podcast. Trampled Underfoot Podcast every
Tuesday, eight thirty eight, nine thirty pm Eastern time. What is it
six thirty pm West Coast time, Pacific time. Yes, that's right.
This is episode sixty eight. That's right. And so you know I do
want to say that, um, not because I remembered, but Mark Lindsay,
you know, we were talking back in the green room and he said,
well, hey, you know what it's It's gonna be Thanksgiving, and
you know we don't have any Thanksgiving type. You know, we didn't even
think ahead of time, at least I didn't. So we don't want to
wish you guys that hear this a happy Thanksgiving. Yes, this will go
live the week of Thanksgiving, the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Want to wish everybody
a happy Thanksgiving out there and hope you know everything is going well for everybody.
It's time for a lot of stress. I know some folks get all
stressed out cooking for family the first time. Other folks are like app it's
a day that ends with why, But however you treat it. And for
those of you aren't in the US, happy Thursday or a Happy Tuesday for
us. So yeah, and so you know, we were thinking about Thanksgiving.
You know what, what we could possibly what does Thanksgiving mean to you?
Mark if if you had to mention, um if I was going to
get all deep and philosophical about it, just and it's a cliche to say
it, but that's what the holiday is for. Remember what you've got,
who you've got in your life, and just maybe show a little bit of
gratitude that things played out the way they did. They could be a heck
of a lot worse. So m we have our token Kanukistani. And in
the chat over here on YouTube, Jim Dockerell reminding us that Thanksgiving us last
month. Yeah, if you're in Canada. But you know you guys will
catch up eventually and figure it out. You are about to be trampled underfoot.
I still have not set through the Great Canadian Historical Adventure. I have
subtle insights, um. I like history. I'm one for for history and
stuff and more just broadly things that are are a big question mark in the
past. I'm kind of like big on that I've yet to explore the the
whole Canadian frontier. Um historically speaking, and what I mean, I have
the basics, you know, I know that some of the say French uh
were transplanted down towards Louisiana at some point as well. I mean there's a
lot there. I mean that's just me pulling one thing, you know,
out. But um, I know there was a lot of pelt training.
I know that it was a wild front It's still a wild frontier. People
will say in a lot of places, in a lot of UH, in
a lot of areas. Yeah, I mean you get up in the Yukon
Territory or heck, even northern British Columbia. Um, it's you know,
not a soul uh to be seen for hundreds of miles. I mean,
you know there are places out there that there'd be a lodge out on the
lake that you have to fly into it's not accessible by road at all.
And those there's there's hundreds of those, at least in the West Stern part
of Canada. A lot of it's gorgeous. It's gorgeous country. I got
to spend a little bit of time back in Newfoundland and New Brunswick back in
the late eighties, and it's gorgeous country. And I was talking to one
of the locals. I was in a store, just talking to one of
the locals, and of course I did the typical American tourist thing. I
said, you get a lot of snow up here. He said, well,
last year wasn't too bad. We only got three meters. And I
thought, oh, well, that isn't too bad. And then I thought,
wait a minute, Wait a minute, that's meters. A meter is
thirty nine something three feet right, Yeah, well it's a little bit more
than that. It's thirty nine inches and some change. And I was like,
holy call, that's that's ten feet of snow. No man, no,
no, not this boy. You know, it was gorgeous in the
summer, but I wouldn't want to be there. So as far as Canadian
history is concerned, this probably has absolutely nothing to do with real history.
Jim Dockerell could probably tell us. But there's a Canadian TV show. There
was a Canadian TV show it might still be going on, I don't know,
called History Bites, hosted by a guy named Bill Green, and he's
a funny, funny comedian, very clever man. And it was basically this
one episode was called History Bites America versus Canada or no History Bites, Uncle
Sam. It was called and it was basically comparing the US and Canada historically
speaking, going back to the beginning, and very funny show, very good
show. I learned a few things about Indian history, learned a few things
about American history, believe it or not. And this was made in oh,
I want to say the mid either the late nineties or the early two
thousands. It was called History Bites Uncle Sam. If you find it on
YouTube. If you find it online, I would highly recommend that it's very
good History Bites Uncle, Uncle Sam. Right, and what can you give
us at least an overview? Oh boy, it's been so long since I've
seen it. I had, I burned it onto DVD. I don't even
remember where I found it, and I've watched it. But it basically they
talk about the open borders, but it's it's comedy. They compare the Cowboy
to the Canadian Mountie as the two stereotypical you know, the Mountie is the
stereotypical Canadian and the Cowboy is the stereotype faical American. Um. There,
it's it's fast paced, a lot of um, a lot of cultural references,
but a lot of historical references to it. It's just, you know,
they're the one scene that I can remember, and I don't remember which
fort he's standing in front of. Um is we repelled the Americans when they
tried to invade us, and we fought them off here twice, but we
still lost it. We don't want to remember that. And you know we
burned down the White House. Well actually we didn't. The British did it
for us, but we wanted to be there, you know, and stuff
like that. It's just there's some funny stuff that goes on back and forth
and everything. It's not anti American, it's not anti Canadian. It's just
funny stuff and it but it is worth watching. So a couple of things,
um So, One Canada. If you if you think you know in
in like the way they they they speak and America, Yes we could tell
differences, but they're not big at all. Uh. There's certain little minor
inflections that are truly American, and there's minor inflections that are truly Canadian.
But the bulk of the communication in common speak that we hear, um,
I can pick it up when I hear a person talking on a YouTube video
without knowing that they're Canadian or not. Um, after you hear them a
little a little bit, um, I say, oh that that person's Canadian.
Um. That said, um, the word American. So everything has
a gray area. Americans, Canadians are Americans as well. It depends on
how you want to use the But but no, they they totally are.
Yeah, it's I mean, continent is North America, so you know so.
But the reason I mentioned this is that one time I was speaking to
it because I used to work in the Everglades and we get people from all
over the place, and I in conversation and this is where certain it depends
on where you you. It depends on the reach of the definition that you're
using or are incorporating it. People could get confused with certain things. And
I mentioned, you know, yeah, because you know something or other,
and I included him as American. And he wasn't very happy about that.
Not that he was totally blowing a gasket, but he made a point of
pointing out to me where Canadian, we're not Americans. And I did not
push the fact right the topic because why bother um in that given scenario.
But the fact is that he is completely American in in this in the case
of we're all from him, it's it's the American continent, you know,
yea. Um. But but sometimes but so we will use the United States.
I mean, what do you say, Um, I am a United
States citizen, or how do you you say we're American? Um? However,
um, people from South America, Central America, Mexicans can say we're
American. But how would one in the United's you see what I'm saying,
like Canadians were can do? How do you identify your nationality without using the
word American? Yeah? Right, Well, now in our case, if
you really broke it down, and I'm just thinking and like off the top
of my head, we would probably have to say I'm a Floridian and I'm
an Oregonian, right because in fact, you know what I'm saying, we're
yeah, we're from those particular states or whatever. Right, So in reality,
obviously I'm American. But if you had to you know, yeah,
or actually, if what if you're a Mexican from Chihuahua, are you a
Chihuahian or whatever? You'd want to break that down, you know what I'm
saying, Yeah, like that and that poses the question of the week.
If we were to do that, if we were to call ourselves based on
the state or province we live in. In your case, you're for Floridian
and I'm Oregonian. Yeah, what would a person from Saskatchewan call themselves?
That's the question of the week. I mean, would they just call themselves
a taxi and moved to Ottawa? You know it's what they have to call
a taxi from otto wah to come and pick them up because they're the ones
with the you know what, that's not any easier. Would you call them
an Ottawanian or I don't know, that's a legit question. I'm not trying
to be funny. Well it has funny, it has funny implications. But
you see, so the whole Canadian thing, you know, so, yes,
of course they're Canadian, but they could just as easily swap it out.
But there would be CONFUSI confusion by saying we're American, and then an
American would hear that and say, wait, a second party, you're Canadian.
But Americans, what do they say to break down? Because American,
I'm American. Everybody understands it like it's a common accepted thing. If you're
American, you're from the United States. But that's not true in it of
itself, right, People from South America, I've heard them say in conversations
with them, do the same thing to me. They say, waa,
we're American too, And I'm like, oh, no, yeah, I'm
just trying to because what do you say, yeah, United States seans.
Well, what I used to do to disarm things because you never know which
way it was gonna go. When I lived over in Germany, when my
wife and I were stationed there, I would just right up front call myself
a yank because that did two things. Number one, let them know they
knew right off the bat that man I was from the US, okay,
But it also disarmed him because some people over there considered yank to be an
insult when they were using it. Oh you're just a yank. It's supposed
to be a pejorative term. But if I threw it out there, that
disarmed him. They didn't have that pejorative. That let them know I was
from the US and that I would take absolutely zero offense at being called a
yank. And I had one guy in a little pub over there saying,
oh, you're a yank. Huh, yep, I'm a yank. And
it just totally disarmed him. He ended up you know, oh oh,
Berr bought me a beer and the whole thing off we went. But because
people don't know, they're not expect a particular like you could say something in
your look. I think that depend you could either offend someone or not,
depending on the persons, you know, um, how they see the situation.
There's an intention. It depends on your intent. And and one could
so one time, and I've said this before. Um, I was young
and I went out, I was invited to have lunch with a co worker
of mine and um, and so she she was somewhere from Asia, probably
China, and um, this was like back in the late eighties and stuff,
you know, just and um, and I was young, you know.
And and so we're walking back and and I asked her, so you're
you're Oriental and oops, she said, And I didn't mean it, and
and and in fact, I don't even see. I have high respect for
people regardless of I mean, I look at people as individuals. Yeah,
you know, that's the main thing. How are you as a human being?
I don't care. I mean that's you know, because that's what counts.
Right. Yeah, if you're a dipstick, you're a dipstick. It
doesn't matter what your shoe size is. Right. So, well, now
here's the thing. So I said that, and she was really teed off
about it, and then she said, oh, it's okay after I explain.
Oh, I'm so sorry. I mean I didn't but um, it
just goes to show that one not knowing or having information and so, you
know, human being. It it's easy to create a u for a situation
to occur with a few uneducated words of one's own, you know. So
if you don't know, you just don't know. And that's personally. I
just don't think it's really a I mean, I just don't know why it
ever comes up, and be kind of saying like, oh, you have
black hair. Why would it come up? Yeah, I have black hair.
Who cares? You know? Oh? Well the yeah, you know,
well no, because we were getting to I was getting yeah, yeah,
I do at it. I wasn't saying like, you know, oh
so I was saying, oh so I was trying to open up to see
for her to hear a little bit of I guess history or stuff and that
was just a choice word that but it wasn't even because she said to me,
she explained to me oriental or are objects are actual physical objects and whatnot
she told me, And I said, oh, okay, I did not
know, and I learned my lesson about it. However, I've since heard
that that's not necessarily the case, and people, you know what, I
think, it depends on how you're taught and what you're taught, because like
for instance, I know it depends on where you go here in the US.
But a lot of people will use the word Scotch to describe somebody from
Scotland, which originally was the case, but that they themselves to a point.
Yes you have the Scotch Irish, which is completely different but the same
but not quite. But that's the quickest way to upset somebody from Scotland is
to call them Scotch. The Scotch is a drink, Scott is the person,
you know. But that's it is. It's fairly new. But I
mean again, Scotch was used as a pejorative for so long they just kind
of said, we don't like it. You know, some folks don't know
that, Um, it's a it's an urban rumor. I don't know if
it's true or false. I really don't know, right, but that's where
Scotch tape got its name. Now, this maybe this is what one of
those things that I've heard, is that why they have the little plaid,
why they have the yeah there because it was cheap. It was cheap,
it was replaceable. You could basically just use it temporarily and throw it away.
And folks just started calling it scotch tape, and so there was a
on the patient. Yeah, Scotch was a pejorative meant somebody who was absolutely
cheap, because Scots do have the reputation for being cheap, you know,
and there are plenty of Scottish jokes and being part Scott I can tell these
jokes. You know. Copper wire was invented by two scotsmen who were fighting
over a penny. You know. The Grand Canyon came about when a Scotsman
dropped a dime down a gopher hole. You know, just stuff like that.
There's a lot of that in different um from different ethnicities. Let's say
you hear that about it. I mean, we won't mention them now,
but you can come up with a bunch of them. I'll just on the
heels of that. I'll just say And I had mentioned this to you earlier,
which I thought was funny, and you you got to kick out of
it. But um, you know, since I did those videos with the
DNA, and I did one of it. So today I got a video
comment from a person and you know, it's all about the DNA and stuff,
and everybody comments and it seems to be a place to comment because people
have strong opinions and whatnot. Well this person lays out he says, very
so your hebrew from my results, And I'm like, what, where where
does that come from? I mean, it still blows me away. There's
no explanation, there's no I mean, it could be true. Like I
was telling Mark earlier. I said, Mark, it's not like anything goes
right. The further back you go, things could happen. But it's like,
how did he so at least at least prepare some sort of explanation as
to why you're saying this with with a lot of emphasis and like certitude.
You know. So I'm he broky and I find it funny. And I
still can't figure out what would compel a person to type that because you've got
to sit You've got to sit there and type it out, you know,
and it's like and there's no reviewing it, right, I mean unless he
reviews. You have to think is you know when I type something out,
I just make sure quickly that what I'm typing, and I still make mistakes.
Well, this person type of very short sentence and he reviewed it,
stamped it, and sent it on its way. So you know, no,
he said, so you know your Hebrew. He didn't say your Hebrew
right now? He said, so you know your Hebrew like like emphatically.
I was like, oh, how do I answer this? I can't say,
right, brother, I can't. I told you the way to answer
it is to just oh, exclamation point and just you know, have fun
with it. What the heck, I'm gonna tell you another one that's fun
about human beings. You're gonna dig this one. I don't think I've ever
told you this one. So this is a brand new one, but it's
classics. So years and years and years ago, I had another channel which
I still have for music playing and recording and all this stuff, and on
one at the time, I was totally involved in listening to exploring the music
of the band, which happens to be Canadian, by the way, so
it kind of ties in real nice at least you did, or at least
some of them are some I think there mostly are Canadian the band, and
so I was totally into the band. And so I've decided to record one
of their songs. I forget which one now, I'd have to think about
it, but whatever I decided to. You know how, they used to
dress up the band sort of like Western, sort of like old eighteen hundreds
and stuff, and their themes and their songs were about back then and the
war, Civil war and all sorts of stuff. Really cool band which is
called the band. Well, I said, I'm gonna record this song to
a video, but I'm also going to put a hat on like they put
a hat, and I had a beard and I was younger, and I
put a suit on to look kind of like the band while I played the
piano. And so I did the video, and so I got comments and
stuff, really nice this is and that, you know, blah blah blah,
and one guy you know, and by the way, the way I
dressed, I actually could have looked Hasidic jew as opposed to to what I
was going for, because it literally I literally looked like a Hasidic Jew.
I had the beard like this, I had the hat. It was a
white shirt and a suit and playing the piano. And one guy and so
there was comments and one guy says, try Jesus bro with a with a
with a you know, and like it's like, where does that come from?
Because he looked at me and whatever his world, you know, whatever
his Yeah, I know, I just can't. My brain doesn't go in
that direction. It's like, huh, well, he looked at me.
He said, this guy's a jew. Try Jesus Bro is what he?
Oh? I don't know, man, I just my brain doesn't connect that
way. I just it kind of boggles my mind that out of all of
the words that you could put together in a sentence to comment on somebody's music,
especially, you chose to put those words together and hit the hit the
hit the comment button. Yeah. I don't know. We've got answers to
the question, but they're different. So I don't want to be starting the
Canadian Civil War here. But Greg snow Crusher says that someone from Saskatoon is
a Saska Busheyan and Jim Dockerell says Saskatchewanians or saskatchew Wanners. Oh so would
that mean somebody who wants to move there is a saskatchewanna be thank you.
I'll be here all week. Try the veal. I know it wasn't well,
I just but still I can't figure out. I mean, I do
boring videos, and I know they're long and they're boring. There for people
who have never used this particular software before. I'm trying to show them the
basic ways. And you can't do this and be brief. You just can't.
You have to show every step. So I think, you know,
one of my shorter tutorial videos is like thirty five minutes long, but my
longest one is like fifty seven minutes long. They're long, they're boring,
I know it. So I don't get a whole heck of a lot of
trolls. So I haven't really had any comments like that, you know,
I've had one or two. So I just I'm kind of taken aback when
I see some of the stuff that other people deal with on their channels.
I mean, if you think about the amount of people out there watching consuming
videos in the whole thing and their individual because I don't know how to appreciate
properly if I can, if I can, if my brain can sort of
see it for the massiveness that it is of. How many people are out
there that have the possibility of putting your particular um sequence of thoughts together.
They have that ability, but that completely are not They're in a completely other
world in their head, and so anything is possible because there's so many people.
You know what I'm saying, It's just it's insane. I just I
just don't get it. That's just not me, man. I just wasn't
raised that way. I guess I don't know. But you know what,
there is the anonymity of the key board, and I know some people just
want to, you know, prove their superiority or prove their knowledge, or
massage their own egos. I get that, I know that. And but
people will type out stuff on the computer or through their handheld whatever that they
would never dream a saying to somebody's face. You know, I just don't
get that, man, the flexing of the keyboard muscles. I just don't
get that. It's like, you know, who are you trying to improve?
Who are you trying to prove something too. Who you trying to impress?
You know? Did I say, who are you trying to improve?
Try yourself? But yeah, it's just what they And the funny part is
is what they don't get is that it's very easy for the content creator to
go delete and then band that person eat that comment, and then ban that
person from commenting on their video. There's also we'll go ahead. Well,
what happens when they do that is the person will come along to another video
and go, you are a dim wad, you don't know what you're talking
about, and hit that comment button and they will see it, but nobody
else will. Yeah, so they'll go back to that video and they'll see
their comment there and they'll see it's getting absolutely zero attention because nobody else in
the universe will see it. So I think that's karmic revenge. Well,
you know, so there's also the idea of that when we our expectation,
or at least mine, is that people will be civil. Yeah, and
if you have a a qualm with someone, you use you use that form
that forum to you know, put your your your doubt over a video or
an issue and your troubles over it. But you do so in a way
where you're not doing it attacking a person's you know, I don't know how
to say, but you're you're sticking to the subject and trying to sess out,
you know, the information about the sess the subject and trying to put
forth your But you're not going for some sort of like the jugular sort of
kill. You're not going for a personal insult. If somebody is factually wrong
about something. You know, Columbus landed in San Diego, Um no,
actually I think you need to go back and check he was nowhere near San
Diego. That's one thing. But to come out and just start, you
know, to come out swinging, you know, you're an absolute baron and
YadA la, you're you're no better yourself, dude it. But there's also
that problem that people are on different you know, this is a big world,
and they're on different planes with different rules of engagement, different ways of
seeing things, and it's just a huge So my standards that I feel are
just don't don't necessarily and I might be right right like my standards, but
I might be wrong too. My standards were handed to like you can't help
but be a product for the most part, I believe of the people that
came before you, you were taught certain ideas and stuff. So you have
a certain sort of guidance that occurs, which is pretty it's a pretty effective
guidance what you get from your folks and your grandparents. I mean, it's
self evident. So you're kind of reflecting, and then you have your own
personal um teachable moments as you continue where you discard things or you or you
keep things, and that forms who you are. UM. The thing is
that, UM, if you look at it non personally, maybe I believe
that the way I was taught was right. But wait a second, if
you hurt yourself away from it, maybe it's not. Maybe some of it
is. And so there's people out there with different you know, of conducting
themselves. Sure, a lot of it's cultural, a lot of it is
environmental, a lot of it is social. It just depends on your upbringing
and what kind of person you are, and a lot of it there are
just Yeah, that's what I meant when I say what kind of person you
are. Some folks are just more aggressive than others. Some folks are a
lot more passive than others. You know, it just I mean, God,
there's personalities on every every little micro dot on the spectrum, and you
never know what's somebody is thinking, or what somebody is doing, or what
they're capable of doing, or what have you until it really comes down to
it. But I just I don't know. It just to me, a
certain level of civility is gone. And we've talked about that before. I
don't want to get off on that tangent again. For those of you who
are wondering, you can go to our website and click the Wayback Machine Trampled
into Footpot podcast dot com sponsored by Harneil Media Steve neilin in the chat are
you doing Steve? You can go back and check out that episode. But
there is a lot of need for more civility anymore. I mean, you
know, we're we're a lot of people say that, well, this country
has never been so divided. Well, yes it has. We kind of
fought a civil war, that's how divided we were. Nobody's busted out the
weapons yet. But I think people would just sit back, relax, take
a chill pill, and try being civil to one another. About half of
the perceived problems we have would just go away, you know, there's there's
what we have now. In my the way I see it, the Internet
is like the wild West rules, there's rules, but it's kind of very
much, you know, a free for all. And I think that it
serves the function of let's say, a release valve where steam. So it's
better to go back and forth at people that have whether it's political, cultural,
whatever the heck, the situation is back and forth, back and forth,
typing and then oh yeah, I'm going to write up this huge essay
and publish it and the and it's better for people to bust out with all
that than actual So I think that it's yeah, it's useful in in that
way. And if you have a doubt over the factual, a factual you
know, thing like whatever could be political or or historical or cultural, because
there's also or woodworking in itself like we yeah, well you can't do it
like that because you know, and or this tool is all that is fought
in a perfect situation, releasing that tension via the keyboard. So in a
way, it's it's healthier than daggers and spears in the streets with blood running
down the you know, sidewalk. Oh sure, but you said it's the
Internet is like the Old West. It's no, it's it's not the Old
West anymore. We're into Mad Max beyond Thunderdome territory now, you know.
It's it's take no prisoners, leave no survivors, you know. But yeah,
I agree with you there. I mean, you know you're gonna post
this big old wall of text. It's going to be ignored. And let's
be honest. Has anything like that ever changed anybody's mind? Maybe toward the
person who posted it? And that's about it. Yeah. No. One
time, I kept writing, and I think I've told you. I think
you one time, but somebody on the I kept when I would be writing
whatever topic on a video, I'd go to the and I'm typing fast and
i'd type it's and I always have the little um what's called the apostrophe creating
it is. And at some point I got into the habit of just going
with the it is. But it's not always app applicable. But I'm writing
because it's a it's a short format, and you know, I'm not an
English teacher anyhow, but it's not I know the difference, But I'm just
getting kept using that habit to be honest with everybody listening. I just got
that habit and I kept using it in the context of R and I just
kept going. And then one guy in a reply, he said, it's
and he didn't say anything else, you know whatever, and he said,
and I looked at it. I looked what I looked up A crap?
Okay, yeah, I said, damn, I've been using that, you
know, because I've just been running right through And it was a correction,
you know, And I was mindful of it from that point on. Um,
I still do it sometimes by mistake because I just keep going and I
but um, so you know what I'm saying, So correct sometimes corrections are
a good thing. Um, if you take it in the light of what
it is. Oh, you know, I'm should I feel ashamed and no,
it's but all depending on how it's done to you, now, be
honest. Was it me, No, because I am that guy. No,
you did it one time because I wrote it out. I think it
was in the description of one of our Yeah, and you said, hey,
it's it's here. I said, oh, okay, yeah, so
I understand it. I do it anyhow. It's it's one of those things
I am that guy, and I really do try not to be I must
spell things all the time, but I am completely totally supported by spell check.
I mean, when I'm writing stuff out, it wouldn't matter to the
folks listening on the podcast. But I could share a screen and show you.
I type everything out, descriptions and all that other stuff for videos or
for the podcast or anything. I type it all out in a word processor
and I spell check it. Then I'll copy it and paste it. So
because I studied English, to me, it's just it's one of those things.
It's we're trying to communicate in the medium that we have available to us,
and that is, in this case, written text. So let's I
was taught years ago the words mean things, So let's use the right word
to convey the proper meaning. That way, there's no confusion, you know.
But I'm that way with commas. I'm that way with apostrophees. When
people use the wrong sense of the wrong version of there or here, you
know, it sticks out like a sore thumb. Yeah you know, and
you see that all over the place. It's not just in our comments and
stuff like that. I mean, I was working in a casino. I'm
the floor manager and the guy from the cafe brings out the little sandwich board
and sets it out next to the cafe door. The specials of the day
was listed on it, and try our homemade soups t R Y A R
E. I'm like, dude, you're not even trying not our our Oh
you are, you know, belonging to us, not our are coming.
And he's like, oh oh yeah, oh man, that's just the way
I talk, right, But you know, no, no, The thing
is that he has to he was taught a teachable moment there, but you
know, you also have you also have to save face. So he's processing
it. But he's if he's uh, if he's if he can look in
the mirror, Um he could understand that, Okay, I was in air
and now I adjust for this and now I'm better for it. Uh huh.
You know what I'm saying as opposed to, you know, the ego
thing, which is a hard thing to get over because the ego thing dominates.
But you want to look professional and you don't want to look foolish.
It's like, okay, you need to fix your sign because that's wrong.
You don't want people making comments to you all night long. Yeah, you're
right, thanks, you know, okay, cool, you know it's I
try not to be obnoxious about it, and I let ninety nine point of
it ago. Unless somebody's being belligerent, then I'll sit there and I'll get
picky. You know, you left a dangling participle here. You know,
five out of ten would not read again things like that. What happens is
also and and and we will look at something, will read something, and
you'll find the error which sticks out and you have to sort of reread it
or many times you read it and you interpret what they're trying to get at.
And so not only are you reading the language, but you're having to
interpret within the language right because it's misspelled to figure out what and by by
not doing it clearly, it creates a situation where misunderstanding is going to occur.
And if this were in a high in a high level sort of like
uh, international discussion, one word could mean disaster, you know what I'm
saying. So there is a purpose for the words and using it grammatically correct.
Well, yeah, and you know, and I don't split hairs,
I mean, you know, and like I said, I ignore it.
Ninety nine poincurring percent of the time. I really don't mess with it because
I'm not out to humiliate anybody or anything like that. But it was to
save somebody some embarrassment. I'll say, you know what, dude, you
might want to I'll shoot somebody at PM and say you might want to fix
that. You know, it's you know, I don't know. Yeah,
I mean, I mean it's look it. It helps the person in the
long but anyhow you're helping the person. Well, but some things do bother
me, you know. And I'm hearing it more and more often by professionals
who should no better, you know, And it's it goes back to the
old less versus fewer. You know, less is a volume and amount fewer
is a quantity. So the sign up there in the grocery store ten items
or less is wrong. It should be ten items or fewer. Now we
don't say that, And I've accepted that it ain't going nowhere. It's here
to stay. But when I say, when I hear somebody on TV in
an ad say we have thirty three percent less moving parts, No, you
have fewer moving parts. You don't have less. You can say ninety nine
percent less caffeine. That's true. But you know, I guess I guess
I should just be fewer annoyed by that. Well, so okay, right,
So here's the thing. You know, So that annoyance of yours is
because you have your certain level of education and knowledge that um, I mean,
you see it, it sticks out like a sore thumb. There is
also another scenario which we've talked about with hobby. I see hobby there,
so I'll bring it up, um, and I'm wondering whether what you think
about it. So you have what we're what we're talking about grammatically, But
how about in conversation you'll have people with slang um. So look, um,
many times I will use certain slang um to sound more and I do
it automatically, like in the normal conversation. You know, you'll say little
phrases that are culturally that we're culturally aware of because they're in common use in
a certain sector of society. UM. And you'll use like maybe a little
bit more of a of a you know, country sort of little slang let's
say that eliminate certain words or changes. And you do these things because it's
just unfolding. In the normal con I do not speak when I'm talking with
people. It depends I could. I could speak specifically, I could do
that, um, but in a friendly conversation there's more of a lax for
me. And so you'll use certain words now since hobbies there there's things that
just because you use, don't don't mistaken. There's people that can only speak
that way, is what I'm getting at, Like that is their trajector,
that is there. They're sort of like rule of thumb. That's just how
they And there's people that are aware of such slangs and incorporate it, incorporate
them in an artistic you know what I'm saying. What do you think about
that? Well? Yeah, And a lot of it's regional, a lot
of it's cultural. A lot of it can just be I say regional.
A lot of it can be just I mean, you can zoom right in
and say, no, it's just this area of town they say this versus
something they say over on the other side of town. There's a lot of
that common everyday normal speech doesn't bother me. Slang has never bothered me.
I'll have to sometimes take somebody aside and say, hey, what does that
mean? Because I don't know if you should I laugh, or you know,
get out my boxing gloves. But you know that kind of thing.
I mean, that's common, and we do have different languages. You always
spoke to your friends differently than you spoke to your parents. And you spoke
to a teacher or a principle differently than you spoke to your parents or your
friends. You know, married guys know this. There is a special language
that you use around your mother in law. It's total avoidance of anything physical.
You don't want to discuss anything physical around your mother in law. And
it's just something that we all do and it's subconscious, we don't even know
we do it, and it's just, you know, people are people.
What the heck I mean? Let me um throw at you. As an
example, we're now in the year twenty nineteen, fixing to round the corner,
round the corner into um twenty twenty and but now here's going back.
I'm gonna throw a few slang at you from the third Okay, okay,
what do what does this mean for the folks out there? And Mark make
tracks? Somebody tells you make tracks? What does that mean? Mark?
Get out, leave quickly? Get out? Yeah, buzz off, shot
up, how about this one bumping guns? Talking yeah, or talking nonsense?
Oh okay, okay, how about giggle? Juice would have to be
alcohol of some kind. Whiskey, okay, whiskey, all right? How
about blow your wig? I guess it would have to be similar to blow
your mind that we would use today. Surprise or yeah, it's get excited
about something. Yeah, okay, now that's different. That's a little bit
different. Well, but you were in the you were completely I would say
that I would give you that one for sure. How about slip me five,
oh, handshake something like that? Yeah, exactly that. Um,
how about well, this one you're gonna understand. But cute as a bug's
ear. You know, my grandmother used to say that. But you're talking
about that very East Texas, so you know, I never understood it.
You know, how the heck would a bug zeer be cute? But I've
heard it. So Hobby's saying, those are great expressions of slang. Those
are not bad grammar. Well, that's true, those are not. But
we're we're talking about the whole subject, right, We're not talking about just
that I pointed you outby because we have had that conversation. But It's not
all about that particular thing. What I'm saying is that things in communication.
So if somebody what, we're okay, so I'll do this. What if
somebody were to bring something like that, one of those sayings into a conversation
just out of nowhere, in a group of friends or whatnot. Would it
turn a few ears? Maybe? Maybe not? What do you think it
might it? It's possible, I mean, you know, especially if you
haven't heard it, and it'll probably become in a cute as a bug zeer?
Where did you get that from? What is this? You know,
nineteen thirties, You think you're Paula Deane or something. You know, it
might get some comment, Yeah, but I don't know that. I mean,
we as Americans, and I'm specifically talking about Americans because I really have
no frame of reference with Canada or the UK. But we as Americans have
done so much to the English language, a little bit for the English language,
but a whole lot to the English language that nothing surprises me anymore.
And we've been creating our own slang on this continent since before we were a
country. I mean, you know the word dude, we use it every
day. Well, it originally meant somebody who was fancy and dressed up,
you know, said that the back East. Yeah, and you know that's
just one example of I mean, thousands and thousands of them, so normal.
And I also want to kind of qualify what I said earlier when I'm
talking about grammar and proper English, I technically I just mean in text,
my thing is using the wrong word. I will use the wrong word constantly.
I know what I want to say, it doesn't come out that way.
But because we're speaking face to face through cameras and headphones and what have
you, body language and context is a big thing, and you can follow
what I'm trying to say. So conversationally is completely different. I mean,
so we are speaking the same language, and by the way, writing and
speaking like you're saying, there are two differences because one is you have to
read it interpret it, and here we're having all sorts of signals occurring.
So I get. But now going off into another situation is what we are
speaking and the inflections that we have and Canadians have, let's say English,
sure, compared to the British right or the Australians and New Zealanders South Africa.
Um, I just you know that we the Americas, there's a certain
and this is what I was mentioning earlier on Canadians and Americans. And that's
a mouthful because of what we explained before, we're all Americans in a funny
way, it's true. And yet North Americans, Yeah, well, why
do we have the inflections that we have, which from Canada to America it's
pretty darn you know, similar, and yet it's a far dry from did
they develop even And it's like it's just a regional dialect of the same.
I mean, just look at the UK. When you look at the UK
as a whole, and we're not talking about Ireland. Ireland is not a
part of the UK, so we're talking England, Scotland, Wales. It's
roughly the same size as the state of Oregon. And look at the difference
and accents and dialects there. They go all over the place. There are
a ton of dialects over there and different accents. It's no, it's no
difference here. I mean, excuse me. We I have a different accent
than you have. You have a different accent than Daniel harru Has and a
different accent than Billy Burt has that is true that there is subtle I don't
see a different accent if I'm talking to Greg or if I'm talking to Jem
Dockerel. You know, it's it's just a regional accent to me. Okay,
you're right, You're okay, you're right. Well, so if I
listen to Harju or say billy um, I don't want to say because I
really don't want to say that. It's it's an obvious, just apparent in
your face sort of like difference. But there is that regional subtlety. But
I can still identify all these people that you mentioned as American, and I
can identify those people that you mentioned as Canadian as it being a of a
Canadian linguistic sort of you know, subtlety, although it's regional. Yeah,
I was getting ready to say, because if you talk to somebody like Trevor
Carter, who is in I don't remember if he's in Newfoundlander a Brunswick,
but m Newfoundland. Yes, he's in Newfoundland. You talked to Trevor Carter.
His accent is different from Greg, which is different from Jim Dockerell.
So they have their regional accents as well. Hey, Hey, Hey,
listen, Mark. Yeah, Um, I just I just read Billy Burr.
He says, hey, hey, leave me out of this low.
Well, Um, I just I just since he said that, of course
I'm going to have to single him out. So every time Billy, everywhere,
time we're hanging out, you know, and he starts talking, I
hear and I hear gunshots in the back, and it says Texas. But
see there again, even techs not not I'm kidding, but you know,
but even Texas, there are different accents in Texas. If I close my
eyes, I could see Billy on a horse galloping through the desert. If
I close my I'm just kidding. Billy is more central and central and western
Texas. Now you get somethingbody like my grandmother who's from East Texas over near
the Louisiana border. She was has sugar bugger, how y'all doing today?
That kind of thing. Okay, right, So it was completely different.
So even even within Texas, you can be completely different. Yeah. Yeah,
so, and that was one of her favorite phrases, by the way,
was sugar booger. I don't ask me how she thought that was a
good thing, because I really don't know. But here's here's the thing.
So so to answer my question, then, um, Marcus, so once
people said old or began settlement in the America's North America, at least from
my vantage point right now, barring the obvious, which I agree with what
you said, is as far as regional there was, it seems like it
all adapted away from England, let's say, pretty equally. Like it sounds
yes, you can have people out west and this and that, but there's
it sounds except that Boston, let's say, or New York. But I
think that the influence is so you know, worldwide, like in that big
city that you have what we hear in people of New York. But for
the rest of the day it's kind of there's a similarity. Yeah, yeah,
the the and it's just one of those regional things. I mean,
I keep having to come back to that. But it's also influenced from other
languages because the southern accent around the Appalachian Mountains and in down into Georgia.
Some parts of Georgia originally came from the Scotch Irish that settled there North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia. The far eastern Tennessee was the Scotch Irish who
settled there, and a lot of them were people who just got the heck
away from the Brits and wanted to get as far away as they could.
It wasn't even part of the United States yet, and that kind of infilt,
that kind of just moved outwards and spread outwards. And when you figure
our parents are the people who teach us how to talk. If they say,
like my grandfather did, if he didn't call it a tire, he
called it a tar that's what you think it is. You know, he
didn't use a tire iron to work on a tire, or he used a
tararn. But that's how he was taught to speak by his parents, who
were taught by their parents. Right, So you know, it's it's a
fascinating subject for me. A lot of people don't get into it at all.
They just couldn't care less. They'll continue to call that thing you drink
of out of, drink out of a bubbler instead of a drinking fountain or
a water fountain or a water faucet or whatever you decide. Those are variations,
you know. Yeah, but it's but so long as we all know
what we're trying to say, I think the whole point of language is to
communicate, exactly, to communicate ideas, laws, contractual, It's it's to
communicate. Uh, it's that's the purpose of it. And as we stand
here now, the English that we speak obviously UM as a whole, like
generally speaking in North America, it can be broken down as we've mentioned.
But going back in time to its inception, which is a gray sort of
fading in, UM sounded nothing like what we speak. If I don't know
if you've seen that video UM where the guy you go back to old English
and it's completely different. He reads beowulf in and it's like you want to
get absolutely confused. Try Welsh. Gaelic is confusing enough because they like to
throw silent letters in there. Try Welsh. I mean they've got letter combinations
that make absolutely zero sense, and it's all consonants, you know, with
a vow thrown in. I think that's just where they take a breath,
you know. It's like you have that one huge that down. I think
I showed it to you on the map and showed you the name of the
place. I cannot say the town's name, but it ends with time to
sileo and that's as close as I can get to it. That's a crazy
language. And that brings up another thing there, and that you were talking
about American slang. You want to confuse somebody from outside of the country use
American slang. They have absolutely no clue what you're talking about, because I
mean, just something as innocent as you go over to you go over anywhere,
a chick is a little yellow thing that goes peep peep. It's not
some female walking down the street. Yeah, and that no matter where you're
from, and you see that chick. Yeah, everybody, yeah, what
you mean? They know what you mean, but you're saying that. They
don't necessarily like it, but they know what you mean. You go over
to the UK and it's bird, right, you know, look at these
two birds over here. They know that that means the same thing as chick
over here. And I would know that if I were in England and had
to hear it because of funny enough, through a song which was Norwegian,
would the Beatles because he calls you know, the chick a bird exactly And
I knew that because of the story. But it's funny how that works right
now, Yeah, exactly, but you. But again, they're speaking in
the language the slang, using the slang in the vernacular that they know and
understand, and we picked up on it because their music was so popular.
But we've been we've been on this podcast now for an hour, we've been
recording for an hour, and now I'm going to get controversial, okay,
because I'm going to say here, straight up in front of everybody, proudly,
all accents are false and they're affected. It's a put on, and
I can prove it. What do you mean? All accents are fake.
The Southern accent is fake, the Midwest accent is fake. The British accents
are fake. I hear Canadian accents are fake and I can prove it.
All right, sing, when you sing, you lose your accent. Well,
wait a second, that's a different story. No, it's not a
different story. That's what I'm getting at. When you sing, you lose
your accent. Well, if Tom Jones does not sound like he's from Wales,
listen to him speak. But there's another beatles sound like they were from
Liverpool. Hold on, but can I that's true English? Okay? So
it was a That's that's the point. I was trying to make FA's true
English with no accents at all. Listen to any of them sing Okay,
but I'm gonna have to see But but are you serious about this? I'm
serious about this. It's something that I've noticed after almost fifty nine years of
life on planet Earth. No pushbacks coming. But I'm gonna ask you can
I right, this is what my thought. This is what I think.
So I see what you're saying, because it's like worldwide, all these people
are busting out to um, you know whoa pussy cat? Whoa? Anyway,
So I get, but it's as funny as crap. Um. But
if you think about that song, it is so ridiculous. I don't even
know what to tell you. And it was a hit. Yeah, I
mean I I we what pussy cat whoay? A millionaire? I know it.
So with that's end, by the way, and that that should that
that says it all there, society, everything just down the tree. That
just says it all. Um. With that said, my pushback comes in
this fashion. Um, when people are in the singing mode, what is
happening is that they're actually using another language in the context of it's a discipline
that's occurring that they have learned because when you say words, so for instance,
UM, I'm gonna walk right out if you say that that if you
if you if you use that sentence, I'm gonna walk right out. Um,
you're saying it. But if you're singing it, yes, there's a
similarity, but there's something different going on. Um you're using I'm a walk
right out or whatever, and you're using tonalities that you've genres that you've heard.
So it's a different language. So that's my arguments for that. I
get I think you get what I'm saying. Vowels are rounder um, Stresses
are put in different areas of a word. Letters are enunciated. Yeah,
if you go down south, I go down down south, and I spent
just enough time down south that I drop rs and gs when I'm down there.
I don't go swinging. I'm swinging. You know, things like that,
I'm not driving. I'm driving. But but are you trying to tell
me that we should you? But when you sing it, you'll say driving
or swinging unless you purposely change it. No, you don't say driving.
Oh I say you don't say that. You only say driving. If you're
from long Island. Excuse me, Long Island. Wait wait wait, I
am, and I've never I've never even said I've never I've never even said
driving guy, yeah said it, But well I am besides a little bit
too much to make the point. But I'm saying, usually say singing wise,
you spred up my whoping. Usually say dravn or whatever, and and
you do create that situation. But so okay, So my whole point is
it's it's a different lad, it's a different So that I agree with you,
Yeah, I agree with you wholeheartedly on everything that you just said,
but it only goes to bolster my case and help me to prove my point
that when you're singing, all of the accent is gone unless you purposely do
it, unless you purposely twanging up for a country song or something like that,
all of the accent is gone. And that is true English. Well,
I mean, that's that's that's just my opinion. I could be wrong,
but i've you know, it's just something that I've noticed. You can
and take somebody like Brian Johnson, the singer for a CDC. Everybody understands
it. He's got a loud, screeching voice. But if you've listened to
him speak. He's hard to follow. He's got such a thick Jordy accent.
Yeah, it's just holy cow, that come out of the same guy.
I see what you're saying. So in the singing realm, in the
musical realm, everybody can understand it, exactly. It's an international thing.
I see what you're saying. Unless you're Joe Cocker, then nobody can understand
it. I understand Joe Cocker. Well, yeah, but you're bilingual,
so you know that helps. He's a good singer. Joke, I'm not
saying he's a bad singer. Joe Cocker and Van Morrison are the two singers
that are the hardest to understand. Morrison can create situations because of his style
what he's trying. You know, he can't create little situations where you're like
what, um, yeah, what did he just say? So Billy and
Harvey just had a little two sentence back to back here. Um, if
you're from England, you say drive ink uh and then and then uh.
Hobby said no, it's drive ink um. And I just wanted to say
that with Jamie Page or a good friend Jamie Page. He does have the
ability to or he's from that Cockney sort of variation, and said, up,
well he's he said as much um uh. He said as much um.
But in any event, when he talks, and he'll finish a sentence
with um. See, I said, sentence sentence. It's actually sentenced,
right, but I say sentence. But we're but we're speaking, and you're
speaking quickly and we do drop letters. Okay, okay, all right.
I just picked it up myself. I said, sentence sentence, what my
top sentence in any event? I just I just self realized what he just
you just did. You just did Texas, Massachusetts, and Vermont all the
same time, and I just hope you didn't hurt yourself. I just started
to realize I'm gonna end up not being at a speak. So so here's
the thing, um, Jamie Page. At the end of a sentence,
sentence, he will say damn dude. He will say um instead of think,
he'll say think think and you'll throw in an F and so he'll do
little variations like that. So they were just bringing up I wanted to put
that out there because I find it interesting. Not all British people or English
you use that variation. But I've heard Jamie Page in natural conversation without you
know, being jokey talking and using that bit and you know, so whatever.
I just wanted to put that out there, that those variations, and
again it's a regional dialect and there's a lot of that. In some regions
over there, they will replace the thh with a V. So it's not
your brother, it's your brother brother. Yeah. It various regions have various
different things, and that's that's all great. I mean, you know why
not, because I believe that the language is an evolutionary thing. It totally
is. The language we're speaking today would would be under would have been understood
back in the twenties, but if you go back into the eighteen twenties,
probably probably not a lot of it would be understood. Well, probably not
a lot of it would. I mean the use of I mean, for
instance, I don't know if that's an exa good example, but the words
that we use within it in a in a laid back sort of way inside
of our sentence structures, they might not They're like what and that might be
like a red flag to them that these people are definitely not from our timeline.
Uh, you know what I'm saying. So the words are there,
some are new, but some little cultural, modernized cultural things we use are
inside of these sentences. And they might say, well, wait, that
that doesn't sound right. These people are not from our timeline, yeah,
or not from this area, you know, they're they're wow. I mean,
we don't say thee or thy anymore or thine, but some places they
did, you know. And you also have to remember that back then you
had a whole bunch of different cultures coming together. You know, you had
German immigration. When when the American revolutionaries fought the Red Coats, it wasn't
just a bunch of British guys over there. There were Germans, there were
Scots, there were Irishmen, there were people from all kinds of nations in
the British army over there, and those who stayed and wave upon wave of
immigrants from all over the world. Words have evolved, were we have you
know, well, just nothing's more American than a Hamburger. Well it's not
strictly speaking American, and Hamburger means from Hamburg, Germany. You know.
So we had all these influxes of other languages that have added to our language
and it's just be kind of become, you know, the stereotypical melting pot.
Yeah, you know. But somehow in the last I don't know,
twenty years or so, we've gone from creamy to superchunk and I don't get
it. But that's another story for another day. You know it, you
know, And and I do like the evolution. It's a fun thing.
And that's one of the reasons why it's so fascinating to me. It's I
like to watch the language evolve, sometimes for the better, sometimes not so
much for the better, but either way, it's a fun ride. It
so it is, and you know, it's funny how we hold on too.
I was going to say that that a word that they never knew and
would think as strange as supersize. Supersize me please, Yeah, uh so
that's like that's something that has has uh there there there goes something and it's
something I'm gonna have to look up. But you go back a certain distance
in the future. The word jumbo has no meaning, sir, in the
future. Excuse me, in the past, I said, the future.
I meant to see saying the wrong word is my thing. You go to
a certain distance in the past and I'll look it up. The word jumbo
has no meaning jumbo shrimp. How dare they no the word jumbo. Let's
see, the word jumbo did not exist before the year eighteen sixty. Okay,
the word jumbo came from Jumbo, the elephant. Jumbo was an elephant
who was went. He was born in Egypt and via rather like the word
always screws me up circutus root, I guess you would say, ended up
in the US. He was in the UK for a long time and he
was a huge elephant, gigantic, and people just went nutso over it.
It was a huge attraction. And he was in the UK. His shoulder
height was he was ten and a half feet tall at the shoulder, just
ginormous thing, and people just went nutso for it. And the name Jumbo
just kind of started being added to everything that was big. But you go
back to eighteen fifty and said jumbo and when nobody would have any idea what
the heck you were talking about. So it's just little things like that.
How do these little colloquialisms enter into our vocabulary? Where do these words come
from? Rock and roll? That was not something you would say to anybody
in public in the twenties or thirties because it was a slang term for doing
the nasty. But then it was attached to the music in the fifties and
brother, look out here we go. Yeah, it's just it's an evolutionary
process that I think is funny and I'm a lot of fun to follow.
Another thing to mention is that I do not know this from the past,
but I know it from recent past, say eighteen hundreds to now. And
I don't know going back in time, but I can I suspect that it's
true, and I want to tell me and the guys out there to tell
me. The English language has exponentially grown in the amount of words that are
available to us to describe to fine and so on. We have a huge
could rin of fricking words stewing in there now, but back then was much
more limited. What say you to a point? Yes to a broader point.
It was also convenience because formal education as we know it, where kids
went to school from kindergarten at age five on up till they graduate high school
at age eighteen, is relatively new. I mean, my great grandfather went
through sixth grade and that's as far as he went. You were sent to
school to learn how to read, write, to arithmetic, and be able
to handle business and communicating with other people. And then that was enough.
You had enough education. We need your butt back here on the farm.
We got hey to bail. And the first person in my family to graduate
high school was my grandfather, my dad's dad, So that's relatively new.
So we everybody had a limited vocabulary. Some people learned to read and write
early and were just voracious readers. Some people weren't. They didn't just didn't
find it useful. So you had limited vocabularies and limited knowledge kind of working
against each other. So depending upon where you go. Yeah, we had
fewer words. I'm just saying the English language. Yeah, in the English
language period, with the advent of technology and constant inventions both physical and you
know, advances in medicine, advances in science, and new ideas being brought
up. We have new words added to the English language all the time.
I mean, just look at since the Internet came out. You know,
they were the little smiley face that we put on the end of a sentence
in a Facebook post so folks will know we're kidding. Or word. Yeah,
well they started out as emoticons. Now they're emojis. So we've gone
from smiley face to emoticons to emoji in a span of about ten years.
So that's you know, two words we've added right there. But it just
expands outwards. You know, look at words like selfie or people now use
google as a verb just google it, right, That would be insanity back
So what I'm getting at also is that if somebody it's how much more limited
was the language back then? It had to be a much more basic thing?
Is It's my assumption I would agree it would have to be a process
of elimination. I mean, you've only got a certain number of things you
can talk about. You're out on the farm with somebody who you've been with
for ever since you got married. You don't have a whole heck of a
lot to talk about other than what the dogs stepped in this morning. So
yeah, vocabulary is going to be pretty limited, pretty limited, And so
there wasn't a lot of use for adding words. What are we going to
talk about tonight or over um, I don't know, maybe rocks or let's
go over all. Yeah, of the barn. I just there's a limited
you know amount, sure, and I don't want to say that it was
that limited where it's like rock food. You know. No, it wasn't
quite that bad. I mean, I'm sure it was in some places.
But but but yeah, there were far fewer things because technology really hadn't taken
off. I mean there were certain things. I mean, somebody had to
name the saddle. Yeah, you know. But and now let me go
ahead and blow a few minds out in the chat here. Since I mentioned
saddles, people will tell you that there's two words. Well, there's three
words that have no rhyme. They are purple, orange, and month,
and all three of them have rhymes in the English language. Oh, it
does have a rhyme, and I'll link that two saddles. The word is
kurple, which is a strap that goes around the hind quarters of a horse.
Also, it's also referred to as the hind quarters of the horse.
It's the kurple c U R p l E. Google it and uh the
grunth. He totally ignored my purple norple. Uh mentioned I got it,
I just didn't want to acknowledge it. And the rhyme for month is the
word grunth. It's a Hindu holy book. No, and the rhyme for
orange is blo orange. It is a place in Wales. So wait,
wait, wait, wait for for for what say the month one again grunth
g r u n thh it's a Hindu holy text. So yes, all
three of those have rhymes, okay, are exact because you can use words
that that end up with the uh the right month uh dunce at the is
it rhyme? Okay? Yeah month once it doesn't rhyme? No, you
could probably get away with it in a poetic thing. You could get away
with it in a poem or a song and maybe a limerick. But you
know, yep, I mean, hey, you know you did it.
Be impossible, there's no escape. I do want to mention that we do
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usually and this is Inside Baseball a programming announcement, we usually record on Tuesday
nights. However, someone very near and dear to me, my wife is
going in for surgery next Tuesday, so we will be recording next week on
Monday. So that will be Monday, the twenty fifth in November, so
I won't be here for Tuesday. So if the podcast will be released on
Tuesday as normal, it's just we won't be recording next Tuesday. So set
your calendars back one day and everybody will be cool. Yeah, be here
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live, but we're gonna do it Monday, and then I believe we'll be
back to our regularly scheduled programming times after that, right yeah, yeah,
barring complications, of course. It's just it's just one of those things,
you know, life is what happens while you're busy making other plans. John
Lennon Two other things. One, I didn't get to the actual thing that
I had stored for this episode. One we never got around to it.
That's that a work. We didn't preplant anything on this episode, and we
just went into into where we went. And it's a surprise where we went
and very interesting too. Yeah. I had a lot of fun. I
like this kind of thing. But you see how it works, though,
Yeah, I do. I dig. I dig the back and forth.
I dig the just the little digressions, and you can it's almost like conversations,
pain paint mental images. And I could see the last car of the
train falling off the track early on, and it was the domino effect,
you know. Then in the next car got pulled over, the next car
got over, the next car got pulled over, and here we are in
the engine, going, oh, that's exactly the story. We ended up
where we didn't expect it. And we walked down a path that forked off
into different directions and it kept on branching out and eventually we ended up at
the bottom of the ravine looking up, you know, to the top of
the canyon and thinking to ourselves. What I ended up talking about a subject
that I think is a fun one, and I never even got into the
great fricative shift. Oh well, maybe for another I had topic I had,
I had some cool stuff lined up. Couldn't even touch it. Save
it for next week. Couldn't even touch it. Man, all right,
catch you guys next time. Peace out, Thank you very much for joining
us. Y'all have a good night. Trampled underfoot