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Speaker 1: It's almost like one stop shopping, except you can get

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shopping involved. Arrow dot net a r roe dot net.

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Those old saints, phrases, idioms, you know, those things your

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family and friends would usually come up with that came

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from out of nowhere, and only sometimes they actually made sense. Well,

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they had to start somewhere, right, Who, what, where, why,

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when and how. Some of those old saints are not

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only ancient, but still carry a powerful punch even today,

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for instance, like the saying that I live by every

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single day winning is a choice. The goal of these

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episodes is to help preserve not only a language, but

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lessons in life. My name is Harrow. Know Your Onions,

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being that it originates from the early twentieth century, points

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directly at the American farmers, ranchers, and homesteaders who lived

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on Mother Earth. They relied on the planet to give

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them those sweet apps from the soil. And if you

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know your onions, you know none of them are the same.

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Know Your Onions was first recorded in public in nineteen

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oh eight in a poem describing an experience with a horse.

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It didn't appear again until nineteen twenty two in a

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Harper's Bizarre story based on someone who truly knows their stuff,

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they know their onions. The French say it was a

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clean version of someone saying know your ass. Well, they

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know their onions. Then it makes you wonder if oc

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White in nineteen oh eight, while writing the poem about

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a horse, knew that his horse actually had the strength

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to figure stuff out. Here's the twist. In the eighteen forties,

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which is much much earlier, the educational system cut up

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onions to teach kids how to use the power of coins,

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the bigger coins versus the smaller coins. Now sniff your fingers. Ooh.

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Then comes Thomas Talbot's onions. He is credited for taking

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the phrase to a bigger crowd. But here's the thing,

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there is no proven history. Therefore mister Thomas Talbot doesn't

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get credit. Hmmm, well, no ur onions then right, I'm arrow,

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and that's something our parents would say.