1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,879 Speaker 1: Arrow dot net, aarr Oe dot net. It's more than 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,559 just a podcast. It is several as in like twenty 3 00:00:07,679 --> 00:00:10,679 one of the most popular ones. View from the Writing Instrument. 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,640 You read the books, but do you know the author? 5 00:00:14,759 --> 00:00:18,079 That is the entire concept behind that. Listen to their 6 00:00:18,399 --> 00:00:21,640 voices in the interview, and then go back in there 7 00:00:21,879 --> 00:00:24,679 and listen to the voices in the stories they share. 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,079 View from the Writing Instrument from Ero dot net r 9 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:34,240 r Oe dot net. Enjoy your exploration those odd as 10 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,880 well as old saints phrases, idioms. You know those things 11 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:39,960 that your family and friends usually came up with, and 12 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,759 they came from out of nowhere. Well, the thing is, 13 00:00:42,799 --> 00:00:45,000 even though they didn't make sense, they had to come 14 00:00:45,039 --> 00:00:48,759 from somewhere. Who, what, where, why, when? And how. Some 15 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,920 of those old and odd sayns are not only ancient, 16 00:00:52,039 --> 00:00:54,719 but still carry a powerful punch even today. In fact, 17 00:00:54,759 --> 00:00:57,600 I live by one of those old saints. Winning is 18 00:00:57,719 --> 00:01:00,840 a choice. The goal of these episodes is to help 19 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:05,359 preserve not only a language, but lessons in life. My 20 00:01:05,519 --> 00:01:10,159 name is Arrow. Warning, this episode, as my mother would say, 21 00:01:10,519 --> 00:01:14,079 involves a filthy mouth. We're going to use curse words 22 00:01:14,239 --> 00:01:18,480 once again. We have curse words in this episode, who 23 00:01:18,519 --> 00:01:21,799 now that we get that cleared up the subject shit 24 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:25,319 a brick? I mean, how many people every day use 25 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:29,480 this statement as part of their everyday street slang. Mom 26 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,239 and Dad shit a brick last night when they found 27 00:01:32,239 --> 00:01:35,760 out that I stole my brother's Ford pickup. History still 28 00:01:35,799 --> 00:01:38,640 shows that the phrase shit a brick is still seen 29 00:01:38,719 --> 00:01:41,799 as being crude. Yet things are softened up a bit 30 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,439 when you take note of it having clear logic while 31 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:48,040 affecting things culturally. So what does it mean to shit 32 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:52,680 a brick? Extreme shock, frightened, or astonished. The expression came 33 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,319 into being during the early part of the nineteen hundreds. 34 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:59,040 American soldiers and working class people adopted it in a 35 00:01:59,079 --> 00:02:02,599 way of just shit an expression, it's actually part of 36 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,879 a much older bodily metaphor, linking it to a more 37 00:02:05,959 --> 00:02:10,280 human fear, the loss of bowel control. Scared shitless is 38 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:15,879 connected to this. The word brick represents hard, heavy, and impossible, 39 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:18,199 so to shit a brick is really kind of over 40 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:20,800 the top. It is a bad reaction sometimes, but it's 41 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:23,479 clear what it's trying to say. The reason why it 42 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:25,719 stood the test of time is because it creates a 43 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:31,360 mental image. It signals intensity. It passes the polite language barriers, 44 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:35,639 going straight to real life human feelings. One time blue 45 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:40,520 collar slang is now a common shorthand. For surprise, I 46 00:02:40,599 --> 00:02:44,439 mean shit a brick. We will when that team loses again, 47 00:02:45,159 --> 00:02:47,759 something our parents would say. My name is Arrow.