Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the.
Speaker 1: Air and everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Big Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny g Radio final day here on the East Coast.
Speaker 1: I'm heading back to La La Land, have a very
Speaker 1: early flight this morning, so I said, ah, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get up when you shouldn't be awake, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start talking into a microphone. And here we are
Speaker 1: with this edition of The Fifth Hour. On Mountain Day,
Speaker 1: not Mountain time zone Day. Today August eleventh, this Sunday
Speaker 1: is Mountain Day. What the f is that? I don't
Speaker 1: really know. I think it has something to do with
Speaker 1: Japan Mountain Day, relatively new holiday. We are told there
Speaker 1: aren't many traditions associated with because they just made it up.
Speaker 1: The inaugural national ceremony form Mountain Day was held in
Speaker 1: the Japanese Alps, so not that long ago. I don't
Speaker 1: know how these things happen, but it is National Mountain Day,
Speaker 1: so celebrate accordingly, foh drizzle. On this podcast, we'll get
Speaker 1: to engagement farming. Also, I have been remiss over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Here we have not gotten to the word of the week,
Speaker 1: or in this case, we'll have multiple words of the week.
Speaker 1: But we begin with this after many many days of
Speaker 1: messages coming in regarding a recent malad monologue, well not
Speaker 1: even that recent three year old mal monologue that still
Speaker 1: has legs, I would like to present to you, the
Speaker 1: home consumer here on the fifth hour, the single biggest
Speaker 1: board that we have done. It is Big Bend's Big
Speaker 1: Board of viral monologue moments, otherwise known as engagement farming. Yes,
Speaker 1: we are in the engagement farming business. We are paid
Speaker 1: to engage. That is out of necessity because we have
Speaker 1: bills to pay. But the fact is doing an overnight
Speaker 1: sports radio show. And you know how this works by
Speaker 1: consuming the product that we work in a disposable form
Speaker 1: of entertainment. We do all right, So say it is
Speaker 1: every single day there's a new fire to put out,
Speaker 1: there's a new outrage that we must discuss in the
Speaker 1: world sports. And ultimately, it is a fungible situation that
Speaker 1: more times than not, I will do a mal monologue
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden it pops out there
Speaker 1: into the microphone, into your ear drums, and you chew
Speaker 1: it up and you spit it out. Maybe you like it.
Speaker 1: Maybe it didn't hit the mark for you. It wasn't
Speaker 1: to your taste. Everyone's taste buds are different. You didn't
Speaker 1: see eye to eye with the mal monologue. But that's it. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: it's done right. You think of it in the same
Speaker 1: context of tissue. You gotta blow your nose, You need
Speaker 1: a tissue. When you're done blowing your nose, you throw
Speaker 1: the tissue away. How about you go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: You like that toilet paper, right, use the toilet paper,
Speaker 1: take care of business, and then eventually you're like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm done with that, and da hey, goodbye. You flush
Speaker 1: it away, go fast food. We'll get some ketchup. You
Speaker 1: will pack it the ketchup. Maybe get some honey mustard
Speaker 1: sauce with your chicken. Okay, use it up, and when
Speaker 1: it's done, you have to throw it away. How about
Speaker 1: a plastic fork. Maybe you went out to get some
Speaker 1: nice Chinese food and Panda Express and you're like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll use one of the plastic forks there, and then
Speaker 1: you're done with it. You throw it away. How about
Speaker 1: a cupcake? You want a cupcake, You wrap that cupcake
Speaker 1: in that little wrapper. You're done with that. Boom, eat
Speaker 1: the cupcake, throw that thing away. So the point is,
Speaker 1: get to the point, please that often these monologues are
Speaker 1: just background noise. They're elevator music. You skip through them
Speaker 1: without missing a beat, and that's it. We're done. That's all.
Speaker 1: But every once in a while that is not the case. Now,
Speaker 1: the normal lifespan of a Mallard monologue, I know you're
Speaker 1: curious about this. How long does it last? How long
Speaker 1: does that malar monologue list? I'll tell you so, the
Speaker 1: average Mallard monologue lifespan is anywhere from a couple of
Speaker 1: hours to twenty four to forty eight hours. I would
Speaker 1: argue I've done this for a long time that the
Speaker 1: malar monologue on average, the lifespan is that of a waterfly. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're unfamiliar in the entire span of the planet,
Speaker 1: the mayfly, waterfly has the shortest lifespan of just about
Speaker 1: anything on the planet, meaning the average lifespan of a
Speaker 1: mayfly these waterflies is less from less than five minutes
Speaker 1: to one to two days, from less than five minutes
Speaker 1: to one to two days. So the average if you're
Speaker 1: living a long life as a waterfly, the may fly
Speaker 1: you're living forty eight hours. You've lived a long, full,
Speaker 1: complete life, and then it's time to check out. So
Speaker 1: the point is they don't last very long. But as
Speaker 1: we said, every now and again, every now and again
Speaker 1: we paint an oil painting a masterpiece. Doesn't happen often,
Speaker 1: but it does happen, and it normally happens when you
Speaker 1: least suspected everyone's feeling all groovy after a great monologue,
Speaker 1: but you're like, well, I don't know, did that really resonate?
Speaker 1: And I bring this up because when that happens, we
Speaker 1: go from a waterfly that doesn't live more than two
Speaker 1: days to a sequoia tree in the mighty Redwood forests
Speaker 1: of California and those living metaphorically for two thousand years.
Speaker 1: Those giant sequoia trees are some of the greatest things
Speaker 1: you can see as a human being being around the planet,
Speaker 1: and those things live for two thousand years. So without
Speaker 1: further ado, we now present the most comprehensive, most important
Speaker 1: big board. It's Big Benz big board, four leaf clover style.
Speaker 1: These are the four Malar monologues that got turned into
Speaker 1: the Mona Lisa of monologues, the gold standard. We crossed
Speaker 1: the rubicon, clear sailing, smooth, open waters, as long as
Speaker 1: you can, as far as you can see, as far
Speaker 1: as you can see. So here they are now I
Speaker 1: will present them in reverse order in honor of what
Speaker 1: has transpired the last couple of weeks at this Olympic
Speaker 1: event in Perie, and in the qundary of it all.
Speaker 1: So number fall number four on Big Ben's big board,
Speaker 1: four leaf clover style. These only four most memorable mal
Speaker 1: monologues at this time. Now, maybe I'm forgetting something. You
Speaker 1: can help me out, so pay close attention alf the
Speaker 1: Alien Opiner and some of the other boys that have
Speaker 1: been with the show for a long time. So number four,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put someone Biles in number four, and sim oone.
Speaker 1: Biles is someone I've talked about maybe two or three
Speaker 1: times in my life. She's not someone that I pay
Speaker 1: close attention to. We do meat and potatoes, sports talk, gymnastics.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this not eat and potatoes.
Speaker 1: It's not. However, the rare and appropriate Malard monologue when
Speaker 1: it pops up and there's something going on involving Simone
Speaker 1: Biles and there's not much else out there, then we
Speaker 1: will put that in the microwave. We'll heat it up,
Speaker 1: take it out, We'll enjoy it, We'll partake in the feast.
Speaker 1: So Simone Biles is, I've told a very good Olympic gymnast.
Speaker 1: She also quit back in twenty twenty one in a
Speaker 1: tremendously embarrassing move there for Simone Biles and Team USA gymnastics.
Speaker 1: So I did at Malar monologue. I pointed it out,
Speaker 1: and over the last almost a month now, I've been
Speaker 1: getting messages. Even when I was in Vegas last weekend
Speaker 1: at the Malor Meet and greet, hanging out with the people,
Speaker 1: got several messages from people that stumbled into the monologue
Speaker 1: who wanted to say hello. People I've worked with in
Speaker 1: the past, people that I haven't talked to in years.
Speaker 1: They still have my number and they're sending me messages.
Speaker 1: And so the Simone Biles monologue was something I did,
Speaker 1: as I said, twenty twenty one, but it has been
Speaker 1: immortalized because of a documentary, a docuseriies on Simone Biles
Speaker 1: on Netflix. So on this one, I've been getting some
Speaker 1: wokester dudes and a lot of angry middle aged women
Speaker 1: in a fury defending their hero. They love Simone Biles.
Speaker 1: How dare anyone have a dissenting opinion about the Olympic
Speaker 1: gymnast quitting on her teammates in twenty twenty one? So
Speaker 1: I'm getting these messages and people are going to great
Speaker 1: lengths to try to get a hold of me, tracking
Speaker 1: down email addresses, ranting and raving about that social media platforms,
Speaker 1: Oh no, hell, Bill Miller. The attacks are pretty elementary.
Speaker 1: These women aren't that bright. They're not, and so they'll
Speaker 1: they'll send messages like, hey, you know you're middle age,
Speaker 1: you're fat, you don't have any hair, which is it's
Speaker 1: what low information people do. We kind of know that
Speaker 1: when you attack someone, you often look for weak spots.
Speaker 1: That's how you do it, that's how you attack. And
Speaker 1: so since they can't really attack the quality of the monologue,
Speaker 1: what they do is they attack my vanity and they
Speaker 1: attack my appearance and my place in life and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. And I get it. I mean, these are
Speaker 1: lazy people. These are people that sit around watch Netflix
Speaker 1: documentaries all day. They don't have much of life. I
Speaker 1: understand it. But I would like to thank the people
Speaker 1: at Netflix for opening this up to think that I
Speaker 1: did a monologue that I had not even thought about.
Speaker 1: Why would I in all these years in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: Here we are in twenty twenty four, and the monologue
Speaker 1: is still alive. It's still got legs. That is a
Speaker 1: Sequoia tree monologue that I'm getting angry messages from people
Speaker 1: who I guess they might think they're not that bright.
Speaker 1: They're kind of stupid people. Maybe they think that just happened.
Speaker 1: It's a recent monologue. I don't know. You'd have to
Speaker 1: ask them, but I did learn over the years there's
Speaker 1: certain rules of etiquette that you have to follow. And
Speaker 1: one of the big ones. We talk about this from
Speaker 1: time to time. When you're at the beach on a
Speaker 1: nice summer day, you're doing your thing, I just yeah,
Speaker 1: having a good time. Well, the birds come over. They
Speaker 1: want to eat, they want to have a nice meal.
Speaker 1: And if you start feeding the seagulls. What happens is
Speaker 1: one of those birds going tadda. Yes, you start feeding
Speaker 1: the seagulls, and all of us sudden there's a bunch
Speaker 1: more that come in, right, And so addressing trolls is
Speaker 1: like feeding the seagulls. If you feed one, a dozen
Speaker 1: more are going to appear all of a sudden, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna there's gonna be convoys of seagulls that come in.
Speaker 1: Let's call them seagulls, monsters, whatever you want. You feed
Speaker 1: the monsters, and then you get more monsters that show up,
Speaker 1: and they're just trying to get a reaction, and they
Speaker 1: got no lives. And I get it. I understand. You're
Speaker 1: in a tough spot in life. You've got nothing going on,
Speaker 1: and you're watching Netflix documentaries by yourself, and you want
Speaker 1: to defend your girls. Simone Biles, I am flattered. I
Speaker 1: am honored. You do not understand Again, I go back
Speaker 1: to my point in this business, what I do for
Speaker 1: a living, I have Every day I come into my studio,
Speaker 1: I get ready for the show, and my takes have
Speaker 1: a lifespan of a mayfly. At the longest, it's usually
Speaker 1: forty eight hours. So the fact that this is three
Speaker 1: years old. God bless you, God bless you, and you're
Speaker 1: so stupid you don't even realize that. Every time I
Speaker 1: get one of these messages, I'm like, Wow, that is
Speaker 1: such a great monologue. I need more of that. It's
Speaker 1: amazing now. Number three on Big Ben's big board, four
Speaker 1: leaf clover style. These are the four most memorable Mallard
Speaker 1: monologues that created a reaction from those that attempted to
Speaker 1: taunt and ridicule and shout disapproval my direction from their
Speaker 1: burner email accounts and their fake social media accounts. Number
Speaker 1: three We're gonna go all the way back.
Speaker 2: To the.
Speaker 1: Year twenty sixteen. I believe was some aer of twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: Some are of love the Cleveland Cadavers, the Cleveland Cavaliers
Speaker 1: and Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals, and I
Speaker 1: went on a rant, and I went on a rant.
Speaker 1: Golden State jumped out, they came out like gamebusters, and
Speaker 1: I went on a rant. I pointed out that the
Speaker 1: Cavaliers were not going to come back and beat the
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors in that NBA Finals. Summed it up,
Speaker 1: spelled it out, the whole thing, and sure, enough, Sure
Speaker 1: enough Teada. Yeah, the Cavaliers came back. And one the
Speaker 1: reason this is in the top four big ben big board,
Speaker 1: four leaf clover malard monologues that have a long lifespan
Speaker 1: is that summer after the Calves won the title, a
Speaker 1: couple days later, they had a parade in downtown Cleveland.
Speaker 1: And if you come into my studio, the remote studio
Speaker 1: that I broadcast from about half the time, if you
Speaker 1: come in there and I record the podcast from the studio,
Speaker 1: although I'm on the East coast today, but if you
Speaker 1: go into the studio, you will see a photo of
Speaker 1: a gentleman standing at the Calves parade. And in said photo,
Speaker 1: he's holding up a large sign. And what is the sign? Say,
Speaker 1: it's got I got boxes next to it and all that,
Speaker 1: But it's regarding the people that did not believe in
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Cavaliers' ability to come back against the Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors. Is that the championship parade, there's like a
Speaker 1: million people in downtown Cleveland and this guy's going around
Speaker 1: holding up this large poster board sign. It's got me
Speaker 1: Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith side by side by side,
Speaker 1: and I'm being compared to Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith,
Speaker 1: people that you know, very similar pace structure, unless that's
Speaker 1: not the case. But that's number three on Big Ben's
Speaker 1: big board, the four leaf clover style of the four mona.
Speaker 1: Lisa Malon monologues the gold Standard as I remember him
Speaker 1: on this day, on this Sunday, the eleventh day of August.
Speaker 1: Now number two shooting straight from the hip, A longtime
Speaker 1: nemesis of you know who, someone that has annoyed us
Speaker 1: for many, many years, is in the number two slot.
Speaker 1: That would be The Cheating as Holes. We can say
Speaker 1: it's a podcast, the Cheating as Holes. So back in
Speaker 1: I think it was twenty nineteen when the story broke
Speaker 1: Astros cheated in twenty eighteen. It wasn't until twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: I believe it was early in twenty nineteen that a
Speaker 1: story came out on the Athletic about the cheating that
Speaker 1: took place. It was either late twenty eighteen or early
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. I forget exactly when, but it was a
Speaker 1: while after the twenty seventeen World Series that was sullied
Speaker 1: forever by the team from Houston. So I had done
Speaker 1: many rants. I rant and raped like an absolute buffoon
Speaker 1: for many, many, many many days, and I still do
Speaker 1: to this day. I bring it up at least once
Speaker 1: a week, the cheating holes. So one of these monologues
Speaker 1: went viral. It took off and had a life of
Speaker 1: its own. Me barking like a dog into the microphone.
Speaker 1: And it's number two on our slot, the cheating Astros mattelemonel.
Speaker 1: The reason that's at number two is because I got
Speaker 1: complaints from the Commissioner's Office of Major League Baseball. Rob Manford,
Speaker 1: the face of Major League Baseball. The Commissioner's office, someone
Speaker 1: in his office called the complaint to the mothership because
Speaker 1: of my rant about the cheating astros going on and
Speaker 1: on and on. So now I'm pretty sure Rob Manfraud
Speaker 1: did not make the phone call, but someone underneath rob
Speaker 1: Manfraud made the phone call running interference, running the naked
Speaker 1: boot like they wanted the sound of silence from me
Speaker 1: regarding my commentary about the cheating assholes. And so that's
Speaker 1: number two. I just love that Major League Baseball, with
Speaker 1: all the things they're supposed to worry about, that right
Speaker 1: near the top of the list is silencing or trying
Speaker 1: to silence the overnight radio guy. Because of his commentary
Speaker 1: about the cheating Astro. It's just absolutely great. So that's
Speaker 1: number three or number two rather number two, so again
Speaker 1: the top top four. Number four is the Simone Biles
Speaker 1: Netflix documentary where I'm still getting crapola from middle aged
Speaker 1: women defending their girl their favorite gymnasts. Number three was
Speaker 1: the Calves not only winning the championship against the Warriors,
Speaker 1: but a guy going around in front of a million
Speaker 1: plus people in Cleveland holding up a sign with my
Speaker 1: face on it, right next to Skip Bayless and Steven A. Smith.
Speaker 1: So that's number three. Number two the aforementioned cheating a
Speaker 1: Stros Major League Baseball calling up to complain the Commissioner's
Speaker 1: office with Rob Manford. I'm not sure who exactly called.
Speaker 1: I just got it secondhand. They were not happy with
Speaker 1: my work. And now no Burrow. Number one, all right,
Speaker 1: so number one Top four four leaf clover Big Ben's
Speaker 1: Big Board, Mala monologues. So we are going to now
Speaker 1: go to pro Bouncy Ball, the pro Bouncy Ball Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. It is a dog eat
Speaker 1: Dog world and man new Genobili popped up randomly list
Speaker 1: of Hall of Famer not Hall of Famer came up,
Speaker 1: man who Genobili's name was on there? We said, not
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer, And you would have thought that
Speaker 1: we had started a nuclear war. You would have thought that, right,
Speaker 1: this was some kind of war crime. They need to
Speaker 1: call a war tribunal to attack us. So this got
Speaker 1: picked up first of all by a TV station in
Speaker 1: San Antonio, I remember that, and then within a couple
Speaker 1: of days it was all over Argentina. Now how do
Speaker 1: I know that? Much like the middle aged women. Mostly
Speaker 1: there's a few wokes to men, but middle aged women
Speaker 1: that are sending me nasty messages. Because of the Netflix
Speaker 1: documentary about Simone Biles, where I'm included in that, you
Speaker 1: also have the mad Genobili Hall of Fame conversation. And
Speaker 1: I was getting messages from people in Spanish. Now I
Speaker 1: speak Spanguish, I don't speak Spanish. I know a little
Speaker 1: bit of broken Spanish and that's about it. So I'm
Speaker 1: getting all of these messages and I was like, what
Speaker 1: is this about. I couldn't understand them. I was using
Speaker 1: Google Translate. They were like something about Genobili and they
Speaker 1: were attacking me and my character and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So I was like what is this about? And eventually
Speaker 1: I figured it out because I was getting sent links
Speaker 1: from the local TV news in Argentina that this was
Speaker 1: such an outrageous take, going against all of the sensibilities
Speaker 1: of the people there in Argentina, that they immortalized me
Speaker 1: and put me on the nightly news in Argentina, that
Speaker 1: my monologue resonated so much about Manu Genobil and I
Speaker 1: do believe that's not like a made up take, like
Speaker 1: I do believe it's not. I'm not being an extremist here.
Speaker 1: It is my belief that Manu Gerobili, if you had
Speaker 1: real standards in the Hall of fame, you would say,
Speaker 1: not a hall of fame. But they don't really do
Speaker 1: that anymore. They let everyone and they've always sid Muffin MacGrath.
Speaker 1: We make the joke Muffin mcgras's Hall of Famer. The
Speaker 1: precedent has been set where the doors are open, come
Speaker 1: on down, knock yourself out. There's not a lot of
Speaker 1: vetting process, So Manu Ginobili not a hall of famer.
Speaker 1: Not want my cup of tea that rant. To this day,
Speaker 1: I still get messages in Spanish, so I've got the
Speaker 1: the housewives on one hand, or the cat lady on
Speaker 1: one hand. That's got all the anger, all the rage
Speaker 1: about my Simone Biles take. And then you've got the
Speaker 1: Manu Gernobili crowd in Spanish. And I still get cheating
Speaker 1: Asstro defenders. For example, sir scratch off that weasel who
Speaker 1: claims to be a Cardinal fan, but I think he's
Speaker 1: a closeted fan of the assholes, and he'll send me
Speaker 1: a messages very upset about that. I don't hear as
Speaker 1: much from the people with Cleveland anymore. The Calves have
Speaker 1: fallen back and they're just kind of eh playoff team,
Speaker 1: but not a real threat in the Eastern Conference. So
Speaker 1: there it is. Big Ben's big board four leaf clover style,
Speaker 1: the four monologues that do not have the lifespan of
Speaker 1: a mayfly up to forty eight hours. These are the
Speaker 1: mala monologues that are forever monologues, like the mighty Sequoia
Speaker 1: trees in California. They go up, up, and away, the
Speaker 1: four le clover style Simone Biles number three, the Calves
Speaker 1: won't win a title, the cheating as stros at number two.
Speaker 1: At number one, the manus you're nobly not a Hall
Speaker 1: of famer. Now again, that's not a list. Wrong, don't
Speaker 1: send me an email, Terry in England and some of
Speaker 1: the other idiots. Not a list, not a list, it
Speaker 1: is merely a big board. Wrong time. Now for the
Speaker 1: word all the weekly, a phrase of the week, thank you, ohial.
Speaker 1: The phrase of the week is cutting corners. Now there
Speaker 1: is always pet peeve. I always pet peeve of mine.
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer that you put an honest day's
Speaker 1: work in. You don't cut corners. Now, I realize that
Speaker 1: certain people will try to do things as quickly as
Speaker 1: possible to mitigate the amount of time being used. You
Speaker 1: could argue that is cutting corners. But we're smarter, not harder.
Speaker 1: That's counter argument to that. But let's go way back.
Speaker 1: In the eighteenth century. Carpenters would use a ribbon at
Speaker 1: the end of a completed piece or work, and they
Speaker 1: would do that to signify that the project was done.
Speaker 1: It's like here, I am, I'm done. I'm putting a
Speaker 1: little ribbon on there. The practice gave rise to the
Speaker 1: phrase cutting corners because in order to get into whatever
Speaker 1: they were doing, you had to cut the corner off.
Speaker 1: So cutting corners meaning to do something also poorly in
Speaker 1: order to save time or money. The phrase is also
Speaker 1: used by hunters. For example, in the English Etiquette Guide
Speaker 1: in their instructions writers, they are instructed to follow the
Speaker 1: line of the hounds and to not cut corners unless
Speaker 1: they are well behind the hounds. Then you are allowed
Speaker 1: to cut corners. Otherwise you or not. So a couple
Speaker 1: different meetings there, But cutting corners comes from carpenters and
Speaker 1: also English hunting etiquette. So cutting corners the phrase or
Speaker 1: word all the week, and since we did not do
Speaker 1: this on Friday or Saturday, we must add a bonus,
Speaker 1: a bonus phrase. You know what. I have a couple
Speaker 1: I found here recently, So I'd like to share with
Speaker 1: the class, if you would so oblige me, number number two.
Speaker 1: Number two, that would be in the same boat. Now
Speaker 1: we're in the same boat. We both got a lot
Speaker 1: of homework, right, we're in the same boat. What a nightmare?
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah. Al right, so in the
Speaker 1: same boat. What the heck does in the same boat mean?
Speaker 1: I am glad you have asked so in the same boat.
Speaker 1: It goes back to ancient times. People who lived near
Speaker 1: bodies of water frequently used boats to get from island
Speaker 1: to island or wherever they needed to go. So they
Speaker 1: had to get on boats as transportation. But boats were
Speaker 1: very small and very dangerous in those days, so in
Speaker 1: order to go anywhere, you had to put your life
Speaker 1: on the line to go on these crappy little boats,
Speaker 1: unless you were an expert swimmer. And so the way
Speaker 1: the boats would work in the olden days, in ancient times,
Speaker 1: they would require everyone on board to work together to
Speaker 1: keep the stability and keep the boat from capsizing, because
Speaker 1: once the boat capsizes, that's it. You're done. And so
Speaker 1: that necessity for teamwork, for cooperation among everyone on said vehicle,
Speaker 1: that gave rise to the phrase which is still used
Speaker 1: all of these years later, the same boat in the
Speaker 1: same boat, meaning you're going through the same experiences. The
Speaker 1: metaphor first appeared in the sixteenth century Britain and was
Speaker 1: used to convey that people in the same boat share
Speaker 1: the same fate. So in the same boat goes all
Speaker 1: the way back to ancient time and also the sixteenth
Speaker 1: century Britain is where that comes from. And I think
Speaker 1: we can do one, one more, one more, a little
Speaker 1: time left. Let's go to stuffed shirt. Stuffed shirt. Now,
Speaker 1: during the nineteenth century nineteenth century, Scottish farmers created scarecrows
Speaker 1: by dressing wooden steaks and clothes. We've all seen scarecrows
Speaker 1: trying to scare away the birds. The practice led to
Speaker 1: the phrase stuffed shirt, referring to someone who is very
Speaker 1: rigid or formal in their demeanor. Now, others claim the
Speaker 1: term stuffed shirt is an americanism that actually originated in
Speaker 1: the early nineteen hundreds nineteen ten to nineteen fifteen, and
Speaker 1: it was used to describe someone who is pompous, self satisfied, inflexible,
Speaker 1: or overly formal. For example, you might say she's such
Speaker 1: a stuffed shirt that I'm surprisedy you'd invite her to
Speaker 1: the barbecue, something like that. Okay, that's it. The earliest
Speaker 1: known use of the term stuff shirt is in writings
Speaker 1: from nineteen thirteen by the novelist and short story writer
Speaker 1: Willa Cathere. So that is it stuff shirt. So that's
Speaker 1: if my math is correct, that's three for one. We're
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Speaker 1: bag a rest. But next weekend I will be back
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