Welcome to Ear Biscuits, the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I’m Rhettt. And I’m Link. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we’re gonna expand your vocabulary, with some words that maybe you never use. Sometimes you fall outta use of words that you really liked at one point, and you need to be reminded of them. Sometimes you need to be schooled on an entirely new word that needs to become a part of your vocabulary toolbox. Sometimes you forget whether prohibited means you can do it or you can’t do it. Right. That’s a quote. So we ask you to tell us what are your favorite words? A word that you just find yourself going back to, maybe it makes you smile, maybe it’s just perfect for something that you find yourself needing to use it for a lot. So I’m pretty hopeful about this, ’cause I do have a strong belief in- You think you’re gonna find some new words? Is that what you’re hopeful about? I have a strong belief in a vocabulary toolbox. You get yourself in these kind of ruts to the things you say, and you pick up and you throw down what the people around you are saying, and sometimes it’s good to just mix it up a little bit. And have you noticed that it has become harder to retain new words? Like it’s harder to expand your vocabulary, because I have noticed that. With age? Or with, you think we’re degrading? Well, I mean, if we’re normal folk, yeah, we are degrading. I mean, mid forties, I’m just saying the thing, I’m not saying that I am necessarily noticing that I’m forgetting words. What I am noticing is that I’ll be like, , what does that word mean? I had this exact same scenario three months ago when I came across this word, and I specifically remember taking the word, looking at the definition- And moving it- Thinking about it- Into a new space in your brain. And now I’m back here again and I can’t access it, and I guarantee you, when I was 35, that would not have been the case. Well, you know what? Don’t be too hard on yourself. You’re not 35 and you never will be again. Right. So you just gotta do the best you can, and you know what? 47 exposures to a word is what it’s gonna take for you to- Maybe it’s one for every year of your age. Okay, 45. So 45. Yeah. Before we get into that discussion, I gotta tell you about something that I got to do that originally I was supposed to do with you and your wife, but scheduling conflicts your wife had family members that just decided to up and die, and that created travel situations that then you had to make up for, so you were outta town. Yeah, Christy and I had a romantic weekend away, but I had to cancel our attendance at the Willie Nelson 90th birthday party two night extravaganza at the Hollywood Bowl. I was pretty bummed about that, man. Well, I’m about to make it even worse. Oh yeah, it was awesome? Christy and I had a great time, don’t get me wrong. I know I made the right decision no matter what you tell me, but you can try your best. I told Jessie both night one and night two, as I turned to her multiple times, and said things like, I’m having such a good time. Oh. And also I think this is the best concert I’ve ever been to. Oh, wow. Because I kept thinking to myself, this is so unusual that you would see this many people that you’re into. And again, as I- They didn’t release the lineup when we bought the tickets. They released a fair amount of people. Now, as I go through this list, you may care, you link, you listener may not care by any of these people, but just imagine a bunch of people that you do care about and that you love their music, and they’re all together in a way that just doesn’t happen. I guess this is a festival experience, but not- Yeah. But sitting in one seat for four hours each night, which sounds like a long time, I did take a bathroom break. And basically having a seamless, one person plays and then there’s like a minute of downtime, and then the next person plays, and then a minute of downtime, and then another person plays and they played like one song, maybe two songs if they’re like a person that we think we should give two songs to. Yeah. That was the experience, and I’m not gonna name everyone, but I’m just gonna name some people that, you know, it got started kind of slow, right? Like they did give Charley Crockett the second spot on night one, he’s sang, “The Party’s Over.” Lyle Lovett. Oh, really? Got up there singing, “Hello Walls,” Beck- “Hello Walls.” Got up there and sang, “Hands on the Wheel.” Got up there and sang, you just see them getting up, was there a ladder? Yeah, yeah, it was quite a ladder. They crawled from, were they all using the same backing band? Yes. Okay. Occasionally they would bring somebody else out if the person is known for the band that they have. Okay. Which I’ll explain in a second, but yeah, like drummer, keyboardist. And it was quite a band, and there was a musical director that they kept shouting out, I can’t remember his name. Because I’m 45. Beck, “Hands on the Wheel.” Nora Jones. Yeah. And she got up there and she played, there’s that famous, I think it’s called, “Down Yonder,” It’s the famous just a piano song that sounds like an old-timey piano song and she played, Yeah. It’s just, it’s one of those things like where can you see Nora Jones- Yeah, that’s cool. Play that song? That’s on Redheaded Stranger. I’m skipping over people by the way. Then Roseanne Cash daughter of Johnny Cash gets up there with Chris Christofferson Legend. Who is 86, but still able to get up there and sing. Last time we saw him was, he co headlined with Merl. It helps when you’ve always sounded like an old man when you sing to then be the old man that you’ve always sounded like. Yeah. That’s helpful. Of course Willie has two sons, Lucas and Micah. Lucas Nelson has a band “Promise of the Real,” and Micah Nelson is known as Particle Kid. Is he now? And it’s funny because they are both from Willie’s fourth and final marriage, that he’s currently still in. They’ve been together for like 30 years. And so these guys are early thirties. Yeah. And it’s just funny how Lucas, they’re brothers obviously who grew up in the same place, I think they actually grew up on Maui because Willie had a place in Maui, that was brought up multiple times, which I’ll talk about in a second. And they just took different paths, yes, they’re both musicians, but one of them is like a country musician that sounds like Willie. Yeah, like Willie 2.0. And then the other is Particle Kid- Never heard of Particle. He’s doing his own thing right. Now, he’s obviously singing Willie songs when he is there. But I just found that interesting to be, you know, okay, I’m gonna take this thing and I’m gonna completely embrace it or I’m gonna take this thing and I’m gonna go- What kind of music is Particle Kid? I don’t know, ’cause he only played Willie songs. Okay. But he doesn’t have a Southern accent at all, whereas Lucas does, grew up in the same place. Okay. Just a fascinating study of people. But Lucas does a solo version of “Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground.” Great song. That is, I mean, first of all, at this point it’s better than what Willie can do, ’cause Willie’s 90. Such a good song. But what he’s doing with the guitar and he’s doing, he’s basically doing what his dad has always done. Very specific Willie Nelson style of guitar playing. Yeah. But he’s taking it up a notch and he’s a 30 something year old dude doing it, it was spiritual. Like that song was the first one I was like, holy shit, this is incredible. Then- If you would not have fallen I would not have found you. And then Leon Bridges and Gary Clark Jr got up there together Really? And performed. That’s cool. And then Gary Clark Jr. stayed up there by himself and did this incredible blues thing with these ridiculous solos. Then Jack Johnson got up and sang a song that he obviously just- Please say not “Banana Pancakes” Just wrote for this situation. Don’t wanna hear that again. He said, I’ve got a story about a time in Maui, because you know, Jack’s from Hawaii, that Willie invited me over. And he basically said that Willie has a tendency to get a bunch of people together, tell them to go to an ATM and get as much money as they possibly can, to come back to his house and play poker. And gamble. Before they play poker, he gets them so stoned. Takes all their money. Yeah, I think the way that Jack said it was, he said, I think he’s the one that told this story, but he said that they started smoking like Willy’s weed and they smoke and he is like, just when I thought I couldn’t smoke anymore, I realized we were just getting started, and then another amount of undisclosed and also unperceived time passed. And then Willie looks around and he is like, is everybody high? And then they play poker. And so he wrote- I can imagine that. A song called, “Willie Got Me Stoned and Took All of My Money” and he sang it, which was just a wonderful moment. That’s cool, that’s cool. Then Tyler Childers got up there and sang two songs, this is a two song situation. “Healing Hands of Time” and “Time of the Preacher.” Also, he had on a beanie, and I don’t know if you’ve ever seen Tyler sing live, but he has such an intense look like he looks like this the whole time. Yeah. And he was singing, Doesn’t Make me comfortable. And there was a woman behind us and she was like, creepy. But he was great. He whales. He’s very intense. Okay, I’m gonna keep moving, Ziggy Marley. Okay. Tom Jones. You still doing it. And Tom Jones, who is in his eighties killing it. The voice is incredible. Sounds amazing. And like he had on his incredible outfit, what am I gonna see Tom Jones perform? I’m not, and that was it. What does he sing? He sings, Lots of famous songs from the 60’s and 70’s. Very Neil Diamondy, but you know, Okay. Incredible. Jamie Johnson, who He’s a bad ass. Has one of the bests country voices and also the longest hair and beard of any country artist currently playing, he also holds his a guitar very, very low. He does. He’s saying live forever. Bob Weir, You wrote down all of this? You like keeping notes for me? No, no, I copied it from Rolling Stone. Bob Weir saying “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain,” his guitar wasn’t really working that well though, it was a little bit sad for him, but he did get to come by the next night. The chicks- Formerly known as the DC Chicks, The DC Chicks. Came out and killed it. The Lumineers. Yeah. I mean, I’m not a huge fan of Lumineers, but it’s just to show you the influence. And by the way, all these bands were being introduced by celebrities including, Ethan Hawk, Chelsea Handler, Jennifer Garner, Woody Harrelson, Rep McLaughlin. Owen Wilson, and some other people. Hadn’t seen Willie at all though, have you at this point? Not yet, no. Sturgell Simpson came out and played, “I’d Have to Be Crazy,” and it wasn’t- I love that song. And he gave a speech, God, that’s one of my favorites. He gave a speech about how Willie Nelson was so inspirational to him and how he went to Nashville to make country records that defied what a country record was because of Willie Nelson. And it was just, I don’t know, it just, you don’t see Sturgell talk a lot, he doesn’t seem like he likes to talk and he also doesn’t seem like he even really likes to make music much anymore. But boy, it was, I mean, he does, but he’s just, you know, he said he retired or whatever, but it was incredible. Miranda Lambert, you know, we’re not gonna see her, Chris Stapleton, Always great. Who was the most talented country artist alive and not necessarily my favorite, but the most talented voice. Yeah. And he’s sang “The Last Thing I Needed” and “Always On My Mind,” he’s sang “Always On My Mind.” And it was, Yeah. Like I don’t- Somebody else wanted it and they were like, no, we gotta give that to Chris Stapleton. I can’t tell you how good that was, but I am telling you, then- I bet it was good. Neil Young and Steven Stills from Crosby Stills and Nash. Oh wow. Got up there Together. With Lucas Nelson’s band “Promise of the Real.” And they sang “Long May You Run,” and “For What It’s Worth.” And now these are old guys, you’re kind of like trying to see through into the nostalgia because- Yeah. Not sounding great at this point, I’ll just say that. But it was, I mean it’s them. And then finally Willie comes out with Lucas and Micah and Neil Young. Did he blow out candles? So here’s how they did that. At the very end, he sang “Happy Birthday To Me,” He did? Yeah, yeah. I mean, he’s such a badass, 90 years old. Well, as we watched him play- Complete with a solo. So he played, okay, I’m not done with 91, just so you, ’cause I’m about to make you, I was gonna say make you wet, In the eyes. In the proverbial sense, okay? Okay. George Strait Wow. Came out and they had written a song, George Strait or whoever writes songs for George Strait had written a song, and I don’t know if this is a song that’s ever been released, it’s about his desire to sing a song with Willie Nelson, and he sang it with Willie Nelson. And it’s like, maybe this is a song that’s out there, but it sounded like, I wanted to believe that they had just written it for this moment. And that’s probably not true, but that’s how, that’s my story. And it was basically how George Strait had never had sung a song with Willie Nelson and how that was, his career was a complete. Wow. And then Willie Nelson has a verse where he talks about it, I got, I finally got to sing one with straight. And then together they stayed up there and sang, Poncho and Lefty. No. So we got George Strait singing “Merle’s Part” to Poncho and Lefty. And he actually sang a little bit more ’cause Merl Waits so long to come in, they gave George the second verse. Yeah. Then Snoop Dogg comes out. What? Snoop Dogg comes out and plays the song, “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die,” which is the song they wrote together. Okay, yeah. And it’s just to see Snoop Dogg out there with Willie Nelson in a Country Band, and he’s just so infectious and the things that he says, and then it ended with Willie doing on the road again. And then everyone who had been out there came out and they all sung “Let The Circle Be Unbroken,” “I’ll Fly Away,” and then “Happy Birthday.” And then he decided to sing, “It’s Hard To Be Humble,” which is that, “it’s hard to be humble when you’re perfect in every way.” After he sang “Happy Birthday” to himself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so that was just night one. That was night one, and I was like, I don’t understand how I’m getting to experience this. Dang. And I didn’t have great seats as you know, because we just got what we could, but it didn’t really matter, it would’ve been to be close to this would’ve been, Yeah. Freaking crazy. But just to be there, because how many, how often do you have somebody speaking of getting old that is a 90 year old who can perform on that level? Now, let me just be honest with you. Willie was always in similar ways to Chris Christofferson always sounded and looked old even before he was. And he does that thing that all old country singers do where they get ahead of the beat on purpose, and he’s done it where he’s 2, 3, 4 beats ahead of the music, on almost every song. And Jesse was like, why is he doing that? I was like, because this is what they do. And then they kind of, I dunno why they do that. Forget that that’s what they’re doing. Merle did it. Yeah. So there was that, but still, okay, night two. It’s better to be ahead than behind, I guess. Billy’s Strings, which I had never heard of, he opened up both nights, by the way he was really good, I listened to his music and it’s more bluegrass, but Billy Strings was a crowd favorite, like people were, Billy Strings, he totally, people calling crazy for Billy Strings. Okay. Orville, Orville Peck comes out and sings a song, this is night two, by the way, “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other,” which is a song about gay cowboys that Willie actually sang in 2006. Cowboys are actually secretly fond of each other. Willie’s always been, so I just love it, he’s like Dolly and that he’s always been progressive in his ideology. Yeah. And his ideals, and he doesn’t do the whole God guns and country thing, that country gets caught up in, so the backwards way of thinking about things. But still appealing to the God guns and country people in a way that brings people together, that’s really attractive. Charlie got out there again, Dwight Yoakum got up there the second night. I’m glad to hear it. Some repeats, but people singing different things, Jack Johnson got up and sang the same song again and people started talking, which is just a little lesson that like most people were there for two nights. Yeah. And he did the same thing. Then our friend Shooter Jennings, son of Whelan Jennings got up there with Lucas and sang “Good-Hearted Woman.” Nice. Then one of my favorite bands of all time, “The Avett Brothers,” North Carolina Boys got up there, sang two songs, they brought the whole band, Chris Christofferson then got up with Nora Jones. Interesting. Then Cheryl Crowe. Yep. Saying crazy, I think she made some connection to why- Willie wrote that for Patsy Klein. He wrote it for her? Mmh. Okay, that makes sense. I think that is what she said. Dave Matthews, I’m not gonna go to a Dave Matthews concert because I don’t want, Did he do a weird dance? I don’t want 90 minutes to two hours of Dave Matthews, but one song of Dave Matthews singing “Funny How Time Slips Away,” and doing it in the Dave Matthews style. It was the kind of thing that all the women, including my wife, not necessarily, it’s not that they’re necessarily attracted to Dave Matthews sexually, I think some of them are, Okay. But something about the way he’s sings- Show your world to me. Like Jesse leans over and she says, we should see him in concert. It’s like it, you know, it worked well, and I was like, well- Well you seen footage of him in concert on TikTok and he’s wild and unpredictable. Emmy Lou Harris and then Lucas, Micah, Roseanne, and Shooter all got up and sang the High Women, the Highway Men song. Oh, basically the the classic song, Yeah. Together. So all the kids of the kids, that’s cool. Other people then surprise Keith Richards, What? Keith Richards shows up. Did he talk? Yes, he did. He talked for a while actually, He’s great. He and Willie together did. “We Had It All” and then “Live Forever.” And then again they did the whole, “Will The Circle Be Unbroken I’ll Fly Away,” and then “Happy Birthday to Me” again. Keith Fris and Richard. And I just gotta say, I know if you don’t care about that, that was, you probably already fast forward and you were like, give me the time code of when they stopped talking about the Willie Nelson concert. Well, that’s fine. Thanks for giving me that. But this is for my best friend here who wishes he was there. Yeah, can’t do it all, but man, that would’ve been, that would’ve been nice. It’s the best concert I’ve ever been to all things considered that there’s, there was that many things that I was into and it’s very different than just a band getting up there and just doing. Yeah. You know, and I like, well, I’m just not gonna see that again. If you could only describe it using one word, and this is a transition into our actual topic for today, what word would you choose? 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I don’t have a story behind it, it’s a word I’ve enjoyed using since I was little, and maybe it’s outdated, I just think it adds a fun, dramatic flare to whatever the circumstances, to be happy or, and or to wanna show something off and want to exclaim and you just huzzah, it’s fun and it tickles me and it makes me smile. So it’s my favorite word to use. Highly recommend it, I would give it a try. Super fun, that’s it. Thanks for listening guys, bye. Huzzah. I mean, a word is great when it puts a smile on your face. Huzzah. Huzzah. And sometimes like the way that your mouth opens at the end of huzzah, it’s like, it’s kind of like a, it’s the biggest smile you can give, okay? You gotta huzzah, and you just hold it for a second, and you’re freaking smiling. I love that. Is it Yiddish? I don’t know. It sounds Yiddish. It could be. Huzzah. And it feels like, as she pointed out, Something might It could be a celebration, it could be a reveal. Like, hey, I’m gonna reveal this and you’re gonna celebrate, or you just revealed it to me and I’m gonna celebrate, huzzah. I’m thinking about the, If somebody says something, The use case for this, for me personally, I definitely could see you incorporating this- Yeah. Into your vocabulary. I’m think it’s a combination surprise- The use case. And exclamation. That’s a good place to be in, surprised and happy. You don’t think you could? No, no, I think that, I think you could say it in a serious way, huzzah. No, I think, yeah, I think that I would do it in an ironic way. Like, if I did something that was embarrassing, Oh. And then I was like, huzzah. You know what I’m saying? That’ll work. I could get a laugh that way out. Yeah. That’s how I would employ that. It’s a good recovery. I like that, I like that. Let’s see what this one holds. Hello big fellas, I just wanted to let you know that, you know, my favorite word is finagle, you can just use it in a lot of situations. You can finagle the situation, you can finagle a tool, you can even finagle your lady if you know what you’re doing, right, thank you. Thank you. It’s interesting because I like this word choice. I would’ve said finagle. But we say finagle. We don’t even say finagle. Well, hold on, okay, I was hoping for this moment to happen at some point. What in the ? But I’m interested, it didn’t necessarily to be the second word. So what is the official pronunciation, Jamie, of finagle, finagle. Well, I got it right here. Let’s play it. Oh, you got it. Finagle. Finagle, see. You can also do that too lang this too it, this works. Dub been saying it wrong. Finagle. ‘Cause nag, when you put a nag in it, that makes me not like it, but when you put a nag in it, finagle. So this guy’s got a favorite word and he is been saying it wrong. Yeah. Well, I mean, think about how his world’s about to be updated. Yeah, dude, sorry man. Hit the finagle with your world, but- You said huzzah, you’ve said it wrong. Yeah, to obtain by devious or dishonest means, I didn’t know that, I thought it just meant to like, manipulate something to get what you want, it doesn’t have to be devious or dishonest, I think that’s too negative, but that’s the definition, huh? Maybe that’s the definition of finagle. I think that you’re illustrating two things that I wanted to have a more in depth discussion about. Okay, let’s go. And it will probably come into play as we go through this. I used to be as many people are, a guy who was, I felt as if there was a literal, like right and wrong, as it relates to language, right? I would say that is the right pronunciation, that is the wrong pronunciation. That is the, you know, you’re saying that you’re using that wrong, and while I think that there is some value in there being like an agreed upon, like, yes, this is it, it actually kind of, is denying what language is to begin with, right? Okay, so it’s expression, So language Is express yourself. Language is symbolic, language represents some reality in many senses, it represents a conception that people or concept that people have have agreed upon, but just like that TikTok I was telling you about, where the guy was saying a phrase and then he was taking it back a hundred years at a time or 500 years at a time, and he kept going and going and going back, and it changed and it became indecipherable. Yeah. After like a thousand years. To me it’s, language is just a way for two people or multiple people to communicate and have some way of relating to each other. But this whole idea of proper English is something that I, we grew up in a place where proper English was so important, and I think it got really, really into our brains, right? So just to, to have a discussion about- I think we all, you think that’s ’cause we have a chip on our shoulder because we come from like the rural south and like there’s a- Its actually. A lot potentially a lot of really thick accents. But I’m talking about the way we learned it in middle school where me and you can diagram a sentence into the ground, right? We understand grammar, punctuation, in a way that like, It’s so long story. Our kids don’t, and I used to have a problem with that. But so even something as specific as the way that you say the word ask, right? And so it’s common, you know, and I would, some people might call it ebonics for people to say ax instead of ask. And I read it, and I grew up thinking that, yeah, ax is incorrect, right? Then I read an article about what the, what language actually is, and again, some people might make this make say, yeah, but it’s A-S-K, it’s not A-K-S, it’s actually spelled differently. But the moment you begin to say things like, but this is how it’s spelled. You’ve gone off the deep end because look at the fucking English language, Right. And we do not say things how they’re spelled, we say things how people, groups of people have agreed to say them. So actually one of the things that I’ve been coming to grip with, is that a lot of those ideas that I had about what proper English, again, it just comes back to it’s rooted in a racist mindset. And because if this is how this community says this, then that’s what that word means, it’s not math, it’s language. It isn’t a one-to-one ratio to a material reality. It’s a translation of a concept as it makes sense to two people who have a subjective reality. And it really starts to open things up, and I think it makes, I think it makes us have a softer sort of, first of all, I think it makes more makes us more adaptable because we’re in the, you know, I used to get on that home and home in train, because I would say it’s technically home in, because it’s a homing pigeon, right? It’s you’re homing in on something, you’re circling it and you’re getting closer and closer to it. But it’s actually more common for people to say, hone in, hone is when you like sharpen something, right? Yeah. And you can technically make a conceptual leap to those things, I used to care about that and then I was like, do I understand what the person is trying to say? Do I understand that they’re trying to put a finer point on something or to make this thing more central? Yes, and it’s like, if I understand it, we’re good to go, it’s not, we’re not saying that two plus two equals five, no two plus two is always gonna equal four, but math is just very different than language. So- I like that you’ve done this. So to bring it back to Mr. finagle, what I’m saying is that if finagle is his favorite word, I don’t care what dictionary.com says, Oh, I just want, Am I wrong? But he needs to know, if he’s the only one that’s saying it that way, then I just want him to make an informed decision. It will, okay, again, it will cause you to be judged by people who subscribe to the view that there is such thing as proper English, right? But I would reserve, I would hold back on correcting him, ’cause who am I to do that? But we already did it. We already, we already corrected it. To his face, I mean, I would, I- He’s probably watching the screen. I’ll do it through the internet, Or hearing it. But I’m not, if it was just in conversation, man, I remember when I was a kid, I said that I was in a group of people and it was like, there was one dad and I was talking about how I was really frustrated. And he was like, well, that’s frustrated, and I was really embarrassed in front of everybody for saying something, oh, it’s like, I must be the stupid one, it’s like, you didn’t have to say that in front of everybody. I should have said, did you catch my meaning? Then let go of the correction. Hey, there’s two sides to it. Finagle. I can finagle my way out of it now, but I couldn’t finagle my way now but I couldn’t finagle my way out of it then. But I can argue the other side as well, because if you are, we do use language to give directions to describe processes that we, Yeah, but then it’s not a correction, it’s more of like, no, let me clarify that I know what you mean. Right. I’m kind of talking about everyday communication between people and it’s just like, really? Come on, get a stick out of your ass. You can finagle, you can , It’s hard, it’s just really hard to do it in a way that’s not condescending, if you’re gonna correct somebody. What is this one? Hi, my name’s Kai and my favorite word is echolalia, it just means like meaningless repetition of words spoken by another person. And the first time I heard it all I could say was echolalia, echolalia, echolalia. Thanks for opening this up, and I hope you guys have a good day, bye. Echolalia. Finagle, finagle, finagle, finagle. A meaningless repetition of words, echolalia, echolalia. Is this someone who’s in like? How could you say that in a positive way? Is this like a catatonic, what a catatonic word, like what I’m trying to, is this just somebody who’s stuck on a word? Meaningless repetition of words, just spoken by another person? Oh yes, occurring as a symptom of a mental condition. Or is repetition of speech by a child learning to talk. The echolalia is really getting on my nerves, or you know, I don’t know, I like the sound of the word, but I got Echolalia. For it to be one of my favorites, it also has to have a nice context. And I feel like this one is like, oh, this is meaningless repetition, I’m bored. I’m not connecting. What about someone who has a, That’s not what I’m looking for. A go, you know, and I know what we do and we’ve been completely exposed by recording ourselves and putting on the internet for years. Yeah. We all have go-to words, things that we say, we may have gotten to a place where we don’t say ah and um as much as we may have once done, but I know for a fact that there are phrases- You say golly a lot. More than that I think Golly. I say golly, I think I have a tendency when I’m trying, I’m about to say something to say, here’s the thing, or lemme tell you what I say about, think about that. I think that is a symptom of being, Lemme tell you what I . I think that’s a symptom of being, there’s two of us and wanting to let you know I’ve got something I wanna say, It’s a vocabulary wedge. Yeah. It’s like a conversational wedge. Yeah, and as opposed to interrupting, it’s just like, well, lemme tell you what I think about that. A lot of times we will do something in group conversations where neither one of us is talking, but we we’re both candidates to be the one to talk next or respond. And we will do this thing that’s like, um, we will doing we’ll give an um, a lot of times in unison. Yeah, that’s true. So it’s like raising your hand or on like in a classroom, or in your video chat if you have to raise the hand feature there. That’s like the auditory version of that. I have something to say. There should be a word for that concept. Yo. The conversational wedge. Yeah. What is a conversational wedge? Me speak now, me, Just for shortening to me. No, no, I’m not saying it’s something me you say in the moment, I’m saying it’s a way to describe the concept. Oh, you’re coming up with a word for the- And it would be like- Vocabulary wedge. Echo, if it would if you it doesn’t repeat, well echo, I think echo is the, well, no, I guess yeah, you’re right. But what’s the word for word, logo? Vocabulization, it’s a vocabulizationer. Ooh that’s- It’s a word that means nothing but it draws attention to yourself so you can say things that mean something, it’s a vocabulary positioner. That feels like that seems like framing something, I like it, but can you make it make more sense with being the next person to talk? So it’s almost like a- What about ding ding ding? A vocal prioritization. There’s people that sit Ding ding. They used to sit around Like a ding dong. And make a couple words like it could be ding dong. You did a ding dong. Okay. It’s like ringing the doorbell on entering the conversation Speech dong. Yeah, it’s a speech dong that’s we found it. Yeah. That’s what it is. Yeah, word dong, conversational dong. Let’s move into some challenging words. Okay, hello, my name is Mick, my favorite word is, well I don’t know that favorite, but it’s, it’s worcestershire,, worcestershire, warcestershire, okay, warcestershire sauce. I like that bit, I like the bit Mick. Worcestershire source. It’s the unpronounceable sauce. What, he calls it Worcestershire, ’cause there is a chest in it. I think that was part of the bit. Yeah, but it’s worcestershire, worcestershire. I didn’t say worcestershire sauce, worcestershire sauce Worcestershire. Worcestershire. Worcestershire sauce. Worcestershire sauce. Worcestershire. It’s worcestershire sauce. It sound does sound like a question. Worcestershire sauce. Worcestershire sauce. Worcestershire source. Could you imagine Worcestershire? I’d say I hit the shire hard? Being someone who is speaking English as a second language, especially if you speak a language that has no relationship to English. And hearing that and feeling like you could have hope that you could learn this language. I have no need Worcestershire sauce. To know this word because I have no use for the sauce in my life. Like what do you want to use a worcestershire sauce? When was the last time you tasted a little bit? Well, it’s pungent, and is it supposed to go on steaks? Not unless you have a horrible steak. Exactly. It is a great ingredient in things, a few drops. Oh really? Gives this, I guess umami is the best. It’s bitter. It’s not, I mean, I don’t know how I, it’s basically like Western hemisphere umami, is the best way for me to describe it. And- Westermami. Yeah, Westermami sauce. I mean that’s a, that’s a funner name. It could be easier to say Westermami sauce, I love it. Westermami. But you, you, it’s gotta go in something. If you’re making a sauce, you’re gonna want to, depending on what the application is, you’re gonna want a couple of drops, I think you’ve been sleeping on- A couple of drops. Well, I think the problem is around the Neil household growing up, whenever they would cook steaks, They’d put it straight on there. Put it, it’d be like a big pool of it, there’d be A one and worcestershire, and you would choose between the two, and what do you want to be your steak sauce? And either one is a bad idea. They’re similar, they’re coming from similar directions. I think a one is basically worcestershire sauce with a little like Ketchup or something. A different consistency, but you can take it and you can put it, I mean I don’t necessarily recommend this, but you can put it in your burger meat before And that does a good thing. You can cook it, it depends man, how it’s been years since I did that, but I did that for a while, I would put like Ritz crackers and worcestershire sauce in my burgers. Well then you’re making a meatloaf homie. Yeah, but you don’t tell people that like, why this burger’s interesting and really, really tasty And ritzy. And flavorful. You got crackers in it. Yeah, I mean, try it. But now I’m definitely on team just meat with salt and pepper. Yeah, smashburger type thing. But I’m saying back when I did a- But you have worcestershire Bigger burger. In your house for cooking. We we’re not great at keeping up with things, but from time to time, yes. It’s all category of tweets we got that are like simpler words that are people’s favorite, this one I’d never heard of Sarah tweeted rig. Now I know what a rig to me is an 18 wheeler. You know, or it could be something that you’ve A setup. A setup for like a A camera. Fishing or a rig. Yeah. Any utility you’re doing, yeah, what’s your camera rig? Yeah, what are all the accoutrements around it? But rig to Sarah is a local term for someone who has a lot of personality. It can’t be used positively, positively. Like what a rig or negatively, he is a real rig. It’s difficult for come from a ways, difficult for come from a ways to understand, what? Now I don’t understand. To understand because the tone is determined solely by inflection. Well, when Sarah says local, where is Sarah local too? Do we, Did not say Do that on the Twitter profile. Should we go to the Twitter profile, I don’t know, you can do a little- Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia. Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Okay, that’s a good piece of information. I like this one, this is the one that I can see becoming a part of my life, ’cause I like to think about what I think of people and like just put them in a place in my brain where I feel like I can understand and then connect. So it’s not about judgment, maybe sometimes it is. But I just, I like to feel like I can wrap my around mind around somebody and having a new word to say, well, that guy is a rig. I mean, he comes with a, it’s like- I mean, He comes with a total package is what I feel like. This is this risky for you to adopt in a place where that’s not Nova Scotia, because now you’re using a word that no one around here in your life understands. And also even within the local context, it means either something good or something bad as your- Right. You know, language advisor in this situation, I would say I would advise against incorporating this into your vocabulary. But I like the total package of it, like, this person is the type of person that comes with accoutrements, you know? Okay, so now you’ve, you put your own meaning on it. You’re trying to relate it to how you understand the word meaning. That is how I understand it. I’m bringing it to LA in that way. Well, this is the thing. I myself am a rig. If you can, I would like to think. Convince enough people. Right. Clearly not you. Yeah, it’s gonna be tough if you can’t convince me. But if you can convince enough people, you can make a word have meaning, that’s the wonderful thing about meaning. It’s made. You make it. It’s what you make it. It’s what you make it. It’s what you make, so you don’t like rig, I like rig, I’m keeping it, it’s mine, you’ll come around to it. To me it has physical connotations. Oh really? I could see a man saying about a woman, what a rig, and at that point it Yeah that’s Feels objectifying, because it just, it’s like something that they would’ve said in the Commodore song, “The Brick House.” Yeah. Sees a rig, you know. Yep. Look at the 18 wheels. Yeah. Let me latch onto that. Pulling a bunch of weight behind. Yeah, exactly. Okay, that’s not what I mean by it. I’m just saying again, more points in the favor of not adopting this into your vocabulary. What about Aaron V’s favorite word tweeted at us, loaf. I’m smirking even as I type it, it never ceased to make me smile or giggle for no reason. When I was going through a rough time, my coworkers covered my classroom with signs that just said, loaf, they get me. Okay, this one resonates. You resonating with the loaf? Loaf. Loaf. You cannot sound, Loaf. I just don’t think you can sound sophisticated or you know what I’m saying? Loaf like, if a loaf of anything is immediately, it’s just a loaf, there’s no precision in it, it’s just a loaf of things. Yeah, it’s just kind of like- A loaf of bread. It’s like someone got a handful of it and threw it down, Yeah. And then there it stayed. And then if you call somebody a loaf, It’s not- You’re loafing. Yeah. Well you’re loaf. I don’t wanna bring people into this, but I wanna bring this into my life when it comes to other things, like, man, look at that hillside, that’s a loaf of a hillside. Isn’t that beautifully grounded? It feels a little redundant. Okay. Are you saying like, that hill looks like a loaf? Yeah, yeah. That hill looks like a loaf of bread, but if you say that mountain is such a loaf, at that point, you’re kind of just saying that mountain is very mountaining. Can it just be a catchphrase then? Like, I mean, Aaron says they don’t know what the reason for it makes him smile but I mean, just when in doubt, throw a loaf out, loafing it up. Yeah, because it can’t be, if you use it in a verb form it’s not good, it definitely is about the shape, like when you think of a loaf of bread, it’s comforting and it’s a little silly. It’s a little silly, it’s like looking at a turtle. It feels exposed, it feels like a loaf is one of the- A box turtle Least harmful things, right? Yeah, it’s innocuous. I think the story of the Trojan Horse, if it was the Trojan loaf, it would be even better, because it’s even, It would’ve worked. It’s even more innocuous, I think. Oh, did it work? I think it’s fake first of all, right? Oh really? But I don’t know, is it like mythology, I’m not sure. Is it mythology? But I think- That’s a loaf we’ll have to slice into later. It did work, but it won’t ever work again, because if you give somebody a giant wooden horse that could have people inside of it, it probably does. In their it’s from your enemy. But if you give them a loaf, I mean a loaf of- New neighbors, new neighbors give them a banana bread loaf. A loaf of banana bread sets the right tone. You can’t hurt someone with a loaf. Like if I- Right. Was given the mission of taking somebody out with a loaf. Yeah. I could potentially make them stop breathing with it if I covered every orifice on their face. But highly unlikely, it’s not very loaf bull of a loaf. You can still kind of breathe through a loaf. You know what? This makes me think of? I remember, remember that guy our freshman year who we barely knew, I can’t remember his name, he had like long squiggly hair, and he was in a band, but and we were like, well who’s your band sound like? And he was like, well, we’re inspired by the Beatles but also Archers of Loaf. Archers of Loaf. And apparently that was the name of a band that I never had listened to and did not when he mentioned them, because I was like, you know what? I love that name so much, I don’t want it to be ruined by actually hearing the music, and it not being what everything I would hope for. So I’ve never heard Archers of Love, but I love their name. Yeah. Because as you’re saying, yeah, who’s gonna get, they’re not trying to hurt anybody, are they trying to help somebody? Are they like, is it like an anti, what’s it called in medieval times when you try to starve someone out of the castle? 45. Again- Tell me the word. I know the word, can I find it in my brain right now? You’re starving them out, you’re younger than us, Jamie. And I’m looking it up. You’re Googling it. See that’s the generational difference. Yeah, we don’t have to. We knew things and we forgot them, you never knew him, ’cause you could Google him, worcestershire. what’s the word? When you starve people out in medieval times. It just keeps coming up with, Oh gosh. Blade, banner, Lord. Nope. Which is not it, siege. Siege. Siege. This is Siege, that’s what I’m talking about, there’s different types of siege is, but like a medieval castle siege is when you, like, you keep anything from going in and out and then they’re like, oh, we give up because we’re starving and we’re thirsty, except over here there’s a little secret archer of loaf, who’s a lifeline for this community. Right, so he’s a defender. I feel like if you carry a loaf of something- Yep. You could get through several layers of security. You talking about Frenchmans? I’m just saying if I’ve a bugger is a different thing, bugger is too long to be a loaf. Yeah. ‘Cause it’s long, it’s hard, it feels almost aggressive, it’s way too phallic. But a loaf is not- Just carry them around without it wrapped in anything. There are some penises that are, that have a significant amount of girth so that, Wow. There may be loaf like and there’s nothing against that. I’m just saying in general, what you conceive of a phallic thing is not very loaf like, like it’s rounded, it’s soft, it looks like you could lay on it. If it got thrown at you, it would bounce off, it doesn’t ha it has no sharp edges. I think we may have found the least aggressive form Of smuggler? Of object, a loaf. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is significantly less aggressive than a blob even. A blob of something, I don’t know, nothing could- Blobs hard to clean up. Yeah, hard to clean up it, a piece, a piece of it could come off and get on my shoe, like I don’t what is this blob? What’s in that blob? Right, right, how many pieces is it gonna be in? But what’s in that loaf? Man, yeah. No one’s ever asking that. Can you get a loaf into prison? Yes, they will cut it. Yeah, people probably tried this, right? Yeah, but I think that’s the classic thing, I think that putting shanks and loafs, yeah. I mean a shank list loaf is the most innocuous thing, but you know, a shanked loaf is quite the opposite. I’m just saying, I think there’s a metaphor here for, if you’re trying to present yourself in a non-aggressive way, bring a proverbial loaf, present as a loaf. What’s a proverbial loaf? I don’t know- I mean, I thought you were saying like a physical loaf. Maybe you bring her actual loaf. Right, because I mean, what is a proverbial loaf? Don’t take wine to someone’s house, take a loaf of something. Yeah, I don’t think it needs to be proverbial. Tab likes the word, fella. Oh yeah. Happy, why a nice fella? Angry, now look here, fella. Oh. Fella. Fella. Fella. Hey fella, hey fella. If I’m gonna, I think that’s a good, hmm, let me try this on for size. I’m in line for a food truck, A loaf truck. And there is a gap in the line because a person in front of me hasn’t gone. It’s not a big deal but it could cause some trouble. I think calling that person a fella is the best, Okay. Hi fella, can you move up? Okay. It doesn’t work, does it? It’s too much. No, and the fact that the fact that you had to get all the way- It’s very anti law. To that point, Yeah. To recognize that this is not a great strategy. And she said, “What a nice fella, hey nice fella,” I don’t, close the gap. I think it’s like, fellas, I think I definitely- If you talking to not single, yeah, you can’t single a person out with fellas. Gather out fellas. That’s what I just learned. So you could say, hey fellas, let’s close the line, people would be like, oh, he’s a nice fella. If it was all guys in the line. That it is a gendered term. Yeah, it is. Which it makes it, you know, lowers this use case. But what do you do, ’cause it feels like that was an interesting scenario that you brought up. It feels like line gaps are a kind of a thing for you. It is a source of anxiety for a lot of people, including me, and you know what? Sometimes I’m guilty of creating the gap because if it’s an enclosed line, Like at a Disney situation, like at a Disney situation, don’t worry about it. We’re all gonna get there. Don’t worry about it, acknowledge your anxiety and just keep it to yourself. But if this is an open airline, especially for like a food truck where there’s like, you’ve got tangential entries happening at any moment, you gotta button it up fellas. And I imagine Gotta button it up. This is pretty challenging for people, in other cultures, other places that I’ve been in, you know, like Eastern Europe and I pretty sure that this, I haven’t been there, but in Asia is this way too. Like lines are very, very tight, America’s got sort of a loose line, loose line. We don’t really keep our lines very tight. And so I’m sensitive to this, I actually experienced this exact concept, when’s the last time you went to the Hollywood Bowl? I can’t remember, within the last year though. I don’t know if it was the nature of this being a sold out event. I assume a lot of Hollywood Bowl events are sold out. And I don’t know if it’s just The lines were crazy. The Willie Nelson crowd, but I think it’s the design of the Hollywood Bowl, which is a beautiful space. But they funnel everyone entering, in this case 17,500 people into two entrances. And I learned, first of all, take the mid gate, not the main gate. Oh, hot tip. Mid gate very fast, main gate, very slow. Second tip, bring a loaf. Bring a loaf, but Jesse and I got into a little bit of an argument, because we were in, one night, we were in the main gate line, which was a very, very, it was kind of a loaf of people, I mean, Yeah, there you go. It is probably 50 people wide and several hundred deep. It’s not really lines. Ascending or descending upon four metal detectors. That gets dicey. And she was on her phone because she’s wasting the time, she’s passing the time, not wasting the time, passing the time on her phone. And so she was in front of me and she would let a gap form. And in this sort of, Can’t do it. Nebulous, Can’t do it. Ameba of a loaf of people. People they’re taking, they’re closing the gaps sideways. Oh, yeah, yeah. And so I said, let me- Hey, fella, Let me get in front of you, I didn’t call her a fella, I just said, let me get in front of you. So now you could leave her if she don’t- And she said, I said, I gotta keep the gap, I gotta close the gaps. So I’m sympathetic to this for sure, you gotta close the gaps. But then you’re gonna leave her behind. No, no- And take her phone. I would hold onto, You know, I’m gonna hold your phone, you hold this loaf. As we left, it was chaos leaving too. I grabbed her jacket to stay with her. Wow. And she said, “I like it when you hold onto me like that.” Just crunching up her jacket? I was just holding the bottom of her jacket. Okay. So that we would stay together. Hey, everybody’s gotta be into something. And I was like, okay, all right, I’ll grab my shirt tail. I’ll grab your jacket anytime you want. Remember there was a cartoon in a group of stuffed animals called the Shirt Tails. Jacket grabbers, No “The Shirt Tails.” No, “The Shirt Tails.” I you could, you could get like a little version of a shirt tail at Hardee’s. Jacket grabbers sounds like a political term, you know, well, we would’ve won this district if it weren’t for the other party jacket grabbing everybody. Oh, I like it when you do that though. They’ve, Jack grabbed the whole- Jacket. The whole pricinct. Yeah they’ve jacket grabbed. Aiyana really likes the word, bosom. Maybe it makes me immature, but the word bosom always makes me giggle, like a nine year old. It makes me picture a giant attack boob bouncing down the street demanding a to breastfeed someone. Wow, that’s interesting, because to me, bosom is the way to make a breast completely nonsexual- Maternal. It’s the materialization of the breast. It’s the reason that YouTube, It’s too loaves at that point. Won’t take down a breastfeeding video, but we’ll take down a topless video, because a breastfeeding video is about the bosom. It’s a breast as a bosom. It’s the functional breast. Yep. And then if you’re just doing topless, oh, this is a sexual thing, right? That’s that, I think that’s a distinction, bosom. It’s a good word because it has a Z sound in it, but it has no Z within it. Those are some of the best words. Bosom. Bosom. Yeah, name some other ones. Rose. Oh crap, you did it. What about Slow maze. What about Cezanne? Cezanne. Abraham had a bosom, so it’s a did it’s a biblical word. I think, but that’s like a place. Yeah. It’s a conceptual place of what? But no, it’s a conceptual place- Before you go to heaven? I can’t remember. I don’t know, it’s like a purgatory purgatory thing. But the Mormons also have, they have a burning, a burning in the bosom. In their bosom, yes. So- it’s an antiquated term. I’m not speaking for all people, you know, all the latter day saints here, I’m just saying, in my experience- It’s not just boobs, For them, it’s like, it’s just an inner, It’s in your gut. An in or no, it’s kinda like a gut instinct. And so if you challenge a person of that particular faith on the grounds of their faith, and you say, hey here’s evidence X, Y, and Z of why I don’t think that what you believe is true, they may respond in some scenarios as well, I know it to be true in, I have it burning in my bosom. In the same way that like, evangelical Christian might say, well, I have a confirmation of the Holy Spirit. Okay. You know, so- I prefer it’s very- Fixated on the boobs in a maternal way though. Right, I’m just saying, it’s so non boob it’s so non boob. It’s become religious. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like bosom, it doesn’t feel like a tummy I mean. There was a show on actual American television- “Bosom Buddies.” “Bosom Buddies.” Tom Hanks, right? Tom Hanks and the other guy starting “Bosom Buddies.” Who was the other guy? What does that mean? I mean, what’s a bosom buddy? That’s somebody who’s- Peter Sclali? Peter Sclali, so, you’re tight, they are really tight, you know, “Bosom Buddies.” I mean, we’re bosom buddies, right? I just don’t know, are we missing- Is it two non-related kids who both suckled on the same pair of breasts? A bosom is a noun, a woman’s chest, but, and as an adjective- I think that’s what it means for me. It’s describing a friend as closer or intimate. Right, but do you think- Bosom friend, Do you think the reason it is because it’s like, how much closer than you can you get, than two people suckling each on two, you know, different breasts of the same woman. So in other words, Me and you, if we went back in time to a time when we were a breastfeeding age. Yep. And we had A wet nurse, A wet nurse that served both families. Yes. And there was a moment in which you were on one breast, you’re probably the left one, and I was on the right breast but, you know, red length. Yeah, yeah. That would bond us for life, if you breastfeed together, the family that breastfeeds together stays together. Bosom brothers. And so I kind of feel like- I think that’s really, that’s really sad. How can we bring that into practice? Not in a literal way, I’m sure there would be volunteers, but I- Because the literary term, if you wanna go literal literary is the loving care protection of- How can we bring this idea of the two of us sucking on the breast of one woman? Yeah. Without actually doing it, I’m not proposing it, okay? Yeah. How do we bring that concept to life- I got it? ‘Cause I feel like it can make us closer. I think, I think we’re talking about a logo. I think we’re in logo territory, you know, Mid journey. Yeah, let’s put that over on the AI and see what they can come up with. I don’t know if mid journey will do boobs. Bosoms. Yeah, if we keep it bosom, Bosom. Please make, I don’t know how to do men journey promise, but we can talk to Paisley about it. But we can say something like, Rhett and Link suckling on the tits of YouTube’s bosom. Oh, that feels too Icky. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you getting the ick? I don’t like that. Yeah, me neither. Yeah, we don’t need YouTube . It’s true, it’s sad, it’s true. I wanted a positive thing here, I wanted, Yeah. I wanted for two middle-aged men to be able to recreate It’s love like, The concept. I mean there’s a connection here. How about just two guys suck on all one loaf. Loaf sucking buddies. But that loaf, Let’s just do that. Looks very much like a tit, tit, in this scenario. A set of tits A rig of them. Yeah, a rig of tits. Right. That are very loaf like, and we are sucking on both of them. Yep. Two men at the bosom. Because it’s just a bosom. Is it a, it’s a bosom. Yeah, bosom, bosom, buzz, give it a nice little buzz. It is a good word, the more we say it. That’s a good buzz, I mean word, that’s a good word. Yeah. That may be my favorite word. Yeah. Bosom is winning right now. Yep, can this take the cake? Hey, this is Gage calling from Asheville, North Carolina. Hi. My favorite word is fartlek, apparently it’s a word that runners use. I just like it ’cause it sounds like somebody’s licking a fart. Yeah. So, yeah, that’s my favorite word, thank you guys, love y’all. Fartlek. Fartlek. Define. It’s interesting that he likes it because it sounds like someone licking a fart. On dispatchers of Myrtle Beach, my dad will give me words that sound nasty, but then aren’t, like, it’s not dirty. I can’t remember what he calls a segment, but I think he taught about this. Oh yeah, fartlek. F-A-R-T-L-E-K, pronounced fartlek, Swedish origin means speed play, speed play. Alternate periods of fast and easy running. So basically we’re talking interval training, right? Run hard for one minute, slow for one minute type of a thing. That’s a fartlek, I’m running the fartlek, I’m licking the fartrun, Fartlek, fartlek, fartlek, fartlek. So it’s a Swedish or origin, so- Yeah. It’s just by chance it became that fart got in there. Sometimes you’ll slip, you’ll slip a fart, a proverbial fart into your word. If you’re in Scandinavian countries, they really like to put some farts in there. Well, but that’s one of the things that happens with brands a lot of times. It’s like, oh, do you know what coke means in Japan? Oh, the opposite. Yeah, they have to really account for those things. I think this one might have promise. Hi Rhett and Link, I just wanted to call in and tell y’all that my funny word is cattywampus. Yes. And that’s short and sweet. You use this. I agree with that. A little bit of cattywampus is bass awkwards, but more palatable. Cattywampus- Is that when you’re going crazy? It’s not. No, cattywampus is it’s just off kilter. Off kilter. Just a little bit, you’re just a little bit cattywampus but if you’re bass backwards, you got, that’s completely off. Yeah, that’s completely backwards. So if this a- Is as backwards said as backwards. A construction term. That’s construction term. Yeah, it’s like- Ah, your joist is a little cattywampus. If you’re trying to plum a line, you don’t want it to be cattywampus, cattywampus. I mean, that is nice. And then the way that at least we’re spelling it C-A-T-T-W-A-M-P-U-S, I mean, if you just take a wampus, a wampus definitely sounds like a rideable creature in the Star Wars universe, but then you put catty in front of it and then it, it’s totally something different. What makes a wampus catty? You know, like, is is wampus it would’ve been right, but you made it catty. Yeah, is like this, honey, is this frame Wampus. Straight enough to your liking? Is it wampust? No, it’s cattywampus. I think that’s it. Like, let’s def let’s see if we can define wampus. I don’t know if that’s how these things work, Wampus. I certainly hope so. A wampus cat is a catlike creature in American folklore, okay, see, we’re getting, we’re click on that, No, but look dictionary.com. Plural is wompusses, a stranger objectional person? A wampus. So it’s bad. So Wampus is bad and it’s based on a wampus cat. Yeah so- And if people just added cattywampus, What was it? Or wampus cat, cattywampus. Catawampus is not cattywampus, it’s catawampus, it’s C-A-T-A. What? And the Cambridge English dictionary, again, here we are, here we are, we’re at- What about snauligauster? A diversion. An unprincipled but shrewd person. Okay, I’m sorry, I got sidetracked. Catawampus, so we were spelling it wrong. Going badly awkwardly or in this, Well hold on also cattyampus in the US. in the US, so this is, we got a local version of this, and again- It is UK version. Catawampus Catawampus. And then the US version. Cattywampus. Oh no, they- Cattywampus, They just said catawampus again, instead of saying cattywampus. A cattywampus is like an approachable clusterofer. Yeah based on these definitions- If it stays in cattywampus too long you might be getting into a cluster. I feel like off kilter is a better way to describe what you were describing, whereas catawampus is, It’s not just physical anymore. It’s a mild clusterofer, like you were saying. But it can apply to anything that’s going sideways, cattyampus. I like it because it’s taking something negative and it’s making it fun to say, like, there’s a redeeming quality like edge off. At least I get to say cattywampus, even though it now means that I have to put three more holes in my wall. Yeah. It can only be so bad if it’s things are going catawampus. If you’re still using terms like catawampus or cattywampus, you are still some sun sunshine on your face, you know what I mean? There’s still some sunshine on your face. Still some sunshine on your face. That’s right. I don’t know where this is gonna take us, but let’s go. Hey, Rhett and Link, this is Brandy from Wisconsin. I want you all to hear my favorite word, it is Legume, I like how it rolls off the tongue, legume, I hope you like it too. Thanks for everything you do. Legume. Well, it does- Legume. It does- Goo it does make beans feel even more sophisticated. I know you like that, but just feel it rolling off your tongue because there is something to the, just the like starting with the L like the way you put your tongue up and then you, like, you slingshot your tongue out, le, le- It’s funny, legume. Like, le is a good start to any word. It’s easy to say legume, legume, legume. Le, and then you put the L with the le, legume, and then once you get past the G, which can be troublesome, then you’re with a ooh, so it’s almost like you’re, you’re pleasantly surprised with how this feels. And don’t underestimate the M, ending a word on a closed, see, now you’re, you’re you’re doing Legume. Yeah, see, like you’re adding extra effort that’s not actually there. Legume. So when you end into word closing- A closed down shop. With a closed mouth. Yeah. That isn’t trying to do a, like, all right, S, there’s a legume, legume. It is the perfect way to end sentence. Like Florida, Florida. How do you know when you’re, legume ends for you. It breathes. Florida. You gotta make a call. You have to make a call. Yeah. How long am I gonna go? Where you going? Florida, right? Right. What are you gonna do? I’m gonna pick legumes. Oh, I said I put an S on it, But it still . I think the plural legume Still kind of closes this legume. I’m gonna pick a legume. One singular legume. Legume. But to really get a M, I like to open, but I don’t like to, ah, legume ah. Let me just say that the experience that the other people would have around you would be that they don’t want you to open your mouth. Legume is a great word, legume, legume. But I will say in criticism, constructed criticism of legume as much as we’ve said about it. Yeah. I can’t imagine saying it in a non clarifying way. When was the last time you used legume? That wasn’t the following sentence. You know, it’s actually a legume. Yeah. No one’s like, I would love the legumes please. Right, it’s a general term that- You know, a peanut is a legume. You always get more specific. You’re always clarifying something. It’s not specific enough to be actually utilized. So I think it’s always a little bit annoying to hear it, ’cause it’s just somebody trying to correct you or give you a piece of information you didn’t ask for. Yeah, that’s a problem. Or they’re just saying, you want to hear my favorite word, Legume, oh, that’s nice. That’s the best case scenario, and it’s still kind of underwhelming. Yeah. Misha Peer tweeted Sesequipedalian. Sesequipedalian. When I was in third grade, I’m 30 now. We would have a spelling test every week and every time this was our bonus word to get extra credit. Do I remember what it means? Nope, but I think I’ll remember how to spell it for the rest of my life. Sesequipedalian. You had the same word every single time. That teacher was low effort. Define, you know, if you just go to Google and put, define sesequipedalian, I didn’t even spell it right but, what does that mean? What does it mean? Characterized by long words, long-winded. Oh, polysyllabic, that’s another word, it’s hard to say. Polysyllabic, long word sesequipedalian mean means long. And it seems it- long-winded. It feels unnecessarily long. Yeah, because it is. So it actually is one of those special words that captures the concept in the word itself. Because this word is too long and it’s hard to pronounce and it’s unnecessary. I need to go back to a happier place, I think this will do it. Hi Rhett and Link, my name’s Candice, I’m calling from Canada. So my favorite word is the word that my grandpa used to use, it was nubbytucker. So the word basically was in, in reference to things that he couldn’t remember the name of. So if he was out in the garage and he was working away on something or building something and he couldn’t remember the name of the tool or the thing that he needed, he’d say, can you hand me that nubbytucker over there? And it’s just been a word that has just kinda, it gives me a little giggle when I think of it. And of course no one else really understands the word because it was something that my grandpa used. So every once in a while I’ll find myself using it and people will look at me funny. So maybe you can integrate that word into your vocabulary. Thanks guys, I love your show, bye. Yes, we may. Nubbytucker. Nubbytucker. So it’s like a whatmachacallit but with more intrigue. She had a good voice by the way. She had a good voice- Kind as a voicemail. Who was it Allison, the voice of the Swedish meatballs. And mashed potatoes? Yeah. Can you do voiceover like describing things? Yep. Nubbytucker. You describe, what is that nubbytucker actually called then you could say the right name for it. I like this, nubbytucker. I don’t feel great about taking a word that it was so localized, that it may only be localized to this person’s family. And trying to make it my own. But it seem, to me it implies something so specific that even though I’ve never heard it before and I’ve never heard anyone else use it, I think I know what it means. And it does seem like a tool used to tuck in nubs. Which should be useful. Like a pooch pusher, like that’s pooching out you need to push it in. So like a muffin top situation? Well, yeah, I guess. It’s like a shoehorn for a muffin top, it’s a way to get. Or if you’re just trying to get something into a box, if you’re trying to get a bedspread into a box, you know how hard that is. Well where’s my nubbytucker? I gotta get the nubbytucker to stuff my bedspread into this box, I gotta ship it. And why don’t you just touch it with your hands? Well, ’cause I’ve got a nubbytucker. Well, if you touch it with your hand it’s gonna create another pooch somewhere else, and then you’re gonna use your other hand. That’s the beauty of the nubbytucker. Nubbytucker, it takes care of all potential, what’s the you pooches? Well, it tucks multiple nubs at a time. Preceding pooches is- A nubbytucker will tuck a nub without creating a new nub. Right. Which is something your hands can do. Right, see, we’re making so much meaning out of this. But now it means something to us that it doesn’t mean to you. But it also sounds like another political term, you know, it’s like, well senator- We’ve stationed our nubbytuckers throughout the facility. Senator Morgan would’ve won in a landslide if it weren’t for all the nubby tucking that went on behind the scenes. Yeah. Brenna, this is pertinent and we can end on this tweet. Nerpshee is a word my dad always used for something sticking out or dangling off of something. Like, my waffle has a nerpshee on it. Oh, so- so when you find a nerpshee, you gotta get the nubbytucker. A nerpshee. So these people are making up these words that need each other. Isn’t that a beautiful thing that we’ve done today? The nerpshee family now knows about a nubbytucker. Maybe they can get together and have breakfast. And a nubbytucker now has meaning because nerpshee exists. They can tuck some waffle nubs, otherwise known as nubshees. No, she’s in nubbytucker. I think if I saw, if I found a nerpshee on my waffle, I wouldn’t tuck it, I’d just eat it, I’d tuck it right into my mouth. My favorite word now is bosom, that’s my take away. You know, don’t use the nubbytucker on the bosom. No need, Well actually- No need to nubbytucker. Sometimes, I mean that’s kind of what like, like a pushup bra would be like, you gotta tuck the nubs. So a nubby tucker is a bosom bracer. Or you might have a sports bra is by definition a nubbytucker. You know what I’m saying? Yeah, see, this is happening. And also- I’m here for it. We didn’t talk about this, but nubbytucking is something that’s done when you do drug, right? Well, I don’t call it a nubby, but yeah, there was some tucket involved. Right, do well were you given a tool for that? No, I wasn’t. Did you wish you had some shoehorn, like things you didn’t have to touch your own penis? No, I’m comfortable doing that, but it does, did tend to pop out in other places. Oh gosh, and so I think that’s why I needed a nubbytucker. A nubbytucker is for the backside. It’s for wherever, wherever something might pooch. Right. It’s the secondary poaching. I’m just saying, as someone who has done drug, do you feel like maybe you could sell nubbytuckers to the drag community? Because I’m just really thinking about a business opportunity here. Yeah. It feels like it’s just something- The answers yes. It feels like something you could just- Yes. It’s a tool that always. Gather around. You’re selling it like on the street corner, like in the Old West, is that what is like a snake oil salesman? It’s like, oh, today I’ve got something new. Yeah and I will sell it with oil too. Yeah. To make the nub tuck more easily. Yeah, but if you tuck a nub with oil, doesn’t it untuck more easily? Don’t you want it to get stuck? Well, there’s a my nubbytucker have a have a blow dryer feature. So you have a built-in oil dispenser that then drives dries up. Yeah, dries it in place. This is a really advanced nubbytucker. Yeah it’s, I’m investing a lot of in my own personal wealth- Its USB, USB powered. Yes USB powered. USB powered nubbytuckers coming soon to you. All right, if you want one, I guess DM me. I’ve got a wreck to wrap us up, it’s not nubbytuckers from Link. Wow. It is I mentioned him earlier, I think- Willie Strings You would do well, no, Lucas Nelson. Yeah, so this- Yes the K. Willie’s son who took the route to sound somewhat like dad and make incredible music. Lucas Nelson and Promise of the Real and great introduction to his music is the first thing that’s gonna pop up on your Spotify, which is find yourself. We recommended that year ago, it’s a great song. Oh, we did? Oh yeah, it’s coming back. Oh wow, okay, well. Do it. He’s got a song called “Carolina.” Did I recommend it or do you recommend it? I can’t remember. Well, you know what? We can, Doesn’t matter. This is a double recommendation. We’re bosom buddies, man. We can recommend the same things. We’re getting old, We’re coming back around to recommending the same things. Tell you, man, You need evidence. We’re forgetting things, but I’ll never forget what a nubbytucker is. Let us know what you think #earbiscuits, ironically we made that up is not even what it means. Right, we also made up Ear Biscuits. And give us a call, you know, if you enjoyed hearing those voicemails, I bet you enjoyed leaving one. Let us know what you think about, this might show up at the end of an episode or whenever we put on a new prompt. 1-888- AirPod1. My name is Phil and my favorite word, they, ank, like it was anky up in here, feels ank, it’s Phil, thank you, have a good one. 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