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Something Rhymes with Purple

AMERIGO

Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Come discover which Italian explorer gave his name to the continent of America, why Philadelphia is the city of brotherly love and why you “Take the T” when in Boston as we travel down the East Coast of America. Susie shares further adventures from her time in Princeton and Gyles gives us a healthy dose of name-drops with an American flavour. We love hearing from you, find us @SomethingRhymes on Twitter and Facebook, @SomethingRhymesWith on Instagram or you can email us here: [email protected] We currently have 20% off at the SRwP official merchandise store, just head to: https://kontraband.shop/collections/something-rhymes-with-purple Want even more purple, people? Join the Purple Plus Club by clicking the banner in Apple podcasts or head to purpleplusclub.com to listen on other platforms' Don’t forget that you can join us in person at our upcoming tour, tap the link to find tickets: www.somethingrhymeswithpurple.com Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: Grubble: To feel around in the dark Confabulate: To talk easily; to prattle Sideration: A sudden paralysis or feeling of mortification Gyles read ‘A word to husbands’ by Ogden Nash To keep your marriage brimming With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. A Somethin’ Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

0:07.0

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,

0:13.0

it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

0:17.0

a guess. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one change me a little.

0:24.0

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0:31.0

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1:00.0

Something that's...

1:08.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of Something Rhymes with Purple. This is a podcast all about words and language that takes us down the highways and byways of English and with me as always

1:21.0

is the most wonderful intellectual jazz brandress. Hello, jazz.

1:24.0

Hello, Susie and I'm in the state of high excitement because last night I was at an event for a charity called Waterloo Uncovered

1:32.0

at the National Gallery. Waterloo Uncovered is a charity operating in the United Kingdom which encourages, well, enables, former veterans, ex-Soldiers, military people who may have been wounded physically, mentally damaged in war,

1:48.0

to get together and get involved in all things archaeology. They go to the site of the Battle of Waterloo and they do archaeology there.

1:57.0

And it's just amazing they discover things when they're in the battlefield but also they have the camaraderie of being together again.

2:05.0

Anyway, that's by the by. It was at the National Gallery. We're looking at these menus and the National Gallery of London and somebody is fighting their way through the crowd to get to me.

2:13.0

There are hundreds of people there and I'm slightly embarrassed. This figure is coming towards me and he embraces me in front of all these people and says, I'm a purple person.

2:21.0

Oh, I'm a purple person and hugs me and people around us all amazed what is going on here. Is this some kind of protest by these paintings, these famous paintings?

2:31.0

And I'd have to turn to the crowd and explain what something rhymes with purple is.

2:36.0

I know it is a very strange concept when people say that I agree and it does induce bami's ment in people who have no clue what they're talking about.

2:43.0

But I love that. Do you know what that's the most special thing about our podcast?

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