Beefed It - 25 October 2021
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🗓️ 25 October 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, I'm Jack Greenlich. |
| 0:02.0 | I think you can listen to music from relaxing to celebrating, to getting yourself prepared. |
| 0:08.0 | I like all sorts, honestly. I like hip-hop, R&B, and then house music as well. |
| 0:13.0 | So yeah, there's no guilt with pleasure as R&D. |
| 0:15.0 | Jack wears the Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra headphones, enjoying his favourite music, |
| 0:20.0 | with more immersive sounds than ever before. |
| 0:23.0 | Wow, the music's just everything, isn't it? |
| 0:25.0 | Get yours at Bose.co.uk. |
| 0:27.0 | Bose, sound is power. |
| 0:30.0 | You're listening to away with words, the show about language, and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett. |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm Martha Barnett. I learned a handy new term the other day, the Abelene Paradox. |
| 0:41.0 | As an Abelene Texas? |
| 0:42.0 | As an Abelene Texas. There's a story behind it. It really happens. So picture this. |
| 0:48.0 | It's a hot, dusty summer day in small town west Texas. |
| 0:53.0 | And there's a married couple and they're in-laws and they're sitting out on a porch |
| 0:57.0 | and they're running a fan and sipping lemonade, just trying to keep cool. |
| 1:01.0 | And there's nothing really much to do except sit there and play a lazy game of dominoes, |
| 1:06.0 | just wiping the sweat from your brow. |
| 1:10.0 | And at some point the father-in-law pipes up with, let's get in the car and go to Abelene |
| 1:15.0 | and have dinner in the cafeteria. |
| 1:17.0 | So it's 53 miles away. It's this hot, dusty afternoon in a car with no air conditioning. |
| 1:24.0 | And the daughter chimes in. Oh, it sounds like a great idea. |
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