Cha Cha Now Y'all

The Nod

Gimlet

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Weddings, school dances, birthday parties for your great auntie—if you’re having a big function, the Cha Cha Slide is going to be on the playlist. But how did the Cha Cha slide become so ubiquitous? Brittany teams up with the Gimlet fam over at Every Little thing to find out. Get ready to learn everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the Cha Cha Slide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Gimli Media, this is The Nod, a podcast about black culture from Blackness's biggest
0:08.8	fans.
0:09.8	I'm Eric Eddens.
0:15.7	Who do we go to to answer life's toughest questions?
0:21.0	Questions like where did the idea of little green men come from?
0:25.5	If I'm lifting something heavy, this cursing makes it easier.
0:30.1	It's something bad really going to happen if I don't put my phone on airplane mode.
0:36.4	Who could you possibly go to for answers to any of that?
0:40.4	Well, you could go to our Gimli Fam over at every little thing.
0:45.6	It's a show that goes deep.
0:47.8	In each episode, host Flora Lickman turns over every stone to get answers to the questions
0:53.6	about all the little things in our lives.
0:57.2	And recently, someone approached every little thing with a question that required the
1:01.4	nods, particular type of expertise.
1:05.2	So get ready because today we're going to go on a journey, a quest even, a quest to
1:11.5	find out the true origin of one of the most iconic dances ever, the cha-cha slide.
1:19.9	So here we go.
1:20.9	The episode of every little thing that will tell you everything you ever wanted to know
1:26.1	about the cha-cha slide.
1:29.2	At the tone, please record your message.
1:32.8	Hi every little thing.
1:33.8	My name is Rachel.
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