Idiomatic For The People, Part 1
Ridiculous History
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4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Language is beautiful and, in many cases, continually evolving. As a result, we end up with hundreds of strange idioms and figures of speech that we use on a daily basis, with little to no understanding of what they originally meant. Join the guys and special guest, Rowan Newbie, the creator of the Pitches podcast, as they explore the bizarre origins of your favorite turns of phrase. (Ben here, with a bonus question: I went through and noted multiple turns of phrase we all used unintentionally - how many can you catch?)
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| 0:00.0 | From the executive producers of Hell and Gone comes a new podcast |
| 0:04.0 | investigating the serial murders orchestrated by South African cold leader Cecilia Stein. |
| 0:09.0 | She conditioned them to be monsters. |
| 0:11.0 | In the world of murderous cults, if Charles Manson is king, Cecilia Stein is queen. |
| 0:17.0 | She was telling people the Bible since she was going to kill, but actually she was taking revenge. |
| 0:22.0 | Listen to Queen Havoc and her murder cult. On the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Last season, millions tuned into the betrayal podcast to hear a shocking story of deception. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Andrea Gunning and now we're sharing an all-new story of betrayal. |
| 0:40.0 | Ashley Litten was helping her husband set up a business fanmail account when she discovered a terrible secret. |
| 0:45.0 | I saw a hidden folder and I opened it. What the hell did I just see? |
| 0:53.0 | Listen to season two of betrayal on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm Israel Gutierrez. I'm hosting a new podcast called Four Years of Heat. |
| 1:05.0 | It takes you to Miami from 2010 to 2014. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, LeBron James, Chris Bosch and Dwayne Wade, set the NBA ablaze. |
| 1:13.0 | You know, having an opportunity to team up with the best trio to ever play the game of basketball. |
| 1:18.0 | We'll take you inside those four monumental years with behind-the-scenes access and insight about one of the greatest teams ever assembled. |
| 1:26.0 | Four years of heat on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:56.0 | It's often said that how do you say it? A podcast in one hand is worth two. |
| 2:03.0 | In the bush, you can take a podcast to water but you can't make it stream. |
| 2:10.0 | You can't teach an old podcaster new tricks or can you? |
| 2:14.0 | Don't look a gift podcaster in the mouth. These may not be the exact verbatim figures of speech or turns of phrase, |
| 2:24.0 | but by gosh, by golly, by gum, those things are fascinating nonetheless, right? |
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