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We need to begin this week's show with a correction.

A couple of podcasts ago, we talked to a guy named Jesse and he and his family used the word

Nate to talk about a dumb person or an idiot.

Yeah you might say why are you being such a Nate? So Jesse had called us in the hopes that we would be able to find out the roots of this.

Why, where this had come from and his family. We failed to do so.

But our listener Amelia called in with a possible

solution. Well I was actually wondering if you were going to to mention it. I

used to do medical transcription and when he was saying how you know they call someone who's being

dumb or whatever and Nate I'm like well but nates are buttocks wait so the word

nate means buttock well Well, yeah. Oh, also cloons, CLUNES, those are buttocks. We're talking

about Latin here. I guess, yeah. Okay, okay. Well, so maybe this this Nate insult dates all the way back to you know ancient times

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