Precious Little

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4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:08.0	From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.
0:12.4	I'm John McWater and I am back.
0:14.9	I can talk like a human being.
0:16.9	I'm still not completely well, but I can actually use my regular voice,
0:20.8	which makes it much easier and much more fun to do this.
0:24.9	And because I want to have a little fun today now that I have been
0:29.7	blessed again with the power of what an old Englishman would have called speech, speech.
0:36.1	I think I want to start with a song that I don't think Evie is going to like.
0:40.7	This is Small Fry.
0:42.6	This is Hoki Carmichael in Frank Lesser, 1938.
0:45.7	A wonderful little song.
0:47.1	And it's going to kick off our theme for today.
0:50.6	But here is a really nice little groove of a song that doesn't get enough attention.
0:55.0	Small fry.
0:56.0	Here comes that good for nothing, Brad of a boy.
1:00.7	He's such a devil I could walk him with joy.
1:05.4	He's been corroused and at the very cute.
1:10.1	Just watch me teaching with the soul of my shoe.
1:14.9	Small fry.
1:16.9	Strutten by the pool room.
1:19.8	Small fry.
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