Prevent Pit Stains, Medieval Rap Battles, and Why Airplane Boarding Takes So Long
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Learn about flyting, the Medieval version of rap battles; the chemistry behind what causes yellow pit stains, and how to prevent them; and why it takes so long to board an airplane.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Flyting Was the Medieval Version of a Rap Battle — https://curiosity.im/31lf9QI
- Yellow Pit Stains Aren't Solely Caused by Sweat — https://curiosity.im/2LBTQpY
- Why Does Boarding an Airplane Take So Long? (There's a Better Way!) — https://curiosity.im/2LBgRcW
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.0 | Today you learn about the medieval version of rap battles, |
| 0:10.0 | what causes yellow pit stains and how to prevent them and why it takes so long to board an airplane. |
| 0:15.6 | Passengers, let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:18.8 | If you think rap battles are cool, then wait till you learn about rap battles from the 1500s. |
| 0:26.0 | No, I'm not talking about the popular YouTube series Epic Rap Battles from History, which is awesome. |
| 0:31.8 | I'm talking about flighting as in F-L-Y-T-I-N-G and flighting was the medieval |
| 0:38.4 | version of a rap battle, a type of verbal jousting where poets would trash talk each other using lyrical barbs. |
| 0:45.2 | The word flighting comes from an old English word that means quarrel, |
| 0:48.8 | and flighting was a popular form of entertainment from the fifth to the 16th century. It lets skilled poets show off their verbal linguistics |
| 0:56.3 | in a friendly competition and a lot of the time it served as entertainment for royalty. |
| 1:00.7 | Atlas Obscura described it as a form of highly poetic abuse. |
| 1:06.0 | Here's an epic roast from one poet to another that appeared in a famous piece of |
| 1:10.0 | Scottish literature known as the flighting of Dunbar and Kennedy. |
| 1:14.0 | Quote, you call your work rhetoric with your golden lips. |
| 1:17.7 | No, glowering gaping fool, you are beguiled. |
| 1:21.1 | You are but black need ne'ath your gilded hips, which for your villainy, many a |
| 1:25.4 | lash has soiled." |
| 1:27.4 | Unquote. |
| 1:28.4 | Oh, yeah. I think that's the part where everyone's supposed to go, oh! |
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