Short Stuff: Haint Blue

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Haint Blue is a kind of robin's egg color that you might commonly find on porches of the low country of the Southeastern United States. But what does it have to do with ghouls and ghosts? Listen and learn!

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
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0:34.6	Hey and welcome to the short stuff.
0:36.1	I'm Josh Thish Chuck.
0:38.0	Jerry's kind of hanging around us like an unwanted spirit.
0:42.4	But we doused her in blue paint as if she were wearing fur in New York in 1985 and she's
0:48.2	taken off.
0:49.2	Wow.
0:50.2	That sounded almost scripted.
0:53.5	It was not, man.
0:54.5	It was, it was, of course, it's not.
0:56.2	It was right off of the cerebral cortex, the executive function.
1:00.4	AKA the old cuff.
1:03.0	Yes.
1:04.0	The problem is I just diverted so much brain power to the cerebral cortex that my brainstem
1:09.8	made me pee my pant.
1:12.8	Have you ever heard of this, uh, paint blue tradition?
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