Smile Belt (Rebroadcast) - 19 February 2018

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🗓️ 19 February 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The only time you’ll ever see the sun’s outer atmosphere is during a full solar eclipse, when sun itself is completely covered. That hazy ring is called the corona, from the Latin word for “crown” — just like the little crown on a bottle of Corona beer. Plus, the phrase throw the baby out with the bathwater contains a vivid image of accidentally tossing something — and so does the phrase to fly off the handle. But where did we get the expression to hell in a handbasket? Also: Biscuit Belt vs. Pine Belt, streely, pizza, tuckered out, FOOSH, and sorry, Charlie!, and how to pronounce via. Hear hundreds of free episodes and learn more on the A Way with Words website: ⁠https://waywordradio.org⁠. Be a part of the show: call or text ⁠1 (877) 929-9673⁠ toll-free in the United States and Canada; elsewhere in the world, call or text ⁠+1 619 800 4443⁠. Send voice notes or messages via ⁠WhatsApp 16198004443.⁠ Email ⁠words@waywordradio.org⁠. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.5	I'm Grant Barrett.
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0:35.5	We've heard a lot of talk lately about the Rust Belt,
0:38.5	and there's also the Bible Belt in this country,
0:41.5	but one belt that I didn't realize existed is the smile belt.
0:46.0	What's the smile belt?
0:48.0	Places where it's often sunny?
0:49.0	No, the smile belt extends from the west coast down across the bottom of the United States and then up the East Coast.
0:56.0	What are they have in common? That's what I'm trying to figure out. I have read a whole bunch of different sources on marketing.
1:04.4	People in business who are trying to market either fish tacos or cars or
1:09.5	furniture and they're all talking about the smile belt. As a region that they're trying to do business in yes okay and it's just like the the image you might imagine
1:19.0	A shape of a smile overlaid on the are they all ocean states or sea states except for the ones boarding Mexico?
1:25.0	Not across the bottom.
1:26.5	Wow, yeah, if you're in marketing, go let's know.
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