SYSK Choice: Backstories of Our Favorite Christmas Movies & How to Use Sarcasm Effectively

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Education, Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Science, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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When you have a bad cough, prescription cough syrup is often the remedy of choice – particularly the kind with codeine. But what if chocolate works better? Seriously. This episode begins by discussing the best way to stifle that urge to cough. https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/chocolate-can-fight-coughs-better-than-some-cold-medicine/ Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Maybe you like White Christmas or It’s a Wonderful Life or maybe Home Alone? Well, whatever it is, I suspect you will hear it discussed during my conversation Jeremy Arnold. Jeremy is a film historian who, along with Turner Classic movies, has put together a wonderful book called Christmas in the Movies: 30 Classics To Celebrate the Season. (https://amzn.to/3GzDZ3S). Listen and you will hear some of the backstories about many of the most iconic Christmas movies of all time. When you think about it, sarcasm is a really weird way to try to get your point across. Still, it can be extremely effective. It can also affect people in interesting and unusual ways that aren’t quite so obvious. Penny Pexman, a professor of psychology at the University of Calgary studies sarcasm and she joins me to offer some wonderful insight into how using sarcasm impacts your relationships and interactions as well as who tends to be more sarcastic and why. Penny has a coloring book for kids to help them understand sarcasm called Sydney Gets Sarcastic. You can download it for free at: https://ucalgary.ca/child-infant-learning-development/home-0 Could your Christmas tree be causing your allergy symptoms to flare up? IT is quite possible. Listen as I explain what the problem is and how best to deal with it. https://www.entandallergyspecialists.com/uncategorized/can-christmas-trees-cause-allergy-symptoms/ PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! MasterClass makes a meaningful gift this season! .Right now you can get two Memberships for the price of one at https://MasterClass.com/SOMETHING PrizePicks is a skill-based, real-money Daily Fantasy Sports game that's super easy to play. Go to https://prizepicks.com/sysk and use code sysk for a first deposit match up to $100 Spread holiday cheer this season with a new phone! Get any phone free, today at UScellular. Built for US. Terms apply. Visit https://UScellular.com for details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.0	Today on something you should know, what's better at stopping a cough,
0:36.0	codeine, or chocolate?
0:38.0	Then some interesting stories about your favorite holiday movies,
0:42.0	including White Christmas, Home Alone, and it's a wonderful life.
0:46.2	It sometimes erroneously stated that it was a big box office bomb.
0:50.9	It was nominated for several Oscars. A year or two later it did win a technical
0:55.3	Oscar for its inventive use of fake snow in this film which became an industry standard.
1:00.3	Also how your Christmas tree could be making you sneeze and a strange story of
1:06.1	sarcasm because when you think about it it's a pretty odd way to communicate.
1:10.7	Because we're taught that the purpose of communication is to convey your thoughts and feelings
1:16.4	and sarcasm is this paradox because it's deliberately saying not just something different
1:22.0	from what you actually mean but the actual
1:24.2	opposite. All this today on something you should know. I always envy people who take great photographs, particularly photographs of people.
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