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291: Open Season for Racists
Like 'analog watch' and 'snail mail,' 'openly racist' is a retronym — John McWhorter and Mike Vuolo explain.
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Bonus: Sleeping with the Fishes
A mobster sleeps with the fishes. Does the phrase predate The Godfather? Could Homer hold a clue? Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo angle for answers.
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289: You Get the Gist
During an appearance on The Gist with Mike Pesca, hosts Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discussed the curious backstory of, you guessed it, the word gist.
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284: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
John Koenig on inventing words for subtle emotions that hitherto had no name. 🎧 Listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast…
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Hey Mike. I’m a long time listener of your podcast. Love it so much. Btw“D” in Monkey D. Luffy seems to have a very important meaning..but it’s still hidden in the story🙃 I’m looking forward to your next episode!
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“Life Is a Flat Pizza Bagel”
Today on The Gist: @mikevuolo and Bob Garfield (@Bobosphere ) of Lexicon Valley join to talk 23 skidoo, Massapequa, and why life, in fact, is a flat bagel.
They trace the 6/7 meme from Skrilla’s drill track “Doot Doot” through LaMelo Ball highlights and a middle-schooler named Maverick, and explain how a throwaway number became the meme stock of language. The conversation winds through rival “word of the year” contenders, then lands on the legal and French graveyard roots of “gist” and its Nigerian evolution into a verb meaning “to gossip.” Plus, a Spiel on Trump’s death-penalty bluster, Democratic senators telling troops “don’t give up the ship,” and why wild-man escalation keeps letting Trump win the exchange.
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283: Gobbledygook Explained
Gobbledygook sounds like one of those words that somebody just made up — so is it?
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281: The Amazing Great
Good is no longer good enough.
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The Most Dangerous Summer Vacations Ever!
With the 4th of July in the rearview mirror, it’s time to kick back and plan a summer vacation. Along with some really bad destinations. The worst summer vacation spots and destinations.
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Today: Apple Meets AI: What’s at Stake? And what else does the big Apple Dev conference have in store? Then, Big Tech’s AI defense. And Why Snap’s “Streaks” feature is dangerous and growing. with Bob Garfield and Steven Rosenbaum - this is Future Forward. @Bobosphere
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Perhaps a thumbs up and a hearty “Hiya fella!” could have avoided all of this, and possibly ended the war in Ukraine says Dexter Hiimelfarb a associate professor of Semiotics at University of San Luis Obisbo- Staten Island Campus – at Brooklyn, NY
