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We discuss the Bruce Springsteen of Vermont, Noah Kahan, and that one song he has that really sticks in your head. Also, what is stick season anyway?
We talk about the word stick and related words. And, no spoilers, but there are a lot of related words. We also look at some stick-based idioms like "more than you can shake a stick at", "the short end of the stick", "stuck up", and "sticks and stones".
For Eurovision, we discuss Georgia's 2024 song "Firefighter" by Nutsa Buzaladze. And we discuss the months of the Georgian calendar.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Speak of the Devil. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://linktr.ee/speakofthedevil
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Sacre Bleu, it's the return of Billie Eilish, and she's singing in French! Oh wait she's not, just the song title is in French. Well anyway! C'est la vie.
We talk about the rise of queerness in music. And then we talk about French, the language of love. Why is it thought of as the most romantic language?
For Eurovision, we discuss Luxembourg's 2024 song "Fighter" by TALI, and the Luxembourgian language's word for love.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Brutal, Bizarre, and Boozy. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://open.spotify.com/show/44Z9VDxjEVGpbPBkYzQorh?si=0556a1a9b65048bd&nd=1&dlsi=44ebdc801f444221
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Today we're talking about a super sunny song and the darkness that lies within.
And we're pairing that with the topic of covert hate speech, basically. A lot of numbers. Bigots seem to really like numbers. Kind of good to know what the tainted numbers are so you don't accidentally use them, just saying.
For Eurovision, we are finally talking about the winner of Eurovision, Switzerland's Nemo, and their song "The Code".
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Haunted Moonlight. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/haunted-moonlight/id1703911242
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We're talking about perhaps the greatest Metallica song, probably the most listened to now that it got the Stranger Things bump.
And we're talking about "puppet". The word, the history, the creep factor, the surprising relevance and popularity of puppets today. If anything, they're more popular than ever before.
For Eurovision, we talk about Estonia's 2024 entry 5MIINUST and Puuluup ‘(nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi.’ Definitely in my (Russell's) top 3 favorite songs of the competition. This is also the last episode we recorded pre-Eurovision so after this one we'll finally know what the rest of the world has known for months regarding the winner, the controversies, etc.
This is of course our second episode on the topic of puppets. If you haven't listened to our interview with Matt Sandbank the puppeteer yet, go back and give that a listen before or after this one.
You can find Matt Sandbank at these links:
His instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/sandbank_shadow_factory/
Or his website: http://www.sandbankshadowfactory.com/
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Bad Acts. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-acts-a-true-crime-podcast/id1538464479
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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Next week's episode will be about the word "puppet", the etymology, history, and cultural stuff surrounding the word.
So this week, I am interviewing my favorite puppeteer, Matt Sandbank. Matt Sandbank does lightbox shadow puppetry. His shows are clever, poignant, and hilarious. He is based in North Carolina, but he does shows around the country.
We talk about his puppet work, and his ideas and views of puppetry.
You can find Matt Sandbank on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/sandbank_shadow_factory/
Or at his website: http://www.sandbankshadowfactory.com/
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Anything Bones. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anything-bones/id1536352309
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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We selected the cringiest musical artist we could think of to feature in our discussion of cringe. What is this complex emotion and how has it evolved? And where did the word come from? Is it an ideophone? What's an ideophone? We discuss it.
In Eurovision, we discuss Austria's 2024 song "We Will Rave" by a Kaleen.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Haunted Apartment Complex. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jack-billings-presents-haunted-apartment-complex/id1572711048
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Recently I got into the band Mannequin Pussy, and I thought it's interesting that they have trouble with censors in media and platforms such as Tiktok, for "pussy", a word that not that long ago was acceptable to use in any context because it had two meanings - cat and genitals. So we're exploring how it shifted over time from first meaning only cat, to then meaning cat and genitals, to now meaning only genitals. And now, it's even become grammaticized to a suffix in -ussy, as in bussy, pizussy, clussy, etc.
And what better song to represent pussy than Khia's "My Neck My Back"? Please, don't waste my timeussy, there is no better song.
In Eurovision we talk about the opposite of a pussy, a tower, with Poland's 2024 offering "The Tower" by Luna. And we talk about what Polish people call the female genitalia.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Freaky Fridays. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://linktr.ee/freakyfridayspod
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Welp, we watched the musical Wonka movie. And one of us loved it and one of us did not. Which of us is which may not surprise you.
It's a "funny" movie with some funny words, so we thought we'd talk about what makes some words funny. We look at the discourse and research into what makes a word funny. And we list lots of examples of words that various people have pointed out as being funny words.
We also talk about Roald Dahl, a man who made a career out of making up funny sounding words.
In Eurovision, we discuss Spain's 2024 offering, "Zorra" by Nebulossa.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Thick Thighs & Creepy Vibes. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thick-thighs-and-creepy-vibes/id1736179086
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We're talking about the only artist whose name rhymes with RZA . . . SZA!
And of course we're talking about the surprising history of rhyming plus different kinds of rhymes. Which words do and don't rhyme? It's more complicated than you think. Are slant rhymes bad writing? It's more complicated than you think!
For Eurovision, we discuss Croatia's 2024 song "Rim Tim Tagi Dim" by Baby Lasanga. Meow cat, please meow back.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Caffeinated Conspiracies. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/caffeinated-conspiracies/id1454287363
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On this jagged little podcast we discuss Alanis Morisette's first hit and what she's done since. Amazing what a woman with pockets can do.
Of course we're talking about hands, including the etymology of the word, and also the fingers, and also various hand signs such as the high five.
In Eurovision talk, we discuss the UK's 2024 offering, "Dizzy" by Olly Alexander. And we chat a bit about the Tiktok hand dancing trend.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”! Find Patsy on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@patsywalker1481
This week’s promoted podcast is the Doe Identify Podcast. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-doe-identify-podcast/id1544009777
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Today, building on our discussion last week with Michelle Troszak, creator of the Interstellar Song Contest, we talk about fictional languages. We have all your favorites except for the Game of Thrones ones! Klingon! Elvish! Simlish! Furbish! Wenja from Far Cry! And more!
In Eurovision, we talk about space-themed songs throughout the years.
Remember to check out the Interstellar Song Contest at any of the following links:
The full show (like a radio show format):
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/skysail-theatre
https://open.spotify.com/show/4G93JBa74dvXuCBadnsyUk
The cast album:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/skysailtheatre/interstellar-song-contest-original-cast-recording
https://open.spotify.com/album/56VbHsBJNcn37QWiqFF4UP
Skysail Theatre:
https://www.facebook.com/skysailtheatre
https://www.instagram.com/skysailtheatre
https://linktr.ee/skysailtheatre
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”! Find Patsy on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@patsywalker1481
This week’s promoted podcast is Bad Acts. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-acts-a-true-crime-podcast/id1538464479
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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Today we talk to Michelle Troszak, founder of Skysail Theatre, about her new musical, The Interstellar Song Contest.
This episode is part 1 of our discussion on fictional languages, which will conclude in next week's episode.
The Interstellar Song Contest currently exists as a cast recording and a radio show in podcast format. Find Michelle, Skysail Theatre, and the show at the following links!
The full show (like a radio show format):
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/skysail-theatre
https://open.spotify.com/show/4G93JBa74dvXuCBadnsyUk
The cast album:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/skysailtheatre/interstellar-song-contest-original-cast-recording
https://open.spotify.com/album/56VbHsBJNcn37QWiqFF4UP
Skysail Theatre:
https://www.facebook.com/skysailtheatre
https://www.instagram.com/skysailtheatre
https://linktr.ee/skysailtheatre
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”! Find Patsy on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@patsywalker1481
This week’s promoted podcast is Anything Bones. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anything-bones/id1536352309
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Maybe a lesser known Decemberists song, but probably one of the first ones I ever heard, we talk about "Myla Goldberg", and the person who it's about, author of the novel Bee Season. Lots of spoilers for people who have not read it and intend to, so watch out.
We discuss the spelling bee. How'd it start and what are the rules? And why is it only an English thing?
In Eurovision, we discuss a song in which they spell something, San Marino 2024's "11:11" by Megara.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”! Find Patsy on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@patsywalker1481
This week’s promoted podcast is Haunted Tales. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/haunted-tales/id1624389921
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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We discuss the OG oxford comma enthusiasts, Vampire Weekend, the first hit song off their new album, and everyone's favorite goat-fish astrological sign, the capricorn. What are capricorns like? Where'd the goat and fish combo come from? What's the age of capricorn going to be like? Why are you asking us all these questions?
In Eurovision, we'll talk about Italy's 2024 entry "La Noia" by Angelina Mango.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”! Find Patsy on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@patsywalker1481
This week’s promoted podcast is Haunted Moonlight. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/haunted-moonlight/id1703911242
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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This one's for the grammar nerds! (But not such grammar nerds that you'll cringe at all the stuff we inevitably got wrong.)
We're talking about Paula Abdul's greatest hit "Straight Up", and we're talking about irregular verbs, particularly about verbs that used to be irregular but are now regular, and about other words which are actually formerly irregular verb forms but we now use them for something else. Think of "wrought iron" or "what has God wrought?". Wrought was once the past tense form of work.
For Eurovision, we're talking about Finland's Windows95man and his song "No Rules". And we're talking about another grammar topic - telic and atelic verbs!
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”! Find Patsy on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@patsywalker1481
This week’s promoted podcast is Macab at Midnight. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2303990
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Today we discuss Shrek the Musical, the live action musical play version of the first Shrek movie. How did this get made? Should it have been?
And we talk about the origin and many different meanings of gross.
In Eurovision talk, we discuss Ireland's "Doomsday Blues" by Bambie Thug.
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”! Find Patsy on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@patsywalker1481
This week’s promoted podcast is Beyond the Shadows. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://open.spotify.com/show/6hgfTsx24MjcxaopQNURyX?si=b7679e12b5a0417f&nd=1&dlsi=7f3fda57e9764a61
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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We discuss Ceelo Green's big hit (the radio edit) "Forget You", and we go deep into the evolution of the word dementia and society's ideas about it.
For Eurovision, we do Slovenia's song "Viktoria" by Raiven.
Check out another podcast in our network, Crime & Spirits, you can find them here https://linktr.ee/crimeandspiritspodcast
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our network, podmoth.network
Special thanks as always to Patsy Walker for our theme song. Find her at https://www.youtube.com/@patsywalker1481
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We talk about Kentucky rapper Jack Harlow and the history of the whip, as a word and as a thing! Different types, whippings through the ages, whips in fiction . . .
For Eurovision, we talk about the Czech Republic's 2024 competitor, Aiko's "Pedestal", and we talk about trilled R's and the Czech Republic's unpronounceable variant on a trilled R.
This week's featured podcast is My Second Self and I. Find them here: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pzH0fR9c5jqIV404VuAAM?si=a220945ba70b4f0d
Big thanks to Patsy Walker for our theme song! Find her here: https://www.youtube.com/@patsywalker1481
Find us and lots of other great podcasts at our network, Podmoth.network
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This week we talk about the 4 Non Blondes' one hit song from their one album. Why does it get so much hate? What’s under Linda Perry’s hat? Is it meth? And is Dolly Parton okay?
We tell you about various greetings and their origins. Looking to spice up your saying hello to people game? We’ve got you covered.
And in Eurovision we talk about Romania’s 2023 song, D.G.T. by Theodor Andrei. Enjoy it because there will be no Romania in 2024!
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”. Find Patsy on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@patsywalker1481
This week’s promoted podcast is Ugly Radio. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ugly-radio/id1515895095
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Today we discuss famous brother and sister duo Jack and Meg White. Explain cow punk. And talk about Lay Bankz' "Lady Boner Gone".
Then we get into the ick. What is it? Who has it? How can you avoid giving it to girls? Is it problematic?
For Eurovision, we'll tell you about Netherlands' Joost Klein and the Frysian people and their language. Spoiler, it's very close to English.
On this episode, our featured ad is the podcast Saturdays are for the Ghouls. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or right here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/saturdays-are-for-the-ghouls/id1570983561
Find us, them, and other great podcasts at podmoth.network
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