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Big Words for Smart People
By Eric and FrankieComedy
Big Words for Smart People episodes
- 34: Capricious
Y'all remember that "game" Frankie did for episode 27: Mercurial? Buckle up, folks
Capricious - adjective
1: governed or characterized by sudden irrational and unpredictable impulses or whims : impulsivebroadly : unpredictable, erratic2 (law ): not supported by the weight of evidence or established rules of lawIn this episode:
- Eric has allergies and he sounds like droopy dog
- Pre-35 absolution
- Big Balls for Strong Trainers - A Pokémon Fancast
- Frankie's terrible word-association game round 2, nonsense boogaloo
- "You wanna see my goats throw up?"
- Frankie talks about plants for awhile or something, idk I checked out
- Jennifer Grievous and Optimus Prime
- Not a murder, this is for crabs
- Put another mark on the Dante tracker
- Lava-lamp scarcity
- Tar and feather me, daddy
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Show-notes definition pulled from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary
52 min - 33: Automaticity
Au-to-ma-ticity, the word of the week is:
Automaticity - noun (definitions from adjective form, automatic)
1a: largely or wholly involuntary
b: acting or done spontaneously or unconsciouslyc: done or produced as if by machine : mechanicalIn this episode:
- Power Wash Celebrity Sighting
- We love doing two things at the same time poorly
- Eric teaches us about stuff... kinda
- Non-fluent pillow talk, yum
- Handing a controller to grandma
- Frankie's Link-shaped lesions
- We talk about video games a lot: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Donkey Kong Bananza, QWOP, Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy, Baby Steps, UFO 50, Mooncat (in UFO 50)
- Old memes
- If there's no friction, you can't feel anything
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Show-notes definition pulled from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary
Additional Music: Electro Beat - New Wave Disco
47 min - 32: Mithridatism
Take your medicine, the word for the week is
Mithridatism - noun
: tolerance to a poison acquired by taking gradually increased doses of it
In this episode:
- BC - Before Chester
- "I don't care for Mithridatis VI..."
- Pliny the Elder wrote the Gen I PokeDex
- It takes 15 minutes to actually say the word of the day...
- Mad honey, yo
- I KNOW what a bug tastes like
- One carp in a bucket.
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Show-notes definition pulled from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary
37 min - 31: Lenticular
Turn to page 69 school planners and jot this down, the word of the week is:
Lenticular - adjective
1: having the shape of a double-convex lens2: of or relating to a lens3: provided with or utilizing lenticulesIn this episode- Get that good vitamin Sun
- Elementary school nostalgia
- Eric may not have been a very good student - planner folding, holes in pencils, short pencil
- The first 20 minutes of the Sound of Music
- It all comes back to Reagan
- The omni-teacher
- Flavor-blasted notebooks
- Modern OLED Lenticulars
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Show-notes definition pulled from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary
Breaking News Intro Background Music
39 min - 30: Smithereens
Kaboom! The word for the week is:
Smithereens - plural noun
: small broken pieces : fragments, bits
In this episode:
- hot.dog
- I got blown to away
- Choose your own mindsweeper
- Chipocalypse
- Thanks, ball lightning!
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Show-notes definition pulled from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary
43 min - 29: Objet d'Art
Two Swordz joins us today with a new, two-part word!
Objet d'Art - noun
1: an article of some artistic value2: curioIn this episode:
- Piss hell (we promise this whole episode won’t be about pee)
- Banksy shredding
- The story of “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin”
- Fartin Scroti
- PleasrDAO, we barely even knew her… DAO
- We do really bad math (someone please correct us)
- Follow Two Bladez on Xanga
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Show-notes definition pulled from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary
35 min - 28: Berserk
(Sorry we missed a week, Eric's a moron)
Let's not lose our heads, y'all. The word of the week is:
Berserk - noun
1: an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable2: one whose actions are recklessly defiantBerserk - adjective: markedly out of control due to intense anger or excitement : frenziedIn this episode:- Berserk AI
- Thrust your Gae Bolg into me, consensually
- Twinky heroes
- Lore-Accurate Warp Frenzy
- Kid Pix practice
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Show-notes definition pulled from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary
39 min - 28: Berkserk
Get the ice bucket ready, we’re doing a warp-frenzy over here. The word of the week is:
Berserk - noun
1: an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable2: one whose actions are recklessly defiantBerserk - adjective: markedly out of control due to intense anger or excitement : frenziedIn this episode:- Berserk AI
- Thrust your Gae Bolg into me, consensually
- Twinky heroes
- Lore-Accurate Warp Frenzy
- Boar big scary
- Kid Pix sound effects
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Show-notes definition pulled from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary
45 min - 27: Mercurial
We never thought we'd have to post this episode (it's so dang cold).
Mercurial - adjective
1a: characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of moodb: very lively and quickc: changing often : very changeable2a: having qualities (as of eloquence, ingenuity, or thievishness) attributed to the god Mercury or in astrology to the influence of the planet Mercuryb: fast in development or occurrence : quick3: of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury4: of, relating to, containing, or caused by mercuryIn this episode:- Mr Chilly in the building
- Words Related to Certain Planets, a “game” by Frankie
- No, seriously y’all, I scored points in this game and I 100% have no understanding of how this game is played
- Bad Marvin Martian impressions
- Yeah, this game is still Calvinball
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Show-notes definition pulled from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary
40 min - 26: Supercilious
Two Swordz, Two Hearts, One Word:
Supercilious - adjective
: coolly and patronizingly haughty
In this episode:
- Too many rangoons
- Introducing Two Swordz (and his Biggest Fanz)
- And JFKaby
- Lifeguard stunts
- Fun in media, less in reality
- The American Lean™
- Hobbylos behavior
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Show-notes definition pulled from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary
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About Big Words for Smart People
From the publisher's feed
Eric and Frankie are not linguists.
What Eric and Frankie lack in bona fides (boring fides, more like it) they make up for in sibling jocularity, rampaging tangents, and lighthearted ribbing. They already know you're a smart person, you don't need to be told that.
Instead, join them every Wednesday to learn a new, cool, big word to enrich your new, cool, big brain and listen in on a casual conversation loosely connected to the word.
BW4SP releases weekly to enrich your lexicon, ~30 minutes at a time.
All thoughts, ideas, and opinions expressed in Big Words for Smart People are their own.