Getting Down & Wordy

This is the first episode of our new format. We've decided to stop talking about music, and from now on we will talk about fruits and their etymology and history instead. Today we'll taste some varieties of apples, kumquats, goldberries, pineberries, horned melons, and starfruit.

As for Eurovision, we're going to talk about the documentary released about the 2020 Eurovision competition, which is called Eurovision: Story of Fire Saga.

This week's ad is for the podcast Jack Billings Presents: Haunted Apartment Complex. You can find them here:

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** AUDIO QUALITY ADVISORY ** There's some trouble with Russell's recording in this episode. He may be a little tough to hear.

Today we talk Taylor Swift's song Anti-Hero. We talk about anti-heros and the etymology of the word hero, and we discuss linguistic bleaching, the way that words fade in strength over time. In Eurovision, we talk about the Baltic countries' entries.

This episode's featured ad is the podcast Freaky Fridays. 

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Today we talk about Waka Flocka Flame's hit song "Hard in da Paint". What does hard in the paint mean and where did it originate? For that matter where did the word paint come from? We discuss some other basketball idioms in every speech. Then we do a March Madness style tournment bracket of the last 16 Eurovision winners. We choose our winner. If you want to choose your winner, you can find our list here, but I really recommend watching them as videos so you can see the performances.

The Eurovision winners:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37oFqgOIxPgROzktxA1oKv?si=4fdea437aac54282

This episode's featured ad is Fuck My Work Life. You can find them here https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/f-k-my-work-life/id1555824690

We talk about Sam Smith (who Russell stupidly misgenders like a hundred times, sorry listeners!), Kim Petras, LGBT and transgender stuff of course, and the etymology of body shop and specificly the word body. We look at some songs about other kinds of shops and Hannah tries to guess if they're sexual or not. And for Eurovision we talk about some of the songs that have been chosen for 2023 thus far, including Albania and Israel. 

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We talk "Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" by The Fifth Dimension, and of course we talk about Aquarius the astrological sign, astrological ages, and the endless list of different astrological bodies which a sign can be 'in', i.e. moon sign, saturn sign, etc., and what each means. TRIGGER WARNING: we are a little derisive toward the whole idea of astrology at times, even though Hannah is an astrology enthusiast! 

In Eurovision news, we talk about Slovenia's entry for 2023, Joker Out. 

Our featured ad this week is from podcast Dead On, a true crime podcast. You can find Dead On here (or anywhere you get podcasts):

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We review our favorites and least favorites of the podcast episodes of 2022.

We talk 5 favorite songs from the podcast. 1 worst song covered. 3 favorite language facts learned. Favorite and least favorite Eurovision song. And predictions for the future of the English language in 2023.

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**POOR AUDIO QUALITY ADVISORY** There are some problems with the audio in this episode, namely some voice quality loss and a background puppy. Listener beware.

Today we are joined by Andres from the Latin Jukebox podcast to talk about Bad Bunny and the history and impact of Spanish on American culture and the English language. We discuss Bad Bunny's activitism in LGBTQ rights and Puerto Rico advocacy. 

And in Eurovision we talk about the Spanish contenders for Eurovision 2023. 18 songs which you can listen to here: https://eurovisionworld.com/national/spain/benidorm-fest-2023

We make our predictions and choose our favorites.

Listen to Latin Jukebox anywhere you listen to podcasts. Here is the link to his apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-latin-jukebox/id1533615587 

We talk about NSYNC, why pretzels are the ultimate Christmas snack, etymologically speaking, the merry marry mary merger, and of course why we say "Merry Christmas", spoiler - it's like saying have a drunken socialist christmas . . . We also talk about Lithuania's Eurovision offering Sentementai by Monika Liu.

We talk Migos, Takeoff's death, car words, the history of the bourgeoisie in France and communist theory, and the origin and rise of 'bougie' in African American culture through class struggles and civil rights. And we discuss Portugal's 2022 Eurovision offering "Saudade Saudade" by MARO.

We talk about the KPOP band Blackpink and the history and etymology of the color pink. And for Eurovision, we discuss Finland's The Rasmus.