My Daily Walk – To Ideate

My Daily Walk is a podcast with a Hollywood producer who records a podcast when he goes for a walk. To Ideate, today’s topic is really about words and how they come into being and how they enter the dictionary.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will crush my soul. Wait, wait, wait. Sticks and stones may break my bones … Will never hurt me. Sorry. I got that last part wrong. I don’t know the origin of that children’s phrase, or that little saying, but what a pernicious lie for young people to believe, that words have no injurious effect. On the contrary, isn’t it the power of life and death that are in the tongue, and that words are utterly powerful?

Good morning, and welcome to My Daily Walk, the half hour daily podcast where some anonymous Hollywood guy walks around and talks about everything and anything, except of course, the things he can’t talk about because he’s constricted by a non-disclosure agreement, contractually obligated to conceal certain things. But I can talk about a whole lot of other things. Anyway. So, good morning and welcome to day one of week two. Before I left the house on my walk, I meant to go over my list of topics for the week, but because I was running a little bit late for my daily departure and I neglected to do so, but I think I can off the top of my head recall.

Today’s topic is really about words and how they come into being and how they enter the dictionary. I don’t know which order in particular, but I am going to spend one episode talking about, I believe I mentioned at some point last week I have, like, seven different projects I’m working on. I mean, I could list ten more than that, but I just pulled that number off the top of my head. But I think I’ll go through the top seven, a quick overview of the different projects that I have on the back burner, in the hopper, whatever the expression is.

So, seven topics, or seven projects will be one day’s episode. Maybe that’s tomorrow. It’s tomorrow or Thursday, I do think Wednesday I have reserved for the topic of bloodlust. What exactly is that? I treat it as a kind of a virus or a disease, a disorder, a sickness, something abnormal. Bloodlust. Then Thursday, the subject or the topic that I wrote down is a hundred billion nuclear bombs. We’ll just leave that right there. And I think Friday, you know what, I’m not going to say what I think Friday is because I might be wrong, so I don’t want to mislead you and then lock myself into a topic. So anyway, there’s some of the topics that I’ll be talking about this week.

Last Friday, the topic I left off with, let’s see if I can remember this. What was it? Oh, yes. Meeting the author. So if this is the first segment that you’re listening to and you’re interested in … Last week, I discussed meeting the author, talked about writings and certain stories, a book that I’m reading, plus some ancient texts that make some pretty incredible claims, and how it is you can verify those claims. I mean, really, meeting the author would be the best, but if it’s in the past, what can you do? I don’t remember where the conversation went last week. So, if you’re interested in that at all, go back and listen.

Oh, before I get too far, I do want to mention the e-mail address, I guess, in every episode. It has been established. I haven’t tested it yet, but by the time you hear this it will have been tested. E-mail address if you want to get in on the conversation or suggest topics or tangents, you can e-mail me at [email protected].

So, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will crush my soul. That’s the intro that I thought of this morning. I’m like,