September 16, 2024 • 14 mins
Today, we're "Cleaning Out the Sound Fridge" (commenting on all the sound we didn't use, but will certainly spoil very quickly). Think cottage cheese, or that really old jar of pasta sauce! Featured today: the passing of Tito Jackson, a Panera employee deals with an unruly man and the Valley Girl accent--explained!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We haven't done this in a while. Let's clean out
the sound fridge.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
One more thing, one more thing.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Who originally came up with the ridiculous metaphor that is
cleaning out the sound fridge? Is your idea?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I believe I get credit for that, the sound of fridge.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
And we even have we even have a jingle. It's
the idea that we have all these sound clips and
we don't always get to all of them on the show.
And I guess, just like you got leftovers in your
refrigerator that you should clean out, we're cleaning out.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I guess that's it. I'd exactly right, thank you, Yes, yes,
let's metaphor.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Let's start with this Nobel Prize winner who has an
unusual accomplishment.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The Ignobel Physiology Prize is awarded to Rio Okabe, You
Hey Yokayama, and Taka Nori to KB for discovering that
many mammals are capable of breathing through their anus.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
First and foremost, thank you so much for believing the
potential of anus for breathing potential. So who, who's where
was this happening?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
This was actually yes, for real at mit it was
Nobel Peace Prize awards for scientific discoveries, and that was
one of them.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's a hell of a party, gag. Anyway, I want
to know how he figured this out. How many animals
did he kill with their head underwater and their ass
sticking out before he came up with a winner?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, number one, ouch, number two. They were really tickled
with getting to say that and talk about, weren't they
these these geeks.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, that's funny, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, well it's usually something you know, nobody understands what
even the MIT people probably understand. They really enjoyed it. Okay,
moving on sound for the most mocked. Jackson died over
the weekend. So of the Jackson five, I don't know why.
Gus his name is Funny Tito because his.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Nickname was funny. I think he was the guitar player,
like the whole time.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Tito Jackson. He was an actual musician, Michael's older brother,
and they were still touring him and a couple other
Jackson's some Jackson's at the age of seventy something. Anyway,
he died over the weekend.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Here's this, Yeah, I am playing this guitar about seven
eight years old. He looked at me and said, dang,
you planned just as good as me. He gave me
the guitar. He said, I want you to learn every
song on the radio. So that's what I started doing.
Then Jackie and Jermaine and there we were harmonizing, and
Michael and Marlon were just little bitty things, you know.
They were somewhere around two, three, four years old. One day,
(02:49):
a year or two later, we hear Michael singing in kindergarten, singing,
climb every mountain. He tore it up. Man, we couldn't believe.
Our mouths flew open. We rushed him home, telling him
he's in the group. Mom said me too, say yeah,
you too.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Come on.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
So that's how the Jackson Brothers were formed.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
That's interesting. I mean, you can say to all but
one out of two million people, learn all the songs
on the radio, you seven year old, and it's like, what,
how could I do that? But he did it. He
could just do it. And everybody in that family. What
goes on there? When did mom and dad have a
(03:29):
musical talent particularly or did all their kids just for
some remember quirk of the genetics of mom and dad
coming together just all we're all musical geniuses. Really interesting.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
It was his dad's guitars we played obviously.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, weird. Here's a different thing. Both my kids really
like the Claw game. Like if you're in some sort
of art Claw club, if you're at some sort of arcade.
I try to discourage them. Look, you're not gonna get
the new Tendo switch. Okay, it's just not gonna happen.
(04:03):
They're not gonna let you grab that the clothing and
they always try anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
But just so Katie, I used to have that credit
for that. That was awesome. I had the whole sequence
of that part of toy story memorized. That would do
the whole thing for my kids. I don't remember it now,
but the club they worshiped it as a god because
it took the toys up to heaven as far as
they could tell.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Right, which I saw as an attack on Christianity. But
you thought it was amusing enough, fair enough, completely unfair.
Uh anyway, here's somebody AI telling you how you win
at the Claw game.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Why is it that every time you try to grab
a toy from the claw machine you always miss it
by just a little bit. It's because claw machines are
set with sensitivity levels from one to five, with five
being the tightest grip and one being the loosest. Each
time you start the machine, it randomly selects a level,
but the chances of getting level five are the lowest.
If you press right, left, right, down, down, and then
press the grab button twice before starting, you'll hear a
(05:05):
prompt sound. This means the machine has switched to level
five sensitivity. If you try to grab it again at
this time, you will come back to thank me.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
So grab it a little tighter sometimes and a little
looser other times. Yes, I employed that myself.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Oh jeez, wow, wow, it was Oh okay, that was
like one of those gamer code things that they left
right down, down and then hit the button twice or
whatever it was. Yeah, oh that's been reprogrammed now that
this jerk told everybody how to do it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I was thinking right way to go AI. I actually
had some padlocks that were up, down, right and left.
It wasn't the numbers and you can't program it. I
thought that was pretty cool. They got stuck too easily, though,
if you use them outside.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
What's our stance on basically rigged arcade games that are
stealing from children is it just a great right, a
great life lesson.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Or yes, tell your kids know it's a ripoff.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I'm just always wondering why did these things exist? Why
do we allow these things to exist? A giant arcade
full of things that are just stealing money from people.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, you tell he go ahead.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Oh, you tell the kids it's a ripoff. And then
if they keep complaining, you go go, fine, go ahead.
Then they lose and you're right.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
But it's not set up as Darwin's electronic Jungle to
try to teach children.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's a learning opportunity, a teaching opportunity. No, that's there
to take your money. A very low percentage of people
ever get anything. It's a ripoff. That's good. They're doing
you and your children a service.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
There's something interesting that happened in a Panera bread o
come off, stop stop wow, Wow, dude. Panera bread employee
stops crazy man by hitting him on the head with
(07:06):
a loaf of bread.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Something at a wwe The way he came over the
top of the head with it.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Just it's great.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I'm sure the Panera Management Corporation doesn't want him getting
involved in these sorts of things at all. But as
a normal human being. You don't like to deal with
crazy people or thieves or whatever. I was at a
story the other petco as a petcoat, and I'm waiting
in line to buy crickets. God dang it. Once a
(07:36):
week I have to go buy crickets. I have to
buy bugs to feed to a lizard that your kids
lost interest in. Oh yeah, roughly the day they got it.
I need to sell it, but I just haven't come
up with the time to list my lizard and then
start meeting people and them over the lizard in the
(07:58):
cage anyway.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Hawk study too.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, just take it back, I would think. Can't you
just take back a used lizard? Yeah, Hi, don't want
this thing anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Sell it.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
They get to double the money.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Turn it loose, you know. Hey, it's called freedom, good luck.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Oh my god. I can't believe it's still alive. I
don't want it to die because I'd be a little cruel.
But man, lizards are resilient. They don't need much. A
little bit of.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Wine when the hawks takes off its tail, it'll be fine, Joe.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
But Show's way makes me think of those bird releases
where they're like, it's like a funeral or nothing, and
they release the doves and the strain comes by it
just takes them out.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Oh jeez.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So I met the pet coo and I'm waiting in
line for my pay for my crickets, and the clerk
on the other side said, hey, did you pay for that?
A guy walked out the door at the dog bit Dude,
did you pay for that dog bed? And the guy
kept walking and and I actually wondered, didn't I didn't
hear any more about how this story ended? Was well,
(09:13):
did the guy steal it or not? And he didn't
look like a thief. But anyway, too, were you gonna
like go out in the parking lot and fight him
or what are you gonna do in that situation? And
even if you call the police the police, I don't
think the police are gonna come. And if they did come,
it's not like they're gonna prosecute you, not like they're
gonna fill out the paperwork for a guy who stole
a thirty dollars item, right.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
He knows that, Yeah, he knows that it's Ceie stole it.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And then similarly, I was at the convenience store the
other day, the circle case.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Somebody should have beat him over the head with a
loaf of bread.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I wonder if they serve that bread after you hit
something in the head with it.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I'm more interested in the concept of bread as a
fighting instrument. I mean, I suppose some breads. I mean
a really crusty bag guette. Maybe you could use it
to jab somebody in the face or something. But if
you're using it as a bludgeon, I am not effective. No.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
No, If I'm in a fight, I don't want a chibata.
That's for certain way too soft.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
If you can get into close range, you might be
able to blind somebody with a croissant. But it's a
it's a it's a low percentage play.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I think with a rustic batard I could keep off
a small person a pardon me?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Or what now is my?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Are my bread?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Terms?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Wow? But not with the pugiles. I'm at the comm
I'm at the circle k. The other day something stranger
foot at the circle k, which is a quote from
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. But I was at the
circle k and uh, I was like a space has
had a lot on my mind, A lot lot on
my mind. I stopp at the circle k I got gas,
and I went in to get water because I'm so
(10:50):
dang thirsty, but I'm really deep in thought. I get
my water and then I walk out because I got
so much in my mind. I just walked out of
the store and I got halfway in my truck. Is jeez,
I didn't pay for this. And I went back in
and the guy was there. It wasn't busy. He was
just there leaning against the counter with his arms crossed,
just looking at me. I said, hey, I didn't pay
for that, and he just kind of looked me like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Whatever, it's it's voluntary, dude.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And then I paid for it. But I thought he
watched me walk out of there, didn't even you know,
raise an eye at it.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Sure, all I thought was another one well dollar fifty.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I wasn't gonna come out and fight me, and then
the corporation doesn't want him to. But what a weird
society we live in now where it's just like, doesn't
even doesn't even get anybody's attention. No, that can't last, obviously.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
No, Well it'll degenerate into Well this signed Californians again.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
One more cleaning out the sound fridge. We're clear in
the back and here's some gross, crusty thing. We don't
even know what it is. I hate to even touch
it with my bare hands. This is a valley girl thing, Oh.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
You asked, Yeah, this is I brought this to the party.
This guy is a linguist explaining vocal fry, which we
were talking about the other day the show Awesome.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
You know how young women sometimes add this small nasal
sound to the end of their sentences, and it's like
a little unnecessary exhalation with the rising tone. So that's
actually a completely new example of a non lexical conversational sound,
something that's not quite a word, but it's still important
for maintaining conversational flow. It's kind of like how the
word M is used to show the listener that you're
still talking, but the exact opposite, because the M is
only used when you're done talking. You would never say
(12:30):
it in the middle of a sentence. And that's because
it instead exclusively serves to mark the end of what
you have to say. Now, we usually do this through
boundary marking tones, where we raise or lower a pitch
to indicate the end of a sentence, but some dialects
of English, like valley Girls speak only and in rising tones,
so it's more necessary to find some other way to
make that distinction. Certain languages already do this by instead
having a boundary marking syllable. For example, ancient Greek used
the particle dead to mark the beginning of a new
(12:51):
sentence or clause. That's exactly what American Valley girls have
started doing with the sound. They created the first ever
boundary marking syllable in the English language, which helps them
communicate better while still maintaining up talk. Usually, when you
talk like this, that sounds always rising, so it's hard
to use tone boundaries to tell when a sentence is ending.
But not anymore, because we have a new syllable.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
That's fascinating. As a guy who studied language in a
couple of classes in college, that's really interesting.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
It was a linguist on meth.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah. You know what's else is interesting. It's funny. Yeah.
That was obviously edited and sped up so that it
would be at the breakneck pace of the twenty first century.
But we played some tapes the earlier. Oh, it was
Megan Kelly's screed against the woke transgender crap that Taylor
Swift in effect had endorsed by endorsing Kamala Harris. But
(13:41):
it was the typical example of you got to have
the quick cut edit to eliminate every pause, and then
there's got to be background music constantly, because I can't
pay attention to merely really interesting speech without backup background music,
and because that's omnipresent now in the web. And they
had to change the how do you processing of Meghan
(14:01):
Kelly's voice, like every six seconds or so to make
it more treublier than off in the left channel or whatever,
just because I'm such a neat cerebrally that I can't
pay attention for more than six seconds unless somebody throws
a new flavor at me.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Oh yeah, I'm trying to keep my kids from being
programmed that way. But it's hard because that's just all
of modern entertainment. Their movies, their TV shows are music,
they're everything.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, it's it's a it's a competition for attention that
happens to be ruining people's brains more and more.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
I sound like an old man when I complain about
these things. I hate background music in my videos.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I agree, I agree anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Well, I guess that's it.
We haven't done this in a while. Let's clean out
the sound fridge.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
One more thing, one more thing.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Who originally came up with the ridiculous metaphor that is
cleaning out the sound fridge? Is your idea?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I believe I get credit for that, the sound of fridge.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
And we even have we even have a jingle. It's
the idea that we have all these sound clips and
we don't always get to all of them on the show.
And I guess, just like you got leftovers in your
refrigerator that you should clean out, we're cleaning out.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I guess that's it. I'd exactly right, thank you, Yes, yes,
let's metaphor.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Let's start with this Nobel Prize winner who has an
unusual accomplishment.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The Ignobel Physiology Prize is awarded to Rio Okabe, You
Hey Yokayama, and Taka Nori to KB for discovering that
many mammals are capable of breathing through their anus.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
First and foremost, thank you so much for believing the
potential of anus for breathing potential. So who, who's where
was this happening?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
This was actually yes, for real at mit it was
Nobel Peace Prize awards for scientific discoveries, and that was
one of them.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's a hell of a party, gag. Anyway, I want
to know how he figured this out. How many animals
did he kill with their head underwater and their ass
sticking out before he came up with a winner?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, number one, ouch, number two. They were really tickled
with getting to say that and talk about, weren't they
these these geeks.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, that's funny, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, well it's usually something you know, nobody understands what
even the MIT people probably understand. They really enjoyed it. Okay,
moving on sound for the most mocked. Jackson died over
the weekend. So of the Jackson five, I don't know why.
Gus his name is Funny Tito because his.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Nickname was funny. I think he was the guitar player,
like the whole time.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Tito Jackson. He was an actual musician, Michael's older brother,
and they were still touring him and a couple other
Jackson's some Jackson's at the age of seventy something. Anyway,
he died over the weekend.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Here's this, Yeah, I am playing this guitar about seven
eight years old. He looked at me and said, dang,
you planned just as good as me. He gave me
the guitar. He said, I want you to learn every
song on the radio. So that's what I started doing.
Then Jackie and Jermaine and there we were harmonizing, and
Michael and Marlon were just little bitty things, you know.
They were somewhere around two, three, four years old. One day,
(02:49):
a year or two later, we hear Michael singing in kindergarten, singing,
climb every mountain. He tore it up. Man, we couldn't believe.
Our mouths flew open. We rushed him home, telling him
he's in the group. Mom said me too, say yeah,
you too.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Come on.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
So that's how the Jackson Brothers were formed.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
That's interesting. I mean, you can say to all but
one out of two million people, learn all the songs
on the radio, you seven year old, and it's like, what,
how could I do that? But he did it. He
could just do it. And everybody in that family. What
goes on there? When did mom and dad have a
(03:29):
musical talent particularly or did all their kids just for
some remember quirk of the genetics of mom and dad
coming together just all we're all musical geniuses. Really interesting.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
It was his dad's guitars we played obviously.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, weird. Here's a different thing. Both my kids really
like the Claw game. Like if you're in some sort
of art Claw club, if you're at some sort of arcade.
I try to discourage them. Look, you're not gonna get
the new Tendo switch. Okay, it's just not gonna happen.
(04:03):
They're not gonna let you grab that the clothing and
they always try anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
But just so Katie, I used to have that credit
for that. That was awesome. I had the whole sequence
of that part of toy story memorized. That would do
the whole thing for my kids. I don't remember it now,
but the club they worshiped it as a god because
it took the toys up to heaven as far as
they could tell.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Right, which I saw as an attack on Christianity. But
you thought it was amusing enough, fair enough, completely unfair.
Uh anyway, here's somebody AI telling you how you win
at the Claw game.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Why is it that every time you try to grab
a toy from the claw machine you always miss it
by just a little bit. It's because claw machines are
set with sensitivity levels from one to five, with five
being the tightest grip and one being the loosest. Each
time you start the machine, it randomly selects a level,
but the chances of getting level five are the lowest.
If you press right, left, right, down, down, and then
press the grab button twice before starting, you'll hear a
(05:05):
prompt sound. This means the machine has switched to level
five sensitivity. If you try to grab it again at
this time, you will come back to thank me.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
So grab it a little tighter sometimes and a little
looser other times. Yes, I employed that myself.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Oh jeez, wow, wow, it was Oh okay, that was
like one of those gamer code things that they left
right down, down and then hit the button twice or
whatever it was. Yeah, oh that's been reprogrammed now that
this jerk told everybody how to do it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I was thinking right way to go AI. I actually
had some padlocks that were up, down, right and left.
It wasn't the numbers and you can't program it. I
thought that was pretty cool. They got stuck too easily, though,
if you use them outside.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
What's our stance on basically rigged arcade games that are
stealing from children is it just a great right, a
great life lesson.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Or yes, tell your kids know it's a ripoff.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I'm just always wondering why did these things exist? Why
do we allow these things to exist? A giant arcade
full of things that are just stealing money from people.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, you tell he go ahead.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Oh, you tell the kids it's a ripoff. And then
if they keep complaining, you go go, fine, go ahead.
Then they lose and you're right.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
But it's not set up as Darwin's electronic Jungle to
try to teach children.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's a learning opportunity, a teaching opportunity. No, that's there
to take your money. A very low percentage of people
ever get anything. It's a ripoff. That's good. They're doing
you and your children a service.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
There's something interesting that happened in a Panera bread o
come off, stop stop wow, Wow, dude. Panera bread employee
stops crazy man by hitting him on the head with
(07:06):
a loaf of bread.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Something at a wwe The way he came over the
top of the head with it.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Just it's great.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I'm sure the Panera Management Corporation doesn't want him getting
involved in these sorts of things at all. But as
a normal human being. You don't like to deal with
crazy people or thieves or whatever. I was at a
story the other petco as a petcoat, and I'm waiting
in line to buy crickets. God dang it. Once a
(07:36):
week I have to go buy crickets. I have to
buy bugs to feed to a lizard that your kids
lost interest in. Oh yeah, roughly the day they got it.
I need to sell it, but I just haven't come
up with the time to list my lizard and then
start meeting people and them over the lizard in the
(07:58):
cage anyway.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Hawk study too.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, just take it back, I would think. Can't you
just take back a used lizard? Yeah, Hi, don't want
this thing anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Sell it.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
They get to double the money.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Turn it loose, you know. Hey, it's called freedom, good luck.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Oh my god. I can't believe it's still alive. I
don't want it to die because I'd be a little cruel.
But man, lizards are resilient. They don't need much. A
little bit of.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Wine when the hawks takes off its tail, it'll be fine, Joe.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
But Show's way makes me think of those bird releases
where they're like, it's like a funeral or nothing, and
they release the doves and the strain comes by it
just takes them out.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Oh jeez.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So I met the pet coo and I'm waiting in
line for my pay for my crickets, and the clerk
on the other side said, hey, did you pay for that?
A guy walked out the door at the dog bit Dude,
did you pay for that dog bed? And the guy
kept walking and and I actually wondered, didn't I didn't
hear any more about how this story ended? Was well,
(09:13):
did the guy steal it or not? And he didn't
look like a thief. But anyway, too, were you gonna
like go out in the parking lot and fight him
or what are you gonna do in that situation? And
even if you call the police the police, I don't
think the police are gonna come. And if they did come,
it's not like they're gonna prosecute you, not like they're
gonna fill out the paperwork for a guy who stole
a thirty dollars item, right.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
He knows that, Yeah, he knows that it's Ceie stole it.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And then similarly, I was at the convenience store the
other day, the circle case.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Somebody should have beat him over the head with a
loaf of bread.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I wonder if they serve that bread after you hit
something in the head with it.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I'm more interested in the concept of bread as a
fighting instrument. I mean, I suppose some breads. I mean
a really crusty bag guette. Maybe you could use it
to jab somebody in the face or something. But if
you're using it as a bludgeon, I am not effective. No.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
No, If I'm in a fight, I don't want a chibata.
That's for certain way too soft.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
If you can get into close range, you might be
able to blind somebody with a croissant. But it's a
it's a it's a low percentage play.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I think with a rustic batard I could keep off
a small person a pardon me?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Or what now is my?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Are my bread?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Terms?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Wow? But not with the pugiles. I'm at the comm
I'm at the circle k. The other day something stranger
foot at the circle k, which is a quote from
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. But I was at the
circle k and uh, I was like a space has
had a lot on my mind, A lot lot on
my mind. I stopp at the circle k I got gas,
and I went in to get water because I'm so
(10:50):
dang thirsty, but I'm really deep in thought. I get
my water and then I walk out because I got
so much in my mind. I just walked out of
the store and I got halfway in my truck. Is jeez,
I didn't pay for this. And I went back in
and the guy was there. It wasn't busy. He was
just there leaning against the counter with his arms crossed,
just looking at me. I said, hey, I didn't pay
for that, and he just kind of looked me like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Whatever, it's it's voluntary, dude.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And then I paid for it. But I thought he
watched me walk out of there, didn't even you know,
raise an eye at it.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Sure, all I thought was another one well dollar fifty.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I wasn't gonna come out and fight me, and then
the corporation doesn't want him to. But what a weird
society we live in now where it's just like, doesn't
even doesn't even get anybody's attention. No, that can't last, obviously.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
No, Well it'll degenerate into Well this signed Californians again.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
One more cleaning out the sound fridge. We're clear in
the back and here's some gross, crusty thing. We don't
even know what it is. I hate to even touch
it with my bare hands. This is a valley girl thing, Oh.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
You asked, Yeah, this is I brought this to the party.
This guy is a linguist explaining vocal fry, which we
were talking about the other day the show Awesome.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
You know how young women sometimes add this small nasal
sound to the end of their sentences, and it's like
a little unnecessary exhalation with the rising tone. So that's
actually a completely new example of a non lexical conversational sound,
something that's not quite a word, but it's still important
for maintaining conversational flow. It's kind of like how the
word M is used to show the listener that you're
still talking, but the exact opposite, because the M is
only used when you're done talking. You would never say
(12:30):
it in the middle of a sentence. And that's because
it instead exclusively serves to mark the end of what
you have to say. Now, we usually do this through
boundary marking tones, where we raise or lower a pitch
to indicate the end of a sentence, but some dialects
of English, like valley Girls speak only and in rising tones,
so it's more necessary to find some other way to
make that distinction. Certain languages already do this by instead
having a boundary marking syllable. For example, ancient Greek used
the particle dead to mark the beginning of a new
(12:51):
sentence or clause. That's exactly what American Valley girls have
started doing with the sound. They created the first ever
boundary marking syllable in the English language, which helps them
communicate better while still maintaining up talk. Usually, when you
talk like this, that sounds always rising, so it's hard
to use tone boundaries to tell when a sentence is ending.
But not anymore, because we have a new syllable.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
That's fascinating. As a guy who studied language in a
couple of classes in college, that's really interesting.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
It was a linguist on meth.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah. You know what's else is interesting. It's funny. Yeah.
That was obviously edited and sped up so that it
would be at the breakneck pace of the twenty first century.
But we played some tapes the earlier. Oh, it was
Megan Kelly's screed against the woke transgender crap that Taylor
Swift in effect had endorsed by endorsing Kamala Harris. But
(13:41):
it was the typical example of you got to have
the quick cut edit to eliminate every pause, and then
there's got to be background music constantly, because I can't
pay attention to merely really interesting speech without backup background music,
and because that's omnipresent now in the web. And they
had to change the how do you processing of Meghan
(14:01):
Kelly's voice, like every six seconds or so to make
it more treublier than off in the left channel or whatever,
just because I'm such a neat cerebrally that I can't
pay attention for more than six seconds unless somebody throws
a new flavor at me.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Oh yeah, I'm trying to keep my kids from being
programmed that way. But it's hard because that's just all
of modern entertainment. Their movies, their TV shows are music,
they're everything.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, it's it's a it's a competition for attention that
happens to be ruining people's brains more and more.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
I sound like an old man when I complain about
these things. I hate background music in my videos.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I agree, I agree anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Well, I guess that's it.
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