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Euphemisms

Euphemisms

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Introducing Euphemisms: the totally normal, definitely not weird, brother-sister romance novel book club podcast! Hang out with us as we explore the uneven terrain of the romance genre, discussing the tropes and dissecting the euphemisms, all with a drink in hand.
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Whole 9 Yards is a weekly podcast that will simultaneously educate, astonish, and amuse. Listen while we share equivocal research about the origin of words, phrases, and idioms we use every day. From the team at Big Science Pods, we bring you the whole 9 yards, the entire kit and caboodle, the whole shebang of this quick, entertaining look at our language and the history therein. Learn why we call New York "The Big Apple," what "red-handed" REALLY means and why sometimes people are "happy as ...
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Fallacious Trump

Jim & Mark

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Jim and Mark use the insane ramblings of a tiny-handed narcissist to explain logical fallacies. Each episode we focus on a single logical fallacy and, using examples from Trump, UK politics and pop culture, explore how and why it fools people, how to avoid committing it yourself, and how to counter it in an argument.
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Hi! I'm Joe, the former host and DM of the first ever Pathfinder 2E actual play podcast. On this show, I share my thoughts on RPG's, life, and whatever else happens to cross my mind. I mostly stick to role playing games though... I promise.
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This is the home of the Escape Podcast with Simon Calder. Plug in to gain insights into the best places to travel around the globe, with tricks and tips from the UK's best known authority on travel.
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Nerd-Base Podcast

Nerd-Base.com

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The Nerd-Base.com Podcast is a erratically recorded effort by a group of folks with too much knowledge of pop and geek culture. They're a bunch of weirdos who love to act smart and make fun of one another for your amusement while all along imparting some important knowledge that you'll be better for knowing!
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Loot Cast

Loot Cast

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The Loot Cast takes the geek, gamer and fandom themes you love from Loot Crate and turns ‘em into sound waves you can listen to. Hosts Jenni Villarreal and Ash Mahtani lead the discussion, covering topics relevant to the latest crate, interviewing fellow Loot Crate employees and disagreeing about pretty much everything … except Aquaman. The Loot Cast is produced by Alex Steen and edited by Alex Steen and Jenni Villarreal. Music by Stenobot. http://stenobot.com
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Very Bad Words

Matt Fidler

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As long as there’s been language, there have been forbidden words. What gives these words their power? Why are they considered “bad”? Producer and Host, Matt Fidler, reaches out to experts, linguists, and historians to explore these words and their cultural significance. From diving into specific bad words to exploring what language has the “worst curses”, Matt weaves personal stories and interviews to help shed light on the power of very bad words. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for ...
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Have You Eaten Grandma?

Gyles Brandreth and Penguin Books

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Language is power. Emojis, slang, the subjunctive mood . . . all colour our words with meaning. Interested? Then you’re in the right place. Welcome to the Have You Eaten Grandma? podcast.Join Gyles Brandreth, Natalie Haynes and a group of fellow word nerds as they journey through the intricacies and everyday pitfalls of the English languageDiscover more about the book behind the podcast at http://bit.ly/HYEGwts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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In the one-hundred-and-seventy-sixth episode, we explore the Appeal to Outdated Data, starting with Trump getting Chicago gun laws wrong, and being disingenuous about Fauci's masking advice, then Musk pretending the press minimizes violence against white men. In Mark's British Politics Corner, we look at Nigel Farage using old figures to claim the …
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In this episode (recorded prior to such events as the Trump - Musk breakup and the National Guard being sent to L.A.), Ryan and Todd discuss Sigmund Freud's essay "On Narcissism: An Introduction." Freud's notion of narcissism clashes with the increasingly commonplace idea of narcissism that is largely informed by a pop-psychology importation of Nar…
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Episode 270: Jay & Ray tell a few cock and bull stories. - Encore eat your heart out cock and bull story Subscribe, review, and come find us on BlueSky, Insta, & FB. Big Science Music is an award-winning original music and sound boutique. Providing scoring, sound design, radio, podcast, and all audio-post production services for the advertising, fi…
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Episode 269: Jay & Ray get a few old idioms running again. - Encore cheese it jalopy Subscribe, review, and come find us on BlueSky, Insta, & FB. Big Science Music is an award-winning original music and sound boutique. Providing scoring, sound design, radio, podcast, and all audio-post production services for the advertising, film, and video indust…
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In the one-hundred-and-seventy-fifth episode, we take another look at the Argument from Popularity, starting with Trump claiming millions of people voted illegally in 2020, and that 90% of people think his economy was better than Biden's, then Utah's state legislature pretending science isn't real if enough people think so. In Mark's British Politi…
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On this episode, Ryan and Todd work through Sigmund Freud's under discussed Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. The hosts first lay out how Freud establishes the group, rather than the individual, as the psyche's primary formation. They then devote time to teasing out the consequences of group dynamics as Freud writes about them in the fi…
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Episode 268: Jay & Ray have some fun with old idioms. - Encore dry humor jaunty Subscribe, review, and come find us on BlueSky, Insta, & FB. Big Science Music is an award-winning original music and sound boutique. Providing scoring, sound design, radio, podcast, and all audio-post production services for the advertising, film, and video industries.…
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Episode 267: Jay & Ray call a few old idioms back on the carpet. - Encore called on the carpet burn the midnight oil Subscribe, review, and come find us on BlueSky, Insta, & FB. Big Science Music is an award-winning original music and sound boutique. Providing scoring, sound design, radio, podcast, and all audio-post production services for the adv…
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In the one-hundred-and-seventy-fourth episode, we explore the Furtive Fallacy, starting with Trump blaming protests on George Soros, lying about USAID, and claiming the 2020 election was stolen from him. In Mark's British Politics Corner, we look at Nadine Dorries implying various behind-the-scenes shenanigans in the Tory Party. In the Fallacy in t…
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In this episode, Ryan and Todd dedicate a full-length treatment to one of the podcast's most frequently referenced works: Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields. The hosts move from engaging the term racecraft itself (which, not for nothing, both gets a red squiggle when I write it and the comput…
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Episode 266: Jay & Ray random up some idioms. -Encore canoodle druthers Subscribe, review, and come find us on BlueSky, Insta, & FB. Big Science Music is an award-winning original music and sound boutique. Providing scoring, sound design, radio, podcast, and all audio-post production services for the advertising, film, and video industries. Grab a …
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Episode 265: Jay & Ray randomize some old idioms. - Encore clear as a bell upset the apple cart Subscribe, review, and come find us on BlueSky, Insta, & FB. Big Science Music is an award-winning original music and sound boutique. Providing scoring, sound design, radio, podcast, and all audio-post production services for the advertising, film, and v…
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In the one-hundred-and-seventy-third episode, we explore Hypophora, starting with Trump showing his lack of foreign policy chops with regard to both Iran and Iraq, and then Donald Jr. minimizing COVID deaths. In Mark's British Politics Corner, we look at Kier Starmer accurately describing Boris Johnson, Boris Johnson inaccurately describing parties…
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In this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the effect artificial intelligence is having on higher education, primarily through commentary on ChatGPT. They first discuss how immediacy and the elimination of labor are key to ChatGPT's appeal before moving to discuss how it produces an idea of what Lacan would term the Big Other and how its ruling logic i…
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Episode 264: Jay & Ray come up empty with some old idioms. - Encore zilch nada Subscribe, review, and come find us on BlueSky, Insta, & Facebook. Big Science Music is an award-winning original music and sound boutique. Providing scoring, sound design, radio, podcast, and all audio-post production services for the advertising, film, and video indust…
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Episode 263: Jay & Ray meet a few people idioms. - Encore runaround sue lass hillbilly in a jiffy Subscribe, review, and come find us on BlueSky, Insta, & Facebook. Big Science Music is an award-winning original music and sound boutique. Providing scoring, sound design, radio, podcast, and all audio-post production services for the advertising, fil…
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In the one-hundred-and-seventy-second episode, we explore the Jingoism Fallacy, starting with Trump quoting Napoleon and making transphobia a patriotism issue, and Dr. Carole Lieberman asking why Democrats hate America. In Mark's British Politics Corner, we look at Starmer, Sunak, and Laurence Fox doing their best to sound patriotic, an insanely ji…
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Kicking off a new Overview sub series of podcasts, Ryan and Todd discuss the influential ideas of Hegelian-Lacanian philosopher, Slavoj Žižek. After discussing Žižek's defining contribution in bringing the study of Hegel and the study of Lacan together, the two hosts move through three ideas apiece that each influenced their own work and their own …
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Episode 262: Jay & Ray get to direct a few movie idioms. - Encore jump the shark read between the lines blockbuster snuff film Subscribe, review, and come find us on BlueSky, Insta, & Facebook. Big Science Music is an award-winning original music and sound boutique. Providing scoring, sound design, radio, podcast, and all audio-post production serv…
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Episode 261: Jay & Ray chose their own adventures. - Encore bandy about just joshin' world is your oyster get your goat Subscribe, review, and come find us on BlueSky, Instagram, & FB. Big Science Music is an award-winning original music and sound boutique. Providing scoring, sound design, radio, podcast, and all audio-post production services for …
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In the one-hundred-and-seventy-first episode, we explore the Golden Hammer Fallacy, starting with Trump trying to use tariffs to solve every problem and Dr. Oz recommending acupuncture for multiple ailments. In Mark's British Politics Corner, we look at the many problems Brexit was destined to solve, and the many Brexit-related problems that could …
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Ryan and Todd discuss the political implications of the societal tendency toward euphemism. They theorize euphemism ultimately as a tool of the reactionary forces and as a way of blunting the necessity of critique. Euphemisms make the people employing them feel better while furthering the very structure of oppression that the euphemism claims to am…
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"Memory, prophecy and fantasy—the past, the future and the dreaming moment between—are all one country, living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art." - Clive Barker, The Great and Secret Show This episode was inspired by a message from a first time caller, the great and secret Jason Webes form the Dungeon Plunger podcast! …
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Episode 260: Jay & Ray enjoy the chaotic nature of reality. - Encore tiff tacky house hawk Subscribe, review, and come find us on BlueSky, Instagram, & FB. Big Science Music is an award-winning original music and sound boutique. Providing scoring, sound design, radio, podcast, and all audio-post production services for the advertising, film, and vi…
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