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Slang Through the Ages: Decoding Our Parents' Weird Sayings
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Those strange sayings your parents repeated endlessly actually have fascinating origins. From "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" (which connects to pre-indoor plumbing practices) to "being here with bells on" (showing up enthusiastically), each expression carries surprising historical context that reveals how our ancestors lived.
Frank returns to the podcast for a deep dive into the colorful language our elders passed down. The conversation uncovers fascinating geographic differences between Brooklyn phrases like "it's brick outside" and Southern expressions like "nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs," showing how regional culture shapes our linguistic inheritance.
The most entertaining segments explore the sarcastic gems we all recognize - being told you're "as sharp as a bowling ball" or "a few clowns short of a circus" delivered criticism wrapped in humor. The hosts examine how expressions like "if you're working in the house, take your hat off" trace back to practical concerns from the horse-and-buggy era when hats protected from dust on dirt roads.
Beyond the laughs, the discussion touches on something deeper: how these phrases formed a cultural bridge between generations. Many sayings were already outdated when our parents used them, yet they continued passing them down. There's something profound about realizing the expression "don't take any wooden nickels" connects us to ancestors who had to bite coins to test if they were counterfeit.
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Welcome Back Frank
Speaker 1Good Welcome to Common Corvette and the Jersey Guide Podcast.
Speaker 2What's happening? What's going on? What's going on? How's?
Speaker 1everything, how's everything?
Speaker 2Good.
Speaker 1Good, we have a guest with us tonight. Yes, sir Frank is back.
Speaker 3Welcome back. Welcome back, Frank.
Speaker 4Hey, what's up, guys, how you doing yeah, too good to be true. Welcome back Frankie. Welcome back Frank. Hey, what's up?
Speaker 2guys how you doing Too good to be true. Got you back again Like thank you for letting us in and hanging out with you again.
Speaker 4Yeah, my head's swelling each time, although Louie gave me about six minutes on this one. Pretty much. Is that Louie doing the intro now? Yeah, he took over Tom's spot. Yeah, you see this, though he's just being a bully. He changed his look every once in a while.
Speaker 2Yeah, he's being a bully bro. He muscled him. You have to see the arm wrestle going on in here. He's like I'm doing it now. No, no, we just have to switch it up.
Speaker 3We'll do it live instead of recorded, right? Yeah, and that's the other thing too yeah, live tom. We recorded tom's voice so we could take turns, if we want here and there, you know yep sometimes yeah so well, I'm I'm happy to be here again with you guys.
Speaker 4Thanks for uh the opportunity. Thank you.
Speaker 2Thank you for coming. I guess it's perfect because it's.
Exploring Old-time Sayings and Phrases
Speaker 1This is one of the ones that we like to do, like we did last, we had the questions that we were giving one another on the last podcast. This is a that's you know the same kind of genre. You know the things you heard when you were growing up, those the silly things or phrases that your parents would say, or even grandparents yeah, it's uncles whatever, or even people that you knew. You know, like have a pot to piss in, but you know, but not have a window to throw it out of.
Speaker 1Yeah, so we got the origins, you know things like, things like that. Yeah, your parents would say that Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Yeah, yeah, where did they come from? Why did they say those things? You know it's crazy. Yeah, you know, Frank you grew up with that. I know your parents.
Speaker 4Yeah, I mean. That's the time we grew up, when I heard we were when we were going to be talking about this. You know, it's like scary enough. Some of the darker ones started popping in my head. You know, like my dad driving down the Bell Parkway going, don't make me pull this car over.
Speaker 2Yeah, because you knew that was coming.
Speaker 4Yeah, that kind of worked.
Speaker 2That is a lie, right, those are good ones, though.
Speaker 1So don't look a guitarist in the mouth. What does that actually mean? Right Go ahead. Don't criticize or question the value of something you got for free. Take it, thank you and go on your way. That makes sense.
Speaker 2Go in peace my son. Yeah, that makes sense Right Be thankful for what you're getting Exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1Don't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of Meaning. You're very poor, have no money or property at all. Yeah, that's a good one, but also I also heard that back in the day, you know, in Europe they just threw it right out the window.
Speaker 2Yeah, so they would pee in the pot in a piss pan have women walk on the outside right. What do you think it?
Speaker 1was, I wasn't, I forgot.
Speaker 2What was it? That's a good one.
Speaker 4Yeah, that's what it was. You know what you might be right on that one.
Speaker 2Yeah, because I think it was that the women walked on the inside so that this way, because the trajectory of the urine or feces that was in the pot, I thought it was to keep them safe from anything on the other side that side that was us later. On.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, yeah, that might be true?
Speaker 2That might be true, yeah, yeah. No, I think it was for us, when we, you know, for us, that's what it was. It was, you know, keeping the girl on the inside, like to protect her, and such. For back in the day before they had toilets, they would have women walk on the inside and that was, the men started to wear hats all the time so that this way, if anybody emptied out their pee pans from the houses and throwing them out the window, that it wouldn't land on the guy's head.
Speaker 4It would land on the hat Okie dokie, that's pretty interesting and people say we haven't evolved as a society.
Speaker 2Yeah right, I'm just saying At least he found one spot to pinion and not out the window.
Speaker 1Think of the plumbing man. I'll tell you.
Speaker 2Yeah, yes, the Roman Empire.
Speaker 1Yes, indoor plumbing.
Speaker 2That's right. That is too funny, all right, all right. How about this one? Don't throw the baby out with the bath water, right?
Speaker 3Why not.
Speaker 2If that's your little shit, don't shut up. No, if he's acting up, no, all right. So that came from. It says don't discard something valuable when trying to get rid of something unwanted. All right, okay, that's cool, I could do with that, yeah.
Speaker 4That's a little scary, though.
Speaker 3right yeah, the one that throw the baby out the window and I'm sure the origins of that one is probably the same as the pot to piss in time, because you threw out the bath water Right, you didn't have a drain system.
Speaker 2There's no sewer system.
Speaker 1You had to carry the water out of the bath water. You had to just carry it out.
Speaker 3So don't throw out the baby with the bath water. Yeah, jack, and.
Speaker 2Jill went up the hill. Yeah, crazy stuff, that's a good one.
Speaker 1I didn't even think about that, tom, I'll show up cheerfully and enthusiastically.
Speaker 2There you go, there you go. But that one we knew I think we all did. That's me, that's Frank when he said that when he heard we was coming on the show again, he was here with bells on. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, see, yeah.
Speaker 4Hopefully someday I'll be there and I can get on that. Youtube channel with you guys, and I'll bring you, I'll be there with bells on.
Speaker 2Yeah, come on. I'll laugh if you roll up in here with the bells on around your neck. That would be great, that would be funny.
Speaker 4You'll hear me jingling up the driveways.
Speaker 2Yes, it's going to be a Christmas episode. That's great.
Speaker 4Oh, and you guys know, I always love those.
Speaker 2Okay, here we go, we'll go one a little bit sarcastic, uh-huh, oh yeah. Bright as a cave, oh yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, I love that one.
Speaker 2Yeah, see, so that's a sarcastic gem right there, because someone or something is not very bright at all, dull-witted, clueless or oblivious. Yeah, used to roast someone gently, or not so gently, right.
Speaker 1Eh eh to roast someone gently, or not so gently, right. So that's it About the same, as you're as sharp as a bowling ball.
Speaker 2There you go. I love those. Yeah, I like the sarcastic ones, if you didn't know, Well, this one. It said right there Lou sharp as a marble.
Speaker 1Sharp as a marble. I always said it as bowling ball.
Speaker 2That is funny. You found anyone you like, Tom.
Speaker 1I love these man. These are great Tom is reading the list.
Speaker 3I'm reading the one and I'm just hearing it in like the most like stereotypical southern accent.
Speaker 4Lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut, that is too funny.
Speaker 2That's awesome, man so Frank you being out there, though, frank, is there anything that you've heard that you hadn't heard? Like growing up in the city, in Brooklyn?
Speaker 1Yeah, like you know, what's the big you know the phrases out in Tennessee versus where you and I grew up in Brooklyn, new York or around Jersey.
Speaker 4I mean, you know, growing up here in Tennessee is like oh wee, you find it at a new set of snow tires.
Speaker 3But you know, back in Brooklyn.
Speaker 4It was like when I was your age. I walked 10 miles to school.
Speaker 2Yeah, uphill Both ways, both ways.
Speaker 1And five feet of snow In the snow.
Speaker 2Barefoot. Yeah, that's right, with holes in my Converse, right my ProKeds.
Speaker 3That's funny. What was the other one? You said Tom. The other one? You just said oh no, no, that's the one I read before. Oh, okay, okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, see now, I like the sarcastic ones. I'm not going to lie, I like those because I think those are funny.
Speaker 3This is one I use a lot.
Speaker 1I say that's not like cup of tea. That put hair on my chest. That was one back in the day, oh yeah dude yeah. You know, said jokingly about something tough, yep, strong liquor or food, implying it'll make you manly.
Speaker 2Mmm. Stud muffin.
Speaker 3Put hair on your chest. See, I got some.
Speaker 2What were you going to say?
Speaker 4Frank. Back to the sarcastic ones. You know like I picture my dad going oh, close the door. What are you living in a barn, yeah, oh yeah, Remember that yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, my father would say if you work in the house, take your hat off. Yeah.
Speaker 2But that was respectful wasn't it.
Speaker 1That was a thing.
Speaker 2Because it was more military. Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3Do you know why it's rude to wear a hat indoors? No, because it's going back from the days when people used to still use horse and buggies, and it would be dirt roads, uh huh the like the wooden tires, the wooden wheels would kick up a lot of dust from the dirt roads so people will wear hats because you would have dust in your hair. So if you wore the hat inside you it was rude because did you bring the?
Speaker 1dust. You're bringing all the dust on it from the outside gotcha well there you go it's outdated, though.
Speaker 3Now it's like oh, take your hat off. Yeah, like. Yeah, it's like kind of like an outdated thing, yeah, still well, no, because if you're outside and you're, you know you're walking around there's still dust and dirt or whatever.
Speaker 2You know you're walking and shit you know we have it really good when you think about what we have right now.
Speaker 1Right, we come home, we have our water, yeah yeah but you think people back in that day how they had to survive. You know, they didn't have that until later on. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3So then that was a luxury yeah, but isn't it funny how these, how these sayings go that far back, far back, yeah, like where it's even outdated, like like, yeah, don't even, it doesn't there are a lot of people still say, you know, especially from my era you know, if you're still gen x, you know well yeah, yeah, you say, because your parents said it yeah, but it was even outdated when our parents generated.
Speaker 1You know what?
Speaker 4I'm saying yeah, they go back generations. Yeah, you know, like a Watt pot never boils. Yeah, how far back does that go? I can picture like a family sitting around a fire outside. Is it ready yet, Pa?
Speaker 2Yeah man, holy cow, those are crazy. You're going to say, lou, colder than a well digger's butt, really, january I've heard. Colder than a witch's tit. That one I heard, all right, so then I mean same thing it's cold.
Speaker 1I read that one. It said you're so cold, you're cold to the bone. Okay.
Speaker 3Yeah right, there's a saying they used to have in Jersey, but my friend Steve, and he was from Queens he said they said it too. So I don't know if it was said in Brooklyn too, but have you ever heard the term, for when it's cold, it's brick outside?
Speaker 2Yeah, still say it.
Speaker 4Yeah, it's brick. Yeah, yo it's freaking brick out there. It's crazy brick Like yo. It's super brick out there. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. But, Louie, maybe you can look this one up You're the bee's knees.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, we're the bee's knees. I actually have that one.
Speaker 2It's on this list. Actually, I forgot, I didn't know what that means.
Speaker 4I never knew what that meant, though, and I guess I was too lazy to look it up, so I guess I didn't really give it, yeah.
Speaker 2Right, yeah, Lou, you're going to have to find that there. Yeah, I'll find it. I'm going to do this. The sarcastic one About as useful as a screen door on a submarine yeah.
Speaker 3Don't let the door hit you where the Lord split you. There you go.
Speaker 4That's a good one I'll give you.
Speaker 2I'll give you, go yeah.
Speaker 1There you go. Not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Speaker 2Uh-huh, yeah, ooh, here's a good one Straight from the horse's mouth.
Speaker 1Oh, okay, what is that? Where's that from? Yeah, because I don't understand that Meaning directly from the original or most reliable source.
Speaker 2No, okay, I thought it was coming from. That's pretty good stuff.
Speaker 1Yeah, I thought that the first person that it was referenced to looked like a horse.
Speaker 2I get it, that makes sense. Oh, here it goes. The bee's knees, what?
Speaker 1does it mean?
Speaker 2Meaning really cool or great.
Speaker 1Yeah, the bee's knees. Yeah, some of these I never heard.
Speaker 4Now I guess I know why I didn't have to look that up.
Speaker 3Yeah, it was more common sense than we thought. I thought there was a little bit more deeper meaning to it. Somebody's I never heard Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
Speaker 2I've heard that one. I've never heard that one before.
Speaker 4But think about it though. How much does that make sense? Yeah, Hell yeah.
Speaker 2Because then too there was cartoons. They used to make sense yeah, hell, yeah, yeah. Because then too there was cartoons. They used to show that, yeah, the cat's sitting right next to the old lady's chair and she's rocking, and the husband next and he's like, he's just like swinging his tail, yeah, falls asleep and gets caught. Yeah, yeah, that's freaking great. Here you go, come hell or high water, yeah.
Speaker 1Now great, here you go come hell or high water, yeah, now all right.
Speaker 2So what is that? No matter what happens, I'm doing it there it is. Yeah, exactly, I'm making sure it's gonna happen.
Speaker 3That's right. Oh, that's here's one. Dumber than a box of rocks. I love that one.
Speaker 2You don't know, what that means, oh yeah, no, I say, and well, elevator doesn't go all the way to the top.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh yeah, uh-huh, yeah, it stopped for like a little fries short of a happy meal yeah, I love those.
Speaker 2Those are the freaking greatest man. I love them. Hell, ugly as ugly as homemade.
Speaker 3Sin meaning really, really unattractive, brutally honest old school insult yeah, I know, oh, I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah that's a great one.
Speaker 3I use that a lot too.
Speaker 2Those are freaking great. Yeah, because I would drop you at my feet on purpose that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1Running around like a chicken with no head on. But, his head cut off. I'm sorry, Meaning act, frantic panicked, usually getting nothing done. That makes sense.
Speaker 4Which is, you know, the way they used to do it when they used to harvest the chicken. Yeah, you'd used to chop its head off, throw it up in the end. It would run around basically until it, you know, till the blood gushed out of it and fell, and that was that no way, that would be good, that well again, that makes sense that makes crazy man.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, sorry, I brought that one up. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense that makes sense.
Speaker 3It's crazy man. Yeah, yeah, Sorry, I brought that one up.
Speaker 4Yeah, dude Lou's waiting for me. Yeah sorry, tom Sorry. Oh sorry, pop, but don't put all your eggs in one basket. Yeah, don't put your eggs in one basket, exactly.
Speaker 1Oh my.
Speaker 2God, that is too funny. What's this one? World's smallest violin, yeah, so don't cry me a whip. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the violin Rubbing your two fingers together.
Speaker 3Here's a good one that's very popular still to this day is if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Yeah, man, Don't fix it, that's right.
Speaker 1That means, if you got a good system working if things are going well, that means keep you know, keep it going.
Speaker 3No, no, no need to change, you know. And then there's another one that's been off of that. Don't reinvent the wheel there. You go.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's the same kind of the same thing.
Speaker 4What's not broke yeah yeah, that's what yeah yeah, but one one that always gets me is it doesn't cut the mustard, yeah. I mean you can kind of figure out, you know what that means, you know meaning like oh yeah, that doesn't, I don't believe that or that can't be true. But what does cut the mustard mean?
Speaker 2I don't know, I never thought about that.
Speaker 1That is crazy, man. Well, there was a phrase.
Speaker 3We're getting off the Wait a minute let me finish it, go ahead.
Speaker 1There's a phrase that I heard from somebody that I once knew who said if you can't cut the mustard, you can always lick the jar. Eh, do you know what that means?
Speaker 4No, that sounds a little sexual.
Speaker 1It is.
Speaker 2It's exactly what it is oh Right, oh see. I thought, we were doing a G-rated show.
Speaker 3I didn't know that, but that term cut the mustard might actually that could always refer to mustard greens. Cut the mustard greens, maybe. Oh my, who is this?
Speaker 2That is there's text. He does too. Yes, he does, he's so edumacated Actually it is cut the mustard green.
Speaker 3I love it.
Speaker 2That is freaking hilarious man. Oh man, there was one I saw here before. Man, I was freaking. I'm cracking up because so, frank, when you slip and you busted your ass right and something hurt, what were you told to do? Get up, and I'm sorry okay, yeah you'll be alright.
Speaker 4Yeah, walk it off, walk it alright, walk it off. Walk it off, get up and.
Speaker 2I'm sorry. No, you'll be all right. Yeah, walk it off, all right.
Speaker 4Walk it off.
Speaker 1Walk it off.
Speaker 4Yeah, they tell you to rub some dirt on.
Speaker 3Here's one of my here's one of my favorite ones. It's dark but as dead as a doornail. You know what I mean. That's when someone is definitely dead, like, like if someone you Like. If you walk into a room and someone is decomposed, you go that person's dead as a doornail.
Speaker 2That is a true, that is crazy. The other one is he's got a pine cover.
Speaker 4Oh yeah, yes, I remember that, which means he's in a coffin.
Speaker 2That is great.
Speaker 1Go ahead, lou, which one you got About as handy as a back pocket on a T-shirt.
Speaker 3Yeah, I've never heard that one bro that's funny.
Speaker 2I've never heard that one you know.
Speaker 3Oh, here's the one. We all know what?
Speaker 1hold that thought yeah, yeah, yeah, not worth the powder to blow him to hell harsh, but classic. Remember that one. No, I really don't remember that one. What was the one that we always heard, frank, it was always a phrase.
Speaker 4I don't know, I'm still jiving on that one.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's one that's a pretty rough one. Yeah, what did you?
Speaker 2say Todd.
Speaker 3I saw it on the list.
Speaker 1I just read it. What?
Speaker 3about when people say but you're the one who printed it up, didn't you? Yeah, yeah, exactly the people say what People say back in the day, back in the day yo, you know, but what is back in the day? Is that supposed to be like really like 40 years ago, right?
Speaker 2Well, it all depends, or is it?
Speaker 3supposed to be like 20 years ago.
Speaker 2So, like we think about it, if we talk to somebody who's in their 20s right yeah, and you know we're saying that by day it was before they were born.
Speaker 4Yeah, well, or I could go, you know, back in the day. Louie and I at this time would be taking a nap because we'd be going out dancing for the next. Oh yeah, that's right, it's nine o'clock.
Speaker 2Yeah, Nine o'clock we're going to sleep. Take a quickie, do that power nap, Get up and get ready and then go.
Speaker 4Yeah, that is funny man. Yeah, thank you for getting us home so many times.
Speaker 2Oh my God, you ain't kidding, throw that in there.
Speaker 1Not changing the subject, hanging on by a thread which is kind of barely surviving, or functioning.
Speaker 2Yeah, Dude, that was us when you said come back with the hangers and have to go to work or whatever the next day from partying.
Speaker 1Oh, it hurt so bad. Remember when we went to the lime left to see Peter? Oh yeah, and was it Ace too? I don't know, was it Ace too?
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah it was Peter and Ace's tour together.
Speaker 1And we were right there on the floor. On the floor, we couldn't hear shit. The next day, nothing.
Speaker 4The next day we were walking out, we were walking to the car after the concert and we're screaming at each other. And we're thinking like we're just talking normal level. That was pretty cool.
Speaker 2Thanks for that memory. You're welcome. Yo, that is great. There you go. Don't let your lip drag on the floor. That's to stop the sulking.
Speaker 4Enough man up get up, make it get.
Superstitions and Weird Sayings
Speaker 2Over it, yeah, get over it all day I, I love my brother's.
Speaker 4my brother's favorite one is oh, louis, he's a piece of bread, which is just to, yeah, it's a tired thing. He's like oh, oh, marianne, oh, she's a piece of bread. It just means like she's the coolest or you're the coolest, oh it's a good thing, okay. Oh, yeah, because.
Speaker 3I thought it would be the opposite, like, oh, she's a piece of bread.
Speaker 2Just a size daily piece of bread in the corner, no, so a piece of bread is good.
Speaker 3Okay, yeah, you're still hoping he'll get it, but no, so a piece of bread is good.
Speaker 4Yeah that is, you know my dad would go this guy. He shook my hands like a wet sock Because you know you ever go. You shake some people's hands. It's real limp Like a wet sock.
Speaker 2Yeah, man, yes sir, yeah man, holy cow, I forgot about that, man Jeez.
Speaker 3And it's crazy because there's a bunch of these that I haven't heard of, or he didn't go ahead. What you got, what you got culture, the nobel diggers at alaska.
Speaker 2Alaska, that's crazy, and it's. It's just crazy, man, just to the things that we should just come up with. You know just the things that were made up, not just us. You know, as kids growing up, the slang. These are freaking hilarious. Look, can't fix stupid. Can't fix stupid, nope. But you can numb it with a two by four, hold it up to freeze the balls of a brass monkey. Yeah, the balls of a brass monkey. Yeah, that's a good one. I've never heard that one man.
Speaker 1Oh, that's great man. I love it.
Speaker 2Oh my God, what is this? You look road hard and put up wet, holy Jesus, you look rough. I don't know what that means. That means you look rough and worn out Like you. Just, you look like a. If brains were dynamite, you couldn't blow your nose. Yes, yes, yes. My favorite one is like if brains were a weapon, you'd be unarmed, right, yeah, I love that one.
Speaker 1That is great. I've heard that one before.
Speaker 2Oh.
Speaker 3Go ahead. No, no, go ahead. What is it, what is it? Never mind, it's going to come to you It'll come to you, it'll come to me.
Speaker 2Yeah, it'll be bad. I can't have the dismissal. No, this one food related. It says you're as welcome as a turd in a punch bowl. Yeah, that's a great one.
Speaker 3I've never heard that one before that. My parents said that shit all the time. What was it? Almost only counts with horseshoes and hand grenades. That's right. They say, oh, I almost got it.
Speaker 1Almost only counts with horseshoes and hand grenades Right.
Speaker 3Which is true.
Speaker 2That's what they would say Holy shit.
Speaker 3I never heard that Because almost is what you want for a horseshoe. You know, when you play horseshoes and then with hand grenades, is you know?
Speaker 2Almost got me. I've never heard that one before, bro. That's great, that is freaking hilarious. But you know what? Me never hearing? It is just that's the way the cookie crumbles.
Speaker 3Oh, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2That's true, that is too.
Speaker 4If you go back to like some of the stuff your parents said to you growing up. What's some of the? You know the definites. Like me it was, you know if I did something and mom was like, oh, wait until your father gets home.
Speaker 2Oh, yeah, yeah, because that's where the beating's coming.
Speaker 4You know, I mean that's pretty straightforward, but you know what that means, right yeah?
Speaker 2man, yeah man, yeah man. Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while, that's right.
Speaker 4Even a broken clock is right twice a day, that's right.
Speaker 1It's just amazing how much there is. You know the things that we said.
Speaker 2The dog won't hunt Useless as a chocolate teapot? Yeah, because I guess it'll, melt It'll melt. Yeah, that's for sure. That is freaking hilarious man. I mean, like you said, like what I was saying before, just so many things that we came up with just on the fly. Look at Tom still going with it.
Speaker 3What you got Tom as Just on the fly Look at Tom still going with him. What you got Tom as welcome as a turd in a punch bowl.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's what I was saying before. Yeah, man.
Speaker 3Isn't that crazy yeah.
Speaker 2The food-related ones are serious. There's another one that was on there. I was like oh, no love, no love, yeah man.
Speaker 1Remember that thing. You used to hear your parents said Uh-oh, you get a chill. Your parents said someone walked over your grave.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, remember that you ever hear that one, tom. What when you get the chills, like you're just sitting here and somebody?
Speaker 1walked over your grave.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, I heard that one before.
Speaker 1That's a weird one. That's a weird one.
Speaker 3That never made any sense to me.
Speaker 4And the scary thing is that was the parents who actually yeah.
Speaker 3Or the other one is like if your ears ring and you're like someone's talking about me, right, my ears are ringing, that's exactly right. But now that is superstition.
Speaker 1Huh, that would be a superstition, possibly it was carried down from you know, their parents, to them Right, to us Right, and it just it's eventually, at some point it starts to fade away, I guess, because I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 2When they used to say that you know you get the chills, and I mean somebody's walking over your grave, I would be upset. I'm like well, who the fuck buried?
Speaker 1me where Right. So basically you have died, already.
Speaker 3Right, yeah, that's the one. That's the weirdest one. You died already.
Speaker 1And right now it's just what happened already.
Speaker 3Yeah that's so weird. Weird, that's so weird.
Speaker 1Yeah, I know right like like oh, someone just walked on my grave, wait, wait, are we dead, are we like? No playing, so you're feeling what you are like. What's going on here now?
Speaker 2see you guys went dark you know I was like you know, no, I'm what. I went the other way. I was like you know, like well, I can't even think of what I was gonna say now, because you guys just had me, am I dead? Am I in the matrix?
Speaker 3like right, exactly, right, exactly. That's why it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1That's why it's a stupid saying. Really, when you think about it, it's probably a superstitious one. Yeah, yeah, you know, probably more geared in that area because of that.
Speaker 2That is too freaking funny. That is too freaking funny. Yeah, no, yeah. I'm good, I'm good. Yeah, I'm good, I'm good, yeah, oh, where there's smoke, there's fire, that's right. I'm just saying.
Speaker 3Make sure we don't accidentally press the buttons, oh no, no the buttons over here.
Speaker 1What about like? You're barking up the wrong tree. Oh, you're barking up the wrong tree there you go oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4Because it ain't me there, buddy. It's not me. I mean, I get it. A dog will chase something up a tree and they'll stand there and they'll bark, but what does it mean? Up a wrong tree? I?
Speaker 3mean what they're barking for isn't up the tree. It's what they're barking for, isn't it Right? But what's on the tree?
Speaker 4A squirrel? No, what's on the tree? A squirrel, See. I look at it and it's like no, what's on the tree Bark?
Speaker 2Nah.
Speaker 4Nah, that's a reach, I mean ultimately. I think it means you know, like, if you know, a four-foot man starts telling a six eight guy hey, I'm going to kick your ass. To me, that's your boss, yeah yeah, yeah, because you're not busting this ass.
Speaker 2Yeah, you're not kicking my ass there, buddy Yep. Oh, she's all gussied up though. Oh, there you go.
Speaker 4That's a good one.
Speaker 2She's looking all nice and pearly.
Speaker 4This ain't my first rodeo.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 4Yeah, that always hit me with. The apple doesn't fall, far from the tree.
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Speaker 2Oh dude, I hear that so often because between my sons and I, or even my dad Sweating like a fat kid in a bakery.
Speaker 3Oh dude, nice, I got really dirty ones for that bro.
Speaker 2Yeah, I got bad ones for that sweating. One bro.
Speaker 3Oh, me too, Me too, I'm not going to say those. Yeah, we can't say those sweating one bro, oh my god, yeah, I'm not gonna say those. Yeah, what do you mean? Like you said, in a bakery there's one, there's there's ones that are like that yeah, like sweating, like a blah blah blah, yeah you can't say those
Speaker 2oh, no, no no, because I got some good one, funny as hell man here's a few clowns short of the circus.
Speaker 3He's a few. He's a few clowns short of a circus. He's a few clowns short of a circus. Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, I know a few people like that, bro, yeah.
Speaker 1Let me play you the world's smallest violin. Yeah, that's with your little fingers Playing just for you, meaning sarcastically mocking someone who's whining, or seeking sympathy over something minor or self-inflicted. Yes, sir, yeah, often said while mining, playing and tiny yeah, that's a cry baby fingers.
Speaker 2That's a cry baby, I like it I remember that one, yeah I've heard that one a lot as well. Yeah, what parents would say that shit too. Uh, hey, they would say to you, or would you say it about people?
Speaker 1no, they probably said it to me too like if I was bitching and the morning about something I didn't get or whatever, and they'd be like, yeah, yeah, they would do that with their fingers. Yeah.
Speaker 2Cause mine, they, they used to play the big one for me, though, like my godfather, yeah, he was like. Yeah, whatever bro, he was, just like he was playing. Yeah, one of those. I'm like oh, raver, that's how you spell a base. It might be a base. Yeah, it could be. It's a base. Oh, it's called a base, not a bass.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, exactly, it's an acoustic bass. Yeah, acoustic.
Speaker 4There, you go.
Speaker 2There you go, that dog won't hunt, the idea or excuse won't work, so not believable. Yeah, yeah, no, that dog won't hunt here. Pet that dog, yeah, pet that dog, that dog won't hunt.
Speaker 3There's an Instagram channel of this girl. She's like from Appalachia. She's like I'm from Appalachia.
Speaker 1But she always says.
Speaker 3Her catchphrase is like can I pet that dog?
Speaker 1Yo that's great oh that's great.
Speaker 2Oh, that's awesome. That is too funny. Man, Holy cow man, Same old song.
Speaker 4Every dog has his day, oh yeah.
Speaker 3That's a good one too. Every dog has his day.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh yeah. Every drunk has his drink.
Speaker 4Every drunk has his drink. Yeah, oh yeah, every drunk has his drink. Every drunk has his drink.
Speaker 1That's right. Yeah, and it's a line in a song too, by the way, is it what song? It's a Billy Joel song.
Speaker 2Is it? I don't know which one you're talking about, then which song is that Remember?
Speaker 1Let's see, every dog has his day, every drunk has his drink. I'll be out here, frank. Which song is it?
Speaker 4I'm working it through the Rolodex right now. There you go, that's it going right there. I'm thinking to the Rolodex. I haven't upgraded, I haven't upgraded to the cloud. I still use Rolodex.
Speaker 3I can't check my phone because I don't, do you know? The younger generation doesn't even know what Rolodex is.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, they have no, you know, the scary thing about that is, you know, if they ever, you know, shut down the power. The Rolodex is reliable, the things we're speaking into right now.
Speaker 2Yeah, but you know what the crazy part is, though, is there's no, you don't even know how to write it down anymore. Like, where would you even keep your Rolodex now?
Speaker 4Don't Ask Me why was the name of the song? That's it. Don't ask me why, son of a gun, you're picky too. I love you, louis.
Speaker 1There was no way I was going to.
Speaker 4There's no fan, though fairness Lewis was always a much bigger Billy Joe fan. He actually turned me into the nut I am on oh, billy Joe dude, I had to listen to Captain Jack one more time.
Speaker 2I really killed the buzz.
Speaker 3I mean, the only other option to a Rolodex would be phone book. Oh yeah, I used to have a little phone book.
Speaker 2Iolodex would be phone book. Oh, yeah, yeah, I had that. I used to have a little phone book, a little phone book. I used to have a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, composition book. Dude, that's a big house A composition book.
Speaker 4When you get bored, you can always color in the little white things on the front.
Speaker 1That's true.
Speaker 2I've done that too.
Speaker 4Holy shit, I forgot about that, my God you know you started out at the beginning of the year. You know it's all nice and pristine. By the second month, you're like maybe just a couple of years.
Speaker 2I'm going to make a design, yeah.
Speaker 3Holy shit, he just got a blank. He could just black it out Yo If he wanted to Exactly right.
Speaker 2That is too funny.
Speaker 4Sorry, I kind of got us off track.
Speaker 3No, it's all good. It's all good, it's all good.
Speaker 4All right, well, strike while the iron's hot, yeah, yeah yeah, no lie, that was just funny.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the hell is that we fixed it.
Speaker 3No, we didn't. It's vibrating off of something. Sorry, we had some feedback.
Speaker 2Yeah, just a little feedback. I don't know where it's coming from. Sorry that me. No, no, no, I don't think so I don't think so.
Speaker 1It's weird.
Speaker 3Yeah, talking anything, hello, yeah, Hello. When you held that in, it stopped.
Speaker 1Did it, oh yeah.
Speaker 4Assume you'll cut this out.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, maybe we might Well, if not really.
Speaker 1That's going to be hard.
Speaker 3It's all right. All right, we'll just keep going.
Speaker 1Is this on no.
Speaker 4Now, that was a perfect example. The three of you trying to figure it out. It's the perfect one for that. Too many cooks spoil the gravy.
Speaker 3Too many chiefs, not enough Indians. Remember that one.
Speaker 4Here you go. Too many chefs in the kitchen.
Speaker 2Yeah, that is funny.
Speaker 4Which I said every Christmas.
Speaker 2Eve, there you go and not Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4No Thanksgiving, they all left them. My wife well, actually Nancy would handle Thanksgiving for Well, no Thanksgiving, they all left them. My wife well, actually Nancy would handle Thanksgiving for the most part, but dad would always try to challenge her on the turkeys. So we always had like 57 pounds of turkey because we had to have two turkeys, you know, and it was always a turkey off. But that's all good stuff. Yeah, yeah, off.
Speaker 4But that's all good stuff, yeah, yeah of course Alright, so can anybody tell me and Lou, you might know this one don't take any wooden nickels, that's gotta be real.
Speaker 1Frank, let me ask you a question. Where are you sitting right now? Are you in the same spot you were before? Okay, because we felt like we were getting some, you know, like you were fading out there for a minute. Yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 4You good, how's this? Can you hear me now? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1I hear you Sorry about that.
Speaker 2Yeah, we didn't want to lose you. It sounds kind of funky. Something just sounded kind of funky.
Speaker 4Yeah, don't screw this up. I want to be invited back again. It back again.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, we made fun of somebody and it's coming back to mess with us and it'll probably come off on. It'll come out on a watch. One call when we hear it.
Speaker 1Yeah, probably when I felt it right there. Not a big deal, anyways, just ignore it.
Speaker 2Yeah, it is what it is, but was that when you said, Frank, Sorry?
Speaker 4not that one.
Speaker 1I haven't heard that one in a long time, by the way, Don't take any wooden nickels.
Speaker 2There you go, wooden nickels, yeah, wooden nickels, because when people they would give away those fake nickels and then they would bite on the Right and they would see if it was real.
Speaker 4Yeah, so it's just a matter of people getting over on people.
Speaker 2It's such a shame that even today that still happens, it will happen and it will always happen. Yeah, and like they used to fake ones, cause they will. They will bite into them and then try to bend it, because if we made a mark, then you knew that it was a fake nickel or a fake change, fake money or whatever. So, yeah, that's insane. That is insane, man. How much in how much in reality.
Speaker 1Hello, hello, hello.
Speaker 2Okay, how much in reality these sayings came in. You know what I mean, how much stuff that we did, that we said, and it all came to fruition. I guess we'll say Not fruition, I don't want to say it like that, but all the things that we made up, all the sayings that we had, they were all part of something that happened in real life or was going on in real life.
Speaker 4That happened in real life or was going on in real life. But you know the thing that kills me? I guess I never really thought, like if I would have thrown out there oh, beggars can't be choosers, I, you know, never really connected how that actually would apply to me. You know what I mean. But it all makes sense now, and Louie and I were talking about this earlier, I think it's about us getting a little bit older, where things you know start to reveal themselves as to what they actually meant.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, exactly, man. Cause the more you think about all the things that we said, like you said, the sayings were to something. Like they say, jokes are based on truth, you know, on a reality. So that then now, when we make these funnies, and you know, like I said, it was almost like a short version of everything that we did or that we were doing that particular moment, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4Yeah, it's wild I still remember, though, if I would have tried something and I really screwed it up, and I'd go to my dad, or even my uncle, for that matter, and I'm like to my my dad, or even my uncle, for that matter, and I like, yeah, you know, I tried this thing and it happened, and they go yeah, you're a day late and a dollar short yeah, exactly, yeah, I remember that. I was like thank you, I feel the love in that and that is hilarious.
Speaker 2I love it. Yeah, exactly right, right, right it is true.
Speaker 3It is true, man, because, like I said, all the things that we would think about.
Speaker 2I mean that is hilarious, I love it. Yeah, exactly Right, right, right, it is true. It is true, man, because, like I said, all the things that we would think about, I mean it's just insane. I think it's just funny. Like, as far as jokes are concerned, certain stories that you know have that moral ending, if you will. It's all stuff that we lived through in some way, shape or form. Yeah, I don't think the stuff that we watched would be allowed on TV. Oh, definitely not. Like, when we were talking about this, we said Spaceballs 2 was coming out.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know it's like things like that. That'd be funny.
Speaker 4You know, if that actually happens, which I hope it does, I don't even know if the younger generation would actually be able to appreciate it the way we would.
Speaker 1I think he knows that already. I think he knows that because it's the people who loves him he's doing it.
Speaker 4But you know, the thing that scares me, though, is you're right, he does know that, but it makes me afraid that he's going to alter it to a point to be able to. You know, oh, I have to think about I don't know. You think so to be able to, you know, oh, I have to think about this category of folks, I mean, I hope not, but you know. I'm going to be there one way or the other. We're going to find out, hopefully. Well, you know what May the Schwartz be with?
Speaker 2you. May the Schwartz be with you. Yes.
Speaker 3The kids love it. Yeah, the flamethrower, the flamethrower. Yes, Space balls the flamethrower. But you know what though?
Speaker 2It's different jokes. I think that's what we're going to have to realize too. You know what I mean. It's different funnies that we have, or we had, than the kids have. Does that make sense? So then all the jokes. So all that make sense. So then all the jokes.
Speaker 4So all the jokes for us we're gonna make. That's kind of lame, but the kids will get it well, but that's what I'm saying though. So you know my fear is okay, we're the we're the true fans, right, and he's gonna have to modify it such that a younger generation would be able to get it. But being the older generation would be like what the fuck does that mean? I hope he's able to find just a nice, even mix in between.
Speaker 2I think he could. Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 4Here's the point he's one of the greatest. If anybody could do it, he can. I'm going to be 57. My daughters are half my age. We both can sit down and watch Young Frankenstein and laugh.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, yeah you got it.
Speaker 2Put it on the wrist.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1Put it on the wrist. You ever seen that movie? Oh yeah.
Speaker 2I love that movie, bro. That's my favorite part. It's so good.
Speaker 4That. Love that movie, bro. That's my favorite part. That's so good, louis and I we torture each other throughout the years.
Speaker 2We send clips. I can't believe it. Frankenstein yes, Frankenstein.
Speaker 1Not Frankenstein. Why isn't it Frederick Frankenstein? Yes, it is. It's a perfect folk name. I agree, you must be Iger. Yes, Yo that's the greatest, though you go out. They were wrong. Then one day.
Speaker 2Yo, I love it, man, you know, and that's what. Like you said things like that classic man what is all classic. But you know, that's where sayings came from. That's when you know we would just come up with things because movies influenced us to say things and comparisons to have the funny things that we were doing. You know earlier, Right, right, exactly.
Speaker 1It's just a Well. You have some crazy comedies Like think about Airplane and all those kind of parodies that started coming out and then they just started getting worse. You know what I mean? It's just getting in that hand, I think.
Speaker 3But remember when Airplane first came out yeah.
Speaker 2It was hysterical. Yo, yo Don't call me Shirley. Yeah, don't call me Shirley Hospital. It is great. What's that? Yeah, that's a tall building.
Speaker 4Yeah, and you know what? You couldn't do that, even that movie, if you took the original movie and put it in a theater and let everybody in for free. I guarantee you, by the end of the movie there'd be like a billion lawsuits. Yeah, oh, I was offended. Yeah, you know, and it's like lighting the fuck up.
Speaker 1Yeah, Well, for our day it was different, right, Right right, yeah, we, you know it was.
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Speaker 2Those were real funnies because we were making those same kind of jokes I was. I saw a real thing on social media and there was a guy playing rap music older rap music, yeah yeah and some young kids were listening to it and they were losing their freaking mind Like he said that, how could he say that? And it was Eminem. So Eminem isn't even like that old school you know kind of thing, but that people were bugging out over Eminem's raps, what he was saying, who he was talking about. Like oh my God, I can't believe he said that.
Speaker 1Yeah, but they didn't listen to the words. They were listening to the words, yeah, but they took it for something else, when he meant something else.
Speaker 2Right, they weren't associating it, that he was talking about his family or you know, he was just a lyricist. You know what I'm saying? Just a rapper. Right, they're just like oh my God, how could he say that? But meanwhile, when you listen to some of these rappers and some of the shit that they're saying, it's like dude, like really You're not even saying anything. You're not even saying anything, you know it's. There's no message, there's no talking about your feelings there's, no, there's nothing behind it.
Speaker 4But you know right, yeah, you're right and and because the rap back then was about what they were living. Right. You know what, what was happening on the street, how they were raising, you know growing, what they had to do to survive. That's what rap started out with. And so you know when you listen to LL or you listen to Ice Cube, or you listen to even early Eminem or Dr Dre, even Snoop, for that matter. They're all talking about what they were living.
Speaker 4And hey, they come out there, they just pick this arbitrary uh subject and they create a rap about it, but they don't really know anything about it.
Speaker 2They didn't live it Right and that's the difference between the two, yup, and that's why we're so great, just saying just saying you know you're going to make me want to put on my run DMC after this. There you go, yes, Go out there and just blast it out in the backyard man and enjoy it. So with that, frank, my brother man, appreciate you being here again with us. Always fun man it's awesome, as usual. Yes, thank you. Thank you for being here.
Speaker 4It's all good.
Speaker 2We're going to go and end the show with that, so thank you all for listening, watching, follow us, like us on everything YouTube and every place you can find your podcast. So love, peace and hair grease. Live long and prosper and you're a vegan, holla.
