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Episode 8 · September 28, 2019

Put That In Your Pope

The hosts trace the odd origin of "humble pie", then try to name every Pacers Most Improved Player.

“A bunch of weird phrases come from falconry, like hoodwinked.” (01:53)

Questions

Where does the phrase "humble pie" come from? (00:39)

Our guess
A pie made from leftover scraps that poor people ate, so eating it is humbling.
Reveal the answer
The answer
From "umble pie", a pie of deer innards (heart, liver, lungs, kidneys), from French "nomble". The H crept in as the phrase was reinterpreted as "humble", so the two words are etymologically unrelated.
Verdict partly

Which Pacers have won Most Improved Player? (06:55)

Our guess
Paul George, Danny Granger, Jalen Rose and Jermaine O'Neal.
Reveal the answer
The answer
Those four are correct: Jalen Rose (1999-00), Jermaine O'Neal (2001-02), Danny Granger (2008-09) and Paul George (2012-13). The award began in 1985-86, and only Orlando has more winners than the Pacers.
Verdict right

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Transcript (auto-generated)
[00:02] next up Coalson you know I gotta talk to my mom this day she was really happy our
[00:09] conversation about the llamas and the alpacas she was amused and she learned
[00:14] some things she learned some things that's if we're nothing if not
[00:18] educational mm-hmm well it's not really us it's you know the reference material
[00:22] we check is that is the after after we randomly talk yeah we do
[00:39] under the rules that was the play of super excited told us we had to do so we
[00:47] signed up for it in the end it's gonna be better and more true than Google can
[00:53] give you so I've got a few this week I just want to do some the some short ones
[00:59] if that's all right sure the first one is where does the phrase humble pie come
[01:08] from I don't know so what is it when you're ashamed you eat humble pie
[01:18] yeah yeah that's the context you're talking of yeah I don't know yeah I have
[01:27] no idea Joey you got any thoughts on this while I'm in I think it's think about
[01:32] that and phrases like put that in your popence or put that in your pope put
[01:38] that in your pipe smoke it okay that's does it come from does come from
[01:46] falconry by any chance I learned it this week that a bunch of weird phrases come
[01:53] from falconry like hoodwinked is a falconry term really yeah yeah how's
[02:01] that way and and be having someone under your thumb is so the hoodwink thing is
[02:06] a the the falcon you know that you put a hood on the falcon so they can't see
[02:13] anything that you know sure if you are hoodwinked you can't see him fly sure
[02:17] yeah and and then under the under your thumb was you know when a when a
[02:24] falconer if that's the term has the the falcon on his hand he clamps down on
[02:31] its toes or talons I guess with the thumb and so the falcon can't fly away so
[02:37] he's got him under under yeah yeah makes a great song too they were like a
[02:42] few other ones it was crazy yeah but this didn't show up humble pie did not show
[02:47] humble humble pie didn't but I thought maybe they missed one cooking cookbook
[02:53] from the 1730s okay was cooked somebody who's too braggadocious mm-hmm I think
[03:03] you're right Joe I think this definitely is a an actual pie though I
[03:07] think this comes from I don't think it's euphemism I think you don't think so
[03:11] no I think so you think this is a carnivorous situation Joey that they they
[03:16] make a humble killed a braggadocious no no you make them eat a pie that's like not
[03:22] very good okay I see gotcha I I had a theory so I had a little bit longer to
[03:31] think about this I did not Google it but I've got my I think that this is a
[03:36] pie that that maybe is with leftover scraps of stuff so it's not like it's a
[03:45] humble pie right so like I'm not using the best ingredients I'm using leftover
[03:53] meat and leftover vegetables and stuff and poor people would make it and
[03:59] therefore it's a humble pie that was my idea yeah okay then and then and then I
[04:08] that translates to you you're forced to eat something that's humbling so it
[04:16] sort of bring you back down to earth right because you're not eating the
[04:19] good pie you're eating a humble pie mm-hmm so that's so it's like a peasants
[04:24] pie is my theory I like that theory but that seems a maybe a little bit too
[04:33] obvious I don't know so anybody else got anything when you google it humble pie
[04:41] or humble pie is a term for a variety of pastries based on medieval meat pies
[04:49] humble pie is a pie filled with the chopped or minced parts of a beasts pluck
[04:58] ie the heart the liver the lungs I see lights and kidneys that's especially of
[05:06] deer but often other meats and so I guess they it was called humble just UMLB
[05:16] UMB Ellie sorry watch evolved from numble which is after the French nomble
[05:23] meaning deer's innards oh okay so has nothing to do with humble at all it's
[05:29] basically about deer's innards pies yeah although umbles and the modern word
[05:35] humble are etymologically unrelated each word has appeared with and
[05:42] without the initial H since the H has dropped in many dialects the phrase was
[05:47] rebracketed as humble pie so you're saying that this is it has nothing to do
[05:53] with eating something that makes you humble it has to do with deer innards
[05:56] humble pie according to Wikipedia oh man isn't that wild but people eat humble
[06:05] pie when they're when they've been to braggadocious they do I think we just
[06:12] say that they need to eat some humble pie that is crazy see that's a good one
[06:19] we're learning stuff yeah and it's French for deer innards yeah nomble
[06:25] wait that did not go where I thought it was gonna go it's the magic of the
[06:33] game man all right maybe I just got one more for you then because that was so
[06:40] successful I don't want to screw it up with a bunch of bad ones so this pacer
[06:47] related I was thinking about this and didn't know the answer exactly and so
[06:55] I figured I'd throw it out to you I feel like we have I feel like the
[07:00] Pacers team gets the most improved player all the time I feel like that's
[07:05] one of the like we I don't we've never had an MVP we just but I feel like we
[07:09] get most improved player all the time mm-hmm can we name all the Pacer most
[07:14] improved players sure we can try I've got so Paul George yep mm-hmm and Danny
[07:26] Granger one I believe Danny Granger for sure I know Jalen Rose 1-1 mm-hmm did
[07:34] Jermaine O'Neill one he definitely did yeah he did yeah for sure sure well I
[07:41] wouldn't have thought of that but once you said it I remember for sure he did
[07:45] okay Jay would not have come to mind but he definitely did when he won it as
[07:49] a pacer yes yeah yeah cuz remember he was sitting on the win he got traded
[07:55] and suddenly he's averaging 20 and 10 yeah he got that okay okay so that's four
[08:01] when did they start the most improved player I'm assuming like 86 oh so we're
[08:09] going way back okay I think they start I think all like awards like that that are
[08:14] random like I think six man started in the 80s okay would Reggie Miller have
[08:21] won it hmm that doesn't sound right okay I don't think so are there guys that have
[08:27] been on our team that didn't get it as a pacer like did I feel like I feel like
[08:37] Daryl Armstrong won a most improved player award maybe that kind of sounds
[08:46] right I mean he's not counting those guys to or you know counting no I mean not
[08:50] really I guess not as a pacer yeah so right now we've got four I just was
[08:55] thinking of Daryl Armstrong I feel like he won at one time or maybe you won a six
[08:58] man award yeah I can't remember I did that does sound familiar that he won
[09:05] something in one year but not as a pacer because he came to us late in his
[09:09] career but what about did Monta Ellis win one of those six man or most improved
[09:15] definitely not six man I think he won most improved but as a warrior okay all
[09:23] right I mean nothing he brought that up when the when bird was talking to hey I
[09:29] mean that goes on your resume sure do you think the players actually have a
[09:33] resume that they send out their stats on and stuff and how they deal with
[09:40] pressure situations sure how they're good communicators they have like an
[09:45] essay there's no say portion that's a personal statement all right so we're
[09:52] going with four I feel that maybe there was like did Chuck Person win it I don't
[09:59] yeah I doubt it all right so we're going right okay so the you are correct the
[10:05] most improved player award started in the 85-86 season okay the inaugural
[10:11] inaugural winner was Alvin Robertson of the San Antonio never was a pacer I
[10:18] don't think nope and the Pacers you are correct Darryl Armstrong did win most
[10:25] improved in 98-99 as a member of the Romano Magic okay the following year
[10:30] Jalen Rose for the Indiana Pacers 99-2000 Jermaine O'Neal in 01-02
[10:39] Danny Granger in 08-09 and Paul George in 2012-13 we know our pacer
[10:46] trivia in deed and Monta Ellis indeed did win M.I.P. in 06-07 with the Golden
[10:55] State Warriors are there is there anybody else that was a pacer on that
[10:59] list that not like didn't get it as a pacer but Aaron Brooks oh hey yeah look at
[11:07] Aaron Brooks most improved player when was that just recently 2009-2010 really
[11:16] Alan Henderson whose front went to school at Burbough in Annapolis you Scott
[11:26] Skyles he was a pacer you know I think that's it for Pacers the Pacers are
[11:35] second in total M.I.P. awards to the Orlando Magic who have five winners
[11:44] Ryan Anderson, Hito Turkeglue, Darryl Armstrong, Tracy McGrady and Scott
[11:55] Skyles okay so then well we need to let's let's win one this year and let's
[12:00] tie up the Orlando Magic mm-hmm I don't know who that would be it would be Miles
[12:06] Turner I suppose but there's a lot of guys out there right now yeah that also
[12:12] made just I mean just cuz we're talking that reminds me do we have we ever had a
[12:15] six-man as a pacer yeah man deadlift shrimp deadlift shrimp that's right he
[12:22] was he was back-to-back wasn't he yep did we went back-to-back six-man that's
[12:27] awesome do believe that was that was in the late 80s early 90s before we
[12:34] traded him yes I like that guy good hair on his head and then he made a resurgence
[12:48] on Parks and Recreation oh yeah that's right
[12:51] just make a bucket so he was consecutive back-to-back six-man of the year awards
[13:00] in 91-92 in the 92-93 season he was the only player in the NBA to finish the top
[13:07] 25 in scoring rebounding and assists and was selected that year to be in his
[13:13] first all-star game following that season shrimp was traded to the
[13:18] Supersonics for Derek McKee and anybody remember who's with you shouldn't
[13:24] because I've never heard of this dude Gerald patio you spell that name Gerald
[13:29] padded p-a-d-d-i-o okay patio oh I know him he was uh he opened that live venue
[13:38] and broader hold the patio