Give the Big Bird

[00:01] Coalson
[00:03] The news came in and it sounds like there's more under Googles for us. What do you got for us this week?
[00:08] We got the under Googles. Oh
[00:15] We doing under Googles. That was the play of super excited. I told us we had to
[00:24] We signed up for it in the end it's gonna be better and more true than Google can give you
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[00:45] Heard you fair enough
[00:50] So this week I've got a
[00:54] Question for the panel here the middle finger
[01:00] Does anybody know the history or the meaning?
[01:07] Of the middle finger. Why is it that why is it disrespectful? Why do we call it the bird?
[01:14] I don't know. I have so many questions. I might have been I might have been in traffic the other day and seen it and
[01:19] You know not from
[01:22] It the other day too
[01:24] And I started thinking about it. I'm like, I don't really know why this is offensive
[01:29] so thoughts
[01:33] few I guess
[01:35] I mean the first thing that comes to my mind is that you know, it's it's in the center of your hands
[01:40] So it's it's gonna be clear when you're trying to
[01:43] Express yourself at distance. I definitely think that's why it's important while driving for sure. I agree with that
[01:49] Right. You could do that and everybody knows what you did
[01:53] Sure
[01:54] Yeah
[01:56] So it's a it's a clear signal, right
[02:00] So I feel like it must have come around
[02:02] sort of
[02:03] Middle-aged easy because people used to thumb their nose at people that was like
[02:08] Wasn't like the worst thing you could do is thumb in your nose at somebody, right?
[02:12] Thumb my nose at you. Yeah, huh
[02:15] Could you have thumbed your nose with your middle finger and it turned into just middle finger or something like that?
[02:22] I guess that wouldn't make thumbing your nose. That would be middle finger in your nose
[02:29] Damn it. That didn't work out
[02:32] Coals and struggling more with this than his paces analysis. How much time here's here's our under googles
[02:37] We how much time do you spend on under googles versus?
[02:41] Pacers analysis in the game. It's about 50-50 about 50-50 split
[02:48] So probably Shakespeare
[02:52] It's always
[02:55] Shakespeare and a falcon
[02:58] It's definitely related to falconry. That's how that's why it's called the bird probably
[03:04] Just wrap that up with a nice little bow
[03:08] Bring it back around
[03:10] The bird part. I don't I don't have any idea why you would call it the bird that feels like some weird 50s
[03:16] Slang thing that's okay. It's got to be like dirty right to be this offensive. It's got to be
[03:26] you know, it's like phallic or sexual or
[03:30] Something like that
[03:32] just get a logical
[03:34] Yeah, like it's like it just feels like it's to be so offensive
[03:39] We've got to be
[03:41] You know, it can't just be it's my middle finger, you know
[03:45] Uh
[03:47] Ancient Greece in ancient Rome
[03:51] Historically, it represented the phallus. Yay
[03:54] You're really happy about that
[04:00] So instead of pulling out your wiener you just showed them your finger it's a representation. Yeah
[04:10] You could see somebody kind of hanging that in between their legs and then it you know, that could be a thing
[04:18] Hmm
[04:19] The fingers next to the middle finger representing the testicles. So somebody put a lot of thought into this
[04:24] That's why it's the middle
[04:27] Sure, it wasn't Shakespeare. Wow. There's a word in Greek for it
[04:36] catapygon
[04:37] Well, and I guess I guess we should have thought about this even further
[04:44] There's a reason why this would would mean, you know to screw off, right?
[04:50] If you think about it
[04:53] Aristophanes had it in a play
[04:56] So it goes back to place we're kind of right
[05:02] Where's the fountain was Aristophanes Shakespeare same thing. Where's the Falcon though?
[05:07] according to
[05:09] Wikipedia linguist Jesse she lower traces the gestures development in the United States to the 1890s
[05:16] According to anthropologist Desmond Morris the gesture probably came to the United States via Italian immigrants
[05:24] Don't tell me I'd ever did nothing for you
[05:30] Okay, here we go bird
[05:34] Is was a middle finger held up in a root gesture. It's slang derived from the 1860s expression give the big bird
[05:42] to hiss someone like a goose
[05:46] Mmm, so if you're you're hissing like a goose it's
[05:52] The 19th century was weird. Yeah, like geese were real scary back then
[05:59] we combined the scariness of geese with the
[06:03] Jester of the phallus. Yes. Yes. I love bird. I love our species
[06:10] Yeah, and Cora managed to break out the word
[06:15] pajoration
[06:17] As in to make pejorative
[06:19] Okay, it's a deep cut core
[06:24] The Latin bestiary and Cambridge describes the middle finger as that by means of which the pursuit of dishonor is indicated. I
[06:38] love that phrase
[06:40] By means of which the pursuit of dishonor is indicated
[06:46] Burn burn sick burn
[06:49] Well, we learned something. I
[06:55] Feel I probably will I don't use the middle finger a lot. I feel like I might use it less now. I don't know
[07:04] Except a accepted geese
[07:06] Right. Yes, they deserve it. Mm-hmm those hissing bastards stupid geese
[07:12] All right, I
[07:14] Feel like we learned a lot of things this week
[07:17] Yeah, that's what we did. We're we're an educational show Jim
[07:22] Mm-hmm
[07:25] Is it true that you get college credit for listening to our show
[07:32] Definitely not for producing it only at Trump University. I think we're out of business
[07:40] He'll still take your dollars if you send them. That's probably true business is booming. Mm-hmm
[07:47] So I
[07:49] you know
[07:52] The internet like stalks you and knows what you're trying to buy and then we'll advertise it to you on whatever page
[07:58] Mm-hmm
[08:00] There is a
[08:02] picture of a dog with a lion mane
[08:06] Sitting on this page here because Kyle was the cowardly lion for Halloween. Mm-hmm. And apparently
[08:16] We just need family. We just have dog costumes now. I
[08:23] Should use the internet for
[08:26] less things
[08:28] You gonna buy a dog just appease the advertisers
[08:32] Right where I need to get one for my rabbit now
[08:36] We have a rabbit lion. I
[08:39] Guess I thought you were saying you need to get a dog for your rabbit. I
[08:43] Could do that, too. Yeah, maybe best friends or
[08:47] One would be eaten one of the two well, no, I'll just get a little dog so that my rabbits bigger than that
[08:53] Would be so cute punk on my little
[08:56] That would be cute
[08:59] Yeah, you gotta let dogs out, you know, like twice a day
[09:11] Sounds like you're not getting a dog Joey's cat goes out ten times a day
[09:21] Yeah, I'm really hoping that my rabbit if it's a practice child that my child is just like this rabbit
[09:27] Eats twice a day doesn't make any noise. Oh
[09:30] Man, I clean out its box like I can see you two days
[09:33] I can see you chatting with your your co-workers and be like, yeah
[09:37] man, I was up last night my kid was chewing on the cords and
[09:41] Some might as well just I was up. So I thought I might as well just change this litter
[09:50] Yeah, Kyle's gonna be very busy
[09:52] You guys got anything else this week you want to bring up I
[10:02] Don't think so. Okay. Good cuz I was gonna say no
[10:10] You know, you don't really care now, I mean I care that's why I would say no I care for the listeners
[10:19] But I'd like to thank them for for hanging out with us if they made it this far congratulations you've done
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[11:05] Over
[11:11] Thanks, it was soulful
[11:14] You know the under Google was do blow my mind like I
[11:18] not only did we learn this week that Aristophanes and
[11:22] Shakespeare are the same person I
[11:24] learned last week that
[11:26] Standardized time didn't start until trains that blew my mind. I
[11:31] Told everybody I knew all week. I was like, this is crazy
[11:34] Did you know this and apparently it didn't we didn't have time until 1860 and we apparently didn't really work out time until
[11:41] 1966 right? Yeah. Yeah, that's the really shocking thing
[11:46] Yeah, so I don't know if anybody else needs to learn this stuff, but clearly I do leave it to America to privatize time
[11:53] I
[11:56] For the train companies to do it. I
[11:59] Have really think that I like the you can buy those, you know, they've got those atomic clocks. Yeah
[12:05] Like to the you know, the one that the government operates
[12:08] You know, it's it's it's whatever it loses their gains a second every, you know, 15 could you I think I've actually got seven
[12:15] Yeah, yeah, there's there's definitely more than one
[12:18] But you can buy these other ones that
[12:21] Pick up these the radio waves they'd like broadcast that time
[12:24] I don't know for the radio so they could they're always correct, you know to down to them
[12:29] You know one one millionth of a second and we'll keep you being for you know late for work
[12:35] But the time the clock will be right. Yeah
[12:38] Doesn't have for that
[12:39] My work clocks probably not exactly on that. So
[12:44] Probably be late. Anyway, do you set your work clock like slow ten minutes. So it looks like you're
[12:51] On time it's good idea
[12:54] Well, I work in a bar you don't have clocks at bars, you know, I want to people to know it's time to leave
[13:01] That's what the that's what yelling is for get out of here. Yeah, exactly. I tell you when to leave you don't decide
[13:08] Based on thinking it's getting a little too late. That sounds what that last call song is for
[13:14] That's right. How's your body clock Coalson? My house my body clock. Yeah
[13:20] Is it tickets don't kill a person? Yeah, I
[13:26] Feel like I should stop recording
[13:29] It's getting weird
[13:32] Just just it's just me flipping you off Joey
[13:36] Well, I think Joey's already using emoji as the plural so he's already up to his emoji game on us
[13:49] For his nerd game, I'm not sure which
[13:52] It's emoji. I believe emoji. What do you what do you call like a
[13:57] Like a group of emoji. Is it a is it a flock emoji? Oh, it's like a murder
[14:05] And murder of emoji
[14:08] I hope so