Mittens Romney

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[00:30] so i've been thinking about this one for a long time i and it's it's one of those things
[00:35] that i just have never really understood and i guess i never really thought that much about it
[00:39] um but i feel like collectively we can come up with the right answer
[00:45] and the phrase is uh handle with kid gloves
[00:52] okay and i don't i just always assumed that kid gloves were mittens
[00:58] and so i didn't know why the phrase was handle with mittens
[01:08] awesome so i mean so so to recap what we think the phrase means is to treat somebody carefully
[01:18] it's about interpersonal relationships right yes right so you would if you maybe were to go into
[01:28] potentially an explosive situation or something or maybe somebody who's dealing with something you
[01:32] would handle them gently right because they are presumably childish or acting like a child
[01:40] or you need to treat them like you would a child which would be carefully careful on the edge of
[01:45] a tantrum yeah yes that's that's how it always strap on your kid gloves your own kid gloves
[01:52] or your mittens yeah i assumed it was australian and it decided to do with baby kangaroos but maybe
[01:58] that's hmm hmm those are joeys though
[02:08] kids are uh they're baby something's goats it's baby goat goats there you go um so yeah i wonder
[02:18] if this relates back to the old uh you know throw the baby out with the bath water thing
[02:22] because babies are slippery so maybe you had to wear gloves
[02:25] watch them so you didn't lose those you got some stick them yeah exactly
[02:34] that's good all right well you could be gloves made out of you know uh kids
[02:42] oh yeah oh might as proposal yeah yeah i mean they're gonna be very soft it's like lamb skin
[02:50] you know yeah exactly like really fancy gloves they're gonna be very soft gotcha okay so um we're
[02:58] handling them with a a baby goat gloves because it's soft less abrasive so they're they're not
[03:08] when you're holding the baby oh wait no babies don't matter anymore because the kid thing right
[03:13] exactly yeah all right so you don't have to hold the baby with the goat gloves no maybe babies
[03:19] aren't allergic to goats or something you know that's one of those things
[03:26] experiment with the peanut butter gloves didn't go very well
[03:30] allergies these days you also could just be you could be just like children's gloves just
[03:39] make sure to wear gloves that are too small um i don't know why that would be helpful actually i
[03:47] think you're getting closer with the i like this idea that there's goat-skinned gloves
[03:59] that sounds that sounds fancy Joey could that would that help
[04:04] i'm sure we'll just handle somebody with fancy gloves well you you know you've been out in uh
[04:09] you know somebody you're crying or whatever and and uh you know someone puts their their wool
[04:15] mittens on you and you just start crying more right right that's true but when a rich person
[04:20] comes up with their fancy goat gloves you know everything's going to be okay
[04:31] what about butlers who would handle who would wear fancy white gloves maybe those were goat
[04:36] gloves and they were dealing with their angry masters or you know whatever and we're gentle
[04:44] with them yeah or maybe they had different sets of gloves that they wore when they dealt with kids
[04:52] versus the adults yeah you know when you're wearing with the kids you wear the like you
[04:58] know brown gloves or something like that because you're gonna get dirty hanging out with the adults
[05:03] you wear the white gloves okay when do we think this phrase arose what what uh what era this
[05:14] feels like a nanny thing when did people come up with nannies and when was mary poppins
[05:22] so like turn of the century like gilded age in the united states maybe uh well i would
[05:30] assume that all that stuff goes back to monarchies of all kinds sure sure they hated their children
[05:38] right never saw them they paid other people to do it
[05:41] but i don't know if the greeks and romans also hated their children i think it's probably going
[05:46] back too far i like i like um you know like 16th century 15th century uh some sort of uh
[05:59] english monarchy with their fancy gloves that are only for children yeah or maybe maybe the gloves
[06:09] are like rip away like warm-up suits so you can slap the kid with them immediately maybe that's
[06:17] what's so great about the kid gloves like when you would challenge somebody to a duel
[06:21] or something exactly but you do you so for when you do that with human or humans with adults
[06:29] use like the hard leather and with kids i agree that adults are humans and children are not
[06:34] though i'm a full support effect it might have been a Freudian slip
[06:43] all right so uh anybody else got a guess on time
[06:50] that sounds good to me i like i like us we could also go australia with the with the uh
[06:55] maybe kangaroos even though those are Joey's you're right yeah not a kid right yeah what's a group
[07:04] of kangaroos that's a good question question uh these things always turn into more questions don't
[07:11] they a mob troop or court it sounds less scary than a mob yeah male kangaroos are called bucks
[07:27] boomers jacks or old men i think uh Joey is right yes Joey for the win according to phrases.org
[07:42] which we are now frequenting quite a bit um yeah they're gloves made from the skin of a young goat
[07:51] that is so bizarre take that kid leather is soft and smooth making it perfect material
[07:56] for handling objects such as silverware without leaving smudges there's a material used to make
[08:02] classic white gloves ward my house servants hmm the earliest mentions are from england in
[08:09] the 1730s we're killing this yeah we're getting really good at this they were often made from lamb
[08:18] skin as that was easier to come by so it could only the super rich had had goat gloves it could
[08:32] also be used as an insult implying a lack of manhood yes because those who wore kid gloves were
[08:40] characterized by a daintiness or delicacy yeah i never got that i never ever said that to me but
[08:55] interesting but as only when it crossed the atlantic that the negative connotations were lost
[09:07] and handling or treating with kid gloves began to be used as we use it today that is meaning
[09:14] deliberate delicately or carefully i don't feel like it has a bit of a negative connotation
[09:21] hmm well and but not for those that wear it for those that you're handling don't you feel like
[09:29] yes and the uh it all comes back to basketball too so the uh the first printing of the phrase
[09:40] handle with kid gloves uh appeared in the new york monthly magazine the knickerbocker in 1849
[09:48] belligerent topics are not our forte and never was neither do we handle them with kid gloves
[09:55] when they fairly come in the way nice and poetic than knickerbocker
[10:04] also appears the phrase appears in alison wonderland 1865 huh so nice work Joey i think you
[10:15] nailed that one there was a large percentage of of the american population that thought mitt romney's
[10:21] full name was mittens romney it was like a substantial number it was like eight percent
[10:30] or something like that no that seems low to me i thought it was entire doesn't like eight percent
[10:36] believe in like oh i i don't even remember what those stats were um but crazy conspiracies
[10:46] yes like lizard people stuff flat earth territory yeah i think it's more than eight percent on that
[10:55] too yeah oh my god hold on i'm looking up at this romney right he's gotta know uh it says two
[11:05] percent two percent ah that's still two percent more than it should be it's actually sure
[11:11] that's and i took good name though for a cat i mean i was he sure mittens romney mittens
[11:23] it's a good that's a good strong name i like it and by the way uh his full name is willard
[11:32] mitt romney mitt's just his middle name and that's it yeah uh worth noting also receiving two percent
[11:39] of the vote grommet from lollis and grommet nice oh my goodness there's nothing else this week
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[12:31] of fame turn out the lights the party's over sorry my chickens were just they're out and they
[12:45] were just screaming being chickens they were just so loud doing chickeny stuff i just want to make
[12:53] sure that they were all right just imagine them running around the thing with their
[12:58] they're so
[13:05] what do you do to correct the behavior
[13:09] oh nothing i just wanted to make sure that there wasn't like an animal eating them or something
[13:13] yes okay but it can't do anything you can't just like spray them with a water bottle like a cat
[13:18] you can't i mean i guess you could just look at you stupidly yeah just feed them food
[13:30] i guess yeah they don't eat they don't they don't cry when they're busy eating food right
[13:36] i mean i do but
[13:40] but chickens don't do that cry while you shame eat yes