Drunk Others

[00:00] I need it under Googleable. Oh, you don't get that from me. Okay, I'm done for the day. Okay, good
[00:05] Excellent. Make sure to punch it. Make sure to punch out when you go, okay?
[00:11] Bad news, Joey. The clock's on your shoulder next to the panic button.
[00:16] Oh, no. I'll wait till after I think turn out the lights to hit you. Oh, good. Thank you. Yeah.
[00:21] I'm not paying you for that time now. Good news. Terrible left hook.
[00:26] Jason, you got an under Googleable for us this week.
[00:36] Oh, we do under Googleables. That was the play of super excited.
[00:41] Told us we had to. We said we signed up for it.
[00:48] In the end, it's going to be better and more true than Google can give you.
[00:53] I do. I got potentially two under Googles. I think they could be quick, at least,
[01:00] but who knows? These things are, as you guys proved last, by the way, nice show last week.
[01:06] The two man pod, the Harper Coalson two man pod was quite enjoyable. Okay, so this one,
[01:13] first one comes from my mom. My mom sent in a- Shout out.
[01:18] Text, which is another way you can contact us, but only if you're our friend.
[01:24] I guess she was watching a movie or something and the phrase,
[01:33] if I had my druthers, I'd do X, Y, Z came up. And her question was, what the heck are druthers?
[01:42] Where does that come from? Is it Shakespeare or falconry?
[01:47] Yeah, if you had them, the sentiment being like, if I had my way, basically, or if I had ultimate
[01:56] control over things, I would do it this way. But what are druthers?
[02:02] I'm not sure druthers is actually a noun. It's not a thing you possess.
[02:06] Like it's some weird Shakespearean contraction or something, right?
[02:09] Oh, like it's like, like drunk others. Exactly. If I had my drunk others,
[02:21] I'd have done it. I'd always felt like it was sort of like a mash of like, like you said,
[02:31] like I'd rather. Yeah, I'd rather. I'd rather. And then I'd rather other things.
[02:39] Or no, I don't know. That's adding things. Yeah, but like, just kind of like, I'd rather
[02:44] whatever. Like, you know, do this thing. And then you just like, hit that like dead on the bullseye.
[02:50] Yeah, I think that's that's how I always sort of felt. It took a long time till I heard it in
[02:55] the right context. But that was felt like it was then they sort of like, you know, took that
[03:00] sort of sound and then just kind of made up a word made up a word. So did Shakespeare make
[03:06] it up or did that? I don't know. I mean, where it came from, I don't know.
[03:10] What is your guess? Mark Twain. Do you think that? Yeah, I mean,
[03:13] to me, it sounds kind of like Southern kind of folksy. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. But perhaps it was,
[03:22] who was that guy? I think you like to know the guy you like to watch on election night.
[03:28] Oh, rather. Yeah. If a frog had pockets, he'd carry a handgun.
[03:36] Sure. That's a Dan rather ism. Okay, so we're thinking we're thinking like,
[03:43] you know, 1840s in the South or something. I also get the feeling that it also could be
[03:52] British in some fashion. I think it. Yeah, yeah. I'm sticking to Shakespeare.
[04:00] I'm sure I get Shakespeare, falconry, and I get plenty. I'm taking all those things. Okay. Okay.
[04:07] Okay. I'm taking Mark Twain. Oh, or Georgia O'Keeffe.
[04:13] Georgia O'Keeffe. She painted it. That's a weird. That's a weird toss in.
[04:19] All right. So you get Georgia O'Keeffe. No, no, no, no. I'm taking Mark Twain.
[04:22] Harper. I'm just trying to think of Southern people.
[04:24] That's just. Apparently, those are.
[04:28] Well, when you went with Georgia O'Keeffe, she's like Southwest.
[04:32] She's Southwest. Yeah, it's Southern. That's no.
[04:35] Come on. No.
[04:37] We're thinking falconry. Let's talk about some falconry or something.
[04:40] There you go. Okay, falconry. I like it.
[04:43] Okay. So, okay. So we got Harper's on our umbrella answer.
[04:48] Right. And then Joey's thinking British.
[04:54] Are we thinking like Middle Ages British or more recent British?
[05:02] Really old medieval times. Medieval or medieval? Medieval.
[05:09] Medieval. And you're going to go with Georgia O'Keeffe.
[05:13] And Mark Twain. Yeah. Cool.
[05:15] Cool. No, I was helping Joey, is what I'm saying.
[05:18] No, I'm fine with the Southern. I've got Mark Twain or Faulkner.
[05:22] I suggest people have been lazy with contractions for a long time.
[05:26] Good call. Sure.
[05:28] I think it was pretty old. All right. What do we got, Joey? What's the answer?
[05:33] Well, I'm looking like the origin is would rather to, I'd rather to druther.
[05:42] It's a contraction. So it is a contraction.
[05:45] It's late 19th century.
[05:48] U.S. U.S.
[05:50] There we go. U.S. say.
[05:52] U.S. say. Mark Twain.
[05:58] It doesn't say Mark Twain though, or Georgia O'Keeffe.
[06:03] It was never going to say Mark Twain.
[06:06] Shocking outcome.
[06:08] But late 19th century is primo Mark Twain times.
[06:14] Yeah. Mark Twain definitely used it.
[06:18] Why don't we have an origin? It's probably because it's been,
[06:22] I want to see the first time it was seen in writing. Oh, here we go.
[06:26] Oh, shoot. What?
[06:28] It's Mark Twain.
[06:29] Yes! Nice.
[06:31] Wait, didn't you go with Joe O'Keeffe?
[06:33] No.
[06:37] So this may be the first time that it was written.
[06:40] Yeah, that's all I'm looking for. It's probably, it's been used as a shortening forever.
[06:43] Well, he definitely used it.
[06:45] I'm not sure.
[06:45] It was a vernacular thing.
[06:47] It was a vernacular.
[06:48] Yeah.
[06:49] All we can do is get to the first time it's written down. Tom Sawyer, huh?
[06:55] Yep.
[06:56] There you go.
[06:58] Was it the Rush song or was it from the book?
[07:01] Rush song.
[07:05] I don't know why that hit me so well, but that was good.
[07:09] Thank you.
[07:10] So I just want to read the line from Mark Twain and Tom Sawyer because Mark Twain's amazing.
[07:16] Any way you'd rather have it, that is the way I'd rather have it.
[07:20] That's great.
[07:21] Okay.
[07:23] Yeah.
[07:25] That's a different 80s song. It's any way you want it, that's the way you need it.
[07:33] Sing it, Joey.
[07:34] Yeah.
[07:36] That's all I know.
[07:37] That was good. I like that one.