Foie Gras Assembly Line

[00:00] Have you been to Florida?
[00:03] Not great.
[00:05] Jan stay away.
[00:07] The weather is nice.
[00:12] When there's no hurricanes.
[00:14] Or flooding.
[00:16] Or flying gators.
[00:19] Flying gators?
[00:21] Sharknadoes.
[00:23] Yeah, sharknadoes.
[00:25] It's a real problem. Look it up.
[00:27] They've made a couple of documentaries about it.
[00:30] Chainsaw was involved.
[00:32] I remember correctly.
[00:34] That's right, that's right.
[00:36] Coalson, I think before we go.
[00:42] I'd like to do it under Google if you've got something handy.
[00:47] Sure.
[00:48] Just thinking about it.
[00:50] How did he pick the right shark?
[00:52] How did he not chainsaw his girlfriend that he was saving?
[00:56] I don't know. It's just a lot of skills.
[00:59] He's got skills.
[01:01] Listen, you don't do crazy stuff unless you know you're going to succeed.
[01:04] Personally, I think I need to watch the tape again to really dissect it.
[01:10] Okay, we want a short one.
[01:18] A short and easy one.
[01:21] You have all your ducks in a row.
[01:28] Why do you have all your ducks in a row?
[01:38] Let's see.
[01:40] Okay, so the idiom is conveying the idea that everything is in order.
[01:50] All lined up for you.
[01:52] You are well prepared for whatever is coming.
[01:55] Your i's and your j's, your lowercase j's are dotted.
[02:01] Sure.
[02:02] And your umlauts are dotted.
[02:04] As the saying goes.
[02:06] You see that old thing, that old chestnut.
[02:10] And ducks, as we know, mama duck walks and all the little ducks follow right behind her in a little line.
[02:21] They're in a row. Everything's in order.
[02:24] I think it just comes from that, from people.
[02:27] Because I agree that ducks walk in a line.
[02:32] I'm glad you agree with that.
[02:35] I'm willing to make some concessions here.
[02:38] I guess ducks walk in a line.
[02:42] But I just didn't know how that was connected to orderliness.
[02:45] I guess the ducks are being very well behaved.
[02:48] I think it's so you can murder them.
[02:50] Just line them up so you can shoot them really easy.
[02:54] That's correct.
[02:55] You're going with the recent under google trend of everything is bad.
[03:03] You can just run over all the ducks at one time.
[03:06] At the duck farm. At the foie gras mill.
[03:14] Sure.
[03:15] Just cut off a bunch of duck heads right as they walk in.
[03:18] With the little mini guillotine.
[03:20] Yeah, less that I think than trying to shoot them out of the air.
[03:24] So if you have, you know, if you can get them so that they are kind of lined up.
[03:30] Because they blind like a V.
[03:32] They do find a V.
[03:34] You're throwing buckshot at them so you're increasing your odds of hitting your target.
[03:39] Get your ducks in a row and then you can just shoot one shot.
[03:43] That's pretty good.
[03:45] I like that.
[03:47] I do like that.
[03:49] Any chance this relates to duck hunt in any way?
[03:55] Yeah, it might have come out.
[03:57] These might be there before duck hunt, but could be wrong.
[04:01] Do we have a timeline on this?
[04:04] When did we invent ducks?
[04:14] When did they start lighting up in rows?
[04:17] Ducks go back at least if we are to believe Monty Python,
[04:21] which of course is the historical record of note.
[04:26] Sure.
[04:27] Ducks at least existed in the dark ages there
[04:30] because they were used to tell witches apart from non-witches.
[04:34] That's right.
[04:36] What else floats in water?
[04:40] Bridges.
[04:41] Very small pebbles.
[04:42] Churches.
[04:43] Bread.
[04:44] Bread.
[04:47] A duck.
[04:48] A duck.
[04:49] Why?
[04:50] So if a duck wears the same as a witch...
[04:55] Okay, we've gone after us.
[04:57] We could be here for days.
[04:59] Joey, you have any thoughts on this?
[05:03] When ducks were invented.
[05:06] No, I mean, when did they start lining up in a row for us?
[05:09] Maybe that's when it's...
[05:11] Or, okay, what about the game Duck Duck Goose?
[05:14] Well, that's kind of a kid's game,
[05:17] and we all earn order, orderly fashion for that one.
[05:21] It's just an undegoogleble within an undegoogleble.
[05:24] Well, no, I'm just trying to come up with an origin for that.
[05:28] The game could be the origin of this.
[05:31] Okay, so if it's Harper's thing,
[05:33] then it probably goes back to like...
[05:36] I'm gonna go Victorian England again.
[05:38] Duck hunting, sure.
[05:39] We're in the realm of the fox hunt,
[05:41] and we're going out for goose hunting, and...
[05:44] Okay.
[05:45] Yeah.
[05:46] I like that.
[05:47] But if it's ducks in a row...
[05:50] That's Pliny the Elder.
[05:52] Pliny the Elder.
[05:53] Okay, I like that.
[05:56] I mean, because...
[05:58] Yeah, I have no idea.
[05:59] Ducks have been around as long as humans, I would assume.
[06:02] I don't know.
[06:07] Yeah, I feel like they've been around...
[06:09] I feel like it's a chicken or the egg question, right?
[06:14] The duck or a human, which came first?
[06:19] Very similar.
[06:25] Yeah, I mean, I'm guessing the ducks in a row...
[06:29] Behavior has been around since...
[06:33] You know, from forever, ever, to be specific.
[06:42] No, Jason, I like the phrase going back to Victorian England.
[06:48] It seems about right.
[06:49] Okay.
[06:50] I like it.
[06:51] I'm gonna go with...
[06:52] Yeah, and I like the Pliny the Elder guess, too.
[06:56] I think somehow these always end up being horse racing somehow,
[06:59] and I'm gonna go with 1800s horse racing.
[07:01] 1800s horse racing, interesting.
[07:03] Yeah, it's somehow gonna be like...
[07:05] It's somehow they walk ducks around to train the horses.
[07:08] That's what I'm gonna go with.
[07:10] They do use like rabbits and like...
[07:12] Yeah, like dogs and stuff, right?
[07:14] To keep them calm.
[07:15] Yeah.
[07:17] All right.
[07:18] Wait, is that a duck?
[07:20] No.
[07:21] No.
[07:22] Rabbits are not ducks.
[07:23] What is this?
[07:24] Wait a second.
[07:26] Slow down, slow down.
[07:29] All right.
[07:30] Okay.
[07:31] According to ducks in a row dot com, it seems to be the...
[07:34] Yes.
[07:35] I just made that site right now.
[07:38] I'm just a failing source here.
[07:40] Until recently, it was thought that the phrase originated in the 1970s,
[07:45] notably in Stephen King's novel The Stand.
[07:47] What?
[07:48] What?
[07:49] Published in 1978, where King used the phrase,
[07:51] Line up one's ducks.
[07:53] It was later found in a 1932 edition of the Washington Post,
[07:58] and the earliest known reference is from a November 1889 issue
[08:03] of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland.
[08:10] For some, the phrase conjures an image of bowling pins
[08:13] neatly aligned at the end of a bowling alley.
[08:16] Oh, like duckpin bowling.
[08:18] Mm-hmm.
[08:19] In the early 1900s, bowling pins were much shorter and fatter
[08:22] than the ones we now know and often called ducks,
[08:26] due to their waterfowl-like appearance.
[08:29] This doesn't really say that it comes from that, so...
[08:34] But you could see that lining up the pins
[08:37] would be getting your ducks in a row.
[08:40] Grammarist goes with...
[08:42] They just throw out a bunch of things.
[08:44] Grammarist goes with...
[08:47] It could be that the way that the tin ducks
[08:49] are lined up in a shooting gallery, like at the carnival.
[08:53] Oh.
[08:55] And also, a third possibility comes from actual ducks
[08:59] and the way in which ducklings line up
[09:01] when following their mothers.
[09:06] Hmm.
[09:07] Seems like, according...
[09:09] So, a bunch of maybes?
[09:11] Do not know the...
[09:14] Except that they're pretty sure Stephen King
[09:16] didn't make it up.
[09:18] We've learned that.
[09:21] So not Pliny the Elder and not Stephen King.
[09:24] I'm just happy he wasn't duckmurder.
[09:28] With no historical relevance to go off of,
[09:31] we may never know the true origin of the term.
[09:34] Aww.
[09:37] How will I sleep tonight?
[09:39] Yeah.
[09:40] Writers have suggested that the idiom comes from the game of pool,
[09:44] in which a ball in front of a pocket,
[09:46] an easy shot, is sometimes called a duck.
[09:49] To have a roll of balls ready to be potted
[09:52] was to have all of one's ducks in a row.
[09:55] So, no ducks were injured in this under-Google wall, correct?
[10:02] It is.
[10:04] And that usage may come from a sitting duck,
[10:09] as in like an easy hunting target.
[10:12] So, I'm just getting back to Herpers.
[10:18] Yes.
[10:19] Interesting.
[10:20] So, somewhat truly under-Google here.
[10:24] I thought it was going to be a lot more straightforward.
[10:29] Yeah.
[10:32] It never is.
[10:33] Yeah.
[10:34] I'm a little surprised it's so recent on some level.
[10:37] Mm-hmm.
[10:38] Mm-hmm.
[10:39] That was a good one.
[10:47] I mean, but we don't know anything more than we did before.
[10:52] Well, we know that we don't know.
[10:54] Well, we know it goes back to at least 1889.
[10:57] Right.
[10:58] We got that.
[10:59] Right.
[11:00] And it's not horse racing.
[11:02] And it's not Stephen King.
[11:04] It can probably safely rule out horse racing.
[11:06] And Stephen King.
[11:07] For once.
[11:10] All right.
[11:11] Shooting galleries.
[11:12] Let's go that we were correct in its shooting galleries,
[11:15] which was basically Herpers' idea.
[11:17] Yeah.
[11:18] I like that.
[11:19] In a carnival game format.
[11:21] So, back to the duck murder.
[11:24] But imaginary ducks.
[11:26] Ten ducks.
[11:27] Sure.
[11:28] It's more of a duck hunt.
[11:30] It's more of a video game idea.
[11:32] It's a great game where you can never kill all the ducks
[11:34] and get the price.
[11:36] Even if you really want to.
[11:38] Right.
[11:39] The last one's weighted.
[11:42] Right.
[11:45] Once I learned about the, you know,
[11:47] how those games were rigged at the carnivals,
[11:50] you know, like particularly the basketball hoop,
[11:52] you know, you can walk around the side.
[11:54] You can see that things are frickin' oval
[11:56] and that nobody's going to hit the shot.
[11:58] And it's like tilted.
[12:00] You know.
[12:04] Well, some of my childhood died right then.
[12:07] You know.
[12:10] Life isn't, life isn't fair, you know.
[12:17] You know, when I was...
[12:18] Happy night.
[12:19] You know, when I...
[12:21] When I was a kid, you know,
[12:23] when I was a kid, you know,
[12:24] there was a bunch of fun characters running around McDonald's,
[12:27] you know, selling me burgers and stuff.
[12:29] And they're all gone.
[12:30] They're all gone.
[12:31] That's right.
[12:32] Now I'm just loving it, right?
[12:34] Did we...
[12:36] Okay, so we talked about the hamburger.
[12:38] What the heck was Grimace?
[12:39] Have we had this conversation?
[12:41] I don't think so.
[12:42] This sounds like another under Google.
[12:44] Yeah.
[12:45] What the heck is Grimace?
[12:47] That's a fair question in itself.
[12:48] It's just, what was Grimace?
[12:51] And do we feel okay about Ms. Chicken McNuglet?
[12:56] Is that her name?
[12:58] I don't know.
[12:59] I don't know.
[13:00] I like it.
[13:01] Should I be reminded of a cute little chicken
[13:04] when I'm eating a chicken nugget?
[13:05] I don't know.
[13:08] I mean, to me, that reminds me of like,
[13:10] you know, the barbecue place where their logo is...
[13:14] This is the pig.
[13:15] A pig pouring barbecue sauce on itself.
[13:18] She's out there like, eat my brothers and sisters.
[13:26] Simpsons episode when Lisa becomes a vegan.
[13:29] Yes.
[13:30] And the pig is like, here, try me.
[13:33] I'm delicious.
[13:37] Oh, that was the flying pig one there, right?
[13:40] Yeah.
[13:41] It's just a little slimy.
[13:42] It's just a little slimy.
[13:43] It's just a little covered in dirt.
[13:46] All righty.
[13:51] Well, team, I think it's time to get running.
[13:54] Appreciate you guys hanging out.
[13:56] I thought we were...
[13:57] Sorry, I thought we were done.
[13:59] We haven't done the outro yet, have we?
[14:05] Like, in my head, I was editing.
[14:07] I'm like, how long should we go until I cut this, you know, sort of thing?
[14:12] Well, a little bit longer is the answer to that.