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The Power's Point Podcast
The Idiom Episode
Have you ever found yourself in a tangle of words, where "can of corn" isn't just a mythical creature and a southpaw has nothing to do with paws at all? Join Scott Powers and Jim Banks as we embark on a linguistic escapade, untwisting the curious world of idioms that often leave us both amused and bemused. This episode isn't just a romp through phrases; it's a candid look at life's idiosyncrasies, from my own family emergencies to Jim's manual truck window showdown, stitched together with stories that lend color to our everyday speech.
Step into our audio arena where the Super Bowl meets Taylor Swift and "chip on your shoulder" takes on a whole new meaning. We revel in the high school memories that never seem to fade, linking idiomatic expressions to the raucous tales of our youth. Laugh with us as we honor our loyal listeners with inside jokes and consider broadcasting wrestling's behind-the-scenes drama. And, in a heartfelt moment, we pay homage to lost legends, and celebrating the induction of Chicago Bears heroes into the Hall of Fame.
As night descends, we invite you into the twilight of our thoughts, tracing the silhouettes of dreams against the stark realities of day. There's a poetic cadence to our conversation as we navigate the subconscious, seeking out the metaphoric lightweights of our aspirations in the cabin of our minds. So, plug in your headphones and let us guide you through the verdant dreamscape of language—this isn't just a podcast; it's an expedition into the heart of expression.
Thank you for joining us on today's show, as always, we appreciate each and every one of you! Talk to you soon.
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On this episode of the Powers Point podcast, we hit the nail on the head and spill the beans on the whole. Nine yards of idioms until you're fit to be tired of us. Hey Scott, give us a wacky beat.
Speaker 2:Well, hello, welcome to season five, episode five. We're doing things educational. All this time. We like to teach everybody a thing or two. So if it ain't wrestling, if it's not awesome festivals, the attend. Now we're teaching you about idiom and what's an idiom? You say, well, idiom is a phrase that everybody has heard, but maybe they don't know where it came from or what does it actually mean. Are you using your idiom, right? So, jim, yeah, I know you've heard so many idioms and you know it's really weird, because I asked somebody what an idiom is and they're like you're an idiot.
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh, Not idiot idiom. So we hear this all the time in our workplace. I know you hear it in your big company.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely, but we say them all the time, but nobody says, though. I haven't heard a lot of people use the word idiom. It's like they know it and they say it, but they don't use the proper word.
Speaker 2:Right, I get that. They think they're using it in the right term, the right way, but then, as you and I are doing our study and we think back at the people that have said it and they're like man, they're stupid. Before we kick off with the educational podcast that we are, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Scott Powers. I host this show and with me is the one and only Jim, who is an awesome host. He is like a you're like a one of a kind Jim in the rough. Jim in the rough, you get it.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, don't try to pencil those together.
Speaker 2:No, don't try it. What have you been up, to man, since the last time we last chat?
Speaker 1:Pretty crazy. A little bit of crazy stuff. One thing that happened to me today when I was going to shopping is that I loaded up the truck with all the stuff I bought at the store and from the passenger side of my truck, and then I got on the other side and drove off and I bought a little bit down the road. All of a sudden this I must have like hit the, because I have a truck with the old roll down windows, the crank handle, Okay.
Speaker 1:And I must have hit the handle on the window and it just made a little crack of the window. And when I'm driving, all of a sudden I hear like like an insane whistle, the loudest whistle you'll ever hear.
Speaker 2:I didn't know if that happens to you and I think it's happened in the past with the rain, and I mean it was windy, so I could see that.
Speaker 1:And I'm driving and I'm like it's like piercing my ear, like you know those people that whistle with like they make the devil horns and then they whistle on their hand. It's like the loudest whistle ever. And then doors like and I'm trying to like reach over and like try to roll it up at stop signs. I'm like I can't get it and it's like piercing my ears and I can't pull over anywhere. I'm driving me nuts. And then I come home and complain to my wife and then she goes. Well, I just usually push the button to the automatic window, roll it. I'm like, why don't I have a fricking automatic window on my truck?
Speaker 2:That's nice, huh.
Speaker 1:I know I'm like this is a first world issue, yeah, but it's just, it's a throwback, because I remember back in the day before a lot of people had the automatic windows. The feature was too expensive.
Speaker 2:They used to happen all the time in cars when I was a kid and everybody started screaming uh dude, I remember sitting in the back seat as lean up against the door, sleeping, and we didn't have to wear seatbelts. Back in the day no, way back, way back when and I never forget, because I drive up this ramp all the time but my mom, we were coming home from my grandma's and as we were going up the ramp, the door opened and I fell out on the highway and then I watched my mom like, drive a little bit, a little way ahead, you're like rolling, just wondering what happened.
Speaker 1:That's hilarious.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it wasn't yeah. And then I get yelled at yeah, you know, don't fall asleep on the wheel, don't? I'm out on the door, don't fall asleep on the door. And I'm like what can I do?
Speaker 1:Yeah, back then you'd get yelled at. What'd you do, you moron? You're at fault.
Speaker 2:You know, I gotta tell you, for me this week it's been the most trying. You know, after we recorded. Oh yeah, I use this as an idiom, I use the first one. So, as they say, when it rains, it pours.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And after we recorded I thought I can get a few about an hour to sleep, because you and I both were super tired last show. And so my wife calls me and she's like, hey, I need to get out of bed right now. We got a family emergency. And I'm like, okay, you know, like you know, thinking oh man, what's wrong, what's wrong? And then she's like, oh, caroline, she's almost like in like a diabetic coma and she legit looked like a ragdoll, you know, like all limp, and her organs started shutting down because it was building up an acid and the acid was surrounding the organs. Jesus, you know, and no one, no one knew that she was diabetic. Her pancreas just shut down.
Speaker 2:And so we had to go to the hospital on Crown Point and then from there they said you need an ambulance down to Riley's in Indianapolis, you know. And I'm like that's a long ways. And in my head I'm thinking, bill, how much does that cost? Yeah, how much it costs for two blocks like a grand. Oh, my God, you know, go to the hospital. So then they changed her mind and they said you know, it's way more serious. She's going to have to get airlifted from Crown Point to Indianapolis and they'll be here in an hour and a half. So I stood up and told the wife let's go. You know, so Caroline would have a familiar face when she got to that hospital.
Speaker 2:That was real smart, because Lynn and Sean had to wait till Caroline took off and you know like everything was a blur, but the helicopter actually got to the hospital six minutes before we did Wow. So as they were putting her in a room, we came walking in.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:You know and you know, but on the way there I almost killed myself and my wife I was going to say. I went to. I go up this one ramp, a connecting ramp, from 231 to 65 South. I do it in a daytime. Well, in the nighttime I miscalculated and I almost flew over the edge of the highway.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so the wife screaming and then I cut the wheel real sharp on the Jeep and the Jeep like handled real good, yeah. So as I'm getting the other, I looked over there. I'm like man, the Jeep handles nice and you know my wife's like you're stupid ass.
Speaker 1:You're like, I'm ex-military, I can handle this.
Speaker 2:Dude, we got to the hospital, we stayed till like four o'clock in the morning and I had my computer with me. I wanted to do this podcast, I wanted to edit it, yeah, and then I forgot my headphones and everybody's like, everybody's like, this is more important than you or one of them, man, you know, just, you know, handle your family business and then if it gets out late, it gets out late, yeah, but I just want it done when I edit, you know.
Speaker 1:Well, plus, there's a lot of stuff you probably couldn't do. You know you can't do physically to make the situation better, so you're trying to distract yourself from dwelling on it and worrying about it every second that you're down there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it was a. It wasn't good man, I wasn't in the right frame of mind. I see Caroline, she's hooked up to like six or seven IVs would not wake up. Would not wake up, man. She's like Lynn, text your mom and, and now the doctors were in the room. Lynn's like a 40 minutes away and so everybody like looked at me as like should be here in 18 minutes then, because I know how Lynn drives Lynn. Lynn thinks she's a NASCAR and sure enough to take take some walking through the door man.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:And I'm like I had a two hour lead on her and we were only there for a half hour 40 minutes. Yeah, so you know, but for the parents aren't allowed the because of insurance reasons, the parents aren't allowed to be on the helicopter.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Even if it's just their kid being airlifted.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, that's crazy. You know, and not even one parent.
Speaker 2:And so they not even one.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God, I would at least say one of us.
Speaker 2:They had some old helicopter vet from Vietnam flying. They're the pilots of this helicopter, so it was a. It was pretty cool man. She was in good hands and glad to say I'm in. This is for life for her. Now. You know, it's type one diabetes, yeah, so she has to shot all the time, like four shots a day, and then everybody's monitoring her, her blood sugar, and it's, it's, it's. It's a life changer, man, even for me, even though I'm not the one having to deal with it, you know. And yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's crazy, you know. And then, as I was pulling into the hospital for her, my dad calls me and he's like hey, your mom's being rushed to the hospital. Where are you? Oh, my God, and I go, I'm at, I go, I'm at a hospital, and he goes. Who told you? And I go?
Speaker 2:no, no no, not that hospital, I'm at another hospital, you know. So my mom's back in the hospital and now she's a nursing home again and uh.
Speaker 1:Damn, it is runaway Rains at pores.
Speaker 2:Right. So let's see, there's the first idiom, and uh, for people that can't catch on, it just means everything is going wrong at once. You know it starts with one thing and then everything, and you dare to say what's next? Yeah, exactly. Because we're spread out so thin right now I can't be everywhere. I'm worried about Caroline. I'm worried about my mom. I'm worried about my dad because he's stressed man. It's crazy man. So I didn't mean to go on a big ramp.
Speaker 1:Anybody complain about this podcast episode or anything. You're going to have to hear it from me, because Scott don't need none of this crap from you guys, the five people that are listening. He don't need none of this crap.
Speaker 2:Well, four, my mom's in a nursing home. She don't have it no more. But I know my aunt Rosie's listening. She's a faithful listener to this show, so, yeah, she listens to us while she washes dishes. So I was like okay. So if the show's running long, I'm going to do like one wipe every couple of minutes just to slow things down.
Speaker 1:But she's like, that's enough.
Speaker 2:Like I said, I don't mean to go on and on about this week, but man, it's just been crazy. It's one thing after another, and but the weekend did man on a high note. It was good and it was good.
Speaker 1:That's good, as long as stuff's getting better right now, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it is People like in a pod.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know what I did the last week's pod. If I I couldn't have done it in the hospital, I couldn't have done. You know the way I edit it and made lots of things disappear, yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean I didn't. I didn't think you put it out because we're going. I needed to cut a new intro for you because the other intro I had other stuff on it. And all of a sudden I looked down like a day later or the next day and I see it's like uploaded and I go what the heck? No, he didn't. And so I listened to it right away and I go, oh my God, he's like a magician or something. He made that thing sound perfect.
Speaker 2:And I just, I just, you know, some people are like, oh, you don't need to edit it, just put it out like it is.
Speaker 1:But I guess it's just too much pride, yeah, you know the way we we were talking about a lot of different stuff and you cut all that stuff out that you know wasn't related to it and I'm like, wow, he did perfect.
Speaker 2:I appreciate that and then, like I try to cut my breathing out because it starts sound like some some perv in a porn movie in the stands in the corner watching.
Speaker 1:I was going to say Darth Vader, but you said perv.
Speaker 2:Hey, I gotta say the podcast is the one thing that's like a continuous like good vibe for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And no, I do appreciate you being on as the host still, and look, you got coming up.
Speaker 1:You got a Super Bowl this weekend. This Sunday you got Valentine's next what happened oh? What's the score?
Speaker 2:2714 Chiefs. Oh yeah, I hate the Chiefs.
Speaker 1:So I don't care for either team. Of course I really haven't watched football religiously in the long time, but I'm going to say because the whole America's going with the Chiefs or something, mostly I'm going to say 49ers by 21.
Speaker 2:49ers by 21. So after the Super Bowl and the Chiefs win, does the Swifties get all excited? And Kelsey asked her, on the 50-year hard line, to marry him in front of millions of people.
Speaker 1:I could see that happening. So either they're going to do that or, if the 49ers win that, they're going to protest and riot.
Speaker 2:You know, Taylor Swift is an amazing singer. I can't take away from her performing, but they're making so much about. Oh, Taylor has a special from the Japanese Prime Minister to fly through some airspace so she can make it back in time for the football to start. And I'm thinking, who cares? Just get there. I don't need to know her flight pattern, you know, to make it bigger than it is. She's just a person.
Speaker 1:But her popularity. You almost see it as like a thing that the NFL is doing to make more women and girls watch their product NFL, that they're getting her, having her get connected with you know that guy or something Not that you can control that.
Speaker 2:So next year is it going to be called Kansas City Swiss.
Speaker 1:And a lot of people are complaining that, oh, everybody hates. You know her involved in the Super Bowl. And some people are saying, oh, heaven forbid. This gives a chance for dads and their little daughters to get, you know, watch a sport together that he's been begging for her to watch. And the girls, you know, want to spend time with their uncle or their dad and or big brother and watch the show. You know, I'm like I understand that theory too.
Speaker 2:The one thing I like about this is it gives Taylor Swift a chance to be normal, even though she's sitting up in the press box. She's never been to football games, you know, or when she went to Buffalo. The fans are booing her and I'm thinking, wow, all the Swifties have turned.
Speaker 1:Well, the only thing that would really be crazy is if, like someone on the other team, like targeted that her boyfriend or something, like hit him real hard during a play or something, and then watch the whole place like hate, like the biggest heel, hate that guy for life or something.
Speaker 2:You know they break his leg and like the play.
Speaker 1:I don't know who, I don't know what he plays or what position, but or even he's he's.
Speaker 2:He is like Jerry Rice, oh OK, and. And Steve Young, Treykman and Emmett Smith, they're like that. You know he's their tight end, OK, but he's a crazy guy, his brother, his brother's amazing dude man, he, he goes all crazy like he wants to take some of the pressure off of Taylor at the Eagles game.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Or not, the Eagles game, a Buffalo game, and so like he took his shirt off and pressed the body up against, and then he jumped out the window into the crowd.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:And even though Buffalo and his team, philadelphia, are like enemies. Yeah, he's out there partying with them in the tailgate. He was out there drinking with them. He was total drunk dude. But yeah, it's all for entertainment, and now they have a documentary, the Calcy Brothers documentary. I'm like come on, so wait till the powers documentary comes out. It's called Free Fall to Hell.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God no.
Speaker 2:Yeah, watch, watch for it at your local, behind the counter at the gas station. It'll be there with the good magazines. So let's just jump into this.
Speaker 1:All right, the first one I got is a sports one and the idiom is called canicorn. You ever hear of canicorn?
Speaker 2:I'd like to say I did. It's kind of ringing a bell, but I haven't heard. It used a lot.
Speaker 1:It was back in the mid 90s, I believe, or late 80s, mid 90s, to where it was, in baseball mainly, but you could also do it in life. For baseball it would be like a lazy fly ball hit. Or it's either a lazy fly ball or it's something easily accomplished, like, oh, it's a canicorn, so if anything, it's like something that already you know.
Speaker 2:You're taking something hard by corn on a cob, taking it off the cob and putting it in the can.
Speaker 1:It's easy. Yeah, it's all easy. It's just, you know, it's a canicorn. It's easy. Nope, that's it.
Speaker 2:Right on, I know you've heard this one before. What? You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Yes, it means you can't force someone to make the right decision. I don't know the origin. You didn't give me that part.
Speaker 1:Oh what? No, well, the thing I found, I didn't say.
Speaker 2:No, no, but everybody has heard that every now and then sometime in their life, maybe not.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Well pretty much. It's like if you, you know I could, you can, I could show my son how to clean his room, but is he going to clean it, you know? Is he going to take the initiative? You can lead a horse to water, but is he going to drink it, you know?
Speaker 2:Now I could see this in like when it was made. I mean I would really throw this guy off a horse. You know, like you're with some philosophical, philosophical guy playing this little his little guitar. Oh man, dogs are going crazy. So if you guys could hear that, I apologize. But yeah, what do you have for your next one man?
Speaker 1:Next one is a. It's a term called Southpaw.
Speaker 2:Left-handed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, A left-handed pitcher, pretty much, or left-handed batter. They said that back in the day baseball diamonds were built so that their pitcher faces west and his arm would therefore face be pointed south is like left arm.
Speaker 2:All right. They also use that in boxing too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for boxing too. That's a I don't know what. How they came up with that? I guess because more people were right-handed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think. I think because I'm left-handed and I think the fact was like there's only 9% people in the world population that are left-handed, which to me is mind blowing and I'm calling BS on that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when Jimmy was born, when Jimmy was born, I started. I started teaching him to do things left-handed because I wanted him to be left-handed or better to be, was it ambidextrous, where you could use both right and left. And he started when he was one and two, started doing stuff left-handed and kind of right, and I was like excited. I'm like cool, he's going to be a switch hitter in baseball. But then he's I think it's with the school systems or something he just naturally now he does stuff only right-handed and I'm like, oh man, he used to do stuff left-handed.
Speaker 2:You know speaking of left-handers Larry Bird, world famous NBA, Boston Celtic.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:He was right-handed and he got bored you know always went in. So he told his team in the huddle at the beginning of the game I'm going to shoot every shot left-handed. And they're like you're right-handed. I remember that he shot every single hand shot left-handed and he still won.
Speaker 1:I knew he was amazing back then, but I watched videos of him now. It's just, he was just another level. It was just crazy how he was. Yeah.
Speaker 2:But you know, we'll talk about some amazing sports legends maybe throw it in the hat for things to talk about or amazing people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, different sports.
Speaker 2:He definitely deserves to be in it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2:So for my next one is I know people have heard this we see eye to eye.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know. Again, I don't know where this comes from and I'm trying to think of the scenario of you know, are people out there boxing and fighting and then, when they're done, they're like no, we see eye to eye, which means they agree.
Speaker 1:Yeah, pretty much you agree on stuff with somebody, so I think it was just. It's just the plane. You see what that other person sees, what you're talking about, and know how you see it.
Speaker 2:I guess that would be kind of like, as another idiom, walk a mile in their shoes.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, to truly understand somebody you have to walk a mile in their shoes, and I guess those two can go together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is.
Speaker 2:I hope I didn't steal one of yours.
Speaker 1:No no no no, these are like you told me, off air. There was like thousands of these things. The next one I got is a cup of coffee, or a cup of coffee. You ever hear a cup of coffee? A half a half Well, not just a drink. I mean like having a brief career or a short time somewhere, Like a Say it one more time the internet broke up. Oh, like a brief career or a short time somewhere.
Speaker 2:That I did not know.
Speaker 1:Like if that person that is complaining at your office or something and you say, what does he know? He's only been here for a cup of coffee. I mean meaning he's as long as he's been here, he's just had enough time to sip a cup of coffee, to put his opinion in, or something.
Speaker 2:So that can go with another idiom fly by night guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So see, when you're saying, when you're saying stuff, I'm like that can also mean this, that can also mean that, you know, I just I don't. I can't see people back in the day like, oh, I know what he means, you know. And and next thing, you know, it's down in history, it's, it's in writing, so it's got to be factual.
Speaker 1:Well, I think, a lot of idioms. I should have did research because I was just like you, I was feeling lazy this week. Well, you had a better excuse why, but I I just was like, yeah, I'm getting lazier and lazier every week. We're starting to turn into like a Lynn, just not do any work. To that hit record, let's just talk. But I think the idioms mainly come from British slang back in the 14 and 1500s and that the olden times, because the poor, the poor class, used to like have lingo words and stuff. They would say like look at that bird over there, john Cian, over to the In and Out or something, and then each word you had break down and it would tell you how the slang and what it meant. And I think that's where a lot of the stuff came. And people would start saying that stuff and it would, it would sound funny and then everybody started using it.
Speaker 2:And then just put it out on the world.
Speaker 1:I'll have to find that video. I always say that I have to find the video and send you the link to where this guy explains those old, tiny British slangs and how they different tier system, how they would talk to each other and like not say something in slang so that the richer upper people wouldn't understand them. Yeah, that's where I think it may look good from.
Speaker 2:Kind of like a code amongst the peasants.
Speaker 1:Like how we used to say. We used to say rad and totally tubular or whatever back in the 80s, and now the kids nowadays are saying like lit and like God, do we sound old?
Speaker 2:That's bomb.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a bomb and stuff.
Speaker 2:That's fire. Why is all this stuff destructive? That's fire, that's bomb.
Speaker 1:Oh, that could be a great episode is where you and me, like, do nowadays slang and we just annoy the heck out of all the kids and younger people.
Speaker 2:You know, or you and I could take it one step further and bring in like a couple of teens. Yeah, and try to guess what they're saying.
Speaker 1:Oh, that'd be awesome, and I'll be like we're going to do it, man. They'll be like you guys are dumb AF.
Speaker 2:Well, we're dumb ass.
Speaker 1:We're dumb AF. What are we dumb AF?
Speaker 2:Hey, dude, let's do that. I'll get a teen girl and a teen boy. Okay, because they're in their own world, so they can come up with some stuff and we have to decipher it.
Speaker 1:We'll get our lingo from the 70s and 80s, maybe a little bit of 90s, I don't know. We'll figure something out, and then they get their nowadays slang from the last 10 or five years or something.
Speaker 2:You know, that's like when we were on Majors of Mass Hall. They went with English slang and I had to guess what it meant. You, know, get your torch. I mean, the splash light to us is boop to them, yeah. So yeah, man, I'll get a couple of people and we'll throw that on a future episode. Cool, and that'll be fun.
Speaker 1:So my next one, the one I got here, oh, you're with your next one.
Speaker 2:Oh, shoot man, Go ahead.
Speaker 1:This will be perfect. The next one I got is cutting corners. That means you're and I do it a lot when I cut you off there. Cutting corners means you're doing something poorly in order to save time or money.
Speaker 2:That's my middle name, scott cutting corners powers.
Speaker 1:Your boss is like what are you doing?
Speaker 2:Well, I use duct tape. Duct tape helps cut corners.
Speaker 1:That's a good safety protocol.
Speaker 2:For who Down in the south, that's like the Bible. Okay, where did that one come from?
Speaker 1:Oh no, I didn't research that one.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Now I feel bad.
Speaker 2:Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Speaker 1:That's true.
Speaker 2:It means people who are morally questionable shouldn't criticize others. In other words, handle your business and don't worry about others. Man, in this day and age, more so than ever, is that that idiom? It should be happening like that With Facebook. You put something out that means something to you. Next thing you know, you got 50 something people talking crap. Next thing you know, your people are talking to their people and they're getting in arguments of why they shouldn't have said that. Next thing you know, you're causing a war. In other words, handle your own business and then worry about others.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what I got is she's a piece of work or he's a piece of work.
Speaker 2:It means someone is very difficult or challenging to deal with.
Speaker 1:It is often used to describe people who are high maintenance or drama queens, you know.
Speaker 2:I guess that could be used towards me too, not as a drama queen, but Well, I don't know Making things, sometimes more dramatic than it even needs to be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but sometimes everybody kind of Everybody gets that every once in a while, I don't care who you are. Yeah, that ship is sailed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love that one, that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1:The means for those people listening.
Speaker 2:it's too late, Let it go. So if you're running down, the dock and you want to get on the ship and it's gone, you're too late, and that's easy to explain, and that's easy to explain. And that can happen in the romance department. Friendship definitely department yeah.
Speaker 1:So but what?
Speaker 2:do you got man.
Speaker 1:Next one is let's see, I'm over my head. This means that someone in a situation that is too difficult for them to handle. It could be used literally, like when you're swimming in deep water, or figuratively, when you're in over your head at work. You mean you've got too much going on, too much bills piling up, or two projects you got to do, or something you're in over your head.
Speaker 2:Kind of sums up my week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, I should use that. The last one dang it.
Speaker 2:How about this one man? I've heard this all my life directed towards me by work by the army when I first started, by wrestling. By anything in life shape up or ship out. It means work better or get the hell out.
Speaker 1:That could be used nowadays more than ever. You want to tell these people, like you said, drama or people like causing, being a menace or something, hey, or even your kids pissing you off. You're just, hey, ship up or ship out. Get the hell out of my house.
Speaker 2:What do you got man?
Speaker 1:The next one. I'm at my wit's end. That means someone is very.
Speaker 2:There's an origin.
Speaker 1:Someone is very frustrated and has run out of ideas, like for this podcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It can be used when you're feeling overwhelmed or hopeless.
Speaker 2:Okay, how about this one? This might make some mad, because not everybody knows how to use, but it's like riding a bicycle yeah, it means something you never forget how to do. If you never knew how to ride a bike, then you're screwed.
Speaker 1:Because everybody's pretty much as child is taught how to ride a bike.
Speaker 2:My 14-year-old brother doesn't know how to ride a bike. Wow, Because my dad can't run behind it. Yeah, Remember when you were learning how to ride a bike at first, somebody would hold the seat in the hand of bar and they'd run next to you. The scariest moment was when they stopped running. You're like whoa, whoa, whoa. They all drunk.
Speaker 1:Where's your hand? Where's your hand?
Speaker 2:You know riding a bike. For me, when I learned how to ride, I used to keep my bicycle in my room because I lived in Gary, so I'd keep my bike in the house. We didn't have a garage and I'd always put it up my BMX up in the room and I'd always have my brother hold the door open on the bottom of the stairs. It was 13 stairs down and I would start at the top and ride all the way down. Only once did I ever hit the door because he closed it halfway. Jesus, Dude, you don't have good foot breaks. You learn how to ride, but you're not really a break person.
Speaker 1:The good old days of brotherhood.
Speaker 2:Yes, man, yes, you know, I miss those days, I mean.
Speaker 1:I see kids probably like fighting like mess around brothers and stuff. But it seems like back in the old days there was wild or tales about brothers and stuff.
Speaker 2:You know I'm always saying this just so when I listen back I can reference it. Yeah, but I wish to do a show of things that were acceptable back then that aren't acceptable nowadays.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's a good idea. Like a, like, like a, how, like just stuff you do, like kids without seatbelts on cars Walking through the woods by yourself as a kid. Oh yeah, yeah, that's true, okay.
Speaker 2:It's not acceptable nowadays, you know, because it's going to go against the parents. Why is your kid walking in the woods?
Speaker 1:All right, We'll make a list and stuff. We got another. See, we got two episodes with this. Just talking about this stuff.
Speaker 2:And that's why I throw it out there again, so I can reference back. So what else you got, man?
Speaker 1:Um, okay, he's a chip off the old block, meaning the son looks like his father or acts like his father.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I get that department.
Speaker 1:Yeah, see, some of these you can't like. Uh, I don't think you could really origin, it's just probably, like some of them, just people been saying it since who knows how long ago.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's not like a chip like a Pringle or a Frito leg, but like somebody actually took like a hammer and not the chip off.
Speaker 1:Chip off your shoulder.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and speaking of that reminds me man, back in the high school days I was enough. I used to like going to watch in school fights. Again, acceptable back in the day, not acceptable today.
Speaker 1:Well, if you heard about it, you had to go see it.
Speaker 2:You know, and everybody knew I go to the fights. You know it was free, it was entertaining, and I found out I was the one in the fight and I actually had a potato chip dude and I was like go ahead. It's kind of like saying, throw the first hit, I do it and knock that off, like I dare you to knock this battery off my shoulder, you know, and it's a. I saw getting thrown in the river and uh, oh my God.
Speaker 1:I saw that once. That is one of those idiom like, kind of like things was where they'd have a board on their shoulder and back in the old times and then they would dare someone to knock the board off someone's shoulder or someone to start the fight.
Speaker 2:Or when they draw a line in the sand, I do it across this. If you cross this, don't cross that line. Man, don't cross that line.
Speaker 1:See, now I feel like you have a line and then they draw another one.
Speaker 2:I dare you to cross that line. All right, how about this?
Speaker 1:one. See, I feel so unprepared. Now You're on the other side of the beach. You're almost by the water. Where are you going to go?
Speaker 2:Watch a guy Watch it yeah.
Speaker 1:I feel like we didn't do any. Uh, like you said, we didn't do any research or something. We are bad.
Speaker 2:I don't know, but these might be entertaining because our, our friend Armageddy, who was out, he listens to show faithfully when it comes out. And uh, he, he, actually, he said, listening to us is like sitting around the table with friends and just sitting there watching and learning and and laughing, man. And uh, he, he, he's another one, you know, like my aunt, he, they're faithful listeners and it's cool that I know these people all by name and who's listening and who's not. Well, obviously half the world's not listening, but uh, yeah, so they want to hear what you think I was going to say.
Speaker 2:I do think, uh, we are the best podcast in Northwest Indiana.
Speaker 1:All right, we got that. Yes, like County where the, where the region rats were living up to the name. So wait a minute. So if people want to hear us like tell stories and stuff like they're listening in, should we have one episode where it's just a like wrestling backstage stories, that stuff we've seen and heard, but we'd have to keep the names like uh, disguised, so it wouldn't protect the innocent.
Speaker 2:We, we could possibly do that too. There's plenty of them.
Speaker 1:Like how the hazing or the uh paying your dues and stuff, or some of the training stuff we've seen.
Speaker 2:Again acceptable back in the day, that acceptable now is no you know, like high school wrestling, everybody held you down and pulled your sweater up and gave you a pink belly by slapping your stomach. You know every, everybody, everybody got in the line and came and slapped you so hard in the, in the, in the stomach you bruised.
Speaker 1:All right, I'm starting to think of episodes. I got to start writing this stuff down.
Speaker 2:I can say it yeah, then we can reference it up here.
Speaker 1:All right. One another one we have to get is like high school stories, Like you said, crazy stories from high school that we used to do and see and experience.
Speaker 2:I can gather some of my old high school peeps and we can go over this. And yeah, there's some. You know, like when you first became a freshman in high school, you are always afraid to be hazed by the seniors. Yeah, and that could be anything from people lining up and pissing on the floor and then making you get on your hands and knees and push a penny across with your nose. Oh God.
Speaker 2:Or swirls or swirly, yeah, but it's stuck your head in the toilet, but if you didn't have long hair, hence me it wasn't fun. Yeah, awesome.
Speaker 1:I remember my gym in my gym class they used to it was a we had a female teacher for our male or like boys and girls gym class. So the female teacher would be in the girls locker room and we had nobody in the boys locker room no teacher or male guy. And this was unheard of, because you're basically putting middle schoolers in a locker room and with like Lord of the Flies kind of stuff, because we would have fights. Two guys would want to fight and we'd have one person look out in the hallway right by the door and then in the all the way to far locker. It'd be like fight club, like the movie there would just be like bashing and throwing in the lockers and just bloody. Oh my God.
Speaker 2:You know it was the worst in the gym.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:Rat tails with the towel.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And a snapping on your ass, Dude, like the wealths man. And you had those people that were like Indiana Jones with their whip with that and they'd take and dip the towel in the tip and the like water and snap you and man, dude.
Speaker 1:We didn't have no internet to cry to.
Speaker 2:No, no cameras, no social media.
Speaker 1:you know All right, we got to get back to the idioms.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got a couple more here.
Speaker 1:Go ahead. Okay, let me see, hold on. Where was that one ahead?
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Play, play devil's advocate. Some people might not know what that one is.
Speaker 2:Good movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the play devil's advocate is to argue the opposite just for the sake of arguing, like if I feel the same way about a topic that you're saying, I see the same eye to eye with you on it, to use another one, but I'm going to take the other side and say, well, I see it from that other person's side, or I see the opposite of what you're saying, this was what's happening, or this person feels like this. I'm taking devil's advocate.
Speaker 2:Sometimes people do that just to get under other people's skin. You know how the reaction's going to be.
Speaker 1:Isn't it like trolling somebody or cat fishing or something, what these kids say?
Speaker 2:We're going to get those underage people there and have them on the show. Not underage, underage teens.
Speaker 1:All right, you got to cut that part out.
Speaker 2:How about this one man? That one get wind of something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've heard of that.
Speaker 2:Means hear the news of something secret, secret, secret. I got a secret.
Speaker 1:Pretty much like someone will say where'd you hear that? Like, oh, the wind came and told me in my ear.
Speaker 2:Oh dream.
Speaker 1:Another one is heard it through the grapevine. That's kind of goes with that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, see, what have you got, man.
Speaker 1:Let me see I think you said that one. Go down in flames, that means to I've done that. Yeah, fail spectacularly.
Speaker 2:You know, if you're going to fail, fail spectacularly, so everybody remembers it. So when you do good, you're going man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if I'm going to go, I'm going down in flames.
Speaker 2:It's like my dad used to take me to ice skating in Chicago and nobody knew how to ice skate, so we'd like to fall and take as many people out as possible.
Speaker 1:Exactly. You start grabbing people and like whoa.
Speaker 2:And then you find out that the blades are like razor sharp.
Speaker 1:Oh, slice and necks. Oh God, that'd be terrible. I always say if you get a fall or hurt or like cause a scene, you might as well, like comedy, make it like real crazy and make it, make everybody laugh around and make funny yourself by doing it.
Speaker 2:Right, right. So where else you got man?
Speaker 1:I'm going to say have your head in the clouds. It means you're not concentrating your daydreaming like head in the. Perhaps probably comes from the origin of people, like when they're not paying attention, they just look up at the sky in the cloud. Your head up in the clouds looking.
Speaker 2:That's my spot here. Dang it, I got like two more man.
Speaker 1:Okay, and I'll have two more.
Speaker 2:Get a taste of your own medicine.
Speaker 1:I like that one.
Speaker 2:I mean get treated the way you've been treating others, and people nowadays really, really need that. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1:In a world where people say their feelings block them from having to deal with anything. No, and they could be jerks or they can do whatever they say, whatever they want. No, you need to get a taste of your own medicine. Someone needs to do that to you, right, right.
Speaker 2:I agree. How about you Let me?
Speaker 1:see what did I say? Oh, he's not playing with a full deck. It's basically telling someone he's dumb or he's off his rocker. That means he's crazy.
Speaker 2:Or he is not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Speaker 1:Those three go together perfect, or there's other ones too. He's a couple fry short of a happy meal.
Speaker 2:How about going on a wild goose chase? Yes, to do something pointless.
Speaker 1:You're just I'm going to do this and this and you're like why it's a goose chase? You're not going to catch it.
Speaker 2:Right how about your last one.
Speaker 1:This is also a song by Great White once bitten, twice shy.
Speaker 2:It was made popular in 86.
Speaker 1:You're more cautious when you've been hurt before. If you date a woman and you get broken up or she dumps you or something, the next time you go on a date I was once bitten twice shy I'm going to watch out this next time. I've been hurt before.
Speaker 2:Makes a lot of sense, man. That concludes our educational topic of idioms. We hope you guys enjoyed that. I'm going to do something feature, something I started like two weeks ago Like a memoriam. Someone that recently passed that may have meant something to you. So Jesse Jane, the porn star, she died two weeks ago. And on this week we got country singer Toby Keith and I like him because not only did he have a good voice but he used to always jump in the ring and TNA wrestling and the record company be like oh no, no, no, you can't do that.
Speaker 1:You can't do that. You're going to get liability.
Speaker 2:And then the next day, the next show. He jumped in the ring again and you know, and he had some really cool songs. Yeah, he supported the people from 911. You know, he represented America with the military performing. He was the first person to ever go to Afghanistan to perform. Wow, Troops.
Speaker 1:I didn't know that.
Speaker 2:When no others wanted to or were scared to, he did it because they were there. And 62 men Wow, it's young, you know.
Speaker 1:So also another sad news is Carl Weathers passed away.
Speaker 2:You know about that. You just started making commercials with drunk.
Speaker 1:And he was the Mandalorian Star Wars TV show.
Speaker 2:And then Apollo Creed, you know. So, yeah, another man sadly missed. Yeah, but on a happy note.
Speaker 1:I got a happy note today, I think if it was today, yeah, football hall of fame. They're going to put Steve Mongo, mick Michael in the football hall of fame.
Speaker 2:How about Devin Hester?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So two Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1:I'm just glad I'm told my wife I'm so happy they did Mongo while he's still alive because he's having that debilitating illness and disease Luke Garrett's disease. Yeah, but I'm so glad that they did it while he's still alive to like that. He knows that all that hard work and his life pretty much meant something there to get in the hall of fame.
Speaker 2:You know who? I'm impressed by man. He lives by us, oh yeah, and he's always by Mongo side every day, yeah, so he's not alone, you know. So if Dan's not out there getting a DUI in Winfield, he's by Mongo.
Speaker 1:And he shops at my wife's store she works at too, like all the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, see him. Or Ann Ricflair. Ricflair's also been by Mongo side. Yeah, you know he flies in every couple of weeks, so but that is good, give him a great job. He anyway deserves it. It's him. Yeah, he was a beast both on the football field and in the wrestling ring. So you know, I like to say I hope he gets better, but it's unfortunately a disease that you know just debilitates you and breaks your whole body down and everything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and now the rail on the bed is like bigger than him. You know it's God. It's very sad to see him in that state.
Speaker 1:I was trying to go and end on a happy note. I'm sorry. I keep trying to make you happy, but I'm like, oh crap, he's getting sad again.
Speaker 2:Well, I think a tears coming down is good. The other one's crying down his back.
Speaker 1:It's looking over your shoulder Like what's that dog doing? Molly?
Speaker 2:what's going on here? We can back break. A wrestling goes back to Hilda Brand Hall next week, on the 17th. Yes, I don't know the, I don't know the name off the show, right off the bat.
Speaker 1:I do.
Speaker 2:I sure, okay, and what do you got?
Speaker 1:It is called double down.
Speaker 2:All right, you know I will be there to hold the flag in the center of the ring, me and the stars and stripes, and at my proudest moment, as the star spangled banner plays. You know, just holding the flag up, yeah, makes me happy. Guys, come check it out. Doors open at 530. Show starts at six o'clock and it's usually over by like eight 15, so you guys can get home early enough for church the next day. So that's the only religious talk I have.
Speaker 2:I will be there and I'll be there definitely, and we may have some video guests are not video guests, but audio clips from people, some of the wrestlers.
Speaker 1:We're going to try stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're going to try it. So and then also, I'm not going to say what it's about, but next podcast we have our panelists coming back next Friday. Oh, jim and me will be joined by Dave from Edmonton, canada.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:East from Toledo, ohio, and Gavin from Halifax, nova Scotia. So all right, and we will let you guys know the subject on that day. So everybody's looking forward to that episode because everybody's got a list. All right so, but, jim, we can't leave until we get a quote of the week.
Speaker 1:All right, the quote for this week Don't take life too seriously. No one gets out of it alive.
Speaker 2:That's true, man. That's true again.
Speaker 1:Just laugh, everybody. Come on, my God.
Speaker 2:That's all I got and we thank you for joining us and we hope you enjoyed the show and tell your friends about us. You can go to hours 3191 on Instagram or you can go to podcast Scott on X, or you can, if you want, to email us a subject and hit us up at powerspointpodcastyahoocom and me and Jim will be happy to take any answer or answer any questions you guys got so that's right.
Speaker 1:If I know how to read a little bit, I'll help out.
Speaker 2:Right on and if? If we can't, then Murray and Molly will be answering those questions.
Speaker 1:We'll just give it to them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we will talk to you guys next week and thanks for joining us again. Bye, bye. Screvering, dreaming, I'm dreaming away, dreaming, I'm dreaming away, dreaming, I'm dreaming away, dreaming, I'm dreaming away. Wait, wait, inter proceding, wait, wait. In green, green, I'm in it.
Speaker 1:In my mind, lost in my thoughts, 40 lightweights chasing dreams, then, at night, fall in a world where emotions don't want, in a world where emotions don't want I skin it distance cabin. Through the night, lost in my thoughts, I skin it.
Speaker 2:Distance cabin through the night. Fall in a world where emotions don't want.
