Howard Chang and Dave Shepherd tell some tall tales about myth, legend, and language.
Dave encourages listeners to digg our podcast (see the sidebar on the right side of our main blog page) and to visit the Word Nerds Forum to participate in the thread about this show. (2:52)
Myth and legend: Why do they exist? What kinds of stories are they? (4:06)
Music bumper from “Natural Man” by Lil Ed & the Blues Imperials (22:26)
Myth and language: words that come from mythology (22:51)
Song: “Mythical Frederick” by Tom Smith (26:05)
Rude word of the week: “bullshit” (28:05)
Music bumper from “Tell Me a Bedtime Story” by the Jay Lawrence Trio (32:26)
Hidden mythological etymologies (”hidden mythetymologies”) (33:14)
Music courtesy of The Podsafe Music Network and IODA Promonet
Theme music by Kick the Cat
Closing music from “Grapes” by Evan Stone
time: 41:02
size: 37.6 Mb
rating: PG-13 (The Rude Word is probably ruder than middle-school kids should be tossing around in the hallways–at least at this moment in history.)
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