What Pop Culture Taught Us

Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast

What do the musical Rent, the movie Seven, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Kurt Cobain, and Lisa Simpson have in common? Why, they all imparted important, improbable vocab onto a young Ryan, Amanda, and Mike, of course (of course!).
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Thing 1: Ryan Davis

Thing 2: Mike Laws

Producer: Amanda Darrach
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Kapitel

1. What Pop Culture Taught Us (00:00:00)

2. One more word on redundancy (00:00:33)

3. Where’d you get that word? (00:02:26)

4. Perspicacity, The Simpsons (00:08:02)

5. Soporific, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (00:10:30)

6. Quagmire, The Phantom Tollbooth (00:12:33)

7. Callow, Mallrats (00:14:21)

8. Malaise, Austin Powers (00:16:19)

9. Courting, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (00:17:22)

10. Supercilious, Pride and Prejudice (00:19:11)

11. Rent, Rent (00:20:55)

12. Enmity, Pearl Jam (00:23:40)

13. Acned, Nirvana (00:24:55)

14. Lurgy (or lurgee) and karma, Radiohead (00:27:58)

15. Reportingly, Much Ado About Nothing (00:30:38)

16. Nabob, Aladdin (00:32:03)

17. Gigawatt, Back to the Future (00:33:39)

18. Double indemnity, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (00:34:31)

19. Drunk dialing, Slaughterhouse-Five (00:37:48)

20. Attrition, Seven (00:39:51)

21. Villanelle, They Might be Giants (00:42:41)

22. Track Changes: If I Had a Hammer (00:47:37)