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[00:00:00] I like that they went, I heard the human body is much like a volcano.
[00:00:03] In many ways.
[00:00:04] We don't know what else to call it.
[00:00:06] I think they probably should have had a referendum.
[00:00:08] My body is very much like a referendum.
[00:00:11] No, no, no, no, no.
[00:00:12] You're either in or you're out.
[00:00:14] The letter E.
[00:00:26] You're the echolalic porganin echolalia also known as echologia or echofrasia.
[00:00:32] It's defined as the unsolicited repetition of vocalizations made by another person.
[00:00:37] So I'll go, oh that's a nice tree and you'll go nice tree, nice tree.
[00:00:41] Oh okay, all right, yeah like a child would do.
[00:00:43] Yeah that kid from dumb and dumber and the birds in that.
[00:00:46] Yeah, that's right.
[00:00:47] It's not like in class where teacher goes right sit down and the kids go right sit down.
[00:00:51] Yeah.
[00:00:52] It's an instinct.
[00:00:53] You just don't know you're doing it.
[00:00:54] Echolalia is common, like no offence here.
[00:00:57] Echolalia.
[00:00:58] There we go.
[00:00:59] So prepare to be offended Paul.
[00:01:01] Echolalia is common in people with autism.
[00:01:03] Right, thank you.
[00:01:04] But it's not associated with autism.
[00:01:07] So if you're autistic you're not necessarily going to get it just a high number of people
[00:01:11] with autism have it.
[00:01:12] Interesting.
[00:01:13] I know what you're thinking somebody that repeats phrases verbatim that's like a parrot right?
[00:01:17] It's like a parrot right.
[00:01:18] Are parrots echolalic?
[00:01:20] No because they don't understand the concept of the words they're just repeating sounds.
[00:01:23] Interesting, interesting that you say that.
[00:01:25] Why?
[00:01:26] Research has identified a gene related to autism in zebrafish.
[00:01:30] Are we going to say parrots then?
[00:01:32] No but the idea that if we all come from the same gene pool effectively, but from a long
[00:01:37] time ago that kind of repetitive behaviour, that kind of instinctive reaction could exist
[00:01:43] in kind of species like with monkeys and gorillas.
[00:01:46] They copy you.
[00:01:47] Animals copy you quite often.
[00:01:49] Those ones that are very similar to us.
[00:01:51] I know my cat likes to copy me by staying in bed till midday these days.
[00:01:54] That is because you have a comfy face.
[00:01:56] Does your cat lie on your face?
[00:01:57] No he's more of a crotch kind of cat.
[00:01:59] Crotch cat, the Han and Bob Eric cartoon that never made it off the drawing board.
[00:02:04] So you're poor guy and are echolalic.
[00:02:06] And you are ectisiused.
[00:02:08] Yeah same to you my friend.
[00:02:10] It's a noun that simply means it's actually a phrase for a job I didn't know had this word.
[00:02:14] An erotic dancer who removes their clothes as a form of entertainment or a stripper.
[00:02:19] So if you are a stripper you are an ectisiused.
[00:02:22] Mate I do like being naked at home quite a lot.
[00:02:25] But you don't like put on I believe in miracles and then strut in front of your girlfriend unrobing until the meeting to a veg roll out.
[00:02:32] I dance to whatever tune is on the go.
[00:02:34] It's like the Benny Hill theme.
[00:02:36] Green Hill.
[00:02:37] As it comes yeah I'm not bothered.
[00:02:38] Yeah I love getting naked at home.
[00:02:40] I mean why not hey you're in your home, you're in your kingdom.
[00:02:42] You're in your palace.
[00:02:43] If I was a king like back in the day I would walk around like Hugh Hefner in nothing more than pyjamas.
[00:02:50] Fair enough.
[00:02:51] At most.
[00:02:52] With gown open.
[00:02:53] Well I'm saying if I own the castle and my gown accidentally came open and there was a group of maidens standing in the corner I'd be like and.
[00:03:00] This is my house.
[00:03:01] I'll chop your head off yeah.
[00:03:02] Yeah well here's the thing about the word it was coined by Henry Louis Menken right.
[00:03:07] So that sounds like a king.
[00:03:08] Possibly he was a German-American journalist satirist, cultural critic and known in America as the sage of Baltimore.
[00:03:14] And the word itself it derives from the word ectis.
[00:03:18] I think I've pronounced that right.
[00:03:19] Should we get the woman to say it?
[00:03:20] Should we get the woman to say it yeah let me just do that hang on.
[00:03:22] We'll get a robot to say it better than you.
[00:03:24] Ectis.
[00:03:25] S-Belcasting.
[00:03:27] E-C-D-Y-S-S-I-S.
[00:03:29] Doesn't matter do the research look it up.
[00:03:32] It means the word is.
[00:03:33] You do the research it's your bit of the podcast.
[00:03:34] I know it's just I have a very strong I found this out all last night and I thought I need to remember this so last night I'm in my room going ectisis ectisis.
[00:03:41] But basically it's the shredding of an outer layer of skin particularly in things like snakes and animals molting.
[00:03:47] The shedding of an exoskeleton in insects and crustaceans.
[00:03:50] So that's where the word derives from.
[00:03:52] Yeah same as throwing off your clothes in your clothes.
[00:03:55] Well good to know thanks you can come around for a bit of stripping anytime.
[00:03:59] And this is the eargasmic podcast we all know what an eargasm is.
[00:04:04] When you hear something a piece of music that makes you go this is awesome.
[00:04:09] Do you have a piece of music that does that to you?
[00:04:11] Yeah I do let me find it.
[00:04:15] But the two-pack version no of course obviously the original.
[00:04:20] For me it is the horn section in Ben Folds 5 song army.
[00:04:24] Whenever I hear that I get literally pins and needles.
[00:04:28] I'm literally paralysed.
[00:04:30] I get goosebumps at the back of my neck.
[00:04:33] Let's hear it then.
[00:04:34] I've actually got it right here let me just see if I can find the right bit of it.
[00:04:39] That is good your face was twitching there.
[00:04:49] I can see you were trying not to smile a lot.
[00:04:52] It's one of my favorite songs of all time.
[00:04:54] It goes in my top three easily.
[00:04:56] It can be anything it could be a piano intro bass guitar.
[00:04:59] There's a list on reddit of what songs give you eargasms.
[00:05:03] Give me a yes or no to these.
[00:05:05] Cashmere by Led Zeppelin.
[00:05:07] Is it that one?
[00:05:09] Yeah.
[00:05:10] Alright then yeah I like that one.
[00:05:11] I would go with it.
[00:05:12] Unchained Melody by Il Devo.
[00:05:14] No I mean.
[00:05:15] Honestly says Hockey Truck 87.
[00:05:17] Crank that shit up and let the jizz flow.
[00:05:21] Unchained Melody.
[00:05:22] You might be joking.
[00:05:23] I hope so.
[00:05:24] Guns and Roses by November Rain.
[00:05:29] No that's a sweet child of mine.
[00:05:31] Played on the stylophone by the sounds of it.
[00:05:34] Then I don't know what November Rain.
[00:05:36] November Rain.
[00:05:37] When the cold November Rain.
[00:05:40] I don't know it.
[00:05:41] Like Bon Jovi's that I will always love you.
[00:05:43] Are these ballady things then?
[00:05:45] That is a ballad.
[00:05:46] Cold November Rain.
[00:05:47] If you've got a favorite eargasm let us know.
[00:05:49] We won't be able to put it in the podcast but we'd just like to see what kind of
[00:05:52] taste of music you have.
[00:05:53] And that is eargasm.
[00:05:55] The sensation you get when hearing a dramatic climax in music.
[00:05:59] Here we go.
[00:06:00] This is the fictionary.
[00:06:01] We do words and stuff.
[00:06:02] This week we are on the letter E.
[00:06:06] You can join in on Twitter at Thicke Podcast.
[00:06:08] We've got Facebook.
[00:06:09] You can listen to every single episode.
[00:06:11] This is the last episode in our series one run.
[00:06:14] So we've done them all now.
[00:06:16] Got them all out of our system.
[00:06:17] Yeah you've got to catch them all.
[00:06:19] Pokemon.
[00:06:20] We are the Pokemon of podcasts.
[00:06:21] I love it.
[00:06:22] Hashtag we're having that trademark.
[00:06:24] You can listen to every episode at Thictionary.com.
[00:06:26] New thing that we started doing in the last two episodes is a thing that I like to call
[00:06:30] Cheat, Cheat, Cheat, Cheat Letters.
[00:06:34] How can you get better at Scrabble and words with friends?
[00:06:40] I have a seven letter E word for you Paul Gannon.
[00:06:43] Okay I'm writing this down.
[00:06:44] Okay you're 22 points in Scrabble, 21 points in words with friends.
[00:06:48] Okay.
[00:06:49] But what does it mean?
[00:06:50] XR key.
[00:06:51] Spellcasting.
[00:06:52] E X A R C H Y.
[00:06:55] Okay.
[00:06:56] Like anarchy but XR key.
[00:06:58] E X A R C H Y.
[00:06:59] But what does it mean?
[00:07:00] Oh.
[00:07:01] Hey you'll find out shortly but first this week's Thictionary dedicated to a man responsible
[00:07:05] for elevating the human race.
[00:07:07] He is called Nathan Ames and in 1859 he invented the escalator.
[00:07:12] In 1859?
[00:07:13] 1859.
[00:07:14] Yes we had electricity back then.
[00:07:16] Because they had the underground at that point too so that means there was a few years
[00:07:20] where the underground had no escalators.
[00:07:21] Correct.
[00:07:22] What a horrible thought.
[00:07:23] Just stairs my friends.
[00:07:25] Nathan Ames in Salgus, Massachusetts.
[00:07:30] Don't ask me to spell cast that.
[00:07:32] I won't.
[00:07:33] He invented the moving stairway.
[00:07:34] His invention though although despite being a moving stairway was actually called revolving
[00:07:38] stairs.
[00:07:39] That's what I love about old words you know for things we're used to now like oh
[00:07:44] it's not the bike it's the cyclone drive.
[00:07:47] Yeah.
[00:07:48] The escalator seems incredible revolving stairs.
[00:07:51] It's designed for the escalator was far ahead of its time but it was actually never built.
[00:07:56] Oh.
[00:07:57] He died in 1860 a year later.
[00:07:59] The earliest working type of escalator, painted in 1892 was by Jesse Reno and it was introduced
[00:08:06] as a novelty ride at the Old Iron Pier Coney Island.
[00:08:10] Can you imagine that?
[00:08:11] Ladies roll up, roll up for the fantastic super amazing escalator.
[00:08:17] But it's good that when you go to London where there's tons of escalators you're essentially
[00:08:21] going on an antique fairground ride.
[00:08:24] That's fascinating.
[00:08:25] The shit when you get there.
[00:08:26] Yeah.
[00:08:27] It's like that Simpsons gag isn't it from the Monorail episode where it's like and
[00:08:29] the escalator that goes to nowhere just this picture of people going all the way to
[00:08:33] the top then dropping off into the void.
[00:08:35] I know what you're thinking the two famous escalator brands where did they come from?
[00:08:39] In 1900.
[00:08:40] I didn't know there were two escalator brands.
[00:08:42] Well there is in 1900 next time you go in look down.
[00:08:45] I will.
[00:08:46] I mean make sure the escalator is there first.
[00:08:48] Otis in 1900, the step type escalator was used in public for the first time at the Paris
[00:08:54] Exhibition.
[00:08:55] Otis you'll see it now on escalators and even lifts you'll see Otis.
[00:09:00] And what about the other lift company that also does escalators?
[00:09:03] The Pepsi to their Coke.
[00:09:04] Yep, Schindler.
[00:09:05] Schindler's lifts.
[00:09:06] Yeah I know we've all it's...
[00:09:09] We're fortunate isn't it?
[00:09:10] Weirdly enough right, bear in mind a guy in Massachusetts in 1859 patented the revolving
[00:09:16] stairs.
[00:09:17] The Schindler group were founded in Switzerland in 1874 15 years afterwards way before World
[00:09:25] War II.
[00:09:26] I want you to put that out there did not get their name from the movie.
[00:09:28] Exactly.
[00:09:29] You would have to be quite a bad taste monger to go now since the works like a
[00:09:33] World War and that Spielberg movie I want a new brand of lifts.
[00:09:36] Final question on escalators how much is an escalator cost?
[00:09:39] If you if you wanted to buy one off the internet like Alibaba how much do you think
[00:09:43] you'd need to buy an escalator?
[00:09:44] I don't know but I'm pretty sure the price goes up.
[00:09:46] About 10 grand.
[00:09:47] Just for how many steps do you get for that though?
[00:09:49] That's like a standard shopping mall start escalator.
[00:09:52] Maybe if you stopped it would be 30 odd steps maybe on average.
[00:09:55] Yeah I want a tiny one.
[00:09:57] If you're interested you want one for your house you've won the Euro
[00:09:59] Millions 10 grand will get you an escalator.
[00:10:01] Or spend a lot less money and just get a standard chairlift like I plan on
[00:10:04] doing as soon as I hit 40.
[00:10:06] R U R
[00:10:10] Time for the big four words on the fictionary this week.
[00:10:12] Letter E I tell you what Paul Gannon would you like to go first?
[00:10:15] I will but I will preface this by saying I have two words obviously as we always
[00:10:18] do in this podcast.
[00:10:19] One is light hearted and funny the other is really quite dark and heavy.
[00:10:23] Let's start with the light and fluffy.
[00:10:25] Do you really want to end with the dark and heavy one?
[00:10:27] I do.
[00:10:28] You really will?
[00:10:29] Yeah.
[00:10:30] Erectation is my word.
[00:10:31] Well that's the light and fluffy one.
[00:10:32] That's the light and fluffy one.
[00:10:33] Erectation.
[00:10:34] Erectation.
[00:10:35] E R U C T A T I O N
[00:10:38] It is a noun and it means to belch or in some cases of the use of the word
[00:10:42] farting.
[00:10:43] It can also be used to describe the actions of a erupting volcano.
[00:10:47] It's a late middle English word and from the Latin
[00:10:50] Erectation.
[00:10:51] Fantastic.
[00:10:52] Almost the exact same word.
[00:10:53] From erupting.
[00:10:54] Yeah so I thought I'd just find some facts about farts and burps.
[00:10:57] Great so when the next time I burp or fart I can say
[00:11:00] excuse me for my my eruptation.
[00:11:03] Yeah.
[00:11:04] I like that they went, the human body is much like a volcano.
[00:11:09] In many ways.
[00:11:10] We don't know what else to call it.
[00:11:12] I think they probably should have had a referendum.
[00:11:14] My body is very much like a referendum.
[00:11:17] No.
[00:11:18] They're in or you're out.
[00:11:20] That's what she said.
[00:11:22] Sorry.
[00:11:23] I was going to make a joke about being a volcano but I think
[00:11:26] I've already peaked with that one.
[00:11:28] Yeah let's just leave it on that.
[00:11:29] So give me some gaseous facts.
[00:11:31] Let's start with the burps.
[00:11:32] So the longest burp ever recorded how long do you think the longest
[00:11:35] burp ever recorded was?
[00:11:36] 12 hours.
[00:11:37] Now give me a serious answer that isn't so flippant and sarky.
[00:11:41] Two minutes.
[00:11:42] Close.
[00:11:43] Kind of it is one minute and 13 seconds and 57 milliseconds
[00:11:47] long and was achieved by Michel Forgioni in Reggiano,
[00:11:51] Italy on June 16th 2009.
[00:11:54] She must have lost all the air from her body.
[00:11:57] I don't even know how you'd not be able to breathe
[00:11:59] for that amount of time.
[00:12:00] I worry that when you burp you put everything into the first
[00:12:03] few seconds.
[00:12:04] Maybe the trick is to...
[00:12:05] Stretch it out.
[00:12:06] Slow.
[00:12:07] Very slowly.
[00:12:08] Slow.
[00:12:09] It's probably, I mean I've not heard the offending burp.
[00:12:12] I don't know what her technique is.
[00:12:13] The loudest burp ever recorded shocked me.
[00:12:16] I was thinking alright you can get loud burps
[00:12:19] Homer Simpson's burp or haha.
[00:12:20] Apparently this one was recorded at 109.9 decibels.
[00:12:25] It's a British record by the way.
[00:12:27] Want to make us proud of that?
[00:12:28] Yep.
[00:12:29] By a guy called Paul Hun in Bognoregis on August 23rd 2009
[00:12:34] just for reference that would make that burp
[00:12:36] louder than the roar of a motorcycle or a chainsaw.
[00:12:39] I've got it.
[00:12:40] Have you?
[00:12:41] His nickname is the Burper King.
[00:12:42] Of course he is.
[00:12:43] Here we go.
[00:12:44] Hold the Guinness World Records title
[00:12:46] for the loudest burp at 109.9 decibels.
[00:12:51] Right the video of him is shot outside the houses
[00:12:59] of parliament in London and it looks like he just
[00:13:02] shit himself.
[00:13:04] His face is purple.
[00:13:05] Man the thing is that music that scored it
[00:13:08] it made it sound like a Britain's Got Talent sob story.
[00:13:10] It's horrendous.
[00:13:11] He did it on TV, hang on there's more.
[00:13:13] My preparations before doing a very loud burp
[00:13:15] would be maybe the night before I would have
[00:13:18] a spicy curry or something like that
[00:13:20] to get the gases going in my stomach.
[00:13:22] Woohoo!
[00:13:23] On the day of the attempt or demonstration
[00:13:25] I will make sure I don't eat so my stomach
[00:13:27] is nice and empty.
[00:13:29] I mean he should go back to school and teach kids this.
[00:13:32] Should he not?
[00:13:33] That's science.
[00:13:34] You should leave the school with a good A level or GCSE
[00:13:37] not with the, do you remember that guy who used
[00:13:39] the burp like a chainsaw?
[00:13:40] We've used it quite a lot of time on it
[00:13:42] but do you have any other exciting facts?
[00:13:44] I have a fart fact for you and it's a killer
[00:13:47] and will mean...
[00:13:50] It also gets another E word.
[00:13:52] This fart guy comes with the word
[00:13:54] let's get this right
[00:13:55] a proctophilia
[00:13:57] which is a term for someone who is sexually aroused by farting.
[00:14:00] Out of all the people you think that might be
[00:14:02] which famous poet do you think might have been into that?
[00:14:05] The answer is James Joyce.
[00:14:07] Oh, interesting.
[00:14:08] Have you heard this?
[00:14:09] No.
[00:14:10] James Joyce had a muse called Nora
[00:14:12] and Nora he was crazy about
[00:14:16] he once wrote
[00:14:17] I think I would know if Nora's fart anywhere
[00:14:19] he wrote in 1909
[00:14:21] I think I could pick hers out in a room
[00:14:23] full of farting women.
[00:14:25] Good lad.
[00:14:26] Yeah and I'll just read a little bit
[00:14:28] of one such piece of a romantic prose
[00:14:32] that he wrote for her.
[00:14:34] Fat dirty farts came spluttering out your backside
[00:14:37] you had an arseful of farts that night darling
[00:14:39] and I effed them out of you
[00:14:41] big fat, fellowy long windy ones
[00:14:43] married little cracks
[00:14:45] and lots of tiny naughty farties
[00:14:47] ending with a long gush from your hole.
[00:14:49] James Joyce, poet to the stars.
[00:14:51] And they say he's hard to read.
[00:14:53] I think.
[00:14:55] Anyway, thoughts and burps.
[00:14:57] Fantastic.
[00:14:58] Yeah, thank you.
[00:14:59] My word for you enchilada.
[00:15:00] As in the hole?
[00:15:01] Yes that idiomatic English phrase
[00:15:03] the whole enchilada which means the whole thing
[00:15:05] but the enchilada itself
[00:15:08] what is an enchilada
[00:15:10] the famous Mexican dish
[00:15:12] if I were to say to you Paul Gannon
[00:15:14] make me an enchilada
[00:15:15] what would you put in it?
[00:15:17] It is, um...
[00:15:18] Specifically.
[00:15:19] It is the bread that you use in a taco.
[00:15:21] No, bread.
[00:15:22] Well not the bread but it's like a
[00:15:24] it's cheese covered pressed thing.
[00:15:26] Cheese on toast is what you say
[00:15:29] Mexican cheese.
[00:15:30] When you put it that way
[00:15:32] actually yes it's a Mexican cheese on toast
[00:15:34] isn't it though or is it the meaty one?
[00:15:36] This is my whole thing right
[00:15:38] with Mexican food we like it
[00:15:41] we don't know what it is
[00:15:42] we know it's tortilla and beef and cheese
[00:15:44] but they've all got crazy names
[00:15:46] an enchilada is a corn tortilla
[00:15:48] rolled around a filling
[00:15:50] and covered with chili pepper sauce
[00:15:52] that's an enchilada.
[00:15:53] So what was I thinking of then?
[00:15:54] I don't know, what is a burrito?
[00:15:56] Well the burrito is basically the same thing.
[00:15:58] No.
[00:15:59] It is, it's a tortilla wrapped in rice
[00:16:01] and sour cream.
[00:16:02] Incorrect.
[00:16:03] What?
[00:16:04] Burrito is a wheat flour tortilla
[00:16:07] not corn.
[00:16:08] Oh well if you're going to be picky.
[00:16:09] And it's usually wrapped or folded
[00:16:11] into a cylindrical shape
[00:16:13] whereas an enchilada is rolled
[00:16:15] this is wrapped or folded
[00:16:17] into a cylindrical shape
[00:16:18] and completely enclosed
[00:16:19] usually grilled or steamed
[00:16:21] steaming is specific to the burrito.
[00:16:23] Yeah steaming usually is what you get in a restaurant
[00:16:25] What is a chimichanga?
[00:16:27] Three nights in hospital
[00:16:29] basically it's an a-hole run-up
[00:16:31] It is a wrestler from the WWE
[00:16:34] that never got out of development
[00:16:36] chimichanga is a deep fried burrito
[00:16:39] so you can have a burrito
[00:16:40] but if you deep fry a burrito
[00:16:41] it's not called a deep fried burrito
[00:16:43] it's called a chimichanga
[00:16:44] But isn't that like an Americanisation
[00:16:46] of that recipe?
[00:16:47] I don't believe they actually had
[00:16:48] in Mexico chimichangas
[00:16:50] because it was the name of a brand of restaurants
[00:16:52] that dealt in that kind of Mexican food
[00:16:54] That's what I'm saying a Big Mac
[00:16:56] like Chipotle and things like that as well
[00:16:57] What is ceviche?
[00:16:59] He is an Italian footballer
[00:17:01] There is a dish made from fresh fish
[00:17:04] that's raw, ceviche
[00:17:06] Oh that's why I don't know
[00:17:07] It's Mexican food
[00:17:08] What are gringas?
[00:17:09] They're the guys who rob you at gunpoint
[00:17:11] Gringas are tacos
[00:17:13] which we haven't touched on
[00:17:14] Tacos
[00:17:15] They're the hard shell
[00:17:16] Yeah, with a quesadilla base
[00:17:18] consisting of a flour tortilla
[00:17:20] and cheese pork and pineapple
[00:17:21] but they're called gringas
[00:17:22] because the freckles that come up on them
[00:17:24] are like the freckles that white people have
[00:17:26] Oh, I did not know that
[00:17:28] What are nachos?
[00:17:29] They're the little crisps
[00:17:31] aren't they that they have
[00:17:32] Doritos
[00:17:33] Yeah basically
[00:17:34] Doritos are vile
[00:17:35] but yeah they're basically those
[00:17:36] they're just corn chips
[00:17:38] Yeah that'll do
[00:17:39] But the word you were looking for at the beginning
[00:17:40] enchilada
[00:17:41] a corn tortilla
[00:17:42] rolled in a filling
[00:17:44] and covered with chili pepper sauce
[00:17:46] And in a Mexican accent
[00:17:48] I presume that's what you were trying to get
[00:17:50] Do you know I interviewed Sam and I once
[00:17:51] Yeah
[00:17:52] And did you go
[00:17:53] Hello
[00:17:54] Hello everybody, pips
[00:17:56] I'm pretty sure that's Greek
[00:18:00] So that's why she didn't come to Chiquitos with me
[00:18:03] Oh, okay
[00:18:04] Right, give me your dark mysterious word
[00:18:06] Alright the word is
[00:18:07] enegumen
[00:18:09] It is an hour
[00:18:10] And it's a person who believes to be possessed by the devil
[00:18:12] or a spirit
[00:18:13] It can also mean a frantic and hysterical person
[00:18:15] It's from the Latin to mean to influence
[00:18:18] Obviously because you know how my brain works
[00:18:20] I'm very fascinated with the supernatural
[00:18:22] I don't believe in it
[00:18:23] And he always draw that line
[00:18:24] I need to always mention that
[00:18:25] I don't believe in the supernatural
[00:18:26] But I am fascinated
[00:18:27] By supernatural and the people who investigate it
[00:18:30] There are some very famous cases
[00:18:32] Obviously we all know the Exorcist
[00:18:33] as a kind of pop-cultural touchstone
[00:18:35] in terms of those stories
[00:18:37] The Amityville horror
[00:18:38] No, the Amityville horror is not a possession case
[00:18:40] The murder beforehand was allegedly
[00:18:42] Excuse me
[00:18:43] The murder beforehand was allegedly
[00:18:44] based on that
[00:18:45] because he was hearing voices
[00:18:46] but the actual possession of the Amityville house
[00:18:48] the haunting
[00:18:49] No relation to anything
[00:18:50] What about the Enfield Haunted?
[00:18:51] The Enfield Poltergeist is a poltergeist
[00:18:52] and therefore not
[00:18:53] Although she was channeling the voice of
[00:18:56] Old Stan, I believe
[00:18:57] Yeah, some old bloke
[00:18:58] Some old bloke
[00:18:59] I'm rubbish at this quiz
[00:19:00] It's a great sky program
[00:19:01] That actually told the Enfield Poltergeist case
[00:19:03] with Timothy Spall in the role
[00:19:04] of Morris Gross
[00:19:05] Yes, I love that
[00:19:06] Very very good
[00:19:07] I did love that
[00:19:08] I'm very brief to go through them
[00:19:09] There were two very famous stories
[00:19:10] Maybe I'll just do one
[00:19:11] Just do the best one
[00:19:13] I'll do the best one
[00:19:14] although it is the darkest story
[00:19:15] There's a girl called Annalise Michael
[00:19:16] or Annalise Michelle
[00:19:17] I think in English
[00:19:18] Sorry, I just had an eruption
[00:19:19] Oh God
[00:19:21] She was a controversial case
[00:19:22] because she is the most well-known
[00:19:23] and possibly the most tragic
[00:19:25] of all these cases
[00:19:26] And also her case
[00:19:27] led to a movie called
[00:19:28] The Exorcism of Emily Rose
[00:19:30] which is very loosely based
[00:19:31] on the case of Annalise
[00:19:33] She had been treated for epilepsy
[00:19:35] and mental illness
[00:19:36] when she was very young
[00:19:37] who was 16 when this case happened
[00:19:38] In 1973
[00:19:40] she became a suicidal
[00:19:41] and she rejected all religious artifacts
[00:19:43] drank her own wee
[00:19:45] and began to hear voices
[00:19:46] Now at that point
[00:19:47] you'd think maybe she needs medical help
[00:19:48] What actually happened is
[00:19:49] the church got involved
[00:19:50] and started doing very aggressive
[00:19:51] very abusive exorcisms
[00:19:53] that she went through hell
[00:19:55] at the hands of these priests
[00:19:57] The parents who were looking after her
[00:19:58] believed the nuns
[00:19:59] and the priests involved
[00:20:00] more than the actual
[00:20:01] medical people involved in the story
[00:20:02] And so they stopped giving her treatment
[00:20:04] for her epilepsy
[00:20:05] and mental disorders
[00:20:06] Within a year she was dead of the abuse
[00:20:09] What was interesting is
[00:20:10] the parents and priests were ultimately
[00:20:12] responsible and charged
[00:20:14] with negligent homicide in that case
[00:20:16] It's a fascinating story
[00:20:17] but heart wrenching
[00:20:18] You see Pichitover when she was 16
[00:20:20] and a year later
[00:20:21] she looks withered and beaten
[00:20:23] and it's a tough case
[00:20:25] And where I have an interest in this
[00:20:27] is the fact that there's
[00:20:28] a thin line between religious belief
[00:20:30] and then ignoring
[00:20:32] medical benefits and things like this
[00:20:34] So even though it's great for Hollywood
[00:20:36] to tell these stories of
[00:20:37] based on true stories
[00:20:39] of possession and things like that
[00:20:41] In most cases these are tragic stories
[00:20:43] where the proper channels
[00:20:45] have not been followed
[00:20:46] And like a minority of cases
[00:20:49] will be like that
[00:20:50] But definitely worth highlighting it
[00:20:52] so people know where the boundaries are
[00:20:54] But hey this human race
[00:20:56] beautiful, angry, generous
[00:20:59] selfish people
[00:21:00] Confused
[00:21:01] We're a bit of everything
[00:21:02] And one last fact for you
[00:21:03] The Vatican
[00:21:04] which is one of the most opulent
[00:21:05] beautiful places in the world
[00:21:06] has a exorcism ward
[00:21:08] And when you go into it
[00:21:09] Obviously it does
[00:21:10] they have what looks like
[00:21:11] a cold hospital corridor
[00:21:13] Did you not see that episode of Casualty
[00:21:15] where Charlie disappeared for two weeks
[00:21:16] to go and work in the exorcism ward
[00:21:18] at the Vatican?
[00:21:19] I really didn't
[00:21:20] He disappeared and he came back
[00:21:21] changed with all these rosary beads
[00:21:22] Was he more angry than usual?
[00:21:23] Yeah, he had a pokemobile
[00:21:24] and cigars and everything
[00:21:26] Yeah, Pope goes the weasel
[00:21:28] Thank you for that
[00:21:29] The word was
[00:21:30] Eniguman
[00:21:31] Final e-word from me
[00:21:32] is emergency walk
[00:21:34] Is that when you want to
[00:21:35] poo your pants and you need to
[00:21:36] put your toilet in?
[00:21:37] Is it?
[00:21:39] I just thought I would bring it
[00:21:40] right back down to the level
[00:21:41] to which we are accustomed
[00:21:42] The walk you do
[00:21:43] when you're about to
[00:21:44] wet yourself or poo your pants
[00:21:45] I defy anybody
[00:21:48] listening to this podcast
[00:21:49] right now
[00:21:50] to have not done an emergency
[00:21:52] walk at some point in their life
[00:21:54] More specifically
[00:21:55] in some point in their adult life
[00:21:58] Yeah, when you're a kid
[00:21:59] you can get away with it
[00:22:00] because, you know, it's more unfortunate
[00:22:02] I tried to get away with it once
[00:22:04] My walk home from high school
[00:22:05] was like half an hour
[00:22:06] Yeah
[00:22:07] And there was a Sainsbury's
[00:22:08] like five minutes from school
[00:22:11] and I was dying to go
[00:22:13] Left school and I was like
[00:22:14] I'd be fine just go to Sainsbury's
[00:22:15] Got to the Sainsbury's
[00:22:16] it was locked
[00:22:17] You can't go back into school
[00:22:18] Who goes back into school
[00:22:19] after it's closed?
[00:22:20] Right?
[00:22:21] No one
[00:22:22] Because it's shut
[00:22:23] It's done
[00:22:24] So I was like
[00:22:25] well now I've got 20 minutes
[00:22:26] to get home
[00:22:27] and I lasted about 17 minutes
[00:22:30] Oh that's even worse though
[00:22:31] And we had some bushes
[00:22:32] on the road next to our road
[00:22:34] Yeah
[00:22:35] and you know when you are
[00:22:37] making the noise
[00:22:38] You're walking
[00:22:39] and you can hear it gurgling
[00:22:40] in your stomach
[00:22:41] You're bubbling hot
[00:22:42] I believe the phrases
[00:22:43] I was a pate bante
[00:22:44] and ranking Roger
[00:22:45] I could not
[00:22:46] hold it any longer
[00:22:47] and let me tell you
[00:22:48] Yeah
[00:22:49] When at first
[00:22:50] you think you can't hold it
[00:22:51] any longer
[00:22:52] you can hold it longer
[00:22:53] but there comes a point
[00:22:54] when you can't hold it
[00:22:55] and you just can't
[00:22:56] A point of no return
[00:22:57] When you are squeezing it back in
[00:22:59] there is a guide
[00:23:00] according to WikiHow
[00:23:02] on how to hold your pee
[00:23:04] when you can't use the bathroom
[00:23:06] Now this is dangerous
[00:23:08] Yeah I kind of like that
[00:23:09] It's good for you
[00:23:10] Keeping it in is dangerous
[00:23:11] people have died
[00:23:12] doing this as
[00:23:13] there was a stunt
[00:23:14] I think it was a radio station stunt
[00:23:16] where it was
[00:23:17] how long could you hold your Wii for
[00:23:18] And you know what the prize was
[00:23:19] A Wii
[00:23:20] It was a Wii for a Wii
[00:23:21] Yeah
[00:23:22] An eye for an eye
[00:23:23] a Wii for a Wii
[00:23:24] and someone died
[00:23:25] because she held it into
[00:23:26] but apparently if you want to
[00:23:27] if you want to do this
[00:23:29] a method one
[00:23:30] holding in the urine
[00:23:31] is to visual
[00:23:32] and I want you to try this now
[00:23:33] visualize closing your urethra
[00:23:35] and if you don't know what that is
[00:23:36] it's the opening to the outside
[00:23:38] that urine exits your body through
[00:23:40] So top of your willy
[00:23:41] The pee pipe
[00:23:42] Yeah
[00:23:43] Number two
[00:23:44] reposition your body
[00:23:45] You may have to do this several times
[00:23:46] Don't press the lower part of your abdomen
[00:23:48] Cross your legs while standing
[00:23:50] does help
[00:23:51] Try crossing and uncrossing
[00:23:53] Do not lean forward
[00:23:55] Pull the front of your pelvis up
[00:23:57] or squeeze your abdomen inward
[00:23:59] Hang on
[00:24:00] Does this sound like the dance moves to the time zone
[00:24:01] Yeah, the time warp
[00:24:03] It's just a step two's a ride
[00:24:06] Number three
[00:24:07] Pass gas if you have to
[00:24:08] because if you've got a fart
[00:24:10] that puts pressure
[00:24:11] The gas that takes the edge off
[00:24:13] No, the gas
[00:24:14] Yeah, it takes the edge off
[00:24:15] It puts pressure on your bladder
[00:24:16] Because it builds
[00:24:18] So actually if you need a Wii
[00:24:19] have a fart
[00:24:20] Number ten
[00:24:21] Don't believe that letting out a little bit of urine can help
[00:24:24] It won't
[00:24:25] Although I heard there's a thing in the military
[00:24:28] where they play the spot game
[00:24:31] And the idea is to
[00:24:33] wear your khaki trousers
[00:24:35] and let out the smallest bit of Wii possible
[00:24:38] Which is literally a spot of Wii
[00:24:41] And the loser is whoever
[00:24:43] I thought the Lord of the Looser is
[00:24:45] Jesus
[00:24:46] I think they're all losers
[00:24:47] You're pee in your pants guys
[00:24:48] Come on
[00:24:49] Wow
[00:24:50] Don't laugh about anything funny
[00:24:52] Therefore this podcast will help you not wear yourself
[00:24:55] Hooray
[00:24:56] And there are others
[00:24:57] Hey, look, Wicky Howe has them if you want to
[00:24:59] not do it
[00:25:00] But emergency walk is what it called
[00:25:01] when you do that really uncomfortable dash
[00:25:03] where your bladder essentially walks ahead of your groin
[00:25:06] in order to get to the toilet on time
[00:25:08] I kinda wanna pee right now
[00:25:09] I've bought this tour
[00:25:10] Time for the results of our cheat letters this week
[00:25:12] Talking about ages
[00:25:13] It is
[00:25:14] a word that will help you get better at Scrabble
[00:25:16] and words with friends
[00:25:17] It will give you
[00:25:18] 22 points in Scrabble
[00:25:19] 21 points in words with friends
[00:25:21] The word is
[00:25:22] XR key
[00:25:23] E X
[00:25:24] A R C H Y
[00:25:25] Oh I've been guessing this
[00:25:26] I've been writing it down
[00:25:27] But what does it mean
[00:25:28] Pull down and go
[00:25:29] Some kind of
[00:25:30] I don't know
[00:25:31] It's got something to do with the church
[00:25:32] It's correct
[00:25:33] What?
[00:25:34] It is loosely correct
[00:25:36] I literally pulled it out of mid-air
[00:25:38] You're thinking like monarchy
[00:25:39] XR
[00:25:40] Yeah, I don't know
[00:25:41] Here we go
[00:25:42] XR key
[00:25:49] Is either
[00:25:50] a Byzantine viceroy
[00:25:52] From the old days
[00:25:53] Or an Eastern bishop
[00:25:54] Who ranks below a patriarch
[00:25:56] Above a metropolitan
[00:25:58] Specifically the head of an independent church
[00:26:00] XR key
[00:26:01] So like L Ron Hubbard
[00:26:02] Er, Ron Hull
[00:26:03] Of course
[00:26:04] That was my second guess
[00:26:05] David Ike
[00:26:06] Whatever
[00:26:07] XR key will get you a good amount of points
[00:26:09] As your E word
[00:26:10] On Scrabble and words with friends
[00:26:12] And that'll do it for this week's episode
[00:26:14] Of The Fictionary
[00:26:15] Thank you so much
[00:26:16] If you've listened all the way through
[00:26:17] To the bittersweet end
[00:26:19] If you're looking for more episodes
[00:26:20] We've done the alphabet now
[00:26:21] Yeah what do we do now
[00:26:22] I don't know
[00:26:23] We'll find out I guess
[00:26:24] Numbers
[00:26:25] Check the iTunes channel yes