Getting Down & Wordy – Details, episodes & analysis

Sacre Bleu, it's the return of Billie Eilish, and she's singing in French! Oh wait she's not, just the song title is in French. Well anyway! C'est la vie.

We talk about the rise of queerness in music. And then we talk about French, the language of love. Why is it thought of as the most romantic language?

For Eurovision, we discuss Luxembourg's 2024 song "Fighter" by TALI, and the Luxembourgian language's word for love.

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Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!

This week’s promoted podcast is Brutal, Bizarre, and Boozy. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://open.spotify.com/show/44Z9VDxjEVGpbPBkYzQorh?si=0556a1a9b65048bd&nd=1&dlsi=44ebdc801f444221
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Today we're talking about a super sunny song and the darkness that lies within.

And we're pairing that with the topic of covert hate speech, basically. A lot of numbers. Bigots seem to really like numbers. Kind of good to know what the tainted numbers are so you don't accidentally use them, just saying.

For Eurovision, we are finally talking about the winner of Eurovision, Switzerland's Nemo, and their song "The Code".

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And email us at gettingdownandwordy@gmail.com

Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!

This week’s promoted podcast is Haunted Moonlight. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/haunted-moonlight/id1703911242
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Today we talk to Michelle Troszak, founder of Skysail Theatre, about her new musical, The Interstellar Song Contest.

This episode is part 1 of our discussion on fictional languages, which will conclude in next week's episode.

The Interstellar Song Contest currently exists as a cast recording and a radio show in podcast format. Find Michelle, Skysail Theatre, and the show at the following links!

The full show (like a radio show format):

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/skysail-theatre

https://open.spotify.com/show/4G93JBa74dvXuCBadnsyUk

The cast album:

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/skysailtheatre/interstellar-song-contest-original-cast-recording

https://open.spotify.com/album/56VbHsBJNcn37QWiqFF4UP

Skysail Theatre:

https://www.facebook.com/skysailtheatre

https://www.instagram.com/skysailtheatre

https://linktr.ee/skysailtheatre

Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/

And email us at gettingdownandwordy@gmail.com

Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”! Find Patsy on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@patsywalker1481

This week’s promoted podcast is Anything Bones. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anything-bones/id1536352309
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Maybe a lesser known Decemberists song, but probably one of the first ones I ever heard, we talk about "Myla Goldberg", and the person who it's about, author of the novel Bee Season. Lots of spoilers for people who have not read it and intend to, so watch out.

We discuss the spelling bee. How'd it start and what are the rules? And why is it only an English thing?

In Eurovision, we discuss a song in which they spell something, San Marino 2024's "11:11" by Megara.

Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/

And email us at gettingdownandwordy@gmail.com

Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”! Find Patsy on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@patsywalker1481

This week’s promoted podcast is Haunted Tales. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/haunted-tales/id1624389921

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We discuss the OG oxford comma enthusiasts, Vampire Weekend, the first hit song off their new album, and everyone's favorite goat-fish astrological sign, the capricorn. What are capricorns like? Where'd the goat and fish combo come from? What's the age of capricorn going to be like? Why are you asking us all these questions?

In Eurovision, we'll talk about Italy's 2024 entry "La Noia" by Angelina Mango.

Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/

And email us at gettingdownandwordy@gmail.com

Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”! Find Patsy on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@patsywalker1481

This week’s promoted podcast is Haunted Moonlight. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/haunted-moonlight/id1703911242

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This one's for the grammar nerds! (But not such grammar nerds that you'll cringe at all the stuff we inevitably got wrong.)

We're talking about Paula Abdul's greatest hit "Straight Up", and we're talking about irregular verbs, particularly about verbs that used to be irregular but are now regular, and about other words which are actually formerly irregular verb forms but we now use them for something else. Think of "wrought iron" or "what has God wrought?". Wrought was once the past tense form of work.

For Eurovision, we're talking about Finland's Windows95man and his song "No Rules". And we're talking about another grammar topic - telic and atelic verbs!

Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/

And email us at gettingdownandwordy@gmail.com

Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”! Find Patsy on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@patsywalker1481

This week’s promoted podcast is Macab at Midnight. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2303990
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Today we discuss Shrek the Musical, the live action musical play version of the first Shrek movie. How did this get made? Should it have been?

And we talk about the origin and many different meanings of gross.

In Eurovision talk, we discuss Ireland's "Doomsday Blues" by Bambie Thug.

Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”! Find Patsy on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@patsywalker1481

This week’s promoted podcast is Beyond the Shadows. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://open.spotify.com/show/6hgfTsx24MjcxaopQNURyX?si=b7679e12b5a0417f&nd=1&dlsi=7f3fda57e9764a61

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We discuss Ceelo Green's big hit (the radio edit) "Forget You", and we go deep into the evolution of the word dementia and society's ideas about it.

For Eurovision, we do Slovenia's song "Viktoria" by Raiven.

Check out another podcast in our network, Crime & Spirits, you can find them here https://linktr.ee/crimeandspiritspodcast

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Special thanks as always to Patsy Walker for our theme song. Find her at https://www.youtube.com/@patsywalker1481

We talk about Kentucky rapper Jack Harlow and the history of the whip, as a word and as a thing! Different types, whippings through the ages, whips in fiction . . .

For Eurovision, we talk about the Czech Republic's 2024 competitor, Aiko's "Pedestal", and we talk about trilled R's and the Czech Republic's unpronounceable variant on a trilled R.

This week's featured podcast is My Second Self and I. Find them here: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pzH0fR9c5jqIV404VuAAM?si=a220945ba70b4f0d

Big thanks to Patsy Walker for our theme song! Find her here: https://www.youtube.com/@patsywalker1481

Find us and lots of other great podcasts at our network, Podmoth.network

This week we talk about the 4 Non Blondes' one hit song from their one album. Why does it get so much hate? What’s under Linda Perry’s hat? Is it meth? And is Dolly Parton okay?

We tell you about various greetings and their origins. Looking to spice up your saying hello to people game? We’ve got you covered.

And in Eurovision we talk about Romania’s 2023 song, D.G.T. by Theodor Andrei. Enjoy it because there will be no Romania in 2024!

Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”. Find Patsy on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@patsywalker1481

This week’s promoted podcast is Ugly Radio. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ugly-radio/id1515895095

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