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In this hilarious episode of The Worst of the Best Podcast, hosts Ryan and Rubann dive into a Canadian study from the University of Alberta claiming to reveal the 10 funniest words in the English language! From "upchuck" to "cooch," we react to these quirky words, guess their meanings, and see if they really tickle our funny bones. Spoiler: our brother Jason’s suggestions might just steal the show!
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welcome to the worst of the best podcast
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you wanted the best well they didn't
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freak him naked so here's what you get
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from Canada Ryan and Reuben
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it reduced this one okay Ruben
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introduced the show would you so this is
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the ten funniest word hey this is the
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worst the best podcast with your host
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Ryan Balkan and Ruben Balkan and we're
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going over the 10 funniest words
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apparently in the English language yeah
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there's an actual study done if you can
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blue the Canadian study so go Canada
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pair of University of Alberta
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researchers say they've analyzed what is
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the funniest words in the English
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language they pick 10 10 of the funniest
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words I don't know any other words yet I
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know a few of them I did read them Ruben
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I've ever read them but I might know the
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word of my funny you there are some
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words that you will know so what Ruben I
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are gonna do is we're going to say the
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word guess what the word means and then
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Rubens gonna Google the word to see how
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close we are and we're also going to
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gauge our react well I'm basically going
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to gauge Rubens reaction and mine as
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well but I'll be reading the word so I
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don't get the luxury of hearing the word
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I wrote to see if Ruben has a one person
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study if you find these words funny in
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trista cailli funny so here are some of
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the things though about the study just
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so we know using a sophisticated
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statistical analysis of 3 billion words
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worth of prose on Google they found
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words likely to get a laugh and they
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found that they tend to be associated
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with sex bodily functions good times
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animals and insults but that's not
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enough they have to sound funny to my
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understanding that words with a K or
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cuff sound is sounds funnier did you
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know this before the study yeah for
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America yeah I read this back so that's
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why it's cause more Kramer interesting
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was here ago Ruben yeah if they got the
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sound found a 17.4% of the words judge
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most fight that's good so is a hard K or
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ending in a little le double letters are
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also funny so they found this in their
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study they asked an Iranian grad student
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who really didn't and this student did
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not find the words that we found Phi to
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be found funny so they found the culture
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plays into it okay
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the Iranian student said I needs to be a
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bit rude so we're
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so Canadians I just told them sorry
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that's the culture you're now so kudos
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to these Canadian searchers and I have
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did better research I would say to their
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names are but I'm gonna reach out to
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them when this is over so here we go
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Raven don't look I'm not looking all
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right
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this was like done with thousands of
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people named gauge the reaction so
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here's the 10 funniest words sharing
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english in english in english engrish if
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from a sample of nearly 45,000 so
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forty-four thousand nine hundred and
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ninety words didn't make the cut good
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math brother thank you
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those off-the-cuff math man alright
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ready don't look I'm ready so here's the
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first word up Chuck yes sir
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you can't they don't look you know I
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know what it means
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no yeah it's all you Lucy the next words
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okay I'm not watching
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God Chuck you giggles yeah that's ready
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do you know what it means
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yeah yeah so I look at the first couple
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words to see what they mean up trucks
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AUB's means the vomit okay all right up
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truck barley function that falls into
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the bar oh yeah yeah yes
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now this is the second word check this I
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would go look but this is the second
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word I saw this and this ribbon was my
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nickname for eight years of school blah
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blah Bubbe Bubbe
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yeah Bubbe B u BBY I was calling any one
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of our listeners who went to school with
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me could and I may because my bodily
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functions so bubby is number two
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Bobby can you look up what Bubba means
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though over discuss it so my my nickname
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was Bobby and I have no idea what this
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means
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so Bobby I'm gonna say it's something to
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do with laughter I'm gonna say
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flatulence okay a woman's breast what a
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term or familiar or affectionate address
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to a small boy so two means a small pub
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hey Bob like wolverine says hey bub or a
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woman's breast woman's breast so I was
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referred to X a woman's breast
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Wow so all my friends in high school
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junior high you were calling me a boob
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for eight years
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hey you know what I'll take it Jason her
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brother just joined the conversation he
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finds these are the words that he finds
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funny fart
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and poop okay I don't like these made
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that I don't me of these made the cut
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for the top 10 but let's hold on to your
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guest is there fart and poop Boff Boff
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Boff
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poff I think it's funny that that was
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included okay doing any guess I know
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what this one means that so-called Boff
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Bo FF
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any guesses what my guess is like scoff
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at something okay you scoff so you see
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it bribes
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yeah Bob stof yeah yeah okay Oh have
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sexual intercourse with someone yeah de
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Vos savant
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all right ready to go off and walk we're
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it off IRA often Boff Boff it ah ah both
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we go sounds like a new app yeah oh the
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ball foul yeah about that that's
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basically tinder okay
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they should have tinder sure to call the
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Boff yeah this should call Bahia Wrigley
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Wrigley Wrigley ring hilarious when I
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hear Wrigley hilarious it was this
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number number four wriggling Oh Wrigley
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so want us to agree Glee is it just
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means I just thought it was the last
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thing I guess everything that's all gum
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Wrigley's spearmint sure yeah no really
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or is it smell it this way yeah yeah
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wriggling movement alright to extract
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oneself from one wriggle to move I think
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a wriggle Wrigley that's us I think
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ripple has is funnier than Ripley I
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think so
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number five yaps yaps yaps what Paris
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the number five funniest word in English
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language I don't know what's funny I
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guess yaps just means talk right yeah
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put somebody Jason some examples are way
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funnier than what science has shown us
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plop plop plop might be one of the
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funniest birds of aigis language and
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they're all four letters kudos adjacent
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four letters fart poop and plop a sharp
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shrill bark yeah yeah I can park it dog
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yaps at you or a kid is yapping at you
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all right science says it's number five
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funny I don't know what it's researchers
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choice by far the examples Jason is
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giving our brother
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clop is the best plum I don't think
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you're the topless club
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we all know a plot beat what do you say
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plop you know we all going why would we
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do that bees we all die we all know what
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that means
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it's a perfect word that's whether you
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can get some blank on that biggest slide
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instead of clapping all right next funny
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word a corner of science okay giggle oh
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we were definitely giggling at Jason's
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funny words but giggle we don't look up
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and you can look up you want to giggle I
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would assume means laughs I don't know
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so science is telling us these are the
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most funniest words in the English
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language yeah all right let's light
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silly laugh okay number seven Kapaa a
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word it's a good word it's not funny but
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Kafar it means loud laughter I think
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isn't it laughing loudly the giggle will
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turn into a guffaw yeah a loud
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boisterous laugh sound like when you
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hear the word plop plop kamiki giggle
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but then even poop and then a plop said
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you could go far at that all right these
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last three the slots tree were then a
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little bit more promise I promise okay
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here we go
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number eight puff ball I like puff ball
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I don't know what it is a one-word puff
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ball a compound word is it a fungus that
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produces always chef guest with a fine
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dust that produces a spherical or pear
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shaped fruiting body that rushers when
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ripe to release a cloud of spores I've
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seen puff balls have you seen pop
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squishing they go pop this is gonna be a
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short episode oh man that's okay yeah
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that's fine a gravity gravity's a good
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word not funny I never said I was funny
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Julie Julie Julie see well we think it's
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you what do you think of right away I
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think I kind of you're thinking of fat
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yeah cuz it's kind of like jell-o
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gelatin a a fat person stomach is jiggly
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my right emoji bleah yeah yeah yeah
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Julie's much better than Bob it actually
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showed the pitcher gelatin just like I
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said yeah yeah it's an unsteady or
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moving in little fast movements all
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right the last what is pretty funny
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stick you have a jello and jiggly I
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don't think we well Bill's doing
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yeah House bill doing in in jail is he
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getting a jiggly in jail he's got a
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jiggly cellmate
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Jason prefers puffs over puff ball all
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right I think puff ball works well
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together I think you should just quit
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lay your head there Jamie brother
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I was plop plop is a great word that's
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good you don't hear plop enough we used
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to say all the time as kids whap pop you
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pop it in the bathroom aren't you
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plopping alright last word this is couch
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per me Kuch Kuch Kuch Kuch yeah like
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sitting on a couch but your couch
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instead of CO och okay I think you don't
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know what it means
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no I think I don't know why no but I
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think I know what it means it's I think
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it's referring to a lady's nether
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regions I think I hope I'm not wrong I
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hope I'm not wrong because it'd be kind
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of embarrassing if that's what I think
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it is is that how the spell as they say
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see Oh och okay well there's the couch
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with a see is a sinuous
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a singular sore quasi oriental dance
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performed by a woman a characterized
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chiefly but suggested gyrating and
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shaking of the body so that's your couch
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region your nether regions that's right
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your never be a so couch the definition
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is vagina Larry you can read your own
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yeah yeah so go ahead Google Google
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couch all you want
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alright so those those are recorded
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scientists I'll say again this was a
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Canadian study found these turn 10 words
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to be the funniest words in English
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language I can see why the Iranian
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students said sometimes you're a bit
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rude that's fine it's fair ribbon which
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word according to science yeah you know
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you think is the worst of the 10 worst
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Jason's were the best but okay a whole
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lesson on it yeah you know when you talk
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about somebody who doesn't really
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understand humor yeah I work with people
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who don't understand he work yes is
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Kylie thinking
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Taylor Swift is a really good musician
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right and then you hear real good music
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you know that's not actually good music
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that she's playing right it's catchy
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sure in a very catchy but not good seem
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with humor not that I'm very funny I
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think that but those good humor my guess
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is that these scientists doing this list
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you don't understand humor or the people
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do the city I am free I guess but
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there's a word that made you lose
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reconsidered me to say that all those
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houses people don't know what's funny
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sure but is this objective its objective
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on our brother Jason brought up the
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funniest word on the English language
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plot and I don't think there might I
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don't know if there's a funny a word I
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hope you there's a funnier four-letter
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word a funnier one this science I think
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they should get their grant back I've
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got my least funny of those I will say
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that like how my nickname was one of the
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funniest words Bubbe growing up but I
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will say my least funnies word of all
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this is giggle where's the apps I was
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gonna go giggle yeah it was giggle cuz
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it's so common yeah you know I changed
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my answer which I do often
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giggle giggle it's it's said so often
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that's like I don't know why it would
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still find it funny
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whereas plop is rarely said thus making
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it kind of funny okay how much time do
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we have 30 minutes all right
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no we have 10 min or 6 minutes okay
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Alpha dictionary.com has 100 words okay
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let's read mal if you want to end what
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the end is what is this dictionary what
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is alpha dictionary you called it alpha
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alpha dictionary calm these are the
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hundred funniest words in English so
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this is just an arbitrary list they've
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made no robber beards 100 Probert
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this is a robber beard did his own list
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in science no do control-f deceive
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giggles even in there giggles not even
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in there he's a hundred funniest words
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Robert beard
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100 fights words and giggle didn't even
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make the cut if but of corner science it
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should be in the top ten yeah one will
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be able to pronounce everything
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alligator that's not funny I said it
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wrong Oh Kaka my cockamamy Kaka Manny's
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funny it was the bow yang just knew ha
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ha ha ha discombobulated I love that
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word I love the word noodle what's a
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fard
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a face paint makeup ok
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I got a fard your face can I fired your
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face gizelle that's a farter we should
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have had this list earlier hoosegow
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Poochie Danny Mugwump klutz
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nanny Pam V is a great one namby-pamby
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this lollygag lollygag is great word
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Mugwump nickim poops good shenanigans
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enough of these shenanigans pettifog see
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i used to worst shenanigan in twitter
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today on twitter oh yeah I used one text
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the context was one of the show's
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listened to here's a plug for the
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podcast called the franchise they're
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doing a top 10 Christmas movie episode
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coming up they said it could be anything
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that is Christmas related so it doesn't
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have to be like you know the Santa Claus
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necessarily you have it can take place
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during Christmas like the die hard movie
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mm-hmm so I said it at the film the
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conversation strong jean happened in
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1974 is not your top 10 Christmas movie
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then you should quit the shenanigans
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very good all right good okay well we're
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gonna this give that'll soon which is
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one of the words in there okay smell
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fungus Smule
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triangle bait chocolate it's a good word
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solar something that lives in a cave
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vomit or e vomit or okay is let's send
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this vomit re episode ribbon yeah yeah
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so remember in front of every silver
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lining there's a cloud and we're here to
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help you find it alright thanks guys for
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listening and have a good day
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let's get out on
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