Episode 133: Swearing is Good For You with Dr Emma F***ing Byrne

The Scummy Mummies Podcast

Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn

Kids & Family, Self-improvement, Parenting, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that swearing can ease labour pains, make you exercise more efficiently, and improve your sex life? It's true - so says Dr Emma Byrne in this very sweary episode!

We get some advice on how to cope when your kids start learning naughty words, and find out that even monkeys do swears sometimes. Emma explains why swearing is a feminist issue, and why she can't wait for her own daughter to tell her to go f*** herself. Then it's the return of The Swearing Game, and we finish with some sweary Scummy Mummy Confessions.

Emma's brilliant book, Swearing is Good For You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language, is out now. She is on Twitter @SciWriBy.

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0:00.0	This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.
0:11.0	So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.
0:15.0	Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. This is the Scummy Mummies podcast. Hello and it's me Eddie Gibson and guess what Ellie We've got a guest. No way. And her name's Emma Byrne. Hello, Emma. Hello. Emma, why don't you introduce yourself? Who are you, Emma, I am the author of Swearing is good for you,
0:54.1	a scientific look at bad language.
0:56.7	Fucking yes!
0:57.8	Fucking hell yes!
0:58.8	Fucking, come on!
0:59.9	I know, right?
1:00.9	Can we call you Dr fuck?
1:01.9	You can call, please call me Dr. Fuck. I work no word call you Dr. Fuck you can call please call me Dr
1:03.2	fuck I work no word of a lie I work with a woman whose name is Dr Roxana
1:07.2	Danger
1:07.9	she is I shit you know Dr Danger and it's such an excellent name
1:12.0	Dr Roxana Danger she it's such an excellent name. Dr Roxana Danger.
1:14.0	She sounds like a Bond girl.
1:15.4	She's bloody awesome.
1:16.8	She's another.
1:17.8	So we're both AI researchers and she is just, she's who I want to be when I grow up.
1:21.8	Can you just expand AI for the unlearned listener?
1:25.1	Everyone knows what AI is.
1:27.6	Just say it, Emma.
1:29.4	Who doesn't know what AI is?
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