TQ31: What overused word or phrase are you sick of?

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Every Tuesday, we grab a past question from the Facebook group, then Meredith and Scott answer it and read some of the answers given by other listeners. The question for this episode: What overused word or phrase are you sick of? Links for this episode: Corporate jargon: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDXnlVoRK9B/ Meredith’s episode about how cuss words become cuss words: https://www.meredithforreal.com/podcast-episodes/episode/78996692/ep-149-or-what-makes-a-curse-word-a-curse-word-swearing-science George Carlin – the 7 words you can’t say on TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyBH5oNQOS0 Meredith’s podcast is Meredith For Real – the Curious Introvert: https://MeredithForReal.com To check out the new Tuesday Question and get in the discussion, join us at WhatWasThatLike.com/facebook. Sponsor deals: Go to bluenile.com to shop Blue Nile, the original online jeweler since 1999! Follow “MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark and Mysterious Stories” on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/WHATWAS and get on your way to being your best self. To get 15% off your next gift, go to UNCOMMONGOODS.com/WHATWAS Sign up today at https://www.butcherbox.com/whatwas and use code whatwas to get chicken breast, salmon or ground beef FREE in every order for a year, plus $20 off your first order. Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/WHAT Go to Quince.com/whatwas for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns! Go to cookunity.com/What or enter code What before checkout for 50% off your first week. Go to Seed.com/what and use code 25WHAT to get 25% off your first month. Go to storyworth.com/what to save $10 on your first purchase! Get 15% off OneSkin with the code [WHATWAS] at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to RocketMoney.com/whatwas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Scott, and you're listening to What Was That Like? New episodes with guests telling their
0:05.9	amazing stories are every other Friday, but today we have the Every Other Tuesday, Tuesday
0:11.9	question. In the podcast Facebook group, we have a new thought-provoking question every Tuesday,
0:17.3	and it generates some really interesting and sometimes deep discussions. We'd love to have you join us.
0:22.6	Just go to what was that like.com slash Facebook.
0:25.6	But if you're not in that group, we bring it to you here in a short episode every other Tuesday.
0:31.6	We dig into the group archives and find one of the past Tuesday questions that we've discussed.
0:36.6	Then Meredith and I answered that question and we talk about some of the answers Tuesday questions that we've discussed. Then Meredith and I answered that
0:38.4	question, and we talk about some of the answers that came in from other listeners. And in a few days,
0:43.6	I'm talking this coming Friday, a brand new, what was that like episode? Let's do it. Let's talk about
0:51.4	overused words or phrases. Okay, let's talk about it.
0:54.8	All right.
0:55.6	The question today is, what overused word or phrase are you sick of?
1:01.8	Do you have one?
1:03.4	I do.
1:04.4	It's in a category.
1:05.8	As I began to think about this, I realize we have categories of words, right?
1:09.8	Buckets in which they all live. And for me,
1:12.3	almost any word that lives in a corporate jargon bucket makes my freaking skin crawl. But the word
1:21.0	ping me is at the top of the list. I hate when people say, oh, ping me. I'm like, that is just, I don't, I can't explain
1:30.0	why it sounds so dumb to my ears, but it hurts my ears. This is really weird when, you know,
1:36.5	I talked about what my job is as a, you know, outsider idea consultant. So I come in and I'm with
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