SPEAKERS

LILY, JENNY

JENNY  00:04

Okay, 'gift of the gab: someone who has the ability to speak well, example lawyers are often born with the gift of the gab'.

LILY  00:12

I think it just means being articulate or eloquent in a really not eloquent way of saying [laughter]

JENNY  00:19

is the gift of gab, is the gift of gab an insult?

LILY  00:23

[Laughter] Who was Gab, how do I get his gift?

JENNY  00:29

'The ability to speak easily and confidently in a way that makes people want to listen to you and believe you.' Yes. So 'she's got the gift of the gab. She should work in sales and marketing.' So that is the thing, like people do want to listen to you and they do believe you

LILY  00:45

I just got this idea that we're saying this and people literally are like pressing stop on his podcast being like, I don't want to listen to her [laughter]

JENNY  00:53

and someone else's said 'and to persuade people'. So this would be another reason why you would be a good cult leader.

LILY  01:00

I like to think of it as a preacher. To the masses.

JENNY  01:05

Yeah. To talk but then 'to have gab. What does it mean to have gab? To talk in a rapid or thoughtless manner. Chatter. Gab.' That's sort of what I was thinking of. And then Gift of Gab was a person died on Friday in June from natural causes after suffering kidney failure in recent years. So I don't know who Gift of Gab was, maybe a rapper. Oh, yeah. Blackalicious rapper Gift of Gab dies at age 50. Okay.

LILY  01:37

Oh, no, it's funny. It sounds like Gab is like I don't know the brother of Job or something. 

JENNY  01:42

Like GOB as in? Arrested [Developement]?

LILY  01:45

No

JENNY  01:46

Oh the Bible? Job and Gab came through the desert. 

LILY  01:52

Gab was talking incessantly. [Laughter]

JENNY  01:55

So it isn't Job job. Is that j- o-b? Do you say it 'job'? In my head. It's always just 'job'.

LILY  02:04

But don't you know from Arrested Development? 

JENNY  02:06

But that's spelled with an E 

LILY  02:08

No it's not?  It is.  I don't think so.

JENNY  02:14

Oh maybe. Then, let's check that. Let's check it. Oh, it's G O B. Yeah, yeah. Sorry. Not J.

LILY  02:26

And then he gets called Gob a lot, that's the like the  the joke when people don't know how to say his name.

JENNY  02:36

Right. Yeah. And it's also G full stop. O, full stop. B full stop. So clearly.

LILY  02:41

It stands for something? Oh, you mean in Arrested Development? It's for, um, isn't it...

JENNY  02:50

GEORGE Sr. Oscar Bluth? Yes. Yeah. George. George. Oscar. Oh yeah, of course Oscar. That's so funny, the Oscar. All right. I should rewatch that. It's a bit hard to think about watching it because of that guy that plays George and Oscar. 

LILY  03:11

Yeah, I know

JENNY  03:12

He was an arsehole on that. It's tainted it for me.

LILY  03:15

Yeah, it's so interesting. Like, stuff like, you know, House of Cards with Kevin Spacey whatever. I was like, Nah, I'm not gonna watch it again. But then things like Arrested Development where I love the show and like, I just put it out in my mind. Like, you know, we're so biased with whether it's the argument of like, boycotting or it's art and it shouldn't be associated with that like, you know, yeah,

JENNY  03:38

but it also comes down to how much do we like the thing

LILY  03:40

Exactly! How much are you willing to sacrifice for that