The Goldman State
Ed Goldman is a longtime newspaper and magazine columnist, the author of five books and creator of The Goldman State, a three-times-a-week online column with subscribers in 40 states, Canada and Europe. A professional playwright, composer and painter, Ed has also taught journalism at five California Universities and community colleges. His bucket list includes becoming the victim of a corporate takeover. This podcast is an extension of his unique take on the world around us and his interpretation, with all the creativity imaginable, of what that would literally sound like if he were to speak it.
The Goldman State
Episode 82: Your 2025 Political Glossary
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00:12 - Ed Goldman (Host)
Hi, this is Ed Goldman with the Goldman State Podcast. Now that a new political era is in full swing, some terms may pop up with which we're not entirely familiar, such as constitution and due process. Consequently, we have decided and definitely not the royal we to present you with a homonymic dictionary to help you keep up. By the way, homonyms are not, whom our new Secretary of Defense, pete, for a good time called Hegseth. As opposed to having serve in uniform, those are called transitive verbs. Here are the terms.
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Annex, a term enjoying a current vogue as it pertains to what the US would like to do to Greenland, the Panama Canal and Canada. It can also refer to a person you used to be married to, especially if there have been two or more such persons. Hence the appropriate article to use is an. Otherwise you'd only say the X. Another term CDC. What US tourists hope to do when they visit the nation's capital? Current events what occur when you try to rewire a circuit box with wet hands? Euthanasia, that's a Boy Scout troop in China.
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G7. This is what a little kid says when his grandfather asks him how old he'll be on his next birthday, and the kid thought his own grandfather would already know. Also, it has something to do with the seven largest economies in the world, but we don't need to talk about that. Impeachment, a process used to make an American president even more orange Laissez-faire, an economics minimalist government intervention policy. And what a world-famous collie has for dinner Monarch, a flood-proof, mail-only Jamaican boat. Nato, the foot digit that always votes in the negative NOAA. What the vague captain of the aforementioned boat said when asked if he thought they maybe should have brought some female passengers as well. In later conversations he considers it and boldly switches his answer to maybe a Oligarch. When shouted two times and followed once by the word oxen and three times by the word free, this is what Russian kids shout to let their playmates know they can give up their hiding places. Oligarchy, that's what an oligarch uses to open his door. Meanwhile, and at no extra charge, gorky Park is where oligarchs take their children to play on equipment that includes the Jungle Djinn, also known as the Minsky Bars, the Defenestration Playhouse and the always popular Teeter Toppler, a seesaw for the leaders of vulnerable republics. Then there's the term ombudsman. This is the vendor of mantra headphones for people who like to meditate on the go Tariff with the.
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This is whom Bob Marley claimed to have shot in a 1973 recording. Whom Bob Marley claimed to have shot in a 1973 recording? The next line, no deputy, refers to whom. Bob Marley insists he didn't shoot in the very same song, but since that makes the phrase a double negative, didn't shoot? No, criminologists and strict grammarians agree it's likely that Bob did in fact shoot the tragedy-prone deputy Tick-tock. This is what epidemiologists engage in with each other at conferences.
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Unilateralist that's the firefighter who brings only one climbing device to a conflagration. Xenophobia this is the fear or hatred of foreigners, strangers and a certain lesbian warrior princess whose show is now in syndication. Who? W-h-o? The World Health Organization, and, coincidentally, the name of a time-traveling physician whose adventures broadcast by the BBC include changing his appearance and even his gender every few years. This may explain why his patients, when confirming an appointment, ask the receptionist doctor, who am I going to see Now? Strict grammarians insist that in this usage, saying doctor, whom would be preferable, which perhaps explains why strict grammarians rarely go on dates. Finally, ucla this is what occurs whenever smoke and fog dissipate in Southern California. I'm Ed Goldman. My column, the Goldman State, comes out every Monday, wednesday and Friday. You can subscribe for free at GoldmanStatecom. Thanks for listening.