Clearly Confused: A List of Oxymorons

Have you ever laughed at a phrase that made you stop and think? That’s the magic of oxymorons, where words that seem like opposites somehow fit together perfectly. 

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Welcome to the Cashley Show. We are Kevin and Ashley.

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Hello.

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We started this podcast after recent tragedies to take a break from negativity and discover the good news happening all around us. Today we are talking about oxymorons.

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Okay. I feel like I used this word just the other day in one of the podcasts.

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I feel like you just said this like today or yesterday, so probably.

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Maybe I love this word, this phrase.

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You'll find oxymorons everywhere, from jumbo shrimp to deafening silence. They pop up in our daily conversations and bring a smile. These funny word pairs show that language doesn't always follow the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is what makes things fun.

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I actually have never even thought of jumbo shrimp before.

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So these are pretty funny. Here's a collection of the funniest and silliest oxymorons out there. Get ready to laugh, groan, and maybe use a few in your next clever comeback.

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Are some of these gonna be like dad joke oxymoron stuff?

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I don't know. We'll see.

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Okay.

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First one is awfully good.

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It's awfully good.

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It's awful. But it's good.

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Yeah.

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It's awfully good.

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English language and your words.

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Next one is act naturally.

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Act naturally.

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Because like acting, like is nothing says natural like being told to do it.

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Oh I gotcha. Okay.

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Next one is original copy.

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This is the original copy. I gotcha. Yeah. I don't know what to say about these. I want to say more to like give them some more um or meaning or something. I don't know, but they're just like just a list.

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I have a little thing with for most of them. So if you want me to say a little more, I can.

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Yeah, I think you should.

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Alright. The original copy, the one of a kind duplicate everyone's looking for.

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This is it's kind of like new and improved.

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Yeah.

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Or no. Is that how that goes? New and improved.

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Next one is fax a copy.

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Fax a copy? Why is that an oxymoron?

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Because you can't send a copy. It's faxing. It's not.

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Yeah, okay. I gotcha.

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I don't know.

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I mean it it ends up being a copy on the other side. Yeah. Right? Right. Yeah, it's not like you're mailing it. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

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Next one is clearly confused when you're lost, but at least you're oblivious about it.

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Clearly confused. You are clearly confused.

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Next one is seriously funny. The kind of joke that deserves both a laugh and a straight face.

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Ha ha ha. Like that.

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Yeah, I think I say I think I say this sometimes.

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That's seriously funny.

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Yeah.

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You do love serious stuff. You're a matter of a fact person.

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I love funny things.

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But you love facts.

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I do love facts.

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You love facts and rules and definitive things.

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Yes, that's what they do. Next one is only choice. When your options are limited to just one.

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But you want to feel good about it. Like you still have you want to hear that. You have choice. You have you can choose the one thing that's there.

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Next one is bittersweet. Happiness and sadness all wrapped up in one confusing emotion.

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Is there any candy or food that's like this that's bittersweet?

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There's some bittersweet chocolate, isn't there?

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I don't know. I mean like dark chocolate, is that bittersweet?

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Yeah, I don't know that it's sweet, it's just bitter.

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Well, that's what I'm getting at. Is there actually anything in the real world that's physically bitter and sweet? I guess this is like uh not a metaphor, but just in the world, right? Things can be bittersweet.

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I think the chocolate chips are bittersweet. My mom used to buy the ones that are red, and I'm pretty sure that one is bittersweet.

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Isn't it semi semi-sweet?

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Oh, you're right. It says bittersweet chocolate is a rich dark chocolate with a high cacao content. Cacao 70% or more. Right.

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I mean, it's just dark chocolate. I mean, I guess it's bittersweet. It's just not I don't think it's sweet in any way. Really? It's just nasty. I don't consider it bittersweet. I just kind of get it, consider it like mild. Like it's not really sweet. And it has a little bit of bitter.

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Yeah.

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I guess.

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Next one is Living Dead, Zombies, Vampires, and anyone before their morning coffee.

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What if you don't drink coffee? What if you drink cacao? I saw this like cacao stuff, so I bought some. Actually, Nick at work introduced me to it. And I tried it a couple times. And it's just like gourmet hot chocolate. So it's like it comes in like a bag, like coffee grounds, and you put it in a coffee maker. But like the it's so it's like cacao beans. Oh, it's actually beans. Yeah, well, that's not ground-up stuff. It's like chunks of I'm not really sure what. Chunks of something. But it's not like it's chunks of chocolate, because it's not like you put the hot water and like they all melt and stuff. Like so it creates this weird chocolatey kind of drink. I don't think you would like it because it's kind of earthy and stuff.

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It tastes like dirt.

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And I don't think it really has any caffeine in it. Any more than like what cacao or chocolate will already have. But anyways, it was interesting. I tried a couple times, and it the last like bag I bought, it was just making a mess in the coffee maker. Like it's just just making a mess, and there's all these like grounds and all these things in the coffee pot of like where stuff had like overflowed the filter and different things. And it just reminded me of Austin Powers where the coffee that uh the big guy. I don't know if you remember that scene.

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I don't.

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Not sure if I'm allowed to say his name on this show. No, I just yeah, but anyways, it looked kind of like that.

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It it was I'm sure people drinking the coffee appreciated his pumps of chocolate.

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I washed it all out. I cleaned it up. I'm not that guy that cooks fish in the microwave. That's another episode. Yeah, it leaves the microwave all nasty from my lasagna that I cooked uncovered.

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All right, next one is small crowd. Just enough people to make it awkward, but not enough to fill a room.

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I feel like small crowds happen a lot. Yeah. There's always people packed into places.

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What number do you think is a small crowd?

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I think it depends on the amount of space you have.

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That's probably true.

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But I think when you get up to like five, you can start to have a small crowd.

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Yeah.

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Because like if I go into a public bathroom and there's like five guys in there.

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Or you go to a studio apartment. That's a lot of people.

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I think I've only been in one studio apartment in my life. Oh really? Yeah, in like my early twenties.

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Next one is pretty ugly. Oh, the backhanded compliment.

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I don't even know if that's a backhanded compliment. Pretty ugly. Yeah.

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That's pretty ugly. Is this just because you can use We used to say this when we were young?

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Sure. Because pretty in this sense really just means kind of or sort of.

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Yeah, but when we were young, you'd be like, oh that's pretty. Pretty ugly.

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Yeah. No, I gotcha.

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So in that way, I think it's a back end of compliment. Maybe just not those words always. Yeah.

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I think I think it's just more wordplay than anything. But yeah, it doesn't matter.

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Next one. Virtual reality, where everything is fake, but the experience is real.

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Some of those virtualities are fun and can be quite real.

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Yeah.

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Like that roller coaster one we have for the VR.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Knocks people on their butt.

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Yeah.

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Trying to trying to watch. Not everybody.

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No, we've recorded a lot of people like, oh no, you have to stand to do this.

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Arms are out and they're all over the place.

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Yeah, you bought me one. It was a mystery thing. But then there was a ghost that walked by and I was I'm done. I'm not doing this anymore.

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See?

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The experience is real.

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Yeah. And like that game that I played, it was a zombie one. What is it called? Valve made it. That's the people who made the the headset too. Half-Life Alex.

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Oh yeah.

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So yeah, like the so the game that I played, Half-Life Alex in VR, right? That was that was pretty real and it was quite scary. Right. Like I I remember not wanting to play it by myself at night, right? Because like I don't want to, I don't know, just being alone. But I also couldn't play it during the day because the kids. Right. So it was hard to play that game.

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Remember like one night I like walked by or something.

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That's how you get putts right in the face.

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I was just going to get some water or something and you're breaking out. You didn't.

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Yeah. That was that was when I had that experience because I played for like what, like two hours or maybe like three hours or something in the head tip. Yeah, and I have the controllers. I I told you the story, right? Yeah. And it's like, you know, you you jump to places, right? Like you teleport, right? So you have like a little thumbstick, and so in the VR, like you have the thumbstick and you're looking and you move the thumbstick so like it puts a little arrow out, like a little arc arrow to like where you're gonna be, right? And then like you let it go. So like you then you you teleport to that spot. And you can still move around just like in VR, like we like you know you duck down and you can like crawl around and do different stuff and stand up. But if you need to go like distance, right, you just you're teleporting, and then you're in the world and you're doing stuff and you can move around and do uh take steps and walk and whatnot. And so yeah, doing all of that, and like I was in there for like two, three hours, and then finally should probably should probably go to bed or whatever. So yeah, it's probably like one o'clock in the morning or something, right? Like took the headset off and like powered it off and everything, and then went to go to like the bathroom to like go brush my teeth and go to the bathroom and stuff. And instead of walking, I my hand came up and my thumb did the did the teleport thing to like go over towards the bathroom. I was gonna teleport to the bathroom door and walk inside, and I was just like, oh man. Like like it would already started to rewire my brain and physical movements and stuff. So it's it's pretty crazy.

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Ready, player one. Kevin's ready to go.

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Yep. That's cool stuff.

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Gonna live his life and be our that's funny. Yep. All right. Next one is passive aggressive, saying, I'm fine when you're absolutely not. I don't think I I don't think I'm passive aggressive, but I do say that. So I guess.

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So that doesn't that make you passive aggressive?

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I don't think that I I just don't want to talk about it.

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Yeah, I guess that's not really passive aggressive. You just don't want to talk about it. Yeah. Is like these words, I guess, that are oxymorons or or combine these two unlike things are just so commonly used. Like passive aggressive. Yeah. Like jumbo shrimp. Never even thought of it. It's just the big shrimp. But yeah, anyways.

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Next one is random order. Because some things are best enjoyed in unpredictable chaos.

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A random? How how else would you say it, I guess? Because an order is just like a a list or an order of things. How else would like I get the like order and chaos, right? And random. Random's gonna be with chaos, not order. How else would you say it if you didn't say it like that?

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Random list? I don't know, because the list doesn't have to be in order.

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Right. You have unordered list and ordered lists. Yeah. Okay.

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Next one is working vacation when you're supposed to relax, but your inbox says otherwise.

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Yeah. Yeah. This happens a lot for me.

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You have to take your laptop everywhere you go. Next one is liquid gas. Science makes things confusing since forever.

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Liquid gas. What even is liquid gas?

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I don't know, but don't they have trucks that say that on the back or the side of them?

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It says like Oh, yeah, I guess they do. So it would just be gas that's cooled or compressed into so much that it's just a liquid now?

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Liquefied gas is a gas that has been turned into liquid by cooling or compressing it.

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Boom, baby.

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Examples of liquefied gas are liquid air.

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What is liquid air?

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I don't know.

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Because air is made. Air is made with like all sorts of stuff, like nitrogen, oxygen, blah blah. Like how do you they just like take air and then just compress and cool it and it turns into some sort of liquid?

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Air in the liquid state is usually richer in oxygen than gaseous air that is obtained as a faintly bluish, transparent, mobile, intensely cold liquid by compressing purified air and cooling it by its own expansion. This is really long to a temperature below the boiling point.

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We're not a science podcast.

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Okay, next. Definite maybe. The favorite answer of the indecisive.

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Yep, I've I've used this one before multiple times. Mostly with the kids when they ask me a question.

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Mine's usually a no.

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Definitely maybe. Isn't is that a movie too? Definitely maybe. Definitely maybe.

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Yep, definitely maybe. Has Ryan Reynolds. Alright, next up we have old news, something everyone has already forgotten or just stopped caring about.

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It fell outside the 24-hour news cycle.

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Next one is freezer burn. Hot, cold, and ruined all at once.

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Yeah.

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That one's always fun.

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I used to care, but then stopped caring. People would use the term like when something's frozen in the freezer and you bring it out and like they say I want to de-thaw it. Defrost it. Well, people will say de-thaw. Yeah.

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Oh really? I don't remember.

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Just like to thaw it out, right? Yeah. To dethaw. And I maybe it comes from defrost, right? But they want to thaw it, but they've heard defrost, so they like combine them to de-thaw or defrost it. Yeah. Want to de-thaw it.

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So are you not defrosting it? You're frosting it?

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Frosting it. It's not a cake.

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D if you're dead.

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Right, you're freezing. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, but even like even defrosting it is kind of a weird term.

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Removing the frost.

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Right. So you could defrost something, which is be taking the frost off, but it's could still be frozen. You just took the frost off of it. The freezer burn. Yeah, you're just scraping.

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Push yeah, scraped it off with a knife. So it's a thaw. Yeah. Next one is crash landing. The least graceful way to arrive. Next one is alone together. Socializing at its most introverted. This is kind of like your daughter. She likes to be able to do it.

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Be alone together with people.

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Be with someone.

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She doesn't want small crowds or big crowds.

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Next one is clearly misunderstood. At least everyone can agree on not getting it.

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What was the other clearly one? Clearly confused?

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Yep, clearly confused. Next one is sweet sorrow. When saying goodbye is sad, but it's also kind of beautiful.

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Like bittersweet. This is kind of just the same as bittersweet. Sweet sorrow, bittersweet.

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Next one is almost exactly precious, but not quite. The next one is unbiased opinion because everyone has one. Or so thankfully.

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Yeah, it's hard to have an opinion that's not biased in some way, shape, or form.

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Yeah. Student teacher, learning while teaching, and teaching while learning.

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This is like how doctors practice. When do you not practice? I'd like to have you work on me when you're knowing. I don't know what to call it. No longer practicing.

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No longer pretending.

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Let's do the real thing.

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Next one is advanced beginner. Not quite a pro, but definitely past step one. Next one is plastic glass. See the world, break the mobile.

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Plastic glass? There's like plexiglass.

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Yes, was that plastic glass?

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Probably. Maybe plexiglass is just like the name brand or something. Like a Kleenex. Yeah. I don't usually say tissue, I say Kleenex.

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Yeah, plexiglass. Hip. Alright, next one. Even odds. The fairest unfairness you'll ever get.

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That one's funny. I mean, it's also kind of like pretty ugly. Where the word is unfortunately, or fortunately, I guess, is the same word but has a different meaning. Yeah. Even odds.

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Next one is genuine imitation. 100% real. Next one is ill health. Feeling well, not so much.

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So there was where what was this word? Had to do with like habitable. Uninhabitable. That's what it is, I think. Because habitable, like a habitable planet, right? You can live there. And so the prefix in, like, meaning like to negate, I believe, right? Like you're insufferable. Sufferable, insufferable, right? Means like you are not sufferable. So inhabitable would mean not inhabitable, like not habitable. But I don't like the word has like doesn't mean that because now people use the word uninhabitable. So you have habitable, inhabitable, uninhabitable.

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Prefix in can mean both or not. And in and to. So inhabitable is not habitable.

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Isn't that what I said?

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Yeah. I was just looking at it.

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Oh.

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Right. But then you have uninhabitable. So not not inhabitable. Not not habitable.

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So it is habitable.

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I think it means not inhab not I'm using the word now too, just saying that it means not like you can't live there. Uninhabitable means you can't live there. But inhabitable has like changed to meaning like you can, because it's like in and then habitable. Like you can go there and live. But I don't think that's like so just so like the whatever the words were that you were just talking about reminded me of that. Because with like the word plays or prefixes or whatever.

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That was ill health.

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Yeah, so maybe that's what it was like.

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Next one is larger half. Math teachers everywhere are cringing.

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Yeah.

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It's like on the last one or one of the previous ones.

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Yep.

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Next one is silent scream when you're shouting inside, but on the outside, it's nothing but crickets.

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Does this happen to you a lot?

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Oh I I mostly say stuff out loud. When drivers bug me.

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Not a lot of silent screaming for you.

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Or just saying it out loud. Next one is small fortune. Enough money to make you smile, but not quite enough to retire on a tropical island.

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Next You don't need a money, Ben.

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Next one is Hell's Angels, the most heavenly rebels you'll ever meet.

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I wonder how that name started for them, for the Hell's Angels. Like And does angel always mean like what does angel actually mean? I guess. Because it just means like a spirit, or does an angel always did it always mean good?

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A spiritual being believed to act as an attendant, agent, or messenger of God. Conventionally represented in human form with wings and a long robe.

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So hell's angels would be messengers of the devil? Yeah. That's what it sounds like.

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Alright. Next one is free gift. Because nothing says generosity, like reminding you it costs zero dollars. Next one is lead balloon.

SPEAKER_00 19:28

What? I've never heard this before. No. I've heard of left balloons. 99 left balloons. Isn't that the how that song goes?

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I don't remember.

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Yeah, I've never heard left or I've never heard lead balloon before. Where did you where have you heard this? Do you use it?

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This is it will go down like a lead balloon. The expression go down like a lead balloon is used to describe something that has failed miserably. I I can't believe we've never heard that. That's interesting.

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No, never.

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Yeah. He thought he was funny. Really, though, his joke went down like a lead balloon.

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Alright. There's a thing I learned today.

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Next one is civil war.

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Yeah, I get it.

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Next one is plastic silverware.

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Yeah, I use this all the time.

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Next one is paper towel.

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How's that an oxymoron?

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Because the towel's made of fabric.

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Unless it's made of paper? What would you call a towel made out of paper? What name would you give it? Would it even need to be paper? Should you just call it like something totally made up?

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Maybe.

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Maybe.

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That's probably a good idea.

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Whole brand new name. See, these oxymorons are just a lot easier because otherwise you have to come up with all new names.

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Okay, I only have two more.

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Okay.

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Deafening silence.

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The sound of silence. That's a really good song. One of my favorite songs. Yeah. Both what was it? Simon Garfunkel and Stained?

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Yeah.

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Stained? Stained? Yeah. They did it. They both did it. Yeah. Good song. I'll probably listen to it now.

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Talked about that?

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Yep. Now that's in my head.

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The next one, the last one is a devout atheist. Devout means having or showing deep religious feeling or commitment.

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To nothing.

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So the next time you hear someone talk about a seriously funny story or definite maybe, you'll know you found an oxymoron. It's proof that language can be playful and puzzling at the same time. Life's contradictions make things interesting, and oxymorons help us enjoy these moments with a smile. Do you have anything else?

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Just the like words. I don't know, I guess they're not as definitive as maybe we think because you can say things like seriously funny and you know what it means, even though those two words together. And so it's more like like how small children or dogs or whatever don't maybe don't necessarily know the words, right? But they can tell like our dog when he was licking the pan that one day, right? And I was like, Do you want him to lick that pan? And like he stops and looks up at you. And we're both looking at you like, huh? And you're like, Yeah. And then he goes back to looking at the pan, right? Like, there's no way he speaks English or he like understands English enough to know. But like he knew the context of like like probably just the words and like the way my voice inflected. Like and he knew he was doing something, and like what the sounds that I made were like questionably concerned.

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Yeah. Right?

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Like that was like the the tone of all the things. So he he knew these like he's talking about something about me. Whoa.

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And he knew not to look at you, but to look at me for a record. Exactly. Like he knew something. Like I think he understood what you were saying. Because he stopped and looked at the Yeah, no, that's what I mean though.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

Like he doesn't he doesn't understand and know like the specific words, but is able to understand the context and meaning of like the sounds. Like a you know, like the what did you do? type like and he will be like, Oh I'm I'm in trouble. Yeah. But I could say something like nice, like you are such a good dog right and he's like, oh so it's interesting, I guess, that we have these words that have meaning, but not really.

SPEAKER_02 23:39

The meanings can be other things.

SPEAKER_00 23:41

Yeah. Right?

SPEAKER_02 23:42

Like the whole slang episode and stuff where stuff gets flipped on other languages I don't know if it's like Spanish, but some of their words like have more of a feeling when they say them.

SPEAKER_00 23:56

Yeah, the romance languages. Yeah, where they're not quite so technical. Like the word itself has all the meaning kind of baked into it.

SPEAKER_02 24:04

And so like I say it and it doesn't have the same effect because I don't understand.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:12

Yeah. Anyways, anything else?

SPEAKER_00 24:14

No.

SPEAKER_02 24:15

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