Whole 9 Yards: Idioms, Etymology, & Origins
Hosted by Jay and Ray · Big Science Pods
4.9from 70 ratings
- 304
- Episodes
- 25
- Transcribed
- 70
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Whole 9 Yards: Idioms, Etymology, & Origins
Whole 9 Yards is a weekly podcast that will simultaneously educate, astonish, and amuse. Listen while we share equivocal research about the origin of words, phrases, and idioms we use every day. From the team at Big Science Pods, we bring you the whole 9 yards, the entire kit and caboodle, the whole shebang of this quick, entertaining look at our language and the history therein. Learn why we call New York "The Big Apple," what "red-handed" REALLY means and why sometimes people are "happy as a clam." So, let's cut to the chase, if you jump on the bandwagon now, the first 100 subscribers will be entered to win a Big Science Snuggie. Have a question about an idiom? Wanna drop us a line because you think we’re funny... or, not? Think we’re mistaken about any information we’ve shared? Hit us up at heyyou@whole9yards.org. We’re waiting with bated breath!
- Publisher
- Big Science Pods
- Category
- comedy · education · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Feb 2020
- Latest episode
- 30 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
25 of 304 episodes have a transcript.
30 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
W9Y Works The Graveyard Shift
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16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
W9Y Is Just Joshin'
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W9Y Works The Graveyard Shift
Published 30 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I want to be truthful. I don't want to mislead. But I do. And we throw in our own opinions all the time. But these things did happen. So... But people cast them out as definitions because there's no direct evidence. You know what I mean? So there's no evidence that these folks were ever referred to as graveyard workers or graveyard shifts. And there's not even that many cases of what people would refer to as dead ringers and things like that, which is also not true. […]
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