The Two Smokin' Guns Podcast

Today’s podcast was all about Words – such as, Combobulous, Gobbledygook, Apricity, Limerence, Petrichor, Pogonotrophy, Clinomania, Defenestration, Susurrus, Bibliopole, Ultracrepidarian & Zugzwang. Plus Homophones, Homographs, Heteronym’s, Portmenteau’s that I didn’t know, Fave Oxymorons, Corporate Jargon and Slang words my daughter taught me such Sigma, Skibidi, Rizz, Cap, Gyat & Mogging. Funny names for sportspeople, plus, some songs about Words.

To celebrate the upcoming Bathurst 500, Scotty & Ruttsy discussed some Fun Facts about cars, Famous car chases in movies, Car movies, Car TV shows, The Stig, Brocky’s Polariser, Fastest, Shortest, Hottest, Coldest races, some Australian Grand Prix history, and some Bathurst facts. We finished with a bunch of Car Songs; Jump in my Car (TMG), Drive my Car (Beatles),Fast Car (Tracy Chapman), Brand New Cadillac (the Clash), Little Red Corvette (Prince), Car Wash (Rose Royce), I’m in Love with my Car (Queen), Get Outta My Dreams Get Into My Car (Billy Ocean), Drive (The Cars), Mercedes Benz (Janis Joplin), Hot Rod Heart (John Fogerty), Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (Lucinda Williams), Big Red Car (The Wiggles), Pink Cadillac (Bruce Springsteen), Cars (Gary Numan) & Mustang Sally (The Commitments).

Blue was the theme, so we had lots of fun facts about Blue, including the percentage of blue eyed people, emotions associated with the colour blue, Blue as Aussie slang, Blue zones, Things that are blue, famous Blues singers and 20 great songs with Blue in the title. Here’s the playlist for the Top 20 Blue songs. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4RV7iRcCBA6MKm2zKZJtRL?si=08cc53775e5f4fef [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4RV7iRcCBA6MKm2zKZJtRL?si=08cc53775e5f4fef]

Gold theme, so Ruttsy took us through his golden moments from TV & Film, including “Succulent Chinese Meal”, Chopper “No Cash Here”, The Castle, Kenny, Bob Hawke, Kerry Packer & “Did you expense the Lap Dancers?’. Scotty gave us some Golden Rules to live by, Golden things you should do for yourself, Some fun facts about Gold & people who have won the most Gold medals. Ruttsy then played snippets from his Top 12 “Gold” songs, Gold-Spandau Ballet, Gold-John Stewart, Gold on the Ceiling-The Black Keys, Heart of Gold-Neil Young, Goldfinger-Shirley Bassey, Golden Brown-The Stranglers, Band of Gold-Freda Payne, Fools Gold-The Stone Roses, Golden Years-David Bowie, Sister Golden Hair-America, Gold Dust Woman-Fleetwood Mac & Fields of Gold-Eva Cassidy.

The Winter Show. Scotty & Ruttsy discussed fun facts about Winter, including coldest temperatures, people called Winter, Favorite winter-warmer meals, Winter Olympic sports & the best Winter songs. Stay warm!