{"id":129,"date":"2008-12-12T19:38:13","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T00:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2008-12-13T19:55:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T00:55:41","slug":"five-and-change-seven-dirty-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/2008\/five-and-change-seven-dirty-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Five and Change: Seven Dirty Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today is December 12, 2008, and this is Five and Change.<\/p>\n

Today’s episode is a bit different; this isn’t so much a current event.\u00a0 This year, 2008, a great performer passed away.\u00a0 His name was George Carlin.\u00a0 He’s best known for one of his comic routines, known as the Seven Words.<\/p>\n

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I’m not going to repeat the words for you, because if I’ve done my job as a parent, you know it’s not nice to say those words in polite company.\u00a0 Hopefully, though, I have also taught you that there is a time and a place to use those words.\u00a0 I know that whether or not you exercise them carefully, you’ll definitely find occasion to use them.<\/p>\n

Part of the idea of this act was to highlight the silliness of the existence of the words.\u00a0 To this day, the seven words he refers to are not allowed to be broadcast on network television, or radio.\u00a0 They are considered obscene and offensive speech, and as such, are not protected in those mediums.<\/p>\n

This act, to me, meant that not only was Carlin a comic, he was something of a thinker and artist as well.\u00a0 I’m not going to play for you a part of his act, though.\u00a0 Instead, I’m going to play a piece of an interview he did with the Archive of American Television.\u00a0 He’s fairly aged at this point – the interview was done in 2007.\u00a0 It’s interesting because he elaborates on his process, and his thinking as he still develops.<\/p>\n

So I’ll leave you with Carlin.\u00a0 This has been Five and Change, I’m Paul DeLeeuw, and I’ll see you on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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