An education in expletives: the history lesson you didn’t know you needed hosted by Nicolas Cage. A loud and proudly p | dG1fRm1tUDgzQzhPSXc
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00:00Fuck!
00:10Swear words. They're the most popular and alluring taboos we have.
00:13But the secrets to their strange power have been shrouded in mystery.
00:17Until now.
00:18Join me on a journey through the history, evolution, and cultural impact of swear words.
00:24Words don't start out as swear words. They're just words.
00:27Somebody decided at some point that this is a swear word.
00:30There's an acronym etymology,
00:32fornication under consent of the king.
00:34This household has been given my consent to fuck!
00:39It is total horseshit.
00:41Imagine you've been called the worst that you could be called so often.
00:43That doesn't mean anything to you anymore.
00:45Taking that negative and inverting it.
00:47What's the intention of the speaker and what's the reception of the hearer?
00:51My dog's a bitch, but I never call her that.
00:53Who are you calling a bitch?
00:54I call her a cunt.
00:56There's something innately human about swearing.
00:59More conservative people try and invalidate people they disagree with
01:03by, like, pointing to their language.
01:05The parental advisory sticker to me was implicitly racist.
01:08Who's deciding these are bad words?
01:10Who did it?
01:11We're gonna do an experiment.
01:12There are scientific studies that say that you feel better when you swear.
01:16You can hold your hand in a bucket of nearly freezing water.
01:19Shit.
01:20About 50% longer if you're swearing than if you're not.
01:23Motherfuck.
01:24Fuck.
01:25Fuck.
01:25Shit.
01:26Shit.
01:26I think there's a need now for swearing and profanity more than any other time.
01:30Two minutes and 20 seconds.
01:31Ah!
01:32The power of cursing.
01:33Like, it's important.
01:34The release.
01:35That's really what profanity gives us.
01:37Oh, shit.
01:38Bitch.
01:39Fuck that pussy.
01:40Dick.
01:41I'm Nicolas Cage.
01:42Those are good sometimes.
01:42One more time.
01:43It's 20 doorks.
01:44Well let's get fucked.
01:45People are mad.
01:46Let's get fucked.