Here to help us expand our vocabulary is comedian and fellow podcaster Michael Furr. Michael is the adorably offensive Baltimore-based comedian and comedy booker for The Lou Room comedy club. Director of special events for the Fells Point Corner Theater. Co-host of Chit Chat online mock show. His special Straight Acting is available on Amazon Prime Video, Spotify, iTunes, Tidal, anywhere you can stream comedy online.

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Today’s word of the day is “juggernaut“, which means a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path.

Did you know: In the early 14th century, Franciscan missionary Friar Odoric brought to Europe the story of an enormous carriage that carried an image of the Hindu god Vishnu (whose title was Jagannath, literally, “lord of the world”) through the streets of India in religious processions. Odoric reported that some worshippers deliberately allowed themselves to be crushed beneath the vehicle’s wheels as a sacrifice to Vishnu. That story was likely an exaggeration or misinterpretation of actual events, but it spread throughout Europe. The tale caught the imagination of English listeners, and they began using juggernaut to refer to any massive vehicle (such as a steam locomotive) and to any other enormous entity with powerful crushing capabilities.

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