Ashley and Brad Show - ABS 2026-07-22

News; birthdays/events; lots of people from other countries came to the U.S. recently...here are some things Americans wish the U.S. would do like Europe; word of the day. News; game: Brad reads song lyrics; are you ever "too old" to wear certain styles?; would you rather re-live a bad year in your life and make it better or re-live the best year of your life? News; game: common knowledge questions; when you go out to dinner with a friend of the same gender do you sit across from them or next to them (at a 4 top table)?; when it comes to food that has a bunch of choices in a category (like potato chips) how do you find a favorite? News; game: word ladder; would you pay to go into a cooling booth?; goodbye/fun facts....Spoonerism Day honors the delightful linguistic quirks known as spoonerisms. These accidental transpositions of initial sounds in words, like 'flutterby' for 'butterfly,' or calling jelly beans" "belly jeans". It's celebrates on the anniversary of the birth of Rev. Dr. William Archibald Spooner. This British clergyman as well as long-standing fellow and lecturer at Oxford University was well-known, even infamous, for being absentminded and getting his tongue twisted when speaking. Spooner was no dummy, though...quite the contrary. His thinking was so quick that his mouth couldn't keep up. Long before Spooner was born, the Greeks had a term for this sort of impediment — metathesis, which refers to the act of rearranging items. So next time you mix up words and phrases...your brain is probably just working super fast!