Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why “O.K.” is secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:
- Katie Goldin on Twitter
- @ProBirdRights
- ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)
RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
- native-land.ca
- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
- “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word by Allan Metcalf
- The Vulgar Tongue: Green’s History Of Slang by Jonathon Green
- How One Man Discovered the Obscure Origins of the Word ‘OK’ (Smithsonian SmartNews)
- Are You Okay? (The Paris Review)
- How ‘OK’ took over the world (BBC News)
- OK vs. Okay vs. O.K. (Writer’s Digest)
- Tweet by @APStylebook demonstrating their approach to “OK”
- Chicago Manual Of Style blog post about their approach to “okay”
- Variety Slanguage Dictionary (Variety.com)
- Martin van Buren and the American Political System by Donald B. Cole
- Biographies of the Secretaries of State: Martin Van Buren, 1782–1862 (U.S. State Department Office Of The Historian)
- Photo, Print, Drawing: “The little magician invoked” (The Library Of Congress)
- Collection: Martin Van Buren Papers, 1787 to 1910 (The Library Of Congress)
- State Abbreviations (U.S. Postal Service)
- Oklahoma: State Resource Guide (The Library Of Congress)
- No, “Oklahoma” doesn’t mean “red people” (“Kahalin” on Medium.com)
- song page and lyrics for “Oklahoma” (RodgersAndHammerstein.com)
- Wikimedia image upload of a 1971 Oklahoma license plate, reading “OKLAHOMA IS OK”
- Oklahoma to get new license plates, logo, slogan through rebranding effort (The Oklahoman)
- Photo, Print, Drawing: Historic re-enactors head to the showdown at the site of the 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, that became the subject of numerous Hollywood movies. The O.K. Corral (O.K. was short for Old Kindersley) was a livery and horse corral from 1879 to about 1888 in the mining boomtown in what was then Arizona Territory, near the border with Mexico. The 30-second shootout pitted lawmen, including the legendary Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, against a group of outlaws. (The Library Of Congress)
- Radiohead reveal where ‘OK Computer’ title came from (NME)
- Thom Yorke Confirms Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ Is Nerdy As Shit (Vice)
- YouTube upload of Larry David stare interrogations from ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
- The Creation of the Alexander Cartwright Myth (Society For American Baseball Research)
- The Perry Bible Fellowship: “You’ll Be OK”
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About the show
A weekly podcast about the history, science, lore and surprises that make everyday things secretly incredibly fascinating. Hosted by comedy writer, emoji creator, and ‘Jeopardy!‘ champion Alex Schmidt. Join Alex & his co-host Katie Goldin for a joyful deep dive into seeing the world a whole new way!
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