00:00:01:12 - 00:00:10:17 Deadair Dennis Word up everyone. Welcome to Word of the Day with Comedians. I'm your host, Deadair Dennis Maler. And joining me on the show today is Dave Sheehan. 00:00:10:20 - 00:00:11:27 Dave Sheehan Hello, Dennis. Good to be here. 00:00:12:10 - 00:00:21:21 Deadair Dennis You're word today that we are going to go through is debilitating, debilitating means causing serious impairment of strength or the ability to function. 00:00:22:03 - 00:00:22:29 Dave Sheehan This is already deep. 00:00:23:26 - 00:00:35:07 Deadair Dennis I feel like during COVID times, everybody's been debilitated by just and incapable of functioning because of either COVID or the fear of COVID or just my general apathy. 00:00:35:09 - 00:00:40:20 Dave Sheehan Yeah, that's definitely the word of the decade. Never mind the day. 00:00:41:29 - 00:01:11:07 Deadair Dennis All right. And the fun fact from Merriam-Webster, they have a fun fact about the word debilitating. The verb debilitate and its adjective form debilitating comes from the Latin word for weak, debelis D-E-B-E-L-I-S. I love this. Debelis because it sounds literally like something a kid from an 80 sitcom would say. Like, What are you talking about, Debelis? Often used of disease-- as in the patient was debilitated. 00:01:11:18 - 00:01:26:08 Deadair Dennis It could also suggest something that strikes like a disease or illness, and in this fun fact they give us our own sentence that we're going to have to redo. "The actor was debilitated by stage fright." In some, the word suggests a temporary impairment or a condition of weakness and helplessness. 00:01:26:09 - 00:01:30:02 Dave Sheehan All right. Well, I know a little bit of Spanish, and I know the word in Spanish for weak. 00:01:30:05 - 00:01:33:00 Deadair Dennis What's the word? What's the word for weak in Spanish? 00:01:33:14 - 00:01:40:09 Dave Sheehan The Spanish word for week is debil D-E-B-I-L with an accent over the E, so that ties right to the Latin. 00:01:40:20 - 00:01:45:14 Deadair Dennis Are you good with Spanish words? Because I took six years of Spanish in public school and I do not know any of it. 00:01:45:24 - 00:02:00:27 Dave Sheehan I'm hardly fluent. I've been using an app to try to get that. I know a decent amount of vocabulary, but like if I listen to people speak Spanish, I can tell what they're talking about. I won't understand every word, but I can kind of get a sense. But I would like to get better. I've been working on it slowly. 00:02:01:14 - 00:02:07:01 Deadair Dennis Oh, is learning Spanish been a pandemic activity or is that just something you've been doing for a while? 00:02:07:21 - 00:02:10:09 Dave Sheehan For a while. Clearly I'm not making good progress, but... 00:02:14:19 - 00:02:30:20 Deadair Dennis Also what I find funny about Latin words is that, you know, here's this language that we don't use anymore that's inspired so many other languages. Yet we continue to keep using the Latin words for things. Like what are we just going to get rid of Latin and just use the languages that we're currently talking about? 00:02:30:24 - 00:02:44:05 Dave Sheehan Well, I mean, Latin definitely influenced like English and Italian and Spanish. So its influence remains and it's still taught in schools. It's like language history, I guess, but I don't think it's going away anywhere. Especially if Jeopardy has anything to do with it. 00:02:46:20 - 00:03:12:25 Deadair Dennis Well, on that, we're recording this the day after. Amy, whatever her name is, lost. And I don't know if you had Jeopardy episodes in the DVR cue that you're waiting to get to... but. The word means weak. So what is we need a subject for a sentence. There's always going to be a person in the context of the sentence, what is a good name of someone who appears to be weak, who is a... what is a weak name? 00:03:13:03 - 00:03:18:16 Dave Sheehan Oh, that's a loaded question. How about Forest? 00:03:19:10 - 00:03:33:23 Deadair Dennis Forest. OK, Forest sounds like somebody who is weak. OK, so what could Forest be doing that is oh, maybe should we stay with Forest Gump? So everybody knows he was a bad at walking. Didn't he have braces on his legs? 00:03:34:06 - 00:03:36:09 Dave Sheehan It's probably what everyone's thinking anyway. 00:03:38:21 - 00:03:53:18 Deadair Dennis Or let's even what is it doesn't his Sally Fields plays his mother? Which by the way, fun fact within the span of one year Sally Fields plays Tom Hanks wife or girlfriend, something like that, and then one year later plays his mother. 00:03:54:03 - 00:03:58:01 Dave Sheehan What what when when was she his wife wait? 00:03:58:06 - 00:03:58:25 Deadair Dennis Trying to remember. 00:03:59:15 - 00:04:00:27 Dave Sheehan What movie was that? 00:04:02:13 - 00:04:06:16 Deadair Dennis Punchline and Forest Gump. Maybe it's just those two. OK, so maybe it wasn't one year later. 00:04:07:06 - 00:04:17:15 Dave Sheehan I saw that a little while ago. I yeah, I don't remember the particulars, but since we're talking about stand up comedy, that ties right into debilitating, doesn't it? 00:04:20:03 - 00:04:38:21 Deadair Dennis Yeah. Let's here... Forest was debilitated with fear his first time on stage. All right. That's the beginnings of the sentence. What would make him...? Let's go away from stage fright, see if we can find a different goofy reason why Forest would be fearful. 00:04:39:00 - 00:04:47:11 Dave Sheehan If you want to stick with the let's see, first fear, first time at a nudist camp that could be debilitating. 00:04:51:25 - 00:05:06:14 Deadair Dennis Fearful of fear, full of his own fearful of his own. What is it really call it when you go through puberty? 00:05:07:01 - 00:05:09:09 Dave Sheehan Pubescent, pubescent I think that's a word that's. 00:05:10:02 - 00:05:12:18 Deadair Dennis I like how I'm coming up with other words that we need to learn to. 00:05:12:18 - 00:05:15:21 Dave Sheehan Define pubescent will probably be the word of the day in February. Fine. 00:05:15:23 - 00:05:26:04 Deadair Dennis Our word of the day all right, everybody. We have picked our word of the day. We have defined it and we have created a sentence using the word of the day. Dave, go ahead. 00:05:26:04 - 00:06:06:03 Dave Sheehan The word of the day is debilitating meaning causing serious impairment of strength or ability to function. The verb debilitate and its adjective form debilitating comes from the Latin word for weak debellis often used of disease. It can also suggest something that strikes like a disease or illness. In some, the word suggests a temporary impairment or a condition of weakness and helplessness. "Upon arriving at the nudist convention, Forrest was debilitated with his fear of his own pubescence. 00:06:07:29 - 00:06:13:19 Deadair Dennis Excellent. I love it. Great job. Tell everyone out there where they can find you. Dave. 00:06:13:29 - 00:06:30:01 Dave Sheehan Shroud of silence on Instagram and tick tock. I'm on Facebook. Steve Sheehan. I don't have comedian in my name. There's a bunch of guys, but if you put in comedy, it should hopefully lead you there. My MySpace page is still down. I don't have any plans to resurrect that. 00:06:30:09 - 00:06:40:14 Deadair Dennis All right, everybody. Well, we have successfully added one more word to our vocabulary. Thank you so much today for joining us today. And stay keep keep learning words out there, everybody. And word up. 00:06:40:14 - 00:06:57:01 Deadair Dennis Thank you so much for watching this episode of Word of the Day with comedians all the way to the end. I greatly appreciate it. And if you want to continue to keep expanding your vocabulary the funniest way possible, I recommend clicking this box right here to watch our latest episode. 00:06:57:17 - 00:07:06:10 Deadair Dennis Of course, stay up to date with everything by subscribing or listening to Word of the Day With Comedians on the go by downloading it on iTunes or Spotify.