From Booksmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.
I'm Bob Garfield with Mike Volo, and today we delve into three expressions related to our recent episode, A Quick Buck.
Hey, Mikey.
Hey, Bobby.
How you doing?
Splendid.
Thank you.
And your own self?
I'm great.
I'm great.
Yes.
Today we look into a few phrases, one of which is bang for the buck,
which has come to mean a good value.
Look, Mike, I'm sorry.
I have to interrupt because I feel like I need to take this opportunity to offer listeners...
A peek behind the Lexicon Valley production curtain.
That threadbare, soiled curtain partitioning the audience from the inner sanctum.
I'm picturing the curtain between first class and economy on an airplane, but go ahead.
All right.
In our last meeting, you told me, this is not our recording, but in our last...