Welcome to The Electric Current Rundown podcast episode number 55.

And I’m your host Phil Defiance, and I’ll always say I’m here to encourage the spread of intriguing knowledge that can spark fires in the minds of those seeking inspiration and truly improving the world.

And what I’m going to be talking about in this episode includes a continuation of where I left off on the last episode on topic of the surprisingly long history of the word Yo.

And then I’m going to be talking about the Russian-Ukrainian War, Trump, the Europeans, and Zelensky.

And I’m also going to be talking about how to find lost objects, six techniques that really work, that can help you if you’re looking for something that is lost.

But okay, so I mean to continue on where I left off on the topic of the surprisingly long history of the word Yo.

And I mentioned Philadelphia, I mean, because that’s really like it’s American origins.

Dating back even to the 1930s and 40s.

But I mean, I mentioned how I’ve been in Philly myself.

And yeah, yeah, that bell that I was talking about, obviously a clock tower bell.

And that was associated with early American liberty history, you know, they called it the Liberty Bell.

I remember that after I recorded that.

But either way, okay.

So, I mean, when it comes to and that’s funny too, because I was talking about time earlier on on that episode.

But okay, like when it comes to the word yo, yeah, days back to Philly, Philadelphia.

And I mean, there’s like people in the surrounding area that started saying and even like New Jersey, and that’s how it spread into New York.

I mean, all of the all those states are like, close by each other.

Of course, I mean, I think it’s yeah, it’s called the Tri-State Area, right?

Of course.

I mean, if you live in that area, or if you’ve been around that area, you know that it’s called the Tri-State Area.

And so yeah, of course, I mean, it spread from Philly all the way into New York, and that’s how it got popularized all over the planet as it is now.

But regardless, it really, when it comes to America, it dates back to Philadelphia.

But if you thought really that was the beginning of the word Yo, then you got one thing that’s wrong, because it doesn’t even date back to the United States.

It goes back even further, further than you can even imagine.

But like, I mean, when it comes to the context of the English language, because obviously the English language is the number one language in the United States, as well as over here in Canada.

I mean, as you can hear me talking, you can see I talk English well, as you would expect from someone in Toronto.

But like, yeah, so I mean, that’s what I’m talking about English right now.

English is the language spoken in this part of the world, obviously in America too, especially, I mean, that’s the focus that I was really talking about right there in Philadelphia and New York.

But yeah, that’s English we’re talking about.

Well, it doesn’t have American origins.

That word yo goes back way before the United States.

Like, analysis of literature dating all the way back to the 1400s shows that the word yo actually has been in use in the English language for centuries, all the way back to the 1400s in literary works in the English language.

And yes, it continued on from there.

There was evidence of it in the 1700s.

So obviously, there was also some usage in between those centuries as well.

But obviously, it wasn’t very common.

But I mean, there was usage of it, especially in the 1400s and some plays that were written in that time.

I guess maybe it fell off a little bit for maybe a couple hundred years.

It started being used a little bit again around the 1700s.

And then probably, I mean, from what I read, it basically fell off again or wasn’t really in use that much.

But then it made a little bit of a comeback in Philadelphia.

But then again, I mean, it’s not just that when it comes to Philadelphia, it also, I mean, when it comes to Philadelphia, though, it’s actually funny because it doesn’t really relate to English speakers.

It really started from Italians because it meant something like go boy or hey boy.

And so like they said it like that.

And like, I mean, really, it went from just like hey boy or something like that to just boy.

And boy was like, yo, and Italians were doing it.

And then it spread to like other people in that area.

And that’s how it spread across in the area, you know, because there’s a lot of Italians in that area, too.

Of course.

I mean, New York, obviously.

And then Philadelphia, yeah, you know, there’s definitely some Italians over there, too.

And mean, like I mentioned in a couple episodes back, I mean, even here in Toronto area, we got lots of Italians, but that’s a different topic.

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But, either way, okay, to finish up on that subject before I switch topics, I’m going to have to say, okay, so like, yeah.

It goes, I mean, in English, it really goes back to the 1400s.

And there was like gaps, apparently, where people weren’t using it that much.

But yeah, it dates back to the 1400s, where it appears in quite a bit of English literature.

I mean, obviously, when I say there were gaps, it still wasn’t used.

It just wasn’t as much like as commonly used, but it was used throughout all those centuries, from the 1400s all the way maybe to the 1700s or something, maybe the 1800s.

Then it kind of fell off completely and then made a resurgent from the Italian influence in Philadelphia and then into New York.

And yeah, well, I mean, there’s even the movie Rocky from the 1970s, 76, where he was like, yo Adrian, yes.

So I mean, that’s from Philadelphia too, obviously, you know that.

But yeah, but I mean, you know what?

It’s not just English.

If you want to go real back to the real history of the word yo, well, then you’re going to have to go back thousands of years because the ancient Romans and the ancient Greeks were also using it, like 3000 years ago.

And they were using it for similar meanings as the current meaning today, which is like really strange.

And it’s like history like strangely repeated itself over the millennia.

I mean, they literally meant something like along the lines of like feeling of joy, feelings of joy, feelings of happiness, things like that.

It’s like crazy.

Wow.

Like, I mean, and literally like they were talking, they were using that word back then, like 3000 years ago.

And then I guess it fell off for several centuries, a few millennia, and then came back in the form of the English language and also was used as the word boy, which in, I mean, from an outsider’s perspective comes out as yo out of Italian.

But that makes sense too, because Roman, think about that, that’s the original language of Italian.

I mean, the Italians were the Romans.

The Roman Empire came from Italy, right?

So I mean, that makes sense too, right?

But then again, I mean, it’s not just the Romans, it was the Greeks too.

So that’s a lot of interesting things.

But okay, I’m going to switch topics quickly.

Now I’m going to talk about the Russian-Ukrainian War.

Trump, the Europeans and Zelensky.

Okay, so I’m going to have to say, I love seeing Trump like kick out Zelensky the other week, like out of the White House, because that guy was being rude.

That was just BS right there.

Like the man should have some more respect.

He should come to the White House with a suit on.

Does this guy own a suit?

Like what’s wrong with this guy?

Like Trump’s known to like suits.

I mean, not just Trump too.

Why didn’t he go to the White House with a suit on with Joe Biden and Obama?

He should have more respect for US presidents.

These people are helping him.

This is the most powerful country on the planet we’re talking about when it comes to the United States.

If they’re going to visit the president of the most powerful country on the planet, they better wear a damn suit.

That’s what I’m talking about with this guy, Zelensky.

But OK, that’s not just the only thing I’m going to say.

I mean, people think that like, oh, this war started with Russian aggression.

Really?

No, it really didn’t.

There’s the fact that when the Soviet Union fell apart in the 80s, there was an agreement signed between Russia and the United States and the European countries.

And I mean, a part of the agreement was an assurance and a guarantee that the country of Ukraine will not join NATO.

And what do we hear today?

Oh, they’re talking about how they want Ukraine to join NATO.

That’s breaking a guarantee that was made to the Soviet Union in that agreement.

So that’s a major part of this.

And the Europeans have been provoking this.

Same with the American administrations, like Joe Biden and even Obama had something about that.

And so that’s what it really dates back to.

It’s not the Russian aggression, it’s really the American slash NATO aggression.

And obviously, there’s two sides of America, the Republican presidencies and then the Democrat presidencies.

And even it dates back to George W.

Bush, who was generally a decent president, better than Biden and Obama, but he was imperfect either, and he had some flaws, and he actually was at the beginning of this whole situation.

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But either way, okay, I want to finish off on this episode on these subjects.

But either way, so like, yeah, so it really was NATO and American aggression.

It wasn’t Russian aggression.

It was a breaking of the agreement.

They were like bringing more and more things that they said that they wouldn’t.

Like when it comes to like missiles, missile bases and like moving closer and closer to Russian borders.

These were things that were agreed upon when the Soviet Union collapsed.

I mean, of course, the Soviet Union collapsed.

That meant the country was like kind of in a really bad situation.

But that didn’t mean that the country was no longer powerful.

The country is still powerful today for a reason because after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the nuclear bombs possessed by the country still were in their possession.

And that happens to be the case still today.

And that’s why there’s such a humongous threat.

Nobody wants a nuclear war.

Or a lot of people don’t.

Some people do.

Apparently, the Europeans seem hell bent on it.

And even Joe Biden seemed pretty much hell bent on creating a nuclear war.

But thank God that we got Trump because he’s trying to stop that.

But either way, I mean, it’s like just ridiculous.

Yeah, I mean, it’s really American aggression.

I mean, under Obama and Biden and yeah, a little bit George W.

Bush by breaking agreements that were made at the end of the Soviet Union’s collapse.

I mean, those agreements should be respected because Russia still had those nukes, like 10,000 nukes, something like that.

I don’t know the exact number, but huge sums, enough nukes to like blow up the entire planet.

I mean, of course, America is also up there.

They’re like the two biggest nuclear powers.

But like, I mean, you don’t want to mess with Russia with those nukes.

It’s really not a really great idea.

And so that’s why that agreement should have been kept.

And I mean, that agreement was made in the late 80s and it should have been kept true.

But no, like Obama and Biden and a little bit George W.

Bush and the Europeans, they all decided to say, who cares about their agreement?

Well, you shouldn’t be like that.

This is a country that has the most nuclear weapons on the planet.

I mean, you could say to some respects, a tie with America.

Okay, one of the two most powerful nuclear powers on the planet.

I mean, do you really want to break an agreement with a country that has that kind of serious weaponry?

I mean, it’s not a really good idea.

So it was like aggression from the NATO side, America slash Europe, not Russian aggression.

And that’s why I don’t like this.

I don’t like this at one bit.

I mean, people want to say, oh, we got to show respect to Ukraine because they’re being oppressed by the Russians who went and invaded them.

But then again, Russians were really protecting their own interests, and they didn’t like how agreements were broken.

So there’s that.

And then there’s also another thing on top of that.

I mean, think about Napoleon.

Think about Hitler.

They both try to conquer the world.

And where did they end up falling?

Hmm.

It was in Russia.

That’s where their troops died.

I mean, 20 million Germans against 20 million Russians, both sides died.

20 million, 40 million and all.

20 million from each side.

That’s a humongous number.

That’s the end of World War II with Germany against Russia.

That’s where Hitler fell apart, you know?

And same thing happened in Napoleon.

So why do people, why do the Europeans have this obsession with going into Russia?

Like you’ve been proven over and over again that Russia is where everything falls apart.

Why are you gambling?

This is a stupid idea.

So like, I mean, this whole Russian war is ridiculous and people that support it are not thinking right.

You got to know your facts.

And when you think that it’s the Russians that are aggressing, you’re wrong.

I just showed you.

I mean, do more research.

I mean, do some research on this.

I didn’t make this stuff up.

This is real agreements that were actually made at the fall of the Soviet Union.

You know what?

Just to back it up, I’ll post a link on that subject, especially when it comes to that agreement in particular.

I’ll post that to the description of this episode.

But, okay, I also want to say this topic on how to find lost objects, six techniques that really work.

Okay, so when it comes to when you lose things, like of course you want to find them.

It’s always a good idea to be able to find them easily, because it’s really frustrating when you can’t find things that you really want to find, because you feel like you lost it and you really want it back.

So, I mean, ways that you can use to help yourself find things faster, more efficiently, includes things like imagining where you may have lost it, or imagining movements.

I mean, tracking back, thinking about where you may have gone with that item, or visualizing the item and looking around, thinking like it’s something about its distinctive look and trying to find that, or like cutting up the room into separate areas and searching this spot, and that spot, and that spot till you finally, I mean, especially if you are pretty sure that it’s in that one room or that one place that you’re looking and just looking like that, like dividing it up.

And there’s a couple other ways.

But like, I mean, I just wanted to have this episode and like this right here.

And I can’t fully remember the other couple ways.

And there’s a few more details.

Like what I said was like quick points.

There’s more details involved with the things I said.

So I’ll post a link to that information as well on the article I found that information at and you can look through that too, I mean, to help yourself as a future reference for when you’re looking for things that you lost or you don’t even have to go to the link.

You could just like reference the memory of what I just said to you right here because what I just said was pretty good information in itself.

But if you want to get more thorough information on the topic, go ahead and look at the link and go to the page and then you’ll get more thorough information about it.

Breathe their way.

This is the end of episode 55 with me, your host, Phil Defiance.

And I’ll always say that I’m here to encourage the spread of intriguing knowledge that can spark fires in the minds of those seeking inspiration and truly improving the world.

Until next time, have a good one.