Topic: Pickup Basketball

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Menprovement
Episode 972 55:00 - 58:39

972: Menprovement

Etymology, My Bad Phrase Origins

A gaffe by Charlie Rose on "CBS This Morning" leads to an investigation into the origins of the phrase "my bad." Research indicates the term originated in urban pickup basketball in the 1970s and 1980s before entering the mainstream, though a similar construction appears in Shakespeare's Sonnet 112.