Joggling boards are no ordinary benches — they bounce, and you find them mostly in South Carolina. Hours of fun for the whole family! This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Joggling Boards”
Another South Carolina term for you. Grant, do you know what a joggling board is? No. Well, part of an automobile? No, this is the weirdest thing. I mean, as I mentioned earlier, a listener gave us a term from South Carolina, and I just went down the South Carolina rabbit hole looking at terms that you pretty much hear only in South Carolina.
It’s pretty sad, Martha. It’s great. It’s great.
A joggling board is a thing that you sit on, and it’s really long, and it’s like a bench, but the wood that you sit on is really bouncy. It’s kind of arched in the middle. Yeah. Yeah. And you pretty much only see these in South Carolina, and they were, you can court on them or just get a little bit more exercise. A joggling board. It’s kind of the same principle as a rocking chair, just something to keep you moving. Exactly. Okay. Exactly.
In the heat. Never heard of this. Joggling board. Nice. Mm—
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