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Slate Debates

A Riot of Color

Slate Debates

Slate Podcasts

Society & Culture, News

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought by RXBAR, a whole-food protein bar, made from real, natural ingredients. For 25% off your first order, visit RXBAR.com/lexicon and enter promo code lexicon. Our word for "red" predates our word for "blue"—and that's true for almost every language! Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/podcastsplus. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey Tom Sharpling here, the host of the Best Show, and if you've never heard of the Best

0:06.1

Show before, everything you need to know is right there in the title.

0:10.4

Each week we put on the Best Live Podcast you're ever going to hear, featuring live callers,

0:15.6

celebrity guests, music, plenty of surprises.

0:19.8

Who knows what's going to happen.

0:21.4

Last month alone we were joined by Konano Bryan, Patricia Arquette, Jeff Tweety from Wilco,

0:27.4

Nathan Field, or Sunan Archives, John Oliver, the list goes on and on.

0:32.2

So what are you waiting for?

0:33.9

Join us live every Tuesday night on Twitch at 6pm Pacific Time and find us the next day

0:39.3

on the Forever Dog Podcast Network and wherever you find podcasts.

0:54.1

From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language, and this episode

0:58.6

is going to be all about color.

1:01.8

Living color.

1:02.8

Yes, remember the third season's theme song I mean in living color?

1:07.6

I used to record that religiously on my VCR and the music was, I guess one said back

1:14.8

then it was Fly.

1:16.6

Like the show's Fly Girls, Jennifer Lopez, anyway, the theme song first from the third season

1:21.4

by the way, I like this better than the first one.

1:24.2

Here we go.

1:51.4

So it's all about color this week.

1:54.9

And what I mean is this, you think that any language has words for both green and blue,

2:00.6

or do you think that any language that calls itself a language has words for pink and

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