Come Under Scrutiny
Lexicon Valley
Lexicon Valley
4.8 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Ryan Eggled from TV shows like New Amsterdam, The Blacklist, and of course, leave it to Beaver. You're on that? I was the Beaver. Didn't know. And I'm Adam Rose, an actor on TV, blue cardigan guy on your social medias, and Avid Speedwalker. We're the hosts of Small Stupid Stuff, an important new podcast from Studio 71. Ryan and I talk about the big issues, the heavy questions, pressing topics. |
| 0:21.9 | Like coffee date etiquette? |
| 0:23.4 | Best time to eat cereal. |
| 0:24.9 | And of course, whether you put your toilet paper over or under or around. |
| 0:29.5 | I don't know what around is. |
| 0:30.9 | I don't either, but I'm definitely an over man. |
| 0:32.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.1 | Every episode, we're joined by a celebrity guest who gives us their hottest takes on the stupidest, |
| 0:38.7 | smallest stuff. |
| 0:39.6 | Jocco Sims, Michelle Carrey, Alex Breckenridge, Pete Haversberger, Amber Childers. |
| 0:46.6 | Our goal is to solve the world's problems by finally figuring out the truth about crap that doesn't |
| 0:51.8 | matter. |
| 0:52.3 | So listen to Small Stupid Stuff on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:57.8 | And watch us on YouTube, new episodes every Tuesday. |
| 1:01.0 | Stop. |
| 1:05.3 | From BookSmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley. |
| 1:10.7 | I'm John McWhorter, and I would like to discuss today something other than the fact that Merriam-Webster has decided to declare that it's okay to end a sentence with a preposition. |
| 1:24.5 | That has been some of the biggest news in language lately. And those of you |
| 1:29.9 | who know my drill on this show can imagine how I feel about that absolutely absurd preposition |
| 1:36.3 | stranding rule. But if I pull the camera back, what it makes me think is that we've been |
| 1:41.8 | misled now for centuries to think that one of the most interesting things |
| 1:46.7 | about language is the way most people, for some reason, seem to misuse it, rather than that in each |
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