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.

Like coffee date etiquette?

Best time to eat cereal.

And of course, whether you put your toilet paper over or under or around.

I don't know what around is.

I don't either, but I'm definitely an over man.

Yeah.

Every episode, we're joined by a celebrity guest who gives us their hottest takes on the stupidest,

smallest stuff.

Jocco Sims, Michelle Carrey, Alex Breckenridge, Pete Haversberger, Amber Childers.

Our goal is to solve the world's problems by finally figuring out the truth about crap that doesn't

matter.

So listen to Small Stupid Stuff on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

And watch us on YouTube, new episodes every Tuesday.

Stop.

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

I'm John McWhorter. I'm in a closet, and this week I would like to make an exception.

What I mean by that is that usually I like to maintain the little fiction that this show comes from an actual valley called Lexicon Valley where everything is always happy, and that's why the show is not usually particularly topical. But obviously, there are certain things going on right now around the world that really, if I didn't address it in any way, I wouldn't be doing my job.

A lot of you have been asking.

And so I'm going to devote this episode to the COVID-19 virus and its implications for language,

what it can teach us about language.

The truth is, the topic is not as juicy as you might think.

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