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.

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

I'm John McWhorter, and since we're just past President's Day, and since I'm reading a wonderful book, Russell Shorto's Revolution song, really does make the Revolution War exciting.

And also, because one of you asked for this last week,

and you were right, I've been thinking about doing this for a long time, and I never quite get to it.

The founding fathers, what did the founding fathers sound like? How did they talk? Specifically,

did they have British accents? Is the idea that because British English was recent and America was in closer contact with Britain and more Brits were coming over and there hadn't been time for American English to form?

Did they sound like masterpiece theater, or to make a less dated reference, did the founding fathers sound like Downton Abbey and the Crown?

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