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. Happy New Year, and let's just go right into it.

It's something that irritates a lot of you, and you know, to a tiny extent, me too,

but when it irritates you, what you want to do is trace it and face it and not erase it, but explain it. I can't make that rhyme. But what I'm talking about is this. You've got a crisis, all right, and boy, do we? This week, well, crisis, crises. That's the technical plural. I don't use it. I say crises. But you can say crises.

Analysis. Well, if there are two of them, then analyses. Okay. Genesis, genesis.

Parentheses. I think a lot of us are a little insecure about it because, you know, when do you talk about one of them?

But I think we know intellectually it's a parenthesis.

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