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

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From Book Smart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language. I'm John McWhorter, and this is a part two.

In our last episode, we started covering a family, a language family that's both very familiar, but in many unexpected ways unfamiliar to us, and that is good old Indo-European.

And I talked about proto-Indo-European and what happened to it, how it started in what is now

Ukraine and would have spread in both directions, west and east, after some preliminary

spreadings that became the Hittite language in its relatives in what is today

Turkey and the mysterious tokarian languages in what is today of all things China. And I want to just

keep right going with an impression that many Indo-European languages tend to give us from English,

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