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, and I was John McWhorter at Windmore Montessori School in Philadelphia in 1971, too.

And I will never forget the afternoon I bit the dust in the spelling bee. There are other things that I should

remember more about that time. I remember Jeffrey Nussbaum. He used to throw his own feces around

in the class, like a monkey in a zoo. He thought it was very funny. They expelled him. Or there was little Philip. Philip was a chunky boy,

always with a smile. He was like something out of a silent film, but his parents would always send

him to school with a tin of sardines. And that's how I learned the joy of sardines. He would

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