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.

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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.

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From BookSmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

I'm John McWhorter, and today I want to look at something that is a tasty little factoid

and what it can teach us about how to look at languages and their relationships, how languages change. And so, here's

something to know. In Thai of Thailand, the word for fire is fai. The word for die is die.

The word for rim is rim. So, phi, die, rim. There are words for fire, die, and rim. What do you make of that?

Is there a reason? Why are those three words so similar to ours? And you can know that there are more, but those three are particularly striking.

What's going on there?

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