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Lexicon Valley

Getting Got

Lexicon Valley

Lexicon Valley

Society & Culture, Education

4.8611 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The many subtle nuances of one of our most common verbs. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lexicon Valley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. A Booksmart Studios production. Episode 202: "Getting Got." With John McWhorter. Produced and edited by Mike Vuolo. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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.

0:21.9

Like coffee date etiquette?

0:23.4

Best time to eat cereal.

0:24.9

And of course, whether you put your toilet paper over or under or around.

0:29.5

I don't know what around is.

0:30.9

I don't either, but I'm definitely an over man.

0:32.7

Yeah.

0:33.1

Every episode, we're joined by a celebrity guest who gives us their hottest takes on the stupidest,

0:38.7

smallest stuff.

0:39.6

Jocco Sims, Michelle Carrey, Alex Breckenridge, Pete Haversberger, Amber Childers.

0:46.6

Our goal is to solve the world's problems by finally figuring out the truth about crap that doesn't

0:51.8

matter.

0:52.3

So listen to Small Stupid Stuff on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:57.8

And watch us on YouTube, new episodes every Tuesday.

1:00.9

Stop.

1:04.4

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

1:12.9

I'm John McWhorter, and, you know, let's kick off with this bit of 90s delight as a

1:19.2

herald to what I want to share with you this time.

1:21.8

And now it's time for a breakdown.

1:23.6

Never going to get it, never going to get it.

1:25.9

Never going to get it.

1:27.2

Never going to get it. Never going to get it. Never going to get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it Never gonna get it That was so good But But you know what? This time, you are going to get it. And what I mean is that we're going to do get and got. This is one of those things. People have been asking me to do this for the whole four years I've been doing the show. And frankly, you know, somebody says, well, what's going on with I have gotten gotten and the fact that, you know, the British feel differently about it? And there's a little bit of me that kind of thinks because I hadn't really thought about it much before. I think, well, who cares? But then I realized, wait a minute. Actually, the whole story with getting gotten gotten is interesting. I actually have had reason to think about it a little bit

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