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, and right now I'm on the steps of what I now know I should call Ukraine, not the Ukraine. And today's lesson will be about the word yes, about sex and about rhythm. You know, just hear me out. In any case, here is our

opening music, and this is from the musical Kismet. This is some of the opening scene setting music,

some of the loveliest cheap song I've ever heard beautifully orchestrated. I think Kismet is too saccharin for most people today, but there is some really excellent music making in it.

So this is our music for the steps of the Ukraine, just because this is how I imagine it.

So listen to it back there.

It's probably 6,000 years ago, and the people are speaking a language that they'd soon wheel into Western

Europe, not to mention Iran and India, and this would seed the languages that we think of as

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