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Happy Birthday, OED!

Lexicon Valley

Lexicon Valley

Society & Culture, Education

4.8611 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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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.

1:05.0

From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language, and this week we're

1:14.3

celebrating the Oxford English Dictionary. Some of you may be familiar with that long, luscious

1:21.1

row of blue volume. Some of you may have it. Some of you may subscribe to it online, which is the way

1:27.1

one properly possesses its

1:28.9

richnesses today. And you should. This isn't like the Encyclopedia Britannica, for example,

1:34.3

I bought a big clunking set of those things. As soon as I had a real middle class income,

1:40.6

I puffed on my metaphorical pipe and put on my metaphorical slippers and I thought,

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