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, you know, folks, this week as we go into some of the darkest weeks of the year, and as we come up upon the holiday season, for which I think many of us have ambiguous feelings,

both warm and trepidacious, if that's a word, I decided to do a show that I've been holding off on for a long time.

But I really do find this an interesting subject.

But nevertheless, and some of you might have guessed already, the reason I've held off on this is because we're going to have to get a little profane with

this show. And the simple matter is that when we're talking about word histories, when we're

talking about how language has changed, as often as not, the dirty words histories are more

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