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And looking through some old papers, I came across some notes that I made in 2007 for a documentary called

The Joy of Lex. It aired on the Discovery Channel at the time. It was super fun. But the assignment

that they gave me was to go to New York City and look at the F line on the subway and follow all the stops in the F line and gather up language from each stop, from the history of each neighborhood and borough.

And so I've got these notes, and I figured in the spirit of recycling, that I could share some of this with you.

This is a very green show. Yes, I'd love to hear some. It's an incredibly rich history. I mean, we are talking about one of the major world cities, right? With millions of people. For example, gridlock comes from New York City. Is it right? Yeah, Gridlock Sam wrote for one of the newspapers and coined the term to refer to cars being stuck in the middle

of an intersection.

Oh, no kidding.

Dude, of course, you probably knew that.

Comes from New York City in the 1800s.

Rotissory baseball.

Rotissory baseball.

I don't know what that is.

It's kind of like fantasy baseball.

Okay.

Kind of like that.

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