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 BookSmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

I'm John McWhorter. Today, I want to discuss a rather sensitive issue.

This is not going to be a gloomy thing, but I want to address the issue of language revival in a way that reflects the sorts of things that I've been thinking lately.

And our theme, what causes concern about all of these things, is what's called language death.

You're always listening to me talking about the 7,000 languages in the world.

And the truth is that we're on our way to possibly only having a few hundred languages actually being passed on to children in the world. The vast array of languages in the world are under the same kind of threat

as flora and fauna are. It's one thing for me to give some list of languages in some part of the

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