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.

Stop.

From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language. I'm John McWhorter, and you know,

this is my last Lexicon Valley episode for Slate before we move to Booksmart. And for this last Slate show,

I want to indulge myself a bit while hopefully diverting you. It won't surprise a lot of you who've been

with me for a while. I want to finally just do a Valentine to my favorite language on earth,

and that is not English. It is Russian. What gets me so much about this one language that,

of course, I did not grow up with? I have had no cultural experience with it in terms of living

there or something like that. What is it about Russian? And you know what the real reason is?

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