That's Not What Irony Means, Alanis

Lexicon Valley

Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Language doesn't often do what you think it should. It’s as messy as almost anything that’s created by natural selection, but that’s what makes it so fun. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lexicon Valley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. A Booksmart Studios production. Episode 226: "That's Not What Irony Means, Alanis." With John McWhorter. Produced and edited by Mike Vuolo. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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.
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1:00.9	Stop.
1:06.4	From BookSmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.
1:11.4	I'm John McWhorter.
1:12.9	And, you know, not long ago, my sweetie and I saw the Broadway musical Jagged Little Pill.
1:19.5	And as many of you might know, that is a jukebox musical based on the songs of Alanis Morissette.
1:26.3	One of the songs that, of course, they include, because how
1:29.0	could they not, is the ironic song. Remember that one? From the 90s, of course, of course you do.
1:35.7	It's about these things that are supposedly ironic. And so what was it like somebody is very,
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