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

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From BookSmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language, and this time, I want to talk about something that I've been reading.

The Ambassadors, which is one of Henry James's late novels.

You know, James is always interesting for various reasons, and one of them is, at least for me,

and you might predict what it would be, the language, how he used, how he wrote the English

language.

And when reading, especially a book like that, somebody like me, a linguist, and also me,

is always thinking partly of the content, but then partly not what people are saying, but how

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