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 New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language. I'm John McWhorter, and today I want to tell you a story. It is a great story. It's a story that I have devoted some of my academic career to unearthing, and it's about Creole languages. Many Creole languages are spoken in the Caribbean,

and so, of course, that brings on our first song cue. This is Lena Horn, and believe it or not,

Ricardo Montalban of Fantasy Island fame, and they were in a Broadway show in 1956 and it was called Jamaica and here they are singing

I don't think I'll end it all today let's open with this when I see the world and it's wonders

what is there to say I don't think oh no I don't think I'll end it all today

Fish in sea and sun in the heavens sailboat in the bay

I don't think or no I don't think I'll end it all today

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