Language supposedly has all these rules.

Most of us never have to think about those rules, but the hidden hand of language guides

nearly every interaction we have with other people, determining whether we connect, entertain,

confuse, insult, or dazzle the people we communicate with.

In Radio Lingo, the new podcast from Duo Lingo and Crooked Media, we explore how language

shapes our world and how our world shapes language.

I'm Amadella Yuckwer.

I'm an audio journalist and James Beard Award winning writer.

I am an awe-void language.

It's complexity and it's simplicity.

The way we can use it to create both distance and understanding.

I'm going to be your guide.

Join us as we take you on a linguistic journey.

From Crooked Media and Duo Lingo, this is Radio Lingo.

New episodes of Tuesdays on your favorite podcast apps.

It was September 9, 1981 and from outside it seemed like any other Wednesday at the Museum

of Modern Art or MoMA in New York, but inside something unprecedented was taking place.

A group of people was working on a top secret mission.

One of them was Alvaro Martinez Novillo, a Spanish museum curator.

That day I felt a great responsibility because we had a very important mission, related

to a very special painting.

The Garnica.

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