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Lexicon Valley

The Right Stuff

Lexicon Valley

Lexicon Valley

Society & Culture, Education

4.8611 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Like the French word 'droit,' English’s 'right' has taken on a number of useful metaphorical meanings. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lexicon Valley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. A Booksmart Studios production. Episode 257: "The Right Stuff." 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.

0:52.3

So listen to Small Stupid Stuff on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:57.8

And watch us on YouTube, new episodes every Tuesday.

1:05.0

From BookSmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

1:12.5

I'm John McWhorter, and listen to that music in the background.

1:16.7

That is from the 1978 Broadway production of the Fats Waller Music Review Ain't Misbehaving.

1:24.8

And the reason I have it on is not just because this number, the famous

1:27.9

this joint is jumping, is glorious, but because listen to what Andre de Shields says at the end.

1:35.1

Don't give your right name. No, no, no. I learn that idiom from this recording, and you hear it now and then,

1:45.0

especially in old things. I wouldn't use write that way, although I'm imagining that there are

1:49.1

possibly Americans who still do. But it's a nice illustration of just the word right in its

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