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 the morning of June 17, 2005, and Cristóbal Valenzuela was having a hard time focusing

on anything besides the television.

There was a breaking news story on the National Network in Chile.

A brazen art heist had taken place in Santiago's Museum of Fine Arts.

At the time, Cristóbal was a film student and like many Chileans back in 2005, he was

fascinated by the art heist.

That day, police frantically searched for the missing sculpture, a piece by Agust Roda,

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