They Had a Good Year

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Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey everybody it's Tim Heidecker, you know me Tim and Eric Bridesmaids and fantastic four.
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0:59.6	The following podcast contains explicit language.
1:26.2	From Washington DC this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.
1:31.7	I'm Bob Garfield with Mike Voila and today episode number 78 titled They Had a Good Year
1:38.4	wherein we discuss the expanding role of our third person plural pronoun.
1:44.9	Hey Mikey.
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