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.

Stop.

From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

And this week, I want to get a lot, or at least a modest amount, out of a little.

I want to do one of those shows where we see that so much in this language that we speak,

in any language that you speak, is just full of

implications, full of fun facts, full of maybes and history, practically every syllable

you utter. And this week, I wanted to do, of all things, get this, this is what the whole

show is going to be about this week. Am, Just that form of the verb to be, just little old am. Whenever you hear somebody say am, there is so much to it that you would never think about. It's always been one of my favorite words. Sometimes people ask me for reasons I'm not quite sure of what my favorite word is. And for some reason,

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