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.

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From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language. I'm John McWhorter, and

let's begin with some Steven Sondheim. This is actually, for those of you who care about such

things, my very favorite musical. This is a little night music, and this is a song called Now. It is a middle-aged man who has

married a much younger woman, and certain things haven't happened yet, and he's feeling kind of

self-conscious about it. This is my favorite part of the song. On top of my head, like a siren.

Hey, I could put on my nightshirt or sit disarmingly be in the nude. Oh, Frederick, you should have seen the great arrival. That might be effective. My body's all right, but not in perspective and not of the light. Poor Henrik! How comical he looked. I'm bound to be chilly and feel a buffoon, but night shirts are silly in mid-afternoon. Why a virtuous people so stiff? Which leaves the suggestive, but how to proceed, although she gets restive, perhaps I could read. He gave a coachman the tiny old tip. In view of her penchant for something romantic, dishonest, entrenched it, and dickens too frantic, and Stendall would ruin the plan of attack, as there isn't much blue in the red and the black. The poem Domo person's candor would cause or dismay The brunt is a grander,

But ruin the plan of attack as there isn't much blue in the red and the black.

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