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From Washington, D.C., this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

I'm Mike Voolo.

A while back, Bob Garfield and I were guests on the long-running podcast, The Gist,

with Mike Peska.

And we talked about, among other things, the whole 6-7 phenomenon, where it originated, how

it became a viral meme, and why ultimately dictionary.com

chose it as their word of the year. We ran that as a free episode, but here for premium subscribers

is one of the other words we talked about on the gist, gist.

On the show today, I shall bring you an entire show, just one of the most enjoyable conversations I've had, because it brought me back to yesteryear in my broadcasting career

with two old good friends.

Bob Garfield and Mike Volo are the erstwhile and now current hosts of Lexicon Valley,

a great podcast where they talk about words.

And you know how they do it?

By using words.

Now that is meta.

That is some meta stuff.

Mike and Bob of Lexicon Valley up next.

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