Episodios

  • 6 7: Everything You Don't Know About the Word of the Year

    6 7: Everything You Don't Know About the Word of the Year
    Dec 2 2025
    Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield join Mike Pesca of The Gist to talk about the long, strange journey of 6 7, from rapper Skrilla to the basketball court, from the classroom to the Word of the Year. X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    16 m
  • Gobbledygook Explained

    Gobbledygook Explained
    Nov 18 2025
    Gobbledygook sounds like one of those words that somebody just made up — so is it? X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    22 m
  • Gen Alpha Thinks You're Cringe

    Gen Alpha Thinks You're Cringe
    Oct 28 2025
    Our parents were cringe-inducing but we're just cringe. Twitter: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    22 m
  • The Amazing Great

    The Amazing Great
    Oct 7 2025
    Good is no longer good enough. Everyone is awesome, superlative or simply great. Twitter: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    18 m
  • It's Been a Minute

    It's Been a Minute
    Sep 15 2025
    Returning as the primary hosts of Lexicon Valley, Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield speak to John McWhorter about understatement and hyperbole in Black English. Twitter: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    23 m
  • Ask Not ...?

    Ask Not ...?
    Sep 4 2025
    Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield interview Richard Tofel on his book Sound the Trumpet: The Making of John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, revealing the startling authorship behind JFK’s most famous words in this long unavailable episode from our archive. Twitter: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    29 m
  • The American Accent Came First

    The American Accent Came First
    Jul 9 2025
    What did English sound like during the Revolutionary War? John has a number of fascinating observations about the way the language was spoken back then — including the accents! Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    32 m
  • Oversleeping at the Sleepover

    Oversleeping at the Sleepover
    May 20 2025
    Over isn’t just the opposite of under and off is not necessarily the opposite of on. John explains. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    27 m