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Is OK the best word? It's certainly one of the most versatile. Check the interesting history of this weird contraction.

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Focusing on the human animal, Robert and Joe continue their discussion of throwing ability and ponder how throwing ability may have impacted everything from language to ancient warfare. 

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If you're bilingual or multilingual, you may have noticed that different languages make you stretch in different ways. This week, we revisit a favorite 2018 conversation with cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky. She studies how the structure of the languages we speak can change the way we see the world. Then, a 2017 conversation with linguist and author John McWhorter, who shares how languages evolve, and why we're sometimes resistant to those changes.

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Today on the Matt Walsh Show we talk about lies, damned lies, and studies. The Left tells us to follow the science but often manipulates "the science" to fabricate the desired result. That's certainly the case with a new study "proving" that gender reassignment surgery is a wonderful thing for children. Also, some students in Virginia walk out in protest against policies that make them safer and protect their privacy. Don Lemon embarrassed himself gloriously on camera yet again. People seem to be very concerned about a sex scandal involving something called The Try Guys. And in our Daily Cancellation, Gen Z has found a new way to rebrand laziness. 

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John McWhorter teaches linguistics, philosophy, and music history at Columbia University, and writes for various publications on language issues and race issues such as Time, the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Beast, CNN, and the Atlantic. He told his mother he wanted to be a "book writer" when he was five, and is happy that it worked out.

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· Why John wrote a book on profanity

· Why we call it “swearing”

· Why people love the f-word

· How profanity “lives in the right brain”

· Why slurs sometimes become terms of affection

· Why every culture has slurs

· Why John thinks “the elect” is doing harm to society

· How to balance contrasting perspectives on racism

· John and Scott discuss the victim mentality

· Discerning between fact and fiction in racial justice

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Unless you're a complete recluse, you probably use your voice many times a day, whether talking to your spouse, chatting with co-workers, or singing along to music in the car. Yet, you've probably never thought all that much about something that's literally happening right under your nose.

My guest today says that once you do start thinking about your voice, it reveals fascinating secrets to who you are. His name is John Colapinto and he's the author of This Is the Voice. John and I begin our conversation with what exactly the voice is, how the voice develops in babies, why men and women speak in lower and higher voices, and what each sex finds attractive in the voice of the other. We then discuss why people develop accents, and how these accents set boundaries as to who is in and who is out of a group. We dig into the modern phenomena of vocal fry and uptalk, and how, when you end everything in a question, it can sound like you're a submissive supplicant. We get into how singing makes us feel super vulnerable, and why modern pop music can sound soulless when its inherent imperfections are stripped out. We end our conversation with the way our voices degrade as we age, and John's call to own and use your voice.

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In this 70th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens. 

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Mentioned in this episode:

These Seuss books: The Zax, Green Eggs and Ham, The Butter Battle Book, I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew, The Sneetches, The Shape of Me and Other Stuff, Oh the Places You’ll Go!, The Lorax, Horton Hears a Who!, McElligot’s Pool, And To Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street, The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

CNN says: “6 Dr. Seuss books won't be published anymore because they portray people in 'hurtful and wrong' ways”: https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/02/us/dr-seuss-books-cease-publication-trnd/index.html

“Learning for Justice” says “It's Time to Talk About Dr. Seuss”: https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/its-time-to-talk-about-dr-seuss

This 2019 paper says “The Cat is Out of the Bag: Orientalism, Anti-Blackness, and White Supremacy in Dr. Seuss's Children's Books”: https://sophia.stkate.edu/rdyl/vol1/iss2/4/

On Being A Fish: https://inference-review.com/article/on-being-a-fish

Paleolithic tools inform not just our understanding of prehistoric lives, but also the evolution and nature of the human mind. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe chat with Emory University’s Associate Professor of Anthropology Dr. Dietrich Stout about the hand ax, tool use and even "2001: A Space Odyssey.” (Originally published Nov. 13, 2018)

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If you're bilingual or multilingual, you may have noticed that different languages make you stretch in different ways. In this month's Radio Replay, we ask whether the structure of the languages we speak can change the way we see the world. We'll also look at how languages evolve, and why we're sometimes resistant to those changes.

An ancient people build a tower to touch the heavens. A vengeful god disrupts the project through the splintering of human language. Everyone’s left to pick up the pieces. The Tower of Babel myth resonates out from the Mesopotamian cradle of civilization, but what does it mean? Was there really a tower? Join Robert and Joe as they discuss everything from the art of Bruegel the Elder to 'Snow Crash.'

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Sure, euphemisms allow us to talk about something unpleasant or taboo without actually invoking the dreaded word or words -- but what else is going on? In this episode of the Stuff to Blow your Mind podcast, Robert and Joe explore the linguistic power of euphemisms to alter and transform the tone or meaning of everyday communication.

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