Valerie Fridland: English evolves, like ...

She’s had a love-hate relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald since she was a teenager. And she’s now written a wonderful new take on The Great Gatsby, reimagining the story with a cast of the Black elite in post-war Los Angeles. 

An old friend of Clear and Vivid is back to enlighten Alan on some of the oddities of human behavior – both good and bad – and to talk about his entertaining new podcast, Father Offspring Interviews, hosted by his daughter. 

From his long running role as Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, to his recent Broadway appearance in Glenngary Glen Ross, and his new incarnation as an off-beat action hero in the movies Nobody and Nobody 2, Bob Odenkirk does it all. 

Valerie Fridland (Like, Literally, Dude) is a professor, sociolinguist, and author. Valerie joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why people dislike the word "moist" so much, how accents are a part of social identity, and where modern English developed from. Valerie and Dax talk a ... Show More

1004. This week, Karen Yin, author of "The Conscious Style Guide," discusses the concept of conscious language and its importance in promoting equity and respect. We explore the differences between conscious language and political correctness, the evolution of the singular "they, ... Show More

On The Gist, Trump isn’t strategic or defiant, he’s just rapacious. When discussing #MeToo, the focus is often on the power that men exerted when sexually harassing women, but are their sexual motivations getting left out of the conversation? Emily Yoffe wrote about this in her n ... Show More

Celle que je reçois ce mois-ci fait bouger les lignes de notre sexualité... Nous prouve depuis maintenant 6 ans que notre clito est tout aussi puissant que le sexe de ces messieurs...Que notre plaisir est roi... et ce quoi qu’en pense le patriarcat...Notre liberté de jouir elle e ... Show More

Ricki is absolutely fuming after watching Meghan Markle's new Netflix special With Love, Meghan. We dive deep into all the moments that left Ricki rolling her eyes — from the awkward interviews to that cringeworthy moment when Mindy Kaling calls her Meghan Markle, and Meghan corr ... Show More

Pourquoi avons-nous autant de mal à parler de sexualité – même dans les relations les plus intimes ? et surtout a se connaître dans ce domaine ?Pourquoi tant de femmes et d’hommes finissent par se croire “bloqués”, “anormaux” ou “froids”, alors qu’ils n’ont souvent simplement jam ... Show More

In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we are start out looking at whether there is actually any difference between various men’s and women’s bathroom products like shaving cream, razors, etc and why women pay more for basically everything. We also have a brief message from a sp ... Show More

Trigger warning: Stuff gets aggressively horny in this episode! Based off a listener suggestion, Connor and Dan dive into the twisted world of French intellectual figure Georges Bataille who dabbled in everything from economics to mysticism to eroticism because that's just the ki ... Show More

Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Elizabeth Peterson about language ideologies and what we think when we hear different varieties of English. The conversation centers around Dr Peterson’s 2020 book Making Sense of 'Bad English': An Introduction to Language Attitudes and Ideologies (Rout ... Show More

Forks on teeth. Lip smacking. Metal on metal. (Don’t worry, there are no sonic examples of triggers in this episode!) Why do some of us haaaate certain noises and other folks cannot comprehend how a sound could be so irritating? Let’s meet in the middle with a professional Misoph ... Show More