13 Burst results for "John Linnell"
Couples Therapy
"john linnell" Discussed on Couples Therapy
"Slay. I'd say, you know, in this calendar year, 58, 70, whatever. Yeah. For us. That's Jews. This calendar year, I would say that you come into your power a little more. That's something to be proud of. Thank you very much. Then I'll take it. I am more in my power as I'm way closer to death. So that's gorgeous. How you feeling, Andy? How does it feel to be with an older woman? Meaning a woman who has gotten older who has gone, right? Still younger than me. That's true. That's true. Still useful even though I would say you look younger than me. I think we both look. I think we both look young. Deceptively. Deceptively. Which I love because I'm all about deception. But truly, if I did not use moisturizer, I would look like the crypt keeper. Oh my God, you would never look like a crypt keeper. Your cheeks are too full. You know crip keeper. He's all gone. Boy said goals if I don't use my moisture. Die, sir. Okay. Okay. We're gonna blame it. Sorry, that's more like what the crypt keeper sounds like. That's not nice in people's ears. Remember it's my birthday. It's true, you know what? We made a vow 11 years ago. I promised on her birthday would not try to do the crypt keepers voice. And I'm sorry I failed you this year, Naomi. It's okay. It's okay. You were really good for 7 years in a row. Naomi. Yes. On this special day of days. Yes. We have a special episode, because we have a good friend on this one. You got a dear friend, a truly wonderful soul who has taken us in in Los Angeles, the hysterical, the brilliant Jennifer Friedman. Jenna is a writer, a comedian. Perhaps you know her show soft focus on Adult Swim. Perhaps you saw the Borat sequel that she co wrote. And was Oscar nominated for Oscar numb baby. But right now, you can watch Jenna's new show indefensible on Sundance TV and it is in the true crime space, but it is smart. It is incisive. It is educational. She's basically taking to task and calling out somebody's crazy. Not just what these people have done, but how they've managed to get away with it. I'm telling you. I'm telling you you will be infuriated, but you will also laugh. And if that's not living, I don't know. Yeah, if that isn't life in 2021, then I don't know what else would be a better avatar before existence. Right. Now Naomi, where can people see this? They can see it on Sundance TV. Hell yes. The AMC plus app. Great. All right. And just like get in there, find it, make it happen, watch it, okay? No excuses. It's so great and Jenna. I mean, she's out here directing this thing, getting that edit together. This is her baby, okay? This is her baby. You've got to at least say, I saw your baby and your baby is cute. Do you think we cracked Jenna? I don't think we cracked her. No, God, no, it's so funny for someone who is a dear friend, no he didn't crack her. I think it's because she is a cracker that can't be correct. Holy shit. Okay, now that? Was your birthday gift to me? You saying a cracker that can be cracked? That shit, I'm dead. I'm dead. That is wild and gorgeous and beautiful. And that is a real tender gift. Who hold on, let's just sit in it for one more second. Cracker, I can't be correct. Oh my God. I can't wait. Now before we get into Jenna though, I think we need to tell people about what we be doing off the free feed. Oh, yeah. So yes. We have a Patreon. It helps support. I would say 90% of the show. Absolutely. And twice a month. We're coming at you. With episodes that are just me and Naomi. We're spilling tea. We're recommending movie shows and music. We're taking you behind the sick curtain of showbiz behind the sick curtain of our relationship. I won't call that a sick card. I would say the sicker in the show biz or perhaps the beloved curtain of our love. Healthy curtain. There's a pretty much I would say, I would say, I would say pretty healthy curtain. A sick curtain curtain a Jane curtain. The options in this relationship. I know that was more free. That was more you. Thank you. Making a Jane curtain referenced. I said, who's this for? Angel background. After he gave me a cracker who could be cracked, I had to give him back something nowhere near as nice. But the point is the patriot had a two episodes a month for just 5 books. We are having fun. We're communicating. You're getting a deep dive with us on all sorts of things that we don't cover here because, you know, usually we're answering questions with a guest. Yeah, and it really does help support the show because we do all the work ourselves. Yes, absolutely. You know, mostly Andrew, I would say, you know, the editing of the booking. This mixing the engineering, you know? And so honestly, every bit helps every Djibouti shirt ubi help. Yeah. And before we get into it, I just want a quick plug for my other podcast beginnings. Can you believe him? Tupac has been fucking killing it with this show. Doing some really great interviews. So basically, on the show, I do deep dives into the childhoods and early lives of artists I admire. And just in the last year I've talked to people like Ron Moore, the creator of the new Battlestar Galactica, Michaela Watkins, who is a guest on this show. It's been on every TV show in the world. Ian mackaye of fugazi, and coming up, this is why I want to just put a little plug out here because the 12th anniversary is coming up next year. Andy's been with this podcast longer than he's been with me. Okay, this is his longest relationship. I just did some amazing interviews. John linnell, they might be giants coming up. And Rebecca gibney, a wonderful New Zealand actor who you co creator have also this Netflix show wanted, which is just brilliant. And those were really great. So I just wanted to, I don't know, I feel I feel a little shamed, but I'm also ashamed. I feel proud. I think I do really good interviews on that. You do great interviews. The people who have come on have been loving it, the listeners are loving it. You put a lot of work in honey, you dive deep. You're like an indie rock Dr. Phil. Oh no, don't know. He's bad, but I couldn't think of like another person that other people would know. You like an indie rock a young girl and saying like an indie rock, Doctor Oz. I'm like, no, no, not that one. Either. You're an indie rock. You're an Indian rock, doctor mangela? It's getting worse. Oh boy. You know what? We are off the rails and we need to get to Jenna, okay? Hey, before we do, happy birthday Naomi. Thanks, Andy. Is it because of my birthday do I get to say it? Roll it..
Lexicon Valley
"john linnell" Discussed on Lexicon Valley
"Alphabet in addition to those characters. Yes and so. This is something that your listeners might have seen us rate and try different things because if you think about presenting all of this information on on a pretty small mobile screen typically. There's a lot that we want to give you at once. We want to give you the characters. We want to give you the meaning. We want to give you a way to learn about how these characters sound and we also want to give you the opinion and you'll see different ways that we we try to to integrate those that make sense again without overwhelming learners but giving them enough to again feel like they're making progress to start piecing together writing with meaning with sound and it's not easy especially on one screen where we don't have a lot of space and and it it. It's tricky to kind of balance all of those features for learners who have really different motivations especially chinese is a good example where we have lots of learners. Who really want to build up like a written fluency. They want literacy in the language to maybe especially if they want to study or live in china but for other learners. Who are maybe interested for more family reasons or really want to feel conversational language. The writing system might not be what's drawing them to the language or or what is necessarily their interest and so whenever were balancing all of these features we want to do is best for most learners Again without overwhelming them yet very cool and then you mentioned people have sort of different motivations bring them to language learning and i've seen a lot online about how apps like dueling are being used to civically for language revitalization activism which is very cool. What can you tell us about how you work with speakers of marginalized and endangered languages. Yeah so we have a history of this for years of working really closely with the communities some selves to develop language courses and there's kind of been a combination of ways. We've done this. So sometimes the groups might come to us Like we worked with the hawaiian group. Command may have these are Schools in hawaii. That wanted to teach hawaiian to hawaiian children in the schools. There and say they had already developed a lot of online infrastructure and tools themselves and so this was great like synergy this combination of their expertise and interest and like tech savvy with our existing tools and platforms. And so so. There's we now offer hawaiian chorus. We also offer a novel. Ho course which again we worked with the navajo nation and educators there to to build the navajo course and we. There are several other language courses that we offer that are underrepresented or maybe just under taught and underrepresented languages or indigenous or endangered. And so these include like johnnie which is an indigenous language from South america with people Speakers and whole bunch of places. I think argentina brazil. Bolivia there's there's a lot of paraguay specifically to paraguay. Because i was interested in guarani and the people in power guy where like what because very few people outside are interested in studying it. I didn't even know there was guarini. I'm going to have to get on that. yeah yeah nicole. It'll be a good fit for you. Because the gluttony course is designed for spanish speaker so you need to know spanish in order to learn any again. This is thinking really about those communities there who are most likely to be interacting with guarani speakers. And so what are the we really think about. Who the course is serving. When we're making decisions about you know well. Why don't we have any from for english speakers and maybe we will one day but really the the main community we want wanna serve with. That course is spanish speaking community so for these underrepresented languages. I'm guessing you're not using some sort of text to speech technology in order to generate the sentences that we hear. So you're working with Native speakers of all of these languages to build up the sentences that are used in the courses yet. This is a great point. Band traditionally for for most of our courses. We had been using text to speech services from amazon. But these these kind of right. We're teaching many more languages than a lot of these companies are prepared to help us move from text. To speech. And so for languages like navajos like yiddish. Like hawaiian where. We can't do this automatic translation we have our contributors right so the native speakers the teachers from these communities themselves doing those and so earlier this year. We release the yiddish course which was really interesting. Linguistically for a lot of reasons but including the group had to decide which dialect and which accent to use to teach in the course. And so the recordings that you'll hear in the course are from the actual course creators themselves yiddish speakers who designed the curriculum. And i think we have some examples from that yet case that you mentioned latino a couple just to get an idea of what it sounds like kim sti. So that's where do you come from in the is mom bubka and that's where is my bubka bubka. Does that get translated gets translated the same english. So those they send you what we're hearing there. The yiddish speakers that assisted in the development. Of course right. Yeah not just assisted. They wrote the curriculum. So these were really talented group of yiddish english bilingual's who were really they. They have like a deep knowledge of both. Like the culture and the language and how to teach yiddish. So of course knowing language doesn't always mean that you know how to teach it but this was a really talented group of teachers from the lots of communities who recorded these so cindy back on the very first episode of spectacular vernacular. We talked to John linnell they might be giants and he talks about how he had been spending the pandemic learning latin on duo lingo and that led to him making a whole ep full of songs written in latin. So could you tell us. I mean since the you know especially the past year or two trends that have emerged in the use of dueling. Go and all these different languages. So there's so many interesting things that happened you know. We all found ourselves in this awful situation at the start of the pandemic and we look for all kinds of ways to support feeling connected and building community. And maybe doing things. We've been meaning to do for a long time. And so i think this is what we see. In our language data at jalingo is that there was this huge influx of brand new learners to the platform in march and april twenty. Twenty that In those first weeks thirty million new learners joined to lingo. I loved seeing the distribution of the languages that people wanted to study and so of course there were lots and lots of people who were suddenly learning from home or they're in person. Language classes had been forced to turn into online classes over night and so there are lots of french and spanish learners in the us for example that we're using do lingo to supplement or help with their language study but for even more people. They took advantage of this time to study language. Not really personally. I've meaningful to them and so we can see for example in ireland. In the last year irish has been the most popular language to study in ireland surpassing spanish for the very first time there And so the way. I think of that kind of movement is that you know. We were really seeking ways to be engaged. Be a part of our community and for people in a place like ireland this mentha. You know there's this thing that's been happening in my community i've been hearing about. Maybe this is a chance to connect with this part of myself with this part of my culture and we we see that kind of all all over the world that there is a really big increase in interest in east asian languages especially and korean all over the world and so i think this is people wanting to connect with their interests and their cultures in in a way that realized they finally.
Do By Friday
"john linnell" Discussed on Do By Friday
"It's almost confusing. Because she's wearing something else because it's so cold and it it's it's a really sad story honestly except it's almost like though that feeling of like with photos of people on wikipedia famously. You look nice today. Remarking honest delgates wikipedia photo. Which i think is still i should look it up. I wonder if it's the same terrible photo or like I just grabbed a copy of the difficult to find Because of kirks episode nine ended up wanting to rewatch gigantic a tale of two johns. And i should send you the photo that they have of john. Linnell 'cause with still getting you find that the best photo they could get in this case. This is probably the best we case kelly. She belonged and really cute her. Yes but describes like one fourth of survival. Sorry that's true but she did have a purple streak pair. And that's probably why people are like. I remember purple. Kelly the talked about her a bunch. You never see her like you found. This article is stuck. We'll put in show notes from something called chichi dot com and it is survivor or colin. What is a purple it. And how can fans spot it. And so just going down a little bit here when purple kelly and Naoka mixing quit the villain. It was late enough in the game that they both made the jury. Wow janka name is still remembered. Years later for her villainous antics purple. Kelly has become one of the. Most forgettable castaways reasons because in the eleven episodes of survivor that she was in purple kelly received. Just one confessional. The camera prior to her vote. She had no story arc and hardly made any moves in the game. It's really and What's his name john. Jock jar john. Ever whoever the winner was was like her best friend and he was just nice to everybody. And i think unfortunately dearly departed purple. Kelly made the show a lot better. Because it's the seasons where the The terrain is genuinely very dangerous. That aren't very good because it's much more fun to watch people think i'm thinking of this one that might be. I wanna say like even like the third very early season and you could tell they were still trying different things out and there's one where it's basically like what i remember boy scout camping like there's one with the gotta like Like it's not very well. Shod gotta like walk on logs and there's a lot of that kind of stuff sort of as you say it's before they seem to really fully even as as we saw early on with richard hatch. It seems like they still hadn't gotten what we tune in for is not always the eyeball eating. It's the you know figuring out who's gonna be. Which kind of character. And how they make deals and stuff and then one african say kind of a guy has no one african american lady. I really like kind of like a slightly heavy ish. She's been back for some all stars right. Sirri sirri must be surreal. Yes she's terrific. There's other ones you just love. Because they're a train wreck you go enjoy them for their disordered eating you know. Oh god what's your name sugar. No sugar no sugar sugar and the gal the burlesque. Gow who's the Never mind i'm not gonna talk about this but there's the one one lady who's very very slender upsetting. Well i mean they get very very slender very quickly or at least they used to and they figured out a way to i survivor. I think was the first pioneered the way for southern gays because it it hit the cuanto on them or not as they just sound that way. Now i mean okay. We're talking about you talking about nick. Nick no no. No not nick blazer man just take off the blazer what are you doing. Because the producers have more control of the close then one would hope so. It's like is it really because of course like if you're doing a confessional you want something to associate to how you want people to especially when there's a lot especially when it's not like we're all macs with a pdf of who are pixar is a lot to keep straight at first and as you say there's a lot of you know pretty people and there's always people like. Who's the skeleton looking guy. Tie tie i tyler tyrone therese. There's the one the skinny guy who's been back for all stars. There's some people who are instantly recognizable known. I mean like like christian. I wanna say people But you need a way to be able to identify people i guess. And that's also why they tend to get a bit further as well. I don't know if this is the case. In the most recent season but the producers will kind of like egg people onto just like every reality show. This is not unique to survivor. The ono someone coming in and give me because giving away reality tv secrets. Oh there was a loud siren young unfortunately because of the patriot act. I cannot give you details but you are going to. You're going to you're going to jail for a very very long time. You'll be served squares. I would empty surprised and we need to get to chernobyl. But i need to ask you. Yes speaking of likable characters wal boy. I need to ask you to close up this threat. Thank you everyone for for visiting with us. It's a very strange week. If you let's take it as read that this the squares really take off. Because they're just so as my family's yom's alicia everybody loves. Aw gotta cantaloupe square. I got a. I got a Obviously keen wa squares all things that kids love eventually get so popular that they will make you your own fifty grams squares. If you're gonna go into this guy. His name i still haven't learned you have the opportunity to get. Let's say three different kinds of bespoke. Alex only squares made and assuming that i'm assuming a lot here but assuming that the texture would what would you ask for what what are your special squares A peanut butter like a very kind of kito cookie. Peanut butter style. One one that it seems like they have just shoving sends the power bar. That's kind of a power bars It's definitely less. i'm. I'm coming at this with like all right. What what are these things that i can. Only what would you actually eat. Look forward to eating. I am that. I can only eat for the rest of time. I'm going to say the peanut butter. One nestor's packed with protein. A one of like a veggie square that has as much vegetables and all those bullshit by easy and then i mean i guess warning wondering like how could i get it with a spoon. Like a weirdo. No no i can't. I got i got us the gullet. Just too big spoon. Alex di ya airport case spoon to see for you. It's really more like medicine. It's a medicinal is a prophylactic just jamming your face. Close your eyes and think of england and down. Yeah yeah so. I think if they could make you should contact them and say look. I'm an investor. I think these look way too. Delicious grill marks off. This should be more like taking food based vitamin it should be extremely unpleasant and should be full of things that no one likes and i think that would be huge. It says one hundred percent natural ready to eat nutritionally balanced and hope dot. There's an ellipses and then there's a space between the abc's an incredibly tasty. I don't like that on the by did click on the invest. Yep in highly. it's that's number one. It goes to we funder we under we under way. Oh oh alex alex. Wait a minute how long it's been going because they're not doing rate now. They aren't Forty-five investors alex. You're gonna really need to put some wood behind the arrow of usa. They all have one hundred and fifty thousand dollars..
Lexicon Valley
"john linnell" Discussed on Lexicon Valley
"Pretty smart. Get six three months of instant inc when you choose. Hp plus conditions apply visit. Hp dot com slash. Smart for details. This episode is brought to you by made. Well ready to step up your denim game. The experts at made well us premium fabric and the latest denim technology to make super comfy. Never wanted to take them off. Genes in fits and styles for everyone kind of jeans. You'll reach for again and again get twenty dollars off your online jeans. Purchase by using code spotify twenty at made well dot com terms apply. Please see made well dot com slash promos for full offer details. Welcome back in this final segment. We're going to be playing with language. That's right We wanna end each show with a little bit of word play. And we're going to try out some puzzling things. About language for future episodes we would love to have listeners. Join in the fun. So if you're interested please. Contact us at spectacular at slate dot com and we begin in touch with you But for now i'm going to be trying to stump nicole with a a little quiz and nicole. I understand you. You have some experience in quizzing circles. You could say that. I don't want to brag. But on i've been on the chase and who wants to be a millionaire and i'm also a question writer for the pub quiz company geeks who drink. I've been doing trivia stuff. Since i was a kid but unlike you have not been puzzling since my youth so i have to admit i am a little nervous. Oh it'll be fine. It'll be fine. Yeah i i do love word puzzles and word play and Lately i've actually been involved in a new venture called beyond word play where we explore. How language can intersect with technology and art in pop culture in all sorts of fun ways and at this year's american crossword puzzle tournament which was held online the beyond wordplay crew actually hosted a virtual game room and nicole. I thought i would share with you. Some of the word puzzles we presented at that gay room. What do you think all right. I guess i'm game okay. Great well i let me explain that. The theme of this game room that we had at the american crossword puzzle tournament was super vo calix. What is a super bowl catholic. Well it's a word or phrase that has all the vowel letters so that's a e i o u and sometimes y once and only once so the challenge for you to call. You're going to have to figure out answers. That are super vocaltec. Based on crossword style clues that are themselves super vocab alec so let me just gallo valla inception. It's very meta. Yeah okay. So if i ask you to come up with a nine letter word that means half serious you can rack your brains and think about that one but i can also give you a hint for this one. You might notice that. Half serious has the vowel letters a e. I o you all in alphabetical order. So the answer also is like that. Can you think of a nine letter word. That means half serious. That also has those vowel letters all in alphabetical order. Serious may i thought was like sarcastic but that doesn't work too many as it helps. Perhaps though you s at the end of this word theory half serious oh my goodness. I'm not going to be in serious. You might be facetious there. You go which is right. Okay so Let's try another one and this time We're going to put some time on the clock. We're going to try and see if you can get this in thirty seconds and listeners. See if you can get it in thirty seconds. We're looking for an eight letter word. That is super kalyk and means absolute bliss. Let's start the clock okay. So my first thought was something like paradise but that doesn't come all the velos can be any order and in fact. This one has a couple of at the beginning. A couple of hours at the end if that helps. Okay up the hippie an order over goodness. Oh i think i know it is it. Euphoria euphoria is correct. Well done you figured it out all right see. That wasn't so bad. was it well. At least i'm not gonna you know. Walk away with zero. You're doing great. Let's try another one and see how you do with this one this time. We're looking for an eleven letter word and this one means going past purple going past purposes. Your clue let's put thirty seconds on the clock what is purple and senate them for purple. It's these are really hard. Eleven eleven letters three letters. Okay think i might have any idea. Is it ultraviolet ultraviolet. Is the answer. Well done again. You got it right. Going past purple has all the vowels as does ultraviolet. Let's try just one more and see how you do this time. We're going to go with a twelve letter word. Can you think of a twelve letter. Word with this clue. Dream forming drug okay. Let's put thirty seconds on the clock again. Streams forming trod. What all of those weird sleep medicine. More common word. Not a trademark general eleven days. This is actually twelve letters. We need a twelve letter word. Can you think i have the. I don't know what the ending is going to be. I think is it ho loosening. Jen you got it. That's right hallucinogen not hallucinogenic because that would have an extra. I loosened so i don't know how many letters he didn't amazing job with that. All in your head very impressive work. Thank you nicole for playing along with that and if you would like to share your own super bowl catholic wordplay with us Feel free to reach out to us again. Our email addresses spectacular at slate dot com. And as we mentioned you can also use that email address to let us know if you would like to take part in a future episode where we'll be bringing in listeners for some challenging word play so that's it for this week. We hope you've enjoyed the show if you have remembered to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. And you'll never miss an episode and please consider subscribing to sleep plus. I am asleep. Plus member plus members. Yeah us sleep. Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any sleep. Podcast bonus episodes of shows like slow-burn and big little mood with daniel and lavery it's only one dollar for the first month to learn more. Go to sleep. Dot com slash spectacular. Thank you so much to john. Linnell for being our guest this week. Spectacular vernacular is produced by jasmin. Ls and shane iraq june. Thomas is sleep late. Podcasts senior. Managing producer and gabriel. Roth is podcasts editorial director. we'll be back in two weeks with a closer look at the scripts national spelling bee expert listening..
Lexicon Valley
"john linnell" Discussed on Lexicon Valley
"Welcome back in this final segment. We're going to be praying with england's. Yeah that's right We wanna end each show with a little bit of word play. And we're going to try out some puzzling things. About language for future episodes we would love to have listeners. Join in the fun. So if you're interested please. Contact us at spectacular at slate dot com and we begin touch with you But for. Now i'm going to be trying to stump nicole with a little quiz and nicole. I understand you. You have some experience in quizzing circles. You could say that. I don't wanna brag. But on. I've been on the chase and who wants to be a millionaire and i'm also a question writer for the pub quiz company geeks who drink. I've been doing trivia stuff. Since i was a kid but unlike you. I have not been puzzling. Since my youth so i have to admit i'm a little nervous. It'll be fine it'll be fine. Yeah i i do love word puzzles and word play and Lately i've actually been involved in a new venture called beyond word play where we explore. How language can intersect with technology and art and pop culture in all sorts of fun ways and at this year's american crossword puzzle tournament which was held online the beyond wordplay crew actually hosted a virtual game room and nicole. I thought i would share with you. Some of the word puzzles we presented at that gay room. What do you think all right. I guess i'm gay. I'm okay great. Well i let me explain that the theme of this game room that we had the american crossword puzzle tournament was super vo. Calix what is a su- provoke alec. Well it's a word or phrase that has all the vowel letters. So that's a i o u and sometimes why once and only once so the challenge for you to call. You're going to have to figure out answers that are super bowl. Kalyk based on crossword style clues that are themselves super vocab catholic so let me just val inception. It's very meta. Yeah okay. So if i asked you to come up with a nine letter word that means half serious you can rack your brains and think about that one but i can also give you a hint for this one. You might notice that. Half serious has the vowel letters a e. I oh you all in alphabetical order. So the answer also is like that. Can you think of a nine letter word. That means half serious. That also has those vowel letters all in alphabetical order. Serious may i thought was like sarcastic. That doesn't work too. Many as it helps. Perhaps at the end of this word. Oh the half serious alma goodness. I'm not going to be. What is it listen serious. You might be facetious there. You go which is right. Okay so Let's try another one and this time We're gonna put some time on the clock. We're going to try and see if you can get this in thirty seconds and listeners. See if you can get in thirty seconds. We're looking for an eight letter word. That is super bowl. Catholic and means absolute bliss. Let's start the clock salute. Okay so my first thought was something like paradise but that doesn't can be in any order in fact. This one has a couple of hours at the beginning. A couple of hours at the end if that helps. Oh okay yeah. I thought they had to be an order over-indebtedness oh. I think i know it. Is it euphoria. Euphoria is correct. Well done you figured it out right. See that wasn't so bad. was it well. at least i'm not gonna walk away with zero. You're doing great. Let's try another one and see how you do with this one this time. We're looking for an eleven letter word and this one means going past purple going past purpose. Your clue let's put thirty seconds on the clock what is purple purple star. It's These are really hard. Eleven eleven leading straight. Yes eleven letters. Okay i think i might have. An idea is it. Ultraviolet ultraviolet is the answer. Well done you got it right. going past. Purple has all the vowels as does ultraviolet. Let's try just one more and see how you do this time. We're gonna go with the twelve letter word. Can you think of a twelve letter. Word with this clue. Dream forming drug okay. Let's put thirty seconds on the clock again. Extreme forming dragged mike. What are all of those weird sleep medicine. This is a this is a common more common word. Trademark unroll lead. This is actually twelve letters. We need a twelve letter word. Can you think i have the route. I don't know what the ending is going to be. I think is it loosening. Jen you got it. That's right hallucinogen not hallucinogenic because that would have an extra. I who don't have neighbors. So i don't know how many letters he didn't amazing job with that. All in your head. Very impressive work. Thank you nicole for playing along with that and if you would like to share your own super bowl catholic wordplay with us Feel free to reach out to us again. Our email addresses spectacular at slate dot com. And as we mentioned you can also use that email address to let us know if you would like to take part in a future episode where we'll be bringing in listeners for some challenging word play so that's it for this week. We hope you've enjoyed the show. If you have remembered. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. And you'll never miss an episode and pleaseconsider subscribing to sleep. Plus i asleep plus member success members. Yeah lake sleep. Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any sleep. Podcasts bonus episodes of shows like slow-burn and big little mood with daniel and lavery. It's only one dollar for the first month to learn more go to sleep dot com slash spectacular plus. Thank you so much to john. Linnell for being our guest this week. Spectacular vernacular is produced by jasmin. Ellis and shayna roth. June thomas is podcasts. Senior managing producer and gabriel. Roth is laid podcasts. Editorial director we'll be back in two weeks a closer look at the scripts national spelling bee. Thanks for listening..
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"john linnell" Discussed on Lexicon Valley
"Zoom john linnell. Welcome to spectacular vernacular. Or perhaps i should say salvi or sell way traditional would go for salloway kind of dig in the classical over the ecclesiastical but you know i'm not i'm not hardliner like you. I've been in duo lingo land. I'm working on italian. Adjust learned salva in modern italian. Last week it's still a formal greeting. But of course you have to say it with the v. Does italians are stubborn. They stick with the same idea to tell us a little bit about how this project got started. And what made you want to start learning latin. It's really hard to defend. And i think the easiest way for me to talk about is just say like i was just enjoying something that had no practical application at first. I mean it seemed to me that i was just doing it completely for fun and I wasn't planning on turning this into a work project. I like doing a lot of things that are useless. I take pleasure in pointless activities. Well i i don't know if you call them pointless but i i just like the weird sense of exploring unknown territory and in particular. When when you're learning a language you stumble across interesting weird things. That are often surprising and entertaining. And that's really all there is to it as far as learning latin like. I didn't have anybody obviously to chat with in latin. Still don't but eventually. I came around to the idea that i could maybe apply this to some creative activity and so on and i just i just latin seemed like a great option for me for writing songs. What was the next step. I mean how did you take this rudimentary. Latin and say okay. I'm going to try to make songs. And i guess you got a little help from your from your childhood friend with that. I think very briefly. I imagined that i could write the latin lyrics myself. And i think that the main issue with the with the in particular with the duo. Lingo course is that the vocabulary is really specific and really random. And it's i think it's because you're really just learning about latin grammar and they're not trying to teach you to read horace or anything like that. So they're they're the focus of the exercises very often about Specifically about a drunk parrot and about throwing fish by the end of the course. You've mastered talking about this drunk parrot and about About throwing fish and not too much else. Tell us exactly how you are able to with the help of your friend get from your your basic latin knowledge into full-fledged songs right so once i figured out that i couldn't really write a satisfactory lyric on my own. I started casting around for somebody to lyrics. And i went online and i actually communicate with some people through various latin educational Websites and the general vibe was. You need a particular person. Who's who's good at conversational. Latin and most of these people have another specialty. They're they're more about a learning to read the classics or whatever. And then. I just had this. I just had this memory that i had a childhood friend who was not only Had spent his entire life teaching latin but Was a rock musician. So i managed to track them down. I haven't been in touch with him for decades But i found him and he was immediately agreeable to this completely nut so idea and then i just plunged into writing lyrics in english that i thought that were simple enough that they would translate well based on what i understood about latin grammar that they were translatable right so that was that was the idea and he incredibly generous in that he gave me not only gave me translations but gave me variations on translations kind of explain the differences and he also sent me audio guides for so he sent me his own voice reading the latin text so that i could follow his pronunciation. This is an interesting moment to be doing anything with language. I guess but is there. Something about the latin language that lends itself to the kind of songwriting during the pandemic. Because we had this clip before. I'm so sorry. My latin is atrocious. We the clip from hayek kuok's to raise pandemic lyrics in there. So can you tell us about that. A little bit and and sort of your relationship between the pandemic rating and the latin. Thanks for reminding me. Yeah that that actually is sort of specifically a pandemic vibe that song. It's kind of about being paranoid about what's outside your front door. Yeah it was written in that during that period Last spring a year ago when everything in new york was like utterly terrifying there was just this sense of catastrophic situation in So yeah obviously that that informed that particular one. I tried to mix it up. The other songs are not as not as topical. I guess so. Yeah i was trying to kind of trying to write a range of songs and very much. Just experimenting. I didn't. I didn't really have a plan when i started out. Well i was interested in in another song. Take him kill unbe laude. No low translates as. I don't wanna walk around with you. Of course is aligned familiar to fans of the ramones because there's a song and.
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"john linnell" Discussed on Lexicon Valley
"Zoom john linnell welcome to spectacular vernacular or perhaps. I should say salvi or away in traditional. I would go for salloway. Kind of dig in the classical over the ecclesiastical but you know i'm not i'm not hardliner like you. I've been in duo lingo land. I'm working on italian. Just learned salva in modern italian last week. It's still a formal greeting but of course you have to say it with the those. Italians are stubborn and they stick with the same idea pool. Tell us a little bit about how this project got started. And and what made you wanna start learning latin. It's really hard to Defend and i think the easiest way for me to talk about is just say like i was just enjoying something that had no practical application at first. I mean it seemed to me that i was just doing it completely for fun and I wasn't planning on turning this into a work project. I like doing a lot of things that are useless. i take pleasure in pointless activities. Well i i don't know if you call them pointless but i i just like the weird sense of exploring unknown territory and in particular. When when you're learning a language you stumble across interesting weird things. That are often surprising and entertaining. And that's really all there is to it as far as learning latin like. I didn't have anybody obviously to chat with in latin. Still don't but eventually. I came around to the idea that i could maybe apply this to some creative activity and so now i just i just latin seemed like a great option for me for writing songs. What was the next step i mean. How did you take this rudimentary. Latin and say okay. I'm going to try to make songs. And i guess you got a little help from your from your childhood friend with that. I think very briefly. I imagined that i could write the latin lyrics myself. And i think that the main issue with the with the in particular with the duo. Lingo course is that the vocabulary is really specific and really random seeming. And it's i think it's because you're really just learning about latin grammar and they're not trying to teach you to read horace or anything like that. So they're they're the focus of the exercises very often about Specifically about a drunk parrot and about throwing fish by the end of the course you've sort of mastered talking about this drunk parrot and about About throwing fish and not too much else. Tell us exactly how you were able to with the help of your friend get from your your basic latin knowledge into full-fledged songs right so once i figured out that i couldn't really write a satisfactory lyric on my own. I started casting around for somebody to translate lyrics and i went online and and actually communicate with some people through various latin educational websites. And the general vibe was you need a particular person. Who's who's good at conversational latin and most of these people have another specialty. They're they're more about a learning to read the classics or whatever. And then. I just had this. I just had this memory that i had a childhood friend who was not only Had spent his entire life teaching latin but Was iraq musician. So i imagine to track them down. I haven't been in touch with him for decades But i i found him and he was immediately agreeable to this completely nut so idea and then i just plunged into writing lyrics that in english that i thought that were simple enough that they would translate well based on what i understood about latin grammar that they were translatable right so that was that was the idea and he incredibly generous in that he gave me not only gave me translations but gave me variations on translations and kind of explain the differences and he also sent me audio guides for so he sent me his own voice reading the latin text so that i could follow his pronunciation. This is an interesting moment to be doing anything with language. Eight gas but is there something about the latin language that lends itself to the kind of songwriting you during the pandemic because we had this clip before from. I'm so sorry. My latin is atrocious. We the clip from hayek quoque race stress pandemic lyrics in there. So can you tell us about that. A little bit and sort of your relationship between the endemic rating and the latin. We'll thanks reminding me. Yeah that that actually is sort of specifically a pandemic vibe that song. It's kind of about being paranoid about what's outside your front door. Yeah it was written in that during that period Last spring a year ago when everything in new york was like utterly terrifying there was just a The sense of catastrophic situation. So yeah. Obviously that in that informed that particular one you. I tried to mix it up. The other songs are not as not as topical so yeah. I was trying to write kind of trying to write a range of songs and very much. Just experimenting i didn't. I didn't really have a plan when i started out. Well i was interested in in another song. Take him kill Humble audi no low translates as. I don't wanna walk around with you. And that of course is aligned familiar to fans of the ramones because there's a song on their first album.
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"john linnell" Discussed on Lexicon Valley
"Zimmer tangled columnist for the wall street journal and this is spectacular vernacular a podcast where we not only explore language. We also play with it. This week will be talking to john. Linnell of they might be about the results of his unusual project reading songs in latin. Yeah that's right. I guess coming up john. llanelli Got interested in latin because he took a duo lingo course and i think a lot of us have dabbled in language learning at least since the beginning of the pandemic and nicole. I think that includes you right. Oh yeah i've been doing. Go super fan over the last year. So as of today i have a streak of four hundred twenty six days learning italian and the beginning of the pandemic. I have moved in with my italian boyfriend. And i'm sure dueling goes saved him from having to answer all of my grammar questions every day. Then i gather you've also been pursuing your own wordy interests as of late. That's right. I i haven't done much language learning but i've been exploring some other language. Pursuits i've always been a fan of word puzzles. In fact i recently attended the national puzzles league convention in washington. Dc but since last year. I've gotten even more serious about playing with words. i've been constructing crosswords for the new york times and the wall street journal. I've been connecting with the whole word play community in lots of virtual spaces and we're gonna talk more about all of that at the end of the show when we delve into some word puzzles that i have lined up for you nicole and you were also recently down in sunny orlando for the scripts national spelling bee right. That's right the finals. Were down in orlando this year and let me tell you it was word. Nerd heaven I was there. Because i've been working with scripts on a new feature of the spelling bee questions about word. Meaning not dispelling so if you tuned into. Espn two for the finals. You might have caught a round of questions where the kids were asked multiple choice questions about the definitions of words and the finalists. They did a great job with those questions. Including this year's winner the delightful zay la avant-garde eighth grader from harvey louisiana. You are a way that is wow. She's amazing that is difficult. Word is the first african american winner of the scripts spelling bee in. Its ninety six year. History though it's worth noting that the first black winner was jodi maxwell from jamaica who won the scripts be in nineteen ninety eight historically black kids of face a lot of obstacles in participating in the b. from institutionalized racism at the local level to disadvantages like having fewer resources generally to help train for spelling bees that makes vela's when even more profound and now she's a role model for more kids might follow in her footsteps. I wanna grow up to be like her. Honestly they been killing it on the talk shows since she won showing off not just her spelling powis but her basketball dribbling skills. You have three challenges ahead of you okay. The first challenges dribble three ball simultaneously while spelling. The word machiavellian machiavellian h. i. e. l. And it's amazing that she was able to spell and dribble those basketball she also is a She has some records some world records for basketball as well. I can't do either of those things. Definitely can't spell machiavelli. Her brain is incredible and and just her prowess and all of these things where she can. Just multitask sure. Dribble three four five basketballs and spell ridiculously ed difficult words i mean. The whole thing is amazing. And she's kind of takes it all to the next level but if he's like step back and think about it spun beezer. It's kind of a strange institution right. Yeah i was talking to a friend recently About the spelling bee and she was like they don't have those in other countries and it was like no because english is weird right so english has basically words from a lot of different languages and so this is a why the kids always ask for the etymology of the words because it helps them. Oh it's latin it so that it's going to be this way or that way but it's something very particular about english that we have to memorize the spelling of every single thing so it's a. It's a very weird skill. That english speakers are expected to have. That doesn't happen necessarily for other speakers of other languages. Yeah it's it's a really fascinating topic and in fact we're going to get to explore that topic even more in our next episode where we're going to dive a little deeper into the spelling bee and zaire. La's amazing win so stay tuned for that. I can't wait to talk more about spelling next time for today. We have a really awesome guests. We'll be right back with john. Linnell this episode is brought to you by progressive. What's one thing you'd purchase with a little extra savings awaited blanket smart speaker that new self-care trend you keep hearing about well. Progressive wants to make sure you're getting what you want by helping you save money on car insurance drivers who save by switching to progressive. Save over seven hundred dollars. On average and customer can qualify for an average of six discounts when they sign up discounts like having multiple vehicles on your policy progressive office outstanding coverage and award winning claim service. Day are night. They have customer support. Twenty four seven three hundred sixty five days a year when you need them most. They're at their best. A little off your rate each month goes along way. Get a quote today. At progressive dot com and see. Why four to five new also customers recommend progressive progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates national annual average insurance savings by new customers surveyed in twenty twenty potential savings will vary disguise vary and are not available in all states and situations back over the past year and a half. Many people have embarked on unusual pandemic projects trying out new pursuits. They might not have had time for before. Life went on lockdown. A lot of folks took the opportunity to try learning a new language or two different apps like dueling go and babble have made it easy to expand your linguistic frontiers. And that's what happened with john. L. one half of the legendary alternative rock band they might be giants llanelli. Completed a short dueling go course in latin. Then he got the crazy idea to try writing some songs in the language. Even though latin isn't exactly a hot linguistic commodity these days. Well at least outside the vatican city with the help of a childhood friend who is well versed in latin. Linnell wrote four songs that he has now released on. An ep called roman songs. It's certainly a lyrical change of pace from the songs that he john flensburg have been writing as they might be giants for nearly four decades. Now but linnell didn't just make a bunch of gregorian chance with his son. Henry backing him up on guitar. These songs rock known guam..
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"john linnell" Discussed on Lexicon Valley
"We also play with it. This week will be talking to john. Linnell of they might be dying about the results of his unusual pandemic project correcting songs in latin. Yeah that's right. Our guest coming up. John llanelli Got interested in latin because he took a duo lingo course and i think a lot of us have dabbled in language learning at least since the beginning of the pandemic and the coal. I think that includes you right. Oh yeah i've been doing go superfan last year so as of today i have a streak of four hundred twenty six days learning italian and the beginning of the pandemic. I have moved in with my italian boyfriend. And i'm sure dueling goes saved him from having to answer all of my questions every day. Then i gather you've also been pursuing your own wordy interests as of late. That's right. I i haven't done much language learning but i've been exploring some other language pursuits. I've always been a fan of word puzzles. In fact i recently attended the national puzzles league convention in washington. Dc but since last year. I've gotten even more serious about playing with words. i've been constructing crosswords for the new york times and the wall street journal. I've been connecting with the whole word play community in lots of virtual spaces and we're gonna talk more about all of that at the end of the show when we delve into some word puzzles that i have lined up for you nicole and you were also recently down in sunny orlando for the scripts national spelling bee right. That's right the finals. Were down in orlando this year and let me tell you it was word. Nerd heaven I was there. Because i've been working with scripts on a new feature of the spelling bee questions about word. Meaning not dispelling so if you tuned into. Espn two for the finals. You might have caught a round of questions where the kids were asked multiple choice questions about the definitions of words and the finalists. They did a great job with those questions. Including this year's winner the delightful zeila avant-garde an eighth grader from harvey. Louisiana are a way that is correct. Wow thing that is a difficult word. Szalay is the first african american winner of the scripts spelling bee in. It's ninety six year history though. It's worth noting that the first black winner was jody and maxwell from jamaica who won the scripts be in nineteen ninety eight historically black kids face a lot of obstacles in participating in the b. from institutionalized racism at the local level to disadvantages like having fewer resources generally to help train for spelling bees. That makes vela's when even more profound and now she's a role model for more kids who might follow in her footsteps. I wanna grow up to be like her. Honestly they been killing it on my talk shows since she won showing off not just her spelling powis but her basketball dribbling skills. You have three challenges ahead of you. The first challenges dribble three ball simultaneously while spelling. The word. Machiavellian machiavellian h. i. v. e. l. and. It's amazing that she was able to spell and dribble those basketball she also is a. She has some records some world records for basketball as well. I can't do either of those. Definitely kids spelled machiavelli. Her is incredible. And and just her prowess and all of these things where she can. Multitask sure dribble three four. Five basketballs and spell ridiculously difficult words. I mean the whole thing is amazing. And she's kind of takes it all to the next level but if he's like step back and think about it spun beezer. It's kind of a strange institution right. Yeah i was talking to a friend recently About the spelling bee and she was like they don't have those in other countries. I was like no. English is weird right. So english has basically words from a lot of different languages and so this is why the kids always ask for the etymology of the words because it helps them. Oh it's latin it so that it is going to be this way or that way but it's something very particular about english that we have to memorize the spelling of every single thing so it's a. It's a very weird skill. That english speakers are expected to have. That doesn't happen necessarily for other speakers of other languages. Yeah it's it's a really fascinating topic and in fact we're going to get to explore that topic even more in our next episode where we're going to dive a little deeper into the spelling bee in zaire. La's amazing win so stay tuned for that. I can't wait to talk more about spelling bees next for today. We have a really awesome guests. We'll be right back with john. This episode is brought to you by progressive. What's one thing you'd purchase with a little extra savings awaited blanket smart speaker that new self-care trend you keep hearing about well. Progressive wants to make sure you're getting what you want by helping you save money on car insurance drivers who save by switching to progressive. Save over seven hundred dollars. On average and customers can qualify for an average of six discounts when they sign up discounts like having multiple vehicles on your policy progressive office outstanding coverage and award winning claim service day or night. They have customer support. Twenty four seven three hundred sixty five days a year when you need them most. They're at their best. A little off your rate each month goes a long way get a quote today at progressive dot com and see why four to five new also customers recommend progressive progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates national annual average insurance savings bhai new customers surveyed in twenty twenty. Potential savings will vary discount vary and are not available in all states and situations. Welcome back over the past year and a half. many people have embarked on unusual pandemic projects. Trying out new pursuits. They might not have had time for before. Life went on lockdown. A lot of folks took the opportunity to try learning a new language or two. Different apps like duo. Lingo and babble have made it easy to expand your linguistic frontiers. And that's what happened with john. Linnell one half of the legendary alternative rock band. They might be giants Linnell completed a short dueling go course in latin then. He got the crazy idea to try writing some songs in the language even though latin isn't exactly a hot linguistic commodity these days well at least outside the vatican city with the help of a childhood friend who is well versed in latin. Linnell wrote four songs that he has now released on. An ep called roman songs. It's certainly a lyrical changes pace from the songs that he and john flensburg have been writing as they might be giants for nearly four decades. Now but llanelli didn't just make a bunch of gregorian chance with his son. Henry backing him up on guitar..
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"Wow, That's a that's I love that song. I know. Yeah, it's an oldie moldy. It's Super Bowl D and that's not on this album. Now it is, but it's still a great song. So people go to swat you in concert, you play other stuff. Besides Oh, yeah, yeah, I mean, these albums are only for him, even when we're doing the flood, like, sort of, you know, tribute to ourselves, show that's only 40 minutes of the show, and the show is like an hour. The family chose is like an hour 15. The adult shows like an hour 45, sometimes two hours when we're feeling heroic, and when we are Bruce Springsteen mode. Thinks are expanding in the Mannerist period. Yeah, I think we play. We play more songs per show than Bruce. But probably only about half of all right, I'm gonna have to drop in the next He's gonna have to drop in bringing bring your accordion Bring. Try not to talk about that Plenty of room. Actually, one of our I just have to bring my chopsticks is really going on here. I'm a frustrated drummer, too. So I won't even. Thank Thank you. Morning. Why don't we try to do that? Well, we run out of time. But you guys were terrific. Thankfully. Thank you Fucked up my whole studio with the musical instrument. You're You're welcome any time you want. Thank you so much. It was really a pleasure. You're welcome. John Flansburgh, John Linnell. Also on the drums morning, Beller. They might be Giants. A new album is here comes science and here, go size because that's the end of our program. Thank you all for taking time to be with us today. If you missed any part of this program, or you would like to hear it again. Yeah. Subscribe to our podcast Rascals. Smart speaker to play science Friday But one more thing on their science Friday Box pop back. We miss you. We want to hear what science stories you're thinking about these days, So please send us a message and say hello. That's on the science Friday box pop app.
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"john linnell" Discussed on KQED Radio
"They might be Giants. The new album Here comes science. John Flansburgh and John Linnell here in the studio with us said, Rocking Away and also on on the drums. Marty Bella back there. Not saying very much is now part of any other folks who play with it. And people in the bank. Yeah, yeah, way. Actually, we're just about to go out on tour. We're doing this, Um, family shows as well as ah Flood show where we're playing our 1990 breakthrough album Flood in sequence. Um, that's kind of a once in a lifetime deal for us, and then we're doing this whole new show for adults. But joining us onstage is this fellow then Ralph Kearney, who's famous. Among musicians for being the guy who plays on all the Tom Waits, sort of the classic Tom Waits, middle period circus music albums. He's a multi instrumentalist. You placed a lot different kinds of horns, and he's going to be joining us and it Z. I'll be very interesting working with somebody who's got such a clear voice as a as a musician. It's It's very like being like the rest of us. Yeah, we're just We're just hacking along, but we also have a dent. Dan Miller plays guitar and anyone caught plays bass. So it's it'll be a six piece where you gonna be. Where can people see you everywhere where they lost and got a schedule? Little I could tell you next time I would say good good. Our website. Maybe Johnson. Go to Facebook. Facebook has got all that information. We're we've got all these and also they're all these videos. If you want to see videos of these songs with the entire album here comes sciences been made into a DVD on there. So they're all these animated videos accompanying The music and there, really some of them are really quite remarkable. We might see you in an MTV video. I don't think MTV is planned video say more, but but if if they were, they certainly know. I mean, it's It's shocking to everywhere, especially especially musicians. I have two daughters and I went down that that lifestyle music is more of a lifestyle expression these days, But I don't think I don't know if they really warm up to science, The hutch I'm Ira Flatow and this is science Friday from W. N. Y C studios. Well, the radio guys, I'm Ira Plato. If you've ever been on the radio before the no nonsense fighting. This is a big deal. Wow. I'm very flattering, You know, because because we all wish we could do something else. I wish I could play a musical instrument. Yeah. I mean, I think you just like I was just hoping that we'd be on science. Right? One of us got. I wish you all right on. Is there a topic you'd like to take on that? You haven't done yet. A subject, man. We're thinking we were tossing out ideas for the next, uh, Disney produced Giants record instructional music for young people were thinking Maybe there goes your civil rights could be the next one. I was was one idea. I think plans plans. Birkhead. Yeah way Have we have come to sindical ist? We could do like a history like sort of. Ah, People's History of America. Val's history of America. Well, we've got about 2.5 minutes left. We got a quick song. You could sing. You could think. Oh, sure. What should we do? We could do you wanna hear a non science so I'm sure whatever. We only had a couple of minutes, but I don't have anything in it. We'll play us out to the end of the show. And why don't we do a song that's factually incorrect..
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"That's great. I have to say we've been on a million radio shows and the reverence with which you show the length and ending of a song. Is truly a recess of trade in in DJs, hosts radio people You want to know why that is beautiful, Like when you actually at the top of the thing where you play the entire song? Science is real, like, you know, typically, you know, people just hit the fader 30 seconds of bright Ford ends like we don't have that kind of time. I will tell you why that is. That's why I like Come love public radio Come for. Yes, I come from a public radio FM classical music background on my when I was in it when I was in my learning days of WB fo in Buffalo If I ever faded down one. Yeah, one note of a classical music. I once had an argument that I was. I was the news director at one of the Fae down the so Yes, it's the music so I could get a bulletin in there. I heard you can't run a bullet. You can't interrupted FM radio. So you were like the king of Dead air. You just let the song go all the way you wrote the whole song. Why don't we hear those songs? You actually let a little silence in that? You know our guy in Boston? I guess with Robert J lurks and we Just it would seem like he'd fallen asleep. You know, he was just quiet, Remember? Yeah, it was like that was no. What? That it suggests. A whole different kind of lifestyle is fantastic. I have a suggestion for a song for you. Sure. You know, you talked about the mistake with makeup of the sun. How about something about Pluto's Not being a planet, huh? Well, we do have we do have a song. We haven't learned how to perform in this group. But this arrangement is there we do have a song called How many planets Where we Dodge the question of how many planets there are by simply enumerating everything. Plan it or not, in the course of the song left the people to select the people decide. Yeah. What's your opinion on that? I don't think it really matters. You know, I don't think that it matters that slew. That was well, then we're in agreement, and you know, that's more or less. What were expressing in the scene? Who cares? I would if I were president have to say yes, there are eight planets, but it doesn't really matter that Ludo has been demoted was just It's just a name for something. Yeah. Yeah, I think everybody kind of feels for polluting a little bit, though. Yeah, I think Woody Harrelson should be a planet to so that that makes nine. Well, there are people who are you know our space cadets. But what's that? What's that email address again? There? Don't send it to me. Oh, said that the John Linnell. They will. I'll take questions. Okay. Good. I'm willing debate debate. You have do you have? Ah, You never ask anybody this this question, but you know, you never ask anybody who's your favorite kid, right? And they ask musicians. What's your favorite song? It's funny, and we do get that. And we are yet so I consulting, you know, how could you ask that? Oh, I'm appalled. I remember there was a radio station that used to advertise itself as one of two of America's great radio station. So you never had asked the guy with the second one is so well if we said it's a Tom Lehrer song with suddenly reveal something, Let's let's see if we get another song and what the left or epidemic could be which we dont Oh, come on. Oh, let's just let's do my brother, my brother, the ape my brother here that might be giants about evolution that controversial fact. Mm hmm..
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"Because you're listening to science Friday, and that was scientist real by the band. They might be Giants and the Joining me now in the studio here in New York is John Linnell and John Flansburgh. Also on the drums, Marbella in the background. We playing a lot of music this welcome to science Friday. Thank very exciting to be here. Why would you produce songs about science? I mean, I thought only geeks like me like scientists, because we're like you. Yeah. All right. You do let it wait. You know, this is a really a big thrill for us, because you know, we've been listening to show for a long time. It's like suddenly like we're inside the TV set of the radio Has this very Zen kind of trippy, right Where you live, you scientist gigs when you're in school. Not exactly Now. I mean, it's actually a little bit of Stretching away for us, too. Declare ourselves to be authorities on on scientists. The Peter principle in exactly Yeah, and you're stepping into a little quagmire by naming a song. Science is real or a lot of people don't believe science. We'll see. That's not controversial for us. Not for you. But have you heard any reaction from people will say Well, why? Well, you know, I don't think judging by YouTube Flame comments you can really get accurate gauge of what the in general seems like. People are actually quite Quite positive about the whole prospect. But people we meet face to face are like you pretty much. Well, that's a good name. Name. The songs on the album's Well, Meet the elements photosynthesis. My brother, the ape. I'm a paleontologist, Um Roy G. Biv, which both the color spectrum light Spectrum on, and John. What hotel selling? Why not the Sunshine? Why is the sun shines in velocity? And now these also only kids songs of these aimed at kids? Well there, it's kind of Ah, zone of a mixed bag there. There's some songs that are very simple that they're kind of that are good for little kids on Ben. Their songs that are More fact packed that probably would, you know? Be a little bit too complicated for for a toddler, But But, you know, if you're I mean the song we're going to play me the elements like if this existed in My freshman year of high school. It would have been uncredible godsend for my grades. Well, you know, meet when I hear song Meet the elements Who am I thinking of? Not of you guys before way before you guys airborne, Tom. Learn, right. Remember the elements song that remember Tom, Look, I know it. I know it. I know the song pollution by time you get a whole song of the elements that much differently. Probably more satirical. Yeah, I can't believe that guy like invented a time machine went backwards and stole our ideas. Yeah, No, I don't know I don't not really with us, but right. He just go rattles through the table of l a periodic table. Well, that's kind of weird, but that's what we're doing. What what made national disappointment, you know? There is if that's that there was a folk singer. No, no. What made you what made you to write this song, but also a little bit about the genesis of this song? Well, we we work. We're working on our science album. And I guess the thing is we wanted to Cover all of the different areas of science, overthinking chemistry, biology, physics or science applied science. You know, we're just trying trying, stepping into each one. And I find the periodic table of the elements to be kind of a great organizational. Uh, you know, amazing inspiration, actually that, do you? Yeah, that it's that It's that it's a grid. You could just look at it, so it's all it's all laid out simply. It's like a lot simpler than a lot of other Science charge the after study, So this one seemed like it was. You know it was Something you could you could stare at and write a song based on my read Plato, You're listening to science Friday from W. N. Y C studios. This is an interview from our archives. Recorded in September of 2009 and and we're going to hear a cut from the the album. Here they are, they might be Giants playing field the elements elements with Let's meet them now..