Episodi

  • 42: The N-Word
    Jun 27 2018
    Guest Producer Stephanie Billman helps guide us through the feelings, emotions, and history of the most violent, loaded word in the English lexicon, The N-Word. With guests Dr. Neil Lester, Dr. David Pilgrim, Marcie Brown, Malik Crumpler, Dardalie Brooks and Ernie Mendoza

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    41 min
  • 39: Euphemisms
    Jun 6 2018

    Certain topics in our society aren’t considered proper to talk about. To make it easier to talk about such sensitive subjects, we have invented terms that dance around the issues, instead of facing them directly.

    Join me and guests, Steven Pinker, Phyllis Sommer and Kate Burridge as we dig into euphemisms.


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    32 min
  • 38: Minicast - The "D" Word
    May 30 2018
    In this week's minicast, Matt reflects on a death that is close to him and how we use or don't use words about "dead". We talk a little with Rabbi Physllis Sommer to help explain.

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    6 min
  • 37: The Poo List
    May 23 2018
    Are you allowed to play swear words in scrabble? And if you really can, why aren’t they listed in the official scrabble player’s dictionary? Competitive scrabble players Stephan Fatsis and Brian Richgrubber tell us how it happened and why this is important in the competitive scrabble world.

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    30 min
  • 35: George Carlin's Last Words
    May 9 2018
    On this episode of Very Bad Words, we put the last four words on George Carlin’s list on trial. Are these two 4-letter words, and two compound unequivocally indecent under all circumstances? With dirty words educator and linguist, Randall Eggert, and radio veteran, Ken Freedman

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    28 min