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250 to 1.5K🎙 Weekly cadence·157 episodes·Last published 3w ago - Monthly Reach
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500 to 3K🇵🇪100% - Active Followers
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Unlocking Justice
Jun 1, 2026
1h 00m 46s
Why We Talk Funny
Apr 27, 2026
1h 12m 06s
Language and Health in Action
Apr 20, 2026
1h 04m 55s
I see your True Color(s)
Mar 30, 2026
1h 06m 57s
Stop Protecting Chomsky
Feb 27, 2026
55m 04s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/1/26 | Unlocking Justice✨ | datainequity+3 | Dr Chad M Topaz | QSIDE InstituteUnlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change | — | datajustice+3 | — | 1h 00m 46s | |
| 4/27/26 | Why We Talk Funny✨ | accentslanguage+3 | Dr Valerie Fridland | Maine MonitorWhy We Talk Funny: The Real Story Behind Our Accents | — | accentslanguage+3 | — | 1h 12m 06s | |
| 4/20/26 | Language and Health in Action✨ | languagehealth+4 | Lynnette ArnoldAnna I. Corwin+2 | — | — | languagehealth+6 | — | 1h 04m 55s | |
| 3/30/26 | I see your True Color(s)✨ | color definitionbook discussion+3 | Kory Stamper | True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color from Azure to Zinc Pink | — | colorKory Stamper+4 | — | 1h 06m 57s | |
| 2/27/26 | Stop Protecting Chomsky✨ | ChomskyEpstein emails+3 | — | Tim BrookesEpstein | — | ChomskyEpstein+4 | — | 55m 04s | |
| 1/19/26 | WOTY2025✨ | Word of the YearAmerican Dialect Society+3 | — | American Dialect Society | — | Word of the YearAmerican Dialect Society+3 | — | 35m 33s | |
| 12/15/25 | By Hand✨ | handwritingimportance of handwriting+3 | Tim Brookes | By Hand | — | handwritingTim Brookes+3 | — | 1h 08m 12s | |
| 11/28/25 | Trapped in Makaton✨ | Makatonsign language+3 | — | vocalfriespod@gmail.comSara Novič's article | — | Makatonsign language+3 | — | 36m 58s | |
| 10/31/25 | Scary Words for a Scary World✨ | languagefear+3 | — | vocalfriespodvocalfriespod@gmail.com | — | scary wordsfascism+3 | — | 30m 21s | |
| 9/29/25 | Peven Stinker✨ | PinkerWar on Science+4 | — | LSAHarper's+5 | — | PinkerWar on Science+4 | — | 47m 21s | |
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| 8/11/25 | Algospeak✨ | social medialanguage+3 | Adam Aleksic | Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language | — | Algospeaksocial media+3 | — | 52m 29s | |
| 7/14/25 | A History of Like | Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Megan C. Reynolds, Dwell magazine editor, about her book, Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word. Putin and RussianSupport the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespodBluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.socialEmail us at vocalfriespod@gmail.comThanks for listening and keep calm and fry on | 58m 22s | ||||||
| 6/23/25 | Serving Language Ideologies | Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Paulette van der Voet and Martina Terrazzano, PhD students at the University of Umea, about their class called “Linguistics and the Eurovision Song Contest”. Top 20 Eurovision songsMalta and Estonia Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespodBluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.socialEmail us at vocalfriespod@gmail.comThanks for listening and keep calm and fry on | 51m 10s | ||||||
| 5/26/25 | Rare Tongues | Send us Fan Mail We talk with Dr Lorna Gibb about her newest book, Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages. Steven Pinker: Harvard Derangement Syndromevs. LSAJews and IQSupport the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespodBluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.socialEmail us at vocalfriespod@gmail.comThanks for listening and keep calm and fry on | 39m 46s | ||||||
| 5/5/25 | The AI Con | Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Drs Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, and Alex Hanna, Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), about their new book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want, out May 13, 2025. Virtual Book Launch May 8, 2025, 2-4 PDTBender v. BubeckInventing Intelligence: On the History of Complex Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence in the United State... | 55m 21s | ||||||
| 4/14/25 | Enough is Enuf | Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Gabe Henry about his new book, Enough is enuf: Our failed attempts to make English eezier to spell. Puerto Rico and English as an Official LanguageSupport the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespodBluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.socialEmail us at vocalfriespod@gmail.comThanks for listening and keep calm and fry on | 1h 02m 05s | ||||||
| 3/18/25 | Language Oppression in Tibet | Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Gerald Roche, Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Cultures at La Trobe University, about his new book, The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet, language oppression, solidarity, China and Tibet. LSA's response to the EO on English as the Official Language of the USSupport the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespodBluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.socialEmail us at vocalfriespod@gmail.comThanks for listening and keep calm and fr... | 58m 26s | ||||||
| 2/17/25 | The Italian N-Word | Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Massimiliano Canzanella about the Neapolitan language and how it is perceived in Italy. Asian languages and the LA firesSupport the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespodBluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.socialEmail us at vocalfriespod@gmail.comThanks for listening and keep calm and fry on | 45m 54s | ||||||
| 1/22/25 | matkunsh 7mar | Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Adam Benkato, Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, about Arabic. codeswitching in incarcerationSupport the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespodBluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.socialEmail us at vocalfriespod@gmail.comThanks for listening and keep calm and fry on | 58m 20s | ||||||
| 12/16/24 | Demystifying Language | Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk to Dr Ayala Fader, professor of anthropology at Fordham University, and Dr Mike Mena, Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY, about their new project, the Demystifying Language Project, where academics and high school students work together to rewrite linguistic articles into more accessible versions. First article: Speech or Silence Intro from our patron René: Barron's: MP makes her first speech in sign languageSpeech of the yearSupport the sho... | 41m 05s | ||||||
| 11/12/24 | Fear and Loathing in Politics and Academia | Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Leonard Cassuto, Professor of English at Fordham University, about his class called "Literature and Psychology of Disgust," which explores how language evokes emotional responses, particularly disgust, and his book Academic Writing as if Readers Matter, which was released in September. Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespodBluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.socialEmail us at vocalfriespod@gmail.comThanks for listening and keep c... | 54m 38s | ||||||
| 10/14/24 | Performing the News | Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Elia Powers, Associate Professor of Journalism at Towson University, about his book Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality. 5 Podcasts for Word Nerds NY TimesWhy Does Trump Do That Weird Capitalization Thing? HuffPost (sometimes Gillon is misspelled as Gillion, as per uzh)Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespodBluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.socialEmail us at vocalfriespod@gmail.comThanks for li... | 50m 20s | ||||||
| 9/23/24 | How Schools Make Race | Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, assistant professor at UCLA in the Departments of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and Education, about her book How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America, coming out October 1. Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespodBluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.socialEmail us at vocalfriespod@gmail.comThanks for listening and keep calm and fry on | 41m 32s | ||||||
| 8/23/24 | Dogwhistles and Other Fig Leaves | Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Robert Henderson, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona, about his newest book (with Dr Elin Mccready), Signaling without Saying: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Dogwhistles. Botanical taxonomyCommon names of birdsSupport the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespodBluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.socialEmail us at vocalfriespod@gmail.comThanks for listening and keep calm and fry on | 43m 56s | ||||||
| 7/15/24 | Writing Beyond Writing | Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Tim Brookes about his newest book, Writing Beyond Writing, what writing is, his journey to caring about Endangered Alphabets and his favourite scripts. Nuxalk albumRed BubbleInsufferable TwitsSupport the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespodBluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.socialEmail us at vocalfriespod@gmail.comThanks for listening and keep calm and fry on | 53m 12s | ||||||
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