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134: True Colour (with Kory Stamper)

2:21:18 Mar 13, 2026

133: Why We Talk Funny (with Valerie Fridland)

2:27:31 Feb 26, 2026

132: WotY 2025, the Final Word (with Kelly Wright)

1:29:40 Feb 17, 2026

131: Words of the Week of the Year 2025 (live with friends)

1:31:55 Dec 20, 2025

130: Back to the FTR (with Séan Roberts, Cole Robertson, and Annemarie Verkerk)

2:53:34 Dec 6, 2025

129: They Started It: Children and Language Evolution (with Madeleine Beekman)

2:25:50 Nov 19, 2025

128: Across the Universe (with Natan Last)

2:07:26 Oct 22, 2025

127: Oh (with Maia Chao, Kelly Wright, and Caitlin Green)

2:15:56 Oct 10, 2025

125: Friends With Words (live with Martha Barnette and friends)

1:31:09 Sep 12, 2025

124: Algospeak (with Adam Aleksic)

1:49:40 Aug 23, 2025

123: Conscious Language (with Karen Yin)

1:54:22 Aug 3, 2025

122: The Interaction Engine (with Stephen Levinson)

55:34 Jul 12, 2025

121: Learning from LLMs (with Adele Goldberg)

2:22:45 Jun 29, 2025

120: Gesture! (with Lauren Gawne)

1:54:22 Jun 10, 2025

119: Eurovision Goes to Uni (with Paulette van der Voet and Solveig Bollig)

2:15:17 May 18, 2025

118: The A.I. Con (with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna)

51:26 May 12, 2025

117: Sometimes It Feels Like I'm the Only One Trying to Fix English Around Here (live with friends for LingFest25)

1:47:19 May 5, 2025

116: Enough Is Enuf (with Gabe Henry)

2:07:14 Apr 19, 2025

114: Bye Bye I Love You (with Michael Erard)

1:56:29 Mar 25, 2025

113: "Official" English (with Carmen Fought)

48:23 Mar 2, 2025

112: WotY 2024: The Last Word

1:33:10 Feb 21, 2025

111: Words of the Week of the Year 2024 (live with Mignon Fogarty and friends)

1:42:41 Dec 21, 2024

110: Diego's Dossier (with Diego Diaz)

1:04:03 Dec 18, 2024

109: Language Oppression in Tibet (with Gerald Roche and Sasha Wilmoth)

2:35:46 Dec 6, 2024

108: Mailbag of Etymology (with Douglas Harper)

1:24:59 Nov 16, 2024

107: Linguaphile (with Julie Sedivy and Matt Spike)

2:07:19 Oct 29, 2024

106: What One Thing? (with Mark Ellison)

1:21:26 Sep 23, 2024

105 or 500 (live with Kelly Wright and friends)

1:36:21 Sep 15, 2024

104: Dogwhistles (with Elin McCready, Lizzy Hanks, Jesse Egbert, and Rikker Dockum)

1:44:12 Aug 26, 2024

103: Unequal Englishes (with Ruanni Tupas and Nicole Holliday)

2:20:59 Aug 3, 2024

102: Signed Language Mailbag (with Adam Schembri, Christy Filipich, and Mark Ellison)

2:45:21 Jul 27, 2024

101: Talkin' Chomsky (with Katie Martin and Abduweli Ayup)

2:27:14 Jul 8, 2024

100: Spicy Mailbag

1:27:40 Jun 19, 2024

99: Gender in Germany (with Rob Tegethoff and Ciarán from Corner Späti)

2:08:40 Jun 11, 2024

98: Origin Uncertain (with Anatoly Liberman)

1:43:19 May 20, 2024

97: The Dictionary of Fine Distinctions (with Eli Burnstein)

1:38:39 Apr 28, 2024

96: Language City (with Ross Perlin)

1:45:29 Apr 19, 2024

95: Why the Far-Right Demagogues Language (with Caitlin Green and Maureen Kosse)

1:44:12 Apr 1, 2024

94: Mailbag of Sextillion and Three

1:16:40 Mar 18, 2024

93: Stop! Grammar Time (live with Ellen Jovin and friends)

1:28:17 Mar 2, 2024

92: In the First 600 Milliseconds (with Rachel Nordlinger)

1:45:26 Feb 22, 2024

91: Linguistic Time Machine, part 2: Prehistory

1:33:42 Jan 31, 2024

90: Enpoopification (with Grant Barrett and Tim Brookes)

2:05:47 Jan 21, 2024

89: Words of the Week of the Year 2023 (with Cory Doctorow and friends)

1:53:44 Dec 24, 2023

88: Linguistic Time Machine, part 1: History

1:24:57 Dec 7, 2023

87: Trans-Inclusive (with Andrew Perfors)

1:42:24 Dec 1, 2023

86: Mailbag of Dog Sushi (with Nicole Holliday)

1:18:31 Nov 14, 2023

85: The Dictionary People (with Sarah Ogilvie)

1:43:21 Nov 4, 2023

84: Diego's Discourse (with Diego Diaz)

1:44:42 Oct 18, 2023

83: You're All Talk (with Rob Drummond and Robbie Love)

3:01:23 Oct 2, 2023