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The Vocal Fries

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The monthly podcast about linguistic discrimination. Learn about how we judge other people's speech as a sneaky way to be racist, sexist, classist, etc. Carrie and Megan teach you how to stop being an accidental jerk. Support this podcast at www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod

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Farewell

February 22nd, 2024

0:39

An important message from RadioPublic

Braillians

February 12th, 2024

47:01

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Sheri Wells-Jensen,  Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University, about her chapter Cognition, Sensory Input, and Linguistics : A Possible Language for Blind Aliens in the new …

Linguistic Discrimination against Uyghurs in China

January 16th, 2024

50:12

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Lee Moore about the linguistic situation in China, particularly the hostile environment towards Uyghurs.

He is also the …

We All Country

October 16th, 2023

1:00:31

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Bryce McCleary, Lecturer in Linguistics at Rice University, about his paper “'We All Country': Region, Place, and …

Shuffling off This Mortal Coil

September 11th, 2023

49:59

Megan and Carrie talk with Poppy Mardall, the founder and chair of Poppy’s, about the Dead Good Words campaign around dehumanizing and euphemistic …

Talking Tamarra

August 3rd, 2023

46:06

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Felicity Meakins, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Queensland, and Briony Barr, a …

Mental Fries/Vocal Floss

July 10th, 2023

49:27

Megan and Carrie talk to Erin McCarthy,  Editor-in-Chief of Mental Floss, about her new book (with the Mental Floss team), Mental Floss Curious …

A Braille as Old as Time

June 20th, 2023

54:31

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Robert Englebretson, Associate Professor in Linguistics at Rice University, about all things braille. 

Sources:

Like, Literally, Dude

May 15th, 2023

1:01:08

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Valerie Fridland about her new book, Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English, how to pronounce …

Figgy, Gills and Bobby

April 17th, 2023

57:42

Dr. Bob Kennedy is back! Carrie and Megan pick his brain about all things language in sports. 

He shoots, he scores!

Intro discussion:

Don't be an *, be a 🐈

March 13th, 2023

57:45

Megan and Carrie talk with Rachel E. Gross about her book, Vagina Obscura, and the language we use to describe pregnancy, vaginas, cervixes, etc.

The People's Tongue

February 13th, 2023

56:37

Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Ilan Stavans about his new book, The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language.

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The Freeze Peach Paradox

January 30th, 2023

51:46

Megan and Carrie talk to Dr. Dennis Baron, Emeritus Professor of English at  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about his newest book You …

Dr G Squared

December 12th, 2022

56:24

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Geneva Smitherman/Dr. G about her book My Soul Look Back In Wonder, narrative essays about her race, gender, class, and …

Bonus WOTY 2022

December 9th, 2022

16:52

Example bonus episode from November 2022.

We talk WOTY22!

Full episode coming soon

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Brasse pa lamèrd

November 7th, 2022

1:02:43

Megan and Carrie talk with Jonathan "radbwa faroush" Myers and Adrien  Guillory-Chatman, members of the first Wikitongues cohort, about Kouri-Vini, …

Cruz Control

October 17th, 2022

58:01

Carrie and Megan talk with Maureen Kosse, linguistics PhD student at University of Colorado Boulder, about her paper "Ted Cruz Cucks Again",  the …

Evil Sorting Hat of Whiteness

September 19th, 2022

55:01

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr JPB Gerald, host of Unstandardized English, a podcast about language teaching, race, and whiteness,  about his new book

The Duct Tape of Language

August 29th, 2022

1:04:08

You asked for it and it finally happened: the You're Wrong About/Vocal Fries crossover event is here.

Carrie and Megan talk with Sarah Marshall about bimbos, vocal fry, the word "like" and many other things.

Want to edit …

Bulls, apes, bats and chickens

August 8th, 2022

58:23

Megan and Carrie talk with Kory Stamper, lexicographer extraordinaire, about the history and use of the word "bullsh*t".

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The Rickford Files

July 11th, 2022

57:08

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. John Rickford, emeritus professor at Stanford, about his memoir, Speaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language, growing up …

Reawakening Pentlatch

May 30th, 2022

51:27

Carrie and Megan talk with the Working Pentlatch Revitalization team (Mathew Andreatta, Jessie Recalma, Chief Michael Recalma, and Dr Su Urbanczyk) …

John Mary Bill Sue

May 16th, 2022

1:00:19

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Hadas Kotek, a linguist at Apple, about two of her papers: Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed …

Tongues

May 2nd, 2022

1:05:08

Carrie and Megan talk with two of the editors of Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language, Eufemia Fantetti, Professor of English at Humber …

FindingFive

April 4th, 2022

47:42

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Noah Nelson, trustee of FindingFive. FindingFive is a tech nonprofit that enables academic researchers to create and run online behavioral research studies in the cloud!  

This is a …

Hyper Specific Genres We Love

April 1st, 2022

34:17

Renee and Natalia are back with a conversation about some of the books they love that fall into super niche genres. For example, Natalia has an entire bookshelf dedicated to books about bananas and Renee will never say …

Save the Saguaro 🌵

March 28th, 2022

51:54

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Jessica Hernandez, a transnational Indigenous scholar, scientist, and community advocate based in the Pacific …

Myanmar? I Hardly Know Her!

February 21st, 2022

37:16

Megan and Carrie talk with Katie Craig about Myanmar/Burma, the languages spoken there and her organization Myanmar Indigenous Community Partners, which works with local communities to develop and celebrate these …

Employing Linguistics

February 14th, 2022

23:18

In this special (kind of bonus) episode, Dr Anna Marie Trester and Sophie Henry talk about Anna Marie's new book Employing Linguistics: Thinking and Talking about Careers for Linguists.

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Chocolate City

January 31st, 2022

56:42

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Jessi Grieser about her new book, The Black Side of the River, DC, Tennessee and the way Black residents of Anacostia talk about their neighborhood and themselves.

Galician songs here and

Galicious

January 10th, 2022

43:49

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Enrico Torre about Galician and other languages spoken in Spain and why they matter.

We're an indie podcast with limited …

Mara Effin Wilson

December 6th, 2021

57:24

Carrie and Megan talk with Mara Wilson about her voice, her neurodivergence, and the IPA.

Transcript available here.

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Everybody Wants to Rural the World

October 25th, 2021

1:02:01

Carrie and Megan talk to Jeff Zentner, author of The Serpent King (among others), about his YA books set in Appalachia, why he doesn't use eye-dialect, and why representation matters.

Transcript available here

We're an …

Snap, Crackle, K-Pop

September 27th, 2021

1:00:52

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Joyhanna Yoo Garza, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard, about K-Pop, semiotics, cultural …

The Language of Love

August 31st, 2021

1:00:42

Megan and Carrie talk with Natalyn Daniels, Clery Liaison at the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. Rose Wilkerson, lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, about growing up on the Navajo Nation, …

Me Myself and AI

August 2nd, 2021

1:05:29

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics at University of Washington, about her paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜", Google firing Drs. Timnit …

Maintenance Baes

July 12th, 2021

1:18:01

Megan and Carrie talk with the cohosts of Maintenance Phase, Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon, about wellness, diet culture, fatness and how not to …

I Ain't Messing With You

June 28th, 2021

56:41

Carrie and Megan talk with Deion Broxton about his Baltimore accent, his career and speech therapy, and going viral.

Transcript

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Cult Classic

June 14th, 2021

1:00:16

Megan and Carrie talk with Amanda Montell about her newest book Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, out June 15, 2021, how cults use language to …

Accent-uate Your Performance

May 31st, 2021

53:34

Carrie and Megan talk with Erik Singer, dialect coach to the stars, about what dialect coaches do, how to become one, and his strategies for teaching different accents to actors.

Check out some of his Wired videos …

Hypocritical Oath

May 17th, 2021

52:36

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Elena Costello Tzintzun, a newly-minted PhD, about the importance of using heritage language learners as healthcare interpreters and healthcare accessibility.

Philly episode

Transcript

We're …

Bean Discourse

April 28th, 2021

58:54

Carrie and Megan talk with Jaya Saxena, Staff Writer at Eater about her piece The Limits of the Lunchbox Moment and the way we talk about food and …

Jamaalapalooza

April 12th, 2021

53:09

Megan and Carrie talk with Jamaal Muwwakkil, PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Santa Barbara about African American English and …

I Have So Many Questions

April 1st, 2021

32:49

April Fools!  But it's the good kind of prank.  Today we're participating in Operation Switcheroo, where podcasts hosts share their feed with a …

Standardized Language Ideology

March 29th, 2021

57:07

Megan and Carrie talk with Drs Gaillynn Clements, Visiting Assistant Professor in Linguistics at Duke University, and Marnie Jo Petray, Associate Professor in TESOL at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, about …

Use People's Pronouns

February 28th, 2021

57:53

Carrie and Megan talk with Ártemis López about queer and trans translation and interpretation, indirect and direct non-binary language and Spanish …

The Moist Towelette of Podcasts

January 31st, 2021

58:56

Megan and Carrie talk with Kory Stamper, lexicographer extraordinaire, about lexicography, her experience on the History of Swear Words, and her favourite swear word.

Transcript

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Abso-2020-lutely

December 28th, 2020

43:38

Carrie and Megan discuss the nominations and winners of the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year for 2020.

Transcript

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Trumped Up Masculinity

October 27th, 2020

58:23

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Norma Mendoza-Denton Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, about her new edited book, Language in the Trump Era.

Transcript

Sounds about White

September 28th, 2020

57:54

Megan and Carrie talk with JPB Gerald, host of Unstandardized English, a podcast about language teaching, race, and whiteness, EdD student and adult …

Teach Your Children about Linguistic Discrimination

September 3rd, 2020

47:49

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Katherine D. Kinzler, Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago, about her new book How You Say It: Why You …

Dismantling White Supremacy

August 17th, 2020

54:01

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Anne Charity Hudley, Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, about how to dismantle white supremacy in linguistics.

Transcript

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Third Time's the Charm

August 3rd, 2020

41:12

It's the Fries' 3 year anniversary! Carrie and Megan respond to listener voicemails about linguistic discrimination. 

Transcript

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Creating Puentes

July 18th, 2020

59:15

Megan and Carrie discuss the letter to the LSA and then talk with Dr. Marie-Eve Monette, founder of Creating Puentes, about the importance of translation and interpretation services and her life as a French speaker …

Reid between the Lines

June 15th, 2020

1:01:33

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Marianne Mason, newly minted Associate Professor of Spanish at James Madison University, about police interviews, the …

Unconscious Bias Project

May 12th, 2020

53:48

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Linet Mera, co-founder of the Unconscious Bias Project, and Lucretia Iruela, consultant to the UBP, about unconscious …

Chaos and Order

April 28th, 2020

53:32

Megan and Carrie talk with David Bowles, a Mexican-American author from south Texas who teaches at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley, about …

Read between the Vines

April 13th, 2020

53:18

Carrie and Megan talk with Kendra Calhoun, graduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, about anti-hegemonic racial humor on Vine.

Bilingualism is. It just is.

March 31st, 2020

55:13

Megan talks with Dr. Nelson Flores, Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Jonathan Rosa, Associate Professor at Stanford, about the bilingual brain, semilingualism, and why people keep confusing …

Linguistic Injustice

March 16th, 2020

51:26

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Sharese King, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, about Rachel Jeantel and her treatment by the justice system and the media during the George Zimmerman trial.

Transcript

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What's in a Name?

March 2nd, 2020

55:53

Carrie and Megan talk to Dr. Laurel MacKenzie, Assistant Professor at NYU, about all things names.

Transcript

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Cheaper than Therapy

February 17th, 2020

58:16

Megan and Carrie chat with Dr Anna Marie Trester, founder of Career Linguist, about the importance of linguistics to the workplace. (Employers: you need us!)

Transcript

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Wikitongues

February 3rd, 2020

57:57

Carrie and Megan talk with Daniel Bogre Udell, cofounder of Wikitongues, about language documentation and revitalization.

Transcript

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Practice Makes Easier

January 13th, 2020

52:42

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Melissa Baese-Berk, Associate Professor at the University of Oregon, about native and non-native English and the different levels of effort required to understand each.

Transcript

We're an …

Irish isn't Just Decorative

December 30th, 2019

58:20

Carrie and Megan talk with Gearoidin McEvoy, PhD Candidate in Minority Language Rights Law at Dublin City University and cohost of Motherfoclóir, about Irish and the law.

We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so …

Living Languages

December 9th, 2019

57:11

Megan and Carrie talk to Ebony Joachim, at Living Languages, who runs professional development courses for Indigenous communities in Australia, about her work, language revitalization and documentation, and the …

Between Iraq and a Hard Place

November 25th, 2019

58:34

Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Zachary Jaggers, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oregon, about differences in pronunciation of …

Putting the Antics in SemAntics

November 16th, 2019

1:07:15

Megan and Carrie talk to Dr Andrew McKenzie, Associate Professor at the University of Kansas, about Kiowa (Cauijoga), language documentation and the importance of semantic documentation.

Transcript

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Be Good and Be Kind

November 16th, 2019

55:54

Carrie and Megan talk to Dr. Ake Nicholas, Lecturer at Massey University,  about Cook Islands Maori, language documentation and the importance of …

The (In)Visibility of Disability

October 7th, 2019

1:15:03

Megan and Carrie talk to Alice Wong, the founder and Project Coordinator of the Disability Visibility Project, and Nina G, comedian, professional speaker, storyteller, writer and educator, about their disabilities and …

The Rhetoric of Xenophobia

September 23rd, 2019

57:42

Carrie and Megan talk to Ben Zimmer about the rhetoric of "infestation" and "invasion" and the history of their use.

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Everybody Hertz

September 9th, 2019

1:11:30

Megan and Carrie talk to Dr Lisa Davidson, Professor of Linguistics at New York University, about the terms used by journalists to describe language and accents (and why they are so often problematic).

We're an indie …

Your Language Sounds like it has a Drawbridge

August 26th, 2019

1:05:20

Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Sadie Ryan, host of the Accentricity podcast, the podcast that examines the eccentricities of language and identity and how the way we talk connects to who we are.

We're an indie podcast with …

To Be or Not to Be (Hamlet)

August 12th, 2019

1:05:54

Megan and Carrie talk to Duane Daniels, actor, acting coach, director and producer, aka Principal Van Clemmons on Veronica Mars, about acting, singing and his new book You are Not Really Hamlet: And Everybody Knows It.

Megan Squared

July 29th, 2019

49:10

Megan and Carrie talk to Dr Megan Strom, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, about the importance of interpretation services in the United States.

We're an indie podcast with limited resources, …

Lal-apalooza

July 15th, 2019

58:57

Megan and Carrie talk to Dr Lal Zimman, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, about trans voices and vocal fry.

We're an …

The Final Frontier

July 1st, 2019

1:22:42

Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Jeffrey Punske, Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and Dr Andrew McKenzie, Associate Professor at the University of Kansas, about their project on language …

Word Slut

June 17th, 2019

1:01:33

Megan and Carrie talk with Amanda Montell about her new book wordslut: a feminist guide to taking back the english language.

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Choice is Good; Justice is Better

June 3rd, 2019

56:04

Carrie and Megan talk with Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, PhD student at the University of Arizona, about the language around reproductive rights, reproductive justice and abortion.

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No hasi ko’i pendeu

May 20th, 2019

1:09:40

Carrie and Megan talk with Keisha Wiel, PhD student at Temple University, about Papiamentu, a creole spoken in the Caribbean.

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Zom-be or Not Zom-be: That is the Question

May 6th, 2019

1:14:47

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Jamie Thomas, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Swarthmore, about zombies, Swahili, and her book "Zombies Speak …

Chatting about Chatino

April 22nd, 2019

57:26

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Hilaria Cruz, Assistant Professor at the University of Louisville in the Department of Comparative Humanities, about Chatino languages and Chatino conceptions of death.

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Ha-has and Moonbeams and Yaks, Oh My!

April 8th, 2019

1:03:47

Carrie and Megan talk with Jane Solomon about her upcoming book The Dictionary of Difficult Words.

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Fools Rush In

April 1st, 2019

15:52

In this special episode of the Vocal Fries, we present an episode of Turn Of Phrases, a podcast about turning phrases inside out.

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Maaate, Don't Come the Raw Prawn with Me, Alright?

March 25th, 2019

1:08:23

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Tony McMahon from RMIT about all things bogan and Australia.

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Water is Life

March 11th, 2019

53:33

Carrie and Megan talk with Nicole Horseherder, Diné from Arizona, about Diné Bizaad (aka Navajo).

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On the Basis of Voice

February 25th, 2019

50:22

Megan and Carrie talk with Kelly Wright, PhD student at the University of Michigan, about housing discrimination via dialect discrimination.

We're an …

Beyoncé, Hoodies and Obama Linguistics

February 11th, 2019

1:06:49

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Nicole Holliday, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College about Black English, …

The Kids are Alright

January 28th, 2019

36:05

Carrie interviews Megan about child language acquisition and why correcting kids' "mistakes" is not worth your time. 

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Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Podcast

January 14th, 2019

1:01:25

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Jonathan Rosa, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at Stanford University, about his forthcoming book

Bilingualism isn’t Just for White Kids

December 31st, 2018

58:35

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Abby Bajuniemi about heritage languages and heritage language speakers.

Transcript

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The Latino Threat Narrative

December 10th, 2018

1:04:37

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Matthew Garley, Assistant Professor at CUNY, York College, about the use of Spanish and Spanglish in rap.

We're an …

How Millennials are Destroying the Philly Accent

November 26th, 2018

1:03:42

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Betsy Sneller, Postdoc at Georgetown University about all things Philadelphia English. 

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The Rock was the Rock before the Rock, b'y

November 12th, 2018

1:19:53

Carrie and Megan talk with Tracy O'Brien, literature PhD student at the University of Toronto, about all things Newfoundland. Yes b'y.

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Salt Fat Acid SHADE

October 29th, 2018

56:35

Megan and Carrie answer your questions about jerk linguists, the alt right and vocal fry.

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Bat Signals

October 15th, 2018

40:43

It's another Halloween episode! Megan and Carrie talk about bats, wolves and ... prairie dogs?

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Todos/Todas/Todes

October 1st, 2018

1:07:39

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Santiago Kalinowski, Director of the the Linguistics Department at the Argentinian Academy of Letters, about lenguaje inclusivo/inclusive language in Spanish.

Transcript

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Neaux French Left Behind

September 17th, 2018

58:34

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Nathalie Dajko, Assistant Professor at Tulane University, about varieties of French in Louisiana and the history of …

Means Doesn’t Rhyme with New Orleans

August 27th, 2018

55:34

Megan and Carrie talk with Lisa Sprowls, PhD student at Tulane University about New Orleans English(es), especially Yat and the Garden District …

Down the Shore

August 13th, 2018

51:52

Carrie and Megan talk with Lou Capetta of the Lou Capetta Show with Jay Burke about all things New Jersey, including the Sopranos, the Jersey Shore and water ice.

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Keep Calm and Fry On

July 30th, 2018

47:31

Megan and Carrie discuss their first year of podcasting, what they've learned from the experience, and how vocal fry will haunt them forever.

We're an …

Ope, Just Gonna Sneak Right Past Ya and Grab the Ranch

July 16th, 2018

53:33

Carrie and Megan talk with Amanda and Lucy from the Wine and Crime podcast about all things Minnesota.

Transcript

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Don't Mind the Gap

July 2nd, 2018

56:47

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Nelson Flores, newly minted Associate Professor of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, about the so-called 30 million word gap, why it is problematic, and how better …

Patreon Bonus Episode Preview

June 28th, 2018

17:49

In this special bonus episode, Carrie and Megan talk about Koko the gorilla, Love Island and donuts. 

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Rock 'n' Rhotic

June 18th, 2018

1:07:26

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Bob Kennedy of the University of California, Santa Barbara about accents in song, including which accents are associated with which genres, appropriation of those accents, and r's.

We're an …

There Is No Try, There Is Only Du...olingo

June 4th, 2018

46:30

Carrie and Megan talk with Joan Palmiter Bajorek, PhD candidate at the University of Arizona, about the issues around learning a second language via …

Learning to Love Like

May 21st, 2018

1:09:09

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Alexandra D'Arcy, Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, Director of the Sociolinguistics Research Lab and …

Calling London

May 7th, 2018

55:01

Carrie and Megan talk with Issa Wurie, cohost of the Young Free and Coupled podcast, about South London dialects and slang.

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Troublesome Terps

April 23rd, 2018

1:30:39

Megan and Carrie talk with Alexander Drechsel, Alexander Gansmeier and Jonathan Downie of the Troublesome Terps in this special crossover episode.

Don't Be An Accenthole

April 9th, 2018

47:19

Carrie and Megan talk with Ethan Kutlu, PhD student at the University of Florida about foreign accented speech (FAS), which foreign accents are …

Literally Exploding with Nerd Rage

March 26th, 2018

44:21

Megan and Carrie discuss Time's/The Muse's list of "bad" words. HEAVY SIGH.

Transcript

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Black Lives Matter

March 12th, 2018

1:18:50

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Ersula Ore from Arizona State University about rhetoric, respectability politics, and her arrest near campus back in …

Basque-ing in the European Sun

February 26th, 2018

54:32

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez from Southern Illinois University Carbondale about Basque and the discrimination Basque …

They/Them/Theirs

February 12th, 2018

47:58

Carrie and Megan talk with Kirby Conrod, doctoral student at University of Washington, about trans language, including pronoun usage and singular …

We're Ghana Talk English

January 29th, 2018

40:19

Megan and Carrie talk with Selikem Gotah, Masters student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, about Ghanaian English, Ghanaian Pidgin English, and other languages of Ghana. Learn a little about the history of …

French (Canadian) Fries

January 1st, 2018

48:55

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Nicole Rosen, Canada Research Chair in Language Interactions at the University of Manitoba about Canadian French, …

Down in the Holler

December 11th, 2017

49:11

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Paul Reed, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Alabama. They discuss …

ChicaNO? ChicanYES!

November 27th, 2017

40:59

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Carmen Fought about Chicano English, why it matters, and why it isn't the same as Spanglish. Carmen Fought is a …

Borderlands/La frontera

November 13th, 2017

1:21:42

Carrie and Megan chat with award-winning Chicano Poet Alberto Álvaro Ríos about living on the border between the US and Mexico and between English and Spanish.

Transcript

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Freaky Fryday

October 30th, 2017

35:54

Megan and Carrie chat about superstitions, special numbers and the real meaning of 'witch hunt', all while (mis?)pronouncing triskaidekaphobia. It's the spookiest episode yet!

Transcript

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A Sirious Problem

October 16th, 2017

40:44

Do Siri or Alexa have problems understanding you? Learn why, with Carrie and Megan. They talk to Dr. Rachael Tatman about Automatic Speech …

On the Rez

October 2nd, 2017

43:16

Megan and Carrie interview Dr. Peter Jacobs, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University, where he works on language revitalization. They talk about Rez English(es) (the varieties of English spoken on …

Grammar Not-zi

September 18th, 2017

42:31

Carrie and Megan talk about prescriptive grammar, grammar peeving, and how most of the rules you were taught about English were made up by a few …

Southern Fried

September 5th, 2017

39:54

Megan and Carrie talk to Beth Troutman about what it's like to be a Southerner in politics and TV, discuss some Southern American English features, …

Foul-Mouthed Women

August 1st, 2017

44:03

Have you ever wondered why swearing feels so good? Carrie and Megan explain what counts as swearing and why it's so fun to swear. They also discuss what types of words become profane over time and how swearing varies …

Uppity Women

July 15th, 2017

32:37

In this episode we discuss the dreaded vocal fry. We explain what vocal fry actually is, who uses it (cough everyone cough), and why we judge only women for using it. Carrie and Megan ask you to stop judging women for …

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Connect with listeners

Podcasters use the RadioPublic listener relationship platform to build lasting connections with fans

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Find new listeners

  • A dedicated website for your podcast
  • Web embed players designed to convert visitors to listeners in the RadioPublic apps for iPhone and Android
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Understand your audience

  • Capture listener activity with affinity scores
  • Measure your promotional campaigns and integrate with Google and Facebook analytics
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Engage your fanbase

  • Deliver timely Calls To Action, including email acquistion for your mailing list
  • Share exactly the right moment in an episode via text, email, and social media
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Make money

  • Tip and transfer funds directly to podcastsers
  • Earn money for qualified plays in the RadioPublic apps with Paid Listens