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The Vocal Fries — 160 episodes

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Title
1

Unlocking Justice

2

Why We Talk Funny

3

Language and Health in Action

4

I see your True Color(s)

5

Stop Protecting Chomsky

6

WOTY2025

7

By Hand

8

Trapped in Makaton

9

Scary Words for a Scary World

10

Peven Stinker

11

Algospeak

12

A History of Like

13

Serving Language Ideologies

14

Rare Tongues

15

The AI Con

16

Enough is Enuf

17

Language Oppression in Tibet

18

The Italian N-Word

19

matkunsh 7mar

20

Demystifying Language

21

Fear and Loathing in Politics and Academia

22

Performing the News

23

How Schools Make Race

24

Dogwhistles and Other Fig Leaves

25

Writing Beyond Writing

26

Language City

27

Uneffing the Binary

28

Gorsh! We All Have Accents

29

The Funnest Episode

30

Braillians

31

Linguistic Discrimination against Uyghurs in China

32

Werthwhile Language

33

Don't Drown the Cat

34

We All Country

35

Shuffling off This Mortal Coil

36

Talking Tamarra

37

Mental Fries/Vocal Floss

38

A Braille as Old as Time

39

Like, Literally, Dude

40

Figgy, Gills and Bobby

41

Don't be an *, be a 🐈

42

The People's Tongue

43

The Freeze Peach Paradox

44

Dr G Squared

45

Bonus WOTY 2022

46

Brasse pa lamèrd

47

Cruz Control

48

Evil Sorting Hat of Whiteness

49

The Duct Tape of Language

50

Bulls, apes, bats and chickens

51

The Rickford Files

52

Make Grammar Cool Again

53

Reawakening Pentlatch

54

John Mary Bill Sue

55

Tongues

56

FindingFive

57

Hyper Specific Genres We Love

58

Save the Saguaro 🌵

59

Myanmar? I Hardly Know Her!

60

Employing Linguistics

61

Chocolate City

62

Galicious

63

Mara Effin Wilson

64

All Your Meme Are Belong To Us

65

Everybody Wants to Rural the World

66

Snap, Crackle, K-Pop

67

The Language of Love

68

Me Myself and AI

69

Maintenance Baes

70

I Ain't Messing With You

71

Cult Classic

72

Accent-uate Your Performance

73

Hypocritical Oath

74

Bean Discourse

75

Jamaalapalooza

76

I Have So Many Questions

77

Standardized Language Ideology

78

Use People's Pronouns

79

The Moist Towelette of Podcasts

80

Abso-2020-lutely

81

Racists and Transphobes and Scaredy Cats, oh my

82

Trumped Up Masculinity

83

Sounds about White

84

Teach Your Children about Linguistic Discrimination

85

Dismantling White Supremacy

86

Third Time's the Charm

87

Creating Puentes

88

Reid between the Lines

89

Unconscious Bias Project

90

Chaos and Order

91

Read between the Vines

92

Bilingualism is. It just is.

93

Linguistic Injustice

94

What's in a Name?

95

Cheaper than Therapy

96

Wikitongues

97

Practice Makes Easier

98

Irish isn't Just Decorative

99

Living Languages

100

Between Iraq and a Hard Place

101

Putting the Antics in SemAntics

102

Be Good and Be Kind

103

The (In)Visibility of Disability

104

The Rhetoric of Xenophobia

105

Everybody Hertz

106

Your Language Sounds like it has a Drawbridge

107

To Be or Not to Be (Hamlet)

108

Megan Squared

109

Lal-apalooza

110

The Final Frontier

111

Word Slut

112

Choice is Good; Justice is Better

113

No hasi ko’i pendeu

114

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

115

Chatting about Chatino

116

Ha-has and Moonbeams and Yaks, Oh My!

117

Fools Rush In

118

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

119

Water is Life

120

On the Basis of Voice

121

Beyoncé, Hoodies and Obama Linguistics

122

The Kids are Alright

123

Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Podcast

124

Bilingualism isn’t Just for White Kids

125

The Latino Threat Narrative

126

How Millennials are Destroying the Philly Accent

127

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

128

Salt Fat Acid SHADE

129

Bat Signals

130

Todos/Todas/Todes

131

Neaux French Left Behind

132

Means Doesn’t Rhyme with New Orleans

133

Down the Shore

134

Keep Calm and Fry On

135

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

136

Don't Mind the Gap

137

Patreon Bonus Episode Preview

138

Rock 'n' Rhotic

139

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

140

Learning to Love Like

141

Calling London

142

Troublesome Terps

143

Don't Be An Accenthole

144

Literally Exploding with Nerd Rage

145

Black Lives Matter

146

Basque-ing in the European Sun

147

They/Them/Theirs

148

We're Ghana Talk English

149

Two Canadians, an Australian and an American walk into a Linguistics Conference...what is this, a crossover episode?

150

French (Canadian) Fries

151

Down in the Holler

152

ChicaNO? ChicanYES!

153

Borderlands/La frontera

154

Freaky Fryday

155

A Sirious Problem

156

On the Rez

157

Grammar Not-zi

158

Southern Fried

159

Foul-Mouthed Women

160

Uppity Women