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The Vocal Fries — 159 episodes

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Title
1

Why We Talk Funny

2

Language and Health in Action

3

I see your True Color(s)

4

Stop Protecting Chomsky

5

WOTY2025

6

By Hand

7

Trapped in Makaton

8

Scary Words for a Scary World

9

Peven Stinker

10

Algospeak

11

A History of Like

12

Serving Language Ideologies

13

Rare Tongues

14

The AI Con

15

Enough is Enuf

16

Language Oppression in Tibet

17

The Italian N-Word

18

matkunsh 7mar

19

Demystifying Language

20

Fear and Loathing in Politics and Academia

21

Performing the News

22

How Schools Make Race

23

Dogwhistles and Other Fig Leaves

24

Writing Beyond Writing

25

Language City

26

Uneffing the Binary

27

Gorsh! We All Have Accents

28

The Funnest Episode

29

Braillians

30

Linguistic Discrimination against Uyghurs in China

31

Werthwhile Language

32

Don't Drown the Cat

33

We All Country

34

Shuffling off This Mortal Coil

35

Talking Tamarra

36

Mental Fries/Vocal Floss

37

A Braille as Old as Time

38

Like, Literally, Dude

39

Figgy, Gills and Bobby

40

Don't be an *, be a 🐈

41

The People's Tongue

42

The Freeze Peach Paradox

43

Dr G Squared

44

Bonus WOTY 2022

45

Brasse pa lamèrd

46

Cruz Control

47

Evil Sorting Hat of Whiteness

48

The Duct Tape of Language

49

Bulls, apes, bats and chickens

50

The Rickford Files

51

Make Grammar Cool Again

52

Reawakening Pentlatch

53

John Mary Bill Sue

54

Tongues

55

FindingFive

56

Hyper Specific Genres We Love

57

Save the Saguaro 🌵

58

Myanmar? I Hardly Know Her!

59

Employing Linguistics

60

Chocolate City

61

Galicious

62

Mara Effin Wilson

63

All Your Meme Are Belong To Us

64

Everybody Wants to Rural the World

65

Snap, Crackle, K-Pop

66

The Language of Love

67

Me Myself and AI

68

Maintenance Baes

69

I Ain't Messing With You

70

Cult Classic

71

Accent-uate Your Performance

72

Hypocritical Oath

73

Bean Discourse

74

Jamaalapalooza

75

I Have So Many Questions

76

Standardized Language Ideology

77

Use People's Pronouns

78

The Moist Towelette of Podcasts

79

Abso-2020-lutely

80

Racists and Transphobes and Scaredy Cats, oh my

81

Trumped Up Masculinity

82

Sounds about White

83

Teach Your Children about Linguistic Discrimination

84

Dismantling White Supremacy

85

Third Time's the Charm

86

Creating Puentes

87

Reid between the Lines

88

Unconscious Bias Project

89

Chaos and Order

90

Read between the Vines

91

Bilingualism is. It just is.

92

Linguistic Injustice

93

What's in a Name?

94

Cheaper than Therapy

95

Wikitongues

96

Practice Makes Easier

97

Irish isn't Just Decorative

98

Living Languages

99

Between Iraq and a Hard Place

100

Putting the Antics in SemAntics

101

Be Good and Be Kind

102

The (In)Visibility of Disability

103

The Rhetoric of Xenophobia

104

Everybody Hertz

105

Your Language Sounds like it has a Drawbridge

106

To Be or Not to Be (Hamlet)

107

Megan Squared

108

Lal-apalooza

109

The Final Frontier

110

Word Slut

111

Choice is Good; Justice is Better

112

No hasi ko’i pendeu

113

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

114

Chatting about Chatino

115

Ha-has and Moonbeams and Yaks, Oh My!

116

Fools Rush In

117

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

118

Water is Life

119

On the Basis of Voice

120

Beyoncé, Hoodies and Obama Linguistics

121

The Kids are Alright

122

Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Podcast

123

Bilingualism isn’t Just for White Kids

124

The Latino Threat Narrative

125

How Millennials are Destroying the Philly Accent

126

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

127

Salt Fat Acid SHADE

128

Bat Signals

129

Todos/Todas/Todes

130

Neaux French Left Behind

131

Means Doesn’t Rhyme with New Orleans

132

Down the Shore

133

Keep Calm and Fry On

134

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

135

Don't Mind the Gap

136

Patreon Bonus Episode Preview

137

Rock 'n' Rhotic

138

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

139

Learning to Love Like

140

Calling London

141

Troublesome Terps

142

Don't Be An Accenthole

143

Literally Exploding with Nerd Rage

144

Black Lives Matter

145

Basque-ing in the European Sun

146

They/Them/Theirs

147

We're Ghana Talk English

148

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

149

French (Canadian) Fries

150

Down in the Holler

151

ChicaNO? ChicanYES!

152

Borderlands/La frontera

153

Freaky Fryday

154

A Sirious Problem

155

On the Rez

156

Grammar Not-zi

157

Southern Fried

158

Foul-Mouthed Women

159

Uppity Women