RFK Jr. is Running for President! Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for U.S. President today in Boston. He is the second Democrat to officially enter the 2024 race for the White House. The anti-vaccine activist and environmental lawyer will have to run without the support of his family though, mainly because of his vaccine skepticism. The Kennedy's have always had strong ties with the Biden's, so how would a Biden re-election bid affect RFK Jr.’s campaign?
Like, Literally, Dude. So, um, ah, like, you know, why do we speak the way we do today? I mean, literally! English 101 bans these “filler words” in our speech, but linguist Valerie Fridland says we should embrace our changing language as progress, not the collapse of civilization. In her book, Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English, she outlines that language is both function and fashion. Fridland, a professor of linguistics in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Reno, joins Jordan to talk about the evolution of language!
A Father-Son Cross-Country Voyage. Who doesn’t love a good road trip? Brendan Tibbet, a down-on-his-luck filmmaker, purchases a 1930s travel guide at a yard sale and decides to take his ten-year-old son on a two-week adventure. Following the guide, this LA to New Hampshire route covers 16 states and hits all the iconic stops along the way. Turmoil and tears are all part of the journey as Tibbet struggles to find the right time to break news to his son that will affect everything. Academy Award-winning author of On Golden Pond, Ernest Thompson, chats with Jordan about his newest novel, Book of Maps.
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