Season 1, Episode #20 August 27, 2022

In this 30-minute episode, Keith and Pam discuss how they grew up speaking American Standard English, how the term “woke” has been misappropriated by the right-wing, and the upcoming AAVE (African American Vernacular English) dictionary being written for the OED (Oxford English Dictionary), with editor-in-chief Dr. Henry Louis Gates.

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