This is episode 3 of the "Words You Should Know" podcast, and it’s time to take a step back. What am I doing here? Here’s a hint: it’s more than teaching you that you want your football team to have a disinterested ref rather than an uninterested ref. And this podcast is more than making sure you know whether you should teach your dog to “lay” or “lie” down… though I’ll get back to that second one.

Let’s figure out why "spilled" beans (with an "-ed" on "spilled") and "spilt" milk (with a "t" on "spilt") are both okay. Let's join the ranks of Ben Franklin and Teddy Roosevelt and hash out how we should put our words down on paper.

Our language can be disorderly and oftentimes nonsensical, and that’s where this podcast comes from.

Words. Language. Communication. Let’s do this.