Marrissa welcomes two new guests, Aaron and Krystal, to talk about the word 'like' and why we don't really care if you judge us for using it too much.

Links:
During the late 1950s, early 1960s, the media attacked what they called the Beat Generation. 

https://daily.jstor.org/how-the-beat-generation-became-beatniks/

NYT article on renting a Beatnik, April 17, 1960

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/04/17/99733046.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

Additional:
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/11/the-evolution-of-like/507614/

https://www.altalang.com/beyond-words/word-association-like-wrong/#:~:text=The%20word%20like%20comes%20from,therefore%20'similar%20to%20a%20giraffe.

https://www.sankinspeechimprovement.com/the-like-epidemic-using-word-like-excessively/

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Intro and Outro music by Hannah Rothfield and Joe Benjamin