This podcast delves into a specific topic, perfect for enhancing your English learning experience.

PTH4.12 | Tech Buyouts_ The New Normal in Quiet Layoffs

Source: Bloomberg Originals. (2025, July 11). Why Vietnam had to make a trade deal with Trump [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D493o057-w

TH4.13 | Why Vietnam Had to Make a Trade Deal With Trump

PTH4.13 | Vietnam's Trade Diplomacy_ Navigating Superpowers and Economic Growth

Alright, alright, alright! How do some catchphrases become part of the larger vernacular—to the point where people don’t always know the original reference? And the island of Ocracoke off the coast of North Carolina has a distinctive dialect all its own. A new book shows how tourism is changing how the locals talk.  Plus: Are you binge-watching or stinge-watching? If you’re stinge-watching your favorite TV series, you’re savoring it over a long period of time. Also, smearcase, names for imaginary friends, a disem-voweled puzzle, steen o’clock, the rocky origin of cloud, dreepy, nicknames for days of the week, bag raising, and how to pronounce the word mobile when it refers to that toy that hangs above a crib. http://waywordradio.org

Imaginary Friends (Full Episode)

Source: CBC News. (2025, July 25). Why Thailand’s F-16s just bombed Cambodia in escalating border dispute | About That [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDZe2vraTHQ

TH4.14 | Why Thailands F-16s just bombed Cambodia in escalating border dispute

PTH4.14 | Thailand and Cambodia's Escalating Border Dispute

You might be surprised to learn that a “hoosier” isn’t necessarily from Indiana. In St. Louis, Missouri, the term hoosier has a whole other meaning. And: Scotland is the home of the Golden Spurtle world championship, but what exactly IS a spurtle? Some of the finest kitchens are stocked with spurtles. Plus, a love poem from a now-extinct language still echoes through the centuries. Also, boire en wifi and other synonyms for airsipping, an anagrammatic word challenge, thivel, good times at the hosie, Proto-Indo-European, sprit, bully pulpit, the vocabulary of Schuylkill County in Pennsylvania, water sommelier, and a punny riddle. http://waywordradio.org

Mox Nix (Full Episode)

CNET. (2025, August 7). OpenAI unveils GPT-5: Everything announced at OpenAI’s Summer update in 12 minutes [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H9pIAXkELw

TH4.15 | OpenAI Unveils GPT-5

PTH4.15 | GPT-5-A Leap Towards AGI and Creative Intelligence

Why is it harder to talk if we don’t move our hands? Even when we’re talking on the phone we feel the need to gesture to aid communication. A new book offers a look at the relatively new field of gesture studies. And: Ever wonder why we describe the American flag as “red, white, and blue?” Why not “blue, white, and red?” Plus, everyone should have a hellbox for tossing their discards! But where exactly would you find one? Also: a tall glass of water, since dirt was young, since King Hatchet was a hammer, since Hector was a pup, a brain teaser about multiple letters, sold down the river, an alliterative drinking game, upper-case vs. lower-case, why we say red, white, and blue and not blue, white, and red, and how to pronounce pecan. http://waywordradio.org

Tall Drink of Water (Full Episode)

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