Introduction

Glenn Larry has two guests on this week's show. John McWhorter is a Professor of Linguistics at Columbia University and columnist for the New York Times. Tom Holland is one of the UK's leading historians writing in particular about the ancient world. The idea behind today's episode was I heard John talking on another podcast and he mentioned his fascination with dinosaurs. And so my ears pricked up at that point because I knew, oh I know someone else who's also interested in dinosaur and that's my favorite historian Tom Holland. So I thought it'd be fun to introduce you to each other and have you talk about dinosaurs both looking at the science and maybe also a bit about the