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Brooke Hammerling

Brooke Hammerling

Jan 6, 2026

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20:09
All that on Version History, wherever you get podcasts.
20:18
I'm back with Don Lemon, Stephanie Ruhle, and Brooke Hamerly.
20:21
Now we're gonna get into something a little lighter.
20:23
We have, we had a lot of time to take in more TV shows and movies over the holiday break.
20:27
Um, uh, let's talk about the breakout star of the past few weeks, Heated Rivalry, which is your favorite thing.
20:33
Um, also Don's apparently.
20:35
Uh, Stephanie, you can weigh in too.
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23:39
Two more seasons.
20:56
Every episode, we get an expert to send us a question for our guests, so let's hear yours.
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My name is Brook Hammerling.
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I'm a communications advisor and a writer/podcaster of a weekly newsletter and podcast called Pop Culture Mondays, and it is to help the olds understand what the youngs are talking about, what's breaking and unraveling in the social worlds like TikTok.
21:17
My big question for Adam is the ownership of a word.
21:21
We live in a world now where people seem to take ownership of things that they have, in their minds, coined.
21:29
A great example is Pat Riley was able to trademark the term threepeat.
21:34
What is the value of a word, and, uh, can somebody actually own it? So for example, the terms that are really popular today, like rizz, cap, no cap, delulu.

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