23 Skadoo, known for being old-timey slang. Famous for being old-timey slang. Nobody thinks much about it, so let's have some fun. Let's find out why 23 Skidoo is secretly incredibly fascinated. Hey there, folks. Hey there, Cepilopods. Welcome to a whole new podcast episode and kind of a time jumping episode. There's a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is. My name's Alex Schmidt and I'm not alone. I have basically decided that it would be nice if at the start of the Max Fun Drive, there is a new episode, even though if you've been listening to the feed for a few weeks, there's been some family leave weeks.

So I'm taping this before my baby is born.

Next week, hopefully you will hear from me after they're born, whole new era.

Either way, I have a wonderful guest joining me today.

I hope you folks know them from Greatest Generation, Greatest Trek, and other things they do on Max Fun, Ben Harrison and Adam Pranica. Hi, guys. Hello. Hey, Alex. Thanks for having us. Really appreciate you doing this. And I know things are busy when this releases with the drive, but we're way before it now. So it's all, you know, it's all gravy, this ordinary time. We're going to think about this time nostalgically for its calm and peace,

right? New baby arriving during a pledge drive is, that's a heavy lift. So I salute you. And I hope,

I hope folks will dig deep to support secretly, incredibly fascinating.

And it's future host because I think that all podcast hosts aspire to hand their

podcast down to their children eventually.

I don't think I told you guys, Katie, because she's also having her own baby separately,

she called them our heirs.

And we basically decided, yes, some sort of monarchical version where they host it later.

Yeah.

Ben, there's still time to make a baby before the drive.

Are you feeling a little behind the curve here?

I mean, my wife won't tell me how it all works, but...

Should we pause the show for a second so Ben can go take care of that?

That sounds like that could be an episode of the show, right?

You could explain how it works.

Alex, you would only have to pause for like six minutes.

I'm sure he'd be right back. Six. What am I an athlete?

I mean, you want to go twice to increase your chances, right? Yeah, two is one. One is none.

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