Asbestos, known for being deadly, famous for being removed. Nobody thinks much about it, so let's have some fun. Let's find out why asbestos is secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey, hey,

Hey there, folks, welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

My name is Alex Schmidt, and I'm Not Alone. Matt Kirshin and Andy Wood are back on the show today.

Wonderful guests, they are also co-hosts of a great podcast called Probably Science. And Probably

Science is about the latest science news, why it's surprising, why it's strange, and why it's a lot

fun to think about. Also, they're both stand-up comedians and comedy writers. And Andy Wood, by the

way, is a four-time Jeopardy Champion, which is a status I find very relatable and love.

He was amazing on that show.

And so always good to get together with him and with Matt too.

What a perfect pair of guests for this very sciencey, very, I guess, delicate topic.

Also, I've gathered all of our zip codes and used internet resources like native dash land.ca to acknowledge

that I recorded this on the traditional land of the Canarsi and Lenape peoples.

Acknowledge Matt and Andy each recorded this on the traditional land of the Gabrielino Or Tongva

and Kich and Chumash peoples, and acknowledge that in all of our locations, native people are

very much still here. That feels worth doing on each episode, and today's episode is about

asbestos, which is a top patron pick. Thank you very much to Max Martin for that suggestion,

and to everybody else at SIFPod.

Fun for selecting it in the polls. And I think this topic, this episode, there's a very

particular tone because we are having fun and this is a topic that has a lot of negative

attributes and negative valances. And the recent episode about barbed wire is probably a pretty

good comp. Because to be clear, asbestos is bad for humans.

None of that has changed.

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