Ball bearings, known for being metal.

Famous for balls.

Nobody thinks much about them, so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why ball bearings are secretly incredibly fascinating. Fascinating.

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. I'm joined by Sam Reich and Mike Trap.

And I hope you know Sam and Mike's work from all sorts of things, such as collegehumor.com, and Dropout has original comedy sketches. It has tabletop role-playing gaming done in an amazing way.

Also, it has its own game shows. And actually, Sam hosts a show called Game Changer. Mike hosts a show

called Um Actually. They're both each their own thing and fantastic.

And Sam and Mike each have their own things going on too. But it's, yeah, I really want to highlight

Dropout because it's independent video comedy online that is worth streaming, worth supporting.

Like if you're looking for funny videos on the internet, as many people are, dropouts the place to be.

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 Sam and

Mike each recorded this on the traditional land of the Gabrieline Wartongva 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 ball bearings.

Ball bearings are a patron chosen topic.

Many thanks to Stephen Daniels for that suggestion.

Also to Brett T. Giffin, to Heather E.

And some other folks on the Patreon for either supporting that suggestion or independently

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