Batteries known for being negative.

Famous for being positive.

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

Let's find out why batteries are secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey.

Hey there, folks. Welcome to a whole new podcast episode of Podcast All About Why Being

Being Alive is more interesting than people think it is. My name is Alex Schmidt and I'm not

alone. I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden. Katie, what a topic this week. What is your

relationship to or opinion of batteries? I'm using them right now, Alex. I got my little, my little recorder, handy recorder,

and it is being powered by batteries. You know why? You want to know why? When I plug it into the

wall, for some reason, it picks up Italian radio. I don't know why. Yes. I don't know why.

But I think the wiring in this house is kind of old and it's picking up some radio stations.

And so because this is a podcast that is not about faint Italian radio, I use batteries.

I got rechargeable batteries so I don't have too much e-waste. And it's great. Just recharge those little suckers up, run it on my, put them right in there.

And hey, I got, I got electricity. It's always very interesting to me. I do. I want people to really appreciate this story

because I've heard it and I love it, which is that, as people know, Katie lives in Turin, Italy,

and when she plugs her recorder device into the wall, there's apparently faint Italian radio. I have

not heard it. I have not received, like, tape with the radio in it. Tape in the digital sense.

Anyway, very exciting to me.

I love it.

Now I feel like I need to capture it on tape so that it's clear that I'm not making it up.

Also, I'm a little worried that if I try to tape it, it won't show up on the tape, which

means that I'm haunted.

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