Bismith known for being an element.

Famous for crystals maybe, otherwise people haven't heard of it.

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

Let's find out why Bismith is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Hey there, folks. Hey there, Cipelopods.

Welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting that people think it is. My name's Alec Schmidt, and I'm not alone. I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden, Katie. Yes. What is your relationship to or opinion of Bismuth? I have some pet Bismuth. Yeah, you just showed me.

Wait a second.

I should have said, that's none of your bismuth, Alex.

That's my private bismuth.

See, you had so much respect for your own bismuth crystal that you needed to like acknowledge it first and then this bit.

It's great.

So I have bismuth, but this is, I'm holding

it up for Alex to admire. Yeah, it's so cool. He's admiring my bizmuth. I got it. So I was at

the Washington, D.C. Natural History Museum. And my husband noticed me, Myron, some bismuth, and then

sneakily bought some behind my back. And I got a chunk of bismuth as a present, which I really

love. And so now, yeah, so now I have a chunk of bismuth. Oh, some of the bismuth felt. It does

keep falling apart. It's also like a very glittery thing to try to hide, you know? I'm impressed he snuck it through. Yeah. He did sneak it through. And the thing that I've noticed about it is so this is, I mean, it's lab grown Bismuth. I thought most of it was lab grown, if not all. I suppose I'll find out today.

But yeah, it does.

It is kind of fragile because, like, as you can see in the process of just a little chunk of it.

Yeah, a piece came off.

Peace came off and that keeps happening.

It's, I'm not, I'm not too sad about it because now I have two chunks of Bismuth.

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