Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a gorgeous

conversation with a boat-reeling expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

Today's such a surreal episode. I think about having this idea to do this podcast standing behind

my chair in like West Los Angeles in 2014 and now fast-forward six, eight years. We are embarking

on our 300th episode and to celebrate we're turning the mic on you, our listeners, once more.

If you've ever wondered what's it like behind the scenes of getting curious, this is the episode

for you. Without further ado to quote Kathy Dooley, let's embark on a stunning journey led by your

curiosity. Grace, who is 17, Texas S, I was wondering how your podcast came about and how you

started doing it. Let's take it back, Grace, to the year 2016 when you were 11. So basically,

I'd been doing Gay of Thrones and I loved doing Gay of Thrones. It was my first experience in

entertainment. It was the first time I'd ever like performed or written or helped produce.

Once that first season was over, I was like, what the gags up? Like, I want to keep doing stuff and

I was in the salon, but doing getting curious allowed me an avenue of something to work on where I could

really be the director and I could really be the creator and I could do the jokes I wanted to do

and I could learn the things that I wanted to learn. I think the first 50 something episodes of

the first season, like I literally did it with like me and one sound engineer. Like I was cold

emailing like 50 professors to find our first guest on the show ever who was Dr. James Galvin.

I just learned so much. I learned about booking, timing, writing, editing. I learned so much

through just all of it. Then eventually we moved some networks. We made the shift from a biweekly

podcast to a weekly podcast, which was really exciting as I got more support and as the podcast

grew. So that was really exciting. We also went from a 30 minute combo to like way longer combos

because I was just like, why are we making it short? Like, let's let it marinate. Like, let's

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