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Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

Cardboard

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

Alex Schmidt

Society & Culture, Comedy, History

4.7720 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Alex Schmidt is joined by comedians Caitlin Gill and Blake Wexler for a look at why cardboard is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Cardboard, known for being brown, famous for being boxes.

0:07.1

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

0:10.5

Let's find out why being alive is more

0:41.0

interesting than people think it is. My name is Alex Schmidt, and I'm not alone. Two wonderful

0:48.1

returning guests today, Caitlin Gill and Blake Wexler, they are also both wonderful stand-up comedians.

0:54.4

Caitlin Gill's latest album is titled Major. Blake Wexler. They are also both wonderful stand-up comedians. Caitlin Gill's latest album is titled Major.

0:57.3

Blake Wexler has multiple number one stand-up albums, and his latest is A Lifetime of

1:02.1

Laughter. There are many other things as well. Blake Wexler is a podcaster. His show is called

1:07.0

Blake's Takes for God's Sakes. And Caitlin Gill has her own t-shirt business. It's called

1:12.5

guaranteeshirts.com. Great site and also provides some insight into today's topic. Also,

1:19.4

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

1:25.2

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

1:30.2

Acknowledge Caitlin recorded this on the traditional land of the Yuha Viatum and Marenga Yom peoples.

1:36.2

Acknowledge Blake recorded this from Lenape Hoking, the traditional land of the Lenny Lenape

1:41.3

people.

1:42.2

And acknowledge that in all of our locations, native people are

1:46.1

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

1:52.2

cardboard. Cardboard is a patron chosen topic for this month. Thank you to Samuel Ross for that

1:59.0

suggestion. Thank you to Ryan Huffman for supporting

2:01.5

it in the threads at SIFPod.Fund. Fun. And a really fun whole community groundswell around that

2:06.6

one that has been a suggestion before. And I'm not surprised. It's an absolutely perfect,

2:11.7

absolutely self-explanatory topic that fits the podcast like a glove, perhaps one you

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