Casey Wants to Believe

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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0:00.0	Hi.
0:01.8	This is Alex.
0:03.3	It's been a minute.
0:04.6	I think about two and a half years, to be exact.
0:08.0	The reason I'm here is because I wanted to share an episode of the new show that I'm working on, which is called Hyperfixed.
0:13.3	If you liked Super Tech Support, it is basically the same thing, except it is no longer limited to just tech issues.
0:19.2	If you have any kind of problem, whether it's silly or serious, as long as there's a story to be told or some kind of hidden system to uncover, I will try to solve it.
0:28.6	This is the fourth episode of the show, and while this one is definitely on the sillier side of things, we're working on problems like why the U.S. has a different system of
0:38.3	measurement than everyone else. Why refrigerators and grocery stores don't have doors? Whether to have
0:44.1	kids in a world that feels so deeply out of control. The price and availability of passion fruit in the U.S.
0:50.8	All of these are problems that we are either currently trying to solve or we have already put
0:55.8	out an episode about. Hyperfixed is distributed through Radiotopia, which makes unbelievable shows
1:01.6	like Ear Hustle, Song Exploder, and Normal Gossip, but we're completely independent. I run the show
1:07.1	by myself with two other producers, Emma Cortland and Amor Yates, and we are working pretty hand-to-mouth.
1:13.4	In order to make the show viable, we have a free feed where you can hear a new episode every other week and a premium feed that has bonus episodes on the off weeks.
1:23.5	If you subscribe to the premium feed at hyperfixpod.com, you'll get access to those bonus episodes, as well as monthly AMAs, the Hyperfix Discord, and a whole bunch of other stuff we're working on.
1:34.9	But if none of that stuff interests you, that's fine. There's a lot of other ways you can help that don't cost any money.
1:41.0	You can tell your friends. You can post about it online. Or, most importantly,
1:46.5	you can submit a problem of your own that I can try and help you solve. Okay, so here's the
1:51.9	episode. Thank you so much for giving this a chance. I am incredibly excited to be making
1:57.1	radio again, and I hope you enjoy it.
2:03.0	Hey, this is Alex.
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