Checkers, known for being a game, famous for being a simple game. Nobody thinks much about it, so let's have some fun. Let's find out why Checkers is secretly incredibly fascinating. Fascinating.

Hey there, folks.

Welcome to a whole new podcast episode. A podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is. My name is Alex Schmidt, and I'm not alone. Bridget Greenberg

and Christian Ramirez are my guests. They are two excellent podcasters and comedy makers and more.

They mostly do that with the Small Beans Network. You've heard about that often if you listen to this podcast. Bridget co-hosts

two podcasts for Small Beans. One is called Rough Stuff about the embarrassing magic of childhood.

The other is called Cast and the Curious about the Amazing Magic of Dom Torretto and the Fast movies.

Christian made the show Pop Culture Petri dish there, and he guests and streams all over the place now.

Also, as you will hear, the three of us work together at the former workplace crack.com,

so it was nice to get back together with both these great people for a whole other thing.

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

to acknowledge that I recorded this on the traditional land of the Kataba, Ino, and Shikori peoples.

Acknowledge Bridget recorded this on the traditional land of the Gabrielineo Or Tongva and

Keech and Chumash peoples.

Acknowledge Christian also recorded this on the traditional land of the Gabrielino Or Tongva

and Keech peoples.

And acknowledge that in all of our locations, native people are very much still here. That feels worth

doing on each episode. And today's episode is about checkers, also known as drafts, if you are

British, and if I'm understanding the internet resources correctly. Either way, it's that

board game with flat pieces that move diagonally and they can jump over

each other, and then they turn into kings at the end of the board.

It's Checkers.

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