Crossing Your Fingers, known for being lucky.

Famous for being also lying jokes.

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

Let's find out why crossing your fingers is secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey, hey there, folks, hey there, Cephalopods. Welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting that people think it is. My name is Alex Schmidt and I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden. Katie. Yes. What is your relationship to or opinion of crossing your fingers or doing like a fingers crossed gesture.

I'm familiar with it.

I can do it.

Like, check it out.

Look at that.

Whoa.

Look at the technique.

Wow.

I've never actually like crossed my fingers in a sincere way of trying to either ward off the bad karma from lying or trying to get luck.

Cool.

Yeah.

Which is not, it's not that I'm not like superstitious.

I have a little bit of superstition.

So like, you know, like I don't like, I don't like jinxing things.

But I think like like, the fingers crossed thing has never been, you know, I don't know.

I think same here.

It's never been like a dominant luck thing or game thing for me.

It's never been my go-to.

Yeah.

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