Eggnog, known for being Christmassy, famous for being Nagy.

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

Let's find out why Eggnog is secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey there.

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.

I am celebrating the holidays today with my wonderful guest, Joel Stein, who has been on this show before on an episode about wooden blocks.

He's also a wonderful comedy writer and bestselling author.

His latest book is called In Defense of Elitism, Why I'm Better Than You, and you are better than someone who didn't buy this book.

Right?

It's fun.

It's called In Defense of Elitism, it is both very funny and very insightful about everything in the country and world, especially the last couple years.

And speaking of humor, speaking of insight, speaking of amazing stuff, Joel has a new podcast out. It is called Story of the Week, and I asked him to pitch it to you, which you will, in the show.

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

To acknowledge that I recorded this on the traditional land of the Canarsi and Lenape peoples.

Acknowledge Joel recorded this on the traditional land of the Gabrielino Or Tongva and Kich and Chumash peoples,

and acknowledged 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 eggnog.

You know, the beverage. And that's a patron suggested topic. Many thanks to

J.R. Carson for that idea. Also to Shane and to Jonathan Smookler and to other folks for

supporting it in the threads at siftpod.fod. fun. I'm doing something special this month with

the patron votes for topics because every month patrons pick three episode topics.

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