Garlic

Known for being tasty

Thymus for being smelly

in good ways and bad ways.

Nobody thinks much about it,

so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why garlic is

secretly incredibly fascinating.

Music Hey there folks. Hey there, Cephalopods. Welcome to a whole new podcast episode of podcast

all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is. My name's Alex Schmidt,

and I'm not alone. As you heard probably last week as well, my buddy Katie Golden is out.

She has her own news to share when that comes. But if you've heard recently, she is pregnant.

And so she's doing that, which is great. And also, I get to be joined by a wonderful returning guest on this episode. Among many wonderful things, she's the co-host of Just the Zoo of Us on Maximum Fun, which is a tremendous podcast all around. Ellen Weatherford. Hi. Hello. Thank you for having me back. I'm so excited to talk to you. I always have a great time when I'm here. Everything that we've ever recorded together, I feel like has been like a total blast in a fantastic time. So I always know when I see your name pop up in my Gmail, like I'm like rubbing my hands together. I'm like, ooh, it's time for something good. That's very kind. And I'm now thinking of like, I think it was the last maximum fun drive we taped together

for like 10 minutes on a thing.

And I was still like, this rules.

This great.

And even that.

I'm able to, you know, there's no time limit on Goblin behavior.

You know, Goblin, somehow it makes me think of the topic this week.

Yeah, it is very energetically adjacent, I feel like.

This is another suggestion from you folks that you picked in the polls.

Thank you to tap in Lisa for suggesting it on Discord, also to XKarex, Lucifer, president, and others for supporting it. Alan, what is your

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