Grapefruit, known for being tart.

Famous for being tart and weird.

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

Let's find out why grapefruit 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.

Abe Epperson and Adam Ganser are my guests on this one. I hope you already know about the Small Beans comedy Patreon.

It's called Small Beans.

It came up especially on the Michael Swame episode about the Great Gatsby recently.

Both these guys, Abe Epperson and Adam Ganser, host wonderful shows on there,

including one they do together called Directorpiece Theater.

Because Abe and Adam are both fantastic directors, whether they're

working in comedy or otherwise. They're also very funny and warm and great people. We go way back.

We used to work together at the former workplace crack.com, and so you'll hear us hit a groove right

away, and I think that makes this a really, really fun episode. Also, I've gathered all of our zip codes

and used internet resources like native-dashland.ca to acknowledge that I recorded this on the traditional

land of the Catawba, Ino, and Shikori peoples. Acknowledge Abe and Adam each recorded this on the

traditional land of the Gabrielino Or Tongva, and Kich and Chumash 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 grapefruit, a citrus fruit that you've heard of,

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