Ham, known for being a meat.

Famous for being a meat from pigs.

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

Let's find out why ham is secretly incredibly 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. I'm joined by two wonderful comedy writers and people who are making one of my favorite websites in the entire world.

Robert Brockway and Sean baby are on the show

this week. Robert Brockway and Sean are the two wonderful comedy minds behind 1,900 Hot Dog. And

1,900 Hot Dog is a website. It is not a hotline that's missing a digit. Do you remember a time when comedy

websites would have articles on them that were fun to read? Right. And like somebody also put

some thought into it and some personality into it and some actual effort into it. Well,

let me tell you something. There is a comedy website that is still that

way. There is a website out there like that. And it's 1-900 Hot Dog. They've got new stuff every

weekday. There's a Patreon to support it, but a bunch of it is free and right in front of you.

I can't recommend 1-900 Hot Dog enough. I just have fun saying one 900 hot dog. I don't say it out loud a lot.

One 900 hot dog. That's good time. Anyway, Robert and Sean are also former colleagues of mine at

the former workplace crack.com. And then Robert is also a novelist with many exciting books under

his belt, everything from his vicious circuit trilogy

written for Tor books to his latest, which is the post-apocalypse epic, Carrier Wave.

And then Sean's also a gaming writer and a game creator, and I cannot recommend his mobile

game enough. It is called Calculords, and it makes math fun. And I am not talking in a, you know,

I am tolerating the game math munchers because it's better than school kind of way. I mean,

it uses math as a thrilling strategy game mechanic. It's just great. I could go on about these

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