Hey, folks, as you know, if you've heard the past couple of episodes, this podcast is a new member of the Maximum Fun Podcast Network. Now that we're a few episodes in and we're up and running, I can share lots more about what that means because it's all awesome. It's all exciting. It's also very behind the scenes, very not at all obvious. So I made a mini-explainer podcast about it. It's everything

going on that I'm excited about. There's a link in the description of this regular SIF episode,

so you can also hear that mini-explainer show. Again, that's not a regular episode of the podcast.

There's no need to hear it if you have no questions or just not

curious about this. If you do have questions or if you simply want to hear me be very excited

and share a lot of behind-the-scenes stories, check out that explainer. I think it's cool. I think

it's fun. I think you'll like it. Link in this episode's description. Thank you so much.

And now please enjoy another secretly incredibly fascinating.

High fives. Known for being up high. Famous for being down low. Too slow. Nobody thinks much about

them, so let's have some fun. Let's find out why high fives are secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey there, folks.

Welcome to a whole new podcast episode of 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 my co-host, Katie Golden.

Katie, virtual high five through the Zoom. The high five. Oh, gosh. I'm joined by my co-host, Katie Golden, Katie, virtual high-five through the Zoom.

The high-five. Oh, gosh. I just whacked my monitor.

Oh. That's on me. That's on me. It's on tape, too. There's evidence.

Yeah. What a fun topic. And we also, we're going to have a special guest later because a past guest of this podcast is sort of an expert witness on this topic.

But thank you to supporter Angelie S for picking high fives as a topic. And what's our relationship to those? Katie, how do you feel about them?

I like them, except when someone's like

high five and then I try to do it and they're like too slow and they pull their hand away and then I

fall forward into the mud. Yes, that happened to me in childhood as well, only childhood. It hasn't

happened recently. No, it's good. I like high fives.

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