This episode is about to be very weird and meta because I'm going to be discussing a life lesson that I learned from making this podcast.

And the reason why this is going to be weird and meta is because I rarely discuss

what goes into making this podcast. As a listener or a follower or whatever, you just see the final product.

And in a way that's by design because nobody needs to see the inner workings of what it takes to make entertainment, if you will.

So I keep that away on purpose until today, apparently. Before we can get to the life lesson,

we must go back in time to the inception of this podcast.

It actually started in 2018, 2019 when I started my first podcast called Stupid Genius, which only lasted a year or two.

And it was basically a show where I would take a scientific question like,

why do we yawn or why do we sweat or why is the sky blue?

And then I would hypothesis. or why is the sky blue?

And then I would hypothesize what I think the answer is.

And then at the end, the answer would be revealed.

And it'd be sort of this game of how close could I get

to the actual scientific answer.

And then at the end of the episodes, I would sort of just riff on my personal life like what was going on what's been on my mind etc and I very quickly fell out of love with the structure of that podcast. I didn't like doing the exact same thing every

episode. It just felt boring to me at a certain point. And so I got the idea to start a new podcast where I could take my

favorite part of Stupid Genius, which was the end of the episodes when I

would just riff about whatever the fuck I wanted and I turn it into a show itself and then

anything goes was born a show where I could talk about anything. This episode is

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That's great. Maybe they're hairy.

That's also great. Maybe they're somewhere in between. That's also fine.

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