Jim Thorpe, known for being an athlete.

Thymus for being a native athlete.

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

Let's find out why Jim Thorpe is secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey there, folks.

Hey there, Cipelopods.

Welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a 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 folks know, Katie is out. I have a wonderful returning guest on this show. He's an Emmy-nominated and Peabody nominated comedy writer. He's a filmmaker. His short film, Pao, is streaming on YouTube. And his new book is up for pre-order. We're linking in everything. It's called, We've Been Here the Whole Time, a Not So Sacred Guide to All Things Native America. Please welcome back, Joey Clift. Hey, Joey. Wow, thanks so much for having me, everybody. I'm so excited that the fans of this podcast are called Ciphalopods.

I feel like that's new. That was not when I first started guesting on this. Yeah, Joey goes way back on the show, and yeah, that's a new choice by our Max Fun members, like Cephalopods. I feel like you could also do like Siffomaniacs. I feel like you could go

sypholus sufferers

I'm riddled with syphomaniacs. I feel like you could go, sypholus sufferers?

I'm riddled with sypholus.

Yeah. I don't know.

Can't make the birch. Can't make any birch.

Oh, it's too bad. Oh, dude.

You know, the merch is just a t-shirt that says, I have sypholus.

What's that tweet?

A lot of questions are being asked about my shirt that are answered by my shirt.

Yeah.

For sure.

Speaking of members and listeners, thank you folks for picking this week's topic.

It's suggested by DeCoop Bear with support from John from Baltimore and many others in the polls.

Joey, what is your relationship to or opinion of Jim Thorpe?

My relationship to Jim Thorpe is he's just a guy that I think looms very large in Indian country.

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