Keyes, known for opening doors.

Famous for closing doors, locking doors, you get it.

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

Let's find out why keys are 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. Two guests return to this podcast, and they're returning together for the first time. Soren Bowie is a writer for American Dad on TBS, which is an amazing TV cartoon that's worth seeing. Daniel O'Brien is a writer for last week tonight with

John Oliver, which is an amazing TV current events comedy show that's very worth seeing.

And then the two of them co-hosts the podcast Quick Question with Soren and Daniel.

Very fun, very joyful.

Please search the title or go through the links in the episode because you're going to love it.

You may recognize them from our past work together.

And now that includes an episode of this show about the planet Venus with Soren and an episode about the U.S. President Franklin Pierce with Daniel Daniel, I am thrilled they were each up for coming back again, and I thought it would

be fun if we did it all together. Also, I've gathered all of our zip codes and used internet

resources like native-land.ca to acknowledge that I recorded this on the traditional land of the

Kataba, Ino, and Shikori peoples. Acknowledge Sorin recorded this on the traditional land of the Kataba, Ino, and Shikori peoples.

Acknowledge Sorin recorded this on the traditional land of the Gabrielino Or Tongva,

and Kich and Chumash peoples.

Acknowledge Daniel recorded this on the traditional land of the Lenny Lanopi people,

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 keys. And I want to thank

listener Rusty Shackleford, because Rusty suggested this topic, listeners to this show who

our patrons get to vote on topics, and they picked

keys. I also did a whole extra poll this month, so we're getting two of those. The other

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