Leap Day, known for being extra, famous for being in 2024.

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

Let's find out why leap days are secretly incredibly fascinating. today. 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 my co-host Katie Golden.

Katie, happy approximately one year until leap day. About a year away.

I'm so excited for a leap day about a year away.

I've made a leap day chain out of paper and like 365 links.

Wait, I don't know.

Wait, is it not 365?

Is that like, because a leap day does it make?

You got to tear it up, start over.

A lot of recycling, a lot of new paper.

Damn it.

I use fresh paper every time.

And this topic, it comes from Greg Lewis. Thank you for supporting the show, Greg, and for this great idea.

And I realized with topics, we can start just starting with our relationship to them. I don't necessarily have to just ask you.

And my relationship to leap day is very quick. I like it a lot. It's great. And I feel like it especially livens up the second half of February. Like after Valentine's Day, there's sort of no

landmarks. But leap day year, whole weird day coming. I love it. It's great.

Personally, I like routine and I get very scared and confused when that routine is disrupted.

So if there's like an extra day or a missing day or daylight savings or daylight unsavings, it gets very confusing for me.

And I would just like every month to be the same number of days, every year to be the same

number of days, and every day be the same number of hours.

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