Lemons, known for being yellow.

Famous for being lemony.

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

Let's find out why being alive is more interesting. Hey there, folks. Welcome to a whole new podcast episode for this new year. It's 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 because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden. Katie, what is your relationship to or

opinion of lemons? I love lemons.

I have a lemon tree.

I've never gotten a single good lemon out of it.

So the poor little lemon tree has been through a lot.

I've been learning how to take care of it.

I realized last year that you're supposed to not let it freeze in the winter. So I am now bringing it indoors. Another issue is that if it gets too hot in the drought, it also doesn't

like that. So I've been bringing it indoors in both the winter and in the really hot summer months.

So it's like, it's kind of like an indoor, outdoor elementary.

It fits in a pot.

So it's not like a hole.

Right.

I don't have a yard.

So it's like in a pot and it lives on my balcony.

Right now it lives in my living room. It had like a lemon on it

and then it like froze in the winter last last year and kind of turned black. And I don't think that was,

I don't think that was good. So we'll see. We'll see what happens this year. I'm feeding it a lot of water, some citrus

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