Neon, known for being lights.

Famous for being bright.

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

Let's find out why neon is secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey. 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 because I'm joined

by my co-host, Katie Golden. Katie, what is your relationship to or opinion of neon?

Well, you know, it's tubes full of light. It's probably fairies. That's, you know,

probably little fairies in there. You trap them, you shove them in a tube, and you shake it up,

and the fairies get agitated, and they give off light.

This whole episode is going to be a guide to fairy capture.

Basically, if you want to be the villain in a movie about Tinkerbell, this is how.

Like, I'm just saying that Tinkerbell, if she wants to earn her keep, she's got to light up some signs for me.

Yeah.

I mean, I find neon lights to be beautiful. I like them. I remember I played a game when I was very

young. And in the game, it was actually called Spalunks. So any Spalunks heads out there, shout out to you.

And like in the game, it was sort of like an exploratory game

for for young kids, I guess. And there was a part where you could like put different elements

inside of a glass tube and it would shine different colors. And I found that really interesting

as a kid. And then just did not follow up on that or learn more about

that. And so now as an adult, I'm really interested to learn more about neon.

Cool. It almost sounds like the game trained you to do the role in life we were joking about.

So that's great. That's good. Yeah. It's good. You chose not to

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