Paperclips, known for looping, famous for Microsoft Officing.

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

Let's find out why paper clips are 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. Wow. My co-host Katie Golden. Hello, Katie.

Yay. I'm just, I'm just, I love how that sounds. Co-host. Co-host Katie Golden. We should, Katie. Yay! I'm just, I love how that sounds.

Co-host, co-host Katie Golden.

We should, yeah, I didn't get you a desk plate or anything.

I should.

Come on, get it together.

Yeah, no, I am so, so excited to be here.

I'm thrilled you are here, yeah.

And I hope folks caught the mini-announcement episode that went up a few days ago. If you didn't, that's fine. The short version is a bunch of huge news about this show that is just fully thrilling and big upgrades. And I'm like, I'm slightly bouncing up and down, but not too much because I'm an audio pro. I don't want to mess up my angle on the microphone, right?

But I'm bouncing in a very controlled way about it. Your eyes are jiggling. Your eyeballs are

sort of jiggling around in their sockets. That is the podcaster way of showing excitement without

messing up the audio. I'm being a total pro. My head has done the movie scanners. It has fully exploded,

but I keep talking. I keep talking. I don't let it mess it up. Like we talk out of stumps in this

industry. And here's what my stump is thrilled about. The short version is SIFPod is now part of

the maximum fun podcast network. I hope you know what that is.

There have been many hosts and people from that network guesting on this show before.

It's just humongously great that we can be part of it. Other news is that there is now a discord

for you to hang out in for this show, especially if you support this show. And other other news is thanks to this transition,

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