Pentagrams.

Known for being stars.

Famous for being spooky.

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

Let's find out why pentagrams 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.

I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden.

Katie, what is your relationship to or opinion of pentagrams?

Alex here on secretly incredibly fascinating.

Okay, that's it.

I'm not going to do that anymore because it will kill my voice.

The whole death metal community, I really respect what they can apparently do to their throats all of the time.

I can't imagine it.

It's an Olympic level physical feat. I can't

understand it. I do like listening to metal. Most of the metal I listen to that is not really

satanic themed. I think there's this concept that like all metal is sort of like, oh, you know,

Satan, Satan music. But there's, I think there, I mean, there's definitely metal.

That's, you know, satanic themed.

And the pentagram I know is not simply a Satanist kind of thing.

I think there's other uses of it.

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