Potatoes, known for being food.

Famous for becoming fries, chips, good food.

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

Let's find out why potatoes 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.

Jack O'Brien is my guest. Jack O'Brien, yes, very exciting. I agree. He created the former podcast called The Cracked Podcast. He's the creator and co-host of the

current amazing podcast, The Daily Zeitgeist. Yeah, as they say. And be sure to check out the Daily Zitegeist if you have not.

It's where Jack O'Brien and Miles Gray and excellent guests do a show every weekday about everything going on in the

world and then extra shows about the latest trends as they happen.

And beyond that stuff, me and Jack, go backaways.

Like, I don't think I need to tell you that I'm super fortunate to have met him and worked with

him and learned from him.

And he's been a very important person for me all around.

He's also awfully busy making

that amazing daily podcast, the Daily Zeitgeist. So I'm super grateful to him for stacking this

taping on top of everything else he's doing. Also, I've gathered all of our zip codes and used

internet resources like native dash land.ca to acknowledge that I recorded this on the traditional land of

the Kataba, Ino, and Shikori peoples. Acknowledge Jack recorded this on the traditional land of

the Gabrielino Or Tongva, and Kich, and Chumash peoples. And acknowledge that in all of our

locations, native people are very much still here.

That feels worth doing on each episode, and today's episode is about potatoes.

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