Roses

Known for being flowery.

Famous for being rosy.

Non-gardiners don't think much about them,

so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why roses are secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey, hey, hey, 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 the topic of roses?

I like them. They're pretty. What do you want me to say, Alex?

They're nice.

It's powerful anti-rose statements from someone in the world, I guess.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I hate them.

I hate beauty in the world.

No, they're nice.

I like them.

I like the smell. I like the flavor to some extent. I think if it's

too heavy, like I've had rose ice cream before that I didn't really like because I felt like

the floral flavor was too strong and I felt like I was eating ice cream made out of perfume. But

then my other, my other rose related thing

is when I was a kid, I had a pet grasshopper for a minute. It actually lived for about a week,

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