Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid Podcast, season 13 finale.

The 13th season, 26 episodes each, comes to a close with this episode.

Multiply 13 by 26, and you get 338 episodes of Curious Kid Podcast.

If you include all our bonus episodes and presidential mini episodes, we are well over

400 episodes released. What a journey it's been. We have so much to cover in this episode.

We are going to share each of our favorite episodes and facts from season 13.

And we are also going to reveal the first five topics we are going to cover in season 14, starting next week.

But first, we are going to do something we usually don't do in season finale episodes.

We are going to get curious for listeners. In our season finale episodes, we usually like to give

our listeners a peek behind the curtain and reveal some details about ourselves or about podcasting.

Thankfully, earlier this month, we received an email from listeners in Beautiful Virginia

that will allow us to share some details about podcasting while also getting curious about

a topic for listeners, like we do every week.

So without any more delay, let's get curious.

Mail bag!

Mailbag! Mail bag.

Hello, we are Andrew, age 8, Rowan, age 7, and Ezra age 3.

We, of course, love listening to your podcast.

We learn so much and listen to them when we are driving and going to sleep.

Lately, we have been seeing more commercials on some shows we watch, and we even hear them on

your podcast. Some of the items advertised seem very random. We would love to learn more about

commercials and advertising. Why do we have and need them? What would we do without them? What

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