Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast season 8 finale. Yay! Today marks the end of four,

full years of Curious Kid podcast. We love doing this podcast together, and we are so lucky to have all of you join us

week after week for the journey of learning.

There are so many things we've enjoyed about podcasting.

One of the things that we absolutely love to do is collaborate with other kids' podcasts.

Over the years, we've worked with a bunch of kids podcasts, and we had the pleasure of working with the amazing folks at Stories Podcast this summer.

The Stories podcast is one of our favorites. In every episode, the podcast shares a different story.

Some of them are familiar stories, like Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood.

Other stories are new stories that you would only hear in the Stories Podcast.

Well, guess what? We wrote a story for Stories Podcast.

Unlike many of the stories that they tell on Stories Podcast, the story we

wrote was a true story. It's a true story, but it still is hard to believe it's true, because it's so

amazing. As I've mentioned a couple of times over the years, I'm a pharmacist. That means that I give

medicine to people to help them feel better. That means that I give medicine to people

to help them feel better. That means that I have to know a lot about medicine. I love learning

about medicine. So when we had the opportunity to write a story for Stories podcast, I wrote a story

about an incredible man that made an incredible discovery almost a full century ago,

and that discovery has helped save millions of lives.

The most incredible part of the story is that the man made his discovery by accident.

His name was Alexander, and the name of our story is Alexander and the Great Mistake. We are going to share

the story with you in just a minute, but stick around after it's done because we are going to

reveal our favorite episodes and facts from season eight, and then we are going to reveal the first

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