Silica gel packets known for Do Not Eat.

Famous for beef jerky.

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

Let's find out why silica gel packets 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 because Sienna East and Rivers Langley are my wonderful returning guests.

Sienna East is a comedian, writer, actor, filmmaker. She's also part of the

cast of the NDND YouTube channel, which is a whole group of native performers doing funny and

awesome tabletop role-playing games together. And Sienna last appeared on this podcast on the episode

about libraries. Rivers Langley last appeared on the episode about blood types.

And Rivers has his own entire wonderful podcast going on. It's called Goods from the Woods.

He's the host of that and is also a wonderful stand-up comedian.

Also, I've gathered all of our zip codes and used internet resources like native-land.ca to acknowledge that I recorded this on the

traditional land of the Canarsi and Lena Peoples. Acknowledged Sienna and Rivers each recorded

this on the traditional land of the Gabrieline Ortaongva and Keech 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

silica gel packets. That's a patron chosen topic, many, many thanks to Jonathan Smookler,

for pointing out this desiccant, pointing out this thing that makes

stuff dry around it. As we'll discuss, it's something I never, ever, ever think about,

and I'm so glad I got to think about it now. So, please sit back or stand at that counter and get

an extra packet of beef jerky, right? Because it's delicious and it's on

theme. Either way, here's this episode of Secretly Incredibly Fascinating with Sienna East and Rivers

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