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Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

The Color Yellow

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

Alex Schmidt

History, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.7773 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Alex Schmidt and special guests David Bell and Tom Reimann explore why the color yellow is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The color yellow, known for being sunny.

0:04.4

Thymus for being cartoony?

0:07.4

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

0:10.1

Let's find out why the color yellow is secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey there folks. Hey there, Cipelopods. Welcome to a whole new podcast episode. Podcasts all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is. My name's Alex Schmidt. I'm not alone. As you know, Katie is out. And when she has news to share, we'll share it when she's back on the show. My guests today are wonderful returning guests. You know them from their wonderful shows on gamefully unemployed, such as Fox

0:55.0

Mulder is a maniac, and also writing and producing things all over the place. Please welcome back

0:59.9

David Bell and Tom Ryman. Hey, guys. Hi. Thanks, man. Yeah. Thanks for the intro. Is one of us

1:07.2

the co-host? Like, do you? I think you and I together is like a Voltron. Okay. I think it's the only-host like do you i think you and i together is like a voltron okay i think it's the only

1:14.1

fair way to do it we have we have to master blaster this or else so we just say things at the same

1:20.6

time or do we switch off no i think the viewer i mean the viewer the listener just needs to picture

1:26.1

us riding atop each other's shoulders whoever Whoever, it doesn't matter. Okay. Which other, yeah, whichever is more fun. Just a single entity. Yeah. This isn't coming out right away, but I just saw pictures of Olympians doing doubles luge. So, you know. Oh, rad. Yeah. What is that? It's luge where two people are stacked up on the one little luge. Is that better for them or worse? Why do they do it that way? It sounds better. Yeah. It seems like it's just a thing people tried and then it became an Olympic sport. Because the single is cool already. You realize that describes every Olympic event.

2:02.7

Yeah. Yeah. It's just a thing people tried.

2:05.7

And then it became an Olympic sport. Yeah. Like they did the luge. They were like, wow.

2:11.8

And then we did that for a while. And then what if we stood one dude on top of the other?

2:16.4

Wow.

2:16.6

Yeah. Like the hot. if we stood one dude on top of the other wow yeah that's it like the high dive is just

2:22.5

wow and then we'll have two divers they'll be two sprinters anything it's fine we do doubles diving

2:32.9

well and thank you so much for being here anything. It's fine. We do doubles diving.

2:54.0

Well, and thank you so much for being here, Eds. We have a wonderful topic suggested by a bunch of listeners, because we've done lots of siffs about various colors before. And either of you can start, but what is your relationship to or opinion of the color yellow? I am neither pro nor anti-yellow. I like it. I like the yellow-brown 70s aesthetic. I wouldn't live in it,

3:02.4

but like that's my like favorite version of yellow is like, you know, the kind of yellow that's on the wall of like a school that's like hasn't been updated in a while, you know?

3:14.3

Yeah, I'd vouch for yellow to get a job. Like if, like if I was working someplace and the manager was like, hey, yellow wants to work here and they let's use a reference. I'd be like, yeah, they're all right. Yeah. Right. Like, it's not my favorite, but like, yeah, it's fine. Yellow's fine. I have one yellow shirt. To get a job. Yeah. Um, you know, it's, I like bananas. Yeah, I like warmth general, like sunlight and the concept of being warm on this planet.

3:43.0

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's true.

3:44.5

Yeah.

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