The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, known for being art.

Famous for being that wave art.

Most people don't think much about it, so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why the Great Wave Off Kanagawa is secretly incredibly fascinating. Fascinating.

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 I'm joined by my co-host, Katie Golden.

Katie, what is your relationship to or opinion of The Great Wave Off Kanagawa?

Okay, so I do really enjoy this painting. I also have recently seen it at the DC Portrait Gallery.

There was a version of Washington Crossing the Delaware done in this style with sort of the iconic wave

in the background, but perhaps more iconically, I went to...

It seems like a difficult crossing, not to step on it, but...

Yeah, not so easy, but perhaps more iconically, I saw it represented at a micro center where you can get all your computer parts.

And they were advertising their 3D printers, and they printed out a bunch of different versions of this.

There was one that was like red with like,

seemed like it had like flames on it or something. But yeah, anyways, it was, it was very cool.

Oh, red with flame. Wait, the printer had flames or they added flames to the wave?

Well, they made the wave in like red flame color. It looked like flame decals.

But anyways, yeah, so they printed out a bunch of different versions of the iconic wave from the painting.

Yeah, I think a bunch of us, especially in modern times and Internet times, are like consumers of this art.

I know I had a poster of it from the first day of

college poster sale for sure. I'm pretty sure I had a mouse pad with this on it. And then also,

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