The Northwest Passage, known for being geography.

Famous for being sailing over Canada.

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

Let's find out why the Northwest Passage is secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey there,

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 Alec Schmidt. I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden. Katie.

Yes.

What is your relationship to or opinion of the Northwest Passage?

I know so little about it that I would say this is truly secretly incredibly fascinating.

She said the title.

She said the title.

Because it's so, it's, I don't really, I figure it's somewhere boats and whales go.

And that's about all I know about it.

That's it.

Yeah.

Especially our numbers right away will like define it a lot.

But the basic idea, it was sort of a European concept, but it was how do we sail from Europe to Asia and back by going over North America to the North? Yeah, which I get how you do that with planes,

because they're up in the sky, but with a boat, that's down in the water. And from what I understand,

the North is pretty cold and there's a lot of ice there.

So I don't know much about it.

Actually, my dad is an oceanographer, so he's been to the Arctic a few times for research.

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