The Starry Night, known for being a painting, famous for being swirly.

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

Let's find out why the Starry Night is 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. I'm joined by Lydia Bug and by Dan Hopper. Two wonderful returning guests. Lydia was most recently on the show about chocolate. She's also a fantastic

comedy writer. You can read her columns every week on 1,900 Hot Dog, which is a fantastic

comedy website. I write for them, you know, once a month or so. Lydia's there every week doing

amazing stuff. Dan Hopper, also one of my favorite guests. He was most recently on an episode about

zippers, and he is an old friend going back to our days at collegehumor.com.

He's a managing editor at Rancor.

He's also written everywhere from the New Yorker to the Washington Post.

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 Lenape peoples.

Acknowledge Dan recorded this on the traditional land of the Lenape people.

Acknowledge Lydia recorded this on the traditional land of the Shawnee, Eastern Cherokee,

and Saatsahya'ha 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

the Starry Night, which is a painting made in 1889 by the artist Vincent Van Gogh. And I think it's

mostly self-explanatory. This is one of the very

few paintings that is in many people's heads already. I'll also have a direct link for you to see it.

One pronunciation note, there's a very interesting situation with the name of this artist,

because the name of that artist is pronounced many ways by many people. Even though it's one Dutch

name with an actual pronunciation, based on many resources that I looked at and in particular

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