The United Nations, known for peaceful stuff.

Famous for no stuff, not doing anything?

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

Let's find out why the United Nations is secretly incredibly fascinating. day. Hey there, folks.

Hey there, Cipelopods.

Welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is. My name's Alex Schmidt, and I'm very much not alone because I'm joined by my co-host, Katie Golden. Katie, hello. Hello. And so fitting for this topic, bringing people together, joining perspectives.

One of our favorite guests, a fantastic bestselling author, and his paperback of his latest novel just went on sale.

The novel is called I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom.

Get it now in hardcover or paperback.

And please welcome Jason Pargin.

Hey, Jason.

I assume you cannot hear the Jack Camry and outside of my window. I think the modern microphones are good at filtering it out.

But I do want to talk about it because that is such a symbol of where we are as a society

because they're out there fixing. I think it's a water main or something. Like some

people in the neighborhood don't have water. I don't know. But I'm in here trying to podcast,

like that they don't care. Thank you. Yeah. Like my concentration is going to be off because

they're out there doing whatever. Right. Right. tearing up the pavement, whatever, you know,

whatever wasteful government project

these people are out there doing out in the heat.

By the way, thank you for figuring out how to rig your microphone into your M. Ortean

Joe mask, Jason.

The big mask.

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