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super producer Casey Paggram. And speaking of, you know, I like that you bring up the surprising

recent origin of this, this modern postal service because I was thinking about this

off air. Is it easier or more difficult to run a postal service today because we know

that there's this amazing technology, right? We have GPS, we have tracking systems galore,

we also have many, many more people, millions more addresses. Still, I think it's easier

to run a postal service or a package service now than it was back in the day. That is our

topic for this episode, the weird, weird, weird history of shipping just in general.

You know who I was ship, Casey Paggram and Pikachu. And that's a, that's a fandom reference.

It is. That's what we're talking about today. This is a different kind of shipping. Oh,

you like shipping and receiving got it. Casey seems to approve of my shipping choice. I do,

yes. Casey only case. Casey on the case. So let's think about it. Like what's the weirdest

thing you guys have ever mailed or received in the mail? You know, I once received a single

floor Tom drum like a did like a like from a Yamaha drum kit, like just the Tom. And then I ended

up meeting the guy who I bought it from on eBay completely randomly. I was in the market for a single

drum found one to my liking and then ended up a guy from Athens where I eventually moved and

his name is ticker. The drummer, the guy, the guy. Okay. What's your name, the drum? Yamaha.

Sorry, got a name. The factory name. Yeah. Because some people name their instruments. That's

real thing. Yeah, I wonder if you have a drum kit in your drummer. Do you name each individual

drum or do you give the whole kit a single name? Casey, you're a drummer. What do you think?

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