The Word "Hello"

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

Alex Schmidt

Society & Culture, Comedy, History

4.7 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why the word "hello" is secretly incredibly fascinating.

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0:00.0	The word hello, known for being a greeting.
0:04.4	Famous for being a pretty common greeting, nobody thinks much about it.
0:09.2	So let's have some fun.
0:10.5	Let's find out why the word hello is secretly incredibly 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.
0:40.9	My name is Alex Schmidt and I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden, Katie.
0:46.5	Yes.
0:47.1	What is your relationship to or opinion of the word hello?
0:51.8	Yes, hi, Alex.
0:53.0	Hello.
0:54.0	Hi. Yeah, hi. Hello. Hi.
0:55.0	Yeah, hi.
0:55.8	Hello.
0:56.2	I should have said hello folks at the beginning.
0:58.4	That's an obvious miss by me.
1:00.8	Yeah.
1:01.3	Yeah, you kind of, like, I was trying to do the whole like, oh, I don't know that this is the topic.
1:06.2	I'm just responding to hello, but you're actually very specific and clear in your language.
1:11.3	So that, thanks for that, Alex.
1:13.6	That really...
1:14.2	Take that, Abbott and Costello, Golden.
1:17.4	Take that.
1:17.9	That really teed me up well for a joke.
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