Thunderstorms, known for lightning, famous for sound effects.

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

Let's find out why thunderstorms are secretly incredibly fascinating.

Hey there, folks.

Welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast's all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is. My name is Alex Schmidt, and I'm not alone. The great Robert Brockway and the great the internet's Sean baby return this week. Really exciting. You may remember them from the episode of this podcast about ham. I also hope you know them from their incredible comedy website.

It's called 1-900 Hot Dog. And quick question, do you remember when comedy websites and their

articles were fun to read and enjoyable to experience and it looked

like somebody put some effort into it.

That was common in the past.

It's rare now.

We are linking to one 900 hot dog where you can have that feeling again and all the time.

They have tons of new stuff all the time.

They also have their own podcast.

It's called Dog Zone 9,000. So I am so glad Robert and Sean took time out of doing all that to guests on this podcast.

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 Kataba, Ino, and Shikori peoples.

Acknowledge Robert recorded this on the traditional land of the Podunk and Wangunk people.

Acknowledge Sean recorded this on the traditional land of the Patwin, Muwakma, and Karkin people.

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 thunderstorms. Thunderstorms is the top patron pick for the month of August. Thank you to Laura Hottie for the

fantastic suggestion. Two things to say about how we will tackle this topic of thunderstorms. One is

that we are skipping over the middle school science class, high school science class super basics

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