Hey there, it's me, Alex Schmidt. I make this podcast secretly incredibly fascinating,

researching and editing and taping and all the parts of it. This is an independent little podcast,

so I'm very excited about the independent little company, Libro.fm, because they let you buy

audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore. So if you go to their website,

Libro.fm, that's a dotfm domain name.

You go there, you pick your store from their list of more than 1,300 affiliates, and then you can shop for audiobooks with community-focused confidence. You can know that some of that money is

coming back to your town, back to your favorite indie bookstore.

You can also do that in a way that helps this podcast, if you would be so kind.

The code to do that is SIFPOD, SIFPOD.

If you enter that at checkout, you get two audiobook credits for the price of one.

Those credits never expire, and they can go toward any of more than 150,000 audiobooks in the Libro.fm catalog.

So I'm glad we can offer that as a deal and an affiliate thing with Libro.fm.

Also, patrons of SIFPod, people supporting it on Patreon, do not hear messages like this.

If you'd like a sponsor-free experience of this podcast,

go to sifpod.f.fod.fon. You'll get that. You'll get bonus shows and you'll get so much more.

Either way, thank you for listening and enjoy the show. Tires. Known for going around wheels.

Famous for going flat sometimes. Nobody thinks much about them, so let's

have some fun. Let's find out why tires are 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. My name is Alex Schmidt, and I'm not alone. I'm joined by two fantastic comedy

writers and comedians and podcasters and so much more. Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus are my guests,

and you probably know why that's exciting, because they're great.

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