Toothpicks. Known for being wooden. Famous for being point podcast episode, a podcast all

about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is. My name's Alex Schmidt. I'm not

alone because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden. Katie! Yes. What is your relationship to or

opinion of toothpicks? I always liked the minty ones.

Remember those?

Where they would have like, it was like a toothpick, but it was infused with mint.

And when I was a kid, I would straight up chew on those things.

And it was like I was like a beaver going after a little post-dinner snack.

So I liked the minty ones.

I'm not a big toothpick user,

except for checking cake consistency.

I almost never use them for their intended purpose

of picking between the teeth.

I use floss for that.

Same.

And I always got a kick out of the old cartoons where they would take an entire log and then whittle it down to a single toothpick and show that as being sort of the process

of creating a toothpick.

It's always very funny.

Yeah, like the beaver gets it down that tight.

Yeah.

Or Bugs Bunny hides his entire body behind a tree that's skinny.

There's all kinds of fun wood jokes.

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