U.S. Post offices, known for letters and packages, famous for letters and packages and waiting in line.

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

Let's find out why U.S. post offices are secretly, incredibly fascinating. Fascinating.

Hey there, folks, welcome to a whole new podcast, a podcast, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is. My name is Alex Schmidt. I'm also known as Schmiddy

the clam. I'm also known as Schmiddy the champ. And I am also kind of doing a different intro

for this episode than other episodes will have. Because it's a brand new podcast. You need to know stuff about it.

And it's also, I think, a pretty self-explanatory podcast.

It's called Secretly Incredibly Fascinating.

And each episode brings you the stories, facts, and big takeaways about one everyday thing that make that thing actually the podcast title.

You get it.

You understand. Great. Every episode is focused on the most

exciting stories and facts and research, so we won't say every single thing that's ever been said

about the topic, but we're going to research everything we talk about. And I'm the kind of person

who loves trivia, who has publicly won some trivia contests in the form of

Jeopardy four times, and I think I have a nose for this kind of story. In fact, another thing that you'll

want to hear about. Also, every episode has at least one fantastic guests, and I am joined by two of them

on this one. I hope you've already enjoyed the comedy and writing and more of Caitlin Gill and

Andrew T. In case you haven't, Caitlin Gill is a phenomenal stand-up comedian. Her latest album is

entitled Major. It's recorded live at the world famous San Francisco Punchline. It's available

everywhere and links are at Caitlin Gill Comedy.com. And Andrew T. is a television comedy writer on shows like Mixedish on ABC. Also a

podcasting Titan as the longtime host and co-host of Yo Is This Racist on Earwolf. Search the name in

your podcast app. There you go. Those are today's guests. Also, I've gathered all of our zip codes

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