Hey, folks, one heads up about the audio of this episode. It is all totally listenable. It all sounds good. The very beginning of the episode, you will hear the backup version of my audio instead of the main microphone. There was just an early issue with it. And then I spotted it pretty quickly. So there will just be a transition a few minutes in where it goes to my regular microphone. Most people don't even notice that kind of

thing, but there are people who do, and I want you to know that's what's going on. It's not your

system or whatever. Anyway, that's the show. It's a great one. Please enjoy. Windmills, known for

being windy. Famous for being spinny.

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

Let's find out why windmills are secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey there, folks. Welcome to a whole new podcast episode, our podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than

people think it is. My name is Alex Schmidt, and I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host,

Katie Golden. Katie, what is your relationship to or opinion of windmills? Intimate. It's an

intimate relationship. No, I like windmills. I don't know too much about them except that they are powered by wind and that they mill,

usually grain.

And I know the Don Quixote sort of connection there.

I read Don Quixote in high school. It's a tough read for a high schooler,

at least it was for me. But I like them. Aesthetically, there's something about them that makes

me happy from the little ones to the huge ones. Like the little kind of like cute windmills

inspires some, you know, sense of like coziness.

Like, hey, I'm in the countryside and it makes me feel good.

And the really huge, like, modern ones, I just think are awesome.

Like, there's something about a big moving thing that both, it's like it scares me in a good way.

It's like a roller coaster scary, it's like it scares me in a good way. It's like a roller coaster scary,

where it's like, I'm scared of this huge moving thing, but I also like it. It is one of the most

monumental and almost modern old buildings, right? Yeah. Like a medieval windmill or a Dutch windmill

or a man of La Mancha windmill or something.

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