Wooden blocks, known for being a toy.

Famous for being a toy for babies.

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

Let's find out why wooden blocks 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. Two guests

join me this week. Jeff Rubin is an old pal of mine from my college humor.com days. Because I worked at college humor and at their

sister site that they had for a while. And that was an amazing environment, a lot of amazing people.

It was really formative for me. Jeff is one of the biggest reasons I was there at college humor at all.

He's also one of the key people who built that site. He wrote for them, appeared in videos for

them, managed things for them. Jeff Rubin is also an amazing podcaster. He hosts the Jeff Rubin

Jeff Rubin Show. It's his name twice. It's on the Headgum Podcast Network, and it's Jeff

doing some of my favorite interviews in the entire world. Jeff's show is interviews you never knew you wanted to

hear and desperately want to hear as soon as you know they exist. If you like what I'm doing

at all, you're going to love Jeff's podcast. Please check it out. And then on top of all that,

Jeff Rubin is a game designer, and his newest game is called Liesgame.com. That is both the URL and the name of the

game. And Liesgame.com is awesome. It's based on information. So again, this is right up your alley.

And it's a game that's easy to play. It's easy to do socially distantly. You don't have to,

you don't have to gather friends around a board or anything. It's all

through the magic of the internet, through liesgame.com. And we'll of course have links to all that stuff.

I'm also joined by Joel Stein, who is himself incredibly multifaceted and talented and just great.

Joel Stein is a professional comedy writer for television and more. He's a journalist. He's also an

amazing columnist. You might recognize his name from Time Magazine, doing columns there for many years.

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