Worcestershire sauce, known for flavor, famous for pronunciation. Nobody thinks much about it, so let's have some fun. Let's find out why Worcestershire sauce is secretly incredibly fascinating. 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, because we're doing a condiment today, and I have brought back two wonderful returning guests, David Christopher Bell and Tom Ryman.

You may remember them from the ketchup episode or the mayonnaise episode or other episodes, too.

We decided to come back together for Worcestershire sauce.

Dave and Tom do comedy podcasting live streaming so much more under the Patreon name,

Gamefully Unemployed.

You know, like gainfully, but gamefully unemployed. Also, Tom runs the Weird History YouTube channel, which is a great channel from Ranker. Dave is a writer of films and writer of scripts

for the Fantastic Some More News YouTube channel. I'm so glad Tom and Dave are back, especially because they were on the ketchup episode of this podcast and the mayonnaise episode of this podcast, which dovetails pretty neatly with this topic.

Also, I've gathered all of our zip codes and used internet resources like native-land.ca to acknowledge that I recorded this on the traditional land of

the Canarsi and Lenape peoples. Acknowledge Dave and Tom each recorded this on the traditional

land of the Gabrielino Or Tongva and Kich and Chumash peoples. And acknowledge that in all of our

locations, native people are very much still here.

That feels worth doing on each episode.

And today's episode is about Worcestershire sauce, or as I understood it to be pronounced as a kid,

were Sestershire sauce, which is not it, but it's okay. Wistershire sauce is the top patron

chosen topic for this month. There's three patron chosen topics every month. Go to siftpod.combe

if you want to get involved. Thank you to patron Garrett Cooper for that suggestion. Also patron

succugus and many other listeners for cheering it on. It's swept through the poll,

and I can see why. It's a thing people have heard of. It's a thing I knew nothing about until

researching this. Also, in case you know truly nothing about it, Worcestershire sauce is a condiment,

and it's a brown, thin sauce. Sometimes it's a marinade, too. And the main top

brand of it in the world, it's a brand called Lee and Perens. That's two last names. L-E-A is

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