Accordians, known for being instruments.

Famous for being annoying, nerdy instruments.

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

Let's find out why accordions are secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey, hey,

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 I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden.

Katie!

Yes.

What is your relationship to or opinion of accordions?

Welcome to heaven. Here's your harp and welcome to hell.

Here's your accordion.

I've been taught by...

Thank you for sending me that strip of the Farside by Gary Larsen.

I've been taught by Farside strips from apparently Garfield.

I forgot that was... You sent me those, the Garfield strips about

the accordions where I guess John Arbuckle's whole thing was he plays accordion and everyone

hates his guts for it. I can't stand him for it. Yeah, I rediscovered researching. There's

like dozens of Garfield strips where the entire premise is that John Arbuckle plays the accordion and it's another way he stinks. That's the entire premise.

And then also from, I think from Looney Tunes, I just, I know that accordions are hated, which is interesting because for the first time in my life, I live somewhere

where people actually play accordions outside.

Cool.

Just street musicians.

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