Figs, known for being fruit.

Famous for being newtons.

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

Let's find out why figs 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 Alec 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 figs?

Full of wasps.

Teaming with wasps. Yeah. I didn't know that before researching, and it's really fun. And it'll be a significant chunk of the show. Yeah. A little teaser. I hope I didn't spoil too much of it. But when I think figs... No, I think it's a hook. Yeah. They're full of wasps. Full of wasps. We'll explain later. Yeah, I used to not eat figs because of the wasp thing.

And now I do eat figs.

No, I actually really like the, I really like figs.

I think they taste very good.

Do not like fig Newton's.

Never had.

Never have.

Because Newton was wrong about physics.

He didn't understand general relativity.

So I boycott them based on that.

This week we're going to fully cover figs and also the first chunk will be all about fig

Newton's.

Okay.

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