Maize

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

Alex Schmidt

Society & Culture, Comedy, History

4.7 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Alex Schmidt is joined by comedy writer/podcaster Katie Goldin for a look at why maize is secretly incredibly fascinating.

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0:00.0	Mays.
0:02.5	Known for being food.
0:04.8	Famous for being corn.
0:07.9	Nobody thinks much about it, so let's have some fun.
0:10.8	Let's find out why Mays is secretly incredibly fascinating. Fascinating.
0:43.6	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.
0:51.0	My name is Alex Schmidt, and I'm not alone. The great Katie Golden joins me for this topic.
0:54.8	And you may know her from the live internet episode of Secretly Incredibly Fascinating that we did just for patrons a few weeks back. You may know her from the very first
0:59.8	taping of this podcast ever, which became episode number two about cattle. Also, she hosts the best
1:06.3	podcast about animals. It's called Creature Feature. It's over on IHeartRadio. Please hurry up and hear it.
1:12.5	She's also the comedy writer behind at Pro BirdRights on Twitter. She's a writer for the Some
1:17.4	More News channel on YouTube. Just incredibly talented and wonderful and funny and knowledgeable
1:22.8	as well. I am thrilled every time she comes on this show. Also, I've gathered all of our postal codes and used internet resources like native-land.ca.
1:33.3	And I want to acknowledge that I recorded this on the traditional land of the Canarsi and Lanapi peoples.
1:39.3	I also want to acknowledge that in North America and in many other locations, native people are very much still here.
1:46.1	That feels worth doing on each episode. And then my guest, Katie Golden, taped this in the country
1:51.7	of Italy, as I understand it, her location has a context outside of this. Now, today's episode is about
1:59.5	maize. As we'll discuss, this is a food that's also well known by the name corn in Now, today's episode is about Maze.
2:08.6	As we'll discuss, this is a food that's also well known by the name Corn in countries like the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
2:16.4	Either way, thank you so much to Brenda Yang for her wonderful suggestion of this topic and also assistance with understanding it.
2:21.8	Mays is also one of the most humongous topics that we have ever done on this podcast.
2:23.8	One of many examples of that.
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