Microsoft Excel, known for being spreadsheets.

Famous for being business.

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

Let's find out why Microsoft Excel is secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey.

Hey there, folks. Welcome to a whole new podcast, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

My name is Alex Schmidt. I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden. Katie, hello.

Yes, hi. It's me. It is. Living life. Live and large.

I don't know why live in Large hit me so hard.

I hadn't heard that phrase in a while.

Great.

It's been a minute since that's been in the parlance of the day.

Yeah.

You know what else has been a minute?

Our wonderful guest returning to the show.

Amazing writer and amazing video creator and a full-time novelist.

His next novel recently announced on the way.

It's called I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom.

And we are so happy to be rejoined by Jason Pargin.

Jason, hey.

As I know I say every time, each time you talk about how it's good to finally have me back on again.

And in my mind, I was just on the show.

And then I always look and realize it's been like seven months.

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