Pistachios, known for being nutty.

Famous for shells, so many shells.

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

Let's find out why pistachios are secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey there, folks, welcome to a whole new podcast episode and our first episode of the Maximum Fun Drive. This is 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, hello. Hey. Yes. Hello. Yes. Yeah, that's a good voice for it. Feels good. Feeling good about it. Yeah.

Yills.

And we are so happy to be joined by a special returning guest from many, many things, including our fellow Max Fun podcast, The Flop House. Welcome Elliot Kaelin to the show.

Elliot, thank you for being here.

Y'all, it's Elliot. That's how I do it, right? Yeah. That was how you were saying yes.

We're going for an Eastern European vibe right now.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I guess mine was more Scandinavian.

Okay, how about this?

It's a me, Elliot.

Is that finding Europe, finding Europe.

Sure, sure.

Yeah, was that accurate?

No, no.

How accurate was it? It was extremely

accurate. Like, I thought you were from Naples. Thank you. Yeah, yeah. On a scale from not Italian,

too, born in Naples. How was it? It's at a gelato pasta carbonara. Oh, wow. That's pretty high up there.

It's a pretty good score. Folks, wow. That's pretty high up there. Pretty good score.

Folks, this episode is about pistachios.

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