Salt Mines, known for being drudgery.

I must for being salty.

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

Let's find out why salt mines 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 very much not alone because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden.

Katie, hello.

Hey, hey, how's it going?

It's going great.

We are entering the salt mines and we're entering with a wonderful guest. His next novel is, I'm starting to worry about this black box of doom. It is on sales September 24th. So next week and please pre-order now because that is the most beneficial. And you'll get the book sooner. Please welcome Jason Pargin. Hey, Jason. Hello. I am going to try not to take today's episode to an extremely dark place because it's, we're

talking about something everybody's got.

There can't be death involved in this.

So I'm confident this will be a breezy good time.

And I want to thank many listeners.

This was in general suggested by Roasty Toasty with support from Capilicious,

Cortchester, X-Karex, Zed Frank, Arkblade.

They suggested salt, and that's a great topic.

And we could do a whole separate table salt episode,

and then I broke out the topic of salt mines.

Because they exist.

They give us wonderful salt.

And there's that metaphor people talk about of like, oh, the salt mines are a bad job.

And some of them work.

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