Table salt.

Known for being salty.

Famous for being Morton brand.

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

Let's find out why Table Salt is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Music 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 Alex Schmidt and I'm very much not alone. I'm joined by my co-host,

Katie Golden. Katie, hey. Hello. Alex. By the way, I'm going to save it for the middle of the

episode. Me and Katie will talk about it. It's the maximum fun drive

right now. We depend on your support to make this podcast in general, and this is the best time

of the entire year to begin providing that support or increase that support if you'd like to,

because you get a bunch of stuff. So please consider that. We'll talk about it more in the middle

of the show. And we are joined by a wonderful returning guest and buddy.

His novel, I'm starting to worry about this black box of doom is tremendous and on sale right now.

Please welcome Jason Pargin. Hey, Jason. Hello. Thank you so much for having me on.

This is the show that does the most for my mental health for a whole bunch of reasons.

So I'm always happy to be here.

That's an honor.

Wow.

Thank you.

That's fantastic.

I'm usually because on the episodes I'm on,

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