Tally marks, known for being lions.

Famous for the fifth line across.

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

Let's find out why tally marks are secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey there, folks, welcome to a whole new podcast episode of podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

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

What is your relationship to or opinion of Talley Marks?

Well, I like them. I like to do them when I'm in a, in a, in a, in a prison.

And I do it on the wall to sort of keep the, keep the time of like how long I've been there.

Or I sometimes do it when I'm on like a really tiny, uh, deserted island.

Um, where there's like, it's just me and one palm tree maybe like a glass bottle with a note in it and then I do tallies on the sand those are the

only situations in which I use tally marks yeah I realize I haven't made any in a very long time.

Like, it feels weird how long it's been.

And I think I was like scorekeeping was the last time because otherwise it's sort of those cartoon situations.

Or doing hard time, which you often do, you know.

I often do hard time.

I've done hard time so many times now. I just call it time.

And thank you to Zad Frank on the Discord with two A's for this topic suggesting because it turns out it's amazing.

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