The Middle Finger, known for being rude, famous for being long.

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

Let's find out why the middle finger is 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 Alex Schmidt and I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden.

Katie.

Yes.

What is your relationship to or opinion of the middle finger?

Use it all the time.

Man, I'm just constantly offering people the bird.

Yeah.

I think it's used a lot in road rage.

And I don't really get road rage.

I sort of get like road sadness or road on we, I guess.

But I have had a, I've had a road rated incident where I guess a guy behind me

just didn't like that I wasn't going like 20 above the speed limit, even though I was going

five above the speed limit.

And he was wasting a lot of his time sort of getting in the other lane and being like next

to me and like

flipping me off like repeatedly and I didn't look at him at all. I could see out of the corner

my eye, the peripheral that he was flipping me off. But the thing that was interesting to me was

that he was, you know, wasting his time because he was upset that I wasn't acknowledging the middle

finger of communication. It's like, well, if you're in a hurry, why is this important? I personally

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