The name Katie, known for being Catherine, famous for being my buddy, my co-host.

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

Let's find out why Katie 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, fun question this week. What is your relationship to or opinion of our topic, which is the name Katie?

That's my name.

Don't wear it out.

Pretty much the premise of the episode is wearing out the name.

We're really going to wear it out.

We're really going to get it to it.

Every time you say Katie, I'm going to be like, yes, yes, yes.

Hello, yes, that's me.

It's just always distracted within the main thing.

Yeah.

I'll be doing other things as usual, building card castles.

And then Alex will be like, anyways, Katie, what?

It would be, you're so great on the show.

It would be cool if you were also doing incredible puzzles at the same time. Like you were just that kid. Like those Lego sets of amazing architecture that are really hard to do. I'm building a Imperial Falcon with Legos under the desk. With my feet.

And I want to thank many folks on the Discord, including Shane, I think, was the most

recent person to suggest it.

What a great topic.

And I think it's partly inspired by an episode about the name Alex that we did a few

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