Wool, known for being warm.

Famous for being woolly.

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

Let's find out why wool is secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey, there.

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. I'm joined by two amazing guests, Caitlin Gill and Shelby Wollstein. Katelyn Gill is an amazing stand-up comedian. Her latest album is entitled Major. She's a phenomenal podcast guest. You may remember her from the very first episode of

SIFPOD about post offices. She's been on other ones too and is here once again. And I'm glad

she made the time because on top of stand-up and everything else, she also runs a wonderful t-shirt business.

It's called Guarantee Shirts. We'll have a link to guarantyshirts.com and the show links, because you should dress yourself optimally and in the most fun way possible.

And then Shelby Wollstein is a fantastic comedian. She also co-hosts a wonderful podcast. It's called Keeping Records. That's a show where

Shelby and her co-host Caleb Heron and their guests put together a new ideal Voyager Golden

record. If you've heard the final records episode of this podcast, we talk about how that worked.

It was a golden record sent into space to tell the aliens about us.

Shelby and her wonderful podcast, they make a new one every week. Please hear them do that.

Please hear them put that together. It's over on headgum. That's Shelby Wallstein's show.

And I'm so glad she and Caitlin Giller here to get into this topic.

Also, I've gathered all of our zip codes and used internet resources

like native-dash-land.ca to acknowledge that I recorded this on the traditional land of the

Canarsi and Lanapi peoples. Acknowledge Caitlin recorded this on the traditional land of the

Yuhaviatam and Marengayam peoples. Acknowledge Shelby recorded this on the traditional land of the Mississauga, Kaskia, and Erie peoples,

and acknowledge that in all of our locations, native people are very much still here.

That feels worth doing on each episode.

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