Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why pentagrams are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources and for this week's bonus episode. Come hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5
Jul 03, 2023•58 min•Ep 152•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why teddy bears are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources and for this week's bonus episode. Come hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5
Jun 26, 2023•58 min•Ep 151•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why the number 150 is secretly incredibly fascinating. They also discover hoax moon beavers, and discover Saint Nicholas's past life as a pickle-murder solver. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources and for this week's bonus episode. Come hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5
Jun 19, 2023•53 min•Ep 150•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why narwhals are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources and for this week's bonus episode. Come hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5
Jun 12, 2023•59 min•Ep 149•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why neon is secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources and for this week's bonus episode. Come hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5 (Alex’s old podcast hosting service required a minimum of 5 characters per episode title, and he's keeping that going for fun. So that’s why this episode’s title has an exclamation point)...
Jun 05, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep 148•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why ranch dressing is secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources and for this week's bonus episode. Come hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5
May 29, 2023•59 min•Ep 147•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why beavers are secretly incredibly fascinating. Special guest: John Hodgman. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources and for this week's bonus episode. Come hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5
May 22, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep 146•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why batteries are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources and for this week's bonus episode. Come hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5
May 15, 2023•57 min•Ep 145•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why video game controllers are secretly incredibly fascinating. Special guests: Abe Epperson and Michael Swaim. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources and for this week's bonus episode. Come hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5 Support Abe & Michael's independent movie 'Papa Bear': https://seedandspark.com/fund/papa-bear...
May 08, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep 144•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why crows are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources and for this week's bonus episode. Come hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5
May 01, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep 143•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why chalkboards are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources and for this week's bonus episode. Come hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5
Apr 24, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep 142•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why bagpipes are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode. Hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5 Hear Alex's new "explainer podcast" about all things MaxFun: https://youtu.be/6kNplapKs-w (It's uploaded to YouTube because he filmed his face while he taped it.)...
Apr 17, 2023•54 min•Ep 141•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why the phrase "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" is secretly incredibly fascinating. Special guest: Jason Pargin. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode. Hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5 Hear Alex's new "explainer podcast" about all things MaxFun: https://youtu.be/6kNplapKs-w (It's uploaded to YouTube because he filmed his face while he taped it.)...
Apr 10, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep 140•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why taxidermy is secretly incredibly fascinating. Special guests: Christian & Ellen Weatherford. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode. Hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5 Hear Alex's new "explainer podcast" about all things MaxFun: https://youtu.be/6kNplapKs-w (It's uploaded to YouTube because he filmed his face while he taped it.)...
Apr 03, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep 139•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why ducks are secretly incredibly fascinating. Special guests: Jordan Morris and Jesse Thorn. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode. Hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5 Hear Alex's new "explainer podcast" about all things MaxFun: https://youtu.be/6kNplapKs-w (It's uploaded to YouTube because he filmed his face while he taped it.)...
Mar 27, 2023•59 min•Ep 138•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why pickles are secretly incredibly fascinating. Special guest: Elliott Kalan. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode. Hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5 Hear Alex's new "explainer podcast" about all things MaxFun: https://youtu.be/6kNplapKs-w (It's uploaded to YouTube because he filmed his face while he taped it.)...
Mar 20, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep 137•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why Ferris wheels are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode. Hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5 Hear Alex's new "explainer podcast" about all things MaxFun: https://youtu.be/6kNplapKs-w (It's uploaded to YouTube because he filmed his face while he taped it.)...
Mar 13, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep 136•Transcript available on Metacast Hey this is Alex! We made a special SIF episode about the Mario movie. Become a supporter to hear it! To become a supporter, start a Maximum Fun membership here: https://maximumfun.org/join It'll ask which shows you're supporting. Select "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating". Then that leads you to a Bonus Content ("BoCo") page, where there's a special Secretly Incredibly Fascinating Bonus Content Feed AND an all-of-MaxFun bonus feed. Our special episode about the 1993 'Super Mario Bros.' movie is h...
Mar 10, 2023•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why duct tape is secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode. Hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5 Hear Alex's new "explainer podcast" about all things MaxFun: https://youtu.be/6kNplapKs-w (It's uploaded to YouTube because he filmed his face while he taped it.)...
Mar 06, 2023•56 min•Ep 135•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why high fives are secretly incredibly fascinating. They also interview returning guest (and National High Five Day co-founder!) Conor Lastowka. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode. Hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5 Check out Alex's new "explainer podcast" about all things MaxFun: https://youtu.be/6kNplapKs-w (It's uploaded to YouTube because he filmed his face while h...
Feb 27, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep 134•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why Leap Day is secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode. And hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5
Feb 20, 2023•56 min•Ep 133•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why yeast is secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode. And hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5
Feb 13, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep 132•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why barnacles are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode. And hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep 131•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt and his *new co-host* Katie Goldin take a look at why paperclips are secretly incredibly fascinating -- on our first-ever episode on the Maximum Fun podcast network! Hooray!!! Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode.
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr•Ep 130•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt has three big pieces of news to share! 1) SIFpod is joining the Maximum Fun podcast network. 2) Katie Goldin is joining up as Alex's weekly co-host. 3) There's now a Discord hangout for our SIF community. Hear all about it here! You can check out the new SIF page at MaxFun's site: https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/secretly-incredibly-fascinating/ Join in the fun on the SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/D5k9X4Rg [note: this invite link expires in February 2023] And see you Monday with an...
Jan 27, 2023•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt is joined by comedy writers/podcasters Andrew Ti (‘Yo, Is This Racist?’, Sub-Optimal Pods) and Moujan Zolfaghari ('Mission To Zyxx', 'Tooning Out The News') for a look at why glitter is secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode.
Jan 23, 2023•52 min•Ep 129•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt is joined by author & comedy writer Dennard Dayle (1900HotDog.com, book 'Everything Abridged') and comics & comedy writer Brendan McGinley (1900HotDog.com, comic series 'Citizen X') for a look at why maps are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode. (Alex's podcast hosting service requires a minimum of 5 characters per episode title, so that's why this episode's title has an exclamation point)...
Jan 16, 2023•51 min•Ep 128•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt is joined by bestselling author Jason Pargin (new novel "If This Book Exists, You’re In The Wrong Universe") for a look at why undersea cables are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode.
Jan 09, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep 127•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Schmidt is joined by comedian Billy Wayne Davis (new special 'Testify') and comedy writer/performer Zac Oyama ('Dimension 20' on Dropout.tv ) for a look at why rubber ducks are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode.
Jan 02, 2023•56 min•Ep 126•Transcript available on Metacast Hey folks -- happy holidays! Please enjoy this holiday hello, plus the first episode of a podcast miniseries Alex made in 2020. (and "Alex" = me, I'm the one writing this) Here's the website for the full 4-episode miniseries: https://www.bisonemojipodcast.com/ You can also find the episodes by searching "1 Way To Make An Emoji" in your podcast player. Have a safe and fantastic rest of 2022, and see you in 2023!
Dec 26, 2022•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast