Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - programming note: no new episode this week, so Alex can recuperate

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

Programming note: Alex got sick and is resting up. No SIF episode this week. New SIF episode next week. And thanks for your kind patience.

Hey, folks, it's Alex. There's a quick message from me because we do not have a SIF for you this week and everything's going to be okay, but I want to say why. The reason there's not a new episode is I got sick and we also didn't have like a million episodes saved up or something. But I caught a case of COVID because that is still a disease. It's still out there. I'm taping this after mostly recovering.

I feel good. I think everything's going to be fine. But I was too sick to prepare or tape or edit an episode. And so we need to skip a week. You also might have heard me announce in this feed that we were going to do a live stream of the board game and card game Wingspan on February 1st. And I posted this on Discord and on social media and answered a few emails about it. I was too sick to do that too. So I got sick right before that and answered a few emails about it. I was too sick to do that too.

So I got sick right before that and we just couldn't do it. We're going to postpone it. We're going to do it at a later date and it's going to be a lot of fun, but we just couldn't do it right then. Another programming note is I'm told from our data that a lot of you are new listeners. We got a lot of new listeners recently, especially last week. Welcome. All of the episodes of this podcast are good at any time. We're not specifically a current events podcast. They don't get old or whatever. I hope you enjoy any episode of this show while I keep recuperating a little bit. Every episode is great. Find a topic you're excited

about and dive in. I guess related note to that, you might be glad to hear we're not a current events podcast and not fixated on the news. We only really bring up that if it's super relevant to a topic, but we're not chasing that week to week. And I have been told that we can be kind of an oasis for people to get away from that. So that's good. That's a great thing. This week there's no episode because I'm made of meat and I need it to work right to research

and tape it so that's the way it goes. I don't mean to be glib about it, I just think it's important to be transparent and also not a huge bummer. But we'll be back next week with SIF and thank you so much for your consideration and kindness about me getting a little ill. See you next week.