So awhile ago my sibling suggested that I should make a podcast, because I really like infodumping at people, and that's a good way to subject an audience to my wild ramblings. And I'm not saying I'm definitely gonna do it, I'm just saying there may or may not be a word doc with a big stack of ideas of things I could totally infodump about for a large amount of time. And it's entirely possible there's a script for an episode in progress that's like already at 6k words.

It's about the history of climbing on Mount Everest. For context on how unnecessarily in depth this thing is, I ramble for 2k words before anyone gets within a hundred kilometres of the mountain in question. The 2k words of rambling is necessary okay, I need to explain why the mountain is called Everest, so that I can then explain why I'm not calling the mountain Everest.

Also there's a non-zero chance that at one point in the script I inform the audience to remember one specific guy that I've just brought up, he's a major part of this story, and later we're gonna examine his corpse, it'll be great.

...I swear to god, the corpse thing is important, that one dead body came with some very exciting revelations. The dead are treated with respect in my still theoretical podcast.

Okay fine, they're mostly treated with respect, there might be an entire section dedicated just to making fun of one specific guy for dying on the mountain like an idiot, but trust me, I cannot possibly speak about that guy with respect, the entire sequence of events that brought that guy up the mountain to die was so batfuck wild. It's too funny to be sad, okay, everyone else gets treated seriously. Just not the guy that was 100% certain he could reach the summit first without any assistance, mountaineering experience, bottled oxygen, equipment, or food. His first plan was to crash a plane directly into the mountain and step off onto the summit. It was 1934. There's just so much going on there, it's great.