This week Alphas Make Sandwiches goes big with a five-person crew, as Ashe in America, Christy Lupo, and Jackie Espada welcome guests Michelle from Tamarack Garden and Cristina (Mrs. Rise Attire) for a genuinely packed episode.

Jackie debuts a new segment, Logging Into the Mainframe, teaching phone hacks your grandkids usually handle. Michelle delivers a heartfelt pep talk on taking risks, killing the crab pot mentality, and doing it messy. Professor Lupo traces the wild history of the word "bedlam" (plus a bonus word that would make George Washington proud). Then Cristina shares a delightfully unhinged puppet-professor theory linking emojis, King Solomon, the Sultanate of Oman, and 72 demonic seals, which promptly ruins emojis for everyone.

Toss in cacao that keeps you up all night, sunburn cures, product updates from Tamarack Garden and Rise Attire, and a secret project reveal. It is warm, funny, spiritually curious, and a little bit chaotic. In a good way.