American Gothic, known for being a painting, famous for its own famousness, basically.

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

Let's find out why American Gothic is secretly incredibly fascinating.

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, because I'm joined by two hilarious podcasters and people this week.

Brett Rader is an old pal and a great fella all around. He was essential to everything we did with

the cracked podcast and with Kurt Vonnegis as a producer and contributor and a lot more. He's currently

a producer of many, many things at Yahoo Sports. Brett's also the host of Hey Julie, and that is a podcast

about Big Brother, as in the CBS TV show. Also, the podcast ranges widely. It's about Big Brother and Survivor and movies and the whole rest of pop culture. It's a really special podcast. Brett is a very special person in my history with all of podcasting, and I'm so glad he's here. I'm also joined

by Chet Wild. Chat is a stand-up comedian. He's a podcaster all over, in particular on the

unpopular opinion podcast network run by the great Adam Todd Brown. Chet is also from Greater

Buffalo, New York. And so then he is the key guest for Buffalo New York stuff on a podcast

mini-series I made called One Way to Make an Emoji. I don't know if all of you know about that,

or some of you or none of you, but it is a mini-series about my experience proposing the bison

emoji. And the bison is an amazing animal, I think. It's also an animal that many Americans

call the Buffalo.

So that's why Buffalo, New York was super relevant. Chet was fantastic on that. I love talking to

him in any context. And I'm so glad Brett and Cheddar here to dig into this painting. Get into it.

Also, I've gathered all of our zip codes and used internet resources like native-land.ca.

To acknowledge that I recorded this on the traditional land of the Cataba, Ino, and Shikori peoples.

To acknowledge that Brett and Chet each recorded this on the traditional land of the Gabrielino Ortaongva and Kich and Chumash peoples.

And to acknowledge that in all of our locations, native people

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