License plates, known for being letters.

Famous for also numbers.

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

Let's find out why license plates are 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. Parker Malloy and Blake Wexler are my guests today.

Parker Malloy is a journalist writer so much more. Her substack

newsletter is called The Present Age. Highly recommend reading, highly recommend supporting.

It's a newsletter about communication in the modern age and what that means for everything,

because it impacts everything. You also might know Parker's work from Media Matters, The New York Times, Rolling Stone,

tons of other great places. Also, she is in Chicago, so I'm just very excited about that, too.

And then Blake Wexler is a very, very funny stand-up comedian. He's got multiple killer stand-up

albums for you to enjoy. His latest is called A Lifetime of Laughter. That is also a

clean album. If you value the podcast that you're listening to being clean, that's also a clean

stand-up album. So, you know, show the kids. Have a good time. Blake Wexler is also a wonderful

podcaster. He has his very own show called Blake's Takes for God's Sakes, where he re-associates an incredible 45 minutes or so

of just very funny stuff from a very funny comic mind, this comedian, Blake Wexler.

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

to acknowledge that I recorded this on the traditional

land of the Canarsi and Lanapi peoples. Acknowledge Parker recorded this on the traditional

land of the Potawatomi, Cascasia, Peoria, Kickapoo, Miami, and Occhedi Shacoan peoples.

Acknowledge Blake recorded this on the traditional land of the Lenny Lanopi people,

and acknowledge that in all of our locations,

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