Maps, known for being geography, famous for being worldly. Nobody thinks much about them, so let's 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. My guests today are Dinardale and Brendan McGinley.

And I'd like to think we are all colleagues, all three of us, because we all write monthly humor columns for the wonderful comedy website, 1-900 Hot Dog.

All three of us are over there.

I'm also putting our author photos on the social media pages, because they're really

illustrations by Rusty Shackles.

They're amazing.

And these guys write a bunch more stuff, too.

Brendan McGinley writes comic books such as his independent

anthology titled Dose and original stories like his historical fiction comic series Citizen

X. You can find more of Dinar Dale's comedy writing in The New Yorker, and he's also an author,

his latest collection of short fiction, is titled Everything Abridged. Also, I've gathered all of our zip codes, and I've used internet resources, such as

a wonderful map at native-land.ca.

Want to use that to acknowledge that Dinar and I each recorded this on the traditional land

of the Canarsie and Lenape peoples.

Acknowledge Brendan recorded this on the traditional land of the Muncie Lenape and Wappinger

and Skatak peoples.

And acknowledge that in all of our locations, native people are very much still here.

That feels worth doing on each episode, and today's episode is about maps, which is a topic chosen by supporters

of this podcast over at siftpod.f.fun. A whole bunch of folks have suggested this, in particular,

Dan Startan and Brendan. Thank you both, Dan and Brendan, and thank you everybody who voted

for this. It was a wonderful topic to find out about. It's also a

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