Stainless Steel, known for being shiny.

Famous for no stains.

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

Let's find out why stainless steel is secretly incredibly fascinating. 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. Two wonderful guests this week. I'm joined by Joey Clift and the Neneke Fitzclerc.

Joey is a frequent guest on the show. You may remember him from one of the first ever episodes about microwave ovens. He was also on a more recent episode about Antarctica,

and he also contributed some research to that one, which was great, really helpful.

And Joey is a writer for the upcoming Netflix animated show, Spirit Rangers. That's a fantasy adventure show, mainly aimed at

kids, has an all-native writer's room, and it just looks really good. Like, the art looks amazing,

and I can't wait to see it. I hope you check out Spirit Rangers later this year, 2022.

And then, Anneke Fitzc-Clark is a new guest. She was a longtime co-host of Minority Corner,

which was a great podcast. It's Corner with a K. It's on the maximum fun network, and they did

350 episodes just wrapped recently. And she's also a professional librarian in her, not spare time,

just career time, and an absolute blast to talk to.

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 Canarsie and Lenape peoples.

Acknowledged Joey recorded this on the traditional land of the Gabrielina Wartongva and

Kich and Chumash peoples.

Acknowledged Neneke recorded this on the traditional land of the Muekma and Aloni peoples.

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

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