Sur names known for being last names famous for being first too nobody thinks much about them so let's have some fun let's find out why surnames are 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. I'm joined by the great Andrew T.

Andrew was one of my guests on the very first ever episode of SIFPOD about U.S. Post offices.

If you know this podcast well, you've heard him before.

And I hope you check out all of Andrews podcasting.

He co-hosts the wonderful show, Yo Is This Racist, and a bunch more shows because he and his co-host, Tawnee Newsom, started their own independent, listener-supported network.

It is called Suboptimal pods. It's called suboptimal

pods because it is the optimal place to subscribe to Tawny Newsom and Andrew T's stuff. Suboptimalpods.com

is the URL. Also, that website has a link, and I'll have my own link and my own show links,

about an upcoming live episode of Yo Is This Racist? And it's very soon,

Yo Is This Racist is live September 10th at the Bell House in Brooklyn. Also, I've gathered

all of our zip codes and used internet resources like native dash land.ca to acknowledge that I

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

Acknowledge Andrew recorded this on the traditional land of the Gabrielino Or Tongva and Kich and Chumash 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 surnames.

Surnames are a patron-chosen topic.

Thank you very much to Ryan Bracey.

For that excellent suggestion, it's both self-explanatory and endless.

We absolutely will not cover every surname convention, every surname history, every

surname cultural practice in the world. I picked a set of them. I think they're an interesting

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