The Interstate Highway System, known for being roads.

Famous four also exits.

Nobody thinks much about it.

Let's have some fun.

Let's find out why the Interstate Highway System is secretly, incredibly fascinating. Hey, hey, hey, 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. My guest today are Katie Hannigan and Connor Lestoka.

Katie is an excellent stand-up comedian. Her new album, it's a 20-22 album. It's titled

Feeling of Emptiness. Again, that name is Katie Hannigan. She also co-hosts a very funny podcast.

That's with fellow comedian Sarah Tolamock. The name of it is Lady Journey. So search

Feeling of Emptiness, the stand-up album, or Lady Journey, the podcast from Katie Hanigan.

Connor Lestoka, also a very funny podcaster. He co-hosts 372 pages We'll Never Get Back,

which is a great show. They read books they do not expect will be good, and talk about them.

He's also a writer and producer for riff tracks, and I hope you know him from past episodes of

this show about butter

or gargoyles or bricks. 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. Acknowledge Katie recorded this on the traditional land of the Lanapi people. Acknowledge Katie recorded this on the traditional land of the Lenape people.

Acknowledge Connor recorded this on the traditional land of the Manahawk people.

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 the interstate highway system.

That's a road system in the United States. That's also a patron chosen topic. Many thanks to

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