Libraries known for having books.

Famous for lending books.

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

Let's find out why libraries 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. Two wonderful guests join me this week.

Blair Saki is an amazing stand-up comedian. By the way, she is headlining the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York, on September 16th. That is this Thursday. If you're listening right when this drops, please get a ticket. Please, you know, check it out. See Amazing Stand-up. She's also a frequent guest on shows like The Daily Zeitgeist, and it's just a delight all around, so glad she's here.

I'm also joined by Sienna East. Sienna is a comedian, writer, actor, and filmmaker.

Sienna is also part of the cast of a wonderful YouTube channel. It is called NDND. That is a whole

group of native performers doing a funny and awesome role-playing tabletop game together.

So those are my guests. I'm so glad Blair and Sienna are here.

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 Lenape people.

Acknowledge Blair and Sienna, each recorded this on the traditional land of the

Gabrieline Wartongva 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 libraries.

Very straightforward topic.

Libraries are also a patron pick for the month of September.

Many thanks to Jeff Byrne for the great suggestion.

And to Stephen Asarian for helping cheerlead for it on the

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