10 seconds and thank you before we start. We just did our episode at the London Podcast Festival when this drops.

Thank you to absolutely everybody who came. I'll say more thank you's on Discord and on social media.

Thank you.

United States Minor Outlying Islands. Known for really not being known. It's not Puerto Rico and Guam and those other territories.

Nobody thinks much about them, so let's have some fun. Let's find out Rico and Guam and those other territories. Nobody thinks

much about them, so let's have some fun. Let's find out why U.S. Minor Outlying Islands 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's Alex Schmidt, and I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden, Katie. Yes.

What is your relationship to or opinion of United States Minor Outlying Islands?

You know, I was just thinking about this the other day. You know, I have very strong opinions on U.S. minor outlying islands. I think about it all the time. I think they should get the vote. I don't know. I have a feeling that like, probably we did something bad here. when you're like we've got all these

U.S. minor outlying islands. I'm like that sounds bad. That sounds like we did something bad and

stinky in our past. And so I just want to say I apologize on behalf of America.

And yes.

Yeah, this.

So I love this topic because I think it's within the range of stuff that's stiff because everybody's heard of the United States.

Right.

And nobody knows this is part of the United States.

Because I want to shout out James Amaz on the Discord, because not only did he have an awesome topic idea, but he let me tinker with it a little bit because he suggested U.S. territories.

And that's vast.

And also Puerto Rico is probably like two or three whole episodes and then several other inhabited territories would be their own episode.

U.S. minor outlying islands are broadly considered uninhabited.

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