Today's episode is sponsored by Pearl Vision. You know how you're like, I have to get a physical

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Eye exams available by independent doctors of optometry at or next to Pearl Vision. Doctors in some

states are employed by Pearl Vision. See you at the eye doctor. Oh hey, it's that friend who cannot

leave the house without sunglasses and has a glove compartment chock full of them.

Allie Ward, this is a bonus, fun, just a special little episode of ologies. It's unlike the rest of them. It's a little looser. It's shorter. There's a couple of people. It's more of an overview. I was thrilled to do it. So a few months back, and I will tell you this whole story later in the episode, but I was wondering about the history of eyeglasses. And I thought like someone needs to do a deep dive on that because I want to know. And then I realized that that it's me. I'm the kind of person that would do that as a job. And that's great. And then Pearl Vision came to me and said, hey, do you have any ideas about a vision-based mini-episode? And I said, boy, howdy, do I?

So we've done an ophthalmology episode in the past with a wonderful LA-based ophthalmologist, Dr. Reid-Wainis, look him up, and we'll link his episode in the show notes. But this one is a little different because in the first half, we chat with Jenny Benjamin, the director of the Museum of the Eye in San Francisco, all about how far back eyewear goes and what it looked like and how they made it and weird Roman trivia and downtown abbey fashion and sunglasses and how eyewear used to be considered sinful.

And then we bought to the present and over to Houston, Texas to chat with a real-life

optometrist, Dr. Nadia Sledge, who tells me all about how our eyesight is changing in the

digital age and how kids are becoming more nearsighted and what to do about it, when it's time for

reading glasses as you age,

and how online eye tests overlook a lot of critical stuff

and why you should see your eye doctor every year, every year,

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