Articles of Interest is a show about clothing for people who don't necessarily think they're interested in clothing.

My name is Avery Truffleman. I make the show, and I just finished a whole season about the intersection between the military and the outdoor industry.

Would you believe they are deeply, deeply interwoven?

And this year in

26, they're going to be new episodes about tattoos and what they mean for our self-expression,

about bras and whether or not their technology is outdated, an episode about the greatest

designer you've never heard of, and a look at what it means to make clothes truly accessible

for everyone. If you're ready to change your relationship with the clothes you wear every day,

check out articles of interest wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Alex Goldman, and this is

hyperfixed. Each week on our show, listeners write in with their problems big and small, and I solve them. Or at least I try. And if I don't, I at least give a good

reason why I can't. This week, brain squatch. So right out of the gate, there are two things

you should know about this week's listener, Matt. The first is that he recently became a father to and primary caretaker of a pair of twin

girls.

The other thing that you should know about Matt is that he's a deeply skeptical person.

I'm not the type of person who believes in like the paranormal or like weird phenomena.

I have friends who will be like, oh, yeah, my grandfather definitely comes back from like the dead and does weird things around our house.

And I'm just like, no, I don't really vibe with that.

I don't think that's how it works.

I think that there is an explanation for pretty much everything, even if there's no explanation for that

right now. And I kind of don't let like weird or esoteric things get into my head.

But recently, Matt had an experience that felt like a defied explanation, at least logical

explanation, at least as far as he's concerned.

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