Duct Tape

Known for being sticky.

Famous for being fixy.

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

Let's find out why duct tape is

secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey, 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. I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden. Katie, how you doing? How's it going?

Good. Sticking together. That's the thing someone normally starts a conversation with, right?

Yeah, all kinds of words that have double meanings involving tape. Last time we taped, making

audio, I said something along the lines of like, the next one's about duct tape. And that was

hard for you to hear, obviously, because it's like difficult words. You were like,

tape the tape with the what? We're going to tape about ducks. Which is also a goal I have

explicitly said on some episode, like ducks would be a good topic. Yeah. And this one,

Katie, what is your relationship to this topic or opinion of this topic of duct tape?

Duct tape.

Well, once when I was at summer camp, I made some sandals out of duct tape.

Cool.

There was not a lot of arch support.

They were a little bit sticky because you got to like when you make duct tape clothing,

you got to make sure that you cover the adhesive entirely otherwise it's going to still be sticky so I didn't do that so

they were still kind of sticky and would stick to my feet and then would also get a bunch of hair

stuck to them but they were technically shoes so I was thrilled that I made shoes out of duct

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