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Also, we sometimes lure cemented their desks. And this is the week that I finally, after

several episodes, many, many episodes, took the new series out of our intro. And I'm kind of

excited by that. I'm Lauren DeYoung Shalman. I'm Brad at Iingar Plum. And if you have not said nice things about us either on social media or on our reviews

and you're still listening, are you pretty please do that? There's some really, really nice

reviews that people have left for us. There's also some like really kind of psycho weird ones

and sometimes you have to like do things to combat the psycho weird ones so help us

fight back against psycho weird people and with that have you notice how like men only have like

a really limited number of clothing items that they're allowed to be kind of weird about like socks

or like ties i guess too but mostly socks are ties and that makes me kind of sad for them like

surely there's other things that you could pick that you could be kind of weird about so I wanted

to ask like if you if you had to pick a clothing thing as a man either amongst socks or ties

or whatever else you would want them to be what would you pick I have thought long and

hard about this I would bring back hats awesome. I feel that a dapper hat

could really go, well, it just depends on that's, that would make it your thing, right? So you would

have a hat for various occasions. If you were like about on your daily business, you might have like

a bowler hat. If you were going to a sporting event you could go

with the traditional baseball hats but you could also adjust for the particular sporting event

yeah you could have big beach hats i just feel like there's a lost era of hats and then i would

stand up and take off my hat at appropriate times it's just a lot of hat-related flourishes that you could add to your day-to-day existence if hats

were reintroduced as a critical apparel piece.

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