Shoes sizes, known for being numbers.

Famous for that.

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

Let's find out why shoe sizes 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 is Alex Schmidt, and I'm not alone.

I'm joined by Brett Rader and by Shelby Wollstein.

Brett Rader is a returning guest, old pal. He was essential to everything we were doing with

the cracked podcast back when that was a thing, and with Kurt Vonnegise when that was a thing

until it wrapped up naturally. Those might be two podcasts you know me from. So really grateful to

Brett for his collaboration on those things. He's currently a producer of many things over at Yahoo Sports,

and then Brett is a wonderful guest all over podcasting, just everywhere. And then Shelby

Wolstein is a very, very funny comedian. She's also the co-host of an excellent podcast called

Keeping Records. That's a show over at Headgum. The basic premise is that they bring guests

on to select things for a new golden record for a new Voyager satellite if we did that. I don't

know if people know the story of Voyager. I will link some things about that. But it had some

golden LP records that we tried to put the most important things in the world on.

And so on Shelby's podcast keeping records, they develop a new record with a new guest every

week. I am so glad she and Brett are here to dive into this topic today. Also, I've gathered

all of our zip codes and used internet resources like native-land.ca to acknowledge that

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