Sox.

Known for being a garment.

Famous for nothing else, really.

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

Let's find out why socks are 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. Two amazing guests join me this week. One of them is Danny Fernandez, who's a writer and an actress.

You've seen Danny's work on Netflix and HBO and Comedy

Central and more places from there. Also, Danny co-hosted a great podcast called Nerdificent,

and I'm so glad she's on this podcast. I'm also joined by Dave Schilling. Dave is a writer and a

podcaster with bylines everywhere. He just wrote a great humor piece for the New Yorker's Daily Shouts section.

We'll have that linked.

And Dave just put out the second season of his improvised comedy sports podcast, full court chat.

I hope you know Danny and Dave's work.

If you don't, you get to meet them through this show, and I'm so glad they're both here.

Also, I've gathered all of our zip codes and used internet resources like native-dashland.ca to acknowledge that I

recorded this on the traditional land of the Kataba, Inno, and Shikori peoples. Acknowledge

Danny and Dave each recorded this on the traditional land of the Gabrielino Or Tongva and Kich and Chumash peoples.

And acknowledge that in all of our locations, native people are very much still here.

That feels worth doing on each episode.

And today's episode is about socks.

A topic that I'm really excited to get into.

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