meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
SciShow Tangents

Textiles

SciShow Tangents

Complexly

Schultz, Stefan, Tangents, Hank, 770430, Chin, Riley, Scishow, Complexly, Sam, Sam Schultz, Stefan Chin, Hank Green, Itunes:https://feeds.simplecast.com/jmge1h9a, Comedy, Ceri Riley, Science, Education, Ceri, Green

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

From expressing ourselves through fashion to protecting ourselves from the elements, textiles seem to be self-evidently significant to the human experience. But it's our goal on Tangents to always poke holes in the obvious, tear through distraction, and weave humor with knowledge - and the facts this episode will blow your cotton-poly blend socks off.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

You're going to be. Hello and welcome to Sargu Tanger, the lightly competitive science knowledge

0:19.7

showcase I'm your host Hank Green and joining me this week as always is our science expert and

0:24.5

Forbes 30 education luminary Sarah Riley.

0:28.3

Hello! And our resident Evry man, Sam Schultz. Howdy. What is your favorite shirt? It can be anything that you put on the top of your body. It doesn't have to be a shirt shirt. It could be a hoodie. It could be a jacket. It could be a jacket.

0:44.0

Well, no, not a jacket.

0:46.0

A jacket's not allowed.

0:47.0

I'm drawing the line of jackets.

0:48.0

Oh, immediately I thought of a jacket.

0:51.0

I know, jackets are too easy a good jacket easy easy to latch on to and keep for many many years of your life and you have an excuse to wear it every day like no one's going to to be like, oh you're wearing that jacket again. But if you wear your favorite shirt too many times, people will be like, what's going on with you?

1:08.8

Catherine recently hit me with the hoodie. She was like, that's too many days for that hoodie. And I was like, it's a hoodie. She was like that's too many days for that hoodie and I was like it's a

1:14.0

hoodie and she was like no that's it's been it's been 90 days. I mean I'm a big

1:21.2

favorite shirt guy I have I go through favorite shirts and then wear them until they disintegrate off of my body

1:26.2

So I've been through many right now. I have a shirt that has probably have worn it on the show before has little fish on it

1:32.1

Love my little fish shirt.

1:34.0

When I was in middle school, I had a shirt that was from Banana Republic,

1:38.0

which looking back is a very weird name for a store.

1:42.0

And it had on it a dog like a hunting dog and a

1:46.5

hunt and cap and it was just like randomly arranged like there was the dog and

1:51.8

then there was the hat and the hat was not like in

1:54.0

proportion to the dog and I liked this shirt and someone made fun of it for some reason I

1:58.7

don't know why but it made me so sad and then I found it years later. I had stuffed it behind the hamper.

2:08.0

Oh, Hank.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Complexly, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Complexly and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.