These Shoes Are Killing Me! (Ep. 296 Rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The human foot is an evolutionary masterpiece, far more functional than we give it credit for. So why do we encase it in “a coffin” (as one foot scholar calls it) that stymies so much of its ability — and may create more problems than it solves?

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0:00.0	The COVID-19 shutdown has produced a variety of strange and surprising side effects.
0:10.8	One of them has been the health of our feet.
0:14.7	Doctors have reported an increase in all sorts of foot maladies, in part because so many
0:19.8	of us have been spending so much time barefoot.
0:23.4	The implication is that our feet would be better off if they were still in shoes every
0:27.8	day.
0:28.8	But is that necessarily true?
0:31.0	After all, we aren't born with shoes, at least I wasn't maybe you were.
0:35.4	If the question is, what do you do with a human foot?
0:39.8	Are we sure the best answer is put it in a shoe?
0:45.2	That's a question we ask in the following episode.
0:48.4	We dug it out of our archive.
0:49.8	It was first published in 2017.
0:52.6	It is called, these shoes are killing me.
0:56.0	I hope you enjoy.
1:00.2	What are you wearing right now?
1:02.0	Shoes eyes?
1:03.0	I'm wearing a pair of VVA flats.
1:07.6	How many NBA players regularly get pedicures?
1:11.0	90% of them.
1:13.4	What kind of animals have you put in shoes?
1:15.4	We put sheep in shoes actually.
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