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Brains On is supported on part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Hi, welcome to stink. We put the fun back in foot funk.

Seriously though, let me know if you want to try on any shoes. I personally recommend our new line

of athletic stinkers. The smells are on point. Okay, thanks.

Oh, hey Mark, I don't know you like stinks too.

Yeah, well I somehow out grew all my shoes. The only ones I can wear are these

neoprene booties from my wetsuit. Me too! I can only fit my feet in these wooden

clogs right now. Do you think it was the experiments we were doing in the lab?

Maybe it was when we were trying to grow a tomato that tastes like a pear.

It could have also been those tests we were doing to try to make our toes as sticky as gecko toes.

Oh yeah, that was fun. I hope my feet get back to normal. But I guess the upside is checking out

some new foot smells. Here at stink, our motto is, if you want to perform like the greats,

having feet that smell like theirs is the first step.

I'm thinking to try in the Serena Williams. Maybe I should go with the Venus.

I don't know. And the historical line is pretty cool too. I wonder how they figured out what

Gandhi's feet smelled like. Oh, we actually have the world's leading stink scientists.

And they've developed a cutting edge technique for recreating the foot scent of just about anybody.

There's even talk of them winning a nose bell prize. Am I right? So ready to try something on?

I'd love to smell the Serenis, please. And I'll give the Lin-Man Well Miranda a shot. Thank you.

Here we are. Great choices. So earthy. And can you get that? The nose, that really great finish.

These are in fact two of my personal favorite foot smells. Wow. With these shoes, I might have

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