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Hey, everybody.
It's Mariel.
All right, y'all.
I'm starting this episode with a deep sigh because we are talking about feet.
And it's a deep sigh because feet elicit a lot of strong feelings.
Everything from the shape of someone's toes, the height of their arch,
the skin of their heel, the overall look and smell can provoke insecurity, disgust, even deep fear.
And then there's the WikiFeet side of the spectrum.
If you're not familiar,
that is a foot fetish website where people post photos of celebrities' feet and rate them.
A couple years ago,
the Huffington Post published an article proclaiming that the unruly online culture around feet has made a lot of Gen Zers want to hide their feet away almost entirely.
And let me tell you, I can relate to that.
So yeah, we can get weird about the aesthetics of our feet.