I don't think that shoes are designed to fit your feet
Summary
A woman with strong opinions about footwear tells Kareem that shoes aren't actually designed to fit human feet. She's spiraling after her doctor told her to size up following a corn removal, and she's learned the hard way that most shoes are built narrow for aesthetics rather than comfort. The comparison? Societies that don't wear shoes have naturally spread toes, while shoe-wearing cultures suffer from ingrown toenails, bunions, and toes that "look like the butler's hand in Scary Movie." She argues that flip flop-wearing communities like Sri Lankans have better foot hygiene than people cramming their feet into narrow shoes. Her solution: transitioning to "barefoot shoes" that let toes breathe, even if they're ugly as hell. The conversation gets weird when she jokes about Kareem touching her corn.
Full Transcript
So, what's your take? I don't think that shoes are designed to fit your feet. 100% disagree. Shoes are not designed to fit your feet, and the ones that do are ugly as—
What do you mean they're not designed to fit your feet? This thing, if you look at societies that don't wear shoes, their toes are spread apart. Like my legs after three margaritas, okay? They are open cuz you're just like your coochie, your toes need to breathe, okay? And if you look at societies that do wear shoes, they have a lot of man-made issues like, you know, ingrown toenails and corns and bunions. And everyone's toes look like the butler's hand in Scary Movie. "Take my strong hand." That guy, "Take my strong hand."
Yes. I'm a little confused because I thought that the shoe—if the shoe fits, wear it. And my shoes be fitting. Okay, this is the thing. So I got a corn on my foot.
Let's see it. Let's see it. Let's see it. Let me whip the dog out real quick.
Let me whip the dog out. Let's see it. Let's see. Let's see. No, no, you're crazy. I got it removed. And it looked like a kernel. That's why it's called a corn.
I want to pick it. You want to pick it? I don't—freaky. Damn. I'm a freak. Is there HR for Subway Taste?
Okay, so this is the thing. My doctor, he was like, "Okay, you got to get bigger shoes." Right now I'm spiraling cuz I didn't know that I was Bigfoot. Didn't know I was clownfooted. Didn't know I had these concrete slappers. Right. So now I'm on Reddit trying to find a shoe that fits, right? And I realized that this is like a thing that shoes are aesthetically designed to be narrow and the shoes that are designed to fit your feet like let that let your toes breathe are ugly as—I'm not doing it today, but I did decide I want to transition to being a hard shoe wearing mother. Okay, it's time to wear hard shoes. So I went to the hard shoe store to buy some hard shoes and I'm not really used to my feet going. That's what I'm saying. And it was hurting my toe and I got a corn.
Yeah, Eddie got a corn. And this thing, I'm Sri Lankan and I grew up in San Diego and the two things that those communities have in common is we wear flip flops. Okay. And that is good foot hygiene. And people love to be like, "Oh, South Asian people don't have good hygiene." But this thing at least we've been washing our before days and our feet don't look like talons that have been thrown into a blender. Okay. White people are walking around so shoes. And that's why Kareem should touch my corn.
I'm not touching the corn.