306: The Flip That Flopped

Call them slippahs, flip flops, chanclas, slops, plakkies, slaps, pantofles, or thongs...whatever word you choose says a lot about your age and what part of the world you grew up in. We came up with this episode topic as kind of a joke. Turns out there's way more about to know about these summer shoes than we thought. Show Notes: Wikipedia on the history of flip flops The Paduka Kanye West being weird as usual with diamond studded flips Satra: History of the flip flop Forbes: This Brand Reinvented Flip-Flops (And Made Them A Sustainable Product) Business Wire: Global Flip Flops Market to Reach $28.5 Billion by 2030, Fueled by Work-from-Home Trend and Growing Demand in Developing Countries - ResearchAndMarkets.com Obama first US President photoed in slippahs Guinness account on X: Andre Ortolf running in flip flops Longest flip flop throw Flip Flops History and Production Process Harper's Bazaar YouTube: Mexican Moms play chancla or no chancla Washington Post Flip Flop vs Thongs recycled rubber flops Transcript: [00:00:03] Speaker A: Welcome to brain junk. I'm Trace Kerr. [00:00:05] Speaker B: And I'm Amy Barton. And today we're going to be discussing everything you never knew you wanted to know about flip flops. Flip flop. [00:00:15] Speaker A: Or is it thongs? And then all the gen Z's cringed. [00:00:19] Speaker B: I know. And it is the very first thing I think of every time you say flip flops. For the longest time, I remember the first time somebody corrected my wrong term use. They're like, oh. And I'm like, oh, all right. So the flip flop, for me, the quintessential flip flop, is the black sole, the rainbow striped straps. Oh, I love those things. My aunts had them out at the lake, and they were the coolest. [00:00:45] Speaker A: I was just trying to think. I once had flip flops that I wore to camp on an overnight. And I can remember that the middle bit tore out of the bottom of the shoe. [00:00:56] Speaker B: You suffered for 36 hours was limping. [00:01:00] Speaker A: Along with one flip flop. O... This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brainjunkpodcast.substack.com