#35 An Unnecessarily Detailed Guide to Tying Your Shoes

Episode thirty-five of The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep is called An Unnecessarily Detailed Guide to Tying Your Shoes, and it is exactly as riveting as it sounds. Over the course of this episode, we explore the complete and thoroughly unnecessary history of shoelaces, aglets, lacing patterns, knot mechanics, the etymology of the word lace, a five-thousand-five-hundred-year-old shoe found in a cave in Armenia, the Ian knot as documented by Ian Fieggen on his legendary website Ian's Shoelace Site, the difference between a reef knot and a granny knot and why your shoes keep coming undone, the ninety-centimetre lace problem, and the surprisingly soothing sounds of getting ready in the morning. We also visit a hardware store, go briefly sailing, and spend a disproportionate amount of time thinking about aglets. If you are looking for a sleep podcast, a bedtime podcast, a podcast to fall asleep to, or simply something so thoroughly uneventful that your brain has no choice but to give up and drift off, this is the episode for you. This podcast is designed for people who enjoy falling asleep to monotone talk, ambient narration, slow storytelling, and topics so mundane that missing the ending is not only acceptable but practically the point. It works beautifully as background audio for sleep, as a wind-down podcast after a long day, or as a gentle companion for anyone who simply enjoys the feeling of a calm voice talking about something that doesn't matter in the slightest. Whether you are dealing with a busy mind at bedtime, looking for sleep meditation alternatives, searching for talk radio to sleep to, or just someone who finds ASMR a bit much and wants something quieter and drier, The World's Most Boring Podcast has been carefully crafted to be as sleep-inducing as possible without ever being unpleasant. The episode ends in a long, dreamlike conclusion where shoelaces, aglets, Armenian caves, hardware stores, and Ian Fieggen's lacing diagrams slowly dissolve into something that is either a dream or a very calm Tuesday. We are very proud of how boring this is. We have fifty-three subscribers and we are grateful for every single one of them. If you have a topic suggestion, a question, or a comment, please send it to themostboringpod at gmail dot com. New episodes arrive when they arrive. There is no rush. There never is.