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I want to get into this ready-to-go issue, but just for consistency's sake, I will say that I take my shoes off at home, but I don't expect other people to.

And I have a pair of Hoka One One

mango-colored slides.

They're like flip-flops that I wear.

But then I bring them to Maine.

And then by the, by the time the second week that we're here in Maine, I'm just wearing them everywhere inside and out, even in the grocery store.

It's disgusting.

I mean, part of the thing is I got a lot of shoes.

I'm not, look, I'm not just buying shoes willy-nilly from sample sales like Jennifer Marmor.

No.

It was not willy-nilly.

I got a lot of shoes, and my bedroom is pretty far from the front door.

Yeah.

And I'm not just like carrying shoes around my house all the time.

Like when I take off my shoes, I put them, I take them off by where I put them away.

And I also have hard floors.

I don't have like wall-to-wall carpets with

like I vacuum the rugs that I have.

I have very nice rugs.

But like

mostly when I'm walking around my house, a lot of it is just walking on a hard floor that once a week gets swept and mopped, you know?

Jesse, I think everything's great.

You've got nothing to apologize for.

You have no idea.

You have no idea the intensity of the reactions to this

choice that I make inside my own home.

Yeah, we already got 75 emails about it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

People are like, people are like, how could you bring outside dirt into your house?

That's the most disgusting thing in the history of the world.

And I'm like, I don't know.

I'm walking on it when I'm outside too.

I spend much of my time outside.

It's never poisoned me yet.

It's not like you're wearing your shoes to bed.

No.

That would be gross.

And I'm sincerely like, I'm walking on the sidewalk.

There's a normal amount of dirt on the sidewalk.

I have doormats.

I'm not a monster.