From the Radiolab podcast: An ode to the small, the banal, the overlooked things that make up the fabric of our lives.

Most of our stories are about the big stuff: Important or dramatic events, big ideas that transform the world around us or inspire conflict and struggle and change. But most of our lives, day by day or hour by hour, are made up of not that stuff. Most of our lives are what we sometimes dismissively call “small potatoes.”

In this episode of Radiolab, Heather Radke challenges to focus on the small, the overlook, the everyday, and find out what happens when you take a good hard look at the things we all usually overlook.

Special thanks to Moeko Fujii, Kelley Conway, Robin Kelley, Jason Isaacs and Andrew Semans.

CONTENT ADVISORY: This episode contains a couple of curse words.

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