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An ode to the small, the banal, the overlooked things that make up the fabric of our lives.\n\nMost 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 \u2026 not that stuff. Most of our lives are what we sometimes dismissively call \u201csmall potatoes.\u201d This week on Radiolab, Heather Radke challenges to focus on the small, the overlook, the everyday \u2026 and find out what happens when you take a good hard look at the things we all usually overlook.\n\nSpecial thanks to Moeko Fujii, Kelley Conway, Robin Kelley, Jason Isaacs, and Andrew Semans\n\nEPISODE CREDITS: \n\nReported by - Heather Radke, Rachael Cusick, and Matt Kielty\nwith help from - Erica Heilman\nProduced by - Annie McEwen and Matt Kielty\nOriginal music and sound design contributed by - Annie McEwen, Matt Kielty, and Jeremy Bloom\nFact-checking by - Emily Krieger and Diane Kelly\nand Edited by\xa0 - Alex Neason\n\nEPISODE CITATIONS:\n\nAudio -Check out Ian Chillag\u2019s podcast, Everything is Alive, from Radiotopia.\n\nMuseums -Learn more about The Museum of Everyday Life, located in Glover, Vermont, here.\n\nNewsletter - Heather Radke has a newsletter all about small potatoes. It\u2019s called Petite Patate and you can subscribe at HeatherRadke.substack.com.\n\nOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)!\n\nRadiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today.\n\nFollow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org.\n\nLeadership support for Radiolab\u2019s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.