Fred's Fun Fact: Foot Measurer!

Find out what the thing you use to measure your foot size is called!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fread Show is on Ye Fred's Fun Fact.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Fred fund.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Learn so much so.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
I can't remember the last time I had to measure
my foot to see what size shoe I wear. And
I'm sure now they have some form of like, I
don't know, laser digital thing. When's the last time any
of you had your foot measured for some reason?

Speaker 1 (00:25):
A fun tire?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, okay, Well, if you're old enough to remember when
we used to go to the shoe store I get shoes,
there was that metal thing that was on the ground.
And I'm just gonna make us sound so old timing,
but it was like a metal thing and you stuck
your heel in it, and you turn it around to
stick the other heel in it, and it would tell
you what size shoe you were, and then you can

(00:46):
even do the width. Did you know that thing has
a name? That device has a name. It's called the
Brannick Device. So a guy named Charles Brannick patented that
in nineteen twenty six, and his Brannic Device company has
been making them ever since.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
I don't know how much demand.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
There is anymore for these things, right, but every shoe
store had at least a few of these things, and
you'd be on the floor and you'd stick your I
can't believe I have to explain this, Like my niece
Holly will never probably ever see one of these things
in her life. It looks like an ancient torture device.
If you didn't know what it was for, you might be.
We're gonna see on Pond Stars in like twenty years

(01:23):
that the original Brannic device is worth a gazillion dollars
and you can buy it.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
But that's what it's called.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
The thing that measures how big your foot is, the
old school metal ones called a Brannick device.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
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