# 86. Toothpaste

An episode of [The Economics of Everyday Things](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1666678354), 29 Oct 2026, 17 min.

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We reach for it twice a day — without thinking about the decades of research and engineering that went into that squeezable tube of minty goo. Zachary Crockett extracts the last bit. This episode was originally published on March 30th, 2025. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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