We have lots of interns that flow in and out of the Hugh Hewitt Show, depending on the year. And sometimes, like this summer, Hugh lets his guard down and he has allowed a USC student named Daren to allegedly work at the studio.

Now Hugh has spent a lot of time over the years creating new ways to tweak with the USC people, but today, Daren presented an opportunity that literally fell into Hugh's lap. Around the start of the show, Daren took off one of his new hightops, and had this idea he was trying to work out. The other interns couldn't figure out exactly what he was up to, but it even included a quick trip to a local gas station where he could buy a lighter.

Literally two and a half hours later, after burning off frayed ends, and actually including a few stitches, this is what one of USC's best and brightest spent his afternoon at work creating.

The hind dangle knot, for the time when you want to fashion style of laces, but you're just too damned lazy to bend over and tie them off.

When asked on the air what in the world he was doing all this time, Daren remained defiant, unaware of the glee he was providing to Hugh on behalf of USC students everywhere. Want to know the funny thing? As I was taking the pictures of the shoe for the bog, Daren wanted me to TM the pictures, because he said he's going to patent the idea.

At about ten seconds a tie, he could have laced these suckers up 900 times in the time it took to mutilate them.