Lauren.

Mike.

Lauren, what is the last thing that you ordered off of Amazon?

Oh, this is a good question.

Let's see, I'm opening up my orders.

The last thing I ordered, a few things, a memory card case for all my memory cards lying around,

some garden netting so I could get my tomato plants under control and some twine

for a similar reason. That is charmingly esoteric. I mean, these are all really small items,

though, and I had them delivered because, you know, we're living in a pandemic and should I feel weird about that?

Well, we are going to talk about that very issue right now on GadgetLab.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to Gadget Lab. I am Michael Colori, a senior editor at Wired, and I am joined

remotely by my co-host, Wired Senior Writerer, Lauren Good. Hello, I'm an orderer of esoteric

things on Amazon.com. We are also joined by Wired staff writer Laurence Trompby.

Hello. Hi. Thanks for having me. The Lawrence are taking over the podcast. I'm very excited about this, Mike. And this is Lauren Strompe. Hello. Hi. Thanks for having me. The Lawrence are taking over the podcast.

I'm very excited about this, Mike.

And this is Lauren Strompe's first time on the gadget lab, so I'm really excited.

Me too.

Welcome, welcome.

Well, today we are talking about Amazon.

Amazon, of course, was one of the big tech companies that had to participate remotely in the big antitrust hearing at Congress this week, where some of the company's practices were questioned by members of a congressional subcommittee.

But meanwhile, millions of people, including us, are still using Amazon services as a kind of glue in their lives.

Later in the show, we'll talk about how Amazon is doing in the pandemic and the ways that the other

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