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Okay. Let me make sure that's recording. You're going to tell me something? I think I'm going to tell you about diapers. Okay. So we order from diapers.com all the time, you know, because we have these kids. Of course they're called. Diapers.com. You guys don't know diapers.com? That's the actual name of the website? My God, it's like such a part of our lives.

I just figure it would be like to...

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And it's like all the crap that you don't want to have to leave the house to get, you know? Like paper towels. Okay. Oh, God, I have to go down the street to get paper towels. Well, you can get it from diapers.com. So we order... Hey, this is Jad Radio Lab.

Today, I want to play you an older story that we think is still totally relevant.

Actually, maybe more so now than when we played it originally.

There's been, as I'm sure, you heard a ton of stuff in the news over the last few years about the entire universe of companies and warehouses and people who work at these places behind

the scenes to fulfill all of this stuff that we so effortlessly buy online, right?

All of these harrowing stories about working conditions and unionization efforts.

But back in 2016, we had a very unique opportunity to crawl inside the day-to-day experience of these workers.

And given how ubiquitous online ordering is now, we just found ourselves thinking back on that story.

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