Summary
You order some stuff on the Internet and it shows up three hours later. How could all the things that need to happen to make that happen happen so fast?
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| 0:00.0 | Wait, you're listening to radio lab from WNYC. |
| 0:16.0 | Okay, let me make sure this recording. |
| 0:21.5 | You gonna tell me something? |
| 0:23.0 | I think I'm gonna tell you about diapers. |
| 0:26.5 | So we order from diapers.com all the time, you know, because we have these kids. |
| 0:29.6 | That would be called diapers.com. |
| 0:33.0 | You guys don't know diapers.com? |
| 0:34.4 | That's an actual name of the website. |
| 0:36.0 | My God, it's like such a part of our lives. |
| 0:37.9 | I just figured it would be like, yeah. |
| 0:39.7 | I mean, it's all the crap that you don't want to have to leave the house to get, you know, |
| 0:44.6 | like paper towels. |
| 0:45.6 | Okay, oh God, I have to go down the street to get paper towels. |
| 0:48.1 | Well, you can get it from diapers.com. |
| 0:49.6 | So we order. |
| 0:50.6 | Hey, this is Chad Radio Lab. |
| 0:52.6 | Today, I want to play you an older story that we think is still totally relevant. |
| 0:58.6 | Actually, maybe more so now than when we played it originally. |
| 1:02.6 | There's been, as I'm sure you heard, a ton of stuff in the news over the last few years |
| 1:06.1 | about the entire universe of companies and warehouses and people who work at these places |
| 1:11.5 | behind the scenes to fulfill all of this stuff that we so effortlessly buy online, right? |
| 1:19.9 | All of these harrowing stories about working conditions and unionization efforts. |
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