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From KQED.

From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Our current world is a confusing place.

Things flip-flop from digital to physical,

from underground to mainstream, across oceans and between nations with wild velocity. A lot of phenomena, especially in fast-moving cultural realms, are hard to talk about. The way coffee shops

or websites start to look, what's happening to sneakers, even haircuts? As cultural

fixed points give way, trends are just not so

simple anymore. We need names for these

things so we can even begin to understand them.

And our guest today, the creators

of the cult-style newsletter, Blackbirds

Byplane, are experts

at naming that thing that's on the tip

of the culture's tongue.

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