Ted Audio Collective So that just sounds like a really cute company

with a lot of people being a pain in their ass and you know I'm sorry to have been a small

part of that pain.

That's appreciated honestly Amanda here you say that and honestly when you were describing

like your own background and like what you do like so it's just like we should be friends

with this person you're you're basically describing us.

Welcome back to conversations with people who hate me.

The show where I take negative online interactions or otherwise contentious relationships and

turn them into offline chats I'm your host Dylan Marin.

So this podcast is all about reminding each other that there is a human on the other

side of the screen and you're probably familiar with that exact line because that's the tag

line.

You can hear it at the end of every single episode because as we've seen for the last

five years of this podcast behind every online profile is a thinking breathing feeling

human being well except for bots but you get the idea social media makes it very easy

to forget that the people we pass online are in fact people.

But what about companies when we scroll past a sponsored ad online there isn't really

a human being behind that right surely it's just some faceless corporate entity hawking

a product to us and not anyone who has like feelings.

Today's episode answers those questions with maybe Matt and Meredith are the husband

and wife team behind the apparel company boardwalk.

They sell shirts that boast progressive slogans like feminist is my second favorite f word

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