Pushkin.

Are we all here?

So there's 35 people here now with 36, so we're getting close.

Okay, thank you.

Every Wednesday afternoon, Pushkin Industries, a company that brings you this and many other

audio delights, has a staff meeting.

Not long ago, I asked if I could take over the meeting for a frank discussion of a very delicate

subject, laundry.

Now, I know there's been a lot of chatter around this podcast episode of mine, and there's two questions I keep hearing.

Is there a right answer, and the answer is of course there's a right answer.

There's always a right answer with revision history.

We're on Zoom. I can see all these faces looking at me wondering where on earth am I going with this?

Is there going to be laundry shaming, and the answer is yes, but the person being shamed is me.

The whole reason I'm doing this episode is I became aware that my laundry practices were solid

and I wanted to understand why.

I'm going to pick on a couple of people who were generous enough to share their detergent preferences with me,

and I'm going to ask them a few short questions.

John Schnarrs, maybe we should start with you?

John, John Schnarrs, Pushkin's vice president of business development.

Sensitive, highly of all modern male, father to many small children.

Do you have a top loading or front loading washing machine?

Top. Oh, interesting. Do you have the piston that comes up?

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