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T's and about internet culture.

And today, we're welcoming back to the show, culture writer Amanda

Mull. Hello Amanda. Hi. Nice to be here. So good to have you on this absolutely freezing

day. We both just barely made it here. But Amanda is a senior reporter at Bloomberg Business Week.

She writes about consumer culture. Previously, she was a

staff writer at The Atlantic and has written some of my favorite pieces, including the HGTV

Occasion of America, your sweaters are garbage, it's too easy to buy stuff you don't want,

and online shopping has become a giant fake product machine. And those last two headlines

are particularly relevant to what we

are here to discuss today, which is why online shopping has become so fraught. But first, I want to ask you

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