styling bundles, thrift store adventures, and the death of hot takes

High Brow

Society & Culture

4.8 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Mina talks about the Depop styling bundle grind, whether or not they're a viable purchase, and how to choose between the many personal shoppers out there. Also: Erewhon "Hailey Bieber" smoothie review, Goodwill bins trauma, changes in Asian factory labor and what that means for the rest of the world, the ethics of doxxing Selena Gomez haters, and why we're all tired of the "hot take."

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READING LIST:
Gen Z loves clothing hauls and hates landfills. Enter the style bundle - The Washington Post
The Era of Ultracheap Stuff Is Under Threat - WSJ
"Opinion Fatigue" Is Setting In For Twitter, TikTok, & Instagram Creators
What Did People Do Before Smartphones?

Edited by Sophie Carter
Music by Olivia Martinez
Cover art by Lindsay Mintz

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to highbrow. My name is Mina. I'm your host. And we're back. I'm also back in New York
0:25.1	City because I was in Orange County in L.A. for the past week and a half celebrating my dad and my
0:32.8	grandpa's birthdays. They are Leo's and their birthdays are two days apart. So I thought it was a good time to go visit.
0:39.3	While I was in California, I did get to try an Airwans smoothie, which now I feel like I can fully have an opinion on it because I did an episode where I talked about Airwan, but it was all like conjecture, right? Like I was reading accounts of Airwine.
0:56.0	I was watching TikToks of people who bought things from Airwan and were reviewing things
1:00.0	from Airwan. But I had never had a firsthand experience at Airwan until last week. And honestly,
1:08.2	like I do get it. I understand why people like it because it's like a nice little
1:13.4	boogie grocery store and everyone in there. Well, actually, I went to the Beverly Hills location
1:20.3	and everyone in there was like, you know, dressed to impress not necessarily the type of people
1:26.4	who would go PJs to the grocery store,
1:28.8	like the majority of us, but there were also a lot of tourists there. So maybe everyone there
1:34.7	was actually just a tourist and the actual Airwine customer has still alluded me. And before
1:41.9	any of you asked, like, how could you know they were tourists?
1:44.5	It's because people were taking photos everywhere. It was so funny. Like, we're in a grocery
1:49.3	store and there were people taking photos in the bathroom and taking photos just like in
1:55.9	the aisles. It was an interesting time. The smoothie itself, I got the Haley Bieber smoothie
2:00.8	was one overpriced. I think it was like interesting time. The smoothie itself, I got the Haley Bieber smoothie was one overpriced. I think
2:03.5	it was like $17. And on top of that, it was just like very average. It was a little bit too
2:09.3	sweet, in my opinion. Like I don't really like sweet drinks. Like I'm not a Starbucks girly. I'm not
2:15.6	pumping syrups into my coffees or drinks. I'm not one of those
2:19.8	like artificial water girls. So I have like a pretty low sweet tolerance to begin with.
2:26.2	So maybe someone else would really like the Air One smoothie, but I was just sort of like,
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