The Dark Side of the Fashion Industry, Part 1: The Dark Side of the Loom
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
If you're like the vast majority of people, you wear clothes. Clothing is one of the oldest pieces of human technology, and these days it's also a multi-billion dollar industry. People across the planet use clothing and fashion as a means of expression, a way to make a living, and a way to communicate. But, like any other industry of the size, the fashion industry also has a dark side (several, in fact). Tune in as the guys explore the at-times disturbing origin story of so many clothes we wear -- and why the source of the hottest fashions can often be the Stuff They Don't Want You To Know.
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| 0:00.0 | Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard. |
| 0:07.0 | I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister. |
| 0:11.0 | In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island. |
| 0:16.0 | A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery, and danger. |
| 0:22.0 | Listen to Death Island on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your favorite shows. |
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| 0:37.0 | Available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:40.0 | You can think of a nation as a place with a border, a set of laws, flags, and people. |
| 0:45.0 | But really, a nation needs a story, a story to tie the whole thing together. |
| 0:50.0 | So what to do then about the inconvenient parts of the nation's past? |
| 0:54.0 | The parts that call the whole thing into question. |
| 0:57.0 | On the new season of White Lies, we tell a story about immigration, about indefinite detention, and about how sometimes it's the lies that bind us together. |
| 1:05.0 | Listen to the White Lies podcast from MPR, within the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:11.0 | Daniel Miller is a millennial con artist. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm a social media influencer. |
| 1:16.0 | Busted while recovering from Brazilian butt lift surgery. |
| 1:20.0 | Miss yelling at the police for like getting her butt tissue out of joy when they're hand-glued. |
| 1:25.0 | She's got hundreds of victims. |
| 1:27.0 | To me, that's not a con artist that just is a straight-up predator. |
| 1:30.0 | And she just keeps getting away with it. |
| 1:32.0 | This person is a danger. |
| 1:34.0 | Listen to Queen of the Con, season three. |
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