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Speaker 1: Pushkin. Hello everyone, Malcolm Glaubol here, welcome back to another

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Speaker 1: preview of this month's bonus episode of revisionist History exclusively

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Speaker 1: appear exclusively in Pushkin Plus feeds once a month through

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Speaker 1: the end of the year. And this month we look

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Speaker 1: back at last season's episode about laundry and the Pushkin

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Speaker 1: staff members who didn't take too kindly to my detergent shaming.

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Speaker 2: Are we going to get a proud and gamble to

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Speaker 2: sponsor us or what? Because that really was free advertising

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Speaker 2: for them, that whole episode.

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Speaker 1: That's Pushkin's vice president for content development, Littal Mollaud. Pushkin

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Speaker 1: is a first Amendment first operation. We let people speak

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Speaker 1: their minds, and Littal is one of those old school

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Speaker 1: lefties who gets a little uncomfortable when journalists say nice

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Speaker 1: things about major multinational corporations. Let's just say I have

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Speaker 1: no such compunctions. I hope Pushkin ends up as a

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Speaker 1: major multinational corporation one day. Can you imagine Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google,

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Speaker 1: Pushkin Industries. I was so amused by the internal backlash

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Speaker 1: that I actually sent out my two crack producers, Lee

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Speaker 1: and Alois to follow up with some of the pushkinites

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Speaker 1: who I ganged up on. One voice in particular might

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Speaker 1: sound familiar.

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Speaker 2: I didn't think too much about it other than mildly

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Speaker 2: invasive to have the president of your company asking about

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Speaker 2: what your launder deturgent is, but also felt unimpeachable in

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Speaker 2: my laundry detergent choice, so it wasn't too concerned.

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Speaker 1: He found himself cast in the role of straw man.

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Speaker 1: There's always a straw man in a revisionist history episode,

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Speaker 1: but in this case just mildly singed, I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: our VP of Special Audio Projects, Brendan Francis Newnham. Here's

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Speaker 1: how Brendan came across in our episode. If you google

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Speaker 1: the words Brooklyn, natural wine, farmer's market, vinyl records, and

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Speaker 1: whatever other affiliated terms show up automatically in the search field,

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Speaker 1: you get Brendan. You do your whites in hot water? Yeah, okay, good,

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Speaker 1: that's all.

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Speaker 2: I also add bleach into my whites with my e ghosts.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, that's all I've heard enough. Brendan got

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Speaker 1: singled out by the revisionist history brain Trust for his

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Speaker 1: use of hot water on whites, along with his eccentric

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Speaker 1: choice of some kind of woke detergent called eCos eCos.

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Speaker 1: Good lord, but let's give Brendan a chance to say

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Speaker 1: his peace.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I feel no need to defend myself.

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Speaker 2: If anything, I feel like Malcolm should maybe defend himself

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Speaker 2: for his mischaracterization of a brand that I think if

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Speaker 2: anyone does research, pays their workers really high wages, has

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Speaker 2: been a carbon neutral for a zillion years, has the

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Speaker 2: EPA lead platinum, et cetera, et cetera in all their buildings,

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Speaker 2: So their footprint, their whole supply chain footprint, is less

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Speaker 2: than Procter and Gamble by a long shot.

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Speaker 1: I should point out the Procter and Gamble powers their

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Speaker 1: detergent factories with wind. But whatever, Let's let Brendan carry on.

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Speaker 2: And the detergent smells good and it gets my clothes clean.

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Speaker 2: So I feel like leaning into the eCos thing was

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Speaker 2: I don't know, it was a little bit. I think

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Speaker 2: it was playing into some other stereotypes, some American myths

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Speaker 2: about people who live in Brooklyn and people who are

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Speaker 2: environmentally conscious, which it does it as service. So that's

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Speaker 2: my short bottle. But the bottom line, eCos far better

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Speaker 2: company than Procter and Gamble from all the research I've done.

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Speaker 2: Do I still have a job. Well, I still have

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Speaker 2: a job after this episode. I think I think you're safe.

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Speaker 2: I think you're safe.

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Speaker 1: Of course, Brendan is safe. As I said, we are

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Speaker 1: a First Amendment first operation here at Pushkin. We have

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Speaker 1: no issue with whatever crackpot theories our employees may espouse

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Speaker 1: as long as they make cool stuff. And trust me,

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Speaker 1: Brendan makes cool stuff.

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Speaker 2: Now. I was once a quick fire judge on Top

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Speaker 2: Chef and all these people came out of the woodwork

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Speaker 2: to contact me. Not since then this Malcolm episode, people

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Speaker 2: from my law school paths from my childhood emerged to

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Speaker 2: mock me, essentially after following Malcolm's lead.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, wait, Brendan is a lawyer. Why didn't

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Speaker 1: anyone tell me?

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Speaker 2: So I'm looking into some of my litigation strategies to

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Speaker 2: see what you know about defamation of character and stuff

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Speaker 2: like that. But I'll have my lawyer, contact revisions history. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think you have a case for emotional engages for sure.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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