Speaker 1: Pushkin. Hello everyone, Malcolm Glaubow here, welcome back to another
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Speaker 1: end of the year, and this month we look back
Speaker 1: at last season's episode about laundry and the Pushkin staff
Speaker 1: members who didn't take too kindly to mind detergent shaming.
Speaker 1: Are we going to get a turned gamble to sponsor
Speaker 1: us or what? Because that really was free advertising that
Speaker 1: whole episode. That's Pushkin's vice president for content development, Lital Molaud.
Speaker 1: Pushkin is a first Amendment, first operation. We let people
Speaker 1: speak their minds, and Lital is one of those old
Speaker 1: school lefties who gets a little uncomfortable when journalists say
Speaker 1: nice things about major multinational corporations. Let's just say I
Speaker 1: have no such compunctions. I hope Pushkin ends up as
Speaker 1: a major multinational corporation one day. Can you imagine Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google,
Speaker 1: Pushkin Industries. I was so amused by the internal backlash
Speaker 1: that I actually sent out my two Crack producers, Lee
Speaker 1: and Eloise to follow up with some of the Pushkin
Speaker 1: nights who I ganged up on. One voice in particular
Speaker 1: might sound familiar. I didn't think too much about it
Speaker 1: other than mildly invasive to have the president at your
Speaker 1: company asking about what your launder interurgon is. But also
Speaker 1: felt unimpeachable in my launging detergent choice, so it wasn't
Speaker 1: too concerned. He found himself cast in the role of
Speaker 1: straw man. There's always a straw man in a revisionist
Speaker 1: history episode, but in this case just mildly singed, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about our VP of Special Audio Projects, Brendan Francis Nunham.
Speaker 1: Here's how Brendan came across in our episode. If you
Speaker 1: google the words Brooklyn, natural wine, farmer's market, vinyl records,
Speaker 1: and whatever other affiliated terms show up automatically in the
Speaker 1: search field, you get Brendan. You do your whites in
Speaker 1: hot water. Yeah, okay, good, that's all. I also add
Speaker 1: bleach into my whites with my egosts. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's all I've I've heard enough. Brendan got singled out
Speaker 1: by the revisionist history brain Trust for his use of
Speaker 1: hot water on whites, along with his eccentric choice of
Speaker 1: some kind of woke detergent called eCos eCos. Good lord,
Speaker 1: but let's give Brendan a chance to say his piece. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I feel no need to defend myself. If anything,
Speaker 1: I feel like Malcolm should maybe defend himself or his
Speaker 1: mischaracterization of a brand that I think if anyone does research,
Speaker 1: pays their workers really high wages, has been a carbon
Speaker 1: neutral for a zillion years, has the EPA, lead, platinum, etc. Etc.
Speaker 1: All their buildings, so their footprint, their whole supply chain footprint,
Speaker 1: is less than Procter and Gamble by a long shot.
Speaker 1: I should point out the Procter and Gamble powers their
Speaker 1: detergent factories with wind. But whatever's let Brendan carry on
Speaker 1: and the detergent smells good and it gets my clothes clean.
Speaker 1: So I feel like leaning into the eCos thing was
Speaker 1: I don't know, it was a little bit. I think
Speaker 1: he was playing into some other stereotypes, some American myths
Speaker 1: about people who live in Brooklyn and people who are
Speaker 1: environmentally conscious, which it does. It is service. So that's
Speaker 1: my short bottle. But the bottom line, eCos far better
Speaker 1: company than Procter and Gamble from all the research I've done.
Speaker 1: Do I still have a job. Well, I still have
Speaker 1: a job. After this episode. I think I think you're safe.
Speaker 1: I think you're safe. Of course, Brendan is safe. As
Speaker 1: I said, we are a First Amendment first operation here
Speaker 1: at Pushkin. We have no issue with whatever crackpot theories are.
Speaker 1: Employees may espouse as long as they make cool stuff.
Speaker 1: And trust me, Brendan makes cool stuff. Now. I was
Speaker 1: once a quick fire judge on Top Chef and all
Speaker 1: these people came out of the woodwork to contact me.
Speaker 1: Not since then this Malcolm episode, people from my law
Speaker 1: school paths from my childhood emerge to mock me, essentially
Speaker 1: after following Malcolm's lead. Yeah yeah, yeah, Wait, Brendan is
Speaker 1: a lawyer. Why didn't anyone tell me? So I'm looking
Speaker 1: into some my litigation strategies to see what you know
Speaker 1: about defamation of character and stuff like that. But I'll
Speaker 1: have my lawyer contact revision sistory. Yeah, I think you
Speaker 1: have a case for emotional cages for sure. Thank you.
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