Teaser: Pushkin’s Dirty Laundry

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Speaker 1: Pushkin. Hello everyone, Malcolm Glaubol here, welcome back to another preview of this month's bonus episode of revisionist History exclusively for Pushnik's Though a word about that, we're now calling our subscription offering Pushkin Plus. It's more to the point because over here we offer everything you love about Pushkin shows plus so much more, add free listening, behind the scenes moments, bonus material, crazy as sides. These episodes will appear exclusively in Pushkin Plus feeds once a month through the end of the year. And this month we look back at last season's episode about laundry and the Pushkin 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 sponsor us or what? Because that really was free advertising for them, that whole episode.

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Speaker 1: That's Pushkin's vice president for content development, Littal Mollaud. Pushkin is a first Amendment first operation. We let people speak their minds, and Littal is one of those old school lefties who gets a little uncomfortable when journalists say nice things about major multinational corporations. Let's just say I have no such compunctions. I hope Pushkin ends up as a major multinational corporation one day. Can you imagine Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google, Pushkin Industries. I was so amused by the internal backlash that I actually sent out my two crack producers, Lee and Alois to follow up with some of the pushkinites who I ganged up on. One voice in particular might sound familiar.

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Speaker 2: I didn't think too much about it other than mildly invasive to have the president of your company asking about what your launder deturgent is, but also felt unimpeachable in 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. There's always a straw man in a revisionist history episode, but in this case just mildly singed, I'm talking about our VP of Special Audio Projects, Brendan Francis Newnham. Here's how Brendan came across in our episode. If you google the words Brooklyn, natural wine, farmer's market, vinyl records, and whatever other affiliated terms show up automatically in the search field, you get Brendan. You do your whites in hot water? Yeah, okay, good, 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 singled out by the revisionist history brain Trust for his use of hot water on whites, along with his eccentric choice of some kind of woke detergent called eCos eCos. Good lord, but let's give Brendan a chance to say his peace.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I feel no need to defend myself. If anything, I feel like Malcolm should maybe defend himself for his mischaracterization of a brand that I think if anyone does research, pays their workers really high wages, has been a carbon neutral for a zillion years, has the EPA lead platinum, et cetera, et cetera in all their buildings, So their footprint, their whole supply chain footprint, is less than Procter and Gamble by a long shot.

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Speaker 1: I should point out the Procter and Gamble powers their 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. So I feel like leaning into the eCos thing was I don't know, it was a little bit. I think it was playing into some other stereotypes, some American myths about people who live in Brooklyn and people who are environmentally conscious, which it does it as service. So that's my short bottle. But the bottom line, eCos far better company than Procter and Gamble from all the research I've done. Do I still have a job. Well, I still have a job after this episode. I think I think you're safe. I think you're safe.

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Speaker 1: Of course, Brendan is safe. As I said, we are a First Amendment first operation here at Pushkin. We have no issue with whatever crackpot theories our employees may espouse as long as they make cool stuff. And trust me, Brendan makes cool stuff.

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Speaker 2: Now. I was once a quick fire judge on Top Chef and all these people came out of the woodwork to contact me. Not since then this Malcolm episode, people from my law school paths from my childhood emerged to 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 anyone tell me?

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Speaker 2: So I'm looking into some of my litigation strategies to see what you know about defamation of character and stuff like that. But I'll have my lawyer, contact revisions history. Yeah, I think you have a case for emotional engages for sure. Thank you.

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