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Avery Trufelman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
249 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

It's glaring.

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

It's everywhere.

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

Well, initially I was shocked, and it really, really weirded me out because literally everybody was there.

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

Your phone company was there.

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

Your internet provider was there.

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

Your workout machine at the gym was there.

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

Like, every company was there.

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

And so that's the thing.

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

It's like a lot of companies contract with the military, or try to.

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

Clothing is just the tip of the spear.

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

And I walked out of it being like, oh my god, I'm so much more connected to the military than I thought.

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

But totally in the opposite way that I thought.

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

Like it makes me kind of into the military style clothes.

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

And I never was before.

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

I was like, that's a fetishization of the military.

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Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

I'm anti that.

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

I started wearing camouflage and I started wearing combat boots.

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

Yeah, it's sort of like acknowledgement of the water I swim in, you know?

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

It's like, I think I used to feel really like rigid in my role as like, I'm a civilian, I'm anti-war, I don't do that.

Planet Money
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

And now I'm like, well, I am civilian and I am against war and...