Neil Freiman

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19,544 appearances 109 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 11 Sep

Neil Freiman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 107 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 22.

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Morning Brew Daily · Will AI Actually Kill Us All? & It’s True–Online Returns Are Getting Harder · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

When you take into account that processing a return costs on average 27% of the purchase price and about 9% of returns, $76 billion worth, are fraudulent. voice-verified

That is a lot of financial burden to place on retailers. voice-verified

So that maybe it's understandable why they're cracking down right now. voice-verified

We've seen the emergence of this trend called bracketing, which sounds like you participate in with your shirt that's three sizes too small. voice-verified

But Gen Z is leading the forefront of this. voice-verified

Basically, you order, because of perhaps permissible return policies, you order you find a shirt that you like and you order it in extra small, small, medium, large, extra large, and then see which one you like, and then you return the rest. voice-verified

Maybe that era is coming to an end because it's gonna cost you twelve dollars each time. voice-verified

To return all of the clothes that you that don't fit you. voice-verified

But that, you know, that the trend, the emergence of bracketing was really fostered by these lenient return policies. voice-verified

Now that they're cracking down, maybe people are just gonna. voice-verified

Maybe order just fewer clothes at a time. voice-verified

Shout out Willis Carrier. voice-verified

1902, he invented modern air conditioning. voice-verified

This particular plant that there was a paper plant, it was getting too hot, and he was like, we need to cool this down. voice-verified

And we have all benefited from it as these temperatures continue to warm. voice-verified

This summer, the US recorded 1,541 monthly record highs set or tied. voice-verified

There were 87 record lows. voice-verified

And if you thought this summer was hot, voice-verified

Looks like it's gonna be the hottest ever. voice-verified

There's a greater than 90% chance because of El Nino that 2027 is going to be even hotter. voice-verified

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