Sally Helm

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385 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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Throughline · The lightbulb conspiracy is both real and everywhere · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

Or red.

Or green.

Or yellow.

Or orange.

Alfred Sloan gets into our heads.

Or maroon.

And stays there.

Or gray.

This is Fresh Air's Dave Davies.

Renowned classic scholar Emily Wilson made headlines when she called Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey abysmally written.

I talked with Wilson about her scathing critique and so much more.

Listen to Fresh Air on the NPR app or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Okay, so at this point, Sloan is busy making cars sexy.

No, no, no, no, no.

The cars work.

Sloan had won the consumer war by ushering in a whole new style of warfare, this psychological obsolescence, which made the consumer want to buy something new, even if they didn't necessarily need it.

Sloan was actually one of the first big businessmen to use the word consumer, and he realized that

That's Jacques Peretti again.

And he says Sloan was like this psychological master.

He was figuring out all these new ways to really get inside our heads.

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