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

And, you know, with Phoebus, it was true.

So it's not that far-fetched.

I mean, right.

Like, we are cooperating, right?

But, like, this isn't just the iPhone.

I mean, this is baked into…

so many products, so many places in the economy.

And look, GM used to be the biggest company in America.

Over the past couple years, Apple has often been the biggest company in America.

Like, psychological obsolescence is not just some cute, clever marketing scheme, and it's not just some trick that's being pulled on us.

That's Sally Helm, formerly of NPR's Planet Money podcast.

On our next installment of Hidden Histories, Monopoly.

Depending on how you look at it, Monopoly is either the American dream or the American nightmare.

A game that celebrates owning it all, even though that wasn't its original mission.

I'm Randa De Fattah.

And you've been listening to ThruLine from NPR.

This show was produced by Randa and I. Our team includes... Planet Money's editor is Brian Erstad.

Their senior producer is Alex Goldmark.

And special thanks to Michael Waldman, Brian Merchant, David Farber, and Adi Kamdar.

Thanks also to Anya Grunman, Chris Turpin, and Ida Porosad.

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