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Thomas Neuberger

Aug 25, 2026

Aretha FranklinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
30:15
I've thrown away my nights, wasted all my days-
30:20
days-You wait, baby, and I'll go mad.
30:35
Now and forever till the end of time.
30:40
When I find somebody new, baby.
30:44
We'll say we're through and you won't matter anymore.
30:50
You won't matter anymore.
30:53
No, you won't matter anymore.

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51:34
Mm-hmm.
3:59
Last holiday season.
4:00
And, and she was like, "Oh, you know what our customers would really like? They would like something really giftable, a combo pack to where you can buy this thing and you can give it to someone." So our development team started, uh, ideating it last year.
4:12
We, we came up with our suppliers and everything.
4:15
And then, uh, liberation - I, I actually, it m- it may have been before Liberation Day.
4:20
I think one of the first things Trump may have done was to increase tariffs on, uh, metals.
4:26
I think it may have been, like, steel.
4:27
So one of the, the candles were actually gonna be made out of metal.

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10:40
But yeah, I mean, I, I guess, yeah, if you can give us some color on that, that would be great.
7:58
So welcome back.
8:00
Uh, thank you, Arne.
8:01
Uh, and thank you for mentioning the book.
8:03
Uh, as you, as we talked about earlier, um, I find that fiction actually touches people in a way that makes things real.
8:16
And I've been writing essays about climate since 2012 and, you know, you, y- y- you...
8:24
The, the story is kind of the same in a lot of ways, and it just kinda washes over people's heads.
8:32
But people feel it when there's lives involved, even if they're fictional lives, because people feel fiction just like they feel life.

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Okay.
YowanaHOST
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Mm
14:22
... you know, stabilizing plastic on the midsole.
14:24
Like, they were clunkers.
14:25
They sucked, and that's pretty much one reason I started getting into, like, trying to find shoes that would work for me because I really didn't like that feeling.
14:34
They just felt not great on the, on the road.
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Heavy rubber 'cause they wanted to be durable.
14:39
Like, it, they were tanks.

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YowanaHOST
66:33
Let's see, what is 250?
21:25
Last holiday season.
21:26
And- and she was like, "Oh, you know what our customers would really like? They would like something really giftable, a combo pack to where you can buy this thing and you can give it to someone." So, our development team started, uh, ideating it last year.
21:38
We- we came up with our suppliers and everything.
21:41
And then, uh, Liberation.
21:43
I- I actually ma- It may have been before Liberation Day.
21:46
I think one of the first things Trump may have done was to increase tariffs on, um, metals.
21:52
I think it may have been like steel.

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28:07
I mean, I, I guess yeah, if you can give us some color on that, that would be great.

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