Being Sold A Better You During COVID-19 with Amanda Montell
Bad With Money With Gaby Dunn
English - June 03, 2020 04:00 - 55 minutes - ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture Comedy finance entrepreneur entrepreneurship business leadership health investing money marketing success Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We’ve talked about buying a better you. But how are we being sold our health and wellness during “these trying times?” Gaby talks to linguist and author Amanda Montell about the capitalistic language shifting to sell people wellness and “immunity-boosting” products of varying levels of harm during the coronavirus pandemic. What scams should we be looking out for? Is it possible to buy total safety from COVID-19? Why are we so desperate to believe the language of advertising? And, like in every episode of this season, we ask: Are we all just trying to buy control? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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We’ve talked about buying a better you. But how are we being sold our health and wellness during “these trying times?” Gaby talks to linguist and author Amanda Montell about the capitalistic language shifting to sell people wellness and “immunity-boosting” products of varying levels of harm during the coronavirus pandemic. What scams should we be looking out for? Is it possible to buy total safety from COVID-19? Why are we so desperate to believe the language of advertising? And, like in every episode of this season, we ask: Are we all just trying to buy control? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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