It’s 38 degrees and your favourite podcasters have re-entered the closet after weeks of welcoming pride into their lives. In order to weather this heatwave, Laura and Charles are sitting in a basement wardrobe shrouded in the finest of polyesters to discuss recent Fall 2023 défilés de mode. The climate-controlled and windowless cabin they are recording out of is sort of like a Balenciaga show location if you think about it…

New to economics, Laura and Charles unknowingly crunch the numbers; was there ever a second world, and are they in it? What’s the difference between 50,000 and 500,000 studs on a belt? Does anybody care about the business of fashion? And who gets to join them in a three-way? Mama, let’s research.

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