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The Great Airline Armrest Accords: How a Three-Inch Strip of Plastic Became the Most Contested Territory Since the Berlin Wall

Episode Summary

This week we investigate the invisible but very real Geneva Convention governing middle seat armrest rights — a conflict that has toppled friendships, inspired viral manifestos, and somehow prompted a U.S. congressman to weigh in. If last episode's casserole drama taught us anything, it's that humans will construct elaborate social warfare around the pettiest possible real estate, and thirty-one thousand feet in the air is no exception.