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No Stupid Questions

128. How Can You Give Better Gifts?

No Stupid Questions

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

Society & Culture

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

How many bottles of wine are regifted? What’s wrong with giving cash? And should Angela give her husband a subscription to the Sausage of the Month Club?

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0:00.0

I've always wanted a one-eyed doll.

0:04.2

I'm Angela Duckworth.

0:06.6

I'm Stephen Dubner.

0:07.6

And you're listening to no stupid questions.

0:11.0

Today on the show, how can you improve your gift-giving game?

0:14.9

I love getting wine so that I can then give it to someone else.

0:18.4

How many bottles of wine are re-gifted?

0:20.8

I think it's got to be over 100%.

0:26.3

Angela, a question today from one Julianna Bonner who writes to say that she is a senior

0:31.8

economics major at Lehigh University.

0:34.5

Which is close to my hometown here.

0:36.4

Philadelphia, that is.

0:38.0

She writes that her dad, whose name is Neil Bonner, is who got me into your podcast.

0:43.5

She writes that her dad has undergraduate and master's degrees in economics.

0:48.2

He also has an MBA and he now works for Nielsen.

0:51.2

She writes, he inspired me to read all the Freakonomics books and he was the reason I wanted

0:55.6

to major in economics.

0:56.6

But then she says, don't worry Angela, I am also minoring in psychology.

1:01.0

I get the silver medal.

1:02.4

Julianna continues, my dad and I face time every other week to talk about your show.

1:06.9

And it is one of the things I look forward to the most.

1:09.5

Unfortunately, so that was all great news up till there.

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