128. How Can You Give Better Gifts?
No Stupid Questions
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🗓️ 25 December 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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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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