140. How to Think About Money, Choose Your Hometown, and Buy an Electric Toothbrush

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🗓️ 3 October 2013

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Dubner and Levitt field your queries in this latest installment of our FREAK-quently Asked Questions.

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0:00.0	Hey, Levitt, what are your very favorite three letters in the English alphabet?
0:12.0	I have no idea.
0:16.0	What do you mean you have no idea?
0:18.0	You must have three favorite letters.
0:20.0	You mean like in a row, the Spell of Word?
0:22.0	Yeah, maybe.
0:24.0	How do you like F?
0:27.0	F's good.
0:29.0	Give me an A.
0:31.0	A.
0:33.0	Give me a Q.
0:35.0	Oh, F, I don't know why you were talking about.
0:38.0	What's it Spell?
0:39.0	F, A, Q.
0:40.0	And what's it mean?
0:41.0	It means I'm heavily confused right now.
0:53.0	From WNYC, this is Freakinomics Radio.
0:57.0	The podcast that explores the hidden side of everything.
1:01.0	Here's your host, Stephen Dupner.
1:16.0	Every now and again, Steve Levitt and I ask you, our listeners and readers,
1:20.0	to send us questions, and then we try to answer them on this podcast.
1:24.0	It is called Freak, when we ask questions.
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