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No Stupid Questions

160. How Do You Like Me Now?

No Stupid Questions

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

Society & Culture

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Why would a successful person feel the need to stick it to the little guy? Is Angela a name-dropper? And why do rappers grab their crotches?

Transcript

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0:00.0

When you feel naked, what's the first thing you do?

0:05.0

Put some clothes on.

0:07.0

I'm Angela Duckworth.

0:09.0

I'm Mike Mon.

0:10.0

And you're listening to no stupid questions.

0:14.0

Today on the show, why would a successful person feel the need to stick it to the little guy?

0:20.0

I'm talking to Angela Duckworth on no stupid questions.

0:22.0

How do you like me now?

0:30.0

Angela, I have a question for you that I have been thinking about for a long time and I'm dying to ask it.

0:42.0

Okay, well, without further ado.

0:44.0

Without further ado.

0:45.0

Sometimes successful people feel this need to go back to people in their past who doubted them,

0:51.0

and kind of shove their success in those people's faces.

0:54.0

Are you speaking autobiographically, Mike, or are you speaking hypothetically?

0:58.0

No, I'm not.

0:59.0

In fact, the reason this has been permeating in my head for so long is there's a song by a country singer named Toby Keith called How Do You Like Me Now.

1:07.0

I mean, a lot of artists have, Drake has started at the bottom now.

1:10.0

We hear, Imagine Dragons has one.

1:13.0

But let me go to this Toby Keith one.

1:15.0

He's like, I only wanted to get your attention.

1:17.0

You overlooked me somehow.

1:19.0

Besides you had too many boyfriends to mention, I played my guitar too loud.

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