184. What Can Vampires Teach Us About Economics?

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🗓️ 30 October 2014

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A lot! “The Economics of the Undead” is a book about dating strategy, job creation, and whether there should be a legal market for blood.

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0:00.0	Lever, you know, I feel like I know you pretty well.
0:10.6	And yet there's one essential fact about you that I have no idea, and I could guess,
0:18.1	and I'd be, I'd have a 50-50 chance.
0:21.6	But I'm just gonna ask you...
0:22.6	Edward?
0:23.6	If you ever touch her at least a little again!
0:26.0	Don't do this!
0:27.0	She's not sure what she wants!
0:28.0	Don't do this!
0:29.0	You are clueless!
0:30.0	Wave bar to say the words!
0:31.0	Fine!
0:32.0	And she will.
0:33.0	Jacob, just go, okay?
0:36.1	Are you Team Edward or Team Jacob?
0:39.4	Team Edward, for sure.
0:41.4	Why?
0:42.4	So it was a long time ago that I read Twilight, but I had a reaction to it that was different
0:48.6	than any other person I've ever met, which is somehow Twilight had a very calming effect
0:55.0	of me, almost like enlightenment.
0:58.4	Now when I read the book, it just allowed me to be a completely, a piece with the world
1:02.2	that was completely bizarre.
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