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No Stupid Questions

217. What Happens When You Put on a Costume?

No Stupid Questions

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

Society & Culture

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Would you steal Halloween candy? Should people be required to identify themselves online? And why did Angela go trick-or-treating in a trash bag?

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0:00.0

One Star. I don't believe it and it's boring.

0:06.3

I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Mike Mann and you're listening to no stupid questions.

0:12.0

Today on the show. listening to no stupid questions.

0:13.6

Today on the show, what happens when you put on a costume?

0:17.7

This is my night of debauchery. Oh, Angela, we are in the season of ghosts and witches, costumes and masquerade.

0:41.4

So today's question is, I think, especially interesting. and a disguise. Are there upsides where some people feel more free to be themselves and what are the downsides

0:56.6

of the anonymity of a disguise? signed Spencer. Before we dive into this.

1:02.1

Halloween, boo.

1:03.0

Halloween and boo.

1:05.0

Before we dive into this, let me start by asking you a question.

1:08.0

Did you dress up for Halloween as a kid?

1:10.0

And if so, what was your favorite costume?

1:12.0

And do you dress up for Halloween as an adult?

1:15.1

Oh I have actually thought about this question and a remark on its significance in my psychological development

1:22.2

so when I was growing up in southern New Jersey

1:26.3

as the daughter of two Chinese immigrants

1:29.0

who thought ice cream sandwiches were made on Wonder Bread,

1:32.3

right?

1:32.5

Like they didn't really fully get to all these American traditions.

1:36.8

They partially got them.

1:38.3

So my mom and dad didn't, you know, put out jackalantorns.

1:41.9

We didn't decorate the house I was always the one who

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