#2357: Diametrically-Disadvantaged
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🗓️ 1 July 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Kair Talk on National Public Radio with us clicking |
| 0:19.4 | clack to Tappet Brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for |
| 0:23.4 | Gender Numerous Maddocks here at Kair Talk Plaza. Yes, I mean, actually we were just |
| 0:28.8 | discussing whose theory this was. I don't remember frankly. I thought it was my |
| 0:33.0 | theory. Maybe it was yours. It could have been. I mean, we're joined at the |
| 0:37.0 | brain. Here's the theory. We were pondering why men never pay for anything with |
| 0:44.1 | the change. I mean, they could have ten dollars worth of change in their pockets |
| 0:48.5 | and they would still pull out a dollar bill to pay for a candy box. Absolutely. |
| 0:52.2 | Absolutely. Women on the other hand, they say, wait a minute, I think I have that |
| 0:56.6 | $14,000, $672.59 in change to pay for that car and they go looking through |
| 1:04.2 | their pocketbooks and they come up with exactly the right change. Amazing. Is it? |
| 1:08.2 | We wanted to know is this true? Number one, that's number one. Is it true? Right. |
| 1:13.8 | And if it's true, B, two, B, why is it true? And we received quite a bit of mail. |
| 1:21.2 | When this is, you can tell who wrote the letter by whether it's a woman or |
| 1:26.2 | man. You can tell. You can tell by that it's probably written by Gal. Yeah. |
| 1:30.7 | You can tell by the tone of the letter. And that one that says Frank there. I think |
| 1:34.0 | that's good. This one's from Emily Johnston from says, |
| 1:38.6 | Jura France. Women's pockets are heavy. What with all those things in there like |
| 1:45.1 | guns, maces, etc. So is change heavy. Women spend the coins to lighten the load. |
| 1:52.7 | Men being big and strong and macho, parenthesis and stupid. Carry the damn stuff around. |
| 2:00.2 | Or maybe they can't count. Who knows? That's one. Here's another one. |
| 2:05.6 | I happen to like the sound of coins jingling in my pocket. I realize, I mean, well, that's |
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