I was going to say Apple.

Very close, hippopotamus.

I'm Angela Duckworth.

I'm Stephen Dubner.

And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.

Today on the show, is Stephen Dubner a hoarder?

Why can't you just call 1-800 Got Junk?

Even Got Junk doesn't want my junk.

Also, do you have a past, present, or future time

perspective? That Thanksgiving of 1989, there was never one like it. Stephen, question for you.

Okay. I want to know about your quinoa cabinet. I want to know if it is still full or perhaps even overflowing.

And really why I'm asking is when you said that you keep buying box after box of quinoa and never cooking any of it, I had to ask myself, is Stephen a hoarder?

So first of all, I would say I've eased off on the quinoa purchase since you talked me through it.

Since I shamed you about it.

Am I a hoarder?

So I would say that I don't believe I am now or have ever been what is called a severe hoarder where you accumulate so many books or newspapers

or cuckoo clocks that you can't make it to the front door right that you have to have a goat

path through your possessions but i am certainly familiar with severe hoarding i mean i've

encountered it several times in my life, mostly in

reporting, but some in personal life. And I did grow up in a home where we saved anything that could

possibly be reused. But I think that had a lot more to do with being low income than with the factors

that tend to drive severe hoarding?

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