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Surprisingly Awesome

#5 Interest Rates

Surprisingly Awesome

Gimlet

Comedy, Society & Culture, Education

4.11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Just because it has the word "interest" in it doesn't mean it's interesting to a teenage girl. The Facts: Surprisingly Awesome’s theme music is "How We Do" by Nicholas Britell. Our ad music is by Build Buildings. This episode was edited by Alex Blumberg and Peter Clowney and produced by Chris Neary and Rachel Ward, with help from Julia Kumari Drapkin. It was mixed by Michael Garofalo. Sponsors: Ministry of Supply Audible.com Squarespace Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

From Gimlet Media, this is surprisingly awesome. I'm Adam Davidson.

0:07.0

And I am Adam McKay.

0:11.0

We all know how this show works. We pick a subject that seems incredibly boring and we

0:16.9

challenge the other person to make it awesome. But I wanted to increase the level of difficulty for you.

0:24.1

So I was talking to my daughter, Lily Rose.

0:27.5

And I told her the idea of the show,

0:29.0

and I told her one of the subjects was interest rates.

0:31.9

And Lily's a very smart girl. She's interested in a lot of subjects

0:34.8

but she immediately said there's no way in a million years. I would ever care about that

0:39.3

subject. So who are you? I'm Lily Rose McKay. I'm 14 and I'm in ninth grade. And you care a lot about animals?

0:47.6

Yes, I'm a vegetarian and I love animals and I have a cat. Her name is Petals and she's the best cat ever and shout

0:55.0

out to Petals if you're listening. She's not. She's a cat.

0:58.0

Lily emotionally, what's your response to interest rates and then emotionally what's your response to say for instance Q-tips?

1:07.0

Okay.

1:10.0

Emotional response to interest rates would be, uh, concern and disappointments.

1:17.7

And emotional response to Q tips would be, I have no idea how to emotionally respond to Q tips.

1:25.1

That is a really difficult question. I think what all right I no no we're gonna do this.

1:30.6

All right so Lily Rose is with us, as well as Pearl, my 10-year-old daughter, who also had a very blank

1:39.5

look on our face when interest rates were brought up.

1:41.6

It's not interesting at all, and it's no way that you're going to make my sister interested in this.

1:47.8

What do you know, Pearl, about interest rates?

1:51.0

That you have to like sell like money to people. Well you have to borrow money to people

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