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🗓️ 2 May 2012
⏱️ 6 minutes
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0:00.0 | From APM, American Public Media, and WNYC. |
0:07.0 | This is Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace. |
0:11.0 | Here's the host of Marketplace, Kyra's Doll. |
0:16.0 | Time now for a little bit of Freakonomics Radio that moment |
0:19.0 | every couple of weeks where we talk to Stephen Dumbner, |
0:21.0 | the co-author of the books and the blogs of the same name. |
0:24.0 | It is the hidden side of everything. Dumbner, as always, it's good to talk to you. |
0:27.0 | Great to be here, Ky. |
0:28.0 | You know, it seems like you talk about your mom on the show quite a bit. |
0:31.0 | Am I right? |
0:32.0 | I don't know, maybe. |
0:34.0 | And it sounds from what I hear that you two have a fairly loving relationship. |
0:38.0 | I'm also right on that. |
0:39.0 | Number one, she's listening, so watch yourself. |
0:42.0 | And number two, yeah, you know, we get along. Me and mom. |
0:44.0 | I'm just thinking with Mother's Day coming up, you know, two Sundays from now. |
0:47.0 | I'm guessing you're thinking about maybe sending your mom some flowers, yeah? |
0:51.0 | Okay, two things. One is that it's all I can do to remember to get my wife flowers on Mother's Day |
0:56.0 | to let her own my own mother. And two, the dirty secret, which I will deny if you repeat it, |
1:00.0 | my wife actually does the flowers for my mother. |
1:02.0 | Ah, but mom does get some stuff. |
1:04.0 | But she gets some stuff. Yeah, she gets them. |
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