8. Wouldn’t It Be Better to Hear Your Eulogy Before You’re Dead?
No Stupid Questions
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🗓️ 6 July 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | He gave you a pink sweater too? |
| 0:01.6 | Yeah, we all have the same pink sweater. |
| 0:04.3 | I'm Angela Duckworth. |
| 0:06.2 | I'm Stephen Dubner. |
| 0:07.2 | And you're listening to no stupid questions. |
| 0:10.6 | Today on the show, |
| 0:12.1 | would it be better to have funerals and give you |
| 0:14.4 | logies before people die? |
| 0:16.5 | They could turn into interventions, essentially. |
| 0:19.1 | You know, there's something I've been wanting to say to you |
| 0:21.2 | for a long time now. |
| 0:23.4 | Also, comedian Eugene Merman joins us to discuss the question, |
| 0:28.1 | what do all funny things have in common? |
| 0:30.3 | They're all small. |
| 0:31.2 | They're all yellow. |
| 0:32.1 | They're always delicious. |
| 0:36.3 | So Angela, I had a question to ask you today, |
| 0:38.8 | and it suddenly became much more timely, |
| 0:41.4 | unfortunately, though, because it's a question about death. |
| 0:45.2 | We've discussed death a bit on the show. |
| 0:47.5 | Yeah. My original question was going to be, |
| 0:50.4 | wouldn't it be better generally to have funerals for people |
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