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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

And I'm Joe McCormick.

It is the holidays.

And I imagine a lot of you out there are in the midst of your gift acquisition phase.

You are, maybe you're towards the end of it.

Maybe you think you have everything lined up.

Today's episode is to help you second guess all of those choices and make you wonder,

hey, am I really that good of a gift

giver after all? Yeah, we were talking before we came on about ways to make this not just end up

leaving everyone feeling guilty and anxious about the gifts they've already gotten for people.

I want to emphasize that gift giving, while there are a lot of

ways for it to go wrong, it's mostly very low stakes. We've all given less than ideal gifts. We've

always, we've all received less than ideal gifts. So while I think there's a lot to learn from

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