Hey, everyone. Do you ever want to learn about economics, but you worry you missed your chance

because you've kissed someone? Today's book is Freakonomics by Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner.

I wonder if they're related. I'm Kellyn Erskine. I'm a comic, a father, and I'd wanted to read

this book ever since I saw the cover of it, which shows an apple that's been cut and it's an orange on the

inside. That's all. And I'm David Vance. I came up with the way to get Kelland to read

econ books. Make him think it's about food. Freeconomics discusses what economics can teach us

about normal situations, like buying a house or naming your child my dad studied

economics long enough to learn that the market demanded he be a doctor and this is the book pile

quick reminder to please rate and review the book pile or as we say in economics supply us with ratings

because we demand it so in our last podcast episode, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, we invited you to email us

about a subject that you're an expert in that you can't stand how it's portrayed in movies.

We've chosen our favorite three.

First, Amy says that her mother is a nurse. She says she can't stand

watching medical shows, especially when there was a birth the whole time my mom would get

angry because the doctors and nurses were doing everything wrong. The newborn baby would come

out as a four-month-old and there was never a big enough mess. That resonates with me even as like a non in the

non-medical person. It does seem that babies are always, I guess as a guy who's seen a couple of

babies born involuntarily. Now as a person who's seen, I like that the involuntarily applies to both you and the

baby. We got an email from Whitney who says, I've been an esthetician for about four years,

and every time I see a waxing scene on TV, I cringe because I never see gloves being used. They dip the contaminated

stick back into the wax and they'll just stick a strip right in the middle of a patch of hair,

usually in the wrong direction. This one is so fun to me because it shows, like you and I, Dave,

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