Gift Rap
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4.1 • 572 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It's been a rough year, and the typically stressful holiday season is bound to be even more so. You might be having a hard time figuring out what gifts to give people, or even how to give them. Lucky for you, that's sort of our thing here at Gadget Lab.
This week on the show, we talk with WIRED senior product writer Adrienne So about what gifts are going to be big this year, then we offer up our own suggestions for what to give.
Show Notes:
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Recommendations:
Adrienne recommends the movie Bridge of Spies. Lauren recommends The Gilmore Girls and also that you remember to tip the people who help you. Mike recommends Beethoven Around the World: The Complete String Quartets performed by Quatour Ébène.
Adrienne So can be found on Twitter @adriennemso. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. The show is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.
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| 0:00.0 | Lauren. |
| 0:00.7 | Mike. |
| 0:01.4 | The year is almost over. |
| 0:03.0 | Can you believe it? |
| 0:03.8 | No. |
| 0:04.7 | Is it really over, though? |
| 0:06.1 | I mean, we still have to get through the holidays. |
| 0:07.9 | And honestly, it's all feeling a little bit dark this year. |
| 0:11.1 | I hear you. |
| 0:11.9 | I agree. |
| 0:12.7 | Well, hopefully we can spread some holiday cheer with this week's episode. |
| 0:16.4 | Sounds good. |
| 0:24.2 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to Gadget Lab. I am Michael Colori, a senior editor at Wired. I'm joined |
| 0:29.4 | remotely by my co-host, Wired Senior Writer Lauren Good. Hello, hello. Hi, Lauren. And we |
| 0:35.1 | are also joined this week by Wired Senior Writer Adrian So. Hi, guys. Welcome back to the show, Adrians. Great to have you here again. |
| 0:43.2 | Somehow, it's December already, the last month of this year like no other, which means the holidays are looming. So today we're going to talk about gifts and gift giving. And of course, like with everything else this year, nothing about this holiday season is |
| 0:56.4 | going to be typical. |
| 0:57.9 | Money is tighter, shipping takes longer, and people's wants and needs have changed. |
| 1:03.0 | Later in the show, we're going to talk about our personal favorite things from this year, |
| 1:06.5 | in a little sort of look back on the gadgets that have gotten us through the pandemic. |
| 1:10.3 | We'll also talk about our own favorite shopping websites, including some small businesses that we love. |
| 1:14.6 | But first, let's talk about the gifts that we know are going to be popular this year, whether |
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