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We are getting closer and closer to Christmas Day.

And whatever you do, do not buy another Christmas gift until you hear from this guy.

Our guest today, Robes, we hand him on with our partners at yahoo they were great

to find him and we loved him so much that we had to get him back and we had to get him on our

podcast he's that good that's right we did a whole column on yahoo life in the section there

about gift giving and are we doing it right? We were basically asking Julian if we were doing

things the right way. And I know a lot of people have questions this time of year about

who they should give gifts to, what type of gifts they should give, how much should they spend?

There are a litany of questions and Julian Givie has all the answers.

Yeah, then Julian Givy is the associate professor at West Virginia.

He actually studies consumer protection, consumer, excuse me, consumer behavior.

But for the purposes of this, you all, he actually quite literally studies gift giving.

So Professor Givie is his name who studies gift giving. Let's start off the

top here. As we're talking to you, we're just a couple of weeks away from Christmas. As we get

closer and closer to Christmas and people run out of time, what mistake, what gift buying mistake

do you see them making a lot? Yeah, so thanks, first of all.

Thank you guys for, you know, having me on.

And I think the number one thing is I'm trying to give yourself enough time.

So I think we know a lot of research and different areas, not just gift giving, but other

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