How many bottles of wine are regifted? What’s wrong with giving cash? And should Angela give her husband a subscription to the Sausage of the Month Club?
Hi NSQ listeners, if you've been following us for a while, you know that Stephen Dubner used to co host the show.
Since the holiday season is right around the corner, we thought you might enjoy this classic episode in which he and Angela discuss gift giving.
On Saturday, we'll be back with a brand new episode featuring Mike and Angela.
I've always wanted a one eyed doll.
I'm Angela Duckworth.
I'm Stephen Dubner and you're listening to.
No St Stupid Questions today on the show, how can you improve your gift giving game?
I love getting wine so that I can then give it to someone else.
How many bottles of wine are regifted?
I think it's gotta be over 100%.
Angela, a question today from one Juliana Bonner who writes to say that she is a senior economics major at Lehigh.
University, which is close to my hometown here, Philadelphia, that is.
She writes that her dad, whose name is Neil Bonner, is who, quote, got me into your podcast.
She writes that her dad has undergraduate and master's degrees in economics.
He also has an MBA and he now works for Nielsen.
She writes, he inspired me to read all the Freakonomics books and he was the reason I wanted to major in economics.
But then she says, don't worry Angela, I am also minoring in psychology.
I get the silver.
Juliana continues, my dad and I FaceTime every other week to talk about your show and it is one of the things I look forward to the most, unfortunately.
So that was all great news up till there, but now, unfortunately, he might be the hardest person to shop for during the holidays.