Getting conned and giving gifts

Listen and explore:

• Alasdair and Julie-Roxane survive a high-speed auto collision


• A moral dilemma at a truck stop in France. Babies are involved.


• Did we get conned?


• Could we have approached the situation differently?


• Eating freshly slaughtered water buffalo and drinking Nepali juice at a party in the Himalayas.


• What being invited to a wedding in a remote village of Nepal taught us about gift giving.


• The difference between a gift economy and a commodity economy and how they impact our attitudes and choices.

Mentioned on this episode:

• New Cascadia Bakery


• ASMR


• The story of how we met (pt 1)


• The story of how we met (pt II)


• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Credits:

• Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald


• Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)