Emma Peaslee
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237 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 22 Jul
Emma Peaslee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Okay. 91 cents. You're not allowed to buy it.
We're going to go to Cheezoid, our random number generator, which is held by Jeff. Jeff, go ahead and fire up Cheezoid.
How are you feeling?
Really healthy, Becky. Truly healthy. Okay. Jeff, drumroll please. Now remember, Becky buys the incredibly precious Sam Merton's Backyard Chicken egg at 90 cents or lower. Here we go. Oh, $1.12. Wow. You were so close, Becky. No egg. That's okay. You look a little disappointed, I'm going to be honest.
Congratulations, Becky. You go home with nothing.
Now, again, Becky had no idea that this was all our test to determine who would get to buy a full dozen of Sam's eggs for a mere five dollars. And to figure that out. Hello, Maggie Goodhall.
I have questions about how the random price is generated. Jeff is going to randomly generate a number within a reasonable interval. Got it.
We may need to take a timeout. Jeff, how do we do this? Pause the game. Okay. We should say it is not best bet. Becker to Groot-Marshak practiced to immediately reveal to someone that you think their number is way too high. But this person had a little bit broken our game, I suppose.
Because, again... $5 was the amount Sam was selling an entire dozen of his eggs for. So, you know, we needed to make extra sure that this was, in fact, her truest, in her heart of hearts, value for a single egg. You said $5?
For one egg?
It occurred to us in this moment that perhaps making this a game show may have impacted our results a tad. Like maybe it turned one single egg into too much of a prize, imbued it with more value than we had intended.
You have to buy the egg for that amount.
Again, Valentina was willing to pay up to $5, but she would only have to pay the random price. Oh my, okay, here we go. All right, all right. And the number is? 22 cents. Oh my God!
You saved $4.78. Of consumer surplus. That's what you just got. Oh, wow. My goodness. The next week, we asked Valentina to meet us in a studio.
Valentina, in playing the single egg game, we were trying to determine, using an economic technique, who valued eggs the most based on willingness to pay.
It wasn't even close.
And Sam, would you like to tell Valentina what she's won?
Maybe we leave it on Sam making a chicken dad joke. That's where we leave things.
Special thanks this week to Len Testa, Tim Harford, Alice Evans, and the University of Minnesota Women's Ultimate Team. Go Golden Gophers! I'm Jeff Glow. I'm Kenny Malone. This is NPR. Thanks for listening.
Our producer, Emma Peasley, called Aaron up. Do you want to tell me about your question and why you decided to write into us?
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