It's giving ... Valentines

Planet Money

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🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Every February, we dedicate a show to the things in our lives that have been giving us butterflies. Whether it's an obscure online marketplace or a piece of stunt journalism that made us green with envy. And then we go out into the world to proclaim our love...in the form of a Valentine. And we have a great roster this Valentine's Day:

- A grocery store in Los Angeles with the very best produce
- A woodworking supply company with an innovative approach to... innovation!
- A basketball player that makes a strong case for taking risky shots
- A book that catalogues the raw materials that shape our world
- A play that connects the 2008 financial crisis to the sale of the island of Manhattan in the 1600s
- And, a podcast that turns corporate intrigue into watercooler chit-chat

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0:17.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:22.0	Every February here at Planet Money, we dedicate a show to the things in our lives that have been giving
0:28.6	us butterflies.
0:30.6	That could be an obscure online marketplace or a piece of stunt journalism that we wish we'd thought of first.
0:36.0	And then, as tradition dictates, we go out into the world to proclaim our love in the form of a Valentine.
0:44.0	Which in the case of my co-host Sarah Gonzalez
0:46.5	brought me recently to a random parking lot in LA.
0:51.6	Ha! There she is.
0:55.0	Sarah has appeared in the distance.
0:57.0	Yeah, I am.
0:58.0	Sarah Gonzales.
0:59.0	Alexi Hor, what's gosy.
1:01.0	Happy Valentine.
1:02.0	Oh, happy Valentine's Day.
1:04.0	All right, so you brought me out to a mysterious kind of shopping center, like a little strip mall.
1:12.0	Mm-hmm.
1:13.0	What are we doing out here?
1:14.0	So the story is I moved to LA from New York, love New York.
1:19.0	Sarah told me how when she first moved from New York to LA a few years ago, she encountered this
1:24.4	little disappointment. She'd been told the food was going to be just as good in LA, but every time she
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