our next guest is a father of two and a sociologist who decided it put his training to work in raising his two kids. by, for example, giving them unique names, partly because according to studies, it would make them more likely eto have impulse control and impulse control is a great predictor of socioeconomic success. his daughter s name is e, just the letter e and his son his book parentology. everything you wanted to know about the science of raising children but were too exhausted to ask. like bribing his children to pass their math test or exposing them to raw sewage and a monkey to build up their immune systems.
maria molina, come on over here. spin the wheel. let s see how many points. all right. come on, big points. congratulations. you win a root beer float. spin it again, come on. big number, big number! big number! looks like it s going to be okay. 275 points. so i can buy a vowel. steve: you could buy a vowel. can i buy the letter e? steve: show me e (buzzer). andrew: there is no e in it. steve: spin the wheel! oh, brother. 150. judge, you want to buy a vowel? andrew: no, i don t want to buy a vowel. i m going to chicago choose s. steve: shows us s. steve: there is one s right there. andrew: i go again? yes, you do. andrew: all right. here we go.