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🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | When voters talk during an election season, we listen, we ask questions, we follow up, and we bring you along to hear what we learned. |
0:09.0 | Get closer to the issues, the people, and your vote at the NPR Elections Hub. |
0:13.6 | Visit NPR.org slash elections. |
0:17.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
0:29.0 | Odds are that you've seen ads for these online banking services that seem to offer all this great stuff, |
0:32.0 | accounts that don't have monthly fees that seem to pay high interest rates |
0:36.0 | and offer all these fun things that you're a boring old bank may not offer. |
0:41.0 | This is the story of what can happen when you sign up for one of those services. |
0:45.9 | We're going to start with Sharinda and Jordan Gonzalez, this couple in Castroville, Texas. |
0:51.0 | They met 11 years ago. He thought I was married at first. |
0:54.0 | Oh, I did, yes. |
0:55.0 | Because I gave some kind of vibe. |
0:56.0 | She wasn't, and they got married. |
0:59.0 | Jordan is super into NASCAR, and Sharyinda, she loves books, specifically mysteries, thrillers. |
1:07.0 | I recently read the intern, that was one of my favorites, and then another one titled |
1:11.2 | When I'm Dead, I can go on girl. |
1:14.0 | No. |
1:15.0 | Sherindo is a social worker at a middle school and Jordan's a software tester. |
1:20.0 | For a long time, they were living paycheck to paycheck. They'd occasionally buy a lottery ticket, never won. |
1:26.0 | But in the last couple years they had started to really get their budget under control, paying off like $5,000 of credit card debt, saving up for emergencies, and then one day, Jordan came across |
1:36.3 | this ad. |
1:37.3 | This is what you're doing every time you buy a ticket for the lottery. |
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