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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff You Should Know

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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and we are coming at you the Stuff you Should Know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is a public service edition. We do a few

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Speaker 1: of these every now and then. Yeah, we want to

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Speaker 1: make sure that you consumers out there are well taken

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Speaker 1: do it, us and Clark Howard at least right now. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I want to go ahead and issue a c o

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Speaker 1: A that you mean demanded I issue. Uh. I am

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Speaker 1: in no way, shape or form qualified to give anyone

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Speaker 1: financial advice of any type whatsoever because you don't understand

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Speaker 1: I don't know enough about it. I'm just a caveman.

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Speaker 1: Your were frightens and confuses me. But this is pretty

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Speaker 1: straight up cash credit or debit. Plus there's also the

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Speaker 1: the the clincher at the end where I say, hey, man,

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Speaker 1: At the Yeah, spoiler. At the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: It's depends on the context. Sometimes cash is great, sometimes

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Speaker 1: credits great. Sometimes debit's great. Although I went back and

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Speaker 1: read this and I'm like, I clearly favor personally debit cards.

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Speaker 1: I just think they're better. Yeah, but we'll we'll get

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Speaker 1: into this. Let me I have an actual news topic

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Speaker 1: intro this time. So there is a lady named Lorie Black.

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Speaker 1: She's thirty two. She lives in Auburn, Massachusetts. Okay, I

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Speaker 1: don't know where that is. Plbert Hodgman does. Yeah. Probably

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Speaker 1: Where Auburn, Massachusetts, half of already has just went sweet

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Speaker 1: and half of them went no. Um. Lori Black is

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Speaker 1: That's where the blimp attacks is Super Bowl. She's got

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Speaker 1: of cash. And that is to be a Black Friday mercenary.

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Speaker 1: So hold on, let me get this straight. You're saying

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Speaker 1: that she has attended that many like Walmart openings or whatever.

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Speaker 1: realize in this This article from um daily Finance dot

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Speaker 1: Black Friday comes around in Massachusetts, you are for freason

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Speaker 1: So what she's saying is like, I'll go stand in

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Speaker 1: right now. Cash is anonymous. Yeah, if we're a drug dealer, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But Josh, you are protected nonetheless under the Fair Credit

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Speaker 1: Building Act. If you lose your credit card, you only

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