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The Clark Howard Podcast

5.17.19 Phone-addicted teens are getting burner phones; Clark Stinks

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Teens are buying burner phones to stay connected after their primary phones have been taken by their parents; Christa reads listener posts about how Clark has missed the mark in his advice this week. If you have a "Clark Stinks" to share you can leave it here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard Show where it's all about you and that

0:10.6

quality yours.

0:11.6

I want you to learn ideas from me so you can save more and spend less and don't let

0:16.0

anyone ever rip you off.

0:19.1

Clark.com's our main website, ClarkDeals.com where you find all the bargains.

0:25.8

Coming up later, Clark stinks where you get to hear where you may feel I didn't do

0:32.3

my job as well as I could or I just really stunk it up.

0:38.4

So I need to make you aware of something that we've only really heard about with drug dealers,

0:48.3

prisoners, burner phones.

0:51.9

You know what a burner phone is?

0:53.9

You can go into a convenience store now so many of them even walk into a discount store,

1:01.5

walk into an electronic store.

1:02.8

You can buy a prepaid phone sometimes for like a really basic one, ten bucks or so.

1:11.7

You can buy used ones and you just put in a prepaid SIM card in it or what a lot of people

1:21.1

will do is they only use Wi-Fi for a burner phone and allows somebody to have another phone

1:28.5

that they use for any of another number of purposes.

1:32.6

It has become quite the rage apparently with people that are engaged in a relationship

1:40.6

outside of their boyfriend, girlfriend, partner, marriage, whatever.

1:47.8

Not trying to give you any ideas, but burner phones have become this thing that people do.

1:54.4

And I found out from my son, it's now something that's going on in middle school that there

2:02.2

are a lot of parents that don't want their kids running around on social media or don't

2:09.8

want their kids staying up late on a phone.

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