Cutting the Cable Cord in 5 Easy Steps
Motley Fool Answers
The Motley Fool
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Alison is the expert this week as she tries to convince Robert to cancel his cable subscription. We’ll give you a 5 step plan to cutting the cord, including tips and tricks to keep watching your favorite shows and events.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined by Robert Brokamp, |
| 0:07.4 | personal finance expert here at the Motley Fool. And he's also the editor of Motley Fool's |
| 0:12.6 | Rule Your Retirement Newsletter. All of you listeners can probably say that with me now. |
| 0:16.0 | Hi bro, how you doing? |
| 0:17.0 | Just great, Alison. How are you? |
| 0:19.0 | I'm great. Do you know why? |
| 0:20.0 | Why? Because on today's |
| 0:21.4 | episode, I'm the expert and you're the dummy. Dummy. No, I'm always the dummy. |
| 0:28.7 | Nope, not true. It's good for you to be the expert for one. Not true. On today's episode, I'm going to |
| 0:32.6 | enlist some help to convince Brokamp to finally cancel his cable with an easy step-by-step guide, including the |
| 0:39.2 | best tips, tools, and resources glean from the many fools who have gone ahead. |
| 0:43.2 | But first, we'll answer your question about the elusiveness of expense ratios. |
| 0:48.1 | All that and more on this week's episode of Molly Fool Answers. |
| 0:52.5 | All right, it's time for Answers Answers, where we head to the mailbag and get answers to your |
| 0:57.8 | questions. |
| 0:59.0 | That's a lot of answers in one sentence. |
| 1:00.5 | But here we go. |
| 1:00.9 | It comes from Josh. |
| 1:02.3 | I see the expense ratios of the funds in my Vanguard 401k, but X percent of what? |
| 1:08.6 | I don't see any fees in my quarterly statement, so I called and asked |
| 1:12.1 | how much I paid in fees, and they said, well, that is impossible to know. Could you clarify |
| 1:17.1 | when the fees are paid? |
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