Hostile Climate: The Home Insurance Crisis
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Home insurance. Yeesh! For most folks, it's somewhere between a necessary evil and a snoozefest. If you're like most homeowners, you have insurance on your property -- policies issued to, in theory, protect you when things go wrong. But what happens in a world where disasters move from possibilities to annual certainties? What happens when the insurance companies themselves can't afford to do business in the face of constant natural disasters? In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel tackle an emergent crisis: a world where no one can afford continual, chaotic Acts of God.
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| 0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 0:07.0 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:12.0 | A production of I-Heart Radio. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noel. They called me Ben. We're |
| 0:28.9 | joined as always with our super producer Ball Mission Control Tech and most importantly you are you you are here that |
| 0:36.4 | makes this the stuff they don't want you to know skirt skirt today's episode is about |
| 0:42.4 | something a lot of people might find boring. |
| 0:46.3 | It's a peculiar type of product. |
| 0:48.8 | It's something you buy out a necessity instead of for funzies, something that mainly just adults get, it's something |
| 0:56.4 | everyone worries about, and the weird thing is, it's one of the only things that the more you use it every single time you use this thing that you paid for it gets more expensive |
| 1:10.0 | Oh I know this one it's from Lord of the Rings. This is a gollum riddle. It's the wind. It's time. |
| 1:14.4 | Wait, it's a time share. |
| 1:16.2 | Silence. |
| 1:17.2 | Oh, yeah. It's stone. |
| 1:20.2 | It's the mountains. |
| 1:22.2 | On the road again. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, it's you nailed it. No, sort of. It's it is it's like a ridiculous |
| 1:30.0 | situation because it does feel like a riddle, doesn't it? Like how the hell could this one thing have all these attributes we describe? |
| 1:37.4 | Who wants to do it? For anybody who hasn't read the title, what are we talking about? |
| 1:41.8 | Insurance. |
| 1:44.0 | But specifically, insurance for your stuff, your house. |
| 1:48.0 | Your house and all the stuff contained within it. |
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