Rent To Own: Brilliant Business or Brutal Corruption?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In the modern day, many individuals define their lives in terms of large financial purchases -- buying a house, a home, or an appliance. Acquiring debt from higher schooling or a medical procedure, and so on. When you can't pay all at once, you get a loan. When you can't get a loan, you look elsewhere... and, it turns out, there's a multibillion dollar industry waiting to sell you a dream. So, what happens next? In today's episode, the guys dive into the troubling evolution of the "rent-to-own" industry, and what it means for the shift from an ownership society to a world of constant renters. They don’t want you to read our book.

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0:00.0	I'm Time Onto You and I'm the host of Calling Bullshit, the first podcast about
0:05.2	Purposewashing, where we dig into the difference between what companies say they stand for
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0:15.7	NUM and Spotify. Let's call BS on companies that deserve it, but also make some suggestions
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0:27.5	or wherever you get your podcast. Yellowstone, television's number one show returns on paramount
0:33.4	network. I John Dudley, who solemnly swear through a poll, the Constitution of the state of
0:38.0	Montana, against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Featuring an all-star cast led by Academy
0:42.8	Award winner Kevin Costner. The invasion is over. They will fight you dirty. Is there any other way?
0:47.3	As the Dudton family fights to protect their legacy, they'll learn power has a price.
0:51.2	Signing this is a declaration of war. We're already at war. Yellowstone returns Sunday at 8 p.m.
0:56.4	Eastern for an epic two-hour premiere event exclusively on Paramount Network.
1:00.8	Hey, it's us, your friends, from the Stuff They Don't Want You To Know podcast. With a huge
1:06.3	announcement, we finally did it. We made a book. It's out now, and it's just for you.
1:12.8	Interested in government cover-ups? Biological warfare and human experimentation.
1:17.2	The Stuff They Don't Want You To Know book has all this and more.
1:20.8	If you like the podcast and you want to support us, this is the best way to do it. So go to your
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1:29.3	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
1:37.1	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. A production of I Heart Readie.
1:54.4	Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.
1:56.7	My name is Noel. They call me Ben. We are joined as always with our super producer, Paul Mission Control
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