The money fixers (classic)
Planet Money
NPR
4.6 • 29.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
| 0:03.8 | If you ever accidentally ripped a big chunk off of a dollar bill before and then wondered, |
| 0:12.3 | is this still worth anything? |
| 0:14.5 | Today, we have a Planet Money classic from Elizabeth Kulas and Jacob Goldstein that chases down |
| 0:19.5 | the answer to this very question. |
| 0:22.8 | Dan Deming lives on a farm in Wisconsin. |
| 0:25.7 | I've got a little bit of woods. |
| 0:27.2 | I've got about a four-acre woods. |
| 0:28.7 | There are apple trees, there's a couple left, but they were over 100 years old, so they're |
| 0:33.7 | starting to die off. |
| 0:36.0 | His great grandfather, the boy, in the early 60s from a local eccentric, that man's name |
| 0:40.0 | was Walt Mallory. |
| 0:41.8 | And there were all these stories about how Walt hated spending money. |
| 0:45.8 | He was going to get married one time, but he would sit and weigh out the food to see |
| 0:50.5 | how much it would cost to have a wife. |
| 0:53.1 | So he would put out a portion of food for himself, and then he would weigh out a portion of |
| 0:57.0 | a food for his to-be wife and decided that it wasn't worth it. |
| 1:01.8 | A true romantic, huh? |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.6 | Walt Mallory stayed a bachelor all his life. |
| 1:07.6 | Surprise. |
| 1:08.6 | He worked hard, never spent any money. |
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