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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.3808 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

A little bit extra, every weekday morning, from LBC's longest-serving presenter.

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0:00.0

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0:03.6

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0:09.7

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0:14.3

So your money can go further while you don't have to.

0:16.9

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0:22.3

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0:28.2

And necter.com slash prices terms.

0:30.0

Morning, everybody. Welcome along to your free podcast for today. Have we had a good week? Have we had a nice week? Yes. Has we, have we sorted out the problem of Harry and Megan? No. Do we believe that it's all just a bit a bit naff? Yep. Have they bought a house? Yep. How do they get a mortgage? I thought that when you went to get a mortgage, I mean, perhaps they've got a different system in America. They will grill you, you know, well, how can you afford to pay this back?

0:57.6

They have no income at all, and yet they've managed to get an £8 million mortgage.

1:04.4

I mean, this is fiddling of the worst possible kind.

1:07.3

How, do you know how much the mortgage repayments are?

1:10.6

50,000 pounds a month. How much

1:12.5

are they earning? Nothing. Nothing at all. 50,000 a month for this place. Plus, they're still

1:19.1

paying off at I think 18,000 a month for the Frogmore Cottage. Where's this money coming from?

1:25.4

I mean, the mortgage is 417,000 a year.

1:28.6

It runs for 30 years.

1:31.3

I mean, you know, and I have to tell them now,

1:33.9

property over there does not go up in price.

1:35.9

In fact, this place was priced at 11 million.

1:39.3

So they're not going to get their money back when they come to sell it.

1:43.7

Well, because property in America does not move like here.

1:47.0

If you bought a flat years ago in wherever, for example me and I paid 70,000 from my flat,

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