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EPISODE · Aug 28, 2026 · 7 MIN

The $609 Truck Problem

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A $609 truck payment can become a $6.5 million retirement detour. Meanwhile, AI wants your job, your power grid, and apparently your feelings. So yes, today’s theme is opportunity cost, with a side of existential dread. The guilt-free spending fix The truck payment that ate the future Investing without the costume drama AI wants infrastructure and intimacy The AI security problem Spend for a life, not a scoreboard Sources: Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin — Building a Guilt Free Budget (Listener Intervention) The Bulwark Podcast — Ben Rhodes: Is Trump Stumbling into a Wider War? NPR News Now — NPR News: 08-28-2026 3PM EDT Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar — 8/28/26: Norm Finkelstein Returns to Discuss Gaza, Hasan Piker, New Book Gaza's Gravediggers PBD Podcast — Trump vs Canada, Iran Hit with New Sanctions & Florida Cracks Down on SNAP | PBD Podcast #850 NPR News Now — NPR News: 08-28-2026 2PM EDT Today, Explained — Dolly Parton's platform Giggly Squad — Giggling about mascots, milk, and Mount Everest The Tucker Carlson Show — Impeachment Looms Over Trump After the Pentagon’s Leaked Nuclear Plans. Joe Kent on What Comes Next. NPR News Now — NPR News: 08-28-2026 1PM EDT 301 more sources This podcast was created with Podkey. Make your own at https://podkey.fm

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