The Ranter
Markus Grant investigates the systems extracting from regular people. Healthcare, housing, labor, money in politics.
Each episode: name the system, show the receipts, give the audience a move they can take. Both parties named when both parties cashed the check. Mechanism over motive. No team jerseys.
Each episode runs in segments (Cold Open, Morning, Noon, Evening). Chapter markers let you skip around.
Full episodes drop Saturdays at 8 AM ET. Sidebars between major arcs.
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Receipt index: theranter.com
The Ranter
Latest Episodes
EP06: Your HOA Can Foreclose on Your House. The Lien Follows the Dirt.
After the Eaton fire destroyed 52 of the 272 homes in La Vina, the homeowners association billed $23,614 per lot to repair the common areas, including the lots where the house had burned down. The assessment attaches to the ground, and the lien...
EP05: The Pentagon Failed Its Audit Again. The Budget Went Up Anyway.
The Pentagon failed its financial audit for the eighth straight year. Auditors could not verify 64 cents of every dollar of budgetary resources, and the budget went up anyway. Meanwhile the same government grades SNAP to the second decimal....
EP04: Why Your Rent Is So High. Your Landlords Share One Algorithm.
Your landlord says the market set your rent. The market was a piece of software. RealPage collects private lease data from landlords who are supposed to be competing, runs it through one pricing model called YieldStar, and hands each of them a ...
Where Your Rent Goes. It Leaves Before You Get the Key.
My college roommate made $240,000 selling a house. I came in seventh at an open house, behind an LLC with better credit than God. So where does your rent actually go? It leaves before you even get the key.By the time your rent check cle...
Why "Nobody Went Back to Check" Is the Most Important Phrase in Journalism
The story everyone tells: Colonial India had a cobra problem. The British put a bounty on dead cobras. People started breeding cobras to collect it. The British canceled the program, the breeders released their worthless snakes, and the colony ...