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And we\u2019re airing them out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On today\u2019s show: Redeeming fast food rewards points in airports, not knowing the full price of your meal upfront, and the pen-and-paper restaurant bill slowdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fact checking by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/1268825622\/sierra-juarez\"target=\"_blank\"   >Sierra Juarez<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Next Listen\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/07\/24\/nx-s1-5905782\/three-beefs-u-s-and-brazil-taco-bell-and-liability-waymo-and-trial-lawyers\"target=\"_blank\"   >Three beefs: U.S. and Brazil, Taco Bell and liability, Waymo and trial lawyers<br \/><\/a><br \/><strong>Connect with The Indicator <\/strong><br \/>\u2014 Sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/npr.org\/indicatornewsletter\"target=\"_blank\"   >The Indicator\u2019s brand new newsletter<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>\u2014 Find our <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/indicator_npr\"target=\"_blank\"   >socials, YouTube and more<\/a>! <br \/>\u2014 For sponsor-free episodes, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.npr.org\/\"target=\"_blank\"   >subscribe to NPR+<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-6679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-indicator-from-planet-money","tag-the-indicator"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Petty! 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