$AFRM Affirm Holdings Tape Reports
Per Ticker.id: $AFRM Affirm Holdings Tape Reports — 14 podcast mentions across 7 podcasts (30 days), latest 2026-08-21 19:08 UTC.
Yeah, yeah, they— I mean, a lot of people do seem to be going into it with eyes open. My last interview, um, this is Angela Jones and their PhD, and they had had sex with a sex doll and suddenly had, like, not suddenly, but like kind of affirmed a lot of these feelings that they had had about intimacy and like what is intimacy and is it a two-way street? Can we call this sex? Is it like, is it a relationship? Is it emotionally connective to be having sex with this inanimate thing. And it seems like the people who are engaging with chatbots, they're not really having that struggle. I written about when Replika changed the parameters to no longer allow erotic roleplay. And before that, you could have sex with Replika and people were developing really deep emotional— I would almost say, I mean, not to put too much of a judgment on it, but like dependencies on their Replikas. And then they changed it and people freaked out. And that kind of brings me back to something that you come back to pretty often in the book, is the ways that we're putting— or we as in, like, humans— are putting a lot of emotional energy sometimes into these systems that don't give a shit about us. And, like, the companies that are in charge are often let off the hook for the ways that they design these systems because —people focus on, oh my God, how crazy this guy married a chatbot. Oh my God, how crazy this person is having a mental health crisis because they can no longer sext with a chatbot. But at the same time, it's like they're using a tool that was designed to hook them in a very deep emotional way. So yeah, I don't know. Do you want to speak on that a little bit? Just like the way that you bring back the fact that these tech companies are profiting so wildly off of what is ultimately a tool, I guess, that people have no control over as users, but are very enmeshed with often in their emotional lives. Yeah.
Sam Cole — The 404 Media Podcast · Your AI Companion Doesn’t Love You with Bridget Todd · 2026-08-24When you go out, do you like put on deodorant? Maybe fix your hair? So, yep. And here's what I wanna— I'm saying something ridiculous, right, on purpose. I want to introduce to you that you do have self-control over certain parts of your life. And those are things that you've affirmatively said, this is important to me, this matters, and I'm gonna do these things. And where anytime you're trying to change an action, right? And really live into a new identity. I'm a person who... It has to matter. There has to be a reason why I'm doing this. Because right now, what you just painted the picture for us is you wish you were like this. You wish you had retirement. You wish you had a budget. You wish you were a person that, that you could count on, but you're not going to because your mom did it. It worked out. It's, it's, you're worried about her, but it's fine. And you only have 2 years left with your son. So we're just going to do it.
John Delony — The Ramsey Show · Debt Isn't a Tool, It's a Trap · 2026-08-24Yeah. As someone who had to write an audiobook, trust me when I say this is not scripted. Anyway, the value of talking things through was mentioned. To which I can affirm I am better off for hearing that one, the emotional desire, etc., and two, the diplomacy angle I hadn't thought of or heard of each. So for sure, I'm now well more informed. Now, this was the one about the sovereign capability because the question goes on to say perhaps changing the fence with holes analogy fit all the other excellent points, rounding to something closer to a shark net off Bondi, maybe. Anyway, we are really closely aligned, so appreciate debating the finer points. Life would be boring if it was black and white. Boomer topic expertly handled too. If there was an episode dedicated to ripping through the main sticking points of what an advanced economy looks like as the demographic pyramid flips and the printer goes brrr, etc., that would be an excellent listen. There you go. There's an idea for us. And I'm sure our two benevolent leaders— and he says, why can't I stop picturing Kudos and Kang from The Simpsons? That's up to you— to come up with some excellent ideas that you never know could Surreptitiously informed, sensible policy, maybe. I started my own business about 18 months ago, so you can imagine how easy it is for the media to paint that the world is against young people and is sapping the will to live. For you guys to take the time and offer some rational optimism, it has been one of those little glimmers of light. Cheers.
Jason Moser — Motley Fool Money · Mailbag, incl: Don’t miss the glimmers of light. August 23, 2026 · 2026-08-22Affirm, another player in this market, has also offered some renters short-term financing that essentially gives them additional time to make their rent payment. And the market has gotten very big. The Times reports that Americans spent roughly $160 billion through buy now pay later loans last year, nearly twice the level of 2023. So in just 2 years, this market has exploded. I think the more revealing statistics are the ones telling us why people are using these products. So I found a new LendingTree survey that 54% of BNPL users say they need these loans to make ends meet. And among parents with children under 18, this number is rising to 62%. And that to me is the story. We are increasingly financing the cost of simply being alive. And by the way, grocery use is rising fast. LendingTree found that 29% of BNPL users have now used these loans to buy food. 2 years ago, it was just 14%. So we're not talking about a handbag or sweater or a TV anymore. We're talking about milk, eggs. I don't think buy now, pay later plans are inherently evil. There are legitimate reasons why someone today chooses one of these loans over another form of borrowing, right? Maybe it's because they like the repayment period being very short. There's no interest attached to these BNPL plans. The fees in some cases may seem clearer than what you'd pay carrying a balance on a credit card. And let's be honest, where credit card rates are, if the alternative is revolving a balance at 20-something percent, an interest-free installment can look very attractive. And let's say your rent is due on the 1st and your paycheck hits on the 5th and you're borrowing money for 4 days. I get it why somebody would look at this and say, this solves my problem. But here's where I think we need to make a really important distinction. Are you solving a timing problem or are you solving an affordability problem? Because they're not the same problem. If you have $2,000 coming on Friday and you need $1,500 today, that's cash flow timing. But if you need $1,500 today and you have $900 coming on Friday, that's affordability. That's a deficit issue. And there's not really a financial product that can permanently solve that second crisis.
Farnoosh Torabi — So Money with Farnoosh Torabi · 2025: Ask Farnoosh: Are We in a Housing Bubble? Plus: BNPL Warning Signs, AI Shopping Scams & Should You Consolidate Your 401(k)s? · 2026-08-21And certainly Christianity, like every ideology, like every creed out there, has been used for good and has been used for evil over the centuries, over the millennia. And so I certainly wouldn't want to suggest that there's something inherently built into Christianity that would lead to something like Kim Il-sung and Kim Il-sungism, because it did only really happen that one time, certainly in the way that it happened. So that's one bucket of criticism. The other bucket of criticism suggests that I've gone overboard in foregrounding Christianity in the life of Kim Il-sung. This was also in Bruce Cumming's review. This was the one big thing that he pointed out. He said, "It seems strange that Christianity would be foregrounded to the degree that it is to the exclusion of things like Confucianism or like feudalism, which obviously also play a big role in forming what the North Korean state became." To which my response, of course, would be that I'm foregrounding Christianity merely because I don't think that Christianity has been discussed at all as it put into the North Korean state, into Kim Il-sungism and into the Kim family dynasty. But it was the one ideology, the one creed that Kim Il-sung's own family would have self-identified and attested to and affirmed. It certainly wouldn't have been— it would not have been shamanism or Confucianism or Japanese emperor worship or even socialism because his family was not in that mold at all. They would have said, "We are Korean nationalists. We believe in Korea as an independent state, but we also believe in it through the faith that we have in Jesus Christ, and we believe that it is the church, it is Christ, it is Christianity that is going to help deliver this independence to us." And so to not take that seriously, to ignore that, shove it to the side was something that I didn't really understand when I first approached this topic because my antennae were very attuned to this when I first arrived in Korea in 2013. And, you know, I should state very clearly that this book is not a China book, and the fact that I've been in China for the last 7 years merely reflects the fact that this book took me way longer than I planned to write and research.
Jonathan Chang — ChinaTalk · North Korea's Messiah · 2026-08-19I spoke with her over Skype through my translator Jihae Lee, who was able to affirm that yes, Jesse is sexy and cute at the same time.
Stacy Vanek Smith — Planet Money · Getting entrepreneurial in Korea (Summer School) · 2026-08-19Where's the fun in that, huh? First though, let's do the numbers. Well, here you go. Dow Industrials off 116 points today, 2/10%, finished at 53,300. 3,343. The NASDAQ tumbled 355 points, 1.3%, 26,289. S&P 500 down 53.7%, 7,691 there. Kristen Schwab was telling us about Home Depot. Shares dipped a tenth percent on the day. Lowe's, which reports tomorrow, as I said, setting up Mitchell's piece, fell a tenth percent as well. Wayfair dropped 1.3% Klarna, purveyor of buy now pay later services, cut its full year revenue guidance today. The Stockholm-based company blamed economic conditions in its biggest market, which is not, as it turns out, Sweden, but rather Germany. Klarna plummeted almost 23%. Rival Affirm Holdings sank 1.3% on the day. Bond prices up. The yield on the 10-year T-note, as Robin Brooks was saying, 4.70%. But as he was also saying, Think about the 10-year over the next 10 years. Inflation expectations, again, you're listening to Marketplace.
Kai Ryssdal — Marketplace · Got beef? · 2026-08-18No, but I just feel like that when you got that kind of situation where the— where two key officers leave, that just says go. And this is not that opportunity you've been looking for. Affirm, I think, is the one you want to be in. Although that'll be down. Everything will be off of Klarna just because people remember Klarna as being a powerhouse. Yeah, not so powerful. Yeah.
Jim Cramer — Squawk on the Street · Global Bond Sell-Off Weighs on Stocks, Home Depot Beats, Meta Heads to Trial 8/18/26 · 2026-08-18