Friday Flight - 3% Mortgages, Secondhand Steals, & Leg Room Lunacy #564

How to Money

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Education, Investing, Business

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Time for our Friday Flight! These episodes are a sampling of the week’s financial news and the impact on your personal finances. There are a lot of headlines out there, but we distill it down to specific takeaways that will allow you to kick off the weekend informed and help you to get ahead with your money. In this episode we cover some relevant and helpful stories like: getting a 3% mortgage via a loan assumption, some new competition for home internet providers, leg room lunacy, free lodging because of flight delays, donate now pay later, influencers in the wild, active insurance trackers to save, & secondhand steals from buying used.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Joel Stein. I want you to close your eyes and imagine a pocket watch.
0:05.6	It's moving from side to side. You're getting very sleepy.
0:11.6	Great. Now that I've hypnotized you against your will, you're going to start liking long-form journalism.
0:16.2	Like so much. You're going to listen to a podcast where the host interviews a writer about their long-form story every week.
0:23.6	I'm that host.
0:25.0	Listen to Story of the Week on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.3	The world of chocolate has been turned upside down.
0:32.9	A very unusual situation.
0:34.7	You saw this tax of cash in an office.
0:36.4	Chocolate comes from the cacao tree, and recently, Variety's cacao,
0:39.5	thought to have been lost centuries ago, were rediscovered in the Amazon.
0:42.6	There is no chocolate on Earth like this.
0:45.2	Now some chocolate makers are racing, deep into the jungle, to find the next game-changing chocolate.
0:50.3	And I'm coming along.
0:51.8	Okay, that was a very large crack it up.
0:55.6	Listen to Obsessions, it's a wild chocolate.
0:58.6	On the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:05.5	My name is Joshua Topolsky, and I have a new podcast called What Future.
1:09.2	But I want to tell you that I'm being forced by my producer to record a promo telling you about my show.
1:14.8	And I'm not trying to force you to listen to it.
1:17.2	And maybe you're not interested in internet culture and the future of life on planet Earth,
1:22.7	and why John Carpenter movies are so good.
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