Friday Flight - Deceptive Dollar Stores, Frustrated Flippers, & Betting Your Credit Card Balance #1077
How to Money
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Time for a Friday Flight- our little sampling of the week’s best financial news and what it means for your personal finances. There are a lot of headlines out there, but we boil them 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 explain some relevant and helpful stories like:
- Deceptive dollar stores
- When it pays to go cheap
- Warrior dividends
- Less great target date funds
- Moderate millionaires
- The wealth effect
- Underperforming financial advisors
- Time to update those beneficiaries
- Wanna be real estate moguls
- Frustrated flippers
- Don’t gamble
- Robinhood pushing prop bets
- Betting your credit card balance
- Debit card cashback
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| 0:34.4 | Welcome to How to Money. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm Joel. |
| 0:36.3 | And I am Matt. |
| 0:37.5 | Today we're talking about despicable dollar stores, frustrated flippers, and betting your credit card balance. |
| 1:05.6 | Okay. That's right, buddy. This is our Friday flight. |
| 1:12.2 | Our breakdown of the headlines from the past week and how they specifically pertain to your ability to earn more. |
| 1:30.3 | Man, this sounds like such a, I don't know, like a podcast pitch. We're going to talk about money today, folks. That's what we do. That's what we do here. It's like pinking the brain trying to take over the world. We are that with talking about money. Have you been watching more of that old school? Have I referenced in multiple times? I think I want to say listeners, you can correct me, but I'm going to guess you've referenced it twice in the past two months. |
| 1:30.8 | Dang it. |
| 1:46.9 | So you're on a, so now, I think three times in the past two months. I was telling my daughter about that. You make all the references you want, my friend. All right. Well, I don't want to beat a dead mouse, but were they mice or rats? They were mice. I don't know. Okay. I just remember one of them was huge one of them was tiny that's right yeah and had the brain in the glass jar in the glass |
| 1:50.8 | fishbowl looking thing right wasn't he the brain i think that might have been teenage mutant |
| 1:55.1 | ninja turtles oh there was a brain in a jar in that one yeah wait i think i am getting my |
| 1:59.8 | uh 90s cartoons reference. |
| 2:02.0 | Wait, so was the, Pinky was the big one. And the brain was a smart skinny guy. Little, little rat, right? No, I think the opposite was true. Oh, I think the skinny one was the idiot. And brain was the big one. Oh, really? I'm pretty sure. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Alright, we digress. |
| 2:16.2 | Whatever. |
| 2:16.8 | We're going to talk about money today, and not 90s trivia. |
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