Friday Flight - Digital Nomad Fatigue, Treat Culture, & Retired Renters #1026
How to Money
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🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Time for a Friday Flight- our little sampling of the week’s 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: autopay fees, school supplies and sloppy joes, Aldi item of the week, a recipe for mediocrity, digital nomad fatigue, treat culture, crowdfunded real estate investing flop, adjustable rates mortgage applications on the rise, retired renters, and lease purchase agreement attraction.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | Welcome to How to Money. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Joel. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Matt. |
| 0:07.4 | Today we're talking digital nomad fatigue, treat culture, and retired renters. |
| 0:12.1 | Okay. That's right, man. |
| 0:31.6 | This is our Friday flight, our weekly roundup of the stories that made their way through the different publications out there |
| 0:37.9 | and we're going to tackle how they pertain to your personal finances. Happy Friday, everyone. |
| 0:43.2 | That's the best day of the week. I like Fridays. That's the best. Yeah. What's your second |
| 0:46.6 | favorite day of the week, Joel? You have favorites? You don't have them immediately ranked in your |
| 0:51.1 | right? Sundays are nice. Sundays are great. They feel less chore oriented than Saturdays. You get the Sunday scaries? No. Yeah. Like worried about going back to work the next day? Yeah. No, I get excited. Largely because... Because you love what you do. We have a fantastic time here. We go for coffee immediately on Mondays. Mondays are our coffee day. And so that adds a little... Do you think that has |
| 1:11.6 | alleviated any of the stress that you might normally feel on Sundays? You're like, well, at least |
| 1:15.8 | I get to go get a great coffee with Matt in the morning. I'm not usually stressed anyway, but it does |
| 1:21.3 | add a little excitement to my Monday. We, do you think we should have more stress in our lives? |
| 1:24.8 | I feel that there are, there's just a whole lot of anxiety and stress in the world. |
| 1:29.5 | And I don't know. |
| 1:30.2 | I feel like we have been able to take a proper view. Is it just three kids? I've got my fair amount. It just seems like there's more and more existential threat or stress that people are just soaking themselves with. I don't know. Like we talk a good bit about politics personally, but there's a difference between talking about it and letting that feel your deep-seated fear and anxieties. |
| 1:50.1 | I don't know. We're just more political as a culture right now. And that's why we try to stay away |
| 1:55.9 | from it on this show, man. That's right. We've got into politics for a zero politics for our |
| 2:00.5 | Friday flight today. I mean, sometimes policy, but not politics. Okay, let's quickly though, I wanted to mention a listener, Ricky, emailed us this week and he was really upset, Matt. He was really upset. Ricky James. Not at you. Wasn't mad at you. Wasn't mad at me either, fortunately. Ricky mentioned, he's with USAA, and he's got an insurance policy through USAA. When you actually look at the Consumer Reports rankings, USA rates as one of the top insurers year after year after year. So that would seem to be a good thing. They rank high when it comes to customer satisfaction. Yeah. Yep. But USA is really pissing Ricky off right now, okay? He is not happy. Harsh words. It was a very long email about a $3 fee that's charged to you if you don't sign up for auto pay. So USAA, he said, is trying to, I think I wrote this down, he said, they're charging me to give them money. And I get how that's frustrating as a customer. |
| 2:52.5 | And it's not even for paying with the credit card, which would make sense, right? |
| 2:56.2 | There's a fee that they incur if you pay with a credit card, and so they pass that on to you oftentimes. |
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