Friday Flight - Discount Burnout, Bubble Trouble, & Rejoicing Renters (plus roadkill, gold bars, more...) #1056

How to Money

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🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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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:

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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.
0:07.1	Today we're talking discount burnout, bubble trouble, and rejoicing renters.
0:11.9	Thank you. That's right.
0:31.6	And before we go anywhere,
0:32.4	Happy Halloween to everyone who celebrates the festival of, to all who celebrate. Candies. Wait, I feel like you should have said it in a spooky voice or something like that. Now, how come they don't call it spooky season anymore? Did they used to? Yes. Oh, really? We talked about spooky season. Here on the show. Spooky season. I just don't, I never hear people who are doing it as spooky season. Instead of
0:54.3	Happy Halloween, I don't know, it's just like the time around Halloween. It's kind of like Happy Holidays instead of, I guess. More generic, I guess. Okay. But yeah, it's fun. It's fun for Halloween to follow. Are you dressing on Friday? No. Halloween on Friday is the best. It is the best. I'm so pumped. Yeah. My kids. It's going to be a good one.
1:10.8	Oh, gosh.
1:11.4	Yeah, because you can stay up later.
1:12.4	You don't have to worry about the hangover the next day.
1:14.4	Coming over later. You don't have to worry about the hangover the next day.
1:14.4	Coming over later, right? Yeah. All right. We're going to, let's go. We're going to hit those houses. And then I'm going to steal as much. Not literally. You're not going to smash pumpkins and roll. No, but...
1:22.5	We're going to get as much candy as we can.
1:23.9	And then, I'm going to steal for my kids.
1:26.4	Are you going to do candy buyback?
1:28.3	Oh, no. I know you always do, right?
1:29.7	Oh, yes, I did.
1:30.3	And my kids. Are you going to do candy buyback? Oh no. I know
1:28.7	you always do right? Oh yes I did and my kids were even asking like weeks ago. They're like, are you going to eat it all then? Some of it we toss. Okay. Well, I'll toss it. Give it to me. The cheaper stuff. You don't want the candy though. It's not good for you. I don't mind. We will keep some around. We'll keep a token amount around for, okay, everyone grab a piece.
1:47.1	We're going to go on't mind. We will keep some around. We'll keep a token amount around for, okay, everyone grab a piece.
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