Friday Flight - Dumpster Diving, Insurance Dodging, & Pudgy Penguins #996

How to Money

iHeartPodcasts

Business, Investing, Education

4.5 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

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: matched 529 funds, luxury dumpster diving, the apps are spying on us, insurance dodging, wealthy home chefs, fresh Costco perks, God mode investing, leveraged fund retirement accounts, pudgy penguins, tighter used car market, Cybertruck losses, and Smartless cellular.

Want more How To Money in your life? Here are some additional ways to get ahead with your personal finances:

Knowing your ‘money gear’ is a crucial part of your personal finance journey. Start here.
Sign up for the weekly HTM newsletter. It’s fun, free, & practical.
Join a thriving community of fellow money in the HTM Facebook group.
Find the best credit card for you with our new credit card tool!
Massively reduce your cell phone bill each month by switching to a discount provider like Mint Mobile.

And please help us to spread the word by letting friends and family know about How to Money! Hit the share button, subscribe if you’re not already a regular listener, and give us a quick review in Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us to change the conversation around personal finance and get more people doing smart things with their money. Have an awesome weekend!

Best friends out!

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.2	Run a business and not thinking about podcasting.
0:06.9	Think again.
0:07.5	More Americans listen to podcasts than adds supported streaming music from Spotify and Pandora.
0:11.7	And as the number one podcaster, IHearts twice as large as the next two combined.
0:15.7	Learn how podcasting can help your business.
0:17.6	Call 844-844-I-Hart.
0:19.6	Are there any pictures of you online?
0:21.5	Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it.
0:25.5	Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts.
0:31.1	I'm Dexter Thomas, host a Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting us right now.
0:36.9	Police, they are trusting
0:38.3	this software with this magical ability to lead them to the right suspect. In this episode, we
0:43.6	dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition and sometimes getting it wrong and putting
0:48.7	innocent people behind bars. So if your accuser is this algorithm, but you're not even being told that it was used, let alone given any of the details about how it works.
0:59.0	Listen to KillSwitch on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:04.0	Did it occur to you that he'd charmed you in any way?
1:09.0	Yes, it did, but he was a charming man.
1:14.3	It looks like the ingredients of a really grand spy story.
1:18.5	Because this ties together the Cold War with the new one.
1:22.0	I often ask myself, now, did I know the true Jan at all?
1:28.1	Listen to Hot Money, Agent of Chaos, the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 9 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.