Friday Flight - Forever Mortgages, Ruining Reward Cards & Free Tax Filing Fail #1062
How to Money
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🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 36 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:
- Help us dominate the Daffy Voices for Good Campaign!
- 50 year mortgages
- Robinhood getting into the mortgage game
- Cash for Christmas
- FindHelp.org is a great resource for those in need of food, shelter, transportation and more
- Flights not quite as delayed
- Expense ratio transparency
- Investment nudges by Vanguard
- $2,000 tariff rebate checks
- Fancy credit cards potentially no longer accepted
- RIP Direct File
- Avoiding all the scams
- Voice authentication via code words
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Welcome to How to Money. |
| 0:05.9 | I'm Joel. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm Matt. |
| 0:07.4 | Today we're talking forever mortgages, ruining rewards cards, and free tax filing fails. |
| 0:13.2 | Okay. Oh, we've got more than one tax filing fail to get to. |
| 0:35.4 | I thought we're only going to talk about a single fail. I think I added an S. Oh, I think it's just one. Oh fail to get to. I thought we really didn't talk about a single fail. |
| 0:38.1 | I think I added an S. Oh, I think it's just one. Oh, okay. Hey, there is a failure. If there's something else you want to talk about later on, let's get to it. You can talk about personal failures. What's, what's a recent personal fail? Do you have one? So many. Oh, man. Here's my name. I don't want I can bring him to light here on the podcast. |
| 0:55.5 | Why not? |
| 0:56.2 | We need to let people know where I was going to, I was going to mention how I rolled my ankle and I've been hobbling around. You saw me this morning. Actually, instead of us joining runs like we have in the past, you saw me walking because I got to rehab my stupid ankle after I rolled it earlier this week. That's the worst, man, because those are the things that you just kind of... |
| 1:12.3 | I'm too fragile. I'm like one of these, like, a little fragile, like, you got to protect me. You got to put some bubble wrap around me, dude. You can put you in a cocoon. Yeah, we can do that. I'm a high performance, but highly fragile individual. like one of those formulae in cars, you know, they're always getting banged up. |
| 1:26.5 | The line from Rob Lo's character in, was it? |
| 1:30.0 | Parks and a wreck. |
| 1:30.8 | Probably. |
| 1:31.3 | Zygma. Like one of those formulae in cars, you know, they're always getting banged up. The line from Rob Loe's character in, was it, Parks and a Rec? Probably. He's like, like one grain of sand in my engine. It was just when he was sick. That sounds like Robbler's character from that show. Yeah, that's funny. Okay, real quick, Matt, one thing we're not failing at is raising money for some of our favorite nonprofits. I just wanted to |
| 1:44.8 | bring this up really quickly. You've probably heard the ads around this, but we we talk about |
| 1:49.6 | donor advised funds regularly here on the show. We're all about raising money for good causes. |
| 1:54.7 | We have been with Daffy for years now and been talking about Daffy on the show for years now, |
| 1:59.8 | and we're up against |
| 2:00.9 | some other podcasts trying to raise money for some of our favorite nonprofits. We're in, I think, third place right now, which is admirable. We have a little bronze medal next to our name. Is there a chart or something that has the... Oh, yeah. If you go to the Voices for Good, Daffy.org slash Voices for Good, you can see. we'll see I'm not going to |
| 2:17.5 | we're getting our butts kicked by the stacking |
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