Friday Flight - Frustrating Fees, Degree Doubts, & Upper-Middle Class Ascendancy #1128

How to Money

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Education, Business, Investing

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🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 43 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:

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed human.
0:04.4	No gloss, no filter.
0:07.4	Just stories.
0:09.1	Spoken without fear.
0:10.9	Person who is not generous can not be an artist.
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0:18.4	Listen to my weekly podcast, the Pooja Abhaw show,
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0:27.3	Come for the honesty.
0:29.2	Stay for the fire.
0:32.9	Welcome to How to Money.
0:34.7	I'm Joel.
0:35.3	I'm Matt.
0:35.9	Today we're talking frustrating fees, degree doubts, and upper're going to talk about the personal
1:03.1	finance stories that we want to talk about. That's right, because it's going to help you,
1:06.6	our listener. All the how to money is out there. Now, what do we? We'll take, all the besties out there. Yeah, and I'll say we will take your... If you've got a story
1:14.8	you think we should talk about, we'll take your emails. Like, send us something. Listeners send stuff in all the time. They're like, oh, the stuff we talk about is stuff that folks... Not half of us. that's not true yeah no most of it is stuff that we have found who we're interested in but if you have
1:26.7	something you think would be a value or you're like i just want to hear matt and joel talk about that let us know
1:30.6	yeah so i wanted to Yeah. No, most of it is stuff that we have found and we're interested in. But if you have something you think would be a value, or you're like,
1:29.0	I just want to hear Matt and Joel talk about that.
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