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Friday Flight - Insurgent I-Bonds, Trendy Tiny Homes, & Cutting The Big 3 #1143

How to Money

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Education, Investing, Business

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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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 I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.3

Welcome to How to Money.

0:05.7

I'm Joel.

0:06.3

And I am Matt.

0:08.3

Today we're talking, like the way he said that.

0:10.1

I like the way you said that. I just trying to bring a little enthusiasm to everyone's Friday morning or Friday afternoon or Saturday morning and so on, whenever it is.

0:41.7

Or 2028, if you're listening way down the line. Hello from the past. It's like one of those folks who go, they're like, I'm going to listen to every episode. Good luck. But now this is our Friday, fly. We're going to talk about some of the stories we came across this week and specifically how they pertain to your finances. Hopefully you won't hear the little bobcat in the background that's working on the house next door. Hey, Depp put this thing on the market soon, and I won't be sad about it. I'm not going to share how much they listed it for because I cannot believe.'s just when you say that if I were to say

1:12.3

the number I think people would be like wait what what kind of fancy digs y'all got if there's a house

1:17.4

that expensive going on the market next door but I don't think there's any way that they're going to

1:21.9

get that much for it so you think what are they thinking I don't know this is like a total flip

1:26.2

of like a really old house and it's really cute.

1:28.9

It's very cute. It's well done. But I'm just, it's a postage size lot still. Yeah, yeah. And it's also not as cute as it was.

1:37.1

Because like they took some of the ornamental, like some of the charm off. You know, like that's one of the things that make old houses beautiful and timeless is that

1:46.3

a hundred years ago builders were putting attention to detail into every sort of little,

1:52.1

not all the time, right? Like, bungalows kind of buck that trend. Like, bungalows were the affordable

1:57.3

houses in the 20s for folks who weren't looking to drop the big money

2:01.5

on the Victorian or the Queen Anne's. I mean, okay, we're really good to have an architecture

2:06.1

now, right? But even those bungalows are, had a lot more ornament than the 1940s, you know,

2:11.6

World War II homes. Yeah, most deaf. So it's interesting to think, to see what they've left

2:16.9

off as they've renovated the home. And I'm like, wait, are you not going to add that back on? Because that actually adds a lot of the elements of charm that I think people are attracted to when you are looking, certainly when you're looking at this, I don't know, for home built in the 19 teens, you're like, that's what you're looking for. That's what you want. Yeah. The authenticity. Anyway, I mentioned that because there's a little bit of construction. There is some humming in the background that folks might hear. Not for much longer. A little tangent. I just want to bring up something real quick. So I did, and this, man, I hesitate to bring it up in some ways because I don't want to make it sound like I'm so sort of like beast athlete because I'm very, very, very much not. Very much not. Joel's getting a triathlon tattoo on his calf. No. Maybe a third of one because I did a team triathlon that was a friend's. And so it was. Which is, I think, a nice way to get into it. Yeah. I think that's totally fun. It was really fun. I did the bike ride portion and I got my money's worth for sure. It was so fun. Wait, how much was it? Dude, it's expensive. It was like $200 each. So it's like a $600 entry fee if you're doing it solo? Yes. That's a lot of money. I know. That's a far cry from just like us going for a mountain. We need to get a mountain run on the counter. I mean, how much did that cost?

3:26.3

Like 70 bucks or something like the...

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