Friday Flight - Jump at the Pump, Lessening Leverage, & Tapping Too Soon #1110
How to Money
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 42 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:
- Jump at the pump
- We have ‘oil insurance’
- Most fuel efficient cars
- Cheapest new cars
- Fewer work from home roles
- Lack of job-hopping leverage
- We’re all time poor
- 401k raiders
- HELOC pillagers
- Small biz 401k plans on the rise
- Joel hates cashmere
- Printer companies have us over a barrel
- Affordable Apples
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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. |
| 0:07.2 | And I am Matt. |
| 0:08.6 | Today we're talking jump at the pump, lessening leverage and tapping too soon. |
| 0:34.8 | Yeah. We're laughing because we're laughing because we botched the intro a couple times there and then we just kept rolling and found a way to make it |
| 0:37.7 | happen we're we're pros here matt you know we're just here to have some fun that's what we're |
| 0:42.0 | going to do here on this Friday flight especially considering pros have been doing this for as long |
| 0:45.9 | as we have but we even still we make idiotic mistakes yeah uh I'll say your little |
| 0:51.4 | catchy headlines are super vague that's kind of intentional that. That was a little intentional. So listeners got to stick around and find out what we're talking about on all of them. None of these are giving it away. So the pump felt a little panic at the disco. Oh, I like that. Did you ever like those guys? I never really listened to me either. A little too screaming. Not like scream a rock, but like, I don't know. |
| 1:13.2 | Too high pitched. |
| 1:13.9 | Okay. |
| 1:14.3 | Yeah, it had a really high voice. |
| 1:15.3 | Was it back in the emo era? Is that what they were? It was like post-emo. Okay. Yeah, moving a little bit more to the mainstream. But yeah, this is our Friday flight. we're going to talk about the personal finance headlines, specifically how they are going to |
| 1:26.4 | impact your wallet. While we're talking about your wallet, I think one of the prices that people |
| 1:30.7 | pay the most attention is that people pay the most |
| 1:31.4 | attention to is the price of gasoline because they drive past it multiple times a day. |
| 1:35.5 | Oh yeah. |
| 1:35.9 | And we've gotten used to fairly low gas prices, especially over the past year. |
| 1:41.1 | We've seen those prices dip. |
| 1:44.0 | But the price of gas is soared this |
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