Friday Flight - Long Airport Lines, Rent In Installments, & Plasma Payday! #1119

How to Money

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🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 38 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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0:37.7	Today we're talking long airport lines, rent and installments, and plasma payday.
1:05.9	Okay. Yeah, buddy, this is our Friday flights, the little compilation of the different headlines from the past week that we're going to get to specifically how they pertain to your finances.
1:10.5	And I will say, I'm excited to talk about plasma. Plasma paydays. But it's not like a plasma gun like you'd see in some sort of sci-fi novel. This is like, or a plasma torch. Actually, your body produces this plasma torch when I was in college. I didn't even know what that is. Is that like a welding tool? Okay. Yeah, because I was wanting to be able to work. It all makes sense when I share some of these things with you, Rachel. Yes. It's like little pieces to the puzzle of who, what makes you you. You've got a note here about the tooth fairy. Have we talked about the tooth fairy recently? It's been a while. Okay. But this comes out every year. Like what the Oh, average tooth fairy payout is. So we have, but it's been a year. Yes. It's probably been
1:44.9	almost exactly a year. Old man shaking fist at sky territory of like, I can't believe it's been a year. But like, you know the amount because I wrote it on our outline here, but like if you... Is that really the average amount? Yeah. 584? Okay. Which $5.84. That's the new going rates. Sounds like a lot.
2:00.0	Evidently, for the tooth favorite.
2:00.9	But if that's the average,
2:01.6	I mean, some people pay like $10 for a tooth.
2:03.5	And, uh,
2:04.2	I mean,
2:04.7	that's, $5.84. That's the new going rates. Sounds like a lot. Evidently for the tooth fair.
2:00.9	But if that's the average, that means some people pay in like $10 for a tooth.
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