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Friday Flight - Political $ Planning, Free Electricity, & Cash is Cringe (plus Instacart Iniquity, Advent Calendars, more...) #1074

How to Money

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Education, Investing, Business

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 36 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.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.0

Welcome to How to Money.

0:05.6

I'm Joel.

0:06.2

I'm Matt.

0:07.2

Today we're talking political money planning, free electricity, and cash is cringe.

0:12.1

Thank you. You know what, buddy, this is our Friday flight, and we're going to get to the top stories from this past week.

0:36.6

What's, you got to note here about Advent calendars.

0:38.5

Did you recently get one?

0:53.4

Well, so we got a hand-me-down Advent calendar this show? Wait, how do you do a hand-me-down? Oh, I'll tell you. I'll tell you. Oh, my gosh. So I'm going to go ahead and decide ahead of time. Cheap, Joel, not frugal. No, it's actually really cool. And the kids are loving it.

0:55.8

So it's like Harry Potter Funk.

0:57.6

Funko pop, is that what it's called?

1:29.3

I don't know what that is. They're like these plastic figurines of all the Harry Potter figures. And I think they do them for all sorts of different genres, like Marvel Universe and stuff like that. And so every day they get a new little Harry Potter Funko Poppoo's from my father-in-law. He was like, oh, he used this before with like, and so now my kids are using it and they're loving it. So, and it's super reusable, man. So I don't get it. The idea is that you break the perforated paper and you unfold it and then you pull it out and then you consume it normally if that's food you eat it but if it's a play

1:31.2

thing it means you play with it you can play with it

1:33.4

but I guess um they just keep the pieces

1:35.5

they kept the pieces up and they stuck them back in

1:37.1

stuck them back in so funny and we get to round

1:39.5

two baby round two I love that

1:41.5

I love it too so it's a free

1:43.7

fun ad abbey calendar but All right, fine. I will, I've changed my verdict back to, back to frugal. Thank you. What kicked me, well, maybe want to like mention this. I saw this article in Harper's about the, like the, Barbers Bazaar. Yeah, I guess it's... Is that one of your go-toes?

2:01.2

No, just kind of randomly stumbled upon it.

2:03.2

Okay.

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