Friday Flight - Return Rabbits, Double Majoring, and Nihilistic Renters #1086
How to Money
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 40 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:
- World Cup ticket prices
- Retailers charging for returns
- Return rabbits
- Garnished wages on the way
- Education Department loan simulator
- Easily compare college costs
- Double majoring
- Nihilistic renters
- Shopping your mortgage
- No corporate landlords
- Timeshares, so hot right now
- Overdraft fees rising
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to How to Money. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm Joel. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Matt. |
| 0:07.4 | Today we're talking return rabbits, double majoring, and nihilistic renters. Yeah, it's great to be back here at the Friday flight, isn't it? |
| 0:34.5 | It's good to have an opinion that not just your partner and kids want to hear, Joel. I'm sure that that's part of it for you. What was it? I never want to hear my I texted you. There was something that hit the news like in the middle of Christmas week or something like that. And I can't remember what it was. I think it was gift cards. It was something about gift cards. and I was just like, I'm here for you, buddy. You can't vent on the podcast right now. |
| 0:58.0 | If you just want to. I think it was gift cards. It was something about gift cards. And I was just like, I'm here for you, buddy. |
| 0:56.5 | You can't vent on the podcast right now. |
| 0:57.9 | If you just want to vent to me directly. |
| 0:59.8 | But no, this is the Friday flight where we talk about the headlines from the past week, |
| 1:03.7 | how they're specifically going to impact your personal finances. |
| 1:07.0 | Joel, everybody has been like up in arms about the World Cup prices, World Cup ticket prices |
| 1:13.3 | that will be coming here to North America this summer. |
| 1:17.6 | Sporting events are just cheap in general, Matt, is what I found out. |
| 1:20.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.9 | Actually, I went to a college game, basketball game, with my kids this past weekend. |
| 1:26.3 | That was affordable. |
| 1:27.1 | And it was free. Like, they had free tickets to go see the female basketball game. I kids this past weekend. That was affordable. And it was free. |
| 1:45.5 | Like they had free tickets to go see the female basketball game. I'm taking them kids again this weekend because I guess what? I got more free tickets and this was not because I got a hookup. They were widely available. Anybody could get these free tickets. But World Cup prices. Thanks for not letting me know. I know. I know. I probably shouldn't have told you. I thought about it after the fact. |
| 1:46.6 | I thought about it after the fact. |
| 1:47.3 | No, it's right. |
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