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CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

Introducing: What We Spend

CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

CBS News

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Cbs

4.6871 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Imagine if you could ask someone anything you wanted about their finances. On What We Spend, people from across the country and across the financial spectrum are opening their wallets—and their lives—to tell you everything: what they make, what they want, and—for one week—what they spend. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, listeners. CBS News Sunday mornings has a rich legacy of sharing interesting stories from real people about unique experiences in their lives. But there is one universal topic many of us are often curious about, yet is widely considered taboo to talk about. And that is matters related to personal finances. That's what makes the new podcast what we spend so interesting.

0:23.1

On every episode, people from all over the country and across various income levels open up

0:28.3

as they share the ways money factored into their lives over the course of one week.

0:33.2

You'll hear the ways they make money, save money, spend money, and all the thoughts and feelings

0:39.4

that come up along the way. It's both uniquely personal and universally relatable. As you

0:45.0

enjoy this preview, search for the full episode of what we spend on your favorite podcast platform.

0:51.2

You know how you always want to know about everyone else's money? You do, right? Like,

0:56.2

you'll see someone buying something you want or taking some amazing vacation and you think,

1:00.5

how can they afford that? Or you meet your friend's new girlfriend and she has some very

1:05.7

impressive job and you think, how much money does she make? I think when it comes to money, even if you don't want to

1:13.3

admit it, we're all a little nosy. But I don't know, I actually think that's good. I think we should

1:20.5

be talking about money more. And all the ways big and small that it impacts our lives.

1:33.6

On this show, we are actually going to do that.

1:39.0

We are going to go somewhere that we almost never get to go, deep into the heart of someone else's finances.

1:40.7

Here's how this is going to work.

1:42.5

Each week, I'm going to introduce you to a new person from somewhere across the country.

1:47.0

And they are going to tell us everything about their finances.

1:50.4

How much they make, how much they want to make, what they worry about, or if they don't worry

1:54.3

at all.

1:55.5

And then for one week, we'll follow them through their daily routine.

1:59.2

Every day, they'll record an audio diary with all the nitty-gritty details of how they're spending their money.

2:04.6

I mean, the coffees, the groceries, the rent that's due, the car accident that suddenly opens everything.

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