S5 Ep382: Inflation for Dummies & When You Love Staying Home Too Much

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🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Does it feel like your wallet is bleeding money right now? We all know that inflation has gotten worse during the pandemic, but can you explain why? Kathleen is breaking it down and explaining why things like groceries, cars, houses, even your favorite hobbies have gotten more expensive over the last two years. Then, Bethany opens up about her struggles with getting back to socializing and leaving her house after two years of staying inside. (When does the excuse “I’m an introvert” become a crutch?) Plus, Bebe and Kathleen torture each other with a game of “Job Interview” and, as always, your voicemails!

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What We Talked About:

1:09 - Intros to our topics

3:09 - B + K reinterview each other for the jobs they already have

16:18 - Inflation for dummies and millennials

36:13 - Getting too comfortable with staying at home

59:51 - Taking swimming in middle school/high school

01:03:54 - When dodgeball costs you $5000

1:05:09 - Is Peloton dead?

1:09:32 - That time Bethany worked at a bank

1:11:19 - What we learned this week

1:17:49 - Voicemails

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Kathleen’s Sources:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/poverty-america-2021-covid-pandemic/

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/29/1068899497/the-covid-small-business-boom-indicator-favorite

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article257060717.html

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/mortgages/is-it-a-good-time-to-buy-a-house

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/federal-reserve-expected-to-raise-interest-rates-in-fight-against-inflation

The Ezra Klein Show: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jason-furman.html

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/10/economy/inflation-blame-pandemic-biden-fed-corporations/index.html

Ikea Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IKEA/comments/rxm8fp/price_increased_overnight/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/business/pandemic-savings.html

https://themortgagereports.com/88214/is-now-a-good-time-to-buy-a-home-interest-rates-rising

BETHANY’S SOURCES:

https://whatnerd.com/staying-home-instead-going-out-problem/

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/agoraphobia/symptoms-causes/syc-20355987

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1:13.2	Napa Day taking creepy YouTube video watching. Speaking of YouTube, I had a dream that a YouTuber I
1:19.6	watched turned into a pine tree friend. And I'm Kathleen Haney-Yore. I'm obsessed with inventing
1:27.2	Anna on Netflix. I learned how to properly milk an eggplant before roasting. I just finished
1:33.2	reading The Guest List by Lucy Folly, and it's a book that helped me captive, and I can't stop
1:38.0	thinking about it friend. And every week, Kathleen and I get together to discuss our lives,
1:42.0	and what's weird in the world, and we invite you to join us. Kathleen, what are you talking about
1:46.4	this week? This week, I'm talking about inflation for dummy millennials. I think, and there's
1:52.5	probably, you know, Jenzeers in there too, who don't understand inflation. Of course, yes,
1:56.6	millennials and Jenzeers are dealing with inflation for the first time in their lives. And me,
2:03.0	the dummy, I went in and sort of did a deep dive into what inflation means for people in those
2:09.2	generations and what we can do to combat it. Cool. Yeah. I mean, I noticed, I think I talked about
2:13.8	it last week. I noticed that my groceries last week cost $450. And I live alone. Yeah. And you
2:23.9	don't cook. So it's a shame that that's all going to go to waste. And a huge part of it is like
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