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lady bird deeds
Meet the estate-planning tool with a First Lady's nickname, a Florida attorney's origin story, and one very useful trick: keeping your home out of probate court.
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Episode 30
vacation inflation
Summer vacation used to mean packing a few bags, catching a flight, or taking a long lazy road trip. Fast forward to 2026: now it's more like solving a financial puzzle to get the right combination of foresight, flexibility, and fees.
Episode 29
gas tax holiday
Though on first glance it sounds like a great idea, going forward with a gas tax holiday is more complicated than you can ever imagine.
Episode 25
algorithms are not your friends
Is surveillance pricing really a thing? Experts say yes, but how do you recognize true supply and demand versus a company using your own data against you?
Episode 24
breakups can be ruff
Doggie divorces, pup-pre-nups, splittens. Call it whatever you want, but more and more separations don't involve custody of the kids - the big question is "who gets the pet?".
Episode 23
the bottleneck of reversing the river
The Trump administration's tariff house of cards just collapsed because of a Supreme Court ruling. So how are new tariffs already in play... long before everyone has gotten their money back from the old tariffs?
Episode 22
frankenstein, meet your monster
QVC's recent bankruptcy filing is a master lesson in the student becoming the master. If you think about it, weren't those hosts the first true influencers?
Episode 21
is the bet driving the behavior?
Kalshi and Polymarket. They're big names in the prediction markets, and if you don't know what that is, buddy, you might want to sit down for this one.
Episode 20
what happens when financial anxiety overrides medical necessity
In America, is the most stressful part of a medical issue the diagnosis, the procedure – or the bill that comes after? How did the cost of getting better become its own kind of sick?
Episode 19
welcome to your bundle from hell
It's getting harder to watch all of your games, matches, or races in one place. And the fragmentation of viewing your favorite sport? It's only going to get worse.
Episode 18
the tyranny of the rocket equation
In this age of newer, re-usable space vehicles, why is NASA using legacy technology and heritage hardware to get us back to the Moon?
Episode 17
a passport to health savings
Cheaper surgery, elite surgeons, recovery in paradise? Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?
Episode 13
zombie mortgages
The good news: that second mortgage from almost 20 years ago disappeared and was buried in the chaos of the housing crisis. The bad news: although you may have forgotten about that home loan, that home loan didn't forget about you.
Episode 12
20-4-10 is broken
This is the playbook for how to select and buy the car you can afford. Too bad reality and today's new car prices have other plans for your money.
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Robot Stories gives you narrated audio you can listen to anywhere. We use artificial intelligence to turn stories into simple, natural-sounding podcasts - perfect for catching up while you’re driving, walking, working out, or just taking a break from screens.
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