WEBVTT - Taking Advantage of Free Stuff (Bestie) #143 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:02.960 Hello, Matt, Hey, buddy, how's it going good? This is 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:06.120 not your normal How to Money show. This is a 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.600 Bestie episode. And we're releasing this one because it is 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:12.920 the day before Thanksgiving and coming up as Black Friday, 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:15.840 a sign of weakness for many consumers around the nation. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:18.520 And I don't know, I mean, I think that this 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.880 episode perfectly pairs for this week. It's an episode that 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:24.480 we where we talked about taking advantage of free stuff. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.280 There's so much amazing free things all around us that 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:29.760 we've failed to take advantage of that we failed to 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.839 even consider. And so yeah, I think this is was 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:36.440 an important episode, and it's especially important the week that 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:41.600 consumers go the absolute most ape insanity over buying new stuff. 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.559 Hopefully this episode being rereleased will sort of act as 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.199 like an immunization shot for you, right, like get your 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.159 dose of hearing how you should be taking advantage of 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.080 free stuff before your you go out there and kind 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.280 of you might be tempted by those sales. Get inoculated now. 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:57.440 And the thing is, man, it's not that we're against 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.480 spending money, right, like we're we're not against purchase things. 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.560 We just want folks to be mindful, right, And thoughtful 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.920 about their purchases and to not just bend blindly and 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:08.520 kind of get caught up in all the big sales 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.520 that are going on, all the hype. Yeah, I know, 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.640 there's been a couple of things that I've considered purchasing 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:15.960 a new TV. I've told you about this. I've had 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.840 the same TV since I've purchased one on a Black Friday, 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.039 like twelve years ago. And the one that you waited 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.319 in line for, I had to stick my hand on 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:25.360 it literally the whole time and wait for it. I 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.120 think Black Fridays changed a little bit since then. Are 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:28.839 you on one of those like shopping s free videos 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:30.840 where people are like pushing each other over, like knocking 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:32.880 down the glass sliding doors. An old lady might have 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:36.200 knocked me over with her cane. I was so mad 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:37.800 it didn't take much to knock you over back then, 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.120 That's true. I was. I was like weekling. But yeah, no, 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:43.200 that's still the same TV I have to this day. 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.160 And you know what I've thought about it. I've poured 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:46.920 it over my brain and they're so cheap, and you 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.680 know what, I've decided, I'm gonna stick with it. I'm 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.760 not gonna do it. I'm not gonna give in. It's 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.440 still solid. So more power to you, dude. Now. And 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:56.720 that's not saying I'm not gonna buy anything, but gotcha, 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.680 I'm gonna I'm gonna stick to eight incredibly small list 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.640 of of one or two things that I've curated that Okay, 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:04.920 if I find a deal on those two things, that's 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:06.720 what I am willing to spend my money on. I 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.799 hear you, dude, Well, do you actually even like turkey? Oh? Man? 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.679 I love turkey. Yeah, it's a shame every time Thanksgiving 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:15.760 rolls around, I'm always like, why is this the only 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.840 day of the year we turkey is so good? Man? Specifically, 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.200 I am a huge fan of smoke turkeys. There's a 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:23.720 barbecue place locally and they smoke a bunch of their turkeys. 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.280 They are so delicious. It's hard enough to try them 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.040 out there when you smoke them, right, Well, that's the thing. 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:30.240 You go to somebody that knows what they're doing and 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.359 you can get yourself a juicy, delicious, tender smoked turkey. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.200 And it's got so much flavor. It's got all that 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.400 barbecue flavor but built under the turkey. Yeah, what way 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:42.320 can you make turkey better by making it tastes like bacon. Right. Yeah, 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.160 one year, my sister actually put bacon on the outside 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.359 of the turkey and it was pretty delightful. Yeah, I 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.760 think I think my favorite way of eating turkey those 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.959 fried turkey. We did that in front of my house 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:52.760 one year and it was awesome. Just a bunch of 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.960 friends frying turkeys and we just had like a blast. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.400 And I just like locks in the flavor. The skin 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:00.800 is a little crispy. There's just another better and turkey 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:02.520 anyway you fried it up, right, You're getting me in 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:04.320 the mood, dude, that sounds so good. Awesome. Yeah, Well, 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:05.880 we've got so much to be thankful for too, and 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:07.480 I think, yeah, when we when we think of it 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.200 in light of the fact that we have so much, 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.400 we have so much to be thankful for. Actually, it 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.840 makes Black Friday seem like a little less of a 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:15.960 necessity in our lives. Yeah, yeah, dude, that's so true. 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.600 I am thankful for for you man in this podcast, 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.519 that we're able to do together. Don't make me cry, 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.720 but it's it's it's true. I really appreciate our friendship 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.079 and I'm also thankful man, for all of our listeners 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.080 who just listen to us weekend week out. We could 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.440 not do this podcast without you, our a listener out 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.920 there supporting us. So man, we really appreciate you yeah 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.240 and always yeah sharing their wins, reaching out to us 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.160 for the email sharing stuff in the Facebook group, all 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.560 that stuff that just energizes us to continue to create 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:42.720 the show and we love doing it. And that one 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.640 more thing we have to mention, actually, the day after Thanksgiving, 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.280 on Black Friday, we're going to be in New York 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.800 City because we're creating a podcast episode up there the 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.440 following day, which will be really fun and for our 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.400 listeners who live in the New York City area, we're 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.360 going to try to have a beer hang So make 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.880 sure you follow our Facebook page, Facebook dot com slash 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.960 out to Money Pod, and we'll also post something on 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.720 our Instagram page as well. So, yeah, if you are 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:07.960 in New York, if you don't want to shop and 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.080 you actually prefer to hang out and have a beer 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.920 with some money saving dudes instead, well we'd love to 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:14.600 see you. And without further ado, let's get to that 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.800 best of the episode where we talked about free stuff. 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.960 Welcome to how to Money. I'm Joel, and I'm Matt 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:43.120 and today we're discussing how to take advantage of free stuff. Joel, Man, 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:47.200 it is almost Christmas. Your plans for the holidays, Yeah, buddy, 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.640 Christmas time. I'm stoked. Christmas is always so much fun, 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.479 and our plans are really to hang out around the 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.680 house and we'll see some families, see some friends. There's 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:58.280 already been a lot of that. I think what I 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.800 love about Christmas time the most is there's so many 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.719 parties to go to. Oh my gosh, yeah, which is 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.720 partly why you and I both sound a little horse. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:09.440 We might have been making a little too merry maybe, yeah, man, 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.839 and those actually we were at the same three parties 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.279 last week, which sounds kind of ridiculous because I mean, 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:18.839 we do have lives outside of our own relationship. Should 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:20.840 we find some other friends or something like that. I 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.960 don't know, it sounds ridiculous. Uh, you've got something you're 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.640 excited to to get for Christmas, like a gift, So 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.279 I don't really have like a long list of gifts 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.919 Christmas list, like like when you're tin I sent it 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.560 to Santa. It was super thick. We'll see what I get. No, 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:37.560 I mean, really my philosophy for asking for presents for Christmas. 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:39.000 I mean, well, first off, there's not much I need, 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:40.960 There's not much I asked for, but my mom like 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:42.880 texts me eight times, like seriously, what do you want 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:44.479 for Christmas? And so I feel like I have to 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.600 provide her something And that sounds familiar. So I just 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.120 always asked for something that I wouldn't buy myself, but 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.000 that I would like to have. And usually that's like 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:56.640 a soccer jersey or some sort of hed Laney United paraphernalia. 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:58.840 So that's right, hoping to get hoping to get a 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.960 jersey this this Christmas? Yeah, for me, I'm actually thinking 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:03.719 of do you have an e reader, like something that 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:05.640 you read digitally with or do you just stick with 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.880 paper books? No paper books or articles on my phone 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.920 or whatever it is? Guys. Yeah, I actually mentioned something 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.160 to Kate kind of offhand, and I hope she heard 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.880 me shared it with maybe a family member, because I 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:18.240 don't think she was planning to get it for me, 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.320 but a knee reader or like a Kindle. Do you 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.400 have an e reader? I don't know. I don't I'm 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:23.880 not I'm not really into that. I read stuff on 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:25.720 my phone sometimes just articles. But other than that, I'm 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.760 reading paper books, saying I just never got into reading 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.400 something on the screen. I feel like I'm in front 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.279 of the screen too much anyway. Right, Well, that's the thing, 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.280 that's why it's different, is because they used the ink 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:35.480 and I've seen it in person, and every time I 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.120 see it kind of blows me away because it's not 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.000 an actual, you know, l ed screen. It's an e 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.480 ink screen. It's kind of magic. Reminds me of Harry 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.120 Potter with the map. I don't know how much Harry 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.800 Potter lore, you know, but there's a special map and 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.240 the ink moves on the paper. Oh yeah, I've seen 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.480 the movie. Yeah, but I just haven't read those books, 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.400 although I love a point. I can't wait till my 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.080 daughter like grows up and she's got to read them 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.200 and you have to, You're forced to read them to 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.800 her exactly. Yeah, I have hope that would be the 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.360 same for me. But yeah, just reading more stuff digitally, 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.320 and I've been reading more pds lately, and I would 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.520 love just to have us just a little e reader, 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.240 like something basic, but just to be able to either 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.280 read a study or just a book. Again, like you said, 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.280 it's something that I wouldn't normally get for myself, but 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.240 if I think through it, I'm like, this would make 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.960 my life awesome. Well not really, but but I would 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.040 really love it. Right. Yeah, I'll make sure to send 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:24.880 a link to this episode to your mom, just as 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.040 she notes, wink wink. But yeah, man, on that note, 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.320 you said you're not a huge Christmas list kind of guy, 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:32.360 how do you how do you guys do guests for 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.240 for other folks? Like do you have folks make the 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.040 Amazon wish list or do you kind of leave it 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:38.520 open and you're just like, all right, whatever you want 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:39.880 to get get me, you know you can get it 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.920 for me whatever. Yeah, So, honestly, we don't really give 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.200 many gifts to each other in our family. We've kind 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.600 of button that down over the years and and so 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.800 so really, you know, my parents will get me usually 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.920 one thing, and siblings will give a little couple of gift, 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:54.960 which is usually just a gift card to a local 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.200 restaurant or something like that, or or a little experience 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.120 in town that we know that they love. But other 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.200 than that, there's an had a whole lot of gift 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.240 giving on our side, and too, I honestly don't really 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.880 like to get lists from other people to to buy 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.480 off of. I really like you're a little more loosey 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.280 goosey kind of guys. I want to be I want 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.080 to be inspired, and I want to get somebody something 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:14.760 that I know, the love that they didn't even ask for. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.640 That's kind of my goal in Christmas gift giving. I 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.960 don't always succeed, but it's totally it's totally my goal. 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.720 And so this Christmas, Emily and I actually decided not 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.840 to get each other anything. And what we're doing is 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.760 we've actually we got a hotel room just yeah you 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:33.000 did in Athens, Georgia, which is about an hour and 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:34.719 a half away from us, and they've got like just 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.439 a lot of cool stuff going on in Athens. So 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.000 you know when that's a great time. That's my alma mater. Yeah, 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:40.960 I know. I was actually joking about that because I 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.079 saw you post that on Twitter or something about I 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.319 think it was with Priceline. You're upset that they kind 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.160 of did a bait and switch. Yeah, it was pretty ridiculous, 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:50.120 and I was thinking, why the heck is he booking 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:54.640 a stay in Athens, Georgia, home of creature comforts beer 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:56.640 without me your co host. I was. I was a 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.840 little angry. Sorry, buddy, well, good beer, good disc golf 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:01.800 and things. But I'm only taking my life, not you. 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:04.440 But I'm excited about that. That That should be fun. And 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.320 by the way, I decided to tell people. So yeah, 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.680 there was this I'm not gonna like bash price line here. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.280 There's no reason, but there was kind of a little 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:11.800 bit and switch, and I feel like, if every other 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.600 website could get it right price line, who is the 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.320 big dog and has all the technology in the world 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.600 to make sure they have the most accurate price reflected currently, 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.600 they just didn't. Um and I didn't really like that. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.760 How you click through the little website and then it says, 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.160 oh wait, actually the price is forty dollars more when 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.960 every other website seemed to have the accurate price represented. 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.720 Were they the cheapest ones when they had their own comparisons? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.760 It seemed a little dirty exactly. And so I ended 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.840 up calling the hotel myself and I said, hey, these 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.200 online retailers have a better price for hotel room stay 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.760 than you guys have on your site, and I'd rather 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:48.960 the money go into your pockets. And not a percentage 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.839 to one of these third party hotel sites. Um, you know, 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.080 what's the best rate you can offer me? And they 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:58.120 still had a Cyber Monday discount going on like a 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:02.240 couple of weeks later, fifty percent off rooms. So I 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:06.520 got the sickest deal at this hotel that was way 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:08.720 cheaper than even like a crumby Airbnb. And it's a 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.679 really cool looking hotel. So I'm excited about that. Nice man. 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.559 That's awesome. So sometimes you know, it's worth calling the hotel, 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.120 calling the place, you know, before you end up booking online, 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.120 just to see if they can match or exceed or 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.840 maybe they've got, you know, promotion that's not published somewhere 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:23.840 on their site that you're not even seen. Because I 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:25.520 was like looking on their site and looking at the 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.400 dates and didn't see it anywhere. So it was really 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.400 nice just to call up and ask. And like we 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.720 had that one episode about asking for a discount. Man, 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.840 it never hurts. It's got to ask. Just to ask. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:39.280 Sometimes you get consumer tip. And by the way, as 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.319 we right before we get into this beer, Matt, we 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.880 have to relish our victory our Atlanta United winning the 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:48.559 MLS Cup. Our beloved MLS soccer team. It's a beautiful thing. 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.360 We were both there, super pumped to be there and 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:55.040 uh to nothing victory over the Portland Timbers. It was 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.560 so much fun. They were over seventy three thousand people. 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.559 Our town came to life and just so exciting for 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:04.959 Atlanta who hasn't won a championship in since second exactly. 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.719 But the Atlanta brays Man. When we were we taught seriously, yeah, 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:10.600 we were super young. Do you you remember? I assume 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.040 I remember that. Yeah, yeah, not to spend too much 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.120 time talking about soccer, but for our club to only 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.320 be two years old and then to man just to 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.280 walk away with it like like we did, makes me 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.800 makes me so happy. But there's also a beer reason. 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.760 I had to mention that our friend Dale is a 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.880 Portland Timbers fan, came down to Atlanta for the map 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:32.239 from Portland and cool dude brought us beer for the podcast. 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.760 So what's really cool is that it was after the 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:36.959 match the next day that he came by and dropped 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.240 the beer off to you, So extra props to him 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:42.400 for losing and then actually following through and bringing the beer. 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:43.840 It wasn't a bet or anything, but he just was 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.080 being kind. Yeah, of course, yeah. I gave him some 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.240 some local beers to just to, you know, to say 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.360 thank you, and man, just I love beer trading and 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.040 I love, love love getting to see other people try 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.400 some of the stuff that I love so much. So 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:59.520 so Dale brought us Block fifteen Brewing Company, Sticky hands, 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:01.400 I I p a. So that's what Matt and I 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:03.640 are going to be drinking on the show today. Yeah. Man, 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:07.120 so you just poured this and cheers. Tear's buddy all. 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.760 We're gonna try this again, Matt, because last week we 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.240 both gave one word just an initial response to the beer. 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.440 I'm gonna let you try it again because last week 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.400 you picked a really weird word. What's your one word 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.960 descriptor for this beer? You don't let my words from 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.760 last week? Jacket? It was just odd. So if people 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:23.920 want to know why Matt referred to the beer is 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.160 one is one descriptive word that he could use was jacket. 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.800 Go back and listen to the last week's episode. So 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:34.680 can my one word be tears? I guess it can, 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.080 because I can't help but drink this Portland beer and 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:43.080 not think of Dale's tears. Sorry, sorry, Buddy Dale's salty 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.960 tears dropping in there. That's that's not a good descriptor. 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.240 You do yours and then I'll do mine. Alright. So 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:52.720 the one descriptive word I would use for this beer floral? 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:58.880 Oh really? Yep? Nice? All right, I'm gonna go with resinie. Okay, 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:00.320 I like it. So if you guys want to hear 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.959 the full beer review, stick around towards the end of 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:04.600 the show, Matt and I will kind of give you 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.880 our final thoughts on this beer. Alright, Matt, So onto 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:11.480 the topic at hand, how to take advantage of free stuff? Yeah, 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.480 And the reason that we're tackling this topic today is 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:18.040 because there are so many free resources available to people. 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.880 But we're so used to consumption and just easy consumption, 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.680 especially on a subscription basis, we don't even think to 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:27.520 take advantage of these free resources that are available to us. Yeah. Man, 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.920 you know, our culture and honestly, our technology, even it 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.559 kind of steers us in the direction to spend money. 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.559 And so chances are, you know, we're not taking advantage 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:40.280 and we are overspending because sometimes we just haven't given 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.920 enough thought. And hopefully these resources will allow you to 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.520 be smarter it'll help you to save money, and you know, honestly, 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.960 it might even make you money overall, it'll just make 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.360 your life better. Yeah, I mean, there are a lot 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:53.199 of free resources, some of which are just gonna be 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.280 kind of like duh, I know that. But then I 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.280 think we're gonna dive a little bit deeper into those 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.880 resources too, because everyone knows about the library, right, but 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.080 in it turns out the library has just a lot 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.719 more resources than you thought they did. Libraries have even 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:06.240 gotten with the twenty one century, and there are a 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.800 lot of resources that the library offers that you probably 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.280 don't know about, or if you do, maybe you forgot 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:13.200 about them. You're not taking advantage of them. I mean. 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:14.559 And the thing is still I want to mention is 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.559 that with it being the holiday or the Christmas season, 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:20.000 we're not saying that you shouldn't spend money, especially on others, right. Obviously, 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.440 make sure hopefully you've budgeted to spend on others, but 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.120 we're hoping this is something that you'll be able to 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.760 take into your own life personally, kind of once the 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.520 new year rolls around and you're back to your typical 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:32.560 usual spending and you kind of fall back into your 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:36.840 regular habits. It's always tough to start new diets, new 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:42.400 disciplines around the Christmas season. But again, this is something 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.360 that we're kind of mentioning as you're looking forward into 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.480 the new year. Yeah, and creating a goal to use 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.000 more of the free resources at your disposal as opposed 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.320 to consuming and spending money on entertainment. I feel like 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:54.920 there's a lot of good stuff in here, Matt that 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:56.960 we're gonna get to that kind of will help you 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.120 accomplish that goal, like really make it easy for you 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.360 to think about things a little bit differently and start 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.560 implementing the use of these resources into your life. That's right, man, 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:12.280 We're gonna get to those examples right after this break, 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.200 all right, Matt. We already mentioned libraries kind of at 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.240 the top of the show, and libraries are the first 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.320 example we want to give here. Obviously, there are books 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.840 and libraries, right, That's the main reason people go to libraries. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.560 I was just there on Saturday with my girls. It 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.360 was super fun because we could kill an hour hanging 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.000 out with the library looking for books. Are you were 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.480 there on Saturday? Yeah? They had a book sale at 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.080 our Yeah, those friends of the Library day. Yeah, so 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:41.440 I was like, I'm didn't know you were there. I 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.720 don't know, I didn't see you. Well, I wasn't there personally, 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:45.160 I was. I was taking it out. I didn't see 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.920 your family either. Yeah, the in laws are in town 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:49.440 and they took the big girls out for a little 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:51.200 get out of the house while it was raining. Kind 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.800 of kind of deal. Yeah, and libraries like the perfect 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.000 rainy day activity first off, right, So, yeah, so there 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:58.960 was the library sale. All books were a dollar or 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.320 two dollars. Would it was cool. We didn't buy anything, 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.920 but we perused and then also we looked around for 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.000 books to bring home you can check up. I asked 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.320 Emily this because I didn't know fifty books at a 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.840 time you can have out at the library, And honestly, 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.520 we don't come close to that. But we I swear 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:15.600 we've got like fifteen books at a time because we 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.520 we circle through them kids books mostly, right, We're circling 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.320 through these books all the time at night, and then 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.240 we just like sat in the corner and read books 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.360 for a while too. It's just it's super fun to 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.000 read in a different space with the girls, and just 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:28.520 like all these books that they can go and choose 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.880 from and pull off the shelf. So everybody knows that 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.440 your local library has books, but maybe you forgot or 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.800 maybe you've just gotten used to hitting the click button 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:39.480 and buying books off of Amazon, right, But it turns 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.240 out that a fifteen dollar book or a twenty dollar book, Man, 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.280 that that gets expensive over time, So get on the 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.680 waiting list. Emily does this all the time. She reads 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.520 a lot more than I do, and so she'll be 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.360 on the waiting list for a books. She'll be sixtieth, 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.360 but you know what, it comes within like three weeks 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.200 she's she's first on the list. And so I would, yeah, 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.000 encourage you to sign up for books that you want 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.000 at your local library, to go check it out and 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.720 hunt for books that you're that might interest you. Just 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:03.640 use your library for what it's there for. It's like 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:07.480 the o G Original purpose books exactly, But it turns 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.600 out there's a lot more resources that the library offers too. Right. Well, 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:12.240 one of the things I was most excited about, and 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.240 I've only learned this this past year, man, is that 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:17.560 the library has e books. You can check out the books, 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.000 you can check out audio books, which is I knew 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.280 that before because I used to be huge and audio books. 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:23.960 We used to travel a good bit and spend a 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.520 lot of time in the car and especially before kids, 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.720 man putting on a nice audio book. Kate and I 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.000 used to love doing that. And this is maybe before 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.920 we were getting into podcast pretty heavy, but we would 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.240