This is Later with Lee Matthews, The Lee Matthews Podcast more what you hear weekday afternoons on the Drive. Molly Sacho is an executive producer at iHeart and former comedian Matt Stilo's a musician turn actor turned engineer turn podcast producer, and they have put together a podcast you can hear on the iHeart radio app and everywhere you get podcasts, grown up stuff. How to Adults will start with you, Molly, who wants to adult? Oh? I think everyone wants
to adult? And we're just all kind of struggling our way through it. We're just trying to figure out what we're supposed to be doing with you know, not a ton of guidance. So yeah, so this is this is truly a show where we are just you know, trying to figure it out alongside of our audience. There's so many questions that you know, even in our thirties, we feel like we really don't know the answers to that we're kind of just expected to know. So yeah, I think that these are
all topics that apply to so many people. I mean, Lee, are you telling me you don't get satisfaction out of sending out your tax return early in February. Are you telling me that you don't you know, you make the right choices on the health insurance for your family? Love killing me? Are you kidding me? I opened champagne after I balanced the check book. Yeah, yeah, there you go. I mean, I feel like the approach that people took to adulting, that you know, we would have,
you know, everyone would be a little bit happier in their lives. Celebrate those victories, celebrate that lovely wife came to me the other day and she said, I hope you don't mind. I thought, Oh, what happened? Did you break something? I took a hunk of our money and I put it in a money market so we could yield about five hundred extra dollars. I love that. That's brilliant. And more people knew about high old savings accounts. I think if more people knew about money market funds, they
could see how much their their dollar could stretch. And that's what our show was really about. I mean, like, how many moments in life do we wait to find out about the thing and we're in the thick of it, or it's too late, you know, Like it's April fourteenth and we decided now is a good time to figure out how to do our taxes, or you know, we turned fifty six years old, we're like, maybe
I should think about retirement. You know, we're just kind of hoping with the show that you know, everyone can take a step by step learning approach to their life and be a little bit more proactive about it, because if you can make your life one percent better at a time over time, like compound interest, you really can see incredible results. Maly Sasha Matt Stilo.
It's how to grown up stuff, how to adult. And I tell you that anecdote because I can't emulate the apologetic tone of voice my wife had when she told me I genuinely thought she had lost a bunch of money at the casino or something, and that wasn't at all. She was not wanting to adult. She was almost embarrassed to admit I had to grab this opportunity.
Well, you touched something interesting, marely embarrassed to admit. I think a lot of us if we actually took the moment to admit that we that we don't know what we don't know, we could really open ourselves up to the possibility of learning. I think a lot of people are like, no, I know my four one K, like I got that stuff, I'm putting
some money away. But if you actually looked into a little bit more and you actually saw the kind of stocks that your tax you your money, your pre tax money was going into that, you could reallocate it to benefit you, you know, depending on what your goals are. And so I just think if you can say, hey, you know, I'm thirty four years old and I don't know how this works, you know, you could open yourself up to to learning a bit more about it. So I think that
it's it's wonderful that you that your wife did that. Molly, Sasha's with us, Matt Steel, o'molly. One thing that's happened in our state is they passed all all recently to teach high school kids a little bit more about balancing your check book, a little bit more about what health insurance is. You know, what what the difference between a bank and a savings and loan. That kind of thing had gone by the wayside. So is there a
generation that's really really out in the dark about it? I think every I mean most generations are in thet some you know, on some of these topics
for sure. Yeah, I have heard about that, and I think that's so amazing because a lot of this stuff is like I wish that they had taught me about health insurance and how much I'm supposed to put into my furrow and k or you know, like you said, like figuring out your checkbook, balancing your checkbook when I was in high school, because you know, you get your first job and you're just like, now what do I do? What's like I get a paycheck every month and I don't know what to
do with it. Or I'm presented with these options and I don't know which one is the best or why am I choosing this? And a lot of things are made complicated on purpose, Like our taxes are complicated on purpose that you can so that you they're kind of like forcing you to hire someone who understands it to do to do it for you. And you know, all a lot of things are like that in life, and they're really designed to
really take more of your time and more of your money. And so if you can really understand them, you can save a little bit of that time and you can save a little bit of that money, and you know, make it work for you, like, we just found out about like, you know, we did an episode about laundry. We foun out that fabrics offt and there was really a product that was created to address the issue of using too much detergent. Well, companies didn't want you to use less detergent.
They wanted you to buy another product. And so, you know, when you can understand this stuff, you can really, you know, make your money and your time work for you. We also found out that it makes your close highly flammable, which was a real shot. Yeah, so maybe stop using the paper software people, grown up stuff. How to Adult is the podcast and the hosts are Mally Sasha and Matt Stielo. I've got another anecdote for you about adulting. It had been several years since I bought
a new car. Went into the dealership earlier this year, and they immediately asked for my cell number, and right away it became clear to me that this negotiation was going to be taking place via text, even though even though the guy was in an office a couple of feet away. I finally said, get out here and we're going to talk about this in person. So it's easier to lie on a text than it is to your face that said, what role in adulting as our new modern technology taken? Well, I
think that's a great question. I mean technology is constantly going to change everything all the time, and even just the environments in which you know, we talked about tipping and there are these new like the toast, the square pay, like that technology has completely changed the way we look at tipping in our
culture and who we're tipping and how how much we're tipping. And we even talked a little bit about, you know how even just delivery apps and how that's changed the way we tip and how much we should be tipping there. So I think that it plays a huge role in in what we talk about and how you know, those topics have changed over the years, which makes it again to your point, like, I think this in a lot of
ways, it applies to every generation. Oh yeah, yeah, even even those who might have a really firm grasp on some of these things, they're now learning relearning these topics again with that angle of this new technology that's changing the game completely. And Matt Steele, is it is there an effect on interpersonal relations? Are we adulting differently now because we have all of these resources
in the palm of our hand. Absolutely. I mean, I think with information that there's so much good information out there and there's there's a ton of bad information out there. And that's really why we do extensive research to make sure that we're we're learning, you know, as much as we can about the topics, and we're talking to experts who have you know, made each of these topics their their expertise and their field. And just with the with
with so many tools available to us, everything is getting easier. You know, if if you want to write something, you can just chat GPT it and you know, send an email that you didn't really write. And so what kind of skills are we losing? I think we're already you know, complacent in that we have access to so much information and tools are making it
easier to to not have to engage with them. And so I think we're kind of taking a step back with the show and saying, you know, if you can put in a little bit of effort and let me and Molly do it for you, you know, you can kind of just come on the ride with us and listen to us figure out how to do something in real time, and you can you know, take that that knowledge and apply it to your own life, and you know and not let you know yourself
get a little too complacent grown up And our curiosity is genuine and sincere because and we're asking the questions that you might be too embarrassed ask because we really don't know grown up stuff how to adult. That reminds me I'm out of wine. I will use my digital device to have more delivered by the time I get home. Thank you, Thank you for joining us host of Grown Up Stuff How to Adult, Molly Sasha and Matt Stillo. Good to have
you along and we'll be listening on the podcast. Thank you so much. Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews the Lee Matthews Podcast, and remember to listen to The Drive Live weekday afternoons from five to seven and iHeartMedia Presentation