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Money Unplugged with Chris Hill

Money Unplugged with Chris Hill

By: Chris Hill
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Money Unplugged is a weekly podcast about the personal side of money — the stories, anxieties, decisions, and turning points that shape how real people earn, save, spend, and invest.

Host Chris Hill talks with investors, entrepreneurs, journalists, comedians, and financial experts about their earliest money memories, their biggest financial mistakes, and what they've learned along the way. Guests include bestselling authors Morgan Housel and Dan Pink, CNBC host Becky Quick, NerdWallet's Sara Rathner, Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner, and many more.

Whether you're working through debt, just starting to invest, building a business, or thinking differently about financial independence — this show is for you. No hot takes. No hype. Just honest conversations about money and the people who've learned to make it work for them.

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Episodes
  • How a Music Teacher Went From $50 on Robinhood to Hosting an Investing Podcast (Jeff Santoro)
    Apr 17 2026

    In January 2020, Jeff Santoro deposited $50 into a Robinhood account and started buying penny stocks. He had no idea what he was doing. Two months later, the pandemic hit — and he suddenly had a lot of time to figure it out.
    Santoro spent 12 years teaching music and has spent the past 13 as a school administrator. He is also the co-host of Investing Unscripted, a podcast he built from scratch (with Jason Hall) after becoming obsessed with investing in his 40s. His path there runs through a false sense of security about his pension, a wife who quietly knew more about money than he did, and a data obsession that started in high school when he was tracking every dollar he spent on Quicken.
    Chris Hill talks with Jeff about:
    - How having a pension made him dangerously complacent about saving and investing for decades
    - Catching both Charlie Munger's last Berkshire Hathaway meeting and Warren Buffett's last as CEO (neither time intentionally)
    - The one financial rule he's given his kids that he wishes someone had given him at their age
    - Why being “penny wise and pound foolish” is the category of spending he regrets most
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    Opening clip – “The Big Short”

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    32 mins
  • He Gave Himself a PhD in Investing — One Audiobook at a Time (Brian Feroldi)
    Apr 10 2026

    Brian Feroldi grew up in Rhode Island as a born saver — the kind of kid who hoarded his lunch money candy rather than eating it, just to watch his collection grow. His dad was a CFO. His mom raised money for the ALS Association. Nobody sat him down and explained how investing worked. That part he had to figure out on his own.
    A financial educator, YouTuber, and author of the book Why Does the Stock Market Go Up?, Brian joins Chris Hill to talk about the long road from money-illiterate college graduate to one of the most-followed investing educators on the internet. He shares:
    - Why he chose his college major purely to save $5,000 a year in tuition — and why the classroom demographics sealed the deal
    - How 40,000 miles a year on the road became an unlikely PhD in business and investing, while his coworkers listened to Howard Stern
    - What Charlie Munger understood about incentives that most investors still get wrong — and why stock-based compensation at most public companies is completely broken
    - Why he regrets his MBA (and it’s not because of the money it cost)

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    Opening clip – “Neal Brennan: 3 Mics”

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    29 mins
  • He Cashed Out His 401(k) to Pay for a Round of Golf. He Understands Compounding Now. (Jason Hall)
    Apr 3 2026

    Jason Hall grew up in rural Georgia watching his dad treat money the way most people treat a hot potato — get it and spend it as fast as you can. Nobody talked about saving. Nobody talked about investing. The plan, such as it was, was to fix up a beat-up old truck his grandfather gave him, pulling parts from the junkyard ten miles down the road, and figure the rest out later.
    Co-host of the Investing Unscripted podcast and a contributor to The Motley Fool for over a decade, Jason joins Chris Hill to talk about the long, expensive road from that junkyard to genuine financial clarity. He shares:
    - Why dropping out of college to sell electronics at Circuit City felt like the smart move — and how money locked him into a career path he never planned on
    - The moment his girlfriend's savings account and an unauthorized speaker purchase nearly ended their relationship before it really began
    - How he cashed out his 401(k) to pay for a round of golf with two guys whose names he can't remember — and what that decision is worth in today's dollars
    - The conversation he had with his wife before walking away from a six-figure sales job to write about investing for half the pay
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    Opening clip – “Nate Bargatze: Hello World”

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    33 mins
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