A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn

Gaby and iconic podcast producer, writer and friend Melisa D. Monts break down one of the best bank robbing blockbuster films, Set It Off, starring Queen Latifah, Kimberly Elise, Vivica A Fox, and Jada Pinkett. How were Black women portrayed in "empowerment" films in light of the booming 90s economy? What do the motivations of our heroes say about systemic racism, homophobia, and misogynoir? Should we all just start robbing banks? Time to SET IT OFF! tw: police brutality and murder, sexual assault, suicide Gaby Dunn Instagram: @GabyRoad Mal Blum is @malblum anywhere you want to find them BWM Instagram: @bwmpod BWM Facebook group: http://tinyurl.com/badwithmoneyfb The BWM Discord channel: https://discord.gg/dAdxj4JMER Find Gaby on Patreon: patreon.com/gabydunn Shop gabydunn.com/shop for merch! Bad with Money is produced, edited, sound engineered and mixed by Cumulus Podcast Network. The theme song was performed by Sam Barbara and written by Myq Kaplan, Zach Sherwin, and Jack Dolgen. Additional music by Joey Salvia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A listener writes in to praise the basics and Mal gives a very good simple investing tip. Then, Jude has a wonderful reaction to hearing their name for the first time on the podcast. A voice teacher writes in wondering if they should order a binder or give money to an underage student whose parents are transphobic. A trans man in Germany struggles to find a therapist in their new country who will understand gender in English and explains how the healthcare is free, but the wait is long. A Canadian breaks down every single cost of his transition as a binary trans guy living in British Columbia. Carrie, a cis woman, details how she had to have six fibroids removed and a hystorectomy. Harrowing! Asa shares a spreadsheet he's kept since 2019 with every single cost from his transition. (Is he a Capricorn??) Sammy in Australia begs Gaby and Mal not to do the accent and talks about advocating for paid transition leave. Cass sends in a vulnerable and fascinating voicemail about the revisions to their bottom surgery and their detransitioning/regret without giving in to TERF rhetoric.   tw: detransitioning, transphobia, surgery For a full transcript, visit: https://bit.ly/3Dbp1B1 Gaby Dunn Instagram: @GabyRoad Mal Blum is @malblum anywhere you want to find them BWM Instagram: @bwmpod BWM Facebook group: http://tinyurl.com/badwithmoneyfb The BWM Discord channel: https://discord.gg/dAdxj4JMER Find Gaby on Patreon: patreon.com/gabydunn Shop gabydunn.com/shop for merch! Bad with Money is produced, edited, sound engineered and mixed by Cumulus Podcast Network. The theme song was performed by Sam Barbara and written by Myq Kaplan, Zach Sherwin, and Jack Dolgen. Additional music by Joey Salvia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this incredible and vulnerable coming out-inspired episode, co-host Mal Blum contacts banks to test which ones allow trans people to change their names on their accounts without paperwork. They ask about: changing deadnames on accounts to shortened versions, opening new accounts under chosen names, and which banks allow you to alter your name on your checks or credit cards. They encounter well-meaning reps, repetitions of their deadname, and roadblocks that make no goddamn sense. And happy GLAAD Spirit Day! (That's today! According to their website: "This day aims to create awareness for the bullying and harassment that the LGBTQ community faces.") Thank you to Mal for doing all this work and putting themselves on the line for the good of every queer listener!  Banks in this episode: Chase Bank TD Bank Wells Fargo CitiBank (corporate vs. local branch) Links: https://www.glaad.org/spiritday Gaby Dunn Instagram: @GabyRoad Mal Blum is @malblum anywhere you want to find them BWM Instagram: @bwmpod BWM Facebook group: http://tinyurl.com/badwithmoneyfb The BWM Discord channel: https://discord.gg/dAdxj4JMER Find Gaby on Patreon: patreon.com/gabydunn Shop gabydunn.com/shop for merch! Bad with Money is produced, edited, sound engineered and mixed by Cumulus Podcast Network. The theme song was performed by Sam Barbara and written by Myq Kaplan, Zach Sherwin, and Jack Dolgen. Additional music by Joey Salvia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Gaby tries to guess what instrument Mal is playing. A listener/teacher writes in to ask for an episode about incarcerated persons. BecBecMuffin explains Brazilian healthcare and the finances of moving there from the US with her husband. A former devout Dave Ramsey follower confirms everything terrible that Tori Dunlap and Gaby said about the finance "guru" on their episode about him and even more. Then, an email thanking Bad With Money for eliminating shame and helping Kristen get out of debt. Mal then shares about their trip to urgent care the day before and how insurance factored in. Three people then write in to criticize the show's conversation about the pain involved in IUD insertion. Next, worries about ADHD accommodations at work, and coincidences involving Bad With Money and Mal's music career. Finally: Could Gaby stand to edit the emails? Sure. Will they? No.  tw: gynecological procedures Gaby Dunn Instagram: @GabyRoad BWM Instagram: @bwmpod BWM Facebook group: http://tinyurl.com/badwithmoneyfb The BWM Discord channel: https://discord.gg/dAdxj4JMER Find Gaby on Patreon: patreon.com/gabydunn Shop gabydunn.com/shop for merch! Bad with Money is produced, edited, sound engineered and mixed by Cumulus Podcast Network. The theme song was performed by Sam Barbara and written by Myq Kaplan, Zach Sherwin, and Jack Dolgen. Additional music by Joey Salvia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Reality TV maven, mental health advocate and author Allison Raskin joins the pod to talk about real estate in reality TV and the controversial and beloved phenomenon that is Netflix's Selling Sunset. How the pandemic launched the careers of "famous real estate agents," what's real and what's fake, and why we're okay watching luxury even as the economy burns around us. Plus, the HUGE financial inequality being highlighted in Los Angeles and other urban centers. And of course, Gaby only knows about Chrishell from the queer gossip mill. Gaby Dunn Instagram: @GabyRoad BWM Instagram: @bwmpod BWM Facebook group: http://tinyurl.com/badwithmoneyfb The BWM Discord channel: https://discord.gg/dAdxj4JMER Find Gaby on Patreon: patreon.com/gabydunn Shop gabydunn.com/shop for merch! Bad with Money is produced, edited, sound engineered and mixed by Cumulus Podcast Network. The theme song was performed by Sam Barbara and written by Myq Kaplan, Zach Sherwin, and Jack Dolgen. Additional music by Joey Salvia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Gaby details Mal's dip into modeling, meanwhile Mal's been trying to change their psych meds for a month and the bills are piling up. They also deal with their first bit of criticism via email and it doesn't go well. Alex writes in to talk about their SAD PLASMA email that started it all. Emma gives pet insurance thoughts and advice from an industry insider. Monti brings the pain to Mal about their opinion on tech jobs being overpaid -- and Mal is not convinced. Selome warns that paying your debt off too fast might actually ding your credit score. Then, Jen pops by to ask for an episode about the costs of being kinky, a Furry, or attending orgies and swinging. Gaby LOVES this. Plus, New Zealanders call in!!! We need to hear your accents!  For a full transcript, visit: https://bit.ly/3TbBtqV Gaby Dunn Instagram: @GabyRoad BWM Instagram: @bwmpod BWM Facebook group: http://tinyurl.com/badwithmoneyfb The BWM Discord channel: https://discord.gg/dAdxj4JMER Find Gaby on Patreon: patreon.com/gabydunn Shop gabydunn.com/shop for merch! Bad with Money is produced, edited, sound engineered and mixed by Cumulus Podcast Network. The theme song was performed by Sam Barbara and written by Myq Kaplan, Zach Sherwin, and Jack Dolgen. Additional music by Joey Salvia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

From hysterectomies to name changes to clothing to voice training to top surgery, welcome to our Costs of Transitioning episode! We hear an email about IUDs and gender dysphoria, a voicemail from Lou about their hysterectomy, the concept of "boy juice," insurance snafus that cost thousands of dollars, and financing transition before online resources were available. Wedge pillows, jade rollers, scar cream, copays and all the other small tidbits needed to recover from surgery -- with specific numbers! And finally, Gaby responds to criticism of them saying they were "getting rid of their girl clothes." Plus, we heard almost exclusively from transmasculine and AFAB people for this episode, which was great, but Gaby wants to do part 2 with more stories and advice from trans women and transfeminine people! Write in! The more info shared amongst ourselves the better.  tw: transphobia, medical procedures For a full transcript, visit: https://bit.ly/3rzPAdE Gaby Dunn Instagram: @GabyRoad BWM Instagram: @bwmpod BWM Facebook group: http://tinyurl.com/badwithmoneyfb The BWM Discord channel: https://discord.gg/dAdxj4JMER Find Gaby on Patreon: patreon.com/gabydunn Shop gabydunn.com/shop for merch! Bad with Money is produced, edited, sound engineered and mixed by Cumulus Podcast Network. The theme song was performed by Sam Barbara and written by Myq Kaplan, Zach Sherwin, and Jack Dolgen. Additional music by Joey Salvia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Gaby and Mal break down and spill the tea on the problems with Gaby's former job at Buzzfeed in the wake of the BIG scandal that broke this week. Plus, a former guest writes in with hot takes and disagreements on our Dave Ramsey episode, a straight white cis ally wants to thank us for our LGBTQ perspectives, someone has advice for Mal's neck spasms, Eva wants to know if downloading episodes helps the show, Rachel changes her mind about reparations after listening to BWM and Caz graciously dives deep into paradoxes of disability. And lastly, Gaby thinks this ordinary word would be a gorgeous name and Mal is floored ...in a bad way. (More shenanigans as always.) Links from Caz's email: How to Get On by sleepygirl@protonmail.com and the Queer Guide to Disability Benefits zine by Thredd https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1382a https://www.disabilityapprovalguide.com/getting-approved/difference-social-security-disability-and-supplemental-security-income/ https://www.ssa.gov/disabilityresearch/wi/medicaid.htm https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-poverty/historical-poverty-thresholds.html https://aspe.hhs.gov/topics/poverty-economic-mobility/poverty-guidelines/prior-hhs-poverty-guidelines-federal-register-references https://livingwage.mit.edu/ https://www.epi.org/resources/budget/ https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/SSIamts.html https://www.moneycrashers.com/snap-food-stamp-challenge/ https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/work-requirements https://www.budget.senate.gov/hearings/waste-fraud-cost-overruns-and-auditing-at-the-pentagon For a full transcript, visit: https://bit.ly/3T64IeK Gaby Dunn Instagram: @GabyRoad BWM Instagram: @bwmpod BWM Facebook group: http://tinyurl.com/badwithmoneyfb The BWM Discord channel: https://discord.gg/dAdxj4JMER Find Gaby on Patreon: patreon.com/gabydunn Shop gabydunn.com/shop for merch! Bad with Money is produced, edited, sound engineered and mixed by Cumulus Podcast Network. The theme song was performed by Sam Barbara and written by Myq Kaplan, Zach Sherwin, and Jack Dolgen. Additional music by Joey Salvia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

And you thought Don't Worry Darling had problems!! This week our real life Girl In The Green Scarf Lauren Anastasio of STASH joins Gaby to break down the 2009 "aspirational" and/or "lesson-learned" film Confessions Of A Shopaholic starring Isla Fisher and Hugh Dancy. The movie premiered to much discourse and scandal on the heels of the 2008 economic recession and was branded "tone deaf" and "bragging." Articles galore ripped the romantic comedy a new one for its tasteless timing and privileged POV. Lauren and Gaby get into the real mental illness(es) behind "shopaholism," the relationship between department stores and sex, the accurate depictions of debt collecting/skiptracing, and post-pandemic "revenge spending."   For a full transcript, visit: https://bit.ly/3SYRQHH Links: http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1879111,00.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-feb-03-fi-shopaholic3-story.html https://www.newsweek.com/rich-are-feeling-luxury-shame-85301 John Oliver on debt collecting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxUAntt1z2c Listeners to get $25 free on Stash from Lauren, with code LAURENSTASH Gaby Dunn Instagram: @GabyRoad BWM Instagram: @bwmpod BWM Facebook group: http://tinyurl.com/badwithmoneyfb The BWM Discord channel: https://discord.gg/dAdxj4JMER Find Gaby on Patreon: patreon.com/gabydunn Shop gabydunn.com/shop for merch! Bad with Money is produced, edited, sound engineered and mixed by Cumulus Podcast Network. The theme song was performed by Sam Barbara and written by Myq Kaplan, Zach Sherwin, and Jack Dolgen. Additional music by Joey Salvia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this week’s mailbag: A nurse writes into the show with an alternate view on guardianships. Also, a listener spots someone reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad on the train. Another listener writes a poignant letter about disability and finances. Gaby and Mal consider books to takedown on the podcast in the future and discuss if it would be unethical to hook up with The Points Guy for points. Also this week: Mal’s impeccable Suze Orman impression…. And so much more! TW: medical trauma, abuse, ableism  Link: https://www.oltco.org/programs/opg-about-us.html For a full transcript, visir: https://bit.ly/3SiLIcS Gaby Dunn Instagram: @GabyRoad BWM Instagram: @bwmpod BWM Facebook group: http://tinyurl.com/badwithmoneyfb The BWM Discord channel: https://discord.gg/dAdxj4JMER Find Gaby on Patreon: patreon.com/gabydunn Shop gabydunn.com/shop for merch! Bad with Money is produced, edited, sound engineered and mixed by Cumulus Podcast Network. The theme song was performed by Sam Barbara and written by Myq Kaplan, Zach Sherwin, and Jack Dolgen. Additional music by Joey Salvia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy