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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.5 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Don and Tom examine Kiplinger’s list of top retirement side gigs and separate practical ideas from pipe dreams, questioning whether executive coaching, IT consulting, online reselling, and landlord life truly offer “passive” or realistic income. They highlight more viable options like tutoring, handyman work, and tour guiding while emphasizing purpose over paycheck. Listener questions cover the risks of private credit and alternative investments, plus smart strategies for consolidating multip...

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0:00.0	Reality Radio for a really great future.
0:08.0	We're talking real money.
0:10.6	Those two old guys still doing that podcast thing?
0:13.7	Yeah, I think so.
0:14.7	Is that them?
0:15.9	Oh, yeah, this is them.
0:17.2	There he is.
0:17.8	There's that Tom guy and that Don guy.
0:20.2	Still talking real money. Hi, everybody. Welcome to Talking Real Money. There he is. There's that Tom guy and that Don guy. Still talking real money. Hi,
0:23.0	everybody. Welcome to Talking Real Money. I'm That Don guy. He's that Tom guy. We're so glad you're
0:28.3	those guys and gals who listen to us on a almost daily basis. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
0:33.1	Thank you for continuing to actually listen. A lot of you do. We're still trying to figure out why, but thank
0:40.0	you for doing it. Today, we are gathered here to discuss some of the bigger and smaller financial
0:46.3	issues of the day and everything in between. We're also here to try to answer your questions.
0:51.0	So we do a little bit of everything when it comes to money,
0:54.8	real money, fake money, any kind of money. You want to talk about it? We're going to listen.
0:59.0	Just go to talking real money.com, ask us questions. I'm Don McDonald. Over there,
1:05.2	not really there, 3,000 miles away, but I see him magically somehow is Thomas Charles Cock the second, the deuce.
1:14.0	We're just going to call him the deuce from now on.
1:16.7	Oh, God.
1:17.7	Hey, ladies and gentlemen, it's the deuce on the Talking Real Money podcast.
1:22.3	You could take that so many ways, too.
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