Friday Flight - 401k Mullets, Crappy Coffee, & Bitcoin Bashing #1104
How to Money
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Time for a Friday Flight- our little sampling of the week’s best financial news and what it means for your personal finances. There are a lot of headlines out there, but we boil them down to specific takeaways that will allow you to kick off the weekend informed and help you to get ahead with your money. In this episode we explain some relevant and helpful stories like:
- 401k mullets and quarter-zips
- Don’t sleep on the solo 401k
- Crappy coffee
- Surveillance pricing
- 1.3 trillion in credit card debt
- High income earners are delinquent too
- Collections dos and don’ts
- Pets are family
- The going babysitting hourly rate
- Gray-shaped economy
- Gamble on anything and everything
- Bitcoin bashing
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Welcome to How to Money. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm Joel. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm Matt. |
| 0:07.6 | Today we're talking 401K Mullets, |
| 0:10.1 | crappy coffee, and Bitcoin bashing. |
| 0:34.5 | Okay. you know, buddy, this is our Friday flights where we're going to cover our favorite headlines from the past week and all the stories that you mentioned, plus more. I was going to say, and do you have anything personal that you want to share? I was going to say favorite headlines, but favorite headlines we love to hate too. That's what the ludicrous headline in the week. The lucrous headline. Yeah. You got to talk about stuff we hate. Do we have a little Friday flight appetizer or we just going to cut straight to it? Okay. Yeah. I feel like we've got a longer one, so. Yeah. Marl, let's, let's, let's get it off. Let's talk about 401k bullets to begin with. |
| 0:58.8 | Did you ever have a mole as a, as a kid in the late 80s? The kid that grew up across the street for me had a rat tail you remember rat tails |
| 1:05.8 | I had a rat tail oh did you |
| 1:07.6 | oh of course he did like a little one but nothing |
| 1:10.0 | not like how long we talking about here |
| 1:12.5 | like how long says right to like a foot |
| 1:14.3 | his was probably rat tail. Oh, did you? Oh, of course he did. Like a little one, but nothing. Not like how long |
| 1:11.6 | we're talking about here. How long is his rat tail, like a foot? His was probably good eight to ten |
| 1:15.9 | inches. Yeah, that's really good. So I used to work in the public schools up in North Carolina |
| 1:21.4 | right after undergrad and one of my, like one of the kids I was, I was working with had a mullet |
| 1:26.7 | with a rat tail. |
| 1:28.9 | I didn't know you could do both. That's impressive. It was really good. So I was, this is back in like 0, 506 era. Do you remember the, the tire tracks on the side of the, the cuts, the streaks? I always wanted that. My mom would never let me get that haircut. Oh, yeah. Thinking about doing this. She's like, sorry, son, you're not allowed to be that cool. |
| 1:44.2 | Right. |
| 1:45.0 | Think about it. |
| 1:45.6 | Well, I don't know if it was, you're not allowed to be that cool. |
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