Friday Flight - Credit Card Caps, Free Rent, & Pokemon Investing #1089
How to Money
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 40 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:
- Longevity calculators (Matt’s preference)
- Credit card caps
- The youths ditching credit cards
- Free rent
- Gambling on housing
- Private labels on the rise
- GLP1 to slim down the budget
- Pokemon investing
- Bear market benefits
- Investing like an optimist
- Cable TV bundle rebounds
- Don’t sleep on free streaming
- 100 month car loans
- Budget busting used cars
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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. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Joel. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Nat. |
| 0:07.0 | Today we're talking credit card caps, free rent, and Pokemon investing sounds like such an oxymoron, Joel, but we'll get to that story here in a little bit during our Friday flights. |
| 0:35.9 | Don't hate on Pikachu, bro. |
| 0:37.0 | A little how to money weather update. We hope everyone survive the cold blast that a lot of the country got slammed with yesterday. It was not just cold, but like, we don't often talk about weather here. Gusty winds. They were hitting. It felt like I was running a wind tunnel this morning. Yeah, you wouldn't. I feel like you tend to shy away from the cold weather a little bit. Were you wearing gloves? |
| 0:55.6 | Yeah. Okay. Finger still felt like ice coals. What kind of gloves do you have? They're like thin, like running gloves. They're not great. All right. If you see me out they're running with gloves on, they'll be a.k.a. socks on the hands. When it's cold enough, I almost need to double up. |
| 1:09.6 | I really should wish that cold. |
| 1:10.9 | But yeah, so much to get to. I really should wish that cold. |
| 1:12.1 | Yeah, so much to get to on today's show, Matt. |
| 1:14.9 | But, okay, first I wanted to bring up, I'm curious, have you ever checked out a longevity |
| 1:19.8 | calculator to see how long your life expectancy is? |
| 1:24.5 | Okay. |
| 1:24.8 | I have. |
| 1:25.3 | What did you learn? |
| 1:26.4 | Gosh, it was with North insurance company. Based on what I entered in, I should live into my 90s. Okay. It's interesting because I mean like the questions are so basic on it. It's not like they know a ton about you or your family's health and medical history, stuff like that. But answering a few basic questions, I think, can at least, what I love about it is that it at least prompts you to think about the potential of living that long, right? Because I think a lot of people just, it's not really on their radar. And so I went to one. It's on my radar, man. You saw on your radar, I think of'm, I mean, that's awesome. Like, as I forecast, I'm like, I'm assuming I'm going to hit |
| 2:04.0 | 100, but not from, like, I'm not expecting to. I mean, it would be great, I guess, if I did. But from a, like, from a financial, you're talking about from a financial standpoint, when you're forecasting off into the future. |
| 2:14.0 | I always plan at least to, I mean, not at least to 100, but I do. |
| 2:17.5 | Maybe 120. |
| 2:18.2 | Why not? |
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