Pet Peeves, Vol. 9: Buy Now, Pay Later… Right?

Rule Breaker Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing

4.4 • 959 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It’s been 27 months since this series’s last installment, which means David has had time to quietly bottle up a fresh batch of entirely new irritations—all original, no repeats. This year’s edition takes aim at the slippery phrase “Buy Now, Pay Later,” the suspicious preface “If I’m being honest…,” and the curious cultural surrender embedded in “In my day…“.Along the way, there’s a certain Halloween-sized marketing sham, a conversational tic that may deserve early retirement, and a high-decibel train experience you may never un-hear again.Part humor, part language audit, part cultural critique—Pet Peeves returns to remind us that words matter, incentives matter, and yes… it is still your day. Sign up for The Motley Fool’s Breakfast News here: ⁠⁠⁠www.fool.com/breakfastnews⁠⁠⁠ Order David’s Rule Breaker Investing book here: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1804091219/⁠⁠ Host: David GardnerProducer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When a company tells you it exists to elevate humanity or reimagine the future of connection,
0:07.5	have you ever paused and asked what exactly it does? Like, you know, in a sentence with nouns?
0:15.6	And when someone says, if I'm being honest, what, uh, What were they being before that moment? Or how about this? Have you
0:25.6	ever bought a fun-sized candy bar? And did it feel, did it feel fun? Or just less? Does it sound like I'm
0:33.7	about overhead luggage compartments, conversational tics, generational
0:38.2	nostalgia, and corporate cosmic mission statements, all in one podcast? Well, yes, yes I am,
0:45.8	because once every year or so I indulge myself, it's time for pet peeves. The ninth installment
0:52.5	of my most self-indulgence series, part humor, part language audit,
0:57.6	part cultural critique. Pet Peepieves, volume nine, it's actually been a while. Pet peeves,
1:03.7	welcome back, only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
1:09.6	It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Fool co-founder, David Gardner.
1:17.9	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
1:20.4	Yep, that's the sound of rules being broken.
1:23.2	Thank you, Denise Corsey, longtime Motleyley full employee and voice who has opened up this show
1:29.1	yeah, for 11 years now, along with that possibly ear-shattering sound of rules being broken,
1:35.6	which reminds me of an ear-shattering rant.
1:38.9	I'm going to be delivering a little bit later this week.
1:41.5	Anyway, yeah, it's one of my favorites.
1:44.0	Yes, probably my most self-indulgent
1:46.1	podcast of the year. It is my pet peeves podcast for 2026. And the good news, I think, is I only do
1:53.2	this about once a year. In fact, I was checking, it's been a while, 27 months since the last pet peeves episode back in November, 2023. Maybe I've been
2:05.0	getting softer, because after all, in that span, I introduced an entirely new series, pet perks,
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