This is my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show, our mission to serve and empower

you so you make better financial decisions in your life.

In today's episode, we're starting out with Clark Stinks.

Also, are you waiting on your tax refund?

Man, you're not going to believe how not alone you are.

So once a week, we have a segment on our podcast called Clark Stinks.

So where you go to Clark.com slash Clark Stinks and you post where you feel I did a bad

job, bad advice, bad information, or you think I'm just plain wrong.

Producer Chris to go through the posts at Clark.com slash Clark Stinks and then shares highlights

with you right here right now.

Alright, and just to follow up on a prior Clark Stinks about your microphone, I know I've

gotten a lot of those.

We changed some things in your microphone, but you can't see this.

Clark is currently sitting in a chair that is super low.

He looks like he's in a kindergarten chair that doesn't move.

Alright, so here's the deal.

I have always stood when I used to do a radio show now, the podcast, and I always stood and

wandered around the mic.

I was on a mic that was not so directional and it picked up the sound pretty much equally.

Unless I turned away away from it, the mics we're using right now are ultra directional,

meaning I move a fraction of an inch away and audio quality declines.

So now we have me, I think next you're going to put me in like a neck brace that I can't

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