Want to learn ways to reduce your taxes in 2024?

Of course you do.

Don't be silly.

Stick around and find out how in this, the 80th episode of the rebooted retirement planning education podcast.

Welcome to the retirement planning education podcast, where you can learn all about IRAs and Roth IRAs, employer retirement plans,

taxes, social security, Medicare, portfolio withdrawal strategies, annuities, estate planning,

and much more. And now here's your host, Andy Panko.

Hey, y'all. Good to be back. Glad to see you again. It is 2024. It's a new year. It is the rebooted version of the Retirement Planning Education Podcasts. It's definitely been a minute. I stopped doing new episodes back in June of last year of 2023. Here we are now, January, 2024. As I mentioned, glad to be back. And hopefully you're all looking forward to this.

Yes, there will be sound effects in this rebooted version. Apologies in advance for how cheesy

this is going to be. But it makes me giggle, so I'm going with it. Don't stop me. So anyway,

no, today is the first episode of the new version of Retirement Planning

Education podcast.

For those who didn't catch the last episode where I kind of give a brief overview of

the new structure, what I'm going to do is one show a month will be kind of what

you're familiar with, me doing a sort of deep dive-ish thing into a certain topic. Another week each month

will be me interviewing a fellow retirement-focused financial planner slash financial advisor.

We will have the first one on next week, my buddy Larry Pershing, will be on joining me. I'm

looking forward to that.

Another week each month is going to be me kind of interviewing or having a chat with a regular person who is in or near retirement and does their own retirement planning.

Maybe they work with an advisor, maybe they don't.

That's not particularly important.

It's just I want to talk with real people,

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