Welcome, everyone to the Main Street Business Podcast.

This is Matt Sorensen, joined by my number one co-host.

My only co-host, Mark Kohler.

Thank you.

There's only, I was like, is there someone else? Yeah. Just still number one, Mark. I'm glad I'm your number one, Matt. Thank you. You're my number two, as John Luke Picard would say in next generations. You know, or did he call his guy number one or number two? You know, I just want to be first, not last. That's all I

remember from that show. Yep. I'm a, I'm a treky, but a week when at that, if I don't even know

what John Luke Picard called his helper. Okay. Now, welcome everybody. Today's show. We're trying

to keep a light, keep it interesting, and keep it extremely engaging

and informational.

This is a sweet topic, Matt.

I mean, yeah.

I mean, it's an amazing topic.

We're talking about the amazing strategy of the charitable remainder trust, which is something

that can help you save taxes.

If you've got a highly appreciated asset, it's a great estate planning

tool. There's even some asset protection benefits to it. It's a little, it takes some work to get.

It's not just like I'm going to give you a one sentence thing, do this. Here's an easy button and you

got it. So that's why we got to do a whole podcast episode on it. Yeah. And there's a lot of renewed

interest in the CRT. And we're going to call it that for short during this podcast, CRT,

charitable remainder trust and a lot of renewed interest because of the appreciated gains

people around the country are facing with cryptocurrency. Most predictions are

that we're in the, what do you call, the calm before the another run. Everybody holding

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