A Fool and His Money...

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Investing, Education, Business, How To

4.5 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this classic swirl of candor, humor, and financial sense, Don and Tom tackle the human habit of financial foolishness—from betting big on speculative ETFs to ignoring global diversification. They call out the irony of investment products like ELON, roast the current state of the Motley Fool, and offer real-world perspective on international investing, market timing myths, and retirement portfolio design. They even sprinkle in a few thesaurus gems for good measure. 0:04 Welcome and w...

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0:00.0	Reality Radio for a really great future.
0:08.0	We're talking real money.
0:10.5	Hello, friends.
0:12.6	Welcome to the Talking Real Money podcast with me, Don McDonald, and your friend Tommy Tangent.
0:20.4	Yes, it's time to talk about money and anything that springs to mind here on the Talking Real Money podcast.
0:28.3	Today, let's talk a little bit about you and others like you who do some dumb things.
0:36.8	We all do those dumb things because we're,
0:39.3	by definition,
0:40.6	kind of dumb being human.
0:43.7	We just do dumbness.
0:46.0	Speaking of tangential,
0:47.9	I...
0:49.1	Oh, no, here we go.
0:50.4	I am already going.
0:51.7	I started watching the...
0:53.5	I love these documentaries. Oh, what's on now?
0:56.5	The one about the woman in Utah. That comes up every time on Netflix and I resist. I'm like,
1:03.2	I did it finally. Debbie had watched a little of it and I pushed the button. She goes, oh, I can't
1:07.9	even watch the beginning of this thing. It's too depressing. Why are we so stupid?
1:13.9	I don't get us.
1:14.8	Anyway, but we're going to talk about how stupid we are with money.
1:18.6	Now, I seem to remember.
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