Hey, stackers. Happy Wednesday. We got a special show for you today. It is our replay of the stack,

which was our live event a couple of weeks ago. And, man, did we have fun? But for those of you

that weren't there, by the way, for those of you that were, thanks for coming. And thanks for

adding to the party we had such a great time hanging out. And I know from all of the feedback we

got from everyone, it was definitely our best one yet. You're about to hear the audio. But I

would say that the audio is probably two thirds of the fun. The other third was was just all the

live chat stuff going on. So we're going to do another one this summer. But today we're going to

play a replay of this now. If you weren't there, what you don't know is that the second that mom's

neighbor Doug next door, socially distancing over at his house began the show. His power went out

and his power ended up being out, by the way, for three hours. But we had no idea what that was

going on. So at the beginning, you're going to hear this show gets off to an auspicious start. We

have no idea what's going on. And we're just trying to get the show rolling. And then thank goodness

both of our guests Alison and Frankie save us. But for links, by the way, to Alison Baggerlees,

budgeting resources, show reference, Frankie Chalenza's great show, Struggle Meals, and more,

head to our show notes page stackingbatchamines.com. All right, here it is. The mess that was the

beginning of our stack of it.

Oh, that's too funny. That is, that is fantastic. Live television.

That's great. I can't see myself. I can't hear anything without a massive echo.

And we've got no Doug. This is so awesome. Hey, everybody. I have video now and I can't get it to

go up on the screen. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the weirdest open we've ever had of any event ever.

I'm Joe Salci. Hi, average Joe money on Twitter. And so here's what happens. You practice the live

open like seven times. You go through everything in the second that you go live. Doug steps on the

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