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To the sound of the dueling leaf blowers, we present another lovely edition of the Talking Real Money podcast with Don McDonald and Tom Cock, your host.

On today's episode, we are going to talk about not talking about money.

Nobody wants to, you know, we talk about money and yet people don't talk about money.

We really don't talk about money.

Do you talk much about money?

Do you really think about it for a minute?

Do you sit down and have long conversations about money with people?

If you do, it's probably like, well, do you think Tesla stock's going to keep going up?

Or did you buy that NVIDIA or whatever that was? Did you get that latest hot stock?

What's the market going to do? What's the debt ceiling going to do to the market? But you don't talk

about money like real money. And with you maybe one of the most important places to talk about it that is

one of the least talked places is with your family, Tom.

It's a fascinating thing. And I'll give you my family history on this. Okay. So I grew up in what you'd

have to say is a upper middle class family. My father was a physician. My mother did in

today's parlance did not work outside of the home. Some might call you wealthy. Some with a doctor.

All right. There you go. So I was waiting for that. This is why we don't talk about money.

No, it's exactly why because money, right, equals value. People think, well, you're more important because, yeah, you, on the social calendar, ledge, you're, no, the social, social strata, strata, thank you. You're higher up. If you were on run the ledge then the only place to go is off the ledge and that's good point you're you're further up i mean if bill gates

comes into the room he's the most important guy in the room right well maybe unless it's like

you know the guys from succession i mean you, you know, they're like super rich.

They might give them a run for the money.

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