dumb financial decisions that Americans make.

It's Brian Preston, the money guy, restoring order to your financial chaos, retirement,

investing, taxing. You've got financial questions, he's got financial answers. It's Brian Preston,

the money guy.

Brian, I am so excited about this show because unfortunately a lot of times we make sub-optimal

decisions. I think it's been said before, if we were logical and rational and reasonable creatures,

we'd all be healthy, wealthy and...

What?

Is that what it is?

Who is it? It's just an idea. We don't have plenty of money. We don't have plenty of

health, but we don't, we don't operate that way. And today we're going to share some stuff that

we do from a financial perspective that just shows how often we make sub-optimal decisions.

Well, look, I think we live in this modern world where you can figure out anything with a search

of Google and you would think that that would make us actually better at making decisions.

But what I have found is not only do we have access to too much information, sometimes that it can

be overwhelming to know what's noise versus actionable. A lot of that information has also come

at the price that we have psychological limitations. There's manipulation out in the marketplace because

there are billion dollar industries that know how to use our humanness. I don't even know if that's

a word, but essentially the traits and the emotionality of us being humans to work against us.

So before you say, wait a minute guys, I don't fall prey to some of those tricks and trickery in my

brain. I feel like I'm honed in. I know how things work. Bo in his own nerdy way had this crazy

video that he showed the content team. Don't worry, if you miss how good standard definition looks,

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