Financial Advisors React To Crazy Money Scenes From TV Shows

Money Guy Show

Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors

Education, Retirement, Moneyadvice, Investing, Savingmoney, Personalfinance, Business

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Laugh and learn as we react to the most iconic TV scenes about money. From Michael Scott’s budget disaster to wild misconceptions about tax write-offs and credit scores, we unpack the hilarity and the hidden financial truths. Tune in to avoid these pitfalls and get real advice you can trust. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Jump start your journey with our FREE financial resources⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Reach your goals faster with our products⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Take the relationship to the next level: become a client⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe on YouTube for early access and go beyond the podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Connect with us on social media for more content⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bring confidence to your wealth building with simplified strategies from The Money Guy. Learn how to apply financial tactics that go beyond common sense and help you reach your money goals faster. Make your assets do the heavy lifting so you can quit worrying and start living a more fulfilled life. NordVPN.com/MONEYGUY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've rolled out uni because I want to live at home.
0:02.0	I've ruled out uni because I want to earn money.
0:05.0	I've ruled out uni because of my grades.
0:10.0	Study with the Open University and there's no need to rule out anything.
0:13.0	With our respected degrees, you can learn from home and work alongside study.
0:17.0	We're open to all. Plus, you'll have the support of expert tutors. So rethink your
0:23.6	future with the degree you didn't think was possible. The Open University. The future is open.
0:30.0	The content team has been busy. They went and found some of the greatest TV clips that happened
0:36.0	to talk about money to see what we thought.
0:38.4	Brian, I am so excited about this because I'm in the messy middle.
0:41.2	I don't get to watch a lot of TV, so I can't wait to see what the content team is put together for us today.
0:50.0	Okay, the green bar is what you spend every month on stuff you need, like a car in a house.
0:55.8	The red bar is what you spend on non-essentials, like magazines, entertainment, things like that.
1:03.0	This scary black bar is what you spend on things that no one ever, ever needs, like multiple magic sets, professional bass fishing equipment. How do you do this so fast? Is this PowerPoint? It's so funny because, again, I have literally sat in these conversations. I'm like, hey, let's look at your budget. It's so good. They've got, hey, I've got this much for eating out, and I've got this much for my gym membership, and I have this much for health insurance, and this much and it's so well and it's so wonderful and then I'm like but hey what's this
1:32.3	category of here and there's just this category called miscellaneous and the miscellaneous category is like
1:37.8	five times the size of every other category in the budgetary line item that's not the way that you budget
1:44.0	that's not the way that you actually make sure your dollars are going into the place
1:48.6	that you want them to go into.
1:50.5	If you don't have a plan for your money, you're going to set yourself up for failure.
1:54.7	Well, I mean, we all love a good Michael Scott clip, but you don't want to your manager money
1:59.3	like Michael Scott.
2:01.1	Holy shit. is that real?
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