Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast.

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Hello, Smart Money Tree Podcast listeners.

Welcome to the free show.

My name is Kirk Bism and I'll be your host.

And today I'm joined with my good friend Doug Hey Grant.

Hey, Doug.

Hey, Kirk, good morning to you. Good afternoon,

wherever you may be. Today, I'm celebrating a very important event in a world history. January 5th,

1975. A very important thing happened today. What happened, Doug? I was born. Oh, well, that is an

important day. Thank you for disclosing your confidential data that now you will be used to pilfer your financials in some other way.

That's okay. My social security number and my date of birth are already on every list out there.

I've been, so when you file your taxes, if there's any concerns over individual like personal information loss, you know, they basically

give you a PIN number every year to file it. So I've been giving a PIN number for my tax returns

for probably the past eight to 10 years ever since somebody randomly in Texas filed a tax return

under my name trying to claim a refund in Texas. I got a letter from the IRS telling me,

you know, one year is like, have you lived in Texas? Ironically, before I ended up refund in Texas. I got a letter from the IRS telling me, you know, one year,

is like, have you lived in Texas? Ironically, before I ended up living in Texas for about four years.

I'm like, no, I've never lived in Texas. Is this your address? No, like, well, you just filed a tax

return. Like, okay now. So, hey, it's already out there. There's nothing more I can do about it. You and the Underhills. Just put it on the Underhills bill.

That's right. Speaking of Underhill, isn't that Kausa Cards? That's a whole different conversation.

All right. We're not going to get into the politics. Today is Friday. It's the 5th, January 5th, and it is a new year. So happy New Year to everybody. Oddly enough,

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