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Today, we are joined by Chris, who is listening to us in New Hampshire.

Hey, Chris, what's going on? How can we help you out? First of all, thank you so much for taking my call. I feel like I'm talking to a couple of rock stars because I absolutely love your show. Oh, you're very sweet. We're just regular people. Don't worry, Chris. Just you and me talking with the millions of others, maybe thousands. Well, you help a lot of people, and hopefully you can sort of help me out today too, so I appreciate it. Fantastic. What's up? Well, I first reached out to you guys wondering if it was time for us to get a financial planner and if it made sense. And in that time frame, in the last couple weeks, we actually did go ahead and get one. Okay. So my first question I would be, I guess, would be once we go through things, did we make the right move in our situation?

I feel good about it, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on that.

And then the other big question is, you know, am I good to stop working? My confidence is not there just with everything

going on in the world right now and we're going to need health care, the price of that and the government

shutdown and social security. It's so much. It's too much. It really is. So, Chris, how old are you?

I'll be 59 next year and my wife is 60. Okay. And next year. I'm sorry, next month.

Oh, next month. Okay. So I'm just going to say you're both 60. Let's do that. And are you both working full time?

No, my wife is retired. She retired a number of years ago. And I am still working. I actually took a pseudo retirement about three

years ago and then found out all my friends were still working. So I decided I had an opportunity

to go back. So I'm working again, but I'm very bored and want to stop. Wait a minute. It's like,

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