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I'm here with my friend Boss.

We're going to be talking about the so-called two-income trap and whether its existence is real or not.

He's here for a visit. What's up, Boss? You dropped in and we thought we'd kick it.

Excited to be here and discuss a new exciting topic with you as well, as always.

Exciting is the key word because even though the publication date has not yet arrived, Steph's

book with Tan Books, Ask Your Husband, author Stephanie C Gordon, she's there, she's Scott Omicron. She's behind the scenes. She's actually kind of miserable. I feel very bad for it. Everyone pray for Steph. She's not feeling well. But a box of her books arrived at the home. It's Ask Your Husband. It's perfectly time for today's show. This came yesterday or the day before.

And you can purchase this exciting new book on TanBooks or, of course, on Amazon.com.

Now, Ask Your Husband, and they will be getting in in real time, even though technically the release date wasn't until February the 1st.

One of the recurring themes in Ask Your Husband, author sitting four feet away

behind the screen there, is whether or not, I mean, Steph doesn't deal with it as such,

but what we want to be talking about today from the perspectives of two real dudes who are living

according to the Catholic faith, we used to call it the in-not-of podcast.

Is there a veritable two-income trap in the hard sense of the term, all the trappings of the term

trap? Do they all apply? What do you say, Anthony? Take a first crack at this thing.

Well, I mean, there's a lot of different

ways that we were trying to unpack it earlier when we were talking about it. And one of the very

first things we were talking about is personal responsibility. And that's a large part about what we

need to discuss today, I think. And so that's probably where we should start, to be honest, is that

the personal responsibility when it comes to being in this so-called

two-income trap.

Yeah, I mean, and this is also the thing that I'm going to scooch toward you.

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