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Well, hello and welcome to the Retirement and IRA show, EDU edition for this week. On today's show, we had big plans to pick up

with where we left off at the end of May before National Annuity Awareness Month and continue our

kind of how we do it or the why of what we do and how we do it kind of series that we are

revisiting after doing it about three years ago or so. But as Jim will share with us to some extent or another, he was had a had a,

had an, uh, the other guy episode today. So he's fine physically and I think mentally, but, uh,

he had an event that kind of derailed our plans a little bit. So what we're going to do today is

actually investigate something we, we we called out to our listeners.

If you all recall back in May and we solicited input on how we might describe our approach,

philosophy and exactly what we're all about in 10 minutes or less instead of the, I don't know, 7, 10, 12-part series

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