Joe, I know it's audio only so people can't see the fact that we're sitting in the same room, but I'm in your mom's basement right now.

It's so wild having you here.

It's crazy. I am in beautiful Texarkana, Texas, right at the Texas Arkansas State Line.

We had breakfast at a diner that is just perfectly the Texas Arkansas State line. If you think of iconic Texas Arkansas State line. Yeah, exactly. That's what we ate for breakfast today. That is the diner. That is, yeah, that was the plate. And you had biscuits and gravy, which is also appropriate for. Yeah, and hash browns and sausage. Yes. And diner, oh, I love diner coffee. It was so good. Yeah. And they're such nice people. Very, very nice people. Yes. But Paula is here because she is our special guest at Texas A&M, Texarkana. Yeah. By the time this airs, we will have done a live show at Texas A&M at the Texarkana campus.

But you know what?

We should make a show right now.

What do you think?

What?

Really?

Yeah, I believe we should.

Okay, fine.

Welcome to the Afford Anything podcast, the show that knows you can afford anything.

Not everything, though.

Saying yes to something means you're going to accept the tradeoffs.

This show covers five pillars.

Financial Psychology, increasing your income, investing real estate and entrepreneurship, acronym Double I Fire. I'm your host, Paula Pant, every other episode-ish, I answer questions that come from

you with the buddy who is literally sitting across the table from me right now. I could close enough that I could kick him. Joe Saul, see, hi. Please don't. Please, please. Wait until I answer one the way you don't want me to. Yeah, I'll be like, ick, sne, on the answer say. See, finally, we always compete for who has the best answer, and now Paula can kick me

and go, no, mine's better. But you can kick me too, right? I wouldn't do that. Aw. No, you could

squirt water gun across the table. I could do that. I have a pink marker in my hand. I could

marker you. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, speaking of markers, that was a terrible transition. We're going to answer a range of questions. The first one is from a caller who's worried about her 73-year-old mom and is wondering how to move her mom across the country and then manage mom's money. We're going to hear from a caller who has some tax planning questions

related to money that's in a taxable brokerage account. And then we're going to hear from

someone who overall wants an idea, you know, here's a snapshot of her life. What should she do?

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