Joe, we've talked a lot about saving for retirement.

Accumulation.

Do you think that we're not paying enough attention to decumulation?

I think that is a whole science that is unfolding as we now are at an age where fewer and fewer people have pensions.

But yes, we don't pay enough attention to how we take money out of our portfolios.

Well, we're going to deep dive into that in today's episode. Welcome to the Afford Anything

podcast, the show that understands you can afford anything but not everything. Every choice carries

a tradeoff and that applies to your money, time, focus, and energy. This show covers five pillars,

financial psychology, increasing your income, investing, real estate, and entrepreneurship. It's

double eye fire. I'm your host, Paula Pant. I trained in economic reporting at Columbia.

Every other episode, I answer questions from you. And I do so with my buddy, the former financial

planner, Joe Saul C. Hi. What's up, Joe?

Oh, man. I had something cool happen in the last couple days, which is I live in Texarkana, Texas,

work out of mom's basement as people that know me know. And they are laying fiber optic cable

out in front of mom's house today.

Ooh.

I know.

I know.

Wow.

I know.

Now you don't have to use Starlink to access the internet.

Yeah.

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