Real-Life Money Horror Stories That Will Make Your Skin Crawl
The Stacking Benjamins Show
Joe Saul-Sehy and Josh ‘OG’ Bannerman, CFP
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Most of us have made mistakes with money in our lives. What's your money horror story? Ever gotten caught up in a Venmo scam or been asked to pay the IRS in gift cards for taxes due? Sounds fishy but it happens to the best of us. Our roundtable today shares their scary money stories before the Halloween weekend. Our regular contributors, Paula Pant, Len Penzo, and OG share times they or someone they know has been caught in a sticky situation with money.
Halfway through, Doug will share some of his toothbrush (?) related trivia.
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| 0:00.0 | Dear Great Pumpkin, I'm looking forward to your arrival on Halloween night. |
| 0:10.6 | Live on the Fireside app, it's the Stacking Benjamin's show. |
| 0:33.1 | I'm Joe's mom's neighbor, Doug, and I know you can't see me right now, but I've got my top gun fighter pilot outfit on because it's Friday and I'm headed to the singles bar later. |
| 0:39.2 | But you know, it occurs to me Sunday's Halloween, which is awkward for me because I hate |
| 0:44.2 | dressing up in ridiculous costumes. But here's an idea. Maybe I just won't shave my back for a few |
| 0:50.1 | days and I'll take off my shirt and go as one of the moles on Joe's mom's back. |
| 0:55.1 | Speaking of horror, our guest today will be talking about their financial horror stories. |
| 1:01.4 | From Afford Anything, we have Paula Pant dressed like the clown from Stephen King's It. |
| 1:07.3 | From this podcast, we welcome back OG who's dressed suspiciously like a 40-something middle-class dad, which is his own personal nightmare. |
| 1:17.4 | And from Len Penzo.com, it's a hideous corpse. |
| 1:22.6 | Just kidding. That's only his costume. |
| 1:26.5 | Oh, what's that, Len? |
| 1:28.0 | You're not wearing a costume? |
| 1:30.4 | That's embarrassing. |
| 1:32.1 | For you! And now, a guy who wakes up |
| 1:35.5 | screaming from his recurring dream |
| 1:37.5 | of a mega backdoor Roth IRA |
| 1:39.8 | strategy gone wrong, it's Joe |
| 1:43.0 | Saul Cihai. Music strategy gone wrong. It's Joe Saul-C-Hy-Hi. I'm sure we've all had that dream, haven't we? |
| 1:51.2 | The one you wake up just screaming all those lost taxes. Hey, everybody, welcome to wake-up |
| 1:57.4 | crying podcast. I'm Joe Sal C-Hal-C-Hi, average Joe Money, on Twitter. And we have the team with us today. Let's start with the guy who's normally across the table from me, but he's not across the table from me today. It's Mr. OG off on location. How are you, man? I'm off on location. That's right. Is there music in the background? |
| 2:18.6 | There is. |
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