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Hello, everyone.

Welcome to the holiday edition of the Talking Real Money radio program and then eventually podcast.

I'm Don McDonald, and as Tom and I sit here, it is Christmas Eve Eve, the Eve

before the Eve.

And we, we on the Saturdays traditionally, accept your calls.

Well, okay, we beg for them.

855-935 Talk is our phone number, 855-935-8255 because, well, we're here to try to help you do something that most of you don't do well.

And that is manage your money, deal with your financial situation, improve your situation for the future,

like, you know, get into a better retirement, making better decisions around that.

And so, you know, we want to help you.

Give us a call.

855-935-935-835-825-825-825-8-25-25-8-25 is there's an and to this there's an and I mean I

I was going to take today off you know because we got like 8,000 oh you were too yeah I was I mean I don't

take that many days off today was going to be a day off but Don promised he said my Christmas wish

will happen a lot of you in the audience will call a lot of

people are driving around i figured they were out driving and it's happened before on christmas eve

or christmas eve v v v programs so um i'm i'm i'm counting on our listeners i know they're there

i know they care and i know that they're thinking about 2024 because it's just a little over a week away.

Yeah. And you know, there are a lot of folks out there who in 2024, they've made the decision, they've worked hard their entire lives. And they're thinking, 2024, maybe 2025. That's the year I'm going to hang it up.

I'm going to hang up the uniform, going to put it on a hook. And I'm going to slide on into the

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