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Hello, friends.

Welcome once again to another exciting edition of the Talking Real Money Radio show and then podcast.

I'm Don McDonald in Florida, Tom Cox, in Washington.

You're wherever you are in the Seattle metro area or around the country listening online.

Thank you for, or around the world, thank you for being there.

We really appreciate you and we want to help you deal with money better than you did before.

And one of the ways we can help you do that is by sharing with you some of the dumbest things investors do to blow up their own portfolios.

Yeah, there's a lot of them.

And, you know, thank our friend who will be working with at retire meet here in a few months.

Christine Benz from Morning Start up pointing these out portfolio problems that she sees.

And I have to agree with most of these straight up because I see a lot of your portfolios.

And oftentimes you come clean before even meet you.

Like I know I have that thing that Don McDonald talks about.

What is it?

That disease.

Hodge, poditis. That's the first one. She calls it portfolio sprawl. Too many accounts, too many holdings, too much redundancy. We see it a lot. You know, when we see Christine in March at retire meet, and by the way, it's in March this year. We should tell her she is welcome to use Hodgepogitis without any licensing fees.

Exactly.

She can use that as much as she wants.

This is where you have a lot of things you've purchased over the years.

They sort of get stuck.

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