It's Saturday, December 26th. Welcome to Mark Foolery. I'm Chris Hill. Hope you

you had a nice Christmas and that you are enjoying Boxing Day.

Wanted to do a little something extra this week as a small tribute to a legend in the world of financial media,

and that's Clark Howard.

For more than 30 years, Clark Howard has been helping people save money and make smarter financial decisions with his radio show that is syndicated to 250 stations across America.

He's a best-selling author. In 2015, he was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame.

I can't think of anyone in the talk radio industry that I respect more than Clark Howard.

He's smart. He's on the side of consumers, and he's even more generous in person than he is on the air.

He's also retiring from his daily show at the end of this year, which is why I wanted to share a

conversation I have with him that aired on Motley Full Money back in 2013.

Clark was at an event in Florida, so you're going to hear some background noise. He had a new book out called

Living Large for the Long Run. So we talked about that. We also talked about a money saving

tip he had given me a couple of years earlier that I didn't think was going to work and you'll hear me

eat some humble pie on that one in this conversation.

But we started with the new book, which he opens with a story from his own life when he was in college and

Clark had an experience with money that made a huge and lasting impression on

him. Well it's funny because I thought I was growing up rich.

And my family lived a very high octane life, very fancy life, and as best I knew we wanted for nothing.

And then my father lost his job, almost a scenario like so many of us have seen in the last several years.

He loses his job and it turns out that they were living on

fumes my parents hadn't saved any money and the funny thing looking back now is that I was clueless what was going on.

I was off at college at the American University in Washington.

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