Reality Radio for a really great future.

We're talking real money.

Well, welcome to our little podcast again.

Hi, everybody.

It's the Talking Real Money podcast.

I'm Don McDonald in Florida.

That's Tom Cock in the outskirts of Seattle. Bellevue,

which is a giant city in its own right these days. How big is Bellevue, by the way?

Well, it goes past the door here. I know that. Other than that, I don't know. I don't get out a lot.

You do not know. No, I don't. I shouldn't. The Pacific Northwestern or you are, you do not know?

I'll say 200,000.

I bet it's bigger than that. But we'll find out. We'll check it out before the show's over. I will. I'll check it out. Hi, everybody. Welcome to the big show. This is the show where we deal with dough. we spend a ton of time talking about saving and investing the money that you will need for that big future goal.

The biggest one of all.

It's the 800-pound gorilla.

It's the 32-ton giant woolly mammoth. It is huge.

It is the time when you're going to need a ton of money. We call it

retirement. And in retirement, something people didn't do back in the old days much. A few of the rich

did, but they were already rich, so who cared? Most working people, they just died on the job.

But today, we get to retire, and we get to retire sometimes for a very long time,

which requires an income stream over and above Social Security.

That's why we try to help you get there better.

But it's not linear.

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