The truth about the fire movement.

Brut, I am excited about this because the world has changed a little bit.

Right now things seem a little iffy and so a lot of people are asking the question,

is fire even still possible? I mean, it was this dream, it was this vision, this idea,

this thing that we wanted to do, but some circumstances has changed and you know,

there are a number of things that we're going to talk about. So can I still do fire?

Can I still participate in that movement? Now before we get started, I feel like we first

need to give everyone a recap. So I hate when people just assume everybody knows what

acronym stands for, tell everybody what is fire. Yeah, fire is a financial movement

that stands for financial independence, retire early and it involves saving and investing

much more than the average so that you can retire earlier. It's this idea of I want

to exit the workforce, grab the freedom to exit the workforce as early as possible.

So I can get on to doing the things that I actually want to be doing. And by the way,

that also means you're willing to take some pretty extreme like savings habits and other

behaviors to ensure that you do have those options in the future. But both, it goes beyond

that because I think there's a lot of times we take movements and we just group them all

together. Fire is kind of unique because it's got a bunch of different elements and different

structures. Yeah, there are, you know, there's obviously the financial independence part,

there's a retire early part. And as we're going to talk about later in the show, there's

even some different strains. There are some different ways that fire might actually apply

to you. So I think, you know, if that's sort of the backdrop of what it is and what the

movement is, we should talk a little bit about, Brian, about how it's changed. What are

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