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Hey, I'm Gabby Dunn. Welcome to the Retirement edition of Bad With Money. An episode about long-term

financial planning coming to you in the midst of a political reality where we're not even sure

we'll make it through the summer. You gotta say it with a smile. Otherwise you'll cry.

Guys, as you may recall from Season 1 Episode 2 of Bad With Money with financial psychologist Dr.

Brad Klons, I, until recently, hadn't thought at all about retirement. In that episode, Dr. Brad and I

figured out that in order to have $50,000 a year to spend after I retire, I needed to come up with

a plan to put aside $1.5 million over the course of the next 22 years. But I had a better idea.

And so I just need to do one big Michael Bay movie. Yeah, that's it. And so that's plan...

Don't touch that money ever again. And that's so I would call that plan B.

Plan B. Plan B. Plan B is. It's plan B. Plan Michael Bay.

That's the way I thought about retirement when I started this show. For someone like me who works

in show business, I don't know if you guys know, I work in show business. It's very stressful and

not climbers at all. The only way it made sense to think about not working anymore would be for some

giant opportunity to come along that might make not working any more theoretically possible.

Otherwise, I assumed I'd pretty much just work until I fell over. Or until I got nominated for an

Oscar like June Squibb, you know, like at an older age when I'm finally appreciated. But there are

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