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- 0:52Speaker 2: fifty oh eight. On Retire Right Radio, let's go live
- 0:57Speaker 2: to the studio with host Dale Cooper and John Verdett
- 0:59Speaker 2: from to have any financial mention.
- 1:01Speaker 3: No, we hate to disappoint you, but it's not actually
- 1:04Speaker 3: Dale Cooper. It's Dave Allen I will be in the
- 1:06Speaker 3: Dale Cooper position today and retire right radio. John Bredada,
- 1:10Speaker 3: Fourth Avenue Financial Coop taking a little, uh much deserved
- 1:13Speaker 3: time off. He'll be back next week. John bredad it say, hey,
- 1:17Speaker 3: do man pretty good? Maybe he's catching up on some
- 1:19Speaker 3: Christmas shop. Yeah, maybe that's what he's doing. I don't know,
- 1:21Speaker 3: it's hard to tell. What what So speaking of what
- 1:23Speaker 3: you excited about? Excited about Christmas? Oh, well it's coming
- 1:27Speaker 3: no matter what. But uh no, we my wife's shop
- 1:30Speaker 3: down there at Vintage and Vines has been really busy.
- 1:33Speaker 3: We've been doing a lot of a lot of Christmas sales.
- 1:35Speaker 3: So that's a good thing. Well, I mean, you know,
- 1:37Speaker 3: since you paid for the time here, you know we
- 1:39Speaker 3: we may as well go ahead and let you talk
- 1:41Speaker 3: of make make the wife happy. And I have to
- 1:43Speaker 3: do a little plug for sure, talk about So for
- 1:45Speaker 3: people that aren't familiar with their shop down there, we'll
- 1:47Speaker 3: do a two for one sale here, you know, before
- 1:49Speaker 3: they have a new financial on them, because I've heard
- 1:51Speaker 3: a lot of good things about having had a chance
- 1:53Speaker 3: to visit there. But go ahead and yeah.
- 1:54Speaker 4: AIX six on nine D Street in South Charleston, near
- 1:57Speaker 4: the Mound vintage and vine to mercantile A is a
- 2:02Speaker 4: invented shop.
- 2:04Speaker 3: I have a vinyl.
- 2:05Speaker 4: Section in there that she let me put in, and
- 2:08Speaker 4: so baseball cards. I've got a really nice vintage baseball card.
- 2:12Speaker 3: Now see, I knew that you were into the vinyl job,
- 2:14Speaker 3: but I didn't know that you were into the baseball car.
- 2:15Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I've got a I've got a good collection brewing.
- 2:18Speaker 3: So it has been is this something you started as
- 2:21Speaker 3: a child or something you got it do later? The
- 2:23Speaker 3: baseball Oh yeah, I was.
- 2:24Speaker 4: I was big into it as a as a child
- 2:26Speaker 4: and then got away from it and then uh well
- 2:29Speaker 4: it's a common story with in COVID. I was like,
- 2:31Speaker 4: I need to I've got to do something with this
- 2:34Speaker 4: time at home, and uh, you know started started our
- 2:37Speaker 4: baseball cards still a big deal among kids or are
- 2:40Speaker 4: they a bigger deal among adults? You know, the kids
- 2:44Speaker 4: certainly collect them, but uh, a lot of those, a
- 2:48Speaker 4: lot of the younger folks are gravitating more towards Pokemon
- 2:51Speaker 4: and some of those, and that's been the thing for
- 2:53Speaker 4: a while. And those are those are really really hot.
- 2:56Speaker 4: We do carry those down at the shop too.
- 2:58Speaker 3: So uh, now your vinyl I think you're doing a
- 3:00Speaker 3: promotion with our sister station ninety eight to seven a
- 3:03Speaker 3: Mountain right. Yes, yes, it's a free Vinyl Friday. We
- 3:06Speaker 3: give away of a record every week and Steve gave
- 3:10Speaker 3: away the first one this past week, which is Pink
- 3:12Speaker 3: Floyd Dark Side of the Moon.
- 3:14Speaker 4: That's correct. Yeah, that that's uh, you can't beat that one.
- 3:17Speaker 4: That's a good Yeah. I'm not sure what what he's
- 3:20Speaker 4: given away this week, but tuned in in the morning and.
- 3:23Speaker 3: On Friday mornings is pre Vinyl Friday. And that's that's
- 3:27Speaker 3: good stuff. When they told me they were because I
- 3:29Speaker 3: do a lot of work on the mountain too, and
- 3:30Speaker 3: they told me that they were going to be doing that,
- 3:31Speaker 3: and I thought, man, that's a that's a that's a
- 3:33Speaker 3: really cool idea. Yeah.
- 3:34Speaker 4: Yeah, been surprising how many people are back into vinyl.
- 3:37Speaker 4: That's pretty big.
- 3:38Speaker 2: You know.
- 3:38Speaker 3: The vinyl thing John came back about I want to
- 3:41Speaker 3: say ten years or so ago, and one of the
- 3:44Speaker 3: early people that jumped on it was a group Pearl Jam,
- 3:47Speaker 3: and Pearl Jam released an album and they only released
- 3:50Speaker 3: it on vinyl, and people were scrambling around trying to
- 3:54Speaker 3: you know, if you're a hardcore Pearl Jam fan, of
- 3:56Speaker 3: which I'm not, but but they you know, people were
- 3:59Speaker 3: looking around trying to find something to be able to
- 4:01Speaker 3: play it on, and now it's it's just it's become huge.
- 4:04Speaker 3: I know Dave Weekly on Hotline Afternoon, he's a huge
- 4:06Speaker 3: vinyl guy.
- 4:07Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, he'll be down at the shop quite
- 4:09Speaker 4: a bit, digging through the bends. So what do you
- 4:11Speaker 4: get your music from? Well, I mean we have vintage
- 4:14Speaker 4: and new, so of course, you know the new stuff.
- 4:19Speaker 4: I've got just about anything you can imagine. And I
- 4:22Speaker 4: buy collections, you know, sometimes some weekends I'll I'll take
- 4:26Speaker 4: the cargo van and you know, buy a collection somewhere.
- 4:29Speaker 4: So yeah, it's a fun I'll call it a hobby
- 4:33Speaker 4: slash business.
- 4:34Speaker 3: Well, but you know, if it's something that you're passionate about,
- 4:37Speaker 3: it's probably going to be more successful because you actually
- 4:39Speaker 3: like what you're doing and you can actually get a
- 4:41Speaker 3: rapport with the customers that come in and talk about
- 4:44Speaker 3: it and stuff.
- 4:45Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the vinyl I think it's popular because
- 4:49Speaker 4: it's tangible. So much of our entertainment now is just
- 4:53Speaker 4: digital floating out there in the air, and you know,
- 4:57Speaker 4: when you have the vinyl it's the whole album. Yeah,
- 5:02Speaker 4: it's not just a song you're playing. You play through
- 5:04Speaker 4: the album. You get to know the artists, you get
- 5:06Speaker 4: to read the liner note, the liner notes that's what
- 5:08Speaker 4: I was going to say, yes, and and And you're
- 5:11Speaker 4: doing it on purpose. It's not just in the background.
- 5:13Speaker 4: You have to set down on purpose and put that
- 5:16Speaker 4: record on and make the time to do that. And
- 5:19Speaker 4: it's a it's just a great way to, you know,
- 5:22Speaker 4: have something real reintroduced to your life.
- 5:25Speaker 3: I love it, and I love it. I was, you know,
- 5:27Speaker 3: being a kid of the eighties when forty five records
- 5:29Speaker 3: were a big thing. It was like when I first
- 5:31Speaker 3: got in it got an interest in radio long before
- 5:34Speaker 3: I ever got out. I was the kid that was
- 5:36Speaker 3: buying like every forty five that came out. It didn't
- 5:38Speaker 3: matter whether I liked it or not. I had it.
- 5:40Speaker 3: I had just about. That's where all my extra money
- 5:43Speaker 3: went was to forty and I had all of these
- 5:45Speaker 3: forty five or I had the albums to John, but
- 5:47Speaker 3: I had a lot of forty fives. I mean just
- 5:49Speaker 3: about everything. If it was on Casey Case, I had it.
- 5:53Speaker 3: I had it pretty much. And you know they're they're
- 5:55Speaker 3: still floating around there somewhere. I don't know exactly where
- 5:57Speaker 3: they are. Some of them are, you know, pretty good? Now,
- 6:00Speaker 3: all right, so we'll go into your full time job
- 6:04Speaker 3: and that whole financial thing that you do. So I
- 6:07Speaker 3: mentioned earlier about the Christmas season, and every year at
- 6:12Speaker 3: the end of the year, a couple of things happened,
- 6:14Speaker 3: whether it's financial world, whether it's entertainment, whether it's new sports, whatever,
- 6:18Speaker 3: a year in review of some kind. People, you've always
- 6:22Speaker 3: got to do that and to look ahead to the future.
- 6:24Speaker 3: So we're going to do a little bit of that.
- 6:26Speaker 3: And this isn't your final show of the year, I
- 6:27Speaker 3: don't think, because you got more to coming up. But
- 6:30Speaker 3: I did want to say if you had to from
- 6:34Speaker 3: We'll get to the future in a moment. But let's
- 6:35Speaker 3: talk about the year that was twenty twenty five. With
- 6:38Speaker 3: the economy with a certain amount of uncertain insertant. People
- 6:43Speaker 3: just kind of give us a quick year in review
- 6:45Speaker 3: of twenty twenty five.
- 6:46Speaker 4: Well, the bottom line of the market has done very,
- 6:49Speaker 4: very well over the last year. It had some a
- 6:53Speaker 4: little bit of a breakdown in the early spring, and
- 6:56Speaker 4: people thought the world was ending and quickly that it
- 7:00Speaker 4: wasn't you know, when the tariffs were announced, they really
- 7:03Speaker 4: upset the market for a short period of time, which
- 7:07Speaker 4: kind of proves that, you know, companies are resilient. You know,
- 7:11Speaker 4: companies are out there trying to serve their customers every
- 7:14Speaker 4: day and trying to find the best way to do that,
- 7:17Speaker 4: the most efficient way to do that. And yes, policies
- 7:20Speaker 4: may change, but their goals are the same. How do
- 7:23Speaker 4: we get this product to our customer, how do we
- 7:25Speaker 4: serve our people that utilize our business, and how do
- 7:30Speaker 4: we improve on that process?
- 7:32Speaker 3: And and you know, businesses.
- 7:33Speaker 4: Time and tom again, no matter what obstacles thrown in
- 7:36Speaker 4: front of them, figure out how to do that. And
- 7:39Speaker 4: you see that with the earnings this year and the
- 7:41Speaker 4: projected earnings even next year. You know, earnings are growing,
- 7:45Speaker 4: earnings are strong at these companies. They are resilient. And
- 7:50Speaker 4: that's what happens with the market. And one of the
- 7:53Speaker 4: things I wanted to talk about today. At the end
- 7:55Speaker 4: of the year, you get all of these articles and
- 8:00Speaker 4: clickbade out there of people who think they know what's
- 8:04Speaker 4: going to happen. You know, at the end of the year,
- 8:06Speaker 4: you get all these predictions. It's not just looking back,
- 8:09Speaker 4: but looking forward. Oh, we think this is going to
- 8:12Speaker 4: happen this year, And the reality is most of that
- 8:16Speaker 4: is noise and most of it will be wrong. You know,
- 8:20Speaker 4: all of those things are designed and nobody goes back
- 8:24Speaker 4: and checks on these people.
- 8:25Speaker 3: Yeah, status reports.
- 8:27Speaker 4: Status of It's like, how did that? How did that?
- 8:29Speaker 4: I mean, you think about this year, the way things
- 8:31Speaker 4: played out. You know, the tariffs were going to be
- 8:34Speaker 4: a disaster, you know, the Ukraine War a you know,
- 8:37Speaker 4: interest rate changes, all of these things. Inflation is going
- 8:42Speaker 4: to you know, all of these horror stories you know,
- 8:45Speaker 4: eventually passed when we started talking about some other horror story,
- 8:48Speaker 4: right right, Yeah, And and that's and that's the way
- 8:51Speaker 4: it works. But but keep in mind the companies you
- 8:53Speaker 4: own in the in the stock portfolio you have, they're
- 8:57Speaker 4: out there doing their best to serve their people. And
- 9:01Speaker 4: that's what really matters over time. And as an individual,
- 9:07Speaker 4: it doesn't really matter what happens next month or the
- 9:10Speaker 4: month after that, or the quarter or the half a
- 9:12Speaker 4: year after that. You know, most folks are planning for
- 9:15Speaker 4: long term goals. Even a retiree, the goal is to
- 9:19Speaker 4: maintain a lifestyle and retirement. That's a long term goal.
- 9:23Speaker 4: You know, you have to identify what's important to you
- 9:29Speaker 4: and then build the plan around that. And once you
- 9:31Speaker 4: do that and identify the right type of investment mixed
- 9:35Speaker 4: to do that, you almost have to accept that the
- 9:38Speaker 4: market is going to have ups and downs. There are
- 9:41Speaker 4: going to be news stories that spook people from time
- 9:44Speaker 4: to time. But if you own those quality companies and
- 9:47Speaker 4: if you've bought them in a way where the plan
- 9:50Speaker 4: is in place for your individual goal, that's what really matters.
- 9:55Speaker 4: You know, focus on the things that you can control.
- 9:58Speaker 4: You can control how you alec catch your funds. You
- 10:00Speaker 4: can control how you live below your means and create
- 10:04Speaker 4: savings and investment you know, regularly. You can control the
- 10:09Speaker 4: tendency that you might have to panic when the market
- 10:13Speaker 4: does go go or when you see that one little
- 10:16Speaker 4: newsburb that's right, causes.
- 10:18Speaker 3: People to panic because you said from time to time, right, So.
- 10:21Speaker 4: All of those things are things that can make you
- 10:24Speaker 4: stray away from what's important, and that's what's important to you,
- 10:28Speaker 4: that's your individual goal. You know, it doesn't matter who
- 10:31Speaker 4: gets elected, It doesn't matter, none of those things matter,
- 10:35Speaker 4: because you still need to retire, no matter who the
- 10:38Speaker 4: president is or who's controlling Congress, or what the tariff
- 10:42Speaker 4: rates are you still.
- 10:44Speaker 3: Have And if you're somebody let's say right now, that's
- 10:46Speaker 3: let me just say that they're in their thirties. Okay,
- 10:48Speaker 3: maybe one of your your clients are their thirties. By
- 10:51Speaker 3: the time they get ready to retire, they're going to
- 10:53Speaker 3: have gone through several different presidents, several different you know,
- 10:57Speaker 3: the Republicans are in charge and Democrats are in charge.
- 10:59Speaker 3: That's going to go back and forth. That's going to
- 11:01Speaker 3: change several times throughout the course of somebody's lifestyle let's
- 11:04Speaker 3: say early to mid twenties to whenever they retire, mid
- 11:08Speaker 3: sixties or seventy or whatever, right, right, And even like
- 11:11Speaker 3: you say, even a retiree that is sixty five years.
- 11:14Speaker 5: Old, now they're not done. They're not done.
- 11:16Speaker 4: You know, they might have thirty more years of investment
- 11:20Speaker 4: management and planning to do. So those are the things
- 11:24Speaker 4: that are important. What does your life look like? How
- 11:27Speaker 4: do you build the portfolio around it? And that's really
- 11:30Speaker 4: the value that I can bring to somebody's financial life.
- 11:34Speaker 4: Trying to get that organized, trying to figure out what
- 11:37Speaker 4: is important, what news out there is important, to filter
- 11:41Speaker 4: it through so that you're not making knee jerk decisions.
- 11:45Speaker 4: That is really you know, working with a financial advisor
- 11:49Speaker 4: is not necessarily finding the person that knows what the
- 11:52Speaker 4: right stock is going to be. It's understanding what your
- 11:57Speaker 4: individual goal is and then building a place around that,
- 12:01Speaker 4: and then keeping the focus on that plan, on the
- 12:05Speaker 4: things that you can control. And if you do that,
- 12:07Speaker 4: you're largely going to have good results over time.
- 12:10Speaker 3: John Bredet's again from Fourth Avenue Financial on retire Right Radio,
- 12:14Speaker 3: asked the experts you mentioned how nobody got that's interesting,
- 12:17Speaker 3: how nobody really goes back when these people make predictions.
- 12:22Speaker 3: Nobody fact checks them at the end of the year.
- 12:25Speaker 3: While you said this and this didn't happen, you said this,
- 12:28Speaker 3: and you got this right or whatever overall track records.
- 12:31Speaker 3: You said, John, it's not very good.
- 12:32Speaker 2: No.
- 12:33Speaker 4: I actually have a book the bookshelf in my office,
- 12:36Speaker 4: a book that was written I got a lot of
- 12:38Speaker 4: playback in the day. But it's called Bankruptcy nineteen ninety nine,
- 12:43Speaker 4: and it was like all about how it's all over
- 12:46Speaker 4: for America in the world because of the debt and this,
- 12:52Speaker 4: that and the other. You know, wonder what would happen
- 12:56Speaker 4: if you'd interview that author today, he's not showing up
- 12:58Speaker 4: when I.
- 12:59Speaker 3: Thought maybe you were going throw in y two K
- 13:01Speaker 3: in there somewhere as well. That's right, because that that
- 13:03Speaker 3: was gonna be the end of all of us.
- 13:04Speaker 4: Yeah, So, you know, there were those things that happened
- 13:07Speaker 4: in those books that get written and those articles that
- 13:09Speaker 4: get written, and the reality is, over time, the arc
- 13:16Speaker 4: of history is pretty clear. I mean, I always go
- 13:19Speaker 4: back to my great grandmother who was born in the
- 13:21Speaker 4: eighteen nineties. When she was born, they rode horses, you know,
- 13:26Speaker 4: no electric, no plumbing, indoors, you know, pretty basic rudimentary
- 13:32Speaker 4: type existence. And during her lifetime she lived into the eighties,
- 13:36Speaker 4: nineteen eighties, look at all the progress that was made.
- 13:39Speaker 4: That doesn't mean bad stories didn't happen throughout their lifetime.
- 13:42Speaker 4: Imbane World War One, where there was.
- 13:44Speaker 3: A little thing called depression, the depression.
- 13:46Speaker 4: You know, all of these things have happened, But look
- 13:49Speaker 4: at the progress that was made. And when you own
- 13:52Speaker 4: investments in in in portfolios and stocks and bonds, you're
- 13:57Speaker 4: participating in that innovation, your participation in that growth. And
- 14:02Speaker 4: unless you think humans have created everything that could be
- 14:07Speaker 4: created and solved every problem out there, you have to
- 14:12Speaker 4: be bullish on the companies that are out there working
- 14:14Speaker 4: every day to solve those problems.
- 14:18Speaker 3: Totally unrelated because I have a tendency to go off
- 14:20Speaker 3: on a tangent every now and then. Have you ever
- 14:22Speaker 3: seen anything in your years in financial planning or that
- 14:26Speaker 3: you've been watching markets and watching innovations and things of
- 14:29Speaker 3: that nature, have you ever seen anything that has gotten
- 14:31Speaker 3: so many people alarmed other than y two k as
- 14:34Speaker 3: Ai does? Yeah.
- 14:37Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, certainly, anytime you have a new
- 14:40Speaker 4: technology that is potentially a game changer, you know, there's
- 14:44Speaker 4: fear wrapped around that. You know, you've seen that all along.
- 14:48Speaker 4: I mean, certainly when the dot com era everything was changing.
- 14:56Speaker 4: People back then we're thinking, hey, this is going to
- 14:58Speaker 4: take all of our jobs. Well, it changed the way
- 15:02Speaker 4: people work. You know, there are less people working in
- 15:05Speaker 4: retail stores now, but there are more people, you know,
- 15:08Speaker 4: working on the back end of fixing it when it breaks, right,
- 15:12Speaker 4: So you know, the jobs change, And I mean that
- 15:17Speaker 4: is certainly something that that a vibrant economy contends with
- 15:23Speaker 4: all the time. You know, the course and buggy manufacturers
- 15:28Speaker 4: didn't do so well after the automobile came about, and
- 15:32Speaker 4: it's just going to be that way always. And AI
- 15:35Speaker 4: is a technology that we really don't fully understand yet
- 15:40Speaker 4: how it's going to play out. But history shows that
- 15:45Speaker 4: what typically will happen is that you have the first
- 15:49Speaker 4: gold rush like we have now. You know, a handful
- 15:53Speaker 4: of companies are have really benefited from that gold rush,
- 15:58Speaker 4: but what will have happen? And as an investor, what
- 16:02Speaker 4: is important The companies that over time make the money
- 16:05Speaker 4: are the individual companies that utilize that technology to improve
- 16:14Speaker 4: their business processes, to make themselves more efficient. And that's
- 16:18Speaker 4: really the legs of that development. It's not just the
- 16:24Speaker 4: handful of companies, but if you participate in the market,
- 16:27Speaker 4: you know, every company in America right now is thinking, Okay,
- 16:31Speaker 4: what is this AI tool? How can we use it
- 16:33Speaker 4: in our business? Does it improve our process? Does it
- 16:36Speaker 4: improve our profitability? And they're going through that exercise right now.
- 16:42Speaker 4: And that's how over the next five years, ten years,
- 16:48Speaker 4: that's where you know that heads and that's really what's important.
- 16:52Speaker 4: How do these tools get used in these individual.
- 16:54Speaker 3: And if you think if you go back to the
- 16:55Speaker 3: advent John of the Internet, when the internet first became
- 16:58Speaker 3: a thing, like it was you said during the dot
- 17:00Speaker 3: com right uh, bubble and that and that particular time.
- 17:03Speaker 3: How much it's changed since then in what we use
- 17:06Speaker 3: it for sure, I mean at the time it was
- 17:09Speaker 3: uh in the nineties, it was entertainment. That's you know,
- 17:12Speaker 3: that's what it was for Nobody. I don't think ever
- 17:14Speaker 3: envisioned that somebody would do their Christmas shopping by setting
- 17:17Speaker 3: on their couch or a phone and and picking out
- 17:22Speaker 3: this and saying, Okay, I want this sent to Aunt Martha,
- 17:24Speaker 3: I want this sent to Uncle John, you know, for
- 17:26Speaker 3: Christmas and whatever or that we would be ordering apps
- 17:29Speaker 3: and and or ordering uh uh cars and ubers and
- 17:33Speaker 3: uh and and things of that nature. And the same
- 17:35Speaker 3: with with AI. When AI first came out, and it's
- 17:39Speaker 3: been out, you know, the chat GBT has been out
- 17:40Speaker 3: for a couple of years now. Sure people thought, okay, well,
- 17:43Speaker 3: this is just a way that we'll be able to
- 17:45Speaker 3: help officers craft emails, you know, save a little bit
- 17:48Speaker 3: of time. I can tell you that within this company
- 17:52Speaker 3: we use it unbelieveably, me personally and not so much.
- 17:57Speaker 3: I'm always the last one to the party. Well, I
- 17:59Speaker 3: still think the Internet a passing fast but but but
- 18:01Speaker 3: that's just me. Uh, but come come down and buy
- 18:04Speaker 3: some records. Once you get the eight tracks, I'll be
- 18:07Speaker 3: in there. Okay, a couple of Okay, I've got all right,
- 18:10Speaker 3: I just have to have something to play them on.
- 18:11Speaker 3: I was having this conversation with the other day about
- 18:14Speaker 3: all the CDs I have. I said, I've got like
- 18:15Speaker 3: seven hundred CDs and I simply don't have. I think
- 18:19Speaker 3: my car because it's an uh. I think that my
- 18:24Speaker 3: car still has a CD player because it's a it's
- 18:26Speaker 3: a twenty eleven model. But but uh, but but some
- 18:30Speaker 3: but some vehicles don't even come with it anymore. But
- 18:32Speaker 3: but but but anyway, my point is is how how
- 18:35Speaker 3: things change?
- 18:35Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean And a good example of that.
- 18:38Speaker 4: A couple of weeks ago, I ordered a pizza from
- 18:40Speaker 4: a local shop and it was all a U when
- 18:45Speaker 4: I when I dialed the phone. I mean, we're not
- 18:47Speaker 4: talking a big company. We're talking somebody with one pizza shop.
- 18:51Speaker 4: And it was a human voice, but it was a
- 18:54Speaker 4: I and it walked you through the order. It was
- 18:59Speaker 4: like convert conversing with the computer, and sure enough the
- 19:02Speaker 4: order came. And that's one person in that operation that
- 19:06Speaker 4: now can focus on the other parts of the service
- 19:09Speaker 4: than answering that phone constantly. And and you know that's
- 19:13Speaker 4: why I say incrementally, that's how AI I think will
- 19:17Speaker 4: play out. Businesses will figure out how to use it.
- 19:20Speaker 4: You know, when personal computers came along, you know, most
- 19:23Speaker 4: people didn't have a personal computer. Business is you know,
- 19:27Speaker 4: now there's a computer on every desk with tools that
- 19:30Speaker 4: people use every single day that didn't exist forty years ago,
- 19:34Speaker 4: thirty years ago, and it's now indispensable and part of business.
- 19:38Speaker 4: And AI will I think play out that way. You know,
- 19:42Speaker 4: could the uh you know, could sky net come and
- 19:46Speaker 4: and and and you know, destroy the world. Well, it's
- 19:51Speaker 4: I think fairly fairly unlikely. You know, there are horror
- 19:56Speaker 4: stories like that from from almost every technology.
- 19:59Speaker 3: The whole movie Maximum Overdrive, if you remember that movie
- 20:02Speaker 3: in the eighteen eighties, was about the machine. Is the
- 20:05Speaker 3: Stephen King thing about the machines taking over right and right.
- 20:08Speaker 3: The only thing A lot of these machines are gonna
- 20:10Speaker 3: do it or make us zombies. So I don't think
- 20:12Speaker 3: we have to worry about zombie machines. I think a
- 20:14Speaker 3: lot of these devices have made us zombies. I tell
- 20:16Speaker 3: you that's that's the risk. I think of all of
- 20:18Speaker 3: this technology is that if something ever happens to it,
- 20:21Speaker 3: no one will know how to do anything anymore. Well,
- 20:24Speaker 3: you think about this. We've gone off and we'll take
- 20:26Speaker 3: a break after this. But you think about right now,
- 20:29Speaker 3: how many phone numbers do you know off the top
- 20:31Speaker 3: of your head? I mean maybe two? Three?
- 20:33Speaker 5: Yeah, I know how to dial my wife.
- 20:36Speaker 3: I could tell my wife. I could dial somebody that
- 20:40Speaker 3: I dialed a lot, probably before smartphones, like my wife's
- 20:44Speaker 3: brother and I are really good friends, so I could
- 20:46Speaker 3: probably get him, and I can get my stepmother. That's
- 20:49Speaker 3: the only three numbers that I know. I mean to
- 20:52Speaker 3: be honest with you. Yeah, maybe the number out front here,
- 20:54Speaker 3: maybe I should throw that out there, But that's about
- 20:56Speaker 3: anybody else. If you asked me what you know one
- 20:59Speaker 3: of my co workers, he has me with Dale Cooper's
- 21:00Speaker 3: phone number is I couldn't tell you. Well, I'll tell
- 21:02Speaker 3: you because it's in my phone. Let me tell folks
- 21:04Speaker 3: my phone number. OK, there you go.
- 21:06Speaker 4: How's that for a pluck? Yeah, Fourth Avenue Financial. If
- 21:09Speaker 4: you want to talk about your personal situation, just give
- 21:13Speaker 4: us a call three zero four seven four six seven
- 21:15Speaker 4: nine seven seven if you can call, if I'm available,
- 21:19Speaker 4: I'll certainly talk to you. If not, we can schedule
- 21:21Speaker 4: a ten minute introductory call no charge.
- 21:24Speaker 3: Just ask some questions I want to go over exactly
- 21:28Speaker 3: what you do on those calls is well, we're going
- 21:29Speaker 3: to take a break. We'll be back right after this.
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- 23:25Speaker 2: This is retire Right Radio with John Burdett from Fourth
- 23:29Speaker 2: Avenue Financial, taking your calls at three oh four three
- 23:32Speaker 2: four five fifty eight fifty eight or texts on three
- 23:35Speaker 2: oh four nine three five fifty oh eight.
- 23:46Speaker 3: Welcome back to the show. That's the song that you
- 23:49Speaker 3: might hear. Little Steely Dan. There, big Steely Dan fans,
- 23:53Speaker 3: let's do it again. Yeah, I'm a huge I became
- 23:56Speaker 3: a Steely Dan fan. John. I was working at a
- 23:58Speaker 3: rock station in Ohio, and I really wasn't that familiar
- 24:01Speaker 3: with Steely Dan other than just the you know, the
- 24:04Speaker 3: major hits. And I became such a huge Steely Dan fan.
- 24:06Speaker 3: I mean this stuff like my old school, like dirty
- 24:10Speaker 3: work and that kind of stuff. I'm a big Steely
- 24:12Speaker 3: Dan fan. All right. Uh so I want to do
- 24:15Speaker 3: talk about that initial set down. I call you and
- 24:18Speaker 3: uh and I say, hey, need help. I want to
- 24:21Speaker 3: I want to talk right, take us through that process. Yeah.
- 24:24Speaker 4: I mean you can schedule, like I say, you can call,
- 24:27Speaker 4: but if I'm if I'm tied up, which a largely
- 24:30Speaker 4: I can be during the day.
- 24:32Speaker 3: Generally, you'll dial the number.
- 24:35Speaker 4: Somebody from my office will answer the phone and figure out,
- 24:38Speaker 4: you know, what you're wanting to do. If you want
- 24:41Speaker 4: to talk to me, they'll put a ten minute phone
- 24:44Speaker 4: call on the calendar. I'll call you at that that
- 24:47Speaker 4: scheduled time and we just chat. You know, you tell
- 24:51Speaker 4: me what's on your mind. Why you what what? What
- 24:54Speaker 4: was the reason for the inquiry? What was the reason
- 24:57Speaker 4: for the call? There's something that has made you dial
- 25:00Speaker 4: that number. Is it a retirement? Are you just wanting
- 25:03Speaker 4: to check in to see if you're on track? You know,
- 25:06Speaker 4: those those type of questions are pretty common. Sometimes we
- 25:10Speaker 4: get the question, I'm retiring next week, what do I do?
- 25:14Speaker 3: Find me some money? What do we do? You know?
- 25:17Speaker 3: And that's fine.
- 25:18Speaker 4: I mean, wherever you are, we can help you work
- 25:21Speaker 4: with what you have to get you where you need
- 25:23Speaker 4: to be and also give you peace of mind. I
- 25:27Speaker 4: mean a lot of people out there that have saved
- 25:29Speaker 4: diligently and therefore oh one k have done well and
- 25:32Speaker 4: have enough funds to do the things they want to do.
- 25:36Speaker 4: But there's a change when you retire. You know, you're
- 25:39Speaker 4: going from savor to now you're withdrawing. Psychologically, that's a
- 25:44Speaker 4: hard thing for a lot of folks to get to
- 25:48Speaker 4: because it's a dynamic.
- 25:50Speaker 3: And you think about just in your bank account. I mean,
- 25:52Speaker 3: you're used to seeing that paycheck it every couple of weeks,
- 25:54Speaker 3: and you, like you said, we were talking about technology,
- 25:56Speaker 3: check it on your phone or however, did you check Okay,
- 25:58Speaker 3: I got my X amount of dollars in here? Okay,
- 26:00Speaker 3: Suddenly that's I mean, you may get your retirement check
- 26:03Speaker 3: or whatever, but you're going to find it's a whole
- 26:04Speaker 3: lot less than I mean most cases than what it
- 26:07Speaker 3: was before. That's got to be, like you said, kind
- 26:08Speaker 3: of a psychological thing.
- 26:09Speaker 4: Yeah, And so working with that figuring out okay, this
- 26:13Speaker 4: will work. You know, we can we can plan this
- 26:16Speaker 4: is how you structure it so that you protect yourself
- 26:19Speaker 4: against market volatility, and you know, kind of go through
- 26:23Speaker 4: those those paces. And on the introductory call though, we're
- 26:27Speaker 4: really just getting to know one another, you know, getting
- 26:30Speaker 4: an overview of a thirty thousand foot of your situation
- 26:33Speaker 4: to see if you want to at that point move
- 26:36Speaker 4: forward and schedule an appointment.
- 26:38Speaker 3: Now, when I make that call to you, should I
- 26:40Speaker 3: have it? I mean, I know it's just the initial call.
- 26:42Speaker 3: We're just talking. But should I have something prepared, like
- 26:45Speaker 3: in front of them, you know, have access to my
- 26:47Speaker 3: records or anything at that point.
- 26:49Speaker 4: Generally we will send out a questionnaire. If you call
- 26:51Speaker 4: the office and you want to talk with that introductory
- 26:54Speaker 4: we'll send out a little questionnaire that you can answer
- 26:57Speaker 4: some basic questions and get back to me before the call,
- 27:00Speaker 4: so I have a little background information and we can
- 27:02Speaker 4: be more productive. You know, it's not always it's not
- 27:06Speaker 4: really required if you just have a few questions, but
- 27:10Speaker 4: if you're wanting me to kind of dig in a
- 27:12Speaker 4: little bit on that initial call and really understand your situation,
- 27:17Speaker 4: you know, it's wise to return that to me because
- 27:20Speaker 4: it gives me some information to be you know, like
- 27:23Speaker 4: I say, be productive on that call.
- 27:25Speaker 3: What's the most common misconception that you get in retirement planning?
- 27:29Speaker 3: I mean that people think X. What is that? Well,
- 27:33Speaker 3: a lot of.
- 27:34Speaker 4: Times it's life expectancy. You know, Folks don't expect that
- 27:42Speaker 4: they're going to live as long as typically we do.
- 27:44Speaker 4: In retirement, we have a lot of that. You know,
- 27:46Speaker 4: Oh you know, if this last fifteen years, I'll be good. Well,
- 27:49Speaker 4: statistically it might need the last thirty and so we
- 27:55Speaker 4: have a lot of those type of questions. I think
- 27:57Speaker 4: that's probably you know, misunderstanding that. And then the fact that, oh,
- 28:05Speaker 4: if I went to this the last twenty years, I
- 28:07Speaker 4: just divided it by twenty and it'll last twenty years. Well,
- 28:11Speaker 4: you know, you have to inflation. It's another big one
- 28:14Speaker 4: that people miss. It's not you have to grow your
- 28:17Speaker 4: money at least as fast as inflation or you'll feel
- 28:20Speaker 4: the pinch sometime. And you're retirement, so you know the
- 28:24Speaker 4: concept of of you know, cost of living increases in retirement.
- 28:29Speaker 4: How do you get a pay raise when you're not working, Well,
- 28:32Speaker 4: your companies have to give that to you over time.
- 28:35Speaker 4: You know, how does that play out? How does that
- 28:37Speaker 4: look over the next twenty or thirty years. And that
- 28:40Speaker 4: can be surprising to people as well. I want to
- 28:44Speaker 4: talk about the economy here for a moment. This kind
- 28:46Speaker 4: of goes back to what the theme was that everybody
- 28:49Speaker 4: is a predictor. You know, this is what twenty twenty
- 28:51Speaker 4: six is going to hold. And you know, we hear
- 28:53Speaker 4: that word thrown around a lot, and we're not going
- 28:55Speaker 4: to turn this political, but we do hear that word
- 28:57Speaker 4: affordability thrown out there. That's that's the buzz word right now.
- 29:00Speaker 4: Is affordable completely completely understand it. You know, one, how
- 29:06Speaker 4: does that translate into retirement planning? Well, like I say,
- 29:09Speaker 4: the cost of living over time will go up and
- 29:13Speaker 4: and you know, we really kind of hope it does,
- 29:15Speaker 4: or or we get into a little thing called like
- 29:18Speaker 4: the Great Depression, where costs when actually went down. You know,
- 29:21Speaker 4: I think that is the disconnect. Politicians, I think are
- 29:24Speaker 4: making a mistake talking about prices are coming down. Prices
- 29:29Speaker 4: are not coming down. They're just not growing as fast
- 29:33Speaker 4: as they were a few years ago. You know, the
- 29:35Speaker 4: FED that is targeting two percent inflation, that means prices
- 29:39Speaker 4: go up two percent, doesn't mean they're going back to
- 29:43Speaker 4: what they were in the year two thousand and and
- 29:47Speaker 4: and we as you know, we really don't want that
- 29:50Speaker 4: to happen. It might sound good, but you've got to
- 29:54Speaker 4: think about in the last handful of years, look at
- 29:57Speaker 4: all the financing that's taken place predicated on the new reality.
- 30:04Speaker 4: How many homes have been financed based on a new reality.
- 30:08Speaker 4: How many businesses have taken the loans and bought equipment
- 30:11Speaker 4: and things like that based on that new reality and
- 30:13Speaker 4: the ability to produce a certain income.
- 30:15Speaker 3: To pay for that.
- 30:17Speaker 4: If prices are falling, you know, that's actually could spell
- 30:23Speaker 4: some some disaster. So prices aren't actually falling, nor do
- 30:27Speaker 4: we really want them to to fall. Not not across
- 30:32Speaker 4: the board. I mean, certain industries might have new efficiencies
- 30:35Speaker 4: or new technologies that that lower the cost, but the
- 30:39Speaker 4: actual you know, dollars of of going back to you know,
- 30:44Speaker 4: valuations five years ago, that's that's not happening. And even
- 30:48Speaker 4: right now with inflation being quote more under control, prices
- 30:53Speaker 4: are still growing. And that, you know, historically is a
- 30:59Speaker 4: pretty normal situation, just the way things are set up.
- 31:04Speaker 4: And that's something I think is very important when you're
- 31:06Speaker 4: talking about retirement, John, This is why they need to
- 31:08Speaker 4: talk to you, because you know, my wife and I
- 31:11Speaker 4: we we retire and we're set to you know, float
- 31:15Speaker 4: on out through our golden years or whatever.
- 31:16Speaker 3: But these prices just keep going up and up and up,
- 31:18Speaker 3: and maybe what I'm getting in is not going up
- 31:20Speaker 3: and up up right.
- 31:21Speaker 4: Well, And if you think about it, when I was
- 31:25Speaker 4: born I'm in my early fifties. When I was born,
- 31:28Speaker 4: a postage stamp was a nickel, and I think they're
- 31:31Speaker 4: sixty eight cents now, I believe, which shocked me when
- 31:34Speaker 4: I got the stamps for the Christmas cards.
- 31:36Speaker 3: Let's that's where but the only time of the year
- 31:40Speaker 3: that you actually know.
- 31:41Speaker 4: Yeah, well, when you buy a bunch of them, you're like,
- 31:43Speaker 4: whoa wait a second here. But you know, if your
- 31:47Speaker 4: money isn't growing to keep up with that, you're going
- 31:50Speaker 4: to feel that pinch. You know the postage stamp, you
- 31:54Speaker 4: know thirty five years ago was twenty cents. Well it's
- 31:57Speaker 4: more than tripled in thirty five year. I mean, there
- 32:00Speaker 4: are a lot of people that have a thirty five
- 32:01Speaker 4: year retirement. If your money doesn't triple, if your income
- 32:05Speaker 4: doesn't triple, you will fill the pinch. And that is
- 32:09Speaker 4: something that the inflation when it's in control, growing two
- 32:15Speaker 4: three percent a year, people deal with it. But over
- 32:22Speaker 4: ten years, over twenty years, that makes a huge compounding difference.
- 32:27Speaker 4: You know how your money compounds as you're saving and
- 32:29Speaker 4: it grows over time. Well, that's what the prices are
- 32:32Speaker 4: doing too. It's compounding and you have to keep up
- 32:36Speaker 4: with that.
- 32:37Speaker 3: I don't know if this is necessarily anything that you
- 32:40Speaker 3: could speak to, but I'll just throw it out there.
- 32:43Speaker 3: I hear so many younger people. And by younger, I mean,
- 32:47Speaker 3: let's just say they're just beginning their full time work life.
- 32:50Speaker 3: They've either gone through college or they've gone through a
- 32:52Speaker 3: trade or whatever. They're beginning that twenty four to twenty four,
- 32:55Speaker 3: whatever they are. And I hear so many people not
- 32:58Speaker 3: only here but in other places that and I re online.
- 33:00Speaker 3: They'll say there's no way I can afford a house,
- 33:05Speaker 3: I can afford insurance and a lifestyle like my parents had,
- 33:10Speaker 3: and that it's disingenuous to look at a young person
- 33:14Speaker 3: today twenty four to twenty five years old, at somebody
- 33:17Speaker 3: I'm a few years older than you, but at somebody
- 33:19Speaker 3: of my age, my mid fifties, to look at somebody
- 33:21Speaker 3: that's twenty three twenty four years old ago, well, just
- 33:23Speaker 3: do better because it's a different it's a different world.
- 33:27Speaker 4: Yes, I mean, there are opportunities, and I believe more
- 33:32Speaker 4: opportunities today for people to be successful if they put
- 33:37Speaker 4: their mind to it. And it's just understanding the basic
- 33:40Speaker 4: process of wealth creation. Are there challenges today?
- 33:45Speaker 3: Yes?
- 33:45Speaker 4: Are they different than the challenges that maybe you and
- 33:48Speaker 4: I had when we were going through that stage of life.
- 33:51Speaker 4: Our challenges were different than what our parents had too.
- 33:54Speaker 4: That's part. And these kids now, these younger people.
- 33:56Speaker 3: That if they have kids, you know, there's will be different.
- 34:00Speaker 4: Maybe maybe as far as your paycheck goes. A house
- 34:04Speaker 4: is more expensive, but guess what, your computers are less expensive,
- 34:10Speaker 4: your TVs are less expensive. The amount of hours a
- 34:13Speaker 4: person has to work today to buy a new refrigerator
- 34:16Speaker 4: or buy a new washing machine is much less than
- 34:19Speaker 4: it was thirty years ago, forty years ago.
- 34:23Speaker 3: So things are.
- 34:24Speaker 4: Different, and that's that's just the dynamic, damic nature of
- 34:28Speaker 4: the of the economy. The reality is the rules haven't changed.
- 34:36Speaker 4: You earn money by serving people. Go out and do
- 34:39Speaker 4: your job, do it well, and over time you'll earn money,
- 34:42Speaker 4: and your earn more money the better you serve generally,
- 34:47Speaker 4: and then you just live below your means, create savings
- 34:51Speaker 4: and investment regularly. That's that's what you need to do.
- 34:55Speaker 4: And if you do that, stay out of that consumer debt,
- 34:58Speaker 4: which you will if you're being below your means, then
- 35:03Speaker 4: all of those things will take care of themselves.
- 35:05Speaker 3: I read a comment the other day. I was sometimes,
- 35:07Speaker 3: you know, they tell us in this business don't read
- 35:09Speaker 3: the comments. But it was in some sort of a
- 35:12Speaker 3: national publication and you showed up on social media and
- 35:14Speaker 3: I was reading the comments and people were and somebody
- 35:18Speaker 3: said exactly what you said. They said, well, you know,
- 35:20Speaker 3: live below your means. But then this person fired back
- 35:24Speaker 3: and said, well, I work hard. If I want to
- 35:26Speaker 3: have fill in here, I'm going to I'm not going
- 35:29Speaker 3: to deprive myself. And that's okay, that is certainly you're right. However,
- 35:34Speaker 3: it's a trade off. Don't don't come complain.
- 35:36Speaker 4: And everything in life is has everything, certainly in the
- 35:39Speaker 4: financial life has a trade off. You know, the folks
- 35:43Speaker 4: that are the most successful financially tend to be the
- 35:47Speaker 4: people that can delay gratification. It's it's just a state
- 35:52Speaker 4: of mind that that you know people have, and and
- 35:57Speaker 4: you could cultivate that in yourself. You know, you say, well,
- 36:01Speaker 4: that's only five dollars, I'm going to buy that. Well,
- 36:04Speaker 4: the way compound interest works, that five dollars maybe two
- 36:08Speaker 4: hundred dollars of your retirement money that you just spent
- 36:12Speaker 4: because of the power of compounding interest and investments. So
- 36:15Speaker 4: every five dollars you waste today, it could be two
- 36:18Speaker 4: hundred dollars that would have been there for retirement. If
- 36:21Speaker 4: you're twenty some years old. You know you have to
- 36:24Speaker 4: be aware of those things, and it's a choice you make.
- 36:27Speaker 4: It truly is a choice. And I think a lot
- 36:29Speaker 4: of times folks buy into this victim type mentality that
- 36:35Speaker 4: things are stacked against them and things are always you know,
- 36:39Speaker 4: nothing is easy and they never have been. Like I say,
- 36:42Speaker 4: the challenges might be different, but you still largely control
- 36:47Speaker 4: your future if you focus on.
- 36:50Speaker 3: It as you're drinking your ten dollars coffee, you know,
- 36:53Speaker 3: with the latest cell phone and whatever else you've got.
- 36:57Speaker 3: Go back and tell your great grandparents about the albums
- 37:01Speaker 3: when they survived the depression, and like.
- 37:03Speaker 4: You say, those I think if you buy too much
- 37:07Speaker 4: into it psychologically that all there's no hope. Well what
- 37:10Speaker 4: does that make you want to do? It doesn't matter.
- 37:12Speaker 4: I'll just go buy that item. Might as well enjoy
- 37:16Speaker 4: it because there's no hope for the future. Well, that
- 37:18Speaker 4: sucks you right into making that fear that you have
- 37:22Speaker 4: a reality.
- 37:22Speaker 3: All right, we got to start to wrap it up here.
- 37:24Speaker 3: Anything else quickly in mind that we didn't cover today.
- 37:27Speaker 3: Oh I don't think so. I think we pretty well
- 37:29Speaker 3: from albums over to the new phones and interesting I'll
- 37:33Speaker 3: say this. You were talking about about the phones. I
- 37:35Speaker 3: don't think that people years ago thought we would be
- 37:37Speaker 3: carrying a computer with us. I meant computers that everything
- 37:40Speaker 3: that everybody doesn't need a big PC like they had
- 37:43Speaker 3: twenty years ago. It's in your hand. And when your
- 37:46Speaker 3: teachers told you back in the day you won't be
- 37:47Speaker 3: able to carry a calculator with you wherever you go, Yeah,
- 37:49Speaker 3: they kind of.
- 37:50Speaker 5: Lied, that's right. Guess we do give.
- 37:52Speaker 3: Your contact information again, John, Fourth Avenue Financial.
- 37:56Speaker 4: Yeah, and the office is downtown Charleston, one seventy Court
- 37:59Speaker 4: Street and really easy to get to. We have parking
- 38:02Speaker 4: one site. My phone numbers three zero four seven four
- 38:07Speaker 4: six seven on seven seven.
- 38:09Speaker 2: Uh.
- 38:09Speaker 4: The website is fourth Avenue Financial dot com, all spelled out.
- 38:14Speaker 4: You can even schedule your own free ten minute phone
- 38:17Speaker 4: call right online too.
- 38:18Speaker 3: All right, John, cooping back with you next week. I
- 38:21Speaker 3: guess you'll be doing the show next week, ran yes,
- 38:23Speaker 3: all right here, all right, Uh, we will be talking
- 38:26Speaker 3: to you. I'll be talking to you on five eighty
- 38:28Speaker 3: Live giving up at the top of the hour afternoons.
- 38:30Speaker 3: Appreciate man, Thanks, all right.
- 38:31Speaker 2: Thank you. See it just Anty six point Charleston, one
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