5 Signs Your Financial Advisor Might Be Failing You (SB1783)

Happy New Year, Stackers. It's 2026. Let me be the first one to welcome you to 2026. Doug, what's your New Year's resolution? Let's talk about all the resolutions, all the stuff that you're gonna say you're gonna do, but you're not gonna do. Eat more breakfast burritos. The first thing he says on the show in 2026 so damn hungry right now. Oh, gee. How about you? 2026. And there you have it. Yeah. He doesn't he pledges nothing to no one. He's his own man. He's an island. He's not he does whatever he damn well pleases. That's a I'm gonna I'm gonna sit by the fireplace like Nick Offerman with the old fashioned. I I will say I but, you know, I've joked a lot about breakfast burritos lately because I'm incredibly hungry right now, and this recording is taking forever. But I'm gonna stop Take it. We've been here for thirty seconds. We've been here for I'm so hungry. But Feels like forever. When do we end? But no. I I have I the scrolling for me got out of control at the end of 2025, and I need to I need to put it down and get back to reading. I was reading a ton for the first, like, two thirds of 2025, and then I just went off the rails. I've got a great Larry McMurtry book sitting on the coffee table that I have just kept ignoring as I scroll on my phone. So it's time. That's that's one of the things more more real. Back to you're gonna get a a a flip phone? That's a ridiculous notion. I would love to do that. I saw them at Best Buy the other day. It's the same thing. You qualify. Right? Like, isn't is there, like, an age requirement? With the big buttons? It's like when you it's like at the same time you get you do you can take money out of your four zero one k. You can go back to a flip phone. That's a pretty They have it as they have it as the ARP bonus. ARP magazine and flip phone. Yes. Yeah. It's amazing. To kick off 2026, we are stay sticking with our theme of shows from 2023. And I think a great place to begin the year is how do you spot a subpar adviser? You know, in our basement Facebook group last year, a lot of people had questions about what is a good adviser. Of course, we talk all the time about having good people in your corner. What does that really look like? Well, episode thirteen ninety, August 2023. We answered that question. So we're gonna shine a spotlight back here again today to kick off the new the new year in style. So happy New Year, Stackers. And here is spotting a subpar adviser. Isn't subpar good, though? My gosh. You boys already know. I'm not letting that Ramsay boy come over …