joins us to explain are nick strobelt and abe ashton from ashton strobelt. gentlemen, hello. >> happy to be here. >> they wanted to brag about their socks. >> we feel like we got a gentleman's game going. you came out swinging. >> they're pink. you can't beat that unless -- big to beat pink and grey stripes. you would have to do something like, you know, maybe possibly darth vader. take. and i'm willing to go there in order to win. >> you get that as a valentine's day gift? >> not yet. i got a whole different pair that i'm going to get for valentine. >> $18.9 billion? >> small amount of money. $18.9 billion. >> that's a lot. >> do you want to put it in contrast? let's take about what $19 billion essentially is. the entire proposed budget for nasa, okay? this is -- we just came out yesterday, the budget for -- $19 billion, or the purchase of whatsapp by facebook was than that. the entire budget for cyber security for the government, that's what president obama just asked for, was $19 billion to day. we now sell roses instead ofncial advice. from one person. w

and abe ashton, they're here from ashton strobelt. >> welcome back gentlemen, how are you? >> doing well. >> great to see you, there's many choices when it comes to retirement accounts. what do you suggest? >> there's a lot of different options, people e-mail us, and say, where do we get started. the key is to get started on anything. it doesn't matter if we're talking about a roth 401. when we started, we had three kids and realized that college is expensive, and then decided to have three more, that way, we decided -- got six kids, sell three if needed. right? to fund college per the other three. we have a couple of options, family hunger games, whoever survives. but you have to start somewhere. we start putting in the 529 college education plan. you think that's not a difference, but it's been 15 years since we did that. and we moved up, we've added more as we go p and $20 a month don't add up to be anything, and 15 years later, the college funds have 20 to $30,000 each. the key is to start. >> you need a financial advisor to clear the mystery behind what is pretax, post

joining us now to explain, nick strobelt, and eric nimmer from ashton strobelt. good morning to both of you, and welcome. >> thanks for having us. >> why is estate planning so important? >> that's a really good question, and many don't know why it's so important. one of the reasons it is, we don't know the future, of course, and if you imagine for a second, that something happens to us, and we fail to answer important questions, we can make the lives of though that we care about much more difficult in a time of grief. avoid at all costs. that's why having an estate plan is vital, and formalizing the decisions early into a proper estate plan is the way to avoid that situation. and if you think of what an estate plan is, it's a collection of legal documents that help to decide where the assets and the money would go if something happens to you. >> eric, if we're trying to figure that out, what's the first step to take? >> the first step is deciding that you'll take the action and go out and do it. it's like the honey do list, can you get to this, yeah, i'll do it t

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