Smart Money Happy Hour with Rachel Cruze and George Kamel
Unpacking Money Lessons from Your Favorite Christmas Movies
Thu, 19 Dec 2024
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Chapter 1: What are the money lessons we can learn from Christmas movies?
I really think so. Is that age or is that culture?
I think both, but also we've just, in the digital age, you just lose something. I know. When you're just like clicking add to cart, it just shows up. There's something about going to a physical place and choosing the item and seeing the excitement as a kid.
Yep. And you got, you know, tacky sweaters that were actually not tacky then. That was the style.
Now they're back in trend. I can see you're wearing one.
Snow days. This isn't a tacky...
I just wanted to see if you'd go with me on that. Unbelievable. It's a great sweater.
Did y'all ever have snow days up where you were?
Oh, Massachusetts.
In the north, sir.
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Chapter 2: How can we apply the lessons from 'Elf' to our finances?
Well, no, he's an 1800s-er.
They are what they are. Don't at me. It's like, what energy is this?
It's an 1800s-er. Okay. That is.
Yeah, I guess Gen Z often sounds like the ghost of Christmas past.
Yeah. But I think the key here is that you don't want to take your money habits that were in the past with you to the future.
That's right. accept some responsibility enough with this. Don't blame me. Like I didn't know you have to take responsibility for all of the money mistakes from the past, own it and go, Hey, that's fine. I'm going to get better in the future. I'm going to get out of this debt. I'm not going to make the same mistake twice.
Yeah. Charles will be proud of us. I think so. Yeah. Love it. All right. This is one of my three funniest Christmas movie. I think of all time for Christmases. Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon. I mean, they are. It is. At their best. It literally makes me laugh every year. And I still know what's coming.
It holds up for an old school kind of comedy.
I mean, so funny. So the quote is, I didn't know there was a $10 spending gap.
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Chapter 3: What financial wisdom can we gain from 'It's a Wonderful Life'?
Yeah, it feels right. All right, thank you, George. I so appreciate that.
I hope that blesses you.
Thank you.
No, can I tell you though, recently ours broke. And now in the middle of the night, it's tumultuous.
I'm like figuring out.
I mean, you're stumbling through, because I don't like turn lights on in the middle of the night. You know, waking up people.
Do you not have like streetlights that are coming through like some level, some window?
No.
No? No streetlight.
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