Rider here with us. Welcome to the show. Thanks for having me on. Its awesome when vegas turns into a cowboy town for these two weeks. It must be a fun place to be. Its amazing. Vegas is just happening all the time. There is so much stuff to do, so much going on. But then for these two weeks, it totally turns into a cowboy town. Its cowboy hats, cowboy boots, and you better for us. Its the boots and boogie. And buckles are everywhere. Can we show off the buckle . This is my first World Champion bugle. Hold on. Hang on. First World Championship. That seems to imply that theres more than one. There is. Ive been blessed and very fortunate in my young career that im a two timing defending World Champion at the ripe age 22yearsold. Yes. And you won on your first time competing. I did. I won my rookie year. I was the first rookie bull rider to do so since 1963, and im the only one to repeat after his rookie win in my sophomore season, as well. So youre going for the threepeat. I am. Youre getting praise from a guy who bounces ladders on his chin and juggles on top of peoples shoulders. Its no you do. I grew up riding horses. I have never ridden a bull. Whats the key to riding a bull . Its all about timing, and you know, really just getting the momentum of the bull and getting in time with them. If youre trying to out muscle a 1800pound athlete its not going to have much luck doing that. When they really have a good feel for the bull, its like a fine dance watching it, really is. I got to ask you, we were injuries, im suffering a knee injury. You got to get pretty banged up doing this. Definitely. They keep us as healthy as you can be for riding bulls, but obviously the dangers are glaring, its bull riding. So yeah, dislocated shoulders, broken arms, you name it, probably happened. If not to me, one of my fellow competitors. And you have getting injured . Its part of my job. I just got to embrace it and cant think about it. You might get injured a lot but you look didnt doing it. Youre sonned about boo by wrangler. Are these wrangler jeans . Everything i have on is wrangler. Theres way to look any better. And they set you up, because that is for the authentic cowboy it definitely is, you know, the first really true cowboy jean ever created. It is. Its an iconic cowboy brand and im so happy to be partnered with them. I got excited. He had to pick which bull he was going to ride in the competition. Random draw. You random draw . Judges random draw for us. You talk about the chemistry. You cant feel bad but in the moment. Thats another great thing about the national finals, the top bulls in the world are here. Its not just the top 15 bus guys. You have the top bulls from the entire year that we have our bull riding event representative that goes through with all of us. We take down and pick the 100 best bulls, so youre looking at the top guys versus the top i didnt think of that other side, if youre not into it. We have the bulls in town a thinking, breeding a good bull. Almost like the race horse industry, there is registries and the pedigrees of the bulls, you know, every contractor can tell you everything about that animal. They love their animals. Theyre like their children. They really are. And it is incredible just seeing the pride that those contractors have in their and mails that theyai you know. To now, to where one of the top animal athletes. It really is like their own baby out there performing in the arena. Were going to have to role. Please tell everybody about special offer if you come by the wrangler booth. They got all the new product coming up. Buy two, get one free. So wrangler boots, cowboy christmas. Thank you so much. You want to look as good as sage. Cowboy christmas booth. 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Were used to you with your partner in crime, abe. You have to call me the retirement brother. Yes, retirement bro. Thats right. I like that. So no matter how much money we might have saved, its always concern of running out in retirement, right . Uhhuh. How do you deal with that . Its hard. We dont know how long were going to live. The average age if you make it to 65, women live to 84. Men can live to 86 as the average. Thats the average of the we dont know if its going to be less or 96 or 94, so we have to plan for a very long time, having income. Youre planning for something youre not sure how its going to play out. When its going to start, when its going to end. There is Health Care Problems that they require more income . What if theres a death of a spouse, or you have a pension and suddenly that pension goes away. Whats your contingency plan if Something Like that happens . There has to be a lot of strategy involved when planning a Lifetime Income stream. I would imagine its intimidating. Oh, we had a little lights out right there. Welcome. Ready for the mattress nap. Welcome to lights out at the morning blend. You know, this is the perfect were going to go through the four ways you can boost your retirement. Absolutely. You know, one of the ways people usually have an income during retirement. If you could go through them. Season all job is great. If you need extra boost around the holidays to pay for the grandkids presents, getting a seasonal job is great. Im not talking about a 65yearold getting a job hanging up christmas lights, getting another seasonal job is fine. Social security, collecting at the right time is vital. If you wait too long, you have to beat the street in order to break even. For example, if you wait until youre 70, you have to live longer than the average person lives for you to break even. If you collect at 65. And so it just is very rare we recommend someone to wait until 70 to start collecting social security. Why do you delay in the first place . Oh, if youre still working . People if youre still working, like they want to wait to get a higher or regular check, because the check increases every year you delay it. Every year you delay it youre not getting income. Theres a break even analysis we have to do. All right. Take us through that analysis. So we just look at one we look at your health. We want to make sure that if you have genes that your parents live to 90s you can wait a little longer, because wait to 70 youll have more income. Other income sources, your other pension, how much savings you have, what your expenses are. We have to look at all those pieces together to see what would be the ultimate time. I got to tell you, you have to be brave to face retirement and plan it, because there are serious issues here. You know a lot of people having to work forever im going to keep working. My parents my dad never retiring. Yeah. You have to be realistic and think were all going to get older. We have to plan for it. If you fail the hadnt, you plan to fail is the quote. And you have to look at your estate plan, you have to have health care documents. You have to have someone make decisions for you, financial decisions, limited power of attorney, making sure your assets are going to go. There is a lot to play when you entire life, and making sure after you pass away your kids are going to be okay with how the estate is going to be distributed. Oh, thats a tricky one. Its the perfect time to discuss this time of year, holidays, families coming together, thinking about next year and beyond. Its sad to say but ive seen too many situations where the family gets along really well and after the parents die it breaks apart. Having the proper Estate Planning documents in place and kids is very helpful. I think transparency to the kids is very important. Very important. And putting everything in writing. Yes. With the proper attorney. Yes. You do something called an income analysis. For the first 15 callers that are calling, well do a special income analysis, so that if you have questions, if you are going to be able to make it through retirement and have enough income well show you what the best retirees are doing to see how you matchup with them and your current plan. So call right now, 7029008177 and well get you set up. Thank you so much. I was afraid you how you deal without abe here but youre a chatterer. Get all your ducks in a row. Its crucial. Take advantage of the special offer today. Nick and abe will do an income analysis for the first 15 call if id callers right now. This those who are retired or nearing retirement. Learn more about ashton strobelt by visiting their website. Y24way y5yy are you getting what you need from your health plan . Changes. Here to help us navigate through some Big Decisions is dr. John roades who is a senior medical director of the Mountain West region for southwest medical. Good morning. Good morning. Tell us about yourself and your medical background. Im senior medical director, as you said, for southwest medical, so i oversee all the adult medical in southern nevada, plus in arizona and utah. This is the final week for medicare open enrollment, right . Ends december 7th. Yes. Generally for those who might not be familiar what is open enrollment and why its so important to seniors this time of year. Medicare open enrollment started october 15th, and it ends december 7th, so were hitting the deadlines. Those who have not made a decision have a chance to. Open enrollment is a chance for see if they feel like theyre getting the value they should. And if they are, great. If theyre not, its a chance to be able to look at other options. And it is so important to revisit it, right . Prescription drug plans change and coverage changes, and obviously we dont want seniors to miss anything. I agree. Your health is your greatest asset. And for sure. Most of the time you dont appreciate that asset you until you dont have it. Look at that. And so a lot of it is. What other values does this health plan give to me . And you talked about prescription coverage, and other things that the plan can have, and also the doctors available to you. And are they providing the needs and care that you want for you. Speaking of reevaluating your plan, lets get practical. In order to do that you need to have your questions answered, you need to be able to probably get information. As southwest medical . Usually its done more through the brokers and them understanding the plan and whats available, and so they actually know the different plans and can sit down with somebody and go through it with them. Okay. And it explains the plan to them. Usually an exam room were not talking about specific plans, were just taking the best care we can of each patient. There is the changing of plans, but what about generally if youre signing up for a new plan . Is it the same different pros . Its similar process. Youre going to go in, select the provider that you want to take care of you through that process. And so southwest medical has 100 providers throughout the valley that people can select from, and once they select one of our providers they get to take advantage of all the other value and care that we are able to provide them. Wonderful. You mentioned youre in the exam room. Thats what you do. Hands on. What are some primary issues you see seniors coming into your exam room with regarding their medicare plans or just their Health Concerns . You know, its interesting, because i see everything when im in the exam room. And i love to be able to sit down with my patients when theyre healthy and much like somebody who talked about retirement earlier i like to be able to help them put together a plan thats going to keep them healthy. Health is an asset we take for granted until we dont have it. And so if i can help people maintain and sustain their health and function longer, thats very pleasing to me. Thats what i enjoy doing. But as far as what we take care of, we take care of the basic things that most people have. High blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, neurologic diseases, orthopedic injuries, the whole gamut of primary care. What about specifically this time of year . Around the holidays . One of the things, obviously overeating and that sort of thing. See a lot of every year, ive been in las vegas since 1991, born and raised here in las vegas. Really . Youre a rare breed. My goodness. But it seems this time of year i have a couple patients with falls. Falls seem to be a big, big deal. Somebody decides theyre going to try to put the tree up and get up on the ladder to put the lights on the house or like that, and as you get older you done have as good a balance, good a core strength and a fall, and a fall just that one second can be lifechanging episode. I try to encourage them, you know, first off i try to encourage my patients to be as strong and healthy and keep their exercise going but to be smart about the decisions they make in things they do and kind of think about the impact if something happens. We can get so rushed this time of year. Youre stressed, a lot going on. Its true. Thank you so much, dr. Rhodes. Been a pleasure having you. Thank you for having me. Enroll now or make changes to your health care plan. Now is the time before its too late. If you have questions or need help, dont worry, just call the number on your screen. And still to come on the morning blend, meet the adorable bb. Oh. How you can help him and others like him at the nspca. 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