Welcome back to RDTFM, where Dalton, Chad, and Chris crack open a Day of the Dead double red, a local hazy, and a Lowcountry favorite. This week we're flipping the Approach segment on its head, trading the usual advisory scenario for a conversation about unplugging, leading better, and why stepping away might be the most productive thing a firm owner can do.

Pop That Top & The Scorecard

• Chris's Fitting Session: Zero rounds played, but he got fit for the driver he won last week, landing in an X-flex shaft (his stiffest in 20 years) and a tweaked loft with one goal: anything but left. Plus, he's signed up for his first club championship in years, and it's gross or die.
• Chad's Swing Rebuild: One round so bad he stopped keeping score on 14 and nearly sold his clubs in the parking lot. He breaks down the drills from his first lesson, fixing an out-to-in path, a steep transition, and a fast-closing clubface, and why the range-to-rounds ratio has to flip for now.
• Dalton's Comeback Nine: A twinge on a steep beach hill is a reminder he's not running yet, but he walks a full-length nine with his kids, trusts every swing, and turns their scramble into a dessert-on-the-line competition, despite lipping out a painful number of short putts.

The Approach: The Productive Pause

• Two Days, Zero Screens: Chris explains the quarterly "productive pause" his business coach recommended: 48 hours with no phone, no tech, and no agenda, and how he solved years-old firm problems on the very first night.
• Finding Your Spot: Why a state park cabin didn't work but a beach-walk Airbnb on Edisto Island did, how much chaos you notice once it's gone, and his daughter's unforgettable question: "Dad, are we chaos?"
• Don't Put Up a Zero: Dalton shares his philosophy that something beats nothing, Chad makes the case that the right environment is different for everyone, and Chris recommends the leadership book Taking the Lead by Dave Alpert of Joe Gibbs Racing.

The Final Pour

• Another strong week on the RDTFM Leaderboard. Hear the verdicts and decimal-point ratings for Ritual Brewing's Double Red, crowned the best red Dalton has ever had, Friction Beer Company's Southern Hospitality, and Shell Ring Ale Works' Hop Doctor.

Welcome back to RDTFM, where Dalton, Chad, and Chris crack a few IPAs and get into everything from charity scramble golf to the entity-selection conversation every CPA has had a hundred times. This week: a second-place finish that paid better than first, a rehab milestone at TopGolf, and a hard look at the worst business advice on social media.

Pop That Top & The Scorecard

• Chad's Blind Pick: A half-hour-old grocery run turns up Outer Range Brewing's Fresh Palette out of Frisco, Colorado — plus a live education on what "DDH" actually means. No bunnies on the can this time.
• Chris's Charity Scramble Circuit: Four events in a matter of days, including Tunnel to Towers at Port Royal and Palmetto Dunes. Then a pro-am in Columbia where he played the tips alone because everyone over fifty moved up a tee, finished six under, lost by a hair — and walked out with $647.50 in shop credit and a brand new TaylorMade Qi4D. Club championship is October 2nd. The stars aligned.
• Dalton's Full Bag: Every stick back in play and the second TopGolf round completely pain free. Carry numbers are returning (gap wedge 133, eight iron 163, driver 280), the wedge game is throwing darts from fifty yards, and the driver is still producing a massive slice that the three wood somehow doesn't.
• Chad's Ten Thousand Reps: A spreadsheet tracking reps-with-feedback against March 1st and the summer tournament, a full stroke off the handicap in three days, and the discovery that the public course in town has better greens than his club.

The Approach Scenario

Chris brings a question he's fielded twice in the last two weeks — including from a client trying to fund Broadway musicals: two people want to start something, so what do they open?

• Liability First: Dalton walks through why exposure drives the decision before taxes do, why an LLC preserves the S election either way, and why "go talk to an attorney" is never optional. Plus the cleanest analogy of the episode — LegalZoom is TurboTax.
• The $100K Test: Why the S Corp math only works once you're consistently clearing six figures after expenses, what payroll and a corporate return actually cost, and why one good year at $150K doesn't change the answer.
• The Stuff Nobody Budgets For: Chad on admin costs as the forgotten line item, and why the Wyoming-LLC-for-your-California-consulting-business advice floating around social media is among the worst things to come out of it.
• Partners and Allocations: Uneven splits kill the S Corp, and the hot take that if you don't need a partner, don't have one.

The Final Pour

A reminder of the scale — one and two, no thanks; three and four, only if it's free; five and six, solid; seven and eight, good beer; nine and ten, holy grail. Ratings land for Outer Range's Fresh Palette, Fiddlehead Brewing's flagship IPA out of Shelburne, Vermont, and El Segundo Brewing's Burnoff. Plus the confession that finally puts an asterisk on last week's marshmallow bunny beer: Dalton poured it down the drain and threw out the other two. No rescoring allowed. It's in the bylaws.

Welcome back to RDTFM, where Dalton, Chad, and Chris dodge a looming tax deadline long enough to crack open a few more IPAs. This week brings a first-ever golf lesson, a counterintuitive bunker tip, and the debut of a brand-new segment where the guys tackle a real-world client puzzle.

Pop That Top & The Scorecard

• Chad's Swing Rebuild: After three decades of self-taught golf, Chad takes his first-ever lesson, gets a stronger grip and an out-to-in path fix, then plays the very next day and learns the hard way that progress is a long road.
• Chris's Birdie Jams: A group chat invite (and a wife who says "don't threaten him with a good time") leads to a round at Chechessee, a dice-rolling net birdie game, 11 strokes from a stranger, and a 79 from the tips, plus a mind-bending Joseph Mayo bunker tip that flips everything he thought he knew.
• Dalton's Comeback Round: His first round back from hip and quad surgery is a walking nine at a par-3 course, where he stays healthy, swings at 90%, and shoots 8 over with a birdie despite not hitting a single green.

The Approach

• Where's My Money?: In the debut of this new segment, Chad pitches a real scenario from his firm. A second-generation construction contractor with a new controller is showing big profits on paper but draining its line of credit. Dalton digs into debt service, owner draws, and commingled personal expenses; Chris explains why project-based businesses with slow-paying corporate AP departments get squeezed, and why the cash flow statement, balance sheet, and AR/AP agings should tell the real story before anyone jumps to fraud.
• The Reveal & The Follow-Up: Chad shares what they actually found (over and underbillings way out of line from compounding WIP entry errors), and the guys discuss how to handle business owners who don't want to understand their own financials, from spoon-feeding and red-alert flags to meeting clients where they are and knowing when to move on.
• Coming Soon: Dalton teases a future episode on the growing mess of clients who set up their businesses based on TikTok advice.

The Final Pour

• The leaderboard gets a shakeup. Chad's Nightmare Confetti from Cigar City Brewing crowns a new leader with a 9.1, Chris's Focal Banger from The Alchemist outshines last week's Heady Topper with an 8.2, and Dalton's kid-selected Brewery X Novelty Marshmallow Hazy IPA (bunny label and all) limps in at a 3.2, with three more cans still waiting in his fridge.

Welcome to the inaugural episode of RDTFM, where Dalton, Chad, and Chris crack open a few high-octane IPAs and hit the ground running. We’re covering everything from brutal rounds on tour-level courses to navigating the latest small-firm accounting tech.

Pop That Top & The Scorecard

• Chris's Humble Pie: Surviving a brutal 91 at Cog Hill's Dubsdread, followed immediately by a dead-last finish in an Ironman tournament on zero sleep.
• Chad's Tech Deep Dive: Joining the Jayhawk Club and exporting Golfshot app data into ChatGPT to try and solve the mysteries of his 20-handicap swing.
• Dalton's Rehab: Navigating hip and quad surgery recovery with limited rotation, smooth iron swings, and frustrating defeats to his six-year-old at TopGolf.

Life as a CPA

• Client Turnover: Chad breaks down why losing a major $80,000 client is just part of the firm ownership journey and how to weather the storm without panicking.
• Process Overhaul: Dalton explains how reimagining his firm's 1040 data collection process natively within Karbon allowed them to ditch their previous software's front end, saving $15,000 annually and reducing client friction.
• Local AI & Security: Chris discusses the hardware challenges of running local, open-source AI models for strict data compliance, plus a warning about highly sophisticated, AI-driven phishing scams targeting clients.

Debit or Credit

• The guys play buy-or-sell on industry hot topics: whether hourly billing should be dead, if 60-hour busy season workweeks are actually just management failures, and if asynchronous video should replace email as the primary client communication tool.

The Final Pour

The first official entries hit the RDTFM Leaderboard. Hear the final verdicts and decimal-point ratings for Boulevard’s Space Camper Juice Nova, The Alchemist’s legendary Heady Topper, and Harland Brewing’s Hazy IPA.