<![CDATA[Well, Actually...]]>Josh Youngblood and Shannon Hall are enrolled agents.

Well, Actually… is a conversation between two tax professionals about the things they can't stop reading about: tax (obviously), books, technology, and AI. Some weeks that means a Tax Court opinion nobody covered properly. Some weeks it means the Section 7216 question every AI vendor would rather not answer. Some weeks it means a novel one of them finished at a hotel bar and got yelled at for reading.

The premise is friendly pedantry. Getting the detail right matters; the difference between a primary source and a persuasive one matters, and "I don't know" is a perfectly good answer as long as it's followed by "let's find out."

No hot takes. Occasional ghost tours. At least one well-sourced "actually" per episode.

Neither of them is giving you tax advice on a podcast.

]]>www.wellactually.taxRiverside.fm (https://riverside.com)Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:13:37 GMTMon, 24 Aug 2026 02:13:21 GMT60Josh Youngblood / Shannon Hall<p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.josh.tax" target="_blank">Josh Youngblood </a>and <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.shannonhalltax.com/" target="_blank">Shannon Hall</a> are enrolled agents.</p><p><i>Well, Actually…</i> is a conversation between two tax professionals about the things they can't stop reading about: tax (obviously), books, technology, and AI. Some weeks that means a Tax Court opinion nobody covered properly. Some weeks it means the Section 7216 question every AI vendor would rather not answer. Some weeks it means a novel one of them finished at a hotel bar and got yelled at for reading.</p><p>The premise is friendly pedantry. Getting the detail right matters; the difference between a primary source and a persuasive one matters, and "I don't know" is a perfectly good answer as long as it's followed by "let's find out."</p><p>No hot takes. Occasional ghost tours. At least one well-sourced "actually" per episode.</p><p>Neither of them is giving you tax advice on a podcast.</p>episodicJosh Youngblood / Shannon Halljosh@youngbloodgroupllc.comno<![CDATA[We Passed, We Traveled, We Have Opinions]]>Two enrolled agents who just survived the Tax Court exam sit down to compare notes on a summer of conferences, a vendor hall full of AI products, and the disclosure rule nobody wants to talk about.

Josh and Shannon open the first episode of Well, Actually with the small talk (105 degrees in Texas, an angelic glow in Long Beach) and get to the substance quickly: what they'd change about every tax practice in the country if they had one wish, why "our lawyer says 7216 doesn't apply" is a red flag, how to actually vet an AI vendor, and what OPR's guidance on artificial intelligence does and doesn't say about billing.

Then a detour through ghost tours, continuation school, GEDs, acting degrees, and whether you need a master's in taxation to sit for the USTCP exam. (You don't.)

The episode ends on the first official well, actually of the series, courtesy of a five-hour research spiral in a rented house in the desert: an IRS publication is not primary authority. It has never been primary authority. It can also, it turns out, simply be wrong.

Interested in the USTCP Exam? Check out www.taxcourtexam.com

]]>b3fdf610-6bef-4e3c-8c59-2e509d10da59Mon, 24 Aug 2026 02:28:20 GMT<p>Two enrolled agents who just survived the Tax Court exam sit down to compare notes on a summer of conferences, a vendor hall full of AI products, and the disclosure rule nobody wants to talk about.</p><p></p><p>Josh and Shannon open the first episode of <i>Well, Actually</i> with the small talk (105 degrees in Texas, an angelic glow in Long Beach) and get to the substance quickly: what they'd change about every tax practice in the country if they had one wish, why "our lawyer says 7216 doesn't apply" is a red flag, how to actually vet an AI vendor, and what OPR's guidance on artificial intelligence does and doesn't say about billing.</p><p></p><p>Then a detour through ghost tours, continuation school, GEDs, acting degrees, and whether you need a master's in taxation to sit for the USTCP exam. (You don't.)</p><p></p><p>The episode ends on the first official <i>well, actually</i> of the series, courtesy of a five-hour research spiral in a rented house in the desert: an IRS publication is not primary authority. It has never been primary authority. It can also, it turns out, simply be wrong.</p><p></p><p>Interested in the USTCP Exam? Check out <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.taxcourtexam.com" target="_blank">www.taxcourtexam.com</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>no00:30:4911We Passed, We Traveled, We Have Opinionsfull