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This Walking STD Pisses Me Off | Financial Audit

2024/8/28
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Lucas, a 25-year-old from Houston, works three jobs: welding inspector, bouncer, and jewelry store associate. Despite working 70 hours a week, he's struggling to make minimum debt payments. He got his third job to address his financial struggles and support his then-girlfriend's supposed pregnancy.
  • Works three jobs totaling ~70 hours/week
  • Struggling to make minimum debt payments
  • Took on a third job due to financial difficulties and a supposed pregnancy

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To watch episodes of Financial Audit a week earlier, check us out on YouTube. She called me saying that she had an STD. So you consider this STD test to be bullshit, but not all the going out to eat? It wasn't. So don't try to come in with that. Don't try to make yourself look like the good guy out of a sympathy play. I'm Lucas. I'm 25 and I'm currently living in Houston and this is the Financial Audit.

The Financial Audit is back again. So thanks for coming over to Austin. And what do you do for a living in Houston? I have three jobs. Oh. Yeah. Okay. So first job is, I guess, the day job, Monday to Friday mornings most of the time. And that's I inspect welding using x-ray. How many Monday to Friday mornings? So it's just like, what, six to ten?

It kind of depends. Sometimes I'll come in like 4 a.m. Yeah. Some days I'll come in at 11 a.m. How many hours a week are you working that job? It's very inconsistent. I'm not going to lie. Okay. Like since the storm hit Houston, the week that the storm hit, I didn't work at all. Makes sense. The week after the storm hit, I worked one day. Hmm.

And then the week after that, I finally... Is there an average? What are you, Thanos? What is happening on your hand right now? This is probably the number one reason why I'm in debt. Really? Okay, we'll talk about that in a second. Sorry, it just caught my attention. We were just chatting for a little bit and I literally did not see it. I put them on before we started. That's funny. Okay. I've never had a ring in my life. I mean, I don't think any of these are going to fit you, to be honest. Nope, probably not. Well, I don't know. Actually, our fingers are pretty similar. But...

Okay, cool. So you don't know how many hours you work at that job? It's not consistent, but I say base 40 just average because sometimes I work 60. Across all jobs? No, across that one job. A month? A week. 60 hours? Sometimes. And you worked one day? No, no, no. So...

The Monday to Friday, some days, like, so example, like some days, like three days a week, you know, just depending on how busy it is. Okay. I'm sorry. That's, I'm confused. What are your other two jobs? Okay. The other two jobs, I'm a bouncer at a bar. Oh, okay. That I usually work Friday, Saturday and Sunday night. Okay.

It's pretty good. I mean, I probably get somewhere close to 20 hours a week just doing that. And your third job? Third job is I work at a jewelry store. I'm an office associate technically. Is that where you got those from? Partially. Some of these I went to a custom jeweler. How many hours a week do you work at that one? That one is a lot less. I usually work like

Once or twice a weekend. Or not a weekend, a month. On average, how many hours a week do you work through all these jobs a week? Varies, but... Average? Average, I'd say around 70. Okay, so that's what you meant. Okay, what's the best paying one? And what's the worst paying one? Well, hourly rate would be the bouncer job. Is the best?

hourly rate okay um well that's ours and the worst the jewelry store job uh okay that's the worst so why are we working 70 hours a week right now uh and then also why the fuck are you in so much debt working 70 hours a week what are we doing here because let me tell you the progress wasn't really made yeah i'll let that be known yeah uh so

I mean, it started before I was working three jobs. And honestly, I had to basically get the third job for two reasons. One, struggling with paying the minimum payments. Just the minimums. Okay. Well, not, I mean, one of them I'd put more into than just the minimums. Yeah. But you're struggling to literally just pay only the minimums. Yeah. Okay. So your needs were just out of control.

Uh, needs slash exploits, I guess you could say, or splurging on. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Sure. But yeah, and then the second reason was I got the day job because before I was just working at the bar and then at the jewelry store. But so I had a girlfriend for a year and we broke up for a year, but we were still having sex. Classic. Classic.

And she said she was pregnant. Oh. Yeah. So I was like, well, I got to, you know, start busting some ass and really try to get out of this debt that I'm in. Yeah, you should have busted her ass. Well, yeah. I mean, that or just pulled out. But, yeah.

But then came June when the baby was supposed to be born. So me and her weren't living together. Oh, sure. Yeah.

But we were planning to move out a month after the baby came, you know, because the first month the baby's really susceptible and I was really supposed to go outside much. Were you seeing her during this time? Did you see her through the pregnancy? Yeah, we were together, but not living together, you know, and then working three jobs and hardly had time to really do stuff. Okay, go on. I'm intrigued.

So apparently early June, she went to the doctor because she wasn't feeling well. She didn't tell me about this. And when she went, basically she found out that the baby wasn't mine. Oh. Yeah. Interesting. But she didn't tell me that. Were you guys exclusively diddling?

I think we just didn't talk about it. Fair enough. Okay. But yeah, she definitely didn't let me know that she had anyone else. Sure. Let alone unprotected. Okay. Yeah, risky. Definitely risky.

What was I saying? So she had a baby that's not yours that she found out. Then, after she found out it wasn't mine, she still went ahead and she gave birth to the baby without letting me know either and just kind of let me, I guess, just continue to think that she was still pregnant because we just hadn't seen each other. Very curious to see how this got you into that, but go on. And so then, at the end of

Last month or the beginning of last month. She finally went ahead and told me that The baby passed away this you mean last month like last month last month. Yeah, like from right now. Okay. Wow, really? Yeah It was I mean it definitely one of the worst feelings you can imagine. Yeah Let me sit with that for about two weeks until she finally told me the truth. I

you know, about... What the f*** is happening? Okay, what? What was the truth? The truth is she had s*** with someone else and that's their baby. Oh, that truth. Yeah. Okay. So...

Did the baby die? No, the baby's healthy. Baby's fine. So she told you the baby that you thought was yours died? Yeah. Instead of telling you that she f***ed someone else? Yeah, because she knew that basically she was going to lose me. You know, she loves me. How does this mean you got into debt? Well, no. What the f*** are you talking about? I'm explaining why I got into the third job. Oh, because you were ready to start working for the kid. Oh, okay.

I get it. And now are you maintaining to hopefully get out of debt or? Oh, I mean, yeah. I mean, I just with that situation, you know, thinking that my baby passed away. Yeah, that's horrible. I still was in the mindset of like, well, I still have to work because I still have to pay everything that I owe.

you know at least make the minimums so the fact that i didn't really have the opportunity to take off work yeah and really grieve was very unfortunate the same thing happened last year when my uh remind me how long did she allow you to think you lost a child and then say that you just never had a child uh so she allowed me to sit with that for almost two weeks oh

Makes mistakes. Yeah, and mistakes are okay to do, but this just happened, so she's a bitch right now, and hopefully she grows beyond that. But that's fucked up. That's fucked up, because one, when you did kind of lose a baby twice, you thought it died, which is the worst, but then also the baby that you thought was yours, you also just realized just isn't yours. Yeah, but it was a big relief, though. Sure. Having the baby was fine. It is. Before that, I mean, it was a wreck.

I mean, no lower point in my life. And then after she told me the truth of everything, I went and got hammered at a bar with my friends. Okay. You know. And this is why you're in debt? Because you got hammered with your friends? No. Why the f*** are you in debt? Why are you in debt?

I'm in debt. What is happening? Well, okay. I'm sorry. It's a sad story. It's a wild story. Interesting, wild, but why are you in debt? I think when I was younger, I just, man, like at first I started with $10,000. What's younger? Like three, four years ago. Okay, sure. I thought, you know, like $10,000 wasn't too crazy, you know, and-

And then it just continued to snowball. And 10,000 what? You went into 10,000 hours of debt immediately? Not immediately. Or you had 10,000 like credit limit. You thought that was. What are you talking about? 10,000. Basically, with some of my cards combined at like, you know, a couple of years ago, it was already around $10,000.

They're balance. Balance or they're limit? Balance. Okay, so you're at $10,000. Gotcha. They're what? Just like bullshit? Rings. What are you? Rings? What is this? Is this like an obsession? So it's... I don't know. They're really nice to look at. And I feel good when I wear them. You're not going to almost get another woman pregnant if you keep wearing those. Well, I don't wear them all at the same time.

It's actually good birth control. Then maybe I should wear them more often.

I'm just kidding with you. But is this like, so a lot of the debt was because of these rings? I say a significant part because so with one of the cards, which is where I put. We all have plans in life, maybe to take a cross country road trip or simply get through this workout without any back pain. Whether our plans are big, small, spontaneous or years in the making, good health helps us accomplish them.

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Kind of got it partially for the Eagles. One diamond, like one green diamond represents the... Yeah, I guess you can see it's green if you're like literally like this close to it. Yeah, but, you know, represents the one Super Bowl they got so far. Yeah. I should try harder next time. And this one was actually the first ring I got. This one was about $2,500. Okay. I got this after Kobe passed away. That's an insane amount of money.

And he was purple? Well, it was Lakers. Okay, sure. I don't know that sport. This one, so like I said, I probably mentioned to you earlier, I go for the Angels and the Dodgers. Yes. That's baseball, right? Yeah. Sport where nothing happens, yeah. Yeah, so the center one represents the Angels World Series win.

The six sapphires represents the six World Series they won while they're the L.A. Dodgers. And then the one tanzanite represents... It's a very sentimental rings. And how much was this? This one is probably the most expensive. How much was it? Because the center stone... How much was it? Well, how much was the center stone? Center stone was almost $2,000. But it looks like it's fucking, like, bejeweled or something. Like, I don't... No offense, but, like...

Yeah. What? But yeah, this one probably rounded close to four altogether. Four grand. And then this one, the center stone was $1,000.

the rest of the ring itself was probably another thousand two thousand on this one uh-huh and then i have both my gold chains oh so both of these are about 2500 this one used to be longer but i cut it down i want to make fun of this so bad but i just really don't like this is okay um so yeah so but the one thing is uh when i put this on the finance card

A finance card. It's called the finance card? No, but I mean, as the jewelry stores... Oh, financing? The jewelry stores. The jewelry stores card. Their financing card. Okay, thank you. Very obscure with the words you say, like a very general term. Just hoping I know exactly what you're talking about. So they offered deferred interest. Sure. For 12 months. Oh, you betcha. But of course, me not really...

being responsible. Okay. I didn't pay it off in those 12 months. So if you don't pay it off in those 12 months, all that interest gets slapped on. When did that get slapped on? It was after 12 months after I purchased it. When? When did it... Are you kidding me? Okay, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. We're best friends. We're best friends. When did that hit? Well...

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Pretty much. Because I was paying minimum payments on these. Is that all your... Is that your collection? Is this your entirety of things? This is all I really have to show for. Do you wear... How often do you wear these things? I don't wear them too much anymore. Oh, let's sell them. Oh, great. Yeah. So, lack of sacrifice. Okay. The thing is... Oh, sure. What I came to find out when I tried to sell, I guess, this chain... Okay. Um...

Even though I get 50% off at the jewelry store I work at,

what I would get offered. How do they have margins on that? Are we saying the margins are already like 95%? Well, I think you also have to put into perspective the work that they pay the jewelers to make it. So I think it's partially. And then whenever you go and sell it to a pawn shop, for example, they only pay for what the gold is like worth in the sense of weight. So even though you get 50% off. I get 50% off. Um,

I'd only make about 50% of what I bought it for originally. You'd only make...

Wait, so you got it 50% off, but it's only worth 50% of that? So it's worth 25% of what the sales price would have been? Pretty much, if we were to sell it through a pawn shop. Why the f*** did you buy it? I was unaware. Through a pawn shop? That's not the only way to sell it, though. It's not. You can try to sell it privately, but it's more difficult. And most people on there are trying to lowball you as well. Of course, of course. And only want to pay what the gold is worth in the sense of weight. If you sold all this, what would you get, conservatively?

All of this? All of this stuff that looks like you could buy from the dollar store? Less than $10,000 for sure. Maybe $5,000 to $6,000. Okay, $5,000 to $6,000. Do you still have the debt on these things? Yes. What's the interest rate on the debt of those? Approximately somewhere between $25,000 to $30,000. That's insane.

So you lost 50% of the value immediately. You lost 50% of the value immediately. And then there's an additional 30% you're losing on the balance. True. That's insane. But if I were to hold these for longer, eventually they will be worth more. Because the price of gold goes up. Oh, you're going literally just off the price of gold.

I mean, it skyrocketed. Yeah, during the inflationary period, gold hedges well against inflation, absolutely. But, I mean, it's just not as fast as... Well, not only that, is it appreciating at 30% a year? No. Is gold appreciating at 30% a year? No, I don't think so, is it? No. Last 10 years, gold is up 22%? I think it's 22%. For the last 10 years? And you're losing 30% a year.

So sell it and get rid of it. What are you talking about? In what world is there that makes sense? And also that's a return in terms of investments. If I invested in the stock market, I only got 20% over the course of 10 years.

I'd be changing fund managers. I'd be changing index funds that I'm investing in. True, but I think it's just the fact that the amount that I've spent on them and the amount that I'll get for them. 20 years, 20%. No, that's... This website must... One second. Let me... I want to price this correctly. Let's get gold futures. Okay. Last five years, gold futures. Yeah, 60%. Okay. Well, that's different.

All time, the GCW00 is up 39.9%. The price of actual gold, like, I don't know. I don't chart that because I don't follow this. It's pretty complicated. Yeah. But, I mean, if the dollar ever becomes worthless, I have gold.

Which always holds its value. What did you just say? I was just looking at this. But I feel like I just heard something moronic. I said if the dollar ever becomes worthless, then gold is always worth something. You think that is going to be your main concern? I'm just saying it. Buddy, people are going to shoot you if you have gold if the dollar becomes worthless. I have a gun too, though.

Yeah, they're going to have like a bazooka or something. I don't know. All I'm saying is that's not going to be the concern when no offense. Yeah, I mean, you are technically right. Technically. But if the dollar goes to is absolutely worthless, the number one economy in the world, the world leader, the military superpower, if it goes absolutely worthless, stock market collapse, no economy or of bullets, bullets and rice. That's what's going to be traded. Yeah, fair enough.

And I apologize to the audience. I'm trying to get some good price tracking on gold and a live view, but I can't find any good real tracking things here. Yeah, it's pretty inconsistent. But either way, I know it doesn't, on average, compete with the S&P 500. That's correct. I was trying to think of something else I was going to say. But yeah, I think it's just the fact that the amount that I spent and the amount that I'd get back makes me want to just go ahead and just hold it.

uh because on that card that i owe now it's approximately 6 000 or so 6 500 maybe okay um so i see a light at the end of the table compared to what it used to be or i guess it never exceeded the credit limit but i don't plan to spend more money on these items

any more, no more jewelry for me. I mean, I might eventually want some better situation because I do have the stone for this last ring, but not so much the funds to make the ring yet. So it's just a stone that's just sitting there. And that's really more important than your future, to be clear. No, but like I said, eventually...

when my situation is better, I would like. Why don't we speed run it though? Can't you, you can get things like this in the future. Like this, no, for what it's worth. None of these are about a lost family member or anything. They're about a sports team who gives a fuck. Yeah. Money.com has from when the United States ended the gold standard in 1971 to now the average yearly return all up, all down for gold has been about 7.7%.

It's not horrendous. It's not bad. But again, you're losing 30% a year on it. That's where it's very different. Of course, I'm aiming more for a 12% return on a yearly basis. So again, it's not where I'd put my money. That being said, I know that it can be used as a good inflation hedge. And you are losing a lot of money on it because you're at 30%, which is absolutely ridiculous and beyond stupid.

Well, we all make mistakes when we're younger. Yeah, but I'm just saying maybe we cut our losses. Maybe we cut our losses. Okay, well, let's get... And your financial situation. I would like you to give a score from 0 to 10. Where do you think you are? 0 being the worst, 10 being the best. Oh, about a 2. Okay. Because like I said, I mean, struggling to make minimum payments. Yeah.

isn't great. It means I don't really get a chance to take time off. Hence with, you know, the passings and things like that. I mean, that's what's really been, I guess, the hardest part about being, you know, trying to make the monthly minimums was that, you know, like I can't afford to not work. Yeah. So if you want your hammer financial score free link in the description below. Also, if you have interesting stories, if you have,

I guess a bunch of rings or something like that, a bunch of chains. Interesting stories, different things like that. Feel free to go to calebhammer.com. We're always happy to take a look at every application and consider people to come on the show. Let's start going through the debt. We've been talking about just one interesting story from you. It explains how you got a job. It doesn't necessarily explain how you got in the debt, but I do understand the jewelry part.

But we have a Best Buy card here. Are we in a Best Buy credit card because of jewelry? No. So originally when I opened that up, I went to just buy a laptop and they offered, you know, like 12 months deferred interest, I believe. Yeah, you're great with those. You're great with the deferred interest. Have we learned any lesson? Well, that one I did pay in time. Okay. Well, I'm seeing a credit card balance regardless. So one that's not being paid off, by the way.

So think about the Best Buy card. Eventually, I started using that to pay for my now dog that passed away last year. Yeah. I used to use it to pay her basically her allergy pills because she had really bad allergies. And those were expensive and my brother wouldn't pay for them. My sister was in college.

uh my mom doesn't make much money and my dad's definitely not gonna pay for it yeah so it was mostly set on me to pay them uh and they get pretty expensive uh so every month every few months depending on how i wanted to do it i was spending money purchasing them and it just kind of just stacked up until eventually i started

until i eventually paid tried to pay it off okay all right yeah that was a whole lot of like

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Nothing. No offense. Yeah. I get trying to take care of a sick animal, and that is okay if the only situation is to put it on debt, but then we do everything in our power to pay it off. Yeah. It was a horrible explanation for why the f*** you're not paying it off now. It's all f***ing bullsh** spending. You make a payment towards it, and then you immediately build the balance all the way back up. Yeah, I mean, that's... So that was just a lot of...

That was just... You've tried to do a sympathy play to try to make yourself feel better. I understand why you got it there in the first place and then you paid off. But it looked off because you put money towards it. But you immediately f***ed it by going out to eat every second of your life. So you're allowing interest to accrue. We have a balance of $1,112. $23.70 of interest is accruing. $30 minimum through payment. You put...

$856.88 towards the card, which is incredible. Again, with $721 spent. So, like, what is the purpose there? That was not to take care of a dog. It wasn't. So don't try to come in with that. Don't try to make yourself look like the good guy out of a sympathy play, because no offense, that's going to piss me off, because guess what? It's spending.

So I don't want someone to be f***ing with me because that means you're not taking accountability of your actions. That means you don't actually care about getting out of debt. That means you don't actually care about paying off this card because you're going to try to make it sound like a sob story instead of what's actually happening right now. So...

What I was using as my day-to-day usage card was my Platinum American Express card. But when those minimum payments became too much, I started using the Best Buy card instead. What does that tell us? Why in your mind are you allowed to continue this lifestyle if all the money you were spending on going out to eat...

All these little purchases stacking up that were all your choice, not needed to survive in any way whatsoever. Why do you think that we then just move it on to the next card? Because something was getting stacked up too much for the minimum of the payments. So we couldn't afford it and said, maybe, maybe we act like a mature adult and just manage a budget. Well, the minimum payments on best buy card was a lot. It's a minimum payments, buddy. If you racked up too much on another card, uh,

How does it make sense to continue that lifestyle onto another card? Yeah, now that you put it that way. And you try to say that this is because of a dying dog? It's not! I said why I opened up the card and then how I guess continue. I just care about why it's where it is today. And why it's where today? Because you put a big payment towards it, but you immediately spend the money. Yeah. Trying to think of all the things that I, I guess, spent last month on.

Using the Best Buy card, but I don't really remember. You don't remember? I know most of it's food. Yeah, and that's okay? I try to be affordable when it comes to food. Go to Domino's, get a large pizza. That way I eat. And that's more affordable than getting meal prepping and doing your own food? Well, $8 for a pizza, three slices per meal. And are you affording that right now? And is that exactly how you do it? Yeah, three slices per meal.

Per time I eat. So I'm able to get almost three meals out of one pizza for $8. Yeah, go f*** yourself. You tried to leave me down on a thing again. You went to Domino's four times in a month. That was four out of the like 25 going out to eat purchases. So I don't know what the f*** you're talking about. Stop trying to f*** with me. So the food truck is for whenever I'm at work. Right next to everything there. X next to all everything that is bulls***.

Everything that is bull right next to it. As in bull bull bull things that don't matter. Things that are not improving your life. Things that I mean, they might give you that instant dopamine hit, but things that are not necessary in your life to survive and that are making it harder for you to pay off debt. This can't be that challenging, but I mean, it's just all food from what I can see. To be honest, except for the Amazon one.

X next to every bullsh** purchase. It's hard to see exactly which ones are where. That's it? So to be clear. That one's upside down. So to be clear, you are saying that the food truck here wasn't bullsh**. The food truck there wasn't bullsh**. You going in and buying a drink from Circle K wasn't bullsh**. You're saying that Shipley's Donuts wasn't bullsh**. Going into Bucky's and getting something wasn't bullsh**.

Even Domino's, you're saying, wasn't bullshit? Go inside 7-Eleven, getting some bullshit. Going to the food truck wasn't bullshit. Domino's, going inside Chevron wasn't bullshit. Sonic Drive-Thru wasn't bullshit. You mark Amazon as the one bullshit thing or LabCorp? Yeah, LabCorp ended up being kind of a just-in-case thing. It was for, I guess, to check just in case I didn't have any more or any...

Sounds like the one thing that's not bullshit. The thing is, so another thing that I didn't mention was basically around May, she called me saying that she had gotten an STD, a curable one. Why? Which one? Chlamydia. Chlamydia.

put blame on me yeah this is like i said i didn't know even though she was getting raw dogged or by many at one point by someone else even though the last time i had someone else was protected but you know i didn't know that she had anyone else and she made it seem like she didn't so um so you got chlamydia i did oh actually i guess technically it never

confirmed i had it oh okay but but you you took the medication to be safe i took the medication so you consider this std test to be bullshit but not all the going out to eat i'm so confused like there's like no hope here what like how do you if that's your mindset coming into this i don't even know what to do well so how are you possibly saying that going out to eat every second of your life raising canes the food truck again more dominoes ramen dominoes amazon chick-fil-a food truck food truck

Yeah, our food truck raising Kings dominoes going inside a gas station getting some bullshit dominoes and Amazon How are we not saying that that's bullshit in mind you mind you you are putting this on a credit card that you are unable to pay off that is a 30% interest rate is accruing interest So how in the possible world in your mind is that not bullshit your exes next to the boat. That's a joke Those are the exes of a child

How in the world are those not bullsh** purchases to you? In what way are they not? Because they're less than $10. Less than $10 a meal. We can get meals down to like $4 a meal. $3 depending. Actually, we got our meal prepping down to $3 a meal. $3 a meal we got down to. That's what I mean. The Domino's.

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May as well address it in this moment because you clearly have no idea what is going on with money in general in terms of what's bulls**t, in terms of anything important whatsoever. So here's a little game I call don't be a dumb f**k. And this is debt payments. The amount of money that you put towards your debt, you will put here. Your needs, you will put here. Your bulls**t spending, you will put there.

Needs? Needs are needs. Basic needs. Your minimum requirements to survive. This is how much money you brought in last month. Do your math. Go ahead. Allocate away, buds. Say most of this goes to here. Okay, so you put $2,000 to debt on a monthly basis? Around. Are you even putting effort into this? You're just picking up the different... Do you even know? What are you doing? Do you even know your life? I mean... This is... Okay.

Food is still technically a need, but I want to say... Yes, you're doing it in a dumb way. I'm talking groceries, not eating out. Give us the breakdown. How much is there? How much went to debt? So $2,000. Okay, $2,000 went to debt. How much went to needs? Needs, I mean, I mainly just put the gas that I spent, $250. Okay, you put $250. And then the rest, which I guess is a $75 or almost $1,000, so around $800 some change.

towards BS spending. So in the end, you're thinking net that went towards paying off debt was $2,000. Yes. Net. After everything, after you spent on cards, after you did everything, net was $2,000. Well, as in the sense of like how much I sent out, not including what I eventually spent on cards. So like basically around my minimum payments altogether is around $2,000 that I would send. Okay. Well, $3,068.

$3,668. $3,568, sorry. That went towards debt. But none of it really mattered. Okay. Because... Kept spending. Because net in the end, after your spending on the debts, only $234 went towards it. Not $2,000.

Well, going out to your needs, $250. And your bulls**t was $800. Well, we have $540 going out to eat. And then miscellaneous bulls**t, $288. And then unknown shopping, that's usually Amazon, you know? For your case, a lot of it was Amazon. That was an additional $590. You're dramatically overspending.

I think a lot of the Amazon was for the car parts. And what is your rent? Because no way it's less than $250. Currently, as of right now, I'm living with my parents, planning to move out in October. Okay. Because I moved out of my apartment in May, decided to just stay at my parents until the baby came and get an apartment a month after the baby was born. So currently with my parents, but not...

for long hopefully I was planning to move out in October since I am traveling a little bit in September alright let's keep going through these statements because what this tells me that just your finances in general are all over the place you don't know your spending have you ever built a budget? no that's the important part of this exercise is you didn't know how much you were spending on bullshit

In debt, I mean, you put less to it than you thought, but again, net, you put basically nothing towards it. In general, you put it all back on. So it's just kind of a mess, man. Yeah, I never did a budget. I was always kind of like, let me try and, I guess, not spend. How's that going? You're spending up on a 31.49% interest card, so I don't think going well.

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Get it all at maersk.com slash insights. Better? Platinum card. This one's huge, buddy. So is this the one you were spending on and then the minimum payment got too big so let's start spending on a different card instead? Yeah, exactly. $710 minimum monthly payment. Before it used to be more. Sure, but that's still absolutely insane. And you want to go get your own place? You want to rent? You're going to rent with that? $5,658.53 is the overall balance.

Why are there new charges? You're doing it again. What's the point? What is the point? Yeah, this budget? You're right. You don't know how to budget. You've never budgeted. This? You don't know what this is. That just goes away. That's nothing to you. Benji? Benji, that's what you say. It's fake money. I didn't just break the law. Like, I just, I don't get it. I don't get your intentions here. And then again, when we mark next to bullsh** spending...

You just didn't. One, you don't know how to use a credit card. So you need to use something like the Fizz card, a charge card that forces you to pay it off early. And two, go through our budgeting program. Every guest on our show gets access to the budgeting and investing program. Go through it. I promise it'll actually help you manage and stick to a budget. We'll build you a budget by the end of this. And you need to figure out how to actually go through your own manager budget and build it out yourself. Because this is absolutely insane.

You paid off from the pay in full $611, but you put $543 on it. Then you also spent an additional $1,000 pay over time dollars where $116 of interest was accruing there. Plus, yeah, so total $1,610 was spent with $116 of interest. And you want to move out. Hopefully. And you almost, okay, NFLshop.com, great. Yeah, that's what we need to survive, right, guy? Yeah.

Chick-fil-A, wonderful. Hulu, not really anything on there anyway. I'm watching the Handmaid's Tale for the first time. I get that mostly for free, though. Mostly for free. $20. I don't think you know what money is. No, it's because it gets reimbursed to Amex. 100%. Yeah, except $1, maybe. Okay, that's not the worst thing. So I get $20...

uh audio or mathematically it's not the worst thing it's not the worst thing i okay fine but then you went to shop bar and uh some restaurant there then some restaurant there and then amazon then the little pitties rescue what is that uh $214 do you get a new animal i'm sorry little pitties rescue is $50 amazon was 214 charity charity

charity to yourself buddy you're living at home because you can't afford to live anywhere i'm okay if you want to live at home but you can't afford to live on your own because of all this bullshit because you decide going out to eat is more fun than anything i mean going out to eat itself again i could get you on a meal plan 250 300 bucks a month safe conservative healthy meal plan you're spending 550 going out to eat and again

Clearly you are not prioritizing paying off debt. Clearly you are not prioritizing wanting to get your own place. Like you say these things, but clearly they are not a priority to you. Domino's is.

More Amazon, more Amazon, more Domino's, plane tickets, spirit. Where are you going? Where are you going? Where do you think you can go anywhere? You can't go anywhere. You can't afford to go anywhere. What are you talking about? Where are you going? Well, so if I were to go down the places that I'm going from basically next weekend, I'll wait until September. Oh, f*** you. Where are you going? To the end of September. Where are you going? Where are you going? Okay, so next weekend, I'm going to Denver. Why? Visit my sister. F*** your sister. Get out of town.

And probably catch a baseball game. Okay, definitely not that one. Cheap tickets. This is the one I almost... I actually... I'm relatively okay with if we do it in a smart way if there's something happening. And I'm staying with her, so I don't have to worry about hotel. Yeah, but you also can't afford the plane tickets. And the baseball game, out of the question. Stupid. Nothing happens with them anyway. Plus, you'd have to get endless beer to get through it. So, like...

I mean, pregame. Yeah, which you'd spend money on anyway. So stop. And the next trip, this next magical trip, you don't care. What are we doing here? What are we doing here? You don't give a shit. The Ohio one does matter. Ohio. Yeah, everyone's dream destination. My sister's getting married in Ohio. Okay, very good. Cancel the first sister trip then. Go to the wedding. Well, I mean, if I cancel, I'll get a fee for canceling the flight. Yeah, and what would the fee be versus...

I mean, the ticket was only like 80 bucks. Yeah. Round trip. 180. Spirit. Unless that's for a different one. Plus another spirit 60. That's a different one. Different one. Okay. So the wedding, I can excuse a wedding, do it as cheap as you can on a budget. Next. How many travels are you doing? So, I mean, they're only like two to three days max. So...

The second week of September is the Philadelphia trip that I'm going to. Planning to watch that Sunday a baseball game and then Monday the Eagles game. Shut up for a second. Like, I'm sorry. What the f*** are we doing here? You don't give a f***. You really don't. Why are you here in this show? Why are you in that seat?

When someone else who wants to pay off that people come on. Yeah, they have crazy stories. They have crazy financial situations, but they actually do want to get out of debt in the end. You're going on all these vacations and you're not willing to sell those. Yes, for a loss. I know, but you're not willing to do anything. Why the are you here? I'll be honest. I'm not liking you right now. Kind of grossed out.

so baseball that's more important than making any progress guys dominoes it's a smart investment like why are you in this chair i like having a good back and forth a little digging in on someone that's fun but you're just being a dumb they realize that i don't make the best financial decisions sometimes okay but revolutionary like i said

After the situations from last year and this year with I thought I'd lost someone very important to me, it made me realize that I want to be able to take time off for the possibility. You're not even surviving.

For the possibility to, I guess, mourn. Fine. In case. What? Like, in case it were to happen again, like, I wouldn't be able to. Well, now you're just living in fear. You're not going to make good decisions for your life if it's only based in fear. Okay. Cool. Do it. Okay. There you go. Do it.

You're never going to get out of debt. You're never going to be able to move out of your home. You're going to be living there until you're 40. You're never going to get out of debt. You're never going to budge. You're never going to actually live a healthy and good lifestyle financially or, you know, I mean, eventually all this kind of eating will catch up to you. Trust me. Go ahead. Do it. Your life is going to be shit. And that's fine. If that's the life you want to live, great. That's not the life that we teach here. We teach people how to actually take control of their money and live a better life. You don't give a shit about that. You're taking these trips. That's what you care about. So I don't know what the fuck we're doing.

I want to get better. No, you don't. Show that in any way whatsoever. I can't after I leave? No, I don't think so. I mean, one thing we talked about, and I know I was going to bring it up once we got through the cards. I know you just got a payment. You got a payment coming in, right? Yes. And you might put that towards your debt. Some of your debt. It's $10,000, right? Yes. Great. It's not based on your earning. It's not based on anything you did. It's because you got in a car crash. Yeah. It's something that happened in life, and you're getting this extra thing.

None of the progress you, there is no progress one, but even that none of it is based on your own actions and you're not sacrificing anything to do it. So again, I don't know what we're doing here.

And I'm sure I'm probably coming across like an asshole, but I feel like being an asshole because you're just, you're around. I had you cross off what you think is bullshit. And even at least people that come into this room and yes, we have intense back and forth and stuff. They at least know that going to Chick-fil-A for 15 bucks is bullshit.

Like, I don't know how you don't think that. That's ridiculous. And now you're talking about all these trips that you're going on, that you're going to be going on. You're not going to stop them. You're not willing to even talk about considering getting rid of those. So what the f***, man? I consider getting rid of these. I'm legitimately kind of pissed off. I consider getting rid of these. But like I said, it's just... Consider, then you stopped, and then it doesn't matter. Amazon, Chick-fil-A, Bar Louie. Went into a gas station, got some drinks. What are you getting? Monster Energy drinks? I assume they're not bulls*** to you. Absolutely.

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Oh, great. That's necessary for life. I mean, when I have to wake up at 4 a.m. after getting off late, sometimes... Brew a cup of coffee. Shut the f*** up. You know why you're waking up at 4 a.m. and why you're getting off late? Because you don't have any money. You know why you don't have any money? Because you keep building up your damn debts. So go ahead. Again, continue this lifestyle. Go for it. I support it. I do. If that's what you actually want, go for it. But you're waking up at 4 a.m. for the rest of your life.

So no, because life is a whale hard because you got yourself in a little bad situation based on your own actions doesn't mean it's justifying you to make more stupid actions that are keeping you in the endless cycle of being in a place. In no way is that justified. I do want to get out of my situation. I do want to not have to work. Fine. I'll give you a chance for a long time. You want to get out of the situation. What are you going to do? What's your plan? What sacrifice are you making? Go ahead.

Well, one, I would like to hear what you think I should do. Not a magic pill. But good advice is still good advice. Yeah. And, I mean, just do my best to make more sacrifices and not make the same mistakes that I made in the past. I mean, I don't really know much more else that I can do. You don't want to make the same mistakes in your past. Okay. Okay.

sure there's a relatively general broad statement what the f*** are you gonna do to not make the same mistakes what actions are you gonna put in place what are you gonna do what are some basic things uh i want actually you know what uh you know i can help you with that part i want to hear why why do i want to get out of my situation or yes okay well it's very uncomfortable like i've mentioned uh

Just the fact that, you know, like I said, I can't really take more than a week off ever.

Aren't you taking weeks and weeks and weeks off for this? All these travels. There are no more than two nights. None of them. Yeah, but how many are there? Do they not stack up to more than a singular five days? Yeah, over the span of a month. Sorry, go ahead. I know, I'm obviously on edge. Go ahead. Yeah, and I want to eventually get to the point where I can help my parents. Okay.

And I mean, there's other things I want to do in life, too. I want to create a clothing brand and it's kind of hard to do, you know, in debt. Listen, any amount of wants, I'm happy to hear because they can give some drive behind getting out of this. Unfortunately, I really just wanted to hear something like not about like I want to go get ice cream or I want.

To do this. Starting the company. That stuff is good. What I was more hoping to hear. And what's making me a little more nervous. That this might not have the longevity. Your want. To get out of all this. And making the sacrifice necessary. Because I was really hoping I would hear something like. Right now.

This is so stressful for me. This is making it so I feel like I don't see a future and I want to see a future. I want to see a future where I'm able to be independent or I'm not going to bed with the weight of debt over my life. A lot of the people that get out of debt that have been on the show, they are in like a last case situation. There's nothing else. There's no potential for a future. But your want is so that you can go on vacations. And that's okay. That might be what kind of pushes you.

But I'll be honest that I don't know if that is going to be enough because a lot of the time, the reason people change their situation around is because they get to rock bottom. Not being able to go on vacation is not rock bottoms. So is that enough of a drive to fully get out of this? I don't know. I mean, I am stressed. It's a continual thing. So it's a feeling that I feel all the time. So it's kind of just like a...

At this point, I'm just kind of used to being stressed out about financial. And you've accepted it to this point because you haven't done anything. I don't want to accept it. Why have you been accepting it then? I guess because it's easier if I'm being honest. Yeah, putting the head in the sand. And yeah, I mean, like I said, I want to do better.

For my family, for my future family. Okay. And be able to do the things that necessarily like I would like to do. I have a comfortable future. And like I said, invest in things that I want to do. Like the clothing brand. And also I do want to enter the entertainment industry in some kind of shape or form. Oh gosh. Whether it be comedy.

Cool. Okay. We might save some of that for the post show then. Let's see. Okay. I think Noah does comedy. Oh, really? Yeah. He does comedy pretty well. I've seen him do... Well, so Brandon and him have both done like, you know, a few attempts at a joke and he's pretty funny. So I want to see you do some funny in the post show. So stick around for the post show. You can join the membership in the link below and we'll do the post show. Extra 20 minutes after every episode. I'll do my best. Oh.

Oh, you better. You want to make a career in it. $6,120 on this Apple card. $199. He comes in for the post. That's why I brought him up. So he'll judge you. $199 minimum monthly payment. Oh, my. PlayStation Network. Apple bill.

Apple bills, just whatever, in-app purchases, PlayStation Network again. So, oh, we got a game here at $75, and then $10 maybe for a subscription. Netflix, really nothing on there, unfortunately. Cinemark, great. Yeah, let's go to movies when we can't afford to live on our own. Yeah, live in the movie theater, that makes sense. And another in-app Apple purchase, so I just don't know what we're doing. LA Fitness, fine with that. CVS Extra Care, fine with that probably. But, again, this is every card you're spending on.

You refuse to allow yourself to make any progress. So for the video game, my hopes was, okay, I won't go out as much if I have entertainment at home at least. That doesn't work. Worth a shot. Because now you're still in debt. So 137 hours of interest occurred. Okay. Another card. Oh, we've been going for a long time. That's okay.

I'm okay with going for a while with these. Take a toll. Halfway done. Better be more than that. $5,551.29 on this one with $173 minimum monthly payment. $82,000 of purchases again. You're doing it again, man. I don't want to strangle you. This is ridiculous. Your balance went up.

Your balance went up. What a joke. Because there's $121 of interest as well. You just did. This is why. Listen, listen, listen. At least some of the people that come on the show, even if they just seem absolutely wild and stuff, because, you know, people in front of the camera. Sure, I get it. It happens. But they're at least they at least know not to spend on their cards. Right.

You, buddy, you have no indication of giving a single about getting out of this. And maybe you do walking away from here. And you know what? I want you to do the best. So, yeah, I hope so. But there is no indication in any way whatsoever based on your behavior at all. At all. Not in a microcosm that you care about getting out of debt because you're doing nothing. Nothing. You're just spending. And none of it's on anything important either. None of it. Except for the STD testing. Don't get committee again. Oh, it's more travel. Yeah.

Okay, committee in Denver. It's the worst kind. That high altitude committee. I wouldn't know. What is this? Oh, is this the financing of the jewelry? Okay, you didn't purchase. And it's probably because you just didn't get another piece of jewelry. But think for the first time ever, you've not purchased on a card. Kill me. Only making minimum monthly payment. $6,361.04.

With a $161 of interest accruing, $224 minimum fee payment. These are stacking like crazy. But again, you're not purchasing. Commercial plan expired, expired, expired, expired, expired. Wonderful. And those are what we have to show for it. Oh boy. And they're all at 30%. Wonderful. That's a very good investment. They're going up 7% a year and also losing 30 on them. Oh my gosh.

Okay, so we have an Amex Gold as well. This really just does keep going. This is going to be a long episode. I know some of those segments earlier get cut down, but this is wild. Okay, $8,880.67 with a minimum monthly payment of $304. Kill me now. If you purchased on this, I don't know if you did yet, but if you purchased on this, I'm throwing a crayon at you. Bad! Naughty! Why? Why are we doing this? $52. $52. $52.

It's not the most amount of purchases, but why are we putting anything on this anymore? Because you know, this is, so this is my issue here. You're at $8,920. You made a big payment towards it. $310 is the minimum payment. Sure. But after the interest accrues of $217, if you even put just a little bit of money on it, sure. The $52 of new purchases against the $310 payments looks like nothing, but add that to the interest.

And you only made progress of $40. And at that point, it's just like a, what the fuck? You know, your money, you're just, you're not utilizing money in any way whatsoever. That makes sense. Any of this, any of this, if I'm,

Now, I'm not even going to do some basic math. I'm not even going to do some basic math because there's no point. But literally, the spending that you're doing on these cards, if you opened up a brokerage, for example, MooMoo, that's the one I use. You open up your MooMoo. You buy into just a low-cost index fund. It follows the overall market. Buddy, you're gaining that 8% to 12% a year, and that goes so you have a chance to retire. But instead of what we're doing with the minimum monthly payments that we're putting on this, we're just negating them completely because we're purchasing.

Again, it's just the indication that you don't care. It's the behavior. Behavior shows that you don't.

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What does it say what that purchase is by chance? Cheesecake Factory? And two Uber Eats. So let me explain partially. So with cheesecake, I get $10 off. Every month I have these gold card. And then for the Uber Eats, I get $25 a month on Uber credit. And sometimes... Hold on. I need, I guess... You've purchased $52. So, I mean, the math isn't working out already.

Still purchasing more than any kind of credit. And how's it working for you, buddy? You're balancing down $40 even though you put $310 towards it. So I don't give a f***. Simply. Like, how would I? It's a 29% interest. Oh my gosh. This is the episode that never ends.

Did you go to college or anything? What do you want to do for your career? Just in general while I write this down. Currently thinking about it. So you haven't gone to college? No. No. Not at all. I don't really. Just like any guest, I'm happy to offer you any course career certification, things like accounting, things like any kind of trade as well. They're doing that and lots of tech certifications. So we can do that. And then college degrees are also really good.

The thing is, I don't want you to work in three different jobs for the rest of your life. It's great in a temporary situation, especially when you're trying to get out of debt. But that will take a big toll on your body and mental health if we're doing that over the course of 40, 50 years. Yeah, so some of the things that I'm thinking about is thinking about joining the military, army, possibly. You might need that structure. Not that people manage their finances well that do that. You might at least need the structure. If not that...

um hopefully there's a new job that i might get i'd get an interview but it would pay me more it'd be a day job and pays around 20 something an hour uh warehouse type job you haven't gotten this because uh it just recently came up okay and so you're not even like in the process yet no i just have to go and do the interview oh just the interview um and then thought about carpentry yeah

Sure. And that's... Do you have a passion? Because so far, those are all over the place. Passion? I mean, like I said, I want to be an entertainer in some kind of shape or form. But also, like, writing. You're very monotone, though. Yeah. Well, that's what kind of... You know how Dave Chappelle has a very monotone, for the most part, and he's kind of a storyteller? Mm-hmm.

But mostly what my passion is, is I want to write stories like scripts for movies or shows. And I have written a few. They just never gone anywhere because I don't really know where to go with them. In all fairness. Just like you don't know where to go with your dad because you have $2,708 on the city card and you have an $85 minimum payment. $58 of interest is going. Thank you for not spending. Okay.

29% interest. No one's surprised. Okay, checking account. $1,804. That's like nothing of a checking account. They haven't had a checking account in just one page in forever. Venmoing out $250. Zelling out $20. Is that right? No, wait. No, you don't do that. What is that? What? What are you Venmoing out $250 to? Bookie. Huh? It was for a bookie that I've owed a long time ago. Why? Lost the bet.

Buddy, you were not in a position to make any bets. You're already negative. How do you want to, do you really want to f*** this up more? And I guess from what you can't see, I mean that bet, that.

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baseballs you think your net is positive when it comes to football uh-huh yeah so last year uh i would average around 35 dollars like in putting towards bet and i mean that was like each weekend so i guess 140 150 bucks like that i would i guess wager that would come out about 500 bucks a month nothing crazy but i'm glad you paid him before he got shot or something

Do I even do I make a budget here? I'll be honest. I have no desire to but um, it's just I don't your behavior You're going on these trips still, uh, you're not willing to sell Your ring pops i've been trying to sell my gold chain for what it's worth I could put more I could put more Passion into selling it I guess you'd say

But I've been trying to get close to basically what I paid for it. You're going to do your basic budget, and then I just want to go to the post-show because I want to hear your stand-up or whatever. Your income. What is it? So what came in was... Sorry, it's a mess over here. Always ends up being chaos. It's a chaotic show. It said it varies because of the day job. I'm not counting the Zelen or Apple Cash or ATM, but...

Well, okay average then yeah, it's cuz instead of going off of this average. What's your account on a monthly basis average? 3,400. Okay, okey-dokes. Let me get your debt. Do you have a car debt? No, thank you. What do you have? What's your car? It's a beat-up Challenger and How's it doing? It could be better Last probably not much longer. I just got it fixed for my mechanic. I

So to be clear, you're going out to eat and you're traveling and all this stuff is delaying your safety around your car situation because you could be piling up an emergency fund to be able to take care of that, either repair or a new car. Yeah. But you're just saying, in my future, dominoes and baseball games are more important. Your debt monotony payments without even a car or a mortgage is $1,731.45, which is ridiculous. You don't contribute anything to rent utilities at all? Internet? Nothing? No.

Uh, there's insurance for my car and also, I guess, my phone. You're talking about your housing. Yeah, sure. What's your phone bill? It's like, maybe, it's like $100? Something around that. Okay, I'd switch to helium. It's $20 a month. And then... What's your car insurance? About $100. How much in gas a month? $250. Okay, $120 there, $250 for gas. TP Fund, anything else you need to survive is $100. How do groceries work at home?

Yeah. Wait, what? I'm sorry. How do groceries work at home? Do your parents buy them? Do you need to get your own? As of right now, my parents pay for the groceries. I mean, that's... There is no, no f***ing excuse to be in this debt. You are literally doing this to yourself. Nothing in the world does this to you. This was all you. And it's you justifying your purchases and travels. There...

I can accept that. How much is the gym? Well, after tax, it's $27. Any ongoing medical health care, therapy, co-pays, prescriptions? No. How much is gym again? Sorry. $27. No subscriptions. You honestly probably could if you needed to. You have room. This is, buddy, I'm sorry. You have not made me.

A happy soldier today. For those that get pleasure out of seeing me suffer. You'll love this one. $2,328.45. I mean, you have a thousand left over. It's a joke that you have debt. It's a joke.

In a month, pay off the Best Buy card. You don't really even need a one-month emergency fund because you live at home. In a few months, pay off the Citi card. And then just pay off the Platinum, then the Chase Sapphire, then the Jewelry, then the Apple card, then the Amex card.

I think in general, and it's going to snowball. I would do smallest to largest. It takes 36 months to pay off. You make more money. You can take it down even further, but it's a year and a half, right? Oh, well, sorry. No, I didn't. Oh, I can't do math right now. It's three years. Three years. Or you could probably make it two and a half years if you work a bit more. You already worked a lot. Three years isn't that bad, but probably not going to be moving out just yet. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know, man. I don't know. I did that. We're going to obviously connect you with all of our resources. Uh, but, uh, this is just going to come down to your behavior and your behavior. No way whatsoever indicates that you'll get out of this debt. Uh, good news. You got that $10,000. Yeah. Throw it to the debt. Again, pay off your smallest ones that you can. Uh,

then it should take you two years. It'll take you just under two years to pay off the debt. So that's actually really good. I forgot about the 10. So that's great. With that, you're done in a year and eight months or so. Get a fully funded emergency fund, call it two and a half years. Boom, two and a half years. You could bring it down to two if you're able to work more or earn more. And with that,

You live an incredible life going from 27, 27 forward. You know, 50-30-20. 50% on your needs, 30% on your wants, 20% to investing. You're retiring a multimillionaire. Like, you have a bright future. It just depends on your discipline now. And based on this conversation, I honestly have zero hope in it. But you can come on the follow-up channel whenever you want, and you can let us know how things are going. And I want you to prove me wrong. I really do. I really do. Hammer Financial Score.

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Technically, you spent less than you brought in, but it was still horrendous where it was going to. I'll give it a 3 out of 10 being generous. Debt, you don't have collections or IRS debt, but the debt for your situation is beyond stupid, 1 out of 10, which is the way you're doing it. In an emergency fund, you have nothing to save in 0 out of 10 retirement. Do you have anything? No. 0 out of 10. I'm not counting the teens' retirement. You can't even sell them, so good luck. No, before you say it. Things going up in value are only as good as you can sell them, by the way.

Real estate, zero out of 10. Hammer Financial score, 0.5 out of 10. Make sure to stick around for the post show and check out all the resources linked in the description below. Is there what I use or would use in specific situations, including the best budgeting and investing programs that are now bundled at a lower price. Stick around for the post show. Today on the Financial Audit Post Show. The thing he marked down as BS was getting a medical check and going out to eat, was it? At the end of the day, it's food. You know, like I,

need to eat in order to yeah you need to spend 600 hours and you could do it for 200 no no not even that no did you hear the thing at the end groceries are free at home for him no i know so you you need to eat i'm sorry so to watch the financial audit post show click the join button below