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Podcast Summary: Financial Audit - Episode: I’ve Never Encountered This Before
Podcast Description The Financial Audit podcast aims to entertain and educate listeners about personal finance. It encourages audience participation and provides resources for financial assistance and coaching.
Episode Overview In this episode titled "I’ve Never Encountered This Before," the host, Caleb Hammer, interviews a guest named Ted from Austin, Texas, who shares his financial situation at the age of 62. The conversation dives into Ted's struggles with debt, financial responsibility, and retirement planning.
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Key Themes and Discussions
- Introduction to Ted's Financial Situation
- Current Job: Ted is a retail manager earning $21/hour, approximately $3,000 monthly net income.
- Combined Income: His wife contributes an additional $3,500 monthly.
- Debt Overview: Ted presents a hefty paper trail of credit card debts, highlighting financial mismanagement.
- Understanding Debt Accumulation
- Credit Card Debt: Ted admits to a significant amount of credit card debt, totaling over $370,000.
- Bankruptcy: He had undergone bankruptcy six years prior but has since accumulated more debt, raising concerns over financial habits.
- Retirement Planning
- Retirement Account: Ted’s retirement savings are alarmingly low, with only $17,000 saved.
- Social Security Benefits: Discussion about potential Social Security benefits, emphasizing the insufficiency of funds for a comfortable retirement.
- Behavioral Financial Habits
- Spending Habits: Ted's spending includes unnecessary purchases (e.g., in-app purchases for games) and dining out, indicating a lack of financial discipline.
- Financial Ignorance: Ted acknowledges his financial ignorance and expresses a desire to change.
- Advice and Recommendations
- Immediate Actions: The host stresses the importance of addressing spending habits, suggesting Ted and his wife cut unnecessary expenses.
- Professional Guidance: Caleb recommends consulting a financial advisor for tailored advice to manage debt effectively and develop a realistic budget.
- Behavioral Change: Emphasis on the need for behavioral change rather than just financial advice, underscoring personal accountability.
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Key Takeaways
- Debt Management: Acknowledging the overwhelming nature of debt and the importance of proactive management to avoid future crises.
- Behavioral Financial Change: Recognizing that financial habits can be reformed with conscious effort and support.
- Long-Term Planning: Understanding that retirement requires foresight and financial discipline, especially as one approaches retirement age.
- Education and Resources: Utilizing available financial education resources to improve financial literacy and management skills.
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Call to Action Listeners are encouraged to reflect on their financial habits, consider professional advice if needed, and actively engage in better budgeting practices to secure a more stable financial future.
Resources
- Links to budgeting programs and financial coaching services discussed during the episode.
- Contact information for those interested in participating in future episodes.
> For more extensive financial advice and content, check out the full episode on the Financial Audit YouTube channel.
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Transcript
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0:33Hi, my name is Ted. I'm 62 years old. I'm from Austin, Texas. And this is Financial Audit. Thanks for coming on. So what do you do for a living right now? Right now, I'm a retail manager. Retail manager. Okay. What are we making currently as a retail manager? $21 an hour. How many hours a week? At least 40. At least 40. So you get overtime sometimes? Time and a half for anything over 40. So I do have this that came in. This was a stub. Let's see. So 76 hours over the course of two weeks, potentially. Is this a two-week time period? Yes, it should be. Five and a half hours of overtime at$31. That's great.
1:21And we had net pay of$1 ,596. So$3 ,000 a month at 62. first of all this is an expensive area um but i do know you're married so three thousand dollars a month net is essentially what we can consider for you but does income come in from the other side of this yes okay how much about my wife uh she makes a little more than me so i'd say i don't know 3 500 okay how are you guys uh doing right now financially i'll be honest in terms of stacks of paperwork i mean this thing's a brick like this is a whole right it is we've never had this and it's just all credit cards welcome so i yeah i'm all up in your world right now what what is happening why do we have so much debt going into our 60s you know 59 and a half is designed to be the time when we can withdraw from our tax advantage retirement accounts yeah yeah i was just talking about this actually with my wife and uh we should i should be thinking of retiring now but actually i'm not i'm actually just doing the opposite i feel like i'm just starting out trying to do stuff that retail management is not my desire not my end game so for jobs throughout your career like what have you been mostly doing to pay the bills gotcha um i worked for the state for about 14 years soon what uh worked for a state agency called the commission on state emergency communications okay uh which prompted me to get a graduate get a master's degree of a master's degree yeah okay yeah i know what you're thinking well maybe kind of i mean it's just you know like i don't think anyone's dream after master's degree is to be a retail manager right correct yeah but i also i'm not trying to on your job no no it's okay obviously i'd be watching wanting you to make more money is retirement even in the picture like what are we looking i kind of have a plan i mean what is your plan to retire the the latest time possible so how do you know when that is well i mean oh you mean when you're able to get full benefits right right okay and do you think you'll be able to survive off of both full benefits alone not with 17 000 invested oh no no probably not um why have you been honestly throughout your life why is there so little invested like that scares the god well right we can't all be my brother my brother's smart not that i'm dumb but he started doing all that investing at a very early age but why didn't you let's not deflect on that right why didn't i because i'm the black sheep of the family right i am the uh guy who's not the norm who had to go off and go to art school and all that kind of stuff i went to art school well yeah no people can still be responsible and go into the passions they desire why were you irresponsible with your money i don't care what you went and studied there's still responsibilities around question i i don't know uh i have no idea why it must be some kind of um i don't know okay okay give yourself a financial score of where you think you are 10 being the best zero being the absolute worst give yourself a financial score five middle of the road you think you're average solid average negative equity negative net worth well we do have a house oh you're right how is your how's your wife's retirement right like you guys seem very separated in your finances she's about the same oh right so and so like it was just social security and like this job that i have now doesn't even have benefits but i'm on her benefits i mean with social security and medicare that's that's that's the plan well i suppose that's hard to live in austin just on that yeah that's true Especially in going into retirement with a mortgage that's not paid off, but still has like$150 ,000 on it scares me.
5:57Okay, let's dive into this. If you want your Hammer Financial Score, it's for free in the description below. Make sure you're giving him some love for coming on the show. And then I have permission here to beat him up. So give him some love for being on the show. And also don't forget to apply to me on the show if you would like to be here. And you need to get a nice little scolding from me. so credit one this scares the out of me i'll be honest credit one is like the enemy of all anything that is good in this world credit one is evil when people have credit one you know they're in like the bottom of the barrel when it comes to their finances and they're just accepting cards why do you have a why not only not only why do you have a credit one but why are you spending money on a credit one that is having interest accruing that you're barely putting more than the minimum monthly payment towards like what are we trying to do i want you to retire you want to retire but how are we going to get there by putting money on a credit one well i need to decide what i need to pay off what i can feasibly pay off i need a plan that's why i'm here i need your help why haven't you been doing but why spend on this like paying off is one thing but why spend well
7:16right now our expenses are more than our income which is horrible right so we are barely making it through every month what expenses the required expenses yeah i mean sure i don't mean all the credit card bills everything yeah right so your interest accruing alone is very bad right basis but you but you don't get to a better place on that if you're first of all didn't you just go through bankruptcy a few years ago about six years ago yeah and you're in this much debt already again yeah yeah yeah how much did you get cleared oh i i don't remember exactly how much of this existed during that time none of that so you built this up in just a few years yeah you didn't learn your lesson right i didn't do you think is there a word for that well it's an insulting word dump yeah yeah is what i would call it in a loving way and i would agree with you yeah it's stupid i don't know i don't know why i did you get you get a fresh start so to speak after the damage from you know your credit bankruptcy i'm talking about and then you find yourself getting right back in it i know there's people out there that gotta have done the same thing there has to be so what can what can one do to make it to make it not happen here's a fun fact again if you couldn't if you couldn't pay your debt and you had to go through bankruptcy don't take out more debt well don't take out debt afterwards i know buddy you had you you went right down the dark path immediately after escaping it well we don't know if i went immediately down but that's only a few years in and this you have more credit cards than anyone's ever had on this show oh do i oh it's not a good thing not a good thing it's not a good thing okay i can see how you've made it through life you're joyful you're a happy guy i like that i like your personality but this is in general the last thing i want it's totally serious but i'm usually scared for most people who come on this show i'm talking them to them at a younger age to not end up like this and but you are here in that position but you had the chance to fix it you went through something traumatic and painful and expensive called bankruptcy yeah i think i wanted to i wanted to to hear again yeah i wanted to be on the show because there are people that are in the same situation as me the same age it doesn't always happen to the younger generation no and so it happens to all americans and you need somebody to to give you some tough love and tell you what you've got to do to stop the stupid cycle first step no spending on credit one 30 minute monthly payment balance 771 dollars 47 cents interest being accrued on a monthly basis 19 dollars 28 cents okay what can i mention i've learned uh synchrony bank is horrible yes yeah yeah yeah okay i just wanted to say that because that's i have tons of cards with synchrony bank oh i know and i want to get rid of them well why do you open cards every day of your life because i don't do it every day borderline honestly i'm not like once a week no i don't have some of those other cards you're just i know you don't have like payday loans or anything but you have like at all oh i did have payday loans well of course you did i mean looking at this i'm not surprised genuinely we have an apple card with a balance of two thousand one hundred fifteen dollars and sixty cents okay with a minimum payment of sixty seven dollars balance went up from the previous month and this is where you're putting some life insurance payments on a card on a card that's a growing interest that you are losing 45 dollars of interest on our monthly basis and your balance only goes up and we put our insurance payment on there life insurance should we not do that what do you mean i mean should we should that be like just paid out of uh on a checking oh yeah or money is no we don't put it on debt but okay this is a spoiler i know you're spending so if you're gonna say we don't have the money i know you have the money your spending is dumb and irresponsible thank you i'm jumping the gun no no but i i i'm seeing the seeing the light the spending is ridiculous yeah we we what is the we spend above our means or yeah is that right yes but you're doing that in your 60s which just scares me it just scares me yeah yeah that scares me you can't be doing that i know i just don't want you to die under a bridge and this is what i'm terrified of okay oh god discover discover it of course yep it's a classic one okay see these
12:284196 oh that'd be crazy 4196 dollars and 78 cents with 57 dollars of interest accruing But congratulations, what did we do again? We went and purchased$69 of things. Our balance, our balance stayed the same, even though you paid more than the minimum monthly payment. Minimum monthly payment's$84, but you paid$100, but it didn't move. Didn't move the needle. We're headed into when you want to retire, when you want to capture full benefits. We're already two and a half years after when you're able to withdraw from taxable accounts penalty free, but we're still only staying level on this credit card, going up on other credit cards.
13:07this is just behavior this is behavior i gotta stop it you gotta stop why haven't you stopped it then why haven't you stopped it you can't just say i need to stop that i know i need to stop being a fat but i still go out there and i'm like and this is bad this is bad but why haven't you done this this is about you why have you not stopped it if you know you need to stop it well i think i'm actually i think you won't probably believe this but i think that uh i have slowed down the process it's just not going as quickly as i would like why if you would like it then just do it right buddy this is in-app purchases zynga crap you're just gemming it up all day yeah like cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching.
13:55You know, I was able to quit smoking and drinking. Wow. Okay. And I can't quit this. Okay. Then I just need to. Well, I can. I shouldn't say that. I can quit this. Right? Yes. I just need you to have a flip phone, dude. Wow. Just get a flip phone. Who gives? Who cares? I've thought about it. Seriously. But you can't stop going in these and just cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching. and this peak thing merchandise 162 dollars of interest this year so far or 57 dollars of interest this month and we haven't made progress so sure you may have slowed down but if this is you being slowed down and our credit card balance are maintaining if not going higher right that terrifies me losing i don't care if this is slowed down this is still beyond unacceptable ebay why do you need an ebay card i didn't know it was called an ebay card you open up every card that exists so i mean i've i've seen them normally i would say you're not a credit card person use the fizz card but that's usually for people trying to look for college benefits and you're probably not going to college yet because you have a pile of student loans that is essentially from the underworld right yeah yeah 1 ,487 dollars on our ebay card ebay we owe 1 ,487 dollars on an ebay card i mean a little more than the minimum on the payment i could i could uh sell stuff on ebay preferably yeah you might need no i'm serious i'm not joking what do you have do you have a lot of stuff i do have a lot of stuff what do you have well it's what's like the net value conservative the stuff you do not need and that's not terribly sentimental i'd have to get i have a lot of sports memorabilia and i need to get assessed okay i don't want that to be the first thing but it might be something reasonable 30 66 interest takes me that month and 68 dollars of interest that year another synchrony card because we're addicted to synchrony you just suck on the synchrony every second of your life i'm their poster child this is a lowe's card this time 535 and 31 cents 12 of interest accrued minimum payment 30 i think there's no payments on here i'd flip out 30 essentially the same amount of interest was what's accrued this year so far meaning the balance is pretty new which is not making me happy uh jc penny car great so So every store card, every store that is a chain that you can walk into across the country, you have gone in there and you've opened up a card.
16:45$1 ,591.19 is the balance for this. The minimum monthly payment of$57. Good, no purchases, but interest$40.39. Or$88 this year. Oh, no. $129 of interest this year so far. Venmo. You're on that new age. You got a Venmo credit. Why? Why do you even have this? What in your life is opening credit to you? Because you do do it more than anyone I know. You're just anytime credit is available, you just open it. Walk me through that. Walk me through your behavior and mind and past around that. Well, I recognize that I may have taken it. I don't know if advantage is the right word. No, you're being bent over.
17:39You're being taken advantage of. Yeah, yeah. So, but I don't, I think about it more before I take action now. I mean, you know, the process takes time to stop for me. You know, like, here's a credit card. I can apply, but I don't do it. Like, in the past, I probably would have just done it, you know? What does your wife think of this? You guys are very clearly separate. how are her finances separate financially she has probably the same amount of credit cards what are you guys okay perfect pair yeah um when you stop and think about applying to these new credit cards no more thought goes into it there's one thought the thought is no Gotcha So on here a balance of$753.18 Minimal monthly payment$30 Purchases on here$102 The balance went up Bales went up$90 With$15.16 of interest accruing Oh good more in-app Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching Great we're cha-chinging every second of our life And we're going to a deli and pizzeria Where was that?
18:57I don't know Oh, a deli and pizza, a little deli and pizzeria. Oh, oh. Who are you spending all the money on, by the way, when you're going out and doing... Say that again? Who are you spending all the money with and on when you go out to these restaurants all the time?
19:16Oh, well, you've mentioned one restaurant, so I don't know about all these restaurants. I know, I know. You're right. I'm getting ahead of myself. So it's either me for lunch or it's with my wife and I. Oh, okay. I want to take a moment and chat about something that hits home for every entrepreneur, cash flow management. Today's sponsor, NetSuite by Oracle, is here to help with this. Think about it. The less money you spend on lackluster business systems, the bigger your profits will be. Enter NetSuite. As the industry leader when it comes to financial systems, easily transforming your entire business flow into one sleek, efficient machine.
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21:16Why? Well, don't you need a credit card? No. Like to rent a car and that. A credit card is okay if you can manage it. Right. I totally get it. If you can manage it, you just went through bankruptcy when you had applied for this. You've proven to yourself through the legal system you cannot manage it. And then I screwed up again. What was different? What did you think was going to be different the second time around? Have you only gone through bankruptcy once? Yeah. Okay, thank you. Why did you think it was going to be different without changing anything? I guess I thought I was going to change, but obviously I didn't.
21:51Not without actions, man. You don't just think you're going to change. Right, right. Got to put the actions behind it. Glad you agree. You just didn't do it. $12.87 of interest is accruing on this. $29 minimum monthly payment. Balance of$441.20. $43 of interest taken this year so far.
22:11you better be willing to chop up your cards because i don't know what the it's for you man this is insane oh verizon it's like a verizon card but like is this your phone finance or like are you just spending on the verizon card i can't believe how thick this pile still is after going through one two three four five i was just thinking that and i'm very sorry about that but it's it's all i got there and the verizon card the initial thought was you If you put your Verizon bill on their cards, what they say, then you get a discount, right? So that's what I did. You were coaxed into everything. Anything that anyone has ever tried to sell.
22:55Were you a salesman ever? No. Usually they're the easiest people to sell to. I'm surprised you're not. man this is horrible because this is like uh showing how gullible i am how naive i am at financially stupid financially yeah right i call people stupid on the show all the time they should be noted that it's financial i hear you doesn't mean every aspect in life 1290 and 70 cents is owed on this verizon card 48 on a minimum monthly basis 34 30 cents of interest accrued lovely
23:36upgrade we've upgraded our life into getting by debt upgrade number one because there's two of them in here this one's at 1 272 dollars and 15 cents with a minimum monthly payment of 72 dollars and 58 cents so what the behind this stuff why do you have two upgrades i don't know why i have to uh i think the the the theory behind these not that it even matters now is um building credit we know we we travel so we think how can you guys afford to travel you have credit cards yeah other people's money okay right yeah but not making a lot of the subject it it's coming back it's hitting me it's coming back yeah and you have fifteen thousand dollars saved for retirement or like seventeen thousand hours yeah if you follow the four percent rule on seventeen thousand dollars you know what you're able to live off on a yearly basis you're able to live off a grand total of six hundred eighty dollars a year um i don't think you can live off of that you're absolutely correct for hardly even a week and this is why the show needs to be taken seriously and why i have the conversations that i do and why i call people out and call out their because this is a terrifying position to be in and my heart is like dropped first time i saw your dude i couldn't believe it blew my mind And this upgrade, the second upgrade, this is the worst one we have so far,$9 ,260.
25:26Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And a minimum monthly payment of$474.89.
25:37I run a non-profit. You can't. You can't. You need profit. Your entire life needs profit. For what? Some of these, now that I think of it, could have been expenses for that. What nonprofit do you run? Like, what do you do even? Well, every time. Sorry, go ahead. Answer the question. I don't know if I should bring that entity into the conversation. Are you willing to say what it does? Not like the name of it or anything. It's a performing arts venue. Okay. And I absolutely love that. And you own it or you're a part of it? It's a nonprofit. it so what's your position in the non-profit i'm the president okay i think i love that i love that i love it i love it you can't afford to survive i don't think we give time to non-profits unless you're very well compensated to it i think every time that you are existing we're all volunteers yeah i don't get paid yeah i i again love it that's great you you are in no position to every second of your life man needs to be bringing in money at this point so that you can have a chance of retirement in early 70s oh yeah i wasn't sure what you were yeah you just can't you don't have time you need to grind it out and that's what sucks so much supposed to be the golden years but you're about to enter that post-college grind years where i'm gonna need you to work like 40 50 hours a week.
27:0760 hours a week. 70 hours a week. Let's continue. Another synchrony. Your best friend. Citco. I have a Citco records card. Great. The balance of$378.05. The minimum monthly payment of $29. These minimum monthly payments are going to stack up like crazy. This is going to blow my mind. $10.61 of interest is accruing. $35 this year so far. The balance has gone up. Great. That's a great sign. Oh, another synchrony. Oh, SitGo wasn't enough. We need Chevron as well. Again, every store you've ever walked into, if they offer a credit card, you have accepted it. $128.08. It's going to take up my whole notebook.
28:03$29 minimum monthly payment Oh, purchases$71 What did you get? What did you possibly get? It's not even gas! It's not even gas! It's going in and cha-chinging your gems! What'd that do? Zynga! Oh, really? Yes, really! No, I wasn't aware How are you not aware? How are you not aware? How? How? How the f*** possible? how how are you not aware i need to be more aware oh no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no how are you not aware oh what happened how how is this like all of a sudden attached to that app and you the but the purchase went through here how how did that happen do you have every credit card and you accidentally clicked on the wrong one possibly but that doesn't matter but that doesn't matter i still screwed up because it would have gone on just another credit card so it doesn't matter What are you playing?
29:03I don't know. Just, you know. No, what are you playing?
29:11Empires and Puzzles. Oh.
29:23I don't have my phone with me. Those in-app purchases are insane. You have fallen for the game so hard. you have fallen for the game as in like the system the system around their in-app purchases you have fallen for it so if I just I just need to I know what I need to do or just play the free versions and just not get the extra benefits just disconnect the cards you'll find a way though you'll connect your debit card or something you'll buy gift cards no you gotta have you gotta have faith in me man no offense but how the possible could I have faith in you? You went through bankruptcy and you've taken out more credit cards than anyone I've ever met in my life.
30:04My own personal life and that's not dramatic. That's not me being dramatic. I know. You went through bankruptcy and you've opened more cards in debt than anyone I've ever met in my life. Since bankruptcy. What faith could I possibly have? It's not against you as a person but financially what faith could I possibly have?
30:26I hear you. ally usually it's like a car or a savings account but no you just have an ally credit card 228 some of these bouncers are small that we could just wipe out yeah no i'm serious don't look at me like that couldn't couldn't we you just we picked the smaller ones we just wipe them out cut the card up it's a great idea why haven't you done it well i mean if i had done it then I probably wouldn't be on this show. That's great, but I'm asking why. I would have rather you not been on this show. Oh, right. Right. I see what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why haven't you paid them? Buddy. Please.
31:12Yeah. Come on. Why? Your smallest balance, like$128. Smallest. I know for a fact you had that much money. At least. Why did you not just wipe it out? Yeah, I'm obviously making this much harder than it is. I just want an answer. Right. Why? Please. Why didn't I pay it off?
31:42I don't know why. Okay. Okay. That's the honest answer. I don't know why. Okay. $12 of interest. Amazon. Another Synchrony card. Oh. They f***ed me in a bad way. Amazon. I loved this card. I loved it. They randomly just closed my account. They said, you're too risky. We moved into this office and I bought a lot of stuff. And they're like, oh, you're too risky. Sorry. And I couldn't even appeal it. And then it f***ed my credit score and I lost my 5 % cash back. Whatever. It's not about me. $580.91 on here. $29 is your minimum of the payment. interest accruing of$14.61. Yes. Am I able to ask you a question?
32:28Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you cancel cards, does that make your credit worse? What credit are you trying to take advantage of? Answer that question before I answer yours. No, no, no. I mean, if you want to cancel your cards. I'm going to answer that question, but I want you to answer my question first. What credit are you trying to take advantage of? What kind of debt are you trying to take out? Credit card debt. What do you mean? You want to take out more credit card debt? No, no, no. I want to cancel the account. But your fear is that it hurts your credit? Yeah. So who cares if it hurts my credit?
33:02Is that what you're getting at? Yes, if you're not trying to take out any debt. You already have a mortgage. What kind of debt are you trying to take out? Preferably none, because you can't manage that. But what kind of debt are you trying to take out? I don't know. Are you trying to take it? Do you have plans to take out any debt? No. Then it doesn't matter. I don't give credit scores zero or negative five. Oh, okay. Okay. All right. So yes, I didn't know I got I wanted to I wanted to lead you to the watering hole Chop these things up close the accounts burn them burn them do a ritual We'll go around the fire and we'll make noises and summon crazy things that'll murder us in our sleep.
33:35We'll do it I'll celebrate with you burn them $33 of interest accrued on a year at home at home has a card of course at home has a card. It's a store So every store in the world When's the Hammer Media credit card That people can open up with a million percent Interest rate You'd open it up if you could I don't know $45 So why wouldn't you pay off$45 $45 Why couldn't you at least pay off$45 You put more than the minimum On a couple cards E-statements are horrible Because I don't think people look at them that's up to you that's your personal responsibility right i sit down on a monthly basis and go through everything that's what adults are supposed to do you just have it what no i deserve it man i totally deserve it keep going because it sucks with a yeah i know i i know it's hard i know it's hard i know i respect the out of you for being here and hopefully wanting to change $63 of interest this year so far $3 in that last month because you have been making progress towards it Ulta why do you have an Ulta one I don't have any that's because you open every card I don't think there's anything I mean that's why I think I had to print or it's because your balance is nothing thank goodness thank everything there was something good in here this one's just the synchrony card just straight up the synchrony premier We've gone so deep in the Synchrony card route that we got the Synchrony card itself.
35:16That's when you know you're in love with Synchrony. Balance. Oh, well, we're back up. $656.59. Purchases. Purchases again. Why are we back to purchases? $30 minimum payment. We're doing purchases plus$14.11 of interest. Starbucks. Oh, that's more important than retiring? Starbucks I'm not even I hate those I don't hate I don't hate I really don't hate anyone but I get a little annoyed when people are like oh don't Starbucks don't get Starbucks you'll never be able to retire that's not true you just gotta budget things but you literally have$17 ,000 you're 62 your net worth is well because of the house it's positive but if we added up all the debt it would be negative oh actually i don't even know you might be negative what because i don't know your equity position in the house and we haven't even gotten to the big daddy the big daddy the dwayne the rock johnson of your jet we don't have to go there do we but we will oh my god why starbucks why is that more important than being able to retire on a beach with your wife it's just a stupid habit you've kicked other stupid habits i know kick that one make coffee good well i don't go every day here's the fun fact mostly for you guys if you were in your position you're retired college you just you just contributed 20 20 aside on a monthly basis to retirement you could have starbucks every single day and it would perfectly fit in your retirement and you would be able to retire and it would have been great.
36:55But we're here now and we have a Nordstrom card.
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38:11get this get this what's happening what's happening is this one an nfl card and nf i didn't know that was a thing an nfl extra points card how'd you even find this i took some doing i guess i don't know we finally escaped the clutch of secretly oh board a thousand four hundred and $74.26 of death on this one. End me now. $39 of interest. Oh, good. Oh, good. More purchases and the balance went up. Great. With a$54 minimum monthly payment. Oh, good. Oh, what is it? Oh, in-app purchase. Gems. Gems. Gems. Gems. $40 of interest. $107 of interest accrued this year so far for gems. For gems. Good f***.
39:15That's going to piss me off. Oh, we've made it, ladies and gentlemen. We've somehow made it. How are you in forbearance? Are you in income-driven repayment or what is it with your student loans? Because I don't know why they got me in forbearance. It could be left over from the pandemic. It could be. No, that's done. I had applied for public service something or other. But how? Not that you're volunteering. No, because I work for the state. That's your retail job is through the state? No, no, no. I had worked for the state before. But you don't anymore. I don't anymore.
40:01This scares my... That's not even the amount. I mean, that's just over bazillions of years of interest. You know what I mean? I mean, the amount I took out was nothing like that. I don't mean to keep saying your age like it's a bad thing. Oh, no, you can. It puts things in perspective. Totally, totally. 62 years old, and we have$229 ,569 in student loan debt. basically at 8 % interest. They're not even like low interest student loans. These are... Bustin' with the Boys is here to let you know that every college football Saturday, FanDuel is dropping profit boosts that can turn wins into bigger wins.
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41:09Which is evil. I'll never pay that off. I'll be honest. You're right. And I almost never say that. But just where we are in life, I don't see it as a possibility. And I don't know. You don't qualify for any.
41:31anything. When he can forgive this time. And for some reason it's not making you pay. You're in something. There's something going on. I think because maybe because that servicing company is under investigation too. Oh, Hila? I don't think so. I don't know. You've looked? I think. It's in the news. that could be interesting I haven't heard that and I try to follow the financial news as much as possible because we have a news show you're weak in money it's in the description below well he'll oh accusations a mismanaged federal student loan forgiveness program well accusations is not investigations protections elizabeth warren invited the ceo to testify before congress but i don't think they're subpoenaed so no that wouldn't make much sense well it doesn't matter whether they are or not the fact is is i'll be dead before that's paid off i unfortunately agree yeah but i don't even consider that a debt that's not i mean you lined up for it dude right but don't you think the other things that are more feasible to pay off would make sense than to try to tackle that i mean yes i just i don't know what you're in right now like it's not income based because interest like isn't accruing on here from what i can see so if there were minimum monthly payments on here i'd try to figure something out but there's not but that's like disgusting i feel absolutely disgusted 229 569 37 cents ruin my existence oh this is your mortgage i have a balance 122 205 good good rate under four percent that's fantastic so it's typically most would advise trying their best not to take a mortgage into retirement and you're pretty far off from that objective because especially like you who again if we just withdrew normal rates like a four percent or something what did you have six hundred dollars to live off a year but this minimum monthly payment is a thousand uh 268 so it's like how are we paying for i guess we're relying on government programs which you've paid into so that's not the worst thing in the world but they're also just it's not a lot what are full benefits at this time do you know off the top of your head uh
44:25uh 2300 maximum benefit 3800 i'm getting different numbers usually i don't have people your age on this show which i would love more this is less common to sign up right 3822 2022, if you retire... Okay, this is from the Social Security's website itself. If you retire at 62 in 2024, your maximum benefit would be$2 ,710. If you retire at 70, maximum benefit would be$4 ,873. So you're just trying to push it off as long as you can? Yes. Okay. That's one of the plans. Retail. um how are you doing and you seem healthy yeah i am healthy good how do you feel working in retail because i know that's a it's a lot of standing it's a lot of movement it could be lots of physical labor uh the job i currently have is a lot of that yeah how are you feeling i'm good good good yeah you seem healthy seem juvial jovial whatever all the good stuff so good just one i just want to make sure you're not in a position that's bad or dangerous for you okay this mortgage they're not gonna know we'll make sure we cut anything and everything uh for me could you put in your address and i'm gonna check the value i'm gonna lean it like this so they have no chance of seeing oh my address yeah we're just gonna get a rough estimate because it's it's uh obviously not perfect to check.
46:07Oh, there's more cards. Oh, good. I flipped the page. I thought that was the end of the deck. There's more cards. It never ends. It never f***ing ends. I hate inner. I know. You're good. If it wasn't something so destructive to your life, I'd almost be impressed. Here. This is just your speed. You just want that?
46:30Zillow is not great. To be very clear, it's not 100 % perfect, but I just wanted an idea. Looks like you have about 240 ,000 hours of equity in the house. Which means your net worth is negative.
46:49Is your car paid for? I don't have a car in my name. But my wife has a car in her name and it's not paid for. Do you guys just have one? Yeah. Okay. We used to have two, but we have one. How are you doing with one? Horribly. Were we trying to get a new car? We both worked at home at one point. So we didn't really need, even though we had to at the time. And then I got laid off. And so that's what brought me to retail. But anyway, so then I had a car accident. and we had to get another car. So that's why it's not. Did you have loan on that car? Yeah. Okay, so insurance covered that. Okay. 242 on an MGM card.
47:43Didn't even know that was a thing, of course. That's because, well, we went to Vegas. That's not funny. I don't know. But now that I said that in light of all this, that sounds funny. But it's really just as sad as shit.
48:03$5.69 of interest is accruing there. Okay. So just for you, just for you, just for this right here, on a monthly basis, this isn't minimum monthly payments, this isn't anything like that, total interest that's being accrued across all of your debts, $906 on a monthly basis in interest a month.
48:28$906.
48:32oh my god yeah i feel a little sick yes yes as you should that's a natural reaction don't want you to feel sick nine hundred dollars nine hundred six dollars that's in the student loans aren't even accruing interest if those things were accruing interest don't do it don't do it i don't know why they're not so they might at some point like you're you're There's something funky going on that I can't see there. They were at, what, 7.6 %? Or 229 ,569. Oh, my gosh. That would be$17 ,447 of interest a year on just the student loans itself, which would be an additional$1 ,453 of interest on a monthly basis if that interest started to accrue.
49:14Did I do that math right? I think I did. I'm pretty sure you did. Also, your wife has even more credit cards than you, so the interest that you guys are paying across the household is more than double. of that across the household. So it's like I'm not even taking your wife's income. If we didn't have credit cards, we would be able to pay the mortgage just on the money saved from the... Yes. So I'm confused how the... and why the... you haven't paid off a balance. This is$45. Because we've never taken the time to do this. How? You like... And we... And we keep saying we're going to. And we don't.
50:01You've lived 3 ,224 weeks. 3 ,224 weeks. I think you could have taken a couple hours during that time to sit down once. Especially after bankruptcy. But we made it through the debt somehow. With zero lines left in my notebook. Got lucky. are you willing to chop them up like we have scissors i need you to i'm not gonna pressure you to do anything you don't want to do in terms of physicals but you really should chop up these cards close the accounts never have access to them again for any kind of spending i don't carry them with me is that good no no i'm just saying i am more than happy to chop them up a home that I'm glad you don't because you'd be swiping everything on the way.
50:50I will. I will. Give me more credit, man. What credit? What credit can I give you? You don't need more credit. Oh, trust me. That's the last thing you need. All right. But also, what credit would I give you? I'm sorry. Through this, what do you have? Do you have any kids? Yes. How many? One. Okay. How old are they? She's 26. How do you feel that because of the irresponsibility you've done in your life, when you're not be able to retire here soon she is going to feel morally responsible to take care of you financially oh no putting her life on hold she's not going to at all she won't why well i don't want her to that doesn't matter if she sees her parents suffering she will doesn't matter what you want oh yeah you can't pay your bills and you're about to lose a house she will meaning she's putting things on hold for you i don't want that to happen i know you don't but guess what yeah but guess what you haven't been mature one second in your life financially and you've it all up and now we're here and unless you make major sacrifices now and you're willing to grind unfortunately for at least a decade she is going to be putting parts of her financial life on hold to take care of you so it's really the options man okay well you've pushed it to the last minute that that's a the deciding factor right there good at least we found something we pulled the lever to pull okay so this checking account$1 ,259 okay Starbees we're back Verizon more Verizon Verizon 100 then$156 there Verizon service let's just serve not even putting it on the card the card that you got so you could get all the discounts not even doing that$156 there yeah Yeah, because that plan did not work out.
52:33Because now the card got maxed out. So we had to pay it another way. Why, buddy? I know stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. At least use the people I partner with Helium. That's$20 a month. And you get the same f***ing towers as the big guys. $20 a month. $40 for you and your wife. Come on. That's an insane monthly bill. Venmoing out$30 Burger King Amazon Oh we're going in the f***ing gems $156 of gems Paramount Plus What the f*** are you watching on Paramount Plus Amazon First watch Raw Stores Cothrun site Fee Of$4.64 Oh and then Cothrun safe $132 Rencurring payment to Britbox Netflix Nothing good on there anymore Spotify I think you can listen to ads if we literally can't retire.
53:34Taco Bell. Amazon. $100 of gems. These gems, man. Your gem addiction is insanity. You've exchanged other addictions for this new addiction. Shero and Cungary. Ronaldo's. Taquitos. Einstein's mobile app. Popeye's. Getting things at work. Starbucks. Amazon. Velvet Taco. JCPenney. Amazon. Amazon. son. $100 of gems. Every time we're going in there, $100 of gems. Hulu, you have every visual subscription ever, but you're also just staring at your phone and getting gems. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. When you're saying the$100, are you looking at, is that say Google Pay?
54:20That one, yes. Okay, that's how I pay my daughter. You're paying your daughter? Well, we give her money to help her live. But you can't live, What do you mean? What would she say? I'd rather her live than me. Oh, she's 27. How is she? What? Does irresponsibility pass via DNA? What is happening? Why can't she afford to live? Well, she's finishing up school right now. Is she in master's? No, she's... Why is she an undergrad at 27? Well, hey, you can't put an age on an education. I'm asking why. Because that was her choice. what was the choice though is it extending like low credit hours across a decade or is it you have to bring her on the show and ask her that okay well the reason i ask the easy the reason i ask is because i want to make sure we're not doing any form of enablement because there's right ways to go we are not okay well i can't believe that without no entitled not to believe Without knowing context, because if she took a break between going to school and then went to school and is going to school full time and she's doing it in a correct way, that's awesome.
55:35Fully supportive of that. If she's just been off in school for nine years and we're giving her money, that's enabling bad behavior potentially. And I can't support that. That is not what is occurring. timu amazon amazon amazon amazon amazon taco bell's ups store groupon starbucks google store so there's some gems right shutterfy scholastic books is that like a donate or you're getting books or what can you do with scholastic books for 20.97 um i just said my daughter's going to school So that's for the daughter school thing Probably Is the daughter working She does have a job Crumble Google stores There's gems Manilow Apple ATT Stadium Whataburger Starbucks It keeps going Taquitos Money transfer via Google That's either the daughter or gems Amazon Era Imaging Disney Plus Appleville Starbucks Nails We're getting nails dead Popeyes Oh Thank goodness That was so much You have debt You can't retire And you're spending all your money Going out Getting stuff Buying things at work Three times This is a lack of financial maturity It is behaviors behaviors do i have do we all supposed to carry around our lunch with this made from home in your situation yeah okay i'm just trying to get it straight if you can you afford it can i afford what to not to go out to eat for lunch probably not no the correct answer is no because you're holding credit card debt and you can't retire so no you cannot afford it so yes we walk around with lunch if we can afford it wonderful people put in the sacrifices in order to afford it so they can afford it what do you not want to hear it that is the reality of it the whole way through i'm hearing reality of it 171 dollars in this savings and then this check-in's 167 dollars this is transferring things around so nothing there uh 221 dollars in wells fargo savings so nothing we can do with that and then there's the 18 000 investing that i like i hate the number for the age yep yep but i like that there's least money in there oh he withdrew 1500 why was money withdrawn why was money withdrawn i don't i don't recall that um could the wife have done it no she has her own why are you guys financially separate in every way by the way what do you mean we're not separate i mean we share the checking account so in that checking account was also her yeah yeah okay no not the debts not the credit cards they're separate yeah we don't have like cards on each other's users no but yeah that was part of a 401k obviously that i that ended when i got laid off so So I just rolled it or tried to make sense of it into an IRA or something.
59:13Which is great. I'm all about that. I mean, the layoff absolutely sucks. The value went up in terms of the money that was invested. But look right here. You took out$1 ,500 right there. Well. No answer? You don't know? I mean, it was. Well, would it matter if I said that was for a hospital bill? Would you then? Would that be okay? Well, yeah, that can be life and death. Okay. it was for hospital i mean it's not for getting starbucks true okay are you okay yeah i'm fine okay so it was something medically necessary usually i'm assuming for a hospital we don't have to go into details but yes okay and that is where that's fine of course health savings accounts are absolutely great for that instead of having to take from a retirement because you'll have to pay penalties potentially mostly just invested in the overall united states economy We also have 1 ,296 of it, not invested, just sitting in cash in there.
1:00:11Oh, yeah. What do I do with that? Invest it. I think you need to sit down with a licensed professional advisor, though, a fiduciary, who can talk about potential investment strategies for your age. Because they're likely going to want to go more conservative with bonds. Yeah. But that figure to me doesn't even scream my... That would even benefit me. No, but it's a start. We need to start getting rolling. We need to start the process. We need to start the road trip. We're not just sitting at home. You'll never get to wherever you're going if you don't start. Yeah. Yeah, it's going to be important for you, sitting down with someone and figuring out what kind of funds they'd want you to get in.
1:00:56this paperwork is crazy this is a wild amount of paper i've this is just oh my gosh that was an absolute adventure an absolute adventure man and i'm sorry uh for the medical bill um well like that happens and i i am that sucks That sucks. That's why we work throughout our life to make sure that we're saving up, maxing out our health savings account as much as we can. And like have an emergency fund or something like that. Yeah.
1:01:43Y 'all got to use my favorite high yield savings account where you can get up to 4.6 % on your money plus FDIC insurance up to$2 million. You can also get up to$300 for signing up today. It's the personal high-yield savings account that I use for my money, so don't let your money be losing money while it's just sitting there. Click the link in the description below and get those bonuses. What's that? Oh, just a spreadsheet. Just a fun little spreadsheet of what also includes your wife. So your wife has a Bank of America Visa, a Target card, a Wayfair card, this Unknown card, a Capital One card, a Chase card, a Discover card, an Imprint card, a credit first card best buy card merit card coming to coming a t card another unknown card another come into t card city card american express card capital one another one a credit one oh she has a credit one too sofi secret name american express i love sofi for the savings but no she has a credit card with them another city card but paypal credit another capital one card another city card another community card and other capital one card that's the fourth one uh second american express card and a fourth community card you can take a look these are all your wives you can see it's labeled a 401 payment under your wife's card we don't even know her balances because you know i mean this is an audit on you so it's only an hour show no we can go we can go longer than that we are going longer than that We're an hour five.
1:03:22We haven't even done like a budget or anything.
1:03:28How was it going through bankruptcy? It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Did you have the house at the time? The mortgage? Yeah. What did they do about that? Did they do anything regarding that? What did they do in terms of? We had a car. They didn't do anything about that. Want to do it again? No. Oh. Okay. Well, no. In that case, I mean, that's not ideal. This is so much. Just you. This isn't even your... Have you ever recommended to someone to do that? It's only been two times where it's like, that's an option, but I don't feel comfortable recommending it. I'd rather you sit down and get a second opinion before going through that heart.
1:04:13But this isn't even including your wife. You have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. Individual debts. Individual debts. Plus these. Plus your wife's. Which is an additional 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. debts. We're addicted to taking out debt. That's 50.
1:04:55Total debt for you $379 ,000 but $122 ,000 of that This holiday gives a gift that says let's cancel plans and just lounge. Meet Undies has dropped their new holiday collection and it's made for maximum cozy we're talking soft as snow ultra modal fabric festive prints and loungewear so comfy your couch might get jealous onesies hoodies joggers even delightfully quirky holiday designs you're welcome knock out all your holiday gifting needs with deals up to 60 off at meundies.com slash spotify enter promo code spotify that's meundies.com slash spotify code spotify it's a mortgage the rest of it is bad debt so over 200 ,000 dollars of bad debt like $250 ,000 of bad debt.
1:05:43Did I do that math right? Does that include the student loan? Yes. Which is bad debt that you owe and something's gonna happen.
1:05:53Aha! Noah saw it from a distance. It's the one document we print in color. Okay. So, reminder, you're bringing$3 ,000 a month. $2 ,996.97 net went to debt. so the entirety of what you brought in but in terms of what money went out that was only 30.2 percent of the money that went out housing so this is more uh-huh 1610 dollars 78 cents phone 1.6 percent of your spending transportation 916 dollars and 46 cents is this both of them combined okay so this will what what about the debt payments though yeah okay so this is both of you can buy so we can bring up the income to 6 ,500 okay well 9.2 percent goes to transportation 916 dollars 46 cents of that for that and then necessary food grocery stores 652 dollars and 14 cents 6.6 percent of the spending 373 dollars or 3.8 percent went to going out to eat and also we couldn't see her spending on her credit cards so these percentages are likely worse if she's putting money on her credit cards.
1:07:10This is going off the checking accounts and then her minimum monthly payments as well. $544.09 went to unknown shopping, typically Amazon.
1:07:20$697.16 went to medical healthcare for 7%. $150 or 1.5 % went to savings. 1.2 % went to subscriptions. I don't know why we need to have that if we can only save$150. Just as much went to subscriptions almost as savings. that doesn't really make sense$660.47 went to miscellaneous stopping getting something stupid shopping from your own store how much how much$660.47 or 6.7 percent you're spending $1 ,044.08 went to other large purchases or$10.55 of purchases those other large purchases were transfers to the google wallet locksmith house appraisal are you looking at selling house appraisal i don't know oh gosh uh some checks golden sacks bankers acceptance collection sending out money via paypal and ups store oh boy oh boy
1:08:29now are you considering bankruptcy the thing is i just don't want your housing situation to get or the vehicle situation but it's like if if if uh 60 percent 60 percent of your spending makes up for 100 of your income in terms of the household and there's actually more spending on her credit cards that we can't see so we're just looking at minimum payments on hers plus your minimum payments you're spending and then the joint spending and the checking account 60 to 70 percent of the spending or you know went to 100 100 percent of the income so we're beyond spending we're spending 30 percent more potentially 40 percent more than we make like how are you going to make progress in your debts we just can't be spending really we can't afford any fund spending you talk about vacations we We can't really do that right now.
1:09:24I really don't think we can even give money to our daughter, which sucks. Like, I want you to. But, like, it's like, yo, girl, we're dying. I hear you. No, what you're saying makes complete sense. I've never seen it broken down like this. I should have broken it down like this all the time, many times. Didn't. stupidity bad habit whatever i'm mad now good i'm mad at me good um really not mad at anybody else other than me um it's okay to be a little upset at your wife as well maybe okay fine because there's a lot of debt there that you both are gonna have to if you were married we're dealing this this is a partnership yeah it's gonna be a lot of both sides helping yeah this this is just um tensed me up quite a bit i bet and i appreciate you putting up with me and all of this because when you look at it easy to deal with when you look at it this way though this is this i mean i i don't even know i don't even know where to start at this point so i mean i know something's and i'm thinking about that right now i'm trying to where do i point you right out of the gate oh man because your living situation in terms of minimum payment for the space you guys have i mean you're not going to get cheaper via rent if you sell or anything and i don't want you to upgrade your rates rates just came in today at 7.1 percent currently across the united states so it's like that house we're kind of stuck in bankruptcy i would love to clear those small debts but again i don't want your car and living situation potentially like you would need to speak speak to a bankrupt attorney and see the best ways to go about that.
1:11:15It corrupts the attorney. I would love to see you sit down with a financial advisor to talk about the different funds in your retirement. The crazy part is, oh wait, you wouldn't have penalties actually when you pulled that out. I'm sorry, because you're over 59 and a half. So there wouldn't have been penalties on that$1 ,500 you pulled out. Right. But you still got to pay taxes. On any growth, on any capital gains. Probably what, like 10 % in your case? Yeah. so that's not something I'm terribly worried about either way and just the growth as well so no I was just going to say like and knowing when when there is a valid emergency type expense where to get that you know if you don't know where you're going to get it then you just grab it and that could be the wrong place you know what I'm saying like that probably is not the best place I could have grabbed that money from.
1:12:15I agree. And I would be more sympathetic if it was just emergencies, but there was a lot of bullshit in there. It was like, what, 15%, 20 % of your spending? Yeah. So it's hard for me to... I'd say more than that. Seriously. Yeah. I'm trying to think about the retirement account. Obviously, you need retirement. And I'm curious what an advisor would tell you to put it in at this point. But even at the best case scenario, it's making an average of 10 % a year, S &P 500 like but your cards are at like 30 % so I'm almost like if we're not doing bankruptcy are we just pulling that and throwing towards the debt then paying down the debt as quick as possible by working 50 60 hours a week which I do not want to see you be doing at 62 but doing that for like literally 10 years to pay off the debt as quick as you can get a fully funded emergency fund and and then throw as much into investing as we can into what an advisor would recommend for your age like that might be a possibility but every our budget's so extended right now beyond belief like i don't know what to do are you able to work as many hours as you want or have they capped you at those slight overtimes they've never capped me i mean have you turned down shifts can you what how many hours a week do you think you could work if you wanted to well i'm sure they would limit me at some point i mean i can you know go up to 45 50 but that's not what you're talking you know but i'm pretty sure they'd say that's enough overtime you can't do anymore if you can hit 50 that'd be great and find another 10 somewhere else again and that's not something i want like i don't want anyone to take it that way i don't want you to take it that way it's just like at this point it might be a need if bankruptcy is not in consideration yeah what's upsetting is is and it's just you know crying for no reason because no one's going to help but me uh help myself and that's just not making as much as you would think as much as i'd want to make of course everyone says that but i mean when does income typically cap in someone's career i think it's like their early 50s so income you know from low 20s kind of goes like this and then you get like your early 50s and then it kind of goes like this yeah typically so i mean you're just you're less competitive in the workplace just economically speaking if we're just being like yeah nobody wants to hire no no ageism no nothing like that if we're just talking like true competitiveness in the workplace from a capitalistic standpoint you are less competitive in the workplace because right no i you're right i i see it and ageism does exist but it does i certainly can't i'm not blaming that that's just the way it is yeah people shouldn't be discriminated on hiring based on age but if we're also also just being subconscious for thinking about hiring someone I'd want to hire someone that can work with me for 20, 30 years.
1:14:58That's someone who's looking to retire in a few. Right. But also no one should be discriminated based on age. So it becomes a very complicated topic. And I'm also, I also am willing to admit I have a great amount of ignorance on that topic specifically as well. So usually this is where we make a budget and stuff like that. Just like the payment. let me figure out your minimum monthly payments on debt alone required and you didn't miss any and I'm not sure how because your spending is crazy so there's something a little off
1:15:41you're lucky these student loans are not making you pay right now I would love to know what they're on right now I would think income based but typically interest accrues during that
1:15:54i mean minimum monthly payments you bring in only 500 hours more while you're working overtime you're only bringing in 500 hours more than your minimum monthlies and your debts debts that's not including groceries or health care or anything that's just debts 2 500 like that gas yeah car maintenance no errors anything and everything this is literally only minimum monthly debt payments a little bit of escrow,$2 ,533.68 on a monthly basis. My prescription sucks here. My prescription sucks here because normally this is where we make a budget and we work our way out of it. I don't know if I've ever seen a budget so far gone because that's just yours and then if we, oh, it's probably the same for the wife.
1:16:41No, I mean if we take out the mortgage, maybe it's like, okay, maybe the combined minimum monthly payments is like closer to like$4 ,000, $3 ,500. And even still, it's like with all the other payments and medical things going on that we haven't talked about.
1:16:57Learning lesson for y 'all out there for sure who are like, I'll deal with it later. Future me will be okay with it. No, no, no.
1:17:09So are you willing to talk to a certified financial advisor? absolutely okay i think that'd be your next step just give some advice see what potential consequences could look like because again okay more than half of this are from the credit cards more than half of this is from the credit cards not the mortgage if we could just get rid of that all of a sudden i can make you a budget and we could get to a point where you're able to retire you know on the lower end but you'd be able to retire and be debt free so have the conversation with that the financial advisor it's going to be analysis and then sitting down with them you know what actually we have a we have a licensed financial coach on our on our end uh that people can sign up for and uh he's a cpa and he's like well versed on a lot of financial things i'll put you through uh two sessions with him two sessions with him he's a financial uh you know licensed financial person and uh you'll go through that and uh based on his advice on who you should talk to next we'll then point you in that direction and we might be able to cover something there as well depending on what that is oh but let's put you with our like licensed coach two sessions so yeah we'll get you set up with that i think that's what's going to be important for you because this one the prescription is literally talking to different professionals in different specific areas who can focus on different things because your debt has just gotten so massive that it's almost impossible to budget out on just what we have.
1:18:57Yeah. I'm sorry. No, you don't need to apologize. I know. Just usually I can be a little more productive. You have been productive. Okay. Well, thank you. You have been. You've put it the way I needed to hear it. I mean, you know what I mean? Yeah. sure yeah i mean i'm not stupid i realize it's it's it's unbelievable i do need to change you i don't you're not stupid um trust me i've talked to a lot of stupid people you're not stupid financially ignorant absolutely but one thing i need you to change overnight starting today and having a conversation with your wife about this behavior needs to change immediately we cannot be going out to eat we can't be doing starbucks we can't be buying things from our store you're Yes, we're going to put you through these systems and get you connected with people and potentially cover certain things outside of our own.
1:19:47But what you have to do now is change your behavior the moment you walk outside this door. Because you cannot afford to do all this extra stuff. I can't keep adding. You can't. It's really literally for you. It's literally whatever your basic minimum needs are is all that you can afford right now until we get something sorted out. Because there's also a big piece of the picture missing from what does the wife's debt look like more than just the minimum monthly payments. which is what we have so agree that's my diagnosis we're gonna be in touch we're gonna do follow-ups on our new follow-up uh channel and we're gonna do things and we're gonna hopefully figure this out but this is this is gonna be a long process and let me be very clear i'm gonna take a lot of work this is gonna be the first time in your life where you're actually gonna be financially focused and like building something because i want to see a minimum decent comfortable retirement with an a decade a decade and a half which sucks because i would want you to be entering that right about now but that's where we are no you've made complete sense i'm all for it i'm ready to to do it in fact i'm already thinking when i get home not thinking you know scissor time good good good with the cards not your wife good or with or both correct you do what you want to do make sure to stick around for the post show everyone i think i mean it's pretty clear it's a hammer financial score actually there's going to be a real estate score here so i will i think it's a hammer financial score one out of ten because real estate's playing a big thing here make sure to check out all the resources linked in the description below they are what i use or would use in specific situations including the best budgeting program in the history of the internet today on the financial audit post show did anyone ever say like retirement dude set some money aside.
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