Pathetic Loser Is “Too Good For Work” | Financial Audit

31 Jul 2024 · 1 h 21 min

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Episode Title

Pathetic Loser Is “Too Good For Work”

Podcast Description The "Financial Audit" podcast aims to entertain and educate listeners about personal finance, featuring guests who share their financial stories and challenges.

Episode Overview In this episode, a guest who is currently a full-time Uber driver and part-time actor discusses his financial struggles, including reliance on payday loans, support from family, and past experiences as a Twitch streamer. The conversation highlights significant themes such as financial irresponsibility, the importance of stable income, and the challenges of pursuing creative dreams while managing financial obligations.

Key Discussions

Guest's Current Financial Situation

  • Income Sources:
  • Uber Driving: $650-$750 weekly (across Uber and Lyft).
  • Acting: Earned $2,000 in May, but only $300 in June.
  • Payday Loans: Recently took out a payday loan, indicating financial distress.
  • Family Support: Receives money from parents (e.g., $209 from dad, $589 from mom).

Financial Challenges

  • Payday Loans: Discussed the unsustainable nature of payday loans (680% interest) and reliance on them for meeting expenses.
  • Lack of Stability: The guest's employment history includes quitting a stable job at FedEx Express for acting, which has not provided sufficient income.
  • Debt and Collections: The guest owes significant amounts to various creditors, including medical bills and credit card debt.
  • Retirement Savings: Drained retirement savings to support living expenses and entertainment (e.g., purchasing a gaming console).

Emotional and Psychological Aspects

  • Life Choices: The guest expresses frustration about their current situation but also admits to making poor choices, such as playing video games for extended periods instead of working.
  • Family Dynamics: The guest feels conflicted about borrowing from aging parents, recognizing it as an irresponsible choice.
  • Dreams vs. Reality: The pursuit of acting is highlighted, but it is contrasted with the need for financial stability.

Key Takeaways

  • Need for Stable Employment: The host emphasizes that relying on gig work, particularly when income is inconsistent, is not a sustainable way to manage living expenses.
  • Importance of Budgeting: Despite having budgeting knowledge, the guest struggles to apply it effectively in their life, leading to financial chaos.
  • Sacrifice for Goals: The host stresses that if the guest wants to pursue acting, sacrifices must be made in terms of stable employment and spending habits.
  • Consequences of Financial Decisions: The conversation serves as a reminder of how poor financial decisions can lead to significant long-term consequences.

Conclusions The episode closes with a discussion about the necessity of making hard choices for financial stability before pursuing dreams. The host offers resources and strategies for managing finances better, emphasizing the importance of structured budgeting and consistent employment.

Resources Mentioned

  • Financial Tools: Playbook for budgeting and financial planning.
  • Consultation Services: Opportunities for free consultations with financial professionals.

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This episode illustrates the complexities of balancing financial responsibility with personal aspirations, shedding light on the challenges many face in their financial journeys.

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0:31so what do you do here in austin texas for a living right now i am a full-time uber driver okay um regular uber driving and uber eats and and the such lyft as well yeah and then uh acting on the side i bet everyone who's ever been on this show has uber ate from you because they uber eat every second of their lives better not see any uber eats in here this is insane uber driving okay how much are we bringing in doing that uh uh well uh i would say on a good week anywhere between 650 and 750 okay and that's across all the different uber variations and driving variations and food and correct uh i correction i tend not to do uber eats that much because it doesn't pay that much versus the mileage you have to go for an order to take it.

1:24Yeah. I know it was great during the pandemic, but I think. Yeah. But recently it's not been as good. But obviously you have gas after that and maintenance and everything. Yeah. So what do we think actually comes? Okay. I looked at your income. What was the largest piece of incoming money? From this month or? From the most recent month. the savings that we have okay that's uh probably the largest thing was probably about uh it's gonna probably show like 597 dollars on there no the largest thing that came in was a payday loan a payday loan disbursement okay well yeah that's that yeah that was a little bit larger than the than the other one that was on there yeah that was the largest thing yeah yeah me okay well Well, okay, so unknown transfer of$209, what was that?

2:24It was just a transfer into your account. It was$209. We don't know what it was. What was that? That was money from my dad, actually. Hold on. Well, how long have you been Ubering? Because something's telling me it's not working out to pay the bills. The two things I've called out so far are not income. Well, I mean, it is working. Um, it is working. The problem is that it's summer. You took out a payday loan. I did take out a payday loan. I did take out, but hold on, let me, but, um, it's summertime. College is out. It's slowed down significantly. So maybe we need a job that's not so seasonal if we're taking out payday loans.

3:10I am. What have you been doing? And then you said part-time acting. Okay. How much do you bring in doing that? uh in in may i brought in about 2 000 on that um may uh may june well okay we're looking at june because there's nothing that hits your account that's 2 000 no uh june it's also i've only done a couple of gigs um this month and they only how much does that made uh about 300 okay see that's you know we've had a lot of i am getting it i am getting an agent uh you're getting an agent i have a interview actually tomorrow with a large dallas with a large agency in dallas okay so hopefully that will we've had a lot of people in the show who want to make it in that industry from and you know a lot of people in the audience that want to make it in that industry and this is it's a big thing for some reason people are moving to austin to make it that doesn't make sense to me but whatever okay i want to i want to help you get to your dreams if there's a way we can get there but we're taking out payday loans yeah we're taking money from our dad uh i'm i don't think uber is what's gonna be what pays the bills if we can't pay our bills what how long have you been doing uber though i have been doing uber about five months okay what were you doing before that i was working at fedex express okay well there we go that sounds like a job what happened uh i hated it um do you hate paying bills no i don't everyone hates paying bills but no i don't hate paying bills and you're and you're right it was a good job it was how much are you making uh you're gonna ask me that um well yeah and you're gonna not like the response response of me on this one uh 23.79 an hour okay 40 hours a week 40 hours a week good health insurance pay time off uh pay time okay so probably make like 50 000 bucks a year 45 to 50 what but in my defense hold that mic right up to your face in your defense what in my defense um i've been i've been part-time acting starting to delve into that for about a little over a year okay started to get so busy that i used all my pto and sick time to pursue it and great which is great i had to have a major surgery let's go dreams let's go i had to have a major surgery so i was off work for six weeks it will pay time off work disability yeah and i thought i just i have two bulging discs in my back all the stuff from lifting for because i worked for amazon before that okay um and um i decided you know what i need something more flexible so i can pursue this i had a buddy that's been doing uber for seven years said making his living doing it and i said that'll give me the flexibility to do it i'm gonna do it and Caleb let me tell you it would have worked out I cashed my 401k out had a big amount of money I know I know but you're going to kill me on this one you're going to kill me on this one you're not going to like this luckily I don't have a weapon yes

6:17it's a long story but what the f*** no that's not how this works so I used to be a full time partnered streamer on Twitch okay what yeah this was when i lived in arizona before i moved here so um and i'm like jumping back and forth wait a minute what were you doing full-time on twitch you were full-time partner streamer on twitch for two years oh you've been everywhere what the so how much were you making doing that i was making between i would say on a good month top ending about five to six low end three to four okay that's that's making a living on twitch as streaming yeah it was yeah um were you streaming uh i was considered a variety streamer so i did open world rpg games um i basically gave my whole soul and life to that so i ditched all my friends so much yeah i ditched everything for that and uh made it to doing it full time but i basically was just me and my space station in my living room with just i had no table no it was my space station and just me and the internet and my moderators discord my i mean it was it was great but eight to ten hours streaming a day oh yeah uh i had no life and i just got burned out of it i felt like and you just stopped i stopped everything i've also been clean and sober for over 12 years so the stuff i do to keep that i discarded all that stuff that helps me with that was there a better content strategy that we could have adapted to there was because again you're literally borrowing money from your dad and taking out payday loans and i think the pay that came in was like five hundred dollars like i and that's so different than making at the top end six seven thousand hours a month yeah well i mean it's a little bit of a hiccup right now but i think we can get past it i mean the way i'm thinking but i realized what i did wrong is got the chunk of my 401k when i quit fedex how much was that uh i ended up with around 5 250 after they took the penalties and and here's what i did how long were you doing twitch i did twitch for two years but then i moved here um and i know that a lot of people that are streaming full-time it's like it's seriously like crazy crazy crazy hours and you give up you give up so much of social life and a lot of things now i I would have rather come up with a different content strategy than just giving up because where are you now?

8:47Do you have anything? Well, yeah, you do have something in retirement. Let's see. What is it? Oh,$200. Okay. So that's. Yeah. Well, that's. That's going to be zero. Oh, yeah. When did you just pull 600? You just pulled 6 ,000 out? No, no. I pulled that out like four and a half, five months ago. Okay. For some reason, it's still gaining money. Oh, this is, well, it's showing her from the year. Okay. So when I pulled it out, sorry to go back to this, but when I pulled it out, I would have used that for my nest egg, and then I would be driving Uber and making$600 to$700 a week. So I was like, great.

9:28But I decided. Before gas, before maintenance. Before gas and maintenance. I decided, well, I haven't had a console or, you know, indulged in video games in three years. Oh, so let's do it when we have to pull from retirement and make no money. I bought a PS5 and a 4K 240Hz HD monitor and I didn't drive for 9 weeks and I played video games for 9 weeks you know what? and I went through my 401k it's gone and so then I realized I need to start driving but I have the actor but this is the most childish why didn't you at least stream it? why didn't you at least stream it for 9 weeks and try to get some tips and donations Because now, unlike when you stream, there's all these different areas you can stream on too.

10:16Well, I don't have a webcam anymore. I didn't have the mic. Okay. I think if we went and dropped. I don't have a gaming computer anymore. So it's just too many factors. But if you had a computer. Well, honestly. You can stream from PlayStation these days. You can. You can. You got to buy an extra. Okay. Okay. You're an excuse. Just bundle of excuses. Sure. Whatever. Great. I don't know if I would call it that. I would just. You just tried to make a thousand excuses why. Probably none of them are valid. If you can go spend on a PlayStation 5 and all that, and you can stream from your PlayStation, you could have got a$25 webcam and you could have been streaming.

10:52Yeah, but you got to make it look good. You got to make it look good. You do, but you could have at least been trying. You literally drained your 401k, sat on your ass for nine weeks playing PlayStation. What are you even playing? At least let it be something good. yeah i replayed the uh it's a replay it's not even a new play well you know last what you replay okay i've replayed the remake of last of us one okay all right all right last of us two that they upgraded okay okay okay okay payday loan hey payday loans what i don't know i don't know i don't know okay well i appreciate trying to be a part of the conversation but that was yeah that was a little awkward that's just dumb the green dot transfer is that work the uber that is uh green dot transfer is uber and then what's the venmo in of 589 uh that's uh money that i uh borrowed from my mom oh buddy i mean i didn't i i i Your dreams are killing you.

11:59I want you to get to your dreams, too. You just do it in a stupid way. Listen. Okay, what about the cash app in of$100-something? Cash app of$100. What the f***? That is... Total over the course of the month. Cash app of$100.

12:18Total cash app in was$117.90. What was it? $40 of... Wait, there's no cash app. Oh, oh, oh,$121. that cash up that was from an acting game okay so actual earned income was like 600 bucks and then you$750 payday loan 209 from dad 589 from mom if you're a high earning millennial or gen z and feel like you could be doing more with your money playbook is tailored just for you and it's the sponsor of today's video playbook is like having a financial wizard in your pocket helping you grow your wealth without the hefty price tag of a traditional financial planner with playbook you get a rock solid financial plan today in just minutes so here's the deal playbook uses strategies that the big wigs billionaires and certified financial planners swear by from minimizing your taxes to optimizing your savings it's all in there and guess what you don't need to be a math whiz to get started they even rolled out a killer new feature for you all juggling debt and savings And let me tell you, a lot of people on the show could use this.

13:26It shows you the smartest way to allocate your cash flows or savings so you can crush your debt and boost your net worth at the same time. So don't just earn good money. Make your money work for you. Head to helloplaybook.com slash Caleb to start your free trial today. It only takes a couple of minutes. You can also check out the link in the description below. Because you're trying to become an actor. so we go from the streaming and then we go to an actual job well I mean the streaming was a job you made it was a real job just like I've been able to make this a real job thanks to you all and then you're like okay done fine that was your choice but you replaced it with a good job making$50 ,000 a year with pennies and you're like because I want to be an actor and it's a little hard with this job and I barely make any money doing it let me go make no money in what world your parents how old are your parents you're 46 how old are your parents um and they're in their 70s and you're taking money from them how does that feel because i would feel disgusted personally now if it was to help you in a certain situation because you're going through a rough time that's different but this is your choice this is very much your choice you are choosing this well well oh come on well it is kind of a rough time i mean i had yeah by your choice Well, not necessarily because What do you mean?

14:48You left your job I did But I actually had a plan when I left my job Which, if I would have followed it I wouldn't be in the situation Well, yeah, you sat in your room for nine weeks So what was the plan versus what happened? I was going to keep that five grand as a nest egg And then start driving Uber While I'm doing self-tapes And applying and auditioning for roles But that way I would always be ahead I'd have that five grand I'd be making$6.50 to$7.50 a week it was going to be great so what what happened after the nine weeks what made you finally decide to get up from the couch i the the gaming is uh it got to the same feeling it got when i was streaming i i had and it was like doing these are drinking i felt like i had my fill of it and i couldn't it wasn't it wasn't filling the void anymore and i was like plus i need to pay rent bills and i'm not i'm down to my last minuscule amount of money it had the same feeling of when you were drinking and stuff or were you drinking no i wasn't drinking no i'm so clean it's so clean sober um happy to hear that yeah thank you appreciate that appreciate that but um i realize i need to start uh working i need to start getting off my and so i sold the ps5 and the monitor i I mean, I didn't make the amount of money back that I paid for it, but that's something good.

16:08You know, I took that. It is. This is like the host. That's like the worst. So it's not really that bad. OK, shut up. That's not true. Sorry, but that's not true. This I mean, you literally. OK, let's look at the first document. It's not that bad. I mean, that I can't accept. I will accept. Hey, you got up and you tried to do something. That's good. I will not accept borrowing$750 at 680 percent interest rate. i don't think that is not that good i will not accept that that is not that good or not that bad sorry okay well what was i supposed to do just work like an adult like a human that's 46 well i'm a mature person like a big boy okay well uh i i've been applying for jobs and okay what do you mean you said you're ubering and you're trying to act what do you mean you're applying to job What does that look like?

17:01I'm putting in for part-time work right now. Part-time? Why part-time? So I can supplement. I can still do Ubering and do part-time. Why do you want to do Ubering? You're not making anything. The car you're doing is insane, by the way. No, I know.

17:18I just, you know, you got to follow your dreams, man. You only live once, and my body is wrecked. I'm not delivering packages anymore. I'm not going to drive around in the 985 degree heat You're right you only live once So sacrifice Just in case you live longer But if you die today You won't know that you sacrificed and didn't live your dream Because you died So may as well bet on the likelihood that you're going to live a while And make sure you actually have a chance for retirement Because you only do live once And I'd rather you not spend the rest of that Under a bridge which is where you're headed Yeah well yeah i'm not against your dream we could have done this a week if we sat down before you quit we could have literally come up with a good way to do it i again am blessed to live my dream i decided not to do this in a stupid way i didn't quit my full-time job until i was able to do this full-time i know it's different than acting because acting's relying on these other gigs and you ate up your pto but maybe we're finding different job strategies but the uber is clearly not working 65 of your money or something like that came from either parents or payday loans this is not working can we agree that this is not working um oh well i hold on i i can agree with that halfway but but part of it why it's not working is because i'm not actually i'm not actually getting out there and doing it doing what uh driving so so so so so maybe maybe maybe how many hours a week are you driving oh the last i've slacked off this last month are you lazy why do you not care i'm not but you would no no no no no no what are you doing during that time what are you doing during that time that you're not driving what are you doing honestly as honest as possible oh um hats off this is a big thinking exercise um what am i doing yeah

19:36um applying for other jobs auditioning um for roles come on the whole time literally the whole time that you're not driving watching youtube uh sitting around doing nothing okay there you go So, to be clear, you are borrowing from your mid-70s old parents so that you can sit on your own. In the end, that is how that has worked out. Selfish, child, immature, baby. That's a little harsh. I don't think so. Taking from your 70s, your mid-70s old parents, you can start taking from your tax-advantaged retirement accounts at 59 and a half. Social security retirement age is mid-60s. They're mid-70s. They're well within where they should just be enjoying the good life.

20:24You're taking from them so you can sit on your own. You're taking them so you could play PlayStation for three months. You're taking them so you can pursue your dream instead of allowing them to live theirs. Selfish. Child. Baby. Immature. Okay. You disagree? How could you possibly? I don't know. Grain of the beard is supposed to mean wisdom. I'm not saying it. I would say this is just, I mean, this is the first time, this is the first time I've been in this situation like this. I've never borrowed money from any of my family. Guess what? You are. But I am. So I wouldn't call myself being childish.

21:01I've worked my ass off my whole life. Where's that lettuce? $200 in a retirement account. And no money to our name, payday loans. So that we could. First time I ever took out a payday loan. Doesn't matter. Never done it before. You're 46. You have a payday loan. You have no money in retirement. I don't care what has been. I don't care if you made a bunch of mistakes in your life and you're incredible right now. I would reward you for being incredible right now. I don't care if you've been incredible your entire life and you're doing horribly now. I'm going to talk about how you're doing horribly now because that's all that matters.

21:29Why would we go and give hugs and high fives and blow bubbles and have rainbows flying all over the room for what happened 10 years ago? That's not where we are. You're taking from your parents who are in their mid 70s right now and borrowing payday loans because you don't want to get off the couch. self-assessed where do you think you are on finances truly where do you think you are zero to ten zero being the worst ten being the best you know how this goes um i would probably say i'm at a four every time they know how it goes and they okay four is but four is reasonable you have a payday loan okay if you want your hammer financial score it's free in the description below and if you have payday loans oh let me tell you but you're also an interesting individual and uh you know you like to they're not that bad what who the payday loans just feel free to apply to be on the show calebhammer.com slash apply okay you were about to ruin me there for a second i'm glad you've decided to have a moment of attempted humor i wouldn't seeing how again so you borrowed $750 the minimum payment for 12 months is$194 you're gonna pay a total of$2 ,522 from that 750 are you at least making your minimum payment on this when did you borrow this payday loan um about two speedy cash.com speedy cash.com speedy cash don't go to that site it was an anti-sponsorship uh about two three weeks ago um okay so you may so your minimum for your first payments probably coming up soon right uh the 17th and and i'm not gonna two days and that's why the interest rates are so high on those by the way because like no one ever pays i can't pay it i mean i i don't know i don't i i what did you use your money on what did you use your parents money on my rent what's your rent uh 1290 huh boy you're bringing in 500 from mark off what are we doing you're you're you're you're you're not allowed to you're not allowed to leave your job with a rent like that that's you just can't again we would have strategized we would have gotten you into a cheaper living situation maybe doing like hostels or something so you could grind it out your dream make the sacrifices necessary that you're doing the thing where you are not making the sacrifices necessary while also trying to live your dream it's insane you're willing to sit on your not work and also keep your crazy rent while pursuing it that's not how that's not how we pursue our dreams we sacrifice well if you're gonna tell me you've sacrificed i would like to hear that oh i would love a good comedic bit right now i mean i i've tried uh uh the first couple months the first two three months i've been able to make i was able to make it you know and i just figured uh the acting would pick up what do you mean first few months three months you sat on your to play playstation making it by draining your 401k what are you talking about wow i was still able to pay my bills and live yeah because you're 401k but not because of earnings that's that is that's true well no thus that's why i'm looking for part-time work oh god power time work buddy you're doing ubering right now and you're bringing in 500 i don't know if part-time work's going to get you to your rent unless you're working a lot of part-time work part-time work full-time oh this payday loan you i want to make sure do you know the payday loan's bad uh it's not that bad what do you mean but you but but but i explain please for please well i mean i i'm i i'm pretty sure it has a high interest rate i would say i would what do you gather i already said the you probably don't even know because i already said it but what do you that's probably six well but 16 17 buddy i've said it already are you here oh my gosh are you kidding me go ahead and tell me what was your addiction of choice back in the day um alcohol and coffee wow okay I am glad you're clean yes thank you just wanted to make sure you weren't smoking right now because I already said the mountain dew but I mean that's not really it's the closest thing to it in the world of pop 600

26:15oh buddy buddy buddy we're gonna get there we're gonna get there a little bit of caffeine in me just had to myself up there but honestly payday loans you know the thing is 680 well if you pay it off what is well are you paying it off you just said you're gonna miss your payment what the fuck well here's the thing kail if i get stop looking at the producers look at me okay no i was Okay, sorry about that. If I get off my ass, yes, and drive five to six. And how's that going? Well, it's not going good right now. But I also have a bunch. I mean, this is going to sound like I'm whining and complaining and I'm not this kind of person.

26:55But I have a bunch of medical shit that continues to plague me. I don't know if you know, but I had a major surgery five months ago. You said that because your disc's in your back. No, I had a colon resectioning where they cut a section of my colon out and restitched back together. That's why I was off work for six weeks. It didn't solve any of the problems. I don't have money to pay any co-pays to go get tests they want me to get. So I'm just – I guess I'm just – Why aren't you on any of the exchanges? You can apply for that if you like fall out of a job. You didn't get fired or laid off though, so it's different.

27:24Yeah. I don't know if you're able to say a loss of job without saying why on the exchanges, but you could have honestly gone free health insurance. I do have health insurance But it's through Oscar Health Which is a no name Whatever insurance So I mean maybe we just ride this off Until the sunset till my intestines explode Who knows Is that a thing potentially At this point I have no idea I mean But that's neither here nor there It's not a medical thing And I don't mean to bring that up So I'll let you get back to 684 % That is high unless you pay it off immediately unless you pay it off immediately that's not going well okay sorry it's 684 you say okay let me see give you a box of crayolas to draw all over it that helps you remember that's a little harsh bro come on if you need to circle the interest rate well that's it's there capital one yeah capital yeah this is new uh uh i wouldn't even recommend the fizz card to you and i recommend it to everyone i just don't trust you it's good for people out there but it's about a month old so you did just open it and you immediately put$334 on oh no you did it you didn't max it out you over maxed it out how how dare you allow you to spend$334 when you had a 300 credit limit what happened here um what happened i i don't know uh i don't know um oh my death oh my death i want to well no hold on let me let me um oh okay so i was doing an uber shift and uh i i think i had two like close to three dollars left on it and i needed gas and i I knew as long as I had some money on there, it would let me use it.

29:27So I had to fill up my tank with gas. We have a taser in the office for protection, and I want to use it right now because that was a big f***ing lie. You're going, you're getting wings, you're stopping in a store getting some bulls***. You're getting some barbecue chicken, stopping in a store getting some bulls***. Stopping in a store getting some bulls***. Panda Express, stopping in the store, stopping in the cafe, stopping in the storing cafe, stopping in the storing cafe, and then your gas. So no, you put all the money on there, the vast majority of it, from... What? We gotta eat. Oh, don't you dare, I swear.

30:12I mean, I... Don't do that. Just shut up. Just don't even say that. that's not even those aren't even words those aren't even words well they are i haven't heard someone say that in a hot second i i honestly thought we were kind of done because i mean a lot of the people who come on the show it's like okay they you know they watch a couple like a month of episodes and i guess we haven't had someone say that in like a month of episodes so i'm just gonna you have to eat yes pack a sandwich pack a sandwich get a thermos with ramen in it soup gum anything air eat air you're right you have to eat not stopping every second of your life to eat and eating out it's so expensive the way you're doing it you max out a credit card took out a payday loan reminder in a way in a way of how you are doing this is you are borrowing from your retired elderly parents to go to panda express in a way that is how that works disgusting immature baby childish you i i can see that good in a sense okay in a sense but you're a defensive one aren't you okay no well okay i i hear what you're saying there's Well, there's also another Capital One card.

31:37We're gutting through the death. It's a 30 % interest rate, and that's going to start nailing you. And you're also going to get probably fees for being over the credit limit. $25 minimum fee payments. That won't even bring it below the limits. Going to take a few of those. 30%. 30%. Still worse than what you thought the payday loan was. I don't know what you think. I didn't even know that was that 30 % to be honest with you. Not just, just, I genuinely feel like you don't care about your life. No, I do. I do care about it. I do. I just feel like acting like someone who does your choices are not indicating.

32:21So I just, uh, I just don't know what I'm doing anymore. I just feel like, I just feel like there's no way to get ahead of any of this stuff. I just feel like it's... What are you going to do when you get evicted?

32:43Because we're talking that soon. There's only so many paid aliens you can take out. I don't know the situation with your parents, and we have a lot of bills to go through still, and you have a ginormous rent. Yeah. What are you going to do when you get evicted? That's a good question. Live in your car? It's the next payment we have to take care of because that'll probably – I've done it before. Well, I don't think for long because this one's going to get reaped. That's going to get reaped. Well, that's another thing too. I mean, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. There's so many things that have just piled up where maybe it was stupid of me to leave FedEx Express.

33:16Maybe. We're using the word maybe. It wouldn't have been stupid if I would have followed my original plan. I kind of disagree though because it's stupid to pull from your 401k. That was your retirement. Living off of that isn't going to do it. and don't tell me that's just the nest egg on the side while i work because you're doing the work right now even though you're not doing as much as you said even if you do it as much i don't think with your rent and your minimum payments you'd be able to afford to live i don't think that i don't think your plan would have worked even with seven i mean because there was a week i can show you that i mean there's we i usually average about if i worked six days on uber and now this was during the fall when everybody was here but i i would make 750 800 how are you doing auditions then if that's the dream because you remember because you do them during the day so you uber at night yeah i would have to well sometimes i would do day shifts and then i would i would go from like 9 a.m to 5 p.m 6 p.m and then you get off and do self-tape auditions at night um and send them in and stuff like that maybe it would have maybe it didn't but also that's in the past it's in the the past you're right yeah you're now we're talking about potential repo you're still a few months away from it but i mean i think i'm 50 days behind on my i mean they're gonna eventually repo yeah i'm basically sparing how are you gonna get to auditions how are you gonna drive uber how am i gonna drive uber how am i gonna get to auditions how am i gonna it's just falling apart and they're basically at this point you're accepting 46 i mean maybe we just anything i mean well i i i am i'm where are your parents uh my mom's in san francisco my dad's in oregon okay do you have friends here i'm my brother's out here my little brother could you guys live together you need to he's got a 25 acre ranch on dripping springs he's got three kids i mean we're pretty close but um i know that's the other thing i'm looking into okay listen yeah i was looking trying i'm roommates or get a cheaper place uh i have a buddy from arizona that was going to move out here he was going to come and live and share rent with me um that fell through he got out of a 10-year relationship got all messed up in the head and he's going somewhere he's going to san diego now so that's not gonna he's not coming out here anymore okay i mean it might be like roommate finders i need to do that i need to do that we had a guest on here not that i would encourage necessarily but at the lowest the low there's like housing for people that have been through addiction you know you live with a bunch of people not doing that again you did that yeah i lived in a halfway house for a year this last time well i'm not again i'm not saying that's what i want i was just saying like in the extreme case you just can't pay your bills and i don't in the car dependent infrastructure we have a lot of the jobs are going to require you having a car and you losing your mode of transportation is going to make it very difficult.

36:12And you don't have to tell me what area of town you live in, but you can bus a lot of places here and you can train in some specific areas. But I think things are going to get real complicated real quick. So the car, let's see. Oh, God. What is the car? It's a 2011 Toyota Camry XLE. Miles? 113 ,000. How is it? it's good it's good um it was kind of an impulsive buy buy when uh about two years ago okay they didn't sell it at value no it's sold it way above they must have because you still owe 14 ,025 dollars with a 440 dollar minimum payment of course you are back multiple payments you owe uh 1 ,714 dollars That's a 17%.

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39:27Huh? I don't, I think it was, the only way I think it was a mistake was in the fact that I didn't follow through with the plan that I had designated for myself, if that makes sense. Or maybe I'm just delusional. I'm trying to tell myself that to make myself feel better. But if I would have followed the plan that I had, uh i would not be in the position you didn't because you're a child that's what i'm saying okay you didn't so 17 in a car you're 9 000 hours underwater and you're missing your payments by like three months okay okay what is this okay so you did you borrowed and it's some loan from a bank yeah that's uh that's a loan from my bank actually okay that's for what i'm guessing just survive yeah exactly right now well this is a mess it's it was a loan to survive and uh i kept up on the payments with that although they're behind now but the balance isn't even crazy man if i if i just get you in a place of work like an actual job you could just pay off the 237 dollars 88 cents yeah 33 dollar minimum payment what's the interest rate on this i don't see it i don't know because it's through my it's attached to my bank account so when i applied for it it's like a thing on online where you go on they give you like 12 it's it's hot i think do you owe money to the irs oh yeah oh my gosh that's all the way back in 2014 2015 what was happening what was happening during that time what are you doing well uh yeah hope life your way through that my goodness those are years that i um i was working at well i had a good job i was working at wells fargo's personal banking you've done everything in the world apparently and you can't commit to any of it well no no no not everything that's because my true calling is not any of this garbage but anyway i get it that's fine um and now you're gonna i claimed exempt for like six years on my taxes exempt um to um to try and um get as much money as i needed uh to get to to to get me ahead even way back then and get you ahead in what ways for what like what was the play what was the play to to to not be uh in debt anymore to not to not be struggling all the time even though i was making and struggling then too this is just a lifestyle this is just your life it's been happening okay look yeah your life is just okay it's been up and down for years uh where's the up at the beginning of when i graduated from school 2004 okay um and i got that job at wells fargo i initially started off great i had a budget i wrote everything out.

42:33I followed it to the T. So you know how to budget. I know how to do it. Then, okay. I followed it to the T and then I was making more money than I ever made so I started getting, I would have like a thousand dollars left over after all my bills and I just started buying and then got into the credit cards. I got credit cards. I started putting it and it just, I just got my eventually stopped doing my budget and just let everything get out of whack and then just got into this cycle where it's just can i tell you so something honest i've been down uh and i'm 46 now and it's come to the point where it's like uh i'm doing i don't know let's just get my car and drive away i don't know i mean that's a 12 year old way to think but like it is and the car is not going to be there that's true that's true that's true i'll tell you an honest truth it's it's a brutal honest truth but honestly i really have no filter and i just kind of say whatever go ahead go ahead you're kind of my greatest fear oh how so 17 years like doing well starting off well budgeting doing all that then somehow because we're both creative people it sounds like you you were doing streaming i'm doing youtube i used to play made my living playing music in arizona exactly you You are my greatest fear sitting across me.

43:53I'm terrified. It terrifies me. Yeah, you're doing, you're not going to, you're, I don't know, man. No, you've got it all. You've got it all set up, bro. Like you did it. I don't know. You did too. And Twitch, I'm just saying this can happen to anyone, your mistakes and everything. Cause you think you have it all figured out. You have your budget and then you just make these life choices. Either one. Yeah. I feel like I'm looking into like a future mirror and it's scary. It really is. I'm sorry. I don't mean to scare you. No, it's not about that. It's this. I don't know. You owe IRS debt from 2017, from 2015 to from 2014.

44:35I mean, that was the year after I graduated high school. You're still you're you still owe. I'm old. Yeah. Look at I mean, that's 12. I own like 12 grand. Why haven't you? Have you made any progress? I was on. Yeah, I had a CPA. in um arizona and he went back they got me on a payment plan and i was on it for a year and they were supposed he was supposed to renew it for me in a year the guy never called him up and did it so it went it fell apart you i i when was this um when did he not that was that was that That was about...

45:15When was this? Okay, it was about 12 years ago. Okay. So why haven't you done anything in 12 years? Again, as a being a child. I know, but then COVID hit and they weren't worrying about it. Well, guess what? That's all done. Yeah. So. I don't have the money to pay anything. You're right. You don't know. I'm just surprised. You haven't done anything in 12 years. I mean, I can't. how am i was four years ago so there's a lot before then as well it's almost well yeah honestly you might be able to claim some hardship stuff but i don't know though because you didn't lose a job you quit a job i did quit it i did quit it and not in a good way not in a good way well did you go out like guns a blazing um no i i was on uh long-term disability for the uh uh, surgery.

46:08And, um, I just call him and said, I'm never coming back. Great. For your career stuff. We obviously need to talk about this in the end, but what I'm happy to do, just like for any guests, I'm happy to offer you to go through a certification of your choice at course careers, which is great for tech certifications. I don't think that's the world you're in, but I do offer that to you. You can get that to someone if you'd like as well, but for being a guest, you do get that. What is that? What is that? Um, so, uh, certifications that you can go through courses and get certified in something, for example, accounting is one that they offer.

46:43Then you can have that on your resume. Really? Yeah. So we can get that to you. That's kind of cool. Usually they're like resume boosters really. Okay. Yeah. Resume accelerator. Okay. Is this additional taxes to Arizona? Oh God. Oh God. I did send you that one. Okay. um are there things you did not send me no i sent you i pretty much sent you everything okay what did you not send me um stuff that i can't that i couldn't find anymore things that are so old yeah i don't think they've probably fallen off i think they're gone i think they're gone one of them's an eviction and a repo um you had payday loans from arizona 12 years you were out payday loans 12 years ago noah's telling me um oh buddy so this is just your behavior forever no but forever and ever but it's not that i see that's that's what scares me about just potentially never changing we can send you through the budgeting program the investing program which i encourage everyone to go through we can do all that that's i don't think that's your issue.

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47:54But the thing is, I can do it. Huh? I can do it. Maybe. I don't know. It's just like, but for 12 years you've been taking out payday loans, so it's going to change. I could get you to open a Moo Moo account, start investing. I could get you to switch over to Helium and spend$20 a month. I could get you to do all these resources that we've accumulated to help save money and make money. I don't think that's your issue. You've been borrowing from payday loans forever. No. No. What do you mean forever? 12 years ago, you were taking out payday loans. That's what you told them over the phone, according to him.

48:28I did tell them that over the phone, but that was once or twice. But you just took out a payday loan last month. I mean, we're just... It's just like, that's a part of you. But hey, that was like, you know, a good amount of years in between that. Okay. Why do you owe$5 ,120 to... That is from... Arizona. Okay. That is from COVID. That is from being on unemployment. and they I was being on unemployment they were offering an additional amount what's the regular unemployment for Arizona I feel like you're doing you're in a new part of life every six months no it's great

49:10okay yeah no you're going to be a dick what were you going to say no no no you're going to be a dick I can take it no I'm not I'm not trying to be a dick I'm probably using that as a coping mechanism and defense mechanism. I'm going to take all the time. You're probably right in the sense of, and I've had other people tell it to me before. It is like a roller coaster. It's like a roller coaster up and down. That's from being on unemployment, getting the benefits during COVID. the extra amount went off for a period remember when they dropped that off for a little bit so then i was like i get a job got an over the phone job um so you and i was working a job because of unemployment i well i i had i worked in behavioral health for six years um it's just another thing it's another career yeah yeah yeah yeah i did that for six years i was good at it you can be a dick but you can't hit the table oh sorry no because of the net yes sorry it's okay I'm sorry.

50:17Sorry. Sorry, sound guys. Yeah. I mean, I was in that, but I hated that. I don't. I've never liked any job I've ever been in because I always get burned. What's the O though? You were just getting more. Why do you O? Because. So I got an over the phone job customer service through a company called AFNI that does like cell phone customer service, whatever. Still collecting unemployment during that? Good. Good. Well, hold on. I didn't necessarily stop making my weekly claims. So you steal from the taxpayer. I don't know if I put it that way. I would. And then you also take money from your parents.

51:04Okay. Well, hold on. You're right. Your life is a roller coaster with how many times you say hold on. Okay. Well, stop.

51:13Okay. Hold on. there it is but so i only went through the training part of that job and then i quit and then they then they said hey you got another job we can't give you benefits anymore and that's how much they said that i over they overpaid me but that's outrageous because they only gave me two payments that's not five thousand dollars so i'll be honest i'm and this sucks i hate that i feel this i'm just gonna share it i'm losing hope because like you tried to make it through training you didn't do that you've been like 50 different jobs in like a year it's just i mean do you want to sit on i'm sorry i interrupted you to see what i mean do you want to sit on the phone and talk to people with their stupid cell phones no no no no well uh no i didn't do that but you know my first job down here before i was able to get fully in sales i did have to do some customer service as well and i hated that guess what i also uh like wanted to get out of debt i wanted to live a better life i wanted to have retirement i wanted to be able to pay bills i wanted to have my car not get repoed i didn't want to take money from my parents i didn't want to take out payday loans so i chose the adult activity of making money making sacrifices i know so i don't give a if you wanted to or didn't want to i know it's what is this uh didn't get the care you need uh this health uh that's medical bills yeah that's medical bills so we have a few of these there's a lot okay yeah they kind of built up oh okay let's just have these a lot usually the ones i let sit till the last penny 1893 439 74

53:00four oh three ten okay so those are the last of the medical bills just three uh or there are more that we just don't know uh are you on payment plans i'm assuming not because you can't even pay rent no okay two thousand seven hundred thirty six dollars and sixty five cents that's yeah that's medical yeah okay well i'm sorry with what you went through what happened it's uh well from sitting around on my for two years gaming um and streaming on twitch i got uh and being 40 when i started that i got uh digestive issues that turned into it was from sitting yeah i was from sitting not exercising literally uh i'm an animal when it comes to like i can game for three days straight without moving or doing it i mean it's disgusting um And then eating at 5, 6 a.m.

53:58in the morning, fast food. Doing that for two years and not having any type of social life and just sitting around it.

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56:10but you probably you could have a successful twitch with what you do now you could have a successful twitch channel with the amount of people that you have. I would youtube live stream thank you but I don't think people make money these days actually youtube is probably a better platform for gaming than twitch honestly. Anyway twitch is dying we had our first member stream last week if you want to join us in our member stream every other week. Oh really? It's pretty fun. Oh cool I think it's great what you're doing It's kind of an inspiration dude You're doing what you want to do Well thank you, you've given me hope to at least finish this one out $633 Is this collections?

56:50Yes sir, let me see this First National Bank Yeah, that's a credit card In collections? Yeah, in collections $633 How long have these been on do you know?

57:09Probably two years. They're also probably the last ones we're worrying about as well, but that's okay. 481 and other collections. That's another credit card. And payday loans go on there soon. I'm sure the balance of the car will go on there soon after they. Well, is there any way for them to not repo it though? Is there any way for. Yeah. You make your payment or you run. Maybe I could hide it somewhere. Try. I had another guest talk about that the other day. That doesn't work too well, though. Refinance? I can't do it, man. I mean, I'm telling you. I mean, your credit's probably horrid. And they don't like, right?

57:48When they ask for your employment. What's your credit score? My credit score? Yeah. What is it? We had a credit karma. Yeah, it's bad. 560. It's bad. It's bad. It's not good. it so i'm just i'm a little just it's embarrassing sure i get that i'm just trying to figure out a solution for you and you're it's complicated because i don't know you've built these routines and acceptabilities over the course of decades now you're not 25 in this mess and we can start correcting things now you've been doing different versions of the mess for decades and that's a hard thing to just fix you'd have to essentially be starting fresh i would like to your 50s and you literally have like i mean you want to retire mid-60s it's just so that's why i'm taking time against you that's why i i'm hoping that if i get get this get an agency and get an agent i can start getting roles that what have you done what have you done i've done i've been in um 11 short films one commercial and how much have you been paid total across all of that um probably four thousand but it's been a little over a year but a lot of this some of them i had to do for free to build my portfolio to build my um portfolio up i mean some of them you have to do for free just this is a beyond competitive world and i'm not saying you can't make it this is beyond competitive you need to pay your bills if you can't get to an acting gig i don't know what's going to happen if you don't have a place to live i don't know how you're going to get roles it's just i don't you're you're headed such down a dangerous path i don't think you even understand your checking account oh me at the time of this statement you had two dollars and 61 cents available this is just insane it's going to store getting some crap going to store getting some crap past due collection set up just 71 dollars and your checking account kill me so essentially like overdraft i think go inside getting some bs go inside getting some bs coat and tie food go inside getting some bs go inside getting some bs oh incoming wire fee great $8.15.

1:00:01Going inside getting some BS. Going inside getting some BS. Going inside getting some BS. Going inside getting some BS. Jack in the Box. Going inside getting some BS. Going inside getting some BS. Oh$8 from Uber. Woo. Got some coffee. Going inside getting some BS. Going inside getting some BS.

1:00:21If we can't pay rent I don't think we're doing things off of Amazon. Jack in the Box. Going inside getting some BS. Airport. What the fuck are you traveling to? um airport quick thing oh maybe it's something on airport for lord i don't know yeah paypal out jack in the box going inside getting some bs oh my goodness uh going inside getting some bs jack in the box going inside getting some bs it looks bad and there's your collection offset yep they put in 15 bucks and then they and then as we talked about the retirement what was it like 25 bucks this it's just what's your relationship with your parents like how is this going how is this like i need money mama daddy i don't do that though honestly i mean well i well i did do it i did do it okay um so answer my question then yeah it's what do you mean relationship as far as like buddy you're asking your seven-year-old parents what do they think my dad conversation go my dad's fine uh we get he uh yeah in a way i'm kind of like my dad though it's honestly my dad's it so we yeah my dad's if he had more money he'd give me he would give me what he whatever he has he's a good he's a relatively is that helping you i don't think it is no it's allowing you to not get a job it's enabling you well if i could just if i could just i'm almost glad i'm not glad for his sake that he doesn't have more money but for your sake i'm almost glad he doesn't well he's pretty much being taken care of by somebody else in his own life anyway because sure sure sure i'm just saying for you for my for myself if i could just get a chunk of like five grand and then so i don't know oh yeah if i could just get a chunk of like five grand just so i could clear some stuff and be fresh and start over i don't think that's not gonna happen one that's not gonna happen okay i'm not gonna give it to you if i thought it would change your life i would actually give it to you like sure let's let's help a dude out you're right i'm not like you don't have to convince me not to i'm not going to because i don't think that would help you you've been taking out payday loans for 12 years sure big gaps in between them but you've done you've changed careers every six months this doesn't help you that's not what's wrong with your life you're what's wrong with your life is you don't stay anywhere you don't you have to change everything immediately always like you're always on to the next thing and then you're just willing to lose everything for whatever your brain is set on in that moment um i it might be like that whatever it's called like the addiction offset where you just get out addicted to the new thing and i think you might have a very addictive personality such as i do and you get your brain fixated on something and you're just like into it because you know you've given up your addiction so sometimes those are displaced into new things at that point and you're just oh and obviously i can't diagnose that as like a mental health expert but you know just reading it from the conversation i have it's and i that's i don't think the five thousand dollars would help you it might clear some minimum payments might delay getting an eviction might delay getting a car repoed but i think you'd be right back there in three six months i i don't i really don't think it would do anything for you i how would it do anything for you for you i don't i just feel like it would um it would just give me some room to be able to be like okay now i feel like i because i feel like everything's crashing down there's no i mean what am i gonna do i'm gonna go out and drive and make 150 today tomorrow whatever no you have work experience you have a very long resume i've done a lot of shit i haven't even mentioned i mean i've had over 50 jobs probably my whole life i'm not surprised i don't think anyone's surprised but behavioral health who the let's work on a psych unit i did that for three years in the community it's not about want at this point if clearly your want to be more happy with your where you're showing up to get your bills is more than your want to actually fix your situation you say you're like putting your head in the sand and avoiding this because it's all crashing down but your want to not do a job that you don't like is more than your want to get out of that crashing down no no you're right well yeah you're i mean i got which is another reason that five thousand dollars wouldn't fix anything because they're not willing to do the sacrifices that are necessary to actually improve your life you're not i i don't know like i am gonna make a budget for you i guess it really doesn't matter because you don't bring in any money.

1:04:49We can figure out what it takes for you to at least live, but it doesn't matter because you don't bring in any money. You just need to get any job. You need to work 60 hours a week. And that's not the only answer to the situation. So let's be a little more nuanced. I would leave the tax for a bit. Well, I mean, have they hounded? Okay. No. I think we can kind of risk that a bit.

1:05:20I think what's going to be important, shelter is most important. You're going to pay for the roof over your head and food on the table and utilities. The next is going to be the car. We need to make sure we get caught up in that car because in the infrastructure we have, I need you to be able to get from to and from places reliably. Sure. From there, that's when we can start making our minimum payments on the credit cards. And then we take care of the taxes and then we take care of the collection. Sometimes I do taxes first, but I'm just, you know, you're going to lose like a roof over your head and I'm a little nervous with that.

1:05:51Um, and sometimes the IRS will have sympathy if you go to them first and talk about it.

1:05:59That's the, no. And, uh, and I understand what you're saying, and now that we're, and actually I'm glad that all this stuff is out here and looking at it because, um, it is, uh, maybe let's just, it's stuff I don't want to look at. Like you, the way you put it, it's just like going, living my life up and down and not sticking to something. But in my head, it equates like sticking to something, but then I'm sacrificing what I really want to do. It's like, why the f*** am I sticking to this when it's... Because you matter. Your life matters. I'm never going to be able to fulfill what I want to do.

1:06:32I'm 40, so I need to follow this and chase it. Well, I don't know. Many people have... Stuck it full time at this place. How the f*** are you going to do it? The majority of actors who make it or who have made it are just making a living off of it. They don't get famous or anything. Wait, that's all I want. and that's all you want and uh that's still a small minority but doesn't mean we can't get there but you're this is gonna make it harder for you to get there i'm just trying to think about your finances and in general like you i mean you need to retire and people have made it when they're old you know yeah that's true that's true i think we almost i usually never encourage it and i don't really know uh bankrupt well bankruptcy is a potential solution um that also might just not pay the cards and let them go to collections because we need to pay rent and car bill rent and car bill and eventually the irs that okay rent and car bill rent and car bill i mean and i am there's no way to get out of this car bill in a mathematical way that makes sense from repo or from refinancing which you can't do or from trading it in and borrowing money and getting a different car you're so far underwater on it and the value of the car is so low a lot of the more like let's you know play the game it just doesn't work you've lost the game um i've lost the game plus when they i mean i could once they see what my what i do for a living or my income they're gonna be like yeah well you could also just be a fan and just like work 80 hours a week like i mean you can like you can work i mean you're being a child borrowing money from your parents.

1:08:07No, I can't. And I need to. I actually, and I can keep telling. Trust me, you're not going to get sympathy on that. You'll get sympathy on the medical bill and sympathy, how hard it is to look at your situation. Like I will get sympathy on that. But I mean, you also need to work. I'm not, you're not going to get sympathy for pulling out your 401k to sit on your three months. What about Ubering? It's not working. You're not doing it. I think you need to be told when to show up and where. Unfortunately, I think, Oh God. No, no, you're right i've always wanted to be one of these people again just be like let's just go with the flow and you're irresponsible i need struck i need some kind of structure and discipline unfortunately i think and i think you're right on that i'm gonna do your actual minimum minimum minimum to survive okay so like i'm like i'm not even gonna include some of these minimum fee payments because i just want you to survive it's dave ramsey's like four walls things um he probably didn't come up with that but you know that's what he talks about so your car payment 455 if we at least start making payments 440 440 and 55 cents we can if we start making payments we can at least avoid the repo okay so we'll do that for your car payment what's car insurance uh 200 are you paying it it is current wow it is current impressive i know i know i'd almost no i'm not even gonna stop paying car no no no no no no no gas vroom vroom drive drive how much without uber without uber um probably because we're gonna get a better job probably god i would say maybe less than 100 a month yeah 100 rent rent is 1290 when's your lease up november okay you're moving into a studio in the cheapest place i don't mind that at all well it's not really an option 1290 for now gas electric all utilities water um yeah okay so water and stuff's included the gas is uh i mean uh electric is probably like 65 a month water that's included in the rent okay internet internet is 65 and home insurance rentals 24 okay and that phone tp fund anything else you need to survive in life going 75 on that necessary food i am going 300 hours on that follow our meal plan 300 program yeah a month for groceries oh yeah super easy i can live off way less than that okay 250 okay unless yeah no you you can we just try to give some room are there ongoing co-pays that you need to take in like prescriptions and no okay definitely no subscriptions do you have any pets i do not no good no savings anything oh phone bill phone bill is 65 a month you so you own your phone outright i do own the phone switch to helium 20 a month it's not an option okay

1:11:16you just you really do not have the choice of just but i've had this phone number for you can keep this in front of me if you're not going to make the smallest sacrifice I've lost all care no no no I'm willing to do it good I just don't want to live in a crap area oh there you go $2 ,529.55 that is the minimum we have to come up with for you to like actually not lose life and living in your current situation that's just the car payment of your bills that's no other debt see it's crazy yeah it is but a lot of people make that money it's 30 000 hours a year in the austin area the median household income's like 70 median not average median okay it's more in your favor okay you literally just need to work i know the lowest uh the median lowest wage in austin's 18 bucks an hour yeah 18 18 times 40 times 52 37 ,000 hours a year Boom you just made it You no longer have sympathy Go work Get a job be an adult Okay well You spent$243 But go and get grocery stores Only$190 and actually they They weren't because you were stopping at stores And getting some crap so I know it wasn't Well What do you mean yeah you're stopping you're just getting like five dollar ten dollar things how much how often do you cook um almost never exactly there it is i'm devastated i'm sorry i am sorry you've been through a lot and there are there are sad things but um there's so much personal choice in here and you're reaping the consequences of our system that is based on personal choice you've lost the game because you've decided to be lazy and that is unfortunately the consequence now the good thing about the game is doesn't mean you're stuck there forever you have a lot of time left you can recoup your losses you can make gains on this life buddy you can make your money you can try to live the dream that doesn't mean you're going to make it an act you're not entitled to make it an acting but you can you do have the ability in our system to pick yourself back up and actually be able to pay your bills and live a halfway decent life you have that ability you have the ability still still to live a relatively comfortable retirement it will be on the lower end but you do have that ability it requires sacrifice and requires you actually having some discipline and not sitting on your playing video games for three months your hammer financial score spending a budget i mean you spent way beyond you had to borrow money it's not even it's a zero out of ten payday loan for that zero out of ten and collections not even close emergency funds zero out of ten you have two dollars in your checking account retirement you just drained it all zero out of ten real estate zero out of ten it's i mean obviously zero out of ten make sure to stick around for the post show we'll have a conversation and dive more into some of the more dramatic things while we have the numbers here we'll dive into some of the drama in the post show so check that out in the description below and there's also resources down there that i use or would use in specific situations including the best budgeting and investing programs in the history of the internet stick around for the post show today on the financial audit post show You were a Twitch streamer for two or three years.

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