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Podcast Episode Summary: Tax Evading Freak Disgusts Me | Financial Audit
Podcast Information
- Title: Financial Audit
- Description: A personal finance podcast aimed at entertaining and educating listeners. Hosts invite guests to share their financial situations and challenges.
- Episode Release: Available on YouTube a week earlier than audio platforms.
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Episode Overview In this episode, the host, Caleb, invites Adam, a 32-year-old software developer from Virginia Beach, to discuss his financial situation. Adam's case is characterized by significant debt and poor financial management, leading to wage garnishment due to unpaid taxes.
Key Themes and Discussions
- Wage Garnishment and Tax Issues
- Adam's wages are being garnished due to unpaid property taxes on his vehicle, amounting to about $1,250 over two years.
- Caleb expresses disbelief regarding Adam's lack of urgency to address these debts given his substantial income of $107,000.
- Spending Habits
- Despite a decent salary, Adam spends more than he earns, often on unnecessary expenses such as dining out and subscriptions, leading to increased debt.
- Caleb presses Adam about his $7,000 monthly spending, highlighting discrepancies between income and expenditure.
- Roommate Dynamics
- Adam has a roommate who offers to contribute to rent but he feels uncomfortable accepting money from her, illustrating complexities in their relationship and financial dynamics.
- Mental Health and Financial Management
- Adam discusses his struggles with depression, which he believes have impacted his financial decisions, leading to reckless spending and accumulation of debt.
- There's a conversation about Adam's mental health treatments, including costly therapies that may not be yielding positive results.
- Debt Analysis
- Caleb reviews Adam's multiple credit cards and loans, highlighting high-interest rates and substantial balances. Adam has over $23,000 in credit card debt across various accounts.
- Caleb emphasizes the negative impact of Adam's spending on credit cards accruing interest, advising against using credit cards unless necessary.
- Financial Plans and Recommendations
- Caleb proposes a strategy for Adam to get out of debt by focusing on smaller debts first (the snowball method) while also considering selling his car to alleviate financial pressure.
- A proposed budgeting plan is discussed, prioritizing debt repayment and establishing an emergency fund.
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Key Takeaways
- Financial Education: The episode underscores the importance of budgeting, understanding debt, and the implications of mental health on financial decisions.
- Wage Garnishment Awareness: Adam's situation serves as a cautionary tale for listeners about the potential consequences of neglecting tax responsibilities.
- Behavioral Change: Caleb emphasizes the need for behavioral changes in Adam's approach to money management, suggesting that discipline is crucial for financial recovery.
- Support Systems: The episode touches on the importance of having a supportive financial environment, both from friends and through professional guidance.
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Resources and Links Shared
- Discounts for Saily Data Plans, Money.com for refinancing, and various budget and investing programs are mentioned, providing listeners with actionable resources.
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Conclusion This episode of Financial Audit offers a candid look into Adam's financial struggles, showcasing the complex interplay between income, spending habits, and mental health. Caleb's direct approach aims to guide Adam towards better financial management practices, emphasizing that recovery from financial mismanagement is possible with the right strategies and commitment.
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00To watch episodes of Financial Audit a week earlier, check us out on YouTube. Pokemon? We know this is a bad card so why so much money being spent on here dude? I don't know why the minimum is that high. Because you're not paying on it! What do you mean? That's what happens! I have to. It's stacks! No you're not! It says no! Hello my name is Adam I'm 32, I live in Virginia Beach, Virginia and this is Financial Audit Thanks for coming down to Austin. What do you do there for a living? In Austin? Oh, in Virginia Beach. Sorry. Are you working while you're here? Yeah, what do you do? I could be. I work remotely in Virginia Beach.
0:43I work for a company that basically does tech solutions and I'm pretty much just a software developer. Software developer. What are you making? I'm making$107.5 a year right now, but my wages are currently being garnished. Being garnished from who? The government? is there anyone else okay i'm assuming for taxes yeah um what are we not paying and what what is up with what why is everyone on the show obsessed with like hey there's taxes to pay let me not um well well wait is it taxes because it could be student loans no it's taxes it's uh taxes on my honda crv what you're being garaged for taxes on your honda yeah i kind of i've actually never even heard of that honestly well property taxes that one i've heard of yeah it's property taxes on the honda so yeah okay yeah yeah it's interesting how much was owed and why didn't you pay it um so i think it's about two years um i think it's totals about 1250 um and why 1250 1250 1250 1250 yeah you make a hundred something yeah um i kind of why did you pay you make so much money forgot okay but when all of a sudden like the threat of garnishment came up why would that not be like okay maybe i should just pay it then well the the threat of garnishment didn't really come up it was more like uh now you're being garnished okay then just pay it instead of being garnished you make money yeah but like but you make money i don't know how much they're gonna garnish so i'm just like probably the full amount maybe some penalties you know if i'm already gonna maybe like put it in you know like small payments i just know that this is a drop in the bucket compared to what we're going to get to really so sake okay yeah has the garnishment hit yeah no so you just got notified yeah i got an email to my work email and it doesn't say how much or details or anything no not that i saw i had payroll 5 784 does that sound about right feels a bit low low um i i feel like it's probably closer to if if if we're doing just like every like two paychecks a month maybe uh i'd say probably closer to 49 or 59 maybe I think.
3:33Okay, closer to$5 ,900? Something like that. So we're only a couple hundred off? It still feels a bit low. How much do you contribute to 401k? How much gets taxed in Virginia?
3:44401k, nothing. Health insurance? Health insurance, yes. I do do health insurance. Do you have the top plan? It just seems a bit... No. I want the top plan for next year, but I do not have the top plan. I think there's only two plans, and I have the one that isn't the top one. Okay, so$5 ,900 a month, and we don't know what's going to be garnished. I'm just so confused. Why wouldn't it just pay? Well, actually, never mind. It makes sense. How much do you think you spent? How much do you think you spent in the same amount of time? In the last month? Yeah, in the month that we have your statements from.
4:20Again,$5 ,784 is payroll. I'll say$5 ,900. Sure, why not? What do you think was spent? From my checking account. Everywhere. Spent everywhere from anything Take that mic, pull it a little closer Okay, yeah, maybe Oh wait, I put it in the wrong place again That's fine, just if you're going to lean back Take the mic and do this Okay, okay, okay How much was spent? I am thinking For The last month Probably, maybe a little bit more Yeah, go ahead Give me a number Maybe like 60 7 ,360. That's. So no, you're not paying your taxes. Like, why are you spending so much money than you bring in? Again, you don't make an insignificant income.
5:10Is this a single household income? Yeah, I have a roommate. Oh, okay. But, okay, but it's not like no significant other. No, and I don't. But a roommate. Okay. Well, the house, even with the roommate and a relatively strong income, It's not like Virginia. I don't know about Virginia Beach specifically, but I know Virginia can be a bit expensive. My mortgage is not high enough. Oh, mortgage. That's right. What's your mortgage payment? It's literally only like$1 ,200. Okay. Well, I mean, yeah, it easily fits in your situation. And then you have a roommate. How much is your roommate giving you? The house.
5:48So she has asked to pay me in the past, but I don't know. I don't feel comfortable accepting money. Why? Is she like no limbs or something and you just feel terrible if you did it? I just feel like she worries about money a lot more than I do. but even if she chipped in like a few hundred bucks it's at least contributing to you providing shelter she has like medical like debt or like medical school loans oh man she's gonna make money she is if she's not dumb but she's not yet well okay well honestly that's your choice if you want to that is fine it's your place do whatever you want but But$1 ,500 more than spent.
6:44Yeah. And she's like pestered me about it. Well, then let her pay, dude. What are you? Yeah. You guys aren't weird, are you? No, no, no, no. You're not getting like weird rent. No, no, no, no, no, no. She's just been my friend since I was like 12. So I'm. Oh, she's been your friend since 12. How long have you guys lived together? How long has she lived with you? I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. On and off two or three years. She stayed with me for over a year when she was studying for her step exams for medical. How much does she want to pay you? Different numbers have come up. Median? So she's mentioned$500.
7:34and then i've been like i don't know if i could see myself charging her over 100 over 100 i just feel like she's in medical school right now but yeah so she's probably not earning no she's not in medical school she's actually first year resident so so she's making money it's not substantial but she's making money but she like wants to pay off her credit card. I don't give a f*** what you guys do. I don't care. This is pointless, but if she's offering and your finances are f***ing, it's not you demanding. She's offering. It's different. I just have a really hard time with when people... You guys don't have any weird relationship?
8:19No, no, no, no. You're not deeply in love? I'm actually Arrow Ace, so it's not... You're going to have to explain that for me. Aromantic, asexual. I am not interested in by any stretch of my imagination. Except for her t***, right? Especially her t***, no. Jokes, jokes. Yeah. I just have like a really hard time when I know that people are worrying about finances, accepting any money from them. So like I had a dinner with her medical resident friends who are like my friends now too. But basically at the end of the dinner, they tried to like split checks and stuff. And it seemed like it was going to be like, you know, stressful.
9:12And so I just kind of medical debt. I mean, yeah. So I just I ended up just like paying for everybody. and that's something are you easily guilt tripped and manipulated and they don't my issue try to yeah yeah they didn't but in general are you though historically not the greatest the thing is i'm good with the warm heart totally good totally good you spent a thousand five hundred dollars more than you brought in and your wages are getting garnished because you didn't pay your taxes so i don't think we're having a warm heart yeah in that kind of context you can you have a free warm heart but not where it's costing you money i just like paying for people's dinners in the future no it was it was 400 um for my roommate i also always pay for meals when we go out and sometimes we have like pretty pretty expensive tastes especially if we're like in dc um or new york or you know you just don't get those options anymore okay yeah i just i want to see the car i want to learn more about that can you give me a self-assess where do you think you are today financially a score zero to ten zero being the absolute worst ten being the absolute best where do you think you are today so i did do the online thing yesterday it said two but uh or no it said one sorry but i feel like probably closer to a three because i think i have options maybe and i do make like a decent amount of money um in the grand scheme of things i okay like what like um options i think you're asap but i think you're a conceptual to the sense of money as well i used to be really good i really was um a few years ago i went on a medical leave of absence from my work um due to like really bad depression okay and um at the time i had probably about sixteen thousand dollars in my savings um i was paying everything off perfectly on time um i wasn't budgeting i wasn't like contributing to like a 401k or anything but i was doing much better but following that medical leave of absence i kind of like i was just like kind of throwing everything at the wall to see what sticked as far as like things to get me out of the depression.
11:59Okay, well, all right. I spent a lot of money on... Is that where the debt is? That's where a lot of the debt came from. Okay, if you guys want your Hammer Financial Score, it's free. Link in the description below. And if you want to come on the show here in Austin, Texas, you know, like Weird Al over here, you can, you know, calebhammer.com slash apply. It's exciting times. All right, let's get into it. Yeah, let's get into the money. Let's figure out How long would you say you've been in debt? 32 years old How long have we been in this situation? Probably the past One and a half years This is a lot of Debt for one and a half years Especially for someone that makes so much money I accrued a lot I will say Oh, will you?
12:49Well, I will If it's okay Oh, please So I did get a raise Oh, congratulations. That got me up to 107. And where were you? I was at like 91. That's still incredible. Median household income in the United States is what? 65? Something like that? Come on. Come on. It's just you. I know. It's just you. Yeah. $5 ,518.88 on the Capital One Quicksilver card. With 100. Great. $181 minimum monthly payment. not insignificant so this is this will always get me man i really don't get it you probably want to pay off this card right yeah okay if you want to pay it off why are we purchasing on a card that is accruing interest that you are not paying off i will never understand that especially for someone that has strong income and can spend their money with a pretty low mortgage for their income I feel like the Capital One cards, they're both Quicksilver, by the way.
13:56I feel like I haven't spent that much. Why would you spend a cent? A cent. $126.54 of interest was accruing. You spent$58. Your balance went from$5 ,526 only down$8. $8. Even though you put$184 to it and had other credits of almost$10. Yet only$8 actually went towards that net because you're spending. So I don't care if it's a lot of money. Why put money towards it at all in terms of spending? I'm somewhat of a budgeting master myself. So when friends and family are going abroad and need help with travel budgets, I'm the guy for the job. And you know what's a crazy charge I see every single time?
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17:34Spend it on a debit card. How's savings account? I guess I have to talk to them about it because they're the ones who do it. Yeah, update your card. You can update your card on anything and everything. Okay. Yeah, I could do that. I can definitely do that. And the Patreon and Fanbox stuff is really – I don't even use them anymore. They've just kind of been sitting there from when I thought I would be doing art stuff or more Japanese stuff. and I didn't. What were you going to do? Well, so like I said, during the medical leave of absence even, I was really trying to throw stuff at the wall, see what would get me out of my depression.
18:17I spent like$3 ,000 on a Wacom drawing tablet, having no digital art experience at all. Can I ask, what's your social life like? my social life it's it's pretty okay yeah um i co i co-run a japanese language meetup group in virginia beach um gosh you look like you'd be in the japanese well is it the shirt is it the hair is it the i don't know general unkept it's just written all over you i'd go get sushi with you oh okay okay i don't eat fish but um yeah um i i do do that and then i have i have friends okay i just want to make sure i don't really ask them to do stuff very often why um because i feel like a lot of them are like in couples and third wheel join it well you wouldn't okay i just feel I feel like I don't know I feel like I'm being presumptuous if I try to insert myself into anything but I don't know people need to be more forward I don't know they should say and I have my roommate asking like hey do you guys want to go do this that's not inserting yourself into something you're inviting people but then like I feel bad if they don't want to but they say yes and like why would they say yes if they don't want to unless they're your friends aren't your friends just out of sympathy are they?
19:50Or are they your friends? I mean they're my friends. Oh there you go. So it's fine. I just feel like I say yes a lot of time when I don't want to do stuff. Well and we know that's a major flaw of you. Okay. Okay. Well I just wanted to make sure you know you talk about depression and stuff. I just want to make sure just kind of where you are at in life. $29 a fees this year so you've probably had a late payment this year so far. on this card and then 555 dollars of interest this year so far on one card we're going through many cards the whole year hearing that that's a big haven't looked do you not look at your statements or you know no i i look at the i look at the individual statements but i've never so you look at the statements okay congratulations then why are there four purchases on this damn card if you look at the statements is it the subscription one no no no even while there was the five dollar subscription but even still if you're looking at your sorry uh six dollar six purchases oh five purchases even if you're but if you're looking at your card why would there be purchases then because you'd be informed on your interest you'd be informed on your minimum payment you'd be informed on how much is actually going towards it net yeah so why is there purchases on here because a lot of people that come on the show they don't even look at the cards so what What I feel like happens is like my cards kind of turn into black boxes.
21:13Okay, cut them up. Burn them. Feed them to the sharks. But what if I need them? Why would you need them? You make good money. Your required living expenses are quite low. I'm spending$7 ,000. Apparently you're stupid with money. That's different. But you don't. I don't think you would need them. Yeah. I don't know if I can get down to$5 ,900. Huh? I just don't know. Because if I'm spending like$7 ,000, that sounds like. What do you spend$1 ,000 on going out to eat? I think we have room to cut. That is literally only one category. Miscellaneous bullshit. It could be video games. It could be the Japanese crap.
21:53Another$1 ,122 of purchases. Unknown shopping. That's typically Amazon or Walmart. Don't really know. $548. There's things to cut. other large purchases$696. Come on. Yeah, like the food stuff is like... This is thousands of dollars this stuff, almost$3 ,000 of things we could easily cut. I've tried to do meal prepping. I have. And? And I've done it like one weekend and then it lasted for like a week. So you're lazy. Yes, that's true. but I also feel like I should make enough money to be able to do these. Sure. And we actually might be able to budget in the end. We'll see. But yeah, but I don't budget.
22:42I, I, it's more like, I'm not surprised, but I didn't budget before the medical leave and I was like completely fine. I was like, were you though? Would you know if you weren't budgeting? No, I was, how do you know? Because I had like everything in my head. Like I didn't, I didn't budget. So what changed? What's different then? I think the depression kind of reduced a lot of confidence. And it's made it so I'm less confident in just what I'm remembering I've purchased. And so I probably should be writing it down. Go through our budgeting program. Go through our new debt class. going over the best ways to pay off your debt and the best way to utilize that as well the other debt classes they don't talk about that we want to cover both parts uh it's discounted right now 30 off 35 off uh make sure you guys check that out link in the description below but go through those you get them for free so go through them build your budget follow the meal prepping use the debt strategies and we're going to go over that in general in this um in a high level way okay 28.24 % interest on this yeah I think both of them are around 28 installment loan $20 ,000 for what you're right you probably could go do that doesn't matter though because you have $20 ,000 loan on just what on what what is this for what it's my Honda CRV this is your car yeah um and I feel like it's probably worth more than that because it actually is it's worth seven thousand dollars more i don't really drive it a ton um we might utilize that accurate position at the end of this like it's gonna be inconvenient but but right now what's the interest rate of this um for the that one it's i think around four point it's not not not too bad 533 dollar minimum payment and 42 cents yeah you have an equity position in the car would I like take out another loan?
24:56no we'll talk about it at the end we'll figure out what we want to do what is this? a Navy Federal so we have a credit card with Navy Federal they gave me a very high at least by my estimate credit limit your balance is horrendous yeah you're almost maxed out it's a 20 this card's insane 23 ,720.59 the minimum of the payment is almost as much as your car payment yeah 449.62 this is insane yeah it's got lower interest Why are you purchasing$1 ,669 on there? Why? This is the bad card. We know this is the bad card. So why? Why so much money being spent on here, dude? Why? So I. Why the? I use it or I have used it for all of my medical stuff.
25:59Oh, a Navy Federal credit card. We're not even negotiating with the hospitals for a payment plan. Well. Even a personal loan at like 10 or 12 %? Why the f***ing It's not really hospitals. It's like psych offices and therapy. Is that the S-P-R-A-V-A-T-O? It's bravado, yeah. Which I think I should be able to stop. What's your health insurance like? Have you not hit your deductible this year yet? I hit my deductible. That's what the deductible is. Yeah, it's very... No, you, you, you. Oh, come on. Shut up. That's not even true. You got some stupid little and pizza and hot pot and honey. I said historically.
26:44Oh, you're historic. Historically, I'm getting by the statement. Yeah. Honest Pastures, right? This is a historically high credit card. $23 ,000. That is, that is insane to be going and getting Honest Pastures on there. They're good. You're good. I don't care. What? They're the only vegan place in the area. Just go eat some nuts off the ground. I don't care. You're stopping at a grocery gas station getting some bullshit, some vegan drinks, Amazon coffee, peace, love, little donuts, creme bakery, Pokemon,$47 Pokemon, Pokemon Go? No, you're going to be... Oh, good. Yeah. Let's ruin our life and make a credit card go all the way to his - Top of the limit at$25 ,000.
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29:06Learn more at Microsoft.com slash M365 Copilot. Only a few spots remain, but they're going fast. See you inside. I've never heard of that in my life. It's a great, it's gotten me to sleep. Huh? I sleep. What is it? Explain. Just explain. Basically, it's a sleep partner app. So when you're sleeping, you have it on. It tracks your sleep. And depending on how you slept in the morning, you get to catch Pokemon. And they join your team. What? And they help feed your Snorlax. And it's just like, yeah, I know. It's a great concept. Is it? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it really did help me sleep. Because it's forcing you to lay in bed?
29:52Yeah, because it's like if I don't go to bed at 10.30, Pikachu's not going to be very happy with me now, is he?
30:01Oh, boy. Yeah. This concerns me. And you can buy biscuits to catch more Pokemon. Oh, for fuck's sake. Pokemon Sleep is pay to win? Pokemon Sleep? Yeah, and I'm winning. so there's that you don't actually give a Pikachu's upset right of course not that would be weird listen if we're talking about depression we're talking about social lives I just want to make sure like this can't be an important part of your life right the sleep aspect is definitely but the reason behind it making Pikachu upset I've been playing it for since it came out and it's just like I I don't know I like want my I see big numbers you see big numbers I see really big numbers what are the big numbers my sleep scores the amount my berries give to Snorlax like my drowsy power I don't know now we've gone beyond You should try it.
31:18I'm not trying that. Well, how's your sleep? I think it's okay. Maybe less good after this. I hope not. Why? Because that's... What, are you cursing me or something? We're still dropping in buckets. Huh?
31:37It's a good game. It's a good app. That's all I'm saying. Listen, if it's up in your sleep, I'm good with it. I just want to make sure you actually do not... You're not treating them like sentient beings. No. That matter. No, no. They are cute, but, you know. And also, why are you spending$47 on it? This is to help you sleep. There was an event. A sleep event? Yeah. Happens every night. Not for me, it doesn't. I'm sorry to hear that. Well, it's gotten better. I've started taking stuff for it. But, you know, Suicune came out. and it costs a lot of business. You spent$500 this month on this, I'm being told.
32:21This month? No. Over time, more than that. But this month, no. Or in a month, you've spent$500 before previously. Oh, in a month, yeah. That's true. That's crazy, man. That was mostly when it came out. Buddy, you are spending$1 ,500 more than you make. You have horrendous debt, even though you make substantial income. I know. This is bad. it also it is like when i see all of the debt i'm like the big numbers yeah all the big numbers but like the bad big numbers not the good ones like i have um you have both well in pokemon like you know um it's like what is probably tell what's 47 what's 47 relative to 23 000 on a credit being added to that you know well no you're at like 21 22 000 now you're at 23 000 it's like okay The way I'm thinking about it, and this is definitely not a great way to think about it, but I'm definitely thinking about it this way, is relative to the amount of interest I'm already paying,$47 on 23 % interest.
33:26No, I just feel like I have some pie in the sky maybe kind of things that I think will happen. What? Like I could get a second job. That's pie in the sky? but also that doesn't fix anything that doesn't fix anything it's your behavior you get more money you'll just spend double well no I part of me is like hoping like oh if I get stuff down I'll go kind of back to the responsible or like it's more the big numbers that are causing me to be irresponsible if I had the small numbers back I don't know it makes sense in my head like the big numbers stress me out and it makes it so like you're talking about this like you're a five year old in therapy yeah if I got the second job and it had like a similar income like you think you could do that well yes it also doesn't matter you'll just spend double what you bring in more well so for my current job I probably work like realistically like five to ten hours a week because and it's not like I'm like not doing anything on purpose it's just like I can get this stuff done um in that amount of time I have all my they need to give you more to do that clients no why would I let that happen because they are spending a lot of money on you and I would want to make sure I'm getting what it's worth they they are requesting a certain amount of work get done no absolutely I totally agree with that they should do more work yeah but they don't know so and I'm not gonna let them though like why would i do that like other developers are working the same hours i don't really care i don't get it just if i was the owner of the business like they're probably paying a lot of people a lot of money when you could probably cut that in half they're getting paid a lot of money by these contracts through these contracts i mean well no but yeah okay i don't really care coffee no you already did that there's no i never drink coffee okay but yeah but you went to a place with coffee in the name oh mcdonald's real good yeah i'm not vegan i'm vegetarian i get real breakfast sandwiches only yeah historically don't have any meat on them the egg and cheese biscuit Oh, egg.
35:53Veggies can have eggs. Yeah, it's vegetarian. And then webtoon. We're webtooning. He spent$1 ,669 on this card. I think Spravato's up there. And my... What did you just say? Spravato? The treatment? Once a week I get the treatment done. But I think I'm going to be able to... What's a treatment? Well, I... Basically... It sounds very weird the way you're saying it. It's like, I've heard of cat. Oh, you're doing that? No, well, kind of. It's esc. I guess. I don't quite know the difference. But it's a nasal spray. You go there. They observe you for two hours while you're basically like high off your ass.
36:35Is that why you're wheezy? Okay. Maybe. But I've talked to my. Is it helping you? Not at all. And I've done like 25 sessions. And I've talked to my. Yeah. Yeah. I've talked to my prescriber and I think he's okay with me not doing it anymore. So definitely a pro if you got to 25 and that would be like$600 a month. Okay. Probably because of Uber. Does it feel good? What does it feel like? It feels, it depends. Sometimes I feel like very little. Sometimes I have like really creepy, like, I don't know. I feel this conversation in my toes. I don't want. Sometimes it's nice, you know. As someone who owns their home, let me tell you, you know how you feel when you try to pick a show that's on a streaming service and there are way too many options?
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39:35Well, I don't like looking at them. Okay. But, I mean, I could do the math, you know. Don't have to. It's right there for you. If I wanted to. No need. It's on the savings. Wait, it says 18 years? 18 years. Only the minimum depends. It doesn't even matter, though, because you spend money on it. I did not know that. Well, you did Amazon purchases. It's at 24.49 % interest. It's at$1 ,000. $1 ,090 of interest on this card this year so far. $1 ,000. And then$156 of fees this year. Who knows what the f*** for? Probably mispayments. Why? Why would you make too much money? You're so undisciplined. No, you're just too lazy.
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40:18Or you just don't care. I don't know yet. I'm trying to figure that out. I think it's at any given moment, it could be any of those. is what it kind of feels like to me. I'm trying to really get out of the not caring part. Okay, what is your trying then? Describe this trying. What's trying? Well, I've gone through the Spravato treatments. Okay, yes. I'm seeing a new prescriber. We're trying lithium. I may be a candidate for electroconvulsive therapy. Oh, gosh. Which, yeah, fairly invasive. I don't know. This is just out of my wheelhouse. like it's it's just I think I think maybe I'm relying too much on that kind of stuff I was gonna say did you do therapy without medication first I did um I had a therapist for about four years and and she was just too nice to me okay so get a different one yeah but then I felt bad about like breaking up with her oh my yeah dude no offense but you're kind of a paycheck to her yeah I know but it didn't feel that way like to me cause she was like very nice no they are very nice it's not like they don't have any empathy like empathy goes away because it's a business that's not how it works but like it is a business she would understand if you saw different therapists and you know she did like crazy she did understand but I do need to find a new you're not a credit card person you need to use a charge card like a fizz card I used to be.
41:53You're not. I really did. I really was. You need to use something like the Fizz card. Yeah. I know. I mean, f*** you, dude. Next card, right here. Miss payments. Miss payments up the absolute. Because it's the other Quicksilver? Because it's the other Quicksilver. Yeah. What? What about it? No, I said, is it the other Quicksilver? I don't know if I said, but on the Amazon card, it's a balance of$5 ,623. Yeah, I know. They're like triplets. with minimum payment of$173. Okay, quick silver. This one's absolutely it's not the highest balance like the other one but you're just around. Yeah. We're at$5 ,747.10 with a minimum payment of$403 because interest accruing, transactions and fees and no, not a single cent applied to it.
42:49Not a single cent. I don't know why the minimum's that high. Because they're not paying on it. What do you mean? That's what happens. I have been. It stacks. No, you're not. It says no. Wait, I could get on my app right now. It says no payment due. Maybe I paid it after that. Hold the f*** on. Well, I don't know. Either way, it's just Patreon, Patreon, and past due. More Patreons! Yeah, they're dying. They're gone. They're 100%. I don't want them. Good! It doesn't need to happen. Gone. I promise. Okay. Yeah. And then are you going to actually make it not past due? Because that's a step to take.
43:34Listen, total... Your fees charged this year was just that. But total interest this year was$1 ,213. We have not had a single card yet that has not had fees. or over$500 of interest accruing in a year. This is f***ing, man. Yeah. You were in a perfectly good spot, and then a year and a half ago, this started? No, no. This is so much in a year and a half. Like two years ago. This is so much in two years, man. What is it? Just all fast food and Japanese bull? Yeah. A lot of it is food, probably. Well,$1 ,000 spent going out to eat this last month. Yeah, I'm not surprised. Yeah. I just I I mean I feel like every guest says this but food's really good and it's like really hard to it is it gives you all the dopamine it's like floods your brain absolutely but you know die under a bridge that's your choice yeah yeah I mean last night I was gonna get pizza but then I thought of you so I didn't but now I'm gonna get pizza today so yeah maybe I won't maybe I won't do that I won't do that maybe I will say like so I I really tried to like to like figure out like I thought okay if I figure out the depression so I was spending like 275 you're getting like every medication known to man and treatment so I don't know what you're doing but at the time like I was spending like 275 a week on a prescriber um i i decided we're calling them a prescriber and not a doctor psychiatrist is telling me all i need to know because it's a nurse practice okay no it's not like the seller off the well when you call them a prescriber that's what no no no nothing illicit um as far as i know um i i i like try to take a university class um for like japanese thinking like oh maybe Japanese will be there.
45:40Is there anything outside of Japanese that... I bought a piano like a Yamaha something or other. It had to be the Japanese brand. I googled good piano. Steinway. That's a lot. I can't afford the Yamaha either. But I like the Yamaha. Sure, sure, sure. I just don't use it very much. yeah i'm shocked okay continue what were you saying um oh basically like i've tried a lot of things it's not like like i thought that these things would be investments in a better me you're trying to buy your way out of depression that's i don't think that's how it works buddy i've tried people can get instant copes a lot of things people can get instant copes either that's the eating out or it's not going for a shopping spree you can get the instant copes but yeah it's not a long-term success thing well well it's like i i thought that those individual purchases would be like these are things that would change my life like the individual purchase like i will i will get so enthralled by the piano that like i'll have found the way forward okay well i don't think it works for anyone like that so i don't know i know that now i do okay know that now but I'm still dealing with the consequences of me being wrong yeah and then I'm adding a little bit past due amount$142 on the synchrony card every card every card that's my $9 ,898 that's my HVAC unit I had to buy an entirely new HVAC unit because my...
47:34What was the condition of your house? Did you not get it inspected? Did you not get HVAC inspectors out there? I got the house like four years ago. Did you get HVAC people out there though? Yeah. I had everything done. It was like three years in. Uh-huh. So I had to... If it was three years in and it broke, what broke? Because an HVAC inspector should have been able to. The HVAC people said that I would be better getting a new hfax well no they wanted to make their money yeah but they were pretty convincing no it's because you have the you're you're easy to manipulate you're easy to control you're easy to convince yeah except for if i try to manipulate you to get out of debt no no you're manipulating me i'm feeling manipulated i promise i hope so i just i i feel like i have like a really bad relationship with money since childhood oh come on that's what everyone i know i know here we go what is it mommy and daddy didn't teach you well that's true that is true everyone says um well mommy and daddy weren't together okay but um welcome to america baby mommy was working three jobs and barely home um i like basically was like fending for myself a lot of the time Where was that?
48:55This was in Virginia. They lived separate? Yeah. My father didn't want to pay child support. And so he left the country for a long time. That's a way to get out of it. Yeah. And when he came back, he came back after my mom when I was 19. My mom dropped the child support stuff. And then he came back to the country and just bought apartments, cash. and so it was like really you know it's not okay sure but but when i was growing up single mom working yeah three jobs barely ever saw her um it was me and my sister uh i had like a complex because a lot like friends would want me to go out with them of course um i would say no but then they'd be like no no you should come out with us we'll pay for you there you go their parents would pay for you and now that i'm older the idea of that someone paying for me and like other people having to pay for stuff when they are you know downtrodden it like were they down trying it feels like they are i i downtrodden listen you weren't begging for it it is different than other people other people offering is not a bad thing uh i just feel like i'm i'm supposed to be doing well and i'm not well like there's like via your choices yeah i know there's a cognitive dissonance there that is like really making it hard well sure if you were taking for money now but when you're a kid when you know your mom didn't have much to give and other friends wanted to go out and you know they were able to cover that's different than right now if people were paying for you that's completely different yeah but now i pay for them yeah because i know what It feels like.
50:47Yeah, but they probably could afford it. You can't. They probably could have technically and not always though. Like I know some people. Oh, okay. Yeah, they could. I see. Listen, you had$35 of fees because there's a mispayment, but you've had$105 of fees this year so far. So you've probably missed payment three, four times. So great. Probably. Okay. $746 of interest accruing on this car this year. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. No payment applied, of course. So you owe a total of 319, even though the minimum payment is$142.36. Total balance,$9 ,898, which is absolutely insane, and 36 cents.
51:24Fees charge, interest charge. Totally. These are statements in finances of someone who's just given up. There is no effort in here. There is no trying. There is not even a single inkling of discipline. Yeah. this is someone who's just given up and at a certain point when someone gives up that's a harder conversation it's a harder conversation than doing a wake-up call someone realizes their situation is worse than they thought before they came in but when someone has given up what can you do with that that's difficult that's not something i can't convince you to not give up we can talk about goals we can talk about aspirations and that might i don't want to like say the cliche but like the reason i came here i'm not a magic pill my boy i know i know i know but and i'm trying not to treat it that way i promise um but i i was just i was legitimately excited to talk about finances no sure um and that's something that happens a lot for me so i wanted like i really feel like this is something that's important to me well um you want to know something exciting the interest you've lost this year so far probably in these cards is close to i'm gonna say four thousand dollars put that oh i mean this is basic stuff but you know that could have made four hundred dollars on average this year you know if this was just an average year the s &p 500 has done a lot better but if i open up my brokerage muumuu okay cool buy some s &p 500 that could have you could have made that money yeah yeah and i and i but it said it's all just lost interest yeah yeah i know okay i i want to get into you know avenues of being able to create like you know savings and stuff like that yeah but i mean i guess it's probably not possible right now what i don't know it probably just doesn't makes sense right now because your interest rates are nearing the 30 mark yeah so it's just like what savings are you gonna do that's gonna and i do i do have some like kind of costly things coming up um that i don't think you're gonna be happy about either um i have some trips um that i committed to what's committed and what trips what are you talking about okay so i have i have a few trips so philly um philly december 1st i have a i have an exam that i'm taking okay well that's different that's that's okay that being said i'm staying longer than i exam for what though japanese i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry we already won okay wait but we won 80 years ago i have a Well, true.
54:21I have another, well, we're losing now. No, we're not. Japan's been stagnant since the 80s. Their economy literally hasn't grown since the 80s. Not economically. What are they winning at? They've poisoned an entire generation. We're winning at birth rate. We're winning at economics. They're winning at, you know, how long you stay alive. But guess what? Their entire country is that age. Their video games are really good, though. Yeah, I think we do pretty okay, too. Well, yeah, I know. Nintendo before you go to bed so that you can wake up with Pikachu's in your throat. Well, some of it's like European more than American, you know, but that are good Western.
55:02What else does Japan win at? Go ahead, tell me. They have one car manufacturer or two, right? No, Honda, Toyota, Mazda's a good one. Okay, they have a few. Come on. They're not even close to touching us on electric cars, right? they're like cultural exports are definitely like anime and video games um and animation in general they are probably the best okay so it's the little entertainment things because you've brought up video games and you've brought up that's that's cool that's exports no no no sure sure sure sure but when you're talking about things they're better at i was expecting a bit uh a bit more substance than nintendo what do you want huh what do you want from them i don't know why am i having to defend Japan right now.
55:48Because you said they're bigger or better. I don't remember. They're pretty okay. They're fine. I like Japan. Japan's great. Dude, I love sushi. Throw it in my mouth. I'm all about it. But I have another exam in November, but that's not a Japanese one. That's a tech exam. Okay. You have to travel for it, though? No, no, no. Not for that one. I'm just saying. It's not like I'm just sticking to Japanese studying and stuff like that. um and then what do you get from this japanese uh fulfillment okay yeah couldn't have taken it online the exam yeah no what's it what's the exam for it's a it's a certification exam it's and they only they only have it in certain areas of the country like once a year okay what are these other trips so i have i have another trip to chicago i've already paid for it I'm staying with a friend at the end of December.
56:44And then end of January, I have a trip to Tulum in Mexico. Can you cancel that one? Is it paid for? I paid for the ticket, but I haven't paid for the Airbnb and everything. I don't know. Check. See if you can get out of it. Also, it might be early enough that you can get out of it anyway. Are you creating videos as a full-time creator? It's a grind between scripting, editing, and oh, all those endless little tweaks. And sometimes it feels like taquitos would be honestly a better career choice. But that's where today's sponsor InVideo AI comes in. With over 10 million users across 150 countries, InVideo AI is the world's most used AI video creator.
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58:50Cancel it. We're going to get you on a lot of trips, just not yet. When you're out of tens of thousands of dollars of bad debt. And then in March, I was going to go to Italy in the beginning of March. I haven't paid for the ticket. My living would be free. It would just be the ticket. Well, tickets to Europe aren't necessarily historically cheap. Yeah, that's true. Probably. I wouldn't know because I haven't looked. And even though Pikachu's yellow, he's the Japanese kind of yellow, not the Italian tan. So you're not going to get anything while you're there anyway. Pasta. wait i think that was actually a lot more racist than i intended now that i just said it out loud i think that actually was not intended to be like that don't cut that i don't care my audience isn't a bunch of pearl clutches yeah yeah but i did not intend it in the way that it came out guided by my japanese friend in italy sorry my italy my italian friend now you're you're getting me confused uh my italian friend if you want a country that really has nothing going for it.
59:54Go to Italy. Okay. They got the boats. Yes. Nowhere else has boats. Okay. So student loans. Yes. Mohela. $33 ,194. For what again? Oh. Oh, for my degree. Okay. Which is actually serving a pretty good return on investment. Yeah. Your past due. This will garnish your wages. Are you sure it's not for this? Your past due. No. It'll take a long time before it garnishes your wages. I think I was like a little past due. How are you past due? I paid it. By double. It's paid now. I did pay it. It's not past due anymore. Okay. Yeah. Well, why was it past due? I mean, you're not going to like it. It's just I forgot.
1:00:44That's literally it. Why is it on autopay? I'm confused. i need america japan and italy is all invented auto pays it's a i'm afraid that it's gonna like hit my account and you make money and your expenses are low relatively i mean you've gotten yourself into thick expenses through your minimum payments on debts but yeah yeah um and and i feel like if i i hate it but i feel like if i start putting stuff on like auto pay and like I have to like track everything. It's like. Why? Just use a budgeting app. I don't know. I didn't used to have to. So it just like feels like. I'm going to be in the adult world.
1:01:31Oh my gosh. No, I was in the adult world. I had money in savings. I was paying everything before it was due. Buddy, I don't give a shit. Yeah, I know. I don't care. I know. I know. I'm not doing it now and that's what matters. But it just, it sucks. I don't know. mortgage is good$160 ,000 with 3.75 % interest rate. Yeah. And I think that might be worth around two 2230 right now. That's great. $1 ,159 and 29 cents. Wonderful. Yeah. Amazon purchases. Let's see. Water harness kit. Yeah. I want to see how hard my water was. Oh, hardness. Not a harness. I was reading a harness. Okay. Also the Austin water is so hard.
1:02:16What is, what is going on with that? I don't know. I have a water softener. Safety razor. Yeah. I wanted to try it out, and I like it. You haven't used it. No, I used it, but it just rose fast. We got moisturizer shave cream. Yeah. Okay. Earwax removal kit. Yeah. Fun fact. I was having. The less you do, the less you try to get rid of it, the less it produces. Oh. Well. I was having issues with, like, ear infections, and I was like, oh, maybe this will. Well, maybe see a doctor first. You love to go see every medical specialist in the world. Okay, Swiffer stuff, some bolts, some more razors. Getting that all clean.
1:02:56And here's the moving tape, markers, shower head. Okay. Shower head for all your hard water. Yeah. I got that because my roommate was coming. Wait a second. I'm so confused. Uh-oh. How has the check-in ended in$89? dollars that's so that's so ridiculous and so scary so scary why would you do that to yourself i don't know um i've gone i've gone below that um like i've gone below zero great yeah overdrafting wonderful yeah um these purchases are ridiculous i said it would be better if you put it on your debit card well it doesn't even matter because you did it on both anyway when it's I got some bull more money on Japanese Nintendo Spotify can listen to ads you don't have money you want to pay for other people's shit I don't give a yeah Judy Scalon they're good the whale team mellow mushroom Amazon Amazon Amazon coffee place Amazon Amazon something Japanese Amazon uh hair we are salon come on I'm not gonna go to a place I'm not going there anymore No, you should have never gone to a place called Here We Are Salon.
1:04:16It was very expensive. Burger King, and probably very sh**. Burger King, Uber, Uber, Discord. We're paying for Discord Nitro. Do we have to? Burger King, Hardee's Burger King, Coffee Place. $97. Look about sleep. Come on. That's the largest package you can buy. Stop buying packages. Delete it. Use it on the sleep app. hire your roommate to punch you in the morning if you're not sleeping enough how about that that's some negative reinforcement that is donuts some word i definitely can't can't pronounce and you went there twice netflix taco bell hulu first watch slice of something crunchy roll that makes sense uber more pokemon ten dollars crunchy roll i don't pay for my crunchy roll well you sure do You should probably cancel it and maybe look at your statements here and there.
1:05:10Uber Eats. Or not Uber Eats. Uber. Uber. ATM would draw. It's more Nintendo. More Nintendo. You're not even using this app. This app is using you. Good death. Yeah. Yeah. I think. Any bounds on our savings. $5. Overdraft fees. $58 this year so far. Great. Yeah. Great. Great. I think I would have to stop playing it. Stop playing it. Listen, get into bed at the same time because the only thing is you're just afraid that Pikachu is not going to stroke your dick in the morning because you didn't get enough sleep. But it's not actually improving your sleep health, right? You're just going to bed at a proper time, right?
1:05:53No, no, it is. Well, how does your brain know that you want to – if I think about going to sleep more, I sleep worse. How is that working? I mean, I go to bed at the same time, which over time has corrected my wake up times as well. I mean, it doesn't happen immediately. But you need the app to do that? Set a timer. Well, I already have it technically. Huh? No, I already have the ability to sleep at the correct time. That's what I'm saying. I've gotten that from the app. So no, I don't technically need the app. Delete it. You do not need to be paying for Pikachu's job. I'll delete it today. I will.
1:06:34Okay. Income,$5 ,900. Mortgage,$1 ,159. What about your utilities altogether added up? Utilities altogether added up. Take the mic. Oh, sorry. Move it to you. Don't move to the mic because you always move away. Take the mic. Move it to you. Sorry about that. Utilities all added up, including internet. Maybe like$400. Car insurance? Like$100. Gas? Vroom, vroom, drive, drive. I barely drive. So maybe like$10 a month. Are you sure you go and do things? I have social interactions because I need you to. Well, so I go to the library. And the library is quite close to me. And that's where you guys hang?
1:07:26Yeah. And karaoke I can walk to. it's like so close to you live in a walkable area not at all but i can walk to the karaoke place that's good yeah um that is one thing i've thought about is getting rid of the car
1:07:43uh and the only thing is like i have dogs and so i if there's like oh you can get an uber yeah pet uber maybe um okay actually so your minimum fee payments this is insane by the way are$2 ,139. But I'm actually subtracting the car because we are getting rid of the car. We're getting rid of the car right now. Okay. I came in thinking that might be the case and I'm okay with that. Good. $1 ,603.85. Okay. Now, good news. You have an extra$7 ,000 from selling the car. It's called$6 ,000. So don't sell it to CarMax because they had a lower. Absolutely not. Try to list it on Facebook. get it clean take good pictures facebook marketplace craigslist do that first phone bill phone bill um that's like 150 what the how so i have i i don't i have two phones um to catch every pokemon uh no i i thought so if i got the family plan at Verizon and just use the phones I already had.
1:08:59It would give me more data. Sell the phone, switch to Helium for 15 bucks a month. It's the same service as T-Damn Mobile. Listen, I don't care. Do you owe on the phones any of the phones still? Cancel them. I'm putting 15 bucks a month as your service. As long as Helium has data, basically. it should be fine as far as i know uh tp fund 100 bucks anything else you need to survive um necessary food 300 your meal prep and follow me up meal prep meal prep and tweak it to your needs medical co-pays how much on a monthly basis because i know there's things here so i'm gonna stop this bravado just give me what you think it'll cost medically on a monthly basis on a let's say a hundred.
1:09:48Okay. You have pets. How much for pet food? So I go to Costco, so it's not that bad. It's like, I think it's like$35 a bag. And I probably go through like one and a half. So let's say like 50. Okay. Pen insurance. I don't get pen insurance. How many dogs do you have? I have two Huskies. Okay. I'm going to quote that at like 50 bucks. Okay. I'm going to quote it at 70 bucks actually. Okay. just saved me literally tens of thousands of hours because my because dogs love to eat things they're not supposed to especially certain breeds okay anything else i need to put in your budget that i have not um there is stuff i would like to be able to do go ahead um i'd like to be able to contribute to a college fund for my niece nope not yet not yet okay someday sure someday okay Should be to you getting out of debt first.
1:10:44Having a fully funded emergency fund. I don't know. I mean, this wouldn't be a monthly thing, but like Christmas. Like I want to be able to buy my niece. Take it from your TP fund. From my TP fund, okay. That month, yeah. Okay. Good,$3 ,908. Listen, I'm going to give you$300. Because you're making the sacrifices on your car. $300 a month for fun. In your budget. Okay. There you go. $300. So you have$1 ,700 left over, okay? For paying off bullshit. To be paying off all this debt. We're getting rid of the car. Okay, so we're immediately going to go for the... No, sorry, sorry, sorry. I guess we snowball.
1:11:33Gosh, a lot of them are so similar. I think avalanche and snowball are going to be the same thing for my situation. It's pretty close, but not really because you'd be focusing on the Navy Fed for so long. I thought the Navy Fed was lower interest than the Kappa one. Oh, sorry, you're right. I didn't even think about that. Okay, so for the three cards that are about the same in that 5 ,500 range, I'm going to focus on them first. That's going to take 10 months to pay off. Wonderful. And we have quite a bit of money left over all of a sudden on a monthly basis. Now we're at$2 ,200 left over on a monthly basis, even with your fund.
1:12:12After the three. Yep, after the three. Synchrony's next. Takes about four and a half months. And then move the extra from that one. Now we have about$2 ,600 left on a monthly basis. Then we pay off Navy Federal in nine months. So where are we? Two years? Two years. Two years, two years and a quarter. Pretty darn close. Student loans, minimum payment, so that's paid off and same with the house. Your car is gone at that point, which you can do. I'd want to save up a$10 ,000 emergency fund. Then if you want to buy a car, go get another$10 ,000, buy a car and then save up your fully funded emergency fund after that.
1:12:52So the$7 ,000, would that go towards the emergency fund? Oh, sorry. $7 ,000 just sped up this by, yeah, like what? Five months, four to five months. so take 4-5 months off of it so it's probably just about 2 years approaching 2 years then save up 10 ,000 hours and then if you want a car do another 10 ,000 hours get a 10 ,000 hour car and then your original 10 ,000 that's your emergency fund take that build it to a full 6 month emergency fund which after your debt I'm going to say is about 17-18 ,000 hours okay so I think we can do that plus all this and definitely in about about three years. And that's nothing compared to what a lot of people have to go through on this.
1:13:38What's your retirement now? You said you have retirement? No, you're not contributing. No, I'm not contributing. Okay, then we need to really start catching up. I've thought about also, I don't know how I feel about it or how you'll feel about it, but like I said, so I owe$160 on my mortgage. Yes. But from what I've been seeing in my area, it's like$220,$230 is the sales. I do technically have options for places I could live for free if you want to you can yeah the reason why I like the debt payoff journey a bit more even though it takes longer your car accelerates you there and you're fixing your discipline to get out of debt if you just sell your home and you use that money to get out it's too quick too painless yeah and you can get you'll get right back in the situation because you never address what actually got you there in the first place that makes sense you can sell your if you get the discipline under control and you prefer to sell your house you totally can that's up to you yeah i don't think you necessarily have to but you totally can okay and actually and you're you're gonna make more money you're gonna get more promotions you can get a second job if you want you can get you can do this in quicker than three years yeah and probably do it closer to two if you really go wild yeah but three years is still nothing yeah still nothing second job would be nice if i could you have any thoughts any questions here um no um the numbers seem to add up spending your budget zero out of ten i mean you overspent debt i mean you're getting garnished for not paying we don't know how much huh we don't know you said 12 yeah just incorporate make that first you pay that off in a month you have an extra 1700 after fun every month so pay off that for the past taxes okay yeah yeah and add one more month to it but zero out of ten because of that stupid garnish thing and not paying on your student loans or a lot of the credit cards zero out of ten emergency fund there's nothing there's five dollars zero retirement zero ten oh real estate that will boost us good equity position good interest rate okay i feel like the mortgage payment is low yep mortgage payment makes sense for your situation i'm gonna do a seven out of ten there so seven that's gonna be a hammer financial score 1.5 out of 10.
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