The Cost of Living

Inflation, groceries, rent, daycare, and the daily math of keeping a household running. This episode breaks down where money really goes and how families are adapting to rising costs.

From bulk shopping and shared housing to teaching kids financial tradeoffs, we talk through the strategies people are using to stay afloat in a changing economy.

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Transcript

Opening House Chaos

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Saturday? Yeah. Saturday. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 0:02

Saturday. I think, I think every single she said she got a lot of niggas at her house, and since then she's been mad at me. I don't know what I did.

SPEAKER_01 0:08

Look, that's a pause. Can we not say a lot of niggas at my house? I know, yeah, that did come out a little uh I have a lot of all of my well, all of my daughters are at my house right now. Okay. Not a lot of niggas. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 0:20

She got a lot of niggettes at her house right now. But them niggas is niggas.

SPEAKER_01 0:25

But you know, we had to give context. That's all I'm saying.

SPEAKER_03 0:27

Oh, I mean, we didn't have to put this in here, but now I can keep it. Oh.

SPEAKER_02 0:32

It's a good start. It's a good start. My brain took niggettes. Is like, is that some sort of French dish, like a pastry?

SPEAKER_01 0:38

Naguettes.

SPEAKER_02 0:39

It's like it's like little.

SPEAKER_01 0:41

Maybe that's what my French toast should be called.

SPEAKER_03 0:42

Yeah, we're not talking about French toast. Stop. You didn't bring none. You didn't bring none. You lied. Three weeks in a row. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

That's that's a lie, that's a nigga right there.

SPEAKER_03 0:53

I'm starting to see my life. Well, two.

SPEAKER_01 0:55

I'll get okay, two.

SPEAKER_03 0:56

Two weeks.

SPEAKER_01 0:56

That was the most fucked up shit you could have ever said to me.

SPEAKER_02 1:01

I heard.

Meet The Crew

SPEAKER_01 1:01

I'm just uh that was really crazy. Hello. Were you lying to me three weeks in a row? Damn, I'll be lying to niggas. That's crazy. And I mean, it's no commitment here.

SPEAKER_02 1:12

I mean, you ain't gonna lie to me. I I was with you until you said that because you lied and told me that they already ate it. Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:20

Just a lying ass nigga. Okay, we'll take it. I'll take it at this point.

SPEAKER_03 1:24

In the words of the great Kendrick Lamar, or should I say Kendrick Duckwork, you ain't gonna know how to kick him a nigga? Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 1:30

You ain't gotta try so hard. This is episode 235 of the heavyweight collective.

SPEAKER_03 1:35

Is it? You don't sound sure. I need you, I need you to sound sure.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

I'm not lying. This is episode 235 of the heavyweight collective. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm Sharon.

SPEAKER_03 1:47

Sharon. Motherfucking Sharron.

SPEAKER_01 1:52

You're not making me nervous at all. Why?

SPEAKER_03 1:55

You should be confident.

SPEAKER_01 1:56

Because I'm shy, like I told you guys before. Think of you customer.

SPEAKER_03 1:59

Yeah, before the camera started. How are you shy? Still shy. Oh, because it was in person, it's different?

SPEAKER_01 2:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:03

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:04

You know.

SPEAKER_03 2:04

And all I did was say one word.

SPEAKER_01 2:06

I'm Sharron. I'm here with these guys. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 2:09

I'm Kevin. I'll just be Kevin. What's up?

SPEAKER_01 2:12

Hi, Kevin.

SPEAKER_02 2:13

Hey.

SPEAKER_01 2:14

Hey.

SPEAKER_02 2:15

I'm Ray Tron De La Ghetto.

SPEAKER_03 2:17

Okay. I saw you changed your name to the show. I started laughing. I said this nigga changed his name to De la Ghetto.

SPEAKER_02 2:23

Cannon's to the left of me. Cannon's to the right of me. That's a it's a fresh Prince reference. That's why I was like, yes, I'm related to Rafa. That's right. Rafael Dela Ghetto. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:36

And you are?

SPEAKER_03 2:37

I'm I'm getting to the bag Mo. I'm just trying to get to the back.

SPEAKER_01 2:40

You don't get to it by three o'clock? I hope you do.

SPEAKER_03 2:44

Do something strange. Bigger roll. Here I come.

Weekly Life Recap

SPEAKER_01 2:47

How are you guys' weeks? How's everybody doing? I wasn't here. Y'all missed me. I got I caught this sick last time.

SPEAKER_03 2:55

It feels like a trap. It was a trap. It definitely was a trap. I done fall for that shit. Of course. Did we? Tremendously. We did. We did. We missed you a lot. There's a lot of things. There's a lot of questions we wish you would have had your uh point of view on.

SPEAKER_01 3:12

I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_03 3:13

You know.

SPEAKER_01 3:13

You're lying. But I didn't know. No, I'm not lying. I'm not lying.

SPEAKER_03 3:16

No, the first thing we said was like, no French toast, huh? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

Y'all could be surprised when I ranch toast.

SPEAKER_03 3:24

Yeah, we are right. At this point, 100%. 100%. 100 goddamn percent.

SPEAKER_01 3:32

Whatever. How was your week?

Therapy & Gaming Tales

SPEAKER_02 3:34

Good. Uh I went to therapy. I enjoyed uh the therapy session. I think I I I traumatized my therapist. I said a lot of shit about my childhood, and she looked at me like, really? I said, yes, that that happened.

SPEAKER_01 3:47

That happened.

SPEAKER_02 3:48

And she kept saying that over and over. At some point I looked at her face and she looked so fucking troubled. I said, damn, I'm I'm loading a lot today. Pause. Oh.

SPEAKER_03 3:58

That's a good day.

SPEAKER_02 4:00

And then I had my dentist appointment yesterday, and um I was in the they had to do x-rays because they do it like every so often, they do an x-ray. And I was trying not to laugh because the night before I was playing uh NBA 2K with my coworker. Shout out to uh Nick McDougal. And uh I usually turn my I mute my microphone when we play online because people tend to talk shit and I tend to not try to engage. Yeah. So there was one guy that got on the mic and and he goes, Oh yeah, man, that's been a boss every time. I'm gonna make it every time, man. Every time. I said, you know what? I'm gonna just mute this motherfucker, right? So a few minutes go by, and Nick's talking back and forth, and I can hear Nick, and he goes, Dude, you gotta turn your mic on. This shit's gold. I said, Nah, man, I'm not doing it. So we play the first game, we win, and he's just talking shit back and forth to him. So the second game at the telling, I said, I gotta hear this because they're going back too much for him not, like, I gotta hear it. So I unmute the guy, and he goes, Oh man, that's a bit pass, baby. Oh man. And then like his friend house though, he's like, Man, you gotta stop chilling, man. I gotta get you this VC, baby. I said, yo, y'all, you've been doing this shit for two games straight. And he was like, it's hilarious, right? This shit's fucking crazy. So I was trying not to laugh in the dentist chair because I I thought about it and I started saying it all day. I was like, baby, just pass me the butt, but I'm gonna make it every time. I said, I'm going to hell for this, but it's worth it. Nah. That's not a hell hell thing.

SPEAKER_01 5:21

That's not a going to hell moment.

SPEAKER_03 5:23

Nah.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

I'm sure you've had others.

SPEAKER_03 5:26

That's definitely worse. That's not bad.

SPEAKER_02 5:31

She's not wrong though. So we we are that's so if you catch me saying that throughout the podcast, I've got to know where it's time.

SPEAKER_01 5:40

We have context.

SPEAKER_02 5:41

Boys understand.

SPEAKER_03 5:42

Context.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

Context.

SPEAKER_03 5:44

Oh, yeah. My week wasn't, hey, how's your week? That was better than yours, nigga. I mean, just life, nigga. You know nothing, nothing special to a report. Uh uh, the financial landscape got me fucked up. I'm about to rob a bank. You're gonna let us in, right? Check my account. I'm gonna ro I'm gonna rob a bank, steal some chickens, and a hog.

SPEAKER_02 6:05

That's why I say fabulous is the goat for that. What, Robin Banks? No, he said in a verse, in a bar, I was like, I was at my lowest point when I heard it. He said, Money is the root of all evil, I thought. But when I'm broke is when I usually have the evil stuff. I said, that's true. When you're broke, you start thinking about Robin Banks.

SPEAKER_01 6:23

So it makes people do crazy shit. That's for damn true.

SPEAKER_03 6:27

Yeah, I just say that for good. So I mean, the summer I wake up, nigga, I'm just trying to find a way to get this money by 3 30. Not even Tuesday, nigga. 3 30.

SPEAKER_01 6:35

I had dang. I had um I had to do repairs on my car starting this week out. Monday piss had a lot of highs and lows there. Well, no, I didn't have no highs. Had a lot of stuff going on.

SPEAKER_03 6:47

I was gonna say, what kind of high we talking about?

SPEAKER_01 6:49

No, no, no, no. I had to get my car fixed. So it was a lot of, it was at the dealing price, and then I was like, Yeah, no, it was crazy. And then still$600 later, I had to get my car fixed.

SPEAKER_02 6:59

I don't fuck with dealership.

SPEAKER_01 7:00

Um, yeah, but I'm a grandma now, guys.

SPEAKER_03 7:04

Congratulations, how's it feel?

SPEAKER_01 7:06

It feels great. She is, she already is. I'm so happy.

SPEAKER_03 7:11

Hope you do better with the French toast than you did with us.

unknown 7:16

Shut up.

SPEAKER_03 7:17

Let's ask the that's I got an important does does she look like you? That's what I was gonna hope. As the clone the clone of the clone.

SPEAKER_01 7:24

But we'll give we'll give some context here. I have two stepdaughters. Okay, so this is my oldest of all my daughters. This is my oldest stepdaughter.

SPEAKER_03 7:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 7:33

So no, she I wasn't able to uh put those jeans in there.

SPEAKER_02 7:37

Okay, well if it was just that powerful that you just I mean, you know, it may.

SPEAKER_01 7:41

She's only two weeks old. I'd let her stay in my house a little bit longer. I might make it happen. I don't know. Feed her a little bit of my food.

SPEAKER_03 7:48

Yeah, two weeks. Yeah, no way. She looks still like you know.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

But she's self-precious.

SPEAKER_03 7:53

Some babies like I could say like they look like potatoes for like the first month. Yeah, until they kind of shape up.

SPEAKER_01 7:57

You gotta love a baby to think they're cute in the first in that first year.

SPEAKER_03 8:01

Unless it's your baby.

SPEAKER_01 8:02

Well, no, that's what I'm saying. You gotta love the baby. Because right now I'm like, oh my gosh, she's the cutest thing. And if I show y'all a picture, y'all be like, okay. Yeah, she looks you're gonna feed her some negate catering.

SPEAKER_02 8:14

Negate catering.

SPEAKER_03 8:16

Negate catering.

SPEAKER_01 8:17

Oh my gosh, I like that though.

SPEAKER_03 8:19

I'm gonna I'm gonna open her on Facebook, man. You should call negate catering.

SPEAKER_01 8:23

Shut up. But yeah, everything you can book, but we'll never deliver.

SPEAKER_02 8:30

Back order for French toast.

SPEAKER_01 8:33

Back order? Back order is hey, y'all do got back the the first horse is on is on back order with y'all right now.

SPEAKER_03 8:41

The first match. I'm messing with you.

SPEAKER_01 8:47

Anywho. So, you guys.

SPEAKER_03 8:51

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 8:52

I read something the other day that said that we are headed towards another Great Depression. You guys remember what that was?

SPEAKER_03 9:01

Yeah, I'm fine.

SPEAKER_01 9:02

Well, I mean, not like shut up, kind of. Yeah, I remember I just cannot.

SPEAKER_03 9:06

The year was 1929.

SPEAKER_02 9:08

Yeah. I mean, if we believe in reincarnation.

SPEAKER_03 9:15

Like, oh I was in the nutsack of a nutsack. Of a nutsack. There's probably someone still in Africa, shit.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

I hate y'all so much.

SPEAKER_03 9:26

I just jumping off buildings. We do recall the Great Depression. We know. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 9:30

We know we're all aware of it. Um, but it was in 1929, yes. And you think I'm not smart? Predict no, I mean this is for the audience. This is for the first thank you. You guys are giving me a very hard time.

SPEAKER_03 9:45

Just because you missed the week. We didn't go open the garage. I left it.

SPEAKER_01 9:52

Sit your ass back down and ask a little question. We stand there like y'all gonna switch the camera to me. I'ma just be looking at y'all. I hate y'all. Anywho, um, 1929. But yeah, it's expected. I saw something that said that it's predicted, I'll say, um, that we're predicted to have another Great Depression in 2030. That's really soon.

SPEAKER_00 10:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

And it's expected to last six years or something. Oh, but anywho, um, do you guys believe that? Do you I think that that was like an AI prediction, but do you believe that we're headed there?

SPEAKER_03 10:29

No, I think China will have control by yeah, it'll be different. It won't go to the next one. Well, it'll be different.

SPEAKER_01 10:34

It won't be the same 300 years later, but we'll be learning.

SPEAKER_03 10:38

I don't think it'll be it's not gonna be global. Like you said, it's gonna be something else gonna move in and we'll be no use in the world. The first one wasn't global global either. Yes, it was. Oh, but I'm saying we'll be able to money's easier to move around. Like I if somebody else's money takes over, I'm probably gonna convert my like I mean I might just be in Ghana.

SPEAKER_01 11:02

Really? How you gonna get there? You gonna get the money by 330?

SPEAKER_03 11:06

You don't need like 25 G's to fly.

SPEAKER_02 11:09

I just look at the the climate that we're living in now, and uh, it's not really shocking.

SPEAKER_01 11:14

That that's a prediction.

SPEAKER_03 11:15

Yeah, I agree. I mean, you got niggas paying$1,700 for a car note. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 11:20

Inflation, all the other bullshit markups.

SPEAKER_01 11:24

And what factors do you think to follow up on that? Like, what do you think is leading towards that being the prediction?

SPEAKER_03 11:30

The hostile environment in the in the geopolitical area. For some of us, damn. I don't know if it's necessarily it's harder that, but it didn't snort. Yeah, the world politics. Yeah, I mean, damn. Yeah, the politics. I say more resources. Yeah, it's gonna be a resource thing. Well, every war is fall of resources, don't l no matter what they tell you. Well, I mean, we're gonna have like vital resources that are about to start disappearing.

SPEAKER_02 11:58

So struggling to get be able to go to work.

SPEAKER_03 12:01

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_02 12:02

Gas. Gas. You're gonna be like, well, I didn't come to work today because I couldn't afford to.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

That's so I'm like, I hesitate on saying that's so funny because that was a genuine hesitation. Like, I was gonna say that's so sad, but can't you walk from your bedroom's living room?

SPEAKER_03 12:17

Yeah, you couldn't. I was like, you can't use that one.

SPEAKER_01 12:20

And I'm always flexing that I work from home right now, it just went right past my head. Yeah, I feel you.

SPEAKER_03 12:25

We complain about getting to work, you complain about going to get groceries.

SPEAKER_01 12:28

I take my five-year-old to school every day, so I'm still making a trip a good enough trip. My oldest brings everybody home, but I still drive to Grand Terrace every morning to take. So I still do that.

SPEAKER_03 12:43

The 91 sucks, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:44

And then 91. But thankfully, I mean I leave the house by like 6 45. So I it's not bad. You know what I'm saying? Traffic-wise.

SPEAKER_03 12:51

I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. I'm not shit. Okay. I'll I'll I thought. You just did you have a great, great mood then. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:58

I thought how do you feel about your uh going one direction the other way is awful. Motorists.

SPEAKER_03 13:04

I thought at this point she uh she be you she'd be homeschooled. I'll I'll be headed y'all had it together.

SPEAKER_01 13:09

The baby bonding.

SPEAKER_03 13:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:11

No, she can't be at home. We ain't doing that. She wanna sit at my lap. Um no, hell no. You got sound like a personal secretary to me. No, she's a problem. We all have girls here. We never know. Y'all understand.

SPEAKER_03 13:24

No, what you would we raise them to be a problem.

SPEAKER_01 13:26

Oh so this is my question. Um, I feel like the current climate of the economy, there's some people that feel it more than others, and I think that that's obvious, right? But I think what sticks out in my head the other day I was on the 91, and I it just caught my attention for some reason. The parking lot to the mall. So, you know, the Tyler Mall has like the mall and it has the restaurant or whatever. You would have thought it was Christmas. That shit was packed, and it was just like the irony to me was like, dang, horrible. Like everybody, you know, there's like a lot of people that are doing so bad. But when you look around, like Disneyland is still packed, concerts still sell out, you know, all of those things still happen, but then there's so many things that are bad happening economy-wise. So, do you personally feel like you feel the effects, or are you still the ones that are at Disneyland?

SPEAKER_03 14:21

I mean, I'm trying to figure out how the scammers got it.

SPEAKER_01 14:23

Listen, I would love to be a scammer.

SPEAKER_03 14:26

I'll put it to you this way: just because the parking lot's full don't mean everything in the fridge is full. Right.

SPEAKER_01 14:31

Like people, and that's that's a very good point. Because people are gonna sacrifice certain things.

SPEAKER_03 14:36

It's not even irresponsible of certain things like say the kids, you're like, okay, we already have this, we're doing this. Like, shit's gonna go where it's gonna go. So you're gonna still have to give your kids whatever.

SPEAKER_02 14:47

But you got a firm.

SPEAKER_03 14:48

Yeah, and I was gonna say after pay and all this shit.

SPEAKER_01 14:53

Can we get gas?

SPEAKER_03 14:54

Where the economy's at. Actually, yes.

SPEAKER_01 14:56

I would love that.

SPEAKER_03 14:57

Probably yes. I was telling Amanda that where I was just like, when a firm first started, I was like, if you don't think about this, like this is like the start of all of this shit. Because it's like, ain't nobody giving you shit. Like, they just giving you credit. I'm like, nah, nigga. Like, they just know everybody ain't got no money. Yeah, but it's so sad. I think the whole the the master, the mastermind behind a firm and all that shit is like, we know that you ain't got right now, but we know that you can pay a little bit every every once in a while. So you'll do it. I think that that's that's it.

SPEAKER_01 15:30

But we're gonna make sure we get our money. It's always a situation where they're gonna find out.

SPEAKER_03 15:34

You're not gonna get a credit card from everybody. Oh no. This is literally like a credit card from everybody from everybody. Yeah, where they're just like, fuck it.

SPEAKER_02 15:41

Yeah, we're gonna get our money. And the thing with Disneyland too is that that they have payment plans for that shit too. So it's like those are gross. Yeah, but even if you pay that, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

I better pay that, but I wouldn't, I can't personally, I'm gonna say it for myself. I ain't gonna speak for nobody else. I can't even afford to have no Disneyland pass.

Multi-Generational Living

SPEAKER_03 15:58

Oh, we got family and shit that work there and fucking get friends, and my mom will give free tickets sometimes. So I'm like, Oh, let me know. I bought that that was last year. Yeah, last year I bought for I took my daughter three days for her birthday. I we bought I bought three three-day passes, and I I spent a grand on just the passes. Yeah, disgusting. We then and then I still had to get, I still had to drive down there three times, pay for parking three times, for food and ride three times. Yeah, I was so happy. Yeah, nigga, we need shit. And she's talking about shit. Because we had to buy them, but then you swipe the card. I was like, free? Free? Like, hell no. Yeah, that's a lot. And then parking's what 30 bucks anyway, 45.

SPEAKER_01 16:42

We're talking about, you know, big month trips and stuff like that. So you would say that you are not in the group of people that are you in the group that are feeling it?

SPEAKER_03 16:50

I'm in a different position than everybody else. Hold on. Let us know. Wait, wait, wait, wait, pause. Well, no, I mean that if you think about how I live, it's it's a three-income household. Because my mom lives there.

SPEAKER_01 17:02

That's very true.

SPEAKER_03 17:02

So don't tell me you over here take a mama's money too.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

I mean, she's gonna buy groceries and shit like that. Help.

SPEAKER_03 17:08

You're telling me that won't help? Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:10

I would love for somebody to buy some groups.

SPEAKER_03 17:11

Like, I don't ask her to, but she's just like, hey, I went to Sam's club and I was like, bought all this food. I'm like, well, cool. That's like thank you. Well, she needs somewhere to stay. I got another room. Just to get away from y'all.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

That some room I got can be both on purpose, okay?

SPEAKER_03 17:27

But I'm saying that type of shit helps a lot. Because it's like, that's a lot to where a lot of things are going now. If you notice the multi-gen homes. Yeah. Like they're trying to like make people like show them, like, hey, yo, this is but she's coming. Honestly, that's the I I personally that that's the way to go. Like, you're gonna have you're gonna have to start combining households into uh into what it like the Indians was doing for a long time.

SPEAKER_02 17:51

Those damn houses that I looked at that were beyond my means at the time is the with the uh the mother in lawsuit? Yeah, I was like, fuck, that'd be perfect.

SPEAKER_03 18:00

Well now, yeah, yeah, because I just yeah now they're way out though because the way they the way the housing market is is like nigga, I'm glad I got a house when I got a family.

SPEAKER_00 18:10

Yeah, yeah.

unknown 18:11

Shit.

SPEAKER_03 18:12

I'm the same way about housing, and I'm not I'm like I was I'm not gonna buy no car. Yeah, at least I don't want no car. I said I don't give up I figured I'd do it next time. If I have an old nine Chevy in my driveway right now, I will fix that motherfucker up to run before I buy a brand new car. That's how much new cars cost.

SPEAKER_02 18:27

How much they keep trying to tempt me with this fucking tell you.

SPEAKER_03 18:30

I'm not doing it.

SPEAKER_02 18:30

It looks like though.

unknown 18:31

Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_01 18:32

I want I'm I want a new car, but I'm sick of gas in my car. So I want um either a small car or like a whole try. You got a whole try. No, not really. I mean 90% of the time it's just me and the five-year-old in my car because my oldest drive. Oh, she got money for gas? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:54

Damn, I gotta get suddenly. I gotta ask her how she does it.

SPEAKER_01 18:58

Yeah, no, for well, my my oldest daughter does hair.

SPEAKER_03 19:00

So she really Oh, she's say booked then.

SPEAKER_01 19:02

Yeah, always. Like she's got a couple heads today and one tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03 19:06

So this is this guy, this ain't got nothing. Well, I guess you got if you are looking for a for a profession, if you do anything that woman will buy, because women gonna get their hair and nail dunns no matter how much money they got. That is the market to be in.

SPEAKER_02 19:19

Very true.

SPEAKER_03 19:20

They don't give me a like, I got a hundred dollars. Well, I'm about to give 75 to my my nail lady and ever practices on me.

SPEAKER_01 19:28

Nails, yeah, no, never do it. I think that that's open up shop. But I mean, that's where we're at because of the economy. I mean, after COVID, everybody learned to do their own stuff. Like, I don't, I don't do I I get a pedicure, that's the only thing. But I do my own nails, I do my own eyelashes, and my kid does my hair. So I'm not hell no. That's not something that's in the budget for me. All of that type of shit.

SPEAKER_03 19:52

Um, but and yes, I do feel it. Yeah, I feel like I feel it. Yeah, I definitely feel it.

SPEAKER_01 19:59

For my answer, and to contrast what you said, because I am I'm in a 100% one income household. Nigga, enjoy the party. But be quiet. I think I have more people in the house than you do.

SPEAKER_03 20:12

Hey, nigga, hey. Hey.

SPEAKER_01 20:15

So, you know, it's you definitely feel it, but it's just a matter of right now, it's just a matter of how you it's like technically how you make the pieces fit together.

SPEAKER_03 20:26

Yeah, I mean, to me, it's all a matter of matter how I prioritize certain things. Yeah, some some minds, I just like it. Like, I'd like a perfect example. We went to Sam's the other day, and she was like, Dad, I want to get the roast beef. I say that roast piece is$10 a pack. We're not getting that. We're gonna go ahead and go ahead and pick up that turkey at$7. Like some some shit you gotta get cut back. That's that's what it is. Because I remember a time where the where the uh the roast beef lunch me was seven dollars. Now that shit is ten. I said, nah. Yeah, go ahead and get that uh. Well, I mean, I'm portioning. Damn. Like the is it? Yeah, the Angus roasted stuff. It's pre okay. I was like, I don't know where you because roast beef at like this grocery store when they cut it, that's just been like 11. Yeah, no, 1213. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

Are y'all talking about like like the sandwich?

SPEAKER_03 21:08

Yeah, I thought you meant like the cut stuff. I was like, I mean, it ain't been like that. I am lucky in certain ways that it says my daughter is very particular about what she'll eat. Like she eats sandwiches, but she don't eat cheese, so I don't really have to buy a lot of shit. Yeah, and cheese costs a lot. Yeah, so I don't buy a lot of, I don't we don't really buy a lot of dairy products, so that kind of helped helps us.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:26

Um, but when eggs was uh$75 a gallon or a dozen, that shit did hurt.

SPEAKER_01 21:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:31

I said, nigga, we finna just go kill some ostriches or something.

SPEAKER_02 21:34

Yeah, I was telling that to a coworker. It's bad when fucking carton, the the fucking egg whites are cheaper than fucking like I was fucked, bro.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

But I mean you do, you learn if you're smart, you learn how you shop for your own house and you just maneuver. But I mean, I'm thankfully I cook all the time. So we I could fill my gas tank up and grocery shop and we're not leaving the house the next day.

SPEAKER_03 21:57

If I could just teach women in my house how to cut lights off.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

Oh yeah, we're not going out. Open up the windows. I say never on the windows until it's dark.

SPEAKER_02 22:05

You ever I'm not the only one that's uh been at multiple grocery shops or stores with people like strangers where you go to this one and then you end up seeing them at the other place and you're like, um we got to understand.

SPEAKER_03 22:20

Look, man, it's uh it's it's our routine now is we go to Sam's first. We get we get shit that we can buy in bulk, that's not gonna go bad. We get that shit first. Then we go over to uh Winco, we get the little small shit at Winco, and then we leave Winco, we go down to the aging market to get this just stuff just from the agent market and then we go home. Like that's the routine. Yeah. And every and if we got a little extra money, we not we you know, stop by a new shop. Yeah. Get some protein bars and shit that costs money.

SPEAKER_02 22:46

There's a guy from our uh gym that happened with. I I stopped by our uh uh the biter shop by my house, and we ended up cool now because we both stopped in there right after the gym to do the same thing. So now we're cool with each other because we kind of had the same thought process. We get they have a dollar weekend shit, so that's worth the pull-up.

SPEAKER_03 23:04

That's cool.

SPEAKER_02 23:05

I need 45 out of them. Yeah. But you got it's the sixth limit. So it's like I'm walking out. Yeah. Patrick does that shit where him and his wife will go and he'll go in, she'll go in, then the sun will go in. Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:19

Stagger it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:20

Kevin, I'm gonna be um, I'm gonna stop by because you got a lot of people in your house. So if I take them all, I don't think I don't know if they're gonna give Gracie anything. They're gonna be like, You a kid.

SPEAKER_02 23:33

That's just money.

SPEAKER_01 23:34

What do you guys hate buying the most? Gymnastics. Let me say. What do you mean? Gymnastics. What do you oh yeah? I was gonna say, what do you hate paying for the most? Gymnastics? Because that shit never stops.

SPEAKER_03 23:45

It really hurts me. That I have to pay for gymnastics, I can be one of those people with it.

SPEAKER_02 23:54

I was about to say some bougie. Nah, I hate paying it, but I know I'm glad I can't. The toll roads.

SPEAKER_00 23:59

I mean shit, you pay for it. That's that's honest.

SPEAKER_03 24:03

Look here, I'm I don't give, I'm paying for tolls. Uh I don't do traffic. I don't give a fuck. That's like some bougie. We're like, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:11

Us in our third, what are they called? The third world problem. 17 miles for this. Three miles?

SPEAKER_03 24:16

Yeah. I'm gonna pay it, but damn. I'm gonna make flying though. I I would say mortgage, but then when I see the price of rent, and then my mortgage is cheaper than that. Shit. I'm good with mortgage. I just wanna be done. Yeah. That's yeah. I mean, hey nigga, I mean, we can set some shit up.

SPEAKER_02 24:35

Patrick's still on his house. Or I told him not to. I would I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't. I told him that.

SPEAKER_03 24:42

Is he is he gonna listen though? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:45

I said, nigga, if anything, you could rent it out.

SPEAKER_03 24:48

Is he trying to get another house?

SPEAKER_02 24:49

No. Just cashing out. We just want to get a lot of money, yeah. Going back to commute. So he's going back to uh apartment living.

SPEAKER_01 24:58

But apartments are literally like$3,000 a month.

SPEAKER_03 25:01

Depending on where you go. Nah.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

But now I don't, I personally, I mean Riverside County.

SPEAKER_03 25:07

No.

SPEAKER_01 25:07

I wouldn't you're not really finding under$2,500 for the house. I would I wouldn't.

SPEAKER_03 25:12

You know what I mean? I wouldn't sell the house. I'd just get a car. I'd just get an electric car.

SPEAKER_02 25:16

Yeah, I wouldn't sell. I was like, especially where you got the house for to now, the what the market looks like, I wouldn't sell it. I wouldn't sell it. Patrick, don't sell. That's why I'm putting it out here now. Don't sell.

SPEAKER_03 25:26

Uh sell it when you own it outright. No, don't do that. Yeah, no. That's when you go, that's when you go move somewhere. No, nigga, you don't sell it. Nigga, you pull the equity out, and then you rent that one and buy the one. Yeah, and then when I'm done, I'm done. Like, I don't want to wear it.

SPEAKER_02 25:43

I want to forget the address, nigga. You let one pay for the other.

SPEAKER_03 25:47

Yeah. Oh no, I'm gonna pay for the whole one outright, because I'm gonna have less people in the house, so we're gonna get a little uh I said y'all are gonna pay my rent and the mortgage and whatever.

SPEAKER_02 25:57

Like that's the plan, nigga.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

I hate paying bills. Can I carry cut that as a shit off?

SPEAKER_03 26:06

You can cut the shit off.

SPEAKER_02 26:07

It's all fun and games. Yeah, I was about to say it. You're sitting in a house with no electricity. Been there, done that.

SPEAKER_03 26:14

Honestly, you should you should be able to write your um internet off because you work from home. Yeah, that's true. But you gotta wait here for it. You gotta wait the next to the, you know, yeah. But but you can write it off, yeah. Yeah, for that. Damn, I didn't even think about that. We don't think we do that with Amanda.

SPEAKER_01 26:29

We tripping is 50 bucks, maybe 35, I think.

SPEAKER_03 26:34

Okay, now times that time 12. Yeah, yeah. Your refund is higher. You're welcome, nigga. I'll take it.

SPEAKER_02 26:38

I guess you said that's your internet?

SPEAKER_01 26:40

Yeah, my internet's like$35.

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Who's your provider? Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:44

Why do you say it like that?

SPEAKER_01 26:46

Well, because it's like I guess I guess the reason why I say that is because in the grand scheme of things, when I'm thinking about my bills, say the word.

SPEAKER_03 26:55

Um expenses then.

SPEAKER_01 26:57

My expenses.

SPEAKER_03 26:59

I don't even want to hear that.

SPEAKER_01 27:00

The internet is the shit. I'll keep that before a whole lot. Like the internet is like the the not. You know what I'm saying? It's like it's down here on this hotel phone.

SPEAKER_03 27:08

I'm gonna cut Disney off because I'm not paying, I'm not watching no more ads. That's what? That's why you're cutting it off? Because the ads?

SPEAKER_02 27:14

Yeah, I'm I'm too bougie for ads now. I won't lie to you. Like when I say that shit, that's why I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_03 27:20

Once they said it's free with your spectrum, I went, Yeah, we just gonna be watching these motherfuckers.

SPEAKER_01 27:25

We were we were watching Disney Plus. I cut our shit to the the one with ads recently, and probably a couple months ago. Okay, do so, but my stepdaughters hadn't been over since I did that. So we're all in there watching a movie, and an ad popped up, and one of my kids was like, She's like, What? I'm like, no, you little bougie. She was like disgusted that that ad popped up.

SPEAKER_03 27:47

She was good time to go make some popcorn. I just told my daughter, I said, back in the day, you know, mommy and daddy, we didn't have ad-free. So when the commercial came on, that was the that was the bathroom break. That was the bathroom break. You had to see if you can make it back before it was over, so you didn't miss anything.

SPEAKER_02 28:05

You you said that, and I had Ava in the front seat the other day. Because she never really gets to ride in the front seat. We're riding to get food, and she goes, I didn't realize the light had changed. She goes, Go, bro. How are we supposed to get to the place if you don't go? I said, Excuse me. And she looked at me. I said, Who am I talking to me? Yeah, yeah, it's talking to me.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

I'm bro mom all day long. Yeah, literally, bro, bro, mom, bro, bro, mom.

SPEAKER_03 28:28

Yeah, that's my name. At least you don't get the dad. Is that how you're supposed to talk to a lady? I said, Well, first of all, you're a little girl. You're a little girl.

SPEAKER_01 28:33

I love that.

SPEAKER_03 28:34

You're a little girl. You're not a lady. I'm a little girl. I'm a little lady. I said, you can you are.

SPEAKER_01 28:39

You taught her that. So if if if it were to come to like a Great Depression or shit for even what it is right now. I'm at your house. You know what? Anyone that wants to live with me, I have a backyard.

SPEAKER_03 28:57

Damn. You can be the dog.

SPEAKER_01 29:00

No,$400 a month.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

Rough backyard?

SPEAKER_02 29:04

Rough.

SPEAKER_01 29:05

Yeah, they can go in the cell room.

SPEAKER_02 29:06

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Rough. Rough.

SPEAKER_03 29:09

Does that include the Wi Fi in the account?

SPEAKER_01 29:12

Yeah, it does. It's a wash and dryer back there. You can come in the house. I cook all the time.$400 a month.

SPEAKER_02 29:16

You accept the applications now? Yeah. Sure. We're my grillers shouldn't know. Do we also get access to catering? You do. I mean, they don't deliver.

SPEAKER_03 29:26

Backyard.

SPEAKER_01 29:27

I cook all the time. It's always gonna be some food to eat.

SPEAKER_03 29:30

$200 a month. That's what I know. You'd have probably not said that on air. You're gonna get some real random niggas in the internet.

SPEAKER_01 29:39

What they call it niggas that's that's homosexuals.

SPEAKER_03 29:44

Shit, if the shit keeps going how I'm gonna be homosexual. 235. Shit, this bother be me.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

So you still good on that 400? I got a 10. Nigga, like I'll give you 450, baby. I'll take it.

SPEAKER_03 30:01

I think you're having a betting war.

SPEAKER_01 30:02

I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

SPEAKER_03 30:04

I don't anybody. I got a garage though.

SPEAKER_01 30:06

My kids will be like, who the hell is this nigga? He paying you what? I don't care.

SPEAKER_02 30:11

1200. This nigga keep knocking on the back door, asking about French toast. She said she cooked every day.

SPEAKER_01 30:19

My kids will be like, Jody, mama, you got this nigga living here.

SPEAKER_03 30:23

I said, cry for your mom.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

Okay, so if you had to um no, that's not what I'm saying. So even with how the economy is, and if it were to get worse, what is something, whether it be experience, thing, activity, what is something that you're always like, hands down, you're gonna be like, hell no, I gotta have this. Like I we're gonna make this. This is always gonna be in the budget.

SPEAKER_03 30:47

You don't want my answer. Well, that's what you gotta pay for that?

SPEAKER_01 30:53

You don't gotta pay for it. Wait, what?

SPEAKER_03 30:54

I gotta put a roof overhead.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

What's he talking about? Touche. Do I wanna know?

SPEAKER_03 31:01

Balconies. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:04

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 31:04

You can non-negotiable. I need that.

SPEAKER_01 31:07

So y'all gonna so we're gonna call that trip.

SPEAKER_03 31:09

That's my motivation. That's my motivation to lit.

SPEAKER_01 31:12

Can we call that trip? No, nigga.

SPEAKER_03 31:13

I'm talking about I need her, not the trip.

unknown 31:14

No.

SPEAKER_03 31:15

What am I gonna need her?

SPEAKER_02 31:17

So what I'll say is I learned recently internet was one of the things that when it it's gone out.

SPEAKER_03 31:23

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:24

And I realized how much the the house relies on that shit because when I pulled out DVDs and they looked at me like, dad, what the hell is this? I'm like DVDs. Like we we grew up on DVDs. Yeah, they said nah.

SPEAKER_01 31:34

They don't Is that something that you wouldn't make them thug it out?

SPEAKER_02 31:39

I mean, if we have to, but it's something that I realize does is convenient for the house.

SPEAKER_03 31:44

Yeah, I'm not getting rid of the internet. Are you crazy? Yeah, I want to get rid of internet, but I don't necessarily need internet as much as because I have such a uh good collection of videos that I can like movies.

SPEAKER_01 31:58

I do not want to hear about y'all fucking collections of videos of movies.

SPEAKER_03 32:02

So like I don't need internet to watch certain movies, like you know, so like literally she can watch all the uh Avenger movies and all of the uh that's a whole day right there between uh Avengers and Charles. That's a that's the day of programming.

SPEAKER_01 32:13

Tell them kids to go outside.

SPEAKER_03 32:14

Oh, she does.

SPEAKER_01 32:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 32:16

She be flipping the shit.

SPEAKER_01 32:17

Should you go outside, but terrifying me.

SPEAKER_03 32:19

I want the internet. Yeah. Okay, but this is personal. This is for personal gain. I need internet for personal gain. That's probably it. Yeah. Food, obviously, but that's a groceries. That's not a non-negotiable. Could you live a refrigerator? Nah. The one thing I could probably I could probably live out of a deep freezer because I'll probably at the end state where I ain't got nothing in it. Yeah. Literally. So I don't need it. It might come in handy though, if you learn how to hunt. What put a body in there? Nah. If you learn how to like squirrels and shit.

SPEAKER_02 32:50

Yeah, that's a non-negotier. You need to.

SPEAKER_03 32:52

You can like not eat groceries. You can learn how to go get food out the street. No.

SPEAKER_02 32:56

Like kill a coyote or something? Yeah. What the fuck are you talking about? Yeah. They're pretty skinny, though. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 33:02

You know the hawks in the area, but they're non-GMO. Get three of them. You'd be eating hawks. I mean, they're non-DMO. If I have to, you know.

SPEAKER_01 33:10

I would say honestly, if I'm being very honest, and and trips means it could be whatever, because I can get on the city. We know you fancy. I could get on the train. No, because I can hey. I could get on the train for ten dollars on the weekends.

SPEAKER_03 33:26

Wait, wait, wait, what train is this? Yeah, Metro. They did it the weekend.

SPEAKER_01 33:31

10 bucks. There and back. Damn. I should do that. Y'all gotta go do that. Y'all can do that.

SPEAKER_03 33:35

Kids are free.

SPEAKER_01 33:36

Kids are free in the summertime, I think.

SPEAKER_03 33:38

I should be on that. Go all the way down to San Clemente. Just walk to the beach. I don't know if I trust the tracks, but San Clemente takes you.

SPEAKER_01 33:46

I mean, that goes straight to the pier at San Clemente. But there's different. You gotta talk about that, nigga. I've taken a train to oceanside. I've I I fund the train. I've done transfers. I've done I like the train a lot. So I would say something that I'ma always try to put fit in the budget is a a trip. Okay. I gotta go somewhere.

SPEAKER_03 34:11

Women can't say no nowhere. Wait, what? Women don't like staying in the house.

SPEAKER_01 34:16

I love the house.

SPEAKER_03 34:17

She just said she can't give up trips. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:19

But it's a balance. Life is a balance.

SPEAKER_03 34:22

I love being at home. If I could do everything from the house, I would. That's true. If I said I would.

SPEAKER_02 34:27

And then give me the box at the top.

SPEAKER_03 34:29

If I could, if I could send a hologram here, I would be at my house with the hologram here.

SPEAKER_01 34:36

I dig that. I do. But I feel like it's a balance because as much as I because I love home so much, like I gotta have. I like the world. I don't know. I don't want to get too too weird because I know that I can, but like ain't nothing wrong with you.

SPEAKER_03 34:53

I don't even know what that word is because you like the I like the world. This is about to get weird.

SPEAKER_01 34:59

Cause I'm weird. Nobody knows this. A lot of people don't know this. But I mean, like, well, you said you were shy in private, so how would they know? What'd you say? I do what?

SPEAKER_03 35:07

Shy. I said you were used it.

SPEAKER_01 35:09

Um, I'm just really earthy. That's what I'm trying to think about. What's that?

SPEAKER_02 35:16

You're we're I think you're you're amongst uh three men that are I will say for myself, knowing the us, we're all we're all weird in our own way. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 35:27

Like that's all hold on, yesterday, yesterday. This this has nothing to do with conversation. Yesterday, my wife was like, she told Phoenix, she said, Phoenix, square up. What does it mean to square up? And Phoenix said, uh, Dosy Dose.

SPEAKER_01 35:38

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 35:40

I said, tell me you're from the suburb.

SPEAKER_01 35:42

No, for real.

SPEAKER_03 35:44

For real. She's like, what? I don't get it. What do you mean, Mom? She says, Smile said, square up. These kids is sheltered. That's good. Fuck all that.

SPEAKER_01 35:53

What I was going to say is that uh I'm earthy. So I like I like win and fire? The I like the world meaning I like to go be out and I need a trip because I want to go.

SPEAKER_03 36:06

Nick, you ain't earthy. You got you got homemade lotion and deodorant.

SPEAKER_01 36:12

Oh my gosh, I hate y'all. So fucking mud. I am earthy. Nobody fucking.

SPEAKER_03 36:21

You got some homemade soaps? Yeah, actually. I think in the freezer. Like, don't touch that. We're gonna need two days.

SPEAKER_01 36:29

I would, I'll say this. I'll if if if life permitted me to, I could live like the grid.

SPEAKER_03 36:37

You'd be in the grid.

SPEAKER_01 36:39

No, like, I mean, no, my my house would probably be really nice, but you have a water farm.

SPEAKER_03 36:45

Like a mill, whatever they're called.

SPEAKER_01 36:46

I could really do that.

SPEAKER_03 36:47

You realize with a farm, that's that's work. Yeah, I feel it. That's work.

SPEAKER_01 36:51

I know. But I love that type of shit.

SPEAKER_03 36:53

But when I hear earthy, I feel like just laying in the dirt and I do.

SPEAKER_01 36:57

I ground all the time. Like I go. You go ground it for real? I ground all the time.

SPEAKER_03 37:02

You go just walk barefoot off the air. Yes, that's literally every day.

SPEAKER_01 37:05

That's a part of my morning routine.

SPEAKER_03 37:08

That's why I know you live in the burps.

SPEAKER_02 37:09

You would do that, but there's construction outside. Oh, yeah, I've seen a bunch of random uh runs nails just flying.

SPEAKER_01 37:16

No, I mean your own front yard, no?

SPEAKER_02 37:18

Yeah, because it they're literally directly crossing.

SPEAKER_01 37:20

Oh, no, I I can like sunbathe. I'll go in my front yard. And I'll stand out there when the sun hits at a certain time in the morning. The like what he called it.

SPEAKER_03 37:32

Nah, you don't know. Yeah, with it. All that summer solstice and shit. That's when you're supposed to go outside naked and just stayed in the sun. Well, yeah. She can't do that because the crazy guy on the bike is like waiting. They still wait for a shot.

SPEAKER_01 37:48

I don't open up about myself. I'm gonna just say that. Why?

SPEAKER_03 37:52

Because people wrong. I'm telling you, that's that's what I'm saying. That's like what we're talking about with you. People out there just swinter solstice. And you're like, oh, y'all about to get naked on the hill and just stand in the sun. There is a guy in my neighborhood that he he grounds. He runs, like he jogs like a good square mile barefoot every day. And I'm not even with the um no barefoot.

SPEAKER_01 38:15

I bet you he's very emotionally regular.

SPEAKER_03 38:17

He's white and his feet is darker than my skin. Yeah. His feet is not. So you look at his suit and say, what up? And he he out there every day. He got a callus there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:27

No, that's that's dope. I love that.

SPEAKER_03 38:30

Um, okay, so I hope you washed his feet for walking in the house.

SPEAKER_01 38:35

But do you know what the the benefits of grounding are?

SPEAKER_03 38:38

My wife has said this before. I don't really care. I don't remember. He's honest. It just seems nasty, nigga. But run some socks, at least. So you you can take the socks off.

SPEAKER_01 38:49

No, we are uh we are meant, we are designed to be a part of this earth the same way that we were created. The earth was created, or not the same way, but we are from the same creator.

SPEAKER_03 38:58

So I'm not against you on this, but part of it so you was looking at me. Part of it is like we're walking on concrete.

SPEAKER_02 39:12

Can we understand and not have to have fun stone feet?

SPEAKER_03 39:15

We're on the grass and in the dirt. Yamba dabba do. I'm with it.

SPEAKER_01 39:19

Yamba dabba doo. I hated how you was looking right now. Why do you hate us? Mika fuck y'all. Let me just okay. How does the current first of all?

SPEAKER_03 39:33

Hold on. That's not how grandma actually is how grandma's.

SPEAKER_01 39:35

Yeah, I was about to say, Hey, I'm about to be Queen Granny here, okay? Um, how does the current state of our economy relate to your mental health on a date?

SPEAKER_03 39:46

Yeah, that's not a good question. This has been episode. Not gonna depress everybody out here. Yeah. That's a question for the therapist. Shit. The state shit is rough. Yeah. When you wake up every day with the responsibility of fucking uh three lives on your shoulder and you're trying to figure out to get shit done.

SPEAKER_02 40:15

Smoke hand. Yeah. I just shaking and shit. Stressed out.

Real Money Talk

SPEAKER_03 40:18

Yeah, you be like, you be like fucking uh stack. Give me a light. Yeah. It's a wonder why I don't fucking meditate or meditate or gotten to medicate.

SPEAKER_01 40:35

I done fucked these niggas up just with the crap.

SPEAKER_03 40:38

Yeah. That shit that shit damn near depressed me right now. That made me just think of yeah, mortgage and we were like, damn man, these 30 years.

SPEAKER_00 40:46

30 years?

SPEAKER_03 40:48

Fuck. Jesus. You know, it's so funny too. This is a true story, nigga. I call I call the mortgage. I said, hey, look here, man. I feel like February payment should be less, nigga. I don't give a fuck. Two days. I said, I should at least get$30 off, nigga. Something. I said, what the fuck? Nope. I said, because I'm gonna pay this shit again in 29 days. Yep, still do on the first buddy.

SPEAKER_01 41:08

I said, ain't this a bitch? I I make it clear to my kids when my frustration is high because of money stuff. Just so that there's transparency in the house. Um so the other day when I had to get my car fixed, I I said, fuck it. I said these niggas were so I just sent the receipt. I I literally take a picture, I screenshot the little uh invoice the man gave me, and I sent it to my kids. And um, my oldest was like, Jesus Christ. And the middle daughter, my middle daughter was just like, I guess I mean we can't ask for nothing. Like, no, nigga, you can't.

SPEAKER_03 41:46

I mean let me get the copyright so I can my daughter. Yeah, that's as long as they understand that.

SPEAKER_01 41:50

And you know, like I do it intentionally because some some a lot of times I'm just like and I will say, and I always have to say this because I'm fortunate and I'm blessed just based on, I mean, I'm a one-income home household, but I'm blessed to have the income that I have, right? And so I always have to say that because I do feel like I complain about money a lot and I complain about everything a lot. So I always have to remind myself that there's blessings, a lot of blessings happening. Um it's a lot of people, shut up. It's a lot of people that women in my own, like you know, I'm a single mom at the end of the day, and that's a lot of people that are really struggling. I'm struggling too, but they're really struggling and can't do even the things that I do when it comes to my household.

SPEAKER_03 42:32

So you can't say single mom. Why? You gotta say I'm a single grandma. Okay, you gotta you gotta you leveled up.

SPEAKER_01 42:39

I did. That's not really a level up, I guess. Because how the fuck are you still single and now you're a grandma?

SPEAKER_03 42:48

You gotta flex on it. I'm a grandma now. I ain't got time for no games. I'm a grandma.

SPEAKER_01 42:52

Um yeah, I mean basically, but so I do have to I do count my blessings often with that. But what I was saying with my kids, I'm very transparent because I gotta start being that way because my she thinks I'm rich. When it comes to money, you have and my don't get me wrong, you know. My middle daughter is my middle daughter, she swear she's rich. I don't even think she thinks we're rich. I think she thinks I don't think she thinks it's collective, I think that she thinks that she's rich. Um, but my oldest daughter has had a taste of making her own money, so she and now she has a car, and so she's has a taste of what yeah, like you know, getting and giving out looks like right now when it comes to money.

SPEAKER_03 43:30

So I you know, I I talk about I said, Me and your mother have money, you are broke.

SPEAKER_01 43:35

Yeah, that's what Shaq told his kids. And I was asked by that.

SPEAKER_03 43:39

If we say no, it's a no. I mean, matter, I told her, I said, sometimes we take you to school and go to break because we have money. Why wouldn't you because we have money and you don't.

SPEAKER_01 43:49

So Oh, you know how they be sticking. No, I did this last night because I've been I won't stay on a diet because I don't like strict diets, but nevertheless, I haven't had no fast food in a long time. I want In and out. I went grocery shopping, got my gas, and I was like, you know what? I was by myself. All my kids are at the house, and I was like, I really want in and out. So I went and got me a protein style burger. But when I got back to the house, I ate it, and I my intention was just to put the trash in one of the grocery bags and then throw it away when I got in the house. Came in the house, the baby, the baby was there, so I was busy with that. And then my kids is going to the groceries. They was like, In and out. Like they were so offended at the fact that I had that in and out by myself. So it's you couldn't really tell kids.

SPEAKER_03 44:28

Rookie move.

SPEAKER_01 44:29

You said rookie move?

SPEAKER_03 44:30

Okay. They would have never found that bad kid. Drinking is just good luck. That's like today, right? So I got up. You know, we had a long day. So I got up, I made breakfast for everyone. Because we right now we only got one car, so I had to drop my wife. So I made breakfast for everybody, and I made Phoenix breakfast. Normally we go to Starbucks, and then I was like, Did you eat? Well, no, we're going to Starbucks. I said, nigga, you asked for this. You finna eat this. You're not kicked up. I said the whole point of me cooking it so that we wouldn't have to spend money at Starbucks. She's like, but we only I said, Yeah, we not getting that shit today. We're going straight to Kevin's house today.

SPEAKER_01 45:06

Like, yeah, they don't understand. And I think that's another thing for me too. I think that they don't naturally, they're not gonna like automatically understand. So I have to say these things. Like, you know, my middle daughter be like, Mom, Vic, didn't you get like if I tell her no to something, she'll be like, Well, didn't you get paid yesterday?

SPEAKER_03 45:20

No, that's see, Sean is all that part, Sean, that's bullshit because my daughter fully understands the concept of money when it's her money. When it's her money, she looks at prices. She she should she sit there and is it worth it? But if it's my money, oh, throw it back. But when her thing, you got$20. I only got$20. Oh, that's that's$15. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 45:37

That is true.

SPEAKER_03 45:38

Yeah, so she be there. Like, we she had her grandma gave her$40. It took her five weeks to spend this$40.

SPEAKER_01 45:45

That's a slight little girl.

SPEAKER_03 45:47

Because nothing was worth it. She was like, but I want this. Yeah, but you're paying for it. But when it's my money, she'd be like, man, fill a basket up. They got it.

SPEAKER_01 45:54

Yeah. They just think we got it.

SPEAKER_02 45:56

Uh Andreas, I'm proud of him. Shout out to Andreas, my son. He uh won something at work at school. It was an item worth a dollar. And I guess his classmate really wanted that shit. So he sold it to him for 10. Um And then he was like, Dad, can I get Robux or I said, you know what? Keep your fucking money. I'll pay for the Robux. Keep that money because I was proud of him in that moment. And then he did, he followed up. I I have my stash of cans of drinks that I drink in particular, and I drop one. And he goes, Can I pick can you drop? I said, You know what? You opportunist?

SPEAKER_01 46:32

Yeah. He is. That's tight though.

SPEAKER_03 46:34

You know what? You should you should be happy. Yes. My daughter would just take the shit. I was saying it's he's it was mine, dad. It was my opportunist.

SPEAKER_01 46:42

Yeah. Well, you guys.

SPEAKER_03 46:45

That's all you have for us. Don't worry, sound so sad.

SPEAKER_01 46:49

It was entertaining.

SPEAKER_03 46:50

We we uh because we're going back to having to fucking spend money. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:54

Yeah, now that this is over, as soon as you that's what they say, you leave the house, you automatically spend$200. Shit.

SPEAKER_03 47:01

Used to be, it's more now. It's$150 for a head.

SPEAKER_02 47:05

I feel like I'm Julian and uh everybody hates Chris. Yeah, right. I count everything. I look at the mileage.

SPEAKER_03 47:10

Shut that goddamn clock off. You can't tell time while you sleep.

SPEAKER_02 47:14

I look at the mileage from my car and I said that's about that's five dollars right there. That's another six. I said, God damn, I'm just losing miles.

SPEAKER_03 47:21

I know I'm getting old. I'm like, if I if I maintain this speed, I can probably get 35 to the gallon.

SPEAKER_01 47:25

Oh my gosh, yeah. I I I remember, well, probably when I got the car that I have like four or five years ago, I started driving. I wasn't driving as fast as I used to drive. I felt myself doing that. I'm like, well, no, it's miles to a gallon.

SPEAKER_02 47:39

Do you watch the um the meter? It just tells you, you know what? If you keep at this acceleration, it's like you know what? I'm gonna just slow down around.

SPEAKER_01 47:48

This is this is about right right here. Damn, that's crazy because I definitely I guess today's 68 is gonna be you can go around, motherfucker.

SPEAKER_03 47:58

I'll be weaving that shit. Kevin said, fuck it, I'm gonna burn all the gas. That's it. That's all you got?

SPEAKER_00 48:08

That's it.

SPEAKER_03 48:09

That's all, folks. You ain't you ain't got no you ain't got no motivation to end this. Not when it comes to the spending your money wisely.

SPEAKER_01 48:16

Walmart had eggs for$1.97 yesterday. I don't know why they were that cheaper. You can get five dozen.

SPEAKER_00 48:21

You better make sure that five dozen that you're about to hatch.

SPEAKER_01 48:25

Sweaty? Shut up. I I felt like that was really cheap. This is close to I felt like that was cheap. I never buy them at Sam's anymore. When I used to milk, I used to do a I had a like a milk prepping service when my job shut me down. Another story for another day. Um yeah, I got caught soliciting on the job. Yeah, it was moonlighting. It was weird. I don't want to tell the story because fuck that lady man. I was crazy. I got told to cease and desist. That's funny. But anyway, I used to have a meal prepping business and I would buy the Sam's Club eggs, but now we don't really go through them as much. So that's why I don't buy the ones.

SPEAKER_03 49:06

We go through four eggs a day. No, eggs are important. We do four eggs. I'm telling you, we do four eggs a day.

SPEAKER_01 49:13

So every every you and your wife or your daughter doesn't eat.

SPEAKER_03 49:15

All three of all four three of us. Really? So every three days is a dozen. Wow. Oh, four each. No, no, no. Oh, four. The total fair. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:23

What do you how do you guys eat them?

SPEAKER_03 49:24

Like you scramble in the morning, you just sometimes they're scramble, sometimes they're uh sunny side up, sometimes they're no no boy.

Business & App Updates

SPEAKER_02 49:33

Also on Thursdays we do uh checking in on live, Instagram, TikTok. Yeah. Tune into that. You can ask us questions. You can see if where you stand in line on your French toast.

SPEAKER_03 49:48

Um it ain't happening. You could also put in your application for the sunroom.

SPEAKER_02 49:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 49:53

Yeah,$400.

SPEAKER_02 49:55

Meals. You could also apply for Naguett's catering.

SPEAKER_01 50:00

I am about to start running back my meal preps. I don't want to. Should I can I give myself a little share? Right now, I am meal prepping again. How much you charging? Pull up for oh shit. I don't know. I don't know. It's it's in the works.

SPEAKER_03 50:13

It is, it's in the works. It sounds like it was about my pay grades.

SPEAKER_01 50:16

You know why? Because no, I I had my my set prices before, but this economy's different. Yeah, I'm trying to think how I'm gonna do it this time.

SPEAKER_03 50:23

Because you gotta buy this stuff first.

SPEAKER_01 50:24

Yeah, I do. I was making money, okay.

SPEAKER_03 50:30

Come down, whoa, whoa. She was doing modestly, yeah. Like this prices like don't. All right now. You can turn people away, be like, oh sheep, rolling off.

SPEAKER_01 50:39

No, no.

Final Word

SPEAKER_03 50:40

I mean, because I like to cook, so it's just like and then you can get the person in the back, like$400 to help out too. Yeah. Oh, they can deliver this shit. Deliver it. There you go. Be like, hey, I'll cut off like$50 if you want, I want, I want more royalties. All right, y'all. This is Bed Episode 235, hosted by me, the hostess with the most this. The thug ass nigga. Uh make sure you like, subscribe, share, comment, follow all that shit. And tech until next time, we love y'all. Peace.

SPEAKER_02 51:14

Peace. Two chickens. I want to bar every time. Sweaty. That's a rap, y'all. That's that's how she rap. So make sure click like, subscribe.

SPEAKER_01 51:27

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