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Hi, my name is Vanessa 
and I'm 21 years old.

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Hi, my name is Anthony, 
I'm 22 years old from Houston.

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And this is the Financial Audit.

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THE Financial Audit!

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We'll start with you, Vanessa.

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What do you do for a living at 21?

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I'm a meat wrapper.

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Meat wrapper. Wrapping that meat,
that's exciting.

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I bet you love that. So...

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How much do we make doing that?

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An hour, or?

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Yeah, sure.

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16.50 an hour.

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Okay, 16.50 an hour. How many 
hours a week

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- Are we working, currently?
- Vanessa: 30 to 40.

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30 to 40. How inconsistent?

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Kind of inconsistently. I just started
to get into it, so, yeah.

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This is a new job?

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A new position. 
I've been working at

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the same store for like,
over a year now.

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I just transferred.

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And what do you do 
for a living?

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For right now, I'm a stay-at-home
dad, but I...

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You guys have a kid?

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(Both) Yeah.

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Okay.

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I know people used to have kids
when they were young.

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I guess it's actually a very normal thing

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For so many people,

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But to me it just blows my mind,

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As a 29 year old who's like,

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I can't even imagine
having a kid yet,

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I'm like, "please,
I'm just a little baby,"

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So, it's like, how the fuck?
Like...

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- (Anthony) Yeah, we're...
- Whoo! But, okay.

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Good for you guys.
Planned?

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- (Anthony) Hmm...
- (Vanessa) No.

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- (Anthony) 50/50.
- (Vanessa) We knew what we were doing.

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Okay, you're a professional meat wrapper,
you should've wrapped that meat.

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Yeah.

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That wasn't my job yet.

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(laughs) Not yet, okay.

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Wow. So how old's the kid?

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He's two.

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Woah, so this was—
this was young.

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Similar to, like, when my parents had me.

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Okay. Wow.

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So we're relying on the single income
of 16.50?

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At, potentially, sometimes 
30 hours a week?

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How are we doing off of that?

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We're barely making it.

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I mean, we're still going past it,
but it's kind of...

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We don't have no extra money
for nothing.

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Yeah. If I need money, I would
ask my mom.

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Be like, "Oh, can I borrow 
this much?"

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Borrow? How much are we
borrowing from your mom?

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Right now? I owe her 50.
Not much.

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50 dollars?

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But, how often are

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Pretty often

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We're paydaying from our mom?

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Okay stay at home dad obviously

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Okay we're

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BREAKING GENDER STEREOTYPES

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WOAHHH

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Uhm, so wait but they're two

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Okay I guess we're avoiding day care

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Day care is expensive

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Why is the stay at home dad

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What we've chosen

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Well for right now I mean

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I was waiting for a job interview

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cause uhm

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I I've already had the interview

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I have it on Thursday

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But uh

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I was just waiting

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for the to call me back

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How long have you been waiting

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How long have you been

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2

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2 to 3 weeks

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It was more like a month

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Over a month

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How long have you been out of work

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A month

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Oh well what were you doing

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Uh I was working

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At my friends shop

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but uhm

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Friend's shop?

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Yeah but I had gotten

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Kinda like fired from them

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From your friend?

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You have to be really bad at

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your job to be fired from your

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friend don't ya?

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Yeah I was uh well I mean

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I was I was working there

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for a little bit for like a week but

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Her and her mother

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We're complaining that

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It wasn't enough pay a

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And I was away from home for long time

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Even though it was a

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really easy job

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You and your mom we're complaining to

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his friend

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Who is his boss at the

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same time

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No we weren't complaining to his friend

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We were complaining to him

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Because

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What were you making?

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I was making like

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He was making like

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13 something an hour

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What was the shop and

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what was your position?

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It was like uh It was a small shop

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and I was in the back

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Just taking out the orders that they order

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But he was he was selling

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Selling....

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Oh under the table?

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Yeah....

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Type stuff

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Not really legal

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Oh fuck

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Yeah

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Behind your friends back

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No no no.

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No that's what the shop was

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Why wasn't it legally sold?

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I mean it was just Texas is not legal here

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But the shop was to sell it

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Uh well the shop wasn't registered

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basically

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So it wasn't it wasnt like

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Cause I know next to my Condo

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when I used to

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I can say it cause I don't live there

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Uh it was on Boulevard

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And theres like

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Like this collection of shops

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And theres a shop

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that grows weed out the window

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and they sell it in a way where they're

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like if this

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catches on fire

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and smoke comes from it

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you know

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that might be something that happens

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and that was they're legal way of being

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able to sell it

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and they sell like a certain strain thats

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legal

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but

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it sounds like you guys aren't doing

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This is just like straight

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I know it's illegal in Texas

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But like places in Austin they

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don't enforce it

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Yeah well I mean

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They just like

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They didn't like really uh

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It wasn't they didn't build

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enough towards it to where

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to get attention from like

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police or anything

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like no one that was like suspecting

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anything

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Yeah cause its like actually dangerous

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things happen

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Yeah so it was just like

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uhmn

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under

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under the table

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like you said like

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like stuff on Instagram

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that we have like customers

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Why'd you get fired

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Uh my complaining

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Complaining and they didn't have the money

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for it either I wanna say

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Well it's not that I mean like

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Why didn't he just say no

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UH

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I mean he did say no but they

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always just like

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Because we wanted him to find something

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better

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He was working 40 hours in 6 days

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Like but a normal job youll get 5 days for

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40 hours