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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.

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How many hours a week
are we working, currently?

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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 (censored)?
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. 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 we doing this?

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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,
okay, we're

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Breaking gender stereotypes, woah!

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Wait, but they're two.

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Okay, I guess we're avoiding daycare.
Daycare is expensive.

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Why is the stay-at-home dad
what we've chosen?

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Well, for right now, I mean—
I was waiting for a job interview 'cause

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I've already had the interview.
I just—I had it on Thursday, but

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I was just waiting for them
to call me back.

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How long have you been waiting?

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Two to three 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, what happened—
what were you doing?

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I was working at my friend's shop.

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- But, um...
- Your friend's shop.

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Yeah, but I had gotten kind of,
like, fired from there.

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From your friend? You have to be
really bad at your job

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To get fired from a friend,
don't you?

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Yeah, I was... 
well, I mean, I was...

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I was working there for a little bit,
for like, a week, but...

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Her and her mother

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were complaining that it
wasn't enough pay

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And that I was away from home
for a long time

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- Even though it was a really easy job.
- You and your mom were complaining

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To his friend, who was his boss
at the same time?

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No, we weren't complaining
to his friend.

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- We were complaining to him...
- And I was complaining to my friend.

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What were you making?

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I was making like...

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He was making, like, 
13-something an hour.

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What was the shop and
what was your position?

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It was like, a... it was
a small shop,

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And I was just in 
the back, just...

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Taking out the orders that
they'd order.

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But he was selling.

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Selling...

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Oh, under the table?

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- Yeah, type stuff.
- Yeah, so not really legal.

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(censored)

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Yeah.

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Behind your friend's back?

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(both) No, no, 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... it's Texas, yeah.
- It's Texas. It's not legal here.

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But the shop was to sell it?

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- Well, I mean...
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

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The shop wasn't registered, basically,

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So it wasn't—it wasn't, like...

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'Cause I know next to my condo
when I used to—

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I can say it, because 
I don't live there.

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It was on (censored) Boulevard.

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And there's like— 
like, this collection of shops,

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There's an Alamo Drafthouse right there,

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And there's a shop that grows
(censored) in the window,

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And they sell it in a way
where they're like,

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If this catches on fire,

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And smoke comes from it, you know,

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That might be something that happens.

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And that was their legal way
of being able to sell it

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They sell, like, a certain strain
that's legal

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- It sounds like you guys weren't doing...
- This was not...

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Okay, so I'm trying to understand.

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'Cause I know it's illegal in Texas,
but, like, places in Austin,

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They don't enforce it.

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Yeah, well, I mean...

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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