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August 28, 2024 • Wes/DeLaw • Season 8 • Episode 16

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You hit on a parlay, are you telling your wife ? The answer is always no, she'll try to quit her job or something like that. 

Wes:

I had a homegirl tell me like even if her man worked at home, she would still feel a certain type of way because she's getting out of bed, going to work and he needs to have a job where he leaves the house too.

DeLaw:

And I said that.

Wes:

I'm like yo. I'm like yo. If he's making the majority of the money, you still want him to leave the house.

DeLaw:

That's just that's. She's bothered, it's not fair. Basically it was not fair. She got to go away, so it's not fair. You need to get by the bed.

Wes:

That's the same thing I say to my wife. I'm like I need it, I need a telework job. Hey, welcome to another episode of the According to Wes podcast. As always, you got D Law here.

DeLaw:

You got D Law D no, I'm about to do a drinking game. Huh, what, what'd you say? I'm about to do a drinking game, oh, jeez, oh man.

Wes:

Oh God, you got me worse Still, angry at my place of employment, as always.

DeLaw:

Well, they gave you more money to be angry.

Wes:

I mean, does that really equate? Though you know, it never equates. It's been weird. It's been weird, but I ain't gonna say anything for them. Uh, for more money. I ain't gonna ever say that, but see how that shit go. I was telling my wife. I was like that don't mean, I'm still not thinking I should leave.

DeLaw:

You know what I mean like yeah, that just means they gave you more money.

Wes:

It's supposed to wait a little bit longer to decide if I'm gonna leave. But yeah, I, uh, yeah to decide if I'm going to leave. But you know that shit, yeah, I, uh, yeah, you ready to leave, yulia, or you still fighting Sly and uh, kevin.

DeLaw:

You know I see Sly and Kevin every day, but you should not see Sly and Kevin every day. And Kevin been getting bold. He been Because he's the one that stays closest to my cubicle. He been coming out and just sitting there. I just look at him. I'm like what are you doing? And then he'll run back into his little hiding spot. Sly, he stay closer to the door.

Wes:

For those who don't know, because I don't think that episode came out because of audio issues. Sly and Kevin are mice in T-Law's new office and when he got there on his first day he was being exterminator slash Terminator X and not even in his job description.

DeLaw:

Nope, I did not see that in my job description. Must terminate mice Sheesh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man.

Wes:

I feel like we both will have a lot of fucking stories, and now I got to tiptoe around my stories because I'm in fucking management so I can't really say what I want to say or need to say. That's why.

DeLaw:

I'm glad I'm not in any sort of management at all.

Wes:

Nah, but yeah, man, it's uh. I feel like it's been a long, long time, so long that football season is uh what right around the corner.

DeLaw:

Damn. That is right around the corner, ain't it?

Wes:

2K season right around the corner. Damn, that is right around the corner, ain't it?

DeLaw:

2K season right around the corner from that.

Wes:

Yeah, so you know, women, men will be occupied, it's. You know? I ain't even saying show us some grace, just you know, kind of stay out of our way a little bit.

DeLaw:

Oh man, that's two drinks I got to take. Damn it, two drinks you gotta take, yeah. So my drinking game for today is when we talk about sports, 2k or cats, I was gonna drink god damn off the rip.

Wes:

Like what two minutes in you drinking I?

DeLaw:

was like damn, I didn't want to say it because I was like you're gonna, you're gonna talk about now, you just fall off the back listen, that's I mean.

Wes:

We'll leave it at that. I I know you got places to be. I'll let y'all handle that. I'm just saying both of those things are right around the corner.

DeLaw:

I told you she's a designated driver.

Wes:

Oh, you told her why she's a designated driver. Yo, whenever me and my wife go out, I'll be a designated driver because in my head I'm like yo one. I'd be a designated driver because in my head I'm like yo if I'm not drinking with the homies at home or something like that, or if I know I'm going to be there for a while, I really don't even drink, so I let my wife just have it up and shit like that, and I'll be on lookout and in protection mode and shit like that. But any other time, oh yeah, I'm drinking like shit.

DeLaw:

I pretty much do the same thing. If we go somewhere, generally I'll pre-game yeah, yeah, yeah. So that way I ain't got to spend no money out. But when we get there she's like well, let's get a drink, let's get a drink. I mean, I drink a lot more than she do. But by the time she's like, oh yeah, I'm tired, I can't cry.

Wes:

So it's like alright, well, let me take it easy, and I know it's coming yeah, it's just might as well like, why do you, why even have that fight consistently? Like I got a homeboy to have that fight consistently with his lady, like you know who gonna drive here, who gonna do this and that if you just accept the shit that she gonna try to, she gonna try to finesse you, just make it. Make it more tolerable and manageable for you.

DeLaw:

That's what I do, just make it more tolerable and manageable for you.

Wes:

That's what I do.

DeLaw:

You're never saying don't go out and have fun, but you know you're going to be a driver. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just how it goes.

Wes:

I don't mind it. I don't be trusting my wife when she gets too distracted sometimes. I ain't going to lie, I do not mind it, it is what it is. Yeah, man, I ain't gonna lie, I do not mind it. So it is what it is.

DeLaw:

But uh, yeah man she didn't drive her here, so she's like oh my god, I'm having a heart attack. When you and David, you and the kid, were driving a car, I'm like, oh lord, no, no, no, uh, yeah, none of us been killed from us driving. We hide. Yeah, man, oh my speaking of drinking and driving.

Wes:

It's like nah, from us driving. Yeah, man, speaking of drinking and driving, it's like nah. My bar is empty as shit. It's about that time. The season is changing, I need to go ahead and I need to replenish. Hell yeah, I ain't got nothing. I only have wine in the house right now, so I'm definitely on a replenish mode. I could probably start affording the expensive shit like the Hibiki and all the other shit that I be seeing online.

DeLaw:

You can get you some Hennessy Pure White.

Wes:

I definitely can. I definitely can.

DeLaw:

Yeah, we had a bottle in here and then that was gone.

Wes:

Because of who? Well?

DeLaw:

no, it was the wife's bottle I had got it for me on the cruise.

Wes:

Oh yeah, man, that's the last time I actually had a bottle. It was on the cruise. It got up for like $40 or some shit like that. Y'all bought it like when y'all was from the boat.

DeLaw:

Mm-hmm, yeah, and they wouldn't deliver it until the day we were leaving.

Wes:

Yeah, they wanted you to. They said it was by law or some shit. I just think they like no, we want you to buy alcohol. We don't want you getting drunk in your room.

DeLaw:

Right, that's what I think it really was.

Wes:

Yeah, I don't think it's no law. I mean, I didn't even look the shit up, but nor did I care.

DeLaw:

I'm like I brought it because the funny part was I brought it while we were still in the States. I didn't buy it after the boat started moving.

Wes:

Oh yeah, either way, you'll get it after your cruise. The first time they told me I was like what I want that shit now Right.

DeLaw:

So I ended up buying. We brought two bottles, so I think it ran me like 120, 130. And then because we were like well, let's see how it tasted. So when we got home we drank a bottle and that was a bottle I brought for myself. So me and her shared my bottle and I said well, this bottle is yours, unless you open it. This ain't I, ain't cracking it open, it ain't mine.

Wes:

People come over and they say can I get?

DeLaw:

Nope.

Wes:

That's hers.

DeLaw:

Don't ask me, can you have something? Nope.

Wes:

Yeah, the last time I actually went, I think I got a bunch of Crown Royals, so I got the Apple, that vanilla shit and some other shit. That was the last time we ever went on a boat, but I've been on a boat twice, never doing it again.

DeLaw:

Yeah, I will say that I don't know, because that Pier White Henny had been sitting there since 2021. It's not bad, because we got married 2020. We had a reception 2021.

DeLaw:

We went on a cruise 2022. So it's been from 2022 to yesterday. So what ended up happening was my cousins came over and one of my cousins came over and one of my cousins was like oh well, you know, let's take this beer right here. I said no, you got to ask her that's her bottle, that bottle's in this bar, that is her bottle, I don't touch it. That's why the label's still on it. Oh, that ain't mine, I ain't touching it. He's like I mean, I don't care, it's his bottle. I said it ain't my damn bottle, it's yours. So he opens it, but then the guy forgets that he wanted some, so I close it up, go back in the car so fast forward to like Friday.

Wes:

I was like why don't?

DeLaw:

you just take this with you on your little boat ride with your sorority sisters and just take it. He's like, nah, nah, nah, I don't want to do all that, come back. See, that's exactly what he did. I was like, well, good, How'd you like it? Oh yeah it was good I said well there's only a little bit left.

Wes:

So how good was it Say it was delicious, because everybody is kilt at this point.

DeLaw:

I'm just like. So do you mind if I take the last little bit?

Wes:

You know, at that point it's like a shot and a half left.

DeLaw:

Do you mind if I drink that last little bit? I mean, you know she's like, yeah, no, go for it, I don't want. It All right. So I put it in a cup. I swirled it around like it was some wine, sniffed it.

Wes:

Oh, my gosh Connoisseur over here, oh yeah, man Took my sip.

DeLaw:

I sipped on that for an hour. It wasn't a lot, so I just wanted to savor the taste a little bit.

Wes:

And that's kind of what I miss right now, like on Sundays, just being able to walk around with a drink all day.

DeLaw:

Yeah, I think the only time I did that was during football season, because I would always be grilling Sunday.

Wes:

You at three. I didn't say that. You said that Now, you at three. But yes, that is the time to do it.

DeLaw:

Yeah, that is the time to go do it man. I got my own game. Man. I have to say I mean got my own game, man you did. I have to say I mean what else can I say?

Wes:

I feel like I'm gonna make it a fun. Sunday yeah, sunday fun day. Hashtag yeah, man, that's definitely a good time to do it and, like I said, fall coming, so I need to replenish. I need to replenish all my stuff and get all my stuff. And get some new stuff, like one of the homies has been telling me about a plum wine from Japan that he fucked with, so I'll be making a trip to Total Wine and more sometime soon.

DeLaw:

I found a plum wine and a peach wine out here from the vineyards in Maryland. That was pretty good. It was in the liquor store around the corner. Okay, I got it for the wife to try. I got like the apple, one peach. I got her one more and she's like, oh, I like these. Oh yeah, these are good. It's like a local brand. I can't think of it.

Wes:

I can't think of it, lingen, was it.

DeLaw:

Lindener, lindener.

Wes:

Something, something like that Lindenfilter or something like that.

DeLaw:

I know the wife knows, because she was the one that said oh, that's from so there's this local joint that was from.

Wes:

It was an ETM, it was what.

DeLaw:

There's this local joint that was from.

Wes:

What.

DeLaw:

Lindonor.

Wes:

Yeah, that. And then there's another one that's like a honey one and it's from this Ethiopian company, local company, that does it out in Vrak. I don't remember. I wrote it down somewhere and I said I was going to pick up a couple bottles just because you know, see how that shit tastes.

DeLaw:

But yeah, but that wine company. Because I was like, because when she took what I saw I was like, well, I never knew this was in Maryland. So I was like, oh man, we could definitely do like a wine little thing over there and like drive up to Mount, whatever that is, and go and explore and see what happens. You know, when I won my first $10,000 sports bet? Four yeah, four yeah.

Wes:

Yo, it's parlay season pretty much. Yo it's gonna be so many women mad at dudes well, they won't be mad if they hit listen, they won't know if we hit you think. You think I'm telling my wife like yo I hit on a parlay, let's go do something. No, I do stuff all the time.

DeLaw:

That's my intellect. That's exactly what I would do. I'd be like this I hit on that.

Wes:

You might go out, but that's all you know.

DeLaw:

I'll hit on that 25K one and you know, first, you know I already got paid taxes over anything over like $600. They already going to take the taxes out, so I'll probably be like all right, look, let me think, where can I go for $500? Hey, babe, get whatever you want, I don't care how much it costs, just don't go over $350.

Wes:

You know what that is. Let's go to the grocery store, get all the fucking snacks and shit the shit that we don't normally get Should be happy.

DeLaw:

Hey, but you know what, if I did hit for that big and I was like you know what babe Don't even worry about. Look, here's $350. Do whatever you need to get. And then you already got the other $126 that I throw into the joint account that you take for groceries, throw it at it, get whatever. Matter of fact, get anything you want me to make. Look up the recipe, just get it. Let's do it. Yeah, but first I got to win the money.

Wes:

Oh yeah, first you got to win the money First.

DeLaw:

I got to win the money.

Wes:

To throw her off the trail of the money. Nah, you can't even throw her off the trail of the money because she would be like how much I was going to say get her, be like yo, here's something, get something for me, but get something for you too. You know what I mean. So get that. Go get some groceries.

DeLaw:

I think the biggest reason my wife would know if I came into a lot of money is if I tell her that the money she has to send me every two weeks to pay the bills that we jointly pay it goes down drastically. Hold up nigga, no you just have to.

Wes:

No, no, no. You just have to continue to do, which I'm going to do. Continue to do the things that you was already doing and hide the stuff that you buy. Come on now.

DeLaw:

That's all you got to do, because I'll be like, hey, babe, I can't keep telling her hey, send me this amount of money, knowing that I already paid the mortgage off. Yes, you can. Oh, okay, what do you mean? What do you mean? Because, as soon as you find out, so I've been paying all this for how long? Nah.

Wes:

Yeah, you can. I ain't going to tell you how to do it, because it'll be evidence. We'll talk about it, but I can tell you how to do it, because I can tell you how to do it At that point.

DeLaw:

if I'm able to pay this house off, it's just a matter of accumulating the taxes that we need to pay every quarter.

Wes:

Okay, I see what you're saying Huge shit on the parlay, parlay. Listen, just pay the house off and be like yo. I work. I tell you this. Well, no, that would be like yo. I tell you this. Well no, that would be like yo. I love you and, and I wanted to do this for us and our family, I went ahead and paid the house off, I, I had some investments, and then this, this and that, and came into something pretty substantial, uh, and I want to give you all that's left over so what you're saying is, I should say, I did not a nice thing and invested in something that just so happened to take off.

Wes:

No, you can say the parlay. You can say the parlay. I'm just saying say that, right, this is what I'll do. I'll do that. I'll say that I give you and I cherish you deeply, I want to give you the rest of what was left over, and then you give her some, but it's not the rest. Okay, that's how you play.

DeLaw:

that that's how you play that I just need to get enough to pay off this house. Yeah, me too. If I do that, we'd be good. Yeah, I saw the mortgage rates was going down. They're going to be going down to 6.6. But it was already at 6.6.

Wes:

But there was already a 6.6 right now. I've been checking periodically because the moment they hit like a 5, a low 5, I'm going to start, you know.

DeLaw:

I've been looking. I'm hoping that they go down down because if they get down far enough where you know, because we'll be five years at this house soon and the house has reappraised, I guess you call it they sent the thing for the value of the house and it had gone up from the time we got it to now it's gone up by 20,000. So it's gone up by $20,000. It's like, if it goes down far enough, we're technically in a better situation than we were when we got this house. Technically, technically in a better situation, not necessarily because we have accumulated some of the bills, but technically, financially, we're bringing in more money.

DeLaw:

We could make a real push to either sell this or sell this, get that from it, maybe, find somewhere we can live month to month and find a house and move in and everything else. I know that's still ready. Still ready. I got you. That would be the idea, especially if it gets down low enough. Definitely, if it gets down low enough, it's something to really consider to get a little bit more space and more bang for our buck.

Wes:

Yeah, which is not a bad thing to try to do, especially if the market is allowing you to do it. You know what I mean.

DeLaw:

Yeah because I mean you sell your house, you pay whatever is left on the house to give somebody a clean slate left with whatever else is left, which in this case might be like $40,000, $50,000.

DeLaw:

Which isn't a bad put down somewhere. But if we can get it to a certain point, even if we're here for another three, four years, it never hurts to stay somewhere. No, not at all, because you're always paying it down. Or if I hit $250,000, pay it all off, and I'm good to go, pay it all off, we ain't got to worry about all that. Pay the taxes, pay taxes on this house and then say, well, we don't have to worry about all that, we pay the taxes, pay taxes on this house and then say, well, we don't have no other debt. So at that point it's just a matter of if we go and buy this, if we sell this house here and put this money in an account somewhere until we need it, then we do get our mortgage loan. We give us a $400,000 or $500,000 house or $400,000 house Right, you know what I'm saying. And something nice, spacious, split level, it'd be. You know, these are all dreams of mine that if I just somehow hit.

Wes:

Yeah, hit that parlay first. Yeah, I got to hit the parlay first.

DeLaw:

Yeah, I got to hit the parlay first. Well, I mean, like I was telling somebody I was like oh, it just depends on what.

DeLaw:

I hit. If I hit 40, 50k, then that was just me paying off the cars. You know that's a hundred some odd dollars every check we ain't got to take out. We'll put those back in our pocket. Shit Like anything that we can do to put money back in our pocket. That's what I'm trying to do Between the business working and sports betting. Any money I can get back in our pocket is good money.

Wes:

Fuck yeah, I don't see why I wouldn't be.

DeLaw:

Mm-hmm.

Wes:

I um, All right, that's four drinks I take. Nah, you taking more than that? I um, I still need to, I still need to, I don't need to, but I still haven't really set up anything for me to be doing that like, uh, you know the DraftKings shit. So, yeah, I um, like you know the DraftKings shit. Yeah, I definitely going to look into it, just to have a little bit of fun, just to have a little bit of fun.

DeLaw:

I mean, that's really what it's for. I don't put no money into it. All the money that's on these apps are money that I either got from free bets and I hit the bet and I just nickel and dime it what do you call it? Like my fan duel is at like $2.60 and I'd be like getting 10 cent bets just to get a dollar that is what it is it's almost like yo, how do you make money off that?

DeLaw:

I said. You know it's like the tortoise and the hare story Slow and steady. Like you can't get greedy, you got to make sure.

Wes:

Okay, I know these are hit, and as long as you're getting on the plus side of it, yeah, and not only that, like you're flipping your money, yeah, and it is football season, you could turn your money into $1,000 if you're doing it like little by little that way. Yeah, that's a free stack right there.

DeLaw:

I told somebody. I said I put a 50-cent bet down one time and all I needed was Julio Jones to get four yards. He got four yards and a touchdown and I got me from a 50-cent bet.

Wes:

I got yeah you know what I mean?

DeLaw:

that's that it can happen. Sometimes it just be the luck of the draw. And I've gotten, I've started getting more disciplined with cashing out. Oh, right away.

DeLaw:

I look at it this way even though I might have made this bet for, let's say, I had put together this immaculate $2 million bet or $250,000 bet, something immaculate off of a locker if I get to a point where I'm like, ah, and it's like the end of the first set of games or anything, then it's like, all right, well, how much am I going to make If it says, let's say it was right. Well, how much am I going to make If it says, let's say, it was $250,000 out there, let's just add it and it says you'll get $90,000. Cash out. I mean, I know that's not how it works If you want the whole bet. And even when I got the $80 off the 50 cent, the bet was originally like $190. And all I needed was what I needed was Stephan Diggs to get 50 yards. But I was like, and it was Monday night, I was like, I don't know, like Monday night games are always so weird.

Wes:

They're always so playoff game-ish. You know what I mean.

DeLaw:

Yeah, they're always so playoff game-ish. You know what I mean. Yeah, and like that guy who gets 50 yards rushing every game, all of a sudden he can't get more than 60 yards, yeah.

DeLaw:

And it's like no, and so I'm actually stepping in. This was the last thing and I pretty much only got like half of what I could have got. Yeah, so in my head I'm like, well, if I put together something great and they give me the option to cash out and it's substantially bigger than what, I At the end of the day, if I get more than what I already put in. Hell, yeah, I'm cashing out and then I'll reuse those bets again.

Wes:

Man, it sounds like this might be carver money for me.

DeLaw:

Shit, even if I could Goddamn expensive Tell you man, if Shit, even if I could Goddamn expensive, if I could just get enough to pay off our cars, that makes a whole lot of difference to how we spend money. You know what I'm saying.

Wes:

Okay, let's just say you was the hit for something nice, substantial and shit like that. You were able to pay off the house and shit, and wifey like yo nice, substantial and shit like that You're able to pay off the house and shit and wifey like yo, can I stay home and not work no more? You say yeah.

DeLaw:

Yeah, really, because it's just the taxes, it's not the mortgage anymore, it's just the taxes on the house.

Wes:

But what about this new lifestyle that y'all are thrust upon if she just continues working her job? Well, if she can, well knowing my wife, my wife, you wouldn't advocate in no way to be like listen, sweetheart, we could be doing some things now.

DeLaw:

If she I'll put it this way If we were in our final home, our final home and it was paid off and she just said you know what, I'm tired of the bullshit at my job and I really don't want to work, I'll go. You know, I want to stay home. I just want to be a crossing guard outside and just do that in the morning and afternoons and then come home, I would have no gripes about it because I mean, I know me, I'm not going to stop working. I eventually will stop working, but I, you know, I'm going to keep working because at the end of the day I'm like I don't want to sit in the house all day. I need to go out and do something. So I would.

DeLaw:

If she was like I just need time away from work, okay, cool, take your time. I mean $3,000, $4,000 a year in taxes on the house. I mean I can cover that. It's not more than it'd be pretty much, you know. Now, mind you with paying off the house. Hopefully I've made enough to pay off the cars. That'd be the other issue, because if she's not working, it means I gotta take care of the insurance, the AC, the internet, the insurance I already said, the insurance and the taxes. So I had to take care of those. And the cell phone, because she's not working at that point, so I still had to take care of all those. So hopefully I was able to get enough money that I could pay off anything that was going to keep me from doing that. Put it that way, right, because at that point, if I make enough, I could hire somebody to run the business for me, where I can just bring the money in and what if she also continued to work?

Wes:

those all those things could be achieved easier. All those things could be achieved quicker and that money could be put some of the money she can only let's just say she worked for about five more years y'all be in a better situation than y'all was if she would have stopped working. Yeah, only reason why I asked is because I was. I came across this thing on reddit and this guy was like was he the asshole for telling his wife that she can't stay at home? So the story goes you know the guy and his wife. They share a two-year-old. Oh, they share a two-year-old child. Oh, they have a two-year-old child. That sounds weird for him to say I share a two-year-old child. They have a two-year-old kid.

Wes:

She does more housework than him, but he can help out when he can. He works more hours. She makes around $70,000 a year and ever since the child was born she's been wanting to be a stay-at-home mom. He doesn't want her to be a stay-at-home mom. He thinks it's not worth losing 70k a year in income. If they have five children, then yeah, but um, saying maybe I would. Maybe he should see the value, but in this case he doesn't. He's told her that it's her choice whether she wants to stay at home or not, and that he and that she was just or not, and that she was just informing me that she's considering it. I thought this was very rude. I thought this was a very rude thing to say. Legally, she's right and it's her choice. But I told her, if she chooses to disregard my opinion on the matter and quit, she'll be right back applying for jobs very soon well shit the matter and quit.

DeLaw:

she'll be right back applying for jobs very soon. Well shit, that was very passive-pervasive.

Wes:

Brother, you better not quit that fucking job.

DeLaw:

I get it, I get it.

Wes:

That sounds like he pays for a lot of the stuff throughout whatever, and she's still be asking for money. And he's like hell, nah, losing $70K is a lot of the stuff throughout, whatever, and she'd still be asking for money. He's like hell, nah, losing $70K is a lot of money.

DeLaw:

That is a lot of money. I mean, I've still been trying to lobby for being a stay-at-home husband if my wife does get a whole lot more money she don't want, that she's not going to respect you money.

DeLaw:

She don't want that. She's not going to respect you. You don't want that. But also, I had to look at from her point of view. She's like, well, look, if she all of a sudden started making 150 000, 200 000 a year, even though she could, I could stay home and she would take care of everything to lose my income, like like you were just saying to lose my income, like you were just saying to lose my income would make things a little tougher, because now everything has to be budgeted through her and she's paying all of it Exactly.

Wes:

And if something happens to one source and I'm not saying that it will, but if something was to happen for two or three weeks or maybe a couple months, that's kind of a little. It's going to be a little crazy.

DeLaw:

Yeah.

Wes:

And even going back to the uh like the reason why you shouldn't do it, the respect thing. I had a homegirl tell me, like even if her man worked at home she would still feel a certain type of way because she's getting out of bed, going to work and he needs to be, he needs to have a job where he gets, leaves the house too. And I said that and I was like yo, I was like yo. If he's making the majority of them, you still want him to leave the house.

DeLaw:

That's just that's, that's that's, that's that's she's. She's bothered, it's her. It's not fair. The reason it was just not fair.

Wes:

She got to go away so it's the same thing I say to my wife. I'm like I need a telework job.

DeLaw:

She's like well, you have one, You're left and want to be with Sly and Kevin. I didn't know Sly and Kevin were there. I went there thinking I was going to telework time because that's what they were telling me, and then I didn't realize that I was going to be a high exterminator and then hang out with two mice the other day.

Wes:

I didn't know yeah, that is wild, but yeah, but yeah, like losing that income. I'm not saying money is everything, but just think how it's kind of like when you, when you only have, I imagine, right, because I ain't there yet like if you ain't really had a lot of bills to pay and stuff like that and everything was kind of taken care of going to work, making that check, probably feel good, you probably a little bit happier, so you probably want to do it because you know maybe 80 of your money is going to be your money. Whatever you decide to do now, whether you decide to fuck it off or do some responsible shit, that's totally up to you as an adult. But I see that man point, especially with a kid. That's different. Losing 70K.

DeLaw:

Because, if so, let's say I was making. Let's say he was making really really good money, that he took care of all the bills. She was just working just because she's like to work and have her own money. That 70K honestly could go to the child care. So I would be like, well, look, I'm already taking care of all the bills.

DeLaw:

So, we're going to need you to. I'm going to need you to pay the daycare bill, you know, or we could split it, however you want to do it, but one way or another, your money is going to be going towards the daycare. You got 45 to 90 days to figure it out, because maternity leave, depending on where you at. I know with the feds it was three months for women and then I think it was three months for women and like 45 days for men.

Wes:

God damn, I remember the past job I had men got three months, women got a year A year. Yep, that wasn't the government, that was private industry.

DeLaw:

I know one lady when I had gotten there, when I got to the Fed's Department of Justice, she had gone out on maternity leave. I don't think she ever came. I think she eventually came back but they said she had been gone for a year With attorneys and you be there for a long time, you got to leave to burn. And I and I don't quote me on that this was way, way, way way back in like the early 2000s, early to mid 2000s. So things might have changed or I might have gotten it wrong, but I know that the women always had more time than the men. I think more time than the men, I think I want to say the men obviously get half the time that the women get. I know some places they were like, yeah, I got six months of maternity and the husband will be home for 90 days. Honestly, I think that's what you really do need when you do have a child. Honestly, I thought men should get the same amount as women.

Wes:

Because you never know the dynamic and all that. Not even that, just like the health-wise, like you know what your wife or your partner might be dealing with at that time. You might have to be super dad or super husband and shit where she like complications or postpartum and stuff like that. I would think men the ratio should be a one year, six months. Men get six months, women get one year. One year, yeah.

DeLaw:

I mean, and my biggest thing about that, about us getting, even though we get half the time, I think it benefits both of us, because those first six months is the hardest, because not only do you got to deal with that, you got a new baby now you got to deal with these awkward-ass sleeping patterns of the baby. So now someone's getting up middle of the night, can't get no sleep. So it's like nigga, it's your turn. No, nigga, it's your turn. No, nigga, it's your turn. Look what the board says. It says oh fuck, it is me All right. You know, now you got to put the. You know you got to get the baby on a routine. You got to get them to sleep through the night. You got to it's like all these things. You got to do that in six months just so that when you lay the baby down at 9, 10 o'clock at night or whatever time they go to bed, that they ain't waking up until it's time for you to get up to get ready for work.

Wes:

That shit don't always work and I know I've said this story before, but me and my nephew went to the movies yesterday and I was just thinking like when I was still staying with my mom and I was still traveling out to Manassas to go to work, so I had to wake up like around 5 just to be out the house by like 6, just to get there by like 7-something yeah, 7-8-something and he would wake up way before it was time for him to feed or whatever have you, and he'd just be crying. So he would wake up literally an hour before I was supposed to get up. So he would wake up at 4. He would start crying. I'm like you got another, you should have another hour of sleep.

Wes:

And his little baby self was like fuck that, I won't do that Consistently, just waking up an hour before. I'm like what the fuck? So I was not getting no sleep and that's what actually forced me to like alright, I'm moving back and I'm moving into the house, because remember, I said I had the house or whatever. I was just like fuck it, I ain't got no furniture in this, motherfucker, if I got to sleep on the floor in the master bedroom and this shit, just to get some sleep. That's what the fuck I'm going to do and that's what I did. I was like my nephew forced me out of my goddamn mom's house because his sleeper patterns was way the fuck off.

Wes:

I'm like god damn, I can't even fix up the house while I'm staying in the school.

DeLaw:

Leo just looked at me like y'all talking about me.

Wes:

Strapping drinks. Talking about the cat.

Wes:

So but yeah, man, yeah. But back to that money thing. Like, yeah, it would have to be some type of compromise Like yo. Like, yeah, it would have to be some type of compromise Like yo, like, losing 70K off the rip is crazy. Let's figure some things out. Let's you know what I mean. Like, let's set ourselves up for success. Maybe you pocket your you know your checks for a year or two and you put in the high yield savings, whatever, whatever, whatever. Any interest you got is your fuck around money, right, and I'll take care of the rest. And if you need to go back to work, you won't have to go back to work.

Wes:

But I think a lot of. I mean I'm not a, I'm not a woman, so I can't really say but yeah, I understand the, the want to be home with your kid. There's nothing more important than that, because that is your child. However, inflation, things are expensive. Sanity you know what I mean. I know they say money ain't everything and love don't pay the bills. There's some truth to a lot of that shit. No one wants to be in that type of stress.

DeLaw:

I know a couple people whose wives are stay-at-home wives, but I think the guys are more miserable because it's like, oh, I come home from work and now I got to do work at home. It's like I just worked all day.

Wes:

The guys are always more miserable. I always talk about it like I just worked all day. Yeah, you guys are always more miserable.

DeLaw:

I was like I mean, and I always talk about it, I get it, but you know, at the end of the day, like if this is what you started with your life, it's like anything else in life. You started doing it one time. It's forever. It's forever at that point.

Wes:

I have one of my homies tell me that a mutual not a mutual friend, but a friend of his his wife hit him with the well, I'm not just going to be here being your maid. And he was like you don't work, I'm not asking you to be my maid, I'm asking for this house to fucking be clean and some food to be on the fucking table, and I'm like that ain't too much to ask. I don't even have no kids and you just like walking around where I ain't going to be your maid, you're going to be something. I ain't saying you're going to be my maid, but it's like yo, I take care of everything. You don't work. What do you think this is?

DeLaw:

See, that's a difference. I'm pretty sure if I had done everything right in my life and I was more successful and I met my wife and I was like, babe, you ain't got work.

Wes:

Knowing your wife, she's going to work just because.

DeLaw:

She's going to work just because she's going to want her own. She's going to want to make sure she ain't stuck in that house. She's doing the same thing over and over. She's going to go to work. I'm just saying in this other universe that I in the Marvel world, Multiverse. I know my wife. My wife is very traditional. If she's not working, I'm taking care of everything. Yes, she's going to be ready. Yes, the house will be clean because that's how she was raised.

DeLaw:

You don't get me like that, where it's like oh well, I'm going to make sure the house is clean, but I don't work, it's going to be. Well, I'm tired, Leave me alone. You got your hands on it. You've been home all day. I get what he's saying and I get what she's saying. I don't get what she's saying. She don't work, she don't work, she don't work. I'm just saying like, if you're looking at it from her perspective, you know, because she doesn't work, I'm not sure how he's saying it to her, how she's taking it, because he might be saying to her like, hey, well, I mean, I respect this. She might be looking at it like why are you commanding me around?

Wes:

I'm not just laying, it's all in the communication. I get that part and that part. I don't know that part I don't know. He was just talking to my friend, like yo, she don't do nothing around the house and she stay at home.

DeLaw:

I mean, well, she doesn't, but maybe she doesn't know how to cook, Maybe she hasn't been really, maybe she doesn't really.

Wes:

I'm going to tell you, listen, listen, listen, I understand that aspect and I don't know, and this is all hypothetical, but of course me I'm going based off of some of the some of the homies that I know and stuff like that. My one of my homies, his wife, wanted to do a career change and she wanted to like be a chef. So he helped put her through culinary, a little culinary program and shit like that. And he was telling us he was like why should I cook in my own house? I just helped her through a culinary program.

Wes:

She cooked better than me and I kind of understood that. It's just kind of like yo, that's what she wanted god is anything wrong with is any, but what I guess?

Wes:

what I'm trying to say is like, if you don't know how to cook and you have nothing but time on your hands, you live the type of lifestyle where you're allowed to have nothing but time on your hands. You need to get to it. You shouldn't just be like, well, I don't know how to cook, figure it out. That's just like you being at work and be like I don't know how to use this particular Xerox machine. You gonna have to figure it out. We want to keep your job. I mean same stipulation. I would think you know what I mean. Like I will rise to the occasion. We have to rise to the occasion.

DeLaw:

I mean it's not too tough to just look at a recipe and follow. I mean I know, we all know this we all have read, we all know this, we all have read, we all know how to.

Wes:

Well, I'm sorry. We all know the lemon pepper recipe in the back of our head that we got off Good Cooking or some shit like that. I forget the name of the website, but you get what I mean.

DeLaw:

I mean. Well, you know, being from emergency preparedness, we can't assume that everybody can read. But I know that if you are getting married to somebody.

Wes:

I'm not married, nobody can read.

DeLaw:

Come on now, if you're a marriage to somebody or dating them, I'm pretty sure one of the unspoken qualifications is you got to be able to read True. So reading a recipe should be fairly easy. Whether it's the guy, whether it's the girl, it doesn't matter. If you're like I, can't cook. I mean at this point for guys, especially us that are going to college and had to live on our own, I know we didn't just all eat Hungry man meals and pop the tops off the Campbell's Chunky Soup and eat oodles and noodles the whole time. At some point you had to pull out a pan and possibly bake your oodles and noodles. I pull out a pan and possibly bake your noodles.

Wes:

No, I didn't do that, that's what I'm saying. I want a couple of noodles right now.

DeLaw:

I just need you to eat one At some point, even for guys. And that's why a lot of times I always find it funny when some of the older guys are like oh no, I don't cook, I don't know how to cook, my wife cooks. If my food ain't ready, she know what time it is. I'm like I said. But then it makes sense because it's the same dude I see at the same bars.

Wes:

I'm like, oh, he got to get some food because he ain't sure he ain't cooking.

DeLaw:

And he probably don't find nobody's house to go to. That has some food or she was busy with whoever she was busy with.

Wes:

That's wild. I got a homeboy that got he developing his team again after so many years of being in a somewhat relationship and all of them cooking for him. I'm like, damn, that's just a side note. But yeah, man, how the fuck? You don't know how to cook is one of those situations where it's like following a recipe is not really that hard.

DeLaw:

Is one of the qualifications for you dating someone that they have to know. Oh my gosh, I mean it's good to know, but not all guys know how to cook.

Wes:

I cannot believe that I cannot to cook. I cannot believe that, I cannot believe that, I cannot believe that.

DeLaw:

But that's what I was saying. I was like you know, or maybe I in my head I was like I always wanted to cook. I've always watched my mom cook and I'm like, oh, that's cool. And I always watched my dad not cook. And I was like my mom was always like you know, I'm not saying you got to know how to cook, great, but at least know how to put something together in case your wife is sick and you got to feed the kids.

Wes:

So I think you're definitely right. I think a lot of people overthink this shit when they say, oh, I don't know how to cook. I think they think, like cooking is I know recipes off the top of my head this, this and that I can go in there and do something from scratch.

DeLaw:

You ain't gotta do that no more, because we got the internet and we got books right, so fuck all that and, to be honest, I've learned a lot of stuff from my wife, so there's things that I've never cooked before, that I watched her do, and I'm like oh, that easy right.

DeLaw:

I'm like and so she'd be, are you going to give me some space? I'm just looking so do you do this, you do this. Okay, so then, why do you do that? Okay, so why do you do that? I'd be like hey, babe, we'll make the same thing you just made.

Wes:

Exactly, exactly. That's why I never understood when people say oh, I don't know how to do that. It's like yo get a book or get online and do it. Now that's cooking. Preparing is the easiest thing you should do, because there's a lot of shit that you can prepare. You prepare a couple noodles, like we just talked about you prepare.

DeLaw:

I'm just like marinating some stuff. I'm like, hey, this chicken is already seasoned.

Wes:

All you gotta do is throw it in the oven or whatever. Don't even think about it, don't do nothing.

DeLaw:

Set a timer on the thing and you're good to go. You know, if you need to the accents in there, throw a little bit of MSG on there. You're good to go, we're good to go with the MSG. You know what I'm saying. I learned a lot. My wife was the one that when we got together and I started seeing dishes she made, that made me like I was like, oh, you make this too. I said, well, I make this too, but I do it this way. She'd be like, oh okay, she made secret salad one time. She had shrimp, she had crab, I don't know what else she had. She had something else. It was shrimp, else it was crab. And I was like, oh, I make this too. And so, you know, I went to the store. I picked all the shells out of the thing I think she had used what did you use for your seafood salad, babe?

DeLaw:

for your crab imitation, which was still good. It still had that sweet flavor to it, but when I got the crab out of the store and picked, you all the shells mind you, she liked it.

Wes:

You was doing it the sucker way.

DeLaw:

Man, look, I did it the way that, once it's done, people are like yo, this shit is bomb as fuck. Yeah, I got you. Mind you, if I get lazy with that shit, you're going to get every shell under the sun in that motherfucker. But I diligently go through there and I pick out the shells. By the time I'm done I got a bowl full of shells in that motherfucker. I'm like, because she was asking me she's like well, how come you don't make this? I said my fingers be tired from picking that shit.

Wes:

I said a two-day process like pick one of them put a top on it, store it, and then she showed you life hacking.

DeLaw:

I was like, nah, this is what you do and you like hers was hers was really good, like I was crushing that shit. I was like no, I didn't know, imitation crab tasted like this. Yeah, I was like, yeah, what did you use? I said I took the crab out of the store and I picked through the shit.

Wes:

She was like what.

DeLaw:

But then if you ask her, she'd be like I like yours, because it got real light. I was like well, that's the give and take we've had, especially on the cooking front. It's things that she cooks that I'm like I'm not touching that. I'm not touching that because you do it better than me. I know that's your dish. And then this is that. She's like hey, what y'all do? I ain't doing all that. That shit sounds like it's mathematical, yeah.

Wes:

That's you. In my household, I'm the one that I'm the one that's doing the teaching and fortunately she is willing to learn, so it works yeah.

DeLaw:

So yeah, mrs Smith, she got a deep recipe bag. I'll tell you that.

Wes:

All my shit come from Google or this book. I got right over here.

DeLaw:

I said you know I'm going to start buying my ingredients. I said I was going to make you some gumbo. Yeah, and you know, gumbo isn't a hard dish but it ain't the easiest dish.

Wes:

It's not the easiest because it's all an acquired thing per person. Like some people don't like the tomato sauce in it, some people like I forget the other sauce that they put in there. Some people don't like the crawfish, some people like the crawfish, some people only want shrimp, some people don't want the sausage. So it's just kind of like.

DeLaw:

Well, you know what we do. When I do dishes, I always, you know, I consult first. Hey, babe, do you want pork sausage in it? No, can you use turkey? Okay, cool, we can use turkey. It's in the brown bag, dude, it's in the brown bag, um, you know. Do you want pork sauce? No, can we do turkey sauce? Okay, well, let's compromise. Can we do chicken sausage? You know what I'm saying. Do you want shrimp? Yes, I want shrimp. Do you want horses? No, I don't want horses. Okay, I'll cook horses on the side so I can put it in my. You know? So it's it's give and take of it. But the the one thing I remember. I was online and I was like man, I'm about to make some gumbo. They was like all right, well, make sure you make it with the brown gumbo. I said the brown gumbo, brown gumbo. Yeah, so there's two different gumbos people make. One is red tomato based, the other one is brown, so what is the brown?

Wes:

I guess that's what I was thinking.

DeLaw:

The brown is oil and flour.

Wes:

Just regular gravy.

DeLaw:

It's a roux. They call it a roux. You just stir it until it gets to a dark brown. You put your seafood broth in there, Then you stir that up and that's how you start getting your thing for it. This is a shortcut, but in the scheme of it, you do that, you stir it around. I mean and that's the hardest part of all of it is not letting your root burn Stop. In essence, it turning brown is burning.

Wes:

You do that.

DeLaw:

You do that and you put your seasoning in there, you do it. You put your season in there, you do it until it gets to like a, not a. It's not like a when you make joe fries to a deep red, but like you want a deep.

Wes:

Stop talking like you know what you're talking about.

DeLaw:

I know.

Wes:

Yo, I heard you, you can't go there every now and then.

DeLaw:

Every now and then. But you know, I know a lot of people from a lot of different places, so I make a lot of different things. I remember I made I made spinach stew, I don't know the African name for it. I made spinach stew and I was telling my boy, mr Bochy, and I said, man, I said now I see what you meant about having a deep bread for the jaw rice, because the spinach stew is the same way. And I was like, oh, this is a deep red. And I saw what you meant by like, cover it up, let the water pop out. And I was like, oh, I got to try jaw fries. And I tried jaw fries one more time and it came out decent. My wife and our child, they both ate it. It was all the way cooked through. Oh, I was like, was like, yes, I did it. And I haven't made a sense because I said I got my win, I'm good you ain't made a sense because you knew it was probably luck.

Wes:

I ain't fucking pushing.

DeLaw:

I'm not going to hold you. I know it was luck. I know it was luck. There's no way I came across that shit and got that shit right that time. Oh man, I remember my wife called me and she's like yeah, if you guys can have some of the rice, is it fine? I said, yeah, it's fine. I haven't tried it yet, but yeah, go ahead, tell me how it tastes. And they were like, oh, this is good. I mean, you know, my wife doesn't eat a lot of leftovers. For too many days she was eating that thing like two, three, four days later I was like what is going?

Wes:

on yeah, my wife the same way, with leftovers to the point where I'm like yo, I had fucking chicken two days straight. What the fuck is going on?

DeLaw:

on. You got to do what I do.

Wes:

You make enough for just two days I started doing that, and then you just the next dinner's lunch combo. I do that now, but back then I'd be like what the fuck? I'm cooking too much.

DeLaw:

So I have some chicken legs in the refrigerator now, right, sort of thawed, because I had them out yesterday and I was trying to get them to thaw so I could cook. And then my wife said, well, why don't we just order? I said okay, so I just put them in the refrigerator, since I'm like it's refrigerated. Yeah, but I'm going to probably do like cream of chicken soup or cream of chicken chicken legs, put in some cream of chicken or whatever, so that I can have less of them. Mind you, those dishes go quick in this house Because and hear me out, hear me out and the reason they go so quick is because once the chicken legs are done, or the turkey thighs or the chicken wings are done, they're coming off the bones, so you get two of them.

DeLaw:

So imagine we got 10 pieces of chicken, you get two. Put it over your rice or whatever, whatever vegetables. That's there. That's four chicken wings gone. You got six left. That means now I'm taking two for lunch, keep taking two for lunch, there's only enough. For, if I look, that's when you guys start making business that says all right, look, all right, look, we can either cook something today and eat it and take this for lunch, or we eat this for today and we got to cook something for lunch. Which one you want to do?

Wes:

I've done both. I've woke, like yo, in the midst of me. Like yo, let me. I'm going to shower in the morning. I'm going to pop this shit in the air fryer, in the glass bowl, put my shit in the lunch bag, be out the door.

DeLaw:

I've gotten up and actually cooked rice.

Wes:

I'd be like oh, I gotta cook some rice, because I need to go get it, so you don't want to cook it the night before. Take it to work. You want to have some fresh rice, so it ain't sitting in the fridge.

DeLaw:

I'll do that if I get the ample time to let it cool because Y'all got rice cooker. No, I cook this shit in the pot, man. I'm old school man, Old school.

Wes:

Oh man. Y'all should have already gotten the egg cooker from the last time we spoke, because they like $10.

DeLaw:

I saw the egg cooker and I almost purchased one, but then I decided I'm getting a king size bed first.

Wes:

They're $8, man.

DeLaw:

Look, I'm getting a king size bed first and I'll get an egg cooker.

Wes:

And a rice cooker.

DeLaw:

And a rice. I don't know, maybe a rice cooker.

Wes:

Listen, I'm telling you rice comes out perfect every time. Of course it does, because it's a rice cooker. It's a rice cooker, it better. I'm just saying like having that thing right there and having an extra burner to do some other shit, actually cooking the rice, throwing it back into the you know to do some fancy shit.

DeLaw:

I guess that would take the stress off of me always cooking the rice. And then the wife can be like oh well, you know what? Hey, well, I cooked some rice. It's in the rice cooker. I cooked these green beans and this chicken, so just grab whatever you need. Yeah, that's it. I wonder if she would like that. She's looking at me like I'm working out, even though no sure.

Wes:

But yo. So it's due to asshole for wanting his wife to go back to work.

DeLaw:

Is he an asshole for wanting his wife to go back to work? Is he an?

Wes:

asshole for wanting his wife to go back to work. Yeah, just off of losing 75k just one kid.

DeLaw:

I don't mean I don't think he is, but I don't know their finances yeah, it comes down to that, my thing would be. If you need to go back to that job, can you go back with no questions asked and what they have?

Wes:

Some people self-sabotage themselves. They're like I ain't going back, man, I'm going to make sure I can't go back. But my whole thing with that is like yo, he might have been an asshole in the way he probably said it to her.

DeLaw:

Like yeah, you will be finding another, you will be I think that's kind of the asshole part right there it was like well, if you, if you don't go back to work, you will be going back at some point. Even I kind of felt like damn, is that how we going?

Wes:

in right now I don't know. I understand it, though. I understand they were making it work together. Their lifestyle was already baked in her 75K. That's just what it is Now. You're like, nah, and you want me to take on more stuff because you already say you work more hours, so you want me to work even more hours, or you just want to cut back on all your stuff? Are you just going to not go without, which we know that's not the case. She's not going to go without. The kid is going to want things. The kid is going to need things.

DeLaw:

Yeah, like I said, unless he was made. Well, he said he's working more hours, which means that he's already making. Really, really, really good, maybe, maybe maybe they're making the same amount.

Wes:

He's just working more hours maybe I don't know.

DeLaw:

I mean, I mean men and women do do finances different.

Wes:

You know, that's why that thing, girl math, came about over the last.

DeLaw:

What two, three years you started, I saw the meme and when I looked at it at first I really didn't understand it and then, when it hit me, I was like, oh, they were calculating what they were going to get and spending it, versus when we calculate it, we're calculating what we have and then spend it Like we're not looking at future, like we're not looking we have and then spend it. We're not looking at future purchases before we see the money.

DeLaw:

And so that's what I was seeing with all the girl math memes. I would see it was all about counting money that you didn't have but you knew you would have, versus counting the money you already have right here and going from there.

Wes:

That was the biggest difference I got. I ain't gonna lie. A lot of that shit probably just comes from like I ain't gotta take nobody out. They date me. That's what that sounds like. They could afford to be frivolous with money and shit like that. Somebody about to go take care of them, but ain't no woman taking care of a man like that? It's not. That's not how that shit works.

DeLaw:

Yeah I look at my bank accounts every day in hopes that, uh, there's some celebrity or millionaire decided we're gonna donate some money to me. But it never happens.

Wes:

I just I look at my account like damn, I ain't got no money listen, I'll be if I was to see that you know how like those people you see. I mean, you hear about that. Oh, they woke up and had $50,000 more in their account and they spent it and it was a clerical error and now they owe 50. I don't want to owe that money. So I'm just calling the bank right away like yo, come get this shit before I spend it please, Because I don't want to have to pay this shit back. I'm going to leave it in there for a week.

DeLaw:

No, come get it, I'm going to leave it in there for a week. I'm going to see if it was a clerical error. It's going to be like this oh okay, whatever, I'm going to wait a week and then I'm going to be like it ain't gone. I might look, you know me. I might wait a month. This shit is still here.

Wes:

Imagine if this shit was a. It happened in Clerical era, happened in a high-interest yield account. You think they're taking the interest or they're just taking the money they accidentally got into?

DeLaw:

Well, mathematically, they would have to take both. Write that up bitch Well, because you got to think of it like this, because that's going to be a compound monthly interest, or however it is right.

Wes:

Let's just say it's been there for years $100,000, and they didn't find out until like a year. The person's super rich and he's like yo, I'm missing $100,000. And then they figure out what's that Like $1,000? At the end of the year. What's that Like a thousand dollars or some shit? $400,000? I'm sorry, at 5%.

DeLaw:

What's that? 5% For $100,000?

Wes:

Well, whatever half of 10% is God damn you're going to make me do some math.

DeLaw:

Hey look, I'm not getting paid to do any math. In my head I know the answer, but in reality I'm like I ain't answering that shit. That's mean, but I gave you the $5,000.

Wes:

I said $1,000. That's 1% $5,000. You think they're taking the $5,000 from you.

DeLaw:

Yeah, of course I mean, why Because? If that ain't their money, that they earned it's my money, that I earned If I put in $10,000 and I put $100,000 in and they don't catch it. For a year I accumulated interest on Basically, it's that other person's interest regardless.

DeLaw:

Yeah, all they're going to do is say, okay, well, honestly, we got to take this off. Now we're going to recalculate. Once you put it in that high yield thing, it's already been calculated. It is just you putting your money in there for someone else to borrow off of. Yeah, I know that whole oh, putting it in a CD. I'm doing all this. I can do the numbers my damn self and be like this is how much I'm supposed to get at the end of it and check it my damn self. All it is is that, okay, I gave you this $100. Now, joe Blue from over there that needs a $100 loan can now borrow because the bank works on the borrow system. All that money we use off our cards is not real money. It's literally a digital number that's just going from place to place.

Wes:

Like that's it.

DeLaw:

If you were to go into a bank today and let's say we were millionaires we got so big on this podcast that we're millionaires now we would go into our individual bank and say I want to withdraw all the money in my account. They will look at you like we only have $100,000 here, that's it.

Wes:

They got to wait a couple days, clear some shit, and then they got to write you a check.

DeLaw:

Yep, and then here's your check. But please, no, no, because I want cash. That means I got to come back every day to get the money, to get another $100,000.

Wes:

Oh yeah.

DeLaw:

Yeah, I'm not saying that the bank is a scam. It's what stabilizes our current society.

Wes:

There are some scams involved. I'll tell you that much.

DeLaw:

But if the bank for the banks that have all these people that join, they really have all that money on hand, all that money on hand, it'd be such more tighter security in a place, because it would be too appeasing to just all we got to do is just hop in that general tab and look Boom, we set, we set. We set because people bank with Bank of America at certain branches. There's no way they ain't got at least $500 million in account money in those banks. And if you have all that cash on hand, look at that.

Wes:

Yeah.

DeLaw:

Yeah, oh man. You know, back in the day, bank robbing used to be a whole lot easier than technology, all the cameras and shit. Yeah, you just had to make it out the slate.

Wes:

You just had to make it out the slate. You just had to make it out the bank. Oh yeah, that too. Make it out the oh yeah.

DeLaw:

Because at that point are they really getting you no.

DeLaw:

When I was at my last job. The guy was like he was talking to this guy who was at Lexington Market and he was talking about how he had to do Fed time and he said he had robbed a bank. And he said he had robbed. He said, up until that point he had robbed five banks and he said the only reason he got caught is because he got in an argument with somebody when he went to go get some food at Lexington Market. So he went to get some food. Something happened. He got in an argument, the police come over, they arrest him and they realize you, the bank robber.

Wes:

You, the bank robber.

DeLaw:

I was like yo.

Wes:

God will be Does he have any of the money from the bank robberies, or was it some short shit like $10,000 a year? I think it was like $10,000, $15,000.

DeLaw:

It was some short shit, but he was like I could have gotten away if all I did was just walk away from the argument. Yeah, I was like damn, that's tough, yeah, that's tough. I said that's tough, yeah, that's tough. I said you got all the way there. They ain't looking for you. All of a sudden you get Because they found the book bag. They found this book bag with the money in it. That's where they ended up finding it. I was like damn, that's tough.

Wes:

Jeez, louise. On that note, everybody sticks to regular ass scams. Nah, that shit seems to work. I'm not going to do it, but that shit seems to work.

DeLaw:

I was watching the beekeeper and the fact that they're still using oh, your account's been hacked, and blah, blah, blah. I'm like hold up. Look that US Marshal in the US still ain't showing up to my house with a suspicious package that they found in the mail that was addressed to me, the guy with the heavy accent from Mexico, with the whole American name. Jeez, my name is John Jacobs. You got the heaviest accent, come on.

Wes:

John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith or whatever the fuck his song go. John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith. I don't know how that shit go, oh man.

DeLaw:

Look when he said that it was funny. I came. I came home that day and I was cracking up. I was like this dude trying to have my tits. I love his style. Like whole that sounded not.

Wes:

Mexican. Yeah, that was English. Actually, that was English.

DeLaw:

He gave me. He had a whole Mexican accent. I knew he spoke hard Spanish. It gave me the full American name. I was like shit, you could have said your name was David Ortiz, it might have sounded a little bit more believable. But really you want to give me a and that's what really threw it off. I was like you're giving me a whole American name, like a whole American name, and you know, the number might have been real, because maybe he found the number off somebody and he had to use your name. So if you look it up, it is that person. But dude, that's not true.

DeLaw:

And at some point I was like you know what? So when he said I'm going to record you and I need you to say yes or no, and as soon as he said what is your name, I hung up and I was like I ain't get, you ain't going to give me on that. Yeah, you're going to call my bank. So who is this? Again, the Lawrence, mr Smith, right, social security. And then he started out like you want me to say what, what? He was giving me the right information as far as where I live, but I was like if the US Marshals were really coming for me. You ain't giving me no phone call about that. We found a package with your name on it. You pulling up at the house, you pulling up at the job, you investigating.

Wes:

I'm going to see your peoples outside in them, unmarked vehicles, scouting me, they definitely pulling up to the job or they contacting your job when it comes to something like that, because that's what they did to me, off some discrepancy shit. They wanted to come to the job but the security of the job stopped them, not they to. They did, but I didn't know. And then, uh, they, they reached out to me because it was like, oh, we was afraid that you was going to flee. I'm like, well, I'm innocent, so I'm not fleeing anything. That was like 10 years ago, I'm just like geez, louise man. That was like 20, uh, 15 years ago. I was like geez louise.

DeLaw:

You know it's funny. You know I was like so what's the package? I'm not not serious. Well, have you made any recent purchases?

Wes:

I would have liked contact fucking Port Authority, contact fucking customs.

DeLaw:

You got to go do customs why?

Wes:

are you? Anyone can make up a fucking your name, last name, let's see, let's get it cracking. Huge coincidence maybe. Yeah, yeah, man, let's get it cracking. Huge coincidence maybe. I've been getting lately I've been getting fucking emails with just a random Gmail email address and then it's my name and then my number, my telephone number, but some of the numbers X'd out and then a link for an attachment. I'm like, fuck out of here. I just keep getting hit and delete, hit and delete, delete and shit. And it's coming from different gmails and shit. I'm like man, come on, man, I got to try harder than this, right?

DeLaw:

I don't think they realize that all notifications coming through the mail from a lot of places.

Wes:

Not only that sometimes, yeah, that too. Or the one thing of I know I'm not doing nothing crazy out here, so this is obviously a mistake. Even if you saw it come through the mirror like fuck out of here, I might even rip that up because I'm just like yo, I'm straight, I'm good. This sounds weird. Yeah, not even calling to verify, because I know what the fuck I've been doing. So yeah, man on that note. Because I know what the fuck I've been doing, so yeah, man On that note.

DeLaw:

Just work your regular job and sports back. That's it.

Wes:

Parlay all day. Parlay season. Keep the money flowing, keep your job, especially if you got a good-ass job, because hard out here, inflation at all times, huh. Good-ass job because hard out here, inflation at all times, huh.

DeLaw:

You know it's hard out here for us regular niggas when you're trying to make that money for the rent.

Wes:

That too, and no matter what your wife tells you, she's always going to want something, so don't fall for that trick bag. Thank you very much for tuning in. We'll see you next time.