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I'm flipping through Facebook here and I see your stupid post about you standing there 00:01:07.360 |
with that goofy smile on your face about "Hey guys, we bought a stupid pickup truck!" 00:01:12.920 |
Well you didn't say stupid, you thought it looked nice. 00:01:15.720 |
"Had some problems with the other car and decided it was time for a change." 00:01:22.480 |
And you'd be so stupid as to post it on Facebook. 00:01:34.560 |
I wish I could tell this to your face but you're so stupid you would think I was being 00:01:45.040 |
Have you never considered a single financial decision in your life? 00:02:17.920 |
Eighty-five percent of people who go out and buy a new car use financing because they're 00:02:23.360 |
You know who uses financing to buy consumer crap? 00:02:28.260 |
Like cars and trucks and motorcycles and all the other stupid consumer-grade crap? 00:02:35.320 |
And idiots wind up broke every single time, all the time, because they're idiots. 00:03:09.720 |
You couldn't even be smart enough to go and buy last year's model at the dealership or 00:03:12.520 |
go at the end of the year when you could have... 00:03:17.020 |
Do you know what you could do with fifty-one thousand dollars? 00:03:23.840 |
You're so stupid you didn't even think of shopping around. 00:03:27.520 |
You didn't think, "Oh, maybe I should go and actually do some research and pit a dealer 00:03:32.880 |
After all, what is this internet thing that actually gets me good deals on stuff?" 00:03:37.160 |
You wandered into the truck dealership and you wandered out with a truck. 00:03:40.800 |
No plan, no negotiating, no prearranged financing. 00:03:44.040 |
You didn't go to your bank, your credit union. 00:03:45.680 |
You took the stupid loan that they sold you in the dealership, you idiot. 00:03:48.720 |
They saw you coming and they started laughing. 00:03:51.720 |
They put you over their knee and they haven't stopped laughing yet. 00:03:55.840 |
Man, could you not be a little bit more intelligent? 00:04:00.400 |
I am so sick and tired of hearing about your problems and then you do something like this. 00:04:13.840 |
Did you not think of fixing the car instead of buying a fifty-one thousand dollar pickup 00:04:22.640 |
I've spent a decent amount of money at the mechanic in my day, but I've never spent 00:04:30.960 |
Oh, of course, you didn't have the money to fix it. 00:04:34.040 |
Yeah, because you're an idiot and you've never thought about saving money. 00:04:36.960 |
Did you never think about the fact that cars might break? 00:04:43.400 |
Vehicles require repair and your body requires food. 00:04:47.360 |
My four-year-old has better forethought than you do. 00:04:54.760 |
Yeah, I know you're tired of trying to figure out a ride or figure out how to borrow a car, 00:05:00.400 |
but man, you could rent a car for cheaper than this thing. 00:05:05.920 |
So in the first year you own this thing, this stupid truck is going to lose twenty percent 00:05:12.680 |
Maybe even more because after all it's a pickup truck. 00:05:15.040 |
Okay, well maybe I guess there's a little bit of an argument that a pickup truck sometimes 00:05:22.160 |
If you bought a new one, it would have been a better buy than in the used market, but 00:05:32.080 |
All right, so fifty-one ... Let's just keep it simple. 00:05:36.120 |
Twenty percent of that truck's value means that you're going to lose ten thousand dollars 00:05:44.960 |
Are you such an idiot that you didn't stop and calculate the fact that you're going to 00:05:48.080 |
lose ten thousand dollars this year on this stupid pickup truck? 00:06:03.360 |
You earn thirty-four thousand dollars per year. 00:06:05.840 |
Yes, I know exactly how much you earn because the idiot leaves your personal documents lying 00:06:10.440 |
around your house and of course I happen to care about money, so when I see ... Anyway, 00:06:16.120 |
whatever, you really should take better care of your stuff. 00:06:21.400 |
That's because you make sixteen dollars an hour because you spend all your time hanging 00:06:25.040 |
out on Facebook and hanging out on YouTube, reading car magazines and hadn't spent enough 00:06:31.000 |
time open a book and learn how to get a decent job. 00:06:35.120 |
This month you're going to spend ... Let's see. 00:06:43.880 |
Eight hundred and thirty-three dollars per month divided by sixteen dollars an hour. 00:06:47.560 |
That means that this month you're going to spend fifty-two hours working a job that you 00:06:53.440 |
hate so your fat, shiny truck can sit there in the parking lot in the hot sun all day 00:06:59.720 |
getting its paint messed up because you bought this stupid domestic truck. 00:07:03.240 |
They can't even put a paint job on the things. 00:07:05.360 |
You never looked around and looked at ... Okay. 00:07:14.080 |
That's because after all, thirty-four thousand dollars a year, sixteen dollars an hour, you're 00:07:18.480 |
actually only making about thirteen dollars an hour if we factor in your employment taxes 00:07:26.400 |
Oh, and it's worse than that because not only are you losing over eight hundred dollars 00:07:30.680 |
a month on depreciation, but we have to add in financing costs because you bought a new 00:07:38.160 |
one and we got to add in high insurance because you got to pay this big old insurance. 00:07:44.960 |
I forgot about that because you didn't put any money down. 00:07:48.080 |
I bet you we're over a thousand bucks a month here. 00:07:58.200 |
Over a thousand dollars a month in flat costs plus the cost of fuel and you bought a pickup 00:08:19.200 |
That if you're making thirteen dollars an hour and spending a thousand dollars a month 00:08:24.560 |
on this stupid piece of junk, that's over seventy-six hours this month that you're going 00:08:41.600 |
That's almost two weeks of your life this month spent working to pay for this truck. 00:08:47.720 |
Do you realize that you only have about four weeks a month to work and you're spending 00:08:58.640 |
How many hours are you going to drive the truck this month? 00:09:00.280 |
Let's say you live about twenty minutes from work. 00:09:02.400 |
Let's say that you drive one hour every single day. 00:09:08.560 |
Seven days per week to work, to the lake, whatever. 00:09:17.200 |
At thirty-one hours of driving per month, you're going to be spending more time at your 00:09:22.600 |
job working at a job you hate to earn the money to pay for a pickup truck that sits 00:09:32.080 |
in the parking lot and gets destroyed by the sun than you are going to be actually driving 00:09:39.240 |
You know, that's probably even too conservative. 00:09:54.880 |
Okay, I know you needed a car, but you bought a pickup truck? 00:10:00.800 |
That is like the dumbest vehicle in the world for a dude like you to drive. 00:10:06.580 |
You have no ice, no snow, and it barely rains. 00:10:10.240 |
And when it does rain, it's during the day when you're at work anyway because you're 00:10:20.040 |
You don't live at the top of a mountain where you need a high-clearance, four-wheel-drive 00:10:26.760 |
You live in a townhouse in Florida on paved roads. 00:10:32.480 |
My grandmother on her tricycle could get across the lawn. 00:10:37.880 |
Well, at least you bought a two-wheel-drive truck. 00:10:43.280 |
After all, two-wheel-drive truck has less issues. 00:10:45.560 |
It's a little more efficient to own, costs a little bit less. 00:10:49.360 |
The whole reason you bought this truck was to make yourself feel like a man, and you 00:10:52.560 |
bought a two-wheel-drive truck, so now you look like a dweeb. 00:10:55.560 |
If you bought the thing for sex appeal because you wanted to drive a pickup truck, at least 00:10:59.840 |
you could have been a self-respecting man who went all the way and bought a decent-looking 00:11:06.600 |
But now, no, you bought a two-wheel-drive pickup truck, and now you don't have the 00:11:13.720 |
You look like every other idiot driving a two-wheel-drive pickup truck. 00:11:24.280 |
You're going to have to get yours and put on some stupid mud tires. 00:11:30.440 |
Maybe you could put a topper on it, at least make it semi-useful. 00:11:32.480 |
I'll try you out with that stupid pickup truck. 00:11:37.000 |
No, no, because if you put a topper on it, you'll look like a dweeb. 00:11:42.160 |
You're going to go and get some stupid tonneau cover, and you bought a new one, so now you 00:11:45.840 |
can't just go on Craigslist and pay $100 to get something that some other idiot is 00:11:51.000 |
Maybe you're going to go down to A.R.E. or whatever and pay $1,000 to get a custom-matched 00:11:59.000 |
Oh, you're going to buy some stupid rubber thing that a thief can slice with a nail clipper. 00:12:05.000 |
Steal all your stuff because you bought a pickup truck. 00:12:10.400 |
Yeah, because the pickup truck is the most worthless vehicle ever. 00:12:13.200 |
It has no place to put things, and so you've got to buy extra boxes that look like they 00:12:18.000 |
were manufactured in 1962 to put them in the bed, actually have a place to lock it up. 00:12:28.880 |
Then again, have you never in your life tried to put a kid in a car seat? 00:12:34.360 |
Have you never in your life tried to actually accomplish the contortions that are required 00:12:39.760 |
with the giant car seats to get the kid into the thing when you got the stupid little weird 00:12:44.880 |
door on the back of a crew cab of a pickup truck and you curled around it to buckle the 00:12:51.080 |
There's a reason many vans have sliding doors, just saying. 00:12:55.080 |
Don't you know Home Depot rents pickup trucks? 00:12:58.500 |
If you actually needed a pickup truck, you could just trot down to Home Depot or Lowe's 00:13:05.600 |
$50 will get you everything you need to know. 00:13:11.520 |
You won't even use the stupid new pickup truck because you're scared to scratch the bed. 00:13:16.400 |
Either you're not going to use it or you're going to wander down and pay $1,000 to protect 00:13:32.760 |
You could buy yourself a cheap utility trailer and it would have worked great. 00:13:37.200 |
Whole lot smarter than a stupid pickup truck. 00:13:41.880 |
At least if you were going to buy a pickup truck, you could have bought an intelligent 00:13:48.920 |
But you could have at least bought a smaller one. 00:13:59.440 |
A pickup truck that'll haul a 24,000 pound trailer or carry 7,000 pounds of cargo in 00:14:05.920 |
You're a dude who drives to work from your little townhouse and you bought a pickup truck. 00:14:12.640 |
At least buy a smaller one or a cheaper one or a used one. 00:14:17.240 |
Or at least if you're going to buy a pickup truck, buy a sexy one. 00:14:21.640 |
You could have bought one that was more fuel efficient. 00:14:27.520 |
You could have bought one that was actually going to last you a long time, hand it down 00:14:31.320 |
Grandkids have a useful vehicle around the house, but no. 00:14:36.280 |
Well, I can't keep a company out of bankruptcy. 00:14:41.120 |
At least they're making better cars than they used to. 00:14:43.960 |
But any of those options would have required a little bit of forethought, a little bit 00:14:48.760 |
of planning, which my friend, I love you, but this is not your forte. 00:15:04.680 |
No special end of the year closeouts, no holiday sales. 00:15:13.440 |
I wonder, did you, no, you're not a member of a credit union. 00:15:17.080 |
Could have gotten a cheap loan from a credit union, but no, you're an idiot working with 00:15:23.640 |
You don't make enough money to qualify for this loan. 00:15:29.720 |
Your wife's got that dead end job and you've got this $34,000 a year, mostly dead end job. 00:15:35.080 |
You don't make enough money to, I bet, you know what? 00:16:01.080 |
This whole giant financial system wants to throw money at you and you're such an idiot. 00:16:05.920 |
You can't figure out how to get your own money. 00:16:08.320 |
Now you got to go into business with your father-in-law? 00:16:23.920 |
Man, I want so much better for you, but dude, you are screwing up your marriage by making 00:16:38.040 |
No, if I put this, it'll just start an argument. 00:16:53.060 |
But she feels insecure about it because you can't afford it. 00:16:58.960 |
Because your stupid pickup truck is stealing all your money. 00:17:06.740 |
Because the insecurity that she feels makes her feel unsafe. 00:17:10.920 |
When she feels unsafe, this hurts her self-confidence. 00:17:14.280 |
The loss of self-confidence makes her feel unattractive. 00:17:17.600 |
When she feels unattractive, she's not sexually confident. 00:17:20.280 |
When she's not sexually ... You finish the rest. 00:17:25.540 |
Because you're an idiot and you don't give her any decent reason to do it. 00:17:32.300 |
Your wife wants 2.7 children, or at least that's what every other woman reports. 00:17:36.540 |
I don't know what her exactly, that's between you and her, but on average, she wants 2.7 00:17:43.240 |
But you don't have the money to pay for them. 00:17:47.620 |
So you'll send mama off to work because you're too impotent to earn a decent income and too 00:17:52.680 |
much of an idiot to make a plan for the future. 00:17:59.420 |
There was a time in which you actually had a plan. 00:18:02.680 |
You actually tried, but now you're an idiot and your plan goes as far as, "Oh, our car 00:18:10.220 |
You ain't got no plan because you're acting like a childish idiot. 00:18:16.900 |
At least a child can be encouraged and directed, but you're a grown man. 00:18:24.140 |
You wonder why she doesn't find you attractive? 00:18:36.420 |
Because he actually made a plan and followed it. 00:18:43.340 |
Not a man with a pickup truck, a man with a plan. 00:18:50.380 |
Tell me, have you never in your life sat down for a beer with a divorced man and asked him 00:18:56.780 |
Oh, wait, I forgot you can't afford beer because you have a pickup truck. 00:19:03.380 |
You never wondered why country songs are filled with guys with pickup trucks who come home 00:19:07.140 |
to find their wife in bed with another man and thought there might be a connection? 00:19:16.580 |
She likes it because she's hoping it'll make you happy. 00:19:20.380 |
She's likes it because she's hoping it'll make you feel more self-confident so that 00:19:23.860 |
you'll actually make a plan, go for a promotion, get a better job, because all those things 00:19:31.100 |
would actually increase your sex appeal and she wants you to be happy. 00:19:36.060 |
She's thinking maybe a pickup truck would be fun, maybe it'll help you. 00:19:39.300 |
But dude, listen, when you bought a pickup truck, she wasn't seeing it sit in the parking 00:19:48.340 |
She was thinking of it hooked up to a wakeboarding boat, parked down at the boat ramp. 00:19:53.580 |
She was imagining herself out on the wakeboarding boat and imagining how great you'll think 00:20:00.300 |
But you didn't think about that when you bought the stupid pickup truck. 00:20:05.500 |
You could have paid $2,000 and bought a pickup truck that was cheap and that was old and 00:20:10.860 |
could tow your boat down to the boat ramp and you would have had enough money to buy 00:20:18.100 |
You have no money to buy a boat because you're broke because you bought the stupid pickup 00:20:22.620 |
Heck, if you'd made a plan, you could have realized that there are a bazillion ways where 00:20:26.200 |
you could actually go out and enjoy a Saturday together that don't cost you a ton of money. 00:20:32.820 |
A little bit of time not spent complaining about your stupid dead-end job would sure 00:20:42.260 |
It doesn't start five minutes before, it starts the morning before. 00:20:46.020 |
Do you know that they rent canoes down at the lake for $15 an hour? 00:20:51.780 |
You don't need a pickup truck to buy a canoe. 00:20:55.900 |
You were thinking, "I got to actually own a pickup truck so I can buy a canoe." 00:21:10.100 |
Rent one of those for $150 a day, gas included and you don't have to wash the thing out when 00:21:15.540 |
If you did that every single Saturday, four days a month, that would still be less than 00:21:21.900 |
your stupid pickup truck is costing you this month. 00:21:32.420 |
If you don't get busy, your stupid pickup truck is going to cost you your life and it 00:21:40.060 |
That would be a good thing, you have a pickup truck because you need some place to sleep 00:21:45.020 |
when she walks off with all your money, your house, half your income for the rest of your 00:21:48.100 |
life because of your emotional abandonment and abuse. 00:21:53.180 |
Grow a pair of balls, walk down to the local bar and actually talk to some guy who's been 00:22:01.020 |
When you spend all your time working to pay for your stupid pickup truck because you thought 00:22:05.500 |
she wanted a pickup truck, she now interprets that as emotional abandonment and believes 00:22:10.220 |
it gives her a rock solid reason to get a wee bit closer with her boss. 00:22:14.220 |
He's not tired from working a job to pay for a pickup truck that's rotting in the parking 00:22:24.740 |
He's not some broke loser who can't afford to have a baby. 00:22:28.260 |
He actually has money and he has a clue about life. 00:22:33.260 |
Now listen, dude, I'm yelling at you because I love you and I hurt for you and this is 00:22:44.380 |
Do you not see that you've been doing this for a decade? 00:22:48.500 |
You've never sat down and thought about your money. 00:22:51.420 |
She wants to buy a house, wants to redecorate the kitchen. 00:22:56.060 |
It's because you bought a freaking stereo and then you bought a motorcycle and now you 00:23:21.820 |
This loan, you'll never sell the thing for what you owe on it. 00:23:25.900 |
I don't know, maybe if you returned it today, you might get your money back. 00:23:42.580 |
You're going to reap a long, long harvest of pain. 00:23:50.780 |
You could sell the thing, recognize your loss, stroke a check, chalk it up to stupid tax 00:23:57.180 |
because you've been stupid, or you can keep going through this pain for a very long time. 00:24:04.380 |
I think pickup trucks are fine if you're a trucker or a cowboy or you actually need the 00:24:11.420 |
If you want to buy one for fun, go for it, but get rich first, then get a pickup truck. 00:24:28.020 |
You keep doing stupid stuff like this again and again and again, and you're going to wind 00:24:35.180 |
up getting screwed again and again and again. 00:24:42.340 |
I got no idea what to tell you about this stupid truck, but dude, what are you going 00:24:52.820 |
It's not like pickup trucks and your money are not related. 00:24:56.860 |
The reason you're broke is your pickup truck, but the reason you bought your pickup truck 00:25:06.820 |
You can't make a plan to actually save 500 bucks to go to the mechanic because your car 00:25:14.340 |
The fact that you can't think and can't plan ahead is what keeps you from getting educated 00:25:21.660 |
enough to get a decent job or at least getting a certification so you can add an extra couple 00:25:32.980 |
You're trying to spend money to make up for your emotional problems, and trust me, I know 00:25:37.700 |
I stepped over the bounds a little bit in talking about your sex life, but a weak, emotionally 00:25:43.860 |
impotent dude is not generally very attractive to women. 00:25:56.020 |
You don't have to worry about her boss, but as long as you keep acting like an idiot, 00:26:08.380 |
Then you come crying about how you're broke because you get divorced. 00:26:24.860 |
I could help you, but I've learned stupid people like doing stupid stuff. 00:26:31.900 |
I'll just keep on being my boring old self and enjoy my little pickup truck that actually 00:26:46.260 |
Actually, the time and the money to use the thing, your problem. 00:26:57.820 |
Dude, there's freaking podcasts, YouTube channels all over the place.