Speaker 1: It's Brook and Jewel in the morning. And in recent years,
Speaker 1: millennials have gained a certain reputation as lazy, entitled, self absorbed,
Speaker 1: in shallow, But I don't think that's fair. If you
Speaker 1: ask me, Millennials have it really tough. They have to
Speaker 1: deal with daily struggles like making tough decisions on watching
Speaker 1: Hulu or Netflix before you fall asleep, or taking an
Speaker 1: uber and getting stuff with a driver who's a little
Speaker 1: bit too talkative. That is a struggle though again, or
Speaker 1: not having enough storage space on your iPhone because he
Speaker 1: took too many pictures of your dog. Well, those are
Speaker 1: just some of the life shattering problems that millennials have
Speaker 1: to grapple with day in and day out. And if
Speaker 1: you're not feeling sympathetic for the generation yet, then maybe
Speaker 1: this news will help you out. A millennial couple in
Speaker 1: Kansas is making national headlines today because of the bizarre
Speaker 1: and hilarious problem that they're having. Their names are Kristen
Speaker 1: and Brantley, two of the most millennials. Brantley, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that hurts. I'm sure he's a nice guy, but I
Speaker 1: don't like but his name is Brantley. So anyway, recently
Speaker 1: they posted about their struggle online, hoping to get some
Speaker 1: advice from the public on what to do, and I'll
Speaker 1: read the post for you, okay, Brantley said, quote, My
Speaker 1: wife and I are in our early thirties. We live
Speaker 1: in Kansas. I'm the CTO of a well known startup
Speaker 1: and she's a model. In other words, she has an
Speaker 1: Instagram account. Yeah, already I feel bad for them. But
Speaker 1: for some reason, each year we have a large financial deficit.
Speaker 1: We add that to our mortgage each year, and we've
Speaker 1: been doing this for two years. I'd appreciate any advice
Speaker 1: on how to rain our situation in. So they were
Speaker 1: looking online for some budgeting help. Yeah, it just stop
Speaker 1: spending more than you make. Is that what it boils
Speaker 1: down to. Yeah, just basically complaining that they don't make
Speaker 1: enough money and they're going to debt. So Brantley posted
Speaker 1: a breakdown of all their finances, hoping that somebody would
Speaker 1: be able to help them out, and unfortunately, they didn't
Speaker 1: get much sympathy from people online. No. No, Well, for starters,
Speaker 1: their combined income is over five hundred thousand dollars year.
Speaker 1: They're making good money. You're making over five five hundred
Speaker 1: grand and it's Yeah, it's five hundred grand in Kansas
Speaker 1: to five hundred grand in New York City. You can't
Speaker 1: even get an apartment. But in Kansas, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: you can buy the whole state for five hundred grand.
Speaker 1: And then are you just humble bragging at that point
Speaker 1: because at five hundred grand, you should have a financial advisor. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: like you don't ask for free Facebook help on how
Speaker 1: to budget. Well, they're keep in mind the median household
Speaker 1: income in the state of Kansas is fifty six thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: That's a medium. Yeah, So Kristen, Kristen and Brantley posted
Speaker 1: a chart listing off all of their monthly expenditures. And
Speaker 1: then I'm asking if there's anywhere that people could help
Speaker 1: them cut out a little bit, cut corners, time to
Speaker 1: cut back. And this is a married couple with no kids, right, Like,
Speaker 1: they're spending over five hundred grand a year kids too,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of money saved already. So they spend
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars a month for their mortgage, well, which
Speaker 1: means they probably own a twelve bedroom mansion worth at
Speaker 1: least two million dollars or more. Because remember it's in Kansas.
Speaker 1: They probably own a whole city. Yeah in Kansas. Wow,
Speaker 1: so ten thousand dollars a month for their mortgage, even
Speaker 1: if they cut that in half, Like, that's still so
Speaker 1: much five grand a month. I'd ever understand why two
Speaker 1: people would need that much space, especially, like I said,
Speaker 1: they spend three thousand dollars a month on food. I
Speaker 1: guess they're going out to eat every single meal. But seriously,
Speaker 1: what kind of model is she if she's spending three
Speaker 1: grand a month off? They spend two thousand dollars a
Speaker 1: month on clothes a month. Dang, that's was just thinking it.
Speaker 1: Maybe after four years I should buy a nuper jeans.
Speaker 1: You know you're not fifteen grand. Brantley blames this expense
Speaker 1: on his wife's modeling career. She always needs the newest,
Speaker 1: up to date looks. We'll give them that, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: They spend three thousand dollars a month on flights. If
Speaker 1: she was a real model, I'm sorry, I'm back at close.
Speaker 1: If she was a real model, they would give her
Speaker 1: clothes to don't buy your own clothes as a model.
Speaker 1: With three thousand dollars a month on flights, three thousand
Speaker 1: a month, every month a month. I guess if you
Speaker 1: live in Kansas, you might want to get out, you know,
Speaker 1: but who knows where they're going. Three grand a month
Speaker 1: on flights, has hot Spot for modeling, four hundred dollars
Speaker 1: a month on party supplies because they liked to host.
Speaker 1: I don't we just like to host parties. Well, they've
Speaker 1: got obviously a huge house in party supplies. We got
Speaker 1: eight thousand red solo cups. They spend one thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a month on charity. They didn't specify what that means.
Speaker 1: That's good. Well, yeah, but that's probably also a lie
Speaker 1: because they're like, well, we can't we can't post all
Speaker 1: this and not say we don't give to charity out
Speaker 1: But I'll believe them if they're dumb enough to put
Speaker 1: all this online and ask for free Facebook help on
Speaker 1: how to spend their money. I think that they're dumb
Speaker 1: enough to you know, they also spend a thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a month on quote a child not born yet? What
Speaker 1: for the future college fund? They're saving for a child
Speaker 1: that they don't have. That's the only good thing that
Speaker 1: they're doing. We're talking about a millennial couple from Kansas
Speaker 1: who make half a million dollars a year, but for
Speaker 1: some reason, they say they're broke. So they listened their
Speaker 1: finances for people to see and ask for advice, and
Speaker 1: the post went viral and soon people all over the
Speaker 1: world were commenting on it. Most people were shocked at
Speaker 1: this couple. Couldn't figure out why they're going into debt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just can't believe a couple that dumb could make
Speaker 1: that much money. Yeah, that's true. I guess it proves
Speaker 1: it even rich people are stupid. One person said, clearly,
Speaker 1: you just don't want to compromise your current lifestyle and
Speaker 1: you're literally doing this to yourself. Yeah. Yeah, totally. They
Speaker 1: didn't sell that play ten grand a month just on
Speaker 1: the mortgage. You gotta sell that. You could. You could
Speaker 1: cut that in half and still have a palatial estate
Speaker 1: in Kansas. Absolutely, unless they got a really really bad
Speaker 1: interest rate, like maybe they're paying like fifty percent interest
Speaker 1: on their house. Yeah. Well, person drilled down the numbers
Speaker 1: and said, quote, thirty six thousand a year on food,
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty thousand a year on a mortgage,
Speaker 1: twenty four grand a year on clothing. I said, it's
Speaker 1: kind of obvious. Everything you do is to be ostentatious.
Speaker 1: Your food budget alone is a livable salary in the Midwest. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I suggest reevaluate your lives. And they're spending ten grand
Speaker 1: a month on a house for a kitchen that they
Speaker 1: don't use because there's no way they're buying groceries and
Speaker 1: cooking at home multiple kitchens. Yeah, at that rate, can't
Speaker 1: you just get a personal chef? Yeah? Rights save money
Speaker 1: literally anyway, they're hurting. Forgot about that boy? Sorry something.
Speaker 1: We set up a gofund me for them because it
Speaker 1: really seems like they're in a tough spot. I'll give
Speaker 1: them a thousand. Those people that don't matter how much
Speaker 1: money they make, they'll always be poor always. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: because you're spending every single penny that you get. I
Speaker 1: don't get it. A ten thousand dollars going on. Texted
Speaker 1: seven eighty five to nine too. Should we set up
Speaker 1: a go find me to help them? Yeah? Your phone
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