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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. 

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Wes (00:00):
I had a homegirl tell me like even if her man worked at
home, she would still feel acertain type of way because
she's getting out of bed, goingto work and he needs to have a
job where he leaves the housetoo.

DeLaw (00:10):
And I said that.

Wes (00:11):
I'm like yo.
I'm like yo.
If he's making the majority ofthe money, you still want him to
leave the house.

DeLaw (00:20):
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 notfair.
You need to get by the bed.

Wes (00:29):
That's the same thing I say to my wife.
I'm like I need it, I need atelework job.
Hey, welcome to another episodeof the According to Wes podcast
.
As always, you got D Law here.

DeLaw (00:38):
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 (00:56):
Oh God, you got me worse Still, angry at my place of
employment, as always.

DeLaw (01:05):
Well, they gave you more money to be angry.

Wes (01:10):
I mean, does that really equate?
Though you know, it neverequates.
It's been weird.
It's been weird, but I ain'tgonna 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.

(01:31):
I was like that don't mean, I'mstill not thinking I should
leave.

DeLaw (01:33):
You know what I mean like yeah, that just means they gave
you more money.

Wes (01:37):
It's supposed to wait a little bit longer to decide if
I'm gonna leave.
But yeah, I, uh, yeah to decideif I'm going to leave.
But you know that shit, yeah, I, uh, yeah, you ready to leave,
yulia, or you still fighting Slyand uh, kevin.

DeLaw (01:54):
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 onethat stays closest to my cubicle
.
He been coming out and justsitting there.
I just look at him.
I'm like what are you doing?
And then he'll run back intohis little hiding spot.
Sly, he stay closer to the door.

Wes (02:17):
For those who don't know, because I don't think that
episode came out because ofaudio issues.
Sly and Kevin are mice inT-Law's new office and when he
got there on his first day hewas being exterminator slash
Terminator X and not even in hisjob description.

DeLaw (02:36):
Nope, I did not see that in my job description.
Must terminate mice Sheesh man,oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man.

Wes (02:49):
I feel like we both will have a lot of fucking stories,
and now I got to tiptoe aroundmy stories because I'm in
fucking management so I can'treally say what I want to say or
need to say.
That's why.

DeLaw (03:02):
I'm glad I'm not in any sort of management at all.

Wes (03:07):
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 aroundthe corner.

DeLaw (03:22):
Damn.
That is right around the corner, ain't it?

Wes (03:24):
2K season right around the corner.
Damn, that is right around thecorner, ain't it?

DeLaw (03:26):
2K season right around the corner from that.

Wes (03:29):
Yeah, so you know, women, men will be occupied, it's.
You know?
I ain't even saying show ussome grace, just you know, kind
of stay out of our way a littlebit.

DeLaw (03:41):
Oh man, that's two drinks I got to take.
Damn it, two drinks you gottatake, yeah.
So my drinking game for todayis when we talk about sports, 2k
or cats, I was gonna drink goddamn off the rip.

Wes (03:54):
Like what two minutes in you drinking I?

DeLaw (03:56):
was like damn, I didn't want to say it because I was
like you're gonna, you're gonnatalk about now, you just fall
off the back listen, that's Imean.

Wes (04:03):
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 thosethings are right around the
corner.

DeLaw (04:12):
I told you she's a designated driver.

Wes (04:15):
Oh, you told her why she's a designated driver.
Yo, whenever me and my wife goout, I'll be a designated driver
because in my head I'm like yoone.
I'd be a designated driverbecause in my head I'm like yo
if I'm not drinking with thehomies at home or something like
that, or if I know I'm going tobe there for a while, I really
don't even drink, so I let mywife just have it up and shit

(04:35):
like that, and I'll be onlookout and in protection mode
and shit like that.
But any other time, oh yeah,I'm drinking like shit.

DeLaw (04:44):
I pretty much do the same thing.
If we go somewhere, generallyI'll pre-game yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that way I ain't got tospend no money out.
But when we get there she'slike well, let's get a drink,
let's get a drink.
I mean, I drink a lot more thanshe do.
But by the time she's like, ohyeah, I'm tired, I can't cry.

Wes (05:02):
So it's like alright, well, let me take it easy, and I know
it's coming yeah, it's justmight as well like, why do you,
why even have that fightconsistently?
Like I got a homeboy to havethat fight consistently with his
lady, like you know who gonnadrive here, who gonna do this
and that if you just accept theshit that she gonna try to, she
gonna try to finesse you, justmake it.
Make it more tolerable andmanageable for you.

DeLaw (05:24):
That's what I do, just make it more tolerable and
manageable for you.

Wes (05:25):
That's what I do.

DeLaw (05:28):
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 howit goes.

Wes (05:35):
I don't mind it.
I don't be trusting my wifewhen she gets too distracted
sometimes.
I ain't going to lie, I do notmind it, it is what it is.
Yeah, man, I ain't gonna lie, Ido not mind it.
So it is what it is.

DeLaw (05:45):
But uh, yeah man she didn't drive her here, so she's
like oh my god, I'm having aheart attack.
When you and David, you and thekid, 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 ofdrinking and driving.

Wes (06:06):
It's like nah, from us driving.
Yeah, man, speaking of drinkingand driving, it's like nah.
My bar is empty as shit.
It's about that time.
The season is changing, I needto go ahead and I need to
replenish.
Hell yeah, I ain't got nothing.
I only have wine in the houseright now, so I'm definitely on
a replenish mode.

(06:26):
I could probably startaffording the expensive shit
like the Hibiki and all theother shit that I be seeing
online.

DeLaw (06:34):
You can get you some Hennessy Pure White.

Wes (06:36):
I definitely can.
I definitely can.

DeLaw (06:40):
Yeah, we had a bottle in here and then that was gone.

Wes (06:44):
Because of who?
Well?

DeLaw (06:46):
no, it was the wife's bottle I had got it for me on
the cruise.

Wes (06:49):
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 someshit like that.
Y'all bought it like when y'allwas from the boat.

DeLaw (07:01):
Mm-hmm, yeah, and they wouldn't deliver it until the
day we were leaving.

Wes (07:07):
Yeah, they wanted you to.
They said it was by law or someshit.
I just think they like no, wewant you to buy alcohol.
We don't want you getting drunkin your room.

DeLaw (07:14):
Right, that's what I think it really was.

Wes (07:17):
Yeah, I don't think it's no law.
I mean, I didn't even look theshit up, but nor did I care.

DeLaw (07:25):
I'm like I brought it because the funny part was I
brought it while we were stillin the States.
I didn't buy it after the boatstarted moving.

Wes (07:28):
Oh yeah, either way, you'll get it after your cruise.
The first time they told me Iwas like what I want that shit
now Right.

DeLaw (07:39):
So I ended up buying.
We brought two bottles, so Ithink it ran me like 120, 130.
And then because we were likewell, let's see how it tasted.
So when we got home we drank abottle and that was a bottle I
brought for myself.
So me and her shared my bottleand I said well, this bottle is
yours, unless you open it.

(08:00):
This ain't I, ain't cracking itopen, it ain't mine.

Wes (08:06):
People come over and they say can I get?

DeLaw (08:07):
Nope.

Wes (08:08):
That's hers.

DeLaw (08:11):
Don't ask me, can you have something?
Nope.

Wes (08:16):
Yeah, the last time I actually went, I think I got a
bunch of Crown Royals, so I gotthe Apple, that vanilla shit and
some other shit.
That was the last time we everwent on a boat, but I've been on
a boat twice, never doing itagain.

DeLaw (08:36):
Yeah, I will say that I don't know, because that Pier
White Henny had been sittingthere since 2021.
It's not bad, because we gotmarried 2020.
We had a reception 2021.
We went on a cruise 2022.
So it's been from 2022 toyesterday.

(08:58):
So what ended up happening wasmy cousins came over and one of
my cousins came over and one ofmy cousins was like oh well, you
know, let's take this beerright here.
I said no, you got to ask herthat'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 onit.

(09:19):
Oh, that ain't mine, I ain'ttouching 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 theguy forgets that he wanted some,
so I close it up, go back inthe car so fast forward to like
Friday.

Wes (09:35):
I was like why don't?

DeLaw (09:35):
you just take this with you on your little boat ride
with your sorority sisters andjust take it.
He's like, nah, nah, nah, Idon't want to do all that, come
back.
See, that's exactly what he did.
I was like, well, good, How'dyou like it?
Oh yeah it was good I said wellthere's only a little bit left.

Wes (09:52):
So how good was it Say it was delicious, because everybody
is kilt at this point.

DeLaw (09:58):
I'm just like.
So do you mind if I take thelast little bit?

Wes (10:04):
You know, at that point it's like a shot and a half left
.

DeLaw (10:08):
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 wassome wine, sniffed it.

Wes (10:19):
Oh, my gosh Connoisseur over here, oh yeah, man Took my
sip.

DeLaw (10:24):
I sipped on that for an hour.
It wasn't a lot, so I justwanted to savor the taste a
little bit.

Wes (10:34):
And that's kind of what I miss right now, like on Sundays,
just being able to walk aroundwith a drink all day.

DeLaw (10:41):
Yeah, I think the only time I did that was during
football season, because I wouldalways be grilling Sunday.

Wes (10:48):
You at three.
I didn't say that.
You said that Now, you at three.
But yes, that is the time to doit.

DeLaw (10:59):
Yeah, that is the time to go do it man.
I got my own game.
Man.
I have to say I mean got my owngame, man you did.
I have to say I mean what elsecan I say?

Wes (11:12):
I feel like I'm gonna make it a fun.
Sunday yeah, sunday fun day.
Hashtag yeah, man, that'sdefinitely a good time to do it
and, like I said, fall coming,so I need to replenish.
I need to replenish all mystuff and get all my stuff.
And get some new stuff, likeone of the homies has been
telling me about a plum winefrom Japan that he fucked with,

(11:35):
so I'll be making a trip toTotal Wine and more sometime
soon.

DeLaw (11:39):
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 storearound the corner.
Okay, I got it for the wife totry.
I got like the apple, one peach.
I got her one more and she'slike, oh, I like these.
Oh yeah, these are good.
It's like a local brand.

(12:02):
I can't think of it.

Wes (12:03):
I can't think of it, lingen , was it.

DeLaw (12:08):
Lindener, lindener.

Wes (12:11):
Something, something like that Lindenfilter or something
like that.

DeLaw (12:15):
I know the wife knows, because she was the one that
said oh, that's from so there'sthis local joint that was from.

Wes (12:21):
It was an ETM, it was what.

DeLaw (12:22):
There's this local joint that was from.

Wes (12:23):
What.

DeLaw (12:25):
Lindonor.

Wes (12:26):
Yeah, that.
And then there's another onethat'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 Isaid I was going to pick up a

(12:49):
couple bottles just because youknow, see how that shit tastes.

DeLaw (12:54):
But yeah, but that wine company.
Because I was like, becausewhen she took what I saw I was
like, well, I never knew thiswas in Maryland.
So I was like, oh man, we coulddefinitely do like a wine
little thing over there and likedrive up to Mount, whatever
that is, and go and explore andsee what happens.

(13:14):
You know, when I won my first$10,000 sports bet?
Four yeah, four yeah.

Wes (13:24):
Yo, it's parlay season pretty much.
Yo it's gonna be so many womenmad at dudes well, they won't be
mad if they hit listen, theywon't know if we hit you think.
You think I'm telling my wifelike yo I hit on a parlay, let's

(13:45):
go do something.
No, I do stuff all the time.

DeLaw (13:50):
That's my intellect.
That's exactly what I would do.
I'd be like this I hit on that.

Wes (13:56):
You might go out, but that's all you know.

DeLaw (13:58):
I'll hit on that 25K one and you know, first, you know I
already got paid taxes overanything over like $600.
They already going to take thetaxes out, so I'll probably be
like all right, look, let methink, where can I go for $500?
Hey, babe, get whatever youwant, I don't care how much it
costs, just don't go over $350.

Wes (14:20):
You know what that is.
Let's go to the grocery store,get all the fucking snacks and
shit the shit that we don'tnormally get Should be happy.

DeLaw (14:29):
Hey, but you know what, if I did hit for that big and I
was like you know what babeDon't even worry about.
Look, here's $350.
Do whatever you need to get.
And then you already got theother $126 that I throw into the
joint account that you take forgroceries, throw it at it, get
whatever.
Matter of fact, get anythingyou want me to make.
Look up the recipe, just get it.

(14:49):
Let's do it.
Yeah, but first I got to winthe money.

Wes (14:55):
Oh yeah, first you got to win the money First.

DeLaw (14:57):
I got to win the money.

Wes (14:57):
To throw her off the trail of the money.
Nah, you can't even throw heroff the trail of the money
because she would be like howmuch 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 (15:13):
I think the biggest reason my wife would know if I
came into a lot of money is if Itell her that the money she has
to send me every two weeks topay the bills that we jointly
pay it goes down drastically.
Hold up nigga, no you just haveto.

Wes (15:29):
No, no, no.
You just have to continue to do, which I'm going to do.
Continue to do the things thatyou was already doing and hide
the stuff that you buy.
Come on now.

DeLaw (15:37):
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 themortgage off.
Yes, you can.
Oh, okay, what do you mean?
What do you mean?
Because, as soon as you findout, so I've been paying all
this for how long?
Nah.

Wes (15:55):
Yeah, you can.
I ain't going to tell you howto do it, because it'll be
evidence.
We'll talk about it, but I cantell you how to do it, because I
can tell you how to do it Atthat point.

DeLaw (16:04):
if I'm able to pay this house off, it's just a matter of
accumulating the taxes that weneed to pay every quarter.

Wes (16:15):
Okay, I see what you're saying Huge shit on the parlay,
parlay.
Listen, just pay the house offand 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 todo this for us and our family,
I went ahead and paid the houseoff, I, I had some investments,
and then this, this and that,and came into something pretty

(16:37):
substantial, uh, and I want togive you all that's left over so
what you're saying is, I shouldsay, I did not a nice thing and
invested in something that justso happened to take off.
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 Icherish you deeply, I want to

(17:00):
give you the rest of what wasleft over, and then you give her
some, but it's not the rest.
Okay, that's how you play.

DeLaw (17:10):
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 rateswas going down.
They're going to be going downto 6.6.
But it was already at 6.6.

Wes (17:25):
But there was already a 6.6 right now.
I've been checking periodicallybecause the moment they hit
like a 5, a low 5, I'm going tostart, you know.

DeLaw (17:36):
I've been looking.
I'm hoping that they go downdown because if they get down
far enough where you know,because we'll be five years at
this house soon and the househas reappraised, I guess you
call it they sent the thing forthe value of the house and it

(17:58):
had gone up from the time we gotit to now it's gone up by
20,000.
So it's gone up by $20,000.
It's like, if it goes down farenough, we're technically in a
better situation than we werewhen we got this house.
Technically, technically in abetter situation, not

(18:21):
necessarily because we haveaccumulated some of the bills,
but technically, financially,we're bringing in more money.
We could make a real push toeither sell this or sell this,
get that from it, maybe, findsomewhere we can live month to
month and find a house and movein and everything else.

(18:43):
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 lowenough, it's something to
really consider to get a littlebit more space and more bang for
our buck.

Wes (19:03):
Yeah, which is not a bad thing to try to do, especially
if the market is allowing you todo it.
You know what I mean.

DeLaw (19:13):
Yeah because I mean you sell your house, you pay
whatever is left on the house togive somebody a clean slate
left with whatever else is left,which in this case might be
like $40,000, $50,000.
Which isn't a bad put downsomewhere.
But if we can get it to acertain point, even if we're

(19:40):
here for another three, fouryears, it never hurts to stay
somewhere.
No, not at all, because you'realways paying it down.
Or if I hit $250,000, pay itall off, and I'm good to go, pay

(20:01):
it all off, we ain't got toworry about all that.
Pay the taxes, pay taxes onthis house and then say, well,
we don't have to worry about allthat, 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 amatter of if we go and buy this,
if we sell this house here andput this money in an account
somewhere until we need it, thenwe do get our mortgage loan.

(20:24):
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 dreamsof mine that if I just somehow
hit.

Wes (20:42):
Yeah, hit that parlay first .
Yeah, I got to hit the parlayfirst.

DeLaw (20:45):
Yeah, I got to hit the parlay first.
Well, I mean, like I wastelling somebody I was like oh,
it just depends on what.
I hit.
If I hit 40, 50k, then that wasjust me paying off the cars.
You know that's a hundred someodd dollars every check we ain't
got to take out.
We'll put those back in ourpocket.
Shit Like anything that we cando to put money back in our

(21:07):
pocket.
That's what I'm trying to doBetween the business working and
sports betting.
Any money I can get back in ourpocket is good money.

Wes (21:15):
Fuck yeah, I don't see why I wouldn't be.

DeLaw (21:21):
Mm-hmm.

Wes (21:23):
I um, All right, that's four drinks I take.
Nah, you taking more than that?
I um, I still need to, I stillneed to, I don't need to, but I
still haven't really set upanything for me to be doing that
like, uh, you know theDraftKings shit.
So, yeah, I um, like you knowthe DraftKings shit.

(21:46):
Yeah, I definitely going tolook into it, just to have a
little bit of fun, just to havea little bit of fun.

DeLaw (21:57):
I mean, that's really what it's for.
I don't put no money into it.
All the money that's on theseapps are money that I either got
from free bets and I hit thebet 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

(22:17):
cent bets just to get a dollarthat is what it is it's almost
like yo, how do you make moneyoff that?
I said.
You know it's like the tortoiseand the hare story Slow and
steady.
Like you can't get greedy, yougot to make sure.

Wes (22:33):
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, andit is football season, you could
turn your money into $1,000 ifyou're doing it like little by
little that way.
Yeah, that's a free stack rightthere.

DeLaw (22:52):
I told somebody.
I said I put a 50-cent bet downone time and all I needed was
Julio Jones to get four yards.
He got four yards and atouchdown and I got me from a
50-cent bet.

Wes (23:03):
I got yeah you know what I mean?

DeLaw (23:13):
that's that it can happen .
Sometimes it just be the luckof the draw.
And I've gotten, I've startedgetting more disciplined with
cashing out.
Oh, right away.
I look at it this way eventhough I might have made this
bet for, let's say, I had puttogether this immaculate $2

(23:35):
million bet or $250,000 bet,something immaculate off of a
locker if I get to a point whereI'm like, ah, and it's like the
end of the first set of gamesor anything, then it's like, all
right, well, how much am Igoing to make If it says, let's
say it was right.
Well, how much am I going tomake If it says, let's say, it
was $250,000 out there, let'sjust add it and it says you'll

(23:57):
get $90,000.
Cash out.
I mean, I know that's not howit works If you want the whole
bet.
And even when I got the $80 offthe 50 cent, the bet was
originally like $190.
And all I needed was what Ineeded was Stephan Diggs to get

(24:21):
50 yards.
But I was like, and it wasMonday night, I was like, I
don't know, like Monday nightgames are always so weird.

Wes (24:29):
They're always so playoff game-ish.
You know what I mean.

DeLaw (24:33):
Yeah, they're always so playoff game-ish.
You know what I mean.
Yeah, and like that guy whogets 50 yards rushing every game
, all of a sudden he can't getmore than 60 yards, yeah.
And it's like no, and so I'mactually stepping in.
This was the last thing and Ipretty 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 methe option to cash out and it's

(24:56):
substantially bigger than what,I At the end of the day, if I
get more than what I already putin.
Hell, yeah, I'm cashing out andthen I'll reuse those bets
again.

Wes (25:06):
Man, it sounds like this might be carver money for me.

DeLaw (25:09):
Shit, even if I could Goddamn expensive Tell you man,
if Shit, even if I could Goddamnexpensive, if I could just get
enough to pay off our cars, thatmakes a whole lot of difference
to how we spend money.
You know what I'm saying.

Wes (25:24):
Okay, let's just say you was the hit for something nice,
substantial and shit like that.
You were able to pay off thehouse and shit, and wifey like
yo nice, substantial and shitlike that You're able to pay off
the house and shit and wifeylike yo, can I stay home and not
work no more?
You say yeah.

DeLaw (25:46):
Yeah, really, because it's just the taxes, it's not
the mortgage anymore, it's justthe taxes on the house.

Wes (25:55):
But what about this new lifestyle that y'all are thrust
upon if she just continuesworking her job?
Well, if she can, well knowingmy wife, my wife, you wouldn't
advocate in no way to be likelisten, sweetheart, we could be
doing some things now.

DeLaw (26:17):
If she I'll put it this way If we were in our final home
, our final home and it was paidoff and she just said you know
what, I'm tired of the bullshitat 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 crossingguard outside and just do that
in the morning and afternoonsand then come home, I would have

(26:39):
no gripes about it because Imean, 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 endof the day I'm like I don't want
to sit in the house all day.
I need to go out and dosomething.
So I would.
If she was like I just need timeaway from work, okay, cool,
take your time.
I mean $3,000, $4,000 a year intaxes on the house.

(27:06):
I mean I can cover that.
It's not more than it'd bepretty much, you know.
Now, mind you with paying offthe house.
Hopefully I've made enough topay off the cars.
That'd be the other issue,because if she's not working, it
means I gotta take care of theinsurance, the AC, the internet,

(27:29):
the insurance I already said,the insurance and the taxes.
So I had to take care of those.
And the cell phone, becauseshe's not working at that point,
so I still had to take care ofall those.
So hopefully I was able to getenough money that I could pay
off anything that was going tokeep me from doing that.
Put it that way, right, becauseat that point, if I make enough

(27:52):
, I could hire somebody to runthe business for me, where I can
just bring the money in andwhat if she also continued to
work?

Wes (28:00):
those all those things could be achieved easier.
All those things could beachieved quicker and that money
could be put some of the moneyshe can only let's just say she
worked for about five more yearsy'all be in a better situation
than y'all was if she would havestopped working.
Yeah, only reason why I askedis because I was.
I came across this thing onreddit and this guy was like was

(28:23):
he the asshole for telling hiswife that she can't stay at home
?
So the story goes you know theguy and his wife.
They share a two-year-old.
Oh, they share a two-year-oldchild.
Oh, they have a two-year-oldchild.
That sounds weird for him tosay I share a two-year-old child
.
They have a two-year-old kid.
She does more housework than him, but he can help out when he

(28:43):
can.
He works more hours.
She makes around $70,000 a yearand ever since the child was
born she's been wanting to be astay-at-home mom.
He doesn't want her to be astay-at-home mom.
He thinks it's not worth losing70k a year in income.
If they have five children,then yeah, but um, saying maybe
I would.

(29:04):
Maybe he should see the value,but in this case he doesn't.
He's told her that it's herchoice whether she wants to stay
at home or not, and that he andthat she was just or not, and
that she was just informing methat she's considering it.
I thought this was very rude.
I thought this was a very rudething to say.
Legally, she's right and it'sher choice.

(29:25):
But I told her, if she choosesto disregard my opinion on the
matter and quit, she'll be rightback applying for jobs very
soon well shit the matter andquit.

DeLaw (29:34):
she'll be right back applying for jobs very soon.
Well shit, that was verypassive-pervasive.

Wes (29:42):
Brother, you better not quit that fucking job.

DeLaw (29:46):
I get it, I get it.

Wes (29:48):
That sounds like he pays for a lot of the stuff
throughout whatever, and she'sstill be asking for money.
And he's like hell, nah, losing$70K is a lot of the stuff
throughout, whatever, and she'dstill be asking for money.
He's like hell, nah, losing$70K is a lot of money.

DeLaw (30:00):
That is a lot of money.
I mean, I've still been tryingto lobby for being a
stay-at-home husband if my wifedoes get a whole lot more money
she don't want, that she's notgoing to respect you money.
She don't want that.
She's not going to respect you.
You don't want that.
But also, I had to look at fromher point of view.

(30:21):
She's like, well, look, if sheall of a sudden started making
150 000, 200 000 a year, eventhough she could, I could stay
home and she would take care ofeverything to lose my income,
like like you were just sayingto lose my income, like you were
just saying to lose my incomewould make things a little
tougher, because now everythinghas to be budgeted through her
and she's paying all of itExactly.

Wes (30:41):
And if something happens to one source and I'm not saying
that it will, but if somethingwas 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 (30:52):
Yeah.

Wes (30:57):
And even going back to the uh like the reason why you
shouldn't do it, the respectthing.
I had a homegirl tell me, likeeven if her man worked at home
she would still feel a certaintype of way because she's
getting out of bed, going towork and he needs to be, he
needs to have a job where hegets, leaves the house too.
And I said that and I was likeyo, I was like yo.
If he's making the majority ofthem, you still want him to

(31:17):
leave the house.

DeLaw (31:19):
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 (31:27):
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 (31:33):
She's like well, you have one, You're left and want to be
with Sly and Kevin.
I didn't know Sly and Kevinwere there.
I went there thinking I wasgoing to telework time because
that's what they were telling me, and then I didn't realize that
I was going to be a highexterminator and then hang out
with two mice the other day.

Wes (31:53):
I didn't know yeah, that is wild, but yeah, but yeah, like
losing that income.
I'm not saying money iseverything, but just think how
it's kind of like when you, whenyou only have, I imagine, right
, because I ain't there yet likeif you ain't really had a lot
of bills to pay and stuff likethat and everything was kind of

(32:14):
taken care of going to work,making that check, probably feel
good, you probably a little bithappier, so you probably want
to do it because you know maybe80 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.

(32:37):
That's different.
Losing 70K.

DeLaw (32:41):
Because, if so, let's say I was making.
Let's say he was making reallyreally good money, that he took
care of all the bills.
She was just working justbecause she's like to work and
have her own money.
That 70K honestly could go tothe child care.
So I would be like, well, look,I'm already taking care of all
the bills.
So, we're going to need you to.

(33:01):
I'm going to need you to paythe daycare bill, you know, or
we could split it, however youwant to do it, but one way or
another, your money is going tobe going towards the daycare.
You got 45 to 90 days to figureit out, because maternity leave
, depending on where you at.
I know with the feds it wasthree months for women and then
I think it was three months forwomen and like 45 days for men.

Wes (33:23):
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 (33:37):
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 cameback but they said she had been
gone for a year With attorneysand you be there for a long time
, you got to leave to burn.
And I and I don't quote me onthat this was way, way, way way

(33:59):
back in like the early 2000s,early to mid 2000s.
So things might have changed orI might have gotten it wrong,
but I know that the women alwayshad 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 thatthe women get.
I know some places they werelike, yeah, I got six months of

(34:21):
maternity and the husband willbe home for 90 days.
Honestly, I think that's whatyou really do need when you do
have a child.
Honestly, I thought men shouldget the same amount as women.

Wes (34:34):
Because you never know the dynamic and all that.
Not even that, just like thehealth-wise, like you know what
your wife or your partner mightbe dealing with at that time.
You might have to be super dador super husband and shit where
she like complications orpostpartum and stuff like that.

(34:55):
I would think men the ratioshould be a one year, six months
.
Men get six months, women getone year.
One year, yeah.

DeLaw (35:08):
I mean, and my biggest thing about that, about us
getting, even though we get halfthe time, I think it benefits
both of us, because those firstsix months is the hardest,
because not only do you got todeal with that, you got a new
baby now you got to deal withthese awkward-ass sleeping
patterns of the baby.
So now someone's getting upmiddle of the night, can't get

(35:30):
no sleep.
So it's like nigga, it's yourturn.
No, nigga, it's your turn.
No, nigga, it's your turn.
Look what the board says.
It says oh fuck, it is me Allright.
You know, now you got to putthe.
You know you got to get thebaby on a routine.
You got to get them to sleepthrough the night.
You got to it's like all thesethings.
You got to do that in sixmonths just so that when you lay

(35:50):
the baby down at 9, 10 o'clockat night or whatever time they
go to bed, that they ain'twaking up until it's time for
you to get up to get ready forwork.

Wes (35:59):
That shit don't always work and I know I've said this story
before, but me and my nephewwent to the movies yesterday and
I was just thinking like when Iwas still staying with my mom
and I was still traveling out toManassas to go to work, so I
had to wake up like around 5just to be out the house by like
6, just to get there by like7-something yeah, 7-8-something

(36:22):
and he would wake up way beforeit was time for him to feed or
whatever have you, and he'd justbe crying.
So he would wake up literallyan 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, youshould have another hour of
sleep.
And his little baby self waslike fuck that, I won't do that

(36:43):
Consistently, just waking up anhour before.
I'm like what the fuck?
So I was not getting no sleepand that's what actually forced
me to like alright, I'm movingback and I'm moving into the
house, because remember, I saidI had the house or whatever.
I was just like fuck it, Iain't got no furniture in this,
motherfucker, if I got to sleepon the floor in the master
bedroom and this shit, just toget some sleep.
That's what the fuck I'm goingto do and that's what I did.

(37:03):
I was like my nephew forced meout of my goddamn mom's house
because his sleeper patterns wasway the fuck off.
I'm like god damn, I can't evenfix up the house while I'm
staying in the school.

DeLaw (37:18):
Leo just looked at me like y'all talking about me.

Wes (37:21):
Strapping drinks.
Talking about the cat.
So but yeah, man, yeah.
But back to that money thing.
Like, yeah, it would have to besome type of compromise Like yo
.
Like, yeah, it would have to besome type of compromise Like yo
, like, losing 70K off the ripis crazy.
Let's figure some things out.
Let's you know what I mean.

(37:41):
Like, let's set ourselves upfor success.
Maybe you pocket your you knowyour checks for a year or two
and you put in the high yieldsavings, whatever, whatever,
whatever.
Any interest you got is yourfuck around money, right, and
I'll take care of the rest.
And if you need to go back towork, you won't have to go back
to work.

(38:02):
But I think a lot of.
I mean I'm not a, I'm not awoman, so I can't really say but
yeah, I understand the, thewant to be home with your kid.
There's nothing more importantthan that, because that is your
child.
However, inflation, things areexpensive.
Sanity you know what I mean.

(38:24):
I know they say money ain'teverything and love don't pay
the bills.
There's some truth to a lot ofthat shit.
No one wants to be in that typeof stress.

DeLaw (38:38):
I know a couple people whose wives are stay-at-home
wives, but I think the guys aremore miserable because it's like
, oh, I come home from work andnow I got to do work at home.
It's like I just worked all day.

Wes (38:51):
The guys are always more miserable.
I always talk about it like Ijust worked all day.
Yeah, you guys are always moremiserable.

DeLaw (38:54):
I was like I mean, and I always talk about it, I get it,
but you know, at the end of theday, like if this is what you
started with your life, it'slike anything else in life.
You started doing it one time.
It's forever.
It's forever at that point.

Wes (39:08):
I have one of my homies tell me that a mutual not a
mutual friend, but a friend ofhis his wife hit him with the
well, I'm not just going to behere 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 houseto 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 andyou just like walking around

(39:30):
where I ain't going to be yourmaid, you're going to be
something.
I ain't saying you're going tobe my maid, but it's like yo, I
take care of everything.
You don't work.
What do you think this is?

DeLaw (39:43):
See, that's a difference.
I'm pretty sure if I had doneeverything right in my life and
I was more successful and I metmy wife and I was like, babe,
you ain't got work.

Wes (39:56):
Knowing your wife, she's going to work just because.

DeLaw (39:59):
She's going to work just because she's going to want her
own.
She's going to want to makesure she ain't stuck in that
house.
She's doing the same thing overand over.
She's going to go to work.
I'm just saying in this otheruniverse that I in the Marvel
world, Multiverse.
I know my wife.

(40:20):
My wife is very traditional.
If she's not working, I'mtaking care of everything.
Yes, she's going to be ready.
Yes, the house will be cleanbecause that's how she was
raised.
You don't get me like that,where it's like oh well, I'm
going to make sure the house isclean, but I don't work, it's
going to be.
Well, I'm tired, Leave me alone.

(40:42):
You got your hands on it.
You've been home all day.
I get what he's saying and Iget 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'relooking at it from her
perspective, you know, becauseshe doesn't work, I'm not sure
how he's saying it to her, howshe's taking it, because he

(41:04):
might be saying to her like, hey, well, I mean, I respect this.
She might be looking at it likewhy are you commanding me
around?

Wes (41:15):
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'tknow.
He was just talking to myfriend, like yo, she don't do
nothing around the house and shestay at home.

DeLaw (41:22):
I mean, well, she doesn't , but maybe she doesn't know how
to cook, Maybe she hasn't beenreally, maybe she doesn't really
.

Wes (41:32):
I'm going to tell you, listen, listen, listen, I
understand that aspect and Idon't know, and this is all
hypothetical, but of course meI'm going based off of some of
the some of the homies that Iknow 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 throughculinary, a little culinary

(41:54):
program and shit like that.
And he was telling us he waslike why should I cook in my own
house?
I just helped her through aculinary program.
She cooked better than me and Ikind of understood that.
It's just kind of like yo,that's what she wanted god is
anything wrong with is any, butwhat I guess?
what I'm trying to say is like,if you don't know how to cook

(42:14):
and you have nothing but time onyour hands, you live the type
of lifestyle where you'reallowed 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 atwork and be like I don't know
how to use this particular Xeroxmachine.
You gonna have to figure it out.

(42:35):
We want to keep your job.
I mean same stipulation.
I would think you know what Imean.
Like I will rise to theoccasion.
We have to rise to the occasion.

DeLaw (42:46):
I mean it's not too tough to just look at a recipe and
follow.
I mean I know, we all know thiswe all have read, we all know
this, we all have read, we allknow how to.

Wes (42:57):
Well, I'm sorry.
We all know the lemon pepperrecipe in the back of our head
that we got off Good Cooking orsome shit like that.
I forget the name of thewebsite, but you get what I mean
.

DeLaw (43:05):
I mean.
Well, you know, being fromemergency preparedness, we can't
assume that everybody can read.
But I know that if you aregetting married to somebody.

Wes (43:13):
I'm not married, nobody can read.

DeLaw (43:14):
Come on now, if you're a marriage to somebody or dating
them, I'm pretty sure one of theunspoken qualifications is you
got to be able to read True.
So reading a recipe should befairly easy.
Whether it's the guy, whetherit'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

(43:37):
college and had to live on ourown, I know we didn't just all
eat Hungry man meals and pop thetops off the Campbell's Chunky
Soup and eat oodles and noodlesthe whole time.
At some point you had to pullout a pan and possibly bake your
oodles and noodles.
I pull out a pan and possiblybake your noodles.

Wes (43:54):
No, I didn't do that, that's what I'm saying.
I want a couple of noodlesright now.

DeLaw (43:58):
I just need you to eat one At some point, even for guys
.
And that's why a lot of times Ialways 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, sheknow what time it is.
I'm like I said.
But then it makes sense becauseit's the same dude I see at the

(44:20):
same bars.

Wes (44:21):
I'm like, oh, he got to get some food because he ain't sure
he ain't cooking.

DeLaw (44:26):
And he probably don't find nobody's house to go to.
That has some food or she wasbusy with whoever she was busy
with.

Wes (44:35):
That's wild.
I got a homeboy that got hedeveloping his team again after
so many years of being in asomewhat relationship and all of
them cooking for him.
I'm like, damn, that's just aside note.
But yeah, man, how the fuck?
You don't know how to cook isone of those situations where
it's like following a recipe isnot really that hard.

DeLaw (45:01):
Is one of the qualifications for you dating
someone that they have to know.
Oh my gosh, I mean it's good toknow, but not all guys know how
to cook.

Wes (45:12):
I cannot believe that I cannot to cook.
I cannot believe that, I cannotbelieve that, I cannot believe
that.

DeLaw (45:17):
But that's what I was saying.
I was like you know, or maybe Iin my head I was like I always
wanted to cook.
I've always watched my mom cookand I'm like, oh, that's cool.
And I always watched my dad notcook.
And I was like my mom wasalways like you know, I'm not
saying you got to know how tocook, great, but at least know
how to put something together incase your wife is sick and you

(45:39):
got to feed the kids.

Wes (45:40):
So I think you're definitely right.
I think a lot of peopleoverthink this shit when they
say, oh, I don't know how tocook.
I think they think, likecooking is I know recipes off
the top of my head this, thisand that I can go in there and
do something from scratch.

DeLaw (45:53):
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 ofstuff from my wife, so there's
things that I've never cookedbefore, that I watched her do,
and I'm like oh, that easy right.
I'm like and so she'd be, areyou going to give me some space?
I'm just looking so do you dothis, you do this.

(46:15):
Okay, so then, why do you dothat?
Okay, so why do you do that?
I'd be like hey, babe, we'llmake the same thing you just
made.

Wes (46:22):
Exactly, exactly.
That's why I never understoodwhen people say oh, I don't know
how to do that.
It's like yo get a book or getonline and do it.
Now that's cooking.
Preparing is the easiest thingyou should do, because there's a
lot of shit that you canprepare.
You prepare a couple noodles,like we just talked about you
prepare.

DeLaw (46:41):
I'm just like marinating some stuff.
I'm like, hey, this chicken isalready seasoned.

Wes (46:47):
All you gotta do is throw it in the oven or whatever.
Don't even think about it,don't do nothing.

DeLaw (46:52):
Set a timer on the thing and you're good to go.
You know, if you need to theaccents in there, throw a little
bit of MSG on there.
You're good to go, we're goodto go with the MSG.
You know what I'm saying.
I learned a lot.
My wife was the one that whenwe got together and I started

(47:15):
seeing dishes she made, thatmade 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, shemade secret salad one time.
She had shrimp, she had crab, Idon't know what else she had.
She had something else.
It was shrimp, else it was crab.
And I was like, oh, I make thistoo.

(47:36):
And so, you know, I went to thestore.
I picked all the shells out ofthe thing I think she had used
what did you use for yourseafood salad, babe?
for your crab imitation, whichwas still good.
It still had that sweet flavorto it, but when I got the crab
out of the store and picked, youall the shells mind you, she

(47:56):
liked it.

Wes (47:56):
You was doing it the sucker way.

DeLaw (47:58):
Man, look, I did it the way that, once it's done, people
are like yo, this shit is bombas fuck.
Yeah, I got you.
Mind you, if I get lazy withthat shit, you're going to get
every shell under the sun inthat motherfucker.
But I diligently go throughthere and I pick out the shells.

(48:18):
By the time I'm done I got abowl full of shells in that
motherfucker.
I'm like, because she wasasking me she's like well, how
come you don't make this?
I said my fingers be tired frompicking that shit.

Wes (48:31):
I said a two-day process like pick one of them put a top
on it, store it, and then sheshowed you life hacking.

DeLaw (48:38):
I was like, nah, this is what you do and you like hers
was hers was really good, like Iwas crushing that shit.
I was like no, I didn't know,imitation crab tasted like this.
Yeah, I was like, yeah, whatdid you use?
I said I took the crab out ofthe store and I picked through
the shit.

Wes (48:56):
She was like what.

DeLaw (48:58):
But then if you ask her, she'd be like I like yours,
because it got real light.
I was like well, that's thegive and take we've had,
especially on the cooking front.
It's things that she cooks thatI'm like I'm not touching that.
I'm not touching that becauseyou do it better than me.
I know that's your dish.
And then this is that.

(49:18):
She's like hey, what y'all do?
I ain't doing all that.
That shit sounds like it'smathematical, yeah.

Wes (49:25):
That's you.
In my household, I'm the onethat I'm the one that's doing
the teaching and fortunately sheis willing to learn, so it
works yeah.

DeLaw (49:37):
So yeah, mrs Smith, she got a deep recipe bag.
I'll tell you that.

Wes (49:44):
All my shit come from Google or this book.
I got right over here.

DeLaw (49:49):
I said you know I'm going to start buying my ingredients.
I said I was going to make yousome gumbo.
Yeah, and you know, gumbo isn'ta hard dish but it ain't the
easiest dish.

Wes (50:01):
It's not the easiest because it's all an acquired
thing per person.
Like some people don't like thetomato sauce in it, some people
like I forget the other saucethat they put in there.
Some people don't like thecrawfish, some people like the
crawfish, some people only wantshrimp, some people don't want
the sausage.
So it's just kind of like.

DeLaw (50:19):
Well, you know what we do .
When I do dishes, I always, youknow, I consult first.
Hey, babe, do you want porksausage 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?

(50:40):
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 theside so I can put it in my.
You know?
So it's it's give and take ofit.
But the the one thing Iremember.
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.

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I said the brown gumbo, browngumbo.
Yeah, so there's two differentgumbos people make.
One is red tomato based, theother one is brown, so what is
the brown?

Wes (51:13):
I guess that's what I was thinking.

DeLaw (51:14):
The brown is oil and flour.

Wes (51:19):
Just regular gravy.

DeLaw (51:20):
It's a roux.
They call it a roux.
You just stir it until it getsto a dark brown.
You put your seafood broth inthere, Then you stir that up and
that's how you start gettingyour thing for it.
This is a shortcut, but in thescheme of it, you do that, you
stir it around.
I mean and that's the hardestpart of all of it is not letting

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your root burn Stop.
In essence, it turning brown isburning.

Wes (51:46):
You do that.

DeLaw (51:51):
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 makejoe fries to a deep red, but
like you want a deep.

Wes (52:01):
Stop talking like you know what you're talking about.

DeLaw (52:04):
I know.

Wes (52:05):
Yo, I heard you, you can't go there every now and then.

DeLaw (52:10):
Every now and then.
But you know, I know a lot ofpeople from a lot of different
places, so I make a lot ofdifferent things.
I remember I made I madespinach stew, I don't know the
African name for it.
I made spinach stew and I wastelling my boy, mr Bochy, and I
said, man, I said now I see whatyou meant about having a deep
bread for the jaw rice, becausethe spinach stew is the same way

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.
And I was like, oh, this is adeep red.
And I saw what you meant bylike, cover it up, let the water
pop out.
And I was like, oh, I got totry jaw fries.
And I tried jaw fries one moretime and it came out decent.
My wife and our child, theyboth ate it.
It was all the way cookedthrough.
Oh, I was like, was like, yes,I did it.

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And I haven't made a sensebecause I said I got my win, I'm
good you ain't made a sensebecause you knew it was probably
luck.

Wes (53:04):
I ain't fucking pushing.

DeLaw (53:05):
I'm not going to hold you .
I know it was luck.
I know it was luck.
There's no way I came acrossthat shit and got that shit
right that time.
Oh man, I remember my wifecalled me and she's like yeah,
if you guys can have some of therice, is it fine?

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I said, yeah, it's fine.
I haven't tried it yet, butyeah, go ahead, tell me how it
tastes.
And they were like, oh, this isgood.
I mean, you know, my wifedoesn't eat a lot of leftovers.
For too many days she waseating that thing like two,
three, four days later I waslike what is going?

Wes (53:41):
on yeah, my wife the same way, with leftovers to the point
where I'm like yo, I hadfucking chicken two days
straight.
What the fuck is going on?

DeLaw (53:51):
on.
You got to do what I do.

Wes (53:53):
You make enough for just two days I started doing that,
and then you just the nextdinner's lunch combo.
I do that now, but back thenI'd be like what the fuck?
I'm cooking too much.

DeLaw (54:07):
So I have some chicken legs in the refrigerator now,
right, sort of thawed, because Ihad them out yesterday and I
was trying to get them to thawso I could cook.
And then my wife said, well,why don't we just order?
I said okay, so I just put themin the refrigerator, since I'm
like it's refrigerated.
Yeah, but I'm going to probablydo like cream of chicken soup
or cream of chicken chicken legs, put in some cream of chicken

(54:30):
or whatever, so that I can haveless of them.
Mind you, those dishes go quickin this house Because and hear
me out, hear me out and thereason they go so quick is
because once the chicken legsare done, or the turkey thighs
or the chicken wings are done,they're coming off the bones, so
you get two of them.
So imagine we got 10 pieces ofchicken, you get two.

(54:52):
Put it over your rice orwhatever, whatever vegetables.
That's there.
That's four chicken wings gone.
You got six left.
That means now I'm taking twofor lunch, keep taking two for
lunch, there's only enough.
For, if I look, that's when youguys start making business that
says all right, look, all right, look, we can either cook
something today and eat it andtake this for lunch, or we eat

(55:15):
this for today and we got tocook something for lunch.
Which one you want to do?

Wes (55:19):
I've done both.
I've woke, like yo, in themidst of me.
Like yo, let me.
I'm going to shower in themorning.
I'm going to pop this shit inthe air fryer, in the glass bowl
, put my shit in the lunch bag,be out the door.

DeLaw (55:35):
I've gotten up and actually cooked rice.

Wes (55:38):
I'd be like oh, I gotta cook some rice, because I need
to go get it, so you don't wantto cook it the night before.
Take it to work.
You want to have some freshrice, so it ain't sitting in the
fridge.

DeLaw (55:49):
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 (56:01):
Oh man.
Y'all should have alreadygotten the egg cooker from the
last time we spoke, because theylike $10.

DeLaw (56:09):
I saw the egg cooker and I almost purchased one, but then
I decided I'm getting a kingsize bed first.

Wes (56:15):
They're $8, man.

DeLaw (56:17):
Look, I'm getting a king size bed first and I'll get an
egg cooker.

Wes (56:21):
And a rice cooker.

DeLaw (56:22):
And a rice.
I don't know, maybe a ricecooker.

Wes (56:26):
Listen, I'm telling you rice comes out perfect every
time.
Of course it does, because it'sa rice cooker.
It's a rice cooker, it better.
I'm just saying like havingthat thing right there and
having an extra burner to dosome other shit, actually
cooking the rice, throwing itback into the you know to do
some fancy shit.

DeLaw (56:42):
I guess that would take the stress off of me always
cooking the rice.
And then the wife can be likeoh well, you know what?
Hey, well, I cooked some rice.
It's in the rice cooker.
I cooked these green beans andthis 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'mworking out, even though no sure

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.

Wes (57:08):
But yo.
So it's due to asshole forwanting his wife to go back to
work.

DeLaw (57:14):
Is he an asshole for wanting his wife to go back to
work?
Is he an?

Wes (57:15):
asshole for wanting his wife to go back to work.
Yeah, just off of losing 75kjust one kid.

DeLaw (57:24):
I don't mean I don't think he is, but I don't know
their finances yeah, it comesdown to that, my thing would be.
If you need to go back to thatjob, can you go back with no
questions asked and what theyhave?

Wes (57:37):
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 islike yo, he might have been an
asshole in the way he probablysaid it to her.

DeLaw (57:51):
Like yeah, you will be finding another, you will be I
think that's kind of the assholepart right there it was like
well, if you, if you don't goback to work, you will be going
back at some point.
Even I kind of felt like damn,is that how we going?

Wes (58:11):
in right now I don't know.
I understand it, though.
I understand they were makingit work together.
Their lifestyle was alreadybaked in her 75K.
That's just what it is Now.
You're like, nah, and you wantme to take on more stuff because
you already say you work morehours, so you want me to work

(58:31):
even more hours, or you justwant to cut back on all your
stuff?
Are you just going to not gowithout, 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 (58:43):
Yeah, like I said, unless he was made.
Well, he said he's working morehours, which means that he's
already making.
Really, really, really good,maybe, maybe maybe they're
making the same amount.

Wes (58:55):
He's just working more hours maybe I don't know.

DeLaw (58:59):
I mean, I mean men and women do do finances different.

Wes (59:04):
You know, that's why that thing, girl math, came about
over the last.

DeLaw (59:10):
What two, three years you started, I saw the meme and
when I looked at it at first Ireally didn't understand it and
then, when it hit me, I was like, oh, they were calculating what
they were going to get andspending it, versus when we
calculate it, we're calculatingwhat we have and then spend it

(59:31):
Like we're not looking at future, like we're not looking we have
and then spend it.
We're not looking at futurepurchases before we see the
money.
And so that's what I was seeingwith all the girl math memes.
I would see it was all aboutcounting money that you didn't
have but you knew you would have, versus counting the money you
already have right here andgoing from there.

Wes (59:54):
That was the biggest difference I got.
I ain't gonna lie.
A lot of that shit probablyjust comes from like I ain't
gotta take nobody out.
They date me.
That's what that sounds like.
They could afford to befrivolous with money and shit
like that.
Somebody about to go take careof them, but ain't no woman
taking care of a man like that?
It's not.

(01:00:15):
That's not how that shit works.

DeLaw (01:00:16):
Yeah I look at my bank accounts every day in hopes that
, uh, there's some celebrity ormillionaire decided we're gonna
donate some money to me.
But it never happens.

Wes (01:00:25):
I just I look at my account like damn, I ain't got no money
listen, I'll be if I was to seethat 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 aclerical error and now they owe
50.
I don't want to owe that money.
So I'm just calling the bankright away like yo, come get
this shit before I spend itplease, Because I don't want to

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have to pay this shit back.
I'm going to leave it in therefor a week.

DeLaw (01:00:49):
No, come get it, I'm going to leave it in there for a
week.
I'm going to see if it was aclerical error.
It's going to be like this ohokay, whatever, I'm going to
wait a week and then I'm goingto be like it ain't gone.
I might look, you know me.
I might wait a month.
This shit is still here.

Wes (01:01:07):
Imagine if this shit was a.
It happened in Clerical era,happened in a high-interest
yield account.
You think they're taking theinterest or they're just taking
the money they accidentally gotinto?

DeLaw (01:01:24):
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 goingto be a compound monthly
interest, or however it is right.

Wes (01:01:37):
Let's just say it's been there for years $100,000, and
they didn't find out until likea year.
The person's super rich andhe's like yo, I'm missing
$100,000.
And then they figure out what'sthat Like $1,000?
At the end of the year.
What's that Like a thousanddollars or some shit?
$400,000?
I'm sorry, at 5%.

DeLaw (01:01:55):
What's that?
5% For $100,000?

Wes (01:02:03):
Well, whatever half of 10% is God damn you're going to make
me do some math.

DeLaw (01:02:06):
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 (01:02:16):
I said $1,000.
That's 1% $5,000.
You think they're taking the$5,000 from you.

DeLaw (01:02:22):
Yeah, of course I mean, why Because?
If that ain't their money, thatthey earned it's my money, that
I earned If I put in $10,000and I put $100,000 in and they
don't catch it.
For a year I accumulatedinterest on Basically, it's that
other person's interestregardless.
Yeah, all they're going to do issay, okay, well, honestly, we

(01:02:46):
got to take this off.
Now we're going to recalculate.
Once you put it in that highyield thing, it's already been
calculated.
It is just you putting yourmoney 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 damnself and be like this is how

(01:03:08):
much I'm supposed to get at theend of it and check it my damn
self.
All it is is that, okay, I gaveyou this $100.
Now, joe Blue from over therethat needs a $100 loan can now
borrow because the bank works onthe borrow system.
All that money we use off ourcards is not real money.
It's literally a digital numberthat's just going from place to

(01:03:29):
place.

Wes (01:03:30):
Like that's it.

DeLaw (01:03:34):
If you were to go into a bank today and let's say we were
millionaires we got so big onthis podcast that we're
millionaires now we would gointo our individual bank and say
I want to withdraw all themoney in my account.
They will look at you like weonly have $100,000 here, that's
it.

Wes (01:03:52):
They got to wait a couple days, clear some shit, and then
they got to write you a check.

DeLaw (01:03:56):
Yep, and then here's your check.
But please, no, no, because Iwant cash.
That means I got to come backevery day to get the money, to
get another $100,000.

Wes (01:04:10):
Oh yeah.

DeLaw (01:04:11):
Yeah, I'm not saying that the bank is a scam.
It's what stabilizes ourcurrent society.

Wes (01:04:19):
There are some scams involved.
I'll tell you that much.

DeLaw (01:04:21):
But if the bank for the banks that have all these people
that join, they really have allthat money on hand, all that
money on hand, it'd be such moretighter security in a place,
because it would be tooappeasing to just all we got to
do is just hop in that generaltab and look Boom, we set, we

(01:04:43):
set.
We set because people bank withBank of America at certain
branches.
There's no way they ain't gotat least $500 million in account
money in those banks.
And if you have all that cashon hand, look at that.

Wes (01:05:00):
Yeah.

DeLaw (01:05:03):
Yeah, oh man.
You know, back in the day, bankrobbing used to be a whole lot
easier than technology, all thecameras and shit.
Yeah, you just had to make itout the slate.

Wes (01:05:12):
You just had to make it out the slate.
You just had to make it out thebank.
Oh yeah, that too.
Make it out the oh yeah.

DeLaw (01:05:19):
Because at that point are they really getting you no.
When I was at my last job.
The guy was like he was talkingto this guy who was at
Lexington Market and he wastalking about how he had to do
Fed time and he said he hadrobbed a bank.
And he said he had robbed.
He said, up until that point hehad robbed five banks and he

(01:05:46):
said the only reason he gotcaught is because he got in an
argument with somebody when hewent to go get some food at
Lexington Market.
So he went to get some food.
Something happened.
He got in an argument, thepolice come over, they arrest
him and they realize you, thebank robber.

Wes (01:06:05):
You, the bank robber.

DeLaw (01:06:06):
I was like yo.

Wes (01:06:09):
God will be Does he have any of the money from the bank
robberies, or was it some shortshit like $10,000 a year?
I think it was like $10,000,$15,000.

DeLaw (01:06:20):
It was some short shit, but he was like I could have
gotten away if all I did wasjust walk away from the argument
.
Yeah, I was like damn, that'stough, yeah, that's tough.
I said that's tough, yeah,that's tough.
I said you got all the waythere.
They ain't looking for you.
All of a sudden you get Becausethey found the book bag.
They found this book bag withthe money in it.

(01:06:41):
That's where they ended upfinding it.
I was like damn, that's tough.

Wes (01:06:49):
Jeez, louise.
On that note, everybody sticksto regular ass scams.
Nah, that shit seems to work.
I'm not going to do it, butthat shit seems to work.

DeLaw (01:07:07):
I was watching the beekeeper and the fact that
they're still using oh, youraccount's been hacked, and blah,
blah, blah.
I'm like hold up.
Look that US Marshal in the USstill ain't showing up to my
house with a suspicious packagethat they found in the mail that
was addressed to me, the guywith the heavy accent from

(01:07:27):
Mexico, with the whole Americanname.
Jeez, my name is John Jacobs.
You got the heaviest accent,come on.

Wes (01:07:40):
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 (01:07:50):
Look when he said that it was funny.
I came.
I came home that day and I wascracking up.
I was like this dude trying tohave my tits.
I love his style.
Like whole that sounded not.

Wes (01:08:03):
Mexican.
Yeah, that was English.
Actually, that was English.

DeLaw (01:08:06):
He gave me.
He had a whole Mexican accent.
I knew he spoke hard Spanish.
It gave me the full Americanname.
I was like shit, you could havesaid your name was David Ortiz,
it might have sounded a littlebit more believable.
But really you want to give mea and that's what really threw
it off.
I was like you're giving me awhole American name, like a

(01:08:28):
whole American name, and youknow, the number might have been
real, because maybe he foundthe number off somebody and he
had to use your name.
So if you look it up, it isthat person.
But dude, that's not true.
And at some point I was like youknow what?
So when he said I'm going torecord you and I need you to say

(01:08:50):
yes or no, and as soon as hesaid 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 mybank.
So who is this?
Again, the Lawrence, mr Smith,right, social security.
And then he started out likeyou want me to say what, what?

(01:09:13):
He was giving me the rightinformation as far as where I
live, but I was like if the USMarshals were really coming for
me.
You ain't giving me no phonecall about that.
We found a package with yourname on it.
You pulling up at the house,you pulling up at the job, you
investigating.

Wes (01:09:32):
I'm going to see your peoples outside in them,
unmarked vehicles, scouting me,they definitely pulling up to
the job or they contacting yourjob when it comes to something
like that, because that's whatthey did to me, off some
discrepancy shit.
They wanted to come to the jobbut the security of the job
stopped them, not they to.
They did, but I didn't know.
And then, uh, they, theyreached out to me because it was

(01:09:55):
like, oh, we was afraid thatyou was going to flee.
I'm like, well, I'm innocent,so I'm not fleeing anything.
That was like 10 years ago, I'mjust like geez, louise man.
That was like 20, uh, 15 yearsago.
I was like geez louise.

DeLaw (01:10:08):
You know it's funny.
You know I was like so what'sthe package?
I'm not not serious.
Well, have you made any recentpurchases?

Wes (01:10:17):
I would have liked contact fucking Port Authority, contact
fucking customs.

DeLaw (01:10:23):
You got to go do customs why?

Wes (01:10:24):
are you?
Anyone can make up a fuckingyour name, last name, let's see,
let's get it cracking.
Huge coincidence maybe.
Yeah, yeah, man, let's get itcracking.
Huge coincidence maybe.
I've been getting lately I'vebeen getting fucking emails with
just a random Gmail emailaddress and then it's my name
and then my number, my telephonenumber, but some of the numbers

(01:10:44):
X'd out and then a link for anattachment.
I'm like, fuck out of here.
I just keep getting hit anddelete, hit and delete, delete
and shit.
And it's coming from differentgmails and shit.
I'm like man, come on, man, Igot to try harder than this,
right?

DeLaw (01:10:59):
I don't think they realize that all notifications
coming through the mail from alot of places.

Wes (01:11:05):
Not only that sometimes, yeah, that too.
Or the one thing of I know I'mnot doing nothing crazy out here
, so this is obviously a mistake.
Even if you saw it come throughthe mirror like fuck out of
here, I might even rip that upbecause I'm just like yo, I'm
straight, I'm good.
This sounds weird.
Yeah, not even calling toverify, because I know what the

(01:11:29):
fuck I've been doing.
So yeah, man on that note.
Because I know what the fuckI've been doing, so yeah, man On
that note.

DeLaw (01:11:40):
Just work your regular job and sports back.
That's it.

Wes (01:11:44):
Parlay all day.
Parlay season.
Keep the money flowing, keepyour job, especially if you got
a good-ass job, because hard outhere, inflation at all times,
huh.
Good-ass job because hard outhere, inflation at all times,
huh.

DeLaw (01:11:56):
You know it's hard out here for us regular niggas when
you're trying to make that moneyfor the rent.

Wes (01:12:00):
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 tuningin.
We'll see you next time.