Latest / Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps / Phone Tap PODCAST: Financial Literacy
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- 0:16Speaker 1: your phone tap. And today we attempt to do something
- 0:20Speaker 1: that we've never done on this show before. Okay, trying
- 0:24Speaker 1: to make financial literacy funny. I don't know what financial literacy. Yeah,
- 0:31Speaker 1: I'll be honest. When I was in the middle of
- 0:33Speaker 1: doing this call, I was thinking, this is going exactly
- 0:37Speaker 1: how I thought it would, kind of boring. Oh whoa,
- 0:41Speaker 1: that's what a tease can't wait to do. So I
- 0:45Speaker 1: said something I probably shouldn't have, and it changed the
- 0:49Speaker 1: course of the conversation. I'm a little embarrassed about it now,
- 0:52Speaker 1: but you'll hear what I said in your brand new
- 0:55Speaker 1: phone tap right now. It's another taps on the twenties.
- 1:00Speaker 1: Tell me I'm five. Hello, Hi, my name's Riley. Are
- 1:06Speaker 1: you Lucas? This is him? How can I help you? Hey, Lucas.
- 1:10Speaker 1: I work over in corporate HR and I was hoping
- 1:13Speaker 1: to chat with you about something for a second. Yeah, sure,
- 1:16Speaker 1: of course, what's up? As you know, the company sent
- 1:18Speaker 1: out an email recently regarding financial literacy. You might remember
- 1:22Speaker 1: it asked a bunch of questions about four oh one
- 1:24Speaker 1: k's and hsas and stuff like that. Yeah, I remember. Great.
- 1:29Speaker 1: So it turns out you actually did very well on it.
- 1:33Speaker 1: You really know your stuff, really, Yeah you did. I
- 1:37Speaker 1: mean I'm looking over it right now. It turns out
- 1:39Speaker 1: you're investing in your four oh one K, you picked
- 1:41Speaker 1: a modest medical plan, so you're a really good role
- 1:44Speaker 1: model for some of our other employees. I don't know
- 1:47Speaker 1: who to say. I mean, I try to be pretty
- 1:48Speaker 1: good at it, and you know the company matches, so
- 1:51Speaker 1: it's good stuff. Well, your instincts are right on, and
- 1:54Speaker 1: that's why management wanted to know if you might consider
- 1:57Speaker 1: being a part of a mentorship program that we're going
- 1:59Speaker 1: to be starting up here. You're sure that they want me.
- 2:03Speaker 1: I mean, I know some things, but not enough to
- 2:04Speaker 1: actually tell other people about it. I think you'd actually
- 2:08Speaker 1: be perfect. And the idea is you're going to be
- 2:10Speaker 1: paired up with another employee that maybe isn't as good
- 2:14Speaker 1: with their money as you are. I just don't want
- 2:16Speaker 1: them to be like a conflict of interest or or
- 2:19Speaker 1: someone like if you know, if it's a if it's
- 2:22Speaker 1: my team leader, I feel like that might be I
- 2:24Speaker 1: don't know, maybe maybe a little strange. But I mean,
- 2:27Speaker 1: if it's coming from corporate, then excuse my French, but
- 2:30Speaker 1: is your whole tight? Lucas, I'm sorry, did you just
- 2:34Speaker 1: say is my whole tight? Because it's a really simple thing.
- 2:37Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not asking you to do rocket science here.
- 2:39Speaker 1: It's more like checking to see if they're spending all
- 2:42Speaker 1: their money on lobster dinners every night when they should
- 2:44Speaker 1: be buying McDonald's. But you know they're going to listen
- 2:47Speaker 1: to you because you're a peer instead of us up
- 2:49Speaker 1: at corporate. Sure, I mean, all right, so you're on board, then,
- 2:55Speaker 1: I guess so that's the team spirit then I'm looking for.
- 2:57Speaker 1: So here's how it's going to work. To help your
- 3:00Speaker 1: co workers. We're going to be supplementing them with some
- 3:03Speaker 1: of your pretax income. All right, so you're giving them
- 3:06Speaker 1: my money. I mean, yeah, but don't worry, it's not
- 3:08Speaker 1: going to be a lot. Probably no more than fifteen
- 3:10Speaker 1: percent of your paycheck. That's the max. No, I wasn't
- 3:13Speaker 1: aware that this was going to be a financial implication
- 3:16Speaker 1: for myself. Yeah, all right, So it sounds like I
- 3:19Speaker 1: was right earlier. Your pole is tight. Okay, sir, Yes,
- 3:23Speaker 1: I guess my hole is tight. If that's what you
- 3:25Speaker 1: wanted to say, We're not going to spend this whole
- 3:27Speaker 1: conversation talking about the tightness of your poll. Okay, let's
- 3:30Speaker 1: get back to what we were discussing earlier, the thing
- 3:33Speaker 1: you already agreed to, and that's helping out. Yeah, but
- 3:35Speaker 1: you're saying that you're taking my money. That sounds crazy.
- 3:38Speaker 1: I'm not gonna just listen. In order for the mentors
- 3:41Speaker 1: to really care during this program, we found it to
- 3:44Speaker 1: be more effective if they use their own money because
- 3:47Speaker 1: then there's higher stakes in it. Then pay me more money. Sorry,
- 3:50Speaker 1: that's not how the program works. Unfortunately, corporate's really holding
- 3:54Speaker 1: tight onto that. Well, of course corporate wants to hold
- 3:56Speaker 1: them into their own money, but they want to spend
- 3:58Speaker 1: my money and some ridiculed program. And that is the
- 4:01Speaker 1: definition financially response. Correction, it's not your money, it's their money. Now.
- 4:07Speaker 1: I gotta be honest, I'm not enjoying the looks and
- 4:11Speaker 1: the optics of this program, and I well, now, yeah,
- 4:13Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to say no, I need you to
- 4:16Speaker 1: unclench because you already consented, you know. Can you stop
- 4:19Speaker 1: with the clenching and the unclenching and the peak of
- 4:21Speaker 1: the pulls and everything just very unprofessional. I don't like it. Fine,
- 4:25Speaker 1: you've already said bubbles are out now clenchings off limits too.
- 4:29Speaker 1: You're a very demanding person, I have to say, and
- 4:32Speaker 1: I hope you bring that type of mentality with you
- 4:34Speaker 1: when we start this program on Monday. You're going to
- 4:36Speaker 1: see it reflecting in your paycheck. No, I haven't agreed
- 4:39Speaker 1: to this. Well, I'm not agreeing. I'm sorry to correct
- 4:42Speaker 1: you here, but you already did agree to it. And
- 4:44Speaker 1: I'm recording this phone call, so I have proof you're
- 4:48Speaker 1: recording this phone call. You're trying to set me up
- 4:50Speaker 1: from this, that's right, I am. Well, I didn't give
- 4:52Speaker 1: permission to that either. I didn't need permission from you.
- 4:55Speaker 1: I got it from your coworker Josh, because he wanted
- 4:58Speaker 1: to set you up for a prank phone call. What
- 5:00Speaker 1: this is actually a joke. My name is Jeffrey from
- 5:02Speaker 1: the radio show Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning. And
- 5:04Speaker 1: we're doing a phone tap on you. Oh my god. Yeah,
- 5:08Speaker 1: your co worker job set you up. He said your
- 5:10Speaker 1: company made all the employees do some sort of financial
- 5:13Speaker 1: literacy test and that you were all worked up about it,
- 5:16Speaker 1: so he wanted to mess with you. It was stupid,
- 5:18Speaker 1: and I know I didn't do well on it, so
- 5:19Speaker 1: this was breaking me out. You didn't do that bad.
- 5:22Speaker 1: I mean, there's some lady over in accounting who's going
- 5:24Speaker 1: to be using your money to buy a new PS five.
- 5:27Speaker 1: I'd be proud of that. Fine, well, then she needs
- 5:30Speaker 1: to let me play it that all right? Wake up
- 5:34Speaker 1: every morning with phone tab weekday mornings on the twenties,
- 5:38Speaker 1: Holy two point five