Matthew Cox

Well, I was always a child.

Like, you know, when you're 14 or 15 years old, you're not paying for anything.

Right.

You're staying at your uncle's, you're going with your grandparents.

So when I returned as a 24-year-old, that I'm now, you know, staying in the Beverly Hills section of Sao Paulo.

Well, you know, my apartment in Beverly Hills was $4,000 a month.

The house up in the Hollywood Hills was $7,000 a month.

The apartment in Sao Paulo, $8,000 a month.

Like it was twice as expensive in Sao Paulo to live at that strata as it did in Beverly Hills.

Like I didn't realize just how...

much expensive everything was.

I ended up getting roped into going to a couple of weddings.

I had to go buy suits.

I had a lot of nice suits at home.

But, you know, in L.A., you drop $2,000, $2,500.

You know, $3,000 is a lot of money for a suit back in 93, 94.

In Brazil, you're paying $5,000 for the same suit.

Like, everything was 30%, 40%.

more expensive than in the United States.

Basically, I ran out of money.