Chapter 1: What is the viral TikTok trend 'Eat the Rich' about?
What are the cycles fathers pass down that sons are left to heal? What if being a man wasn't about holding it all together, but learning how to let go? This is a space where men speak truth and find the power to heal and transform. I'm Mike Della Rocha. Welcome to Sacred Lessons. Listen to Sacred Lessons on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Dr. Laurie Santos from the Happiness Lab here. It's the season of giving, and this year my podcast, The Happiness Lab, is partnering with GiveDirectly, a nonprofit that provides people in extreme poverty with the cash they need as part of the Pods Fight Poverty campaign. Our goal this year is to raise $1 million, which will bring over 700 families out of extreme poverty.
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Chapter 2: What are some shocking rich person behaviors shared by TikTok users?
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Yeah, you're a little detached.
Yeah. I know we talk a lot about my childhood upbringing sometimes, about how I come from a different socioeconomic background than you guys. Yeah, I mean, you went to the same school as Charlie Sheen's kids, but cool. Well, look, I didn't ask to be sent to private school my whole life. You did not. No, you didn't. That was my parents' wish.
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Chapter 3: How did a wealthy friend help with college tuition?
Yeah. I didn't ask to have a live-in nanny named Lucy who basically raised me from birth and loved me like a son. Again, that was my parents' choice. I'm laughing because I think people think you're being sarcastic and you're not. This is real. No, Lucy is a saint and she raised me and I love you, Lucy.
And you think it was my decision to do a three-week yacht trip around the Galapagos when I was in 10th grade? Is that true? No. Is that true? That's true, but I asked. Oh, my God. I specifically asked to go to Santorini.
Oh, wow.
And when my parents told me, no, we're doing the Galapagos, I stomped my feet, and I pounded my fist, and I shouted, no, Santorini. Oh, my God. The most exotic family trip we took was to Oklahoma, and I'm not joking. Sounds wonderful. My point is, our experiences growing up shape us into who we are today. Yeah, I mean, it must be a hard life for you, Jeff.
Chapter 4: What is the most outrageous rich person story shared in the episode?
While my upbringing was a lot different than the rest of my co-hosts, it does not mean that I'm better than any of you. We know that. I don't know if you know that.
We know that.
I mean, unless you guys maybe think that, then I'm willing to agree. No? Okay. Well, I know a lot of times we tend to look at people with money differently than we do the average Joe. Yeah, for sure. And that's what sparked the latest trend on everybody's favorite app, TikTok. Oh, yeah. Because there's a hashtag going viral right now called Eat the Rich. How does that make you feel, Jeffrey?
I don't know how I feel about it yet.
Okay.
Because one woman asked users to share the most insane actual rich person behavior that you've ever experienced. And she started it off by sharing her own story of how she overheard the mom of a wealthy family saying she hated vomit so much that whenever one of her kids threw up in their beds, she'd simply throw out the whole mattress and buy a whole new one. Are you joking? Whoa.
That's what she said.
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Chapter 5: How do personal experiences shape perceptions of wealth?
Do you know how many stains I have on my bed? Do you know how many times at 2 in the morning I was elbow deep into piles of vomit cleaning it up? I'm just saying. Soon other people were sharing their own personal stories. One user named Danny said she experienced an issue with financial aid during college. And this happened.
When I was in college, I had a friend whose family was actually very wealthy. She was super sweet. She didn't act better than any of us, but she definitely had that wealthy person mindset. So we were talking about how financial aid had been screwed up and I lost all my loans and scholarships. And so she asked why I didn't get my parents to do anything about it. And I said, I can't afford that.
My parents don't make enough money. This girl literally grabs her cell phone, calls her dad and says, hey, do you think you could drop a couple grand in order to pay off my friend's tuition this semester?
got my tuition and i graduated in the same semester oh that's awesome wow and it's a story of a good rich person i really like that it's true rich people are better yeah i always had a suspicion that confirms it Is it too early for me to share my rich person story? Go ahead. Okay. I feel like she needs to bring rich people down a notch with this story.
It's a nice story, and I don't know if I should tell it or not because it's about the owner of our company.
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Chapter 6: What are some bizarre rich person encounters from listeners?
Uh-oh. Let's just be safe and not do it. It's a good story. It's a good story. And they're good people. They really are. They are amazing people. One time, one time I got to fly on the company jet. Okay. And so I'm sitting with the owner and I'm like, this is amazing. You know, the only other time I'd been in a plane where it was just me and another person was, it was an air show. Yeah.
stunt thing and they took me up and I was telling her this crazy story about how I got to be in this stunt show because of my job in radio and I was doing all these death defying acts and she was very calm and I thought I was impressing her finally and she goes oh yeah I've done that before when I took my stunt flying class I don't know what she's like
Yeah, you know, when my dad wanted me to get my pilot's license, he really wanted me to take a stunt course as well. So I'd know what to do if I was upside down in a plane. That's what they do for fun. Like, oh, yeah. She's like, oh, it's cute that you rode passenger.
Yeah.
How fun for you.
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Chapter 7: How do societal views on wealth influence our interactions?
We're already getting texts into 78592 from listeners who are saying that they had a crazy rich person run in. One says, a girl in my class told me she was tired of having to click back and forth between tabs on her laptop, so she bought herself two MacBooks. What? One MacBook per tab. Oh. I always have like 20 taps open, so it's going to be a lot of computers I'm going through.
Another bizarre example of rich people behavior came from a TikToker that Jose follows, I'm sure. Because they're called at punky boobster.
Yeah.
And she shared her wealthy sugar daddy story. Oh, hello. I used to work at this nightclub and one night this guy came in and he said, you're way too nice to be working here, you should quit. And I said, I can't afford it. And he said, okay, I'll give you $20,000 cash if you walk out right now. So I walked out, he gave me $20,000 cash and then he drove off and I drove home. What?
Like no strings attached. Those are always so hard for me to believe. That is amazing. Stop, tell me someone's going to walk in this door right now and offer that to me.
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Chapter 8: What lessons can we learn from the 'Eat the Rich' trend?
And finally, maybe the most insane rich person story from this trend on TikTok belongs to a woman named Cassandra Flores. Okay, let's just listen.
So when I was about three or four years old, my mom used to work cleaning this restaurant. And she used to take me when she used to clean it. And sometimes the owner would be there and his wife would be there. And they got really attached to me. They used to play around with me, whatever, right? And this family had three sons. They had no girls and they really wanted the girl.
They really wanted a girl so bad. So this family has a lot of money. They have a lot of businesses. They offered my mom a million dollars for me. They told her she took the million dollars. They would raise me. They would pay off my college. I was never going to need anything. You know, I was going to be well off and that she could see me whenever she wanted.
Obviously, my mom never took the money, but yeah. What? Wait, the mom didn't take the money?
No, you're not going to sell your child for a million dollars. But now the daughter's like, you should have done it, mom. You're not telling me what to do with my children. I will sell all of them. You won't have well-behaved ones that people want to buy. It's true. Dude, that is messed up behavior. You could offer me trillion and I would not take that.
Brooke can have rich babies naturally without paying for them. There you go. Text in to 78592. Tell us what's your most insane rich person encounter. Your phone tap's coming up right after this.
What are the cycles fathers pass down that sons are left to heal? What if being a man wasn't about holding it all together but learning how to let go? This is a space where men speak truth and find the power to heal and transform. I'm Mike Della Rocha. Welcome to Sacred Lessons. Listen to Sacred Lessons on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Dr. Laurie Santos from the Happiness Lab here. It's the season of giving, and this year my podcast, The Happiness Lab, is partnering with GiveDirectly, a nonprofit that provides people in extreme poverty with the cash they need as part of the Pods Fight Poverty campaign. Our goal this year is to raise $1 million, which will bring over 700 families out of extreme poverty.
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