Smart Money Happy Hour with Rachel Cruze and George Kamel
Things That Scream “I’m Pretending to Be Upper Class”
Thu, 09 Jan 2025
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Chapter 1: Who are the hosts of Smart Money Happy Hour?
Hey guys, I'm Rachel Cruz.
I'm George Campbell.
And this is Smart Money Happy Hour. Cheers.
Cheers.
It's a lot of flavor. Well, this is the show where two friends who happen to be money experts talk about what you're talking about. Everything from pop culture, current events, and money.
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Chapter 2: What does it mean to pretend to be upper class?
And today's episode is all about things that scream, I'm pretending to be upper class.
Yeah. I mean, these days it's cool to care about your money, right? But sometimes we care about the things that we shouldn't care about.
Putting the care in all the wrong places. Dun, dun, dun. So think about words like try hard. Remember when that was a thing?
Yeah.
Humble brag. Yeah. Now, the new one, according to Gen Z, is pick-me energy.
Oh.
She has pick-me energy.
Ooh.
When you're trying to sort of flex and, you know, get the attention. So we're going to talk about what showing off looks like when it comes to your money. But first, let's show off what we're sipping on, Rachel.
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Chapter 3: What are some modern terms for trying too hard?
Well, stick around until the end. We're going to give you our rating and reveal the cost per glass at the end of the episode. So great. So like we said, it's cool to care about your finances, and we're trying to make that fetch. But that doesn't mean flaunting name brand stuff just to prove something. In fact, it's become kind of a social turnoff.
Yeah, people aren't liking it as much, and I appreciate that. It's almost like when people just use big words to feel like, oh, I'm smart, you know? Like ibuprofen.
Say again? Ibuprofen.
Stop. Are you serious?
Yeah. That's not the hard one. Just say Advil. That's not the hard one.
You don't have to use the... Yeah, but what's the acetaminophen?
Acetaminophen.
Acetaminophen. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. She got that one. You know what I always mispronounce? I always say nuclear.
Oh, you and George Bush. I think still... Strategery and nuclear.
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Chapter 4: How does showing off impact financial health?
It's cool not to care. But yet, yet, people are still caring about the wrong things.
Let's talk about some of the pick-me moves according to the internet and see if we agree with them.
You ready for this one? Yeah.
And again, this is in good fun. We've all been guilty of these. We are not above this. One-upping.
Oh, so annoying.
That's so... Someone's sharing a story and you go, oh, one time. And sometimes it's not malicious. Yeah. But a lot of times, you know the person is trying to one-up you.
Okay, can I say, I may be guilty of this, and I hope it's not a one-up, but I do love in conversation... to hear something that someone's saying, and I'm like, oh my gosh, me too.
You're relating to it.
It's a relating thing. I don't think it's a one. I mean, it's not like, oh, we went to the store, and I was like, I went to Fiji. It's not like that level.
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Chapter 5: What are the pitfalls of name dropping?
Another one?
I appreciate that, yeah.
Name dropping.
Hate it.
This one personally bothers me.
This one grinds my beans.
Maybe because I don't know anyone, I don't know anyone like famous enough to name drop other than you. No offense. Sorry.
No, I... And you know who does... You know the most annoying ones. Are you ready? A little Enneagram talk. Okay. Enneagram three males that are unhealthy... This is what they do, and it drives.
And if you wanted to explain to her of an Enneagram 3 male, they want to win, and they want to look good doing it. They want you to know that they are winning.
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Chapter 6: How do parents compare their kids?
It's just like, I don't like it.
Yeah. Do you ever name drop Dave?
I did twice in my life.
Did it work? Did it get you what you wanted?
Yes, it did.
That's not helping anything.
One of them was my econ class, my econ 101 with Ken Baker at UT. I was failing. And you were like, my dad... Because I didn't go to class, and I had a D, and it was one of those classes at UT. It was a massive lecture hall. Massive. So, like, if you never... They don't take roll. I mean, it's one of those, like, you just...
You're an adult.
And your grade was literally the midterm and the final. Like it was one of those like, but then all of his exams, old exams were at the sorority dorm. So there's file cabinets that you could study the old exams and be fine. Not true. The midterm, I failed. I think I got like a 60 something and I was like, oh no, oh no. And so then he had office hours you could go to.
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Chapter 7: What are the financial habits of those pretending to be wealthy?
Again, if you looked at my phone Rolodex, you'd be very unimpressed. You'd be like, I don't know any of these people. You should know cooler people. The coolest people I know are in this room. Mostly Kelly, our producer. But no, I've never, I try to avoid name dropping at all costs. Yeah, boo. What's next? What's another one?
Bragging about kids. So respectfully, no one cares that John Williams Fitzpatrick V is crawling at four months.
We're experiencing this now because our daughter Mia is not walking yet, and she's about 15 months. So there's a lot of, even for my own family, accidentally they'll just be like, well, you know, Jimmy was walking when he was only nine months. Yes, the comparison. It's like, what are we doing here?
Oh, yeah, 100%.
She'll be walking the rest of her life. She'll be fine.
Yeah, oh, she'll be good. The funniest, though, is parents that... And I probably have done. I mean, I feel like every parent's probably guilty at some level of this. So I'm sorry to anyone that may have heard that. But you do talk to parents and when their kid is so specialized or so smart that they can't be in that sports league or that school anymore because they're just so smart.
They're too advanced.
They're so advanced that like we just can't. And you're like, they're fine. Like, I don't know how, like, you, like, really? That's the stage of life we're in. Now, when they're in high school and they're legitimately, like, who knows what, like, there's legitimate ages of, like, no, that is, like, legitimate.
My rule is if you're still wet in the bed, you don't get to brag on your kids.
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Chapter 8: What is the difference between true wealth and appearances?
You're not there yet.
Yeah, I know, I know.
But Amelia had a piano recital and you were bragging about her?
She did great. Yeah, but I was not like, she is a prodigy.
No, truthfully, I was very inquisitive. I was like, how did she do?
Yeah, she just did a little recital. Nothing like out of the ordinary, but I was proud of her.
But she is a prodigy.
But if I was like, y'all should listen to this.
She's a young Mozart.
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