Half of young adults admit to faking wealth
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🗓️ 5 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | There's a new study out, and this study was done by Credit One Bank. |
| 0:05.2 | They surveyed 1,000 young adults that 51% of those taking the survey admit to faking their wealth or exaggerating their financial success. |
| 0:15.0 | Now, have you ever, has that ever happened to you where you've been on a trist or a date or a rendezvous of various times and places? |
| 0:25.7 | And then you found out the person was just a big fat phony and was lying to you about everything. |
| 0:30.8 | Not really. |
| 0:31.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:32.1 | Have you ever done it? |
| 0:33.4 | Have you ever, yeah. |
| 0:34.4 | Well, I was getting there. |
| 0:35.7 | I was trying to be nice about it. |
| 0:37.0 | No, I might, you know, I'm not going to, I'm not one to disclose my financial status up front. They don't ask. No. They don't, like that. Well, they ask about, like, jobs or what I do for a living. Yeah, when you, when you go out with someone, when you meet a rando, they are never, that doesn't come up. like, hey, what are you? How much you make? Yeah, no, it doesn't come up. Not for me, at least. |
| 0:57.1 | Credit score. they not or never that doesn't come up like hey what like what do you how much you make yeah no it doesn't |
| 0:55.6 | come up not for me at least credit score and if they ask medical records blood type yeah i would not |
| 1:01.1 | tell them if you would that be a turnoff for you yeah okay yeah they have to earn that oh yeah |
| 1:07.3 | i have to be more involved with them how many dates would you have to be in before you would reveal how much you make to someone? |
| 1:15.7 | Kevin. |
| 1:16.3 | Several. |
| 1:18.7 | How about you, Case, when you met Jim, because you were the aggressor in that relationship. |
| 1:25.4 | Well, I mean, you pursued him. |
| 1:26.7 | He was a young man and you took full advantage of his youth and inexperience. Did you fib to him like, oh, mama, I'll take care of you? No, absolutely not. We were both in radio, so he knew. So, so he knew. He had an idea. She didn't have any money. She just as broke as me. |
| 1:44.3 | Hey, at some point, can you bring your wedding photo in? Still with that? Yes. I think that would be a smash hit. I've still never seen it. Oh, it's fabulous. You're really missing out, Kevin. I mean, it's great. I think people would love that. It would really connect with our audience. Okay. Yeah, someday. Yeah, okay. So this is fascinating, though, that people feel the need to... |
| 2:03.1 | Gen Z, they say study find. This study finds doing the story. Gen Z leads the pack. They say it 54% who do this compared to 48% of millennials. Right. And they also say that 37% would overdraft or go into debt to impress a date. And you know who that reminds me of? The guy who worked here? The guy who worked here who date one wanted to spend hundreds of dollars on the girl. You remember this guy, right, Kev? Oh yeah. I remember that. He, I mean, we kind of- He wanted to take her to Ulta or Sephora or something and have her shop for makeup. |
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