Hey! Hi, Paula. I'm really excited. I hope that we score an A+.

And A+. Plus? I don't think that's a real thing. I think that's like people giving more than 100%.

And usually people who say like, I'm going to give 110%. They give a strong like 70%.

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Hey, welcome to the show. I'm your host, Paula Pat, and I'm here with the guy who does stuff behind the scenes, our producer, Steve.

Hey, thanks for letting me back in, Paula. Hey, Steve, I have a question for you. Sure. Fire away. It's a little personal. Are you okay with that?

Sure. If I don't like it, I'll just edit it out. What color is your underwear?

Let me go check.

Excellent. Perfect answer, Steve. I learned that from the best.

Okay. Question number two. You once had a bunch of debt. We covered that on an earlier episode.

How much debt did you have when you were at your peak? At my peak.

At your peak of having debt. Interesting.

At your debt peak, which maybe would be a trough, opposite of peak, valley?

The valley of debt. The valley of debt. Yeah, your journey through the valley of debt.

You know, that's really an interesting question because I don't know what the peak was. I can tell you what we had when we first started,

but I don't think I was paying attention any time before that. I'm sure it was more than just like $15,000 for a car.

Here's the part of that answer that I genuinely don't understand.

There's no polite way to ask it, so I'm just going to say it.

How was it that seeing your statement balanced didn't just send off alarm bells?

Shouldn't the sirens have been blaring? Like, me? Emergency? Emergency?

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