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The Boots Theory.

When was the last time? I'm not going to make you a scapegoat here, but I am going to ask you some questions. I'm going to interrogate you your spending. You're in Midi's spending, I'm afraid. Yeah. Well, if, no, no, no.

Well, if you don't ask for receipts, I will give a very relatable account of middle class

and economic.

Okay, good, good.

That's all I'm looking for.

You know, you guys came from the streets, I know and you know you've made good but but you still have that that streets attitude

The funny thing is like we did kind of feel like we were poor when you were we were young and I remember my parents saying the same thing like when

dad was in law school we had ten dollars a week for groceries yeah when dad was in law school

on your path to middle-class American affluence I know so many people like that who are just like searching their past for that time when like they oh we were so poor.

Because the Ramneys did it.

Remember during the campaign Mitt Ramney would be like Anne and I lived in a basement apartment. Yeah, well I'm sorry you hadn't inherited a

hundred million yet. Oh, I'm sorry. When mom was getting her PhD in Latin,

you know, we just we lived on top ramen, I know, I know.

And in my family mythologizing it always was very much a rag and a richest thing and I didn't

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