#2509 - Caleb Hammer
6/4/20262 hr 21 min
Caleb Hammer is a YouTuber and host of the program “Financial Audit.”
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First 90 secondsJoe Rogan· Host0:01
Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night. All day. [upbeat music] Good to see you, Sy.
Caleb Hammer· Guest0:13
You too. Nice to meet you.
Joe Rogan· Host0:14
Very nice to meet you too. I, I enjoy your content.
Caleb Hammer· Guest0:16
Thank you.
Joe Rogan· Host0:16
You're a very sensible person.
Caleb Hammer· Guest0:18
Mm-hmm. I try to be.
Joe Rogan· Host0:18
And you deal with a lot of very unsensible people. [laughs] [laughs] How do you fucking keep your shit together when you talk to these people? You- you're f- we tell everybody you're a finance guy.
Caleb Hammer· Guest0:27
Mm-hmm.
Joe Rogan· Host0:28
And did you start out in debt and then figured out how to get your shit together?
Caleb Hammer· Guest0:32
Yeah, exactly. I, I was in college doing all the stupid American things, right? So you got that unlimited student loan debt for a bullshit degree. I was going for music composition, so complete bullshit degree. Uh, maxing out every credit card. One of the first pieces of financial advice I got at 18 from the parents, max out a credit card to get the piano I wanted. So that's smart, but- Your parents gave you that advice? Yeah, it's just the average American experience.
Joe Rogan· Host0:58
Right.
Caleb Hammer· Guest0:58
You just max out a credit card. I don't, I don't know if your parents taught you anything about personal finances, but- No ... most don't. It's, it's bad. So I was just maxing out every credit card, like everyone that comes on the show, like every American out there. We got $1.6 trillion in credit card debt in this country, by the way.
Joe Rogan· Host1:14
It's ... Woo.
Caleb Hammer· Guest1:14
Crazy amount. Crazy amount. Defaults are to, like, 7%, which is insane. 7% of credit cards are defaulting.
Joe Rogan· Host1:22
That's crazy.
Caleb Hammer· Guest1:23
Yeah. And- That, that is, that is really nuts. Yeah, it's crazy.
Joe Rogan· Host1:26
Almost one out of 10 default.
Caleb Hammer· Guest1:27
Yeah. It's absolutely insane. But we have more