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I love shopping, of course.

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It\'s a hobby of mine.

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[upbeat music]

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♪ ♪

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I wanted to be wealthy so badly.

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I would dream about it.

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I would dream about having money.

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I mean, how sad is that?

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That was my dream.

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(Sean Michael)
I just like to have the hottest whatever,

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the hottest of the hottest,
whatever is popular at the time,

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whatever is trendy.

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(Annika)
It\'s like you constantly need something.

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It\'s this endless process of consumerism.

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(Zoie) I have friends who have
unlimited credit cards

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at the age of 16.

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I mean, personally for me,
I have a limit,

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and I generally seem to go over it.

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(Matthew)
And I researched the BMW.

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When I went to the dealership,
I knew more about the BMW

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than the dealer himself did.

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I don\'t care about money

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unless my mom really needs help.

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Material things I think are very important.

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Fake jeans, like, I think, like,
you can\'t have no fake jeans.

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If I could shop all day every day, I would.

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(man)
♪ Money, money ♪

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♪ Money, money ♪

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♪ ♪

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♪ I am what I am ♪

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I love fashion, because I see it as,
like, an art form.

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Like, it\'s just a way to look good
and make you feel good

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and to say something about yourself.

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So, you know,
when you\'re meeting someone,

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they already know something about you

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from just what you\'re wearing.

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I mean, there\'s, like,
a lot of different type of people,

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like, fashion-wise at our school, like -

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Or just in general.

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Just - yeah, but, like,
I guess there\'s some people

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who don\'t really care that much,
and you can kind of tell.

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[laughter]

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There are, like, just extreme amounts
of money at our school.

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Fortune 500 type of people.

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Yeah, like, trust fund.

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And so some of these people,

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like, really go overboard
with the whole, like, everything.

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Sometimes I feel like it\'s more of

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a way of showing
how much money you have

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than expressing yourself
through style.

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(Gabby)
Going to the things that are four digits,

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I think that\'s
very inappropriate for school.

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(Alyssa)
Yeah, for school.

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(Gabby) It\'s not really necessary
to spend a couple grand

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on something you\'re just wearing
to go to class in.

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But if you want, like,
a really nice classic bag,

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it\'s definitely appropriate
to spend that kind of, like,

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four digits, because that\'s something
that\'s really nice.

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I swear -
I have an older brother.

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My parents have spent, I\'m sure,
so much more money on me.

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It\'s just - it\'s - you have to, really.

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Like, I mean,
I have to spend money on makeup.

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Haircuts are expensive.

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You get your hair colored,
\'cause, I mean,

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I like to change my hair up a lot,

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just \'cause it\'s interesting and fun.

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And then getting your eyebrows waxed

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is my favorite thing to do.

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Oh, my God.
It feels really good.

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And so that\'s expensive.

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Getting your nails done
all the time.

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So I mean, it stacks up, really.

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Being a girl in L.A. is very much
more expensive, I think...

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(both)
Than being a guy.

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(Sean Michael) I remember in middle school,
the first two years of my middle school,

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I didn\'t have that many clothes.

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You know, I wasn\'t really into it.

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That\'s when I first, like, realized

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it was important to be in style
was in middle school.

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The first two years, you know,
I didn\'t really, like, care about dressing.

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Some kids would make fun of me.

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So ever since then,
I\'ve just tried to keep up.

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Jordans were my thing in middle school.

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It kind of just grew to, like,
this big monster,

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me spending all of my money
on clothes and shoes.

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7 jeans, antiques,
those can run you anywhere

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to, like, $250 to $300 a pair of jeans.

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Nike Blazers cost anywhere
from about $100 to -

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they can go off the charts
to about $300 for one pair of shoes.

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My parents,
they used to give me the money,

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but they saw how I got
out of hand with my spending,

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so I had to get a job
and pay for everything myself.

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Sometimes it can go close to about $700,
$800 a month just on clothes.

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I don\'t consider myself rich.

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Both of my parents are,
like, very well off.

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My dad owns a business,
and my mom works for an attorney.

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I mean, we live a very comfortable life.

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I don\'t consider myself rich.

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I\'m trying to buy a new car.

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So instead of saving up for that new car,
I\'ll go to the mall,

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and I\'ll see a new pair of shoes,

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and I\'ll want the shoes
right then and there.

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You know, and, like,
since I can go get the shoes

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and take them home with me,
it\'s more like -

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I don\'t know - realistic for me
to go and take the shoes

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and take them home and be happy
than, like, save up

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for something that I\'m not getting
right then and there.

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So it\'s easier for me to do that.

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You know, it\'s just something I just do.

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I\'m gonna try to stop spending as much,

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\'cause I know in college,
clothes and shoes are not as important.

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So hopefully I can give up this addiction,
you know,

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just stop spending so much
and just go focus on my education

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and not what everybody\'s wearing
or what I\'m wearing.

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(Annika)
When you go shopping,

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it seems like it\'s never enough
no matter how much you get.

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You always just need
the next thing that you see.

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And in the moment, like,
even if it doesn\'t really fit you right,

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it\'ll look perfect
\'cause you kind of want it to.

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And it kind of for a minute brings you
out of whatever you\'re feeling,

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whatever emotions.

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It kind of numbs you from that.

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When I go to Abercrombie and stuff,
I\'ll look at the labels.

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It\'ll be like, \"Made in Indonesia.\"

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And I was like, \"Okay, sweatshops,
little children making 5¢ a day.\"

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And I feel guilty for a minute.

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But eventually, you\'re like,
\"Okay, those jeans are amazing.

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\"That shirt looks too awesome.

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\"I\'m sorry. I\'m gonna buy it anyway.\"

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At my school,
you\'re walking down the hallway,

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and you have, like,
50 people just analyzing you

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and judging you based on your clothes.

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And everybody will just
kind of stare you down

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if you\'re wearing the wrong clothes.

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And if you\'re wearing the right clothes,
you just kind of get approval, like,

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\"Okay.\"

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And it really kind of depends
on what clique you\'re in.

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I do think it\'s more expensive
to be in some cliques than others.

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Like, if you\'re with the preps,
then it\'s pretty much -

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you can just throw on jeans
and a T-shirt, analyze yourself.

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\"Am I wearing any black?

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\"No. I\'m good to go.\"

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This is a more upper-class,
kind of less grimy goth.

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This clique is probably
one of the most expensive ones.

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Being low-class goth
is way, way cheaper,

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as you would imagine.

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So here we have our, like,
Abercrombie kind of -

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I don\'t know - preppy look.

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It\'s mostly kind of upper-class people
where their dad owns some company,

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and their mom just goes around
to all the stores.

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Okay, we have a little bit more
of a crazy, out-there look.

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They really don\'t care if it\'s designer.

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And we have our kind of normal group.

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It doesn\'t have to be expensive
to be normal.

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Punk is probably medium up there

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on the list of expenses
in terms of cliques.

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Basically how much money
your parents have

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and how much of it they give to you,

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that\'s kind of the difference,

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the definition of upper class
and lower class.

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My parents don\'t have that much money,

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but in terms of the percentage
of what they\'re giving me,

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I\'m probably upper middle class.

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Annika is probably more expensive
than my three boys combined.

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She has a phenomenal power
to make money dissolve.

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Oh, come on.
I\'m not that bad.

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[laughs]

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You know you are.

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Okay, well - okay.

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Maybe two boys combined.

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I don\'t have a lot
of money right now.

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I have been a good deal wealthier
in my life

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and also a good deal poorer.

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I\'ve been up and down the whole thing.

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But right now, it\'s kind of tight.

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It\'s hard,
and I sometimes feel angry,

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\'cause I feel like -
I feel like she\'s not -

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you know, that her goal
is to get as much -

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This is not always true,

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but sometimes I feel that her goal

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is to get as much out of me
as she possibly can

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without any regard for the -

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for what kind of position
that\'s gonna put me in.

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I don\'t think that\'s intentional.

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No, I don\'t either.

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But it\'s subconscious,
and afterwards, I\'ll be like, \"Oh, crap.

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I shouldn\'t have pushed her
to buy me this sweater.\"

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You know.

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It\'s really interesting.

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Like, the shirt that she\'s wearing
right now

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was one of the shirts
that we got on her birthday.

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And I looked at the price.
It was a very expensive shirt.

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I won\'t even go into
how expensive it was.

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And I was like, \"No way.
Not at all.\"

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And she\'s like,
\"I just want to try it on.\"

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And I\'m like, \"Yeah,
but don\'t even think about it,

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\'cause I\'m not paying that much
for a tank top.\"

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[giggles]

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And that was a really
interesting moment for me,

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because she tried it on,
and she walked out,

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and I just wanted her to have it,
you know.

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(Emanuel) If you don\'t have a lot of money,
there are ways to make it seem like you do.

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It\'s easy, actually.

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It\'s very easy to lie about that.

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I mean, as long as you don\'t
invite people to your house,

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you can wear the clothing.

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I mean, you can save up a lot of money
and buy that designer outfit.

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At Harvard-Westlake, there\'s -
a lot of the kids are very wealthy.

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So I felt like if I seemed wealthy,
they would accept me.

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When I first came to Harvard-Westlake,
I wore Lacoste and stuff.

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For my birthday, I made my mom
buy me a Gucci sweater.

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And we couldn\'t afford it,

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but I would buy it so that
I could feel like I could afford it.

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What\'s been most difficult

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is that we had a different lifestyle
when we were younger.

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My mother worked
in a very big law firm in L.A.

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And she made, like, a lot of money,
a lot of money every year.

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And she used to spend it profusely.

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I mean, she bought Ferragamos,

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and she would outfit us in baby Dior,
totally unnecessary.

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But because of the spending,

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because of the three children
in private school,

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and because if we didn\'t handle
our money right,

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we went into debt.

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And it cycled.

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It was this snowball effect,

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and we just got ourselves
more and more into debt.

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And so I had to apply for financial aid
at Harvard-Westlake by myself.

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And there was such a mystique
around Harvard-Westlake

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and these kids that were worth
hundreds of millions of dollars.

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It\'s just so different,
and I was not used to it.

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The thing I fantasized most about
was the living, the lifestyle

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and the idea that they had no real limits,
that they could buy whatever they want,

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go wherever they want
whenever they want.

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That constant financial stress,
which is such a big part of my life now,

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that stuff was not part of their lives.

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And also the social network.

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I mean, they had parties that they went to
and houses that they were able to get into

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and gates that were open for them,

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literally, gates that I had to peer through
to look at the houses.

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Those gates were open to these people.

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One of the reasons I felt so lucky
to be at Harvard-Westlake

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was \'cause I was befriending these people.

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And going to these houses
and frolicking through the fields

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and being friends with these people
made me feel as if I had that.

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I was part of that.

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I always secretly wished that I could just
become part of the family,

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as awful as it sounds, you know, like,
that I could just leave my family

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and live in the mansion.

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It\'s been very difficult with money,
and I feel like my parents\' marriage too -

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there\'s been a lot of strain on that,

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because all they can do now
is argue about, you know,

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who\'s gonna pay the next bill.

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So money has been a huge part of my life,
a huge source of pain for me,

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because it\'s kind of destroyed
a lot of my family\'s dynamic.

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And I resent that a lot.

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(Luis)
Poor to me is, like,

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like where we used to live,

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like, seven people
in only one-bedroom apartment.

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And we need to, like, sleep on the floor
\'cause there was no room.

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There was no, like,
water to take showers, no electricity.

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You got to, like,
put candles around your house.

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Like, there\'s hardly food to eat.

00:12:09.300 --> 00:12:10.933
We didn\'t even have a fridge.

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The water - the milk,
we needed to put it in, like - in the sink,

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where they fill up the sink with water,
and you put it there.

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Where I used to live, that\'s poor.

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Then we came up a little bit.

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Was there power?

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Yeah.

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For me, it was fun, graffiti,
until I got caught.

00:12:34.667 --> 00:12:36.467
Well, I knew, like,
what was gonna happen.

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You get booked in
in the system and all that.

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But, like, my mom was going
through a lot of stuff,

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like my brother locked up,
my sister\'s problems, and all that.

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And then me, again, her only child that -
she, like counts on me.

00:12:53.867 --> 00:12:56.633
I was thinking of that only, only of that.

00:12:56.667 --> 00:12:57.867
\"What\'s gonna happen with Mom?\"

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That\'s it all the time.

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They were asking me questions.

00:13:01.867 --> 00:13:04.400
I\'m like, \"My mom, my mom, my mom.\"

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You go up the stairs.

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You go all the way.

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Watch out with the bad guy.

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I work at Homeboy Industries
with Father Greg and Father Mark.

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Well, the money I make,
I usually go and pay my tuition,

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and I help my mom out.

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Be a good boy, okay?

00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:25.967
(Luis) She cleans other people\'s houses,
like housekeeping.

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Before I got this job, I used to help her,
like, clean the bathrooms or all that.

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She used to give me, like, ten bucks.

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I wish I lived in one of those houses,
because it\'s all, like, fancy,

00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:39.800
and it\'s all calm there.

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There\'s no danger,
not like where I live right now.

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(woman)
Honey, honey, here it is.

00:13:58.767 --> 00:13:59.733
Here it is.

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(woman)
You\'re so scared about what?

00:14:01.367 --> 00:14:03.233
Of going to school.

00:14:03.267 --> 00:14:04.900
Aw.

00:14:04.933 --> 00:14:06.467
(Phoebe)
We have a nanny.

00:14:06.500 --> 00:14:09.300
We used to have two nannies,
and it was crazy.

00:14:09.333 --> 00:14:11.300
But my mom\'s all about the help.

00:14:11.333 --> 00:14:14.067
She works, and so does Tom.

00:14:14.100 --> 00:14:15.867
So you sort of have to have a nanny.

00:14:15.900 --> 00:14:17.533
She picks up the kids

00:14:17.567 --> 00:14:20.900
and does the shopping,
cleans our rooms,

00:14:20.933 --> 00:14:23.167
and sort of becomes part of our daily life.

00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:26.533
People help on the weekends.

00:14:26.567 --> 00:14:29.433
We have another babysitter
who comes on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

00:14:29.467 --> 00:14:32.867
At my dad\'s there\'s, like, four nannies
or something ridiculous,

00:14:32.900 --> 00:14:37.733
\'cause there\'s three children,
so everyone needs a nanny.

00:14:37.767 --> 00:14:40.633
And my dad has a trainer,
and we have gardeners.

00:14:40.667 --> 00:14:44.400
That\'s about - the dog walker.

00:14:44.433 --> 00:14:48.033
In L.A., the money is on the surface level.

00:14:48.067 --> 00:14:50.400
There\'s no - you don\'t even
have to play detective

00:14:50.433 --> 00:14:51.633
to find out who someone is.

00:14:51.667 --> 00:14:54.200
It\'s just -
it\'s right there in your face.

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Like, you meet someone.
\"Hi, I\'m this person.

00:14:56.300 --> 00:14:57.733
I\'m rich.\"

00:14:57.767 --> 00:14:59.300
Or, \"Hi, I\'m this person.
I wish I was rich.\"

00:14:59.333 --> 00:15:01.200
And it shows up everywhere.

00:15:01.233 --> 00:15:04.200
It\'s how tan you are,
what jewelry you\'re wearing.

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Like, I mean, your book bag.
How expensive is your book bag?

00:15:07.333 --> 00:15:12.133
Girls have, like, $3,000 book bags
just for school in seventh grade.

00:15:12.167 --> 00:15:14.400
Girls were bringing, like,
colored Louis Vuitton, like,

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to carry their pencils.

00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:18.433
It doesn\'t stop in high school.

00:15:18.467 --> 00:15:21.200
It doesn\'t stop in your 20s,
what car you drive,

00:15:21.233 --> 00:15:23.133
where you work,
what kind of suit you\'re wearing.

00:15:23.167 --> 00:15:24.467
It\'s a whole image thing

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that Hollywood sort of forces you
to try to fit into.

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Every weekend, there\'s an event.

00:15:30.067 --> 00:15:32.467
And some people go all out for the events,

00:15:32.500 --> 00:15:33.700
and it\'s crazy.

00:15:33.733 --> 00:15:37.700
I know girls who could spend
$400 on one night

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when it\'s just not even
an event.

00:15:39.067 --> 00:15:40.100
For our prom,

00:15:40.133 --> 00:15:43.100
we all got picked up
in a big Hummer limo.

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And I think it was $100 a person.

00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:49.167
So we all get into this big limo
and go out to dinner.

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We all spend, like, $50 there.

00:15:51.500 --> 00:15:54.433
Then we go to after-prom,
which is $40.

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We\'re just throwing money
at everyone.

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And it\'s sort of a crazy experience.

00:16:02.967 --> 00:16:07.267
(Jennie) You know, I mean,
I can\'t spend like these girls spend.

00:16:07.300 --> 00:16:08.500
And my mom\'s a single mom.

00:16:08.533 --> 00:16:13.800
She\'s a therapist, so she works really hard
to try to keep our house.

00:16:13.833 --> 00:16:16.200
And, well, I basically couldn\'t
afford the event.

00:16:16.233 --> 00:16:20.867
You know,
it was a really expensive event,

00:16:20.900 --> 00:16:23.100
and I didn\'t really want
to bug my mom about it,

00:16:23.133 --> 00:16:25.533
because I know
that we\'re kind of tight with money.

00:16:25.567 --> 00:16:29.367
So I just decided to -
well, I just stayed home.

00:16:29.400 --> 00:16:33.833
And then everyone came over
and got ready.

00:16:33.867 --> 00:16:35.433
But it was okay.

00:16:35.467 --> 00:16:39.700
Like, I was really glad
to have everyone over.

00:16:39.733 --> 00:16:43.700
And, well, I mean,
I didn\'t really say

00:16:43.733 --> 00:16:48.300
that I wasn\'t going
because I couldn\'t afford it.

00:16:48.333 --> 00:16:50.433
I mean, I didn\'t really...

00:16:50.467 --> 00:16:54.467
I mean, I didn\'t want anyone
to feel guilty about that or anything.

00:16:54.500 --> 00:16:56.967
I mean, it\'s junior year.
It\'s not senior prom.

00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:58.000
So I didn\'t -

00:16:58.033 --> 00:17:01.400
I didn\'t have my heart set
on going.

00:17:01.433 --> 00:17:07.367
You know,
my heart wasn\'t broken.

00:17:12.067 --> 00:17:13.700
(Cameron)
My name is Cameron.

00:17:13.733 --> 00:17:19.267
I stay on 87th street
off Normandy and Manchester, and I\'m 17.

00:17:19.300 --> 00:17:22.267
My parents take real good care
of me and my little brother.

00:17:22.300 --> 00:17:23.800
You know, we\'re not rich.

00:17:23.833 --> 00:17:25.400
We can\'t have everything we want,
but we get,

00:17:25.433 --> 00:17:27.433
you know what I\'m saying,
what we need.

00:17:27.467 --> 00:17:29.933
And what they can\'t do for me,
you know what I\'m saying, I\'ma do.

00:17:29.967 --> 00:17:32.167
Yeah, I found all type of hustles.

00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:34.033
You know, I done did that on my own.

00:17:34.067 --> 00:17:36.967
You know, ever since I was about 15,
I\'ve been grinding.

00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:38.467
I mean, all money ain\'t good money,

00:17:38.500 --> 00:17:43.167
but, you know,
I basically try to get it the positive way.

00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:45.367
If people can\'t get what they want,

00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:47.440
you know what I\'m saying,
the right way, then they -

00:17:47.467 --> 00:17:50.900
and if they really want it,
they gonna try to get it any way possible.

00:17:50.933 --> 00:17:54.167
I got homies that robbed some stores
that\'s doing time right now.

00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:56.133
Clothes be important.

00:17:56.167 --> 00:17:58.133
Like, stuff be important.

00:17:58.167 --> 00:17:59.900
You got to keep your rep up.

00:17:59.933 --> 00:18:02.433
You know, people getting clowned on.

00:18:02.467 --> 00:18:05.567
People get - that\'s another thing
that be happening at school.

00:18:05.600 --> 00:18:08.900
You never heard, like -
they call it, like, \"You got milked.\"

00:18:08.933 --> 00:18:12.967
That mean they be shooting on you, like,
\"You shop at the swap meet?

00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:14.800
You a swap meet shopper.\"

00:18:14.833 --> 00:18:16.967
That\'s what they be - they can tell.

00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:18.767
People can just start clowning on you.

00:18:18.800 --> 00:18:21.533
It\'s just not a good feeling,
\'cause I could just see it.

00:18:21.567 --> 00:18:25.467
Like, \"Phew, that\'s cold,\"
in front of the girls and all that.

00:18:25.500 --> 00:18:27.067
Just - that ain\'t the business.

00:18:27.100 --> 00:18:28.733
I never been -
I don\'t know what it\'s like,

00:18:28.767 --> 00:18:30.267
\'cause I never been in that situation.

00:18:30.300 --> 00:18:31.500
You feel me?

00:18:31.533 --> 00:18:33.967
You know, \'cause I got outfits.

00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:36.767
First thing we got to get is the money.

00:18:36.800 --> 00:18:39.367
And that\'s what I\'m trying to aim for
is trying to get the money,

00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:41.400
like, all type of looking at new things.

00:18:41.433 --> 00:18:42.900
\"I\'ma do this.\"
You know what I\'m saying?

00:18:42.933 --> 00:18:44.900
I\'m fi\'n\' to start looking
into investments, all type of stuff.

00:18:44.933 --> 00:18:46.833
I\'m trying to think big.

00:18:46.867 --> 00:18:50.000
One of my dreams is to just,
you know, rap.

00:18:50.033 --> 00:18:51.433
Like, it\'s fun.

00:18:51.467 --> 00:18:53.833
Like, to me, it\'s like the best -
that\'s, like, the best thing.

00:18:53.867 --> 00:18:55.833
They get e -
rappers get everything.

00:18:55.867 --> 00:18:57.567
You know, they be in movies.

00:18:57.600 --> 00:18:59.267
You know, they go on tour.

00:18:59.300 --> 00:19:00.967
They on shows.

00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:06.767
Radio, they on, like, all the -
like, they on all the media, everything.

00:19:06.800 --> 00:19:09.933
They on everything, pretty much.

00:19:09.967 --> 00:19:12.500
♪ Yo, I step up in the club
with my fresh Lacoste ♪

00:19:12.533 --> 00:19:13.600
♪ I\'m flamed up ♪

00:19:13.633 --> 00:19:15.700
♪ Firefighters can\'t cool me out ♪

00:19:15.733 --> 00:19:18.700
♪ And if I get a little cool
\'cause the iced-out cross ♪

00:19:18.733 --> 00:19:19.700
♪ Hanging around my neck ♪

00:19:19.733 --> 00:19:21.633
♪ I\'m slim thugging like a boss ♪

00:19:21.667 --> 00:19:24.500
♪ I can give a [...]
about all you playa haters ♪

00:19:24.533 --> 00:19:27.167
♪ I just keep coming up, homey,
like a elevator ♪

00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:30.967
♪ Got my mind on my money
and my money on my mind ♪

00:19:33.367 --> 00:19:36.667
I was running around,
and, like, the people, like -

00:19:36.700 --> 00:19:39.833
(Matthew) I can spend, you know,
anywhere from, I\'d say, like,

00:19:39.867 --> 00:19:42.633
$50 to $300 a day.

00:19:42.667 --> 00:19:45.167
I go with my friends, like,
every single day to The Promenade,

00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:46.967
which is, like,
right down the street from me.

00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:50.133
And I can really shop up a storm.

00:19:50.167 --> 00:19:53.767
Hey, I\'m Matthew Underwood,
and I\'m 16 years old.

00:19:53.800 --> 00:19:57.833
Wait, again. I have to do it again.
I just turned 17.

00:19:57.867 --> 00:19:59.100
Hey, I\'m Matthew Underwood.

00:19:59.133 --> 00:20:01.700
I\'m 17 years old,
and I live in Los Angeles, California.

00:20:01.733 --> 00:20:02.967
I have a job.

00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:05.300
I work on a TV show on Nickelodeon,
and it\'s my life.

00:20:05.333 --> 00:20:07.533
I\'ve been doing it for 16 years.

00:20:07.567 --> 00:20:09.233
But I\'ve been on the show
for four years now.

00:20:09.267 --> 00:20:13.633
And it\'s helped me a lot
for shopping purposes,

00:20:13.667 --> 00:20:16.033
because actors make
a good decent amount of money.

00:20:16.067 --> 00:20:17.507
So I can spend a lot of money a lot.

00:20:17.533 --> 00:20:19.233
My mom, she manages me.

00:20:19.267 --> 00:20:22.267
She manages my life,
and she does a lot of my publicity for me.

00:20:22.300 --> 00:20:24.367
She\'s, like, every single day,
24 hours a day,

00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:25.900
she\'s always working on my publicity.

00:20:25.933 --> 00:20:27.333
And she used to be a nurse.

00:20:27.367 --> 00:20:30.100
So it\'s been a big sacrifice for her,
and it\'s really helped me a lot.

00:20:30.133 --> 00:20:31.200
I own a company.

00:20:31.233 --> 00:20:32.967
It\'s called Matthew Underwood Incorporated.

00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:34.867
And I pay everyone that works for me.

00:20:34.900 --> 00:20:39.100
So whenever she does a job
or whenever we go on vacation

00:20:39.133 --> 00:20:42.400
or whenever we go somewhere and eat,
I always pay for everything we do.

00:20:42.433 --> 00:20:45.000
I don\'t know if she\'s actually
on an actual payroll yet,

00:20:45.033 --> 00:20:47.900
but I\'m sure she will be sooner or later.

00:20:47.933 --> 00:20:51.067
The one thing that I make
crystal clear with people,

00:20:51.100 --> 00:20:52.833
especially, like, with the car,

00:20:52.867 --> 00:20:56.167
I don\'t call it my car,
because it\'s not my car.

00:20:56.200 --> 00:20:58.700
I was saying,
a lot of people in the industry,

00:20:58.733 --> 00:21:00.267
they\'ll, you know -

00:21:00.300 --> 00:21:03.533
and they do work for their kids,
and they do, you know, help their kids.

00:21:03.567 --> 00:21:06.067
And their kids would not be
where they are without their parents.

00:21:06.100 --> 00:21:08.633
That is true, okay,
and it\'s a hard job.

00:21:08.667 --> 00:21:10.433
But then they\'ll go out,
and they\'ll buy a car,

00:21:10.467 --> 00:21:13.800
and they\'ll call it their car, you know,
and I\'ve never said that.

00:21:13.833 --> 00:21:15.233
I\'ve always said it\'s Matthew\'s car,

00:21:15.267 --> 00:21:17.533
because it\'s Matthew\'s money
that bought the car.

00:21:17.567 --> 00:21:18.800
Now, I have my own car.

00:21:18.833 --> 00:21:22.033
It\'s a little Saturn that we drove
all the way from Florida with

00:21:22.067 --> 00:21:23.733
that\'s not doing too well right now.

00:21:23.767 --> 00:21:24.767
[laughs]

00:21:24.800 --> 00:21:27.067
So - but I do have my own car.

00:21:27.100 --> 00:21:28.067
[laughs]

00:21:28.100 --> 00:21:29.800
He doesn\'t want me
to drive him around in it.

00:21:29.833 --> 00:21:30.800
But, you know.

00:21:30.833 --> 00:21:31.800
I want to get you a new one.

00:21:31.833 --> 00:21:33.233
Yeah, he does want me
to get a new car,

00:21:33.267 --> 00:21:35.067
\'cause it\'s old.

00:21:35.100 --> 00:21:37.200
Working and making my own money
has definitely changed

00:21:37.233 --> 00:21:39.733
my entire outlook on money itself,

00:21:39.767 --> 00:21:42.767
because now I know that since
I support my family -

00:21:42.800 --> 00:21:47.600
I pay most of the bills in my house -
that I now have grown up a little bit.

00:21:47.633 --> 00:21:51.333
I believe I was 13, so I started making
enough money to be able to do that.

00:21:51.367 --> 00:21:53.233
And then when my family
had to make the sacrifices

00:21:53.267 --> 00:21:56.567
where they couldn\'t work themselves,
I had to do a lot of work myself.

00:21:56.600 --> 00:21:58.133
(Patricia)
I don\'t want to interrupt,

00:21:58.167 --> 00:21:59.900
but he has not supported us
since he\'s 13.

00:21:59.933 --> 00:22:01.167
I\'m really sorry.

00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:03.467
I only just stopped working when?
February.

00:22:03.500 --> 00:22:04.867
Oh, but that was -
I know what you mean.

00:22:04.900 --> 00:22:06.800
No, you never supported us
from 13.

00:22:06.833 --> 00:22:08.033
That\'s not true.

00:22:08.067 --> 00:22:09.100
It\'s not?

00:22:09.133 --> 00:22:10.100
No, it\'s not.

00:22:10.133 --> 00:22:13.000
I worked as a nurse
making $450 a day.

00:22:13.033 --> 00:22:15.167
That was years ago.

00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:16.700
No, up until recently.

00:22:16.733 --> 00:22:18.100
That was different.

00:22:18.133 --> 00:22:19.100
That\'s okay.

00:22:19.133 --> 00:22:20.800
We can do something else.

00:22:20.833 --> 00:22:23.933
But he has worked steadily since 13
and helped pay bills.

00:22:23.967 --> 00:22:26.767
Yes, he has.

00:22:32.467 --> 00:22:34.300
Well, when I was younger,
I had my own room,

00:22:34.333 --> 00:22:35.733
and we actually had a spare bedroom.

00:22:35.767 --> 00:22:38.767
So, like, I mean, you totally
take it for granted.

00:22:38.800 --> 00:22:41.700
And now that, like,
you\'re sharing ten feet of space

00:22:41.733 --> 00:22:44.133
with three people, it\'s just, like -

00:22:44.167 --> 00:22:45.967
there are some nights
that I just want to, like,

00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:47.600
throw stuff from up there.

00:22:47.633 --> 00:22:50.200
This is our bed.
That\'s her bed, you know.

00:22:50.233 --> 00:22:51.833
No privacy sometimes.

00:22:51.867 --> 00:22:52.833
[laughs]

00:22:52.867 --> 00:22:55.667
She\'s getting older.
It\'s getting a bit more awkward.

00:22:55.700 --> 00:22:57.867
And everyone has to know what time

00:22:57.900 --> 00:23:00.367
someone\'s working and what time
someone\'s school schedule

00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:02.133
if you want private time.

00:23:02.167 --> 00:23:04.333
You know, it\'s a bit inconvenient.

00:23:04.367 --> 00:23:05.600
We never have serious fights.

00:23:05.633 --> 00:23:07.900
It\'s always, like,
\"I want to watch this.

00:23:07.933 --> 00:23:08.900
And this is on.\"

00:23:08.933 --> 00:23:12.633
And, like, we\'ll have fights
over, like, a TV show and stuff.

00:23:12.667 --> 00:23:15.333
But you can\'t really argue,
\'cause she\'s paying the rent.

00:23:15.367 --> 00:23:16.567
[laughter]

00:23:16.600 --> 00:23:18.467
(Jennifer)
Them who pays the bills is the boss.

00:23:18.500 --> 00:23:19.467
[laughter]

00:23:19.500 --> 00:23:20.900
Is that Blink 182 or somebody?

00:23:20.933 --> 00:23:22.067
That\'s Green Day.

00:23:22.100 --> 00:23:23.167
Oh, Green Day, there we go.

00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:25.967
I mean, that was who she liked
when she was a bit younger.

00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:27.167
Yeah.

00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:29.167
Sort of - I don\'t think
she even likes them now.

00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:30.200
I like Green Day.

00:23:30.233 --> 00:23:31.967
Do you? Oh, I apologize.

00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:32.967
[laughter]

00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:36.300
Oh, my husband\'s a bus driver.

00:23:36.333 --> 00:23:38.600
And he\'s driven buses for, like,
28 years now.

00:23:38.633 --> 00:23:40.400
So we drove buses in England.

00:23:40.433 --> 00:23:41.967
We both were bus drivers in England.

00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:44.933
And we just sort of came
to the conclusion that if we can do

00:23:44.967 --> 00:23:48.233
a crappy job for 40 years,
at least do it in nice weather.

00:23:48.267 --> 00:23:49.533
It was sort of temporary.

00:23:49.567 --> 00:23:52.000
We took this place,
and it was a temporary apartment

00:23:52.033 --> 00:23:56.467
for six months,
and it\'s turned into nine years.

00:23:56.500 --> 00:24:01.700
(Zoie) Like, there are times when you just
wish that you just had, like, extra rooms.

00:24:01.733 --> 00:24:03.833
But the closeness -

00:24:03.867 --> 00:24:05.833
at times, it isn\'t all that bad.

00:24:05.867 --> 00:24:07.033
(Jennifer)
We have been poor,

00:24:07.067 --> 00:24:10.667
but now we\'re sort of
comfortably middle-class people.

00:24:10.700 --> 00:24:11.733
(Zoie)
Some kids,

00:24:11.767 --> 00:24:14.233
they still, like, \"I want this;
I want this,\"

00:24:14.267 --> 00:24:17.600
even thought their parents
can\'t necessarily afford it.

00:24:17.633 --> 00:24:19.167
I mean, you always know when it\'s payday,

00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:20.700
\'cause you always get
fancy dinner on payday.

00:24:20.733 --> 00:24:22.600
We have, like, a fancy dinner,
like, steak

00:24:22.633 --> 00:24:25.733
and then, like, a big cake afterwards.

00:24:25.767 --> 00:24:29.367
And then, like, at the end of the month,
we have, like, shepherd\'s pie.

00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:30.367
Mashed potatoes.

00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:31.367
Mashed potatoes.

00:24:31.400 --> 00:24:33.833
Mashed potato with rice
or something, yeah.

00:24:33.867 --> 00:24:35.933
[laughter]

00:24:35.967 --> 00:24:36.933
That was, like, always the joke.

00:24:36.967 --> 00:24:38.333
What\'s in the back
of the cupboard?

00:24:38.367 --> 00:24:41.333
Oh, let\'s - let\'s shake the toaster.

00:24:41.367 --> 00:24:43.067
[laughter]

00:24:43.100 --> 00:24:44.467
Sometimes it\'d be like that.

00:24:44.500 --> 00:24:45.500
Yeah.

00:24:45.533 --> 00:24:47.400
You just have to remember
where you come from,

00:24:47.433 --> 00:24:49.467
\'cause at the end of the day,
you could have money,

00:24:49.500 --> 00:24:51.367
and the next morning,
it could be gone.

00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:54.900
Like, it just kind of teaches you,
like, don\'t take it for granted.

00:24:57.467 --> 00:25:00.367
I can do what I want.
It\'s my camera.

00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:02.400
It\'s my camera, not yours.

00:25:02.433 --> 00:25:04.500
Mom, Megan\'s deleting
the Miley picture.

00:25:04.533 --> 00:25:07.000
(woman) Megan, you can\'t delete that,
because it\'s not on the CD, please.

00:25:07.033 --> 00:25:12.000
It\'s my picture.

00:25:12.033 --> 00:25:13.900
I\'m hungry!

00:25:13.933 --> 00:25:17.800
I have two beautiful daughters,
Ashley and Megan.

00:25:17.833 --> 00:25:19.733
Ashley is 13 1/2.

00:25:19.767 --> 00:25:21.400
Megan\'s gonna be 12.

00:25:21.433 --> 00:25:24.367
And I live in Calabasas.

00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:27.300
When I first moved out here,
people were like, \"Where do you live?

00:25:27.333 --> 00:25:29.867
\"You know, what community, what street?

00:25:29.900 --> 00:25:32.467
You know, what model?\"

00:25:32.500 --> 00:25:38.467
People will spend their last dime
to drive a certain car where we live,

00:25:38.500 --> 00:25:39.833
to live in a certain house.

00:25:39.867 --> 00:25:41.867
I mean, I see it all the time.

00:25:41.900 --> 00:25:44.400
It\'s like they spend every penny
on what you can see.

00:25:44.433 --> 00:25:46.967
They like when they look rich.

00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:49.133
You know, it\'s a whole image thing.

00:25:49.167 --> 00:25:50.133
I know someone,

00:25:50.167 --> 00:25:55.700
she had a boob lift, a tummy tuck, and lipo
last summer for her son\'s bar mitzvah.

00:25:55.733 --> 00:26:00.500
And then over spring break just now,
she had her arms done.

00:26:00.533 --> 00:26:04.333
I know, like, my kids bug me,
because they\'re almost embarrassed

00:26:04.367 --> 00:26:09.400
that I\'m overweight
or that I am not dressing a certain way.

00:26:09.433 --> 00:26:11.167
There\'s just a lot of pressure.

00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:13.700
And I want them to fit in
and feel comfortable,

00:26:13.733 --> 00:26:17.233
because it\'s not even to be competitive.

00:26:17.267 --> 00:26:21.533
It\'s just, to fit in and be \"normal,\"
you need to look a certain way.

00:26:21.567 --> 00:26:23.733
It\'s important to have nice clothes.

00:26:23.767 --> 00:26:29.967
Like, if you have bad clothes,
you\'re a dork or a weirdo.

00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:32.567
If you go to school and someone\'s
wearing the same outfit as you,

00:26:32.600 --> 00:26:38.600
it\'s really embarrassing,
because you feel like, \"Oh, they copied me.

00:26:38.633 --> 00:26:40.533
Oh, I can\'t stand this.\"

00:26:40.567 --> 00:26:42.800
I\'ll say to them,
\"Why did you copy me?\"

00:26:42.833 --> 00:26:45.433
And I won\'t wear
the outfit again.

00:26:45.467 --> 00:26:48.100
And if I don\'t know them,
I give them a dirty look,

00:26:48.133 --> 00:26:50.500
and I don\'t wear the outfit.

00:26:50.533 --> 00:26:53.233
One time when we went
to the father-daughter dance,

00:26:53.267 --> 00:26:55.700
about six other people
had the same dress as me.

00:26:55.733 --> 00:26:57.300
It ruined the whole thing.

00:26:57.333 --> 00:26:59.300
And so we left early.

00:26:59.333 --> 00:27:01.433
I couldn\'t stay any longer.
I couldn\'t stand it.

00:27:01.467 --> 00:27:03.833
The popular people aren\'t fat.

00:27:03.867 --> 00:27:06.400
Well, in my grade, some
of the popular people are kind of fat.

00:27:06.433 --> 00:27:09.000
Well, those are the ones
that fool around.

00:27:09.033 --> 00:27:11.467
The fat ones are the ones that fool around,
so that\'s why they\'re popular.

00:27:11.500 --> 00:27:13.567
But there\'s a few girls
who are really mean to me.

00:27:13.600 --> 00:27:15.400
They\'re kind of fat.
But, like -

00:27:15.433 --> 00:27:16.833
(woman)
And why are they mean to you?

00:27:16.867 --> 00:27:17.833
I don\'t do -

00:27:17.867 --> 00:27:19.167
\'Cause she\'s prettier than them.

00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:20.167
She\'s skinnier than them.

00:27:20.200 --> 00:27:21.167
And I\'m nice.

00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:22.733
And she wears better clothes
than them.

00:27:22.767 --> 00:27:23.733
And I\'m really nice.

00:27:23.767 --> 00:27:24.733
She has more friends.

00:27:24.767 --> 00:27:25.933
But I\'m really nice to people.

00:27:25.967 --> 00:27:27.733
Like, even though
I\'m pretty quiet at school,

00:27:27.767 --> 00:27:29.567
I\'m still really nice.

00:27:29.600 --> 00:27:30.567
(woman)
Where\'s Megan?

00:27:30.600 --> 00:27:31.767
She\'s right here.

00:27:31.800 --> 00:27:32.900
Happy birthday.

00:27:32.933 --> 00:27:33.933
Thank you.

00:27:33.967 --> 00:27:35.033
Aren\'t you guys excited?

00:27:35.067 --> 00:27:36.400
(all)
Yeah.

00:27:36.433 --> 00:27:37.967
(woman)
You\'re going to work out today.

00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:38.967
Oh.

00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:39.967
Just kidding.

00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:40.967
[laughter]

00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:42.500
You\'re going to get spa treatments.

00:27:42.533 --> 00:27:46.500
You\'re going to get petite facials.

00:27:46.533 --> 00:27:48.200
You\'re going to get massages.

00:27:48.233 --> 00:27:51.733
You\'re going to get lavender
paraffin dips for your hands.

00:27:51.767 --> 00:27:55.100
So - and are you ready to change
into some robes and slippers?

00:27:55.133 --> 00:27:56.233
(all)
Yeah!

00:27:56.267 --> 00:27:57.233
(woman)
Yay.

00:27:57.267 --> 00:28:00.100
(girl)
Where\'s Emily?

00:28:26.500 --> 00:28:30.500
And then I want paraffin
and everything again.

00:28:30.533 --> 00:28:31.500
You want the whole thing?

00:28:31.533 --> 00:28:33.133
I want to get a -
and manicure-pedicure.

00:28:33.167 --> 00:28:34.233
Not once a month.

00:28:34.267 --> 00:28:35.600
I want it once a week.

00:28:35.633 --> 00:28:36.600
I don\'t think so.

00:28:36.633 --> 00:28:38.900
[laughs]

00:28:40.300 --> 00:28:42.333
I love jeans.

00:28:42.433 --> 00:28:43.833
I love jeans.

00:28:43.867 --> 00:28:48.933
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8...

00:28:48.967 --> 00:28:51.500
15, 16, 17, 18...

00:28:51.533 --> 00:28:55.700
28, 29, 30, 31, 32.

00:28:55.733 --> 00:28:57.467
And then I have some in the wash.

00:28:57.500 --> 00:29:02.333
The first time True Religions came out,
I couldn\'t get them over my butt.

00:29:02.367 --> 00:29:03.967
I was, like, pulling and pulling.

00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:05.300
And I was really upset.

00:29:05.333 --> 00:29:07.067
So I started crying when I got home,

00:29:07.100 --> 00:29:12.400
\'cause then I thought I was fat
and that I couldn\'t, you know,

00:29:12.433 --> 00:29:16.767
be \"cool\" because I couldn\'t have
the True Religion jeans

00:29:16.800 --> 00:29:18.533
like all the other girls.

00:29:18.567 --> 00:29:20.067
I want, like, long legs.

00:29:20.100 --> 00:29:21.367
I have normal size.

00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:23.900
I can\'t make my legs get really long.

00:29:23.933 --> 00:29:26.267
But - unless there\'s some surgery.

00:29:26.300 --> 00:29:28.433
I\'m unhappy with my cuticles.

00:29:28.467 --> 00:29:30.067
I don\'t love my freckles.

00:29:30.100 --> 00:29:32.067
I think that my arms are hairy.

00:29:32.100 --> 00:29:34.767
My mom said that I could
get them lasered.

00:29:34.800 --> 00:29:36.000
Then I looked up \"lasered.\"

00:29:36.033 --> 00:29:39.167
You have to be, like, 15,
and have, like, your period,

00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:41.967
like, for, like,
three years something like that.

00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:43.333
And then I have fat feet.

00:29:43.367 --> 00:29:44.967
Don\'t look at them.
Don\'t look at them.

00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:46.033
Don\'t look. Don\'t look.

00:29:46.067 --> 00:29:49.100
But I want to have
a lot of money, so -

00:29:49.133 --> 00:29:50.333
And a good career.

00:29:50.367 --> 00:29:51.433
I don\'t want to work.

00:29:51.467 --> 00:29:53.367
I just want to have
a lot of money

00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:55.200
so I can shop and, you know,

00:29:55.233 --> 00:29:57.600
have expensive horses
and, you know,

00:29:57.633 --> 00:30:00.800
have nice dogs, and, you know,

00:30:00.833 --> 00:30:02.400
I want to have a lot of money.

00:30:12.200 --> 00:30:14.667
(Cameron)
As a teen, you know,

00:30:14.700 --> 00:30:16.233
we try to have as much fun
as we can.

00:30:16.267 --> 00:30:19.200
You know, we\'re not all the way
in the real world yet.

00:30:19.233 --> 00:30:21.133
But, you know, we\'re almost there.

00:30:21.167 --> 00:30:23.900
(Matthew) It\'s gotten to the point
where race doesn\'t matter anymore.

00:30:23.933 --> 00:30:27.033
It\'s almost to the point
where money is all that matters

00:30:27.067 --> 00:30:28.867
to some cliques and groups in schools.

00:30:28.900 --> 00:30:31.300
It\'s a lot better than saying,
\"Oh, he\'s black.

00:30:31.333 --> 00:30:32.300
\"He\'s Mexican.

00:30:32.333 --> 00:30:33.333
\"He\'s white.

00:30:33.367 --> 00:30:34.333
He\'s Asian.\"

00:30:34.367 --> 00:30:36.033
I like it better about money
than about that,

00:30:36.067 --> 00:30:39.633
because at least
there\'s something involved.

00:30:39.667 --> 00:30:43.000
We spend as much money as we can
to, like, you know,

00:30:43.033 --> 00:30:46.833
be somewhere, just not to be considered
lower-class, you know.

00:30:46.867 --> 00:30:47.900
We just want to be somebody.

00:30:47.933 --> 00:30:50.667
We just want to come off
like we are somebody.

00:30:50.700 --> 00:30:53.067
I only really get the feeling
of needing something

00:30:53.100 --> 00:30:55.600
if somebody else wants it.

00:30:55.633 --> 00:30:57.233
(Alyssa)
You segregate -

00:30:57.267 --> 00:30:58.233
well, not segregate.

00:30:58.267 --> 00:31:01.400
(Gabby) But, like, you could tell, like,
from what someone\'s wearing,

00:31:01.433 --> 00:31:04.633
like, who they\'re friends with,
which sounds weird, but it\'s true.

00:31:04.667 --> 00:31:06.467
(Alyssa)
It\'s not, like, a good or bad thing.

00:31:06.500 --> 00:31:08.400
It\'s just what happens.

00:31:08.433 --> 00:31:11.600
This one boy said to me,
\"Get a nose job.\"

00:31:11.633 --> 00:31:13.733
And then he made fun
of my nose and stuff.

00:31:13.767 --> 00:31:17.367
And I used to think
my nose was fine.

00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:22.733
(Phoebe) My wish for the world
would be that people can find

00:31:22.767 --> 00:31:27.333
a way to define themselves
besides their financial status.

00:31:27.367 --> 00:31:29.667
(Emanuel) I think that money
does make the world go round,

00:31:29.700 --> 00:31:31.300
unfortunately.

00:31:31.333 --> 00:31:33.967
I think that most people,

00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:38.500
most people need money
to be happy.

00:31:43.700 --> 00:31:44.667
[hip-hop music]

00:31:44.700 --> 00:31:47.767
(Cameron)
♪ Radio, they on, like, all the radio ♪

00:31:47.800 --> 00:31:50.633
♪ They on, like, all the radio ♪

00:31:50.667 --> 00:31:54.700
♪ They on, like, all the ♪

00:31:54.733 --> 00:31:57.400
♪ Yo, I step up in the club
with my fresh Lacoste ♪

00:31:57.433 --> 00:31:58.433
♪ I\'m flamed up ♪

00:31:58.467 --> 00:32:00.633
♪ Firefighters can\'t cool me out ♪

00:32:00.667 --> 00:32:03.500
♪ And if I get a little cool
\'cause the iced-out cross ♪

00:32:03.533 --> 00:32:04.500
♪ Hanging around my neck ♪

00:32:04.533 --> 00:32:06.367
♪ I\'m slim thugging like a boss ♪

00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:09.433
♪ I can give a [...]
about all you playa haters ♪

00:32:09.467 --> 00:32:12.200
♪ I just keep coming up, homey
like a elevator ♪

00:32:12.233 --> 00:32:15.633
♪ Got my mind on my money
and my money on my mind ♪

00:32:15.667 --> 00:32:18.233
♪ ♪

00:32:18.267 --> 00:32:19.633
♪ Radio ♪

00:32:19.667 --> 00:32:21.633
♪ They on, like, all the media ♪

00:32:21.667 --> 00:32:24.133
♪ Like, they on all the media, everything ♪

00:32:24.167 --> 00:32:28.833
♪ ♪