Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to the podcast, and gotta say happy June teenth. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: So today we've got something a little different for you.
Speaker 1: It's called a closure call. We don't do them that often,
Speaker 1: but they're kind of cool. It's when people need closure
Speaker 1: in their life from a past relationship, and that could
Speaker 1: be romantic, it could be a family relationship, a work relationship,
Speaker 1: and we actually get them back in touch with that
Speaker 1: person from their past. So these are these are pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna get to hear that. But first we
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Speaker 1: All right, we'll take some child at all. All right, here,
Speaker 1: your closure call starts now.
Speaker 2: The truth is everyone has a price. So Brooke, let
Speaker 2: me ask, how much would it take for you to
Speaker 2: leave your husband and your children to start a whole
Speaker 2: new life. A billion? I remember a Bogo cubeon to
Speaker 2: the Country Buffet with the nacho cheese fountain.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, yeah, I were thinking about it.
Speaker 2: Well, one of our listeners faced a similar dilemma recently
Speaker 2: where he had to choose either a life changing, insane
Speaker 2: amount of money or his family.
Speaker 5: What day.
Speaker 2: You would think that'd be a pretty easy decision, but
Speaker 2: it wasn't. You're going to find out what happened in
Speaker 2: a brand new closure call coming up next. Quick history
Speaker 2: lesson this segment started when Brooke suggested we do something
Speaker 2: called foreclosure calls. She wanted us to call low income
Speaker 2: families until them they're getting evictim while she laughed in
Speaker 2: the background. It's a terrible.
Speaker 1: Idea till you say something like this, I have to
Speaker 1: do more charity work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of what we adjusted this segment to
Speaker 2: closure calls, which is helping people. And I know Brooke
Speaker 2: didn't like that idea as much, but management did. So
Speaker 2: your mortgage was to deny. I love that, but we're
Speaker 2: trying to help our listeners get some answers and much
Speaker 2: needed closure about an issue or a question that's been
Speaker 2: eating away at them for a while.
Speaker 1: I love this segment.
Speaker 2: And today we're talking to a guy named David who
Speaker 2: reached out to us about his mom. Oh hopefully he's
Speaker 2: not foreclosing on her, but David, welcome to the show man.
Speaker 5: Hey guys, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it always makes me so sad when people have
Speaker 1: terrible relationships with your mom?
Speaker 2: Are you assuming? Yeah, we don't even.
Speaker 1: Know anything if he hasn't talked to her. Isn't that
Speaker 1: the whole point of closure call? It's always like so
Speaker 1: one that you need closure with you don't know.
Speaker 2: What's ask what's going on with your mom? David?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I did have a falling out with my
Speaker 5: mom like three months ago.
Speaker 1: Is really good that it's in the title of the segment.
Speaker 4: You can say, like, I'm talking to my mom, we
Speaker 4: have an issue with my sister or something.
Speaker 2: Why did you and your mom have a falling out?
Speaker 5: So it's all over this inheritance from my grandpa.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, cut the mom out there. Wait, what, that's
Speaker 2: exactly what I would do. I don't know what is
Speaker 2: going on with.
Speaker 5: So my grandpa lives in South America, and honestly, I've
Speaker 5: met a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Okay, and this is your mom's dad, right yeah, okay.
Speaker 5: Okay, but he really likes me. You know. Actually, when
Speaker 5: I graduated from high school, he sent me a check
Speaker 5: for five thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: Yay, Oh wow, day, I think I got a pizza
Speaker 4: party for three I always.
Speaker 1: Be a matter of money. But how old I was,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I got eighteen bucks.
Speaker 2: Your grandpa is pretty well off.
Speaker 1: Dang.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's not doing bad, or he wasn't doing bad.
Speaker 5: It just felt like me and him connected when we
Speaker 5: did meet. He passed away.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that make your mom happy though, that he passed away,
Speaker 1: that they had a good relationship.
Speaker 5: There's more to the story, Okay, all right, So when
Speaker 5: he passed I got a letter in the mail. It
Speaker 5: was you know, it was actually sent to my mom's house,
Speaker 5: but it was addressed to me, and it was from
Speaker 5: my grandpa's lawyer saying that in the will I was mentioned.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So Grandpa, what he did in the will is
Speaker 5: he basically gave me two options. You know, I could
Speaker 5: split the inheritance with my mom and my two older sisters,
Speaker 5: or I could keep the whole thing.
Speaker 1: What a position to put you in choice? Do you
Speaker 1: know how much money they were talking about right from
Speaker 1: the beginning, I.
Speaker 5: Know the amount it was. It was a lot of money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, damn, that is a big decision. Like what where
Speaker 2: was your head at?
Speaker 5: So of course my first thought is like, let me
Speaker 5: split it evenly with everybody, you know. But then I
Speaker 5: started to think about it more, like my sisters are
Speaker 5: older than me, like, well older older than me. They're
Speaker 5: already married, one has a kid, the other ones working
Speaker 5: with the job she loves. I mean, they're set financially,
Speaker 5: their established.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't need more money.
Speaker 1: I cannot believe your grandpa left that decision to you.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just a decision that's going to tear
Speaker 1: people apart no matter what.
Speaker 2: What's your financial situation?
Speaker 5: So, like, I just finished college. I don't have a
Speaker 5: job right now. You know, I still got a bunch
Speaker 5: of student loans coming in.
Speaker 2: Didn't the five thousand dollars cover that? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah maybe in the sixties. Yeah, Okay, so I got
Speaker 5: a lot of student loans, and you know, I also
Speaker 5: have dreams. You know, I wanted to travel the world,
Speaker 5: and I felt like that was my grandpa basically giving
Speaker 5: me that shot a chance.
Speaker 1: He just turned you into a fun kid. You can
Speaker 1: do those things.
Speaker 5: But then you know my mom, she's divorced from my
Speaker 5: dad too, and she does work a couple jobs. But honestly,
Speaker 5: I don't know what she would even use the money for.
Speaker 2: Maybe so that she wouldn't have to work two jobs, yeah,
Speaker 2: very simple, solid reason.
Speaker 5: But you know, my mom is just one of those
Speaker 5: ladies who work just because they enjoy working.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, I know what you mean, no matter what.
Speaker 2: Who likes working just for work?
Speaker 1: Could you say that? But how do you know that?
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously she couldn't put you through college. She
Speaker 1: probably works because she has to.
Speaker 2: I mean, so big decision here. What did you decide
Speaker 2: to do?
Speaker 5: I decided to keep the full inheritance.
Speaker 2: What I was d D that's kind of a rough
Speaker 2: move to do to your family.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 5: My mom kept asking me too, She was like, what
Speaker 5: did the letter say that Grandpa sent you?
Speaker 2: You know she didn't know?
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I didn't tell her.
Speaker 2: Why wouldn't you at least talk to your mom about that? Like,
Speaker 2: talk to someone.
Speaker 5: Well, like I said, I didn't tell her, but now
Speaker 5: I feel like she does know.
Speaker 1: Why why do you say that, because a couple.
Speaker 5: Of days later, I get a text from my mom saying,
Speaker 5: you need to come by the house. You got to
Speaker 5: pick up all your stuff. I put it in the
Speaker 5: boxes out in the garage.
Speaker 2: Oh she kicked you out?
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know it didn't. Honestly, it made me
Speaker 5: feel bad. I tried to talk to her. I even
Speaker 5: went over and knocked on the door, but you know,
Speaker 5: she doesn't answer, she won't come to the door.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is the falling out with your mom?
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, yeah, it's been a few months since
Speaker 5: it happened.
Speaker 1: You know, you haven't talked to her at all.
Speaker 5: No, not for the last few months.
Speaker 1: Wait, though, like that's how do you know that she knows?
Speaker 1: Like it could be another reason, like how would she
Speaker 1: find out about the inheritance.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's the only reason I could think that
Speaker 5: she threw all my stuff in the box put in
Speaker 5: the garage for no reason, because it.
Speaker 2: Was a normal issue. She would talk to you, right,
Speaker 2: And so this has been a few months, now, what
Speaker 2: what made you reach out to us, like to get
Speaker 2: some closure, honestly.
Speaker 5: Because I've been rethinking it and I'm you know, maybe
Speaker 5: I should had probably split it up. But my mom
Speaker 5: is not talking to me, and my two sisters know
Speaker 5: nothing about it. So since I can't reach my mother,
Speaker 5: maybe I can use some help.
Speaker 1: I just can't imagine money like this isn't worth money, right,
Speaker 1: Like losing your relationship with your mom.
Speaker 2: Depends on how much money. Everybody's got a price.
Speaker 3: It could be known on a private island.
Speaker 2: So obviously you know how this works. David. You've already
Speaker 2: been working with our producer to come up with four
Speaker 2: questions that we sent to your mom. I will tell you, David,
Speaker 2: she wrote back to us, and hopefully when I read
Speaker 2: it to you coming up here, it's going to give
Speaker 2: you a little bit of closure. My god, but it's
Speaker 2: going to cost you some money. Okay, I think legally
Speaker 2: I can. But when we come back, we'll read what
Speaker 2: your mom had to say and do your closure call
Speaker 2: right after this. Man, this is crazy. We've been talking
Speaker 2: about it off the about what we would do if
Speaker 2: we were in David's shoes, where you have the option
Speaker 2: to take an entire inheritance just for yourself or split
Speaker 2: it amongst your family.
Speaker 1: Members, like it's a sick joke that your grandpa left
Speaker 1: you with.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I bet he's laughing. For it's a big moral
Speaker 2: dilemma though, and David chose not to split it with
Speaker 2: his mom and his two sisters. He wanted to keep
Speaker 2: the whole bag for himself, which it was his decision,
Speaker 2: that was what his grandpa wanted him to make. This
Speaker 2: is what we didn't discuss though in the first part,
Speaker 2: is transparency, Like should he have told his mom his
Speaker 2: decision of what was going on, because it sounds like
Speaker 2: he tried to keep it all secret from her and
Speaker 2: then she found out later and then got upset about.
Speaker 4: And that's what I agree with. No matter what you choose,
Speaker 4: it's a hard decision. I would at least set my
Speaker 4: family down and say, look, mom, dad, I don't think
Speaker 4: you guys need it as much as I do, or whatever,
Speaker 4: but at least tell everybody a family brook.
Speaker 2: Are you telling your family that you're holding onto the
Speaker 2: whole whole inheritance?
Speaker 1: I know I have inherited in my family. To be
Speaker 1: honest with you, I'm just having a really hard time
Speaker 1: having sympathy for you because it's like, these are the
Speaker 1: choices you made. Not only did you cut them out,
Speaker 1: but then you didn't tell them and then you get
Speaker 1: kicked out of your mom's house, Like.
Speaker 2: Duh, you can call her a name, David, that's okay.
Speaker 2: And she's just jealous of you that you know you're
Speaker 2: richer than her.
Speaker 5: You know. I'm just I'm just waiting for these answers.
Speaker 2: Okay, I am. I'm curious before we get to the answers,
Speaker 2: have you spent any of the money yet, just for fun?
Speaker 5: No? And then none of the money has come through yet.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's tied up in paperwork or something.
Speaker 4: But he was South America, so maybe it's harder to transfer.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it doesn't come through a money order.
Speaker 2: So we're going to read your mom's answers here. How
Speaker 2: you feeling, man, You nervous, excited.
Speaker 5: Like I'm probably a little anxious, you know. Like I said,
Speaker 5: I'm I don't want it to be mad at me,
Speaker 5: so I'm trying to figure this out. So I don't know.
Speaker 2: Okay, We've already sent these four questions to your mom.
Speaker 2: You worked with our producer on him. The first question
Speaker 2: that we sent her was Mom, why are you so
Speaker 2: mad at me to the point you kicked me out
Speaker 2: of your house? Okay, that's good because we don't know.
Speaker 2: We don't know if she knew about his decision with
Speaker 2: the inheritance. We just assumed that, And that's what you
Speaker 2: wanted to ask, right, David.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's number one what I need to know why
Speaker 5: she's mad before we go further.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, true.
Speaker 1: Because if she doesn't know about it yet, did she explain?
Speaker 2: She said, because David, you were given a big decision
Speaker 2: to be selfish or consider anybody other than yourself, and
Speaker 2: you chose yourself. I thought I raised you better. That's
Speaker 2: how does that feel? David?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't feel like I need to
Speaker 5: give her any of the money if she's coming at
Speaker 5: me like that.
Speaker 1: Right, Oh, did you not hear what she said? She's
Speaker 1: already talking about the money. She's talking about your you
Speaker 1: being selfish, only thinking of yourself.
Speaker 5: No. I feel like if that was the case, that's
Speaker 5: a conversation we could have had in person, and she
Speaker 5: could have told me, hey, you maybe you're being selfish.
Speaker 5: But nah, right now I'm here and she's jealous. Balance.
Speaker 2: Oh man, it was kind of a rude answer back
Speaker 2: from a mom.
Speaker 4: So with you, Brooke did mention earlier. She is being
Speaker 4: very passive aggressive by not saying anything and just.
Speaker 3: Kicking you out.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 4: I think you're both a little bit could be handling
Speaker 4: it in different ways.
Speaker 2: But that is why we do these calls. I try
Speaker 2: and help get some answers and hopefully get closure. Let's
Speaker 2: go to the second question, which was, I'm assuming you
Speaker 2: know about my decision with Grandpa's inheritance.
Speaker 1: Okay, we already got that answer.
Speaker 2: What would you have done in my shoes? I guarantee
Speaker 2: you wouldn't have split the money evenly. O.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's coming in hot.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean now that's almost sounding like an accusation.
Speaker 1: Is that how you meant it? David?
Speaker 5: You know it feels fine. After that first answer, she
Speaker 5: got up, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well she did answer that to quote, like send a
Speaker 2: quotation and it says, greed is a fat demon with
Speaker 2: a small mouth, and whatever you feed it, it's never enough.
Speaker 1: Is that a comment?
Speaker 5: Does she call me? Does she just call me fat?
Speaker 5: I don't even know I've been greed.
Speaker 2: Greed is the fat demon, not you.
Speaker 4: I feel like we're getting answers here. But we're not
Speaker 4: making progress. Like on either side. He still seems like.
Speaker 1: I think the mom is just disappointed.
Speaker 5: What what's she disappointed about? I mean she has a
Speaker 5: lot more money than I do.
Speaker 1: I mean, your whole life provided for you.
Speaker 2: Still a little tense. Maybe things will get better.
Speaker 5: I hope she puts that quote on her wall.
Speaker 2: Okay, next to love fan. Let's hopefully make the mood
Speaker 2: a little better with question three. It says, it's been
Speaker 2: three months and I haven't seen any money from the inheritance.
Speaker 2: Are you blocking my inheritance? Or do you know what's
Speaker 2: going on with it? So you you suspect your mom
Speaker 2: is the one that's blocking you.
Speaker 5: I mean she's blocked me out of the house.
Speaker 1: I thought we were doing this. So try to repair
Speaker 1: your relationship with your mother, David, not to attack her.
Speaker 3: Find out where your money is.
Speaker 5: Her. I'm asking, does she know anything about it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's quoting Rihanna, you better have my money.
Speaker 1: What did she say?
Speaker 2: You asked if she's blocking the inheritance, and she wrote
Speaker 2: back the same quote as before, this time in all caps.
Speaker 2: Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth, and
Speaker 2: whatever you feed it, it's never enough.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 2: She's doubling to you.
Speaker 5: Guys for the help. Man, all I'm getting is bathroom quotes. You. Oh,
Speaker 5: I think I should charge her for my school loans
Speaker 5: after this.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a battle. Smooth things over house?
Speaker 1: Responsible for that, you know, I mean, we can't control
Speaker 1: how it sounds like you're turning into the little fat
Speaker 1: demon who's never never.
Speaker 5: David answers question for with that quote. I don't know
Speaker 5: what the hell.
Speaker 2: We We made zero progress. We only have one question
Speaker 2: less but keeps getting worse. Maybe we should just get
Speaker 2: through it question four. Know we wrote. I know you're
Speaker 2: not talking to me right now, but I do regret
Speaker 2: how things went down.
Speaker 1: Mom, Okay a little remorse.
Speaker 2: Can I please call you so we can talk this
Speaker 2: thing out. Yes, that's great. That's a good Olive branch.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm the only good person between us.
Speaker 1: I would have I would have recommended leading with that
Speaker 1: question and then maybe taken out the first three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tell you, David, she didn't write back with
Speaker 2: the same quote. That's the good news. Yes, here's what
Speaker 2: she said, and I'll warn you it's a little bit shocking.
Speaker 5: David.
Speaker 2: Are you ready for this?
Speaker 5: Let's go?
Speaker 2: She says, maybe you should call your grandpa instead.
Speaker 1: I thought he died.
Speaker 2: She says, he didn't really die, but he did want
Speaker 2: to test you, to see if you'd make the right
Speaker 2: choice and put your family first.
Speaker 5: Got to be a joke.
Speaker 2: No, I'm serious, man, She says, you didn't, and now
Speaker 2: we all know the answer. So you've been effectively removed
Speaker 2: from Grandpa's will going forward.
Speaker 5: I don't believe that. I think she lost her mind.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I'm reading her her answers right here.
Speaker 2: She says, there's no money coming to you. If you're wondering,
Speaker 2: you reap what you sew. I don't know.
Speaker 5: We might have to throw her in a facility. I
Speaker 5: don't know.
Speaker 1: You don't have money to pay for a facility in
Speaker 1: your mind?
Speaker 5: Well, what's that called? When when the police just get her? Then,
Speaker 5: because we have to follow one.
Speaker 4: Really take your advice and call your grandpa and once
Speaker 4: he answers your tire.
Speaker 1: I was like, why would a grandpa put that in
Speaker 1: a in a will? That's crazy, pretty it makes sense.
Speaker 5: I don't believe her, and I honestly, I don't think
Speaker 5: you guys should believe her. I think died and she's
Speaker 5: just like holding on to my check at the house.
Speaker 1: Oh, make awkward Tuesday phone calls to South America. I
Speaker 1: want to call it Grandpa.
Speaker 2: I don't want to get any deeper involved into this
Speaker 2: family situation. It was messy, This was amazing. I hope
Speaker 2: it got you a little bit of closure there, David,
Speaker 2: don't I don't know.
Speaker 5: If it's I don't know, like I don't believe it.
Speaker 2: Make sure you keep in touch with us and let
Speaker 2: us know what happens with the Yeah, I guess say
Speaker 2: to your grandpa for us.
Speaker 1: Apologies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's your closure calls. It's Brooke and Jeffrey in the.
Speaker 1: Morning brooking Jeffrey in the morning. Man, That grandpa is genius. Yeah, honestly,
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed that closure call. We are getting
Speaker 1: tons of comments flooded, especially on our YouTube page.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. Yeah, so many of you guys want
Speaker 3: to follow up, and we are with offer Tuesday another
Speaker 3: call something about it.
Speaker 1: That's a hard part of these follow ups is that
Speaker 1: people contact us for help and then we just have
Speaker 1: to hope that they get back to us.
Speaker 2: I know, surprisingly we don't harass them. Yeah, week after
Speaker 2: week after we should know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, he's going to be a little busy talking
Speaker 1: to his mom and grandpa figuring out how he wanted
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 3: It's just a joke.
Speaker 1: I was gonna split it with everybody totally.
Speaker 3: In the comments about him, we got a lot of
Speaker 3: selfish jerks. No wonder they tested him talk about karma. Yeah,
Speaker 3: oh selfish again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So it's kind of the majority is against
Speaker 1: this kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, i'd say so.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And for grandpa, I think a lot of people, I
Speaker 1: mean are going to be changing their wills.
Speaker 2: So I have a nice little test as you go
Speaker 2: out to the family.
Speaker 1: Totally. Yeah. Yeah, Well, thank you so much for being here.
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