George Kamel - 16 Minutes of Hilarious Money TikToks

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

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Can you put a quality meal on the table for around a dollar? One TikToker seems to think so. And in today's video, I'll be reacting to said TikToker, along with other money-related videos that you guys sent me on social. Some helpful, some not. Some hilarious, one sad. Also, shout out to delete me for being a sponsor of this channel. Let's hop in.

This is how I make a very affordable dinner for a dollar and 30 cents, and that contains a protein, a carb, and a vegetable. I bought a four pack of chicken thighs for 3.55. at Trader Joe's. We're just using one here, so that's going to cost us 85 cents for our protein. Next is Jasmine Rice, which I bought the Three Elephants brand a year and a half ago, $25 for 25 pounds. And that comes out to about 12 cents per bowl. For a vegetable, I'm going with Beats and it's from Amazon Fresh, got it on sale for 99 cents. I'm going to use a third of the container, which is going to be 33 cents. High blood pressure runs my family and Beats contain something

called nitrates that can lower your blood pressure over time. I even drink the beet juice that's out of the can, goes to waste. So if you add everything up, the cost of this dinner is going to be a dollar and 30 cents. And the thing is, it's not a small portion. It's a pretty filling meal and it's a nutritious one at that. At a price point, that's unbeatable. All right. Thank you, Sam, for this great content. That chicken looked amazing. Now, would I pair it with beats that you're just raw dogging out of the can? That was a choice, my man. Like, you chose, you had your choice of veggies. That's all I'm saying. Like, you could have chosen literally any vegetable and you were like, give me some good. can beats baby with as much juice as possible. Will I waste the juice? No, I will drink the juice.

But for $1.30, the man is right. I mean, he got the rice in bulk and jasmine rice, which that's S to your rice in my book. I don't care who you want. Now, Basmati, it's a close second. It's a close second. But you can't beat the fragrance of that jasmine rice. And he has a rice cooker, which is very affordable. And he's got the chicken from Trader Joe's. You can get it from Aldi if you want to go even cheaper and get some quality meat. But he's right. People think, well, you can't affordably buy groceries, so I might as well door dash a $28 burrito. That is insanity. And he actually did the math. He brought the receipts. Now, all those groceries didn't cost him $1.30 total, but the actual meal, the actual serving did. He meal planned with intentionality,

and I think that's something we can all learn from. And am I tempted to try beet juice? A little bit. I have a dark curiosity now as to what it tastes like, because I know what beats tastes like. So just the straight-up juice? Oh, I mean, you might as well just stir up some grass with water and just chug that instead. That's all I'm saying. Why Trout would be proud, though?

You're feeding his family. Next up. All right, for failing to pay your taxes for seven years straight, you're sentenced to seven years in federal prison. If you have anything to say for yourself, please big now. Thank you? Alright, great. Wait, what the f*** you just say?

Thank you. For sending me to a place where I don't have to pay taxes. Or rent, honestly. What? Sir, this isn't a consolation prize for committing tax fraud. This is a punishment. Well, taxes are actually used to fund prisons, so in a way, so in a way, I'm actually getting a tax refund if you really think about it.

What? Look, on top of your sentence, we're stripping away all of your assets, and you'll be left with literally nothing. How are you okay with that? Well, all I have is a mountain of credit card debt, so as long as you're stripping that away, then... Okay, I'm so sorry, Your Honor. My client's not really thinking straight. Tell me you're not thinking straight. I've never been more lucid, Jim, so sit down.

Okay, you do know that you'll have to work a job in prison, right? And you'll actually get paid a wage for working that job. So you know what that means? You'll have to pay taxes in prison too. Okay, so I just won't pay those taxes either then. What's the problem? You plan on committing tax fraud in the place you're being sent to for committing tax fraud? Yeah.

Can't go to prison twice, I'm all right? He's actually got a point there, sir. Okay, then we'll place you in solitary confinement then? Will I have to work a job in solitary confinement? No? Then send me the f*** away, sir. I don't know what to tell you. All right?

You know what? Just give him the death penalty already. I'm not doing this anymore. Wow. Okay, not safe for homeschoolers in any way, shape, or form. My second favorite thing was that his judge's robe is not even a full length. It's like he's got cut at the midriff there for some reason. Couldn't afford the full robe for this skit.

But he's not wrong. I will say that. I mean, taxes do fund prisons. So if you avoid taxes and go to prison, is it a refund? I guess you're just getting some extra benefit out of the taxes you have paid. or haven't paid. This hurts my brain already. I want to see just what the comments are saying here. My lawyer watching Be Turn a speeding ticket into a death sentence. What? What? Wait until he hears about the free health care in prison. Yeah, this one has a bit of truth. I wouldn't encourage you to follow this advice. This is clearly comedy and not financial advice. But if you want to go to prison, you can go at any time. They'll just let you in if you commit a crime. But for me, in my house, I prefer.

to sleep in my own bed, because that's the thing. They don't tell you. They don't do, you know, memory foam in prison. They simply don't care about sleep quality, which I think is a huge mess. If you're going to rehabilitate someone back into society, give them a posturpedic, okay? Let the man sleep.

Or woman. I don't want to be sexist towards sleep. I think women should get great sleep, too. What I enjoy prison, I think day one would be a little exciting. I think we can all admit that. You're like, ooh, let's see. What books do they have in the library? You know what I mean? I'm talking like I didn't commit like murder. I'm just talking like you know blue collar crime that kind of stuff embezzlement the fun stuff

White collar even I don't know what blue what's blue collar crime clog someone's toilet Intentionally I don't know what is blue collar crime Ah committed by an individual from a lower social class as opposed to white collar crime Associated with a crime came by someone of a higher I didn't know that was class like that feels weird so it's really about who you are not about the crime committed. All right. I guess that would make me, uh, I don't really, I don't really do a lot of callers, but call me middle class fancy, because I'm doing the embezzlement over the murder. If I had to choose. All right, this one feels a little bit lighter. Compound interest

explained by cats. Kitty has one fish. Kitty puts fish in trusted fish bank. They promise 10% more fish each year. Okay. Kitty wait one year. Now Kitty has 1.1 fish. Kiddy leave it. 12 seconds later. Next year, 10% of 1.1 fish. Now, Kitty has 1.21 fish. Fish grow faster every year. Kitty do nothing just now. Fish keep working.

Fish, make baby fish. Then, baby fish, make more fish. Other kitty laugh. You only got one fish, spends his on laser pointer. Kitty waits. Years pass. One fish becomes two, then five, then ten. Other kitty broke, no fish.

Laser pointer batteries died. He asks how you have feast. This kitty say, I let my fish do the work. Lesson, start early, be patient. Let fish grow fish, then eat like royalty. Gosh. I hate how well this video is edited and how well compounded is explained. Because this is, if you show this to our founding fathers, they would immediately decease.

But if I was like, this is what they teach in high school now. This is how the kids learn. They would just die again. I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence. But the editing was on point. I mean, it was like blippy for adults. Just bright garbage, quick edits, the music. It wasn't there long enough.

You didn't even realize it happened. But it kept your interest, pun intended. And why is this a good explanation? Well, because compound growth can be a hard thing to explain. When your money makes money and that new pile of money, money makes more money. And so it's a great example. And I'll pull up my handy-dandy investment calculator to prove it to you. The kitty is one year old. Let's say the kitty is going to live how many, how long do, I feel like they can live a long time. 15 years? Multiplied by seven.

Is that how, are there dog years for cats? But they have nine lives. Do you multiply by nine? 14 times seven, 98. 98 years old that cat's going to live too. It has, let's say, a hundred and investments and it leaves it alone. Like the video said, it just leaves it in the kitty bank to make the fishies and a 10% rate of return, which is what we've seen in the stock market. $100 turns into 1.5 million fishies. That's pretty impressive. Now, that's if you live to 98. So let's make it more realistic and say 65. That they want that cat wants to retire and enjoy the last years of its life. Still 60 grand. But this is pretty wild.

You can see the scale at which this money is growing. For years, it's not really doing much. It's a thousand bucks. It's $2,000, it's $3,000. But then you get a few decades in, and we're cooking with gasoline now. This is making a few thousand a year into $5,000 a year. Pretty impressive. That's compound growth, baby.

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You should get some food. Oh, yeah. We'll go to lounge. I got lounge access with my card. Yeah, they know me there. I fly frequent. Yeah, it's all free. Right? Well, it's not really free. You have a great premium economy?

Because I did using my points. You're going to miss that on an extra white towel they bring. Four hours into the flight. You can't miss that. Full privacy. You can literally scream and shout and just let it all out. I'm getting a call from work. Hey, Jim.

I'm actually on vacation right now. I'm in the lounge. Well, yeah, points. You can't complain, right? Oh, gosh. Why is that so accurate? Listen, if you use your credit card, you have the points you get into the lounge. I'm happy for you.

But don't think that you're in some exclusive club because of how much they love you. This is really what you're doing. You're trying to make yourself feel better about all the spending you're doing. And you use it as a flex on your friends. Use it as a flex on us peasants who are out there at the Sparrow, just trying to, you know, make it to our connection. So the idea that, like, if you've built a life where you're trying to get to the airport early to have access to one of these lounges, you've missed the point of life.

That's all I'm saying. I like to be in airports as little as possible. I don't fly to Dubai, so I don't have nine-hour layovers like some of you. I try to go non-stop, which means no time for the lounge, even if they'd let me in, and you better believe I've been blacklisted from every... If I even darken the door of the Amex lounge, they'll know. They smell my debit card a mile. and say, no, no, no, no, no. The poor people go to the food court. But listen, from what I've

heard about the lounges, it's real hit or miss, and it's mostly miss. It can be long lines, sad drinks, mediocre food. And at that point, I'd rather just have my options and just pay for it instead of going deeply into credit card debt to impress them with my fancy points and rewards. The lounge is such a scam, OMG, pack, stank attitudes, and not even good food. Thank you, Legs Benedict. Finally, someone with some common sense. Legs bent. That's such a strong. Why didn't I get to that handle first? Moving on. My credit card payment is due in three days and it is $5,871. So I'm going to do $5,871 on a hand of Bladjack so I can pay it off for free.

Come on. He's lying. All right, everyone. I am back. 5,871.67. This is a website. Pay off my credit card, bro. Easy money. Come on. That can't be real. Also, this man needs anger management as much as he needs dead free. Does he actually talk like that normally? Is this the generation?

They just yell? Oh, for entertainment purposes only. Is his bio? What's going on with this profile pick? This man is not... is not doing well. Oh, he's actually in a casino. 100 bucks, huff and puff, let's make some money. Huff and puff?

Is that a thing? Do it, man? Do it, chat? Spins. No, no, no, no. Slow and steady. We got it. Chainsawl time.

Who's watching this content? Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. I really, I worry for the future of America. This guy's got 32,000 followers. I don't know what they're following, but they got what they paid for. Golly.

Okay, a great lesson, though. I'm glad he didn't win because then everyone's going, I guess I'll just go play blackjack to pay off my debt. No. Do not do that. All right. Gambling is probably how you got into this debt in the first play. and debt equals risk.

So you don't get out of risk by adding more risk. Double risk is not how it works. Thank you, Will. All right, as is tradition, my producer Alex, has given me a bonus video that I have no context for and probably has nothing to do with personal finances. But hey, you're already here, captive audience.

Wake up at 7.30? I used to wake up at 7.30. Then I met a lot of people who wake up at 7.30. So I said, no. I'm waking up at 5.30. Then I'm met a few people who wake up at 5.30. And I said, I've got to be earlier. started waking up at 3.30. Then I found out the rock wakes up at 3.30.

So I said, nope. I got to be better than the rock. So I started waking up at 1 a.m. Then I met some people who had some sort of weird overnight job type of thing, and they're waking up at 1 a.m. So I said, nope. I'm waking up at 11 p.m. Oh, my gosh.

Then I met some more people who had some, like, insomnia or something, and I said, no. And I just kept going. You want to know when I wake up? I wake up at noon. Okay. I'm waking up earlier than anybody. People think I'm lazy? No. I'm just waking up for tomorrow early. That's such a great quote. I'm just waking up for tomorrow early. This is a great comment that sums it up. If you're not waking up yesterday, are you even grinding, bro? This is so toxic. What is up with this? Now, I'm not an early riser. Good for you, if that's you. If you can do that, more power to you. But if you're posting about it, we don't like it. Nobody's ever watched a guy go, 6.30 rise and grind.

Gotta get in my cold plunge. Nobody wants to follow you. They've probably unfollowed you at this point. Your own family is sleeping because they don't want to deal with you that early in the morning. You're insufferable. Just wake up at a normal time.

Sure, get your quiet time in, get your workout in. You don't need to let us know about it. It can be your little secret, pal. How about that? All right, that's enough for me for today. Now, you, however, can keep the fun going. That's your American right and your prerogative.

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