and ill-fitting sport jackets, i had a secret. my wife patty and i were almost $200,000 in debt. [baby cooing] what are you doing right now? - i m going to pay my loans. i just got notice that they re due. - that s patty. like all of us, patty has made a lot of decisions in life, and maybe not all of them showed great judgment. but deciding to become a psychologist to help veterans with ptsd seemed like a good one. - with graduate school, i thought, i m going to graduate and be a doctor. i ll get a good job and make a lot of money and pay those off in no time. but i didn t understand that pretty much every penny i earned was going to be going to my student loans. i feel like i m never going to catch up. - with four separate loans, our total payment each month was nearly $2,000. but this isn t just about the numbers. - the loan companies are certainly evil and, you know, pull things all the time.
[punchy music] - so how did this whole long saga begin? i worked for years in politics and journalism. - here s blake zeff. he s a politics editor at salon.com. - and buzzfeed contributor blake zeff. - he s a washington insider who s worked for president obama. - blake, what can the president do on guns to give himself a point in the history books? - well, i ll tell you the first thing is. but behind the confident demeanor and ill-fitting sport jackets, i had a secret. my wife patty and i were almost $200,000 in debt. [baby cooing] what are you doing right now? - i m going to pay my loans. i just got notice that they re due. - that s patty. like all of us, patty has made a lot of decisions in life, and maybe not all of them showed great judgment. but deciding to become a psychologist to help veterans with ptsd seemed like a good one. - with graduate school, i thought, i m going to graduate and be a doctor. i ll get a good job and make a lot of money
- and buzzfeed contributor blake zeff. - he s a washington insider who s worked for president obama. - blake, what can the president do on guns to give himself a point in the history books? - well, i ll tell you the first thing is. but behind the confident demeanor and ill-fitting sport jackets, i had a secret. my wife patty and i were almost $200,000 in debt. [baby cooing] what are you doing right now? - i m going to pay my loans. i just got notice that they re due. - that s patty. like all of us, patty has made a lot of decisions in life, and maybe not all of them showed great judgment. but deciding to become a psychologist to help veterans with ptsd seemed like a good one. - with graduate school, i thought, i m going to graduate and be a doctor. i ll get a good job and make a lot of money and pay those off in no time. but i didn t understand that pretty much every penny i earned was going to be going to my student loans. i feel like i m never going to catch up. - with four separate
- and buzzfeed contributor blake zeff. - he s a washington insider who s worked for president obama. - blake, what can the president do on guns to give himself a point in the history books? - well, i ll tell you the first thing is. but behind the confident demeanor and ill-fitting sport jackets, i had a secret. my wife patty and i were almost $200,000 in debt. [baby cooing] what are you doing right now? - i m going to pay my loans. i just got notice that they re due. - that s patty. like all of us, patty has made a lot of decisions in life, and maybe not all of them showed great judgment. but deciding to become a psychologist to help veterans with ptsd seemed like a good one. - with graduate school, i thought, i m going to graduate and be a doctor. i ll get a good job and make a lot of money and pay those off in no time. but i didn t understand that pretty much every penny i earned was going to be going to my student loans. i feel like i m never going to catch up. - with four separate
[moody, heavy chords] [punchy music] - so how did this whole long saga begin? i worked for years in politics and journalism. - here s blake zeff. he s a politics editor at salon.com. - and buzzfeed contributor blake zeff. - he s a washington insider who s worked for president obama. - blake, what can the president do on guns to give himself a point in the history books? - well, i ll tell you the first thing is. but behind the confident demeanor and ill-fitting sport jackets, i had a secret. my wife patty and i were almost $200,000 in debt. [baby cooing] what are you doing right now? - i m going to pay my loans. i just got notice that they re due. - that s patty. like all of us, patty has made a lot of decisions in life, and maybe not all of them showed great judgment. a lot of decisions and life, and maybe not all of them