0:00 [Music] how many how much money worth of baby eels do you think um um got seized at a Toronto airport dude baby eels are a racket it's a black a million dollars guy strikes again and you answer the piranha man piranhas dude so what do you think the check this out her baby a little ████ thing of like a packet of eels like that can be like 100 Grand holy ████ a packet uh to answer your question 1 mil uh half wow see 500k right five P little ████ like that 109 kg of baby eels is you
0:50 know $500,000 cuz baby eels baby eels are like that the thing is um they can't be bred in captivity is that what it is so a lot lot of people have to illegally catch them and there's no way to tell like where the eels came from so there's a black market and in Japan there's like e Farms they'll just buy that ████ and then they raise I was in the ████ illegal film fish industry yeah yeah yeah I sold piranhas I know I know but I didn't know you even knew about eels yeah it's a different type of fish mentioned it one time we talked about piranas probably 70,000 times yeah I wanted to get into um sushi too and then I went down the rabbit hole of eels and that's the thing is eels they there's no way for them to farm them so they have to be stolen from the wild wow dude that's crazy you want to get into sushi
1:41 so you're like all right I'm going to start the aquarium business work his way up I'm going to sell legal fish and then I'll start getting the legal ones like that's good entry yeah he's like I'll sell my piranhas for some AI tuna and work my way into Sushi ████ like pricing structure yeah I'll get in the game I'll get a good uh it's a good crossover value it's Bedrock level no it was like a ADHD side quest of like learning about eels true and then where the eels come from and then I start learning like oh my God yeah that sounds more like you okay dude I'm down to go eel hunting is better than ████ gold let's sell eels that's insane but you got to be certified scuba where the eels at D yeah holy ████ in the water that's
2:32 why Steve's coming with us he going you're going to you're going to lead the Expedition we're going to go cave spunking that ████ was funny though hey one me that's people they just go to the B the not the bath they go to the ████ ocean and just start scooping them up dude wait really is just at the beach and like scoop one me real di chill the ████ out and you got to come up slow too you can't are these the kind of eels you could just eat like Grill and eat those yeah W cuz Okay those so those eels the only way for them to find it is in nature so they go to like ████ areas that are like that are swimming in schools and you just catch them illegally and then you ████ ship I could have sworn there was like farmed unagi like eel that they use for like
3:22 they Farm them they but what they do is they raise them they they get them as babies and then they raise them at the farm oh but there's no to get those babies so it's like they got to get the seeds somewhere oh that's crazy this is a segue did you know that pearls are manmade like all pearls I heard wait they don't go ding W wo wo wo wo the perfect ones yeah perfect ones yeah like but I mean even then like the I guess the clams the oysters clam clams oysters clams clams I think I'm going to go with clams I think it's oyster it's oysters damn I should have gone with oysters e oysters but what about them um I thought the there's something about them that they don't produce it without some sort of man yeah manmade they got to scirt something in there I think I've seen them do that and they go diving for him that's pretty cool I've seen him do that
4:12 in like Dubai or Abu Dhabi I think no there's a Filipino man that um jacks off into the oyster and then the oyster guzzles to come Y and then they go and then they turn it into oy I can't tell if you're being serious or not it's so expensive yeah and when it's perfected like that then um it's just hard and C really so my wife my wife rocking ████ Pearl are call that's why they call neckace it's a double on makes sense it's almost too literal Crazy by the way my grandmother who had a lot of jewelry when she died we just recently um put easy dude it's my grandma Yeah Brother come on we Rec she's she's a class lady she she wasn't she was trash no we recently
5:03 just shoved her into a wall cuz she's in a jar so we put her in sh a wall what no when you're in the military you get shoved into a wall if you get um if they they burn you up and put you in a jar they burn you up so they did that to my grandpa in 2014 they shoved him in a wall you know making sure they didn't spill anything and they put him in the wall then I just did that like last weekend Oh my grandma she had all this jewelry and stuff so I'm at my grandma's house right and then my mom's like Oh Stephen you got to give this to Nikki oh my goodness Stephen you have to give this jewelry to Nikki and I was like what is it and she's like oh my goodness it's it is real diamond bracelet or whatever what yeah so then I'm like this is kind of wild all right but you can give it to the Nikki all right you know Grandpa knew that Nikki was half asian I mean this could been a problem been kind
5:53 of crazy no so so I give it to Nikki I'm like yeah this is like from Mom from from my grandma or whatever and Nikki's like the next day I wake up and she's like I'm like it's real and the next day she's like so I Googled it it's costume jewelry my mom like my mom's like sitting there thinking like she's giv me like a family heirloom worth like 18 Grand or something it's all diamonds like diamond like imagine my watch but diamonds everywhere stud it yeah and Nikki's like it's probably worth like $35 to $40 dang gave it to me like the most solemn but how does she know from just Googling you have to get it tested like a diamond tester you could probably feel it brand okay there's a brand name the brand does costume
6:44 jewelry but and and that you know Nikki still think Nikki wasn't like ha ████ this ████ ████ your mom and ████ everybody ████ she just was cuz like the night before she was like should I like be protective of this like can I wear this at a poker table is this kind of too crazy of a security guard next to me and now it's like okay it's more she had to check it cuz she was worried yeah she was worried but yeah it's costume Joy but is this a Victorian era like you know it's all like that's how again and and my mom hates this uh but that's how trash and garbage my family is we don't even know what's good jewelry and what's fake jewelry shiny it looks per so so Hannah got her uh mom's engagement ring cuz she wanted to just you know use that and she was like I don't even know know if this is real diamond cuzz she was looking at it and then um she's like my
7:35 dad was kind of like at the time like she's like my dad basically on the wedding day I think they played rugby or some ████ or like something and then they they lost the ring and then they they put it on for the ceremony and it was just sounded like a ████ Frat Boys wedding right and then so she was like I don't even know if this is real so he went to My Jeweler buddy to check it and it was real diamond so she was like the hell did he like afford this cuz they were broke when they were young you know and and then they got married like in their early 20s and ████ so she's like I guess he saved up and actually got a real legit diamond ring yeah that's tight you think diamonds were cheaper back then too huh you think diamonds were cheaper back then too hell yeah probably well it's all control Market cuz ████ J zones the whole thing y check this out it wasn't like they're from the ancient era like pretty
8:25 recent Blood Diamond could be a Blood Diamond Could Be Blood Diamond best case scenario but who knows very valuable you don't know if it's a blood diamond or not you don't know yeah there no serial number just assume not yet and synthetic diamonds didn't come out until the 2000s oh wow yeah do you think Diamond hunting it's not worth anything do you think diamonds are mining for diamonds is more worth it than eels huh you think I think eels is the new ████ thing we I I go on so where do we find them Joe what do we do Florida or like GF Coast we're going to the Pacific I would legit do this dude there is money in Black Market Fish ████ there is this have you heard of the Asian arowana yeah
9:15 yeah yeah the the scary one the long one my buddy has a gold one really those are I thousand thousands what the ████ some of them can be like dude that should some of them could be like as much as a car or yeah 100,000 Black Market though you just got to sell it to a Chinese man they'll be they'll be like oh my God $1 million I give to you right now that's so tight they're beautiful like my buddy's gold aana is like this big what does they look like look like a big ████ eel honestly really you you know what a betta fish looks like and how its mouth has like a little triangle tip it's like that but a huge one hug big and white SC it's one of it's one of the most fish so is that one of the more like expensive fish that's on the market yeah what would it's like a giant beta fish what's something that's comparable
10:05 to we we we just call him ████ cuz he's like he's a little dick but have you ever seen when you feed him he like ████ flips around there's a lot of different kinds but um I think koi fish are really expensive like some of them can be like 50 Grand like 30 grand like it depends on we get in the koish business my Budd e right talk to my mom she say like she says they're real but maybe they're not real koish they might be plastic just giant might be goldfish but they were floating around but I'm not sure if they we never feed them and they're still a lot this point I don't know well some of them are like you know in the thousands or like hundreds yeah but I remember my so my buddies family ran a whole like fish aquarium thing and um overnight they were doing a transfer and then the kids all had to pull a all nighter and stay up and just make sure
10:57 like there were no thieves cuz there's people that like mhm steal and Heist fish holy ████ cuz each somehow it's like jewelry like if you steal a fish you can go sell it and like yeah dude my mom has like honestly 100 ████ koi fish really she has a pond out there yeah she has a pond and like they've been she's been raising KO fish for like Years cuz my grandpa was doing that in 2014 when he died and so then my grandma's like I don't give a ████ dick was crazy I don't care and so my mom just took it over and like yeah she's hundreds now hundreds of of koifish but you can't sell them in the state of California without a license really of course y I tried to well how hard is to get a license I don't know my mom doesn't want to pay for ████ we're cheap Ron had a fish business so I heard he was opening up his aquarium and I actually had like a little Nano tank of
11:48 like little fish and like snails and all this like whole thing and I I was like dude I want to get out of this hobby cuz you got to constantly like maintain it and I was like Hey Ron do you want to take this he's like no we don't take these one so I'm like damn I'll put it an offer up and this guy was like yo I don't got money but are you down to trade it for weed and I'm like hell yeah he traded weed I traded my fish tank like straight up my whole setup for like $80 worth of weed or something like that I'm like hell yeah dude that's a w i I'm like this is the best that is hilarious that's California [Music]
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