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Off The Record: When People Borrow Stuff & Don't Return It (ft. Jason Cheny)

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0:00 senior year of high school we have this massive falling out where he ends up falling in love with my girlfriend and I caught a letter to him in my girlfriend's stuff of her saying sorry we can't be together whoa [Music] what is something that you let someone borrow and you never saw it again four hundred dollars 400. you lent someone 400 bucks yes dude it used to be in our Squad his name it starts with the V starts with the T oh checked her tyke song eighty dollars from a coin jar never saw it again what do you mean eighty dollars for a coin me and Nikki had a coin jar we had been saving up our entire relationship which at this point I believe was six years in did you have roommates or something wait you lent

0:51 someone eighty dollars and they just never mentioned paying you back well they were they were high and they asked to borrow it and then they never paid it back because maybe they're high they forgot that they even modeled it yeah there are they were shrooming it pretty hard and what happened to this 400 what was the reason they wanted 400 bucks so it was one dude in our Squad he uh well no longer one of the few people that have been uh yeah good thing you have plenty of members we we needed to do a gig and we needed a uh we needed uh to go International so everybody needed to have their passport situation ready to go right so then this guy didn't have his passport ready to go it was like expired or whatever the ████ excuse it was uh but he also didn't have a car to go to the passport center and stuff like that so I had to like go pick his ass up take him to a passport center I'd also spot and pay for the passport that was expedited because he didn't mention

1:41 any of this issue until like just like seven days before like needing fired some random ████ like that which means it's more expensive and you got to pay the shipping and all this stuff right and uh he was like yeah dude I'll pay you back blah blah after the gig and all this stuff but then it also turned into like after the game getting paid he's like yo like I don't got money to eat for like this blah blah and I need to cover this stuff and why is he so irresponsible wait so he's is he like asking for money to eat too yeah he's like and I'll pay you back after but realistically like this guy's so irresponsible that he also had like Warren sound ████ didn't pay for certain tickets and what and got caught with like drugs stuff and had to go to jail for a couple days and stuff instead of showing it to rehearsal so it was a whole bit he was hooked on something yeah it was why he's no longer yeah when you're hooked on drugs you know that becomes your priority unfortunately yeah but you never bothered to like like you just know you'll never see it again so

2:31 you just oh 100 damn what um are you okay am I finished yeah because I didn't want to interrupt you oh no thank you for asking that yeah it's very polite yeah he hadn't said anything for like eight seconds oh I just have a 10 second roll all right I see I said yeah wait a little longer that's the Golden Rule good job that happened to you no I was giving you 10 seconds before I say anything okay Okay so so um my friend who was playing pool and then they were betting with another like a random person in a bar yeah and then my friend didn't have he does a lot of okay oh and um but so he borrowed 40 dollars to play the other person yeah but then they won but oh and then I was like hey let me get them after like let

3:22 me get that 40 back and I was I was grabbing it from his hand he's like I'll give it back to you later and then and then he just never gave it back but he won though yeah he won it so I was like let me get it back real quick to so to get drinks or something he's like yeah yeah I'll give it back to you later and then I think that night I asked him twice and I just didn't ask him again but he didn't give it back to me but how do you what would you what I have would I have done because he's a friend that I've known for a long time just say his name right now yeah I would be like no dude that's crazy the second time if he doesn't give me back that money we're yelling at each other and possibly tickling each other not a friend friend though just like a acquaintance like you've known him for a long time but you see him like you know once a year weird I would just cut him out of my life yeah I don't know I will I'll be like once a

4:13 year I'd be like that's not a I'm not asking you that's my money give it back to me and then but then it's weird too because sometimes wool um like that same trip will have drinks and then he'll pay for it one time do I mean yeah and then he'll be loud he's paying it for your money that's different yeah he's paying for the drinks from your money that he borrowed from you yeah or like in a cab he'll be like oh okay I got it but I'm like yeah so it's like were you using my money yeah that's different that's weird do it that's really weird that's really weird what if you go hey can I borrow 40 bucks to place a bet all right thank you hey I just got these drinks and he's like let me get that and like I'll take the cash thanks yeah yeah I hate when people try to play ignorant

5:03 to like get you to stop asking though yeah that's that's always really weird I had a really prolonged uh where I thought I lost out on like two grand but I finally got it so like um I was trying to get these rims from a friend and my friend he was like super into like the uh like car scene like as cars featured in magazines and stuff so he always has all these connections to like all kinds of car parts and then so he recently told me like oh I have I have connection to this one wheel company and I can get it for like 50 off I'm oh ████ sick so I took my financial aid money and I was gonna spend it all on the on the wheels so he can link me up with the dude and um I gave him the money and it's one of those where it's custom made to the car so after I gave because it's like four inch wheels you know so it's like two piece yeah so I gave him the money and they they told me it's gonna wait

5:54 like three months and then when they're like 21 or 22 whatever that feels like ████ forever you know so I was probably the guy that was like every week like on the wheels done yet my wheels down and my wheels done yet and he ends up ghosting me and I'm like oh ████ what the ████ does an answer damn and I tell my friend to ask ask him and then so now he's being relay in the middle and then so things still get dragged out and then I started to like get pissed because it was like I think it was like 2 000 or 2500 and then I was like I know his parents own a restaurant on uh Garvey oh my do I need to like ████ trash that place to get my money back I'm like what the ████ do I need that's some Triad level of things I need to do something because I don't want him to think I'm a ████ or anything either it'll be disrespected yeah and then and I'm like ████ all this for Wheels I'm also trying to turn my life around uh yeah too messy I'll turn around after

6:44 getting my wheels yeah how can you turn around without them exactly it and then it got and then finally he calls me randomly he goes oh we just don't didn't know what your offset was or whatever it's like okay cool I'm gonna go measure my ████ Wheels I'm in my wheel well and I told him to offset and then goes to me again I'm like what the ████ is this fool dragging me along is he just doing the waiting game where he just is waiting for me to just Sizzle out and he steals my money and then after almost eight months um he calls me and he goes your wheels are at this shop and uh what's weird is I thought this guy was really tight with my friend so I thought he would be one of those like hey I hooked you up let's put on your wheels let's look at it together and be ████ sick I go to the shop he's not there he just goes hey this uh this some guy just told me that you're these are your wheels these are your wheels oh wow so I guess he's he's still

7:34 fully delivered it but a month late sure like yeah really late and I was able to put it on the car I just never uh I was I thought I was like this close to ████ like not just losing out on like 2 500 bucks which is crazy so it's just no answer not of nowhere yeah so I don't even know what happened and then through that that guy was also not friends with my other friend anymore it was just weird and you trashed his parents restaurant I didn't know that I didn't did I do that okay I didn't do that yeah we had a good catfish soup there though it's a Vietnamese restaurant you know Vietnamese did like the catfish soup with the pineapples and stuff it was really good there sour soup yeah I remember one of my first um feelings of like this is this is where you can't trust people is like we had this art book like back in a day we would have like a peace book because

8:24 you're a graffiti artist yeah right and you have this like you have all of your pieces and ████ and then like you would start passing this around you trade it with people yeah and you trade it and you write it up and then so like this one kid was like yeah I need a couple more days like can I take it home because it would be during class too that we would do it took it home and then I was like dude you're taking a long ass time and he goes oh yeah it's with this dude now so I'm like what so I go up and I and I'm like yo you have the you have the book why do you have the book and he goes oh yeah I'm gonna put a piece in it all right cool cool and I weigh like another and it just keeps getting passed around I never get my ████ book back right and I'm all like what the ████ dude why is it taking so long I had a lot of dope ████ in there from so many different artists and then at the end of it I think it like it got lost or something happened and I was like I want my ████ book back and then the I guess

9:15 the guy at the very end of the chain was like to be honest man it got jacked oh and then he's like and I don't know like it's it's what happened to me like passed around it happened to the person that kept passing it around and that by that time it's like no one took responsibility or yeah and then it was just gone and I was just like man like I didn't even say they can let other people pass it and borrow it and then in my head I'm like man I I can't like let things go like that you know like you just don't know like there's been so many incidents where you like trust people and you're like yeah you could borrow this like and it started from like junior high high school all that like it was until I went to like Christian School we went to where it was like people were more honorable yeah but like people borrowing ████ and never giving it back that starts hella early yeah especially yeah

10:07 I always thought people would give it back and they never give it back never been what happened to you too yeah yeah well I this one time um this is not the giving back one but this is out so I was in a car in downtown San Diego and uh um there's a homeless guy who came knocked on the window and I was like I don't want it whatever the thing is and he shows me a laptop do you know this one no he's not just funny how he has a laptop yeah well it's in a box and just oh it's brand new yeah it's in a box yeah and then it I rolled down the window I was like what is it and my friend works at Sony so he's so he's like hey do you want this laptop I'll sell it to you for cheap I was like no because it's not a laptop and then uh he goes no this is literally brand new and then my friend looks at it he's like

10:57 no this is legit and I didn't want it to get it because I was like nah this is weird you know what I mean homeless laptop and I was like well where'd you get it and then this is why I got it he was like oh it's because it was I stole it from a back of a UPS truck or a FedEx truck I also got it this is so honest yeah it's because of this so he goes I stole them from finisher I was like okay then this is real because you were more worried about if it was fake versus if he stole it yeah I don't give a ████ what you got it from you got a laptop and it's really nice I wanted laptop for cheap and then he's like okay it's a 160 dollars I was like I was like all right but I don't have that but can't go to the bank well let's go together so the homeless guy's in the car with you no no no well I was like it's just down the street he walks over there okay and then with my friend and

11:47 um uh I I took out the money but then I didn't have I think I had like two or three hundred dollars but I didn't want to give him 160. so I was like hey can you do it for 80. he's like ah all right and then um I got it and then we opened it up it was books inside yeah but then it was perfectly it had ████ wait so your friend was like it's a real laptop yeah I did it unbelievable wow I never got that back I hope they were bad books too I hope it was like Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone it wasn't it was like wait so it was a laptop I'm not a big Harry Potter God seven circles of designs and your friend didn't open it to check because he said that it's he's certified you're on the outside he looked it up he's like yeah this is good

12:37 wow cool dude remind me to take you with me to my deals in the future dude thanks your friend owed you money frankly there was um uh so the the very first one on one b-boy tournament that I ever won it was on this tape and on that same tape was the very first three on three b-boy tournament that I ever won and I lent it to my friend and his girl was mad at him and record it over the tape oh my god oh oh my God because she knew that that would make me mad at him oh my God what a crazy ████ thing how ████ is that man this is her absolutely insane wow it's footage from 2002 that and I'll never have it again because she was just mad at him and I had to wrap me up in it yeah it

13:28 sucks what the ████ that's like next how do you think of strategies like that I know that's a crazy a little impressed I don't know she was she was tied so maybe that had something to do with it we tied you mentally I used to collect baseball cards right yeah and I remember um I would pick out you know I remember hearing at the time that like rookie cards were hot around kids at school right so I was like okay I'll pick out all the rookie cards I get so every time I got baseball cards I pulled out the rookie cards I just threw them all into the sand binder so buy like you know a whole couple years like five years later I have Ken Griffey Jr's rookie card I have Sean Kemp from these Seattle SuperSonics rookie card uh SuperSonics rookie card I have like all these like ████ fire ass athletes who are coming up at the time rookie card and then uh I was stupid though and I told a bunch of people that

14:19 and then the next thing I know like because you know you have people over and stuff like that my binder's gone my rookie card binder is gone gone gone look in every room in the house every nook and cranny of the house gone gone gone so I I narrowed it down as one of the few kids in my neighborhood but someone made off with a nice little collection definitely worth thousands just straight jacket from your jacket for me yeah yeah well not from my room for my basement but yeah that's where I kept it damn but I was dumb I learned early on not to run your ████ mouth yeah like that like that oh yeah that would happen all the time like when you have friends over and then like sometimes there's just new people yeah like and there's like a lot of people where he's having a blast and then like your GI yo goes missing yep and then like some ████ goes

15:09 missed it's always something that it's like where did it go oh it must be that one new kid that came over I like the idea Steve like I learned a long time ago not to run my ████ mouth meanwhile has got like a corner Come and Get It ████ I got guns now dude I just remembered there was um so like as a kid I collected the 80s Nintendo games like the cartridges and uh as they got cheaper over time because one Super Nintendo came out the price on regular Nintendo went down a lot so you I was finally able to buy them myself I ended up with over 100 games by by the time I was in high school like I would just keep buying them um my best friend at the time senior year of high school wanted to borrow them like the system and then he's like oh yeah I just want to play some old school games they're like yeah why not I

16:00 don't even play that anymore I play PlayStation now I play superintendo like I play n64. so I didn't mean a lot much to me to lend him the system he starts asking for more and more games to the point where he ends up having pretty much all my games at his house and it's my best friend so I'm like whatever nothing could ever come between us that I would never see this stuff again senior year of high school we have this massive falling out where he ends up falling in love with my girlfriend and I caught a letter to him in my girlfriend's stuff of her saying sorry we can't be together whoa oh yes so we had this massive falling out so she was double dating no she basically he fell in love with her on the side and then he was trying to like confess to her one day yeah behind my back and then she uh was declining it in a letter and I found the letter in her room randomly there's no loyalty in that

16:52 in that age yeah Nintendo 2 both things and he stole your Nintendo well she didn't like she didn't do anything with him she was just basically like I'm so sorry I I can't do this we can't be talking like it was like a rejection letter but like dude I had no clue that was happening and then so I bet you had Earthbound but did you get your games back you know so what happened is like I went basically went over to his house to like kick his ass uh and then he I think he knew when his brothers opened it up and they were just like not letting me in and then oh that's just when I knew I was like I'll never see any of my ████ again did you have EarthBound this is regular Nintendo so it was a Bubble Bobble yeah yeah that was it I hope you didn't take the punch out either he took most of my I still have maybe like 25 cartridges from that OG Donkey Kong but almost 100 games are

17:43 gone and then I think years later when we finally just ████ patched it up like a decade later you patched it that that yeah because because one of our good friends in our Circle has his mother passed away and we were at the funeral and he came up to me he was just like I'm so sorry about everything buy me my ████ Nintendo yeah and then I asked him about that and he said that his dad threw it out or something ████ no way what's his name dude what's his eBay salesman account yeah it was it was it was a bad bad thing but I mean I could see that because it was worthless at the time no nobody thought those things would go up in price anymore yeah yeah I feel like everyone should learn the hard lesson of trust like just letting people borrow ████ and them not taking care of because I can't fathom it because like I've borrowed stuff from people and then I'll give it back yeah 100 and especially if they ask or if I if I'm like I even get

18:33 worried if I held it too long yeah you get stressed out that's why I'm like yeah you get anxiety yeah but it should happen to to people so you understand that there are low lives out there that don't give a ████ about your things I remember learning it maybe in I think like third grade where you start having like your favorite pencil and whatever and I remember someone borrowing it and then yeah and then the next day like oh can I have it back and like I don't have any more and you're just like yeah you're talking about [Laughter] it doesn't even occur you're like wait how did you lose that if I borrow anything I'll bring it I'm bringing it back tomorrow right away for you yeah but then the smart kid who's like a future car salesman he's like well I kept using it and then I kept on having to sharpen it and then

19:25 it's gone what do you want me to give you an eraser a metal ring it's good logic okay I guess he used it you're like all right fine just give me back the Eraser yeah exactly that's a guy that can sell exactly that's a closer he's a closer for sure

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