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Mount Everest Sherpas Are Millionaire Scammers

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0:00 In white trash areas, they always buy these like lion statues and they put them outside the chain link fence like on each side of the entrance. >> They try to look like Venetian. They want to be Caesar's Palace, but it's not fitting. >> Doesn't work, brother. And they get those yeah, those columns, those white columns. >> Yeah, the columns. >> And you're just like, dude, it just doesn't look like you're rich. So, imagine you're in Nepal. Your primary economic driver is people who go to Mount Everest. That's the primary? >> Well, that's like the big one that brings a lot of money into Nepal. The Nepalese people being Sherpas, right? >> Mhm. So, imagine like you don't really want to do it. >> You know, you don't want to >> You have a different dream. Like you want to be a YouTuber? No, let's say like you still have to be a Sherpa, but you don't want to go all the way up the mountain. Oh, okay. Yeah. So,

0:52 what do you do? Well, these guys started to poison tourists by putting baking soda in their food. And so it would trigger severe gastrointestinal distress that mimic altitude sickness or food poisoning. And then they would have to stop and go back down the mountain. Oh, ████ That's so ████ up. >> And they probably still get the full rate, huh? >> Well, yeah, I mean they you pay ahead of time and so yeah, so the operators would then forge medical documents and flight documents to charge international travel insurers. So, like you have to travel insurance and they bill against that. Yeah, and they're just sprinkling little baby powder in there. Wow. >> A little a little a little baking soda in there. What if you have someone that's like determined and they don't give a ████ and they just keep going and

1:42 they're like, dude, we got to we're going to go to the top of the mountain. He's like, I never been to the top of the mountain. >> like, I ████ my pants before. I don't care about that. I want to get to the top of the mountain. >> Yeah. That's it. I respect the racket, but I do feel sad for these people that that's their dream to like summit. They saved up all ████ you know, several years. >> so special to them. That sucks. >> Maybe the Sherpas are like, dude, we've been up there so many ████ times. This whatever, dude. When the person that's like flying from ████ England or whatever, they're like, can't wait to go up there. Dang, but that's >> ████ their guts. They're like, no, ████ my body. But good racket though, man. I would have never thought of doing that. And then it's an insurance scam. Yeah, and then all the supplies that they bought locally, they still bought them. So, everyone makes their money. The only difference is homie doesn't have to go all the way up and

2:32 and the risk is lower. And check this out. They were able to cash 19.69 million dollars in insurance payout. >> Woah. So, they were doing this for a sec. >> Billing the insurance is pretty freaking smart. I didn't know they had Somalis in Nepal. Yeah, so cops obviously caught wind of that. That's why we know about it. They charged 32 individuals for organized crime and fraud including trekking company owners, helicopter operators and hospital executives. >> All in on the racket. Oh, because they got to rescue them that way. >> They're paying up the chain, yeah. So, they're all just >> Diarrhea emergency, bro. IMAGINE THEY'RE LIKE THERE, AH, AND HE'S GOT TO LIKE MAKE A PHONE CALL. I got to ████ myself. >> I got to ████ A helicopter just for that? That's ████ crazy. >> Well, you probably can't move around that well. Gastrointestinal ████ could

3:22 be really crazy. Well, you also can't move cuz you're just going to fall off the side of the mountain. >> Does that mean the whole village is on? Because like that must mean like they take them to the restaurant, the restaurant prepares the food with ████ baby oil or whatever the ████ makes them laxatives. And then they just keep ████ >> be a whole network for that to work, yeah. >> 32 individuals for organized crime and fraud. So, like yeah, it was it was a whole system that they created. >> Cuz I bet you underneath it all they can't ████ stand climbers, I bet. >> That's what I think. Like the Patagonia ████ >> You got to like believe it, dude. They probably are so sick of these fools, but they are making money. Kind of like how Hawaiians don't like tourists, but they ████ are dependent now because the economy has scaled. And like how many people is a Sherpa going to hear like, oh yeah, I have a startup, you know, I live in I live in in San Clemente. I have a

4:12 startup or whatever. Tired of these ████ North Face wearing Patagonia jacket ████ I want I wonder who was the first person to think of this. It's pretty smart. Like I wonder if they just like it happened for real and then he was like if this happened every time That's true. >> Yeah. It must have happened for real and he got inspiration. Someone got diarrhea. Yeah, cuz the way I know the way it works is there's usually I think like base camp or something at like 17,000 feet. So, I think you once you climb the base of the mountain, you have to be at base camp for like a week or something. Like 3 days to a week to acclimate. And if you don't the I think the air up there is a third of the oxygen as we have on sea level. So, you'll just like pass out. >> Yeah, you get altitude poisoning. >> Yeah, so like you have to chill at base camp and then maybe at base camp is

5:02 where like the first person ever had diarrhea on Everest. And they're like, oh ████ That's a good idea to go back down. >> And then they're like, now that we're at base camp, um you didn't need Dramamine. Why don't you eat Dramamine? You should try it. You should try some. Eat some. >> I wonder how much like individually, let's say you're one guy that tried to summit, you had to get rescued, they had to treat you medically, do all that. What's your final cost of having gone through all of that? Like what are they billing per person? It must be high as ████ cuz a helicopter ride here costs a s███████. >> Yeah, to make a loop around Grand Canyon. And those aren't even rescue choppers. Not extreme conditions or nothing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. That must be like a ton of money. >> Sounds like a racket to me, brother. But damn, that's >> 20 milli. It's freaking good, man. And

5:52 how many like is 20 million total? How many people is that? What if that's like >> 30? not that many. That's just 32? Holy ████ >> Split between 32. That so charged means that we know that these people are are like 32 people? >> But it could be more than that. >> And I wonder if it's like Goodfellas where everything was like cool and then all of a sudden you see these Nepalese dudes with ████ like Rolls-Royces and ████ They're like, I ████ told YOU NOT TO BUY THAT ████ WHY THE ████ ARE YOU BUYING THAT ████ And then now they start zooming in. >> It's in my mother's name. Yeah, exactly. How the ████ did you get that and ████ kill him on Jar or whatever the ████ that mountain's called? Why is your wife wearing a mink coat? Yeah, you got a Louis Vuitton windbreaker and ████ >> Yeah. I told you it's in my mother's name. >> You know, that's how what's his name, Denzel got clanked. Frank Frank, right? Frank Lucas? Oh,

6:44 yeah, from American Gangster. >> Yeah, because um he didn't want that coat. They were like, why is that black guy wearing a mink coat? And why is he sitting front row seat? >> got better seats than I do. Yeah. That's why. Before that he was always low-key. >> He didn't even want it. He didn't even want that coat. They like gave it to him, right? It was his wife. Yeah. She wanted to dress nice. It's always the ████ Yeah. But I was like, damn, dude. Imagine you have a good thing going on, you got this racket and all of a sudden your homie comes in looking like a pimp. And you're like, dude, I told you not to ████ buy anything to get attention. Even all this the Somalian fraud in the hospices in California, the same thing. Those guys with the glasses? >> They just go into the compound and it

7:34 look the compound looks ████ up and every car is a Mercedes. Like bingo. You know they shut that down, right? Like that girl What was it? Those two It was like two Armenian girls that were running one of those child care things and then they went to go investigate ████ empty ass ghetto ass little building. She bones out in a Maybach. So sick. They were like, what the ████ So easy to catch. And none of those cats like even at the car dealership, they're not like, what's up with this? You work at a daycare center? Well, if they're Armenian, the dealership is probably Armenian, too. Yeah, they just want to sell it. Dang, dude. What a good racket. Oh, that's a good one though. Well, what what do you think a Nepalese person would do with that much money? >> Like imagine 20 of them all became millionaires, right? That's a lot of money over there. How do you ████ What I don't even >> I'd probably move out of Nepal. It's cold, right? Like it's like the

8:25 conditions are wild over there. Well, maybe there it's like nothing to them cuz they're just like, eh. Yeah, good point. I've never really seen a Nepalese neighborhood, so I don't know what living large would be out there. Oh. You know how like there's documentaries about different countries and like the the rich of that neighborhood? Like I've seen like a um like the king of gypsies. Like there's a documentary about like the the rich and famous gypsies of like I think they were in Romania or whatever, but their neighborhood, it looks like um mansions that are like kind of American, but not really. They're missing the mark. But they look like these ghetto white houses with Yes. >> golden like tigers and thrones and yeah. When white people get are are bone out of control, or so they think, like in

9:16 white trash areas, they always buy these like lion statues and they put them outside the chain link fence like on each side of the entrance. They try to look like Venetian. >> You know what I mean? It doesn't work together. It doesn't look right. >> to be Caesar's Palace, but it's not fitting. >> Doesn't work, brother. And they get those yeah, those columns, those white columns. >> Yeah, the columns. >> Yeah, and you're just like, dude, it just doesn't look like you're rich. >> It's always like a perceived wealth. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. I and I like to think that maybe they have their version of that. Like I don't know what it is. Like a like a what do Sherpa ballin' look like? >> More coats. Way more coats. More coats. >> Yeah, more down feather jackets. >> You know what's really sad though and this might be pretty likely, which would ████ hurt if this is true. But if there's 32 people involved, right? What if it's not a thing where it's divided equally like that? But these Sherpa guys

10:07 that's their job to do the fraud, but they don't get a share like what we might think. What if the guy on top is getting most of this? >> There's a Jew guy on top. Thank you. Orchestrating the whole thing. Absolutely. A white Jew. Cuz that's most likely what happens in these like fraud towers, >> There's like a kingpin. Yeah. >> Yeah, there's like a kingpin that's kind of getting a lot and then this guy is getting more than he would if he did the legit job, but he's not getting a million bucks. >> Uh so what are you doing here talking to me? You're supposed to be halfway up a ████ mountain right now, boy. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It might be more like that. >> Hey, you put your snowshoes back on and get back up that mountain, boy. Yeah, cuz it's not like everyone in the cartel is a millionaire, either. You know, like some of those guys are making ████ too. >> Dude, I always think it's so crazy, too, that when you see this footage of people climbing Everest, they always have like ladders already set up. They always have all those like the the

10:57 the carabiners are already like in the cliffside and ████ It's already all set to go. So it's like kind of feels like cheating. It's the Sherpas doing it. >> I'm saying. The Sherpas, they'll go ahead and set the things and climb it and then the the person that hired the Sherpa like goes up. Have you seen how like Sherpas would go up there, save somebody, go right back up, and then he would help and then all these people are like about to lose oxygen and die, and they're just just like strapping people on their back like no problem. Yeah, that's crazy. It's like when you're a kid and you're playing first-person shooter and you like clear all the room out for your brother and then you give him the controller where he's able to just walk freely. Yeah, he can just walk through. Yeah. Yep. And then people come back thinking like they accomplished something. And then you see these Sherpas like these ████ idiots, dude. >> That's how the GoldenEye Moonraker level was. Oh, yeah. >> As soon as you start, everyone shoots you, you got to kill them. Okay. Okay, now you can walk. Yeah, now you can go.

11:47 But that would suck that if you have 32 people and they all get charged for the same crime, but the take was drastically different. That's a shame. You know what I mean? You like communism? You should Everyone should get the same pay. Like the Italian Job. >> Yeah. Oh, yeah, like the Italian Job. Everyone gets the same amount of gold bullion. Well, maybe they'll do deals like they do out here where if they're willing to sell out Mr. Kingpin, they get reduced sentences. The pico. But no, out here we we we charge the people on the bottom and the people on the top scott free. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Yeah. We apologize to the people on on the top for inconveniencing them. With the court case. You know there's no direct flights to Nepal from here? Where do you got to go? India or something? You got to go to uh I think you have to go to either Saudi Arabia or you have to go to I think Singapore or somewhere like that. You know why, right? Why? Cuz Earth's flat. Okay, that's true.

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