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Different Kinds of Rackets and Scams That'll Never Go Away

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0:00 AI's getting your mom, huh? Dude, I see I catch her liking all these AI videos. On Facebook, yeah. And I'm like, "You're believing this s███?" Welcome back to another episode of Careful Boys, where we discuss some, I guess you can call these injustices. Yeah. Or some frauds or rackets that you feel will never change. Like in society. For me, I feel like the racket of selling ass school books to college kids that cost or even high school kids inflated, you sell it back, you get nothing for it. They sell it. You don't think that's going to change digitally? No. I think they'll find a way to still make it cost something. So, I had a teacher in film history. I had to take It's a ████ elective election elective you have to take for

0:51 your like art requirement or whatever, right? The teacher, it's like a it's like a two and a half unit class. Not even that big of a deal, but he made you buy his new book. And that he made? That he made. Yeah. He's the author. Made you buy the new book. That's illegal for professors to do. But he makes you buy the new one because you have to get the the online quiz thing. And it's like a serial number, so everyone has to have a unique one. You do your all all your assignments have to be the quizzes. You have to do all the quizzes like for every chapter. And then your test is all about everything in the book. And it's like, dude, he like made sure everyone has to buy a new book. And I remember being like, "F███ this. I do not want to come to this class." I hated going, but This was in season? This is at PCC. This is just a regular They did that to me at Cerritos College. Same thing. effective learning?

1:41 No, I I didn't go to the class cuz I was like, "F███ this dude. I'm not going to go to this class." I showed up like one day on the final and it happened to be the day which and I was like, "Oh, I got a B in the class." Pretty tight. Yeah, I got lucky. I got lucky. You know sad, my mom reminded me of this uh, I visited her the other week. She goes, "Remember when you lost your Spanish book in high school?" I like lost it. Like I left it on the table and it was gone. So, I told my mom, I was like I was a freshman. And she was like, "Oh, well then we have to buy another one, idiot." She was like super mad. I was like, "Damn." So, um, next time like she took me to school, we went to the office and she's like, "Oh, he needs to buy another Spanish book cuz he lost it." So, they take a Spanish book out for me to buy. It's my ████ book. And they made me buy it back. Even though you you couldn't say, "That was mine." My name was still in it. What the They made you buy it?

2:33 They made me buy it back. it cuz you they lost it and they found it? I would have stolen it. That's ████ up. My high school, San Gabriel Academy. Damn, San Gabriel Academy. Someone just returned it and said we found this. The groundskeeper guy or the cleaner found it. So, then they just like, instead of seeing that it's mine and then being like, "Hey, here's your book." They put it back in stock and like re-entered it as a thing and I had to buy it again. Wow. And that was like 45 bucks or something. That's crazy, dude. Cuz I remember they used to just scan it and they know exactly who it goes to. But the sucky thing is that like my mom's right there with me and I'm like telling her, "Look how ████ up this is." But, you know when this happens, your parents just mad at you. You're mad at you. Yeah. Cuz we wouldn't be here So, like I was being blamed for like losing it instead of them Like can't you say something to be like, "That's his book." Like it's the school year is still going. Like But she was like, "Okay, we'll have to pay for it." And they pay a tuition. It's not a

3:24 public school. And it's tuition. That's crazy. So, on top of that, she wasn't she wasn't trying to reason with them. She was just like making it more my fault. I'm like, "Ah, that sucks." What a racket, dude. I don't know if this is considered a scam. But I think it's ████ ████ that everyone could actually have like the same internet access speed. But then you depending on how much you pay, how much speed you get. You know, it's like you you have the capability to have the highest It's like cable when they give you certain channels. I plugged it into your house, you can have the highest one, but depending if you pay this, it's going to be really slow, or you pay this much, you know? Yeah. It's like, what the And I'm sure for like hot girls, the guy just goes, "Hey, I'm going to turn it for you." Yeah. There's also printer ink is one of them that I ████ can't stand. Printer ink?

4:14 Printer ink. That's a racket? Yeah. So expensive. It's cheaper to get a new printer. It's so expensive. And you always need to like refill it. That's That's how they make their money, right? The firmware like it like negates like after market ones that you can get cheaper. You uh it runs out faster than it should. 100% runs out faster than it should. I feel like I print one thing and it's like, oh, all the color's gone. Yeah. Cuz yeah, cuz way less people are using printers. at the consumer level that we're at, like we're not like these huge like corporations that need to print every minute that like they have to find a way to like milk it out of our dumb asses. What do you have a laser printer or like a inkjet or like what? Just like a HP. I don't know what it is, if it's inkjet or laser. I am very meh on like almost anything insurance. Mhm. I like that. I like that. guys all have health insurance? Cuz I'm

5:04 thinking about ████ cutting it. Really? I haven't used it once in 10 years. Don't you get penalized if you don't have it? Not anymore. That's the thing about insurances, they ████ you always have to you go like the whole big what if, but you ████ pay so much. I've been hearing more and more stories of people about people who have insurance actually paying higher premiums or deductibles than people who don't have insurance. Yeah. Like the non-insurance payment cost is actually cheaper than some of the deductibles. pick up is I mean, think about it. Because it's a scam to be charging this much for health care. They're not They're not um collecting on people that have no ID or whatever, and they don't refuse. Like if you're ████ up, the hospital's going to patch you back up. But if you don't have any ID or anything Yeah, like if you're if you're at the emergency room with bullet wounds, right? They can't be like, "You're not insured."

5:55 They have to. And then they're going to try to send you a bill, and if you don't, then it's like, "So what? It's done." They can't collect. They can't collect. Yeah. But everyone that does have insurance Yeah. If you have assets and stuff, they can like chase you and stuff if you have But not if you have a If you don't show up Yeah. insurance won't really get pursued that hard. But if you don't have ID, if you don't have a way for them to track you, how are they going to get you? Will they even allow you to leave the hospital at this point without figuring out your identity? Are you in the system already? If they've ever taken blood from you? No, like if you're Like you could you could be a illegal immigrant. Cuz of 23andMe though, they're like, "Oh, hey Joe." Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like your thumbprint or whatever. 100% Japanese, Joe. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like Cuz even if you're not Like let's say you are a citizen, and then like you don't have your wallet with you,

6:45 nothing. Yeah. You're just John Doe, dude. Maybe I feel And then if you die, who they going to Who like Who's the bill going to? Maybe that's the thing for collections. Like that's their expertise. Cuz you know, like they just find a way to Like they'll get to you. You know those guys that when they eventually find missing persons because of a hospital bill or some ████ Wow. And there's also hella clinics low-income clinics. There's a ton. So like if you don't have money, like there's all the services for health are there for you. But if you have insurance, you're actually the most ████ Do you think the scam of carbon credits is ever going to change? You know the carbon credits thing? Where it's like how much of a footprint a company leaves on this world or whatever? Yeah. Nah. Where you're buying credits? I think anything that plays on people's feelings will continue forever. Mhm. Like even like our homeless industrial

7:36 complex here. Or recycling. Yeah, like ████ like that. Recycling is was a big one the first time I found out how it doesn't really help really. Yeah. It's a really like rabbit hole thing but I mean it's very easily explained. How does it not help? The cost to perform the recycling is drastically outweighs what you can recycle and most of what you put in the recycling can't even be recycled. Because it's mixed with other elements. Like if you had something that was straight aluminum and nothing else like yeah you could recycle it. But like when you go to countries like Japan you have to take the paper wrapper out of the bottle. You have to like separate. We don't take the paper off our bottles. Yeah. If it just has some ████ on it they just don't recycle it. It just gets dumped. So it has to be a pure straight aluminum can. Well like people are With hardly if ever follow their trash all the way to the ████ recycling plant. So when I take this can I have to peel

8:26 all this ████ off before they could do it properly. an out of sight out of mind thing where people will continue to vote for it because they don't have to worry about it. Like because there's this on it will they not recycle it? Yeah I think it's it's something as dumb as that. They just It just like doesn't go in. I would imagine. Because anytime they do the recycling I'm like I know they're not going to recycle. That's what that's what the explanations say and like some of them are really just like even if they did recycle Cuz cuz think about all the people on your block right? How many of those people actually put only cans and glass everything you actually need for recycling in the recycling bins? Yeah and there's no penalty for like getting wrong. Aren't you supposed to put every recyclable thing in the recycling bin? Yeah but most people what I'm saying is they probably don't follow that rule very proper you know? Cuz like people they people put like cardboard boxes in there and I'm like Wait I thought cardboard boxes are like the most recyclable thing.

9:16 I don't know. Yeah but the Well some facilities don't take it. So it depends on the city rules and then you'll see it on the bin like what is allowed and what isn't allowed. Like in our city if we put our if we put our ████ uh empty boxes in the blue they won't pick up your trash and ████ But also it's America Like What about paying congressmen pensions? Like pastor retirement retirement pensions for congressmen. What's that? Retirement pensions for congressmen. I feel like that should be How much How much is that? A lot of money. I think what's crazier is um So, legally they can work in the private sector immediately. And this is the legal corruption that happens is like let's say I'm on the board for like I don't know, the internet regulatory

10:06 department. And then Netflix gives me a deal, all these internet companies gives me a deal to do something and uh in their favor, right? So, then I pass this bill they they make more money, then after like a year two, I leave uh public office, and then I become a consultant for Netflix or whatever, and I get the payout. And this is this happens all across the board in every industry from farming to military industrial complex to all that stuff. So, you look at like the paper trail, it's like, "Oh, yeah." When you see all these presidents like Obama um because of the SOPA PIPA ████ he's a consultant for Netflix, and he's making hell of money that way, and he's you know, and every president that's how you could tell like what they did Yeah. and how they made it. Cuz where they end up after? And even it doesn't even have to be presidents, it could be just like

10:56 different people from like Board of Education or Board of Farming or whatever. And it's like that ████ is like, well, clearly they're working for the corporations and not the people. Yeah. And so They're getting that reward after office. Yeah. And then the way they do it is like, "Oh, yeah, there's a book tour. Come speak at our at at our company." And then what? Bill Clinton still getting paid 200K for for a speech? Or like, you know, there's just weird ████ like that, yeah. Yeah. What up, guys? Come join our Patreon cuz there's hundreds of videos dating back to 2019. Support the channel's growth and new ideas. And tap into the closer community by joining our Discord. Come chat with me inside and then you can say funny things to me. And get the opportunity to suggest new

11:48 video ideas. Come join our Patreon. Thank you. Link is in the description box below. What about the um the idea that politicians are allowed to buy stocks? That's probably going to continue forever, huh? Cuz they they they recently voted on that and they shot that down. Yeah. They were trying to make that illegal and then Who would vote no for that? Like Wow, that's crazy. Why would a regular citizen be like, "Nah, it's fine." Yeah. They just So we should just keep investing in Pelosi capital? Yeah. Okay. I'm following her advice. become a billionaire recently or some ████ No, I don't think so. No? She didn't? Her stock I think I follow this app that tracks all the different uh politicians. And uh let me see if I can Pelosi stocks is crazy. that her and her husband together have reached like billionaire status. I think it's her husband that actually does the the He's an investor, right? Like he's like a

12:38 I don't think it's actually her cuz that's the conflict of interest cuz she's They could clearly like so so the the loophole is her husband does it. She gives him the information. Yeah. But isn't that still insider trading? 100%. Yeah, so like what the ████ But it makes it less provable. Cuz you Cuz the insider trading the what makes it provable for insider trading is like let's say she's on the hearing for like this tech company and she knows that they're about to go public and go ████ bananas or whatever. And then she just gets in early. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like or whatever like there's like some stuff she gets information it's like, "Hey, you heard this information and then you put money in it." But then it's like, "Oh, but your husband did it." Then it's a little bit harder to prove. God, man. Crazy that it's in their same household. Like if you have like sensitive information. I mean, ████ it's it's a racket. But I

13:29 think to me the scams of like preying upon old people, I don't think that would ever end. And that's the sad ████ right? Like AI is going to make that so Oh my god, dude. AI's freaking I can't wait. Since the last time I've seen you guys, which was like a less than a month ago, I think AI has gotten like twice as good at pictures just in the past month. They're moving quick. AI is getting your mom how? Dude, I see I catch her ████ liking all these AI videos On Facebook, yeah. And I'm like, "Mom, this guy is even not talking like a regular human being." Like the AI person, the fake person is like talking like a robot. And I'm like, "You're believing this s███?" Like this is just bad. Something I've been seeing the past couple of days is people are uploading they're like starting live streams and then posting like AI-generated like battles in Russia and Ukraine saying like, "Oh, this like live battle is

14:20 happening right now over in this like country." Wow. So fake news. Yeah, and you can't and it looks like there's like missile shooting between like areas and stuff. And it looks real. So you're like, "Wait, is this actual like footage?" And it look like it's all set up as like a live news stream and everything. You're like, "Holy s███." Dude, they've been doing that with the Carmelo Anthony like stabbing case where they keep making AI-generated police reports. Wait, what? Wait, Carmelo Anthony? No, not the basketball player. There's a There's another Carmelo Anthony. Yeah, but with a K. It's a high school situation where this other dude Austin Metcalfe. It's a pooch thing that happened. Huge story right now, yeah. A A football player, not that Metcalfe. DK not DK Metcalfe. There's a There's a white dude who has a twin brother at this high school. Carmelo Anthony like objectively this is a detail is like he

15:10 like pulled out a knife and stabbed the guy in the chest and then he that guy died. But now it's such a huge argument on like who was the Who was the aggressor? the aggressor. But like people are they're they're creating like fake fake police reports and fake witness reports. They got fake videos of the stabbing. No, I haven't seen that. But they've just been confirming that like like oh no, this this police report is not real. Like and it totally like says that like something totally different. Like oh awesome man cop shot him and they caused this. And like and it's like a detailed police report that's like a ████ whole page long and it's all made up. ████ nuts. It's really it's really weird. like propagating out like this. Body cam society ████ divisive stuff cuz it's like a black kid and a white kid. Yeah. And this kid brought had a knife in his bag, but then like he also I think he's at a half a million

16:01 of like gifts and go funds to like defend him in court. Yeah, people are donating crazy to the guy who's still alive who Yo, this is so Is that the same one where people are like no one's talking about it like in mainstream media because the uh because the accused is black or something like that? Uh I don't know if that's why, but they're they're they are talking about it. It's just like I don't know why people say that no one's talking about it. It's ████ everyone's talking about it. But it's like the It's not really mainstream media like legacy media though. So it's like more like social media? Well, like you know like mainstream media has a way of like if they want you to ████ have a discord about something before the information's even all out they're just feeding you ████ This one they're like waiting for everything to get collected and organized before they give the full news. But I think it's so uh divisive

16:51 uh and it's just so um you know cuz you're you're touching on a giant race problem. a 4.0 white kid who had like all his life ahead of him. And then you have another dude who's like last post on Instagram was him flicking it off or like holding a rifle. It's like Yeah. both could be like misconstrued in like very good ways for your advantage as an opinion, but overall it like It's a hot one. If you don't have the facts or you don't have like the clear narrative that like makes the most sense, and like it's just hot trouble. Honestly, I I thought about talking about it here, and then I was like I would just I also would rather just wait until let it play out in court, because like so much evidence has been fake like leading up to this. So much document like AI is a cooking lots of like great stuff. no point on picking a side, because like at the end of the day like let justice be served in whatever way it's meant to

17:41 be with like facts. I'mma stay out of this one, y'all. I'm going to sit this one out, cuz it sounds like it's it's like a the question of was it really self-defense or not? Well, yeah, because people are like, "No, those white those white kids were known as bullies." But then it's not based on it. Like people it's just like hearsay ████ So until they like tack everything down But you also just can't take a knife out and stab a kid in the chest. people are glazing over that part the most. Like you cannot have a ████ knife in your bag in high school at a track meet. That's crazy. And he was sitting under the wrong tent section, so they asked him to get up and leave, and then he he was like, "Make me leave." And then it became this. he said, "Touch me." Yeah, he said, "Touch me and see what happens." Yeah. Quote what he did say, but And did he go like this? I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you. No matter what color either person was, if I just hear someone brought a ████

18:31 knife in their bag to track meet, I don't think I'm on his side whatever he is. He could be the he could be the ████ Filipino ████ superstar. Yeah. Like I don't give a ████ he's president of the Indian club? Then it's different. Then it's chill. Then it was a cultural knife. Bro, that is the rationale some people are using. I just watched a analysis video on it, and the guy was saying so that so the kid got stabbed in the heart, right? That's how he literally in the heart. And there's people making videos going, "How do we know it wasn't a utility knife or a machete that he needed for class or a or a or a he was taking a cooking class and had a Japanese cutting knife like for Who gives a ████ someone died, dude. You can't use a knife and stab somebody in the chest, bro. It could have It could have been a pencil and he killed someone. Like don't let all logic exit your

19:21 brain. Like That's the thing about threads that kills me is like people like make money from trying to just post engaging ████ So they literally are just playing devil's advocate just to piss people off. And it just becomes super polarizing on something that should be clearly like, okay, well this is wrong regardless of context. Yeah. You know? I've realized that like spouting like the truth as like a response to any argument usually ends the argument and people don't even respond. They're like, okay, it's been wrapped up. So if you want engagement, you have to trail them along. You have to Like of course we'll we'll see what happens with it, but I still think color swapped or not whatever you want to do. You don't respond with a heart stab. Yeah, the color's not at all. I don't think that's the appropriate like what no matter how bad you're being bullied in the moment. Cuz that kid's life is ruined now. All their lives are ruined. Yeah. Nobody wins. None of this.

20:11 That might be the the biggest scam of all. It's just like people getting defenses that aren't I guess like warranted. Yeah. But we'll see what happens when the details come out and then it goes through the court. AI's pretty cool, huh?

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