0:00 I I already drove at fifth grade I think what yeah that's around 10 in Gardina I took my friend's van and he was letting me drive it in the parking lot in fifth grade in [Music] Gardina all right in Toledo hey Toledo a 9-year-old runs over his father who was teaching him to drive oh W from the outside in front of the car way this way he was he was extremely intoxicated the dad a drunk 9-year-old yeah no no no a trunck 9-year-old he was attempting they say on a Sunday afternoon attempting to teach his 9-year-old son how to drive a vehicle and was run over because the 9-year-old
0:50 confused which one was the gas and The Brak oh yeah maybe don't stand in front of a 50% chance of getting that wrong bad choice you think drunk dad was like I was about your age when I learned how to drive that dude better learn how to stunt roll over a hood then before doing that you don't but wouldn't he be sitting in the passenger go over the top that's all you got to do but you don't know gas and break at that age he don't even know yeah he don't even know dip goes right what what grade is nine fourth grade fourth yeah okay that's when you you got to stay in the car no but he wasn't really teaching my drive he was just horsing around yeah he was just being drunk to had fun funny yeah yeah but like you never had play like uh never I already drove at fifth grade I think what yeah that's around 10 in Gardina in
1:42 my well I took my friend's van and he was letting me drive it in the parking in fifth grade in Gardina I did that thing where you sit on the lap and you just do the stereo that's the normal way that's the class yeah that's like a couple years PR no and a parking lot was fun you get to control the yeah that's half the battle though like in terms of taking the danger out one still being there in control and knowing which exactly not outside of the car yeah I remember my that's stupid when my friend had a paper R so jealous of him I remember his sister was driving their van and she was like probably sixth or seventh grade cuz I remember when she was like in elementary school with me and then she graduated and I was looking like oh you're so lucky you have a sister that
2:32 drives but there's no way she would have been in high school at that age oh damn yeah and if she was taking him on his ████ paper rout damn sometimes you got to make money that's funny for you to be jealous of child labor I wanted a child labor myself dude dude I was already working by fourth grade I hated it what was your fourth grade job my dad made me do t-shirts print f screen PR for the swap me for SWAT meat yay fourth grade that's pretty cool I was so pissed were you doing he don't know nothing about working for family this guy choreographing all day long man H dancing choreographing like he was born into dance definitely born Corin I started late what age did you
3:22 start helping out at the laundry or the ████ ████ embo that's all I can remember at the fal childhood from being you grew up inside of a laundromat dry cleaners yeah from being a tiny kid they were already asking you to do things yeah there just always there cuz cuz there was no babysit or anything like that so I had had to just be there and then the second I was there it was like the very first things was just like sort the clothes and then eventually I got upgraded you know sorting the clothes was like the like my number one job because I think that was just the stupidest thing you could do just like you see the tag number you put it on the tag rag you know job screw that up sometimes yeah and then when I got older it was about freaking taking the customers and if they're dropping off clothes knowing what clothes it was and then just writing it down giving them the ticket so it's just mad normal for them to be dealing with a kid when they
4:13 come to your store always always there's there's some customers that have been like customers for like many years that literally watched me grow up wow and be like wow he could reach the rack now just like stuff like that so you went from like age five to like high school almost oh yeah High school I was still at dry cleaners all the time maybe up until like 11th or 12th grade because I think at that point my sister had gone to college and I think my parents thought it was like really cruel to just have me there by myself damn dude that was such a huge part of your life I can't believe that I've been to that Plaza many times where where was it next to the nickel nickel which before was a western arcade in Cypress well at least you were next to an arcade he's like down the street from could never go to at least you could look at it from your ████ the Community College me and Eris went to was right down the street
5:03 from the D and that Community College is also where the swap meat was on the weekend where I would get my Pokemon and magic cards and pogs and Slammers pogs and Slammers dude that's all we did that's what I meet that's right after work we just go straight and buy Yu-Gi-Oh cards Dude swap meets are so cool as a kid they seemed a lot cooler as an I I wonder if the quality went down the items were more illegal I feel like the do you think the quality went trashier though cuz I feel like the vendors used to really take care of their ████ like it used to I remember it being like they took pride in their like display and everything also back then there was very very little Ecommerce changes everything that's true yeah yeah yeah like now now you just see junk and garage sell random yeah that's
5:53 a lot of like trash like 50% of the things that you would go there for back then you can get an Amazon Prime delivery at the cheapest levels yeah so all the resellers were going to the swap meet like even the even the thing that I got the Atlantic Avenue sign that dude was also selling like per plus shampoo like St like you just have these people just sell random stuff now cuz they bought it from a ████ thief that raided a exactly Longs Drugs or some ████ they s they sell the same stuff at the same aisle there's like a supplier that just gives everybody stuff now like dude what kind of shirts did you make was it the Hawaii like so this is when Obama was uher first became president I think too so um we had you know um hope hope we had just Obama's face like crazy huh it
6:45 like TP Obama shirt sleeve Aloha they didn't even cease and desist his funny that was profiting off of Obama yeah we had like Aloha Turtles uh dress long sleeves slip his hat you know little crop top shirts my my dad would custom make his design Ino Stadium the best one wow that's huge that place is it's it's massive you know how small you know how small it is now dude back in the is it smaller now it was three rows all every week three rows bro I feel like that s███'s cracking that ████ is so huge so the Saturday was two rows Max right and then Sundays is three rows around oh my God so now it's it's one row now it's just half the stadium no way oh man what and you see a lot of repeat like vendors nunchucks was
7:39 in every Swami right remember that was so sick every Swami had hella there's always like a knife store brass knuckles yeah yeah they got like the weird daggers letter openers actual swords and it was always some grumpy vet that like yeah it was like military surplus retired Santa Claus looking ████ Hawaii was a Chinese dude that had all that knives and stuff guns yeah that's what they got hiking sticks and ████ but now I feel like it's like five of the same stores right you got like fruit you got some candy you got some like Aloha print stuff or whatever same ████ and then it's repeated but with different I'm like what happened to the uniqueness right you had like well because they're actually all family members everybody got those stress toys that you pop the bubble one way yeah the other yeah there's some like out of where there's
8:30 like a hippie white lady that has like a jewelry thing that she kind of knitted herself yeah yeah yeah whack yeah dream catch those are whack those are whack look at them be like you wasted so much time bro whack ████ them over walk by there's like a sticker shop it's just all stickers I was always that guy that would like look at like artists that did like drawings or paintings great to look at for long periods of time and never buy must have been so annoying to like must be annoying as a person's real art but that that's what made it unique you wouldn't see that at every stop because that's their art like wow art never buy anything yeah but now you own a home so you're like oo maybe this go in the bathroom right next to the ████ I look at inspo and then I go online at Amazon oh oh it's cheaper perfect damn yeah sorry that's just real
9:21 life baby it was a good time back then though yeah
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