0:00 [Music] welcome back to care for boys we are indeed very careful boys so today we want to talk about i mean dude a lot of news today the inflation numbers just came out it's looking rough stocks just slid big time gas prices are ████ insane like worldwide but especially in the united states at least for us because we are the united states and so we are looking only at ourselves um but yeah i wanted to talk about like when were you the brokest that you've ever been and you know how did you rise above still going through it i'm already yeah you'll be both i'm trying to hang out with anthony lee so i can get richer that's all smart i'm trying to just said i'm still going through it no no you're you're pretty rich in my eyes i think nick's rich in maya right before i moved here from cal or from arizona i was working burger king
0:51 and best buy both full time but i was living in an apartment out in chandler the rent was crazy expensive what was your rent i was about to say crazy expensive for us but when you think about it so we had it was 1200 bucks split by three people um it wasn't a nice part in chandler it's like a it was called like a luxury apartment so we have like nice floors at a big room big like closet but my part was it was i think we were splitting it right so it's 12. so i think each 400 bucks or whatever like that right but my paychecks from best buy working 40 hours a week we're like 520 bucks that's how like low i was getting paid right so it's like almost all of my money so i was just eating burger king every single day every single day like the last two weeks before i moved here and then towards that time my friends were car hopping so they were going to cars you know checking if it was open if
1:42 it was open you take all the ████ out what was like the big most common thing they found usually so the comet so we were next to a school called the conservatory recording arts so people used to have their backpacks full of like macbooks um they sold you an interface and or they didn't sell you when you signed up for the school you got an interface and a microphone which were expensive so they would get that and then they would go and sell it right and like i would think off of each backpack because they weren't trying to like you know make the cell like go long right so they would sell it for like oh 600 bucks or something like that right but it's like a brand new mac and ████ like that but it was all the time you're trying to fence it as they said yeah so like towards the end like i still remember being super broke i went to a walmart with like four bucks and bought a bunch of ramen because i didn't want to eat burger king anymore right and just like being like ████ and i remember texting my friend like yo let me know next time you go car hopping
2:32 because i think i think i'm gonna go because i was getting sick like they were everybody had money except me but i was the only one like doing everything right like i had a job everybody else was like ████ don't punish for that yeah it was kind of like weird i always thought like i was like i got called dad right i had the guy i was a guy at the recording studio so everybody came to me i'd record everybody i had two jobs no walmart and burger king no best buy burger best buy in burger king and did you ever go car hopping i didn't luckily i didn't so i almost did i i mean i got to that point for the cars luckily for the cars that would have stole so much ████ never did you never pull any best buy scams no because i will say this right now if you try to steal from best buy you will get caught is that right yeah everyone i know you will get caught i mean because i my last job at best buy because i worked there for a long time was asset protection so i was a guy with
3:22 the yellow shirt up front and you know people would steal and you can get away with it but like people get cocky and they keep coming back to try and steal ████ and all it takes is like for me to remember be like oh this guy looks familiar and then that was a cool job when you did get gets a cat so what do you say if you see a guy walking in that normally can't be there because he stole ████ last time you're the guy that's your job to be like hey yeah so if someone comes in and i we've already kicked him out i was the guy that had to get in front of him and be like yo get the ████ out dude my buddy stole so much ████ at best buy but then he didn't steal it like steal it like a like a regular thief what he did was i remember we walked in and i was looking for like ████ world of warcraft for some game right this guy goes to the tv section opens up the tv walks it up to the return section and he goes can i return this and they go do
4:12 you have a receipt and he goes no and they're like you got to get the receipt and goes i think it's in the car and he walked out with the tv what the ████ that was actually a big thing and i remember when i worked in uh right before i moved out here i was working at the best buy fiesta mall people were doing that and i was just sitting there with my world of warcraft like like the ████ did you just do dude i worked at best buy like in ████ 2006 or some ████ and one of the things we had to deal with the most was ████ magicians because they're coming in they're coming in putting blankets on top of tvs and they're pulling up the ████ tv then we see the mothers were like where the ████ did the tv go dude it was fun catching people still though i will say that that ████ was fun you caught somebody oh i've cut i caught i remember my first month there because i was any magicians this ████
5:02 i'm on the camera like trying to catch people i caught more than they've had caught in like two months in my like my first month there but i thought that ████ was sick right and then you catch them and then you get to go confront them about are you allowed to like put hands on them no uh they always say like i don't wanna like i won't call out a store but every store says like where you live if it gets to a point where you contact them like the cameras won't work that day my boy i had a bro of definitely a bro right and he lived in in the boston massachusetts area the massholes uh region and uh he he he super cut an lp prevention video you know loss prevention yeah uh like greatest hits video you did a compilation of him tackling dude so it just depends on where you live yeah
5:54 he put it to like ████ i don't know some s█████ rock music and then it's like it's like a guy walking into the ████ tv and then he just is grabbing him by the ████ waist and just like takes them all the way down dude people people get cocky man that thing that joe's talking about literally was a thing people would come in with the big carts put tvs on and literally just walk out yeah just no fear it was crazy but when you steal ████ you do kind of have to have no fear though you know i mean you have to that's how you get away with it right yeah yeah that's that's the best way to do it people imagine to do with a trench coat and he's looking nice left and right and it's another trap something and he puts it in it's amateur hour yeah the real people are the ones you got to act like you're supposed to be doing that oh yeah eventually the magicians got so good that we were just like we had to search people for blankets at the door and white gloves shut the ████ up no
6:46 blankets it's like what are you doing with these uh these bicycle cards and these red balls huh if there's a dude with white gloves and a top hat you're ████ looking at them you're following them all over the store bunny in your hat's okay but no stealing well because the key was if the blanket was big enough to get over the object it was going to disappear so we were like dude we have to crack down this bike any refrigerators they stole no i didn't never saw it i heard about it but i never saw it you know the sick uh sam's club had it's not stealing but uh sam's club had this thing with their major electronics where uh you could return it whenever ever like whenever like it wasn't one year wasn't 30 days it was whenever and it had enough of insurance and a warranty policy so you could like buy a tv and then three years later when the newest tv tech came out you can come out with your old ass tv and return it even i think without a receipt that's baller like on this i remember super
7:37 bowl every every year on the super bowl is the highest sales for tvs at best buy and then the day after the super bowl is the highest return rate on tv for best buy because when they have parties they'll buy the tv just for the super bowl and then they'll come back that's kind of tired because they didn't have their stocking fees but now they do because i just returned something a couple weeks ago i was like what the ████ is this how's the recycling it's like 15 or some ████ oh yeah my friend who worked at best buy did a scam with when people returned tvs they did something where they would mark it as like because you know i get sent to the refurbishing center or open box yeah they did something with that where like it on paper it had been sent back but really they just like gave it to a friend to hold that happened at the store my first store when i worked out here the guy the the main guy in the back was doing that with all appliances so he was supposedly sending appliances
8:29 to somewhere but he was just sending him to his house and then he would resell him yeah whoa that's that was that was the racket but he got caught he got caught yeah that's why i never stole from best buy and that's why i was like i'm about to distill out these cars because we can just run away and it's best by known for that it's like they'll break your ████ legs tell me so they can dig off to your family and ████ like that it's like you look out your window and you see the blue shirt and the caddies are like oh geek squad is in the van and he's turning off the ████ electricity at your house and ████ they're like go team go i would rather take my own life than allow them to take my life not the blue shirts man dude because the geek swap doesn't ████ around dude you know you watch out for best buy they put circuit city out of ████ business they kill those ████ and radio shots they'll be ████ headphone jacks down your throat they don't ████ around at all
9:20 hey on the uh on the car hopping tip i know you didn't go now but like um if you can answer this like on average uh like how often do people leave their cars unlocked uh from in arizona so like i never actually did it right but i did a couple times i was like the driver right so like i would drive allegedly this is where the supreme court goes you did it yeah you'd be surprised how much people do it because even nowadays sometimes i'll just forget to lock my car and i'll get to my car and i'm like oh ████ there was a girl like a neighbor of our building where my studios were at she left her car unlocked windowed down a guy came took her purse uh and uh her gun today's video is brought to you by babel all right so i went to mexico last year right and
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11:52 but you get what i'm trying to say right now you can save up to 60 off your subscription when you go to babel.com off the record that's babble.com off the record for up to 60 off your subscription babble language for life wow when my friend stole the gun that was the biggest trip because like we were sitting there and then we're just like damn like it was a big ass ar-15 and we were just like i'd be scared to like steal a gun yeah yeah it was it was a mission it was a mission to sell it i would say that because the cop when the police hear that someone stole your gun they're going to really look for you yeah perseverance then you got to like know about ████ scratching off the ████ you guys you guys have rain cameras you don't sell it to normal people so like we sold it to other people that were like a group of people the rain cameras because if you if you look on the app and like the the neighborhood feed the community half of it
12:42 half of it is people um capturing people going into their car like that's most of them people going there rifling through ████ like if you have a truck they're going through you're trying to look for tools or something yeah my dad's ████ my dad got that part of the truck what's it called the door on the back the door on the back on the back he got that ████ stolen one so remember the whole door i remember we came back and like we're like i'm like looking at the truck i'm like that's a little weird yeah the tailgate's worth a lot wait what the ████ it's like we're in the back of my truck so it was just like but that was like the rice rock it is you remember the rice rocket age it's like you'll go into the gym with your ████ lowered honda quarter with your ████ lip kit and your rims and all that ████ with the radio and your subwoofer in the back going to the gym you come out an hour later and it's stripped like how the ████ sometimes it's really odd parts because i had friends that used to steal orders for
13:32 like backyard mechanics and they would take stupid things that just really like uh like the the little rubber strip in the water channel of a civic like stupid very specific yeah really specific dude i went to a pawn shop one time i saw a ████ truck truck tailgate and i was like son of a ████ [Laughter] next to a bunch of magicians blankets various sizes big sizes those are the most expensive ones 52 inch size way more inventory that way i'm surprised you you never went to steal food because i know a lot of people when they're broke they would just go steal food you actually bought food i tried to steal once food and like i saw the guy because i'm very observant and i saw like the guy that was working was watching us so then did you go in with like 20 kids because they're always watching like ████ 50 kids that come up after
14:23 school they're like they're gonna go to the candy section and jack some ████ and then 10 year olds are like why you following me but how how old were you at the time uh 20. was smashing grabs happening yet no not with the no with the car car hopping yeah i was 20. because i feel like even at 20 and especially if you got two jobs right at that point well obviously it's a shame and humility thing you got to get through but i feel like it's easier to ask enough people for food and receive it than to like steal you know what i'm saying because if you're not like straight up like homeless and smelly or like a bunch of things like that it's actually pretty unassuming for like a uh a citizen but hey i'm so sorry i'm running into some trouble you think you helped me out i talked to one because i did a trolling video years ago with one and he was a real home he was a real panhandler and he was telling me he makes like two fifty to three dollars a day
15:13 wow that's a lot yeah you know just just asking for change yeah just asking for change they're they they have that's a whole racket hustle out here right it's like there's there's a people that bring out their ████ kids and stuff like that but then like once they're done with their shift they go back to their bmw yeah that happened on arizona once right there was a guy on right off the freeway off of chandler right and he was there all the time like for years and years and i remember it was all over the news because someone followed him and they had noticed that in his bag i guess they saw like a little sliver and they thought it was like a laptop but it was so after he got all this money he went into best buy and was like paying geek squad to fix his laptop and then like followed him he had a ████ house and all this type of ████ but he was doing this ████ for years because i grew up going to school out there until there's some panhandlers by where i live
16:03 and you see him all the time and they actually live like up the block and we have other family members that are like oh i've seen that ████ he has a house across the street from me dude i was at uh the the grocery store the other day was like like 10 at night right and then um these kids came up and they're like sir can i wash your car and i was like what and then i was like dude how old are you they were like ████ 12 or 30. i didn't ask him i was like um i'll talk to you after i get out so i was like man that was kind of weird where's where's the mom and all that stuff and i was watching the mom was in the car and her sons were just out like washing windows and ████ and i'm like that actually is like way different than just asking people for money industries yeah right yeah so then um yeah when i went back out i gave them some cash and i was like you don't have to wash my car but i was like yeah man um yeah good work guys and i just left cause i was like and then they're
16:53 like ████ losers what ████ four eyes weirdo is weird you didn't even we didn't even watch your car we got this for free right prescription but i'm thinking like dude that sucks like you're what 12 years old or whatever and then your mom is just telling you to go ████ gas there's kids selling candy too sometimes yeah and like oh it's for my softball team and you're like we know it's time for you you know when i was um i'll take two after after college i was doing a s█████ sales job that i was like unfortunately good at uh where we literally go business and business pretty much door to door and like selling i'll wear a suit we were selling sports tickets and ████ right so you were scalpers pretty much and it got to a point where at the end of the day if you like ran out of like blocks of businesses to like walk into and like do your whole sales pitch with your business cards and all ████ you'd be like ████ i still need to like uh you would call ring the bell aka like hit your quota for the day it's like i just
17:44 need to hit foot traffic so you go to like a ████ shopping mall in front of a pavilion or something where you just know a lot of people are gonna be out there chances are people like the dodgers or the clippers or whatever ████ tickets we have for that day and you would just go up to people hey you like this you like this you like this and you ask them if they're like not interested you bounce because in sales you were taught it's a numbers game yeah it's not even like how amazing are it's just ████ sp if you see 200 people today you're gonna get 12 sales it was like one of those mathematical guarantees that's so true so same thing it's like i would rather take my chances or at least i got into a phase because i was also super broke during that time take my chances of being like if i just talk to as many people as possible somebody's gonna want what i got or give me something i need whether i give a ████ about if they're into it or not somebody's gonna do it so in the same light i just i understand panhandling you know what i mean it's like yeah totally yeah i don't look down on it actually i just i feel
18:35 like yeah it's like you just got to do it sometimes and you need it now so people are like get go get a job it's like they need the money right now it's like day labor yeah and there are losers out there like myself right ████ homeless guy little toby comes up to me he's like yo dude like can you can you give me some some food right i was like hey man i can give you some money i can really use some food i mean you know what yeah i'll get you some food ████ walk him over to the ████ fudd rock or johnny rockets or whatever and little tell you who i'm talking about he used to work there shut up dude [Laughter] yo why are you talking about my ████ sorry what were you saying anyways he's like yo dude i want a burger i was like man i'm being nice there i'm gonna hook you with a burger he's like nah dude but i got like i got a couple kids i'm like blah blah blah right and he like hustled me to get him three full combos i spent like 35 bucks and literally right out there i was like number one i'm an idiot number two this ████ made me feel like i
19:25 never want to give money to a homeless person again which is whack but you know what he's like it's all about touches it it's about volume he's probably reading the size of the sale hey you know i watched a he says no i walk away it's a numbers game he probably looks at me he's like i got the sale he's probably i'm particular it's a bag just full of burgers because most people would want to buy food than give money to homeless people because they're like i don't want her which is why i was like yeah i'll go buy you food i'm with it it's like end of the night i usually have 50 75 burgers guess what i sell to homeless people two dollars a piece are you ████ kidding me i throw them away how much did that cost me zero it's called inventory ████ it's called sales and inventory i've witnessed that before like i was with my one of my dad's friends his name was greg and we were driving back home and
20:17 there was like a homeless guy on the side right off the freeway so he runs on his window and his science is like hungry all that type of stuff and he rolls down the window and he's like yeah i'm hungry he's like all right well if you wait here i'll i'll go get you food nah can you just get some like money he's like no if you're hungry i'll go i'll go buy you food nah it's all good they want yeah they want other ████ yeah that's why uh i think for like my rule is like i don't i honestly don't give homeless people money but i'll tip the ████ out of a cleaning lady i'll tip the ████ i have someone wash my car yeah i'll tip the shout out but they're basically pretty much they're the same they're struggling but they're ████ floating at least yeah yeah but they're they still have the dignity to like try to ████ make it and i love that about that and they're providing something that you didn't need and you're not doing it to patronize them yeah yeah i mean the homeless public people in la
21:08 they're contributing to the uh community culture it's la it's not l.a without homeless people style you know what i mean i remember straight up um this is like man before youtube anything like me and my my chick we moved to l.a together powderies oh man 23. and i remember i i joined this um i joined this gay men's club service yeah gaming thank you very much we're stuck into his cox but i joined this this temp service and then i got placed at this at this company which is like this high-rise in downtown l.a that i always talk about that i worked at but there was like a two month limbo period where i didn't get paid yet for some reason because the p the t they have to pay the agency the agency pays you right so it was like 90 days or some ████ and so i'm working at this place like in earnest all week no matter what like pursuit of
21:59 happiness right yeah and then i'm waiting for the check to ever come and then um there was a day where i basically just had my savings account and like um i had it i had like just to pay rent and all the electricity all that stuff and then one of the checks bounces and my account overdrafts like four times so it's like that's a good 36 dollar charge like four times in a row and so it's just like oh ████ um and then i remember being in a target with my chick and my card that got declined so i that was when it was it was getting it was getting like bounced back and ████ i remember being like i remember she had to like ask her dad for money and i remember the shame that i had at the time because my family just been through through 2008 so they were not an option so it was like man i really am ████ right now um and i remember telling her i remember
22:50 hugging her that night and telling her this will never happen again and like after that it was just happened two more times it just kept on happening you had to break over there kept happening and then it kept happening and then it just happened again last week [Laughter] no but but i remember like specifically telling me i'll never this will never happen again and then my mindset changes like you know you know that whole thing too where you're not getting paid for like two months but you're not exactly b███████ at anyone either you're being polite because you don't want to you know that other people are working too and like they're the small fish at their company and you don't want to make them have a bad day but sometimes you have to stand up for yourself 100 you know what i mean yeah and that's what i really learned through that experience was like no no i'm not going to be the guy who doesn't get paid because i'm going to be loud and annoying until you ████ pay me yeah you know what i mean and then the you know it'll be the guy who has learned that lesson i just learned um who who's gonna eat the ████ s█████
23:41 taco and like next week because this week i am getting ████ paige and for whatever reason that dance that they do is very odd but yeah it was it's targeted towards feeding the noisy people so i just became a way noisier person and that helped me in life after that standing up for myself right like like having the balls to stand for myself in other situations too after that like where finances were involved where it's like maybe i wouldn't have gotten something that i ended up getting or maybe i got way more than i would have gotten because i negotiated better for myself because from that moment forward it really was just a mindset shift that i embraced it was like that i will never go through this again because it's gonna be on you yeah so you're gonna have to suffer for me it's not like i'm waiting for the people that you don't even remember if you're compliant then they'll keep you waiting forever exactly they'll forget about you especially when it comes to money dude yeah oh dude it's like people that owe you money yeah like if you just if you just i don't want to bug them oh dude you want to be a
24:32 hollywood writer guess what ████ net 90's nothing compared to being a ████ writer in l.a i hate hearing that nine days if you passing that sexy i'm like ████ off yeah dude net 90 but the dude we're talking about you're a writer now right you got paid up front maybe minuscule compared to what the revenue is then you get a piece of that and you got to wait a year maybe holy ████ mad like net 365 ████ essentially and then trickle and then trickle and then trickle so yeah you have to it's a whole another mental game too i hate it when somebody owes you money and the next time you see them they got like new clothes yeah oh the best that's me i was homeless when i was 15 for a year oh time's up no we're talking about no no hey bart stand up bart stand up i was homeless when i was 15 for a year bart stand up yeah yeah no no please please please
25:22 i don't know what you're saying no please please let joe continue yeah that's okay cool well i thought the joke was i say a significant statement he cuts it oh do you have nothing oh are you doing that no it's true it's actually i'm actually interested really hear about it maybe for another time yeah let's not let's not leave alex hanging because he's the only one who's like he's like i was broke and then we're all like let's talk about others no no because this was supposed to be a broke episode but yeah alex story was so good and then all and we just kind of drifted off into like we're not supporting him by giving him our broke story i'm like damn i'm the only broke ████ in here no we're all broke in different ways like overdrafting ████ bro i remember like literally like being like all right i know overdraft fees are 35 bucks right and if i know that as long as i have like two bucks if i buy something it'll take like three days for an overdraft fee to come in as long as like within like two days i put my
26:12 enough money in i don't know but there are so many times where i like knew like all right i just need to do this and just i have to subtract 35 bucks for my next paycheck right wow so i used to do that so many times being like ████ all right this is gonna be ████ 70 bucks off my next paycheck but i need this ████ right now so i would go and buy ████ knowing that i was gonna have overdraft fees and just being like i'm gonna have to pay this off my check but then it's also another 70 ████ i did that for so long too that i finally had to be like i need to change something so i went to the bank and i was like uh do the overdraft protection where am i saying if i'm about to overdraft yeah um decline the car i was too scared because i needed that i had to i needed that that's why i overdrafted so many times because i was in that situation too and then finally i was like yo i'd rather not be able to afford that moment and then just deal with the consequence of the moment versus like pretend i had
27:02 another 35 bucks my friend's mom worked at wells fargo too and she like she i remember one time she saved me because i went in there she's like all right i'll give you i'll take these overdraft fees away and i'll give you back like six of them oh ████ so she gave me so much money because she was like the head of her did she put a blanket over the screen make it disappear she'll get you a tv too while you're right she was like we can just put overdraft fees on and i still remember at that point i was like no i'll be good but i just knew in my head i was like i can't because i know at some point i'm gonna have no money again and i'm gonna have to be able to spend like for food or some ████ like that so i lived in overdraft fees for a long time yeah that's a hard space to exist you could always go back to burger king dude they paid me ████ they were i was getting those chicken sandwiches are pretty amazing i moved i was making 7.75
27:53 an hour i was working full time i was doing five to one and then at best buy they were paying me 8.25 i was working 2 to 10 p.m but you know what i respect overall you were ████ working bro yeah like a lot of people are just broke and they're just like i have no money but they're not ████ worried the hardest thing is i was working so much and i had no money and all my friends who were just ████ gangbangers and ████ thugs just have money all the time but they're not on jk news the ████ don't know but man i was just they're hella rich
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