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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I know that you were sitting around thinking about my
side hustle as a as a kid, as a teenager.
As you know, I was a web designer, big time
web designer in the in the late nineties. I had
really no idea, no idea how to do it whatsoever
I had. I literally had that book that says web
pages for dummies, you know the ones I don't even
(00:22):
know they still make those books, yellow, yellow, Living Out
Dummy for everything, you know whatever. I honestly used that
book to sell a web page to one person in
high school because my dad told me to, because he's
an entrepreneur, and he was like, figure out how to
make some money for yourself. And I guess that was
my side host. So that of course, and I'm going
to esteemed alumnus of the Blockbuster Video Mega franchise. It was,
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you know, basically I was. I'm part of the culture.
What was the culture?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
You know?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
He really was BBB Yeah, BBB game.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
It was a little differ than the same mouth. We
all wear the same blue shirts, BBB.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I have that BBL. That's what I have.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
I want to be clear anyway then, sorry, Hobby, So anyway,
what was you you were.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Talking about your side hustle though, and this is way
better than mine.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Oh yeah, it's a proud moment of mine. Of course.
I think it's kind of how I got started in
just the hustle culture.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Will Yeah, So we're watching that movie Flame and Hat
that just came out, and we were watching it, and
in the movie The Little Boy, he started slaying to
Molly's at school to his friends, and and my fiance
Habey goes, whoa like hustler, you know, it was like
all phased by it, and I was like, oh.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
That's nothing. And I was like, when I was about
eighth grade is when it started.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
At same I used to take my step dads and
my mom's cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Cigarettes.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
You guys, I can't say cigarettes are serious, says she
says them.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Wait, I've never heard you say you're you're serious.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Dead ass cigarettes, cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Cigarettes, Brits, tire syllables.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Cigarettes, I don't say a pack of SIGs, okay. I would
take the siggs and I would I would sell up
to kids like kids, I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Like, are you still doing this? Are you the person like, hey, ma'am,
can you get me a six pack of beer? You know,
from the high school kid when you're rolling in.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Like, are you handing out cancer to kids?
Speaker 7 (02:26):
You?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
This is what you're doing now.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
I wouldn't never have.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I mean, I know that we pay everybody more, but seriously,
like we're selling cigarettes to kids now?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
No, I mean some days it might, I might want
to do that, but I will never.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I want to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
How old were you when you were doing this?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I was about twelve, twelve years old.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
You steal your parents cigarettes, yes, I would, and you
sell them to your your peers.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
My peers, yes, because it was like I was the
plug and I had it because it was a lot at.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
The house, so we were all addicted. I got it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Thought I was saying, because you're selling them cigarettes, I'm
pretty sure I wouldn't buy what you were selling. Is
like I had the good stuff at home. Okay, I
had options?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh you didn't.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Were the options you remember?
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Yes, Marble lights, Marble I can't say it, Marble lights,
and then Salem slim lights.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Of course, okay, yeah, those those and then the green pack.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
And then when times got tougher, I would take the
four for a dollar, you know, because at the time
it was four for a dollar chips, which all the
good old days, I know.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
So I would sell them for.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
A dollar each, and kids would pay it because they
want the chips on the spot, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
So twenty five cents urn into a dollar. Yeah, wow,
they paid for convenience.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
A hustler from the earliest age, I think.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
So I like to say I was.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
No, I like it. I gotta be honest. I don't
really love the cigarettes partan.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
No, I don't love it.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I'm afraid of that word because I just don't want
it to come out. I don't know what. I'm not
going to do that anymore. And like many things, I'll
probably say that. There are so many words I have
to think about now before they come out of my
mouth because of you, because I'm not sure if I'm
the one saying it wrong.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah. Oh, my whole vocabulary is messed up.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
A hustle that was not as dangerous for kids. Oh
that's good if you guys are interested.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, no, I'd love to hear about the not dangerous hustle.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
So, you know, like golf tours will come to town,
and yeah, parking can be nut.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Oh like PGA Tiger Woods or whatever one.
Speaker 8 (04:13):
Of those tours was at like a bougie country club
in Michigan. And so my friend and I in high
school rode on my car with one of those car
markers that we would drive people into the.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Tour from the parking that was far away.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah, because it was very far away.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So that's uber over here. Uber Yeah, and we the
ingenuity here.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
I loved get a ton of cash and we were
basically doing uber and lyft in high school.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Wow, so you invented it basically?
Speaker 8 (04:40):
Well, I would say, what kind of sounds like it now?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Three five? I don't have a ton of time to
call now, or you can text the same number. But
what was your side hustle as a kid, Rufio? Obviously
you had several too. He went to jail for a
couple of years.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Well, mine was also in like middle school, like seventh
to eighth grade. I was taking I was selling candy
out of my backpack every day. It was so the
M and ms. Don't ask me how I got the
M and ms you stole. I was selling it for
a dollar walking around. I used to wear my backpack
in the front, like you know what I'm saying, like,
and then I would just reach into my pocket.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I had Peanut and Plane.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I get em and Emmy and they were a dollar.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And that's what I did.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
My other hustle I did was I'm pretty good at
I'm a huge Michael Jordan fan, right, the biggest. And
I could sign that man's autograph like nothing. And I
was selling cards the kids for like twenty five dollars
car like a you know, like a Fleer card that's
like probably like less than a dollar. And I would
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just sign it and put it in the sleep and
then sell it to a random kid for twenty five bucks.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Yeah he believed you. Yeah, I had an autographed Michael
Jordan card.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Oh my god. And then I would just so there
are people out there that think they have an autograph
card that you that you forged. Yeah, I could sign
it right now.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I can sign anything you want for my.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah. This guy Kevin in high school, he was so generous.
It was such a good deal. It's Michael Jordan' sting
that you did.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
The one thing that stands out the m Yeah, like
it looks like a twenty three dude.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I got that.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I got my mom's autograph down, and I got my.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I needed to get.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Out of school somewhere oh yeah, I remember. I used
to try and and this wasn't a hustle like you remember.
And again just going to make us sound old, but
collected the basketball cards and then they had the becket
and it's online now, but it came out like whatever
weekly or monthly, and it had the prices of all
the cards, and I would sell. I would pull cards,
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buy a lot of them, and then I would sell
them to people based on whatever that price was. And
parents would call my house and be like to my parents,
Christopher selling, you know, ripping my kid off or whatever,
because I guess in many people's minds it was trading.
You were supposed to just trade card for card, and
it's like, no, this isn't you know how much that pack?
My parents would be like, no, have to give them away,
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like this us money, but it's supposed to be sports
card training. It's like no, some are worth more than others,
Like you don't just give this stuff away. I can
remember more than once. My mom would come in the
room be like, someone's complaining that you're selling your basketball
cards again. I'm like, but mom, that's what there was.
There's no mark up. I'm not selling fake autograms like
my friend Rufi over here, Pizza Pad. What's up, Pizza Pad,
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Morning friends, Pizza Pad, your your hustle? And was his
high school?
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Yeah, so it was started sophomore year high school. Went
to the home depot. I'm like twenty six in Cicero
and there was all like the like the migrant workers
out there, and I asked them, you know where they
got their you know, their IDs from, and they gave
me one of the guy's numbers. And it was thirty
bucks for them to make the ID. All you had
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to provide them was a picture and the info you
wanted on it. So I took that and went back
to my high school and just offered it to everybody
for one hundred and twenty. So I was making one
hundred dollars on every ho.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So you were you were the middleman committing a federal crime.
Basically innovatives.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Here.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, Pizza Pat won't be hard to find. That's not
a distinctive name or anything that. Okay, I mean, you know,
it's I hate to say it's smart, but he was smart. Yeah,
thank you. Pizza Pat had a good date.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
It was a revolving door of clients.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Dude, he must have made a ton. You must how
much money do you think you made doing this? All?
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Right? So at one point, not can you? I had
to call uh my cousin who was a police officer,
to come with me, so I thought I was going
to get robbed. Uh At one point I had like
nine thousand dollars in cash from all the ideasails.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Wow, I mean still Kitty's going to home depot today.
Thank you, pizza pad, have a good days middle school?
Speaker 7 (09:04):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Oh my god? Hey Matt, Hey, how you doing? Matt?
What was your your hustle? When was it and what
was it?
Speaker 9 (09:16):
So this was back in two thousand and four, two
thousand and five. I used to sell my leftover live
FFA chickens down in Houston, Texas.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Future Farmers of America? Is that what FFA is? Right?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
So you raised chickens like at the house, I hadn't
at the barn. Yeah yeah, okay, And then you would
bring them to school and what would people do with
They'd take them home and eat them? Or what would
they do?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Boy?
Speaker 9 (09:42):
Yeah, their parents, their parents would come pick them up
five dollars a chicken. They'd take them home and eat
them or do whatever they wanted. But it was quick
and easy cash for me.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Oh oh wow, Okay, wasn't expecting that. Thank you, Matt.
Have a good day, have a great one. Okay. Chicken chickens,
Why you're thinking of that, rufio. Yeah, no, none of
my I don't have I'm not equipped for that. No,
you don't know anything about chickens. Well, well she will
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be in a parking lot of home. Deepoil a little bit,
but selling chickens and fakes? What was yours?
Speaker 10 (10:18):
I'm definitely doing that. But mine's was a security business.
I ran a security business in school.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (10:23):
My brother was like one of the tough kids, and
I would be like, you know, if you want to
pay for security services, then you pay us. He'll secure
you and make sure no bullies mess with you. And
it worked out very well. We were very paid. How
old were you about eleven?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And so you say, look, no one will give you
a hard time about anything if you get how much money.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I'm scared to say this.
Speaker 10 (10:44):
One kid his parents must have kept only cash in
the house because he was giving us like hundreds of dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Wow. He never got beaten.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Up, never got beaten up.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
He kept the bullies off of here Kiki's personal security.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Mm hmm.