259 - Young Side Hustlers - 6/6/18

We started talking about lemonade stands , then we found out we were all hustlers growing up!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
firm So tomorrow, I'm kind of excited. We're having our
third annual lemonade challenge between Gregg teen and Scary, wherein
they get into a bucket with their bare feet and

(00:25):
for what thirty seconds? I think it starts a minute?
A minute? You can't run for a minute. He did
get winded last year, remember that. Uh, they squeeze lemons
with their feet, and then the loser, which is determined
by the amount of juice squosen. So whoever is it squosing?

(00:46):
I think it's squosen, it's it's it's it's scoost the squeezhed, squeezed, squished, squeeze, squeezed, squished,
so squeezed out of the lemons is So whoever has
the most is the winner. And then the loser has
to drink the juice from I lost last year. And

(01:07):
how did that taste? By the way it was, It
did not taste good. It really doesn't. It's I think
you were permitted to add sugar to it though, right, well,
I think we put sugar indo put Yeah, it also
had some socklint. It was not Yeah, some athletes foot
It does not taste good. It really doesn't. I swear
for the first year, the first year I won. So

(01:27):
this is that rubber match between the two of us.
But yes, Scary is the reigning champion. Yeah, and I'm
excited about this. Um. It's all for charity too. It's
for Alex's lemonade stand. So as long as money is
going somewhere good, then I'm okay with it. Yea. It
brings me to a question, what did you guys do
to earn money when you were kids? Did you ever
have a lemonade stand? Did you sell anything? Did you

(01:49):
do anything for God? I had a racket going on
at school. Hold on, do you remember those rubber things
that you would throw against the wall and at least
spider and they would crawl down the wall. Yes. So
I found a machine, those little machines where you put
twenty five cents in you twist the thing and it
would come out and look a little little bubbles, plastic bubbles.

(02:11):
So they were twenty five cents, but most people were
spending at least seventy nine cents at the local store
for those I'm like, huh, I'm gonna just buy out
the entire machine for a quarter apiece, and they were
the biggest thing at school, and all the kids at
lunch time would come to me and I would charge
seventy five cents, which was like after tax from seventy

(02:33):
nine cents, It's like close to like a dollar. I'm like,
I'm giving your bargain seventy five cents for I Meanwhile,
I'm tripling the price on what I paid. It was.
It was awesome, and it was like two weeks long.
And then they got band at school and then I
got shut down. That's phenomen I get a lot of credits.
I did something very similar with POGs. So they were
these little circular things and then you would use a

(02:55):
coin to try to flip them, and like you would
play at lunch time, so everybody would not play dodgeball
or just run around. Were degenerate gamblers at the age
of like ten, so we're all sit in little circles.
I would buy packs because they would come in packs.
I would buy packs just like you did with your thing,
for like five bucks, and then I would sell double

(03:15):
the packs for at least bucks. So I was breaking
in almost a hundred bucks every month of just of
simple cardboard pods. That's great. Yeah, you were an entrepreneur.
I was not an entrepreneur. My friend Chris Schwartz though
in high school, he was an entrepreneur. He would pirate
porno video so smart, so were they porno pirate movies.

(03:40):
I'm gonna hook you. I have a patch on my eye,
but I'd like you to put your patch on this plank.
He sold me Miami Spice too, which by the way,
much better than the first money. But he bought you know,
I bought it. I think I spend like ten dollars
on it. So he's like, hey man, you want to

(04:02):
come see how I do it. So I go to
his house in his closet, in his bedroom, he's got
three VCRs. All this is back in the days of VCRs,
and they're all running. So you would have the tape
playing in one VCR and the other two were recording.
I get this guy so much credit. He would be
an internal on the VHS, so he would play it

(04:23):
and then record it on the other two machines. I
had a cheaper version of that where we would projected
on the TV screen and we had a video camera
recording the t So get up. So when he would
bring would he sell you the porno at school? That
was kind of mean. It was an underground thing. You
had to know him, right, Yeah, it was, but you
would kind of think like giving you a VHS tape
at school. I mean VHS aren't small, so it would

(04:44):
be like, yeah, you know, you had to go make
the exchange of the locker and give the ten dollars
and get your porno video. And every every month he
was at new selections. I don't know, so I didn't
sell the pornos, but I would. I used to collect
comics and back in the day, boot like movies on
VHS like Empire Strikes Back in different movies, Ghostbusters, and

(05:06):
some of them would have like the editor numbers, like
when it with every frame had a number, so you'd
see the numbers running along the bottom. That's how you
knew it was an original copy. You weren't supposed to
have it. And so I had the double VCR thing
going onto my house and I would run off copies
of them and I would either sell them or would
trade them for like lunch cards or bus passes or whatever.
But one of my guys who had movies was the

(05:27):
porn guy. And so if you bought enough of his
like good movies, he'd throw a couple of porns on
the side. So I wasn't using them for resale, but
I was getting them on the side in my business
of selling you know the movies back in the day. Yeah,
but they they had like the silver lines going through them,
like so you had a hope that the silver lines
weren't covering the good parts because there were so many

(05:50):
copies parts. It was like hundredth generation porn. You remember
that tape, Like when VCR tapes would get old or
you'd copy the copy, that the cables weren't as good
as they are now. Eventually they would have like static lines,
and like sometimes the static line would be right over
the good part and you have to adjust the wheels.
And that's why my friend Chris had the master copy
that he would always record the macause when you record,

(06:12):
when you record anyway, is that what you called it?
I just I was an entrepreneur as well. I when
I worked at the gas station, I invented something called
no for real, called air oil. It was great. So
what we did was we had um a quart of
oil that was empty. So when a car came in
and they said, hey, can you check my oil? See
if I need you know, a court. We'd be like, okay,

(06:32):
no problem, and then we would check it and be like,
oh yeah, you need a cord oil. And we would
go inside and get the air oil, which there was
nothing in it, and then we take the funnel and
then stick it like you know, like take like this
was the air oil. This like just held it there
for a little bit. This isn't hustle. This is that's
an entrepreneur. And so many times, but here's the thing

(06:59):
that guys wouldn't keep the oil in and then he
gets home later, is that all things and his engines leak,
you know, burning all this And at sixteen and seventeen,
what did I really know about how much you know?
Broken engines? Okay, okay, okay? Now was this the business itself?
Was this a gas station owner telling you to do this?
Is this is your own idea? I was entrepreneur. I
came up with this. I told all the other people
at the gas station had to how to run air

(07:21):
oil deals. We were sounding like we were selling air oils.
I'm telling you, if you really worked the shift, and
you're admitting this right now, sure, you'd sell two or
three quarts of air oil and on that. I don't know,
but this is similar. We had red Rob. We had
read Robin up here. So I was a manager Robin
and the franchise I worked for isn't in existence anymore,

(07:42):
but I was a manager, and I after I no
longer worked there, I found out about all the scams.
So the wait staff would sell stuff that wasn't there's
like what Greg t did. We used to sell something
called the bamboo steamer. Right. You'd order like dumplings and
would come in a bamboo steamer thing that the kitchen
would put in a little fry pan of water. The
water would boil and steam through the little bamboo steamer thing,

(08:03):
which nowadays you could buy a bed, bathroom ond for
ten bucks whatever. But you would serve the whatever we
dumplings or shrimp in this thing. Well, people would go, hey,
that's pretty cool. Where do I get it? Because it's
before the internet when I worked there, and uh, the
wait staff would go, oh, it's ten bucks, and then
we go, yeah, well, let me have it. So they
would give it to them and go and just take
ten bucks cash. And they would sell stuff to the customers,

(08:25):
Oh you like that glass, it's four dollars, but from
the kitchen. Well, then as the manager, I go, oh,
we need to order more bamboo steamers and the white
steff and go, yeah, a couple broke yesterday, but they
were selling them and they're like, oh, you want want fries,
and people like any extras. If they go can I
get extra fries? They would go yeah, but they wouldn't
bring it up. They would just charge them for the

(08:46):
fries to take the money. The air thing I totally
make sense for. Or if you have ever been a
cashier in like a fast food place or any place
like a grocery store, when you start memorizing the prices,
so someone comes in buy a soda, like oh, dollar three.
You take the dollar three. You don't ring it in,
you just and you put it in the drawer and

(09:07):
then you put it like in a side thing, or
you put the money upside down. You keep track of
the money that's yours versus the money that's the stores.
I never did that, but I would like that, you
know me. You know, I did bootleg movies, but that
was before I knew this air oil. Though. You know,
we used to also do we used to having the pump.
The pump was great. So if you got a motorcycle,

(09:28):
or let's say, you know, one of the lawn guys
came in and then you need to fill up a
couple of tanks of gasoline or whatever, right, so they
would you know, you would leave it maybe like I
don't know, four dollars or something. So then when a
car came in and they wanted the gas and the
regular or the premium, you would just use the one
that was already like you didn't reset it, you know,
so you put it in somebody's car and then he

(09:49):
started at like, you know, three dollars, so like you
already got it, wasn't you didn't get the money the
bulls did? Oh you of course collected cash and put
it in your pocket. You you just you have to
have enough money to cover the No, they have to
pay you. The customer pays you what it is, but
you've already been paid, already got paid, right the motorcycle

(10:11):
guy already paid a shell game. Those motorcycles like the mopeds,
you know the matter back of the day, the moped.
Did you ever one of those general mopeds? The five
star generals? You have one of those. No, no, nobody did.
Oh my god. We used to have the five star
General moped. So the mopeds used to come in and
have to get gas, but they only took like, maybe

(10:32):
I don't know, two dollars worth of gas, three dollars
with the excess gas. So you hang the pump. You
never reset it. So when the car comes in and
they want to fill up, they're already starting at like
three dollars, you know, three dollars you're charging. So, so
like you come in with a moped, right, moped is
like a motorized bicycle. It's a small, little night like
a vessel. So you come in and you buy regular,

(10:55):
right you, I charge in three fifty, You pay me
three fifty. So then what happens is already comes in
with his car, right, a real car. He drives in,
He goes, I'll fill it up with regular, ten bucks, regular,
whatever it is, And I go, okay, no problem, and
then I just take the one. It's three fifty already
that that I didn't reset it, so I put it
right back in the car and I start going. So
all of a sudden he gets to the number he

(11:16):
wants to pay, and then I can't I, you know,
put the other cash in my pocket, so I hang
the bot. Okay, you better bring a lot of sunset.
I've been suspecting this for a long time. Um, two
gas stations across the street from each other, right, let's
just get to a bar. Let's just say they're one

(11:37):
is too fifty a gallon, the others three dollars a gallon,
and then right next to each other. Okay, Why is
it that whether I go to the place that's two
fifty or three dollars, I'm paying the same amount for
my gas. I suspect I don't know if you can
do this if it's a possibility that one of them,
the one that's to fifty is rolling the meter slower

(12:00):
digital they're faster or no, I've done the math, and
this one place this okay, If I have like a
ten gallon tank, let's say in my car. Why you know,
I've noticed that in some gas stations, right, I could
put like up to thirteen gallons of gas in there,
it stops at thirteen. So it's almost like it's slowing

(12:22):
something down. There's they're doing something to the electronics to
slow something down. So you're paying more money anyway, So
you think you're getting a freaking bargain. And I'm saying
this because this is one gas station outside of the
Holland Tunnel that is so much more lower than all
the rest. And I'm like, how can they stay in business?
And I'm telling you, all of a sudden, they get

(12:44):
sixteen gallons of gas in my car and I'm paying
the same amount of money as I would have car.
They give you a receipt, you can easily look at
the gallons and multiply the price. I only have a
fun let's just say a fifteen gallon tank. How they
get in sixteen seventeen I'm saying, you're doing the math room,
that's what it says, seventeen point six gallons multiply. Okay,

(13:08):
Well maybe they hung the pump. Was it a zero beforehand? Yes,
there's no way something up with that gas, the green one,
right I think? Yeah? Yeah. First of all, we never
go to that one. I know exactly what you're talking about.
I don't writing me on green like they're called my gas.
I don't go there my gas. Yeah, I understand your promise.

(13:28):
If I want to get back to great Tea scanning,
YE can get in this room. Collectively we got like
a minute look, collectively come up with the definition of
the phrase hang the pump. It means I know what
it means, the technical definition, but I want to make
a new phrase to not reset the pump, to rip

(13:49):
off the next custom So ripping off the next person.
I was an entrepreneur, no no, no, no, using you
as a catalyst to come up with a new phrase
for everybody to use in daily like pumping. Fuck. Like
I want to say hang the pump, but basically what
I'm doing is fucking over the next guy. Hanging the
banging man. He's hanging the pump. But that's what we

(14:11):
always called it. So like it's like my buddy Pat
was there and I would, you know, come back all
smiling and he'd be like, what what's up? And I'm like, dude,
I hung the pump on the next car called the dump.
We dumped the money, screw over the customer. Yeah, okay,
you're hanging. We did with with with trainee oil. We
did it with everything like training you're talking about transmission, fluid,

(14:32):
you could do it all kinds the air pump transmission.
Don't you run the risk of the person looking at
the at the meter, and then a lot of times
people they don't understand the car engine. They never got out,
and when the hood's up, they can't see. Nobody can
see what's in their end to what's going on. You're
the hood like this, Look, we understand. It's a visual
and we're doing a podcast. Everybody looked the fifteen minute

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