Castle Super Beast Clips: Childhood Hustle Economy

[@eonhite]

"You are Z-Targeted now", this I'm literally going to use this in conversation now. Most underrated one liner I've heard in a decade of following these guys.

[@dahakaguardianofthetimelin4780]

My childhood hustle was being able to read English in an Eastern European country and therefore being paid Yugioh cards that were the actual currency of the school that could have been traded for money and goods of different variety just to act as a ref in schoolyard games of Yugioh while at the same time telling people if their cards were good or not. After the first couple of months, I've reached the level of trust in the schoolyard amongst people 4-5 years older than me where I could have made up whatever sort of bullshit effects for normal monsters just because a guy promised me something akin to a pack of crisps afterward. I'm working as an assistant attorney now, BTW, don't know if that's scary or not given the crooked, hand-grease-based economy I've held in my eight-year-old grip for two to three years until I changed schools...

[@malikoniousjoe]

DAHAKA, GUARDIAN OF THE TIMELINE You just Vegeta'd it. You were bad but now you took that power and knowledge to be crooked in more charming ways :)

[@GundiMike]

"We have no options." Implying Woolz is still a kid.

[@Abdega]

When he goes down memory lane he is

[@iller3]

I feel like if the SBF was an Anime, then this would be the only Origin Story needed b/c it explains a lot. (aside from a couple Maddentown flashbacks too)

[@arbyw.1889]

They weren't expecting Woolie to become such a beloved character so they chose to give him a full backstory in season 2, effectively making him one of the main protagonists.

[@arthurgomes5188]

The maddentown arc is an OVA made by the creators so they could explain the oringin of woolies ability ( *Bring me to life* ) and why it's like Pats *Crazy talk* after they decided to make woolie one of the main characters of the show

[@Scott-ld3cg]

Woolie is the Rock Lee of the SBF and now these are his Ninja Pals

[@noellesato311]

Scott Trusdale His Nakama

[@iller3]

@@arbyw.1889 I'll be honest, Neither was I

[@Noelle808]

See, this is why you gotta call the kids who take over your job scabs and beat them up. Teach them some class solidarity.

[@manticorephoenix]

Kids together strong

[@toddvogel8887]

I once had a history project stolen out of my locker, none of the teachers believed me and said that "You must've just lost it, start over." and i had worked on it for like a month by this point and there was around a week left til it was due. I got a D on it and the kid that stole my stuff got an A and the teacher refused to believe me that all his stuff was mine and that he had stolen it from me and she threatened to drop my grade to an F if I kept talking about it.

[@brokentower3148]

those little chairs are good for fucking people up but the short bus is not worth it

[@InContemplation]

This is why I actively refused to put shit in my locker besides books, 'cause I was one of the people actively stealing shit. Knowing where peoples hideyholes were was a must, especially since nobody could prove you took shit. Unattended bags were also quick cash.

[@amaizeing.dumbass5123]

I had to wonder if you tell to your parents about that as***le teacher, I'm sure they could talk to the principal about the stolen project

[@ubermaster134]

Im glad our schools don't have lockers so stuff like this didn't really happen

[@coltondavis7022]

Do you really think in America we just walk around and find ammunition on the ground like we’re in resident evil?

[@sentinelplayztm922]

In Texas I do

[@kingofthemoon3063]

In Arizona. I find bullets and shit on the ground quite often.

[@InvaderKaz2008]

In rural Washington it's almost weird to *not* find any .22 carts on the ground.

[@coltondavis7022]

FoxOwne well out here in urban/suburban Washington we clean up our casings.

[@Willowposting]

You don't? You sure you're in America, chief?

[@warzone822]

Local black youth with dreadlocks goes from humble dishwasher to coke pusher

[@arthurgomes5188]

The canadian version of breaking bad looks great

[@blaacksugar7714]

He was always pushing coke. The dishwasing job is a front.

[@oxybe]

mid 2000's, like 2004ish. I finish college and moved out of my parent's. This one dude in the shared house... wall to wall burned games and movies and stuff. Basically a black market Blockbuster. I remember every time going into his room and that dvd burner is chugging along, fulfilling his clandestine order for terrible movie rips, early aughts anime fandubs and "Totally not Halo 2".

[@RubyRoks]

What an absolute heckin legend

[@ethicalcheeze1407]

Sounds like my kinda guy

[@samditto]

Goblins alone weak, Goblins with CD burner strong

[@XShrike0]

12:08 It wouldn't surprise me if that camera system had no recording capabilities. It is just just a feed and is only useful is someone is sitting there, staring at it, and witnesses an event.

[@fenrir3097]

Respect the child hustles

[@sphealingit222]

Remember, Security officers don't exist to protect your rights, only the property rights of the business that hired them.

[@GTOmegaZ3000]

i.e. Rent-a-cops

[@tonlito22]

As a Security Officer I will say this, I am not legally or contractually obligated to help, but there are situations where I am morally obligated to help. Unfortunately my ability to help often begins and ends with "tell manager".

[@Sigismund697]

well they are private security so it makes perfect sense actual public cops are the ones obligated to help at all times in theory of course

[@zgSH4DOW]

Was that supposed to be insightful or

[@zaodedong9935]

@@tonlito22 Worked overnights at a drydock and if anything were to go down it would have been, "Call police." It was a cushy ass job, played games, got high and did my rounds every hour. 🤣

[@Gojiro7]

Woolie is always so astonishingly chill whenever his dead beat "left to go get cigarettes and never came back" dad gets brought up

[@yaddabluh8726]

I remember my high school hustle.situation was dealing yugioh and mtg cards. In a religious school back when dnd, yugioh and mtg were considered satanic, my mom was aware enough to realize they were just pieces of paper so she was ok with me hitting the local shop and buying them. This quickly turned into me being the local cards dealer of the school because for a pack that would cost 10$ i would charge 12$ and people did start to open tabs. I got extra expelled bc satan or some shit and my mom laughed her ass off the entire time the principal talked about the evil that these tiny cardboard rectangles were.

[@dawubber6676]

Ah yes. Angelic Arbiter, Satan Incarnate.

[@nedinnis6752]

I wish I had parents that cool, good on her.

[@CCBrown92]

It's always trading cards that's the hustle, isn't it? I remember vividly people would build their own brown bag packs and upsell the shit out of them.

[@madamastersgaming]

Christian schools wete the BEST

[@Broomer52]

I was in a Midwest High School in 2013 my senior year. Small town in the middle of no where that a highway passed through. So when we finally got school issued IPads criminal activity was sure to follow. They blocked certain sites from being activated and in comes my classroom. My landscaping class was that in name alone because the teacher clearly did not care about teaching us landscaping. As a result our classroom became the Schools Blackmarket and the Teacher said he didn’t care as long as he got his cut, we was that guy. We sold Energy Drinks because Red Bull was popular in my school and it was banned in school grounds. We sold snacks of all kinds, and most importantly we had a resident tech wiz who figured out how to break past the site security on those IPads. The school itself obviously didn’t know and the Landscaping class had a good racket going on. We’d only do the occasional work assignment to basically keep appearances. Because it the school noticed their was no work being given in that class the teacher would lose his job. Everyone made sure to visit us during class hours and not free time in between classes. They’d leave to “go to the bathroom” and visit us.

[@Dae-D-Ellis]

Finding ammunition in a mall or other store is still a bizarre occurrence here in the U.S. and normally isn't a good sign either.

[@DaGrox94]

Walmart.

[@Dae-D-Ellis]

@@DaGrox94 I was more meaning in places that don't sell firearms.

[@manticorephoenix]

@@DaGrox94 I mean even then the typical Walmart supervisor would be on the employees ass to be sure not to have expensive ammo just lying around in the sports department cause it's their ass if the product goes missing, but Walmart being Walmart mistakes will be made

[@YummyNukes]

@@DaGrox94 nah it's borderline impossible to buy guns and ammunition nowadays at Walmart, you need a shit ton of paperwork

[@swagtasticpanda]

also not every Walmart or Target in the nation sells firearms? I love me a good ribbing on the ole us of a but that detail is always left out.

[@HonestlyJustSomeGuy]

I think storytime stuff in this channel is tied for my favourite content with Woolie VS God and Kirby Lore.

[@FightCain]

This is the story of Woolie Job, Who praised god on daily basis and Still praised god when the soda market fell but dandelion picking demand grew.

[@tailedgates9]

"This is MY corner!" Angry teen Woolie getting mad over his racket being stolen is cracking me up. XD

[@AfroMetalMizu]

No longer TEEN Hustle...but CHILD Hustle... FBI OPEN UP MR. BOIVIN

[@manticorephoenix]

Says right on the tax returns "Patrick FuckBoivin" we got him dead to rights

[@whiteblacklight9603]

No, you see, Pat's height legally classifies him as either a child or an ambassador to the Goblin Kingdom (which gives him diplomatic immunity).

[@vistea1]

@@tsarzamancorpdna Pat: W-What the fuck are you accusing me of?! I'd like to see what proof you got! *Pat then proceeds to make the stupidest face imaginable.*

[@YummyNukes]

Pity the child whose school didn't provide soda machines

[@tanyaharmon6739]

It was tough I'll tell ya that

[@TheTexasDice]

Never having them would have been fine, but I was right in that generation where the soda was TAKEN from me! First the soda, then the juice and last, the chocolate milk. All they had after that was a 3$ bottle of water.

[@kylo-benshapiro687]

A friend of mine did a similar hustle as woolie but are robotics teacher found out about it and coopted the hustle and put the money he made into the schools FRC team

[@arthurgomes5188]

You know that things are not going well when a teacher finds out that the kids are doing something illegal and his response to it is trying to get a cut for himself to buy teaching material

[@kylo-benshapiro687]

since a robotics team isn't a sport we didn't get any funding from the school.

[@manticorephoenix]

Was at a school that had a zero tolerance policy in regards to theft, as if anything that was on the banned list was stolen, they'd have zero tolerance for assistance. And let's say if a textbook of yours was stolen, the reply they'd give you was the same as if the book was on the banned list

[@goblinrat6119]

I'm pretty goddamn convinced that every attempt to make kids appreciate hard work and effort or money or whatever just teaches them that honest labor fucking sucks and people are trying to take advantage of you. Mostly because kids aren't stupid and realize that's exactly what's happening.

[@tychoazrephet3794]

There is nothing capitalism loves more than free labor.

[@saynotop2w]

AKA internships

[@codyblea3638]

My dad had a pretty good hustle going. He got me to start picking up sticks when he did tree jobs. I did that for gameboy games. I did laborious work for gameboy games. Then, when I got older and was doing more tree cutting. I accidentally started a hustle. So I started climbing trees for technical removals. My mom got me some awesome Duluth work pants because the bark was tearing up my other pants. She couldn't get them in my waist size so she got the next size down. When I would wear those pants and climbed trees on older ladies' property, I would get a really nice tip. 50, 100 buck tips from middle age and up women. I then put two and two together. My tight pants as I was climbing was giving those old ladies a show. Yeah... the realization made me feel a little dirty.

[@TheRadicalOneNG]

15:35 Yeah Pat, I can't go outside without tripping over some naturally occurring spare ammo

[@egg2520]

In my school, because we had way too many students in each grade, we were allowed to eat in the halls during lunch. Every day at lunch dudes would walk the halls with duffel bags or big backpacks asking if anybody wanted to buy chips but they had much more than that. Honey buns, sour straws, gummies, etc. They had actual corner stores in their bags. If you wanted something there was someone else in the building doing their rounds. Sodas were harder to carry around because of the shaking of the bag but they did carry Gatorades. The going price for most things was a dollar. The lunch hustlers are a piece of my high school memories that make me want to go back. Fun days

[@swagtasticpanda]

the real hustle is gamestop giving you 3 bucks and some change for starfox 64. hope them chips tasted delicious woolie!

[@Polymathically]

Reminds me of my mom. She grew up poor in the slums of The Philippines, alongside several siblings. They all had to hustle to support themselves and each other. So she'd get up early every morning and go catch frogs at a nearby river. She'd take the frogs back home and cook them, and then sell them door to door around the neighborhood. She'd then use the money from that to buy candy, which she then sold at her elementary school for premium prices. She made a killing off of that. As for me, I did the usual typical mowing lawns, trimming trees, etc. $25 per house. Definitely not as cool as cornering the market on elementary school candy trade. But I did start my career early, when I got a paid internship/entry level position for a major bank when I was only 15. It was only supposed to be a summer job, but ended up becoming a full-time thing after college. I worked 2 other jobs and put myself through college without student loans, but that's another story.

[@CCBrown92]

Dude, good on you!

[@MichaelWasnotTaken]

Free ammo? Who didn't respawn?

[@FrostedZaibatsu]

My cousins use to tell me they would put sugar in Kool-Aid in a bag shake it up to make powered candy. They called it "Happy Crack" and sold it to the kids at school. The hustle is real

[@awsomesaucekirby]

When i shoveled snow in the neighborhood, you could knock out a house in an hour and a half, 30 min if you roped a sibling into helping. And they usually paid $20 per house

[@awsomesaucekirby]

Eventually i got a real job and just shoveled the community sidewalks for public safety purposes

[@manticorephoenix]

Had to shovel snow on the sidewalk in front of our house to keep from being sued if they bust their ass on it

[@awsomesaucekirby]

@@manticorephoenix i mean, isn't that the same reason, just a different angle?

[@FightCain]

awsomesaucekirby Niiiiice. Wish it snowed at my place. I usually mowed and raked during summer / fall but get super bored during the winter, since I’m living in the south, barely snows and it’s hot during some days in the winter. It’s super boring.

[@toontastic25]

This is way you buddy up with the security. They will always have your back.

[@qtshutin3030]

The more I think on it school just sounds like prison.

[@SixArmedSweater]

It is, ultimately. You’re not allowed to leave, you don’t have rights, you’re forced to do work, and they can punish you however they want.

[@Raven_Frame]

In the first two and a half minutes I am already wrought with regret. Trade in your Star Fox Memories for some pop and chips, a whole industry designed around hustling kids and people who just don't know the value of games.

[@blaacksugar7714]

I never hustled as a kid, but I did watch a cartoon that involved juvenile hustlers. They were called Ed Edd'n Eddy. Jimmy low-key was the best hustler and a really good schemer.

[@strykertron232]

In my private catholic high school, everyone got a Lenovo T420 laptop. My hustle was to pirate games and then distribute them (free of charge, because I got spooked at the law basically saying that charging for pirated content being explicitly illegal). I probably introduced a still circulating copy of Gearbox's Halo: Combat Evolved.

[@TheOscuras]

Easily one of my favorite conversations these guys have ever done

[@jerQCote]

Wait, you could hustle on soda? That sure beats my Adderall racket from high school

[@arthurgomes5188]

Honestly it's kind of impressive how children can get adicted to the most simple stuff, i used to sell Harry Potter and Spiderman stickers in middle school and some of the other kids would waste all their lunch money and whatever else they had on then to buy the stickers (even though it was a know fact that i sold then overpriced)

[@Yal_Rathol]

i feel my parents did me a disservice by actually being relatively wealthy, because i didn't have to bust my ass and hustle to get stuff. i didn't end up with that can-do attitude. it probably helps that i was always the good kid while all my siblings were shit disturbers at best and actively hostile at worst, so i generally got stuff i wanted just because.

[@zanly5039]

that's an interesting perspective, actually

[@bangormc3rd562]

We had lockers that you could lift the side without the lock off the hinges and get your arm in that way (with the lock still on). I had my lunch stolen ONCE before I brought a couple of mousetraps from home and set them on top of my books. That same day, a guy in my class named James left school early with a broken finger and wouldn't say what happened. I made sure people knew what happened, and never had anything taken again.

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

24:18 sell the surplus to your competitor, then he has what he thinks is variety, you gain more in general, and you have more space. Just hope he doesn’t realize the cream soda isn’t moving

[@alephnole7009]

As a kid my school had a harsh anti trading card game rule. If you were caught with pokemon or yugioh they would take them and put them in the paper shredder. So I started printing out fake yugioh cards and selling them to the whole school at a discount price.

[@TeamHedge]

Man, for someone like me that especially hates it when people mess with someone's personal belongings, fuck the school staff who actually did that! Even if they were cheap trading cards, it's still something the kid probably had to work for to buy or the kid's parents got as a gift/reward. It's kind of an over the top comparison but to me it's no different than a teacher smashing your Gameboy or for today's age, a smartphone with a frickin' hammer just because they found it on your person when they're not allowed on school premises.

[@randomfox12245]

If i was a mother fucking parent and heard about that shit I would lose my mind and go to war on that fucking school They are literally taking MY MONEY that my child bought that shit with and shredding it. I would raise so much hell over that.

[@tylergregoire1763]

Huh. I thought this conversation was longer...

[@RavenCloak13]

Tyler Gregoire Right?! It felt like an hour.

[@pontiacsuncrest7622]

If you give the youtube masses the FULL convo that shit would be like 3/4 the podcast lmao gotta have some incentive to go listen to it

[@iller3]

had to cut out all that bonus content about Teenage Hustlers b/c the FTC

[@crystal2862]

Even as an american, I'd say it'd be pretty spooky to see a gun shell on the ground. I've never seen one before and I've lived here all my life

[@syrushbluhr]

In mexico in the 90s children around 8-12 years old instead of reparting newspapers, they offer us to sell subscription to get money and prizes like travel to disneyland, and... Always always the kid with a rich family that bought all the subscriptions are the ones getting the good prizes. I only could sold 2 subs in the spam of a month house to house, getting 10 dlls in rewards, equals to $200 psos, and new consoles (snes/n64) were in value of $400 dlls or more. That was bullshit.

[@vivamexico254]

O my god I tought I dreamed that shit...

[@FightCain]

Damn... That’s heartbreaking.

[@shadowace2400]

I only bothered with that shit ONCE, when I had to sell 300 dollars worth to pay for my fare for the Choir trip to Washington DC. Parents couldn't pay for it, and I wanted to go on at least ONE of those trips you hear about people going on in high school, and went door to door until I managed to get about 4 or 5 or so people to buy from me. I then decided Sales were NOT for me. Got to go on that damn trip tho.

[@syrushbluhr]

@@vivamexico254 and i wasnt counting how much money was a dllr on that time, but our currency got dumped from 1993 to this day. So we have luck if our parents care enough to purchase something like that but always felt burrow. (i had both system, but they trade the previous one to get a new one, etc)

[@Apemopo]

the satisfaction on Woolie's face at 21:52 is so golden

[@Lukkilikka]

a guy hired me and my friends to rake the leaves and promised like... 20 marks? i forget. we did it and he gave us half of the promised amount because 'you did it so fast'

[@Abdega]

That’s like in the 2002 spider man movie (Also screw that guy)

[@toko099o]

In Canada live ammo isn't on the ground? So how do you clear the level without live ammo pickups on the street?

[@emacthegreatest1]

20:45 the moment Pat goes off on hypothetical imbeciles that Woolie just spent 10 minutes explaining how he was once one of them imbeciles.

[@francescolombardi3438]

"One imbecile instigating another"

[@charleschamp9826]

The cameras in my high school did not actually record. They did go to a set of TVs in the front office where someone could see them. But if they didn't catch something as it was going down, which was often the case due to the monitor also pulling double duty as a secretary or some kind of teacher's aid so they were always busy with other things, the camera might as well have not been there. They were betting on the camera just physically being there acting as a deterrent and it actually worked quite often since they somehow kept the fact that the cameras did not actually record anything somewhat of a secret. More often than not if they were questioning a student on something all they'd have to say is "We recorded you doing it" to get them to confess.

[@aliciafraser1835]

Outside of a single rifle casing that came from a veterans day event, I have never once in my US born life just found unspent ammo on the ground. I get we all look like gun toating maniacs to the outside world sadly, but it's it so bad that people really thinking finding bullets is a common occurrence here?

[@NekoKujo6785]

I'll be real. Back in October of last year I went to America for 7 weeks for a holiday. It was the first time I was over there and while I was having fun, a small tiny part of me in the back of my mind was thinking: "...Man, I hope I don't get shot." As I walk out of the hotel. Was thinking that for 7 weeks until I flew home.

[@aliciafraser1835]

@@NekoKujo6785 Well that's depressing. Maybe we should just get nuked off the face of the earth if people can't even visit here without worrying about stuff like that. I don't even want to know what media outlets make us look like. Like I'm not gonna say we don't have our far share of BIG problems but damn.

[@Shieldwall100]

A fair bit of the reports coming out of your part of the world show your citizens as having an automatic weapon in one hand and a bible in the other.

[@aliciafraser1835]

@@Shieldwall100 I, my friends, nor my family have ever even touched a gun outside of the shooting range (I've just never had a gun in my hand at all), though I'm well aware that barely counts for 1 percent of a country as big as our. And while I do hold a small belief that we're not placed on this earth for no reason... IE I'm mildly religious, I'm no where near the level of some people.... and while we do have a lot of fanatical Christians in this country, I'd say there are more who contest the bible then live for it. Honestly I hate that we're seen the way we are for the things the few do., it kills me inside, and I know it doesn't seem like the few sometimes, but it really is when you take into consideration just how big the US is, and how many people live here. I dunno... well, thanks for that depressing information I guess...

[@Abdega]

『Neko Kujo』 Don’t worry, Bullets are expensive

[@oliverrichardson4429]

15:45 it isn’t super common to find ammo in America, but I did find a shell inside of a transformers toy when I bought it from a thrift store.

[@kingofbel6499]

lmao that soda hustle Well, apparently I was rich cuz I never had to hustle during my school years. None of my classmates actually. There was only this one kid, which I hated, that sold me a couple of his PS1 games but that was it.

[@ebreshea1337]

You know they're canadian when they describe guards having their hands on their holsters as being terrifying.

[@luisalonso959]

woolie maden: the greatest soda deliverer

[@RubyRoks]

Sold gum in middle school Sold pop tarts freshman year Sold candy bars senior year Made more money than my brother selling cheap weed

[@cyberninjazero5659]

Pat out here trying to shill Labor Theory of Value while Woolie just bitch slaps that away with Product Quality

[@Eddrian32]

Tbf finding a shotshell lying on the ground in my neighborhood would be a bit suspicious, at best someone is being careless with thier ammunition

[@juniorjunior5884]

I remember a guy at my middle school used to push jawbreakers, I nicknamed him Kevin from Ed, Edd, n Eddy because of that.

[@NavigatorBR]

Older family member of mine did something like this when I was a kid. They had a CD holder full of blank disks with game titles written on them in sharpie for his console.

[@NilFox]

Woolie would make a good drug dealer.

[@mattallison5375]

I'm on this corner every day, with a superior product

[@davidharper238]

I resonate with Woolie's hustle so hard! For me, it was candy and eventually soda. It went great until my inferior competitor got caught and ratted me out though. The bit about inventing your own job or hustling SUPER hits for me. Fuckin' CHRIST.

[@connorsmith1005]

A stray bullet, weird but ok. A stray shotgun shell feels like 100X more nefarious.

[@DriscolDevil]

In high school, I was able to get Stubbs the zombie in a trade for the punisher. The kids joked that I was getting ripped off, because Stubbs was a really short game and was dumb. I of course knew better. Later I traded in that game and a few others at a game traders for fable because I figured I could always buy stubbs again. Now that game costs about 50 dollars used....

[@Muninnnr]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when Pat says that he lent 200 copies of Starcraft to his closest friends, is he saying that he had 200 close friends that he lent copies of the game to??? He's also literally saying that he lent FF9 to 100 of his closest friends (6:00), clearly indicating that he had 100 close friends. Wtf Pat? Do you just suck at english or were you somehow the coolest, most popular kid ever?

[@Abdega]

He was popular, and within the close 200 friends of his monkeysphere, there were 100 even closer friends

[@tymelthompson4182]

Woolies family was god fearing and Woolie wasn't. He had to sit still and take it. It was among the Maddens. It was real scrublord shit. They even stomped his hulk doll so Woolie couldn't give him an open coffin at the funeral of that guy he killed.

[@chaffXgrenade]

Pat looks slightly more rotund every time I see him Is he slowly evolving into a beach ball?

[@paranoidpanda7407]

At my school they did some kind of deal with Apple products and gave all the kids over a certain year Macbooks to "study" with. You bet there were kids selling cracked copies of Minecraft, Civ and more all while carefully dodging the school ITs. Not to mention there was a weekly secret code that you had to use to get around the school's firewall if you wanted to abuse their wifi system and access facebook/newgrounds/forums/etc, and you needed an in with the social media/tech kids in order to learn it.

[@HelixSnake]

I'm calling bullshit on the dandelion story because I was only paid 5 cents per dandelion rooted and clearing the entire yard only took a few hours and I had 10 dollars afterwards

[@theGreenGoblin]

Hearing them talking about the downfall of pretty much every comic book store around me in the early and mid 00’s is super fucking depressing. They all converted to Pokémon/Yu-Gi-Oh! and imploded within like 5 years. 😞

[@parodysam]

I swear I have a friend with that exact same dandelion story.

[@iamnuff1992]

We have G4 security guards taking money from banks and stuff. They're not visibly jumpy or anything, but one of them did get his hand cut off with a machete (they cuff themselves to the case of money that they take out of the bank) so... I can understand them not being especially cool after hearing that happened to one of their buddies. If it's a common longrunning thing of them being jumpy, it feels like a training issue.

[@MortalWombatI]

I think the setup to Woolie’s story got cut out here, clip starts in the middle of it.

[@SteelBallRun1890]

Woolie is just The Wire.

[@ArcRay20]

lived in texas all my life and growing up i have seen some left over shells once in a while, starting to wonder if those schools were in bad neighborhoods.

[@AgentTexes]

No Pat. It's not normal to find spent ammunition out and about in the US.

[@afterpasthours7504]

“It’s supply and demand old man, and you supplied us with the demand.”

[@johnathonjones5095]

this reminds me of my childhood hustle of candy condoms and duct taped wallets

[@tomasfong40]

What?

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

my school made it mandatory for every student to bring their own locks for their lockers, and I got in trouble for not putting a lock on mine and when I pointed out "why would I need a lock when I never put anything in the locker? I just keep all my books in my bookbag, and I don't bring anything of value to school anyway." I was told "we need every locker to have a lock, and you're responsible for yours."... so I just got a lock put in on and forgot about it... then the quarterly locker check happened where every student needed to open their locker to be inspected and cleaned by the staff... and I got in trouble for forgetting the combination to my locker and requiring them to brake out the bolt cutters to get it off and reveal the nothing inside(because these lockers didn't even have those little slits in the doors that someone could have used to slip trash and papers into it)

[@theangryfinger5795]

AOE 2 was my first pc game hustle. It's how I first learned how to generate/find cd keys

[@RichardBlaziken]

My mom packed me a lunch for school every day, and almost every day from grade 1-7, I'd trade that PB&J for Pokemon cards, Yu-Gi-Oh cards, cash, whatever I could get for it. Kids really wanted that PB&J lmao

[@wednesdaygeckok.7899]

My locker in highschool latched properly but the problem is it was just ever so slightly bent and the lock was built into the locker itself Combination? Unnecessary. Drop kick? Flawless lockpicking tactic

[@splycer172]

Make your own value, kids. People have been turning profit by shuffling shit around for thousands of years, it's a time tested method!

[@sylverlune]

Yeah what's up with security not allowing to show camera footage for theft reports?! My DS was stolen along with all my games and I ask for the security footage but they wouldn't do it, I thought I was just unfortunate but it seems like it's more common than I expected.

[@elijahnakumura4375]

We used to have “spinners”. Essentially paper made beyblades with cool color designs. Shit was a legit economy based off type of paper, color scheme etc. 20 sum kids standing in a circle throwing $5 bills around like its nun. Lets just say it aint last long

[@Biodeamon]

Yeah used game stores did kids real dirty. I remember thinking about all the happy memories when I traded in my copy of drawn to life (BEFORE the horrific sequel) and thinking that it sucked that I had to trade it in. Granted this was when the economy was good and I could trade in three games to get a new one, so I don't quite regret it and knew it was anecessity. Now you get paid literal pennies for some games

[@mindmaster323]

When Hostess went out of business I was in 11th grade. There was a Hostess about a 20 minute or so drive from my house. So I had a friend drive me to this Hostess store and buy like $50 worth of stuff, cause everything was super fucking cheap, and I'd make about upwards of $150 a week selling twinkies and cupcakes and ho-ho's.

[@justrenderin1279]

Okay so my childhood hustle was me selling those 24 packs of candy bars they sell for 18 bucks. But we would disguise it as "Fundraising for Church Youth Events". My brother and I did this for months.

[@shadowreaverrising1753]

Only hustle was getting lunch for free or skipping it all together. My birthday was close to Christmas so I got around 800 at the end of the year. Me and my brother cut grass, trimmed tree's and clean gutters for free as a punishment.

[@theprofesionalist7927]

School Security: Oh a petty theft is occurring; guess I'll just look the other way. Also School Security: Oh shit that kid has drugs: he has to be stopped!

[@gabrielperrella]

This. This deserves more likes.

[@Abdega]

“But I’m only selling drugs to pay for the stuff that got stolen!” Security: Yeah yeah, tell it to the judge

[@goodninji8]

Woolie confirmed to be a fan of Death Stranding decades before the concept was in Kojima's brain.

[@gan5920]

security guards aren't public servants, why would he care about your own property being stolen lol.

[@TerasOde]

Hold on, I swear this hustle talk was atleast like one & a half hour portion at the start of the live podcast, or do I remember this wrong?

[@undecidedmajor1664]

I am chagrined to hear that Pat thinks unfired ammunition laying on the ground is not uncommon in the US

[@Biodeamon]

fanon: "canada is such a peaceful country where everybody is nice!" canon canada:

[@FightCain]

I was thinking about weed, since a lot of middle/high schoolers sold them at my M/HS and fights broke out between the dealers during lunch.

[@y4wnd3r3]

Back at my high school we had vending machines but they were shit vending machines with the healthy snacks and juice and shit that no one wants. So kids started fucking bringing duffel bags full of sodas, honey buns, hot chips, the fuckin works. All you gotta do is drop a $1 in the bag and you get the shit you want. It was a whole fuckin ring, and people were selling shit at the top and bottom of every stairwell. Eventually it got so bad that the higher ups had to ban duffel bags. This obviously caused a massive problem for the athletes, but this kinda shit is always funny to me.

[@LifesNeverHumDrum]

Respect the security camera hustle

[@vantablack6288]

this was a good 5 hour cast

[@RosesofWillows]

Man, I would've been the one to buy the cream sodas! I'd've brokered a deal, though. If Woolie sold 'em for 50 cents (I'd do 75, but whatev's), accept only up-front payment. No tab.