How to Get Rich Selling Whale Poop

Whale poop is washing up on beaches in New Zealand, and some of it is worth ten thousands of dollars per kilo. Known as ambergris, the substance is highly valued by perfumers. But such are the rewards, New Zealand’s ambergris scene is cloaked in secrecy and veiled threats.
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[@darth_gooby4484]

Headline of the century

[@crowone1293]

@4:31

[@joebeetz1832]

Too bad all the plastic garbage washin up on every beach in the world ain't worth something.

[@elvizco7188]

Man is smart not giving out details of how much he's made over the years

[@chenen2995]

how to attract chicks then

[@TYE757]

I wish my sh*t was worth money, only thing I get is a costly water bill

[@FMFvideos]

You just have to eat some pellets of gold.

[@palmside5613]

@Mrs. Lovely Facttss😂😂🤣🤣

[@Sara-gl8ue]

If you're healthy and meet the requirements, there are companies who will buy your poop for pretty good money. They use them for fecal transfers.

[@Yasser.Osman.A.Z.]

I went inside a musk store in Saudi Arabia, they offered me processed poop,, oil. a gram for 1200 dollars. I was asking for the best product they have, seven days later showering twice or three times a day, the smell was still on my body, and it was amaaazing.

[@RoninMike-DR]

Date: so what do you do for a living? Me: I'm a cetacea excreta amasser

[@ericcloud1023]

Fancy lad! I left some exotic sentient sapien excreta at my neighbors door the other day, and since it was his birthday I had a candle on it well he opens the door and wouldn't you know slams his foot all over it! Ruined the bag it was in to

[@RoninMike-DR]

@@ericcloud1023 it's never about whether what you're doing is smart or not as long as you can make it sound intelligent 👌

[@danielfonck3744]

me: working, coming to youtube to put some music. vice: how to get rich selling whale poop. me: sure why not :)

[@error404blah]

Imagine explaining this profession on a first date 🤣🤣

[@imranexltd]

Sr. Whale Pooper

[@maxrebo8455]

It’s not really whale poo, and it usually isn’t defecated either, but stays in the intestines sperm whales until it dies before floating to the ocean surface and potentially making it to land. It eventually oxidises solid in the sun and air. How do I know all this? My daughter did a science project for it at primary school.

[@terenarosa4790]

Smelling poop on the beach to determine if it's from a whale or a dog (or homeless person if you're in California.)

[@OhSoNasty]

Went to LA the other day. Disgusting amount of homeless people. Tent city

[@j.lahtinen7525]

What I don't understand is why collecting ambergris would be illegal anywhere? How does it threaten the species if you collect it's poop? One would think the opposite actually - if the whale produces a valuable commodity in it's poop, that would make any prospective ambergris hunters and buyers want to ensure that the species thrived, would it not? It's not like, say, rhino horn, or ivory - it's something the animal discards, and no animals are harmed in collecting it.

[@tommychoppa7564]

Easy mate. Government doesn't make any money when its legal but can make some when its illegal. Fines, tax payer money for "enforcers", and probably a secret rouge group of people collecting and selling it illegally with no competition since almost no one is actively looking for it. Outlawing stuff has always been a money maker that's why the government loves to create laws and get rich off everyone else's loss.

[@codysmith605]

It's like the goose that lays the Golden eggs people just can't help but cut it open and get all the eggs at once.

[@kellychuang8373]

@@codysmith605 That can really be the case and with times now it's really getting a whole lot worse.

[@Zeeangelofdeath]

It’s illegal because it’s being collected from a endangered species. I’m pretty sure there were cases where people stalked the whales to collect from them causing them to feel similar to the way paparazzi treat stars. Basically disturbing their natural way of life

[@Jozeemoss]

Couldn't agree more

[@unclechinsyou8555]

The fact that we get free documentaries on KZbin by VICE News is truly a gift 👍

[@BeardedDragonMan1997]

Obama

[@BeardedDragonMan1997]

Sussy

[@AwesomeBlackDude]

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[@AwesomeBlackDude]

Look up--> Why Whale Poop Is So Expensive | So Expensive

[@brandonjohnson1257]

Shut up, they don't do it for free

[@timkruger3257]

I imagine you can get rich so long as the poop is whale made.

[@luizgutierrez6920]

Lol

[@martenkrueger8647]

😂🤣😜😎!!!

[@stevengill1736]

I actually found a small piece of ambergris on a remote California beach when I was a kid. My older brother told me about it. I remember the smell to this day....waxy, musky, piscine. But that was back in the early 1960s, and you could still find glass fishing net floats on the beach too....

[@codysmith605]

I was working cleaning remote beaches on Vancouver island recently and we found 6 glass floats in the three weeks we were working.

[@vexare6547]

This is actually very interesting to watch

[@seanthompson2259]

Time to visit my ex’s septic tank

[@efrenjrramos7591]

😅😭

[@rimstho]

This is the vice I miss and grew up on

[@Shikoh1]

how do people comment this exact comment all the time lol. Vice makes a fuckton of videos they aren't all for you

[@proculusjulius7035]

@@Shikoh1 thank you.

[@jvmartiniano]

@@Shikoh1 i swear... vice fucking doing videos bout literally everything in the world... from afghanistan to whale poop and ppl will keep complaining... lmao

[@ThePerfumeGuy]

Great video, very educational! :)

[@az717able]

I love your videos ambergris rocks

[@tepezcuintlesalpicon]

Except it's wrong

[@Nietabs]

A

[@Granicus-]

@@tepezcuintlesalpicon Really?

[@Max865-]

Dead as hell not old grandpa coming to get educated about ambergris… dude has all synthetics in his perfume collection must suck to have spent that much on a collection and not have anything with real ambergris in it…..

[@fablopez]

I thought Pep Guardiola was working for Vice now 🤣🤣🤣👍🏼

[@mrbangbang18]

Lol..

[@arislopes1924]

Moctezuma was getting the most expensive high on human history lfmaoo

[@mrgritz4761]

Train a dog to smell it

[@michelelara5982]

New Zealand is a beautiful place, I would love to visit one day…

[@Josh0ut]

Any diehard Bob's Burgers fan already knew what this video would be about

[@brycemartin54]

Lol thank you lol only reason I know about this lol

[@Tangerineskies22]

Omg I just shared this to my Bob's Burgers fan club group 🤣

[@Tangerineskies22]

Mickey Tank Bank 🤣

[@jeannietimberger2556]

Every time I go to the ocean I dream of finding a piece!!!

[@usmankashmiri2157]

Masha allah nice!!!

._.

[@norapper6182]

you could have mine 💩

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

you can probably find out somewhere if you even have a chance to find it in your area. you can also find amber the same way though, which is why ambergris is named amber grease. on baltic sea beaches for example, people have been collecting amber since forever. nowadays tourists are warned against it because there is white phosphorous from WW2 incendiary bombs that looks and floats somewhat amber-like, and if you put that in your pocket, it will self-ignite as it dries. burning white phosphorous is not something you want in your pocket.

[@tejindersharma1456]

@@norapper6182 😄😄😄😄😄 Made my day. 😄😄😄😄

[@FireAngelZero]

Everytime I hear whale poop it just brings me back to the episode of Futurama with the ambergris…

[@781tunafish]

Bobs Burgers also did an episode.

[@luisonetwo4333]

On god it does

[@DanielleGillespie]

I remember the Bob’s Burger episode on this!

[@vaultboy2252]

Same 😂

[@brucelee4996]

I'm waiting for the Family Guy episode.

[@batalorian7997]

Futurama is where I first found out about it. It was nice seeing it on Bob's Burgers about a decade later

[@aztecwarlord1277]

Me: I'll get a job and make money Him: I collect whale poo and the rest is history

[@kibabalefobaki9725]

What do you do for a living? I sell whale poop.

[@williamwallace4080]

How much do you make? A sh*t tonne of money

[@TheColdestWater]

If whales can understand they would start charging humans for pooping :D

[@sparkeyjones6261]

lol, I've always thought ambergris was exclusively whale vomit. Never knew it could also be poop. I've looked for it on beaches since I was a kid, but have yet to find any. Unlucky I guess.

[@arbaz79]

It can be both vomit & poop.The one which is spit out by the sperm whale is poop and the one it digests is turned into poop.

[@QHAYNES]

My dad just brought a house in Riverton, just outside of invercagill were his brother lives, you know what I'm gonna be doing when I visit 😀

[@Nutty...]

Good luck! I hope you find some

[@chriskimsey7071]

Thanks to Bobs Burgers I already had some insight on this topic.

[@gha11]

great video. finally vice is back to what they do best

[@labelmeposh]

For now on when I make a mistake I'm going to say "oh ambergrise!!"

[@timchau727]

HAHA VERY NICE MY FRIEND

[@proculusjulius7035]

Ambegris....

[@proculusjulius7035]

Ambegris....

[@labelmeposh]

@@timchau727 🤣🤣

[@usmankashmiri2157]

Hi

[@MrBakedDaily]

Well I'm about to be swimming behind a whale holding a garbage bag.

[@culturedivined]

last thing i watched that even mentioned ambergris is from a futurama episode 😂

[@781tunafish]

Bobs Burgers also did an episode on this.

[@culturedivined]

@@781tunafish ah i don't watch that show lol

[@AcidOllie]

It's not poop. It's regurgitated ie, vomit.

[@arcatacompany]

thats what i thought, I have never heard of it referred to as whale poop and I think that they are making that up and that that is complete fabrication on a subject that has been known about for probably ten thousand years

[@codysmith605]

Whales don't vomit.

[@kineticenergy9613]

Weed industry is better at $10 a gram lol

[@jeannietimberger2556]

That's cuz it's a lot easier to grow weed than it is to find petrified whale poop ! 🤣

[@kineticenergy9613]

@@jeannietimberger2556 exactly lol 😂

[@Lion-rf8xi]

Nobody's is paying 10$ a gram for bulk prices in 2021, I'm in Colorado. I get an ounce for 100$.

[@jeannietimberger2556]

@@Lion-rf8xi in California I get an ounce for 80.. and I grow my own too 🤷

[@Lion-rf8xi]

@@jeannietimberger2556 How much for top shelf?

[@joshuacampbell3902]

Nice to know that they don't even make this video available in New Zealand. I had to use a VPN

[@RIDIKULUS-uw4gs]

Yo! josh? sorry this might be a silly question but just want to be certain. Are you from New Zealand?

[@ypatel1070]

Many people like the smell. I personally would go for agarwood

[@petegomez5280]

Finally a video I’ve been waiting to b made

[@q.x.6537]

Yo Pep we need u back coaching in Mac City mate

[@tylerhackner9731]

Of all things to sell 😂😂

[@TheBenefactorZ]

😂 Fr

[@Glowtroy1]

@@TheBenefactorZ the intro is funny asf 😭😭

[@TheBenefactorZ]

@@Glowtroy1 😂😂Fr

[@Immortal-Daiki]

Ambergris looks like a rock. They must’ve needed some type of training to spot them

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

it totally sounds like something you would find by dog nose, not by eye.

[@polamoussa722]

What does collecting ambergris has anything with the whales being endangred? It is not as if you have to kill the animal to get it

[@nevadag606]

If they all die there won’t be any poop to make perfume! How horrifying for humanity! (Satire) but in reality humanity doesn’t care about the loss of a species unless that species is beneficial to us somehow.

[@andyg1735]

Some people do kill them in hopes of cutting them open to find this.

[@evildude2135]

Because it's not legalised in places like the us and stuff, New Zealand is just about the only place you can get it since sperm whales aren't found in many places. New Zealand only has around 4.5 million people or something, pretty much all of whom aren't interested in making a living off of picking animal excrement on the beach. If other places that had ambergris had the sale of it legalised such as australia and the us, of which australia has 25 million people and the us has like 300 and something million, a bunch of people would take lots of measures to find new ways to get it, which could include the illegal farming or poaching of sperm whales.

[@dferbs]

Old man spilled the beans

[@sarssars-hm2ox]

I'm bringing my dog to the beach more often 🤣😂

[@quigpig455]

You'll have to train it to smell ambergris

[@loganhenry389]

This guy literally heard from experts how it’s pronounced and still keeps saying “amber-gree”

[@gwenjones117]

Vice needs to report more stories like this

[@davidz2562]

They'll never top Donkey Sex: The Most Bizarre Tradition!

[@kickballfever]

@@davidz2562 Cannibal Warlords of Liberia was pretty good too.

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

more get rich quick schemes?

[@yungsolopath2603]

Montazuma smoked it why?

[@hawkeyemadi]

Bob's Burgers. If you know, you know.

[@jasonmccord4580]

I'm already booking my flight and I haven't even watched the video 🤣🤣🤣

[@nartaga1624]

Bob's Burgers made an episode about this. lol.

[@michaelsmith3341]

that might mean I can sell my Quail poop maybe parrot poop and chicken poop. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MelloPintor]

I imagine training a dog to sniff this stuff out would be helpful, I wonder why they are not doing this?

[@AOAYUNARIA]

The dog would eat it lol

[@paulg3012]

If that dude scouting the beaches reads this he is getting one.

[@sarssars-hm2ox]

I think pigs are better but maybe that's the mushrooms thing or roots I don't know never to many get rich videos

[@jackycastillote677]

yes that we do but the problem to find a legit buyer.. we have ambergris..

[@EricxYi]

They're so soft spoken like they have to keep it a secret

[@robcramer7477]

Precious hamburgers?

[@doet707]

Bob's burgers was right

[@usernotfound904]

Just like the Bobs Burgers episode

[@Nic-xq1bt]

I seen the Bob’s burgers episode about this😂

[@ormpi1]

Hello store owner, im here to sell you a bag of crap

[@robertkerr9527]

I love how the auto translate confuses ambergris for hamburger 🍔🙄

[@jimjammy4100]

Bobs burgers already did it

[@K_Nasty]

Theres a bobs burgers episode about this. And futurama ..rosane describes this ...

[@buddy8080]

Finally a topic worth the attention

[@geniusben4503]

"What to look for, and what to smell for"

[@bigsidrealprisontalk9173]

It’s Worth 20,000 in my state

[@freebie808]

Step one: don't Step two: still don't

[@chrismessy]

Sorry but Bobs Burgers already showed me this

[@Max865-]

Dang we need to get dude some ambergris for his museum

[@ReVrENDT]

Whales are crucial to our environment and their poop is important in reducing carbon in our atmosphere.

[@iyanuolubori1601]

The way he casually touches the poo like it’s nothing.

[@hueypautonoman]

“Homp beck.”

[@Fog876]

Man we used to cook up ambergris when we were kids. My daddy was a hillbilly.

[@emperorfloch]

Lmao what???

[@jamal2982]

Do you have algae cancer by now

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

you mean a beachbillie?

[@TheSweetMartinez]

Do tell....we need the entire story please🙂 I personally can't wait. Please include the recipe.😊

[@3268right]

U lien lol

[@leosmi1]

Recently a man found one inside a dead whale.

[@tracylitsinger]

I found a huge chunk of something. Looks very very similar to the google pictures..how do I find out what it is?

[@bbmw9029]

You would think an enterprising chemist would figure out how to synthesize the stuff.

[@castroil5-405]

Thats the thing about ambergree and oud, it cant be synthesize by chemist, yet.

[@abcdefghijk8925]

Well you can have fake synthetic stuff or the real deal: whale digestive system + ocean water + sea air & sun with a percentage of luck mixed in.

[@fromunderthekilt6310]

They do. It’s called Ambroxan. They extract it from Clary Sage as it’s the same smell responsible for the smell in Ambergris.

[@dubzbeats1]

Good reason to start saving the whales 🐳

[@scotthenderson292]

Ha! Shoutout to my grampa! He always said I would amount to pile of sh*t! Well... Who's laughing NOW, old man??!!

[@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS]

/w\PunkROCK/w\

[@euanriddle2297]

Pep Guardiola doing bits as a journalist

[@jaimedelgado7529]

1- get a pet whale 2- feed it squid beaks by the bucket load 3- profit 4- ?

[@FranklynAlvarez]

You mixed up 3 and 4

[@jaimedelgado7529]

@@FranklynAlvarez thanx bud. im dyslecxsic.

[@imgonewiththewindfab]

So the fresh whale poop is not allowed? Only that stoney version

[@da9856]

Why is there no captions for this video

[@user-vh7pk4nw4p]

Nice work, so any link where we can sell it online ?

[@anthonymanjarrez2978]

VICE makes anything interesting. I'm watching a documentary on whale poop

[@rexasaurus3853]

When we covet whale poo. We forget our own poo.

[@DMack4rmTheWest]

Could’ve swore ambigris was whale vomit… but what do I know 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@neofulcrum5013]

I hope they thoroughly washed their hands

[@fongdimbulator]

I wonder how the larger chunks are formed? Apparently it can reach hundreds of kgs in mass.

[@loganduff601]

Some actual vice content

[@grahmmo8595]

Warm hamster 🐹 cage smell! 😂😂😂

[@Fl_Finesse]

D.U.I 3:58 😂

[@truthhurts3524]

Tina, Gene, Louise Belcher taught me this years ago.

[@ReVrENDT]

Do you have to keep using the crude word for poop?

[@TheForresterOD]

I thought it was whale vomit, not faeces

[@elisabethandersen1102]

I thought it was a type of bile, like gallbladder stones

[@CJusticeHappen21]

Bob's Burgers did it better.

[@joeyfive5245]

Sh*t that’s worth as much per gram as meteorites or skunk 😂

[@lovejuliet4969]

This was very very interesting,thank you💖🐳🐋🐙

[@carolgrier7774]

And here I thought it was the vomit that was a cherished find. Who knew

[@comicluigi7]

This guy has some good eyebrows

[@wescook1091]

New Zealand looks like a Dream