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So you know, we like doing episodes like 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:19.199 this where it's stuff that you see all the time, 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:20.600 but you never really think about it. 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:21.399 Part of you daily life. 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:23.600 Especially as kids, you definitely is part of daily life, 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.640 and even as adults, you know, you go to your 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:27.240 lunch room or something like that, it's. 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:28.080 Like, yeah, we see it. 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.120 We see a lot of stuff all the time, and 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.120 we don't realize like the money's all around us. We 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:33.679 actually the money is that money's all around us. 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:35.480 These episodes tend to do that, man, I'm telling you, 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:37.960 ever since we did Somebody like a trucking episode, every 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:39.200 time I see a truck on the on the road, 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.280 I might that's money, that's money passing. 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:42.480 I wonder who owns that? 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.720 Looking at the names on the truck, I'm like, damn, 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:46.119 your vision just changed. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.040 Yeah. So, without further ado, we got a very special 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:53.040 guest because Chief Edwards from Philadelphia North Philly to be specific. 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:54.920 Shout out to Philly. We had a lot of great 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.760 guests from Philly recently. We had well, we had Prince 0:01:57.800 --> 0:01:59.960 down now and Danish you know they was the first one. 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.800 And then we had oh, Sean Bullard shout out to Sean. 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.400 Shout Sean Bullard for sure. And then we have Prince 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.560 Donelle and Danis Chanelle. Then we had Whallow to sixty 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.120 seven and we have big business shot the big business. 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.280 So this is keeping right in line. This is keeping 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:21.960 right in line with the Philly Tis. So yeah, so 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:27.720 he's ill. He started playing basketball and but now he's 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.680 known for the vending machine, the vendom machine king on 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.160 social media if you follow him, crazy following on social media, 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.240 and he teaches people about vending machines. So he owns 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.880 vendo machines himself, over twenty vendor machines that he owns himself, 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.560 and he's been doing it for quite some time. And 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.120 like I said, I'm excited to know about this because 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.080 everybody has seen vending machines like you always see it 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:53.400 in school and camp and recreation centers everywhere. There's always 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.799 vending machines right when it's like you never really think, 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:57.799 or at least I never really thought like that's the 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:02.240 actual viable business. But he makes money obviously doing it, 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.120 and he's teaching people how to do it. So we're 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.000 gonna get a full education on the vendom machine business. So, 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.320 first and foremost, thank you thank you for joining us. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.480 Man, Thank y'all, thank y'all, yeah for sure. 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.600 So all right, so before we get into the details 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:17.359 of it, how'd you start, Like, because, like I said, 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:18.480 vendom machine is something. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.440 That all of us see all the time. 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.600 We always see vendo machines, right, But what made you 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.800 actually take a step back and say, like, this is 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:28.240 actually something I can make money on. 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.600 Well, I mean, the main the main thing was, for 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.360 the for the most part, I was working a lot. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.520 I was trying to look for something the supplement, you know, 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.360 my income now I was already getting that was passive, 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.960 so I wouldn't have to do more work. So you know, 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:44.960 that's what kind of led me to the vending machine thing. 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:49.800 But it initiated the thought. That thought initiated as far 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.960 as the idea of having a vending machine. When I 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.960 was younger, when I was playing basketball, it was a 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.800 recreation center. In particular, I used to always play that 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.440 on Sundays when we had practic this and during the 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:06.080 midst of the practice it was always a vending machine. 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.680 Lady will come out and change out the products and 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.880 the money from the gator rayed machine. So I always 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.120 saw her coming in and out and grabbing the money 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:16.800 and chasing out the products, and it was just something 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.160 I paid attention to because I was always noticed, like 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.840 she took a good amount of money that machine. So 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:24.520 I'm watching your pod, I was like, you know, I 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.080 wonder how much money is actually you know, and there 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.360 how much money she getting out. In my mind, I'm like, man, 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.560 I want one of those machines. But you know this 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.000 didn't happen until obviously years later because I was like 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.320 sixteen seventeen at that point in time. Now, you know 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:37.960 what's crazy. 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.400 I'm just thinking when you're telling that story, I don't 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.320 think I ever saw anybody taking I've seen people fill 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.200 up vending machines in my entire life. I don't think 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.640 I ever saw anybody take money out of a vending 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:49.200 machine before. 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:50.800 Maybe they do it like they don't want you to see. 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:52.560 Yeah, they might do it like three o'clock in the 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:53.680 morning when nobody's there. 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:54.440 Know that this dude's like. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:57.359 They don't want you to see. That's the lesson I 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.720 learned too, is not to let people see what you're 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:01.680 taking out of that machine. Because I actually had one 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:05.040 one spot that I was working with. It was a motel, 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.280 you know, and the owner will always kind of peep 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.320 and watch what I was doing, and then you know, 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:10.880 he was seeing me taking the money out. Then one 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:12.919 day he was like, man, I want that machine. You know, 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:14.560 I ended up I ended up selling it to him 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:15.839 and it was one of my best spots. But it 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:20.000 was like, man, I'm not letting nobody else. I'm nobody 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.680 do a real smooth hold the bag up close to it. 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:26.680 So you know, I'm real careful for that. Now. I 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.600 don't let people actually see how I'm moving and taking 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.839 the money out. Filling it up is nothing, but I'm 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:32.520 careful with the money. 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.120 Yeah, you gotta be careful with that for sure. So 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.839 all right, so what's your journey to get your first 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:37.480 vending machine? 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:37.560 Like? 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:39.960 How that look like? What was what was the story 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:40.359 behind that? 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:43.960 The journey to get my first vending machine was actually 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.480 a two year process. So the idea was like something 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:49.320 I'm thinking, like, all right, I got the idea in 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.480 my head, I'm about to do it today, like, but 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.960 the actual process took a long time because I had 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.200 nobody really to teach me what I was doing, and 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.240 I was just kind of, you know, fumbling around to 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.039 figure it out. So when I made up my mind 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.880 that I actually wanted to get a vending machine. I 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.040 saved up some money. I figured I would get him. 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.360 From just some searching online. I found the company who 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:13.120 actually places machines and they sell you the machine like, 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:17.040 so I contacted them. They gave me the price. I 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:18.039 saved up that money. 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:18.440 It was. 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.640 It was only like probably thirty five hundred or something 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.520 like that. And they give me a location with a machine. 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:28.120 So I go to actually check out the spot it was. 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.640 It was a decent spot. It was a hotel downtown 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.520 in Philly. So I'm like, oh, yeah, this looks good, 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.679 like you know what I'm saying. Hotel should be great. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.440 And then and the guy actually showed me where they 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.200 wanted the machine place. So I'm looking at the space. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.440 I'm like, I don't think a Vendom machine is gonna 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:44.840 fit right there. I was like, there's no other way 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:46.359 we could know whether where we can put it it 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.240 was too small. Yeah, I'm like, can we put it 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:50.080 in the lobby or something like no, we want it 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.480 right here. And you know, so at that point in time, 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.279 I called the company that I was buying and stuff 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:59.359 the machine from. They were coming from Maryland, so I 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.040 called them like, yeah, I don't think the machine is 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.000 gonna fit in this space. You know that they're talking 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.760 about having a machine placed, we might have to go 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.360 a different route. They was like, no, it's gonna fit 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.400 with trust us. You know we've been doing this a 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.240 long time. Don't worry about it. You got it. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:16.960 I mean the different type of machines is this machine 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:18.160 selling snacks sodas. 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.840 So this this was a combo machine. So they thing was, Okay, 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.960 it's a small machine and it should fit in any space. 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.120 Like this was one of the smallest machines that we got, 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.560 and it's gonna be good. I'm looking like, but it's 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.000 not going to be good. And this is what actually 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:32.640 taught This has taught me a lesson down the line, 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.679 Like you know, before you actually go out and buy machines, 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.880 you know, you gotta figure out your measurements and everything first. 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.040 But you know, so I tell them that they take 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:42.800 that too. I wur drive from Maryland, come all the 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.720 way down here. Long story short, the machine doesn't fit, 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.840 So it doesn't fit. I get my money back. Now 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:51.600 I'm back at the drawing board trying to figure out 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:56.240 wahama get another machine. So I ended up blowing some 0:07:56.280 --> 0:08:01.560 of that money. Obviously my podcast work. Yeah, that didn't work. 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:03.440 You know, I'm buying this, I'm buying that, and I'm like, 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.080 I got a couple of dollars left, but I still 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:07.960 I still want I still need to do something. So 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.280 I ended up spending about four hundred dollars on some 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.520 candy machines. So when I say candy machines, I'm talking 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:18.280 about gunball machines that you put the quarters in, you turned, yeah, 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.679 you get the money out. The ones I got were 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.320 called U turn so they were called U turn machines. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:26.800 Is that the ones like I put the quarters spin 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:28.560 spending in right, right? 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:32.319 He had the gunballs, skintus, peanut m and ms. 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.680 Those always seemed really unsanitary to me because there's no 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.480 there's no packaging on it. It just comes out as. 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.079 I've been in barbershops. But I've never seen them change. 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.160 So I'm like, yo, how some money. I'm not even 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:44.600 thinking that you're making money off this. I'm just like, 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.840 this is like a nice little treat until nobody changed. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:48.959 Yeah. 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.760 Yeah, So I mean so that's pretty much where I started. 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.640 I brought I brought four of them from a guy 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.880 who had a whole bunch of them, but he was 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:59.280 I guess liquidate in some of his He had like 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.520 forty of them he was selling. He was selling like twenty. 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:05.280 I brought four from him. I had one place in 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.400 a barber shop, like you should say it a recreation center, 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.040 and I think it was a piece of store. 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:13.839 A piece of store, and he's in gumball machine. 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:15.880 Gumball machines, So that in place in a in a 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:17.960 piece of store, and the other one I ended up 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:19.679 not placing at that time. I just kept it in 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:23.640 my house. So I started with those, and I've seen 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.800 the money back off of that, which was like a 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.920 little you know, it was a little something like a 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:29.960 little extra spending money, but it was nothing really to 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:31.920 move the needle. So I'm like, man, if I could 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:33.720 just get a couple more of these, you know, maybe 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:35.040 how much was that like a month? 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:35.160 Like? 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.280 So my average machine for the gumballs was like, uh, 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.040 I was getting like fifty dollars a machine. So I'm like, 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:45.520 a something look like one fifty fifty dollars. I ain't 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.280 gotta really do nothing for it. I was, you know, 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.079 fill the machine up and I'll come back at the 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.400 end of the month and pick it up, you know. 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:52.200 So it was easy. 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:54.480 And the house spread out of there because I know 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.040 you talk about location, you won't get into that. 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.040 Are they in the same area or they spread out throughout. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.680 The city, same area. At this point, they're all in 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.839 the same area, so you just go collect. Yeah. And 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.559 they were all in places because you know, the way 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:08.720 I got my first ones is this networking talking people. 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.040 I know, they were all in places already already did 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.160 like I already go already, I already spend time with 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.840 that recreation center. That's where I played basketball at the barbershop. 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:17.200 It was in with the barbershop. I want to when 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:18.640 a piece of store was down the stree from my house. 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:20.760 So it was just like you know, convenient. You have 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.920 to watch some like kicking machine, like yo man, easy, easy. 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:24.600 Yeah. 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.040 I had people try to put stuff in the machine 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.400 and turn and I just watch them like and sometimes 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:31.800 it will work. And actually in one situation with the 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.240 recreation center, the kids knew how to get something out 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.600 without putting a quarter in there. I can never fair 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:38.920 to this day. I don't know what they were doing 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:40.760 because I thought it was broke, but it wasn't broken. 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.720 They just had some type of trick, like so we. 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.480 Had a dollar trick in high school with the vending machines. 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.240 We'll talk about that. After I tried to down a 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.640 trick with a vending machine, we can't talk about that. 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.079 So all right, So, so, so you're making a little 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.160 not really making any money, but it's like whatever. But 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.000 then you realize that vending machines is actually where the 0:10:58.040 --> 0:10:59.040 money's at right. 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.760 Now yet now yet, So so with the candy machines, 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:04.320 I get to the point where, all right now, it 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.040 ain't making no money. But I'm like, yo, if I 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.200 if I could just multiply the amount of machines I have, 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.560 then maybe I could see something. So I ended up 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.200 long story short, I kept buying those candy machines to 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:16.760 the point where I have around twenty of them, like 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.240 twenty twenty five. And now at this point that's spread 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.920 out throughout the city. So you're thinking, like four, got 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.880 you one fifty. You multiply those, you probably get like 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:26.480 a child. Let's say you get twenty, you probably get 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.000 like a thousand exactly. I was getting around nine hundred 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.280 to one thousand dollars a month off off of those 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.280 twenty machines off. So now that now that was actually 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.680 that was moving the scale, and I feel that, like 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:37.840 you know what I'm saying. So I'm like, all right, 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.800 Well at that point, I'm like comfortable, you know, I'm cool. 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.600 I'm just keep buying these little gumball machines, you know, 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.840 keep doing what I'm doing. But then I had a 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.160 I got it. I met when I want to go 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.880 buy a new one, a k new gumball machine. The 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.079 guy was doing vendor machines. I guess he had started 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:55.959 help with gunball machines hself. He was like, man, why 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.960 you don't never get into the you know, buying vendor machines. 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:00.240 This is part At this point, this was like the 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.839 fourth or fifth gumball machine I had brought up with me, 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.000 and I'm like, uh, you know, I thought about that before. 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:09.120 I tried it before it didn't really work out. And 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.880 I'm kind of comfortable now just doing these because it's easy. 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.640 And I know if I get into the soda machines 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.679 and the vendom machines, it's more so more work. And 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:19.320 I wasn't trying to do more work because I was 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.319 already working enough at that time with my job so, 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.600 but he talked me into it, and that's the point 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:29.800 where I got into the actual Vendom machines and ended 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:33.280 up getting brought a soder machine off of him and 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.319 got a place in a hotel, a motel. 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:37.720 Actually, what was the price of that. 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.679 The price of that, it was nowe hundred dollars for 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.320 a soda machine. That's really one month with gumbos. Yeah, 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:45.760 basically like a whole month's work. 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.160 For a I'm sorry, So you get that, you put 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.600 it in the in the motel, and how does that 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:51.200 work out for you? 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.160 So it actually started off slow, looking at you know 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.360 what I what I what I get now? Like it started, 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.600 it started off slow, but to me it didn't seem bad. 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.320 So that first two weeks I had it in there, 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.439 the soda machine in there, I made about fifty dollars. 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:07.520 But at that point in time with the gunballs, the 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.640 gun balls took me a whole month to make fifty 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:11.760 dollars off of one machine. So I'm like, all right, 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.120 well if I get fifty in two weeks, maybe two 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:15.800 weeks I get one hundred, which is double what I'm 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:17.680 doing with the gun ball. So it ain't that bad, 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:19.839 like it ain't nothing I live off of, but it 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:23.440 isn't that bad. But after I got into like that 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.120 second and third month that the Vendom machine got up 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.760 to the point where it was doing around six fifty 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.839 seven hundred dollars just off of that machine for that month. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.520 So that's when it kind of like kind of hit 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:36.320 me like, all right, well this might be so this 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.160 is something different. Yeah, I'm saying no, try leanings towards 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.880 more towards that. And I ended up getting another machine. 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:44.920 I got a snack machine and had it placed in 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.800 the same place in the same hotel, and the two 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.559 machines in the same place, flat two machines in the 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.880 same place, And that when did the exact same thing 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.760 started off slow and then it picked up to the 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.200 point where it was going around seven hundred dollars a month. 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.880 So from that one location, I was earning about fourth 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.240 fourteen hundred you know, gross. 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.360 From two from two from two machines. 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.600 From two machines, is that fourteen hundred supplements in what 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.320 you're doing from your actual job. 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.080 So my actual job at that point, without overtime, I 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:13.560 was only getting about sixteen hundred. 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.520 So now so so now you got almost you equaling 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:21.480 your job. You're not doing nothing just from two machines. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.080 Right, and that's what really, that's that's when it hit 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.800 me like like this is like this is something you 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.800 need to do, like get get more, get more of 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.240 these and you know, and grow and then you know, 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:32.600 and at that time, I just wanted out of my 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.800 job so bad. It's like if I get more of these, 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.600 I get enough, you know, I could stop working and 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.440 then you know, enjoy some some free time, like you know, 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.480 that was my thing, is chasing you know, freedom dope. 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.280 And then you said and then from there you just 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:47.880 went all in. Yeah. 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.680 So from then, from from that point I found I 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:56.080 got a high school, got that got that spot, ended 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.000 up getting another. I had two machines placed in that 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.800 high school. Now the high school did the same thing 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.640 that that motel did as far as numbers, very close anyway. 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.120 And then so that point I'm past when I'm getting 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.960 at work, and then I had another spot contact being 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.080 oneted a machine place and at that point I left 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:13.480 my job. 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:16.120 Was it your former high school? Because I know the 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.160 barber shop exactly? So you went back to your phone exactly. 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:21.160 So how did what age were you when you stopped 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.920 when you left your job twenty six, So twenty six 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:26.920 you go out and you're just a full time entrepreneur. 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:28.840 How to feel? How to feel be a full time entrepreneur? 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.600 You know what? It felt good, but it doesn't. The 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.560 difference is, well, when you're working, it's like, all right, 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.360 well I know what I'm getting. When you're an entrepreneur 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.680 and you're just out here, it's like, yo, you gotta 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.160 you just you gotta grind it, like because you don't 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:46.560 you don't know what you're going to get now with 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:48.960 the machines, it's pretty it was pretty stable in terms 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.200 of income, but when stuff slowed down, I still my 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.080 bills are still do Like, my stuff is still the same. 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:55.080 So it's just like you gotta learn how to budget 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.120 that money different because it's not it's not going to 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.720 come in on a consistent basis, So you kind of 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.200 gotta get a feel for like as the months go by, 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:04.880 you know, some much is gonna be higher, some muth 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.000 is gonna be lower. Once you figure that pattern out, 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.080 it's easier, but then it's like you kind of got 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:10.760 to go through the rough times to figure that out. 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.760 Yeah, nah, I'm I'm glad you said that, because that's 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.920 that's true in any business. It's like as a business owner, 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.720 as an entrepreneur, it's like walking a tight rope with 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.160 no safety in that like you never know one one's 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.280 false move in your your screws. And it's like people 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:30.920 don't understand that anxiety unless you're an entrepreneur, right, because that's. 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:31.520 Like you said, you got a job. 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:33.000 Mean you have anxiety as your job, which you can 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:34.640 get fired, but it's different because like all you got 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.320 to do is show up and you're gonna get a 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:36.720 pay check. 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.320 And before some people they got perform. 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:47.040 At the job. Sometimes I'm just saying, you know sometimes 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.280 sometimes yeah, but you know to say that, you know, 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.480 I ended up and you know, you know with what 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.920 you're saying, Like so at that point where I was 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.480 doing that, I got to the point where I'm doing 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:00.760 it full time and then whatever could go wrong went wrong. 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.360 So I had saved up a good portion of money, 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.040 like before I even quit my job, but I ended 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.440 up getting married. So I got married. I spent that right, 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.119