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(intense music)
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- I've traded when I was in middle school.
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- I think I can get to a
house in a week, why not?
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- Let's go!
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(energetic music)
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We don't use bartering
in our everyday society.
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I walked up to these two nice gentlemen,
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and I offered them the paperclip,
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and they gave me a nice postcard,
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which I thought was a
fair and equal trade.
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- She got a bigger paperclip!
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Devon traded her paperclip for a postcard,
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and I ended up going up to those same guys
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and trading my paperclip
for a bigger paperclip.
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- I went into this being really realistic,
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I was like "hey, it's a paperclip,
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"so let's give me something comparable."
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Whereas I feel like
Alaska kinda went into it,
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seeing like "what's the
best thing I could get?"
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- Got a sticker.
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- A sticker?
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It was two kids who were going to school
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or coming back from school or something.
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Hell yeah!
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Would you be down to
trade for a paperclip?
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Hell yeah!
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- Next logical step was to try to see
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if I could get some kind of a gift card.
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So I went up to this one guy.
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Do you have like a FroYo gift card?
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My plan was gonna get a little sticky.
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(Devin laughs)
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He tried to trade me a postcard
for his hotel room key.
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Lesson learned, there are
weird people in Hollywood.
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Then I found another guy on the street,
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I knowingly traded my
postcard for a gift card
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that I knew was only worth 26 cents.
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- You have something of
value I could trade it for?
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So I met this rapper,
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traded him the Hell Yeah
sticker for two dollars.
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Yeah dude, yeah, couple bucks would work.
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- I was wondering if I
could trade for your knife.
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I offered her the gift card
and instead of the knife,
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she gave me her wooden spoon
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with her name tattooed to the edge of it,
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which I thought was super cool.
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- You're gonna remember me forever.
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(Devon laughs)
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- Devon's spoon was
cool, I'll give her that,
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but it's no match to what I have.
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(dramatic music)
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- I put up an ad on Craigslist
to see who would bite.
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The answer is: nobody in
Los Angeles wants to trade
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for a wooden spoon.
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- It's harder than I thought
to continue to trade up
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as you get bigger and bigger things.
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- I have not felt this
rejected since 11th grade
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when I had to ask someone else to prom.
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- I think I'm doing really
well in the competition.
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- I ended up trading
(stifled laughter) for this.
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Hello?
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- I was able to turn two
dollars into five dollars.
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For my five dollars,
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I traded this unopened
portable charging device.
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I'm not gonna stop here,
I'm gonna keep going.
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- Ring ring ring ring, who is it?
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Oh, it's victory.
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(tense music)
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- At the beginning of this, I was like,
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way overly competitive, and
just wanted to crush Devon.
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- People look at their lives
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and assess what they're
willing to give up,
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and the answer is very little.
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- Motivation is at an all-time low.
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How the fuck am I supposed
to trade for this shit?
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- Now I'm considering, what
do people have on their person
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that is worth 10 to 15 dollars,
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that they'd want to trade for this thing?
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- After seeing how hard
all this is, I'm like,
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me and Devon are kind of in this together,
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(blissful music)
let's just see
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what cool things we can
come up with together.
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We ended up combining our items
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and trading them for an experience
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that we both wanted to do.
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- Yeah!
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- The guys selling these Hollywood tours
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are always out there,
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they're like "Hollywood
tours! Hollywood tours!"
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- Alaska and Devon.
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- [Devon] Yes.
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- Those are hard names
to forget right there.
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- Yeah.
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We out hustled the hustler.
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- Yeah!
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- Oh shoot, you guys should
go any time you want.
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You can get the local California price,
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it's no problem.
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Put them on the tour
and let 'em ride around.
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- Yes let's do it!
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- We might go on a ride!
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I've actually lived here for five years
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and I've never gone on a Hollywood tour.
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- Yeah, neither have I.
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- It's crazy to me that we,
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that derived from a paperclip.
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- Yeah.
- It all came from one,
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two, two paperclips.
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- Paperclips are things you throw away,
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and we turned it into this
over 80 dollar experience
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that people come to Hollywood to do,
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that's truly remarkable.
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- Mike, how much is this worth?
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- 79 dollars.
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- Alaska and I already made
plans to go this weekend.
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- Yes!
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The takeaway for me from this
whole experience, I guess,
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money is just a representation
of where we put value,
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and I realized that we
actually put too much value
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on the paper bills.
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- I would say friendship
is the real prize.
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- It was. Friendship was the real prize.
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- Let's just, we're gonna hug it out.
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- Hug it out!
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