WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:07.018 --> 00:00:09.685 (intense music) 00:00:25.118 --> 00:00:27.078 - I've traded when I was in middle school. 00:00:27.078 --> 00:00:29.418 - I think I can get to a house in a week, why not? 00:00:29.418 --> 00:00:30.251 - Let's go! 00:00:30.251 --> 00:00:31.929 (energetic music) 00:00:31.929 --> 00:00:34.549 We don't use bartering in our everyday society. 00:00:34.549 --> 00:00:37.069 I walked up to these two nice gentlemen, 00:00:37.069 --> 00:00:38.569 and I offered them the paperclip, 00:00:38.569 --> 00:00:40.789 and they gave me a nice postcard, 00:00:40.789 --> 00:00:42.829 which I thought was a fair and equal trade. 00:00:42.829 --> 00:00:44.349 - She got a bigger paperclip! 00:00:44.349 --> 00:00:47.289 Devon traded her paperclip for a postcard, 00:00:47.289 --> 00:00:49.769 and I ended up going up to those same guys 00:00:49.769 --> 00:00:52.549 and trading my paperclip for a bigger paperclip. 00:00:52.549 --> 00:00:54.489 - I went into this being really realistic, 00:00:54.489 --> 00:00:55.829 I was like "hey, it's a paperclip, 00:00:55.829 --> 00:00:57.949 "so let's give me something comparable." 00:00:57.949 --> 00:01:00.269 Whereas I feel like Alaska kinda went into it, 00:01:00.269 --> 00:01:02.049 seeing like "what's the best thing I could get?" 00:01:02.049 --> 00:01:02.949 - Got a sticker. 00:01:02.949 --> 00:01:03.874 - A sticker? 00:01:03.874 --> 00:01:05.949 It was two kids who were going to school 00:01:05.949 --> 00:01:07.569 or coming back from school or something. 00:01:07.569 --> 00:01:08.402 Hell yeah! 00:01:09.307 --> 00:01:11.107 Would you be down to trade for a paperclip? 00:01:11.107 --> 00:01:12.107 Hell yeah! 00:01:12.107 --> 00:01:14.827 - Next logical step was to try to see 00:01:14.827 --> 00:01:16.747 if I could get some kind of a gift card. 00:01:16.747 --> 00:01:17.867 So I went up to this one guy. 00:01:17.867 --> 00:01:19.907 Do you have like a FroYo gift card? 00:01:19.907 --> 00:01:23.074 My plan was gonna get a little sticky. 00:01:24.885 --> 00:01:25.963 (Devin laughs) 00:01:25.963 --> 00:01:29.083 He tried to trade me a postcard for his hotel room key. 00:01:29.083 --> 00:01:31.403 Lesson learned, there are weird people in Hollywood. 00:01:31.403 --> 00:01:33.561 Then I found another guy on the street, 00:01:33.561 --> 00:01:37.083 I knowingly traded my postcard for a gift card 00:01:37.083 --> 00:01:39.923 that I knew was only worth 26 cents. 00:01:39.923 --> 00:01:42.183 - You have something of value I could trade it for? 00:01:42.183 --> 00:01:43.483 So I met this rapper, 00:01:43.483 --> 00:01:46.381 traded him the Hell Yeah sticker for two dollars. 00:01:46.381 --> 00:01:48.581 Yeah dude, yeah, couple bucks would work. 00:01:48.581 --> 00:01:51.461 - I was wondering if I could trade for your knife. 00:01:51.461 --> 00:01:53.801 I offered her the gift card and instead of the knife, 00:01:53.801 --> 00:01:55.401 she gave me her wooden spoon 00:01:55.401 --> 00:01:57.781 with her name tattooed to the edge of it, 00:01:57.781 --> 00:01:58.981 which I thought was super cool. 00:01:58.981 --> 00:01:59.814 - You're gonna remember me forever. 00:01:59.814 --> 00:02:00.779 (Devon laughs) 00:02:00.779 --> 00:02:03.212 - Devon's spoon was cool, I'll give her that, 00:02:03.212 --> 00:02:06.012 but it's no match to what I have. 00:02:06.012 --> 00:02:07.890 (dramatic music) 00:02:07.890 --> 00:02:10.490 - I put up an ad on Craigslist to see who would bite. 00:02:10.490 --> 00:02:12.850 The answer is: nobody in Los Angeles wants to trade 00:02:12.850 --> 00:02:13.990 for a wooden spoon. 00:02:13.990 --> 00:02:17.210 - It's harder than I thought to continue to trade up 00:02:17.210 --> 00:02:19.090 as you get bigger and bigger things. 00:02:19.090 --> 00:02:22.010 - I have not felt this rejected since 11th grade 00:02:22.010 --> 00:02:24.023 when I had to ask someone else to prom. 00:02:24.023 --> 00:02:27.010 - I think I'm doing really well in the competition. 00:02:27.010 --> 00:02:31.177 - I ended up trading (stifled laughter) for this. 00:02:33.090 --> 00:02:33.923 Hello? 00:02:33.923 --> 00:02:35.888 - I was able to turn two dollars into five dollars. 00:02:35.888 --> 00:02:37.188 For my five dollars, 00:02:37.188 --> 00:02:41.188 I traded this unopened portable charging device. 00:02:42.188 --> 00:02:44.128 I'm not gonna stop here, I'm gonna keep going. 00:02:44.128 --> 00:02:46.508 - Ring ring ring ring, who is it? 00:02:46.508 --> 00:02:47.848 Oh, it's victory. 00:02:47.848 --> 00:02:49.968 (tense music) 00:02:49.968 --> 00:02:52.428 - At the beginning of this, I was like, 00:02:52.428 --> 00:02:56.188 way overly competitive, and just wanted to crush Devon. 00:02:56.188 --> 00:02:57.788 - People look at their lives 00:02:57.788 --> 00:02:59.968 and assess what they're willing to give up, 00:02:59.968 --> 00:03:01.888 and the answer is very little. 00:03:01.888 --> 00:03:04.648 - Motivation is at an all-time low. 00:03:04.648 --> 00:03:07.248 How the fuck am I supposed to trade for this shit? 00:03:07.248 --> 00:03:11.088 - Now I'm considering, what do people have on their person 00:03:11.088 --> 00:03:13.208 that is worth 10 to 15 dollars, 00:03:13.208 --> 00:03:15.648 that they'd want to trade for this thing? 00:03:15.648 --> 00:03:17.568 - After seeing how hard all this is, I'm like, 00:03:17.568 --> 00:03:19.828 me and Devon are kind of in this together, 00:03:19.828 --> 00:03:20.661 (blissful music) let's just see 00:03:20.661 --> 00:03:24.494 what cool things we can come up with together. 00:03:25.886 --> 00:03:28.006 We ended up combining our items 00:03:28.006 --> 00:03:30.066 and trading them for an experience 00:03:30.066 --> 00:03:31.326 that we both wanted to do. 00:03:31.326 --> 00:03:32.159 - Yeah! 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:33.766 - The guys selling these Hollywood tours 00:03:33.766 --> 00:03:34.826 are always out there, 00:03:34.826 --> 00:03:36.646 they're like "Hollywood tours! Hollywood tours!" 00:03:36.646 --> 00:03:37.846 - Alaska and Devon. 00:03:37.846 --> 00:03:38.679 - [Devon] Yes. 00:03:38.679 --> 00:03:40.086 - Those are hard names to forget right there. 00:03:40.086 --> 00:03:40.919 - Yeah. 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:41.986 We out hustled the hustler. 00:03:41.986 --> 00:03:42.819 - Yeah! 00:03:42.819 --> 00:03:44.437 - Oh shoot, you guys should go any time you want. 00:03:44.437 --> 00:03:45.917 You can get the local California price, 00:03:45.917 --> 00:03:47.250 it's no problem. 00:03:48.257 --> 00:03:50.197 Put them on the tour and let 'em ride around. 00:03:50.197 --> 00:03:51.697 - Yes let's do it! 00:03:52.917 --> 00:03:54.237 - We might go on a ride! 00:03:54.237 --> 00:03:55.997 I've actually lived here for five years 00:03:55.997 --> 00:03:58.517 and I've never gone on a Hollywood tour. 00:03:58.517 --> 00:03:59.777 - Yeah, neither have I. 00:03:59.777 --> 00:04:01.377 - It's crazy to me that we, 00:04:01.377 --> 00:04:03.477 that derived from a paperclip. 00:04:03.477 --> 00:04:05.277 - Yeah. - It all came from one, 00:04:05.277 --> 00:04:07.097 two, two paperclips. 00:04:07.097 --> 00:04:08.837 - Paperclips are things you throw away, 00:04:08.837 --> 00:04:12.697 and we turned it into this over 80 dollar experience 00:04:12.697 --> 00:04:15.615 that people come to Hollywood to do, 00:04:15.615 --> 00:04:17.125 that's truly remarkable. 00:04:17.125 --> 00:04:18.515 - Mike, how much is this worth? 00:04:18.515 --> 00:04:19.395 - 79 dollars. 00:04:19.395 --> 00:04:22.175 - Alaska and I already made plans to go this weekend. 00:04:22.175 --> 00:04:23.008 - Yes! 00:04:23.008 --> 00:04:25.835 The takeaway for me from this whole experience, I guess, 00:04:25.835 --> 00:04:30.415 money is just a representation of where we put value, 00:04:30.415 --> 00:04:33.735 and I realized that we actually put too much value 00:04:33.735 --> 00:04:35.875 on the paper bills. 00:04:35.875 --> 00:04:39.458 - I would say friendship is the real prize. 00:04:40.475 --> 00:04:42.535 - It was. Friendship was the real prize. 00:04:42.535 --> 00:04:43.635 - Let's just, we're gonna hug it out. 00:04:43.635 --> 00:04:44.718 - Hug it out!