Losing Millions on the Homie Vending Machine Empire: Profiles by VICE
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- We traveled to New York City's forgotten borough, Staten Island, to find out how Sugarman created a small vending empire-and how he subsequently lost it-one quarter at a time.
In 1996 Bradley Ellison, a.k.a. Sugarman, started Sugar Daddies vending company in Staten Island. He placed thousands of machines throughout New York City in pizza parlors, supermarkets, and corner shops.
Due largely in part to a cash economy, his business flourished, shaking down every neighborhood kid for their milk money in exchange for a sticky hand, bouncy ball, or a handful of candies.
In 2004, he finally made it big with the "Homies" series (arguably the most popular vending toy of all time), grossing over $1 million in sales.
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If a cigarette could talk, it would have this dudes voice
Im fkn dying 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Whats wrong with his accent? 😡
Thnx 4 that one👏🤣😘
@@greatestever8976 nothing, it just sounds like he eats Newports like pocky sticks
Look up Joey Diaz
Edit: *here* ruclips.net/video/Yfa7fJtJWhc/видео.html
This man radiates pure NY energy.
Yep, I'm from Brooklyn New York and heard his accent right away
Yes. I want him to call me a cock sucker while I choke myself with a black belt.
@@scottbeater-man3714 lol what
the hustle personified
Philoso Dan 🙌🏽🙌🏽
I had every single homie collected. It was my favorite toy. They were my prized possessions. I went to church camp one summer, came back and my mom had thrown them all away. I was completely devastated... I spent so much time and my own money collecting them. I’m still not over it 😂
whats the heck.. why would she throw em out.. how rudee
Duuuuude I still have mines!!!!.......somewhere. lol
500subswithnovideos Challange It’s clear with the laughing face that I don’t take it that seriously. If there are bigger things going on then why are you spending that time watching the video and commenting at me? Take your own advice. Bye 👋🏽
I would be UPSET GABRIELLA!!
That's the Homie angle gabrielle we have all been there 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"We've been picking the pockets of little children across the City for 18 years" 😂😂😂😂😂
The American dream
That line had me for a while 😂
Yeah, that was a gem! 😂
King Midas
That's what d bags think, the 50 cents gave a memorable toy.
This guy is hilarious, what a fucking hustler.
"I told her I broke my leg, you gotta tell these people this shit."
ahahahhahahahah
MyDanceMoovez10 Real shit 😂😂😂😂
MyDanceMoovez10 Real New Yorker
thats street shit...u gotta lie to collectors and bill collectors man its street life
lmao
Please interview him again and check out how he’s doing 5 years later. This guy is too interesting to forget
well its been 4 years. So its coming up.
He went on Ink Master and got a shitty tattoo
Rift He’s probably dead from lung cancer
He a local staten island Starbucks legend
Nah, Vice would rather make a video on the trans Swahili drug dealers of Zanzibar than something actually interesting.
I remember when Homies first came out. I thought, "how funny, someone made these little toys that look like everyone in my neighborhood"
Ye it was the same for me.
Its a real Shame to see someone at the end of their Dream, clinging to the remnants of thier Fallen Empire. I really feel for this guy.....
Sort of like Marlon Brando. I can picture him yelling "Homies" and talking about being a contender in the vending machine business.
Yeah........like a dingle berry......the BIG LOAD has come and gone...now only the clingers survive
You have to change with the times or become a dinosaur, nothing lasts forever, especially in business.
Did u really just say "empire "???
MANNNNN...HUSH THAT SHYT UP...THIS DUDE MADE MILLIONS...I DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR HIM LOL LOL LOL
My mom was 48 she passed in 2011 but she collected these she thought they were hilarious. They remind me of her. Miss u mom n your homiez.
ruclips.net/video/0wp5BOOdK_s/видео.html
Eileen. You fine girl
@@BruhBruh-sb5xd you fine too
Haha that's cool
No one cares
I would literally watch a series with him as the main character
ruclips.net/video/HZOYiy7Wfb0/видео.html
Yeah he sounds familiar, if he ain't one he should go in the VA business.
The dad in fuget aboutet
I was just about to come down and type that
ok so every cool person needs a show. nah
This dude needs to be the main character in the next GTA Franchise
If they made little GTA figures like the homies he'd kill right now.
😂😂😂
You could spell franchise but cant spell "next"🤦🏼♂️
@@kidchivo2528 typo so what?
@@mexifro28 that would take a lot of royalty fees for him and i doubt he has money to pay rockstar for that...
This guy is a real life GTA character.
Ha! I agree I gotta record that audio skit
Trevor!!!
Nah, gta is based on real human characteristics.
Facts 🤣🤣
More like GTA III or IV 🤣
This is one of those videos you click on, expecting to get bored and click off in a minute... then it's over and you want a full-length doc.
I want to know how he actually lost his empire like the video description says. I guess the demand just flagged? Sounded like he was in business and growing for years before Homies, Homies were unprecedented sellers...and then something and now he only has a small mom and pop operation? Like, why did businesses get rid of the machines? They get a cut for something that takes up virtually no room and they don't have to service. Was there a backlash against the machines in general? Did the type of stores he had them in go out of business? It just kinda cuts from "Homies stopped selling as well" to "now he's struggling to make ends meet."
NekoMouser People stopped buying the little nick-knacks in em. 10-20 years ago kids would loose their minds over cool little toys while shopping with their parents, now it's an app or a game. Kids don't want physical toys anymore they want electronic ones. He should implement homies into a mobile game and i bet it would take off again.
Me Auntie Nora my thoughts EXACTLY
FACTS LOL
those are collectables ..... kids back in, including me likes to get them... I guess that was part of the reason why macdonalds has happy meal... to follow the trends.
Nowadays kids has their own ipad at the age of like 4..... they probably wont need this anymore... slowly this vending machines is being obsolete ... Kinda sad that you see yourself slowly going out of business and there is nothing you can do about it.
This dude seriously needs to consider voice acting!
IdkWhatTo CallThis Video game voice acting
For real
Hes the doosh from sausage party bro
Wow didn’t know having a smokers voice means people can voice act
he would prolly collapse after the first few sentences
These documentaries are amazing. All these people that seem to be pulled straight outta of a movie.
+JasminLeblanc you know that "outta" means 'out of"
+420sthedaytopray yeah they do what's your point ?
well said very dope
+420sthedaytopray I fucking hate grammar nazis like you, you knew what he meant. Just because it wasn't perfect, or aesthetically pleasing to see some slang, you felt inclined to make a witty comment about it, thinking you're clever when in reality it's just annoying and pathetic.
+420sthedaytopray dude chill out lol its the Internet not a dissertation. ... besides cheweacalyptus360errday
He blew all his money on coke and filterless Marlboro
Oxys
Pall Mall Reds.......make Filterless Marlboros seem like a healthy choice.
Good coke
He should have bought houses or a restaurant.
They don't make Marlboro non filters
I feel like most of it has to do with less people carrying cash
Absolutely. I've seen goofy shit I'd throw 50 cents at. "Anybody have a quarter? No? Fuck it."
I think ur right on the money imagine if just like soda machines u can swipe a card at a gumball machine
@@Xtreme_Number4 Yea but credit cards usually come with charge per swipe not to mention require more technical knowhow and maintenance. He'd have to up the cost to at least .75 to a dollar to get comparable amount of return. Now, think of the very likely scenario that someone broke the machine and the cost to repair them. Best course of action would be to reinforce the machines. At this point, is it even worth it?
My kids always ask for quarters for the vending machines. I never have quarters
But you can ask the cashiers to change dollars for quarters
He's like that Uncle your parents won't let you go visit
Christopher Robinson lol
Now I had to delete my comment when you’ve already made this.
Just like Creepy Uncle Joe
I really hope this guy is doing okay. I wish the best for him
I heard he broke his leg
Jacke AHAHAH
He has his own RUclips channel.
A Dog's Human There are two. Sugarman08 and Brooklyn Brad. Please like so people can see this.
@@jimboone6405 Wow. Who hurt you man?
God his poor wife prob has to hear about the “homiez” every day
🤣
😂😂😂😂
Let’s be real, she’s his girlfriend. His wife divorced him and took the kids long ago!! Haha
Homies are awesome so who cares.
"I told them i broke my leg"
"you gotta tell people shit, because y'know what i mean?"
That old chestnut
😂😂😂😂😂
meeeeeee
I'll tell you who lies...the guy who REALLY gets his legs broke for not paying his bills!
I collected so many Homiez. I can vividly remember wanting the Wheelchair Homie so god damn bad. I eventually ended up stealing one from my older cousin. I still have it lol
SickAsMalaria you should upload your collection
If I find them in my storage unit I’ll come back to this post and 🏷 people. There’s definitely more than 100. Maybe somewhere around 200-250 including all the duplicates
I remember I spent so much money trying to get the chihuahua and always ended up with the purple shirt basketball guy.
Jam - The chihuahua was rare af. I ended up getting one, but it took a long time from what I recall
Plot twist
Your cousin come over and beat you up for confessing your crime of breaking the bro code
Somebody give this guy a job doing something that involves commentary! This guy is hilarious and he's not even trying.
He needs to be a bartender. Great story teller.
+jdlocotxftw2002 I agree that would be a good too.
Anthony Durant he does the construction worker and buss driver voice on futurama.
It's also the raspy voice
It's Staten Island, they're a dime a dozen.
Damn, this was an eye opener. As someone from the South West, I always thought Homies was an actual Mexican product.
This was like when I found out Arizona Teas are made in New York.
It’s a Chicano cholo thing. Not Mexican. Stop sounding ignorant.
@@val13c59 Chicano - an American of Mexican origin or descent, especially a man or boy
Cholo - a young man belonging to a Mexican American urban subculture associated with street gangs
You're obviously the ignorant one.
Today I found out Arizona teas are made in New York.
he didn't invent them, he brought them to NY
@@HoloceneNamesake facts
I lined that guys pockets man ...i had every single homie ever sold
Ya bud, for me it was homies, and then every once in a while i would grab one of those britney spears stickers........ it was as good as playboy when i was 15 the way they had that girl dolled up lol
Hell yea fuckin LOVED the homies
@@mabelsue123 where u from
Had them all
Megan Elizabeth hell yeah
This guy needs to sell his stock in Japan ASAP. Japan is big on Mexican culture right now and these are selling for a premium.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan
Maybe he did that. What a brilliant thought, tho. They'd probably love to buy homies especially knowing the history of the toys themselves.
Somebody should tell the guy and he could sell the homies for one big lump sum. Be balling after that. They are rich in japan and a collector could buy him out. Maybe
mexico is big all over the world
Zbth Lpz sike.
Give this man a show. He’s so entertaining and his voice is awesome.
Classic New Yawk accent
Illi Vee ...Thats the accent of an Italian New Yorker I love it 🥰
Hes been on youtube for years sugarman08
he’s such a character..... could totally do his documentary series...
This was extremely depressing.
Yea especially the last scene on the porch. "Ive been picking peoples pocket's my whole life". At first I thought it was funny then I started thinking about it. But then again I can't feel bad for him because hes such a New Yorker! He'll be fine.
He loves it
you're soft.
Its a shame to see someone at the end of there Dream, to still be clinging to the last remnants of your fallen Empire.....
At least he doesn't blame anyone else but himself.
I feel like a lot of youtubers may end up like this in the future...
why??
Because they either do this their entire life or start living off their careers and then they will have to wait for ten dollar cheques to pay their debts.
smh. why you guys want people to fail. it's a great because we need me people like you in this world.
mickymike1000 Look at Dcigs,nuff said.
They didn't borrow a bunch of money to start their business. Their investment was minimal. If they are any good at managing money they will still be better off than most people if their channel dries up. Worst case scenario they have to get a real job.
Never borrow money to start a business.
Technology was his down fall. Before cell phones, you could spend .25 or .50 to be entertained with a cheap bouncy ball. Now, you just play a game on your phone.
Yup. You used to see kids with those sticky slapping hands, or running around chasing a little bouncey ball. Now they're just zoned out on their iphones... at like 8 years old...
TooJ Kool ya true
TooJ Kool I'm 17 and used to buy all the bouncy balls until my parents got annoyed of me using them all the time.
The fucked up part is that you can actually download apps that let you bounce a ball. Lame.
Silo 101 I had those sticky hand things, my parents hated them because they would leave slime all over the walls! I'm a 90s kid and I loved the good old days before all this technology crap ruined the world.
That Social Distortion jacket he had on was fire.
Wanted to hit the lie button but couldn't ruin the 69 likes
“That’s Myrna, one of my distributors, I told her I broke my leg. You gotta tell people stuff.” 😂😂😂
Lol, he goes all out on his lies. Not ‘I have the flu’, or ‘I have a stomach bug’, but ‘I broke my leg.’ I’m cracking up.
Chris Moeller haha I know! 😂 so dramatic! That explains why he's broke! Maybe all his dishonesty caught up with him
claw kicker in 25 years
damiion666 you have to learn to get out of you're mom's first
Chris Moeller 😂
Dude is hilarious 😂
This was depressing.
Go watch Joe Dirt. It'll cheer you right up.
as fuck
Stroke the Forge the guy in the video is far from rich you imbecile
It's sad to see my dad's in the same situation he hit it big with sattelite TV. Until 2008 Now he lives out of his warehouse won't accept that business has changed. Continues to do the same thing over and over.. there's a difference between a business person and someone who got lucky.
Chrystle Ayer I know right 😂😂
this guys acting like a drug dealer lol, i love it tho giving me joey diaz vibes
Same cloth
some of those homies dealt drugs
This was literally the video up next on the joey diaz video I was watching lmao thats how I got here
@@westcoastcultivator9273 damn what are the chances
Same
I feel bad for him. Anyone who has to struggle breaks my heart.
This guy made over a million dollar in vending machines. He wasn't struggling he just never learned how to spend his money wisely. He was so far in debt that all he made went directly in bills. And he is still making bad business decisions as he now have more bills for product but not revenue as the product isn't selling. This is a fine example of a person who doesn't know when to let it go. The business lose sells long ago yet he keeps spending money on it as if vending machines are just as popular as the 90's/early 2000's.
You're so beautiful 😍💘
The man made a million dollars from selling toys & you feel bad for him? That's funny.
@@StraySigma I think she feels bad that he never go to see that million. But that is his fault.
Simp! I am one too tho 💝
This dude needs his own tv show ... hes a character
KaBĞRaFfx313- ĐïŘĶ thank you
sugarman08 anytime brotha... one of ur 3 minute videos is more entertaining, than 15 hours of any reality tv on now... get you a camera and start VLOGGING, big money in that if u get a good following which im sure you will.... stay safe.. good luck
This guy should start a collections agency. If he called me with that voice I'd have a certified check on his desk yesterday.
Lo
When i was in my 20's, i worked at a smoke shop. We had Homies in all the display cases with the smoking accessories. We even had our loyal customers adding Homies to our shop. Great times
I’m 20 and I’m in college for physics. I was kind of a nerd but I was doing my fair share of playing. I’m also from California and I have NEVER heard of these. Maybe it was because I was such a dainty little girl but these just went over my head
@@classykiwi4226 are u desperate for someone to talk to?? Just you gave your life story when when all you had to say was “I never heard of homies”....
sorry but no one wants to hear about how ‘dainty’ you were, what u r studying, where you live, what you enjoy doing etc etc (yes, you really did tell us all that crap!!).
I suggest you go make some friends.
@@JoJo-zx9sc yet here you r bitching go spread ur wings butterfly
You sound miserable 🤯,and Big mad 🤣😂, Who hurt you?
@@shaneanderson2978 we are all here though bud.... all commenting...
This got progressively depressing for me toward the end of this video
I wish they bring these back, I was 7 homies away from completing my collection .
+Benjamin Suh lmao
+Havok Sosa eBay you can find almost anything. ;-)
search on ebay
Commodorefan64 thanks, I will check it out😃😃
*juggalos are so lame, bro. take that fkn shit off ya face*
Nice social distortion jacket.
I know right. As the internet's busiest music nerd I am surprised you have time to watch other videos.
God damn, Fantano! You're everywhere!
He is goddamn busy.
anthony seems once again we meet great minds
another reason not to listen to social distortion
I want this guy to narrate my life
"eyy oh this f*ckin guy overere just sittin on the couch... just sittin with his empire of Doritos crumbs." end of narration.
@@j0m017 are you watching me?
lol
Fucking Jerk Off
Dont worry, in 20 years you won't be able to find many differences in your life
If “don’t put all your eggs in one basket” was a person
Not at All the lesson, this is comparable to the drug game or even investing in stocks ,you HAVE to know when to pull out because NOTHING LASTS FOREVER. HAD HE JUST PULLED OUT AFTER HE MADE THAT KILLING AT THE PINNACLE OF POPULATITY IT WAS TINE TO START PULLING OUT ITS COMMON SENSE ESPECIALLY WITH FADS AND ANYTHING POPULAR ,RELATED AND TIED TO A CERTAIN ERA!🤯🤯🤯
He's like the nicest guy you would never loan money to, buy a car from, or do business with
😹😹😹
i spent so much money on those damn Homies. Never got the clown or the one in a wheel chair. My Mom has one in her nativity scene at Christmas.
Lol I love your comment.
I want to like this comment, but it's at exactly 69 likes so I'm gunna leave it cuz its perfect
Damn id buy those if i ever seen one
when u say wheel chair do you mean willie g?
Nativity?
give this man a show.... now
HoustonSongz right now ha ha
It’s crazy how times change & people get left behind
I loved this episode of Vice. I love how you let your subject do the talking and didn’t even need to actually interview him. I mean that was his personality but it made for a great episode
i'm not too sure why but to me this is Vice's best documentary..
Tjacksun good point. it's one of the most objective and non interfering
thanks for that 100% man
***** you were really authentic all the way through, i think that's what shone through the docu. Good job all!
theflanman86 link? Lol
tumble0weed It's this guy. He's like a hip East Coast Homer Simpson.
Well, that was depressing.
Andreas C. My thoughts exactly
Never knock another mans hustle. Respect
Give him a TV Show. I LOVE THIS GUY
Conor McGregor if you love him so much go move to Staten Island.. 80% of the men there talk and act like this... I promise after a week you will go back to where u came from...
Juan Rios Hahah maybe your right. This guy is really funny tho. It's been 2 months since my comment and I'd still love a TV show of this guy 😁
Weston Evans
Hes not expreasing himself thats what im saying. Hes being connor mcgreggor. The famous british cage fighter. Idk if you know.
Whatever facist is just dumb in that context. I said be yourself. Not better than yourself.
He probably passed away, unfortunately
Deleted ions I know what your saying but did u know 3 people died trying to make Connors solid gold watch
Now im gonna feel guilty walking past those toy machines without buying one😂
Ana Lust never thought of it lmao
Fr
adriana g you do see hes completely tweaked out right now?
Lollll. Shit. I was thinking the same thing. And also. Maybe I should buy a few machines and have surprises in them. Kids love surprises
adriana g not... homie needs a real job like the rest of us
3:12 "I told her I broke my leg... you gotta tell people shit because you know what I mean?"
+Joseph Martano That was awesome lol
sounds like me
Amazingly he can resell his Homie inventory online and make triple from it. Homies are very collectible and to have first editions is basically gold.
1 original vending machine homie can range from $5 to $12. So if you have boxes of them then that's a nice profit.
Exactly! Old guys stuck in his ways I hope he's doing better now
Dropping loads would make the price go down
Nobody will buy 1 cent plastic toys 🤡 and if they do they are clowns
@@scturnn there’s a market for anything associated with nostalgia and toys people had as kids who are now adults with money to spend, especially in America
Pretty sure they're worth more to him than to anybody else
That guy is too hilarious! They should make a movie about his life call it A Fistful of Quarters
Fucking brilliant
Time to get that production company going!
already been made Google it
At about 7:50 "it's like taking money from a dead man's pocket over here" LOL he's the Tony soprano of the vending machines.
mr c hah that’s the one thing I did actually lol at
Title should be "I blew millions of quarters on blow"
😄👍
Mitch Williams 😂
“I blew millions of quarters on anime girl figures”
@@nickperez915 anime girls could potentially save his vending machine business.
j idk and just add Contactless payment to them instead of quarters and it´s golden. no more going around collecting the money either and no more stealing the stuff, money would come straight to bank account. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contactless_payment
Vice I demand another 1 hour video talking about this guy, make a documentary about this guy.
Vice's oddball documentaries are always my favorite. So interesting.
+Ian Reed You should check out Louis Theroux, he's with the BBC and does the best oddball docs out there.
"We been picking the pockets of little kids across the country for the last 18 years!!
CLASSIC!!!
😂😂😂😂
this guy is like the bojack horseman of 25c machines
Listening to him say “CAHCKSUKHAS” at the end was beautiful
He really felt that word
Sad to see him desperately hustle. Much respect for still maintaining his game.
Why? He was a millionaire
They should make a tv show about this guy
he could do with the money clearly.
Or a movie
I would watch the shit out of that
Gave them a fair share of my moms money
same 😂
Lol this guy is like vending machine gangster.. ripping off kids in the hood... im from eastern europe... we never have had these kind of things here... i had arcade machines wich ripped me off hard and kinder surprise collections.. those lions and crocs lmao and smurfs and hippos :/
+Microphunktv gtfo... there has been vending machines in europe foreverrrrrr
Braden Smith lol didn't we all I see that they make comic books now
this is dude is joey diaz in another life
the broken leg line specifically
Kinda feel bad for this dude... But he makes me laugh
+spikedias yeah dont feel too bad i mean he could've invested those millions or used them for a certification for a great job lol.
+GrexTheCrabasitor A fool and his money are soon parted... Guess that's just the way it is.
+GrexTheCrabasitor
He borrowed a lot to get to the point where he could vend the homies. And had to pay that all back.
But, like all fads, the well dried up pretty quick. So he was left with a grand total of jack shit.
Basically, the vending machines *WERE* the investment.
And the investment didn't pan out.
spikedias lmfao yea me too especially at the end. Hes trying so hard to hold his anger in its funny. But still sad how he used to make a killing and now he barely makes 40 dollars
Mr 4K GaMeR forget about it
"It's like takin' money outta a dead man's pocket over here"
I'm stealing that one!
Also he would make a great actor in a wise guy gangster movie
EndlessFunctionality love you
***** SUgar mannn! Props to you for your blunt honesty and taking pride of the wins the losses and the struggle! You have an amazing sey manly voice and accent and you're BADASS. You need to get into acting ASAPo!
I could watch him do pick ups for hours
Buck Tail Johnny's Lure Company yeah but it's depressing a little funny as hell tho
Deadass me 2
I want a show now
ME TOO
yea he can make money off of youtube instead and all he has to do is do daily vids of these depressing pick ups. I'd subscribe
This dude and Joey Diaz would be tremendous together hosting a podcast of NY/NJ life.
I fucking wish
I would pay money for this
It's so depressing yet hilarious at his reactions
it's not depressing at all. he's living his best life. everybody gotta work one way or another $$
@@tylergauthier7079 that is nobodies best life lmao
I feel nothing for this man. He knows he's a crook with nothing to offer and says it every 10 seconds. Sell them in dollar general and quit acting stupid. He could make board games with them if he wanted to, but he's just another lazy hustler.
@@nunyabidness2661 how's he a crook?
Nunya Bidness you very critical for nothing of this guy. He’s a crook because times are bad for him right now? Thats how the sale world rolls in case you didn’t know. And hes a lazy Hussler (time has aged away from that homie trend and because of his still deep passion for it it hasn’t dawn on him a good a now time strategy to replace it with a now trend)??? As far as I could tell that is a hard working man.
Obviously he is just stuck in how these homies made him rich and so it became his passion and think and trust that it still will keep putting up.
Instead of criticizing why don’t you help him with ideas or shut up?
You can tell half his profits went to cigarettes.
And the state of his face - Alcohol
And the state of his face - Alcohol
And other half to lung doctors.
He should get them made into Funko POPS.
Elisa Bidwell this could actually work! Damn hopefully this gets more likes soon
Genius idea!!
Genius!
Elisa Bidwell Someone write to the old bastard
Ill buy that, and i dont even own 1 Funko lol.
My brother literally had every single one every time we went to the mall he would buy $20 worth from the kiosk.. he was that mans best customer 😂😂
Mexican kids made this guy soooo much money for them homiez
Sound Jam he ain’t being racist you dumb fuck
@Sound Jam dumbass look at his pic his name good chance hes got mexican in him dumbshit
@@dwoolaver1549 I would wager somewhere between great chance and most definitely.. lol
@Sound Jamway to white knight, there, buddy.
@@dwoolaver1549 he ain't no mexican lol but naa everybody made him money cause of the mexican lovee
That poor guy is smoking Pall Malls. I didn't feel bad for him until I saw he was smoking Pall Malls.
+Patrick Bateman lol pall mall poor man cigarettes....who the real patrick bateman btw?
neanam m That would be me.
I thought you was the real deal.
Hahaha!
+Patrick Bateman I hope you know Pall mall is now expensive like malboro or so. they're ok, today.^^
Probably one if the best vice profiles I've seen
Share it so I can do a tv show lol
***** www.equip.org true riches
***** This should becalled losing millions to big tobacco
John shears yea ok
I was just pokin fun buddy. Is this the real Sugarman? If so I dug the profile and the reason I metioned cigs is that I quite about 6 months ago and I saved a lot of money. Good luck and bless up!
I’ve watched this 5 times in the last 6 years, and it never gets old. These were my childhood! Still have a bunch. When I’m a having a rough time I just look at them and brings back the good times.
I think all vending companies are in the same boat. Back in the 80's my friend's father had a huge vending company. They were doing very well. They are still doing well but they closed the vending company several years ago.
Things have just changed. When I was a kid in the 70s it was a big thing to get some change from mom and hit the vending machines. A quarter for a jawbreaker, a giant gun ball, or taking a chance on some random cheap toy was very exciting.
Nowadays, kids aren't as easily amused and fewer people pay with cash. If mom pays with a card, mom doesn't have a quarter for the machines. When moms all over the country aren't getting change, the kids quit asking and the habits change.
Maybe 2 years ago I gave my friend's daughter (about 8 yo) several quarters and told her to hit the gumball machines. lol She didn't know how to work a vending machine. I showed her how it works. She was a little irritated that she wasn't getting what she wanted. She looked up at me and said "can't we just go buy exactly what we want"? lol The culture has changed. The anticipation and excitement of the vending machine just totally eludes some kids nowadays.
Omg lol I bet you were like we'll it's not the same danmit 😆
Nowadays...
Parents pay 20 bux for a random inappropriate L.O.L DOLL
They were still "a thing" for anyone growing up in the 90s up to the early 2000s. In my early to mid childhood, I sort of remember them being something we did. Then it just stopped and nobody bothered. If I see a modern soda vending machine that doesn't have one of those credit card things, I don't even bother.
Soda machine outside Walmart was alwAys cheap and 🔥
i endlessly scroll through pointless and half baked comments searching for the one worth reading to release me from my never-ending search..... I found it...….. I can go home now.
Dude can earn a living doing voice acting. That pain is real.
Real Life Moe Szyslak from The Simpsons
This guy just made me want to quit smoking cigarettes.
good idea
No continue smoking them! Even better after you hit the cocaine
I hate it when i have to breath other people's smoke that's coming from inside them.
He makes me want to start smoking cigarettes
His voice/accent is brilliant
Sounds like John Dimaggio
IMHO Sorry for the stereotype but he sounds like an American-Italian mobster ..
He should be doing a few voices on an Adult Swim series.
What a shitty accent and voice. He sounds like an old angry Italian homosexual like most Italians.
It's just a New York/New Jersey type accent. I'll assume by your use of "brilliant" you're from the UK
“I told her I broke my leg. Gotta do things like that sometimes” in geeeeeeeked
His voice is that of a guy who has smoked Pall mall non-filters for 40 years
I miss the homies era. Good times. When going grocery shopping with the parents was fun
Hell ya man me too good times
Two things I learned from all of this. This man loves Pall Mall Reds and Social Distortion.
Rj Hucker and likes smoking
well y eah thats why i said he likes pall mall reds bro
Rj Hucker oh shit I didn’t pay attention to the first thing you said lol
But don't we all?
Social D is fucking awesome!!!
how about replace the homies with Hipsters? Since they replaced them in real life in neighborhoods out here on the west coast.
facts fuck a hipster
frrrr 😂
B. Richard Salas oh shit you're on to somethin there lol. I would collect "hipsters"
this makes no sense
Fuck yes! Great idea bro!
I kinda feel bad for him, I kinda don't. Like if the vending thing isn't working any more, then it's time to move on to something else more stable and profitable or get a job that can keep the bills paid. I agree, times have changed and kids really aren't into the vending machine stuff anymore. That's just the way things go. What's killing him is the fact he keeps trying to ride a dead horse into the sunset.
Tregeta he needs to make move it online. Or find a new gimmick to use in machines. I don’t even see those around much anymore
Tregeta it’s the MUSIC that is causing you to “feel bad” for him. The “Music Supervisor”, (the person who is in charge of choosing the type of music to invoke the desired emotional response.), the Music Supervisor is the one pulling your strings! If he wants you to have a bright outlook for the video, he chooses fast music in Major Keys!!!
I know what you mean. He's working hard, but he doesn't have the mindset he needs.
I mean, I would've diversified to mini rubiks cube or tiny little fidget spinners. Not even a single soda machine in sight. He seems like a good guy with some bad habits. But I can't help but like him anyway. Just a regretful man who didn't end up where he thought he would :/
Tregeta or he could just move to Japan where vending machines rule.
you ever had it all and lose it? hes not giving it up because hes made a fortune at one point ....hes chasing a high, same as a gambler
Man, me and my brother would get into fistfights over who got to get first dibs on the homies machine.we where 12 and 11 respectively and we where traveling all across the country because my parents worked for the carnival. New City every week and no shortage of quarters or homies...me and my brother aren't on talking terms,but it's nice to think about the good times. Brandon,if you see this, I love you little brother.
he should transition to Marijuana Vending machines, just sayn
Danny Ellis we have em in Canada!
That's an idea
Jon Ray615 - not a leaf, more like a flower
yeah, in New York... where marijuana is legal and all 0_o
Danny Ellis drive thru headshops are the next thing
This guy is like a videogame character. The way he talks, the car he drives, everything.
This is the best documentary I've ever seen
Thanks
***** good luck with business, keep your head up! I'm sure everyone who watched this is hoping you end up on top
Welcome to Vice.
***** That gave me some inspiration, keep hustlin!
NEVER SAY DIE!!!!!!!!!!
Sopranos vibes, “I told her I broke my leg” 🤣
Nah that's coco Diaz all day
I feel sorry for this guy. I am from NorCal, Homies were really big there in the early 2000's. It sounds like this guy could've made the gravy train last a lot longer if he'd made better business decisions, grow and adapt with his market, etc. I still have one particular Homies figurine. I found him many years ago in an old car in a wrecking yard in Reno Nevada. He is a typical Hispanic looking fellow with his hair slicked back, and wearing fancy clothes and a big smile, and is attached to a keychain. I thought he was cool so I stuck him in my pocket. When I got home I randomly attached the keychain to a hanging fruit basket in my kitchen, which is where he still is to this day. I have moved numerous times since then, and have not always used that basket. But I just moved again recently and hung the basket up again, and my little homie dude is still hanging out with my fruits.
While I agree he's clearly not a genius business tycoon, I would argue that the advent of the internet largely killed children's interest in toys in general, and in these toys specifically
damn that was a nice story
I also throw things in my pocket when going to junkyards
Bro I’m on a tail end of a acid trip and ur story slapped
Homies was featured in Lowrider Magazine. Both were created first in San Jose not Los Angeles.
I just want him to say Bada Bing, Bada Boom. Fuggetaboutit 😘
Black lies matter
I just want black people to stop their bitching already. Nothing is special about you. Everyone gets fucked by the police.
@@michaellarue8645 I just want BYTCHES like you to get a life & stopping crying EVERY DAMN TIME YOU SEE BLM ✊🏿 😒🤣😂 FOH
@@VB-fo1oc trend
he blew all his money...now he's struggling to make $20 to pay his phone bill...sad
Rasheem Youmans Precisely! Now. He's old and disgruntled
He should of started investing his money into a new market.
Rasheem Youmans the american dream
Rasheem Youmans 😅😂😂"
He doesn't even have a smartphone so he just pays for calls haha
This guy needs to make complete box sets and sell them online. I bet there's a bunch of people out there that would buy them, especially in Japan.
Yea he could copyright that toy and start distributing it in a different way other than vending machines. But like he mentioned he’d probably have to most likely borrow money and get investors for it and in this snowflake day and age they would be looked at as racist or some bullshit. A lot of people liked the homies I remember how popular they were I used to get them too as a kid.