Digital Social Hour - The Hidden Truth About Car Flipping Profits | JR Garage DSH #829
Episode Date: October 25, 2024🚗💸 Discover the hidden truth about car flipping profits on this episode of the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! Join the conversation as Sean chats with the mastermind behind JR Garage & Avi...ation, uncovering the secrets to making serious cash flipping cars and even planes. From high school Porsches to jaw-dropping Lamborghini deals, this episode is packed with valuable insights you won't want to miss. 🚀 Ever wondered how someone can flip over 100 cars and only lose money on two? 🤯 Get the inside scoop on strategic buying and selling, navigating auctions, and finding that perfect deal. Plus, dive into the fascinating world of plane flipping—a new frontier for those looking to soar in the business world. ✈️ Don't miss out on this eye-opening discussion! Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🎉 Join us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and right here on YouTube for your daily dose of inspiration and knowledge. #carauction #carquestionsanswered #flippingcars #carflipping #automotiveinvestmentstrategies CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 01:03 - How Jr Got Started 04:23 - JR's Car Collection 05:20 - JR's Favorite Cars 10:28 - JRs Airplane Collection 12:34 - Buying a $10,000 Airplane 16:45 - JR's Travel Preferences 20:34 - JR's Coin Business Journey 23:37 - JR's Ancient Coin Collection 28:54 - Most Expensive Coin Purchase 30:25 - Buying Fake Coins 32:17 - Logan Paul's Pokémon Box 33:39 - Historical Document Collecting 34:58 - Collecting Bills 37:30 - Confederate Currency 38:55 - Investing in Gold 40:50 - Crypto Investments 42:45 - Risk Mitigation Strategies 43:15 - JR's Jet 45:45 - G Wagon Purchase Regrets 47:07 - Where to Find JR APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: Spencer@digitalsocialhour.com GUEST: JR Garage https://www.instagram.com/jrgarage/ https://www.youtube.com/JRGarage LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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That's our rule number one.
We have to make money from what we're buying.
At least try our best.
And we've only lost money on two cars.
Damn.
And you've bought tons.
Yeah, like 100, 150.
Dude, that's insane,
because most people that flip cars,
I feel like it's a tough business.
Yeah, no, it definitely is.
You learn as you go,
and fixing them up,
and learning about titles and auctions,
and you can get screwed really easily,
but we kind of started small and worked our way up.
All right, guys, got JR Garage here,
or should I say JR Aviation now now that's the new thing but it's
pleasure to be here i've always wanted to be on this podcast since you started i'm like this is
super cool gotta be on that one day you were one of the first people i ever hit up actually
dude yeah it was it was like we've known each other for a long time or at least known of each
other right we've been following each other on instagram for what eight years now seven years
like 2016 i think it was. Crazy.
And you always did such interesting things.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
I'm always wheeling and dealing on a bunch
of random weird stuff.
So I can't wait to break that down today.
Absolutely.
We'll start with the cars.
And then I want to talk about the Jets and the coins too.
But the cars is how you started, right?
Right, yeah.
That's how the start came on social media, right?
Most people know me from JR Garage, um which is my car page i started
back in 2016 i just have a big interest in automobiles and always been interested in cars
since i was a kid and i always wanted cool cars that's what really motivated me in the business
world which we can unpack there how we pay for the cars but you know me we my brother and i um
just have been hooked since then and started with with a Porsches, like early 80s Porsches that are actually pretty cheap.
Our first car was like $4,300, so it was a 944 Turbo.
For a Porsche?
Yeah, right?
So we're in high school and have this red 944 Turbo,
and everybody thinks it's like some cool car, but it was $4,300,
and we ended up selling the rare wheels off of it for $2,300,
so we were actually in the car at like $2,000 plus $300 wheels.
Wow.
$2,300 for a Porsche.
That's insane.
I thought those were like six figures.
Yeah, you would think so.
But the early 944s, they didn't get much love,
but now they're starting to appreciate.
That same car today would be worth like clean 944 turbos,
like 20, 30, 40, up to 80 grand if they're low mileage.
So 5 to 10X.
Yeah, so we're always trying to pick out the cars
that are like good, you have a good chance of appreciating.
Or at least try our best, right?
Sometimes you get it because you like it,
but ideally you want a car that's going to appreciate in value.
How much of your cars went up versus the other way?
Almost all of them. And some can even drop a little bit in value, but we don't lose money
on them because we just get such a good deal on them. So we know some cars are going to depreciate.
Our Rolls Royce is going to depreciate. Okay, cool. But we got it so cheap that we can still
make 10, 20 grand on it. So that's our rule number one.
We have to make money from what we're buying.
At least try our best.
And we've only lost money on two cars.
Damn.
And you've bought tons.
Yeah, like $100,000, $150,000.
Dude, that's insane.
Because most people that flip cars, I feel like it's a tough business.
Yeah, no, it definitely is.
You learn as you go, fixing them up and learning about titles and auctions
and dealer stuff and where to maintain it and how to sell it.
There's definitely a lot to know.
You can get screwed really easily, but we kind of started small and worked our way up very quickly.
I mean, people would say, like, what do you mean you started small?
You were 17 with a Lamborghini.
But we had a few cars before then, and we just took calculators.
You guys started in high school.
Yeah, high school.
That's when the channel blew up.
So talking about the channel, like, yeah, 2016,
that one video went viral.
You probably remember it.
Like, driving my Dodge Viper to high school,
that was the video.
23 million views, I saw yesterday.
Yep, yep.
Driving the Lambo to high school.
Yeah, that was the sequel.
And every video we post having to do with, like,
a supercar and being young in high school
just went crazy viral.
So we went from, like, 1,000 subscribers
to, one week later
over a hundred thousand subscribers crazy that was nuts that was the early days of youtube where
like you could have one viral video and like gain 100k subs it's a lot harder way harder now now
everyone's views are down like 80 yeah because there's so much competition i hate when people
say it competition like seeing their fellow creators as competitors like they're just
friends especially in the car space like they're they're just fellow acquaintances that also love cars i don't see them as competitors
at all yeah but other people in different niches will see other channels as competitors and want
to like beat them and stuff but not how i see it but inevitably there's a lot more channels out
there creating so it's hard to get those eyeballs you're fighting for those same people and it can
be hard i think the same way when i see see podcasters crushing it, I get pumped.
Yeah, yeah, right?
It should fire you up because you see like,
okay, wait, it's possible.
Like, let me put my own twist on now.
Let me get a piece of that pie.
Absolutely.
Like you're doing.
You've taken quite a big piece
pretty early on.
Trying to get like Rogan, man.
You're really crushing it.
We'll see.
How many cars do you have right now?
Did you sell most of it?
Oh, shoot.
That's what everybody always asks.
And like the answer is so bad
when I'm like,
I don't know. Damn damn you have that many oh it's so bad to say but like i i lost count like 30 40 cars ago probably if i had to guess right now um maybe 70 cars damn where
you can keep that money and and it sounds all fine and dandy, and it was cool for the first few years of having 60, 70 cars, but right now, I don't know.
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I do not want that many.
I want a downsize.
Keeping track of like,
just like license plates alone,
registration.
I go to take a car out
and it's like,
oh shoot,
that plate expired like
a year and a half ago.
Crap, like oops.
Or like that battery's dead.
Just batteries alone
are like the bane of my existence.
Because if you don't turn them on
for a year.
Oh yeah.
And unfortunately,
a lot of these cars sit.
So it's like $100 battery there,
$100 battery there,
battery, battery, battery, battery.
It's one of my biggest expenses now is batteries i gotta drive these cars more
i gotta pull jay leno and hire somebody just to drive them yeah that's crazy you got a personal
favorite uh yeah a few favorites i really enjoyed we had this uh i say had i'll tell you the story
we had this ferrari ff great car v12 naturally aspirated 650 horsepower all-wheel drive four seats modern great car uh that was like
my favorite all-around car um until it burned burned to the ground whoa yeah you drove too fast
no it was not me it was somebody that was using the car i explained on my youtube channel but um
yeah unfortunately they called and they're like hey bro uh your car's on fire and um yeah that
must have been the worst phone call of your life yeah i'm i was like you must be joking he said no and sure enough it was a pile of ash so
it's completely ruined destroyed yeah they're the the rear wheels were like the only thing left
holy crap yeah he was in a remote part so it took fire uh department so long to get to him by the
time they got to it's just a blaze i'll show you some pictures it was just a fireball that's rough
i hear nightmare stories of luxury car rental companies that happen yeah
so that's a great all-around car but like my favorite like weekend cars i'd say lamborghini
takes the cake the urus um no i'm not not a big urus fan just because twin turbo v8
not fast enough for you no no it can be plenty fast but it's just such a
oh dare i say, boring car.
I might catch some.
Oh, you're going to get some heat for that.
Yeah, I will.
But they've made so many of them, like 10,000, 15,000 of them.
You see them every day.
Twin turbo V8, it's the same as an RS Q8, just twice the price.
Like, no thanks.
Lamborghini, I'm talking.
Gallardos, Murcielagos.
I'm not even a huge, like, Aventador fan.
Everybody goes, oh, SVJ, Lamborghini, Aventador, da, da, da, da.
No, I like the older cars, like the Murcielagos.
So we've had a few of those, and, like, that's been one of my best buys, the Murcielago.
And our first or second Gallardo was actually our, like, biggest profit on a car.
It really worked out nicely.
Wow.
Our twin turbo Gallardo.
Yeah, you made a good killing on that?
Yeah, that worked out quite well.
We bought it at an auction, um super crazy weird story this car was like the
fastest manual transmission car in the world in like 2015 it did a half standing half mile like
zero to half mile distance and a trap speed of 220 miles an hour this car was stupid fast
so it had 2200 horsepower when underground racing was racing it back in 2014
2015 when it set those records they tuned it down to 1850 wheel horsepower which is just ridiculous
40 psi boost on the v10 and then they sold it to a guy who was um i mean great guy but he he told
me he's legally blind so i don't know why he bought this car but 100 miles later he crashed it
we ended up buying it from auction uh for super cheap like only 68 000 bucks i don't know why he bought this car but 100 miles later he crashed it we ended up buying it
from auction uh for super cheap like only 68 000 bucks i don't think people sell like the twin
turbo kit and then we fixed it for about 8 000 so we were in that's it yeah that's it it was super
minor we got really uh smart buying like used parts and like kind of hacking it and just not
hacking in a bad way but like hacking the deal of not buying new parts, just saving money where we could.
And yeah, so we were in at $75,000, and we sold it.
I got an offer of $150,000, so kind of had to sell it.
Wow.
That was a good profit off of Lamborghini.
So people have the misconception that you buy a Lamborghini, you lose money.
You buy a supercar, you lose money.
No.
We need to stop promoting that idea.
If you just know what you're doing and you buy a good deal,
then you're going to make money.
Yeah.
Any car brands you won't touch, just too many issues. Uh, people ask that a lot, overrated cars. And I'm not a fan of like new BMWs never have been, Oh man, the new M5 that
just got released, like weighing 4,700 pounds. Like the new M5 weighs more than a Rolls Royce.
Like, are you kidding me? It's ridiculous. Uh, but even like the M3s M4s, I just think they're
a little overrated. Once again, I'll catch some flack for that,
but I just don't think they sound the greatest.
I don't think they're just a boring overrated car in my opinion.
Oh, boy.
Here come the comments.
I can see that.
Never had one.
I don't think I'll ever buy one.
Wow.
You like the older models, I've noticed.
Yeah.
I mean, I had one M3, so I can't hate too much,
but it was an E90, naturally aspirated V8. That that's gonna be a great investment car it already has been prices are
going up on them because it's the only v8 m3 naturally aspirated six-speed manual i mean like
that's a great car i sold it actually i mean you're doing something right you're the only one
i know that actually makes money off the cars you buy yeah yeah it's it's uh i guess maybe i've
gotten lucky at times but if you if you're just really calculated and you spread your reach super wide,
you don't just look in your hometown.
I look across the whole country.
I'm constantly scanning the auctions
and the government auctions.
Yeah, I buy some interesting.
Auctions are where you could get a good deal.
Yeah, in general,
those are usually where you find the best deals
because you're usually bidding against wholesale buyers,
not the general public.
Whereas stuff on Facebook, a good deal is gone.
Facebook Marketplace in like 20 minutes, boom, gone.
People sell cars on Facebook Marketplace?
Yeah, it's one of the biggest places to sell cars now.
Really?
Yeah, it's kind of shifted from cars.com and all these old kind of online dealers to
now Facebook Marketplace because people, it's just simple.
Just toss up a little description, 10 pictures, and post them up. But there's constantly people scanning for good deals.
So you'll, you gotta be, you gotta act so quick if you want a good deal off Facebook marketplace.
So instead I go to the auctions where it's a lot less competition.
That makes sense. And you've recently transitioned into planes.
Yeah. Right. You know, what, what's next after cars, once you collect all the Pokemon,
when it comes to cars, all the brands,
it's like, well, where do you go from there?
Airplanes.
So that's been a fun challenge to, like, learn that whole world.
But it's the same idea.
Buy good deals, enjoy them, keep them for a year or two,
and then sell them for a profit.
We've done it time and time again.
And now I do know the number of current airplanes.
I don't know cars, but planes, it's like seven or eight planes. I guess I don't know the answer. Okay right now seven or eight
That's quick for you only started what two years ago. Yeah, our first our first like plane flip was in
2021 this Bonanza I
Told you I got crazy stories on where I get these things from this one was seized by the government for
Running some illegal things in it.
Drug trafficking.
Yeah.
And it was found with like $200,000 in cash on it.
They busted them after like a drop or whatever.
I don't know.
Wow.
So five years later,
when this plane comes up for auction,
they take forever to go through all the court battles
and all this stuff.
But anyway, it finally came up to auction.
I was ready to bid on it.
Sight unseen, I bought it.
It was risky,
but I could tell from the pictures
and a couple of key things on that plane.
I knew it was modded in a very nice way.
It had an upgraded turbocharger put on.
It had extended range fuel tanks.
It had all these avionics upgrades,
typical stuff that these drug runners would want,
like souped up planes, right?
So I could see all these upgrades,
and I don't think other people did.
So I ended up getting that plane for $110,000.
Oh, that's it?
Yeah, that's it.
Planes don't have to be a lot of money.
I just bought a plane for $10,000.
We can get into that next.
But yeah, this plane was $110,000.
Then we put like $20,000 into some maintenance, fixing it up,
a couple upgrades.
And then once again, we kept it for a year, enjoyed it,
flew it all around the country.
Not me, my buddy.
I'm just a student pilot, learning, learning as I go.
But my buddy Owen, shout out to him fly with owen uh he's the best pilot
out there he flies gulf streams all these cool planes but he's the one who teams up with us on
these deals and anyway yeah we sold for 235 000 bucks damn made a hundred thousand dollars while
owning our first plane so once that happened i'm like oh game on like let's go more planes
so yeah we've bought a lot of planes since then.
And you bought one for $10,000, you said?
$10,000 airplane.
Oh, you've got to be kidding me.
No way that's going to fly.
No way that's safe.
You're crazy.
I'd never step foot in that.
That's what I hear all the time with this plane.
But, no, it's a perfectly safe plane.
It's a great plane.
It's a Cherokee 180, which is like an entry-level training plane,
but it has an upgraded engine, so it's a very popular plane.
These planes go for like $40,000, $50,000, $60 upgraded engine. So it's a very popular plane. These planes
go for like $40,000, $50,000, $60,000, $70,000 in average condition. And this one was posted up on
this little plane classified website for like $19,000. I'm like, holy smokes, that's a great
deal. I messaged the guy right away. A day after he posted, I'm like, yeah, I'm interested. Tell me
more about the plane. He's like, oh, I got somebody coming tomorrow to buy it. You're too late. You can be next in line. I'm like, dang, missed out. And then the next day he the plane. He's like, Oh, I got, I got somebody coming tomorrow to buy it. You know, you're, you're too late. You can be next in line. I'm like, dang, missed out.
And then the next day he messages me. He's like, yeah, the guy came by, he offered like 9,000
bucks for the plane. So like, do you want it for 10? And I'm like, say less, here's the money.
So I wired the money site unseen to this guy, hoping that it wasn't a scam. And it wasn't a
scam. Why would he sell it that cheap? He needed money really quick and he, he wasn't a scam. And it wasn't a scam. Why would he sell it that cheap? He needed money really quick.
And he wasn't flying it.
He had it for like a couple of years.
And the previous year flying it, he flew it two hours.
You own a plane and fly it like twice.
So he just didn't care.
He lost interest in it, needed the money, and just sold it for 10 grand.
Because I guess that's all he thought it was worth.
Because he got an offer for nine.
So he's like, here, if you give me 10, I'm doing all right, right?
So that was a crazy deal so you flipped that one uh still have that but i got just
got an offer 40 000 it's worth like 40 to 50 grand so all we had to do was an annual inspection each
plane every year has to go through an annual um big jets have to do a lot of different items like
sometimes up to 100 different inspections holy crap crap. Yeah. Jets are just a whole other world.
We'll get into that in just a second.
But the normal piston small planes, they're one inspection a year,
annual inspection.
They usually range from like $2,000 to $10,000 usually on a plane like this.
So we got lucky there wasn't much found on this airplane.
It only cost us about $100 in parts and $1,000 in labor for the certified mechanic to come out.
We can't do an annual inspection.
We're not allowed to.
You've got to be certified.
They don't mess around with airplanes.
So he came out.
We paid him $1,000 for his labor.
And we helped him, an owner-assisted annual.
And then, yeah, out the door about, I guess, $1,100 or $1,200.
I broke it down on my YouTube channel.
You'll see it if they search JRAviation $10,000 plane.
That's insane.
It'll pop right up.
Yeah, you've really broken my perspective on airplanes.
I thought they were millions.
We've got to get you a plane.
Yeah, when they're only this cheap, I'm down.
But now we've got to dive into the economics of flying
because that's where it gets pricey, right?
Right.
It can definitely be expensive and just depends the plane you get.
So, sure, a $10,000 airplane isn't going to be too much to maintain and own,
but it doesn't go very fast.
It seats four people.
If you want something to zoom around your business meetings,
you're probably going to need a turboprop or a jet.
And that's, like I said, when you just get into stupid, stupid money.
I mean, it's no joke.
Coast to coast is.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah, it's a charter a jet coast to coast
non-stop like a gulf stream i'm not i'm not some jet charter broker so but off the top of my hand
probably talking like 8 000 bucks an hour so yeah five hours like we're saying 40 000 bucks that
flight something in that range that's ridiculous that's too much you can fly first class for i
don't know 800 bucks never flown first class in my life i'm always just in the back of the bus really even this day bucks oh no never
i've never flown you're six foot five yeah six foot yeah six five why don't you fly first class
or economy plus at least shoot people ask me that all the time like like wait a second you're telling
me you fly frontier for 40 when you have a private jet and you're six foot six you know and it's like
yeah i'm just way too frugal if i could could never justify calling up Owen and say, all right, let's go. We're going
in the jet for my business meeting in Vegas. No, no, absolutely not. But you'll drop a million on
a jet. Yeah. I mean, if it's a good deal and I can make money on it, but I'm not going to fly it
because there goes my profit. If I fly it a bunch, I've flown a few times, but I'm packing in people.
There's eight people in that plane.
I'm getting my money's worth.
We're going on a group trip.
I'm not going to go myself.
That's ridiculous to pay six grand and jet fuel to go somewhere
when you can pay 50 bucks to go on Frontier.
So I'm always economy in the back.
I don't think I'll ever change.
People ask me, like, come on, how much money do you need to have
before you change?
I don't know. Clearly, I've grown a lot in the bank account and I'm not changing.
So you and Graham Stephan would get along. Yes
That's the number one comparison. I think on a frugality scale. We're both pretty similar. I wonder who would be more frugal.
I would say he's got the edge. He eats at all-you-can-eat sushi buffets for $25.
Dude, I eat all-you-can-eat, but at Chinese buffets or Golden Crow or something for $10.
I wouldn't even pay $25.
Got to beat there, I guess.
So, like, I don't know.
We're probably pretty similar.
I'll call it a tie, but same philosophy.
Just if you're not getting a return on whatever you're buying,
unless you really, really need it or really, really want it,
you probably shouldn't be buying it.
Damn. Do you think it's a fear you have just of losing money like losing everything
yeah i wonder my friends have tried to like break it down because they see it firsthand i mean i'm
always using coupons and like just the whole nine yards and they're just like dude you own all these
cars and planes and you're here like pinching pennies and i don't know i think it's just the
way kind of we grew up there wasn't much money in the family at all so like you had to learn to like be super super frugal
and like know the value of a dollar really early on and I think that's just always stuck with me
and honestly I was having this conversation with my girlfriend like I I think it's I think it's
almost like insulting to some of the people around you or your family like your extended family aunts and
uncles and cousins who if they're not like doing really really well and they're like struggling a
little bit but i'm doing really really well and i'm just gonna go out and treat myself to some
something from gucci or some crazy stupid purchase yeah while they're like struggling like i just
think it's a slap in the face like you better make sure that everyone in your circle,
family,
number one,
immediate family,
number one,
extended family,
number two,
and then like friends three,
I feel like everyone's got to be taken care of first before you go making those stupid purchases.
Wow.
And I wouldn't argue that my things are stupid purchases.
This Rolex.
Oh,
okay.
Oh,
he just contradicted himself.
No,
I mean,
this is a Rolex at retail
you know the game this is 11,400 bucks and it's worth two three four grand over retail because
it's a desirable watch like if it was worth two grand less but I just like wanted it absolutely
not I'm not buying it right I would only buy Rolex retail exactly yeah and only the Rolexes that are
worth more than retail because plenty are worth immediate loss. You just got to know which ones to pick, and this happens to be a good one.
Master, rhodium dial, platinum.
Anyway, that's just the philosophy I have.
I don't hear many people talking about that,
but I'm buying my uncle his dream 1970 Chevelle SS
before I go spending stupid money on stupid things.
Wow.
I'm actually trying to do that.
I'm just trying to find the right car.
That's cool.
Anyway, so I want to.
I'm with you on that though.
Designer is, I don't like designer.
Yeah, you're the same way.
I mean, we share a lot of things in common.
I used to cheap out on, so here's where we differ.
I don't cheap out on food anymore.
Okay.
Because I think it impacts your performance.
I would agree.
My girlfriends open me up to that.
Yeah, because I used to get pissed if I spent more than 10 bucks on a meal, I used to like literally get
mad at my girlfriend when we would go out and it'd be more than 20 bucks. Yeah. Okay. I've had
to shift that mindset. Yes. Wow. That's so interesting. So I, I would, I would agree with
you on that. My, uh, my girlfriend is rightfully so, you know, teaching me about like nutrition
and stuff and like the stuff that's in those foods. Okay. They're cheap, but like you're gonna pay for it in the long run which is so true gosh the amount
of it's a whole separate conversation you've had the experts on your show regarding nutrition but
it's like it's eye-opening what's out there and the disgusting harmful chemicals and crap that's
in these and that's in this food so you do want to pay a little bit more and get a better product
when it comes to food so i would agree with with you there. I'm transitioning into that. Found some similar common ground. Now let's dive into coins.
Oh yeah. Coins. How did that start?
Oh man. So, so yes, that for everybody watching so far, it's like, all right,
something ain't adding up. This kid's young. He's got all these cars and
planes. He must have a billionaire dad, right? And early on, you probably remember those videos,
JR garage exposed. His dad is this billionaire that pays for all these cars. And people just make up these random stories.
One guy said, my grandpa died
and he left me all these cars that I inherited.
And they'll get millions of views
talking all these made up lies.
And it's like, oh my gosh.
But no, everything I've always said on social media
is true though.
It was really tough growing up.
Didn't have much money.
And that fired us up to want to get nice things in
life because we've seen how one side is. And like, we certainly wanted to have more money in life,
let's just say. And the first business that kind of triggered that. All right. So first,
first, of course, it was like the lemonade stand that you have at five years old, six years old,
seven years old. Every kid has that. Right. So we had that toss the basics in business. Cool.
But the first real business was, yes, as you say, coins.
That started in like 2008.
That's when we got interested in it.
Our aunt actually gave us like a couple old pennies.
And we're like, whoa, this is really cool.
Like this penny is 100 years old.
Like we want to learn more.
We just got kind of some spark was lit.
And we went to our first coin show.
And we got really, really interested.
These older guys were
super nice unfortunately this industry is very it's it's slowly dying everyone will say like
you people don't go collecting coins anymore like young kids i mean obviously some but not like it
used to be in like the baby boomers when everyone was collecting coins so a lot of these guys end
up being older like they're in their 70s 80s 90s even back when i started in 2008 so a lot of these guys end up being older. Like they're in their 70s, 80s, 90s, even back when I started in 2008.
So a lot of these older guys know that they're not going to live forever,
and they're trying to pass on what they know to people that are interested in it.
They love seeing a young kid with a spark.
So they were just like, hey, kid, come over here.
Let me teach you about coins.
So all these guys imparting so much knowledge.
We met some really great mentors along the way,
and they taught us everything we know about coins.
Our parents weren't there to teach us about coins.
My dad has no idea about coins.
But he's like, hey, if this is something you're interested in, let's go to some coin shows.
Let me take you there.
So it started with just $50 buying some coins.
And then after maybe running through some of the savings, we're like, oh, we can't collect anymore.
We don't have any more money.
So we started reselling some of these coins.
And we're like, well, if you buy them cheap enough and you sell them you can get you
can make a profit and buy more coins so that's what we did it just slowly started in 2009 was
like our first year like flipping coins at 10 years old i'm 10 my brother's 12 um but we we
grossed like 36 000 bucks in 2009 at 10 years old 10 years old yeah people hear that and like you
must be lying.
Well, I'm not lying.
Like, that's just what it is.
And then the next year it was like 72,000, doubled that.
And then it was over 100K.
And then it went to a quarter of a million.
And then it was, we broke a million in 2014 at like 15 years old.
Selling coins.
Yeah, it's crazy. And what coins were you buying exactly?
A little bit of everything.
So primarily US coins.
And people hear coins and it's like,
there's no way there's that much money in coins.
But there absolutely is.
It's a huge industry.
I was just at a coin show.
That's why I'm here in town,
wheeling and dealing coins.
And I brought a few.
I got to show you.
So really all coins,
but primarily, like I said, U.S. coins.
But one of the coolest coins are ancient coins.
So take a look at these three.
Whoa.
You might know some of the people on them.
Kingdom of Macedon.
Yep.
Alexander the Great on that one.
Holy crap.
So it's so cool about ancient coins.
Not that I specialize in ancient coins at all.
Yeah.
I just know that they're good conversation starters.
How old is this one?
300 B.C. What? I think it's on 336 yeah 336 to 323 bc so yeah holy crap that's a it's over 2000 year old coin
that's still in great shape roman empire yep and who's on that label you read that uh marcus
aurelius yep marcus damn this is history right here super rare ancient coin
rarely see those come up and then that one is one of the most rare julius caesar julius caesar
wow he was only in power for what two years before he was assassinated yeah 46 to 44 bc
so you never see those coins when i saw that i'm like all right i'm keeping these these are just
out of my personal collection kind of some cool. But history comes to life when you see these coins.
That's what got us fired up.
One more cool coin that I brought.
Check that out.
So it's a quarter from 1796.
That's the first quarter ever made in America.
Who is this on it?
That's just Lady Liberty.
So now we have like presidents on our coinage, right?
But back then we just had like this fictitious made up Lady Liberty.
Wow. coinage right but back then we just had like this fictitious made up lady liberty and they designed the coin and uh that those coins are just extremely extremely rare so that a little coin right there
is probably almost 15 000 bucks this coin 15 000 bucks how many of these are there uh there are i
think a mintage of they only minted in the tens of thousands but still existing today i mean it's
probably in the thousands or some of these coins are under a thousand wow and some some are under
10 known the highest coins that are worth millions of dollars there's one two three four known it's
just crazy that in perfect shape would be over a million bucks damn so what what considers this
perfect shape is it yeah so so like cards which you know it goes up to what scale 10 yeah all
right so same same idea with coins it's not out of 10 it's out of 70 0 to 70 points that's the
grading cl 70 out of 70 being perfect so that one grades about 25 out of 70 which um the thing that
hurts that coin is it's slightly cleaned it's a little it's repaired there was a scratch in the
field that somebody tried to like get out so they like buff the surface to try to pull the scratch out so you can tell it's repaired
if you know what you're doing so because of the repairing that coins were 15 grand if it was all
natural vf25 vf30 it'd be a 35 000 coin wow yeah so just because it was a little mess with and
cleaned and stuff loses 20 grand of its value that's why you never ever clean coins really
yeah even if it's rusty don't ever clean coins especially if you don't really know what you're
doing do not touch it hold it by the edge keep it in a protective holder like that you will ruin the
value if you clean a coin it'll like i said it'll drop usually sometimes up to 50 or more uh so you
think you're adding value making making it look shinier.
It looks better in my collection.
No, you are erasing value off that coin.
All these coins are all original except for that one.
And people pay for that patina.
You want it dirty.
You want it tarnished.
You want it toned.
Collectors want that.
So big PSA to anybody out there.
I'm trying to do more coin educating.
Everybody says, launch JR coins, JR coins, JR coins.
So I did kind of just launch a coin page like a few weeks ago.
Okay.
Yeah, called like the coin expert on TikTok and Instagram.
So if anyone's interested in coins, they can check that out.
I'm trying to just educate people with what these coins are worth.
And because I know people are inheriting these collections every day from grandpa that just passed away and they have no clue what they are.
They don't want them.
They just want to sell them and know what they're worth. So that's kind of why I established
these pages to give like free evaluations. Anybody can message me with what they have and I'll just
tell them what it's worth. If they want to sell it, I'll buy it. If not, you know, that's okay.
That's cool. Yeah. People could be sitting on gold mines and not even know.
Oh dude, you just have no idea. The $15,000 quarter, dude, I bought this off a guy in
Scotland. He messaged me and he's like, yo, I got this 1796 quarter. I'm like, no way.
Send a picture.
Sure enough, it was legit.
And I'm like, holy cow, where'd you get that?
And he's like, I'm in Scotland.
I bought it at an antique store for a dollar.
It was in a junk box.
It was in a little junk box.
You know, pick any coins for a dollar.
He's like, yeah, so what will you give me?
And I'm like, dude, that's a very rare coin.
I'm like, I'll give that's a very rare coin i'm like i'll give you uh five thousand bucks
and he's like oh well now uh now on second thought like i want a little more for it because i said
such a big number he's like oh shoot it's worth something so he's like give me eight thousand i
think we met at like seven grand so i can still double my money after i work really hard to like
get it authenticated do a lot of work.
But yeah, just an example.
Stuff like that is out there.
That's cool, man.
People are getting these coins every day
and I'm just here to help spread the good word.
And by no means my the coin expert,
the most knowledgeable guy,
absolutely not.
I was just at a show
where guys could probably run circles around me,
but they're not on TikTok.
These guys aren't social media focused.
They're old, right?
Yeah, I'm trying to like spread the word
on social media.
Share what I know. You said you sold a They're old, right? Yeah, I'm trying to spread the word on social media. Share what I know.
You said you sold a few this morning, right?
Yeah, I would have brought it to show you,
but it's a really nice coin. I sold this
1894 Morgan dollar,
which is a semi-key date, but this one's an extremely
high grade. I'm a 64
out of 70. 64 plus out of 70.
They give little plus designations
when it's just in the middle.
And that coin, I sold for $10,000.
Damn.
Yeah, $10,000.
Is that the most you've sold a coin for?
No.
People do ask me the most valuable coin I've ever sold.
And it would be, oh, there's two that are up there.
I'll tell these stories quick in case people are bored with the coins.
But this 1865S, maybe a 63S, $20 gold piece.
It was 10 years ago when I bought it 12 years ago.
I was like 12 years old.
This was a big ticket coin.
It was at this auction.
And I'm like, oh my gosh, this coin's worth a ton.
But it was just loose, just like this.
It wasn't like certified.
So there was no proof that it was real.
And I'm 12 years old.
So to shell out a bunch of money, it was scary.
But the bidding started.
It was like 1,500, two grand, 2,500.
Bidding slowed down.
I got the coin for $2,700.
And I'm like, I think this thing's worth a fortune.
But this was the biggest coin I bought up until that point.
It had me really worried.
So I sent it out to PCGS to be authenticated.
And what do you know?
It was real.
And they graded it MS63.
Damn.
And I sold it the next day for $13,000.
Holy crap.
At 12 years old.
Made $10,000 at 12 years old.
That's insane.
That was nuts.
But couldn't have done it without the mentors and the guys around me teaching me what I know.
Because at 12 years old, it's hard to make that call.
That was a good chunk of the money I had at the time.
That's cool.
Have you bought a fake coin before?
Another good question.
Right now, fakes are running rampant.
Really?
It's bad. From China? It's bad, yeah. Unfortunately, a lot are running rampant. Really? It's bad.
From China?
It's bad, yeah. Unfortunately, a lot are coming from China, and they are so dang good.
If you don't know what you're doing, bad things can happen.
Because what was always told back in the day is, okay, if you don't know coins really well, buy them when they're certified.
Buy them when they're graded, real, authentic.
You know the deal with cards. You get more money when they're graded because people feel safer.
As you've probably seen with cards, same thing's happening with coins.
They're faking the holders.
These holders, the whole thing will be fake.
The coin is fake, the holder is fake, and the grade is fake.
Wow.
Everything's fake.
So it's so sad.
People, collectors, think they see a great deal on that key date,
and they buy it, and it's all certified and ready to go. then they you know it takes an expert to tell them dude i have bad
news everything is fake and the coin's worthless i've seen that countless times damn they're
starting to roll out so no one's safe anymore you can't just buy a certified coin and be safe
so raw coins are fake you know ungraded just like this these are fake it's getting bad they need to
make a digital system where you scan it and it can tell you, right?
Yes, but they're faking the barcodes and the RFID chips.
So you scan it, everything pops up as normal.
Holy crap.
It's nuts how sophisticated they're getting.
Maybe if you look at the coin, it'll look slightly different
because they're stealing the barcode off a real one
and they're just trying to make the coin look the same.
Ah, I see.
So to answer your question,
I've bought like one or two fake coins in my life early on early on you know i'm 10 11 12 years old just learning the ropes so it's understandable why i'd make a mistake like
that but luckily it was from guys who they didn't know either and i when i went back to them and
said hey you know this coin expert or the grading company said it's fake we give my money back they
said yes you know i got really lucky yeah most people it's fake. We give my money back. They said yes.
I got really lucky.
Most people, it's gone.
They buy it off Craigslist and it's fake.
Poof.
The Logan Paul Pokemon one was nuts.
Yeah.
So was there a fake Pokemon card?
Yeah, you saw that with the million-dollar box.
Oh, shoot.
It was sealed by the grading company.
I forget the company.
It was like, you didn't see this?
It was everywhere.
So the whole box was fake?
It was a box of first edition Pokemon cards, and it was sealed by the grading company, so everyone this it was everywhere so the whole box was fake it was a box of first edition
pokemon cards and it was sealed by the grading company so everyone thought it was real yeah as
soon as they opened it gi joe cards no way yeah a million dollars what the heck did they go back
to the grading company and say you certified this like no it wasn't a grading company they just
faked whoever sold it faked the tape or whatever. Oh, my gosh. And they opened it on camera.
Yeah, on live.
Whoa.
So cards are being really faked right now, too.
Dude.
Okay.
It's the same idea.
So when people try to understand the coin industry, it's basically just cards, both coins.
Yeah.
So you really got to buy from just actual coin shops then.
Yeah, reputable guys.
Again, if you don't really know what you're doing you know start
with reputable guys you're safe there go to the big conventions talk to the guys yeah know who to
buy from and you know you'll be safe but but me of course i dabble in buying all sorts of collections
and stuff so i gotta know or else i get burned like i'm not gonna buy a collection off somebody
off instagram and it'd be fake and be like hey i need my money back no like that's my fault so i
gotta be able to tell from a picture alone so So it's really hard, but hopefully I can keep up my
track record of not buying fake stuff. Yeah. I got to look into that. I'm into this stuff. I bought
George Washington's hair. Oh, shoot. Yeah. I'm into historical items. It's so cool. I want to
get more into that. You know, with these coins, you inevitably run into some old documents and
stuff. Besides the hair, have you ever had any any i've been presented documents but no the hair was just interesting to me so i got it dude that's cool and
who it's certified by certified it was a mystery box so you didn't know what president's hair you
were getting but it was every president's hair that could potentially be in there dude and you
pulled a george washington yeah pulled the rarest one that's they had lincoln i believe yeah yeah
it's it's so interesting these like they're a new take on trading cards, right?
But, like, historical cards.
I can't believe they even saved that.
Yeah, like how?
Like the hair?
I wonder how they would prove the provenance
because that's really hard
unless they've, like, written documentation
from Martha Washington and then her granddaughter.
Dude, that's a good point because it was cheap.
So, yeah, it could have been fake, honestly.
The hair could be off.
The dude who put the package together.
No, that'd be a crazy scam. But, yeah, it's all about fake, honestly. That hair could be off. The dude who put the package together. No, that'd be a crazy scam.
But yeah, it's all about the documentation
and the certification companies.
They do their work to ensure what they're saying is legit.
You collect anything else?
Not exactly.
Just a couple of those documents, like I said.
Some old bills.
I had a bill printed by Benjamin Franklin.
That was pretty cool.
It says right on it, printed by B. Franklin.
That's cool.
So yeah, aside from coins, there's bills as well.
I got to show you a few of them.
People always get a kick out of these
while it's just falling with stuff.
But look at that one.
So printed 1777.
What? This is a bill?
Yep, yep.
Nine pence.
I think that one's Massachusetts.
Look at the top.
It just, they're crazy.
Look, to counterfeit is death.
Whoa.
They weren't messing around back then.
Like, you counterfeit our money, you die.
Holy crap.
How much is this worth?
They're actually not as rare as you think,
unless they're printed by, like, Benjamin Franklin.
Franklin's stuff will be thousands.
But this, I probably bought it for, like, 60 bucks.
Okay.
So kind of cool piece of history.
That is.
Yeah, April 4th, 1777.
All right, A couple more.
People always get a kick out of this one. Check that out. How is this? People don't know those
existed. $500 bill? $500 bill. They're like, what? This is fake. No way. There's no way.
Can you use this right now? Yep. Legal tender. Really? I can spend that right now. And they'll
accept it. They have to. Yeah. Bank would have to accept that. So people didn't know these bills
existed and they are so cool. The 500, the 1,000, there was a 5,000, there was a 10,000 and there was a $100,000 bill.
No way.
Yeah. So-
Imagine paying for a car with a $100,000 bill.
Yeah. Yeah. You could. The 100,000-
You should make a video of that.
The 100,000s are now legal to own. They were only for like, you know,
kind of between banks and big transactions back in the 30s. So those you can't have anymore.
But up to a $10,000 you can legally own,
and those are worth $200,000, $300,000.
So it's not even worth paying with those?
No.
Do not pay with that.
Do not pay with that.
Even this, it would be so stupid to pay with it
because it's worth about $1,000.
Wow.
What about $2 bills?
All right, $2 bills, good question.
Yeah, you can feed me any question of any bill, coin.
So $2 bills, most of them are not worth anything.
If it's a green seal, more than likely it's only worth $2
unless it's an error, unless it's a star note,
which has a little star at the end of the serial number,
or unless it's in like perfect mint condition.
But otherwise, it's only $2.
Where they start to get good is 1963 and before
when they had red ink on them.
I probably have one here.
This is funny.
He got everything.
Oh, man.
It's not here anymore.
Okay.
Hope that didn't fall out.
Anyway, $2 bill from 1963 and before.
They're red seals.
Those are worth like $4, $5, $6.
And then when you get before that, they get to be the large-size currency,
which is like this stuff, huge bills.
Yeah, the 1917 $2 bill was the last large size two dollar bill and those are like a hundred
bucks then they just go up big time i mean wow there's two dollar bills that have sold for tens
hundreds of thousands of dollars from the 1860s 1870s 1880s crap so yeah they get really rare but
to answer your question no most of the green seals it. I didn't know those bills were bigger back in the day, too.
Yeah, they were huge.
That's a Confederate bill from 1864.
I love bringing these things with me because people get a kick out of them.
This is history, man.
No Illuminati eye on the back on this one.
No, not on that one.
But it looks like fake Monopoly money.
It's all Confederate currency.
Back in the day, that's what they used.
And then last one, 10-cent bill.
People didn't realize they made fractional currency.
10 cent bill.
Yeah.
So when they had some shortages of metals to make coins, they're like, well, screw it.
Let's just make them out of bills.
So tiny little bills.
Who is this?
That is the Secretary of State, I believe.
Oh, wow.
So I can spend this as well.
Really?
Imagine going to pay for 7-Eleven, whip out 10 of these, get a Slurpee.
10 cent bills, they would never take them.
But they legally, like, they have to.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I actually don't carry change anymore, which I probably should because some of them are rare.
Oh.
You never know what you're going to find.
Credit card only?
I just feel like it's annoying to carry change, personally.
Yeah, a lot of people.
I know that probably breaks your heart.
Yeah, it does.
It does.
But I always tell people, you know know when they do get change your bills it
doesn't hurt to take a five second pass just to look at them because once again you don't know
what's out there well the banks probably know the rare ones all right you would think but uh
no not not really bank tellers will sometimes i mean they're within their rights to like see a
rare thing come across and then uh buy it out keep it for themselves but sometimes they get like fired
for it this one story which is true this old lady brought in 20 20 gold pieces 20 gold pieces these
suckers are like almost an ounce of gold right now they're worth like 2200 bucks a piece damn
she brought them in to deposit for 20 a piece she's like hey you know i just i got these for
my husband you know can i deposit them and the teller didn't tell her, like, hey, these are super rare.
He took them.
He cashed them out.
He gave $400 for them.
Took them home.
Sold them for a fortune.
And then, yeah, he got fired.
Wow.
Because I guess it wasn't right to, like, steal those from that granny.
But you're not stealing anything.
I mean, technically.
Technically not stealing, yeah.
It's $20.
But I guess he should have told her, like, hey, please go sell these for a lot more money.
I didn't know gold appreciated like that.
Yeah, gold's an interesting one.
It's been up and down a lot.
It's nothing like some of these huge stocks
that just go 10X.
Gold is not something just like,
oh, I'm going to buy it
and then in a couple of years get a 10X.
No.
Peter Schiff.
It's been at around 1,000 to 2,400
for the last whatever, 20-something years.
Stable, right?
It doesn't change much.
People like to just park money in it.
But a lot of people are saying gold and silver are about to go crazy.
Really?
Yeah.
Too slow for me, man.
Yeah.
For this younger generation, they want instant returns.
They want instant gratification.
They don't want to deal in this old metals.
But people are saying the instability in the U.S. dollar,
all the stuff going on with Russia and China the dollar does worry me
Dude, so I'm keeping very few dollars right now. Okay, right? Yeah, put it it put it in assets
Yeah, don't just park in a bank for starters. Obviously you're losing it to
Inflation but it's like what's gonna happen?
I'm sure you know nothing crazy's gonna happen the US dollar
But like if it does the people who bought gold are gonna be looking a lot better than the people holding
Currency our currency is worthless. It's holding fiat currency. Our currency is worthless.
It's just fiat currency.
It's just made up.
Nothing backing it.
Back in the day, it was backed by gold and silver.
Not anymore.
They need to go back to that.
Yeah, a lot of people are calling for us to go back onto the gold standard, but I would need an economics major to break that down.
There's so much to it.
It's not just some simple one sentence like, okay, here we go, and it's going to fix the U.S. dollar.
You got any crypto uh
yeah a little bit you probably remember i was back geez when that blew up and the 2017 you could put
money into anything crypto related boom 10x within a week it was crazy so i hopped on that train a
little bit you know threw some money here there and everywhere and then yeah everything went berserk
made a few youtube videos about it yeah and those videos got a lot of views. You couldn't miss, dude.
It was nuts.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I just didn't love that.
That was an interesting few-month run.
It was crazy.
I mean, you just hate to see something go up so crazy and then people just like lose money.
A lot of people lost.
When someone makes money, someone loses.
Yeah, that's true.
But you just, people, however many times you say it, only invest what you can afford to lose dude you see it every day people just putting their life savings going all
in on something and they lose it it's like yeah i would just feel really bad for them because
people like do yeah can't say it on the podcast but people make some bad decisions after they
lose their life savings and um you know that's why the statement is true.
Only invest what you can afford to lose.
And that's what I did.
So, yes, I most certainly got hit with that decline as well.
Oh, I got wrecked.
I don't care.
I got a little money into it.
It wasn't much.
It's a little bit of crypto to answer your question.
Yeah, I got blasted.
Oof.
What coin or what?
Everything.
Oh, yeah.
I guess that's true. Everything was down coin or what? Everything. Oh, yeah.
Everything was down 90%. Yeah.
But that's the thing.
I went a little too hard and it was a good lesson.
Right?
Yeah, you definitely learned something, but you had the potential upside and you probably did.
Yeah.
Remember you posted a few things.
I mean, you were up a ton, but it's just knowing when to time it.
And it's so hard.
Luckily, I had the skill set to make money during the down.
So I was able to withhold it.
And now I still have everything and it's picking back up.
So exactly. I'm the same way. Like why? Why mess around with crypto if I don't know it inside and out when I can focus on cars, planes and coins and have pretty much guaranteed investment returns?
No, it's fascinating to me because you're in risky industries, but your risk mitigation is
phenomenal. Thank you. I appreciate it. It's very impressive because a lot of people in your space
lose money. You're right.
Yeah.
Cars, planes.
All those things are terrible on paper.
And I'm sure plenty of people will tell me that I'm crazy and that my luck is going to run out or whatever.
But I don't think so.
It's very strategic.
It's partially luck but partially doing your homework and just really knowing what you're doing and having the right people in your circle to ask questions to.
Absolutely.
Yeah, you've only lost on two cars.
No losses on planes yet, right?
No, no, not a single plane.
And some really good returns.
The jet is crazy.
Yeah, so for those of you out there watching,
yeah, we'll see how that one goes.
What'd you drop on that?
Not that much.
You're good at that, man.
People will be surprised.
So I'll be okay on it,
but people think jets equals tens of millions of dollars,
which it usually does.
Well, you had Grant Cardone in here not too long ago, right?
He has a G650.
It's like a $70 million plane.
Holy shit.
$70 million.
And he did it for the tax reasons.
The government gave huge incentives to buy planes.
It was crazy.
80% right?
100% accelerated depreciation. Yeah. 100% accelerated depreciation with like no limits. So Grant Cardone, you heard
him say on the Logan Paul podcast, you know, I wired that money and I told my accountant,
write that whole thing off. You know, that viral clip. Yeah. It's technically true. It's for
business use, a hundred percent business use, a hundred percent business, a hundred percent
accelerated depreciation right off. And now, now it's a phasing out. They're minusing 20% each year.
So you're right.
I think last year it was like 80%.
This year it's probably 60%.
But for a while there, it was crazy.
Guys were just buying planes left and right.
And the thing was, it wasn't just new.
So cars for Section 179, it's got to be a new car, right?
Over 6,000 gross weight or whatever.
But a plane, it could be a used plane.
So that just exploded the market
for used airplanes. So I wasn't complaining because I had a couple of the prices on planes
just went crazy. Like some just nearly like doubled, tripled with COVID. Everyone's like,
life's too short. Like I'm gonna go learn to fly. So you got those people buying planes and then
you got the business people with the trump uh this tax thing that he
put in in 2017 or whatever and that also blew up the market i hope he brings it back man yeah we'll
see what happens yeah i wonder if he gets re-elected will he reinstate the 100 tax write-off
on airplanes that's if he does i'm gonna hit you up as soon as it passes text me and i'm in then
it is i actually bought a g-wagon last year because of that tax
code yeah you know the drill so it's a huge kind of loophole and a lot of people don't like it
i guess i can see their arguments but uh for the aviation industry it did amazing things mechanics
were busier than ever salespeople manufacturers serious all these companies were just cranking
out planes everybody was cranking out planes and. And it was good for that industry.
And it's still pretty hot now, even with it slowly tapering off.
So it'll come down a bit.
It'll cool off a bit.
But I saw it as a really good thing.
It was interesting to watch.
But, yeah, when I do call you up on that, Jet, I got you.
I can help you.
Yeah, I'm going to hit you up for a car, too, because I got ripped off, dude.
Oh, yeah, dude.
I got wrecked. Any cars, planes, cars, I pretty much feel like like no pretty darn well i can advise you good on
but uh jet i'm still learning you know i i dude it's nuts i just got called saying like hey for
this phase inspection for your jet like i said there's like up to 100 or 50 of them or whatever
phase 49 inspects like windows and stuff and they're like dude uh i don't think that your
windshield is going to pass the inspection you might need a new windshield i'm like okay how much is a windshield on jet like it's gonna be
like over 40 000 holy crap for a windshield yeah so i really hope that passes the inspection but
that's why i'm like on the fence if i'll make money on that plane or not it's like that it's
coming up 40 gram maybe and then um the phase one through four is coming up on that plane and that's
like can be up to like 50 000 bucks or more depending what they find so i'm a little worried on that one
but uh you gotta learn by biting the bullet and doing it yeah you gotta live and learn yeah i
overpaid by 40k on my g-wagon i found out i got wrecked but that's common like when you go to
these dealerships like oh they're charging over sticker yeah right for it yeah especially the
g-wagon cells were so hot yeah dang yeah yeah that hurt but this year when i need a write-off in december i will
hit you up yeah yeah i i got you i can definitely advise you for the best car and uh airplane when
the time comes oh yeah jr it's been fun where can people find you man uh all over social media let's
see we got the jr garage we got the j Aviation for planes. And then, like I said,
the Coin Expert
for the new Coin Channel
if anybody knows about coins
out there.
We'll link below.
Thanks for coming on, man.
Dude, thank you so much.
That was fun.
Can't wait to chat more.
It was a blast catching up, man.
Cool.
Thanks for watching, guys,
as always.
See you tomorrow.