Locked In with Ian Bick - Former INMATE Reveals How He Made $80,000 in PRISON | Bill Feezzyy

Episode Date: August 10, 2023

At age 19, Bill Feezzyy was sentenced to nine years in prison. His early life was marred by robbery, gun violence, and criminal activity. The son of a single mother with seven children, Bill spent his childhood moving back and forth between Detroit and Georgia, continually escalating his criminal career from a young age. Unlike most, Bill was able to use his time behind bars to truly change himself from the so-called “Craigslist Bandit” to the reform advocate he is today. Bill uses his story to provide support to those at the mercy of the criminal justice system through his YouTube channel and book “I Did It So You Don’t Have To.” Connect with Bill Feezzyy: https://www.youtube.com/@billfeezzyy/featured Connect with Ian Bick:  https://www.ianbick.com/ 00:00- Intro 01:59 Bill Feezy 03:52 Childhood 07:58 Start of Crime 12:33 Craigslist Bandit 14:34 Arrested at Dairy Queen 23:19 Prison Experience 26:55 Prison Hustle 30:30 Mindset in Prison 39:40 Message  Subscribe to our membership program on YouTube to get early access to interviews, see behind the scenes photos, live chat with Ian & more: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRvVklIft6DMelVW18M0oBw/join Powered by Q29 Productions, LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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my interview with Bill Feesey. Bill, you ready to rock and roll? Yeah, mother deaf. Let me block this girl. Oh, shit. All right, I'm ready. Let's do it. Bill Feasy, man. Welcome to the show, dude.

This is like months in the making. You hit me up on email, and then it got lost in the emails. And then I stumbled across your YouTube, and we reconnected, and we got you out here pretty quick. I just threw you through a crazy travel day. You flew in this morning. morning. You're flying out quick after this. We got your Uber on standby waiting to get you back. Hopefully you don't miss the flight. Oh, good. Yeah, it's like, dude, it sucks. It's like two hours

travel from LaGuardia out to our studio. We're in the middle of nowhere. But I'm glad you made it safe. A lot of your followers always comment your name. You have a really loyal following on YouTube that they're like, Bill Feesey, Bill Feesey, which is cool to see. But Bill Feeney, Easy isn't your real name. No. How do you get that name? Well, my real name is Chris. So when I was younger, I thought I wanted to be a rapper.

So I was trying to come up with a rap name. So I was calling myself, I always like money. I used to sell my toys that my mama bought me. So I said, I'm going to call myself Chris Money. And then my brothers was like, hell now. And then I was like, Chris Dolly. And that was like, no. So I took the Chris off and left the C.

So then I was C money, C dollar bill, and then I just took off the C completely. It was like, bill. And then I always be saying, what the Feezy? So as I was a kid, so people just started saying, Bill Feezy. That's awesome, Matt. I love the name. It really goes. I appreciate it.

So where are you from? Where did you grow up? I'm from Detroit. We came to Georgia when I was about 12, 13, and I've been there ever since. And what childhood like are you guys growing up? Rich, poor, middle class? Man, it was ups and downs. It was just rocky.

Like, one moment we had it made. We had everything. The next moment, I'm stealing tissue from school because we ain't got nothing in the house. You know what I'm saying? So it was just ups and down. my mom was doing it all by herself, you know. We had a lot of different days. It's eight of us.

Well, it was eight of us. One of them died, so it's seven of us left. Sorry to hear that, man? Yeah, that's odd. And, yeah, my mom, you know, wasn't none of our dad is there, so it was just up and down. You had no father in the picture? Do you think that affected how you grew up and how you would ultimately land yourself in prison? Yeah, that's possible

Because my, like, my dad's in my life now And it's a big impact Like, we're real cool now But I didn't even know him for like the first 11 years of my life So, you know, the people that I was looking up to That wasn't the best role models, you know what I was that? Who were your role models at that time?

Did you have like aspirin? Like, did you want to be a certain thing when you grew up at that age? When I was younger, I wanted to be a rapper, an actor, and a chef. A chef? That's a throw-off right there. Yeah, I wanted to be a chef. I used to cook a lot. That's funny now because I hate cooking now.

I think I've been DoorDash in literally, like, the last 50 days. That gets expensive. Yeah, I'm about to stop. But I used to love to cook. But I used to look up to my big brothers, though. And, you know, they was all involved in the gang life, the street life. That wasn't the best influence. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. And did your mom ever try to, like, steer you on track at all? Or was she just, like, letting you do your own thing because she's just trying to support the family, raise the kids? To be honest, me. man, she worked so much to the point it was easy to hide stuff. Like, you can be a whole gangbanger when mama gone, and when she get back, you might be looking at like a little good kid.

She don't like she worked too much, you know what I'm like? Yeah. So I was kind of slipping through the cracks a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now, if we had like some of your close childhood friends. here today, and I asked them how they would they would describe you at that time.

What do you think they would say? They probably would say I was a hustle. A hustle. I'm telling you, like, I remember, like, being 10, 11 years old and being outside with a bucket full of toys that my mama bought me over time, and I'm selling them. I just always wanted some money. Yeah.

Always. I was the same way, like, hustle. lemonade stands, candy shops, whatever I could do. I was a hustler. I'd get dropped off at the CVS next to the middle school. My dad would give me 20 bucks. I'm buying all the gum, candy bars, energy drinks, and I'm selling it for double or triple out of my backpack. Yeah. Dude, I respect that a lot, man. You've got to have that. And I think that helps you now in your YouTube career. You've got to be hungry, man. You've got to be hungry. You've got to be a go-getter. That's how you got to be starving, you know. You got to want it. And I,

You definitely see that with your content, which is cool. Yeah. So when you're growing up, do you go to college or you never make it to college? I did, but I didn't stay. I didn't even finish high school. That was because of the arrest? No, that was because I was just in class one day. I was just sitting there one day, man.

I was looking around all the students. And I just was feeling like it wasn't for me, you know what I'm saying? But, see, the thing with me, my whole life, I feel like it's been, when I say up and down, like, I will know better. Like, I was smart enough to know, don't just leave school and don't have no type of plan because it ain't going to work. So when I was sitting there thinking that high school is not for me, I know that most jobs ask for a high school diploma or equivalent. So I just walked out high school one day with a plan to go to Job Corps and get a GED. So that's what I did. I left out.

I went and got my GED. I went to Brunswick Job Corps a couple hours away from where I live at. And yeah, that's what I did. And I got my CNA license, certified nursing assistant. And I got kicked out right after I got that. And I came home and went to a technical college for physical therapy. And then about a little bit in the first semester, that's when I got arrested. So you had a plan, like CNA, physical therapy.

You were on track to do something with your life. Yeah. What happened? Like, how did you get arrested? What exactly went down that, like, threw your plans in motion? This is like so random, you know, because I've never met someone that has like a solid plan like that growing up. you know, the way you grew up, and then you have a solid plan, and it gets derailed. So what happened?

Well, so when I say it's been a lot of ups and downs. It's a lot of in-between stuff that I didn't really go into, you know what I'm saying? So we came to Georgia around, like I said, I think I was 12, just turning 13, and that's when I got my first weapon. A weapon like a gun. Yeah. That's exactly what it was. And my big brother, see, my big brother had got kidnapped.

And the people who kidnapped them, they beat them real, real bad. So when he healed up, he gave it to me. And he would just let me know like, but it's real out here. You know what I'm saying? We was living in a terrible area. So I used to see my brothers, people at school. They used to rob people. And I started seeing the power.

That ain't funny, but I started seeing the power that you have when you pull out a weapon on somebody. Like they would do anything, give you anything. So I tried it one day on somebody. I think I took a dude, book bag. Just casually? Just casually walked up on them, pulled out a gun, 13 years old, took somebody book back. And after doing that a couple of times, I went to think like, no, bro. you're gonna go to jail, don't do that.

And then I just stopped for like five, six months. And then I just started back doing it. So it was like with the Job Corp stuff, the whole time I was in Job Corps, I wasn't doing that, but I was like selling drugs and stuff the whole time. And then I got kicked out for fighting somebody, and I got caught with my brass knuckles. Do you hear how the sounds right now?

He was too big. I know. When you put it up, you got brass knuckles, you got the gun. How old were you at this time? He was too big. You had to have brass knuck. I was 17 in Job Corps. Wow.

So do you think if you never got kicked out of there, you never would have went to prison? No, I probably would have still went because I would have still, that wasn't going to change nothing. When I left Job Corps and came home, I got to. a job at a nursing home, taking care of old. This was so crazy about it. I would literally go to work on my good weeks, get a nice paycheck. I'd be straight. On them weeks where the money was low, I'm going to go rob somebody right after work. And what kind of money are you making from a robbery? So they have me and a friend of mine on the news as the Craigslist Bandit. What did they call you? The Craigslist Bandit.

The Craigslist Bandit. You were called the Craigslist Bandit. Yeah. So you're kidding a bit. No, I'm serious. So what we would do is we have set up ads on Craigslist. I think the last one that I remember vividly, it was like six 72-inch flat screen TVs and some type of dirt bike.

You know what I'm saying? And the value of all this, let's just say it comes up to $12,000. I'll post on the ad I want seven grand so you would call me and be like why you want only seven for this and then I'm gonna just say I'm in the military and I'm getting ready to leave

and I need something for it so then they're gonna be like well I can't give you seven I give you four and I'd be like I come on and then when you come to wherever I send you with $4,000 that's when I'm pull it out and take it you ain't never had no TVs or no dirt bikes or none of that. And we did that so much, man.

We did it to the point where it was like a sickness. It was to the point where I felt like I didn't even have to pay for nothing. Like it literally got to the point when I ordered Chinese food or when I order a pizza, I just robbed them for the food. I might have a pocket full of money. I would rob the Chinese food, man. Just when it gets delivered, you're just pulling a gun. And that's mine.

And that's why I said it was like a sickness because it was just for no reason. Like, you know what I can really pay for this right now. And I wouldn't just because I just started doing it so much. And, yeah. So what's the robbery that actually gets you arrested that gets you the long prison sentence? How do you finally get caught? It was actually six, right? how do I know I go to my apartment one day?

I think I was up my girl house for like a whole weekend. I go to my apartment and it got like holes in the door. Like somebody had been beating the door and the lock has changed. So I go to my neighbor house, this girl I know. When she seen me, she was like spooked. She was like, oh, you better get away from here. I'm like, what the hell happened to my door? She was like the SWAT team.

I was like the SWAT. I got so scared. I took off running through the wood. I ain't even get back in my car. I was terrified. I'm like the SWAT team. So I went on the run for a while because I didn't know what they was looking for me for.

I had did so much stuff, you know what I'm saying? Somehow the detective ended up getting my phone number. He called me, was telling me he just need to talk to me about something. So we're going through this for about a good week on the phone. Once I changed my number for like the third time, And he called me again on that number. I knew for a fact this house I was at high. Now, it was somebody in this house.

Because how would you know that? You have a different number, yeah. And I'm not even changing it on the phone. I'm actually sending one of my people to the store. Go buy me a track phone from Walmart in a car. I'm about to activate this brand new. Never putting my name on it. So how are you finding out that this is the number?

So I'm like, either you turn yourself in or sooner or later, they're gonna do it. Because somebody talking to them clearly, you know what I'm saying? So I was just trying to drag it off a little bit more. And he called me back and was like, hey, we had a total misunderstanding. You was the wrong person. I was like, for real, I was so dumb. He said, man, we had the wrong person.

He said, but you do gotta sign this waiver because your name was on the indictment of something. like that. He said, you do gotta meet me somewhere so you could sign it. He said, and I could drop all charges against you. Man. So you go and show up there? But I kind of felt something, but I was like, no, they can't play like that. Police can't play like that. And I go, and I should have known it was funny, because he's going, at all places to meet him. He told me, meet me at the Dairy Queen down the street from your house. Dairy Queen, you know what I should have been thinking like, Hell, no. You ain't say no office or nothing.

I went to the Dairy Queen, and it was him and some lady, and they arrested me. Just those two? There was it like a full-armed SWAT team ready? Well, no, when I went in there, see, when I went, it wasn't nobody there. It was just like regular Dairy Queen. I went to order some food, sat down, and then they came in and arrested me. And then when I came out, it was probably about three or four other cars out there. Was that your last meal as a free man, Dairy Queen? Yeah, it was some chicken tenders. This is some type of ice cream or something.

So when I get to the jail, the investigator is asking me about, the investigator is asking me about he's bringing up names that I'm familiar with, you know what I'm saying? But I'm just like, man, I don't know nothing about none of that stuff. And this is when I got happy. The man said, so you never robbed a piece of man before? So I'm like, oh, out of all the crazy stuff I done did, this all y'all got on me? So I kind of felt good about it.

And man, I sat in the county for like a few months, and then a total different county came, and they had five charges against me, all for Craigslist. And what were the charges that you were charged with? It was each one came with armed robbery. possession of a firearm during commission of a crime, hijacking, and aggravated assault. So I had all of that was one, and I had five of those. Plus this county, talking about I robbed a piece of man. So it was like six of them, but the piece of man minus the aggravated assault,

but the same charges from this. So I had like over 30 charges, you know, all together, but the main felonies, it was six of the armed robberies. And I just kept fighting it. They was offering me pleas. Like the first plea deal they offered me was like 25 years for all of it. And I'm like, no, I'm not doing that. So after like 10 months of sitting in the county for the piece of thing, the last thing they offered me was seven years.

And it was like seven years or it was just trial. So, you know, I kept pushing it off. I'm like, we're gonna go to trial. Because my family was supposed to give me a paid lawyer and we ain't never get it. And when it was time to make the decision, you know, everybody was mad at me, my mom or my brother,

because they're like, that's a stupid crime for you to take a charge like this for. But I was like, see, I'm watching other people get life for all kind of stuff, you know what I'm saying? So I'm not about to play them type of guys with my life. And then five, Five of the other charges, well, now, it was four of them.

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They was, so I was going to do four years for the first one. So they knocked off my parole date, so I can't parole no more, and I had to do nine straight for two-arm robbery. Nine years. How old are you when you get sentenced to this? 19. 19 years old. What are you thinking?

Like, how's your mentality? How's your mental health? Are you, like, depressed? Are you content with it? Is it part of the game and it's just another day in the life? What are you thinking? To be honest, I thought I was dreaming or something. It didn't even feel real. And see, matter of fact, I was 19 when I got sentenced to seven years. But they kept telling me, you're only going to do four years. You only going to do four years and you're going to be right back out. So even with them four years, you know, my girlfriend was pregnant. She was seven. much pregnant with my son, my only child. You know what I'm saying?

Wow, that was your first kid. Yeah. That's crazy. And that affects me to this day. But you weren't there for your kid? No, that I still can't beat her. Like, I'm going through courts, paying lawyers and stuff. Like, she felt like if you weren't to be a part of him, you shouldn't have never went to jail.

So she's not giving you that opportunity to make it right? She's not. And that, wow. I can't have. imagine. That's like a whole other battle you have to deal with aside from everything else. Yeah, so 19, and this how dirty they play, my parole date was September of 2017. They don't tell you the exact date. They just tell you the month and the year. So it was September, 2017, and then July of 2017 is when they called me back to court.

And they kept calling me back and forth, like, that whole month giving me an option, like, you by either got to go to trial or you're going to take the nine years. And at first they was trying to run it consecutive. So they said, I do seven years first and then start nine years. But my lawyer was able to talk them into running it all together and give me nine years total. So I already was at four, so I'd have to do another five. So I was 21 at that time. With nine years in prison.

So when you get to the prison at that age, what's it like? Like, are you welcomed? Are they giving you a hard time? No, I was already in there. But they switched you, I'm assuming to a different prison? No. When I went back to court from the prison, I was already at this prison for like a year and a half. Yeah.

I went back to court. They sentenced me to five more years. years and they just sent me back to the same prison I just came from. So what's your prison experience like? Like what I know you change towards the end of your sentence? No. But in the beginning, are you running wild? Are you like one of those young, hot-headed guys?

What are you doing? Well, my whole life I've always been a thinker. I ain't never just been too wild because I always understood it's some people in here that's never going home and they don't care about taking my life. So I've always kind of, you know, tried to be the thinker. But at first, yeah, I was doing a lot of stupid stuff. What was the most violent, like, altercation you were with or involved with in prison? And this wasn't even in the very beginning, but it was probably, it was a race thing happened with Mexicans and black people.

And my roommate was a Mexican. and he started swinging a lock at me. He had a lock, I had a knife. Your own cellmate is just swinging at you. Yeah. So what ends up happening? No, it's crazy. He's talking to his self.

And it's funny how they say whenever you're doing good in life, it's like BS come your way. Because I was in the bed reading my Bible, and I just heard this man down there talking to himself saying all kind of crazy stuff. I'm like, man, you know, and I had the option to move out the room with him before we locked down because it was just something else with like Mexicans and blacks. But he was so cool, I'm like, me and him don't care about that type of stuff, you know what I'm

I'm like? But clearly I'm the only one I felt that way. He was down there talking crazy. I think he was on meth, and he was just down that trip. So I got off the bed and I went to ask and I'm like, bro, what is you talking about? You're all right? and I tried to put him on the door and me and kick him out the wrong

and he was bucking he ain't want to go and we got to fight him and he pulled he had a lock already locked on the belt so I'm like damn he'd been intended on hitting me

with this and something because it was already ready to go and he just started swinging it at me he bust my head he was hitting me with the lock I grabbed the knife out of my locker box I stabbed him he hit me with the lock

I stabbed him. He hit me with a lot. We were both bleeding when we came out of there. You're describing the story so casually. Like, it was just like another, is that what, like, was a prison violent? Yeah, it's very violent. Especially, see, they go in Georgia's minimum medium, close. Close is what you would consider, like your level five,

your high security prison. It's just, they just call it a close. That's the name for it. And I was at close, like seven and a half of my nine years. And those are the ones. It's considered life as prison where the people that's never getting out,

this is where they go. The murderers, the rapist, the all the crazy type people, this is where they send them. But depending on your behavior, they send you there too. You know what I'm saying? So those places are extremely violent.

Now, you're a hustler. You make money. You're an entrepreneur. You've always had that mindset. I'm really curious about how you would make money in prison with that mindset. What were you doing?

Okay, my first four years, I wasn't really doing much because I'm wanting to parole out. I don't want to do nothing to catch an extra nothing because I don't want the parole board to deny me. But once I go to court and they deny me and give me five extra years, my last five years of prison, I was living like, I was living like king, whoever. So I came back and I started selling my store call every week because the value of it is different. So we was able to go to store for $60. But if you missed store day and you got a $25 cash app that you could get from your family, I'd give you $10 worth of this food right now. And you got something to eat now.

You don't got to wait till another five, six days. I started selling all my food. Then I started buying cigarettes. buying weed, selling it, phones, and then that's how you hustling it. I had cigarettes, weed, meth, phones, food, and for my last five years of prison, I was very, very, very well off. How much were you making, like, a week, a month in this prison? I don't know, but I know I know once I sat down once upon a time probably two years into my hustling and was really just writing everything down and calculating everything. You were doing the bookkeeping for that.

I was doing bookkeeping for myself. And I know at one point I was at like 80 grand. You made 80 grand in prison. Yeah. That's wild, Bill. I was paying bills for people taking care of kids. Christmas birthdays all from a jail cell

Do you think that's why some guys would rather be in prison Like you meet guys when you're in prison That are happy to be there Because they're making money I know a lot of like The Spanish Mexican guys That you meet in prison

They're like I'd rather be in here Than out on the streets Because they're providing for their family They're hustling They're doing what they got to do Yeah see I don't know about that Because you can do all that out here too Maybe it's the one

that weren't legal in the states that I would meet, like in the feds. Yeah. But these guys were making a lot of money, selling hooch, phones, whatever. It's pretty crazy. Yeah, that may be, but I don't know. I think sometimes people also, they like the lack of responsibility. Because I mean, the only responsibility you got in the prison, what, keep your room clean. Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? So, because I actually had a friend of mine that asked me that, we were in there. He was like, do you think this would be a smart idea? I said, what? He said, when I get out, I'm going to get a whole bunch of weed and cigarettes and make them into small bombs, and then I'm going to go out and do something dumb on purpose so I can purposely come back to jail and have somebody bring me that so I can get rich over like a next year or two. And my thing was, in Georgia, the rate of you losing your life is so high. Whatever you come in here and somebody kill you, then what?

And you were thinking about these things while you were there? I thought about it every day. I never relaxed. Your mindset was very elevated. Like, you had a very strong, you know, mindset mentality that got you through it. Were you, like, reading it all in there at all? I did a lot of reading and writing. What kind of books were you reading?

Anything self-help, do it yourself. Jack Canfield got one that I, I loved called. Damn, what was it called? The Success Principles by Jack Canfield. And it's just like, it kind of gave me, you know, I stress no excuses now on my channel. No excuses, no excuses, no excuses, make money, not excuses. And it kind of put me in that mindset, like, every page he's just showing you, like, how it can be done.

No matter what the eyes is against you, you follow these and you could be successful. Anything like that, that's what I like. Interesting. And now you were mentioning a little bit earlier about cell phones in prison. Yeah. Every person I talk to, there's always like a different method on how they'd get contraband cell phones into the prison. How are you getting them in? Most of the time I would be dealing with somebody that got a way to get it in, but he don't necessarily got the funds to fund the whole process.

as far as whoever's helping him, he gotta pay somebody, some office, whatever he got going on, he gotta pay somebody. He might not got the money to do it. So it wasn't just consistent. I had more cigarettes and stuff than I did phones, but with the phones, he might come up to me and say, hey, I could get 20 phones and I need $10,000.

When I get them, I give you half of them. And I give it to him. You were quite the business, but... And when you give me half of them, these are Androids from Walmart that cost you $40-50 max. Yeah. I'm selling every one of them for $2,000 apiece.

You know what I'm saying? No, I was reading somewhere or watching one of your videos, you mentioned, like, by the end of your prison sentence, your mentality changes completely. You're into straight, like, you don't want to be caught up with the bullshit, the gang, like anything in prison anymore. Why does that mentality change?

and what happens? I think after spending so much time talking to somebody right now today and then two hours later I see this person get killed and this person was young. This person didn't have much time left. It started, I think it started making me feel guilty for my role of any stupid stuff I participated in, you know what I'm saying? And it just had me thinking about life in general. like, bro, life is way better than this bullshit.

You can live way better. It's so many other ways to do things. So all of the younger dudes that was in there, because, I mean, I was in there with guys who's 17 years old, and they ain't here with grown, grown men. You know what I'm saying? I just kind of started talking to them. Then I started going viral on TikTok,

and I'd be messaging people back, just telling them, man, this ain't it. Y'all don't want to do this. Y'all stay out of trouble. this ain't the life you want and I just you know made a promise to myself to just stay on that and that's what I did do you think if you didn't come or reach that mentality you would still be in jail now or dead absolutely 100%. I think that nine years was extremely necessary I think I needed that because if I would have never went to prison

I think I would have either got a life sentence for killing somebody or somebody would have killed me. It would have just been one of them too. Now, us as former inmates, we realized that not everyone has that mentality. They come out and they go back to jail. Why do you think that is? Are they just not finding the right reasoning that you just spoke about? Or is it society failing them? Is it the system?

What would you attribute that to? I think it has nothing to do with society. I think it's all individual. I was just talking to a guy yesterday that just did a long, long time. And he told me, man, they ain't giving me no opportunity. I'm going to go pick up a pack. And I told him, well, if you do that, I'm about to block your number. Don't never call me no more because people get so comfortable making excuses.

You know what I'm saying? I think what it is, one of the things, people do stuff. and then they go to jail and then you read in paperwork. I think that at every point, every person is deep into their paperwork in the very beginning, because you're trying to see what the hell really happened. After so much time,

I think people go to thinking they don't got smarter at doing whatever they did to get in here. Oh, I see how they caught me, so now I'm gonna do it this way. They think they don't figure it out, but what they don't realize is, is the time you go on, they're coming up with new ideas and new technology every day. You know what I'm saying? So I think some people think they just figured out how to outsmart the system.

And some people just don't want to work. Like they don't want to do nothing legal where they got to wait for a check. Some people just want it fast. And, you know, people like that getting blocked out my phone. I don't want no contact with you. Good. So you won't be blocking me then. We're good.

No, I mean, we all have so much opportunity. like guys like us that are able to come out of a terrible situation and build platforms, that wasn't handed to us. That wasn't handed to you. No one came home and said, here's a YouTube channel with 75,000 subscribers. And, you know, it's just, it's crazy. But I think there's definitely a power and, you know,

harnessing your past shit and using it as a motivator. But everyone has like the same opportunity. Yes, people are born into like a rich family or whatever. And they're given that stuff. you could build that on your own in a way. You're building it now. Yeah. What I tell people, everybody, I always tell people,

whatever it is that you're good at, whatever you super familiar with to the point you can walk me through it. You know it like the back of your hand. Man, figure out a way to monetize that. If it is you talking about it, if you're trying to help somebody else with it, figure it out some type of way, even if that's starting a YouTube channel and making video after video about it, you know what I'm saying? Because that's what I did. I was at a warehouse.

This job literally was paying me $325 a week. For 40 hours? Yes. That's terrible. I went and got a second job. It was breaking my back at the second job. Then quit the first job because the second job was paying more. Then when they got another job, quit the first day. They called me back to work. I came back. Worked the hour, quit again. I quit. I quit this one job about three times. And then I just quit the other job. I just had to figure something else out. And I was just praying and trying to figure out what it is that I need to do. And all my people from TikTok was telling me, go on YouTube and tell longer stories because I always tell like a minute on TikTok. You know what I'm saying?

That's how I started with TikTok first. Yeah, I was telling like a minute story and I went on there and told a long story. I mean, I think three days later I got an email saying like congratulations about a partner program. I didn't know what the head they was talking about. But I know when I got that first check, I quit both of the job. I never went back to work. And you do YouTube full-time.

I ain't been back to work in probably about a year now. What do you attribute your success on YouTube to? All in all, I put the most high over everything. You know what I'm saying? I always think the most high. And that's another reason I said I feel like I had to go through that. Because there's so many people that send me messages day in and day out telling me, like, bro, I changed my life because you stress is not worth it.

You know what I'm saying? Like, it's a little dude I just posted on my Instagram story. He's like, I literally stopped selling drugs after watching all your stories. He's like, I'm just doing the right thing now, you know what I'm saying? So people like that is the, you know, one of the main reasons. I'm going to just keep going. You know what I'm saying? What do you think your message is?

Some individuals that watch the content, there's hate. You know, they'll say we're glorifying prison. Do you think you're glorifying prison? And if you don't think so, which I don't believe you are glorifying it, what's your message that you want people to take away from watching your content? Okay. Number one, I know I'm not glorifying it because I got almost 300 videos. And now one of them, have I ever been explaining about somebody got hurt with a smile on my face?

Now one of them, have I ever been excited? Like, yeah, he went in there. He just kept stabbing him. Never, not one time. The message is your freedom, there is nothing in the world worth your freedom. I don't care what it is. I don't care how mad you get.

I don't care how broke you are and you feel like you need some money, you need to go do this or that. It is not worth your freedom. You know what I'm saying? Because like I said earlier, you can, I can go rob him real quick just for a quick come up and then they could sentence me to two years in prison. And then I can go in prison for two years and on my 30th day somebody could kill me with a knife because they're trying to rob me for some food.

They could stab me, hit, hit the wrong artery and I could die. So that's the overall message. It's not worth it. Just do the right thing. Just stay down. and just nothing is worth your freedom. If you could go back to your teenage self, 17, 18 years old, maybe right at the point where, you know,

you just lost your CNA gig and the schooling, what would you say to your teenage self? If you could sit in the room with that teenage self across from him, have a serious sit-down conversation. I would probably, and I know what I know now, I would just explain the same things that I explain to younger people now. I would just explain it thoroughly is not worth to just stay down, whatever it is, stop doing all that, anything illegal, get rid of it, just stayed out.

But if I could reverse it to where I had never went to prison, but I don't gain the knowledge I got now, I wouldn't reverse it. I would still need to go through it to be the person I am today. That's great, man. Bill, this has been a great conversation. I'm sorry we're limited on time because of the travel. We had that air with your driver, the driver I got for you, bringing you to the wrong address.

So just so like our listeners can hear right now, you know, I'd love to have like, you know, we'll definitely have you back for a part two with some better time, can train to all come out there, do your channel with you, do like that full, you know, like hour and a half, two hour interview.

But I wanted to at least, you know, kind of go over your story. The fans have been asking for your interview. And I think we covered some really important parts today to your story and got a good message out. But to the people that are expecting something longer with you, I apologize on those travel. But hey, you know, that's part of the business. Yeah. Shit happens. Yeah, the driver called me.

He's like, yeah, you know, we brought you the wrong address, which was an hour away. Yeah, I asked them. After a little while, I wouldn't be scratching my head. I was like, hey, man, you know where we at, right? And he was like, yeah, yeah, I'm like, and then I waited a little longer. I was like, hey, man, I went to thank you. I said, man, the hell they got going on? I'm paranoid, too.

I said, man, y'all got me fucked up. And then he said, man, we had the wrong address. He's a funny dude, right? Yeah, he's a character. He's a good guy, but I sent him the right address. I was looking at it, but oh well, man, shit happens. I'm glad we got to have this conversation. We got your Uber waiting for you.

Thank you again, man. Bottom of my heart for coming on the show and looking forward to your continued success. You're right on the corner of that 100,000 subscribers. I think hopefully this video helps get you to that point, too. We have a pretty large following. Where can people find you at? We're going to link it on the bio too.

My Instagram, well, first off, my YouTube, dude is Bill Feasy, of course. Instagram, Bill F-Z-Y-F-R, that's Bill Feasy for real. Facebook is the same. And I actually am a new author now. I got a book out. It's Billfeasy.org, B-I-F-Z-Y-R. Awesome, man.

I'll definitely check out that book. It's called I did it so you don't have to. And I'm telling the story and telling them, just use my story. Don't even go through it yourself. You know what I'm saying? Absolutely. All right, Bill. Thanks for coming on and have a safe trip back. Most definitely, bro. I appreciate it.