Silly Bandz

No, I think it's ultimately important because you're right.

Everyone is so conditioned to thinking they have to start the next Facebook or Silly Bandz or something like that to get ahead.

If you're out there right now, and you feel like you're treading water, and you wanna start investing, but you just don't have the additional cash, start a side hustle.

Even if you make six, seven, eight hundred, a thousand dollars a month with that side hustle and you put that all towards investing, you will still become a multimillionaire over time.

don't have to reinvent shit.

The guy that did the Silly Bands made fucking like That was insane.

He went to Japan with his last fucking $10 and I was like, what the fuck is this? He came back here, sold 7-Eleven, suddenly he's got fucking $400 million.

Fidget spinners? Yeah.

... it's on the level of, like-

That's this generation's Silly Bandz.

Yeah, it's gonna come and go.

Or what is, what was the cup-

And whatever is hot, they go do it.

Silly bands.

Yeah.

Silly bands were, I was peak silly bands because I worked at Five Below in 2010 and 11, and silly bands were very popular there.

How many did you pocket? I did not take any silly bans.

I did, however, have to clean up packages that were ripped open in the store that people would take like a handful of them and just leave the package sitting there.

It was only big for what, like? Three months? Six months?

Eh, maybe a little bit more than that.

remember when i was a little little little little kid yeah it's so it was so fun i'm getting like full math games was where all the pizzeria it was on during class you you played that during middle school yeah have you ever played um the poop oh my

god do you guys remember tomogachis wait wait do you guys remember silly bands yes do you remember how silly bands got banned from schools because people would have too much of it and choke on it and like play with it at people i used to make rainbow looms oh my god silly bands like my my friends went crazy they had like all the special ones like oh my god there was this one guy in my in my grade and he had all of the rare ones what all of the rare ones and then during recess he'd like we we would all like line up all our silly bands and he would have where would you rear rare ones would it be like packaged it was in a blind box i'm confused no it's it's in like a plastic bag plastic bag i just remember my

sister having some and i would i would have some oh my god

do you remember cookie pens wait you guys don't know it do you remember it those are No, it's the cookie pens.

yes that show

was good i didn't really watch that

this is just so crazy and you know what we know what's crazy like the same trends with like silly bands and stuff it was like worldwide not worldwide but at least in the us like everyone knows about it yeah like it

was like

And it always brings me back to a really cool story that I don't even know if you know, Austin.

2010, right at the height of Silly Bands, I had always wanted an Aston Martin DB9.

We were in New York for the Silly Band show.

There was one literally two blocks away that popped up in my search.

Yeah, but what the hell is that thing called? How do I not know this phrase? Hang on.

Anyway, we also had Silly Bands, Pops, we had Squishmallows, we had Beanie Babies, of

course.

Oh, yeah.

right, Bionicles, though, for the win.

He later went on to front Silly Bands.

He took that money.

Sunk on the Titanic.