Mark Wants to Donate a Testicle for Money! | Extreme Cheapskates

[Music] people misplace millions of dollars in loose change every year and their loss is this cheapskates gain every day mark spends his free time hunting down dimes nickels and pennies all over Las Vegas my name is Mark Parisi and I'm Las Vegas his biggest cheapskate marks an interesting guy is a really good person but obviously he's a extreme cheapskate these are my favorite depending offers from back in the day but the interesting thing about this and this is how you can really tell and pardon the smell that's me is if you look right here when my roommates dog ate the top I took a marker and I penned in the black as not to buy a new pair he's just a quirky dude and he literally will save money anywhere these shoes and all my dress shoes I get from the shoe repair store people drop off the shoes they forget about them or don't have the money to pick them up mark has a habit of doing things that are a little bit beyond what I consider cheapskate Mark keeps his grocery budget under $60 a month by disregarding expiration dates and spending no more than a dollar on any single item tortillas 50 Cent's Powerbars 50 Cent's cupcakes 50 Cent's peanut butter and jelly one dollar but his thrifty habits don't stop there he pays next to nothing for water each month by refusing to use it in his own apartment I end up spending about a dollar at the most dollar 50 on laundry because I throw one or two pieces in with everybody else once a week he washes and dries his clothes without spending a dime hi I'm mark would you mind if I throw in some laundry with you just a few things not a lot maybe a few things no okay I can see you have made them for a cigarette butt wash machine oh hello my name is Marcos warning if you mind if I tossed in a few articles with your laundry no a lot of people say that I'm crazy do you mind if I throw in some water with you no that's fine thank you but uh a couple things here a couple things there and then you find some house to share a dryer with do you mind if I throw some longer game with you just a few items go ahead thank you it's not a lack of money it's just knowing how to stretch your money knowing how to make extra money knowing how to get the best value for your money well he won't spend a single cent on laundry mark does like to gamble but even at the casinos he's found a way to make sure he's never parting with his own money might go about gambling a different way I only get with money that I find I don't spend more than five dollars and I only play the penny slots because you could win up to $10,000 but if for some unfortunate reason I should lose I'd only lose a maximum of five dollars not a whole paycheck [Music] I'd like anything you dream that's can I please get a vodka cranberry yes thank you if I went to a bar the street would cost me 12 to 15 dollars but by coming to a casino I played the penny slots win money and drink for free but this wouldn't get 1/8 $8.67 this is well one dollar can do when I'm gambling I know when to stop most people think oh yeah I'm gonna keep going they double and double and triple I'm like no you got to know when to walk away Marc is a big hustler he goes around and always looking for things to do to try to save money first time that I realized he was cheap was definitely when he was trying to get me to do every single medical study that I could qualify for in the past six years marc has volunteered in more than a hundred medical studies and the riskier the trial the better it pays what I was doing clinical trials I would get these scrubs I would take a pair of home I would use them for daily work exercise and for doing other clinical trials saved on laundry cheap to clean and they were free these are the scrubs from the clinical trials these all represent a part of history for example these are the Ebola why study this is my favorite everyone was panicked with my friend and I did this study never tested on humans or animals before we were the first two in the country to have it done it's $5,000 for a week so why would I not do it I can endure it especially some of the crazier Charles but Marc's full well into it the two studies that I'm waiting on that I have not been in yet is a flatline study this is a really good one what they do is they stop your heart for one minute but you still breathe stay there 14 days pays $25,000 but the FDA kind of stepped in and stopped that the second one that I'm really anxious and really excited and waiting to do is this testicular study what you do is you go and you donate one of your chester goals they replace it with an artificial one and when you check out after 14 days you get a check for $35,000 mark participates in so many clinical trials that he gets free checkups every month to see if he's a good candidate for each study what we're doing today is we're gonna go basically for a physical examination it's gonna take some blood make sure that I don't have high cholesterol diabetes so what's motivating you to want to go under the knife and be part of the study like that the money hmm so let's think about what you just said so we're going to lose one of our testicles we're gonna replace one of our testicles first the money yes so okay have you ever had your testosterone level measured no so what I like for you to do is take off your shirt okay and I'll come back in and we'll do a brief exam okay okay and also I got to check out your gyms okay take a look at that - okay being a lab rat you have to be very healthy your labs have to be in certain ranges and levels in a healthy level it'll be a healthy control now I just want to take a quick listen to your heart oh good never get chest pain or shortness of breath know your heart sounds regular and I don't hear extra beats now what I'm going to also say is you do have the man-boob thing going on so basically what you've got is the what we call gana Kumasi and so unfortunately for you you're making whatever testosterone they're making is being converted into estrogen somebody go get there's testicle yanked out as part of this study that it could make the man boobs bigger okay man it can make your testosterone less so that would be not in our interest okay go ahead stand up for me I dropped your drawers and we just kind of you know examine both testicles we rub them between our two fingers and we just palpate around okay now we'll get lab and EKG and now to be part of your pre-op evaluation okay low testosterone levels affect roughly thirty nine percent of men a low test result for mark would take him out of the running for the testicular study and ultimately the $35,000 payday so the risk to you it's pretty significant I'm not endorsing the surgery marks test results are well below the acceptable range set for the clinical trial I'm really disappointed that I didn't get into this testicular study but dr. Tillman there's another clinical trial that I can do you know there's other trials may be going on testosterone replacement would be a great thing for you okay have you ever thought about doing that it's a lot easier you can rub on the cream you can shoot yourself in the butt with a shot but at dinner today you'll go home - purr - you'll have your testicles taken out well it doesn't pay as much as the testicular removal study mark does manage to land a spot in a trial testing testosterone replacement each one of these pills represents to me a car insurance payment seventy-five dollars every Monday cash fifty dollars every Tuesday 125 a week times four $500 a month equals my rent in my car payment that's being we'll mark ever stop being cheap II will definitely not that's just in his nature

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Length: 8min 40sec (520 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 19 2019

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