Surviving on $0.01 in America's Most Expensive City

this is a penny and it's the only thing i have to survive in america's most expensive city new york city for the next 24 hours i literally have nothing except for my confidence and a dream excuse me what would you be willing to trade for this shiny penny what no you got a pen or anything oh her trade offer is a penny for an amana stone yeah okay really okay awesome it's for a bigger mission we're trying to prove that american dream is still alive so that will start the revolution it will make people believe now she's offering a premium hand sanitizer spray okay yeah yeah yeah wow thank you so much we got a good start so the one goal i have for today is i need to find a place to sleep for the night because it's really cold in new york right now yeah some parts of new york are under a wind chill advisory which means frostbite could set in in just 30 minutes if i don't make enough money for a hotel i might freeze to death like legit i'm not even kidding how much do you think i can sell this for two dollars five dollars hi there how are you guys doing how much would you be willing to give me for this i'm not gonna lie i have one with me you're here for only like a limited time this is memories it smells very nice smelly you're not gonna get this experience anywhere else oh my god we literally went from a penny to a five dollar bill in like 10 minutes this is incredible right now i need to reinvest this it's time square um people are thirsty right okay my plan is now to reinvest my money into a pack of water then sell individual bottles for a profit on the way to get water let's go to a hotel and see how much the prices are in new york because i got a feeling that it's going to be expensive do you have any vacancy for tonight we only have the last room about 289 dude what are you gonna do buddy there's only one thing i can do and that's to keep hustling everything has tax and the bottle fee even though it says five i can't afford it how much are these 3.99 buddy buddy guys all right total five fifty four five fifty four you kidding me i don't have five dollars i can make it cheaper than that oh i'm right thank you i only have a five you are a blessing ten star review she freaking reduced the price for me i didn't know that was even possible now i'm back at zero dollars do you guys just have a meal would you like to buy a water just to support local business if i don't sell these waters i'm schooled i think this is why you need to sign wait can i get that box yeah okay thank you oh thank you it was amazing oh okay there we go there we go that looks like a decent sign all right we just need a pen oh that's perfect thank you so much now i'm heading back to times square to sell my water want some water i'm a natural introvert so this is not easy for me are you guys thirsty at all any of you want water i finally found my first customer thank you so much thank you you guys are so kind thank you your first real customer for sale how do you feel i'm a entrepreneur bro all i got to do is just stand here and the money comes in it's called passive income baby the time square is a competitive place to do business i don't know if i can compete with that just because i love your hair i'll give you a discount i'll give you a group discount would you like to support gotta keep a smile on my face water and a smile if you dream it you can do it hey brother are you thirsty at all would you like to buy a water after selling ghani water i actually found out that he's a street performer so i asked him you got any tips for me to make some money and find a place to stay for the night damn that's that's a good that's a good question you know sometimes i need to just jump out there wrist take a risk you know what i'm saying you know when i spend the five dollars to buy these water that's all my money it felt a little nerve-wracking really yeah oh the time's working here you go i'm gonna probably leave it like eight o'clock there's a rap cipher get there there's gonna be mad people you could sell your waters get some beers beers is that is that illegal it is cool right dude imagine sleeping on the streets tonight that ain't good yo find a girl bro not everyone's as smooth as you you're not hideous you're not hideous thank you i'm not hideous that's a compliment i was feeling demoralized but ghani gave me a renewed confidence to talk to more people are you all thirsty at all after that delicious ice cream of yours i'll give you two for a dollar how about three for a dollar just to support the entrepreneurship spirit oh that's awesome good luck in your business thank you so much water water water someone said water this is delivery right here right to your door of course wow double the sale all right thank you so much ah come on you're making me lose money here two okay here we go oh you wanna you wanted my picture i don't know what that was she started this off she blessed us we blessed her back exactly very good i sold a couple more bottles and used a couple oh i almost out this dad is offering to buy the rest of my waters here you go take it off do you see this a lot of cats maybe stacks and a five no 14 holy i want to reinvest everything but i think we have enough for like a mcdonald's sandwich [Music] thank you oh my hard earned money just gone i'm so hungry i've been out there for four hours i didn't eat breakfast either so right now the time is 2 18. technically i could repeat the water thing but i think that takes too long and i won't make enough money for the night so my new plan is to go to a nearby park where locals come to shop from street vendors i'll just need to find a product to sell i think subway is right over there black lives matter black lives matter what do you mean it's against the racism and the gun violence what's your name hopeful i'm gonna call you long haunt fool man i know you black from the waist down i'm an audio engineer i'm from queens and i make my own music okay 22 songs we just try to raise a small donation man um man i need a i still need to find a place to stay for the night oh you don't have nowhere to stay no i'm making money for a place to stay but um how much do you want like two bucks is that good enough you know what man i'm gonna donate no no no no no no no no no this is for you all right thank you mom what about you though no i'll be good i'll be good i appreciate it thank you you're doing good things okay we gotta go to washington square park and it's a 32 minute walk if i take this subway that's gonna cost three dollars i only have eleven dollars left let's see maybe there will be like free tickets later doubt oh thank you what a coincidence wait that could not have worked out better what the hell we're just relying on the kindness of strangers today is that blood or chocolate i've heard that it's dangerous to stay out in new york at night and right now because i only have 11 dollars i might have to sleep on the subway new subway crime surging in new york city take a look at this video man was slashed in the arm on a northbound 2 train here in lower manhattan let's just hope i don't die tonight dude it's getting dark so early holy that's a lot of people eh all around you damn that's all right bro we can like hook up with a merchant for like a commission deal type of thing looking around i found an artist i like named jennison smalls janice is small it's hafu nice to meet you if i can help you sell these art can i get a commission i mean if you help me sell something i'll give you i could give you 50 oh really 50 yes how much is one of these it's a part of the 333 sale which one do you think will sell the hottest american soldier american soldier is my last hope i'll circle around bring you some clyde don't eat this anymore uh collect art by any chance sorry i asked a lot of people and most of the answers are like i don't know anything about art numbers game at this point well it's not really it's about finding that one right person now these boys over here look like they'd have some daddy's money do any of your parents collect art no but i've always wanted to open a gallery i think you wanted to open a gallery tell me what you think about this painting um i mean i think it's cool is this something you would like to own uh not personally gotcha for how much i might sell it though it's three hundred thirty three dollars right you got 333 dollars of course he has 333 dollars you'd like to see more is it worth a walk yeah it's right there right there all it's all part of luck bro talk him through that painting no pressure originally it's uh 400 for the freestyle paintings but right now we do have a 333 sale as genesis went on and on about the price i see their interests quickly dying something you want to buy glorious glorious no no okay genesis genesis next time i'll bring someone don't give them the price list just talk about your creation is that good definitely so you think that's what was so yes i think that's what was all right let's try so close i don't think this is the right environment to style high class art we need to find a place more like premium experience i'm walking around fancy restaurants hoping to find an artsy person i'm jojo jojo yes hafu do you like art i do like art yes what kind of art do you like i mean i'm an artist so i like all kinds of art i like really you're an artist yes like i have a friend over there this is the piece he finished recently i like it i can appreciate it what do you see it talk me through it i mean i feel expression i feel um a bit of pain but i also feel a bit of an awakening you might have a connection to this piece do you want to like come take a look in person i think i will in a moment yeah i i just i'm um not that i don't like paintings i just don't collect them gotcha specifically for me and there's something drawn to it to say hey i want to buy that jojo told me he'll think about it and told me to come back in 10 minutes i think there might be like a 30 chance yeah i don't know he seems a little iffy and it might have just been a way for him to like get you to go away it's already 10 p.m and i only have 11 dollars maybe he might not even be there when we go back people are starting to head home so jojo is my last chance to make a sale [Music] okay i see him over there he's still here how are you feeling i'm feeling great would you like to see genesis small i'm down i'm definitely down yeah yeah let's do it it's a lot going on here yeah right how long you been painting for my whole life how old is your whole life eternity eternity oh wow i like that it's a portrait a poop of you [Music] it's you that's me yeah it's tell me about myself you feel satisfied i feel satisfied like what is what is happening man's flustered and knows he's about to make a sale maybe i think what really appealed to him was like what you told me earlier what inspired you to paint it my grandmother from my mom's side she comes from a plantation and this is like celebrating kind of your history a little bit i'm not gonna say all that you're not gonna say all that no if he's gonna buy he's gonna buy it what really did inspire them it's you but you just met me um genesis please could you take a look at can i can i see it how much is it uh 333. so it's an angel number so when you with the purchase you're not just buying the pc also buying that energy that comes with the angel number so when you go home he he's the person that's lacking energy what do you think do you picture this in your home georgia i mean yes yeah i like the painting i like it look at it it's actually buying it it's actually buying it but things are never easy and if i if i were to sell this painting to you how much of a commission should i give what do you feel is a fair commission so i would say i'll give you twenty percent do you wanna do twenty percent i gave you fifty percent so that's okay 333 divided by two but you accept twenty percent i do not i think we agreed on fifty but i'll i will take 30. all right you want to shake on it oh she got it all right 300. thank you siri no no it's him it's all good i'm so glad to see you happy like this really really it's this guy because he really so he really sold me i want to punch you in the face because of how freaking good your luck has been today come on that was that was pure salesman you actually killed yeah damn i have enough money to find like a decent hotel we still gotta meet um gani gani get some bears beers instead of selling him beer well bring him beer much [Music] yo yo yo what up i brought you a beer with the money i made nice guess how much i made today 22 something like that i made a total of 117 wow that's actually really good so how much money did you make today i made 25 damn that's not great no no it's terrible definitely not easy to get you got to be the type of person who will make five dollars today then tomorrow come back and try to make more the last thing we gotta do for the night is go find a place to sleep so we don't sleep on the street it's already like 12 40. i just need a place to sleep even with 117 it's still hard to find a hotel within my price range you arrived at this sketchy part of town in the middle of nowhere what sketches me out is that the name of the hotel is different than the one on google maps uh i'm wondering do you guys have rooms for tonight we do yeah how much is it i'm like literally outside [Applause] hello okay 16. it's 115. not too bad not too bad it's 9 30 am i'm at time square i don't see how fool i hope he's okay is he dead i think his phone ran out of battery too so i can't really get in touch with him i think i see him he's got a coffee and he's just chilling i try to spoil myself today with 10 minutes left there's one more thing i need to do how much do you charge for a photo usually oh he was the guy that was sitting in the water yeah how much for a photo iron man that one dollar you gave me yesterday really helped out and i want to give it back to you okay i appreciate that yeah thank you so much [Music] that feels a little weird what up man what's up you back from work yes yes oh yeah as a gesture of thank you basically my challenge is done but you're out here every day i want to give you the rest of my money yeah cool man thank you i appreciate that i appreciate you guys if you like this video subscribe keep the american dream alive hey i love america tap the screen right now to watch me do another 24 hour challenge

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Id: 4HlxUElU4g4

Length: 17min 9sec (1029 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 26 2022