Name: Caleb Hammer Goes Off on Pyramid Schemes
Uploaded: 2025-01-23T17:26:24.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Caleb Hammer Goes Off on Pyramid Schemes' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-01-23. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Caleb Hammer Goes Off on Pyramid Schemes' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-01-23. Transcript available.

are there a lot of um get rich now type of energy out there oh yeah is there
and uh that kind of
goes back to tiktok and youtube yeah take me to some of that what do you think
um what is some of
that what is yeah what is some of that get rich now yeah so many pyramid
schemes what is that
pyramid schemes people are falling into i had someone going into a ball python
pyramid scheme
that i just talked to no way yeah so he buys 10 baby ball pythons from his
friend
but how do you make money off of these ball pythons that are supposed to breed
okay so hold on you get 10
baby ball pythons and then you pay somebody you get the 10 baby ball pythons
okay and now what do i do
with these baby ball pythons how do i get pyramided in well how do you make
money what would you what
would you do to make money off of baby i think you'd have to mate them and then
sell 10 to somebody else
yeah now who's buying them people you know no people that want to buy them so
that they can
breed them to sell them to people who breed them okay because people aren't
buying them for pets
you go to a pet smart for that no one's buying from these guys right you buy
the baby paul pythons
hoping they make kids so that you can sell them to others who want to make kids
and sell to others
and he got sucked into that tens of thousands of dollars and his 90 day fiancee
wife from somewhere
in central america is like freaking out about this she moved here sacrificed
everything and this dude's
blowing all his money on this and also like a million other side hustles he's
trying to do the
power washing he's trying to do the car detailing anything that is a tiktok get
rich quick type of
thing or even just the side hustle things that some people do make work he is
just falling into it and
the python says this is most recent example but the pythons he bought have gone
down 50 in value
because apparently you can day trade you can day trade the ball pythons on like
a little market app
there's a market app for day trading ball bought yeah so so not only has
somebody created a pyramid
scheme of ball pythoning right so you're ball pythoning you're you're you know
you're you're
selling a few grams of ball python here you know innate innate ball python here
and then you but then
the whole time somebody's also whoever engineered this fucking thing also
created an app where there's
like almost a ball python coin market so that's going up and down as well yeah
you're basically
driving around town with a back seat full of ball pythons waiting for the
market to go up enough
yeah so you can pull over and drive and put a couple black ball pythons on
somebody's tab yeah wow that's
my access strategy bring that up what the fuck what in the fuck is happening
man that's haktua's next
pump and dump i know huh where's she been at she went to bed somebody said you
went to barbados or
something and she moved out of the country um okay but so so that's a new thing
that's going on um
apparently what's another one that's going on uh any other pyramid schemes lots
of people getting
into the knives pyramid schemes they're buying you know i don't even know what
they're called i've
never joined them but they buy knives to sell to other people so lots of those
lots of people getting
into the day trading life crypto life um we had some old guy with no retirement
poor
dude i felt so bad actually he like blew through a million bucks somehow um
filmed it a couple years
ago and super nice dude but he fell into this pyramid scheme of you like buy
these nutrients that people
can take and then but you hope they come to a storefront to step in a body
scanner that tells them
how healthy they are then they buy your nutrients but i asked if we could come
by and tour his business
like a couple months after that he kind of fell off the face of the earth i
feel like his shop doesn't
exist anywhere on google maps so i think that pyramid scheme collapsed oh have
you ever had somebody
come in with a business idea that was just repulsive and you saw them going
down a road and you're like
that old guy i was telling you about he did pump like about a million bucks
into this whole thing
really his entire life savings everything he's worked for into his 60s 70s
wherever he was and again the
machine whatever this body scanning machine is i'm not in that world so i don't
know but i know it was
like 50 000 or something crazy and he had the storefront that he was investing
in again just a quarter later
uh biofrequency gadgets or a total scam let's let's zoom in on this see if this
sounds like it i would
like to find this so we can put this out this is interesting i recently asked
what i thought about
the solex ao scan this website for the product includes this claim ao scan
technology by solex is
an elegant yet simple way to use frequency technology based on tesla einstein
and other
prominent scientists discoveries uh uses delicate biofrequencies and
electromagnetic signals to
communicate with the body was it something like that or no it had nutrients
involved you said well no
he used the results to try to sell people to get nutrients oh i see and that
was the pyramid scheme
he was a part of got it so first there's going to be a place where people are
going to get this scan
done and then based on the the the outcomes of the scan you're going to be able
to sell them
nutrients to get them equal exactly get them whole wow man it's crazy the level
of people we had a
glitter mining thing by us growing up people sold these glitter like you could
buy shares at glitter
mines or whatever they were mining glitter and they fucking robbed so many of
us oh yeah i was in a
pyramid scheme too i put i lost something what'd you sell just it was like you
it would be basically
sold somebody right into a pyramid like i got into and it was the on the chart
it was a pyramid yeah
and it was like well i remember asking somebody like is this a pyramid scheme
and they're like i don't
know you remember what you're selling just you sold literally the square that
you had it was like
oh i'm gonna sell somebody sold me a square and then i was like okay now i get
two squares i get to
sell two squares it was a it was that is like a literal okay yeah and dude the
crazy part was i
remember asking my friend's dad about it and he had bought into it too so
everybody got took by us
we see people get into the makeup one a lot the makeup pyramid scheme yeah and
this is where you
you buy makeup from someone else and you sell that to other people and you try
to recruit people
to sell makeup and well there's like donna uh what's that donna what's that k mary
k mary k we get lots
of mary k's you do yes absolutely i'll tell you a story i was at uh in west
virginia i was doing a show
there one weekend and they had the grand sellers of the mary k group and they
all had cadillacs or
whatever and they were doing a big thing there and they all pulled up i mean
they must have had 40
different cadillacs that they pulled up they figured out the game multi-level
marketing right
so it's kind of yeah i mean again people don't want to do the low and slow they
want to get rich now
right they're not willing to just invest and hopefully hit that 59 and a half
that's when you can
withdraw from your retirement tax advantage retirement accounts without a
penalty is that one of the things
you see with um the younger generation is just because at tiktok there's so
many more schemes out there
yeah people want to get the easy way out absolutely because they see other
people that have a proven
success rate to actually do it so it's just a quick way to get to wealthiness
and 60 seems so far to a
20 year old so far yeah um what were some i know there were some uh i'm trying
to think of some
different inventions or schemes there was one called dyna dyna it was a bike
wheel this thing was crazy
dyna bike wheel this was it pull up this dynasphere dynasphere vehicle zoom in
the dynasphere is a monowheel vehicle designed designed patented in 1930 by
john archibald pervis
um from somerset uk pervez idea for the vehicle was inspired by a sketch made
by leonardo da vinci
look at this thing two prototypes were initially built a smaller electric model
and one with a
gasoline motor um let me see the driver's seat and the motor were part of one
unit mounted with
wheels upon the interior rails of the outer hoop i mean this thing looks crazy
if you can you can't
see this um on audio but it's basically a guy driving a huge tire around um the
singular driving
seat and motor unit when powered forward would thus try to climb up the
spherical rails which would cause
the lattice cage to roll forward so basically you're in a fair it's like
something you'd be in a carnival
steering of the prototype was crude requiring the driver to lean in the
direction sought to travel
uh though pervez envisioned future models equipped with gears that would shift
the inner housing
without leaning thus tipping the dynasphere in the direction of travel per uh a
novelty model was
later constructed by fervez that could seat eight passengers the dynasphere
eight made specifically
for beach use i want to see that how do you fit eight people in that it looks
like a beach it's
basically like a hamster wheel if you guys could imagine a hamster wheel that
someone drove um oh there
you go there's that eight seater oh that's kind of cool you get to sit in a
circle and it just cruises
that's romantic yeah um okay go back i just want to see what happened to it
um it was also impossible to steer or break another aspect of the vehicle that
received
while the mirror while the vehicle could move along just fine it was also
impossible to steer break
another aspect of the vehicle that received criticism was the phenomenon of uh
gerbling
oh gerbling the tendency when accelerating or breaking the vehicle for the
independent housing holding
the driver within the monowheel to spin within the moving structure imagine you
slam on the brakes right
the vehicle stops but you just keep spinning in the middle we need elon to get
on this bring it back
yeah that's something we need back