How to Overcome Lust | #020
Unlearned Wisdom by Johnny Chang
Johnny Chang
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🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 104 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Did you ever, like, sell candy bars? Yeah, I sold super candy bars. I had lollipops, like these lollipops shaped like lips. They were banging. They banned, like, sugary candies and stuff. So every morning I'd get up, bike to the store. I'd get soda. So I carry these, like, I carry 24 sodas in my my backpack and I would sell them for $2 each. |
| 0:21.6 | And I just had a wad of cash. You had a bankroll? Yeah. It was crazy. Yeah. And then I had a business partner because we would buy. A business partner? Yeah, yeah, because he had a- What was he your CFO? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, he was my, he was my transporter because his, his, his, your mule. His bike, he had one, his mom had one of the old where she used to carry him as a kid. Yeah. Oh, so we blowed the sodas. Yeah, yeah. He would sell 24. I'd sell 24. Dude. And then, uh, great outsourcer. And then, no, but he got caught. and so then that's when we stopped the operation. Did he hold it down? No, no, he held it down. But then we switched to candy because it was like more hidden and smaller than sodas walking. Do you know what was my top seller? What do you guess what my top seller was? You lived in SGV. No? This is a, what is the young kid? I was a young kid. What do you guys think my top seller was? I would go to Super A, I'm sorry, in Alhambra, Super A. Oh, you would steal it? I was still from Kay's in Ramona Gardens as well. And I would steal these Dunkeroo's. Do you guys remember that? I remember Dunkerous. They were like, he's out of our generation. Yeah. |
| 1:27.8 | So dunkeroo's was like these graham crackers that were kangaroo shaped and the side of it was this white frosting. |
| 1:35.3 | Yep. |
| 1:35.8 | And I would charge not even for like the whole dunkeroo. |
| 1:41.1 | I would charge per dunk. |
| 1:43.2 | What? |
| 1:43.8 | So you'd be holding it open. I would charge a dollar a dunk. And I give them a fat dunk. But the kids would be like, and then I, and we would do food stamps. Back then food stamps was monopoly money. Yeah. So I would get them to dunk. Like, I'd be, give me one, okay, two food stamps or one real dollar. And they're literally just dunking and walking the way after one. Yeah. Like some of them would like kids that have like dirty fingers. They'd have like dunk in dirt, but it's like we didn't care. These kids would come with like sweat. Yeah. It was dried with dirt. Like, I want to have some. Okay, give me a dollar, two dollars |
| 2:19.0 | food stamp. That is crazy. You are Chinese. And I would have wads of cash to like mix in with |
| 2:25.3 | food stamps. And then I would face all the money. Oh my gosh. Yep. Yep. Yep. I would organize |
| 2:29.6 | to do. Yeah. To organize it. And then time to time I'll get a $2 bill. And that one I would fold up all nicely. |
| 2:36.7 | I'd like sleep with it. |
| 2:37.9 | I'd wake up like, wow. |
| 2:39.5 | And then put it back in my little box. |
| 2:41.2 | And then my brother stole it from me. |
| 2:44.1 | And acted like he didn't. |
| 2:47.6 | Every young entrepreneur sold something at school. |
| 2:50.7 | Yeah. What did you guys sell at school. Yeah. |
| 2:51.1 | Yeah. |
| 2:51.7 | What did you guys sell at school? |
| 2:53.4 | Just always prompting comments. |
| 2:55.0 | I lived in a giant apartment building and I went and I bought those caramel apple pops |
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