Louis Ziskin

And that led me on, you know, I just

Went lying crazy after that.

It was like, wow, this is like a new toy.

It's like almost like a credit card, right?

Like what?

Just, you know, on crack.

Anyway, I get to USC and I spend half a year there and then I leave.

And I really— Why did you leave?

I just, you know, rush week comes, and everybody's going crazy about the, you know, getting into the Greek houses.

And I'm selling weed already, right?

So I'm selling weed.

I'm going into the sorority houses at 2 in the morning, which you're not allowed to do because they're calling me for drugs.

Right.

So I already have—

access that the greeks are promising me so why would i do that and and i just never really got into class i was making good money there just selling eighths of weed like you know it doesn't even seem like a crime at the time you know you're just like hey i'm just providing a service right just justification the smarter you are the easier it is to manipulate yourself into justifying your behavior right at least that's my right um and uh you know so and then after six months i left

What was interesting was, is that I didn't realize for all my intelligence at the time, I didn't realize that my business was tidally locked to the clientele at USC.

So if I'm not there, what am I doing?

So I ended up sleeping in the Beverly Center parking lot.

For three nights underneath the ramp between the fourth and the fifth floor.

I have this bag, you know, obviously I burnt out a few friends and a few couches along the way before I get here.