Louis Ziskin

Anyway, did that.

I was dating a girl at the time, sent her home, you know, and she'd been very supportive of me in the beginning.

You know, she'd maxed her credit cards, everything, you know, went to New York to dance a couple weekends, you know, like she was super supportive.

Anyway, I was like, listen, you got to get out of here.

And I'm just stoned for like two days and watching TV at three in the morning and it hit me like a bolt of lightning.

i'm going to the fedex office at five o'clock by robertson and the 10 freeway in la and i don't know if you remember but back then before fedex had all these automated pickups and boxes everywhere the line out of the fedex office at the cutoff would be long because everybody's trying to drop their package off for the cutoff for delivery to next day well i'm standing there with the fedex envelope and a piece of paper and i'm copying down their account numbers and the names of their companies

So I'm not even paying for the shipping.

But I'm spending 400 bucks, 500 bucks back then to send 20 pounds overnight.

And I'm declaring zero value.

Right.

And there's a thing on the form.

All you got to do is check box, charge VAT to FedEx account number.

So, again, no money out of my pocket.

But because I didn't know how customs worked and this was also something that was a self-realization because I didn't know how customs work.

I didn't understand at that point.

Oh, shit.

You're spending four or five hundred bucks to send this and you're claiming it has zero value.

Right.

And I thought, oh, it's probably the taxes people that are looking what it is.

Nobody gave me this.