If a cigarette could talk, it would have this dudes voice

This man radiates pure NY energy.

Its a real Shame to see someone at the end of their Dream, clinging to the remnants of thier Fallen Empire. I really feel for this guy.....

This guy is a real life GTA character.

This guy is hilarious, what a fucking hustler. "I told her I broke my leg, you gotta tell these people this shit."

Please interview him again and check out how he’s doing 5 years later. This guy is too interesting to forget

He blew all his money on coke and filterless Marlboro

"We've been picking the pockets of little children across the City for 18 years" 😂😂😂😂😂

I had every single homie collected. It was my favorite toy. They were my prized possessions. I went to church camp one summer, came back and my mom had thrown them all away. I was completely devastated... I spent so much time and my own money collecting them. I’m still not over it 😂

I remember when Homies first came out. I thought, "how funny, someone made these little toys that look like everyone in my neighborhood"

God his poor wife prob has to hear about the “homiez” every day

Damn, this was an eye opener. As someone from the South West, I always thought Homies was an actual Mexican product. This was like when I found out Arizona Teas are made in New York.

This dude needs to be the main character in the next GTA Franchise

I would literally watch a series with him as the main character

he’s such a character..... could totally do his documentary series...

I feel bad for him. Anyone who has to struggle breaks my heart.

This is one of those videos you click on, expecting to get bored and click off in a minute... then it's over and you want a full-length doc.

I feel like most of it has to do with less people carrying cash

That Social Distortion jacket he had on was fire.

This got progressively depressing for me toward the end of this video

This dude seriously needs to consider voice acting!

My mom was 48 she passed in 2011 but she collected these she thought they were hilarious. They remind me of her. Miss u mom n your homiez.

Vice I demand another 1 hour video talking about this guy, make a documentary about this guy.

This dude and Joey Diaz would be tremendous together hosting a podcast of NY/NJ life.

I collected so many Homiez. I can vividly remember wanting the Wheelchair Homie so god damn bad. I eventually ended up stealing one from my older cousin. I still have it lol

I lined that guys pockets man ...i had every single homie ever sold

this is dude is joey diaz in another life the broken leg line specifically

Amazingly he can resell his Homie inventory online and make triple from it. Homies are very collectible and to have first editions is basically gold. 1 original vending machine homie can range from $5 to $12. So if you have boxes of them then that's a nice profit.

"I told them i broke my leg"

He's like that Uncle your parents won't let you go visit

Listening to him say “CAHCKSUKHAS” at the end was beautiful

It’s crazy how times change & people get left behind

These documentaries are amazing. All these people that seem to be pulled straight outta of a movie.

Somebody give this guy a job doing something that involves commentary! This guy is hilarious and he's not even trying.

My brother literally had every single one every time we went to the mall he would buy $20 worth from the kiosk.. he was that mans best customer 😂😂

Never knock another mans hustle. Respect

Technology was his down fall. Before cell phones, you could spend .25 or .50 to be entertained with a cheap bouncy ball. Now, you just play a game on your phone.

This guy needs to sell his stock in Japan ASAP. Japan is big on Mexican culture right now and these are selling for a premium.

This guy just made me want to quit smoking cigarettes.

If “don’t put all your eggs in one basket” was a person

I feel like a lot of youtubers may end up like this in the future...

This was extremely depressing.

I’ve watched this 5 times in the last 6 years, and it never gets old. These were my childhood! Still have a bunch. When I’m a having a rough time I just look at them and brings back the good times.

That's such a great line when he says: "I know exactly where I'm going, I just drew a blank on how to get there..."

I really hope this guy is doing okay. I wish the best for him

This was depressing.

I miss the homies era. Good times. When going grocery shopping with the parents was fun

Man, me and my brother would get into fistfights over who got to get first dibs on the homies machine.we where 12 and 11 respectively and we where traveling all across the country because my parents worked for the carnival. New City every week and no shortage of quarters or homies...me and my brother aren't on talking terms,but it's nice to think about the good times. Brandon,if you see this, I love you little brother.

This guy should start a collections agency. If he called me with that voice I'd have a certified check on his desk yesterday.

This dude needs his own tv show ... hes a character

Sad that now due to Covid I doubt he’s making any money...

This guy needs to make complete box sets and sell them online. I bet there's a bunch of people out there that would buy them, especially in Japan.

He's like the nicest guy you would never loan money to, buy a car from, or do business with

I wish they bring these back, I was 7 homies away from completing my collection .

"If you can see humor in even your own tragedy you have been given a great gift." - brian padrick drak e

Sopranos vibes, “I told her I broke my leg” 🤣

When i was in my 20's, i worked at a smoke shop. We had Homies in all the display cases with the smoking accessories. We even had our loyal customers adding Homies to our shop. Great times

Give this man a show. He’s so entertaining and his voice is awesome.

As a teenager from Missouri I collected Homies, displayed them on the dashboard of my first car 😊

He’s still chasing that ‘high’ from the Homies days clearly. He knew it was a bust. He just won’t stop. It’s an addiction for sure...

“That’s Myrna, one of my distributors, I told her I broke my leg. You gotta tell people stuff.” 😂😂😂 Lol, he goes all out on his lies. Not ‘I have the flu’, or ‘I have a stomach bug’, but ‘I broke my leg.’ I’m cracking up.

3:12 "I told her I broke my leg... you gotta tell people shit because you know what I mean?"

That black machine at the end used to be my favorite machine back then it used to have these sick gun keychains

There’s no way this business survived through the pandemic

give this man a show.... now

this guys acting like a drug dealer lol, i love it tho giving me joey diaz vibes

This was a blessing to watch. I am in extasy

I remember getting these when we were younger they were so cool . I had the Low rider car that hoped up and down and the poster in my room of all of them . Man those were the times that the simple things made you happy .

I want this guy to narrate my life

Nice social distortion jacket.

Wow all the hard work this man put into this so passionate and it comes down to this it’s a hard world we live in....

Cool dude, cool documentary! Thanks

i spent so much money on those damn Homies. Never got the clown or the one in a wheel chair. My Mom has one in her nativity scene at Christmas.

how about replace the homies with Hipsters? Since they replaced them in real life in neighborhoods out here on the west coast.

When he paused for a second I knew he was either going to cry or say something deep. "It's funny how things workout, you know"

I love this dude. I want him to come to thanksgiving this year.

Well, that was depressing.

i'm not too sure why but to me this is Vice's best documentary..

This video always cheers me up.

This dude is a character, I like his style. Seriously, I could help him market those things. I actually remember them back in the 90's

Dude can earn a living doing voice acting. That pain is real.

Now im gonna feel guilty walking past those toy machines without buying one😂

this makes me never wanna steal from another vending machine again :(

Hey this guy is a legend these little toys has been my favorite thing since i was in elementary school for real

That poor guy is smoking Pall Malls. I didn't feel bad for him until I saw he was smoking Pall Malls.

You can tell half his profits went to cigarettes.

These are my absolute favorite I even had the little Rottweiler which took me forever to find and get but I finally did

Gotta tell ya, the Sugar Daddy got my fair share of quarters. I had a bunch of Homies and really loved them. Hope to find them in storage one day.

At about 7:50 "it's like taking money from a dead man's pocket over here" LOL he's the Tony soprano of the vending machines.

this guy is like the bojack horseman of 25c machines

I wish I could still find homies to this day ... I loved them so much and I still do.

That phone call Was finesse 🤣🤣

That guy is too hilarious! They should make a movie about his life call it A Fistful of Quarters

They should make a tv show about this guy

it's been 10 years but the second he said "whoa easy killa with the fvckin' schoo' buss" i instantly laughed. what a great documentary. ♥

Love this guy, he’s a straight hustler and someone who no matter what makes it happen, hope he’s doing well these days!

I loved this episode of Vice. I love how you let your subject do the talking and didn’t even need to actually interview him. I mean that was his personality but it made for a great episode

I think all vending companies are in the same boat. Back in the 80's my friend's father had a huge vending company. They were doing very well. They are still doing well but they closed the vending company several years ago. Things have just changed. When I was a kid in the 70s it was a big thing to get some change from mom and hit the vending machines. A quarter for a jawbreaker, a giant gun ball, or taking a chance on some random cheap toy was very exciting. Nowadays, kids aren't as easily amused and fewer people pay with cash. If mom pays with a card, mom doesn't have a quarter for the machines. When moms all over the country aren't getting change, the kids quit asking and the habits change. Maybe 2 years ago I gave my friend's daughter (about 8 yo) several quarters and told her to hit the gumball machines. lol She didn't know how to work a vending machine. I showed her how it works. She was a little irritated that she wasn't getting what she wanted. She looked up at me and said "can't we just go buy exactly what we want"? lol The culture has changed. The anticipation and excitement of the vending machine just totally eludes some kids nowadays.

I grew up in California where Lil homies were really popular... my mom and I loved them! If you sold those now, they would sell like crazy!

Me and my husband were just talking about these . I miss these