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Steve Wozniak prints his own pads of $2 bills... and spends them. He'll sell you a sheet with 4 bills for $5. Joshua Topolsky investigates this interesting bit of commerce on The Engadget Show.
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@kev007 12 жыл бұрын

As explained by reddit user exteras: "Just so people don't get confused: these are real bills, printed by the US government. He buys uncut sheets of them from the Bureau of Engraving; anyone can buy these. He then takes them to a professional printer who cuts them up into pads and perforates them. He's not printing the bills themselves, and its not illegal."

@reuploadify Жыл бұрын

So why does he sell them for $10? If they're worth $50.

@louroboros Жыл бұрын

@@reuploadify I believe this is a very appropriate use of “for the lulz”

@Meowhsss Жыл бұрын

This was an absolutely terrible explanation by Woz and lying by omission by Wozniak

@cdoublejj Жыл бұрын

@@Meowhsss Regarding the bills...This is the deal. It is a prank on anyone who will listen. Everything Woz says is true about using them for the last 20 years.... The bills are real two dollar bills. He has them perforated and put on a pad.....listen to what he actually says about the printer 'making them', he doesn't say they are 'printing them', Woz is not lying. The bills meet specs because the are real bills. It's classic Woz. And I feel bad for telling you.

@Meowhsss Жыл бұрын

@@cdoublejj it’s just dumb

@jaylong4062 10 жыл бұрын

Regarding the bills...This is the deal. It is a prank on anyone who will listen. Everything Woz says is true about using them for the last 20 years.... The bills are real two dollar bills. He has them perforated and put on a pad.....listen to what he actually says about the printer 'making them', he doesn't say they are 'printing them', Woz is not lying. The bills meet specs because the are real bills. It's classic Woz. And I feel bad for telling you.

@pacman10182 5 жыл бұрын

is "the printer" the US mint?

@lDanielHolm 5 жыл бұрын

@@pacman10182 Yes. But he probably has someone else perforate and bind them into those pads.

@untziggy4 2 жыл бұрын

@@pacman10182 that's the "higher quality printer" he says he gets "the supplies" from at 0:25.

@dracoseason3784 Жыл бұрын

on the steve-o podcast he showed it had repeat serial numbers...these are unauthorized notes. these are private property. us notes are federal property

@joshg72826 Жыл бұрын

@@dracoseason3784 Was going to say this. They do a close up and you can clearly see all the bills have the same serial number. Its actually the same story word for word all these years later. It's 100% just a conversation bit to mess with people. I wouldn't be surprised its the same printed pad from this show 11 years later.

@candidateyellow 10 жыл бұрын

I think Woz is playing a bit of a game here. I've seen stories about him doing this before. It's real bills printed by the treasury. He's just buying the uncut sheets then binding them into a pad and perforating the sheets.

@Dustin17Y 10 жыл бұрын

It doesn't matter since he's still selling them at a lower price. You can literally buy more money with less money from him, and it be legal.

@cuylarHD 10 жыл бұрын

KauaiLongboarder To him, causing a stir is worth it.

@peterwhouse 10 жыл бұрын

candidateyellow ty

@alainportant6412 3 жыл бұрын

@@candidateyellow doesn't work

@awelux 10 жыл бұрын

The interviewer thought he tiptoes around that he did something illegal but he tiptoes around that he did something legal. Lovely.

@dandymcgee 11 жыл бұрын

I like how smoothly he lets the ignorant interviewer make assumptions about it being counterfeit money that Woz prints himself. He words everything so carefully so as to not ruin the effect without claiming he did anything illegal (which he didn't). This guy is the man. 0:24 Woz: "I got him the supplies from a higher quality printer." 3:25 Dumb guy: "I just wanna be clear, you print this, this is your custom printing.." 3:29 Woz: "I have the printer make these pads for me."

@magetaaaaaa 3 жыл бұрын

That is pretty slick, I hadn't noticed that.

@thecollinanderson Жыл бұрын

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is probably a higher quality printer. But his local print company can turn the sheets into very convenient pads which for some reason the Bureau of Engraving and Printing won't. I think the award for quality goes to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing but the award for customer service goes to his neighborhood print shop.

@rockstopsthetraffic 8 жыл бұрын

His "printer" is a person, a place. The old sense of the word.

@MarcKloos 8 жыл бұрын

Yes, Woz buys the $2 bills from the Treasury Department in sheets, like any person can do. Then he goes to the printer (the place) who would perforate them and make notepads by gluing them together. I once bought a sheet of 4 bills (but I have no idea where I left them). He's pranking the audience by saying that it smells the same and he took some random president. But if you search a bit, you will find Woz hilarious story when he spent his $2 bills in a casino in Las Vegas ...

@MarcKloos 4 жыл бұрын

I found the bills 😁

@HandledToaster2 4 жыл бұрын

@@MarcKloos oh wow I can't believe you not only found the bills, but you updated here 4 years later. I don't remember anything I did 4 years ago. Awesome!

@markusheimerl8735 4 жыл бұрын

Yea dude thats the point

@shadowsbain1 12 жыл бұрын

"These two $2 bills were attached to each other and perforated. You can purchase $1, $2, and now $5 bills from the Bureau of Printing and Engraving on sheets. The sheets come in sizes of 4, 16, and 32 bills each. I buy such sheets of $2 bills... I take the sheets of 4 bills and have a printer, located through friends, gum them into pads, like stationery pads. The printer then perforates them between the bills, so that I can tear a bill or two away."

@thursdaydawn 12 жыл бұрын

He gets uncut sheets of real bills from the Department of Treasury and then he has a printer perforate them and make them into a pad. So they are real $2 bills, just very suspicious looking.

@clembo2006 13 жыл бұрын

@declangrindrod He NEVER said they were self printed. Listen to the story again. He said he used a "high quality supplier". Woz buys uncut 2$ bills from the US Treasury, there's lots of stories about him doing this. It actually costs him extra to buy the uncut bills from the Treasury, but he does it to prank people. The money is in fact legal tender, he just likes to see how people react to seeing them uncut like that.

@MrBoriqua2000 Жыл бұрын

Steve Jobs had much more money but Woz has always had much more fun

@A7alpha 10 жыл бұрын

Steve Wozniak is just... awesome!

@Rathause 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my god, the interviewer thinks they're fake! That's amazing and hilarious!

@CalvinHikes Жыл бұрын

A lot of places won't take $2 bills. I think they're fun so I collect them but if I try to spend them there's a lot of Little Stores that don't believe they are real. Just because they are slightly rare but I'm surprised that people haven't seen or won't take cash.

@vladsinger 12 жыл бұрын

It's not even leaving out part of the story. He made several comments about how his friend printed them and how suspicious they are and then most people don't seem to get the fact he was joking, unsurprisingly.

@hugostrane6161 12 жыл бұрын

The Great and Powerful Woz doesn't need money. He IS the money.

@rapbase 13 жыл бұрын

Seems like a really nice guy, like a good neighbor.

@thursdaydawn 12 жыл бұрын

He does it as a joke, they're really like $3 each in sheet form, but it's still legal tender.

@SamtasticOnline 12 жыл бұрын

He is the most brilliant troll ever. Steve Wozniak is my new hero.

@skonkfactory 12 жыл бұрын

They're actually made from sheets of uncut $2 bills. You can buy them uncut from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. He pays a local printer to bind and perforate them. It's totally legal because they're not forgeries.

@ChrisCareyCode 13 жыл бұрын

He buys those from the US mint. You can go on their website and buy these. The markup really isn't that much. He does *not* print the money.

@poooop83 12 жыл бұрын

I don't know if this is some elaborate joke I'm not getting or Woz is just crazy.

@Keanuism 10 жыл бұрын

Im sorry but why is jobs more famous

@muhammedyousif7864 10 жыл бұрын

because life is unfair.woz literally single-handedly made the apple I and apple II .he is a real time engineer.yet he faded away in the shadow of the mighty propaganda-fueled jobs i don't deny jobs was a genius,but the woz is a double genius jobs was.

@user-el4rs8kq2p 7 жыл бұрын

Jobs was good at marketing, Woz was/is an engineering.

@OktoberSunset 7 жыл бұрын

Because Woz isn't interested in being famous, he's not an overinflated douche nozzle who needs 24/7 ego stroking, he's just doing his own thing.

@hackthatmac 13 жыл бұрын

I was there for this. I have one autographed. Greatest fucking day ever.

@MBisFrenchy Жыл бұрын

Same, but I had him sign the Engadget ticket instead. Was amazing

@NSResponder 12 жыл бұрын

Steve doesn't print his own $2 bills. He orders uncut sheets of 2's from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and has his vendor perforate them and mount them into these pads. When he refers to a "higher quality printer", he's talking about the Bureau. -jcr

@benjaminheroux3897 10 ай бұрын

He doesn’t mention once in this video that he doesn’t print them, nor does his printer friend - he purchases these and then takes them to a printer who perforates and makes them into pads for him.

@knoxclark 13 жыл бұрын

@EcoDimension no he bought uncut sheets from the BEP, available on their site

@inov8shun 12 жыл бұрын

I once saw a television show where a lady used sheets of hundred dollar bills as wrapping paper for a luxurious gift. I was kinda put off by it.

@gormster 11 жыл бұрын

It's a really obscure room, you've probably never heard of it.

@rubutt 12 жыл бұрын

The next time I encounter a $2 bill, they might have been manufactured by him.

@g0rsk13g4n9st4 13 жыл бұрын

@0501701 the $2 sheets are made legally and are sold as collectibles. Woz just uses his printer to perforate the sheets and bind them into pads

@CHayburn 13 жыл бұрын

Good ol woz still getting in trouble :)

@SpaceMissile Жыл бұрын

3:23 - i love the subtly-nervous laughter in the background. ...you can't laugh; _that was a national tragedy._

@mauricecooper176 Жыл бұрын

Who else had this video pop up after seeing him on Stevo?

@b._.render Жыл бұрын

😂 yea. I was looking for that 😂

@TheHotassbeatclap 12 жыл бұрын

Wheres the video of the drive thru, too awesome.

@JaimeWarlock 8 жыл бұрын

Trolling muggles is so much fun, good job Woz.

@PHILOSOPHYALPHAMALE 12 жыл бұрын

because the uncut $2 bank notes are bought from The Bureau of Engraving , they're real money, anyone can buy them. Then he gets the sheets bound together by a local office supplies company so they look like a pad of money that he had made, though actually they are in fact real money.

@brandon0981 12 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the reply and info!

@bbk9787 Жыл бұрын

“I got the supplies from a higher quality printer”

@kelvinngaruiya1662 7 жыл бұрын

seems to be a cool guy to kick it with. probably have a few drinks and listen to migos.

@yan2292008 12 жыл бұрын

thanks for sharing "engadget"

@BrianTakesValium 12 жыл бұрын

yes please someone. this is crazy

@jeremiahb7975 11 жыл бұрын

Woz is the biggest bad ass I've ever seen.

@theperfectexceeder 12 жыл бұрын

he is so awesome, wow

@Flashblade 13 жыл бұрын

Woz is the man... I wish I could get those sheets somehow. What a pointless novelty!

@ALurkingGrue 13 жыл бұрын

@stayfly123 Listen to him carefully as he says "His printer makes these" not "He printed them" What he does is buys full sheets of real $2 bills from the mint as those are sold to collectors who would frame them and gets a printing company to bind them into a book and ass perforations. It is legal as it is real money.

@Kezariak 13 жыл бұрын

Oh god, he is my hero.

@RonJammin 10 жыл бұрын

Somewhere Sheldon Cooper is smiling. #NoBazinga

@buddyfoeva 13 жыл бұрын

@mortisnoctu its a joke. He buys the pads from the treasury. They are perfectly legal. You can buy it from them also. It cost more money but he is rich so he is fine

@GloryForever4200 13 жыл бұрын

Holy shit. I'm from the same town as this guy...You can tell it's rich and white by the way he says "Los Gatos"

@Tufflaw 13 жыл бұрын

@YellingSilently ACTUALLY, disregard my below post - I found an article Steve wrote about this here: woz.org/letters/general/78.html - he didn't tell the full story in the video, he made it seem like his friend printed the actual bills for him. What he actually does is buy the bills in sheet form from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing which will sell legal sheets of uncut currency, then he has a friend turn them into pads, so the bills are legal. He just left out part of the story.

@monsieurhassan 13 жыл бұрын

but what did he say about the high quality printer he has in his house ?

@MacbookProWizard 13 жыл бұрын

His discount is not 37.5%--- even without the perforation and binding, the sheets are probably worth $40 or $50 bucks--- uncut, mint bills are quite expensive.

@thelibarr2 12 жыл бұрын

I think it's in the declaration..something like " ...and thus every man shall have the right to pay with money he printed at home...".

@krappsy 12 жыл бұрын

Good to see such an amazing person sticking it to the man by telling minimum wage workers how stupid they are for not knowing that he can effectively make actual currency look fake. What a hero. The world definitely needs more people like Woz.

@pikatore 12 жыл бұрын

Engadget needs a new interviewer that doesn't try to talk over his guests.

@wirebrushproductions1001 Жыл бұрын

You note that he doesn't put a number on the quantity of pads/sheets he sells. He just says "lots".

@Halliday7895 Жыл бұрын

so he buys legal tender bills that are still in sheets . he takes those sheets to a person who makes them into pads with perforations...since the money was made by a real federal institution and the bills have real serial numbers ...he is just modifying legal tender to be more nerdy. those people in the audience think he's counterfeiting bills for 20 years ...and getting away with it...bc he's so good at it..but its just real money in a funny format .

13 жыл бұрын

The interviewer looks like a young Woz.

@Tarleon 13 жыл бұрын

@00sturm I would suspect that because he is not attempting to counterfeit a note in circulation. Also, if he was accused of defrauding people by using them, he could simply identify it as barter, supported by the idea that he gave them a bill that was not in circulation which would not be commonly accepted as currency, as such the only reasonable contract of sale would be the barter of his 'notes' for their goods and or services.

@thecollinanderson Жыл бұрын

No these are real banknotes, $2 bills are still made. What he does, and he was careful to play along with the confused interviewer by nog explaining the details, is buy uncut $2 sheets from the government that's his "higher quality supplier". He takes these to a local printing company who turns them into these pads. They're still real $2 bills which is why he can spend them. The Secret Service has had chats with him, they have questioned him as he says here, but they're well aware they're real and they can't really stop him.

@Kailan910 Жыл бұрын

Engadget used to be so good when Topolsky was around

@harry3life 12 жыл бұрын

so you are saying the bureau of engraving just gives steve the money?

@Dddddorian 12 жыл бұрын

2:55 nope you can't use that device to leave the USA; a passport is required since the recent law change. .

@linkfan22 13 жыл бұрын

@Tufflaw The adhesive of the story.

@oBCHANo 12 жыл бұрын

If they are real bills, he would have to "buy" each sheet for $8 each though, so what different does it make?

@jackyray6088 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if u can deposit them into an ATM machine

@Harambe6976 12 жыл бұрын

He charges $5 for a pad worth $50. So can I buy one, then use that to buy 10 more?

@EpicMind500 Жыл бұрын

Why does the interviewer look like a young Wozniak?

@Sillyzombie666 12 жыл бұрын

where can i buy these pads

@misfit20504 12 жыл бұрын

I think its because in order for something to be legal tender it has to meet certain specs AND must be accepted by the person you are offering it to... also technically you can pay any debt with anything the person the debt is owed to accepts as tender like an exchange of goods kinda thing

@Hamza5274 13 жыл бұрын

Can I use them at the apple shop

@stayfly123 13 жыл бұрын

@ALurkingGrue oh i see, but why sell them for a loss?

@cattameme Жыл бұрын

He can afford the printer himself.

@kennethhew 13 жыл бұрын

6 people can't get their $2 bills from the US treasury in sheet forms, perforated and glued together by a hired professional.

@Narutoluv3rr 12 жыл бұрын

Cool Beans Man

@Sublime_1 Жыл бұрын

You can buy sheets and have them put into a pad

@Juice1984 13 жыл бұрын

@declangrindrod The bills are in uncut sheets from the US Treasury. His High Quality Printer (person, not machine) machines it into a memo pad and perforates on the edge of each bill. I'd buy the whole pad from him at his 37.5% discount.

@untziggy4 2 жыл бұрын

The "high quality printer" he refers to is the US Mint. He has a regular print shop perforate and glue the uncut sheets he buys.

@Juice1984 2 жыл бұрын

@@untziggy4 Printer, in this case, refers to the print shop that works with the uncut sheets from the Treasury. The Mint only deals with the coins.

@kingofthepaupers 13 жыл бұрын

Jct: If he'd put "Steve Wozniak will redeem this $2 for 12 minutes of volunteer time", he could spend them like Hours in Ithaca N.Y. Or other time-based currencies. In 1999, I paid for 39/40 nights in Europe with an IOU for a night back in Canada worth 5 Hours. So I can think that everybody would take 30 of Steve's Scrip if he signed his name on it.

@coreydm676 12 жыл бұрын

I believe because its out of print

@Jma0322 12 жыл бұрын

Ok, now. When does he say it's wrong?

@oxlena 13 жыл бұрын

@MrTranxistor Have you seen the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley ? Definitely recommended.

@MateusSFigueiredo 10 ай бұрын

3:55 they dont have to take legal tender in California???

@darkobakula5190 11 ай бұрын

Why take use an ATM when you can go straight to the source

@j0ule 11 жыл бұрын

Is legal to print money, but only if you pay the federal reserve by some means. Usually $1.25 on the bill or something.

@Erickomen27 12 жыл бұрын

I think he said because he uses real "stencil" plates, thus making them legal.

@vassa1972 4 жыл бұрын

Funny stuff I would mind getting one of those pads and hanging on to it

@asherael Жыл бұрын

I love the passport card

@YellingSilently 13 жыл бұрын

how is that legal exactly?

@windbreaker14 10 жыл бұрын

That was amazing.

@DISEASEDPRODUCTI0NS 12 жыл бұрын

where does he sell them?

@zeefaitech 11 жыл бұрын

a freakin genius

@STarFishUltra 13 жыл бұрын

how is printing money and spending it not counterfeiting.....

@geganobo 12 жыл бұрын

On his ID and money he never lies about anything. He doesnt pretend they're something else. Also in the USA you can create your own currency.

@AlexPerazaTV Жыл бұрын

@PatrickFoxGaming 12 жыл бұрын

I just love Woz, awesome man :)

@Designandrew 12 жыл бұрын

Is it just me, or are all the apple nerds latching onto Wozniak now that Jobs is gone?

@MeOnStuff 13 жыл бұрын

@hibernate2live Because there hasn't yet been a law passed that makes it illegal.

@thursdaydawn 12 жыл бұрын

They're real bills, they're just uncut.

@JackBacket 12 жыл бұрын

Fucking with people, that's the difference.

@smsff7 12 жыл бұрын

Is this still going on? Can I still get a few and are they still legit?

@Jma0322 12 жыл бұрын

It explains everything about the legality. If it's legal tender, then it's legal to use it. How's that hard?

@homepageformadog 12 жыл бұрын

All I know the interviewer from is when he fucked up trying to comprehend Lost.