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over the last year America was given proof of what had already suspected we're all being spied on but long before Edward Snowden introduced the world to prism spies like magnum p.i Dick Tracy and even Veronica Mars were showing us just how easy it is to keep tabs on unsuspecting targets and now with all the new technology at our disposal being a spy or investigator should be easier than ever plus I have this question I want answered Sam Scheffer my friend and the verge of social media manager has this insanely huge collection of sweet Air Jordans including some no one can find anywhere how's he getting his hands on the kicks no one else can seem to find I assume it has to do with shady deals in back alleys and probably some illicit card game I could just ask him but what's the fun in that first I need to learn how to do this stuff how to be David Peter spy this is Jimmy meses a private investigator for over 30 years he's worked for the White House Scotland Yard and even for boxing promoter Don King Jimmy is also the owner of P I gear comm an online store that sells everything from night vision goggles to nanny cams and he's also the head of p eye magazine the biggest trade publication for investigators around the southeast our goodness I actually became a private investigator back in 1979 and technology really didn't exist that guy so what how has it changed over the last you know the few decades you've been doing it well in the late 70s video cassette tapes had just been invented and even then a setup like that was thousands of dollars and probably enormous it was you know that the technology back then was super big and just evolving now the technology has come into nano-sized yeah where you know I can put a video camera anywhere on my body I could actually be videotaping you right now you would have mean I'm assuming that you are from you know 30 or 40 different places just 20 just 20 is good all right so we're gonna need some tools and Jimmy has plenty of them most of them are shockingly simple and not even that expensive so this is the base of a button camp so I can basically like replace one of the buttons on my shirt with right what kind of video does this look like that's going to record 550 lines of resolution color during the day automatically switches to black and white and low-light situation in video or covert video normally it's two different pieces the camera and you have to plug it into a DVR this is a high-definition recorder and this will take up to a 32 gigabyte SD card now you can plug about 10 different cameras into this device the other device that we have with video glasses this would run down to the small of your back nobody would know that you have it on where is the camera the camera is actually on the stem on one side and the microphone is on the stem on left side blessed big thing that the difference between the ones you originally wore and these is that this is self-contained so the DVR camera everything is inside those glasses and again we always recommend that if you're gonna wear glasses like that you wear a hat because it just helps break up the base as compared to just straight yeah and there's still a there's a camera here and a microphone here actually everything is right over the center it's on the bridge of your nose everybody has a keychain for their car of remote control they can take pictures they can take video and they can also record audio and this is like a little piggy back to the iPhone you put your iPhone in here and what ends up happening is there's a camera on the base now you're videotaping this way as compared to bring in the phone up where people know that you're taking video and this will this also charge my phone's battery no it's already simple actually the trick is making it so no one ever notices and honestly that's mostly still on me the more I blend in and don't freak out and seem shady the less Sam or anyone will think I'm up to something and start looking a little closer so now that I've got my gear I'm ready to investigate well I have question for you yeah I need to buy Air Jordans like good ones I need to buy a friend a present it's got you and where's hey need you to have like a jordan's guy for me i cant hoping you were gonna be like there's this dude i know the bottom of the shoe is icy I'm putting you so deep in this game right now so like sneaker news like all the sneaker heads we're going crazy but all these are hype shoes okay you can maybe score care of these from nike.com this second you get them their double value his BOTS have taken over the shoe by getting like people have written scripts well I don't know how to do that I used to know someone to make a hack like feet with him I don't know his email anymore or whatever but if you have contacts that might be they would all right thanks dude yeah well okay so nothing groundbreaking but I know he's holding something back I want to take this even farther I want to know where Sam lives what he does at night we hangs out with we're talking about the worse I want to do as much of this as I can without having to get a license what what can I do just as a regular person like how how far down this road can I go before I run into issues well you're probably gonna go down a really short road because the moment you start doing that you're technically stalking and now that's a criminal offense so there's a fine line between what's legal and what's not legal so I can take a picture of him but I can't give you something that your target will do in public is fair game but once they start going into private areas in their home or in a secluded area or a gated community you're not allowed in there you get caught in there you're trespassing let's say I was a licensed bi how could I track Sam to a secret sneaker source without even being there that device will give you 30 hours of of tracking of motion and then you're able to monitor that live on your smartphone or online is there like a PI app store that nobody knows about that you guys have all allowed to get abs but you know I tell you there but I don't know I'd have to you have to kill me what you know just had to disappear the eyes normally may need more than 30 hours of tracking so what they'll do is they will put the tracker into a waterproof magnetic case and you just attach this to the underside of a vehicle Wow and now that's a hundred hours of motion unfortunately Sam doesn't drive a car and I don't have a PI license but none of that can stop me from just following him to his favorite bar and asking him two questions I need to know his source TLDR Nike just restocked and today I swear you had like a hookup here's my real question yeah how do we turn this into us getting rich I feel like we're like one small step away from just being a god it's an awesome so it turns out being a PI is not a sexiest Tom Selleck made it out to be and also way more difficult than I imagined just because I have all this gear doesn't mean I'm suddenly a veteran investigator that's why in the end I had to come clean Wow what is happening right now when was that filming oh wow wow this is amazing this is the creepy out that we were able to do this to you for like a week um yes and no yes because it's like weird not knowing that this was happening but it's not surprising you know when you have no idea you obviously feel like you're vulnerable I did notice her iPhone case was pretty strange yesterday I did notice that yeah I was like I didn't know you got a jank Amazon you know battery pack I know shots are like so good too and like I had no idea and also now the the sneaker hype game is semi exposed but it's also so impossible to get those shoes so yeah we still need to start our business yeah it's gonna have to get rich off shoes it's perfect so by now you might be wondering how can I avoid being Sam well I can't help you there but there are definitely some ways you can detect surveillance I would think you would be more qualified than anybody to like help people avoid surveillance also is that part of what you do often we get called in where people think they're being watched and they want us to watch them to see if anybody's watching them but what can I do myself these are wireless camera detectors Oh aye and if there was a camera transmitting in the area we would see the picture of what's being transmitted this particular device has these LEDs right here and I will find the hidden camera because it will flash back at me women are buying these like crazy when they go to a hotel they want to make sure that they're not being watched when they go to a dressing room they want to make sure they're not being watched so it's kind of an interesting little tool being API has changed a lot but with the right gear a toolkit that's easier to buy and more affordable than ever a good P I can now always be ready but it turns out the gear isn't the point or at least not the only point Jimmy can blend in be cool and stay patient in an unmarked white van I can't do any of those things well and I can't legally do most of them at all I can show you everything that you've seen here in another month I could use all this equipment on you and you'd never see it I believe because you just your mind is just not set up to think that you're being watched that way that's why I got nothing from Sam why I still don't own sweet Air Jordans but hey at least I've found a place to get dollar tacos in New York City I'll call it even