 Over the last year America was given proof of what it already suspected We're all being spied on but long before Edward Snowden introduced the world to prism spies like Magnum PI 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 Sheffer my friend and the Virgis 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 and 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 Pierce PI This is Jimmy messes a private investigator for over 30 years He's worked for the White House Scotland Yard and even for boxing promoter Don King Jimmy's also the owner of PI gear comm an online Store that sells everything from night-vision goggles to nanny cams and he's also the head of PI magazine The biggest trade publication for investigators around the world. So how do you start doing this? I actually became a private investigator back in 1979 and Technology really didn't exist back then 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 size. 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 been I'm assuming that you are from you know 30 or 40 different places. No, just 20 just 20 skip. 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 cam So I could basically like replace one of the buttons on my shirt with right? What kind of video does this record? That's gonna 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 was the video glasses This would run down to the small 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 the other side Glasses are a big thing now the difference between the ones you originally wore and these is that this is self-contained So the DVR the 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 face as compared to just straight out and there's still there's a camera here No microphone here. Well, actually everything is right over the center. It's on the bridge of your nose Everybody has the 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 piggyback 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 bringing the phone up where people know that you're taking video and this will this also Charge my phone's battery. No It's all really 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. I Have a question for you. Yeah, I need to buy Air Jordans like good ones I need to buy a friend a present I need you to have like a Jordans guy for me. I can't hoping you're gonna be like there's this dude I know I know The bottom of the shoe is icy I'm putting you so deep in this game right now Yeah, so like sneaker news like all the sneaker heads we're going crazy, but all these are hype shoes Okay, you can maybe score a pair of these from Nike.com the second you get them They're double the value on it. His bots have taken over the shoe buying game like people have written scripts Wow, I don't know how to do that. I used to know someone at Nike I Don't know his email anymore or whatever. But if you have contacts at Nike, they would probably tell you when it's gonna be all right Thanks to you. You're welcome. 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 who he hangs out with we're talking about the works 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 with them so I can take a picture of him but I can't anything that your Target will be due 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 your trespassing. Let's say I was a licensed PI 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? Secret apps, you know, I tell you that but I don't know I'd have to you'd have to kill me with you No, I'll just make you disappear I file the first case on the counter since I depends on a list of things to find out Older than Social Security It's normally they 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 and now that's a hundred hours of motion Unfortunately Sam doesn't drive a car and I don't have a PI license I swore you had like a hookup with some dude. No? The hype is so real with shoes right now, it's unbelievable. Sam, here's my real question. Yeah? How do we turn this into us getting rich? What? I feel like we're like one small step away from just being gotten shoes. It's impossible. It's impossible. Now see, Sam, that's the difference between you and me. It's impossible. You're wrong and I'm not. So it turns out being a PI is not as sexy as 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 filmed? Wow. Wow. This is amazing. So is it creepy out that we were able to do this to you for like a week? 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 your iPhone case was pretty strange yesterday. I did notice that. Really? Yeah, I was like, oh, I didn't know you got a Jank Amazon battery pack. I mean, those shots are like so good too. I'm like, I had no idea. And also now the sneaker hype game is semi-exposed, but it's also still impossible to get those shoes. We still need to start our business. Yeah, it's going to happen. It's going to happen. Let's get rich off shoes. Perfect. So by now you might be wondering, how can I avoid being Sam? Well, I can help you there, but there are definitely some ways you can detect surveillance. I would think you would be more qualified than anybody to 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 is watching them. But what can I do myself? These are wireless camera detectors. Oh, wow. 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 a PI has changed a lot, but with the right gear, a toolkit that's easier to buy and more affordable than ever, a good PI 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, and in another month, I could use all this equipment on you, and you'd never see it. I believe it. 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 found a place to get dollar tacos in New York City. I'll call it even.
 Over the last year America was given proof of what it already suspected
 We're all being spied on but long before Edward Snowden introduced the world to prism spies like Magnum
 PI 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 Sheffer my friend and the Virgis 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 and 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 Pierce
 PI
 This is Jimmy messes a private investigator for over 30 years
 He's worked for the White House Scotland Yard and even for boxing promoter Don King Jimmy's also the owner of PI gear comm an online
 Store that sells everything from night-vision goggles to nanny cams and he's also the head of PI magazine
 The biggest trade publication for investigators around the world. So how do you start doing this?
 I actually became a private investigator back in 1979 and
 Technology really didn't exist back then 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 size. 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 been I'm assuming that you are from you know
 30 or 40 different places. No, just 20 just
 20 skip. 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 cam
 So I could basically like replace one of the buttons on my shirt with right? What kind of video does this record?
 That's gonna 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 was the video glasses
 This would run down to the small 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 the other side
 Glasses are a big thing now the difference between the ones you originally wore and these is that this is self-contained
 So the DVR the 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 face as compared to just straight out and there's still there's a camera here
 No microphone here. Well, actually everything is right over the center. It's on the bridge of your nose
 Everybody has the 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 piggyback 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 bringing the phone up where people know that you're taking video and this will this also
 Charge my phone's battery. No
 It's all really 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. I
 Have a question for you. Yeah, I need to buy Air Jordans like good ones
 I need to buy a friend a present
 I need you to have like a Jordans guy for me. I can't hoping you're gonna be like there's this dude I know
 I know
 The bottom of the shoe is icy
 I'm putting you so deep in this game right now
 Yeah, so like sneaker news like all the sneaker heads we're going crazy, but all these are hype shoes
 Okay, you can maybe score a pair of these from Nike.com the second you get them
 They're double the value on it. His bots have taken over the shoe buying game like people have written scripts
 Wow, I don't know how to do that. I used to know someone at Nike
 I
 Don't know his email anymore or whatever. But if you have contacts at Nike, they would probably tell you when it's gonna be all right
 Thanks to you. You're welcome. 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 who he hangs out with we're talking about the works
 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 with them so I can take a picture of him
 but I can't anything that your
 Target will be due 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 your trespassing. Let's say I was a licensed PI
 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?
 Secret apps, you know, I tell you that but I don't know I'd have to you'd have to kill me with you
 No, I'll just make you disappear
 I file the first case on the counter since I depends on a list of things to find out
 Older than Social Security
 It's normally they 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 and now that's a hundred hours of motion
 Unfortunately Sam doesn't drive a car and I don't have a PI license
 I swore you had like a hookup with some dude.
 No?
 The hype is so real with shoes right now, it's unbelievable.
 Sam, here's my real question.
 Yeah?
 How do we turn this into us getting rich?
 What?
 I feel like we're like one small step away from just being gotten shoes.
 It's impossible.
 It's impossible.
 Now see, Sam, that's the difference between you and me.
 It's impossible.
 You're wrong and I'm not.
 So it turns out being a PI is not as sexy as 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 filmed?
 Wow.
 Wow.
 This is amazing.
 So is it creepy out that we were able to do this to you for like a week?
 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 your iPhone case was pretty strange yesterday.
 I did notice that.
 Really?
 Yeah, I was like, oh, I didn't know you got a Jank Amazon battery pack.
 I mean, those shots are like so good too.
 I'm like, I had no idea.
 And also now the sneaker hype game is semi-exposed, but it's also still impossible to get those shoes.
 We still need to start our business.
 Yeah, it's going to happen.
 It's going to happen.
 Let's get rich off shoes.
 Perfect.
 So by now you might be wondering, how can I avoid being Sam?
 Well, I can help you there, but there are definitely some ways you can detect surveillance.
 I would think you would be more qualified than anybody to 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 is watching them.
 But what can I do myself?
 These are wireless camera detectors.
 Oh, wow.
 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 a PI has changed a lot, but with the right gear, a toolkit that's easier to buy and more affordable than ever,
 a good PI 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, and in another month,
 I could use all this equipment on you, and you'd never see it.
 I believe it.
 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 found a place to get dollar tacos in New York City.
 I'll call it even.