we just thought it might be a good idea like instead of going out to party and like risking covid and like spending a bunch of money on beer to just spend that money on like buying some you know like dollar menu burgers and some like bottles of water some hot hands and some like halloween candy and just like putting them in bags and giving them out to homeless people that's just that's seriously how it is yeah you can't give out sandwiches to homeless people without getting a latering ticket all right guys it's for us and this is ken and what we're doing today it's the night before halloween and we thought it would be a good idea it's getting really cold up here in upstate new york so we thought it would be a good idea to hand out some kind of like like little halloween care packages like candy and uh hot hands and water and uh a burger king sandwich to some homeless folks so what kind of motivated this i kind of got the idea randomly was uh the dean of my pa program sent out an email today about like partying and covid 19 and stuff because obviously like if somebody gets covid 19 they have to get quarantined and that's going to throw off your whole rotations and then like people at the rotation site might get sick and might have to quarantine and miss work and like it's just a big mess so basically what they told us is like avoid bars avoid crowds avoid partying you know big costume parties and stuff that we normally like to do on halloween they said avoid that and so i was thinking like okay what's something you could do when you know you're used to going to a party you're used to going to do something and now you can't well how about doing something good so we're going to do something good so anyway so we just stopped by uh wall greens we got a big pack of water we got some bags we got some hot hands if you're not from the northern hemisphere hot hands are basically these things that have a chemical reaction you put them in your glove and they warm your hand they're like they're exothermic so you know if you're standing outside all day if you're you don't have anywhere to go you know your hands probably get cold so it's a hot hand it helps you out with that so we got them that some water a big thing of candy because it is halloween after all and we're going to get some burger king sandwiches just to give them each a sandwich so anyway we're going to go do that we're going to hand it out we might film some of it i'm obviously going to blur out the faces just to keep everyone's anonymity and yeah so we're just going to do that so it's not going to be it's going to be this right up here right yeah got it and so one other thing that kind of motivated this is ken told me a little while ago he actually spent a little time uh being homeless and he was telling me like the struggles that a lot of people have and like how difficult it is and so that kind of motivated us to do this too and so he's actually going to talk just a little bit about his experience it's rolling you know you just have to think sometimes that some most of those people are not just there for the reason that you think they are you know like what do you mean like me specifically like my life was fine i worked hard to get to where i was and just something happened that really took my mind out of my head and i went downhill yeah and it took something like that in a place like that to really catch me and then people giving like this to remind me of how life was how life really is you mean even like a bottle of water and like some candy like it made a difference because sometimes life brings you so far down that like you get back to where you need to be and you didn't realize how much you you miss the fact that you could walk up to the sink and pour yourself a glass of water because you didn't even have that no didn't have a shelter nothing nothing at all i went from my life being great to you know in the shelter yeah and it just you meet a lot of it hold on but stop you just meet a lot of people that are in there not because of drugs or alcohol or being criminals or just getting out of jail they are there but just sometimes you just people don't really think i think when it comes to realizing that they're all not they're not criminals so just like when you are like crappy about the bills losing the Super Bowl or you know you had a crappy day at work and you just need that someone in your life say hey man everything's going to be okay they need that too yeah they definitely need that too yeah for sure well that's what we're going to do today thank you for sharing that we're going to talk a little bit more maybe about Ken's story but right now we're at Burger King there is my base we're going to pick up some sandwiches by the way that's Declan that's Ken's son say hi Declan okay fair enough so we're going to pick up some sandwiches to hand out and yeah we'll be with you in just a minute so we're driving over to the shelter we got the sandwiches from Burger King so i guess there's two shelters in this city at least that's what Ken tells me two like major shelters there's a smaller one and a bigger one we're going to go to the smaller one so like what's the difference between the two shelters it's it's how it's run i mean both of them are subsidized by like the government obviously yeah but like say the one we're going to the Catholic Charity shelter it's governed it's the Catholic Charity's is subsidized by the government the Catholic Charity's runs it now they also have different rules so like the the other shelter here that we're not visiting today it's more run with stricter rules they have you out at eight o'clock in the morning you have to be back at five o'clock to make sure you don't lose your bed yeah more security more stuff like that but then again you don't really have you kind of lose your freedoms but then again the one we're going to you can come in and out as you please they they kind of based our values on like a Christian value system like you know Catholic Charity's yeah and so things are a little bit more lenient and then you know you know so it's like up and down it depends on what you want to do no matter what it's good and bad at the same time so also there's a lot of all other small shelters in the area but it seems like like halfway houses and women's shelters and domestic violence shelters but it kind of like you have to get to go to department of social services and then they give you your paperwork and you get yourself into the system and then you take that paperwork to one of the major shelters in the area and then eventually once the social worker there gets to know you and then they pass you along and pass you along eventually you'll get to somewhere that's a little bit more catered for you okay um the only difference would be is if you're a woman child so it's like a specific kind of shelter for a person yeah you get pushed right into a woman's a family shelter right away oh i got you there's really not much help from men in child here unfortunately but that's a new york state thing is it better in other states i've heard of other states okay left or right left go like caddy cornell i've heard of other states like okay so down south down south of florida alabama georgia it's more like a system where like churches churches build shelters and then what they do is they run it by themselves and then do do a tax cut or whatever maybe okay um then they kind of govern it on themselves um i've also heard that you have to be part of the congregation they're a little bit more like uh like almost like a vacation oh but they really put a lot of attention into you and your family and stuff like that and they have family getaways there so but here there's here in new york it's the mental health system and the homeless system is wrong it really is um but then on another thing is that like if you're homeless in florida if you're homeless in florida like you kind of like it's not legal i mean it's not illegal to be homeless so technically if you're living on property with your tent that's not illegal for you to live on and you have children and a husband with you or whatever it may be and you have food and water and everything inside your tent they won't remove you they won't tell you hey you have to go to a shelter so i think that's wrong but is that like specific like areas that you're allowed to be like you're allowed to put your tent or like how does that work right it has to be probably specific i don't think i don't think you can like put your tent like in a school back lot or something you know that's kind of okay but i mean like um yeah but it's it's not illegal to be homeless and i just find the fact of that really weird where like people can get to the point that they're them and their children are literally homeless and that all the options that they have is literally here's a tent and good luck you know i get at least in new york you'll get placed somehow with children children is definitely they care a lot about the children here in new york state but that's good the single people it's not really that great so it sounds like i mean based on your situation whether you're male female whether you have kids or not like maybe some states laws are better for you so maybe that's kind of how people end up migrating like and living in certain states definitely that's true i hear i hear our west i mean you mean more about that than i do when you were closer to california i've never been here in california it's like it's like a homeless haven left yes yeah i've definitely heard that especially lately there's been a lot of talk about that so new york on one end it's um it's a detriment to be here especially with the colder weather and stuff like that yeah for sure um on another end it it can be a good system and like i mean the whole homeless crisis is just so like multifaceted like no one no two people are the same and no two states are the same and it's like i got you and uh yeah i mean so i don't really want to like generalize or get into it too much oh looks like a full moon or almost a full moon but anyway so the point is for today and for all of y'all watching um i guess we just want to like try to you know spend our friday night that would normally be like because it's uh it's not valentine's weekend what the heck is it uh i'm gonna cut this out halloween yeah it's like a friday night and halloween weekend like you know i guess you should be out drinking or out having fun or whatever well okay it's covid so it's kind of irresponsible to do that especially in like big groups and so we thought okay what do you do with your time and the money you were gonna spend on like beer anyway we'll go freaking buy some sandwiches some hot hands and some water and like uh and you know make somebody's day who could use it so i guess that's just what we're doing and what i'm really hoping to just maybe motivate even like one person out there to do so just go do it you know so anyway we're here we're here so this looks like it's a one way can we go here uh go up here and pull into the driveway over here all right so we're actually gonna get this going i'm gonna shut the camera off and i guess we're just gonna park and me and can are just gonna hand stuff out and we'll see if we can catch any of it on video if we can't like i'll try i'll try my best so anyway let's uh let's do this all right so camera's rolling i don't know how much you guys can see her here but the way we're gonna do this i'm just gonna take a bag deklin's gonna give me a bag of the hot hands on the water and we're just gonna hand some stuff out all right so i think we're rolling let's do this deklin give me a bag please just keep in common keep in common there you go there's a sandwich there's a bag keep in common deklin come on come on keep him going right over here guys here you go man thank you i can't it's halloween just a little candy i think yo right over here we like back up a little bit just let me be over here here go in sandwich water hot hands a little candy all thank you deklin you're doing a great job dude thank you there you go man some water sandwich a blunt open you gotta do it's open it's okay if it's open i mean yeah close it thank you good good job oh that's one line maybe that's the stuff saying hot hands does not all have one there you go dude sandwich water candy halloween stuff you gotta do here you go why there's this one water candy here you go dude candy some water sandwich all right have a good night okay walking is there any more people oh sorry it's okay is there anybody else somebody wants to let somebody inside know we got more yeah we got a few more man yeah we got a decent amount another bag please thank you i got one right here man oh you got a sandwich some water some candy all right just one bud just one just one but all we need to go in some water some candy sandwiches for you you got it dude happy halloween it's a whole endless cycle of referrals wait referrals wait referrals wait yeah i mean what are you doing in the meantime Brian get yourself back in your feet you have a screen no go go to the library you're on a computer find a job oh i go out there make money when you can get your head straight you know how to get people to work on yourself i mean nobody else coming out all right all right dachlan ready to work come on we need another bag we need like three four more come on dachlan i'm trying to work fast buddy good job there you go man sandwich some uh water some candy what's up nobody else in there very good oh they're good all right good good so you don't leave it on the back right another one but is that three for you yeah you're putting in some work come here there you go man there you go let's get another burger out here get another burger get another burger all right dach can we get one more for the gentleman that helped us out huh thank you hey of course i'm sure you need something there you go yeah all right man have a good night okay all right guys we're gonna move anyway so we handed out maybe like 20 maybe 15 like not a whole lot of people came out yeah i see it's okay so anyway so i guess we're gonna go to another location not another shelter but like another place where people might be up on the street or something um and just kind of give away the the rest of the food that we got so anyway that's the plan for now make a left okay so i guess the plan now is we're gonna go somewhere else where some folks hang out and we're just gonna give away the rest of this food what's going on okay so i mean everybody uh everyone that came out was like really nice and they were really like grateful they just said oh thank you um i really really nothing to fear no it's i'm not really saying that i was necessarily afraid of anything but like you know i haven't spent a whole lot of time around homeless people i don't know how they act or not like they're all the same or anything obviously but like everyone was just super nice um everyone was fine i did of course notice literally what 95 percent were black there was one white dude or two two maybe two white dudes so i mean yeah that was really freaking sad just it's messed up i mean it makes you sad but i don't know like what can we do it's not much no so i mean like even what we're doing now hopefully does like something maybe not in the grand scheme of things but like just for today um i mean we could have made someone's night yeah and then tomorrow morning they wake up and they find motivation to do something right you know so many kicks a habit tomorrow out of those 20 burgers that we just gave out yeah okay specifically my situation i don't want to get into too deep of it but of course i put something happened to me and i put i got into a situation and you know i was down and it took the kindness of others to remind me yeah so yeah i mean it could turn someone it could turn everything around for someone tonight it's that's what that's all you can hope for that's why people give me i hope so and i mean even if it's not like a big grand like event that is just going to turn things around like maybe i don't know maybe it'll have some impact beyond just like giving them a meal for the night which is a good thing in itself is it like that that way yeah yep so i mean when you were in the shelter like did people do this every night every couple nights once a week at least every other night sometimes really nights in a room yeah i mean me i was i mean i never noticed it rarely i was focused on my own things and yeah you were working while you were you were staying there so i guess we're pulling up to the other shelter the other local shelter that's a little bigger much bigger we only have like a few bags left but uh i mean whatever let's give them out and like ken said like i was telling him i feel bad like if we run out because we will but he said like a lot of times people just put up like pull up and they'll just give what they can and like i mean people are understanding you know so i'm talking to the camera deklin we're gonna try to inspire some other people to do some stuff that'll help some other people yeah i see it let's try not to run over that dude quick right into the parking lot all right over here that is a big shelter actually what next over here and they make a right i don't know if there's gonna be a lot of people outside because i mean this shelter here well this shelter here they demand people to be inside oh well it will like eight o'clock or something right you have to be here for a while but i mean even let you out is that this right here yeah so we're just well let's just hang out let's just hang out outside of here let's get rid of the cheeseburgers a couple people right there yeah i mean we don't have that much go down a little bit more uh oh they're gonna they're doing the wrong thing but people usually hang out like right here right here yeah okay over you got your mask i got my head all right all right let's give away the rest of this food what do you mean why why are we giving away food because people need it want a burger some water some candy in there for you oh oh only man it's a full moon you gotta get some stuff out all right sand wave some water some candy for you happy all the way man happy all the way thank you uh yeah i got three left here we have one bag oh he's got a bag you have to want to grab it right over yeah we got four left water some candy man some uh thank you burger for you here exactly let me have that bag thank you yeah of course burgers and candy thanks water for you brother for you candy happy halloween water dude you actually get the last two burgers two or a bottle of water for some food here's a couple burgers free bottle of water happy halloween happy halloween all right have a good night too all right that's it we're done ah that's a wrap keep all done wait so we are all out man i'm so sorry this is what i freaking hate it like i knew we were gonna run out and now like some people are getting food you do what you could yeah i know it's just it's weird there's a lot of people in there who obviously didn't get anything but all right we're done so we gave out all the food uh Ken was telling me something interesting there was actually a cop there was a policeman parked like 500 feet away from the shelter and it looked like he was watching us and ken told me you can actually get a ticket for handing out food to the homeless loitering they call it loitering no we we we would get a ticket for loitering we could have got a ticket for loitering for handing out food to the homeless have you ever seen that happen yep seriously yep what is their justification i mean there's tons there's tons of videos and youtube videos and documentaries we're in that we're in those documentaries even in other states we're like they're getting shut down people will set up tables and like downtown and the cops will come by and just tell them me oh i'm sorry but you can't do this you know city laws and stuff like that what do they think is going to happen you're going to poison them or something even though we're giving out stuff for free it's still considered to them and to the state and to the city government as we're um selling something or we're we're giving just i don't know the specific word for it but peddling peddling okay whatever it is so that sounds really dumb man yeah i mean that's just that's seriously how it is yeah you can't give out sandwiches to homeless people without getting a loitering ticket yep i mean we just did and we didn't get a ticket because the guy was just like not paying attention or he was like hey they're doing something you know good so let's not give him a freaking ticket i mean i i got maybe maybe it's maybe it's a different kind of time of year and what's going on right now people i guess uh covid's going on you know let's let's do like as much they're doing good let's leave him alone you know yeah that might be the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard of i've never heard that you can get a ticket for that oh just youtube it next time you're sitting down you feel like watching this stupid video oh i believe you i'm definitely gonna geek out on that people like literally setting up tables of food to feed the homeless to feed families and then the cops coming by taking everything off the tables and and attempting to remove them and give them tickets well they verbally fight it a little bit but you know some of me even get arrested for giving food to homeless people resisting or whatever they're all resisting arrest yeah the cops tell you to do something you're like oh and they're like do it you're like no you're like do it i mean you you shouldn't do that that's just a stupid thing to do but it is really dumb that you can get a ticket if you're wrong all right the cops walk up to you and tell you to do something yeah exactly just do it like i don't care how mean they are yeah don't put yourself in a situation where that you don't want to be in just if a cop tells you to do something just do it oh i know where we are okay cool yeah i got it um but anyway yeah thanks for coming with me and like showing me where to go and stuff dude i've always been like that somebody says hey man want to give out to people i'm like yep yeah i've always been that way so anytime you know you just all you gotta do is give me a text and i'm there well this was definitely officially my charity budget for the month but maybe next month you know i don't really get all that much um i mean if you hear it it's something like where you work like hey we're all gonna go call me up i know a guy yeah i'll be there for sure but anyway we're gonna get on the highway it might get kind of noisy but anyway so i don't know if i really said this it's been kind of a whirlwind like trying to do this thing and plan this thing but anyway so we just thought that it might be a good idea since well let's not get hit by a car yeah um we just thought it might be a good idea like instead of going out to party and like risking covid and like spending a bunch of money on beer to just spend that money on like buying some you know like dollar menu burgers and some like bottles of water some hot hands and some like halloween candy and just like putting them in bags and giving them out to homeless people it does feel way better to be honest with you and like you don't get a hangover and it's just i don't know so like we just felt like doing that and i would like to encourage anybody still watching this to just like go do that you know this is the night before halloween tomorrow is officially halloween like go do that instead of going to a halloween party or you know it's seven o'clock right now go do that before halloween party and then i don't know you got something to talk about at your party or you feel good about doing something before you go party like whatever just go do good stuff the end ken you got any last words on this so that was somewhat very quiet humble wisdom i don't know if the camera picked it up on the highway at 60 miles an hour sorry i'm gonna ask you to yell that into the camera you do good for the universe the universal treat you better you do good for the universe the universe will treat you better sounds like uh like a hillbilly's version of karma almost almost tree hugging i thought you were from new york i thought you weren't from like oregon yeah he's from new york but he acts like he's from oregon no offense to the people from oregon you're very fine people i love you all all right guys um i'm signing off go do good stuff


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