I've actually been taking steps to become "safely" homeless. Or at least, prepared to survive. Modern society is simply something that I have never felt at home in. I feel this great NEED to return back to the northern forests of my homeland
As a fully disabled person thats been homeless, I cant agree: younger, they took advantage of and bullied me; older, they condemn me for not falling for any of it. The thing that unites these people isnt a home, its their vices, and if you dont have that in common, then the homeless look at you (fellow homeless) with the same contempt. Theres nothing to romanticize here.
Exactly! I was a van dweller in the early 70s and understood right away that my lifestyle choice was safest if I kept to myself and acted normal. No real sense of community at all. It's the vices that that they chase, not freedom. I finished college, met a likeminded partner, and we built a debt-free life, bought land, built a homestead, and raised a family. Now we have a fringe group of homeless people living under a bridge several miles away. When they wander on our land and we boot them off. Panhandling in a city is one thing but stop bothering people in their homes.
I'm not disagreeing, Infact it happens alot with the house amongst families- however- it very much is different where ever you go. I've encountered the Homeless in Providence and Boston who are very much vice driven and spiteful people, the types who let themselves fall to this situation and if given the money would lose it that same night. However in Vermont I met a bunch of dirtied kids must have been from 16-19 but they didn't ask for a thing- they were musicians through and through and didn't need a recording studio. My own brother, due to his Autism I'd imagine, only wants to be homeless. He wants nothing more than to just ride across New England on his bike and occasionally have a smoke- his only vice is Freedom.
Good video. As a homeless person myself, I would say that these folks are nice, and clean and organized compared to other camps. This is their home. They do whatever they can, build whatever they can to find some contentment. A simple camp fire at night can give one a sense of security and place. However, always being in survival mode and in a state of violence is stressful to the mind and body. One thing that they can't have that a house provides , other than the obvious things, is Complete security. They welcomed you in as a guest which is normal and common. People stereotype homeless as being violent, and 98% of them are far from it. They may seem violent or aggressive at first but this is a deterrent that they use. Most are really nice and genuine people. They put on a show for your stay. They would have protected you if something happened, you were actually safer than you could understand. Good people. I live on the streets of Denver, Colorado. Thanks for video
Hey there, one dispute. Houses aren't secure. They are fragile climate controlled bpxes built for show, not to be highly defensible spaces. Putting big windows everywhere kinda makes it impossible to properly stop breakins. Sure, an alarm might go off and get the police there in 25 minutes or so, but a lot can happen in that time, very little actual safety is provided. Much safer to be alone out in the woods away from other people unless it's grizzly country or big cats. But most places, people are the biggest danger, and a big bright house is just full of treasures that directly incentovoze breakins. The broght light makes it hard to see out through the shiny glass. Super easy to see in though, super super easy for someone to sit in a bush and watch your rhythm and wait for an easy time to attack. Not likely to happen, but easily could, and nothing about the house is gonna stop it from happening. Safety is an entirely relative concept, doesn't actually exist.
For many renters today, the home is a huge constant financial stress. Ive owed a home for a minute. If I had to go back to renting it would be Hell Know! I would live in my car or whatever necessary before paying that out of control inequality created by mostly Republican individualist thinking ash-whipes. Sorry but that is what they are responsible for.
@@ltwig476 I came to the same conclusion about rent, it's for suckers. I went the hobo route but now I want land to plant food trees. Don't care about a house, but I want to have a long term relationship with a bunch of trees and share the abundance.
@@HoboGardenerBen Well, to maintain trees properly, you might want some sort of small out building for tools and could function as sleeping quarters in a pinch. As long as you're not staying in it 24 /7. the government does not have any rights to bother you. Southern WV, Northern Georgia, Eastern Tenn, would likely be the best climate and least likely bothered by regulations. Get north of the Ohio river, then your'e getting into harder winter issues. If you go west of the Mississippi, you're getting into stricter regulations. Ideally is an Appellation valley with a 100 year flood rating. Some other thoughts is not owning but living on a small orchard or tree farm and working it part time only as pay. These situations are fairly hard to find and typically don't last more than a few years. But the experience would be worth while, learning more about taking care of trees. Just some ideas.
If you’ve never been in this situation, it’s not something you can learn by hearing. U have to experience it. Our family was homeless for just over 3 yrs, in an old rv staying at camp grounds close to work. Some of the best people (actual down to earth, no BS folks) are out there. It’s a sense of community that no longer exists in our society. Yea u experience the crazy mental, drug addled strange folks occasionally. Comes with the territory. As well as some of the most honest, down to earth, common sense folks you’ve ever met. God Bless the homeless, especially the veterans. Great video, earning a like and a sub.
I'm a homeless vet by choice. I'm living my best life at the moment. I've found peace and a place where I belong. Its lonely but I prefer it that way. I never believed in the game that everyone takes so serious.
@@PointtostonesI’m so happy to read this. Thank you for your service and I hope I can find the peace in my situation that you have found. I don’t fit into the rat race in the standard way either, but music is my muse and I MUST plug in and work as much as I can. People are more kind from the “stage eye” perspective. ;)
@@imanalien2222 if you're in the North Carolina area, I can set you up to play gigs at campgrounds. Keep doing what you're doing, because the game is rigged.
Huge respect for engaging with homeless people and making such an interesting video. Its really not easy to push yourself to such places and talk with those people. It smells, it is messy and people tend to be weird or crazy. Thats something that hinders people from having normal conversations and contact with them. Its really sad because those homeless people once had a life, dreams and they still have them, yet shoved under those grim circumstances they live in.
Wow, am I the only one who felt a ton of prejudice and oppression in this comment? Just because people are different doesn’t mean you have to gather extra strength to talk to them.
@@Hesseishere No im being honest. Talking with homeless people is not easy, if it were more people would do it. U could be off put by the smell or hindered because they have a lower social status than u and u dont wanna get caught interacting with them. There are many more reasons why it isnt easy, but we should absolutely focus on the positive reasons on why we should interact and help.
I like being homeless. I identify as a hobo gardener. Houses are stupid burdens. I am working 6 days\week to buy land to plant food trees and gardens to share the food abundance with others. I will also try to make and sell crafts from the land since I have experience in primitive living skills like basketry, friction fire, carving and coal burning. Nothing better than sitting around a fire making something with your hands and eating campfire food. With other people is nice too, but alone is wonderful and necessary.
@@minnermin Nice to hear my dude. I could afford to rent a place and do the whole normal life thing, but it's not attractive to me. I want land and long relationships with food plants and garden beds. I've had some of that on friend's land and some longtime clients, but it's different when you decide everything without outside input.
@HoboGardenerBen Im not homeless.. but I visit a park and spend almost all day and Im finding housing very stupid in a sense. And I might be homeless one day but I learning that actually living outside is truly living.
@@zephyrr108 Have you gone camping before? It's really fun. Start off with car camping, lots of gear, be comfortable, no see um mesh, silnylon, quality materials\design. Explore all the shelrer options like square tarp with bug tent and ground cloth beneath, double wall backpacking tent, tarp\hammock\underquilt. I wouldn't recommend going quilt for bedding if going into the cold, mummy bags are necessary there but backpacking quilts like from Enlightened Equipment are great for 3-season use. I've had a lot of inflatable pads fail so I prefer foam pads. They're hard but insulate well and you can make it softer by making a duff bed below your groundcloth. I find I just get used to a harder surface after a while and get less back pain from it. A dialed-in hammock setup is tricky but the most comfortable if achieved. Warbonnet Blackbird is the best I've used, beats Hennessey. Did take a long nap in s Kammik Roo one time and it's stretchy fabric was amazing so I'm gonna buy one and see if it beats Warbonnet's unique fabric cut with the lowered footbox that helps you lie flat. I could talk gear for days :)
same, I wouldn't have believed it was him if he didnt speak. Though I'm not surprised as he probably is desperate for content, and homeless camps seem like his next stop in life.
ya except these places are like pop-up shops. they are really cool and interesting. then at some point taylor swift has a concert, or some other "important" detached celebrity and guess what? the cops will come slice their tents, throw everything away that they can't physically carry out in 10 minutes. How do i know this? because i've seen it happen multiple times. The greedy and the slave class can't STAND seeing people get along without big brother taking a slice.
I've had the privilege of being homeless. It was a very humbling experience. One day I had it all. The next I had nothing. I had to deal with it all alone. At first it was hard to accept. It got easier with time tho. I had a lot of time to myself so I started going to the public library in town. I read every book and magazine I could find on how to survive with minimal assets. I used the Internet as well. I learned how to stay warm in winter, how to grow different fruits and vegetables, how to purify water, and other life skills. I learned other stuff as well like how to reupholster furniture, how to fix and make jewelry, how to do simple repairs on electronics and other hobby skills. Some of what I learned helped earn enuf money to keep my head above water until I could get a decent job. Fortunately I am no longer homeless but I do hang out with the people I met when I was. Every chance I get I go back to the squatters corner and stay on weekends.
@TamathaWhitaker-h6z If it hadn't been for the fact that you no longer are, I'd have thought that was a lousy excuse. Surely you've met down and outs yourself, with pathetic reasons and excuses. They even boast of vast fortunes prior to their heavy drinking etc. But we'll done for turning it around.
@@therespectedlex9794 I've heard plenty of woe is me excuses and know how to tell if someone is genuine in their claim. Not all are wronguns like you mention. Some are honestly stuck in a bad situation due to poor economy, lack of available jobs, mental issues, or other legit reasons. They are decent people but they struggle to get back into the flow of things.
I'm 2 minutes in and I can tell you from experience homeless people can be some of the nicest people in the world. I worked at a grocery store and I would let the homeless people get away with stealing steaks and other s*** because I knew they were homeless. Well one day I went behind my store which happened to be woods where they were camped, these guys fed me steak broccoli or giving me beer liquor and they were just some of the nicest people I've ever met. So every now and then I would you know drop some money on some good cuts of meat for them and I would bring it back there so they could make their stew and you know feed everybody. I literally ordered pizza and then I took it back there on my lunch break. And these homeless students yeah some of them had mental problems seldom had drug problems some of them are alcoholics but they are all still really nice people extremely giving.
Runaway my self with couple of years on the streets when i was early teen in 90s. Hard times for me as i did not know much how to keep my self warm properly nor anything else for that matter. I was totally alone in a foreign country, could not speak the language either, nor was i able to speak English back then. This brought memories.
In my home town, in Louisiana, there’s a hidden Hobo village, a shanty town. It’s been there for a long time. If you didn’t know it was there you would never guess. This video made me think about it. I wonder how much of it held up after hurricane Laura decimated our area. It was a very old place going back before I was even born.
Spend enough time around homeless people you begin to see the world through their eyes. This is so true . I was homeless ; you have a different value system , different priorities. You measure time according to a whole other set of markers . The upshot of swapping out your bearings is the world and its society is delivered to you afresh . Visiting my homeless friends now I am a tourist. Youre in or out , people float between the two but with little real success. Youre on acid or youre not , theres not much ground in common.
That's a very specific analogy, but I think it works very well. "You're on acid, or you're not." I think it works very well to convey how different life is when you're solely focused on survival, and not even thinking about the things that occupy the "normal" person's mind on a daily basis. You aren't thinking about next year, next month, or even next week.
4:05 I'm sorry but it was way too funny when he came from behind the tree, "hey! We need to talk about the trash!" And then started on about his tiles and the water again lol
I admit I was becoming hateful towards the homeless in Los Angeles. So many of them were just not right, setting up camp or sleeping on anyone's property or park, openly using drugs, stealing, etc. I think my attitude came from frustration. Anyhow, these people deserve respect and I wish there was a solution.
Really cool to see guys being dedicated to their music, actually spending time playing. That is beautiful! I got chills thinking about music as the source of their salvation, whatever that means to them.
I cant stress enough how much admiration i have for guys in the camp, their philosophy, epic music that they play and the kind life that they live and promote. Through my life i have seen many people that were pushed to the edges of society, many of them great thinkers, inventors with beautiful humanitarian souls who went through all hell to get to this higher knowledge about life. Then i look at the masses of people whom we call "normal" and to see how shitty and egotistical most of them are, it makes me sick. Thank you Glink and everyone in camp for showing the world this bizzare contrast of free forest folks and enslaved city drones. Much love and prosperity to y'all, and keep doing the good work. :)
My dad passed in 2021. He would of fit right in with Bruce and his crew. If you’re looking for another homeless doc subject go to Orange County. There is a whole sub culture of homeless there
These camps are in every town in Texas now. At least every one with 30K or more population. Maybe not South of San Antonio as there never were large white demo's of failure.
I loved this series, you did such an incredible job, as always Glink. Bruce, Carrie and everybody there, are such interesting and talented people. It really warmed my heart to hear that some of your US viewers have offered supplies to help them through a bit. I only hope that more will consider helping too! I am a million miles away in New Zealand, but I send my love and most humble thanks to Bruce, Carrie and their amazing Community, for allowing us to visit with them for a while. 💜
@@firstlast8258 No, I agree, it isn't. But, it's a pretty good place to start, don't you think? We definitely all need to step up our game to do more for people who need, or want help. Nobody should have to suffer through freezing cold winters, with little food and nobody to turn to. I am doing what I can to help... are you?
I applaud your efforts here. The leg work, the editing especially was done very well. Im sure you had alot of footage to go through to make so ething cohesive and coherent andyou did a mervelous job. I like to nitpick, i liked the music placement, and the narration matched well with the visuals to help us follow along in a meaningful way. Well done.
Totally with Carrie about the bugs and spiders. I was homeless be fore and sprayed some bug killer all over the ground before putting up tent and bedding!!
John Steinbeck wrote about hobo jungles so eloquently. I used to teach him in high school, then became homeless, then a lodger, then a camper, then... I think he would appreciate this illuminating piece. TXS! Stay safely.
Wow, great video man. I live in South Florida and a.couple years ago me and my friend found a homeless camp. We went over.to the gas station/convenience store to get some sandwiches at their breakfast counter. Walking back into the neighborhood across the street is a small park that borders A really forested area. Me and my friend see 2 homeless guys walking, they go off the path and duck into the woods. Curiosity made is cross the street and follow them. there was somewhat of a path but not well trod like they knew to tale alternate routes as to not make it obvious. A couple hundred yards in through thick FL bush and swamp trees we come out into an opening with tents and A well established fire. I often think of them since we have such bad weather but they are in a really protected area.
I would spend every Tuesday for about 3 years from 2020 - 2023 preparing about 200-300 burritos, huge containers of water, hot water, tea, and coffee, shoes, and whatever else folks needed into my friends Yaris and we would drive to the homeless camps and pass out the food. There was a family that would bake like 600 cookies and drop them off for us to hand out as well, it was so lovely. The whole experience was absolutely life changing though. You take for granted just how safe you feel in your home, the fact you can retreat somewhere if the weather is too extreme, to use the bathroom in a clean environment if someone will even let you in. Most of the people I met were good honest people that just fell on hard times, had some sort of major set back (usually an injury / lack of family and safety net) or had some really bad trauma they weren't able to deal with in a modern / healthy way. Many of them found jobs and got themselves out - some said that life being homeless was the new norm for them and they felt like caged birds in government housing. Nonetheless, it was very perspective changing & humanizing to spend time with them once a week and getting to know their stories. Thanks for sharing this, I'm stoked to hear how that band expresses themselves in the future with their recording :)
These guys are awesome! Great piece, thanks for posting♥ The cash economy used to be strong, it fed and housed most of these folks. The bureaucracy ended that though. What we should do to fix it is 100% socialized healthcare and no more taxes, the Treasury should just print whatever money they need and issue a financial statement indicating inflation for the year. Close the IRS, the Federal reserve, and the ATF. Nothing like that will happen though. Stockpile beans. bullets and band aides. And tribe up with like minded people near where you live. Good luck, God bless.
Dude as a fellow drummer I can relate to the stable guy. The look he gave the "out there" one... lol. We're aways the ones holding the normal down while the flighty ones buzz around. 4:12.
Like everyone else who liked this rare video , great work and thanks to you and the people who took part in it. Love the jamming. Hope all are well . 🎸☮️✝️🇺🇸
There's a tent town in my city where the homeless are surprisingly really strict with drug use in the area. They allowed alcohol because people would trade the cans for change, but things with needles or any heavy drugs were out right banned. The church they were camping behind allowed them to stay, and dangerous people could potentially shut down the program. A lot of them have jobs trying to get out of their situation and a lot of them work within walking distance of their jobs, and the church provides showers for them.
I live off of a kayak. I rode a bicycle 1000s of miles before that, and before that hitchhiking. It only feels natural. I feel connected to the world around me no matter where I go.
With all your have encapsulated in this video, I appreciate the most what was said at 13:45 because it is true, humans default is to rely on our survival mechanisms, and without electricity, and insulated sheltered homes, humans are thrust out into the world the same way someone with a mental inadequacy is. Most of the modern homeless simply are not designed to sit still and obey authority, or have one to many traumatic experiences to encourage them further. If our monetary system becomes over saturated with debt and an influx of demand from a faultering economy, people will be forced to survive in small tribal encampments, and ultimately few will dominate the many over time, but the same rules apply no matter the scenario. The only difference is these people are living off of the inefficiencies of our current society, while in the future most will be fighting eachother for the marrow and skeleton of what is left.
Sadly I am staring homelessness in the face... I have spent a good bit of time a with a variety people due to a few homeless/travelers getting housed up and sharing their space with other homeless/travelers.. There is a special quality about these folks but hardship is ever present and drugs and alcohol tend to get the best of them...
I started in my 20's paying for a home, because I pretty much grew up in the woods and slept in a hole with my dog. I now own my home and its been a struggle on low wages, but I did it! You can change your live if you make it a priority!
these videos are extremely enlightening, i leave as a different, more inspired and thoughtful, person after all your videos. your content is vital. thank you for this.
I'm not homeless but I'm not happy in my daily life. I interact with homeless people regularly. I dumpster dive and bring them things that i don't need or want because i know these things are still useful and they really appreciate it. Some things i buy from them and some things i sell them, i also do lots of trading with them. It's amazing the things u can find in a dumpster, one man's trash really is another man's treasure.
In the military I learned that when a person is pushed down to a lower level, they are much more easily controlled, and much more easily held there, sometimes permanently. The good forces in the universe can or will only work with those who are willing or able to confront the things in themselves which hold them back. No one and nothing can stop a truly determined person, but it sometimes takes placing that person in absolutely desperate situations where they must make severe choices. Society itself needs to change inwardly, there is no remedy for ignorance, selfishness, and greed.
I grew up in that neighborhood and would regularly explore Bouldin creek. Met a lot of nice homeless dudes but occasional there were homeless on homeless murders.
Dude was up and ready to get the hell outta Dodge before the sun was up n the sky.. lmao.. Thumbs up tho, for trying and for documenting your time with these human beings. It's most definitely not an easy life, some are there by choice, some not so much. Lots of mental illness abounds, especially after dark when the alcohol and drugs take hold. Not a life I would recommend, for sure. God bless all your children, please.. ✌️🙏❤
it seems for every story about people living on land that's not theirs, it's either about how they're being removed forcibly by giant machines, or left alone to live. it also seems that the more entrenched in a hard to clear land they live the better their chances of not being forcibly removed by giant machines. i would had liked to know if anyone owns that land, if there's concerns of who's paying property tax's. And if there's any other risk factors.
Living on the streets is HARD. I have been in and out of the homeless scene in Orlando for about 10 years. I have End Stage Kidney Disease now and can't survive the streets. I have no regrets about my life choices, but I definitely aged twice as fast.
Man, growing up as a kid i was good friends with a lot of homeless folk and traveling kids... Street kids. Best friends of my life. I'll tell you one thing man, most people don't live long in this life. That life i mean. I drank his ashes with some whiskey here recently and had to crunch a piece of his bones in my teeth. Just like he wanted. Life is a strange and hostile place... Also beautiful if you'll let it.
Amazing video there sure are a lot of great people out there everyone that doesn’t outside think something is wrong with them, but you know at one time thousands of years ago all of humanity lived like this so we all should let them live the way they want !
Homeless is the natural state of man in a dystopian world. In the natural world the earth is man's home.
I've actually been taking steps to become "safely" homeless. Or at least, prepared to survive. Modern society is simply something that I have never felt at home in. I feel this great NEED to return back to the northern forests of my homeland
@@JimBobTheDrunkDrivingWizard I just spent the whole summer in northern Wisconsin living in a tent. It was awesome, cant recommend enough
@@JimBobTheDrunkDrivingWizardthis is exactly how I’ve been feeling these days. I just couldn’t put it in words. So thanks for posting your comment
What all tripped out on crack and filled with mental illness?
You and your dad are gay
As a fully disabled person thats been homeless, I cant agree: younger, they took advantage of and bullied me; older, they condemn me for not falling for any of it.
The thing that unites these people isnt a home, its their vices, and if you dont have that in common, then the homeless look at you (fellow homeless) with the same contempt.
Theres nothing to romanticize here.
I believe you and this is really sad * Take good care***
Yeah this video is glossing over all the vices
Exactly! I was a van dweller in the early 70s and understood right away that my lifestyle choice was safest if I kept to myself and acted normal. No real sense of community at all. It's the vices that that they chase, not freedom.
I finished college, met a likeminded partner, and we built a debt-free life, bought land, built a homestead, and raised a family. Now we have a fringe group of homeless people living under a bridge several miles away. When they wander on our land and we boot them off. Panhandling in a city is one thing but stop bothering people in their homes.
it isnt romantic, its a symptom of a fallen society. the camps are only going to grow larger and cause more problems unless the economy improves
I'm not disagreeing, Infact it happens alot with the house amongst families- however- it very much is different where ever you go. I've encountered the Homeless in Providence and Boston who are very much vice driven and spiteful people, the types who let themselves fall to this situation and if given the money would lose it that same night. However in Vermont I met a bunch of dirtied kids must have been from 16-19 but they didn't ask for a thing- they were musicians through and through and didn't need a recording studio. My own brother, due to his Autism I'd imagine, only wants to be homeless. He wants nothing more than to just ride across New England on his bike and occasionally have a smoke- his only vice is Freedom.
Good video. As a homeless person myself, I would say that these folks are nice, and clean and organized compared to other camps. This is their home. They do whatever they can, build whatever they can to find some contentment. A simple camp fire at night can give one a sense of security and place. However, always being in survival mode and in a state of violence is stressful to the mind and body. One thing that they can't have that a house provides , other than the obvious things, is Complete security.
They welcomed you in as a guest which is normal and common. People stereotype homeless as being violent, and 98% of them are far from it. They may seem violent or aggressive at first but this is a deterrent that they use. Most are really nice and genuine people. They put on a show for your stay. They would have protected you if something happened, you were actually safer than you could understand. Good people. I live on the streets of Denver, Colorado.
Thanks for video
Bless you friend. May we find homes one day. Say hello to the mountains there.🙏
Hey there, one dispute. Houses aren't secure. They are fragile climate controlled bpxes built for show, not to be highly defensible spaces. Putting big windows everywhere kinda makes it impossible to properly stop breakins. Sure, an alarm might go off and get the police there in 25 minutes or so, but a lot can happen in that time, very little actual safety is provided. Much safer to be alone out in the woods away from other people unless it's grizzly country or big cats. But most places, people are the biggest danger, and a big bright house is just full of treasures that directly incentovoze breakins. The broght light makes it hard to see out through the shiny glass. Super easy to see in though, super super easy for someone to sit in a bush and watch your rhythm and wait for an easy time to attack. Not likely to happen, but easily could, and nothing about the house is gonna stop it from happening. Safety is an entirely relative concept, doesn't actually exist.
For many renters today, the home is a huge constant financial stress. Ive owed a home for a minute. If I had to go back to renting it would be Hell Know! I would live in my car or whatever necessary before paying that out of control inequality created by mostly Republican individualist thinking ash-whipes. Sorry but that is what they are responsible for.
@@ltwig476 I came to the same conclusion about rent, it's for suckers. I went the hobo route but now I want land to plant food trees. Don't care about a house, but I want to have a long term relationship with a bunch of trees and share the abundance.
@@HoboGardenerBen Well, to maintain trees properly, you might want some sort of small out building for tools and could function as sleeping quarters in a pinch. As long as you're not staying in it 24 /7. the government does not have any rights to bother you. Southern WV, Northern Georgia, Eastern Tenn, would likely be the best climate and least likely bothered by regulations. Get north of the Ohio river, then your'e getting into harder winter issues. If you go west of the Mississippi, you're getting into stricter regulations. Ideally is an Appellation valley with a 100 year flood rating.
Some other thoughts is not owning but living on a small orchard or tree farm and working it part time only as pay. These situations are fairly hard to find and typically don't last more than a few years. But the experience would be worth while, learning more about taking care of trees. Just some ideas.
If you’ve never been in this situation, it’s not something you can learn by hearing. U have to experience it. Our family was homeless for just over 3 yrs, in an old rv staying at camp grounds close to work. Some of the best people (actual down to earth, no BS folks) are out there. It’s a sense of community that no longer exists in our society. Yea u experience the crazy mental, drug addled strange folks occasionally. Comes with the territory. As well as some of the most honest, down to earth, common sense folks you’ve ever met. God Bless the homeless, especially the veterans. Great video, earning a like and a sub.
I'm a homeless vet by choice. I'm living my best life at the moment. I've found peace and a place where I belong. Its lonely but I prefer it that way. I never believed in the game that everyone takes so serious.
100% been homeless before and if youv never lived it you have no idea
Wish you all luck in life, to all of you here. I sure know what you are talking about and how lonely and fuc**ed up it can be out there.
@@PointtostonesI’m so happy to read this. Thank you for your service and I hope I can find the peace in my situation that you have found. I don’t fit into the rat race in the standard way either, but music is my muse and I MUST plug in and work as much as I can. People are more kind from the “stage eye” perspective. ;)
@@imanalien2222 if you're in the North Carolina area, I can set you up to play gigs at campgrounds. Keep doing what you're doing, because the game is rigged.
Huge respect for engaging with homeless people and making such an interesting video. Its really not easy to push yourself to such places and talk with those people. It smells, it is messy and people tend to be weird or crazy. Thats something that hinders people from having normal conversations and contact with them. Its really sad because those homeless people once had a life, dreams and they still have them, yet shoved under those grim circumstances they live in.
Crazy is as crazy does
Living in a house....abuse...living outside....natural environment...go figure
Wow, am I the only one who felt a ton of prejudice and oppression in this comment? Just because people are different doesn’t mean you have to gather extra strength to talk to them.
@@Hesseishere No im being honest. Talking with homeless people is not easy, if it were more people would do it. U could be off put by the smell or hindered because they have a lower social status than u and u dont wanna get caught interacting with them. There are many more reasons why it isnt easy, but we should absolutely focus on the positive reasons on why we should interact and help.
@@WusterWasti I know the prejudices against homeless people. I have volunteered since 2008 with individuals who are homeless in the legal sense.
I like being homeless. I identify as a hobo gardener. Houses are stupid burdens. I am working 6 days\week to buy land to plant food trees and gardens to share the food abundance with others. I will also try to make and sell crafts from the land since I have experience in primitive living skills like basketry, friction fire, carving and coal burning. Nothing better than sitting around a fire making something with your hands and eating campfire food. With other people is nice too, but alone is wonderful and necessary.
Bro I’m also a Ben and also have some good survival skill we are cut from the same cloth my guy
Should consider fishing maybe even farm fish
@@minnermin Nice to hear my dude. I could afford to rent a place and do the whole normal life thing, but it's not attractive to me. I want land and long relationships with food plants and garden beds. I've had some of that on friend's land and some longtime clients, but it's different when you decide everything without outside input.
@HoboGardenerBen Im not homeless.. but I visit a park and spend almost all day and Im finding housing very stupid in a sense. And I might be homeless one day but I learning that actually living outside is truly living.
@@zephyrr108 Have you gone camping before? It's really fun. Start off with car camping, lots of gear, be comfortable, no see um mesh, silnylon, quality materials\design. Explore all the shelrer options like square tarp with bug tent and ground cloth beneath, double wall backpacking tent, tarp\hammock\underquilt. I wouldn't recommend going quilt for bedding if going into the cold, mummy bags are necessary there but backpacking quilts like from Enlightened Equipment are great for 3-season use. I've had a lot of inflatable pads fail so I prefer foam pads. They're hard but insulate well and you can make it softer by making a duff bed below your groundcloth. I find I just get used to a harder surface after a while and get less back pain from it. A dialed-in hammock setup is tricky but the most comfortable if achieved. Warbonnet Blackbird is the best I've used, beats Hennessey. Did take a long nap in s Kammik Roo one time and it's stretchy fabric was amazing so I'm gonna buy one and see if it beats Warbonnet's unique fabric cut with the lowered footbox that helps you lie flat. I could talk gear for days :)
this was very well put together
you're inspiring me
@@GlinkBetweenWorldsWhats the song playing right at the beginning of this video ?
The last thing I expected was to see Ice Poseidon in this video
same, I wouldn't have believed it was him if he didnt speak. Though I'm not surprised as he probably is desperate for content, and homeless camps seem like his next stop in life.
@@yearofthegardenyea ice Poseidon is such a low life . Dude doesn’t keep very good company , all these TH-camrs aren’t really human anyways .
definitely didnt want to see him anymore
Dude this was pretty fucking sick. I just love that they have a freaking Rock band in the middle of the forest. Haha
It's amazing, we have our own world in the woods. It's like going through the looking glass.
ya except these places are like pop-up shops. they are really cool and interesting. then at some point taylor swift has a concert, or some other "important" detached celebrity and guess what? the cops will come slice their tents, throw everything away that they can't physically carry out in 10 minutes. How do i know this? because i've seen it happen multiple times. The greedy and the slave class can't STAND seeing people get along without big brother taking a slice.
Good hell, you’re an idiot if you think this is cool
I've had the privilege of being homeless. It was a very humbling experience. One day I had it all. The next I had nothing. I had to deal with it all alone. At first it was hard to accept. It got easier with time tho. I had a lot of time to myself so I started going to the public library in town. I read every book and magazine I could find on how to survive with minimal assets. I used the Internet as well. I learned how to stay warm in winter, how to grow different fruits and vegetables, how to purify water, and other life skills. I learned other stuff as well like how to reupholster furniture, how to fix and make jewelry, how to do simple repairs on electronics and other hobby skills. Some of what I learned helped earn enuf money to keep my head above water until I could get a decent job. Fortunately I am no longer homeless but I do hang out with the people I met when I was. Every chance I get I go back to the squatters corner and stay on weekends.
Why did you become homeless in the first place?
@therespectedlex9794 because of a bad ending to my marriage
@TamathaWhitaker-h6z If it hadn't been for the fact that you no longer are, I'd have thought that was a lousy excuse. Surely you've met down and outs yourself, with pathetic reasons and excuses. They even boast of vast fortunes prior to their heavy drinking etc. But we'll done for turning it around.
@TamathaWhitaker-h6z Don't know why you hang around with wronguns though.
@@therespectedlex9794 I've heard plenty of woe is me excuses and know how to tell if someone is genuine in their claim. Not all are wronguns like you mention. Some are honestly stuck in a bad situation due to poor economy, lack of available jobs, mental issues, or other legit reasons. They are decent people but they struggle to get back into the flow of things.
I'm 2 minutes in and I can tell you from experience homeless people can be some of the nicest people in the world. I worked at a grocery store and I would let the homeless people get away with stealing steaks and other s*** because I knew they were homeless. Well one day I went behind my store which happened to be woods where they were camped, these guys fed me steak broccoli or giving me beer liquor and they were just some of the nicest people I've ever met. So every now and then I would you know drop some money on some good cuts of meat for them and I would bring it back there so they could make their stew and you know feed everybody. I literally ordered pizza and then I took it back there on my lunch break. And these homeless students yeah some of them had mental problems seldom had drug problems some of them are alcoholics but they are all still really nice people extremely giving.
Bless you
Runaway my self with couple of years on the streets when i was early teen in 90s. Hard times for me as i did not know much how to keep my self warm properly nor anything else for that matter. I was totally alone in a foreign country, could not speak the language either, nor was i able to speak English back then. This brought memories.
well done man, appreciate you taking the time to live a different life
Life’s a dark yet morbidly enjoyable place, most the time
it's a trip isn't it
There's definitely a song or a poem in there somewhere.
Depends on your perspective
@First Last depends what you've seen and can't stop seeing
Holy shit, what a good comment. I couldn’t have said it better.
In my home town, in Louisiana, there’s a hidden Hobo village, a shanty town. It’s been there for a long time. If you didn’t know it was there you would never guess. This video made me think about it. I wonder how much of it held up after hurricane Laura decimated our area. It was a very old place going back before I was even born.
Spend enough time around homeless people you begin to see the world through their eyes.
This is so true .
I was homeless ; you have a different value system , different priorities. You measure time according to a whole other set of markers . The upshot of swapping out your bearings is the world and its society is delivered to you afresh .
Visiting my homeless friends now I am a tourist. Youre in or out , people float between the two but with little real success.
Youre on acid or youre not , theres not much ground in common.
That's a very specific analogy, but I think it works very well. "You're on acid, or you're not." I think it works very well to convey how different life is when you're solely focused on survival, and not even thinking about the things that occupy the "normal" person's mind on a daily basis. You aren't thinking about next year, next month, or even next week.
Crazy work like this has only 11K views. Keep it up man!
Glad you like it!
Their music is legit good I can't believe they aren't playing shows at local gigs for money
I've accidentally hiked into what mightve been a homeless camp but I honestly had no idea, either way the people were nice.
Thankyou for sharing these people's stories. It's nice to not see them being prosecuted for existing.
FTP
4:05 I'm sorry but it was way too funny when he came from behind the tree, "hey! We need to talk about the trash!" And then started on about his tiles and the water again lol
This was very well done and felt deeply human
Human bean 🫘
If the government doesn’t want to do anything for the poor and homeless then let’s build a community tribe.
I admit I was becoming hateful towards the homeless in Los Angeles. So many of them were just not right, setting up camp or sleeping on anyone's property or park, openly using drugs, stealing, etc. I think my attitude came from frustration. Anyhow, these people deserve respect and I wish there was a solution.
There are always solutions just not respectful ones. Personally got no idea who or what decides what happens how and why anymore.
@@Ay-xq7mjthe wealthy elite using real estate as money laundering and tax dodges.
It’s an industry now. It went from multi-million, to multi-billion….
Do you have any respect for yourself? How do you feel about the hard working, and the considerate?
Really cool to see guys being dedicated to their music, actually spending time playing. That is beautiful! I got chills thinking about music as the source of their salvation, whatever that means to them.
I cant stress enough how much admiration i have for guys in the camp, their philosophy, epic music that they play and the kind life that they live and promote. Through my life i have seen many people that were pushed to the edges of society, many of them great thinkers, inventors with beautiful humanitarian souls who went through all hell to get to this higher knowledge about life. Then i look at the masses of people whom we call "normal" and to see how shitty and egotistical most of them are, it makes me sick. Thank you Glink and everyone in camp for showing the world this bizzare contrast of free forest folks and enslaved city drones. Much love and prosperity to y'all, and keep doing the good work. :)
Thank you and we do everyday
Bruh drop the part 3 I’m fuckin hooked
coming soon
Super impressed with their musical abilities, helps keep them busy and out of trouble
Glad you caught a piece of life on your journey.
My dad passed in 2021. He would of fit right in with Bruce and his crew. If you’re looking for another homeless doc subject go to Orange County. There is a whole sub culture of homeless there
Commiefornistan 🤡
These camps are in every town in Texas now. At least every one with 30K or more population. Maybe not South of San Antonio as there never were large white demo's of failure.
I loved this series, you did such an incredible job, as always Glink.
Bruce, Carrie and everybody there, are such interesting and talented people. It really warmed my heart to hear that some of your US viewers have offered supplies to help them through a bit. I only hope that more will consider helping too!
I am a million miles away in New Zealand, but I send my love and most humble thanks to Bruce, Carrie and their amazing Community, for allowing us to visit with them for a while. 💜
Hope is not a plan
@@firstlast8258 No, I agree, it isn't. But, it's a pretty good place to start, don't you think?
We definitely all need to step up our game to do more for people who need, or want help. Nobody should have to suffer through freezing cold winters, with little food and nobody to turn to. I am doing what I can to help... are you?
@@ArtisticallyArranged no because most of them are addicted to drugs and alcohol which is a choice not a disease
No hope is not a plan but for everything we work to achieve we have to have hope with it, or we may never succeed 😏
@@brandytroutwine437 speak for yourself
I applaud your efforts here. The leg work, the editing especially was done very well. Im sure you had alot of footage to go through to make so ething cohesive and coherent andyou did a mervelous job. I like to nitpick, i liked the music placement, and the narration matched well with the visuals to help us follow along in a meaningful way. Well done.
Totally with Carrie about the bugs and spiders. I was homeless be fore and sprayed some bug killer all over the ground before putting up tent and bedding!!
John Steinbeck wrote about hobo jungles so eloquently. I used to teach him in high school, then became homeless, then a lodger, then a camper, then... I think he would appreciate this illuminating piece. TXS! Stay safely.
Nice ! In a world of giant overwhelming issues , I get lost in the characters. Thanks for introducing them to me.
This was really good man. I hope you keep doing this type of shit. You're a natural at it.
Wow, great video man. I live in South Florida and a.couple years ago me and my friend found a homeless camp. We went over.to the gas station/convenience store to get some sandwiches at their breakfast counter. Walking back into the neighborhood across the street is a small park that borders A really forested area. Me and my friend see 2 homeless guys walking, they go off the path and duck into the woods.
Curiosity made is cross the street and follow them. there was somewhat of a path but not well trod like they knew to tale alternate routes as to not make it obvious. A couple hundred yards in through thick FL bush and swamp trees we come out into an opening with tents and A well established fire.
I often think of them since we have such bad weather but they are in a really protected area.
Good title, it got me. Nice to see these people on TH-cam and not in handcuffs.
I would spend every Tuesday for about 3 years from 2020 - 2023 preparing about 200-300 burritos, huge containers of water, hot water, tea, and coffee, shoes, and whatever else folks needed into my friends Yaris and we would drive to the homeless camps and pass out the food. There was a family that would bake like 600 cookies and drop them off for us to hand out as well, it was so lovely. The whole experience was absolutely life changing though.
You take for granted just how safe you feel in your home, the fact you can retreat somewhere if the weather is too extreme, to use the bathroom in a clean environment if someone will even let you in. Most of the people I met were good honest people that just fell on hard times, had some sort of major set back (usually an injury / lack of family and safety net) or had some really bad trauma they weren't able to deal with in a modern / healthy way.
Many of them found jobs and got themselves out - some said that life being homeless was the new norm for them and they felt like caged birds in government housing. Nonetheless, it was very perspective changing & humanizing to spend time with them once a week and getting to know their stories. Thanks for sharing this, I'm stoked to hear how that band expresses themselves in the future with their recording :)
These guys are awesome! Great piece, thanks for posting♥ The cash economy used to be strong, it fed and housed most of these folks. The bureaucracy ended that though. What we should do to fix it is 100% socialized healthcare and no more taxes, the Treasury should just print whatever money they need and issue a financial statement indicating inflation for the year. Close the IRS, the Federal reserve, and the ATF. Nothing like that will happen though. Stockpile beans. bullets and band aides. And tribe up with like minded people near where you live. Good luck, God bless.
I knew it was iceposeidon by his voice, okay 'paul'..
This is such a good documentary and deserves so much more attention
I like how you called Ice Posidion “Your Friend Paul” like he is just some random dude, that was cute and unexpected.
I was starting to think I was the only one who noticed.
Dude as a fellow drummer I can relate to the stable guy. The look he gave the "out there" one... lol. We're aways the ones holding the normal down while the flighty ones buzz around. 4:12.
Can’t wait for the Gimp Finger album drop
Something to realize here is there is a beauty and resourcefulness to being able to live in the world like that.
Solid work Glink, another steller mini doc to compliment the collection
You did a great job making this beautiful, I love the added music
I love this guy who is wanting to help keep the trash from getting out of control
Like everyone else who liked this rare video , great work and thanks to you and the people who took part in it. Love the jamming. Hope all are well . 🎸☮️✝️🇺🇸
Much appreciated!
I’m glad you brought Ice with you on this. Incredible video!
A homeless American is an American. I was there once at 17 to 20. and worked my way out. God bless America!
Great Work. Thanks for Helping Tell These Stories
There's a tent town in my city where the homeless are surprisingly really strict with drug use in the area. They allowed alcohol because people would trade the cans for change, but things with needles or any heavy drugs were out right banned. The church they were camping behind allowed them to stay, and dangerous people could potentially shut down the program. A lot of them have jobs trying to get out of their situation and a lot of them work within walking distance of their jobs, and the church provides showers for them.
I live off of a kayak. I rode a bicycle 1000s of miles before that, and before that hitchhiking. It only feels natural. I feel connected to the world around me no matter where I go.
Awesome work as always.
I appreciate that
With all your have encapsulated in this video, I appreciate the most what was said at 13:45 because it is true, humans default is to rely on our survival mechanisms, and without electricity, and insulated sheltered homes, humans are thrust out into the world the same way someone with a mental inadequacy is. Most of the modern homeless simply are not designed to sit still and obey authority, or have one to many traumatic experiences to encourage them further. If our monetary system becomes over saturated with debt and an influx of demand from a faultering economy, people will be forced to survive in small tribal encampments, and ultimately few will dominate the many over time, but the same rules apply no matter the scenario. The only difference is these people are living off of the inefficiencies of our current society, while in the future most will be fighting eachother for the marrow and skeleton of what is left.
Sadly I am staring homelessness in the face... I have spent a good bit of time a with a variety people due to a few homeless/travelers getting housed up and sharing their space with other homeless/travelers.. There is a special quality about these folks but hardship is ever present and drugs and alcohol tend to get the best of them...
Drugs are bad mkay
I started in my 20's paying for a home, because I pretty much grew up in the woods and slept in a hole with my dog. I now own my home and its been a struggle on low wages, but I did it! You can change your live if you make it a priority!
these videos are extremely enlightening, i leave as a different, more inspired and thoughtful, person after all your videos. your content is vital. thank you for this.
you call them homeless they call you forestless
I like the music tracks they played - sounds awesome!
Clothes and food is good but how about giving them racks shovels and extra large trash bags along with some pickers.
Where did they get the electricity to run their lights and amps?
Good shit this is a really good video dude
Have ya done any content on slab city. I like your perspective and wouldl love to see more.
I'm not homeless but I'm not happy in my daily life. I interact with homeless people regularly. I dumpster dive and bring them things that i don't need or want because i know these things are still useful and they really appreciate it. Some things i buy from them and some things i sell them, i also do lots of trading with them. It's amazing the things u can find in a dumpster, one man's trash really is another man's treasure.
That poor DOG. He looks miserable, like he just wishes the jam session would END. Great video.
Where did they get their electric from for their equipment ?
Or is that a dumb question lol , only curious.
Beautiful work , great doc hope to see more from you . Viva hobo camp❤❤❤❤
Ice poseidon has experience managing homeless like people
Thanks for your amazing work brother.
In the military I learned that when a person is pushed down to a lower level, they are much more easily controlled, and much more easily held there, sometimes permanently. The good forces in the universe can or will only work with those who are willing or able to confront the things in themselves which hold them back. No one and nothing can stop a truly determined person, but it sometimes takes placing that person in absolutely desperate situations where they must make severe choices. Society itself needs to change inwardly, there is no remedy for ignorance, selfishness, and greed.
Forest dwelling and street dwelling are 2 completely different vibes. Forest wins everytime.
for real, if I had to pick I'd be a forest dweller
Street life for me
Out of sight, out of mind. We don't get run out of the camp we set up as often as the street dwellers do
@@brandytroutwine437 speak for yourself
I was not at ALL expecting an IcePoseidon cameo in this
Really good video dude
this video needs to be seen by more
Really value this content. thanks for making it
I hope Bruce published or publishes their album I want to hear it if the music in the video was taken from their camp
I grew up in that neighborhood and would regularly explore Bouldin creek. Met a lot of nice homeless dudes but occasional there were homeless on homeless murders.
This seems to be the way America is trending
Why does this not have 1 million views
Holy shit I was not expecting to see Ice Poseidon in this video lmaooo. Purple army 💜💜💜💜. Keep up the vids man love em!
i knew i was looking for something transformative but wow man. a whole new perspective with this joint.
so good, this should be on PBS.
Oh man Glink covering my city
bruh they ain't ban that shit.
There's like 15 camps right next to me
“We”
Their situation can be significantly improved by planning for and preparing a quiet, clean, and safe environment.
Their situation could be improved by having a house. There is enough resources to give everyone a place to live, it just isn't done.
Dude was up and ready to get the hell outta Dodge before the sun was up n the sky.. lmao.. Thumbs up tho, for trying and for documenting your time with these human beings. It's most definitely not an easy life, some are there by choice, some not so much. Lots of mental illness abounds, especially after dark when the alcohol and drugs take hold. Not a life I would recommend, for sure. God bless all your children, please.. ✌️🙏❤
Sick vid. That freeze was gnarly.
Thanks for sharing looks like a great band
The amount of trash in such camps is always amazing. But it's a logistics problem too: they don't have cars, public trash service don't serves them...
Can't burn it either cause they might get run off for starting fires out there
I know Clyde quite well. Hes been on that trash collection tip for years.
When you fall this far into a rut it's almost impossible to pull your self out these guys are incredibly strong.
Little loud on the sound editing,but this was a great doc and view into the lives of those we take for granted.
it seems for every story about people living on land that's not theirs, it's either about how they're being removed forcibly by giant machines, or left alone to live. it also seems that the more entrenched in a hard to clear land they live the better their chances of not being forcibly removed by giant machines. i would had liked to know if anyone owns that land, if there's concerns of who's paying property tax's. And if there's any other risk factors.
Well there's my answer...amazing story ....thank you for sharing...
Living on the streets is HARD. I have been in and out of the homeless scene in Orlando for about 10 years. I have End Stage Kidney Disease now and can't survive the streets. I have no regrets about my life choices, but I definitely aged twice as fast.
Man, growing up as a kid i was good friends with a lot of homeless folk and traveling kids... Street kids. Best friends of my life.
I'll tell you one thing man, most people don't live long in this life.
That life i mean.
I drank his ashes with some whiskey here recently and had to crunch a piece of his bones in my teeth.
Just like he wanted.
Life is a strange and hostile place... Also beautiful if you'll let it.
Where do they get their electricity for all of that music equipment?
Amazing video there sure are a lot of great people out there everyone that doesn’t outside think something is wrong with them, but you know at one time thousands of years ago all of humanity lived like this so we all should let them live the way they want !