in chicago i saw a homeless camp with propane tanks, space heaters and a grill. clearly the height of luxury in a city that regularly reaches freezing temperatures

"Die further away" Is literally most cities in the US's plan for dealing with homelessness. Rather than addressing systemic issues, cities try to drive homeless away to be someone else's problem. And since cities are effectively strategic players, most cities act this way to avoid the externality of homeless migrating to their own.

Instead of building a couple of tall cheap apartment blocks and setting up a help center for homeless to get back on track or to deal with addiction, they do this crap. Incredible. I remember a guy who built mini "houses" for them, kinda like clean looking proper wooden sheds really. And the city spent lots of money tearing them down and fighting him.

Whenever i hear homeless people having access to showers i become so happy, everyone deserves to stay clean and no one wants to hire someone who reeks so it increases the chance of them finding a job

What? Homeless people trying to make the most of their situation? how dare they.

"These people are illegally tapping into fire hydrants and streetlights for water and electricity!" Good for them. American ingenuity at its finest.

As an American I absolutely love watching these videos seeing the perspective of someone not living in America. Really makes me feel my confusion on the insanity of America isn't unwarranted. Lol

Shaming homeless people is really the lowest of the low

I think I've never actually taken the time out of my day to watch american news propaganda (well I'm from germany so I never really felt the need to watch specifically american propaganda about stuff like this), but holy shit this really feels like a lesson into propaganda 101.

holy shit they’re back. i don’t care that i have 2 essays due in an hour must watch this rn

That anti homeless Karen is the type of person who invests in anti homeless architecture. Literally chooses to have shitty benches just so unfortunate people have to sleep on the ground. I hope she ends up on the street at some point and has to deal with her peers.

Recently laws have changed in LA where if homeless communities are within a certain radius of “public spaces” cops are allowed to tear them apart and use violence to get rid of them. And a reminder that this is an issue because most homeless shelters and mental institutions were shut down by the government because they weren’t “profitable”… I live in LA and I’ve seen a lot of dystopian shit.

2:13 Alex: immediately recognizes the dangers of having a barbecue in an inclosed space. Also Alex: Hosts a channel where he repeatedly does dumb shit putting himself in danger without any safety precautions.

I lived in Venice Beach for 5 years and people literally do not care if people die or not - they just want to drink their $18 juice without having to see people struggle.

The bbq inside the tent is genius. Either you die meaning you don't have to live on this earth anymore OR you get a delicious meal. You can't lose.

Just over 1% of the yearly military budget would solve, appropriately and correctly, the homeless and hunger problems in America [revised]

I can't stress enough how happy I am, that despite your fame you come back to making videos for the movement

a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. seriously though, imagine all the work that man put in to get himself some of the most basic essentials, all to have it just torn down by the "sanitation department"

As an American, I can confirm that we generally believe the issue with homelessness is that the camps are unsightly and get in the way. It's terrible that we have so little compassion

The lack of public restrooms is a serious issue. People are pooping/peeing in the streets witch is cosigning all kinds of health risks. it's not that hard to put in more public restrooms, LA has the money they just don't care. Every time I'm in LA it's so upsetting seeing those people on the streets surrounded by people with more money then they know what to do with.

Have y’all seen the homeless towns like the ones in Seattle? They have a whole community and it makes me somewhat happy to know they have people to surround themselves with- but upsetting it got that way.

Good on homeless people for being resourceful enough to give themselves some quality of life.

A few months ago I read book called "caliban and the witch", and it talked about how people in Europe used to just build their houses anywhere, hunt and fish and basically obtain everything needed for their existence in communal lands. But then private property of land became a thing, and the new "owners" of the land would tear down and burn the houses of the people living there if they didn't pay or work for the lords to obtain the right to exist as a human being in that space. But there was a huge resistance at first, because it was new and people weren't used to that arrangement, so they saw it for what it really is: the "owners" of the land are enslaving you, just with this new justification that it is not you what they own, but the land you exist in. It all sounds so barbaric and it happened like 1500 years ago, but you look at this and you're reminded that we live in exactly the same regimen.

The problem isn't that they live in relative comfort on the street. The problem is that they aren't making someone else richer by paying rent on while living on the street

The most depressing part is that there are enough houses left empty to house pretty much every houseless person

The flags on the tents are generally indicative of veterans

Bro I've been homeless so long that when I got out of the streets people still treated me like I'm homeless. This is the funniest commentary I've ever seen.

i used to be homeless... it sucks... i literally had to survive winters below freezing where some people died right across the street, had a knife stolen from me (only form of self defense cause its needed on the streets) and maced over asking for it back from a homeless mission, and countless other tragedies ive been through, not all people on the streets are good, not all are bad.. just wanna clear some stuff up, being homeless in america is just about at the point where its illegal to sleep because you dont have anything... and uhhhh sad truth... some states do tend to bulldoze everything that homeless people have, whether it be an elderly lady or literally a teenager sometimes, its wild how the rich could hate on the homeless like that... buuuut ehhh they do what they do, i was just tryna build my life from scratch instead of getting a job and tbh, id rather be homeless than live a slave life working 9-5 all the time chasing a dead dream of my great great grandfather or whatever... shooot i could make an entire video of what being homeless is really like, yah know the stuff they dont tell you, like having to move just the basics (which a basic camp for one person could be a little or a lot it depends) EVERY SINGLE DAY when the "hot team" came out and said "you cant be here" i mean dang sorry if it seems like my mind is a lil disorganized but i have been on a sidewalk where a dude literally died a few feet away from me because of negative degree weather, ooosh just stating facts, yall may think that working is difficult, its more difficult having a profession that isnt needed or wanted at the moment or in that state and becoming homeless, i have met some wickedly smart people out there, one dude was a legit engineer who had to fight the police over a little tiny home he had built, the cops didnt want him to have it and it was attached to a bike.... literally could have been classified as a tiny mobile home, but yuh america where we shit on other people for the selfish cause of what the fcks

"McMansion Tents" JESUS CHRIST I CAN'T BELIEVE

The mentalities toward unhoused people in LA are truly some of the nastiest I've ever seen. I follow a lot of for-and-by unhoused people and their neighbours organisations there, and it's truly disgusting how the rich talk about them. Like, there's shitty classism everywhere, but I've always been poor and I've lived in Detroit my entire life and the income disparity is largely outside the city vs inside the city (w the exception of Downtown), whereas LA is a huge gap between extremely wealthy people and unhoused or otherwise extremely impoverished people, with like, seemingly no middle class, and there really is this horrific, sadistic, emotionless, inhuman view of unhoused and impoverished people, I've heard people say such disgusting things without blinking, the LAPD was caught on recording joking about bombing an encampment, and it's only going to get worse with the Olympics displacements amping up, the LAPD is intentionally destroying safer shelters that organisations are building, the local government has been intentionally removing access from public restrooms and creating intentionally unsafe warming and cooling centers for the unhoused throughout the pandemic, there's "special enforcement zones" around shelters where unhoused people are additionally terrorised to make the city look better, etc, and generally speaking so many of the people who live there just support it. Unhoused people are treated worse than feral animals, like, so many people in LA genuinely view these real, living human beings, these families and struggling individuals dealing with a really shitty situation in the best way they possibly can, like pests, and it's something I've never seen before, from police and government and people in rich neighbourhoods yeah but not from peoples' direct neighbours, the mentality among much of rich LA residents is genuinely that these people should just die and stop being "in the way," with no actual regard for what's going on or basic human decency. I just can't express how viscerally, horrifyingly sad it is that capitalism has made us more worried about someone "illegally" acquiring electricity and water and housing, than someone having to illegally acquire electricity and water and housing.

I've been watching a lot of your videos since you announced it on IDAT a few days ago. Thank you for making these videos that are humorous yet still tasteful that effectively address sides of issues that are not properly considered by the mainstream media of my country. It's really helping open my eyes to situations that need major improvement, and to groups that deserve more respect than they are given.

That woman bitching about the sidewalks being for the public like homeless people aren't part of the public is peak Karen.

THE RETURN OF BOY BOY OH MANNNN

When the world needed them most, they returned. Words cannot express my joy at this come back

It's really like they mistook “fight homelessness” for “fight the homeless”

In downtown Los Angeles they actually did bulldozer recently the streets and kicked the homeless off the street… for about an hour, then they were right back on the sidewalk. You’d be surprised how many people were shocked that people who live in temporary structures could redeploy their shelters so quickly.

thank Marx and Lenin you're back, no longer do I have to resort to watching idat videos just for a drop of serotonin after a glimpse of The Tracksuit

I just recently found about this channel through Cold Ones, and boy am I glad that I did, and that you're uploading again!

i was homeless for years traveling around, its funny how accurate your jokes are . on the spot.

as an american, it's really eye opening to see another country critique us without immediately going "herk derk mcdonalds", turns out genuinely intelligent commentary is more constructive than reductionary horseshit

I'VE RECENTLY FOUND YOUR CHANNEL AND I WAS SO SAD AS I THOUGHT IT WAS ABANDONED AND SMH I GET THR NOTIFICATION RN AND I AM IN A HAPPY CONFUSION

As an American...and a Veteran, I find it Terrifying. I do not understand the blind love for the ethereal concept of "the country" and the blind faith in some old white (or artificially orange) dude and his stances on anything as long as they fit specifically with Americanized Christianity is absolutely terrifying. The argument about healthcare is absolute cognitive dissonance and really doesn't look good.

Flag on homeless tent usually means veteran.

New strategy: make your tent out of American flags, then nobody can destroy it!

I live in California and your video really opened my eyes! I agree… why are we treating people like animals when they’re just trying to survive… it’s mind blowing especially when you realize California would be the 5th largest economy in the world if it was its own country

YEEEEESSSSSSSS! NEW BOY BOY VIDEO! MY CRIES WERE HEARD!!!

Absolutely WILD that they say "oh poor people in wheelchairs can't use the sidewalk because the sidewalks are blocked by people literally starving and freezing to death. Poor chaircels"

Cuban revolutionary flag in the background is badass

I imagine that talking about homeless people like this is also motivated by the fact that felons can't vote in the US so they have essentially lost most of their rights as citizens.

Hearing the news anchor say the streets have gone "unchecked" and then proceeds to list basic things that help keep the homeless alive is pretty chilling

As an American, I couldn't agree with you two more, you have it 100% correct. Most people in America believe the narrative they're told and they treat people that are different from them as inhuman.

Thank you Cold Ones or else I might have missed this masterpiece

I think it was the sadness in his eyes that got me most at the end there when he was singing the Sesame Street theme. He finishes, hears "that was bad" but does not react since his thoughts are inward and distant. Imagining no doubt what it must be like to have almost nothing and somehow build up with thrown away items a home with a shower so that you're clean, AC so that you don't boil to death in the 40C LA summer, and a roof over your head. Then have it all mocked and shamed on the news and then finally destroyed. I imagine he was trying to picture just how bad that must feel.

I absolutely loved your album, "Kimono My House"! Sparks has been such a big part of my life and I'm glad you two have evolved your medium. I hope this KZfaq channel does well!

You're back! I've been waiting for ages for you guys to come back!

RETURN OF THE KING!!!

God bless America , a country so great even our homeless have homes

Can you two do an episode on how long you can remain homeless, and how long you can remain homeless without breaking any rules? Or looking for a job? I commuted through homeless encampment for work and lived next door to one. It's never a dull moment.

Wait, this wasn't what I expected when I searched for "boy on boy"

It's fucking lit seeing you boys in this sort of format. IDAT is dope, but it's hard waiting for those videos that you work so hard to make. Good to see a lot of both of you more regularly 👍👌

It’s honesty disgusting to see how people view this issue. Using excuses like “homeless people want to be homeless” (which is just flat out wrong and the worst of the propaganda) or worse “they will never work a real job anyway” Like how tf are you supposed to have a job if you don’t even have an alarm clock can’t clean yourself and you have no idea if you’ll be able to sleep in the same place every day. People also like to say that “homelessness only exists in California” while in other states the homeless population is less visible only because those who become homeless eventually die or end up in the US prison system. If we gave these people free housing running water and food they would have a greater chance of becoming self sustaining. Not only that it would remove the need for homeless encampments at all, so snobby assholes don’t have to cry about “having to see people suffering in muh neighborhood” It’s astounding how little compassion the average person has towards those who are literally struggling to survive. Like can you imagine having to live on the sidewalk, having to beg for money from others, being helplessly addicted to a drug that may or may not ease the pain and knowing there is no chance at getting help? Not only that, having to live in fear that one day, the police will raid the place you live, take all of your belongings, and throw you in jail where withdrawals from the drug you depend on might literally end your life.

"You make food in your house? Are you the king??" is my favorite

Aussies watching American news is such a brilliant idea.

I can not believe how heartless people are, I'm rewatching all you're stuff and came across this, i remember watching this the day yall released it, and a few weeks later i had some bullshit go down. love the channel tho guys, glad you're working on it since i cant get enough of i did a thing Storytime: I worked for a pizza company as a delivery driver, our location was attached to a grocery store that had huge homeless village living in the parking lot. well, one guy was laying in front of our store for about and hour or so. And after two customers complained about him being there, my manager asked me if i could go wake him up and ask him to move, i really didnt want to make him move cause he wasn't doing anything. So i go out give him a nudge and felt that he was ice cold. Which startled me, so i went to check his pulse, and well, he was dead. I go back in to notify her the the man was dead, and i was going to call 911 to well. deal with him, but my manager, upon me telling her he was dead, in the most karen bullshit voice, "god why couldn't that loser fucking die somewhere else". Which totally caught me off guard cause she was genuinely a good boss and seemed to be a decent person, unless you're homeless then to her you're no longer a human. i ask if shes being serious since that's a human being right there."hardly a person, one less loser coming in here asking for free shit". I had never seen the guy before and i knew most of the homeless crowd since id give cigarettes to anyone that asked. I lost my shit right as the other closing drive came in. he is like wtf is going one so i explain. he looks at the homeless guy and back over to her "fuck you bitch i quit" and i thought that was a great idea, so i also let her know i was fucking done here as well and she can shove the 2 week notice right up her ass "well you guys need to finish out your shifts, there's no way i can do all these dishes by myself, since our cook has to leave in 15 minutes as well". our cook was a 15 year old girl, her first job and it was nearly the time where she was legally no longer allowed to work. so she chimed in she was done as well which i gave her mad props for. so all three of us leave and stand out front waiting for paramedics to arrive. my manager comes back out demanding we get back in there. i tell her hey you're right i should get back in there, walk back inside and clocked out. this sent her up the fucking wall. and to this day brings a smile to my face. a few days later i got a call from none other than the owner of our store, explaining that he knew what went down(our store had audio and video recording stuff throughout the store), he had terminated her and was wondering if i would like come back, no repercussions for walking out on my shift. i thanked him for doing the right thing and firing that lady but i was no longer interested. he wished me best of luck and hung up. Fuck some people, but having zero respect for someone who died cold and alone in front of a pizza place is beyond sick to me.

9:53 Woah woah woah, it sounds like you guys just aren't understanding the homeless subculture. As a former homeless person myself, allow me to educate you. Homeless people actually LOVE being on fire. This one time when I was staying in the YMCA, I was asleep in my bed one morning when someone decided to spray some kind of propellant all over my sheets and set them on fire with me wrapped up in them. Boy oh boy was it fun! It was so exciting I was still shaking half an hour later! What a blast! This tent being on fire is clearly a sign of how luxurious the homeless lifestyle is, and y'all just ain't gettin' it.

Man! I wish I knew you guys personally, part of your social circle! You guys are amazing!!

YOOOOO THEY"RE BACK! So hyped to see more stuff from you guys

I wonder when homeless people in LA will start to magically "disappear".... Like when the Olympics where held in Rio and their homeless people started to "disappear";)

I love how Australian you guys are. We call "barbecues" grills in America, so in Australia the reporter simply would have said "a barbecue and a rangehood." He was not commenting on the fact that the barbecue had grill grates.

Every time I'm sad i think about how I'm not living in America

You guys rekindle my hope in humanity. Keep it up comrades!!!

this is the most underrated channel i’ve ever found

There was a older man in the rural part of where I live, who was living in a wooden shack, clearly malnourished with two children who were wearing school uniforms when it was term holidays, yet someone said if he’s so poor, why does he have a tv satellite dish on his house? They disregard everything else yet zero in on that one piece of “luxury”. It probably doesn’t even work anymore Luckily the welfare services here were notified and they will be receiving financial and housing assistance.

I would love to know the last time that woman walked on any sidewalk.

Omg I literally just mentioned your channel to someone earlier today raving about how awesome your content is but that you never post. I hope this is a sign of more to come? :D

Im really glad you guy’s are keeping this amazing project alive, this channel and the work you put into it is GOLD and it’s greatly appreciated. Thank you.

look how dystopian the world has become, we are complaining when people are living normally, except without a white picket fence, and not paying the government

Alex’s smile is literally so precious

This upload alone has just made the year 2021 infinitely better than 2020.

Thank you guys so much for helping me see something I never really thought abut my country. Most of these things I see I never really get to see on a outside perspective. It has really opened my eyes thank you guys. Much love keep it upppp ❤️❤️

"illegally" they're homeless? The country failed them, why should they ever follow any laws?

You joked about them clearing homeless encampments with a bulldozer, but that is basically standard practice. I live near a canal between a lake and the sea, and in order to get some privacy homeless people regularly set up in the tree line by the canal. Then one day fliers were posted saying basically "There will be a raid tomorrow" and sure enough, the next day city cleanup workers and cops showed up. They arrested everyone who didn't want to leave, took everything, threw away most of it, and a bunch of tents ended up going into the canal.

GREAT 26 DE JULIO FLAG

I cannot put into words how happy it makes me to see the boys back

I moved into a box fort for a week when I was 7. It was pretty epic. I also had air-conditioning, a minibar and separate bed- and living rooms. So I can sympathise with these people.

Fills me with rage when I see a homeless child going down a slide

My dad doesn't love me

I always interpreted the newsreader's disgust at the authorities that allowed people to fall into homelessness in the first place, but holy shit was this blatant. They make such a big point about it being ILLEGAL like that's somehow not their fault

You guys are awesome. Thank you for the commentary. Love your point of view of things.... definitely makes me want to move to Australia (from the USA)

As a homeless person in the US, I really appreciate the criticism you guys have for the way the news represents homeless folks. I tend to live alone, as there ARE a lot of shady people in the homeless community, but I also believe that a lot of the unpleasant behaviors of these people largely stem from them not having enough social support to actually take care of themselves. I am not entirely unhappy with my living situation, as I'm a nature lover and live in the woods with two roosters that act as service animals to me, alerting to panic attacks, intruders of both human and animal varieties, and general emotional support. My campsite has often been complimented for being clean and well-kept, but I do not have electricity (outside of the portable batteries I use to keep my phone charged), running water, a bed, or really much of anything. Most of my "luxuries" go towards keeping my boys happy and entertained, thigh I am not against decorating my area with cheap outdoor decor. I feel that if this is where I spend the majority of my time, it ought to feel nice to live in. EDIT: I do believe there is a problem when homeless people "take over" a sidewalk, but that's more in terms of when homeless people become actively aggressive towards pedestrians trying to use a sidewalk. I think our communities need to be more tolerant of homeless presence, but that doesn't mean tolerance to public displays of violence, drug use, or the like. I'm lucky as the area I live in (Olympia, WA) has some pretty extensive homeless outreach programs including soup kitchens, food, clothing, and hygiene banks, mental and physical health programs, and much more, but it's still not enough to eradicate homelessness. I think when homeless folk are keeping peace and coexisting with the community, they should be left well enough alone. However, cities prioritize shuffling homeless folk around due to annexing laws that say that if a person can prove that they've lived uncontested in the same spot for 7-12 years, they become eligible to legally claim the land they've settled on. Here in Washington, that's 7 years, and in Thurston County cities organize to switch which cities are anti-homeless and which ones are "welcoming" to homeless folk every five years, so that homeless people "still have a place to go", but they're unable to stay settled in any one area for long. I, myself, have been "moved along" several times in my decade+ on the streets for no other reason than that the cities have shuffled where is safe to camp. I don't do drugs, I don't steal, I don't start fights, I don't panhandle- I just want to live peacefully with my roosters, and often end up making positive connections with my housed neighbors. PS- I don't have a slide.

Yall have some amazing content! As an American i love seeing you guys react to our culture and seeing how kinda sees us all while keeping the videos so fun😄 amazing stuff really

You guys are the funniest dudes I've seen on youtube, more people need to find this channel, your videos are what's getting me through lockdown. Keep it up.

Remember comrades, graffiti keeps the housing prices down.

The same people opposed to homelessness are the same people who oppose public housing, social welfare and free healthcare. Really kind thoughtful people! 🤔

That was good! And all very correct lol I used to work for The Salv. Army in finding Houses for homeless using Grant money: One of the many problems is that the US Govt will only pay, lets say (and in my area), $950 for a 2BR, but the local 2BR rents start around $1200. Non-starter.

Brazil is where it is, because "the poor" were going to Disney. Of course, our bourgeoisie could not allow this kind of nonsense, now here we are :) (help)

At last, undeniable evidence that Juche necromancy is real... Great to see you two back!

As someone who was homeless 3 times in America, I love you guys.

We should be applauding these people for their creativity

if i didn't want houseless people, i would simply offer free housing