Hey, what up, we're in Hollywood tonight, it's Friday the 19th
April 20th
midnight 12:11
We're gonna go talk to some homeless people we got some gift cards to McDonald's we can give them
yeah, first five minutes of their time just
Gonna ask them why they're homeless give their story. This is chatting with homeless people full disclosure McDonald's did not pay for this video
And oh and all the revenue from this video will go to the American Red Cross
I just always wanted to make a video like this and
Yeah, thanks for watching. You ready ?Wow, he's like setting up his house
Aye man, you're gonna sleep there? Yeah. Damn you, uh, you ca- you care if you're in our video
Well, sorry, yeah, we we can give you a
Gift card just for like one minute. We just wanted we're trying to make a little documentary on on homeless people
What's your name?
Francisco Guzman
Okay, I'm Andrew yeah, you too what how did you become homeless?
Parts of life, you know, yeah
You get caught up in the web the web
Between your jacket, you know you come out once you come it takes a while to build yourself up.
No doubt. How long you been homeless?
Man what did you do before that?
You're a what? Oh a plumber, okay
I don't actually do you have a light? what steps are you taking to get out of your situation?
(???)
Sixth street, ya know what I mean
Yeah
I got a shot in my ass, thats the first shot
It's called vivitrol, okay
If you're an alcoholic
Helps you reduce it
So you're getting the shots, and those are helping you
taper
Something like that. Yeah, but straight before you're suing over time. Yeah, yeah
Then ladies keep me happy very good. Ladies. Ladies, do you have like ladies the guys have a lighter?
Okay, how you say your name again, right the school was one Francisco, okay, well is very nice to meet you Sarah
Thank you for staying your story. I know yeah, I
Good luck
Okay, are you doing um, I don't know we're trying to we're just kind of throwing mud against the wall
We're just talking to homeless people and seeing what we can make of it
You know
If we can go ahead and grab one percentage of our check and you know
Essentially
That's doable. Yeah. All right. Take care
The
Amen
Hey, um
we're handing out these uh
these gift cards at McDonald's, but we're trying to get
Yeah, we're trying to get like a minute of footage like asking homeless people why they're homeless. Oh, yeah. Yeah. What's your name?
Jamie what awesome? Yeah, I'm Andrew. Nice to meet you. Yeah
Yeah, is that, okay awesome how long you been homeless
Really I was fourteen years old has the problems that the house and my stepdad
you know he
He won't let me go outside. You know, I'm even fucking ground me and stuff
So I just decided to no I was I can go out so I could enjoy my freedom. Yeah, you know, so I left
Man
So ever since ever since then you've been homeless
I've had a house to stay. You know, I had been through sober living houses and stuff like that that never
Yeah, how do you usually get food?
Okay and handle
What's your go-to? Like? Hey, can I get some money? Oh, how do you sorry for asking? How about this - change -
Where do you usually sleep? Well when I do sleep, yeah, I guess I can't
Because usually all over Hollywood
Get away from the scene. Yeah
Okay, it seems like the people from Orange County
Decided if I come over here and fucking for me out. We won't get away what people
My brother's fucking friends and fucking yeah, you know people that I know
This is all fucking ganged up on me and decided to fucking you know, pull some invisibility trip on me, you know
And I'm like fucking just walking just innocently walking down the street here comes this guy putting this fucking hand in my pants and shit
You know now so I could fight them on the ground and shit, you know. Yeah well
I'm carrying this huge bag. Yeah, yeah, you know with all this other stuff going on with me, you know, I mean
It's it sucks dude. It really does. Yeah, you know
Carry, something like this and they'd have somebody coming up and fucking with me. You know what I mean?
I'm sitting here ripping off my shirt as you can see, you know, shit right there
Fucking you guys we're streams and stuff. Yeah. Yeah
How do you usually shower?
Yeah
Or I see it's like baby wipes or something from that from the Mercer store and swipe down, you know, okay
My hands are constantly I'm calling today
I have washed my hands probably about 11 to 12 times today. Yeah, you know just because it's just constant
He's just picking up phil from you know, taking over Phil. What do you mean just stuff like touch?
Yeah, we're do usually what do you usually eat?
Just anything like McDonald's usually or what?
McDonald's, I like I just tell you that she's I'm not a picky person when it comes to food, you know
Yeah, if I see if I see like sense of food
You notice that somebody gives me and I'm definitely getting a keep gonna pick through it just to see if maybe there might be
Something in there like a hint of like feces or something, you know, who knows these people are freaking weird, right? Yeah
This guy's Holman. I bet you anything, you know, someone's go up and just feed it to him. You know, I mean, oh, yeah
Have you tried to say wait you said you were in store we're living
Have you tried to like, you know, get out your situation? You don't know like trying to get your own apartment get a job
I guess you call it ya know. Yeah, that's basically
What keeps me from working, you know is I hear things and see things that aren't there right
Auditoria land, you know, so I have these problems where if I'm working say I'm sound over here
Where can I just fill these in these he's outer, yeah
Forces, I guess you would say, you know enemy but you know, especially today in society is freaking
it's wild, you know the things that
Yeah, it's like messing around with a child. You know. Hey Petey. I mean, have you tried to get help for your disorder? Yeah
Nothing really helps to tell you the truth. Is it what we do? You know where you're diagnosed? Yeah
Okay
And so you then you tried medication it didn't help
Okay, yeah it mostly all those medications and stuff I put me asleep
You know, I didn't I got it, you know my family who cares about me, you know
I've been to mental hospitals and stuff like hey
have you taken your medication and I'm like
Why are you even a scene you I need that because I'm filling these things. I'm seeing these things
I'm knowing these things and you want to tell me that I have a mental disorder
Yeah, okay. We'll go with that
yeah, yeah go with that there, you know, especially
You don't have any family you can stay with or no. No, they're they're out on me
We break out there there in Orange County and it's been 40 since 14. How old are you now?
Why not man
You're my age
Do you usually go to the shelters soup kitchens? Why not? I
Mean, there's I mean, they're the help and everything in all the programs
you
Know there are certain things that I can't need, you know, especially food. I eat everyday
I eat a pretty good amount of food every day, you know, I don't know
Maybe I should go and maybe take a break off. I just don't know where I am - I don't know that
Where I'm staying is usually I'm Beverly you know
Ready for mine. Oh, you have like a kind of a spot there. You usually always go tidy
Yeah, I was referred to that spot back to that spot
Do you have like stuff there that you have like a like a ten stuff?
I've never had it taped before. Where do you where do you think I'll sleep tonight?
It's late
Do you know if there's like a universal city or a studio city? Yeah, of course. Where is it? It's it's north you
You'd go towards North Hollywood from here from this stop. Yeah
And then it's a you would get off just somewhere. Yeah
Mm-hmm. Well, you know him
Well, thank you for your time yeah here
We're going home. Now. You just have that. Yeah, of course man. Yeah
Really good to me. Awesome
All right. Okay. Good luck, man. Yeah