- Sleeping in public: terrible mistake... - ... or social revolution?
This is Chris Black from Las Vegas. Let's talk about that.
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- Sleeping in public. - Yes. It's an issue that we want to talk
- about now with you. It's important. - Now, we moved to Los Angeles from
North Carolina after having been in North Carolina our entire lives, pretty much.
People are like, 'What's it like to live in California?" Well, it's different than
North Carolina, lemme tell you right now. Los Angeles is a lot different than
- Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina. - Case in point: there's more parks.
- Yeah. - There's more citification, but then
there's more parks that you walk around. And within those parks, if you look across
them, you will see people just laid out sleeping!
And we're not talking-- obviously, you got homeless people who like to sleep in
parks, but we're talking people with homes, and people with jobs, just
chilling. Sleeping. Totally like...
laid out in a park, just sleeping, and it's prolific! It happens all over the city.
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that the weather's so great here.
Yeah, it's like, (slurs) I'm so sleepy, look at the sun... (mumbles)
Yeah, you just find yourself walking somewhere and... I'm always potentially
- sleepy, so I can relate to these people. - That's a medical problem, you realize.
- Oh, really? - "Always potentially sleepy,"
I think is a condition.
But it's not... I'm not always sleepy. That's a medical condition. "Always
- potentially sleepy" is like, you know-- - Meaning you could sleep at any moment.
Yeah. If I could make a living sleeping, then I would make a good living or a
- decent living. - There is some Sleeping Olympics, some
sort of siesta contest they have in Spain, I read about, where they see how quickly
you can fall asleep. But anyway, lots of people fall asleep in these parks around
here and we thought it would be a really good idea to do some hard-nosed reporting
- on this issue. - Right. We decided to go out to the parks
and at least find one person to interview. You know, just like... you said, like a
- hard-hitting expose? - I was trying to make it seem like
something more than it was. The reality is, people, I walked out of the studio the
other day and I looked out across a park and I saw a dude sleeping, and I said,
- "Let's do something about this." - And this is what happened.
I'm daring Link to go and get up-close video footage of this man sleeping.
And I'm gonna do that with my phone camera. Here's the park over here, and
that black dot right there is a man sleeping. What do I get for doing this?
Ah... points.
(Link whispers) I'm starting to question whether he's actually asleep.
(Rhett) Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness, he's so close to him.
(Rhett) Oh my goodness, this is so embarrassing.
(Link) Excuse me.
- (Link) Excuse me. Excuse me? - Hi.
- (Link) Hey. I'm Link. - I'm sorry?
- (Link) My name's Link. - Hey, what's going on, man?
- (Link) Hey. What's your name? - Rob.
- (Link) Hey Rob. - Yeah.
(Link) I'm doing a podcast on sleeping in public.
- (Rob) Yeah. - (Link) Do you have any advice for anyone
- would want to sleep in public? - Ah, just do it, you know? There's no
true advice to it. Just, ah, don't be afraid to do it.
- ♪ (video game victory music) ♪ - (Link) All right, I get some points
for that. Did you see how close I got to his face?
So once you said there were points involved, I figured the closer I could
get my camera to the guy's face, the more points I would get. Now, I don't know what
I can exchange these points for, but I assumed that it was worth it.
I respect you more now. I mean, you've always been more willing to do stuff like
that than me. I just don't. I'm not that guy. I don't like to make a scene. I don't
like to make people feel uncomfortable because it makes me feel uncomfortable.
I was uncomfortable watching that and filming it from 200 yards away.
Now, obviously, you saw the camera was shaking. I'm a shaky person in general,
but there was adrenaline flowing through my veins and I could not
- keep that camera steady. - So always potentially sleepy and shaky,
okay. We need to start making a list of this and then we're gonna diagnose you
with something.
But you know, what he said was, "Just do it." You know, I think we got to the
bottom of it. It's just, like, should you sleep in public? Of course! Just do it!
This has got something to do with other aspects of my personality, probably the
same reason I'm uncomfortable going up to people who are sleeping in public.
- Mmhmm. - I just am not comfortable enough...
I can't get comfortable enough in public to go to sleep.
- You're not sleepy enough. - No. I mean, yeah, if I were really
sleepy, I could probably do it, but I'm thinking, what are people thinking about
me? Do I look funny? Is my mouth open weird? Is somebody gonna come stick their
- finger in my mouth? - Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
- Is somebody gonna take my wallet? - Just do it.
But you know what? I'm throwing all that aside and I agree with this guy. What's
- his name? - Random sleeping dude in the park.
I agree with you, random sleeping dude in the park. We should just do it. We should
be sleeping more in public as a society. We should throw caution to the wind, find
the nearest grassy spot near your home, and just go out there and just sleep!
- Do it! Do it! Who's with us? - Now, it's probably negative 14 in
- Minnesota right now, you know? - Bundle up and do it!
Here we are in Southern California where it's always great and perfect weather and
you can sleep outside at any moment, and we're telling
- you in Minnesota to go sleep in public. - I think it's warm in Australia this time
- of year. - Get an electric blanket.
- Get an electric blanket. - Run a drop cord, like a 250-foot drop
cord so you can get far away from your house so you won't be tempted... well,
- you'll be 250 feet from your house. - But then what happens? When you sleep
with an electric blanket in the snow, it melts the snow and then it becomes an
- electrical hazard. - We do not... it's not our idea.
- We do not condone it. - We do not endorse sleeping in public,
whilst it's snowing, with an electric blanket. But next time the weather is
suitable, you should go and find a place and just sleep! Maybe bring a friend.
Maybe bring a friend and you rotate, so it's like, "I'll sleep while you guard me."
- You wanna ease into it. - And if there's, like, tickets involved...
to the front row of something, then that also justifies it.
- Tickets? - I'm just saying, I don't know...
If you're sleeping in public to get tickets, it seems like all of a sudden
- it's more justified. - (laughs) Oh. You really... I wasn't
following you at all. Sleep in public, people. Let's do it as a culture.
Let's end this Mythical Morning with a spin of the whizzy-whizzy-wheel.
Where it lands, we will close the show doing that.
- (laughs) - (Link) Rhett frog Link. You know, right
- beside this is "Link frog Rhett." - I don't know why I keep getting--
- You slap me? - It's all gonna come back on me, though.
We're gonna erase yours and then I'm gonna frog you and slap you later.
Before Good Mythical Morning is over, you will have frogged me and slapped me.
It'll probably completely go in your favor. But right now, I'm gonna frog you.
Essentially that-- in North Carolina, what we call a "charley horse" is a frog.
And when you get mad at somebody you do it right in their shoulder.
Like, put that knuckle up.
Now, I really wanna go after this. I really wanna do it. I mean...
You should probably act like you're my older brother or something.
(silly voice) Hey, nougat! Guess what?
Ow! (whiney kid voice) The show is ending. You didn't have to frog me.
I hit bone, man. I went straight to the bone.
- (laughs) It hurt. - (laughs) That's right, it hurt.
I think you pierced my arm. I'm gonna have to go outside and sleep it off in public.
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