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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know

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Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me is Charles W.

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Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant. Fresh off of the Stuff you Should Know

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Speaker 1: Facebook page, where we've been discussing all manner of interesting

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Speaker 1: stuff like Bob Ross has come up. Have you been

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Speaker 1: posting Bob Ross videos? He's the best? Yes? I posted.

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Speaker 1: I posted the Peanuts Christmas Times here a little segment. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you've been posting some pretty good stuff too, but thank you?

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Speaker 1: What what's some what's one of your favorite things that

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Speaker 1: have gotten people buzzing lately? Did I posted about Bonnie

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Speaker 1: Prince Billy? He was that on my own Facebook page?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, did you know? Because you would

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Speaker 1: have taken it down? I would not have. I would

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Speaker 1: respect your post. I'm sleepy today because of Bonny Prince

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Speaker 1: Billy last night. I would scoff at it, but I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't take it down. I love it. That's become a

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Speaker 1: running gag. Is me loving him and you're making fun

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Speaker 1: of him? Go ahead, Okay, you're ready for me to

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Speaker 1: make fun of him. Yeah, I'm not going to. He

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Speaker 1: seems like a nice guy. Okay, So Chuck Chucker's um.

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Speaker 1: I wrote a blog post actually recently on homelessness. I

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Speaker 1: read it. Did you read it? Really? I read your stuff? Man?

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding? I'm a fan? Really? Yes? Really? So

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Speaker 1: the whole thing, then, you know, this already was centered

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Speaker 1: around well, it started around this, um this news that

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Speaker 1: came out in July that the homeless, the population of

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Speaker 1: homeless school children had risen dramatically to about one million

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Speaker 1: kids in US schools, public schools, I would imagine who

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Speaker 1: are homeless? Yeah? Right? And uh in one particular area,

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Speaker 1: I think by the numbers statistically speaking, in Sue Falls,

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Speaker 1: South Dakota, that's a homeless kid per classroom. Yeah. They

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Speaker 1: had a huge increase, didn't they there? Oh yeah, something

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Speaker 1: like that in that state period. Yeah. In uh, in

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Speaker 1: And what in Texas like a hundred plus percent? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So across the across the US, there's been um an

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Speaker 1: increase of forty one percent nationwide, right of school children, Yes,

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Speaker 1: of homeless school children and um the so Texas has

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Speaker 1: seen an increase of a hundred and thirty nine percent, um,

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Speaker 1: Iowa a hundred and thirty six percent. The lowest of

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Speaker 1: this is, of course, i'll due to the great recession

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Speaker 1: that's going on right now out right, of course. And

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Speaker 1: somebody actually posted I haven't read the links, but somebody

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Speaker 1: actually posted a comment on the blog that said, um,

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Speaker 1: you know it's bad enough. You know, homeless school children

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Speaker 1: are depressing enough, but you know there's plenty of homeless

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Speaker 1: kids out there who aren't in school. Well yeah, sure,

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Speaker 1: thinking about that. So with the economic recession is clearly

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Speaker 1: to blame for this increase in homeless school children. Um.

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Speaker 1: And there's a lot of other factors that over the

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Speaker 1: years have contributed to homelessness, which we'll talk about. But Chuck,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about homelessness in the United States, shall we?

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Speaker 1: And we should say we're just going to concentrate in

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Speaker 1: world out of the way. Worldwide, They they approximate, and

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Speaker 1: we should go ahead and say that counting homeless people

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Speaker 1: is is a tough bag because they changes drastically week

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Speaker 1: the Census Bureau. UM that identifies, you know, how many

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, but one of the reasons it's it's difficult

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Speaker 1: too far off America's percentage really because we have about

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Speaker 1: it's to the homelessness population has increased right right in

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Speaker 1: Minorities in this country makeup about twelve percent of the population,

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Speaker 1: and African Americans make up about fifty and another are

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Speaker 1: family being homeless, that's really tough. Chuck. We we talked

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Speaker 1: about what was driving homelessness right now, driving the increase

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Speaker 1: live in a weekly motel, that's homeless as well. Yeah, true, right, Um,

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Speaker 1: call good people or advocates. So how do people get homeless? Josh, Well, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: half in the US, and the low estimate is a quarter. Wow. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Never go get a job in

427
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Speaker 1: the film industry if you want to. The food waste depresses,

428
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Speaker 1: you know, the craft services and just catering the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's ridiculous. Um, But food banks have been

430
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:30,919
Speaker 1: around since about the sixties, and that everyone knows. You

431
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,959
Speaker 1: can donate can goods and non perishable items and they

432
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Speaker 1: will distribute them to homeless shelters and homeless people directly sometimes.

433
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Speaker 1: So that's a big deal. You ever volunteered anything like that? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Then the Thanksgiving thing before, Ah, this makes me want

435
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Speaker 1: to do more than that though, you know, Yeah, that

436
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Speaker 1: feels like going to church on Easter. You know we

437
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,719
Speaker 1: should do We should build like an addition onto your

438
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Speaker 1: house that we can get house homeless people in. We

439
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 1: can go there, you go Squatville. We can put up

440
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Speaker 1: a lean to or something that jokes squad Bill. It's

441
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 1: not a bad idea. Job training though, I mean, we

442
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: we talked about things like public housing and the projects,

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Speaker 1: and that's all well and good to give people a

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Speaker 1: place to be. But at the same time, you don't

445
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Speaker 1: and this is where the Republicians can go, yes, say it.

446
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 1: At the same time, you don't want to support a

447
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Speaker 1: nation of people on the government's time without offering some

448
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Speaker 1: kind of job training and something to say, hey, let

449
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: us help you get on your feet, let us help

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Speaker 1: you get a job in data entry or on the

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Speaker 1: manufacturing line or whatever. So luckily there are groups like

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Speaker 1: the Coalition for the Homeless First Step that that you know,

453
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: provide this kind of job job training, and the veterans

454
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Speaker 1: are doing the same thing with the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program,

455
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Speaker 1: right And I should say, there isn't a homeless alleviation

456
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Speaker 1: program in existence in the US that's geared towards simply

457
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Speaker 1: taking care of people. All of them are geared towards

458
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Speaker 1: ending homelessness and the individual and collectively through things like

459
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Speaker 1: job training, through things like UM helping the right resumes,

460
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: rehabs a huge one. Mental health treatment, UM getting people

461
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Speaker 1: cheap drugs, like getting them to a point where they're

462
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Speaker 1: not homeless anymore. Like it's addressing the factors of homelessness.

463
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 1: Not you don't feel like work, and so here's some

464
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Speaker 1: money that doesn't exist, and I suspect that there's not

465
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Speaker 1: really a desire to just have somebody give you some

466
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Speaker 1: money and not do anything ever and just be poor

467
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Speaker 1: in anybody. I don't know. That's my that's my opinion.

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Speaker 1: We disagree, that's awesome. Well, I don't know if I

469
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Speaker 1: disagree that. I don't have enough time to think about

470
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Speaker 1: that right now? All right, Uh, what can you do though? Well,

471
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: you can we can build lean two's on your squatting land.

472
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 1: You can volunteer, like you said, right, give your time.

473
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Speaker 1: If you don't have the dough, you give a little time.

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Speaker 1: If you do have the dough, and it's not necessarily

475
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: just dough. You can donate old toys and books and

476
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: toiletries and clothes. That old computer that's gathering dust that

477
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: you could get seventy five dollars for on Craigslist, you

478
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: donate that instead write it off in your taxes. Yeah,

479
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: and maybe homeless people can get trained how to use

480
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: that computer. Where you could donate your car, yeah, oh yeah,

481
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: that's a big one. Yeah, you can be an advocate,

482
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: try to raise awareness, letter campaigns, all sorts of things

483
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: you can do there. You can hire homeless people. Yes,

484
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: they do have skills. As we've seen now, a lot

485
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 1: of people who um are recently recently homeless may also

486
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 1: just be recently unemployed as well and have job skills.

487
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Speaker 1: And then the last one on the list in the article,

488
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Speaker 1: which I thought was at home rate respect huge. Ah,

489
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Speaker 1: when you see that homeless person on the street, don't

490
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Speaker 1: let the first thought to be in your head, Hey jerk,

491
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Speaker 1: how did you mess up to get here? Maybe you

492
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: should think, hey, did you develop schizophrenia in your thirties

493
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Speaker 1: and lose your job because of that and get split

494
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Speaker 1: up from your child because you couldn't care for your

495
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Speaker 1: child even though you you know you want to. Because

496
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: it happened to Will Smith, I was hoping we could

497
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Speaker 1: make it through this without bringing up that stupid movie,

498
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Speaker 1: The Pursuit of Hapwitness. Yeah, well it's you know, they

499
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Speaker 1: make a movie about it. It It was such a big deal.

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Speaker 1: Everyone knows that that guy was homeless with a son,

501
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: and he's rich. He's worth sixty five million bucks. Actually,

502
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Speaker 1: you know what story I like better is the one

503
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Speaker 1: in this article. The that was a guy. What's his

504
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Speaker 1: named David, Yeah, he's he's quoted David Peartle. Yeah, he

505
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 1: was that part he Yeah, he was a just a

506
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Speaker 1: regular dude, had a job as a rest front manager.

507
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: College graduate and for fifteen years as a restaurant manager

508
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 1: and developed schizophrenia, got fired, ended up hitchhiking and homeless

509
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Speaker 1: for two years on the streets of d C. And

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Speaker 1: now I think he's a heading up a homeless group

511
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Speaker 1: in DC nowity, Yeah, I think he's an executive at it. Yeah,

512
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: but he's quoted in this article in the respect like

513
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: what can you do? He says, Um, most of the

514
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: despair and being homeless comes from being treated like you

515
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 1: don't exist. And there's something we should point out Chuck

516
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: throughout this. It's however, many minutes into this podcast, Um,

517
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: we've just now used the first homeless person's name, first Dan,

518
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: last name of the whole podcast. There's a whole conception

519
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: of invisibility. The nameless they are, they're not the nameless.

520
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 1: You can completely interchange that with the homeless that's just

521
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: as faceless, just as nameless, just as genderless, just as

522
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: identity lists. And um, I just want to close and

523
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: get everybody to over to on design. There's this awesome

524
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Speaker 1: blog post by a guy named John the kera th

525
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Speaker 1: h A c k a r A called Look or Connect,

526
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: and he's talking about he's using photography to demonstrate, um,

527
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: how we treat the homeless and how we should treat

528
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: the homeless. And there's a photography book called Shelter, and

529
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: this guy roamed around Europe and took photos of homeless

530
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: like impromptu makeshift shelters of like blankets hanging over a limb,

531
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Speaker 1: in in a in the woods or some place under

532
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: an overpass, but in every single picture it's just a shelter.

533
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 1: Not one homeless person appears in this whole book, and

534
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: the care is pointing out like this is kind of

535
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: emblematic of how we view the homeless. And then he

536
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: was also kind of crediting a girl named Erica show

537
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: Bolts who's a photographer out of Seattle, and she has

538
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Speaker 1: a series called Invisible Families, and she'll she photographs the homeless,

539
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 1: but then the caption she includes captions beneath the the

540
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: um photograph and it's of that person. So there's one

541
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Speaker 1: of a little kid walking through a homeless camp and

542
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: he's he's got like this bamboo stick up right, you

543
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: see him and the caption is um here Jack Ahearn,

544
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: age nine, marches with the bamboo stick while staying at

545
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: a city located in Skyway. Sometimes Jack win and less

546
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: fellow Nickelodeon's quotes to help him look for worms. On

547
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: other days, he'd play on a pogo stick in mud

548
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: puddles or with the resident cab kitten that had six

549
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: digits on one paw. The bamboo stick was a gift,

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00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: so like, that's a person now, not a homeless kid.

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00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: That's Jack A hear In, age nine. Well and then

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00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: and the the gentleman from DC suggests that if you

553
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: have a regular walk to work in a city or something,

554
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: you see the same homeless person on a daily basis,

555
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,239
Speaker 1: then ask them what their name is one day, call

556
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: them by their name, look him in the eye. If

557
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: you don't have to give them money, if you don't

558
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: want to, little things like that can make a big

559
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 1: difference in a person's self esteem and maybe allows them

560
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: to view themselves as human again. And you can give

561
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: them if you're worried about giving the money that they

562
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: spend on alcohol or something, give them, get a get

563
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: a little food, give voucher, you know, something like that.

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Speaker 1: So there is everybody. Our fifth summation of the podcast,

565
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Speaker 1: fit and final. Yes, if you want to learn more

566
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Speaker 1: about homelessness, um, you can type that word into the

567
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Speaker 1: search bar how stuff works the blank generic genderless identity

568
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 1: list search bar. Very nice. And since they said that,

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Speaker 1: it's time for is it listener mailman? Yeah, And in

570
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: the spirit of this podcast, we're gonna do a big

571
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: old Kiva round up. You want to explain what Keeva

572
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 1: is real quick. Kiva is a website where schmos like

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00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: you and me can go and donate well, I shouldn't

574
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: say donate lynn increments of twenty five dollars to entrepreneurs

575
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: in developing countries and people on their way up here

576
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: in the United States even uh. These loans are pulled

577
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 1: together uh to create a larger loan which ultimately repay

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00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: a loan that's already been made to the person uh,

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00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: and then that person uses it for their business, repays

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Speaker 1: the loan. You actually get your twenty five bucks back,

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00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 1: that's right if you want, and you can reinvest it.

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Speaker 1: And basically it's micro lending. Yes, And we have our

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Speaker 1: own loan team which we're proud to say is the

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Speaker 1: number four team and members on all of keeping out.

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Speaker 1: I know that's really something behind atheists number one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Christians are number two. There's like so angry and right

587
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: behind the AD and UH Team Obama is number three

588
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 1: and little old us are right there, but in front

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Speaker 1: of Australia. So to go over that list again, go

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Speaker 1: Chuck from wonderful Atheist of America Christian Coalition Team Obama

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Speaker 1: stuff you should know. Australia so all pretty cool, and

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Speaker 1: we have as of today we've loaned UH as a

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Speaker 1: collective three thousand, four hundred and six members have loaned

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Speaker 1: ten tho, eight hundred and thirteen loans to the tune

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Speaker 1: of three d and thirteen thousand, eight hundred bucks. So

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Speaker 1: that is not bad. Is this gonna be up for Christmas? I?

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00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: I don't know, Jared. Yes, we would suggest you can

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Speaker 1: get a Kiva gift certificate and give it to your

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Speaker 1: love one at Christmas. It's a nice little cool thing

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00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: to do it like a stocking stuffer, right, and they

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00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: go and lend it, but ultimately if they want, they're

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00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 1: just postponing getting that twenty five or seventive bucks cash

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00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:49,359
Speaker 1: um for a month or two. And with that it's repaying. Yeah,

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00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: it's repaid, it's not a donation. And with that, here

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00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: comes a listener mail because this one really got me. Uh, hi,

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Speaker 1: two of them really quick. Um. Hi, guys, my name

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Speaker 1: is Kara and I am another one of your thirteen

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Speaker 1: year old fans. Just want to say hi, and how

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Speaker 1: much I love your show. Uh. Some friends and I

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Speaker 1: make and sell jewelry and donate the profits to Kiva.

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Speaker 1: That is awesome. I know you guys have your own

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Speaker 1: key to team and I love that you use your

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Speaker 1: power to do good. Uh. Since most people haven't heard

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Speaker 1: of Kiva, please mention this on your show. It would

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Speaker 1: be so great to get some business that we can

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Speaker 1: read loan. You can see some of our jewelry and

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Speaker 1: loans at www dot tiny, u r l dot com

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Speaker 1: slash project raw and I went today and they have

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Speaker 1: these little ear rings and little necklaces and rings and

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Speaker 1: things that these thirteen year old girls may make my hand.

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Speaker 1: And they've loaned three seventy five bucks so far. And uh,

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Speaker 1: that is Kara and Kensington, Maryland. And that is so cool.

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Speaker 1: I can't even talk about it. When thirteen year olds

624
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Speaker 1: are doing stuff like this and CEOs are getting rich

625
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Speaker 1: and thumbing their nose at the rest of the world.

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Speaker 1: So Karmen is gonna bite you one day, sir, and

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Speaker 1: this one. We usually don't plug other KYVA teams, but

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Speaker 1: we're going to because this from our our buddy, Sergeantly

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Speaker 1: newly promoted staff Sergeant Walker, Mr Bryant, with your inspiration,

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Speaker 1: I've started my own KYBA team for the Armed Forces.

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Speaker 1: With the whole Armed Forces. He started an Army team. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so it's different if you're well, he says, Armed Forces

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Speaker 1: KEYVA team, but it says Army in the in the

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Speaker 1: u r L. So if you're in the Marine Corps,

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Speaker 1: do not give uh. It is www dot kiva dot org,

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