Barry we're here under Vegas really you know in the tunnels under Vegas you're
out here homeless tell me about it. I came out here to kill a day before I went
back to my home state and take care of a couple things. I had a backpack song with
my money and some family recipes and got stranded here. I've been here two
months or so. Where's home? I'm from Michigan. Wow so how do you survive down
here? How do you what's it like? What's a day like? Let's see. Get up. Since I got my
food stamps I don't dumpster dive that much but that's how I was getting food
for a while. Think of your dumpsters. You'd be surprised at what you'd be fine. The
good stuff's at the bottom. I always used to tell people. One time I found a fresh
bag of bagels, fresh loaf of bread and one of those containers of yogurt or
the kind of cheese with the fruit on the side. Still ice cold. Wow. Now these are
storm drains. Now it doesn't rain here much but what happens when it rains? Well
since I haven't been here through a rain I can't say. Gotcha. But by what I've been
told it gets up to if you look at the wall behind you you see the black mark
gets up to about there as though where the wanted-ever level gets usually but
sometimes it gets up a little higher than that by what I've been told. What do people
do? They're brought up like this or like the other camps were. Okay that's why
that's why you have your bed built up. That makes sense. The one who can come
up under it by washing the stuff away. Gosh. This is no way to live. What are you
doing to get out of here? Well I leave here in my normal days. I go through the
casinos where it's cooler. Staff at McNowns, use the restroom, get water there.
Got to help with Southern Nevada once a week. Just go around town and come
back here where it's cooler. Is there any support services? Do people come down
here? Well I hope so the Nevada does. They've been down three times since I've
been here or I've had it twice but it was that usually the high enough that's
been down here. With a couple other like Catholic charities I think by what one
of the other guys was telling me comes down like Christmas time but that's
how I do it. What's your future like? Now you can get the money go to culinary
arts school or get into truck driving but try you can get the money. That's on
hold. Now culinary arts school you said you had some recipes that you lost or
something? Yeah the recipes were from a wolf science of my dad's family. Great
cobalt, my great great grandfathers, a couple others were my great
grandmothers. If you had three wishes what would they be? Money, go back in
time, redo some stuff and do some stuff differently and three more wishes. Thank
you very much for talking to me. No problem.
