think you got time time is never on your [Music] side feel your mind [Music] for nothing Chang yet no one stayed the same everybody got a [Music] name Everybody Plays the game Everybody Plays the game for sure Sin City what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas it's a place of exorbitant wealth gambling and Luxury Resorts however 35,000 people are homeless in Las Vegas and many of them live in the tunnels below Caesar's Palace [Music] that's pretty cool huh but you see how clean it is the casinos you
know like they go through the drain and they come through here do you guys use this for anything yeah we wash clothes put a bucket under it get the water and wash and rinse you guys take showers with this we take showers on the other one you know the other one's a lot cleaner this is pretty clean though yeah it's clean this documentary will explore the life of the people living in the drainage tunnels beneath the Las Vegas Strip a small community of unh House people often referred to in local fo
lklore as the mole people who agreed to take me in for a short period of time Vegas baby night see you in the morning we promise we won't do anything to him we won't tie them up or nothing like that no bondage stuff films No not tonight if you're an avid documentary Watcher you may have seen there's been dozens upon dozens of documentaries made about this small community in the past 6 years after it was first investigated by researcher Matt O'Brien who wrote a book called beneath the neon and st
arted a non profit organization to help them called shine a light a Recovery Center ran by former tunnel people that's my booking picture the tunnels have been a magnet for documentary filmmakers for quite some time myself included get out of the damn way dude this is the illst jued position imaginable think about it are you thinking about it and to me the public Fascination about the tunnels makes complete sense between Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the legendary New York documentary dark days w
hich documented the freedom tunnels in Harlem in the late '90s and the underground post-apocalyptic gameplay in the Fallout series it's safe to say that we all share a mutual fascination with hidden underground Subterranean living but still I was hesitant to make a Vegas tunnels video much like I've been hesitant to make a video about the Gathering of the jugal or Slab City California sheer journalistic oversaturation but there were a couple factors that made me feel like it was worth it the mai
n factor being that it is illegal to be homeless in Las Vegas our previous videos on homelessness explored the Streets of San Francisco and Philadelphia where in certain sections of town homelessness and public drug consumption are decriminalized and for some reason police turn a complete Blind Eye to hellish Street Scenes resulting in visually grotesque viral videos and National headlines declaring a state of emergency but Las Vegas on the other hand has just as many homeless people as Philly a
nd San Francisco but it's not a progressive City and is much different in terms of policy in Vegas metrop PD militantly enforces what are called vagrancy laws that essentially make it illegal to be homeless homeless being defined by excessive loitering panhandling or re selling items like snacks or water because they're actually engaging in a business uh none of them are licensed typically and then there is an issue of course with the source of their water upon your first arrest you're given a m
isdemeanor but after your third arrest you're given 6 months in county jail and a $1,000 fine so it's for this reason in addition to the intense summer heat that many of the city's homeless have sought refuge in the tunnels underground this is our shower but that being said I felt like highlighting this contrast between homelessness in Progressive cities versus in Las Vegas still wasn't enough to Warrant a full-blown documentary on my end after all if I've learned one thing as a journalist it's
that raising awareness as a motif is borderline useless in almost all cases and simply humanizing a perhaps misunderstood controversial or impoverished interview subject really does nothing to actually help them in the long run and that's not to say that I regret any previous work that I've done I just think that in this stage of my life if I'm going to document someone actively struggling I feel a responsibility to at least try to help them so this in mind I figured that if I was going to do th
is documentary my goal would be to actually help the tunnel dwellers and provide a model for future solutions to homelessness that go beyond baloney sandwiches and prayers so in this episode we'll not only learn about life in the tunnels but also how they eat how they work around Las Vegas's vagrancy laws to earn money what the current options are for recovery and ultimately help them navigate through what they say is the number one obstacle that's kept them homeless the inability to get a valid
ID or driver's license in the state of Nevada smile all righty thank you very much not a single person living in the tunnels had an ID and though it might seem like a somewhat trivial item to some of you without an ID you can't qualify for housing be admitted to shelters work day labor jobs open a bank account buy cigarettes or receive any type of government Aid and so the second half of this episode will be spent above ground devoted entirely to getting as many people in the tunnels IDs as we
could which as you'll learn is a painstaking nearly impossible process to go through without a housed co-signer like myself anyways let's back up a bit to the afternoon of October 5th just a couple hours before I entered the tunnels hanging out with my old buddy Mr daddy Las Vegas Nevada hot Las Vegas Nevada a city of lust Vegas they colge Sin City for a reason this is where you come to see titties black titties white titties yellow titties I love all titties this is the place a city of opulent
wealth and excessive gambling a playground for billionaire Playboys like Chris Angel Mind Freak Dan bueren The Blue Man Group David Copperfield and alleged slip and fall con man Farhad kni Mark wallberg is here no [ __ ] way yeah Mark walberg's out here nowas what's new Bro man a lot of things they grew like an inch or two yeah it's been a couple years I know right it's been a minute homie yeah yeah how you been Midway through this interview I had a shocking Revelation which is that many new ch
5 fans may not know who Mr daddy even is my name is Mr daddy this is my favorite dance movie for reference I met Mr daddy about 4 and 1/2 years ago when I was shooting on Fremont Street in Las Vegas for a show called all gas no breaks so you've never done DRS before do you want to cuz I got the Pepsi challenge what's that mean I mean I got Coke yeah you ever booed before this was one of the first all gas no breaks Instagram Clips to go viral in 2019 and inspired multiple future collaborations yo
u REM me of a cigarette why cuz I want to get you [ __ ] lit and then but your butt in my mouth and even resulted in Mr daddy hosting his own segment and after the country shut down for Co we even took the show virtual we all glow boys glow side side glow hey if Corona doesn't take you out can I but as 2020 kicked off and became a year from Hell from a political standpoint I guess I lost touch with Mr Daddy but Mr Daddy's a great man and so I'm happy to reintroduce him how you been I'm good bro
what's new in your life uh I'm working on a sketch comedy TV show right now also I've been five month sober you know off the alcohol which is good the Las Vegas diet you know what's the Las Vegas diet so you know what California sober is right it's like when you only smoke weed you don't do drugs yeah so Las Vegas sober is when you don't drink alcohol but you still do the drugs you type [ __ ] all the time so Pepsi challenge right what's going on with you just in Vegas making a documentary okay
on what um like the people who live below the city in the tunnels the mole people yeah oh [ __ ] are you going to go in there yeah I'm planning to that's sketchy as F I mean you went to Ukraine during the bombings and [ __ ] so I guess the tunnels I don't know bro that's just gonna be scary as [ __ ] now that's what I heard I heard there's like thousands of people they like snatch you up do smut films and [ __ ] bring some loot BR cuz I don't think they got any down there from what I could gathe
r by the way Mr daddy explained the tunnels they seem to exist as a no man's land in the local imagination a forbidden Place shrouded and dark mythology growing up in Seattle as a teenager we had a place like that too called the jungles a lawless Tent City Beneath Interstate 5 that we somehow grew up believing was full of psychotic child molesters and escaped prisoners who would happily strangle us with our own intestines if we so much as came within stabbing distance of their jurisdiction of co
urse in reality the jungles were just a pretty normal West Coast Tent City full of mostly down on their luck Drifter types but because of the Absurd Rumor Mill speculation and horror stories told about this forbidden place we were essentially led to believe there were actual monsters down there there and I think the situation in Vegas is quite similar you know it's just like a it's like a folklore kind of situation right here Vegas you know like I've been here 15 years and I've never been in the
re and I don't really know anyone that's ever gone down there I heard there like thousands of people they have like these Mansions set up and like you come in there and you get stabbed yeah there SN bills like they'll come out at night snatch your children they'll give you pink eye they got like solar panels and they get tax free TX deductions from like selling People's Jewelry and [ __ ] I've definitely heard that they come out at night and they they either SM children off the streets or like t
hey'll grab you and they'll give you like diseases or other things I've heard some [ __ ] up things like they're not real people they're all like dismembered it's all like a big incest ring of just rap people underground like I've actually got a blow job from one of them before no what have you heard they're rapists like they steal from you like even from my own Mom hey you guys talk about tunnel people hi yeah we are I live in a tunnels ah what a Vibe this is Glenn one of the longest living res
idents of the tunnels who thank thanks to the help of fellow YouTube based journalists Tommy G and Brandon Buckingham I was able to arrange a Meetup with on the same Casino bridge where I met up with Mr Daddy are the mole people real yeah they're real do they eat the kids that they take at night no no I've heard that they actually go blind cuz they never see sunlight so they're just always in the dark down there no that's not true okay but we do have snuff films down there oh okay well that's al
ways a good event to be invited to how long have you lived there I've been there since uh 2013 10 years wow do you like it there no I don't I'm actually leaving there this week I should be out of there what was keeping you in there drugs understandable what kind of drugs just meth marijuana there's there's other drugs there but I don't do them the heroin the blues I don't mess with us that's too hard in our prior communication Glenn said he would give me a complete tour of the tunnels and even l
et me stay overnight as long as I didn't portray his community in a sensational or dehumanizing light which I had no plans to so we drove from the Las Vegas Strip to the Western tunnel entrance which is at the base of the Rio Casino how many tunnels are there right here there's six at the sixth way they turn into two two big tunnels Glenn explains that while there's hundreds of miles of drainage tunnels in Las Vegas the primarily inhabited tunnel is only about a mile and a half long and runs fro
m the base of the Rio beneath the strip and lets out behind the link Hotel do different tunnels have different rules or it's kind of just one thing pretty much uh all the rules are the same No Stealing pretty much that's about it just respect everybody don't steal people's stuff what happens if you find out someone stole somebody's [ __ ] we usually send them on their way get kick them out of the wash yeah but they got to be 100% positive that they sto it you know yeah have you had to kick someb
ody out recently um absolutely yeah would they take yeah I believe uh uh speaker I think it was a speaker I know phone yeah Andrew by the way Andrew what's your name Andrew Andrew two Andrews I go by Drew hell yeah sick how long have you been playing guitar for uh I picked it up in 1983 yeah and I was kind of old for I mean I was 18 by then and usually kids in the 70s were you know 14 15 and yeah got some good songs you make your own [Music] music yesterday just memory away does tomorrow really
come I've heard that time trou mind but [Music] tomor feel your mind onra you know tomorrow travel a lonely path around sun [Music] and if tomorrow P the [Music] way what we still have [Music] today but if your dreams become your Shattered Dreams because tomorrow never come now Your Dreams Away that's because tomorrow takes a lonely path around the Sun seems like people here are in pretty good spirits huh but yeah pretty much we are considering situation we're in yeah you know some of the people
prefer to be down here they like it you think some people prefer to be homeless yeah absolutely some do actually if you could theorize why do you think some people prefer that drugs um able to do whatever they want when they want out people that way so you think even if they got offered housing they'd be like no yeah Abol there is someone that that refuse it yeah really absolutely for for what reason you think just they don't want they don't want no rules they don't want to be told what to do o
r anything like that this is where my good friend animal died just like a month ago how did he pass oh I guess we haven't gotten toxicology report but yeah he pretty much he he OED and he's a guy I used to scrap with all the time he's a close friend of mine and he also he he was the guy that was on the strip I don't know if you ever saw it on on uh the news and everything thing Superman knocking the guy out a fight scene with superheroes plays out on the strip and now this video is making the ro
unds on Facebook 13 action news reporter Brian Callahan spoke to street performers about how often they have to deal with this stuff while they're just trying to earn a living that's him really yes animal yeah who just passed away no damn is that how a lot of people are dying down here yes they are people are getting in meth and everything and and dying there's two that was just just died uh up on the ledge here um found a bag of coke they thought it was a Coke on the Strip yeah and they snorted
a line of it and it killed them killed them both killed them both I mean it looks just like meth I don't even want to do meth anymore yeah so tired of it tired of way people look at me and everything like that when you when you smoke meth Yeah well yeah just just being homeless and everything they look at you a whole different way the undesirables they call us are the mo people I used to be the man back in the day just to let you know that till my friend was shot and killed my connected my best
friend 5 years ago this doesn't seem as scary as people were saying up there it's it's not at all I mean you going in the back there's a lot of good art back there the art the art gallery and then uh a lot of people from all over the world comeing and uh the look at the art gallery and video yeah you think it's cool if I sleep here for the night absolutely there's plenty of room you crash out and get up in the morning and some people say that there spirits and everything in here I've never pers
onally myself saw one but a lot of people have said they St or it could be really good drugs Glenn explains that much of the spirits they say that are in the tunnels aren't the spirits of dead children that were in snuff films or anything but of homeless people that have died during floods after all the original purpose of these tunnels was to allow rainwater to drain and to prevent the streets of Las Vegas from flooding but now every time it rains in Vegas someone dies in the tunnels police do
Post warning signs around the tunnels and washes before these major storms but bangart says sometimes that's not enough three years ago four people died at the Swinson tunnels M and uh I knew three of them the water comes so fast and catches them off guard so water rushes down this whole thing it it gets up about around this High usually about that high but it it's gotten higher and higher it gets the stronger it is so if you're passed out or something you could drown oh absolutely absolutely ye
ah but we always warn each other about that and uh but when you're trying to get your stuff out and everything that water comes you can be washed away come on in your bed you crash out over there for the night put your bed up over here you got lay down and try to get some sleep cuz uh first night here you might want to keep one eye open you never know just kidding you'll be safe amongst us yes yeah I feel like you guys will look after me yes we will all right it's a pretty nice place to chill th
anks for the comfortable bed guys I appreciate it it's actually more comfortable than I thought it would be got a cool like 5 in Cotton pad right here it's nice and cool it's about 110° outside so it's better to be here than up there for sure um I guess you guys meet me back here in the morning we'll uh give some food out go to the scrapyard do a bunch of stuff see you guys in a bit all right byebye any last words Vegas baby catch you guys in we do have a championship team now see you in the mor
ning see you in the morning we promise we won't do anything to them we won't tie them up or nothing like that no bondage stuff films No not tonight someone said what the hell is wrong with you Walking Dead with Nothing Left to Lose shower nothing gain and no one left to blame top of the morning to you how you doing man good to see you it was fantastic how you doing man I'm doing all right nice unbeknownst to the tunnel people I'd phoned a friend to come and give out food supplies and Beyond hey
this is CP Max Mama Bear and we're out here at the tunnel and today I brought a bunch of items that they can lies under there that maybe they don't get usually and make them feel human of course for those unfamiliar her son KPM is currently serving a sentence in a federal facility for firearm possession however from behind bars his one request to her was to continue his mission of feeding the people and giving back to the homeless in the bag they have a toothbrush wipes there's hand sanitizer po
pcorn noodles we have a banana an orange an apple and a granola bar yeah I see you brought you brought these too for the oh for the ladies for the lady people some tampones tampones and then a little sucker sucker you know for that sweetness that you need during that time of mon okay so come on up and grab a drink and good morning I'm Crystal hi Andy Andy my girl okay so I got some for you mama and if you stick around about 20 minutes I have pizzas coming do you yes please consider it do you wan
t to ice water as well uh yeah why did you choose to live in the tunnels because it's out of sight it's safe and they take care of each other down there if they know that someone freaking you mean you don't want to be around and stuff when they come you mean they'll freaking like tell them to kick rots and [ __ ] you know what I mean they won't let them near you you know I have a ex um boyfriend actually have two kids by him and um he freaking was really abusive really physically abusive and um
he will kill me and um he showed back up after like about 2 years we know someone that stays down that way and I think freaking um they told him where I was I don't know when he did CJ and Frankie was out there with me and I freaking stood up I was like Frankie don't let him near me cuz he plan on killing my ass literally so for you it's almost like you get protections living down there yeah better than freaking the cops can do because by the time freaking I get to a phone to freaking call you m
e and I be already be dead even if you get a freaking um restraining order against them and stuff once they get to you you don't have time and cops to respond you mean before anything happens how long were you guys together for probably like six seven years narcissists they don't freaking um act that way at first they wait a year two years 3 years and then they change and then freaking you have hope that they'll go back to the way they were and so you freaking lie to yourself and lie to everybod
y around you but the truth is they'll never go back that way cuz that wasn't who they really were and um this last time I left him I didn't charge my phone for 3 weeks cuz I knew if I talked to him i' went back to him knowing the fact that he probably killed me one day and that's scary woo what does women do we go back it's going to be different this time right but it ain't different H it ain't you have to almost freaking um trick your own mind and not doing it I have an ex-husband who is a clas
sic case of a narcissist and I just learned a lot about myself dealing with him what I was willing to deal with [ __ ] you Mr Gary and you learn a lot about what the freaking human body is capable of freaking going through and capable of doing right I've had several head lacerations when caused me muscle spasms for weeks so freaking sometimes when people say stuff it takes like a second for it to register and freaking time is inconsequential to me at this point it's just who you spend it with an
d it's how you you know what you do with your time when you're here you know me of course you're so right you're so right about that I got a new boyfriend now who's awesome he's in jail right now though okay and so um I'm pretty much been staying in the tunnels here lately especially without him here and stuff in case my Ed shows up or whatever do the cops come here a lot the Metro cops and bust stuff up they they didn't used to but here lately they've been coming a lot and like um giving people
trespassing tickets or like taking you to jail for trespassing the number of people living in some flood control tunnels beneath the valley is down quite a bit in the last couple of months trespass notices go up around washes and tunnels which if you don't have a warrant you usually get out like 4 hours and just have a court date but if you have a warrant you usually do at least 3 days before you get out I overheard you guys talking about IDs earlier do you have an ID right now well for one I n
ever had an ID in this state so I have to get my birth certificate from another state and then you have to have two forms of ID to get your Social Security card so then I have to get some kind of paper from the hospital and then that with my birth certific I can get a social security card and then with my social security card and virtu I can get an ID as she explained when you have no documents to your name the arduous process of getting an ID in Nevada begins primarily by retrieving a printed c
opy of your birth certificate from your home state which just to request from the state of Tennessee for example where the woman we interviewed was born requires a photo copy of a government issued ID card to verify to the Records Office that it's really you asking for your own birth certificate and if you have no way to prove it you can't get it however there is a service called vital check that allows you to circumnavigate the verification process but it requires a physical mailing address and
a $45 credit card deposit $45 right mhm so I'm going to give you the money for that I want to do that but I'm actually going to make get $55 because who can't use an extra 10 right 55 is a good number acquiring the birth certificate is just the first step from there if you have no home address you have to get a receipt with your name on it from an instate medical provider which usually means going to an urgent care for a single $100 checkup I have to go to the hospital get another form of some
kind of paper from the hospital with both that medical receipt and your birth certificate you then go to the Social Security office and apply for a social security C card which is free once you get that you can finally go to the licensing center and apply for an official state ID and assuming you have a place to send it to and 20 bucks to pay the fee you'll finally have one so in other words would it be fair to say that you need an ID in order to get an ID yes basically how does that make sense
okay you say the first thing we need to get the $45 for Tennessee yeah okay I'm going to be back in a week and we're going to get that taken care of for you I'm putting it out there and in your name is bird and I remember it and I'm Crystal and we'll take care of that the first step I'll help you with thank you okay you're welcome let's get some more stuff here Pizza anybody want pizza we got pizza come get your pizza go get your pizza ow Glenn is dancing gln come on Dance with Me Glenn all righ
t no more for you Glenn you're emptying my whole pack I wanted to interview some more people who lived in the tunnels they seem to be a pretty tight-knit community and one that looks after one another thankfully Mama Bear was already more or less acquainted with the power couple of the tunnels Andy and her boyfriend boxer who's kind of like the bouncer of the underground my real name is Jesus martinz but everybody calls me boxer I don't like people who come down and hurt people you know Rob them
or rape or whatever you know that's not cool you're not right you know I got to make sure to let them know hey you might be a crazy lunatic that's okay I can handle you no problem if I can handle my girl I can handle you I've been in front of guns I've been in front of knives I got hit with bats you know I'm still here why do they call you boxer because I used to box I used to box professionally I used to do MMA too now I'm 54 woo I'm getting old to climb these steps but hey a young one who wan
ts to dance let's go buddy I fit for it you like it out here I love it out here you get on the roller coaster hold on you're going for a ride right what are some of the main challenges you face living in the tunnels floods yeah floods uh rains when it comes in rainy season we get a lot of water com through everything gets washed away animals uh kittens she lost a couple kittens already and this one kept trying to tell me where she was and I didn't catch it and she was like sisters to this one an
d that one yeah this is stumper she was born on March 6 you's got to be careful what do you guys deal with any harassment from the police oh my God almost every other day they just come in grab you go through your stuff and take you to jail State Nevada versus Andrea cook 20 cr01 12761 Andrea cook is far from a violent person I got a few tickets for trespassing they say well go and get you trespassing we're going to get you for this we why what are what what are we doing to you we're doing what
you said out of sight out of mind how do you make money living down here scrap we scrap for metal we scrap for copper we scrap aluminum whatever we could sell so you kind of just walk around grab cans and then take them to the recycling garbage cans we go through them look for uh uh aluminum cans people throw away money don't know it how much can you make on a on a good day scrapping in scrapping you can make a good day up to $250 to $300 really mhm cuz there's a lot of people throw away like wi
res and stuff like that that's copper copper is higher than anything else right now so if somebody wants to come here and help you guys what do you need most first thing first friendship and a handshake how you doing that'd be the best thing of all uh second thing people's respect and a smile from them you know get that no more now these days you can't say hey how you doing they just look at you mean or whatever you know I don't know you you know what happened to the those days when you say hey
how you doing you know yeah that's how I miss a lot of people just forget they're too stuck on either working or on their s despite being treated like undesirables by the general public boxer and Andy say they more or less enjoy their life in the tunnels for the most part it's not bad uh because it's cooler during the summertime it's warmer in the winter and you are out of Officer spaces there's nothing really crazy that happens down here people die cuz they make bad choices sometimes or because
it's that time for them or whatever I mean people get high and they act like they're out of their mind I have seen people die over that though heroin SL Blues when did you see like Blues start to come on the scene you know what I didn't even know what those were until 6 months ago maybe yeah we don't allow that down here we've had a couple friends die down here doing that following the death of Joker and animal boxer and Andy decided to change the rules of the Rio tunnels to make it no fentanyl
heroin or Blues which are fentanyl pills allowed and so everybody said no anybody who does that they're not allowed over here so these particular tunnels there's no Blues no heroin no they're not allowed here blues or or heroin here no you want to smoke weed or fine go inside the tunnel you know things like that but in these tunnels there's really only Two drugs allowed meth and weed it's almost hard to imagine that we're living in a world where now meth is considered to be a soft drug but I gu
ess that's what fentol and Tran have done how long have you been out here for too long good intentions just really poor choices I guess following a man how many years ago was that like six maybe seven six or seven years unfortunately how come you say unfortunately because I'm in a tunnel help asked me they were like um do you have any mental we us and our I live in a tunnel what do you think we try to be a good group of people and help one another and like you know do what we can but like we're
still the undesirables you know if you get back to a certain area back there there's it's you can dig and dig and dig it's not concrete and they call it the the graveyard a lot of people were killed and buried out there what do you think were the biggest factors that landed you on the streets well we come up here I just bought a truck with my taxes and we come up here and we did like day labor all the way from Alabama or Mississippi to here my truck had a clean title to it and uh it didn't have
a a tag on it so the when we got pulled over one day they wind up Towing it and I just couldn't get it back out it just cost too much money so what happened next we were here on the streets we were doing good until then but they noticed that the tag was out of date and they pulled us over and do you have any plans for the future of course get off the streets if I can get my ID like when I got here my Pur got stole it had my my license my social security card it had everything in it and um if I h
ad my ID I'd be working not to say I wouldn't be in here but I would still be working yeah we we talked to Jay as well and it seems like it's pretty hard to get an ID when you're living on the streets it really is it's very hard earlier in the year way before we actually filmed this video I went to the tunnels I think it was in May of 2023 and I went to go meet up with this guy named Jay the conversation with Jay was actually quite interesting but it mostly actually revolved around the difficult
ies in getting an ID so I figured it'd be good to bring back for the purpose of this segment my name is Jay I've been down here like probably 9 years and that's nothing to be proud of but like you get stuck I say stuck I mean it's absolutely shockingly amazing to me how hard it is to get an ID with no ID I mean they can put you in jail they know you are who you say you are but you can't get an ID and with no ID guess what you can't do anything you can't work you can't you can't get an apartment
you can't do anything I mean and you're automatically a criminal I look at it that way I'm 47 years old I'm stuck out here for like 13 years it's like a quarter of my life I wish there was some way through fingerprinting or DNA or some [ __ ] thing that I could get my ID because it comes to the point where I've tried now for so many years 9 years 10 years I've been trying to get my ID I'm still idless you sound like you lose hope but the [ __ ] just doesn't work I've never had a Nevada ID previo
usly so apparently that's more of a problem I I'll walk to freaking Israel or something if I have to swim whatever it takes to get an idea but guess what the shit's not working and uh when you tell people you can't get your ID of course they say that's not true but it is true it's not I mean anybody who says just go down and get your Ida your birth tiet you have to show me how because I've tried every way when I was younger if you lose your driver's license you go pay 12 bucks get a new one thos
e days are gone those days are gone apparently they freed up they we got $8.2 million for the homeless just got granted to the city or something to this extent Las Vegas city council approving more than $8 million for homeless assistance exactly how that 8.2 million will be spent is overseen by the director of Neighborhood Services do I think I give me that no I have any interest in it no money doesn't mean anything has no value to me I mean that because I can't do anything with it I mean really
I can't I mean I can't get I can't even get a hotel room for a night cuz I have no ID I mean until you have no ID you won't realize how bad or problem it is I I just call it the revolving door [ __ ] I mean it sounds bad but it's totally true it seems like every time you get up you're getting kicked out um no material objects have any value to me anymore in any way I mean that I've had all my stuff bulldozed and stolen so many times that I'm just holding it to a nice person takes I could care l
ess I mean that too and I've had some valuable things I mean you'll uh you'll be shocked when you have millions of dollars how many friends you have and then when you have nothing you find out who your real friends are you'll be shocked you know it's true and material objects are just uh material objects that's it not even worth it you're wasting time how didd you first get to Vegas uh Greyhound bus had a painkiller problem after I got shot 10 years ago Jay was shot in the head in New Hampshire
and miraculously survived but the battle with prescription painkillers that ensued during his recovery caused him to spiral into a cycle of drug addiction and homelessness can you tell us what happened with the uh shooting I get shot in the head yeah I got car jacked shot in the head in like 03 in the hospital 11 months the first time died three times I back there in 06 for 7 months died fourth time yeah so he got car jacked yep I don't know why I would have argued with anybody the car was a pie
ce of crap anyhow you know that's reality like I said everything happens for a reason be it from God or from what you've done or what not you know where were you uh New Hampshire yep I moved back there from here because my father passed away at 45 my mother was in a wheelchair so I moved back there to take care of her um like a carard jack like the second day I was back there but everything happens for a reason I used to be hateful and derogatory about that changes the way you look at all this [
__ ] but it's really irrelevant to me I don't care um I'm the same as you or anybody else as far as how I look at it is what it is I'm not uh Angry or hateful towards them that person in any way I mean that and if I can turn back time and change what's happened I wouldn't it's been a fun ride you should enjoy life every day and you know how many people was the last time you walked on real grass with your shoes off and looked at the sky uh probably not very often probably a long time ago you kno
w people don't appreciate the Earth for what it is I think too so talking more about the the painkillers yeah did you get prescribed pretty shortly after the incident a gan amount of them yep do you know which uh pills oh yeah many of them oxycotton fentanyl rocks are set um theot is Dem are all um yeah a lot I see it like 6 oy 80s a day five rocks at 30s four delot at 8s four perk 15s fentanyl 300 microgr patch every 3 days I mean I was the point where I couldn't even sleep 4 hours I'd be sick
I have to do pills um I heroin to stop doing painkillers I mean that's not right but it was that bad you know I mean it's it's disgusting and uh they're readily available especially like with my medical P I mean I could go to the hospital right now and get a gal amount of pills though Jay's experience is very unique in many ways one thing that he shared is very common among tunnel people the constant endless loop of trying and failing to get an ID like I tried to send off for mine online and I h
ad the money the credit card and everything to to do it with but then they they asked me what reason do you want it I want it for working to show you know proof of who I am and they were like well you need to show us proof of who you are to even for us to file it I'm well what sense is that you know like up here it is impossible I mean unless you're a hooker and you know that's I'm just too old for that right now idas aside I was also very curious about how they powered electricity and light in
the tunnels according to the Camp's electrician boxer they entire Community is powered by a single solar panel solar panels well they work by the Sun and get electricity these big ones they throw good current so you can charge a battery within one day it's so simple because it's just two wires that come out of it one's a hot and one's a cold all the power you need to power up your where you stay at have light have a fan in hot days um you can cook you can run a TV watch movies a lot of people th
row a lot of TVs away now these days some good ones so we end up either selling them or we keep keep them where didd you get this solar panel from construction sites it's just because they're cracked they say okay it doesn't look good we got to have a nice clean glass so they change them and these are perfectly great uh you know they work he says he got the panel from the dumpster of a nearby solar farm where panels are immediately thrown away by workers if they find cracks dents or significant
scratches how many people do you think use the electricity from this panel about 11 of us how long have you been on the streets for man I've been on the streets since since I was a kid never thought I was going to live to 54 but man got plans for me so I'm here you're on the streets when you were 12 bro mhm I was a Ab child my mom's family didn't like me because my grandparents uh raised me cuz my mom put me up for adoption and after being put up for adoption at 9 years old boxer entered the fos
ter care system mostly bouncing from group home to group home until eventually he was kicked out and left to fend for himself alone on the streets at age 12 I was going to ask you where didd you grow up man I grew up in uh Emerald City the City downtown Seattle that's where I'm from really I'm from downtown Seattle yeah you know the first city sunk right yeah back in the day the great Seattle Fire On Top 1912 we're built right on top of it they say if we have one more bad earthquake Seattle goes
under good reason to stay in the tunnels then huh exactly for the tunnels like they say what happens in the tunnels stays in the tunnels hey these tunnels going in deep some bad people down there there too you know that escape from prison whatever and they don't they can't catch them because they're in the tunnels MH you know cuz it's dark so a lot of people got to be careful when you go into a tunnel if you see people there you need to get permission if you can enter a tunnel you know because
this is their home you know it's like me going to your home you know do I just go in enter the door no I'm going ask permission you know yeah and that's the same way here they everybody try to live that rule after showing me his solar pan set up boxer and I enter the tunnels when a flood comes oh boy it takes care everything he explains that the floods are kind of a double-edged sword while the floods do end up killing many pets and often times people they also bring in a great deal of scrap met
al that washes up in the drains so the floods bring in like a lot of stuff you can scrap right brings this wi see that's all that wire that's all copper All Copper well that's money they call this the six way this is where all stuff come what do you think's like the most valuable thing that you found down here oh man it'd be amazed I found up to knives I found some swords I found some axes I found watches jewelry yeah hey you learn how to surviv in this kind of stuff that's the best thing about
it learning to survive it's running water from the other places this is from one of the casinos do you guys use this for anything yeah we wash clothes you guys take showers with this we take showers on other one you want to give us any yeah sure we're currently uh underneath Caesar's Palace we're pretty much like in the heart of the tunnels right now and in this area a lot of people look for different stuff on the ground like debris that comes in during the floods so they can take it to the scra
pyard or the pawn shop and make some money so sometimes there's a lot of copper that flows down sometimes motorcycles flow down sometimes iPhones and blackberries come down Rolexes apparently what else uh diamond rings diamond earrings you just find all sorts of things you things you say hey I haven't seen that one before a while man that's not than Atari wow you know you want to take it home clean it up and fix it and see what happens majority of the time they'll work if they're not too banged
up anything you find in the water you got to let it dry I began to feel nostalgic for a different era a more innocent time when I was just a young boy with a metal detector on the shores of New Jersey searching for Hidden Treasure beneath the earth's surface whatever happened to metal detector guys anyway they used to be everywhere perhaps they succumbed to online bullying or reached a consensus as a community that treasure isn't real either way this is a conversation for a different day I wante
d to learn more about boxer's partner Andy who said she's been in the tunnel for over 6 years the first time I came down in these tunnels was like 6 years ago or something if you've never been out on the streets like this and you're just used to being in your place or whatnot you you think the the worst of homeless people cuz you you really don't know anything about what's going on in their lives or what put them there or anything like that most people automatically assume they're all drunks or
they're all um drug addicts I know at one time I did that's not the case sometimes real things actually happen to people that put them there that they have no control over what do you think put you on the streets in the first place a divorce my husband went back to work after he was on FMLA from work for like 10 months cuz I quit working cuz I had a baby in ' 07 and I refused to go back to work until she was old enough to go to school my job as a mom is to raise my child at that same time my hus
band and I were kind of bumping heads and he wasn't sure if he wanted to be married cuz he felt like I forced him to marry me so here I am how old's your daughter now almost 15 when's the last time you saw her when she was nine mhm I can't get hold them or nothing I've tried um I talked to her a lot about her dad and I but she already knew she was no she's no dummy what's your daughter's name Athena do you know what Athena means or Who Athena was she was the goddess of in battle or something lik
e that or love and wisdom or something her dad told me as he's playing um uh God of War mind you and and I was pregnant with her he's like yeah let's name her Athena I was like are you serious no but it actually fits her very well and her middle name is Lorraine l a capital r e i g n and that means to rule and she's very very good at that she simmers down her class when they get like over excited you know after lunch and stuff and she's really good that way everybody has a different idea of what
addiction is there's a lot of different reasons people are out here and it's not always because of drugs or alcohol spatula spatula hell yeah pancake I made pancakes here I cook down here as we approached their living quarters boxer wanted to give me a tour of his kitchen setup which honestly wasn't too bad this is my stove I got my little frying pans I'm a pothead so this is my buddy when we smoke pot oh [ __ ] that's a bong yeah oh hell yeah I made that that's sick hi good time [Laughter] is
that a real human skull no I'm just kidding after showing me his bong boxer and Andy requested that I go to the local grocery store to pick up three essential ingredients uh Maple sausage flour tacos and hamburger meat so that boxer could cook for us and make his signature dish tunnel tacos hey we got to eat good too you know yeah people don't think we eat good they think we just juming the garbage and get garbage stuff and and everything I tell them no we're not like that we're just like everyb
ody else you know in the following minutes you'll get a step-by-step guide to Preparing the ultimate underground delicacy tunnel tacos all right let's dive in I barbecue too sometimes it all depends you know yeah uh step one is to locate a single paper plate to use as a cutting board paper plate then you carefully slice the maple sausages into qu in slivers people like to cook some don't I love to cook then use your fingers to break up the meat if you're serving more than two people break open a
nother box of sausages down here well it's kind of difficult depends you know if you got gas you can you go ahead and uh do it but if you don't got gas have to go get firewood okay it's time to put it all on the grill so flip the plate then steadily mix the sausages until the pink turns bright round and then once you smell the thick Aroma of maple syrup add hamburger meat and using a spatula mix the sausages and the hamburger meat together allowing the maple syrup molecules to percolate into eve
ry last cell of beef all you do just let it fry the flavor goes into the meat smell the maple there you go M allow the meat to Stew for about 2 minutes then using a separate pan heat up the flour tortillas and assuming that you don't run out of propane nothing else Dr drastic happens it'll be Taco Time scoop the meat into a tortilla and eat up it's delicious my first tunnel Taco made straight from the house oh and I forgot rule number one don't think about germs bacteria or other food born illne
sses they aren't real that is Bomb dude thanks appreciate it quick quick simple easy to go yeah boom you got your nice flavor you have to throw all this ingredients in it yeah with the flavor of the beef and flavor of the uh Maple uh sausage my only request is that if you make this at home for yourself or for company juices are so good give credit where it's due the Rio tunnels as I relaxed and digested the tacos with boxer and Andy Glenn who first brought me into the tunnels the night before sa
t down to kick it earlier he'd mentioned that he'd be out of the tunnels by the weekend I'm actually leaving there this week I should be out of there but he was still there I wondered what happened so do you plan to stay here in the tunnels no I'm I'm getting out of this week where you going um in inside hopefully inside and and forward and to get a job get my ID it's I've got no just this is it this is the deadline I I got to I got to get back on the streets and my life back together cuz I I ca
n't deal this for many reasons I want to do it you know I'm just I want to get back in touch with my children you know back into the lives I I hope and get my [ __ ] together my daughter it was the last time I talked to her was her 16th birthday and I went to jail I was supposed to we some money and I was made I made some money on strip selling water but I want to stay for five more bucks I needed and I wi this money and uh cop got me in uh rested me I had no bail bench war and he didn't want to
take me to jail when he found out that I was supposed to do that with my daughter cuz he must had a daughter but um he couldn't do nothing about it cuz no bail bench for I have to go in he already called it in and I have to go see a judge the judge looked at it when I she said I had 124 prior trespasses and slapped me with two six month sentence for a year for trespassing a year in county for trespassing so he told me well what makes you feel anybody I won't take your money it'll be there when
you get out and you send it to her I said it's already too late you know she was supposed to go on this trip for her birthday and daddy let her down again I said probably won't ever talk to me again for rest of my life and uh haven't talked to her since she just turned 23 but she has reached out the last couple months ago to a friend of mine on Facebook twice well man I think of everything you know you're saying works out like if you get out of here you get a spot you get a job I can definitely
see you reintroducing yourself to your kids lives man oh absolutely that's that's all I just main thing I want to do is my kids it's all I ever wanted to do in my life was watch my kids grow up and unfortunately it was something that was taken from me I found Glenn's notion that the ability to be there for his kids was taken from him by an external force to be somewhat strange after all he is a human being with Free Will and he said his 23-year-old daughter had tried to find him on Facebook mult
iple times but it seemed like there was something deeper within Glenn that was stopping him from taking that step and keeping him underground everybody has a traumatic experience and and got him got him here in one way or another something very very traumatic has gotten him here and to get out of that here it's not an easy task it's just almost impossible without having someone behind you a sponsor or a family member that really cares and you got to have someone there behind you backing you up o
therwise it's just loose I haven't seen nobody ever do it on the own by themselves it's it's it's an impossible task this in mind I wanted to figure out how I could help Glenn in a real tangible way my first idea was to take him to the DMV and get him an ID but apparently there was a 3month wait time for appointment you got to have a phone you got to make an appointment it's 3 months wait I mean to wait that 3 months I mean what what am I going to out to 3 months you know what I mean so I figure
d the next best thing would be to help him earn some income which unfortunately would be very difficult his primary hustle selling water on the Strip had already landed him in county jail for a year and so any future arrests would lead to automatic jail time and also thousands of dollars in fines and his secondary hustle scrapping was also now impossible after Champion recycling the closest scrapyard to the Rio tunnels began requiring ID after a News expose revealed that prolific metal thieves w
ere using their scrapyard to sell stolen copper but I have an ID and also no warrants in Las Vegas so that meant that I could be his middleman at the scrapyard and so we made plans to meet the next morning good morning Las Vegas we are tracking breaking news Las Vegas reached its hottest day ever on record yesterday a fiery 117° woo what is this stuff that is copper that is low that's LG low grade copper cuz it's just got the copper in the middle you strip it how much you think we're going to be
able to get for this yeah I believe it's 70 cents a pound I think we got 100 lb i' I'd say oh sick yeah this is a good 60 lb here yeah he probably got to another yeah it's close to 100 lb hell yeah no brag door handles from uh Caesar's Palace straight from the palace yep it's my favorite place in addition to perhaps 100 lb of low-grade copper Glenn also scored about 40 brass door handles from the dumpster of Caesar's Palace after a quick drive to the scrapyard we began loading up our Metals int
o a rolling plastic blue Dolly she don't want to stay still to my surprise Glenn also scavenged a small bag of high highr wire which is even more valuable than copper uh that is number one and underneath it is HD which is highr uh wire so what do they use this these stuff for uh that's this is uh for like uh electrical right in you up to the wall your wall sockets and stuff everything's got a different price to it grass is about $2 a pound so is number one the rest is like 70 cents a pound I thi
nk but we'll see how much we got here after loading up our Dolly we rolled it over to the weighing station which is where workers tell you how much your load is worth we're at Champions uh recycling uh we taking our scrap in trade it in for money how much uh money do you expect to get from this load I hope a $100 yeah maybe a little bit more you want to borrow my ID and make sure make sure it works absolutely but we can do that then you then you'll be in the system in case you ever want to come
here yourself for sure so you said most people from the tunnels make their money this way yeah they do yeah most of them yeah do the scrapyards care if like the copper is like stolen or stripped or whatever oh yeah they of course they do yeah how how do they tell they they can't really once once it's stripped all the numbers are off it and everything so they really can't tell so nobody's ever got in trouble like bringing stolen copper here before I believe they have actually yeah police say thes
e are photos of him scrapping metal rest documents say wors sold more than 3 tons of metal between December and may for for 23 Grand and say there weren't any receipts $20,000 worth the copper yeah where do you think they got that from the telephone po a spaghetti Bowl he said I think never never stole my copper or anything like that I don't do that but I'd rather do it to hard way and I not get in trouble I've never been in prison I don't plan on going soon they called our number and we approac
hed the way station what's up man it's sweating huh immediately they asked for a valid ID he said valid ID yeah and after checking my ID they told me I had to register into their online system so they could keep track of my transactions so you have to have ID to scrap here yes cool and after finally weighing our medals they printed out an itemized receipt to tell us how much we'd earned all right so we're looking at $54.39 I'm out no no I'm not happy at all with it I was expecting much better an
y want to cash this in have you been here before no can I see ID please yeah do you have to have ID to scrap here yeah okay how come has to be it's uh required by the state required by the state yes it is after providing an official signature and getting my fingerprint taken I was officially in the recycling system and out came $53 of Cold Hard Cash with Glenn's name on it here you go right cash good job guys yeah for sure that's a good day bad days uh P how do you plan to spend that that bread
uh like I I'm going to go uh get some clothes some shorts and stuff for the summer I got nothing this is hot as heck is what I plan on doing to my delight Glenn told me he'd received some great news despite the Nevada DMV typically having a 3-month wait time for an appointment they decided to open up on Saturday at midnight for walk-in appointments the agency recently started offering Saturday Walkins for new residents Glenn was told the line would open at midnight on Saturday night and the door
s would officially open at 6:00 a.m. on Sunday morning so this meant that if I could accompany him as a housed co-signer Glenn could get an ID we should we should try and get to the DMV super early on Saturday Saturday yeah at midnight I'll be in line okay you don't have to be there at midnight but I'll be there at midnight all right make sure I get in I told Glenn to meet me around 2: a.m. on Sunday morning and to bring as many friends as he wanted he brought along two people I'd never seen bef
ore but also who hadn't had ID in over a decade so this is the last form Ida that you have yeah yeah expire expired 2014 so solid N9 years your [ __ ] expired this expired in 2009 dude that's almost two decades like solid 15 years no Ida hey so so Glenn what's the plan for those who don't know right now tonight we're going to go sit wait in line at the DMV till they open up in the morning cuz they take walk-ins on Saturdays and hopefully get our ID when we arrived to the DMV on Flamingo Avenue a
t 3:00 a.m. there were already hundreds of people lined up waiting some sitting in camping chairs others just laying on blankets all lined up in front of this empty DMV office awaiting the rare opportunity to apply for an ID without a 3mon wait so it's it's 3:18 a.m. we're here at the uh DMV in Vegas there's about 150 people in front of us in line already lined up what time does it open up 8 8:00 8:00 and so you guys are you guys are all going to apply to get IDs yeah I hope so yeah do you expec
t there to be any issues I do I don't this apparently was Glenn's first time ever going to the DMV but his friends on the other hand had came here on Saturday for the walk-in opportunity three separate times and gotten rejected each time I mean really what the heck is going on here at the DMV everybody needs a license why is it so freaking hard is it this hard in Norway isn't there some Alternatives let's find out to get a better idea of the sheer desperation at hand I figured I'd interview the
first guy in line who told me he'd been there since 9:00 p.m. the night before yeah this is my fourth week right here at the DMV just trying to get my ID it expired and you got to go through hell trying to get get ID right here without ID you can't do nothing in this town I want a jackpot at the eure on Sahara and Sherwood nice and they wouldn't give it to me cuz I didn't have ID it was over 1,200 bucks so they said go get your ID and we'll hold your jackpot when you come back we'll have it for
you so today the day I'm going to get it so this is your fourth attempt how come the first three attempts didn't work because there was so many people they turned me away after 5 more hours of waiting the line finally began to move this sck out invisible please stand in one single file line one person off to the other how's the current confidence level about getting the ID our yeah we feel good that we can do it one some way I'm going to talk her into it if I have to I mean I think you he sells
out the forms that they request like the homeless form normally in order to get an instate ID you have to present a piece of mail with your name on it to verify your instate home address but you can get around this by officially declaring homeless status as long as you have a co-signer who has an instate residency and thankfully Larry Susan is a Nevada man so he listed his home address as Glenn's address so soon we were in and sat for about a half an hour waiting for our ticket number to be call
ed counter number eight now serving 0 8 4 at counter number as a brief side note there's almost no place on Earth as miserable and spiritually draining as the Department of Motor Vehicles I wonder if the workers also feel this way either way that's a story for a different day soon Glenn's number was called and the process was actually more straightforward than I thought it would be for my ID cuz I don't I didn't have no documents he has the paper I believe they asked Glenn a couple questions wer
e you born outside of the United States no gave him a temporary ID slip and said we were almost good to go all we had left to do was take a picture oh hell yeah are you going are you going to smile for the picture or what I thought I was going to be able to miss skip that one I might break the camera smile all righty thank you very much I could hardly believe it the process was finally almost complete 2 weeks in the mail in 10 to 14 days in the mail we'd receive Glenn's fresh new ID you played i
t pretty straight face for that ID picture yeah yeah I did you got to play it tough yep that's right sming and you get pulled over you're [ __ ] right back to County right even just holding his temporary paper ID I could sense The Glenn felt truly accomplished and like a new future was ahead have it right there man what are you going to do I'm going to go Monday get my birth certificate see about getting housed and uh find a job man quickly get my feet back on you know ground back into society q
uit hanging around with all the [ __ ] [ __ ] dope heads aren't you going to miss the tunnels bro it's pretty nice no no I ain't going to miss it one bit not at all buddy once I'm inside I won't even I won't even go back to visit you're not going to go chill with boxer from time to time uh no cuz they're not going to be there either they're getting out of there too see you soon yes yes I told Glenn that I'd be back in exactly 10 days with his ID he told me that in the meantime he'd stay sober an
d look for housing and look who's watching all this [ __ ] go down with that [ __ ] eating grin looking down at us voted top lawyer voted by who a bunch of [ __ ] yahoos with IDs all right uh here we are at the post office right here where allegedly inside is a letter containing Glenn's fresh ID straight from the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles delivered to me directly from the state's capital Carson City here we go baby I can feel the plastic in here this is a huge moment I hope nobody [ __
] finds out that I have a PO Box here in Vegas and comes sends me weird stuff but what can you do we need some ASMR for the uh sound of the envelope opening like that's a gratifying sound to people above 50 means good [Music] news oh [ __ ] there he is Glenn Carl his full name I didn't know that brown eyes 140 lb born in 1965 4 years before the summer of love one year after the Civil Rights Act was passed in the dawn of the Cold War honestly this alone is teaching me so much more about Glenn th
at I didn't actually know it's Glenn with two NS and his middle name is Carl you know where we have to go now my favorite place on Earth yes the tunn opening next to the Rio let's roll as I approached the tunnels with Glenn's ID in hand I felt an altruistic sense of gratification that I didn't feel from my previous videos which covered the Streets of San Francisco and Philadelphia and here's why content culture as a whole and the way that it's capitalized on the housing crisis by way of making Y
ouTube videos about horrific homelessness is depressing and I feel complicit in it and no longer want to use the motif of raising awareness as a justification for inserting myself into the misery of others for the public spectacle and instead want to make documentaries that actually show you how to help and hopefully motivate viewers to try what I did in their own communities ideally with the cameras off hey Glenn yo Glenn I don't know if he's here hey boxer who is it it's Andrew I got Glenn's I
D you seen him all right let's wait for them out here hey Glenn very quickly Glenn appeared wearing short shorts and rolling a suitcase what's up dude how you doing man what's up brother how you doing good to see you dog hey too man bro check it out got your [ __ ] man there we go right home brother that's a good picture of you bro oh [ __ ] that's bad sh that's horrible what's been up dog nothing just working make some money that's it where you been working at selling water on his tro [ __ ] ye
ah the classic hustle bro I'm I'm stoked the ID came so fast yeah yeah two weeks that's awesome man yeah yeah it's a game changer you might not be able to tell through the camera but talking to Glenn there he seemed guilty about something and probably not something that he want to admit directly to a camera so I had Susan stand far away so I could talk to Glenn in private any new updates any anything interesting happened recently down here nah nothing everybody's just been so hot everybody's jus
t hiding yeah miserable that's about it haven't been behaving you haven't been no what you been doing a little bit of mess not much a little bit it's right in front of you it's hard you know not to say no that's why I got to get out of here just get in a place and get a job tomorrow I got to go to Social Security that I got to do it my sister supposed to come down and see me oh she answered your uh your text yeah yeah yeah Glenn told me that his best friend growing up was his older sister who mo
re or less abandoned him after he began using hard drugs heavily a few years ago for the past 2 years he's been trying to get in touch with her but she never responded up until she figured out he was taking the steps to get an ID she she responded to your text oh yeah yeah I I talked to her on the phone what' she say couple times she not not much she was glad I was getting ID and all that that's cool you haven't talked to her in forever right it was 2 years he asked if he could use my phone to c
all her which I said of course hello hey sis you oh I just flew down here for a day or two no I'm actually using someone else's phone I just got my ID today yeah I thought you coming down to see me soon as I got time soon got time what are you so busy doing working oh about time that's what I want to do work I always [ __ ] working but I'm always [ __ ] broke I don't get it that's the thing more you work less money you have right yeah yeah I just called to let you know that I didn't have my phon
e and I got my ID okay okay well I'll try to keep down though in the next couple days okay you said that last week no I didn't yeah you did I'll talk to you later okay bro bye love you love you more yeah that's my sister she's a year and three days older than me what kind of job are you trying to do I'll do anything for right now you know yeah I would like to go in a gry do some clipping and how to grow weed start growing my own [ __ ] when I get inside yeah yeah well I hope the ID helps a littl
e bit at least oh it will it's it's Game Changer you'll see a couple days I'll be totally different you won't even recognize me you think so yeah I think I'll be able to recognize you man well you might be yeah you'll be able to recognize me I'm tired of [ __ ] being dirty like this I can't stand it you still up for doing like a program or well kind of yeah but I'd rather not you know the the the the meetings and [ __ ] groups and [ __ ] like that like I want to [ __ ] tell everybody my problems
and that I don't know or listen to everybody else's problems cry and you know they didn't have them you know the programs and the curfew I wouldn't mine I can quit without it you know yeah just need to get out of here that's it I'm out of here don't even care yeah smoke some weed every now and then like smoking weed well ship or anything else you need for M man huh you need anything else from us in general are you good I know I'm good call morning all right Glenn I left Glenn feeling proud but
somewhat disheartened hearing that he was back smoking meth and wasn't willing to enter a program or a sober living after all outside of progressive City like Seattle and Portland sobriety is typically a requirement for free housing I guess I had an expectation that Glenn would undergo some kind of instant overnight transformation after this new reality set in and that the ID was the only thing actually holding him back from living a normal life but I know that change is gradual sometimes nonlin
ear and above all must be self-directed and that no amount of external pressure can actually make someone Turn the Page they must do it themselves people recover at their own pace and all we can do is provide them with support and compassion as they said at a harm reduction facility I once visited in San Francisco you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink and often times for people trapped in the cycle of shame that accompanies drug addiction and homelessness the harder you push
for them to make the changes that you think they should make the harder they end up pulling away and so I sincerely hope that along with his new ID and positive reestablished Communications with his sister Glenn can take the steps to get himself out of the tunnels but if he doesn't I have to make peace with that I'm also not a social worker and I've never been homeless or addicted to hard drugs there's people a lot more qualified than me who do this kind of work that I did every single day with
no cameras rolling motivated only by their desire to help and those are the people who I really want to extend a platform to this is Robert banghart a former tunnel dweller himself who is now the Outreach director for a nonprofit called shine a light the only organization in Las Vegas exclusively devoted to serving the underground community my name is Robert banghart I'm the Outreach director for shine of light we are at our offices right now and uh essentially what we are is an Outreach and ca
se management foundation so we develop relationships with the homeless community Through simple acts of kindness going out every week and uh just building the friendships and in the trust and then offering a way out and once they offer that way out then we walk them through the process for the next two years helping them rebuild their lives it's our basic bag granola bar water socks some wipes toothbrush we tend to hand out this stuff individually batteries a a AAA flashlights obviously massivel
y important Naran obviously we just talked about the fentanyl tend to be 400 milligram we we're going up to 800 to cover for the fentel cuz so massive what do you think is the main factor that leads people into the tunnels I don't know that there is one main factor I think everybody tries to put it into into a box I think there's so many different ones I think the biggest ones obviously addiction mental health uh trauma you know it's bad luck you know I mean the economy that we live in today som
ething that I've always kind of rested my head on is that you know what is it like 70% of the country lives paycheck to paycheck so that means seven out of 10 people that you know in your life right now could be homeless in a month it's a scary number yeah how long did you live down there for I was homeless for five I lived in the tunnels for about 2 and A2 for me the tunnels was very much like a place to hide you I mean it was very dark it was very like separated from everything and uh it gave
me like this illusion that I had some kind of safety like I had a ceiling over my head right like I had this roof over my head whatever it was that I was telling myself in the moment and uh there a little Less Traveled obviously like people aren't coming in and out like on the surface like I I was on the surface for a long time and it was always like the randomness of like people you know I mean you just didn't know but in the beginning there was structure there was somebody that was the guy you
went to you had an issue you had a problem the whole nine yards and by the end it was just kind of like do as you will the story I always tell is I was you know I don't even know how long I was homeless for and I'm walking down the street middle of the night it's dark and uh I look to my left and I hear clinging and it was just three people having a sword fight I mean full on you know what I mean and I was like and at that point I've been out there so long it didn't even Shock Me you I mean I l
ooked at it and it wasn't like if I saw that today I'd be like look staring oh my God I can't believe it I just looked over I saw it and I just kept walking were they making contact with the swords oh yeah so people were getting sliced I mean it was it was serious that's all I know how many people do you think like live in the tunnels right now in Vegas I think the number that we're usually pretty comfortable with is about 1,500 obviously that number fluctuates you know what I mean they're they'
re very transient not everybody stays but uh about 1,500 you got 600 miles of tunnels in Las veg Vegas so the overall that's about 10% of the homeless population in Las Vegas so what does the process of pulling someone out of the tunnel actually look like all right so let's say uh you you say Rob I want to I want to get help I'm ready to go we have beds waiting for us in detox a lot of us work in treatment so we have beds waiting for us every Saturday in detox we send the referral through we pul
l you drive you right there we wait with you we walk you to the front door we do the paperwork with you we hand you off to Our Community Partners who are our friends you know I mean we know them very well they know us they probably volunteered here they go through detox 3 to 5 days standard depending and then uh from there we transition him into a treatment center 90 days engage him in treatment in uh PHP intensive Val patient outpatient 12-step you know whatever Pathway to recovery they they de
cide you know I mean patients also see a licensed social worker who helps them come up with an after care plan the entire time they're getting case managed by the facility and then also us as a stop Gap so any roadblocks they run into we're able to to come in and fill those to complete the process form I could hardly believe beli that this entire time just a few blocks away from the Rio tunnels was a well-funded nonprofit that offered free meals free housing for 90 days subsidized inpatient trea
tment and complete case management to any tunnel dweller that wanted help but it sort of makes sense unlike the controversial harm reduction centers in San Francisco which provide access to clean needles crack pipes and even fresh foil to drug users Shina light has an abstinence based Outreach model meaning if you want their help you have to commit completely to detoxing from drugs and many just aren't ready of the people that you pull out what percentage do you think end up going back into the
tunnels there's a stat that we had for our last event it was uh of the people that complete detox 70% stay once they've gotten through detox and engaged in some treatment about 70% St and what perc complete detox it's about 66% ballpark Shina light is also partnered with several employers around the city and so after treatment they directly set their patients up with jobs which usually means entry-level position in and around Las Vegas I mean we're talking anything from customer service to retai
l to Warehouse you know what I mean like Walmart you know all the all the basic jobs you would get like if you were coming out of high school but like at the same time a lot of these guys are skilled had careers and can go back to them right at some on some level so they don't need those entry level jobs you know what I mean what role does having valid ID play in this whole situation it's important I think what what I see is that out there they tend to gravitate towards things right oh I can't g
et off the streets cuz I don't have an ID but we're we're missing the whole underlying idea right like you've got addiction you got mental health you have trauma you have these things that we need to address while you're doing that we'll get you your IDs right if I handed every single person on the streets an ID right now how many would be off the streets tonight none so it's not the problem you know what I mean the problem is their coping mechanisms their thinking their thought processes right
the things that have happened to them how do we walk them through that how do we engage them because they've been so disassociated for so long right the ID is important it's a benchmark 100% right it gives you a certain amount of pride I have an ID it makes you feel like you're a part of the community 100% right but that's not the underlying issue right like that's that's the Band-Aid on top a lot of people that we talk to down there almost everybody that we talk to only one had an ID and the re
st said oh I can't do anything I have to stay here because without an ID I can't apply for housing and I can't take advantage of some of the state and government funded programs and we can't you know legally take anything to the scrapyard and make money and we can't you know get day jobs cuz nobody will let us work with ID and they make it seem like that's the only thing that's keeping them down there is that a a roadblock in certain ways 100% is that the thing that's keeping him down there no I
don't believe so that's just my opinion right like if I'm motivated and you offer me 90 days in treatment and you're going to help me get a job I'm gone so they don't need IDs to come here no never none of them have IDs so you'll get somebody a job 100% and give them a place to live 100% with no ID 100% here's the deal you're going to go through 90 days of treatment while you're in treatment you're getting your ID M it doesn't matter if you're in Hawaii whatever state you're in we're getting it
it's a done deal like that is the easiest part of the process birth certificate will your social social will take longer cuz it's by mail but it's free it's coming you don't need a social security guard to work your ID is easy super easy birth certificate first always birth certificate first because you need that to get the ID right you need to get the other items but it's easy and while you're doing that you're not paying anything for the 90 days everything is taken care of after those 90 days
we put you in a sober living for 90 days that's 180 days you don't have to worry about paying a single Bill do you think a lot of them kind of like being down there I can't speak for everybody right like was there a period of time when I enjoyed being down there yes I did because I was out of control I was able to do whatever I wanted to do and things were going well right but then eventually the time comes right where it wears out and I and I don't know how to get out anymore I don't know what
to do I'm just lost that's the trauma right that's the my world has become this small it's all I know and everything starts to seem Monumental right then I it's the ID that's the reason why it couldn't be that I don't want that I can't get out right it's got to be the ID it's got to be I can't leave this dog or I can't leave this friend or this or that right like there's always a reason that's blocking them from coming out but I can't tell you how many people have like just walked away from it
all and come in and done it so you think they hold these roadblocks you know purposely and front of them to say oh I can't do this because I have this Monumental issue that I have to work through because deep down they enjoy the comfort and routine whether it's enjoy or they're just used to right like I I'm kind of cautious to use the word enjoy because it's just what they're used to it's what they know if it takes 21 days or whatever it is to develop a habit and you've been out there for 10 yea
rs it's ingrained as miserable and as hellish as it looks to us from the outside it's what they know do you know Glenn I do have you tried to help Glenn before 100% Glen PLS never come out how come a lot of those guys in that particular tunnel are old they've been out there for a long time you know what I mean so I think at some point you just accept it right and we're just still working on our way trying to figure out how to crack that shell you know what I mean what is the way I don't know tha
t like I said I don't know there's one oneoff way right we just focus on kindness and every time I talk to them I make we make sure that we're sitting with them we're meeting like just like this eye to ey you know I mean I'm not standing over them and constantly look for those little ways to get in you know what I mean like there's on my route there's people that like when they see me they come out with their fists up they're like come on R today's the day cuz they know I like to joke around so
they joke we have this banter right that's been built up over years right my thing with them is like they always I tell them like you're going to call me right he's like oh yeah yeah I'm like yeah yeah you're always playing hard to get you're never going to call me you know what I mean like but I couldn't say that to if I went to another route where they don't know me I wouldn't say that you know what I mean have you tried to help boxer or Andy before 100% I'm not sure why he didn't mention this
but beyond trying to get boxer and Andy into treatment he actually saved both of their lives by spearheading a 28-hour tunnel rescue a stunning Survival Story tonight after one community group says a couple spent at least 28 hours in the water after being washed away in a flood tunnel near the Rio on Friday we are told both ended up being safe the group shine a light which goes into tunnels to offer support and resources to those living here discovered a couple floating down a flooded tunnel on
a m mattress at first they thought they were going to be okay then something hits their mattress they wake up they realize it's too late now they're floating down come on as the Rope rescue was taking place the couple had already floated down the tunnel under Caesar's Palace they got off the mattress they had two cats gentleman grabbed his wife obviously she was not very strong so he had to hold her and finally he found a spot where he could grab something and hold on they just sat tight sat ti
ght and held on to something sticking out maybe a pipe for a stunning 28 8 hours not being able to move when the water finally calmed down the couple walked back up the tunnel where they entered it the nonprofit Shin light offers people in tunnels life out of the tunnels if they want it with immediate substance abuse treatment help with housing help with a job 100% you try to give him a job house same offer always the same offer you know I mean and talk to him spent hours with boxer the kittens
I mean just yeah non-stop nothing yeah uh what can you tell us about Jay my name is Jay I've been down here like probably N9 years it's just been out there for a long time you know what I mean and uh just not really willing to accept the help for whatever reason it's unfortunate cuz he's pretty close to our hearts you we've been visiting him for better part of six seven years now you know what I mean and we've kind of watched him decline but you we just pray that he comes out someday hopefully c
ome on dude there is nothing that perfect let's go there's nothing holding you back let's go a total change of life 100% And this is no you're exactly right 100% I agree with that too I really do because money and like that Jay let's go when you say unwilling to accept help what do you mean by that I mean we've tried from every angle you know what I mean every angle we've offered him everything we've talked to him hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times explained it to him like just I mean t
here's really nothing else we can do other than tackle them you know what I mean he told me that he's been waiting for his ID for 10 years 10 years I've been trying to get my ID I'm still idess yeah comes in you can have it in 30 days I've told him that a thousand times think about this what's the biggest anxiety in your life right now probably rent never have to worry about that ever again never just that alone right never paying a bill you don't ever have to be anywhere ever again on time ther
e's a certain Twisted freedom in that right there's a twisted Freedom that you've let go of society you've just let go and you're living very Primal very what's next what's next there's not a whole lot of planning right all that it's gone yeah I mean I lived in an RV for maybe two and a half years and there was something sort of exhilarating about knowing that okay if I have this and I can pay for gas I never have to check into a hotel never have to pay rent never have to check in with anyone I
can just go to a parking lot and sleep here tonight somewhere else tomorrow night and there is something that's like I wouldn't even call it twisted for myself cuz obviously I wasn't with they would call homeless but you know I still didn't have a house or an apartment or a place to go back to I didn't have running water didn't have showers showering at Planet Fitness going to different gas stations every day and surviving off beef jerky and mix nuts I felt like I had escaped this society's Matr
ix or something and I would see people going to work every day and think thank God that's not me and if you if you think about for Jay like have you tried to get him a place before or a job we have told him we have a job lined up for him once he completes treatment we've taken him to treatment he doesn't stay not yet you know what I mean we'll keep working on him you ever get frustrated I mean I think it's part of human nature right like I want I want the best for them cuz I know it's on offer f
or them but like I just it's that Balancing Act of understanding that like I don't really play a part in that piece of of them getting to a place where they're willing to accept help I I don't right like they have to get there I'm just going to keep showing up and keep offering it and keep looking for ways to poke at him and Sh tell them that I love them you know I mean be that safe space when they're ready I guess they'd have to really like digest the first step 100% and just be like I'm powerl
ess I can't help myself yeah and let's be fair like there's no part of them that doesn't understand that right they understand that it's just they're just they don't want it yet I understood I was powerless forever I even understood my life was unmanageable I just didn't want to stop you know what I mean yeah so it wasn't a thorough firststep experience right it was like 95 but I still thought like the jwalker I thought it'll be different this time just one more time I think it takes a truly lik
e horrific disastrous life experience for you to actually want to be sober and enter recovery at least for me it did I was like I had to hit a point where I was like I have to stop or my life is going to actually fall apart sometimes you know you have one shot left and uh that's not to say you wish something bad would happen to anyone but until they they think they reach a moment where they're like holy [ __ ] I'm going to die if I don't get clean or at least Fade Into Oblivion somehow I don't t
hink they'll do it three people tried to murder me succeeded and I was brought back to life like that's what it takes for a guy like me to get sober so who Am I who am I you know what I mean like when it comes to other people's experience I don't know right Robert says his journey into sobriety began when he was attacked by three men in the tunnels three guys attack me attack me axe that's what all this is hit me with an axe I got a dent in my skull stabbed me in the leg the whole nine yards bro
ke the jaw lacerated liver swelling of the brain and uh drag me on the train tracks left me for dead it's a couple hundred feet from my tunnel I'm laying dead in the train tracks the cops show up they drag me off they revive me train comes they revive me I wake up I'm screaming they give me a shot of morphe I die again then I wake up in the hospital 3 days later I wake up on my life support I got a nurse yelling at me screaming at me she's trying to calm me down cuz I'm ripping everything out ri
ght I feel a hand touch my forehead and I feel the presence of God right what my God is I felt it well congrats man that's crazy but I mean obviously if you've been in recovery rooms you understand that that experience is different for everybody but that moment is shared something so chaotic happens that you have to analyze what behavior and what factors put me in that situation cuz obviously it wasn't your fault that those guys attacked you but but it was let's be fair no but I mean three guys
tried to kill you that's not normal I get that piece of it but I also understand my part so it wasn't like I was just some guy that fell in my hard times and just was sitting there not bothering nobody no you know what I mean and there's a lot of that too let's be fair right like you do now but I think what a a selfish you know addictive person might do is they'd wake up and say [ __ ] those guys I'm going to go get loaded I just survived something shitty I need to celebrate I did let's be fair
but the swelling of the brain memory loss so I would have a resentment cuz I have a gun buried in the desert out there somewhere I don't even know if the Gun Works like let's be fair like I'm I'm no badass at all but like my mind is telling me I'm going to get those [ __ ] I'm going to get those [ __ ] those [ __ ] always those [ __ ] right the swelling of the brain literally every 10 minutes I would forget everything it's an amazing for you new and Recovery it's amazing yeah I don't recommend i
t it hurts like a [ __ ] I had like ringing inside my head for 3 months straight sounded like that train but it was amazing it gave me it gave me a free pass for 3 months and by that time I was already like coming out of treatment living in sober living starting to buy in and I said okay obviously I've seen I'm sure you've seen the YouTube videos and like some of the local folklore and this concept of mole people has become this urban legend in Las Vegas trash we were talking to people on the st
reets random people on the strip and they were like saying they make like child snuff films down there someone s something that someone actually said they glow in the dark because they haven't seen sunlight trash in like a year they're not real people they're all like dismembered it's all like a big incest ring of just rap people underground like it's interesting how the the oversaturated media of the tunnel has kind of created this urban legend that it's like the sketchiest people and that it's
this like vast underworld of criminals fear of the unknown there's not one place in this world where that hasn't had an effect right it's the fear of the unknown so I assume I assume because I heard you know what I mean like that's really why the name is important to us right we want to shine a light on this a true and honest message of what it really is right we take out as many people as we can from all walks of life to show them because what happens is then they become our Advocates or they
become the advocates for the people that are living there that this is really what's going on it's not this crap you're telling yourself like I hate that term MO people makes my [ __ ] skin boil how come it's just like it's disrespectful right it's no different it's like a I don't want it's like a like it's a lack of understanding it's a lack of empathy because those are somebody's brother sisters uncles cousins grandmothers that fell on hard times for whatever the reason right and there's not o
ne family that I know of that hasn't been touched by addiction mental health bad luck right and we all know what they feel we all know what they feel we just haven't all felt it at the same exact time to this extreme right we all know hopelessness we all know depression we all know isolation separation disassociation right lack of Hope thinking powerless thinking it's not going to work like of course those are common right for on a daily basis but they're feeling it in that perfect storm all in
one time you know what I mean how are they going to get out of it how how powerless did you feel in those moments when you didn't have hope right somehow you were able to walk through it right but they're not cuz it's so overwhelming and all happening at the same time you know what I mean like so it's like to say they're M People it just it's just another way to hold them down yeah when the reality is the shame is on those people right cuz they're not doing anything to fix the problem yeah all r
ight so instead of looking at myself I'm going to shame you and I'm my hands are clean if you'd like to donate to shine a light you can go to their website shinel light lv.com donate I'll leave the link in BIO and if you live in the Vegas area and want to help maybe consider volunteering on Wednesdays anywh who after a week of covering the tunnels I was ready to switch gears and received an anonymous tip by the way of email that dare you know the widely mocked Reagan Era school program that aime
d to fight the war on drugs by teaching middle school students about the dangers of marijuana cocaine graffiti gangs and Beyond would be relaunching after losing its Federal funding in 2006 when studies emerged showing that the number of juvenile drug users actually increased after dar's Nationwide launch in the early 90s now apparently though dare is coming back as a result of Fentanyl and vaping and their commencement ceremony was to be held just a mile away from the tunnels at the soon Tobe d
emolished Tropicana Casino so we packed our bags headed over there and immediately spotted a pro drug protester outside the building who apparently had just been kicked out Daryl Gates said quote every drug user should be shot and killed in the street but I do believe that we've got to get serious that is the center and core tenant of the Dare Philosophy by associating drugs with violence drugs are not violent try doing some legalized heroin every drug should be this is Haley the only protester
outside the international dare conference in Las Vegas where inside hundreds of future dare officers are being trained by seasoned veterans like Retro Bill who once told me by way of a Rollin TV set in fifth grade not to do cocaine or join a gang these illegal drugs are always bad for you marijuana is also a harmful drug say no get the police involved to help you solve gang problems in your community and somehow there I was face to face with him in my my hotel room Retro Bill capital r e t r o c
apital b i l l also known as the international D safety and self-esteem buddy official title I I've been motivationally speaking professionally for 25 years we never know you could watch a documentary on television you can see a News segment on TV right you can read a book you can read a quote right you can hear a speaker speak it could be a teacher a counselor a police officer a Retro Bill and all the sudden just know this something will click for somebody in a positive way Retro Bill sees the
Dare program as an opportunity to stop children from heading down a path of drugs and destruction Haley on the other hand does not agree ignorance is killing people poverty is killing people heroin does heroin is a medicine look up Dr Barbara Brower Dr Barbara browers is a a physician and scientist in Switzerland using heroin to treat uh it's a front another psychiatric it's a pretty strong medicine though well yeah but anything can be you know alcohol is a pretty strong medicine but yet we stil
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The genuine free press speaks volumes about the quality of mass media.
Thank you for continuing to humanize people. We need more journalism like this instead of fear mongering
The high of helping Glenn to the low of the interview with Shine A Light, and seeing the services available that people in the tunnels have been ignoring for a decade or more is incredible
Boxer, the guy who got carjacked, andy, glen, and all the people and their stories in this documentary brought tears to my eyes. What a wholesome video.
Drew’s guitar and song writing skills are actually insanely good. Just like a throwback to the 70s or something.
When Mama Bear said, "55 is a good number" teared me up a little bit on hood
Thank you Andrew for covering our work and those we serve. Great work brother means a lot and I hope you know that.
I love the direction the documentary took after Glenn got his ID. Of course, it was amazing that he got it at all. The focus wasn't all ID, it was also being self-determined to actually stop addiction, and that change was gradual. It kept the doc more grounded in reality rather than it being too "perfect happy ending". Phenomenal stuff. For real.
The story about shine a light actually made me cry. That man truly beyond belief cares for and understands human beings.
"I live in the tunnels" "Ah what a vibe 💅" 💀💀💀💀💀💀
33:28 "No material objects have any value to me anymore in anyway, I mean that, I've had my stuff boldozed and stolen so many times that I'm just holding it till the next person takes it I could care less" wow Jay leaving us speechless
As an ex addict, watching the interview with Robert really made me tear up. He just gets it and it's crushing.
Man that strength Boxer has, 28 hours literally holding together his family by his bare hands.. mental and physical
Years ago I felt like All Gas No Brakes was a goldmine of comedy. Now, Channel 5 has become a goldmine for the soul
I love the little kitty at 18:06 it's clear she's being fed and is seemingly staying by choice which is nice to see.
I’m still reeling from “What ever happened to Metal Detector Guys™️ anyways?” My childhood memories of seeing those guys at every public park in America suddenly came rushing back to me, and I was hit by the realization that I’ve never stopped to think where they all went. My man asking the real profound questions here.
Robert from Shine a Light seems like a walking guardian angel. You can see the pain, frustration and passion in his eyes when talking about his own struggles and when listening to Andrew's retelling of his own experiences. The world needs more Roberts.
The dude from Shine a Light is a real as it fucking gets. Thank you for humanizing those who need help and giving a platform for those who deserve it,
Robert is one of the most competent people I have ever heard speak on any subject. Amazing human being.