48 Hours Living in the Slum's of the Philippines

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]What is a home? They say home is where the heart is. I'm currently in the Philippines, a place where there's an abundance of heart. Yet, I'm still questioning what exactly is a home. In the West, we tend to romanticize the idea of a home. A home is a social construct that goes beyond having a roof over our head. Well, here in Manila, people simply want a practical roof over their head. The struggle for adequate housing in this city is so bad that people have started to settle anywhere they can find space. For the next three days, I will be living in the port slum of Baseco, investigating what it's really like living here along the ports and on abandoned boats, while also traveling to other communities where people are living in cemeteries and even on top of landfills. For this video, I've linked up with my Filipino American friend Arnell. He works with a few organizations who help residents in these communities. We also tried to give back a little on our last day in Baseco as well. I hope you can take away something from this video. Whether that be gratitude, appreciation for resilience, or just widen your perspective on the world. Let's start 48 hours living in the slums of the Philippines.

[00:01:11]One of the most beautiful cities in the world, Manila. This is a city where the struggle for housing is on full display.

[00:01:21]People will literally build amongst the ports. They'll live in the cemeteries.

[00:01:28]They'll live under bridges.

[00:01:31]It's a place where your housing isn't guaranteed. It's the city with the most homeless people in the world. But that makes you question, what is even a home?

[00:01:40]Is this shack made on the side of a port a home? How would you even conduct a census in a place like this? We're going to examine this urban struggle in Manila for the next three days. I've been connected to a local host family here in a community called Baseco. This is a community that's been completely settled on the port and now exists as a a slum, a complex, a shanty town, if you will.

[00:02:08]I'm going to live with this family for 3 days and we're going to explore all over Manila and just see the way people live.

[00:02:15]This was possible from my friend Arnold.

[00:02:17]So, I'm thinking maybe like we'll go around these first two days and then maybe maybe on the third day we do something to give back.

[00:02:23]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:02:24]>> All right. I appreciate you helping setting this up for I mean I'm looking forward to like just really getting in depths of seeing urban life in Manila.

[00:02:33]>> It's going to be awesome, man. You're going to love it. I'm glad I met a real one like Arnell who could assist me with this video. I really had no clue what Baseco was like, so I'm glad I did my preparation and got in contact with someone in the know. Staying prepared is always important in a place like this.

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[00:04:28]Oh, and now he's bringing me down this dark alley. All righty then. I'm a little too tall for here. Uh my head is uh basically between the exposed wiring here. I'm just kind of trying to avoid being zapped. These are more Filipinoized, you know, internet cafe.

[00:04:44]Oh, this is cool. How much would it cost >> for? Oh, 5 pesos for 20 minutes.

[00:04:48]>> Yeah, it's not bad, you know?

[00:04:50]>> Yeah, they're like right under the water.

[00:04:52]>> I think people still live in them, right? This city has the highest homeless population in the world. But what is a home? You know what I mean?

[00:04:58]Like legitimately, these are just shacks on the side of a port. Is something like this technically illegal?

[00:05:06]>> I guess so. Yeah.

[00:05:07]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not just homes. Like she has a beauty salon here.

[00:05:11]>> Ah. Hello. So, look at the infrastructure they've had to build basically into the side of the port walls where ships used to dock here.

[00:05:20]They have to build this infrastructure that can support a home basically right now. And then you know where their toilet is? It's just a hole. You know where their garbage is? It's just a hole in the bottom. And this is the uh ocean view you get from your place for free.

[00:05:36]However, hello.

[00:05:38]>> Hello. This guy is sleepmaxing. And I believe up here in the alleyway is where we're going to be having lunch. It's just a array of mystery meats and fried vegetables. It seems >> one is called. It's like a intestine and I know >> intestines. Beef and pork and intestines. You're really selling me on this.

[00:05:59]>> My hunger just went away.

[00:06:01]>> Mine didn't. I don't know if it's the most appetizing, but you're always challenging me to destroy my gut. So, we're going to see if we can get done in by something like this, but I don't think it's going to happen. I'll try that.

[00:06:14]>> You want to try it?

[00:06:14]>> Yeah, let's try it. You sure?

[00:06:16]>> Yeah. She goes, "You sure?" What food place are you like, "Are you sure you want to try? Should I not be sure? You sure I should try?"

[00:06:24]>> Yeah, why not?

[00:06:25]>> Oh, okay. Yeah, why not?

[00:06:26]>> For free on me.

[00:06:27]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:06:28]>> No problem.

[00:06:28]>> Thank you.

[00:06:32]>> I'm glad you let me try. I could not do a whole plate of that. It's not that I don't think it's healthy for me. It just doesn't taste great. I'm gonna buy something else from her. Let me buy a picari from you. How much is that?

[00:06:42]>> 60 pesos.

[00:06:43]>> Okay, here. Keep a 100. That's good. No, you were so kind. You let me try this.

[00:06:48]>> I appreciate it. This looks like a little bit more in my speed. Can I have two?

[00:06:53]>> Two pieces.

[00:06:54]>> Two pieces.

[00:06:55]>> 30.

[00:06:56]>> 30. Okay, good deal. Okay. It is chicken though, right?

[00:07:00]>> Yeah.

[00:07:01]>> Okay. Just had to make sure. All right.

[00:07:03]I love you.

[00:07:03]>> I love you. Bye.

[00:07:04]>> Bye. Bye. Love you.

[00:07:05]>> Oh my gosh. [ __ ] is ever hot. You know, I'm not quite certain where on the chicken this is located, but still not certain after biting into it.

[00:07:18]It might be the neck. I think she gave me the neck of the chicken. Can I get like Uber Eats Jollibee to the slum? I got scammed. Would you like this?

[00:07:28]>> Yes. Thank you.

[00:07:29]>> You're welcome. Shortly after entering Baseco and walking down the port, Arnell introduced me to our host family. Is this host mom?

[00:07:37]>> Host mom.

[00:07:37]>> Hello. How are you?

[00:07:40]>> What is your name?

[00:07:41]>> Baby.

[00:07:41]>> Baby. Amazing. It's good to meet you.

[00:07:43]>> If you've seen this 48 hour series before, you know that every time I've done this, I've tried to stay with a local family and live how the locals live. This is just you.

[00:07:53]>> Okay. Is there a place where me and Ali stay?

[00:07:56]>> Yeah.

[00:07:57]>> Where? In your room?

[00:07:58]>> Yeah.

[00:07:58]>> With you or you other place?

[00:08:00]>> Sleep together in here?

[00:08:01]>> Yes.

[00:08:01]>> With you two?

[00:08:04]I mean, we I would be fine to just stay with you there.

[00:08:07]>> Before arriving in Manila, Arnell asked me if I wanted to really rough it. Now, I've roughed it in the past, but upon meeting our host family, things felt a little off. There's very little space and I kept getting introduced to people who were living in this space. Not even family members. It was like friends of the sun. At some point, >> there's like a five people living here, right? Five people live here. If there's already that many people, it feels a little cramped. To be honest, >> it felt pretty inconvenient for two big guys like me and Ellie to be sharing this space with them. In no way I want to speak down on their living situation.

[00:08:44]The space just seemed pretty tight.

[00:08:45]>> Setting up hammocks out here would be pretty cool.

[00:08:47]>> Yeah, we politely declined the offer and later found our own accommodation in Baseco. This is the first time I had to bail on a host family in this series, so I hope you guys can level with this decision. We still went around with our original host family. We helped them out like we promised we would, just without staying in their home. Oh, bingo. Maybe they'll we all play. Whole family. How How much? One card.

[00:09:11]>> Uh, two cards, 5 pesos only.

[00:09:13]>> Two cards, 5 pesos money.

[00:09:16]>> And And you can win money.

[00:09:18]>> Yes.

[00:09:18]>> Okay. How many How many cards? Whole family we play. Who wants to play bingo?

[00:09:22]Just give out cards. I'll pay for how many? Whoever wants to play free bingo.

[00:09:26]Who wants to play bingo?

[00:09:27]>> Bingo.

[00:09:28]>> Yeah. Take take bingo card.

[00:09:29]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:09:30]>> Yeah. You're brushing your teeth. Come play bingo.

[00:09:34]>> Just pay for all of them. We're in the casino of Baseco.

[00:09:40]>> Baseco Casino.

[00:09:44]>> Oh my god.

[00:09:45]>> Oh, 67.

[00:09:48]>> 67.

[00:09:51]>> 67. 67.

[00:09:53]>> No one's excited with the 67.

[00:09:55]>> I thought I'd get a lot. 67.

[00:09:58][ __ ] hell. I thought 67. I thought I got a lot of reactions with the 67. Oh, 69.

[00:10:05]>> 69.

[00:10:07]>> We are PULLING THE BEST NUMBER.

[00:10:10]>> Even this kid has a bingo card here. But I mean, they're they're playing for money. How old are you?

[00:10:16]>> 11.

[00:10:16]>> He's 11. He shouldn't be playing gambling. If you win, you win money.

[00:10:22]>> Have you won money before?

[00:10:25]>> No.

[00:10:26]Hopefully first line.

[00:10:27]>> Put the Are you threatening me?

[00:10:30]>> Are you threaten? GET THAT AWAY FROM ME.

[00:10:35]>> Give me one of those. You have to hold it sideways. You know, >> like you really No. Ah. See, you weren't hood now. We hold it sideways, you know.

[00:10:45]>> THE VOICES INSIDE OF MY HEAD ARE TELLING ME TO SET FIRES.

[00:10:51]>> Maybe you should get less violent toys, you know. No. No. None of that. I don't put the gun. Let me talk to you. Shh.

[00:10:58]It's okay. You know, we don't have to live that thug life. You know, you don't have to act like you're from a hood city like San Antonio, okay? Like, we could grow up with aspirations to be like doctors and lawyers, you know? Not not gangbangers. So, put put the fake guns down. Let's get these hood aspirations out of your tiny little head. Okay. I wonder if there is actually like gang bangers here. The thing about the Philippines is a lot of the young the young bucks here look kind of hood, but I don't think they actually like like Yeah, see that guy that just like that guy just went by me. He just he looks kind of hood, you know? They kind of dress ghetto, but I don't know if they actually live that ghetto life. They might just be posers. It's a little intimidating maybe staying in a place LIKE THIS.

[00:11:46]>> MANGO, BABY.

[00:11:48]>> POST MOM. YEAH. YEAH, >> I knew my money would come in handy.

[00:11:54]Literally, my house mom won. Yeah, baby.

[00:11:57]>> This one beach.

[00:11:58]>> Baseco Beach. Let's go. All the babes at Baseco Beach. Let's go.

[00:12:04]>> I don't want to go.

[00:12:05]>> Oh, yeah. It is dangerous. Not because of the the hood fellas because of the little [ __ ] [ __ ] in the middle of the road. Uh this is the beautiful Baseco Beach of the Philippines. You know, it's a beach made entirely of heaps of garbage. Literally, this is the pier, but it's been colonized by all these shacks and whatnot. So, we're going to take a little walk down here. After bingo, we ventured out onto the port where we really got to see how precarious housing can get in these slums. To both sides of this 10-ft wide pier, shanty homes have been made with makeshift supports in the water. Even structures over top of the port were created connecting both sides. Almost like a little crawl space up there. This created a tunnel through the port and one of the most extreme and formal housing situations I've ever seen. All of them being completely rentree. You usually you use this for an internet.

[00:13:00]>> This is like an internet box.

[00:13:02]>> Wi-Fi.

[00:13:03]>> Wi-Fi box. How much it cost?

[00:13:05]>> 5 pesos and 10 pesos.

[00:13:07]>> And for how how much time? And >> I mean, they probably can't afford to have their own Wi-Fi network, but you know, whenever you need to just get connected, maybe for a little bit on Facebook, you just take 5 pesos to just like get on a network. You literally put it in one of these boxes. It has the instructions here. I think this is the number one city in the world with precarious places to live. They live in the cemetery, within the tombs. They live under bridges. Here we could see them people living on all some abandoned boats, some old just non-functioning boats. I'm sure this one's still functioning. It's just a place where housing is not a human right. Housing is just a a constant struggle if you're part of the lower class, unfortunately.

[00:13:50]And there's just not much economics to go around. I feel like it's quite a uh a corrupt government that really does not help out its people. the number one city in the world for uh homelessness because like what what do you call that? Are we calling those people homeless because they put up a shack on the side of the pier? Do we call them homeless because they literally made a house in a boat?

[00:14:13]It's precarious, man. What's up? What's up? What's up? Hey, hey, hey.

[00:14:18]>> Hey, baby. You're a baby?

[00:14:20]>> Yeah. Baby, go baby.

[00:14:21]>> You're a baby?

[00:14:22]>> Yes.

[00:14:23]>> How old are you?

[00:14:24]>> 16.

[00:14:25]>> 16?

[00:14:26]>> Yeah.

[00:14:26]>> And you're a baby?

[00:14:29]How old? 8 months.

[00:14:31]>> Oh my gosh. Me?

[00:14:33]>> I'm almost 30. No wife, no baby.

[00:14:36]Venturing out further under the port, we discovered dozens of abandoned ships, all which were permanently docked in the port and were being lived upon. We made our way onto the decks of one of the boats, but soon realized it was going to be very hard to get inside, as they all had owners and security that weren't too fond of cameras. Nonetheless, life on these ships seem really unique. The decks get turned into basketball courts.

[00:14:59]The kids jump off the ships and people collect muscles off the side of the boats which they later sell in the market.

[00:15:07]>> Is this uh your home house?

[00:15:10]>> Yeah.

[00:15:11]>> Wow. You live on boat?

[00:15:12]>> My pool.

[00:15:13]>> Let's see the pool.

[00:15:15]>> Hello, sir.

[00:15:16]>> How are you?

[00:15:18]>> You're drinking rum.

[00:15:20]>> Ah, I can.

[00:15:21]>> Should I try? I'll just drink it straight. I'm not going to use the shot glass.

[00:15:25]>> All right. Thank you, sir. I love you.

[00:15:31]>> Good.

[00:15:33]>> Very good. This is their version of pool here. It's like a mix of air hockey and pool. You hit this thing with the queue and it's like it just slides on the table. It's not balls. This is actually crazy. You can see in the distance there's dozens of ships here that have all been abandoned.

[00:15:52]And this is the Whoa.

[00:15:54]My G.

[00:15:57]That was awesome. Okay, we just rolled up and this kid's about to jump off this damn ship. All right, do it.

[00:16:10]>> 20 pesos. Back flip there.

[00:16:11]>> I back flip here. Back flip here.

[00:16:13]>> Okay, you back flip here.

[00:16:14]>> Back flip here. Only 10 pesos.

[00:16:16]>> Oh, 10 pesos.

[00:16:17]>> Okay, >> 10 pesos.

[00:16:18]>> Back flip.

[00:16:20]That no that was not 10 pesos. That was back dive. OKAY.

[00:16:26]>> YEAH, BRO.

[00:16:28]GOOD.

[00:16:32]>> Brother was not brother did was not ready for that.

[00:16:36]>> That looked rough. 20 pesos. Good job.

[00:16:41]>> No, you didn't do it right.

[00:16:42]>> You did a back dive. You did a back dive. But I'll I'll give you >> that was a back dive. You know, you got to work on your form, your technique.

[00:16:52]Okay.

[00:16:53]>> Yeah. Do it better.

[00:16:55]>> Oh, front flip. Okay. Back flip. Cuz the last one you did was back dive. Okay.

[00:17:00]>> I back up.

[00:17:01]>> No.

[00:17:04]>> Now you're extorting me. I think these kids said this is a shop. Like this is an abandoned boat, but I think they have a shop here. Hello, sir. How do I get to your shop?

[00:17:12]>> There is a ladder. a ladder.

[00:17:14]>> Yeah, >> that looks a little little dangerous.

[00:17:17]>> Or you can climb over there.

[00:17:19]>> Oh my gosh. Or do you have you have net?

[00:17:21]>> Yes.

[00:17:22]>> Okay. Do you have uh maybe one Gatorade?

[00:17:25]>> Yes, we have.

[00:17:25]>> Okay. How much one Gatorade?

[00:17:27]>> 45. But there is no cold.

[00:17:29]>> No cold.

[00:17:30]>> Okay. Just one. One like that.

[00:17:32]>> Here it comes. Here it comes.

[00:17:32]>> One sec. One sec.

[00:17:33]>> It's coming.

[00:17:34]>> One sec. I'm not ready.

[00:17:35]>> It's too late. He doesn't wait if you're ready.

[00:17:37]>> Okay. One one second for my money. I found it. Yeah. There. That's good. Oh, I get it. Extra.

[00:17:42]>> All right. Yes.

[00:17:43]>> There we go.

[00:17:44]>> Thank you, sir.

[00:17:45]>> Give me one.

[00:17:46]>> Are you jumping?

[00:17:51]>> That's so sick.

[00:17:54]>> Yeah. Back flip.

[00:17:56]>> Off the tire. But you know what's funny?

[00:17:58]Most like rich kids in the city, their version of fun is like just gooning to Fortnite or whatever these kids do these days. These kids out here that live in Baseco, you know, the port [ __ ] slum of Manila, this is their version of fun.

[00:18:14]They live that that hood life. We got homeboy up here. I think that's baby son. He's getting to the top rope. I think he's going to do a backflip.

[00:18:28]Oh no, he missed his foot. He's got all four, just no footing. Oh my goodness.

[00:18:34]Some guy just dived down there to grab muscles off the side of the ship. Yeah, he just came up and look at his hand is full of muscles and he puts them in the the Hey, bro. Are you a Bajel?

[00:18:45]>> I asked him if he's bad because a couple months ago I stayed with the Bajel people of uh Indonesia. Some of them are from here in the Philippines. They live out on the ocean. They can hold their breath for like 3, four, five minutes.

[00:18:57]>> Hey, bro.

[00:18:58]>> Big fan. What's up?

[00:18:59]>> Smoke.

[00:18:59]>> Smoke. What we smoking?

[00:19:00]>> This smoke is a cannabis.

[00:19:02]>> Oh, cannabis. like that, >> bro.

[00:19:04]>> Bro's trying to incriminate himself in 4K, brother. That's not very that legal here.

[00:19:10]>> So, um, >> come home.

[00:19:11]>> Oh, we are granted access. So, this is very exclusive >> of a a house that's on a boat. Okay.

[00:19:18]Hello, Auntie. We've been very privileged to be led into their kitchen, their toilet, which would just go to the bottom of the boat, and maybe like a space in there. Hello, Auntie. What is baby's name?

[00:19:27]>> Talia.

[00:19:28]>> Talia. Oh, hello, Talia. Yeah, it's not the worst space. All right. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thank you for you.

[00:19:35]>> Ah, thank you.

[00:19:36]>> Okay. Thank you. I mean, it's it's crazy what they've done with this space that used to be literally a barge and it just feels like a proper home with regular ass walls and whatnot. Now, it's just their uh sleeping space, their their home. It's quite astonishing. The place is like people will make work as a home in this city.

[00:19:55]>> It's a bar.

[00:19:56]>> It's a bar.

[00:19:57]>> We've been invited into a bar.

[00:20:05]This is me with whiskey.

[00:20:14]>> Let's sing a song together. Okay.

[00:20:15]>> Can you please excuse me?

[00:20:17]>> Okay. Oh my god.

[00:20:19]>> Queen.

[00:20:20]>> Bunny Queen. Play that [ __ ] bro.

[00:20:28]See, we hold it down. We keep it real like she and then she's [ __ ] When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only >> Oh, I'm okay. Yeah. No, I don't need to get that drunk. You don't need to get me drunk. I'm I'm gonna buy these guys some beverages because they asked me to. Uh the guy was getting a little zesty with me. We had to head out. He's getting He's kind of He's getting a little touchy with me. All right. What do you guys want to drink? I >> was a guy.

[00:21:09]>> It was a guy.

[00:21:09]>> I thought it was a girl.

[00:21:10]>> It was a guy.

[00:21:11]>> Really?

[00:21:12]>> Look at this. This is by far one of the craziest wire jobs I've ever seen. This is because, you know, there's so many just little shacks and slums built here that, you know, some of them get power legally, but some of them are tapping into basically the power grid. And let me tell you, these people are not electricians. Are you electrician?

[00:21:38]I didn't think so. You electrician? I didn't think so either. So, that's my point. You could see the wire box open there. They're open there because people are just jamming their circuits in there. Getting power comes at the risk of your life cuz you get zapped and seriously screwed up. What's up, boys?

[00:21:56]Are you guys electricians?

[00:21:57]>> Are you Are you an electrician?

[00:22:00]>> No.

[00:22:00]>> But then this is the water situation.

[00:22:03]And Arnold was just saying, imagine you're not getting the right like connection to your water line. And you have to go out here and be like, "All right, which one's mine? Let me patch it up." You have no freaking clue. And it's just >> Hey yo.

[00:22:15]>> Hey yo. Whoa. You got a body in there.

[00:22:18]>> Got a bottle.

[00:22:19]>> Yeah, you got a body. You can hear one of them's a little runny here. If you want to really ruin someone's day, you just take something super sharp and just start.

[00:22:27]>> You guys drinking?

[00:22:28]>> Oh, that's just that's just water, though.

[00:22:31]>> Oh, we're getting we're getting drunk off water, eh? I like your shirt. Tando tando. Okay. All right. Cheers, boys.

[00:22:39]>> We're just having a a good old halal time in uh Baseco. Actually, a lot of this neighborhood is Muslim, so we're just drinking water cuz it's halo.

[00:22:49]>> That's some good water. Where is it from?

[00:22:51]>> Magic water.

[00:22:52]>> Magic water?

[00:22:53]>> Yes.

[00:22:53]>> From >> It's magic.

[00:22:55]>> Yes.

[00:22:56]>> Why is it magic? You put LSD in it or something? It's going to get me [ __ ] up.

[00:23:00]>> Your poop.

[00:23:01]>> I poop.

[00:23:05]>> There are so many friends there in the Philippines.

[00:23:08]>> Yeah, brother.

[00:23:09]>> Thanks, bro.

[00:23:10]>> Darren.

[00:23:11]>> Darren. And this is my >> your posi.

[00:23:14]>> Shortly after checking into our accommodation, we ventured out of Baseco and we entered Tondo, one of the biggest and notorious slums in Manila. Here we witness some of the most desperate scenarios for housing in the city. Slum dwellers who live under bridges and those living on a grown over landfill called Smoky Mountain.

[00:23:35]>> These kids are playing UFC over here. Oh my lord. And these people are playing bingo but with little macaronis. Okay, best of luck. Hope you're winning. This is quite an immaculate vibe. The alleyways are just dripping with all like the like if you shower, it just kind of drains out into these alleyways.

[00:23:52]You see all the drips coming down. All right, let's keep on going.

[00:23:57]It's really loud here, but this is a bridge right here. And people, they live under this bridge in almost a tunnel situation. So, we're going to go check it out.

[00:24:10]Like I said, in this city, people cram into any space they can find, anything that they can make work. And that might be basically under this big overpass bridge.

[00:24:20]>> Do you have a sticker?

[00:24:22]>> Stickers.

[00:24:23]>> What kind of stickers? Wait, no. I do have something.

[00:24:25]>> What's that?

[00:24:26]>> Look.

[00:24:29]>> Do you want one, too?

[00:24:31]>> They asked for stickers, but I can only offer pins. Look, they had to put a ladder over the guardrails of the bridge so they could go over the ladder into their home here. You have to wonder when you have obscure situations like that.

[00:24:43]You don't have an address. It's not even an official residency. Are you even on a census? It must be made quite illegally.

[00:24:51]>> Hey, how are you?

[00:24:53]>> How are you? I'm fine.

[00:24:54]>> Oh, I'm chilling.

[00:24:56]>> Yeah. What are you doing?

[00:24:57]>> How are you?

[00:24:58]>> You know, just just being fabulous, of course.

[00:25:02]>> Fabulous. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Bye-bye.

[00:25:06]>> Bye. Bye.

[00:25:08]>> They're saying some kind of fighting is going on here.

[00:25:13]>> Hi.

[00:25:15]>> Hello. Hi.

[00:25:16]>> Hi.

[00:25:21]>> I hope it's not between these two.

[00:25:23]>> I hope it's not no dog fighting. Are we going under the bridge right now?

[00:25:28]>> We're completely under the bridge.

[00:25:32]Oh yeah, you can see the water is just right there.

[00:25:35]>> Okay.

[00:25:35]>> Hello.

[00:25:36]>> Hello. How are you?

[00:25:38]>> Are you painting? Can I see this?

[00:25:40]>> Hey, >> is that cool?

[00:25:41]>> No, you're Oh my god, it's a stitch.

[00:25:44]>> A stitch.

[00:25:45]>> That's beautiful.

[00:25:46]>> Thank you.

[00:25:46]>> You're an artist. In a place like this, the amount of space you have to do your hobbies is so limited. She's there laying on her bed. Her door has to be open and she's just painting for everyone to see. You know, a lot of people are very self-conscious about their art. They never share it with the world. It's almost like when you're an artist in a place like that, everyone's going to see your art cuz there's no public space. Like this, my friend here, he's just taking a bath in the middle of the street. And that's just normal here.

[00:26:16]I'm between two freeways right now. A place like this, it'd be completely free to build a home, put some wood down in the river, prop a home up like this, a little crawl space, and just live. But as you can see, because of that, you have to do your your your showering in the alleyway and whatnot. Everyone here is very welcoming. They're not ashamed of the the conditions they're living in and whatnot. So, I really appreciate them like being okay with me just walking through here and trying to document this is in in an approp in an appropriate way. Like look these kids.

[00:26:51]Look at this risk. Like you know if if I went on there cuz since I'm big fat boy it might collapse and I might fall into the pee pe poo poo water.

[00:27:00]>> That's very >> dirty. Dirty >> dirty. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you have Wi-Fi.

[00:27:05]>> Wi-Fi.

[00:27:05]>> Yeah. How many pesos?

[00:27:06]>> 5 3 hours.

[00:27:07]>> 5 3 hours.

[00:27:09]>> Good deal.

[00:27:10]>> Can I try? So they told me that this is the hallway. You know, some people, they can't even enter their home from the main drag back there. They have to crawl through a space like this to get into their home. That's just the everyday their everyday commute in and out of their home.

[00:27:30]>> You just YOU'RE GOING TO BE JUST being in there.

[00:27:33]>> Oh, that's okay. Where do you poop?

[00:27:36]>> Yep.

[00:27:37]>> In there.

[00:27:37]>> No, I'm not I'm not in here. I'm outside.

[00:27:41]>> Oh, you live outside here. Uh, you're just my tour guide. You can also imagine, you know, I'm a very ablebodied person. I can maneuver myself in and out of these small spaces, even if I'm much taller than the average Filipino. But you got to think, some of these people I see living in these spaces are very old and decrepit. Yet, they got to go through the maze of these slums, cram into these small spaces, walk across these boards. You know, it's probably not healthy for you. Probably develop arthritis real quick and whatnot. It'd be very hard for an elderly person. And look, we come out of their little alley and this is what we get up to. All these transport trucks cuz all these slum areas are built along basically the port. This is where we just were. Yeah.

[00:28:30]So, both sides, this side and that side are completely settled in. This is the spot they stash their bike. And then their laundry is being hung from the power lines, you know. Thank you so much. Bye-bye.

[00:28:44]>> Thank you guys. They really Look at that. I literally come in and intrude their space and they're saying goodbye to me. Very nice people. Yeah. From here, you can get a better view of how the people live along the water here.

[00:28:55]Basically, once you start to build into the water, that's all free. It's no longer land anymore. Yeah. It's kind of a cool place to live. But the reality of it is they're just trying to like find a little loophole to build a house for free. Not a little loophole, you know, it's the struggle for survival out here.

[00:29:12]And you can see literally people throwing trash into the water right now.

[00:29:16]Literally from the back of their home.

[00:29:19]You know, I talk a lot of [ __ ] about how like dirty places are, but at that point, like what's even the point of finding a bin? It's probably going to end up there anyways.

[00:29:28]>> They cross this.

[00:29:30]>> It's an underbridgeidge walkway.

[00:29:32]>> Yeah. You know what? It doesn't actually look like it's well built, but it's pretty strong.

[00:29:36]>> Yeah. Oh, I I'm not denying that. But, you know, it is strong, but still after time, the strongest of structures can give out. At least they're patriotic, but it doesn't seem like it has too much structural integrity.

[00:29:46]>> The government does try to provide like specific housing for them, >> but a lot of them don't want to do that because they can't have their own businesses >> in the housing areas, but they can have their own business in these areas.

[00:29:59]>> That actually makes a lot of sense. I mean, it's not always just about housing and having a proper place to stay. If you get housed in a nice place, you can't operate a business. You have to go through all the paperwork, all the official documents. Here in there, you can just operate something like that super easily or whatever other kind of business. I'm not going to question what other kind of businesses they might be operating.

[00:30:21]>> Oh, yeah. This side is a little different.

[00:30:25]>> Yeah. Do you think living somewhere like this like at any time like the government could come just in and just destroy it?

[00:30:32]>> And does that happen a lot?

[00:30:33]>> Yes, it does.

[00:30:34]>> What are you doing with these eggplants?

[00:30:36]>> What are you doing with these eggplants?

[00:30:38]>> I'm selling vegetables.

[00:30:40]>> You're selling vegetables?

[00:30:41]>> I saw you doing something really weird with these eggplants. Bro, you can see here it's almost like a mountain and uh it was actually an old dump site. You can see cut into it. That's all garbage.

[00:30:52]All that is built up of trash. It used to be a dump site. Not anymore. It's privately owned.

[00:30:59]>> Hello.

[00:31:00]>> Want some?

[00:31:01]>> What? Uh, later.

[00:31:03]>> Oh, for free?

[00:31:04]>> Nah.

[00:31:07]>> I don't even want it if it's free.

[00:31:08]Anyways, people live on it in uh informal housing. I've been told I got to be got to be careful about Oh, yeah.

[00:31:14]He's telling me to put the camera down, homeboy. The name of this place is Smoky Mountain. Uh, you can see how it's a dump site there. Oh, >> Kobe.

[00:31:22]>> Kobe. Oh, money.

[00:31:26]>> Oh, hell yeah. So, we're going to find an entrance. I'm just going to film these guys ball.

[00:31:36]>> Whoa, >> that was a nice pass. He fumbled it. It was a nice pass.

[00:31:45]Here you can really tell this is almost like four stories of garbage that was collected over what?

[00:31:52]>> 10 15 years something like this.

[00:31:54]>> 10 15 years of this being a dump site.

[00:31:56]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:31:58]>> That's not that long. It must have been for all of Manila.

[00:32:00]>> Yeah. Probably a couple decades.

[00:32:02]>> Wow. And it just looks like a hill, but it's actually a huge mountain of garbage. Another very precarious place where people live, you know. But I I think in a place like this, you have a lot more space. It's almost like very green with what's grown above the garbage.

[00:32:21]>> Hey. Hey. All right. This apparently is the entrance to Smoky Mountain. All right. We're uh we're hiking up the mountain, the uh old mountain of garbage that's been uh basically settled on by squatters. Would they pay rent?

[00:32:40]>> No. No rent. No. So, it's just free to live on this land. These people are breeding [ __ ] fighting chickens. Wow, they got a lot of them. Hello. Fighting [ __ ] I would love to see their fighting [ __ ] All along the Smoky Mountain are cockreeders. Oh my lord. I never knew till I came here the first time that [ __ ] fighting was so popular.

[00:33:01]>> It's big business, bro. It's >> big. Oh, I know. It's big business. It's crazy.

[00:33:05]>> And then you get to see a nice view of you can actually see happy land from up here.

[00:33:09]>> Oh, nice. It's kind of like a a weird urban island cuz we are within the middle of a massive slum right now yet there's green surrounding us because they've built on an old dump site. It's way more chill up here and it doesn't smell bad. If I was ever in a precarious situation I had to settle somewhere.

[00:33:28]This is kind of like the best slum housing. It kind of feels like a little commune. Even like vegetation is growing on what used to be garbage.

[00:33:36]>> You can go straight ahead there, bro.

[00:33:37]>> Oh yeah. How many people do you think live up here?

[00:33:39]>> I say 100.

[00:33:40]>> 100?

[00:33:41]>> Yeah.

[00:33:41]>> Yeah. It's a small little community.

[00:33:43]Unlike any other like informal housing place I've ever been in my life.

[00:33:49]>> We hit the summit.

[00:33:51]>> Yeah, dude. Wow. We're in the Manila viewpoint.

[00:33:57]This is like the best view you'll find in Manila. The sunset spot. See all the port. The port is huge. Is it a port just mostly for Lison or like almost all the Philippines? Anything coming in comes here.

[00:34:08]>> This is the the main.

[00:34:09]>> Yeah, it's it's a lot, man.

[00:34:12]>> How are we doing, party people?

[00:34:14]>> What's your name?

[00:34:15]>> After Smoky Mountain, we went back to Baseco and went on a little nightw walk.

[00:34:19]I put all this footage on my second channel. In fact, there was a lot of footage from these three days of filming that made it onto my second channel because I didn't feel like it fit in this main channel video. So, I welcome you to go check it out along with a bunch of raw uncaugh travel content. My second channel's name is Seal on to get it. I get it. Early the next day, we went to meet up with our original host family to bring them out and buy them some groceries. We promised originally that we would help the family out. So, I did want to stick true to my promise even though we weren't staying at their place.

[00:34:57]>> Ah, fighting [ __ ] It's a fighting [ __ ] Fighting [ __ ] >> Fighting [ __ ] >> I also have a fighting [ __ ] >> Good morning, sir.

[00:35:06]>> Oh, you have many a fighting [ __ ] >> Ah, I also have a fighting [ __ ] Let's fight.

[00:35:14]>> Oh, another fighting [ __ ] >> Ah, that's a cute fighting [ __ ] Aren't you?

[00:35:23]>> Holy [ __ ] Sorry about that. It's like they never seen a white man before, right? Can't a white man just get down sometimes? Am I right? Like without all the dogs trying to kill me?

[00:35:34]>> Uh, you live here your whole life. You grew up here.

[00:35:41]>> Cockpite.

[00:35:47]>> What's going on right now? I may even have to blur this, but they're not even actually [ __ ] fighting. So, they train them to fight like that. They get all pissed off and and fight that way. And then when it comes down to actually time to [ __ ] fight, they put blades on their legs and then they actually slice each other up till one of them dies. Right now they're just training them. Number one [ __ ] Which one? Number one [ __ ] That one.

[00:36:12]>> Best winner. Best winner.

[00:36:14]>> Best winner.

[00:36:14]>> Two times winner.

[00:36:15]>> Number one. Number one [ __ ] >> Two times.

[00:36:20]>> Yeah, that's the thing. You're a two times winner, but once you lose one, that's done. The kill streak's done.

[00:36:26]You're done. out. You have to go on a kill streak if you want to be successful in the [ __ ] fighting business. Anyone want bole? Yeah, give me some boole. I was walking down the road with baby. And she's telling me she's got five kids and she's a single mom. I'm not even sure where her income comes from. And I'm not too sure what happened to the father, but I'm just trying to help her out cuz you know, you see the state in which her and her five kids living at the moment.

[00:36:49]It's just it's not good. And it's like one of those reasons cuz it's like she only has her income. You know, there's no even father household figure to help out.

[00:36:58]>> Yeah, let's get some boco.

[00:37:01]>> You want this?

[00:37:03]>> Yeah. He's just going to dish it out.

[00:37:05]We'll keep it going. But, uh, >> more. Okay.

[00:37:11]>> All right. That's fine. Yeah. Okay.

[00:37:12]Thank you. Cheers, baby.

[00:37:17]>> How much?

[00:37:20]>> Easy. We're rocking up to the beach. Hi, baby.

[00:37:25]>> Okay. Hello.

[00:37:25]>> You like the mommy?

[00:37:27]>> Yeah, the mommy. Do I like the mommy? I don't know if I like Filipino mommies too much. I just like a cheek a little flirt with them. It basically is just a beach playground. Like these kids are are hooping and literally their court is just a sand basically. But they seem to be making do.

[00:37:45]Money. Come on. Money. Filipinos are good basketball players for Asians. But the reason they probably don't make it to the NBA, yet it's so popular here is cuz their average height is like 5' 3.

[00:38:00]Oh wow. It's actually quite a popular day at the beach. This is quite an immaculate vibe. All the people of BCO just come here and chill. Just smoke sigies. Hey boys.

[00:38:11]>> Hey. Hey. Hey. Oh. I think they're going to offer me. Oh, he's going to offer me.

[00:38:15]Oh [ __ ] He can barely get up. You want me to have a little sip of Red Horse?

[00:38:20]>> Oh my. Oh my. All right. Thank you, sir.

[00:38:23]I Oh, that's a lot of red horses.

[00:38:25]>> You want to go toast? Toast.

[00:38:26]>> Toast. Yeah. How you say? Cheers.

[00:38:28]>> But nuts.

[00:38:28]>> But bottom up.

[00:38:31]>> One, two, three, go.

[00:38:36]>> All good. All good. All good. All good.

[00:38:43]>> I didn't I didn't drink it all cuz there's like sand in the bottom. There is a lot of trash along this beach, but I don't assume it's because the people that come here and chill just leave their garbage here. You know, this water. We were over by the pier the other day. Just so full of rubbish. So, I assume with the high tide, it comes up and just settles there. It's quite quite grim.

[00:39:02]Yeah. Go ahead. Go nuts. Go nuts. Go nuts. Just go nuts. Yeah, just go for it. She's a little sheepish about it.

[00:39:09]Like, oh, what can I grab? I'm just like, just grab whatever. Just go nuts.

[00:39:13]Yeah. Yeah. Just go crazy. Just get it.

[00:39:16]>> Okay.

[00:39:16]>> What What is this? Tuna.

[00:39:18]>> Tuna.

[00:39:19]>> Tuna. That's the thing is like in their house, they don't really have the provisions to cook. The kitchen is very limited. So, you know, you grab a bunch of stuff that is preservatives, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Get it. Get it.

[00:39:31]Like literally like canned beef, canned tuna. This is like can beef loaf, sausages, ground mystery meats. I don't know if it's like uh the best of diet to grow up on, but I mean that might be better growing up on like sugary snacks all the time. It's the same thing here.

[00:39:49]You know, they're just loading up on noodles. Just grab more. I didn't quite give them a budget, but like they could just go in. It's fine. I'm sure it's not going to hurt the channel financially.

[00:40:01]As long as y'all are supporting me on Patreon, Taboo TV, where you can see [ __ ] fights and whatnot, we're good to give back like this. This is the hall here. Yeah, throw it up there. Oh, she's just dumping it all out. Oh my gosh. Oh yeah. Yeah, definitely get some toothpaste. You got to have good oral health out here. Soap and whatnot. Milo for sure. Yeah, that too. Yeah, that too. That's good. I don't know. She just she just reached for something. I said that's good. All right, start bagging her up. You got some more stuff, too, kiddo. Oh, big strong boy. Okay, let's put this up. All right. Thank you. I'm trying to do these little things when we go and we stay with the local people. We give back and whatnot. That's what it's all about. You know, there's a reason like, you know, I travel over all over the world and I made all these videos and it's these nice people like this who host me and they let me into their life is the reason I've been able to grow a channel whatsoever. I got Patreon, I got Taboo, and most of the funds I get on there I try to use to give back for things like this. So, you know, the more I can grow on there, the more I'm going to do things like this. I'm freaking stoked. We're going to bring all this back to her place. And I'm also going to give her some cash as well, just to help out. Here, you need some muscle here.

[00:41:07]Let me Oh, >> there we go.

[00:41:11]>> All right, that's one bag. Let's dump this out. Then you dump that one now.

[00:41:16]Yeah, just dump it. All right, one more bag. We'll bring this out.

[00:41:19]>> I think that's everything. What's the damage?

[00:41:22]>> 3120.

[00:41:24]>> 31. Okay, that's a 3120.

[00:41:26]>> Sounds good. I'm basically 30 3,200.

[00:41:33]>> Thank you so much. Okay. Have a good day. In any Filipino household, the staple is rice. So, they're going to load up on rice. I guess the kid got a toy as well when we were at that last shop. That was part of the budget.

[00:41:48]>> Give it to me, buddy.

[00:41:50]>> Buddy.

[00:41:50]>> Yeah.

[00:41:52]>> Holy [ __ ] Oh [ __ ] >> Oh [ __ ] >> Oh [ __ ] Put your arms out.

[00:41:58]>> Take it.

[00:41:59]>> Take it. Take it.

[00:42:02]>> Take it. I can't you. Thank you, sir.

[00:42:05]And she's going to get some fresh chicken, so that's good. How are we doing, my ute? I don't think you're much of a ute. I feel like you have a child.

[00:42:11]I think you're a papa. Papa.

[00:42:14]Okay. Here. Here. Bring it in.

[00:42:16]>> All right. I appreciate uh your hospitality. So, there you go. I hope it helps out. And hey, you're you're a good mama.

[00:42:23]>> Yes, >> you're a good mom. You deserve it. Stay in school, I hope. You know.

[00:42:27]>> Yes. Thank you.

[00:42:28]>> No problem, buddy. Uh, work on your back flips.

[00:42:30]>> Yes. Bye-bye.

[00:42:32]>> Bye, baby. We left Baseco and we headed to a slum called Happy Land. The majority of people in Happy Land work in waste management, sorting through waste and collecting whatever materials they can cash in. The most shocking thing about this process is that it's not just recycling of metals and plastics. They recycle food as well. A recycled fried chicken called Pog Pog. I made my way to Happy Land to seek out and try this legendary mystery meat. Why do they call this place Happy Land?

[00:43:06]>> If you come and walk through here, all you see is happiness despite, you know, the living conditions that these people are going through.

[00:43:12]>> Hello. Yeah. You see happy people? I guess moderately. Yeah. You can see literally just in front of people's homes, they just have heaps of garbage that they're just going to sort through and whatnot.

[00:43:20]>> Hey, bro.

[00:43:21]>> Hey, bro.

[00:43:22]>> Do you want to buy me?

[00:43:23]>> Sorry. Do you want to buy me?

[00:43:26]>> You hear what that kid said? He's like, "Do you want to buy weed?"

[00:43:28]>> What?

[00:43:29]>> And I think I think he noticed my my I was filming and then he stopped talking.

[00:43:34]But some some of the people here are a little intimidating looking.

[00:43:37]>> I just found out that Happy Land is actually translates to like a dump site.

[00:43:41]>> Oh, that that makes sense. So, we came here for a dish called Pog Pog. And you might think this sounds gross, but it's people that go through the garbage, right? And they take all the old pieces of chicken from KFC, Jollibee, McDonald's, and they fry them up again cuz you know people here, they they struggle to purchase meat and whatnot.

[00:43:59]So, it's just a nice like fried chicken snack that they get from the garbage.

[00:44:04]So, uh we're going to go meet the Pog Pog like legendary lady and we're going to try. This is Evelyn.

[00:44:09]>> Hello.

[00:44:10]>> Hello, Evelyn. How are you?

[00:44:12]selling much pog pod today.

[00:44:14]>> So Evelyn is actually the famous pog pog seller here. This is the podpog chicken.

[00:44:20]Where do you find this?

[00:44:21]>> Uh neighborhood >> in the neighborhood from the garbage bins.

[00:44:25]>> What?

[00:44:26]>> Yeah. Wash. Are we washing? Yeah. Yeah.

[00:44:28]I hope it's wash. I think it goes through several washing processes >> for it for it to be uh good and edible.

[00:44:35]So the the restaurant will throw the organic waste into a certain >> bag and she goes and gets the bags. This is exactly the finished product. A little over 50 cents for a bag of recycled uh fried chicken.

[00:44:51]>> Pineapple juice. Oh, that's sick. This is a dope marinade she's got. Oh my gosh.

[00:44:57]>> Getting hipsy, let's be honest. I mean >> Sprite marinade.

[00:45:03]>> I like this. Mixy mix.

[00:45:06]>> At this point, I'm just like, does it matter if she washed her hands? You know, all of this was eaten before. You know, people were crunching into this [ __ ] Saliva chicken. Here it goes.

[00:45:16]>> She's throwing in all the recycled fried chicken from the garbage.

[00:45:20]>> And there's even pieces of sausages in there. It's really got to fry if you want to get all the, you know, heepsi, maybe influenza. I don't know what could be on there. But you know what? I trust just modernday cooking oils to get rid of that over modern medicine.

[00:45:40]>> Yes.

[00:45:42]>> Let's do it. Let's do it.

[00:45:44]>> All right. Thank you. Yeah. Throw that all in there. Make it spicy.

[00:45:47]>> Oh my lord. Evelyn just passed us this plate of pog pog. We have a bunch of different stuff here. Evelyn, this is Jollibee.

[00:45:55]>> Yeah.

[00:45:56]>> So, this was found in the garbage of Jollibee. It's been really, really crisply fried, burning off all the bacteria and stuff that existed on it and washed pretty thoroughly. So, I'm just going to go in and try a bite of Pogba.

[00:46:13]>> And it's good. It just tastes like chicken. Good recipe. Wow. Filipino Colonel Sanders over here.

[00:46:21]If you can get over what it is, it actually tastes really good. Like honestly, just Yeah. Just as good as chicken. Evelyn just brought us out uh adobo and adobo is basically I would say the signature dish of the Philippines, right? And adobo is essentially a type of marinade with like it's very sweet almost like barbecue like marinade. She made this with the chicken. So we're going to try Evelyn's recycled chicken adobo. If I can It's piping hot. Let's go for it.

[00:46:51]>> It's so hot. Oh my god. You got to cook it hot to cook to kill off all that bacteria. God damn. Oh, that's excellent. Do uh do these kids want some adobo? Adobo.

[00:47:02]>> Thank you, Evelyn.

[00:47:03]>> That's for you. Heart.

[00:47:05]>> Heart. Heart. Heart.

[00:47:08]>> Love you.

[00:47:10]>> We hooked up all the youth with a little bit of Pogbog. So, Pog Pog and rice only cost 45 pesos, so less than a dollar.

[00:47:18]All these kids are having a nice meal of recycled chicken. Thank you, Evelyn.

[00:47:23]After the Michelin star pog pog, we jumped on a form of public transit called a jeepnney and headed to the cemetery. No, no one is buried here, but these big mausoleums double as shelter for slum dwellers. They get to live here rentree as long as they take care of the tombs. Early into my backpacking days, I actually came into this cemetery and made a video. Being a cemetery that doubles as people's homes, I didn't want to be overly intrusive into people's lives, as well as the places many are laid to rest. But we did find a woman who agreed to show us the space in which she was living in the cemetery. We've come to another neighborhood here. Well, I mean, I shouldn't call it a neighborhood. Uh we're actually in a cemetery, but um people actually live in this cemetery within these tombs. These are very big tombs or mausoleiums, whatever you call them. And within it is like a space for shade, a roof. So, a lot of people have actually settled inside of them. And they have agreements with the family. As long as they take care of the tombs, they can stay in there for free. It kind of just shows the desperation people have to get a roof over their head. What's up, boys?

[00:48:41]>> You know, they'll even live in a tomb.

[00:48:42]I've been here before 6 years ago. It was one of my first YouTube videos actually ever made was from this place, Manila South Cemetery. It's a whole community essentially that revolves around living here amongst the ghosts.

[00:48:59]It's kind of nice and quaint. Like it's very like shaded and full of vegetation.

[00:49:05]Like these people even have a shop here.

[00:49:07]I think you can buy a beverage from them just to show you. Do you have anything to drink?

[00:49:11]>> Soft drink. Soft drinks. Yeah, I'll take one soft drink.

[00:49:14]>> Hey, look.

[00:49:14]>> Okay.

[00:49:15]>> Hey, look.

[00:49:16]>> Thank you, sir.

[00:49:16]>> Are you vlog?

[00:49:17]>> I am vlog.

[00:49:18]>> Hello.

[00:49:18]>> Do you live here?

[00:49:19]>> Yes.

[00:49:20]>> In the cemetery?

[00:49:21]>> Yeah.

[00:49:21]>> Uh, do you talk to ghosts?

[00:49:23]>> No.

[00:49:23]>> I just joke. Just joke. How How much is that?

[00:49:26]>> 30.

[00:49:26]>> 30.

[00:49:27]>> 30. 30.

[00:49:28]>> Okay. There you are. Hooping. You hooping. Want me to you make it from here?

[00:49:34]>> Yeah.

[00:49:34]>> Are you throwing from here?

[00:49:35]>> Fine.

[00:49:36]>> Yeah. Curry.

[00:49:38]>> Curry.

[00:49:39]>> Curry. This guy looks like Manny Pacquiao.

[00:49:45]>> Dunk me. Dunk.

[00:49:47]>> Who do you take me for? White man can't jump. All right, I'll do >> Filipino good baller. Canada man no good.

[00:49:58]>> Let's go, guys.

[00:50:03]>> That's good.

[00:50:09]Zesty.

[00:50:10]>> Zesty man. You live You live in tomb.

[00:50:14]>> Ah, you live here.

[00:50:15]>> Yeah.

[00:50:16]>> In tomb.

[00:50:16]>> No.

[00:50:17]>> Where you live?

[00:50:18]>> In tomb.

[00:50:18]>> In tomb.

[00:50:20]>> But not like inside that of the tub. But >> no, you don't cuddle with >> No, no cuddles.

[00:50:25]>> We only sleep in the up >> up there.

[00:50:27]>> Yeah, I like that.

[00:50:28]>> Ah, not with >> No, no, no. I know. No sleep with buddy.

[00:50:33]>> No, >> no cuddle mommy.

[00:50:35]>> Only cuddle woman.

[00:50:37]This is literally just supposed to be part of the tomb. These kids are using it as a perfect jungle gym. Look, this one they made has like three stories to it. I assume that one is just like an addition they made on it, but this is like a whole massive mausoleum that they've kind of converted.

[00:50:55]>> I'd like to see their real house if they can build this for someone that passed away and their family.

[00:51:00]>> Yeah. No, that's a good point. A lot of the places in here are for like the extremely wealthy. It's crazy.

[00:51:06]>> Got to get you for a photo op here.

[00:51:07]>> A photo op? What makes me so special?

[00:51:10]>> You're white?

[00:51:10]>> No, we are the same, brother. We are We are of the same. I am not white. I am maroon. Look at those three sexy gentlemen.

[00:51:18]>> Dang. Your name?

[00:51:19]>> Nana. Yoli.

[00:51:19]>> Nana. Will you be Will you be my nana?

[00:51:22]Can you be my Filipino auntie?

[00:51:24]>> Yes. Okay. Very much welcome.

[00:51:26]>> Thank you.

[00:51:26]>> I love you, Yoli. Okay.

[00:51:29]>> My name is Seal. And how old are you, Yoli?

[00:51:32]>> I'm a senior.

[00:51:33]>> Senior. So 65 plus.

[00:51:35]>> No, it's only 65.

[00:51:37]>> Only Okay. You've lived here your whole life?

[00:51:40]>> Yes. But I have two sons.

[00:51:42]>> Ah, you have two sons.

[00:51:43]>> We asked if we could see a mausoleum where they they sleep. So you can see this is the tomb. They sleep just on the ground here.

[00:51:50]>> Yes, we are sleeping on ground and they have just a m >> When it rains, are you completely protected?

[00:51:56]>> Uh we just put some cover.

[00:51:58]>> Oh, some cover for the rain.

[00:51:59]>> And you got TV in here as well?

[00:52:01]>> Yeah. Have you uh so you you tap into the electricity? You can see out here they have all their clothes and the stuff and they just keep it neatly here and then they would put their blankets out to sleep. It's like there's proper shelter. Look, they they've tapped in the jumpers to this van here so it doesn't get too hot. You know, you get a a fresh breeze and whatnot. So, the owner is okay as long as they clean the tomb, they take care of it. Uh do the chickens belong to them?

[00:52:28]>> Yes. Uh, are they food chickens or cockfight chickens?

[00:52:31]>> Uh, cockfight.

[00:52:32]>> Ah, these are cockfight chickens. What about pigeons? The p are pigeons food.

[00:52:36]>> Yes, I know.

[00:52:38]>> Yeah, they don't just do the [ __ ] fights. They actually have all these pigeons around. Some of these do races.

[00:52:42]Do they ever eat them? Yes.

[00:52:44]>> Oh, I've had pigeon before. It tastes good.

[00:52:46]>> Yes.

[00:52:46]>> There you are. Cuz I saw your house.

[00:52:48]>> Thank you.

[00:52:48]>> Yeah, no problem. She has all these candies beckoning me here. You've got a good stall. I might get some like popping rocks or something from you. How much one of these? 10 >> 10 pesos. All right, let's try some smok and popping candy.

[00:53:01]>> This guy let me rob up his NMAX.

[00:53:08]>> But the guys so high price.

[00:53:11]>> Yeah, cuz of war. Because of the straight of hormones. Everyone talks about the straight of hormones, but no one talks about the gay of hormones.

[00:53:22]>> Yeah, I [ __ ] myself.

[00:53:24]>> Oh, hello, sir.

[00:53:25]>> Oh, your son. Oh god, >> son. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. You need uh support. Come here. Walk. Basically, that that guy's son is is very mentally ill and sick. And he was just pointing him out to me. And they they they live in the cemetery, so I'll I'll toss him a thousand. I just didn't want to [ __ ] film the son. And you know, such a such a condition, but it must be hard growing up. Like literally having to take care of that child in the cemetery. I got a thousand in my hand. I'll just give it to him like a handshake. A very uh discreet. Hey, handshake. Handshake.

[00:53:55]There you go. for your family. All right, there you are.

[00:53:59]>> Okay, good. Enjoy. Good for both of you, family.

[00:54:04]>> She seems happy about it, but I didn't quite want to film the son. They're raising him literally in a cemetery with no provisions, and he's quite physically and mentally impaired. So, uh, I did what I could to help. Wow. Ah, swim day.

[00:54:17]Enjoy your swimming pool.

[00:54:20]>> Hey. Hello. You know what's funny is I think this is the mausoleum. I met someone in here six years ago. Maybe it's the same guy who lives here. He was chilling in like this exact same hammock at this spot, but I don't know if Hey, bro. I think I met you before. I think 5 years ago I met you. Maybe you don't remember. Have a good day.

[00:54:38]>> Bye-bye. I think it was the same guy, but I didn't want to be super intrusive, but I swear the first time I was here like 6 years ago, I met that dude. It was like literally the exact same location. I swear it's the exact same guy, dude. He's still just fully like hanging out there. We returned to Baseco, got some rest, and for the last day, Arnell, with the help of our original host family, helped organized a feeding for some of the lower income residents. I didn't expect such a turnout. We ended up buying a lot of food and at first I was thinking, I really hope we bought enough. And yeah, it turns out we we did in fact buy enough.

[00:55:13]>> Hey baby, good morning.

[00:55:14]>> Baby, good morning. You and your family want to come? We go beach.

[00:55:18]>> The beach >> and we do feeding. Come get breakfast.

[00:55:21]Okay, >> bring everyone. Hey, I'm a new dada.

[00:55:24]>> Hello. Hello.

[00:55:26]>> New daddy. You are a little baby seal.

[00:55:28]Baby seal. Big boy seal. Okay, let's go.

[00:55:31]There's a little stand here. Maybe we could just buy all their food. You know, it's 35 pesos for a meal. I would like to buy all your food, please.

[00:55:41]>> Okay, thank you.

[00:55:43]>> Okay, no problem. You can take rest of day off.

[00:55:46]>> Go have nap. Drink drink red horse.

[00:55:49]>> Okay.

[00:55:49]>> Okay. Thank you. They're making up all the food here for us, putting them in these cartons, and then I reckon once they're out, you know, maybe we'll sell out some businesses out here. They just sell these for 10 pesos each. So maybe we'll buy all these from them. Same with her. Maybe we'll buy all yours from you and then theirs there. And then we'll have like couple hundred, you know, >> small business.

[00:56:11]>> Mango.

[00:56:12]>> You want to add my business?

[00:56:14]>> Add your business. The fresh mangoes. I mean, I I got to involve this lady somehow. 6 9 >> 12 15 >> 18 >> 18 19 Okay, >> and then I'll buy all of that, ladies.

[00:56:33]So, I cleared her out. I cleared her out. I'm going to clean her out.

[00:56:37]>> I will come from >> Oh, and mangoes. Okay. She's insist I buy her mangoes as well.

[00:56:42]>> Okay. Just give give me all those then.

[00:56:45]Um >> 26 pieces.

[00:56:47]>> 26 pieces. Can you make change for a thousand? Good start giving these out.

[00:56:50]>> Okay.

[00:56:51]>> Okay. Okay.

[00:56:53]>> All right. Look at all these little kids. Hey, brother. What up, bro? It's a It's kind of humbling to see all these kids that queue up for a meal that costs like 10 pesos, which is like 20 cents or something, you know? Like even that is just like a treat for them. I guess I just bought 40.

[00:57:08]>> Give me money. Give me money.

[00:57:10]>> How about I give you a nice warm meal?

[00:57:13]>> No. No. I'm not getting money. I want You want a juice? Yes.

[00:57:20]>> No money. Only juice.

[00:57:24]>> Okay, we'll get four juice. Four juice.

[00:57:29]>> This is so damn good. What the hell?

[00:57:30]Somehow we got roped into also buying these juices. So, this girl is going to distribute these juices. And I think they're glemon as well. She's going to distribute. And uh then we're all No, I'm good. I'm good. You I already had one. Enjoy your orange juice. Um, and then she's just going to tell us the total we owe for all that juice. And now she's distributing juice that Oh my god.

[00:57:53]>> I think she already ran out. Bro, we still got some here. This is the total.

[00:57:58]>> No.

[00:57:58]>> Oh, you you filled more.

[00:58:01]>> Oh, you already give it. Oh, I just wasn't here. And literally all everything was distributed. Everything from here, everything from there, it's all been distributed. Hey, what up, Face Dats? You getting some juice?

[00:58:11]>> All right. Hell yeah, brother. 16 years old. Thank you, Dad's brother. And you got the the pink pajamas on. That goes hard. All right.

[00:58:19]>> Give me 1,000 pesos.

[00:58:21]>> Really?

[00:58:22]>> You ever learn some manners?

[00:58:24]>> Yes.

[00:58:24]>> Say, "May I please have 1,000 pesos?"

[00:58:29]>> It's a little hectic and disorganized, but when all I say is done, like there was literally like hundreds of meals we gave out and juices. Gang gang.

[00:58:39]>> Holy [ __ ] >> Canada.

[00:58:41]>> She made a killing on juice, man. Look at she just keeps loading them up. Good for her. You know, she deserves the business. She's got a a great juice stand. All these kids lining up. So So screw it. I'm going to owe thousands of pesos for her and juice. We sold out three shops. This is the last one, but I don't even think they have enough food here for the rest of these kids. At first, I was like, "Oh, we're buying so much food from all these vendors. I don't know if we'll like I don't know if there's enough kids." Now it's like there's too many kids. But a lot of these kids are just lining up again. A lot of these kids already got food and then they're just rellining up and it's just like at this point they only have a couple more meals. I wonder if we could sell out some another vendor and just bring them over here cuz we got a big line of people. You try to do a good deed and then there's like way too many people who are relying on you for like just a little little meal. But I mean it doesn't appear so. But at the end of the day, maybe we could just buy a [ __ ] ton of like bakery stuff, you know, like kids like sweets, you know? Maybe maybe we could do that. Uh ah shark. They just they just told them we're heading down to the baked good section over here. Oh. Oh my god. It's going to be a crowd surge. Here's the thing, man. Is you know all these kids line up and then you know once you start going even more come and even more come and it's endless and then daddy seal goes broke.

[01:00:05]>> Hey. Hey. Okay.

[01:00:12]What you greedy boogers, >> bro? Y'all kids need to learn to queue up. Oh my lord.

[01:00:21]>> Not my kid. That's not my baby.

[01:00:24]>> No, not my baby.

[01:00:27]>> No.

[01:00:28]>> Your baby.

[01:00:29]>> That's not my baby.

[01:00:31]>> That's your baby.

[01:00:32]>> No.

[01:00:33]>> Not his Filipino baby.

[01:00:35]>> That's your baby.

[01:00:36]>> No. I am Mexican Pakistani man. That is Filipina kid. No, I am not your daddy.

[01:00:42]No, you don't. Come back with me to Canada. I'm I'm I'm not adopting that child. Not my baby.

[01:00:48]>> Ah, chill out little kids. You're going to get one. I'll update you once this line is completely gone.

[01:00:55]My baby. Thank you. Love you, baby.

[01:00:58]Okay. Bye-bye. We spent a [ __ ] ton back there on four different stalls, a bunch of different stalls for juices. I was like, "Oh, hopefully we get a crowd of kids out to to feed." And then hundreds of kids showed up. Hello. Okay, bye-bye.

[01:01:13]I'm heading out. Arnell, thanks for helping me, boss. I appreciate it.

[01:01:17]>> Thanks for coming to the Philippines.

[01:01:18]>> I'm going to leave his uh contact information down below if you want to get in contact with Arnell. That was 48 hours in the slums of the Philippines.

[01:01:27]Until next one, guys. Peace.