Shorty & Takoda Give Us An Update On Their Homelessness🙏🏼

Añadido: 2026-05-11

[00:00:03]Hi shorty. Hi, how are you doing? Good.

[00:00:18]How you doing man?

[00:00:19]What's your name? Dakota. Dakota. I'm Juan. That's Kim.

[00:00:24]This is shorty. Everybody knows shorty.

[00:00:26]Hi, how you guys doing? How you doing bro?

[00:00:31]Todo bien?

[00:00:32]Todo bien estado es todo. Que pasa bien dia.

[00:00:36]Gracias, gracias. Dios le bendiga.

[00:00:39]So we got you a monster, some cigarettes. What happened with Angela?

[00:00:42]She took off?

[00:00:44]Oh, she took off walking?

[00:00:48]So how you doing shorty?

[00:00:54]Shorty, would you take a ride with us and go to McDonald's? You hungry? Yeah, sure. You want to ride with us? Yeah. Yeah, okay.

[00:01:02]How about Dakota? You want you want a little hamburger or something? You wait here for us?

[00:01:06]You Dakota, you hungry?

[00:01:08]Okay, we'll get you a hamburger. You'll go with the shorty?

[00:01:12]Okay.

[00:01:13]Shorty's going to go with us to go get a hamburger. She says she's hungry.

[00:01:20]Give Dakota one babe.

[00:01:22]You want a cigarette?

[00:01:27]Okay, we can wait.

[00:01:30]Yeah.

[00:01:32]Okay, yeah we'll wait. Do you want menthol or regular? Regular. Regular? So you want a hamburger? We'll get her a hamburger and cigarette.

[00:01:41]Oh, you get Is that Angela's or yours?

[00:01:44]Um which one? That phone.

[00:01:45]>> Phone is mine. Angela got one too, right? Didn't she?

[00:01:48]>> I think so. I don't know. I have to go get hers. Oh man, she always loses them.

[00:01:52]Yeah, this one I paid $20. Oh, nice.

[00:01:56]>> a coupon for service on it at the Dollar General.

[00:02:01]Like so much, 10 20. And That's a nice phone, shorty.

[00:02:07]That's a nice phone. It's a Foxy like hers. Yeah? Yeah. You guys got Foxys.

[00:02:12]Yeah. Foxy phones.

[00:02:14]That's what's up.

[00:02:16]It's not too hot to right now, huh? It's nice.

[00:02:21]>> So, shorty's going to take a ride with us. She's never ridden with us. We just want to go to McDonald's and come back with shorty and maybe Angela if she fits.

[00:02:31]You thought you think she'll be back soon?

[00:02:33]>> Uh yeah, she should be coming around the corner.

[00:02:39]Man, this place is packed today. It is, yes. Do they have meetings and stuff here, you think?

[00:02:45]>> right here? Uh-huh. Yeah, they work in there. It's like a meet place. Oh, nice.

[00:02:50]Yeah.

[00:02:52]Shorty, I never got your ethnicity. Are you black and Mexican or black and native? I'm I'm native. You're Native American? I'm Native American.

[00:03:01]Oh, nice. Part Mexican. Part Mexican?

[00:03:04]Mhm. Oh, that's a good That's a good mixture. Mexican and and Native American. Mhm.

[00:03:12]Yeah.

[00:03:17]So, how's your day been going so far, shorty? Good.

[00:03:21]I just woke up a little while ago and I just went back to sleep.

[00:03:27]You took a little nap? Yeah, I took a little nap and I shouldn't have did that. Just make me wake up terrible. Aw.

[00:03:34]A little groggy groggy?

[00:03:37]>> Well, hopefully we we help start your day a little bit better beginning you a Monster and some cigarettes.

[00:03:43]>> Yeah, thank you.

[00:03:46]That's always nice, right?

[00:03:47]>> Mhm. That way you don't have to bum or ask other people for stuff. I know.

[00:03:51]That's one thing out. like to do. Yeah.

[00:03:53]So, now you got your >> I always have my cigarettes, you know.

[00:03:57]So, now you got cigarettes and a Monster. Yeah. These rollings, I don't really like to smoke it. No? No.

[00:04:09]It's sad to see Angela back out here. I had to go back in the place that she left it. I know. That's so sad. That's so messed up. Like, I don't know why she does that. She should just stay. Yeah, because there's Cuz she can get housing.

[00:04:22]In 1 month, she can get housing.

[00:04:25]Wow.

[00:04:26]So can you, shorty.

[00:04:27]Oh. If you go to rehab for 1 month, the program that we will hook her up with, and then you leave in 1 month, it will help you with housing. Really? Yes. You should think of You should think of that. I will. I'll look into that.

[00:04:44]You know, when I was in Texas, we did interviews in Texas, and in Texas, they don't do that much of fentanyl. You know what they do? They do meth and heroin.

[00:04:53]Oh, really? Because they say that they say that They say that fentanyl, you're taking a gamble. You're taking a chance.

[00:05:02]Cuz they say that Cuz in in Texas, the fentanyl is so strong that you're taking a chance. You will get You take one hit and you're gone. Wow, yeah.

[00:05:12]I can't Okay, wait. Wait. I can't find your credit card. Do you have it?

[00:05:17]No, I don't. We got to go back to Super 8.

[00:05:20]I got to run and go find his card. Okay.

[00:05:23]I got to go get it.

[00:05:27]Babe.

[00:05:29]What? Look in my wallet. Look in the middle.

[00:05:33]Oh my gosh, she's already lost like five credit cards. Oh, no.

[00:05:52]>> That's not good. No, it's not.

[00:06:05]So, we'll probably be back in a couple minutes. If hopefully Andrew will be back.

[00:06:09]>> Yeah.

[00:06:10]Oh, she found it. Good.

[00:06:15]So, today's Friday. What do you guys have for the agenda?

[00:06:21]She lost five credit cards already. So, now I'm losing his card. Yeah, that's terrible.

[00:06:27]That's Dakota, babe. We've never met Dakota.

[00:06:31]Dakota?

[00:06:35]We're going to go get something to eat.

[00:06:36]I don't Angela's I'm going to get him a hamburger, her a hamburger. She's going with us. Well, I'm I'll wait here. She's going to wait. I know we've invited you, but I know you said you like to stay in your little spot.

[00:06:48]>> Uh-huh. But, yeah, I would like [clears throat] a sandwich. A hamburger and fries? Yeah, sure. But, we have invited you to go, right? I know you say you feel better because people be coming and taking people's things and stuff.

[00:07:03]I know one time we took Andrew and we came back and his stuff was gone. They took his wagon and everything.

[00:07:08]They took everything, yeah.

[00:07:10]>> One time he chased a guy all the way down there.

[00:07:13]All the way down and he took off running and he was running, running and he finally right before Remember where the old Church's Chicken was? They were back here. He stopped there.

[00:07:23]Let me ask Dakota some questions real quick. Dakota, how long have you been homeless?

[00:07:28]Do you think Andrew will be back?

[00:07:31]Eight years? What's your drug of choice?

[00:07:34]What do you want to drink?

[00:07:39]Do you think Do you believe that it's dangerous being homeless, Dakota?

[00:07:44]You've seen some crazy things happen?

[00:07:47]Yeah. I've lost a lot of friends. You lost a lot of friends?

[00:07:51]Yeah, that's sad, bro.

[00:07:53]Yeah, but So, you think you'll be uh trying to work to get off the streets?

[00:08:00]Cuz like we told uh Angela and Shorty, there's programs out there. If you just stay in rehab for 1 month, after you complete the month, they'll they'll help you with housing.

[00:08:10]As long as she completes I've been wanting to go to rehab. Yeah?

[00:08:15]Well, we have some friends here and we'll talk with them and we'll let them we'll let them know about Dakota, about you, and we'll let them know about Shorty, okay?

[00:08:23]Okay.

[00:08:25]Do you know Angela? Yeah. Yeah, she's a friend? I've known Angela a long time.

[00:08:34]12, 15 years. Man, it seems like everybody knows Angela.

[00:08:38]I've I've She's I'm very protective of her. Yeah?

[00:08:43]Anybody that I see [ __ ] with her in any wrong way, I I get on their ass, but I do it She doesn't do no wrong to nobody, you know? She has She's a sweetheart, huh?

[00:08:58]She just has an addiction problem.

[00:09:01]But I know that we know that's why we don't give up on her. We know that she's a good person.

[00:09:06]You know what I mean?

[00:09:07]We just That's one of the reasons that we don't give up on her. You know that she was in rehab for 3 and 1/2 weeks?

[00:09:13]She almost graduated. She was 4 days short of graduating. Did you know that?

[00:09:19]I didn't know that. Yeah, she was in rehab for 3 and 1/2 weeks. She was 4 days short from graduating.

[00:09:26]And then she left. We we were so sad.

[00:09:31]She almost had it, too. Yeah, she did, bro. She almost had it. We were so sad. We were so disappointed that she left, man.

[00:09:43]What what are you on right now?

[00:09:45]I don't know. I'm I'm sober right now. I You're tired. You're just tired. Yeah. The heat Yeah. is kind of like making me a little bit sleepy.

[00:10:00]So you take care of you like protective of Shorty and Angela. That's good.

[00:10:06]That's so good.

[00:10:08]And I'm so happy cuz Shorty she doesn't talk really talk to people. She don't. She don't like to do interviews, nothing. She's really been opening up to us, you know what I mean?

[00:10:18]She's really been nice to us and really talkative and accepting and and you know, just opening up. I don't know what happened. Maybe she just trust us now or likes us or I don't know.

[00:10:31]She's really been friendly, you know what I mean?

[00:10:33]And that's a plus for us, you know what I mean?

[00:10:38]So Angela just left?

[00:10:40]No, she went on for a walk, I think. To the park?

[00:10:44]I don't know. I think she went either to the park or to the bus station or somewhere.

[00:10:52]Somewhere in that area. Okay. Well, we'll be back and we're going to go get some hamburgers for you guys. We probably might as well just get a hamburger for Angela, too, and some fries, okay?

[00:11:02]Okay. For you guys cuz that's what you said you wanted, right?

[00:11:05]All right, Dakota. Thank you for talking to me, bro. Appreciate you, man. All right.

[00:11:09]You guys have a good day. Be blessed.

[00:11:11]You too.