143 - America's Homeless Epidemic

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

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4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Really hope you enjoy this one. One of my favorite episodes so far. Such a big topic that touches so many lives. What is the history of homelessness in America? Why are people homeless now? Who is homeless now? What is being done to help the homeless? What COULD be done to help? I touch on mental health issues, substance abuse, economic conditions, good ol' fashioned laziness, and more. I also share a lot of personal homeless encounters and really try to look at this issues from as many sides as possible, and as fairly as possible, on this little edition of Timesuck that feels almost, dare I say it, important. Hail Nimrod! Thanks for allowing us to donate $2400 this month the National Alliance to End Homelessness:https://endhomelessness.org/ Yip, yip, yaw! Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: (full calendar at dancummins.tv) June 13-15th Raleigh, NC Charlie Goodnight's CLICK HERE for tix! July 26-27 Cincinnati, OH West Liberty Funnybone CLICK HERE for tix! August 1-3 Charlotte, NC The Comedy Zone CLICK HERE for tix! August 4 Richmond, VA The Funny Bone CLICK HERE for tix! August 9-10 Orlando, FL The Improv CLICK HERE for tix! *** LIVE TIMESUCK *** Orlando, FL The Improve CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by the following sponsors: For Hims: Try Hims for just $5 a month at ForHims.com/timesuckED Great Courses Plus: Get a FREE month of unlimited access to their entire library when you sign up now at thegreatcoursesplus.com/SMART Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/v62lLAEg-Ng Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? We're almost 5000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

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0:00.0	I've been shocked if anyone listening to this episode had neither experienced homelessness,
0:04.8	known someone who's experienced homelessness or encountered someone who is homeless,
0:09.4	even if that only means you drove by them on the road, some of you I'm sure have been homeless
0:12.8	yourself. According to nHolmusness.org on any given night last year, roughly 552,000 people
0:18.9	were homeless in the US and over 180,000 of those people were homeless with other family members.
0:24.1	Over 35,000 of them were children. Not even close to all of them were lazy drug addicts who
0:30.0	chose not to work and preferred to just aggressively yell insanity at strangers and shit on the sidewalk.
0:35.3	Those homeless for sure exist. I've encountered them many, many times, but they're not the only
0:39.8	type of homeless person, which is why this suck is worth digging deep on. How many of you will be
0:44.7	homeless right now or will have been homeless at some point in your adult life if you didn't have
0:49.2	family to stay with somebody to help growing up. My parents got divorced when I was eight.
0:53.8	My two-year-old sister and I and my mom moved in with my grandparents. My grandparents fed us,
0:59.7	gave us a place to stay, bought our clothes and more when my mom got back on her feet.
1:03.6	What would have happened to us if they hadn't been there to help or if other family members hadn't
1:07.2	been around to possibly help? Would we have been homeless? Maybe? Certainly possible. I honestly don't
1:12.8	know. I'm not sure my dad had enough money to put a roof over our heads at that time. What I do
1:17.0	know is that my mom got a full-time job. They paid either minimum wage or close to it and got
1:21.2	another part-time job on top of that. So we could move into one of my grandparents tiny rental
1:25.6	houses directly across the street from my grandparents home for what I'm sure was a very friendly family
1:31.0	rate. I know the only reason we got our back to school clothes at either Kmart or Shopco instead
1:35.8	of a thrift store was because my grandparents continued to help. Impossible to raise two kids as a
1:41.4	single mom with a low income job or jobs if you're family or friends or the government or somebody
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