Tent city

Yeah.

Tent City.

Exactly.

But in that camp alone, we had what was really known as the chronic homelessness population.

Yeah, making like meals every Sunday, working with in different ways with like unhoused people.

When Tent City was still around, it was like we were like going there every week, passing out food.

Things have like transitioned through the years, but there's like still been a solid group every week meeting for about like four years now.

Yeah, kind of speak to the origin.

Um, and there's been all these like different things that have come up where somebody will like enter the group and like, whether or not they're like just actually an authoritarian or they're just like really traumatized or whatever it is, the their actions will like start bleeding out onto like what the group is trying to do or different like relational dynamics and stuff.

And I've like seen it just like absolutely like a few times like destroy every like relationship that was there to where like there'll kind of then just be like a turnover new people will like come in and start doing stuff so like yeah in the name of critique um i like want to like recognize my my own role in that as well and i think like through reflecting over this past year i can like see that how i've shown up in these ways like the thing that needs to change is like like with culture and stuff is that um we have to like be able to like, have a backbone and have a voice and, like, learn to, like, stand up for ourselves.

And so, like, for me, I can, like, look back on my, when, like, we first started kind of, like, going to Tent City and stuff for, like, the first couple years, I ended up getting so burnt out.

And it would just be, like, if I start talking to somebody, I would just keep, like, allowing the conversation to go on even if like I didn't want to be there anymore or if they're asking me for something I'm just going to be like yes yes yes of course of course of course and I did that for like a couple of years and it sucks it's like then you go home and you're like oh like I didn't get like any sort of like juice from any of this I feel really burnt out I feel like I'm in this position where I just keep having to say like yes to everybody and so I think like The thing that I've reflected on is that then when we're like engaging with each other, we like don't have our know or like we don't know what our feelings are.

There needs to be some kind of inspiration taken from this.

I want to see Tent City for a million people.

Because that's something comical, right? A tent city for a bunch of people is one thing.

But a tent city the size of Indianapolis? That's funny.

That's actually funny.

There's got to be a huge tent track for the annoying tent race that happens once a year.

That's the one reason anybody on the planet visits tent Indianapolis if they're not from there.

This is the only tent city that could possibly have an alcoholism rate even remotely close to Indianapolis.

The shelter can only hold so many, and there's more people here.

I mean, when we look at what happened— Prior to 2019, when they cleaned out Tent City, there was 130 people in one spot that were unsheltered.

Rescue mission's full.

It's pretty close to them.

Don't look at him.

Everything he has, he has made himself in Darby's tent city.

And

everything you

Oh

yeah.

I want to watch a sitcom where every Nepo baby in wrestling is living in tent city.

Yeah.

My dad was born in Anchorage.

My grandfather came to Anchorage in Tent City.

And my great-grandfather was the mayor of Douglas in the 1880s.

Wow.

And I don't know the exact years, but it's like 1886 or something in there.

He was mayor of Douglas for a while.

And then he moved to Tent City? No, no.

He had a daughter.

Like, you know, the stuff with the hooded guys had a little bit of intrigue so it wasn't followed upon.

And then you have the stuff with the sort of ghouly people who you encounter in Homeless Encampment and in Knee.

Not a

CGI spooky piece.