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Surviving On Just $1 In New York - Day 4
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Mar 27, 2025
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6.30 a.m
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Morning, day four. Surviving on $1 in New York City. We made it four days
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One more day to go. All right now, I'm just going to head back
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to the other hostel so I can grab my bag, brush my teeth, get ready for the day
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I know I can head to the very first hostel that we spent day one and day two one
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And I know I can go upstairs and like take a shower there kind of without them doing
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But I just need a freshenov but I haven't had a shower like two days Can I grab my back please
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Alright so right now we're heading to our very first OG hostel because they have like a really nice kitchen there
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You can pretty much just go upstairs like take a shower like sort yourself out
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So we're going to head there and get freshened up and then trying to figure out what we're having for breakfast
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Thank you Hello Alright so we're in the hostel that the battery is charging
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So right now I'm gonna try and do a quick workout And then jump in a shower freshen up
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and then try to figure out breakfast I made it through to the bathroom
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I thought it was going to get cool because the guys at the reception are standing right at the passage when I came upstairs
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I'm getting scared. I don't know I'm going to get out this one because the lady is cleaning here
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She's about to clean here next. And the guys are standing just outside door
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Breakfast. Alright now one thing about hostels is there's usually a decent amount of free food
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lying everywhere. Check out, remember to throw your food out and add to the free shelf
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Here we have something interesting. Eat Me. Another freebie, here we go
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24th of 11th. 24th 11th, 24th of 11th, Alice. So we can have this and we can have the pizza
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Yeah, so I think you'll find that most food in hostels are to be eating
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Maybe not all of them, but most of them are to be eaten
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If you just like check the dates, you realize a lot of it is either expired
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or the people have left and they just left it there. All righty, we're going to head out and see what there is to do today
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Honestly, if you're up to me, I'll just stay in a hostel the whole day
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It's nice and warm and cozy. There music there a movie on there food What am I going outside What I looking for What is it But yeah you know what It a nice day out It not raining
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So let's explore. All right, so I saw a post that Jay-Z has an exhibition
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at Brooklyn Museum, so we've traveled almost an hour all the way down here to come and see this museum
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Hi guys, so I made a friend. What's for you? Marie. Hi
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So she's also come to see the JD exhibition. She heard about it on the radio and we're going to be going together
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Indeed. So it's my first time in America. Oh, really? Yeah. Hello, welcome
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Thank you so much. Thank you. Is there anything I need to know? Like about like different areas because I've just traveled an hour all the way down here
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Yeah. I don't know if this is like a good area or like. It's fairly decent. Yeah
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You're okay, no crime, more. No, no. Everything like that really goes on over here
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All right, okay. I mean, it looks like fairly, it does look pretty decent. Yes
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Turns out the exhibit is at the library. And we came to the museum, which isn't open today
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At least we've found a way. Hey? And there's a will. So this is Brooklyn
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The book of hole. The hole. Yes. Oh wow. You know, this is actually inspiring
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It's safe to say the whole neighborhood showed up. Oh, left, go here to the middle to base on the beach side
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So when Kenya goes, oh, I'm a girl, and like people freak out, like why the difference
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People are more woke these days. Back in the days, people do understand that
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No, no, send that. All right, so apparently this is a replica of Jay-Z's studio
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this is what his studio would have looked like and that was the JCP exhibition
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what did you make of it I loved it my favorite part was the studio yeah same here
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it was very I guess interesting and fun to walk through his old legacy and all his
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different albums and like all the things he's done in his career and it kind of like
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makes you want to like it inspires you you know getting goosebumps yeah it makes you
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want to leave that same legacy, you know? Exactly. It was really fun
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Have a good one. Have a great fun. Happy holiday. Happy holiday
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All right. Bye. All right. All right. All right. That was fun
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We're back at a train station. We're going to jump on a train and go on a cookie trail
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Because today is national cookie day. It wasn't yesterday. It was today. National cookie day
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So we're going to go and grab as much cookies as we possible. can
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So in continuing our national cookie day scavenger hunt we just reached our first well not continuing we saw it yesterday We just reached our first stop This is Chief City
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We're going to get this and we're going to head to the next location. See how many cookies we can grab in the next, I don't know, a few hours
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What's the name and the flavor? Um, I have any recommended ones
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You would have to do it through the app. Apparently I have to download the app and show the code
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My app is all over a little bit. Thank you so much, thank you
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The long, awaited and highly anticipated cookie is abnormally large. It almost looks like a hockey product
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That was disgustingly sweet. Now as much as chasing cookies around the city sounds great i'd like something more filling so i'm thinking
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i should probably go on another jacket hunt to try and grab a chicken burger and maybe a smoothie
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this time can i ask you a question okay so i was wondering if you had like really old coats
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that no one came to collect they're really old you don't use them I can just take them like jackets and coats
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I want to like give it to like donate I don't have you we donate everything
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after six months we donate everything yeah okay I don't have no we don't have it
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like just old jackets no we're all almost six months and we just
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donate everything all right so I found something online called the free store
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which kind of looks like a shed full of free things and people can go and leave things they don't want
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or take things they want so let's have a look at it see if we can find some jackets
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right so they've got one really nice trench coat which has some rips in it
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but I figured instead of taking it why not just leave it for someone who actually needs it
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I mean they have just about everything here pots, pans, books clothes
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random miscellaneous items this is the equivalent of the autonomous free shop
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that we had in London it got shut down very quickly this one seems like it's been up for a while
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and it's like it's thriving it's doing really well if you haven't seen the autonomous free shop video
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link in description go check it out all right now since I've been here
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I've gone loads of trains past time square, why haven't actually like gotten off and like walked around and seen all like the lights and all the billboards
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So why not? This place is absolutely bonkers
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It's wild. These are the famous stairs
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This place is so surreal. Just looking at it because I've only seen these from videos online or like
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movies or like random references and then to be here like in person it like it just wild It just wow
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All right so there seems to be a Christmas market on and people are just dropping money all over the place
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Alrighty and that's about Times Square. Alright, so today's been a bit of a bit of
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slow day. It's just been nose after nose, after nose. Tried to go on the cookie trail
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At least a cookie scavenger hunt. Turns out I couldn't because you need a mobile app
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Once I downloaded it, that was it. I couldn't collect multiples, as I would have liked to
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And then the second one, wanted to get jackets and trade it in for burgers
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I tried quite a few places. They all said no. And then eventually went to like a charity foundation on me
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They also said no. So right now I'm just going to head back to the hostel
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make my pizza and find somewhere to sleep tonight. We're back at the hostel
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Stick this in the oven. If there is an oven. A fry pan situation
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Now I must confess I've never fried pizza. before. But there's a new day for everything
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All right, so I think it's actually microwavable. You see, he's putting a microwave for 3 minutes 30
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on height and it should be done. But as we've been doing this whole challenge
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sticking it in the microwave isn't exciting enough. We want to fry it
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Now I don't know who's oil or what has been fried in here before and I don't really care to know
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It's 9pm, I'm tired, I just want to eat and go and hide in a corner
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A bit anticlimactic. Did you expect a sizzle? Well, this is in a pan
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I feel like I should probably cover it to keep the steaming
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But we're just going to wait until the cheese melts and then it's ready to be eaten
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Or I might just sear the bottom and then stick it in a microwave for three minutes
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It tastes a bit doughy. Alright, it's currently 1.16 a m. I've made it to the second hostel
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I've made it to the second hostel. There's no one here. I just rummaged through the fridge and I found some overdue food
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toast and cream
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