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I go boarded up shops and Just desolation Stoke very much roaster prominence Center of the pottery industry in the UK, but in the last few decades that industry has been in Heavy decline due to cheap foreign imports Consequently, it's quite a deprived place to say the least a quarter of a million people live in the stoke area Yeah, I'm walking around what is generally considered to be the center of stoke Hanley and there are a few people around Anywhere would a McDonald's is the center of whatever town you're in in the UK. I noticed that McDonald's Center for what you would expect being the central shopping area of a city that size Half the shops are boarded up and most people I spoke to seem pretty miserable So, yeah, let's take a walk around stoke today. I'll show you the state But the city is in We'll see if we can meet any locals and see what they think about their city stoke on Trent in 2023 pound bakery Let's go What's life like in stoke? Yeah, yeah, yeah, what about all the boarded-up shops? It's a pub good Brilliant. I think he's had one too many folks. Is he all right? Yeah, yeah, are you picking him up? Yeah He told me to shut the door mate. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Are you going with him? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What a wild place Hanley High Street And a Friday afternoon. I'm filming me like monkey dust capital monkey dust capital. Yeah, if you look at all the Omelette man, this is a raw hat. You got on lucky Monkey dust. What's monkey dust? Yeah, like spice. Yeah, Hanley where even the town hall is for sale Sorry, mate. Just filming the town hall What does happen a lot of people in stoke They're hanging around in doorways and They seem to be living the street life with the homeless. I'm not sure, but Definitely a lot of drugs on the streets in stoke one point of your finest, please barman You won't be kind enough to share the Wi-Fi code as well, would you of course the network is pub Wi-Fi and Oh To the video Nothing So, do you pass your days? Do you go to any of like the local pubs or anything or any of the pubs good? Yeah Yet For that but you parents. Yeah, so you're just drinking Pepsi at the moment. Yeah. Yeah When the body is going it's a lot to work about you guys on anywhere now Everybody's on the door No way about I spoke to quite a few people today and they are all seeing quite down in the dumps They say that they're bored There's not a lot of opportunity No That's a shame mate. Yeah, have you got any family? Yep How long ago did your wife die felt a bit like on your own since then Myself Nobody bothers me. I don't bother them nice peaceful easy life. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's what I like I've seen a few people around that seem to be like quite high on drugs and things like that Do you think it's dangerous in the town centre now? Well, I don't trust the dogs it Like he's been a crawly corns on And the doctor said to me If you keep drinking like that side It'll be dead before you know it No, the cider was gonna take you out I was there for them How do you know seventy-nine seventy-five now? Yeah, it seems a bit of a drink of the cider My last year I'm no problem. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, so you'd recommend to anybody that's drinking too much that they can move their life around if they drink less Especially silent Did it two at once? I can't imagine that now sitting here. Were you your most peaceful man? I've met all day. Yeah. Yeah, but you turned used to turn quite violent when you had a lot of cider Yeah, I would let nobody couldn't even go in there. Yeah, you could pick a fight with yourself in the mirror Yeah, okay, good man. Yeah, so you've lived quite a colorful life So you spent quite a bit of time in prison as well Yeah, and you think that was drinking the side of it led you into those bad situations Liquor was at the center of it all Yeah, a lot of the time what sort of what sort of charges did we you in for? Okay, let's go robin houses Not before that's one of the biggest states There is go white lightning y'all say he probably talking about white lightning a three-liter cider discontinued around So Don't your time for your crime learn your lessons you think you yeah keep yourself to yourself Do you feel bad about those things looking back now benefit a harm side When I see these younger people now run jokes white lightning three-liter cider for three dollars three pounds this is a No wonder it got everybody in a chokehold back then I hit the like button if you used to drink like the white cider white lightning cider I Yeah, if I should listen to anyone that should listen to someone like you as well someone that's walked in there in the shoes They're now walking in you got any life advice for you obviously you've lived such an eventful life Have you got any life advice for anybody? That might watch the video Relaxing I do a lot of details. Yeah Long time dead you are mate. Yeah, it's opening back to know there's not my yeah Yeah, good man Yeah, thanks for talking to me Joseph. Thank you very much, mate. Yeah. Yeah, I everybody that I bump into I always sit And have a conversation because you can always learn one thing from every person you meet Yeah Because they know what I was And you've got a bit of a reputation round here over here So they've put up this really cool board Which is called the face of stoke on Trent this Like exhibition and it's all the different faces of the people that live here, but even This has been vandalized. I wouldn't want to be on there They've ripped off some of the pictures And it looks the right state very grim very depressing You know a town's in a bad way when it can't even keep its cash converters open hard times in stoke Have you got any opinions for the camera about what life's like in stoke? Why'd you say that? I have yeah, you just see it's all got rusted. Yeah, I did I just miss it did I? Prime content This is the town center the shopping precincts of a city of 250,000 people in the conurbation a quarter of a million people But look how dead it is just a handful of people walking around the town square Nothing about stoke at all Nothing good about stoke not even a food stand. It's crazy. That's tough She won't meet some smokers and crackers I think everybody does it to themselves every you know everybody's going to get everybody's got thing But that doesn't mean you have to be able to people. You've got a good art. We'll always win in the end All the best, mate I've been in Hanley for a couple of hours now and I can genuinely say but I think the reginald Mitchell the weather spoons is probably The best thing in town. It's actually quite a nice weather spoon trees outside Yeah, but that says a lot about Hanley what stoke like in 2023. I'm walking round. There's a lot of boarded-up shops What's the vibe in the town? Not very good for us. I think it's like the council's trying to get the people Let me turn this off. Sorry. Yeah, that's just probably good for the camera No It's every time we go to a lot of towns and places and wherever we go And these only or stoke on trends no difference at the most of places All the shops are being boarded up and you think you might give the retailers a bit of a break by there The price drop the price a bit like but they don't seem to each other. I think it's just It's just how the world is full of greed at the minute Open a shop and get burglar The next day they open like that's what I'm given. I'm gonna steal your stuff is a bit of a shit-tip Everything's just Stop caring everything's just thrown out on the street shops boarded up and the people that live here Seem to have given up on the town very very sad This was a club yeah What have you got a rip out all the floor in everything? Yeah Strip it down to the bare bones and then probably flats. Yeah Everything in this town is just like this leveling up stoke on Trent It can't come soon enough to be honest Do y'all have gentrification out there I thought I'd tie up my video in the nicest part of Hanley, but I find Hanley Park Isn't it wonderful? It's definitely the most pleasing on the eye part of this very grim town center Hanley Now I'm sure a lot of people in the comments. They're gonna write and say Wendell. You've been unfair on the area It's got lots going for it. I know that it's got the Staffordshire University. That's quite important to the town I'm sure it's got some other things going for it, but I haven't stumbled across But I'm just giving my first impressions and This declining post industrial town or city, I should say it didn't really feel like a city Hanley is a depressing place. It's really grim and It's not pleasing on the eye and a lot of the people that I spoke to Though we're not positive about their lives here and about the town in general I'm not gonna lie like this is one of the few ones where I was like Hey, they're not exaggerating this looks terrible in the grill terrible out there That's tough still leave a like comment subscribe turning up post. I'm gone