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First and foremost. Is that a dog taking a sh it behind him on camera? In Devon now I pass through the Riviera about three months ago We're backpacker Ben and we mostly filmed in Torquay and then in brickson and we only quickly passed through Painton But you know me. Yeah, I like to properly scratch the surface with places and upon closer Investigation on the old tinta web. I found out that painting has got a really bad Reputation recently and I'm gonna have to read off my phone to read all these articles. It doesn't take much To find out that I've got some problems with unruly behavior The mirror and I put these things on screen now The mirror keep in mind. I was on the mirror From my tiktoks. I was in there Brit seaside town overrun with feral knife toting rooftop jobs as young as nine the sun Our seaside town is tormented by I was on the sun too Errol kids as young as nine gangs terrorizers from rooftops The moment that triggered decline of our famous west country town that's overrun with jobs That's Bristol life the list goes on So I mean I feel like it's easy to blame like the downfalls of where you from On a particular group of people because you know Human nature is to scapegoat and not look outside ourselves and what's going on, but Let's see what he's fine. I've been deaf for a couple of days and I thought Let's get to the bottom of this is it really that bad in painting because at the moment It seems that the town isn't the happiest place to be Or are those notorious tabloids sensationalizing the issue? Let's investigate Let's go hit the streets of painting And see what people have to say about the town Seaside towns full of this like carnival attractions like all of them in the uk Like dang that's crazy Like literally no one comes there in the cut in the cold weather This is like was this a great move? Is this are these still hustling and bustling businesses? But what what is this? What's this called steel tom drum steel tom drum? That's one of those things that go How long you've been playing it I only got this one a couple days ago. Yeah. I had one last year. So you're still learning Yeah, I'll just make it up. People ask me like how do you do it? I'll just make it up I'll just see anything. Will you play it for me what you've what you've learned so far? Go for it No pressure I'm sorry I can tell you strung out all something man Yeah, don't don't worry about it beautiful honestly considering that you've only just learned how to do it. It's really beautiful I used to have one very similar. It's a beautiful sound. It was nice. It did sound nice. The dog wasn't feeling it, but yeah Can I know a thing? She gotta be up. I need to know. Can I give you some money to get some food for the dog? That's your dog. Yeah Two dogs, then I better give you some to get money. I can see the other one now the other head with one Yeah With the hopes of getting dog food. Well, isn't it? It's really like um therapeutic relaxing. Yeah, very delicate. Yeah Here you go. Here's some here's some money for the dogs as well. And if you want to use some, okay What's your name, my love? Saffy. Yeah, my name is Wendell. Yeah Do I want to go? Yeah, will you will you film me playing it? Yes Yeah, will you hold that and what how do I have it like on my lap like that? I have you. We want to just point that at me. There you go. You're my camera person You got some uh, you know, you got some rhythm. You got to take the thing and go around it and make the sound of the I've seen this before like when people be off shrooms, they be with this That's beautiful instrument. I've uh, I've ever heard it's beautiful. It's so um, so relaxing Yeah, I used to play drums. So I've got my rhythm. Yeah Listen if you want to become Oh So on the trains the metros in Florida Like they come through here like this on the tracks and like I be seeing people with I seen a whole neighborhood right here if I can Man, if I could go like get an interview they was cooking in there and everything like they was living off the land I seen kids. I seen the tv I'm like, well, y'all get a power source from that's tough I was tough It's a shit hole. Why'd you why'd you say that? This is nothing to do for children. Yeah, it's dirty like there's dog shit everywhere. I nearly just coming around the corner there There's a huge yeah, I like to pick it up at the time But you walk around the town. You just see piles of shit everywhere. Yeah Like they're closing down the multi-story car parks. There's empty shops. Yeah, and it's it's dive I read um, that there's like gangs of like youths like causing trouble. Have you seen that on? Yeah, I read Devon like the other day and there was 11 year old. I got arrested for drunken disorder. Really 11 11 I hadn't had my first beer at 11 I was a bit older than that. I used to the kids round here before yeah You look fantastic, sir. Can I film you a little bit for my video? You're playing christmas carols. Yeah, you're playing christmas carols Yeah I'm not familiar with the tune. I'm trying to pinpoint what it is. It gotta be a uk to uk christmas carol Oh Do you live in painting? Yes. Yeah, what's painting like as a place to live in? Since 1963 60 years or 80 years old Okay, yeah You look younger than 80 You only look about 72 and although From a physical point of view um Like everywhere in this country. I hope I look that young when I'm 80 low key The deterioration is very noticeable now lack of maintenance Buildings, I mean council and but they have money but they spend it in different ways When I came in 63 the gardens were kept absolutely pristine Yeah, which gardens is that the victoria gardens all the gardens everywhere in torbay because they used to Win nearly every year with dark but the britney and bloom contest and all that's gone That's a shame which is a shame. Yeah, and the town basically attracted retired people Over the years. So do y'all have mayors out there? Like who runs the town? Like, you know the city of chicago we have a mayor of florida like the different counties in florida have mayors or whatever Like there's like a person in particular who you can blame from the downfall That is not civilians We were unusual for a married couple to come here I married at 20 And came to live here because my wife went to school at top list, you know top list. Yeah, they just took her out And uh, we've had a very happy married life. She's in heaven now bless her. I lost her 60 years to hear that But played in the army band for 60 years. Yeah. Yeah, I could hear you up her out and I was drawn to you Still doing it. Yeah So you've seen it change a lot. There's a lot of unease around that was yeah People are not as relaxed as they were but as a place and a place to live in the country everywhere around here is Absolutely beautiful. Yeah, it's in a beautiful spot. Yeah, yeah wonderful walks and the sea is always there But this if you like I think it's the mess. We are making over. Yeah. Yeah, what's your name my friend melvin Yeah, my name's wendel. Nice to meet you. Thank you W cut scene The last time I visited it was summer and now it's december So you would expect it to be quieter in painting when I visited in august This whole green on the front by the seafront. It was uh jam packed With a fun fair amusements and it was very busy and obviously it's quieter now because it's december But I will say that i'm pleasantly surprised at how busy painting is There are a lot of people knocking around it is a saturday But I expected it to be like a ghost town In december out of season, but it's not there are a lot of families staying in the hotel that i'm staying in that seem to Be going to the polar express which is uh, oh, that's cool like a train ride for kids I think about 10 miles up the road. We have that too. I don't know if they have it in florida But there's definitely it in chicago They do it on the regular cta train And they do it um On the metros and things of that nature So there is some life in winter at least today this saturday in december in painting there's a lot of um Like fucking drug addicts around you know, but i don't know about gangs violent gangs or something like that Yeah, yeah There are a lot of people strange in money Yeah, it's not like it wasn't I was a kid, you know, I lived through all my life You lived through all your life. So I read that was it the nortel electronics factory that closed at like the start of the 2000s And that's like the biggest employer in the town really. Yeah. So another example of like um a main employer town That's lost its main employer and yeah a deprivation. Yeah. Yeah, that's right Okay, this seems like the main drag of what I would call the real paint and high street and at the moment I can't see any boarded up shops, which is something we normally see in these high streets around britain. That's a fact That's what i'm saying. This one seems much better Than the normal places that we be in the window every shop Seems to have something in and this they're not town shops and bookies for the most part most of them are What I would call normal run-of-the-mill promise shops so The people are saying that there are problems here But I've seen Worse high streets than this. So what's life like in painting? Yeah, it's wonderful. I've been here for years and footballers I came here and um He came as a footballer. Yeah from Southampton to toky. Yeah, and um Worked and lived here and had a family and when I put painting into google Yeah, lots of news articles came up about like there's some problems like with like groups of yobbs and that's the thing with the news Man, they be overdoing it like just like with chicago y'all think chicago is the worst place on earth like It ain't but it ain't it's not it's it's okay. Well, it's it's like that But it's also very great as well like for civilians like a few uk person comes there like I'm not going to encounter anything bad Nice, you gotta be you haven't seen anything. Maybe don't the car park. That's up, but I don't get down there It's a car park down that way. Yeah. Yeah, it started a car field road. Yeah You like some zombies isn't it? But you think it's a good town. Yeah, people have been like family of group Yeah, I've had no problems. Yeah, children. It's the first washing Just the first wash place that I seen in the uk like a laundry man. Okay, they've been hardly hustle, you know Yeah, everyone knows each other, you know, and everybody looks out for each other I was born in the year 9 with number one Who is it musical youth musical youth running among is it I'm originally from the midlands. Yeah You should know more man. You sound like a brummy. Hi. I'm a yummy. I'm yummy. I'm so am I. Yeah, I'm from noble random Yeah, nice to meet you, mate. Well, you've got a lot of smack heads down here. Lots of them Yeah, robberies, burglaries, a lot. Yeah, yummy. I'm good man. Are you one as well? No, I am not. Okay, there's two of us there I'm from the other side of the city. Yeah, we're all good people there. Oh, you're posh of us then. Yeah I'm from Sutton, Erdington, borderline Okay. Yeah, yeah, man, I'm going to issue whatever tickets or a tv license Complaint to you that going on I'll be down here off my life. Yeah, half your life. You ain't lost Jackson. No, never lose it. See saver are some problems in town There is yeah, smack heads mainly. Yeah, you've got the smack heads You're getting to like your estates the foxhole and all that. Yeah Yeah, kids like they're like not scared of your adults now like, you know I've got the clout, you know a smack around the ear roll or anything when I've been wrong You knew if you did something wrong, yeah But down here now like the kids can get away with murder, you know So like, yeah, you get you get some good kids some some are all right. This is your off the others like, you know They go out I almost charged a book by his cover, but this dude is actually well spoken On the drink and drugs. That's it. Yeah, so these reports that I've read about groups of like young yachts. They are Down here a couple of weeks ago. I like That's two weeks on a sunday Some got stabbed really in the shop. Yeah, they're running around the British shop just around here Yeah, yeah, the cope on the corner. Yeah. Yeah, I've seen it. I've walked past it early Let's stop you let even the loudest how moods Very unassuming they're like a week's back kids. No kids like adults stabbing each other but people for a bit Been choked out the window. That's on the plan thing there. Really that window there It choked out the window. She ended up on there on the plan part that plan part. Was she badly hurt? Must have been you fall out the second floor here Did you know you could So this is a unique feature of ice cream luxury painting that I've never seen anywhere else right smack bang in the middle of the town Is the railway line crossing? And every now and again the red lights come on and all the pedestrian and vehicular traffic Just stop some waits in the middle of the town While it's closed And the train comes through a unique and fun feature As a first-time visitor, I think if you live here that will become a real pain in the arse Mate is the fox holes the state up here? Hold that I don't find the most questionable looking people that ask questions Is it that 20 minutes something or something? I've never seen them asking like what we would say normal looking person like a question Cheers Yes, I'm just trekking up the hill out of painting to the fox holes estate Which a couple of people told me was the roughest estate in painting. So if these stories of Yobs and antisocial behavior are as accurate as they're portrayed then Surely that's the place to Find out let's see let's trek up the hill And check out the notorious fox holes estate Imagine putting your camera down walking up being walking back down To grab your camera being really walking back up then edited it out in post-production. That's hard work window I salute you for this This is some fucking hell up to the old fox holes estate Basically the town's down there by the sea It's a pretty decent gradient for old Wendell Getting the blood pumping Getting the steps in To bring the content Whoo, I don't think I'd like to be In this alley in the fox holes estate after dark Pretty sketchy part of this neighborhood behind the shops here. What's life like in fox holes? Shit, why'd you say that dodgy dodgy? I better get out of here. You heard it briefly from that fella fox holes estate He's dodgy. I think it's time to get back out of here and back to the seafront Yeah, what is that like behind here of the park? Yeah, you might get snubbed up by children Victoria park at night the skate park. Yeah Dangerous you'll get fucking Why would that stab me what to rob me or no no reason to a man. I just stab me no reason to a man. They're like 12 Yeah Stop thinking about themselves so much Stop thinking about the people that they're around I think if everyone could do that the world would be so much better. Absolutely man. That's a really yeah It's a really good buy a look at society. Yeah I'm battling the drizzly conditions in this outro So I'll keep it quick. But paint and I've I've wandered the streets of the town center the estates Looking for evidence of these groups of yobbs that have supposedly overrun this town And although I didn't encounter them myself I spoke to several locals who say there are problems with antisocial behavior And it does blight the experience of living in the town I think in many ways paint and suffering in the same way as its neighbor just behind me there talky The English Riviera is not the draw that it used to be and consequently life's just gone downhill in many ways the uh high street nearly all the shops have got In my opinion, man, it's not that bad. It didn't look that bad But you know the experience from outside looking in or a visitor is always different than somebody living there And at the end of the day window you did what you could You found the most questionable three people in this old town and you went up to them and asked them questions So salute. Till I leave the like, comment, subscribe. We're gone