it's amazing how he genuinely engages w people that are so far detached from reality. He doesn't treat them like weirdos. He treats them like people...even w the girl talking about $$$$ing on people. he connects w everyone and passes no judgement.
@The4valanche I get your point. but just because everyone's own experiences are real, that does not mean they are living in the real world and within social norms for humans. For example the bippers on San Fran who are talking about it like they are going to work...the guy who thinks he is jesus...the girl in the example above...these people are beyond the fringes of social norms. What they are doing is real enough to them..but stealing from peoples cars and getting banned from auto parts stores so you can't buy spark plugs to break windows is the perfect example of someone who is detached from the reality of life.
The cut from “Toronto has the hottest girls” to “I like to lay out like a dead fish” has to be one of the greatest transitions in any form of media ever
The major problem with Toronto, is that all the immigrant children are horribly rich and rely on their parents for everything. That's why they have these disgusting personalities and are usually brought back down to earth when someone slaps them or they finally end up having to get a job or go to rehab.
🚨Attention ladies‼️🗣️ Don’t get assaulted by someone even remotely famous at all cost! because the world will sweep it under the rug and continue praising them. We are on our own apparently.
This was genuinely incredible. As a Newfoundlander who spent 7 years in toronto and now lives in Hamilton, I can confirm both those cities were mentioned in this video.
also a newfoundlander in toronto, this city fucking sucks, but if channel 5 did this to the skeets in Newfoundland most likely they would steal his film equipment, so, can't throw stones from glass houses
@@bond182. Sagittarius Shawty in the opening clip... I live under a rock and even I know who that girly is.. she is infamous.. a very interesting person.. look her up she has a lot of social media
Andrew! You have leveled up hard. You are carrying beautiful storytelling. Thanks for giving us all a deeper understanding of what’s true in this world! Much love!! ❤❤❤
So far this is my favorite video on this channel. I guess it's the variety and the way the audio and the video is put together and the content which is fun and sparks even more curiosity.
lol love it. From now on I'm going to imagine that none of the people who have rapped to Andrew have been rappers at all.. people just feel an uncontrollable urge to freestyle whenever Andrew is filming (gotta be a cursed camera or something)
As someone with a masters in anthropology, I appreciate the respect for the locals and a desire to learn the language and culture. It fostered connection and was totally "channel 5." Great video
Andrew: "Whats your most traumatic childhood memory?" Kyle: revisits suppressed dark place -- "Fuck." reemerges from said dark place -- "I don't really have one man..."
I think your darkest memory is always your first bad memory because it’s really hard for something to be worse than the first bad thing you experience also the worst thing you ever experienced is the worst thing you ever experienced
I am now subscribed. Started in Kensington, down to Arizona and now Toronto, where I lived my golden years. Thanks to Indigenous people lots of us could do wheelies in the parking lots.
A subtle but critical part of why Channel 5 is so good is that Andrew can keep the conversation moving and engaging despite significant conversational obstacles.
Man when Kyle said what his life was like back then, it hit me with a bit of nostalgia too. Going to Ontario Place, CNE, Toronto Island, Chuck E Cheese, harveys and burger king hitting different
French-Canadians have no reason to learn English if they live in Quebec. French-Canadians are not catered to in places like B.C. and Alberta, a uni-lingual Francophone person has less of Canada to access than an Anglophone. Anglophones have an entire country. We only have one province. French-Canadians bombed buildings and deleted English politicians in the 60s, they got trained by Palestinians in Jordan, teamed up with the Black Panthers and that's what gave us the power to run our own province and be taken seriously. You think we're stuck up? We don't care. Just don't pretend that you care about immigrants when Ottawa blocks 70% of French speaking Africans from coming into Quebec just because they do not speak English. In a place where they would never need it in the first place. Nah just bring in hundreds of thousands of south-east-Asian people, that's OK cause they speak English. The English did not "give" us anything. We fought tooth and nail for it while we were illiterate and living in shanty towns. The IRISH of all people were oppressive to French-Canadians in Quebec and Ontario, things like the Shiner's War happened where the Irish would r*pe and m*rder French-Canadian women in the streets and the cops looked the other way.
I just came from the San Francisco video, and I cannot express how much I love that Andrew covers some extremely complex issues that are very serious, but can also come out and stick to the roots of his comedic style of journalism. Dude is what we need as a society.
One of the most thought provoking elements of the Channel 5 content repertoire is that all of these people had an entire life that led them to a singular, chance moment to be in front of Andrew's microphone. It can feel like the opposite at times, like these people spawned in the middle of the street, with some insane, contrived backstory that drives them to rap poorly and spontaneously. But they ARE real lol. Incredible.
Well the ‘Westin road’ girl is a currently absurdly famous rapper and tik tok star for lying about her life, so it’s the actual exact opposite of that lmao
Trust Andrew to find the most outlandish characters ever somehow. He must have a team looking up the sketchiest areas and finding the craziest human beings ever. I've been spending time in Toronto for 30 years and these people are alien to me. "I don't fight cause that's ratchet and I'm a grown woman" from someone who gets paid to have explosive diarrhea on mens chests is kind of hard to understand.
I have been living in downtown Toronto for 12+ years now. In an area that is notorious for it’s low income. I have never met anyone like this. I meet a LOT of different people here, and never someone who speaks like this. Kyle may be the closest, but his opinions are so insane. He’s the idiot you hear speaking on the streetcar and laugh at for 10 minutes with your friend before never seeing again.
The people he interviewed are actual known in Toronto as memes. They have all gone viral on Toronto insta pages for various things. My personal favorite is bucks be ballin Kinda jokes that he found all the jokes of Toronto and put them on camera LOL
I love that we got a cameo from Gardaworld being ineffective. Might be the first time in 20 years I've seen them actually attempt to do their jobs, lol.
Something very poetic about a bunch of completely different people from all walks of life, the wheelies, poop eater, elongated cash me outside girl and some chilling security guards, all perched up on a rooftop with a city back drop in the night.
Surrey, BC used to be the car theft capital not just of the province, not just of Canada, but of all North America. The mayor at the time said, "Sometimes you have to steal a car to make a court date because we don't have good transit."
Surrey has this stereotype of being a crime hotspot in B.C. but it's improved a lot by recently adding more buildings, stores, and roads. It's really not as bad as people make it out to be. The local government has been funding more infrastructure projects and modernizing places like Guildford, Fleetwood, and Cloverdale the past few years. It's become much, much safer. While it doesn't compare to Vancouver which is a 30 min ride away, Surrey is still a beautiful city. I'm not currently sure about Whalley or Newton though, those places are REALLY shady and could probably use another decade of construction and cleanup lol
Yeah, everybody sucks in this video, but that’s pretty common in Channel 5 vids! He searches out some of the shittiest and dumbest people in every region 😂
Oh, snap. That roll through Sauga has my store featured at the start of it; Techknow Space, just before the Keg! Thanks for featuring my hood, eh? Ok, I'll continue watching now...
If you are in Canada, you should check St-Jérôme, near Montreal. Quebec is a really strange place. If you know, you know. It's funny.. in the "drive thru" video, the cashier just looks like she doesn't understand english and the customer sounds like a typical angry Karen... It's like trying to order a coffee in the US speaking french.. There's a lot of people who does'nt speak english in Quebec, but in Montreal, almost everyone speaks english. Would be interesting to see one of your documentary exploring that bilingual duality ; and the culture and sub cultures in Montreal are dope !
Ohhh I know St Jerome. I stopped over twice there. Opening times on weekends until 17:00. Nobody else in Canada does that. Actually I lived in MTL for six months.
Andrew. You are a modern day anthropologist. You do such good work bringing us the full and beautiful spectrum of humans on the north American continent.
There was a brief clip of Debby in here. She a Toronto Icon that got exploited on social media and sadly died of an overdose. I had the pleasure of meeting and hanging with her a few months before her passing. RIP Debby.
as soon as i saw her i paused and looked for this comment, it was so sad when she passed man i never met her but i'm local to toronto so would always hear about her and see her. RIP debby man gone too soon.
Andrew, you HAVE to go to Montreal now. It is another Canada, along with its own brand of authentic Quebecois madness and fire. Combines the chaos of Toronto with the chill and cultured vibe of a European city. Hands down my favorite city in North America. You'll find some equally wild characters there too, but with 100% more TABARNAK!
This video has made me regret telling anybody that I'm from Toronto. Andrew's editors made this video so much funnier though, the cut at 13:56 had me wheezing and the beat coming in randomly during some of the interviews was so good
Andrew as always is phenomenal as a host - The editing needs more recognition though haha this was fantastic! When he asked the dude in the pool what his most traumatic experience was and it shows him pause to think and how the music gets all tense just for him to shrug it off and say he didn't have one and the way the music popped back to the happy music had me laughing. Overall great video y'all!
Yeah, I think we've all maybe had a co-worker or two that was a little bit like this; But these eccentric individuals probably don't represent the average person super accurately. It was entertaining, though. Maybe I need to get out more.
I'm old I don't have any fuckin clue what's going on I grew up with all the Somalian, Persian, Jamaican slang too but fuck me I never thought to freestyle If I was was born in 2002 maybe I'd be in this video too
i grew up here pretending to enjoy spending time with these exact types of people in these very locations. as you might imagine i was extremely depressed all my childhood ! thank you for distilling that experience in a silly video
Man you quickly became one of my favorite channels. I love your style, there's something about it that gives me independent film festival vibes idk really how to put it into words
You've made an absolutely phenomenal and excellent video once again. Thank you for always supplying the community with your astronomically fantastic content. Peace, love, and blessings.
Having a national sport is so cool. When everyone plays hockey, like damn near everyone, it makes it easier to actually play a sport with people in your community.
@@tugahenrik1 US national sport is Baseball. Although, Football has been overshadowing Baseball for some time now. If you want to talk international that transcends language, culture, ethnicity, and religion, that's going to be Soccer (or Football if you prefer that term).
Yet again another unusually insightful video showcasing people’s viewpoints and attitudes. I truly appreciate the work and fantastic journalism that AC is committed to. Just glorious! 😊
Channel 5 is true journalism. Masterpiece every new vid lol. The editing is incredible . I love the humor of course, but y’all are masters of the craft
I swear this gets weirder and weirder and then I remember it was always weird. Props for showing us so much weirdness without desensitizing us to the weirdness
I find your work truly fantastic. It is a really interesting X-Ray view of north american youth culture. As a mexican I am looking forward to the episode from the amigas and amigos down south. Cheers fam!
I think I’ve realized why I love his videos - I keep waiting for him to take a stance and tell me what he thinks I should think, but it never comes. A true exposition journalist who just shows the world for what it is without forcing his own views
