The other day I spontaneously booked tickets from my quiet little village to this big city.

For the most part it was just a normal holiday.

I was shooting guns, eating the most unhealthy food in the world, generally just having a great time.

But for 24 hours of this trip, that was not the case.

You see I wanted to set myself a challenge, no money, no internet access and nowhere to stay for the night.

Could I survive in this big foreign to me city without these luxuries?

Well let's find out.

It's just hit 1pm, from this moment on I have no money, nowhere to stay tonight, let's see what happens.

Okay so the first plan of action, I needed to make some money.

You see New York is the most expensive city in the world and without this I'm pretty screwed.

But the big problem is, how the hell do I make money here?

Busking, now this is massive in New York, every step you take in this city there will be someone trying to make money off you.

So I needed a way to stand out from the rest.

Magic, now I've been doing this since I was about 12 years old.

So the plan is, go up to anyone I see in Times Square, ask to show them a trick and if I fool them, they give me a tip.

Alright let's go make some money, let's go make some money, do you guys want to see a magic trick?

Do we have to pay?

If I trick you at the end there's tips but, I'm good bro, you have a good one anyway.

Alright this was going to be harder than I thought.

After an absolute ton of fails, eventually some people said yes.

Do you guys want to see a magic trick?

Sure.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Do you guys want to see a trick?

Yes.

Pick any card you want.

Perfect, show it to everyone.

So we've got the two of spades, look, I want you to sign this card to make it completely unique.

So you guys have got the two of spades, right?

So here's what I'm going to do with your two of spades, I'm going to fold it up into four like that, right?

And I want you to take your mouth, it sounds weird, I want you to bite on the card, keep it there, keep it there.

Sounds very weird, I know.

But you'll understand in a sec.

I'm going to take the card of the eight of spades.

And I'm going to do the same thing.

So I'm going to sign my signature.

So I'm going to take the eight of spades, right, and I'm going to fold my card up into four pieces like that.

And I'm going to bite onto it like that.

I want you to watch.

Now, in my mouth, we have your sign to a spade.

But what's in your mouth?

This is seven.

Seven of hearts.

Now, in my mouth, we have your sign card.

Stop, stop!

What's in your mouth is the question.

You're a liar!

Mate, you're an absolute legend, thank you so much.

And just like that, after a couple of tricks, I started raking in some money.

It's about 4pm, so I've been at this for about three hours.

I've made $6, that's a 20 euro note.

After exchanging the euros, I had earned myself a total of $27.11, which seems like a fair amount of money.

But for New York, that gets you absolutely jack ****.

Now, at this point, I was absolutely starving.

So I needed to find the cheapest, but most calorie-dense food I could find.

Yeah, this'll do.

Thank you very much.

Is there any chance I could just get some tap water?

Thank you so much.

Pretty good.

After absolutely devouring that pizza, I wanted to challenge myself even more.

I'm in the mood to work out now, so I want to try and sneak into a gym.

Operation get into a gym for free.

The key to this is simply just walk in with confidence, pretend you're meant to be there, and no one will ask questions.

That was a fail.

Okay, maybe my genius levels weren't as good as I thought they were.

But nevertheless, I kept trying and kept failing, so I changed up my plan.

Okay, here's what we're going to do.

We're going to find a hotel, see if it has a spa.

If it does, I'll try and waffle my way into there in the hopes I can get a workout in for free tonight.

Eventually, I came across this place.

Sorry, mate.

Where's the gym at?

It's on the fifth floor.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Obviously, I don't have a room key, so what I did was I followed someone into the lift who did have one, and boom, just like that, I'm on the fifth floor.

What are you saying?

What?

You need a key card to actually get into the gym.

So not only do you need one for the lift, you need one for the gym as well.

I'm going to go ask those cleaners if they can let us into the fitness centre.

Hiya.

Our mates are in the fitness centre part of the Hilton thing.

We don't have the key to the fitness part.

Is there any way you can get us into the centre there?

I don't know if my key can open the door.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

That's how you get into the gym properly.

After the workout, I was starving again, so I got a $5 meal from Wendy's.

I don't know if that's just bloody amazing, or it's just the fact that I'm starving.

That's good.

It's about 10pm right now.

I've been chilling out for the past couple of hours.

It's getting really cold outside, and the last thing I want to do tonight is sleep on the streets.

The lowest priced hostel in New York is about $60.

I've got 19 to my name, so I'm going to go out and try and busk a bit more.

Do you guys want to see some street magic?

No, we're good.

Do you guys want to see some magic?

Nothing.

No, no worries.

I'm a street magician.

No.

No, no worries.

I'm Joe, I'm a street magician.

No worries.

Yeah, literally nobody was interested, and honestly, I can't blame them.

So the next plan of action was working out the safest place to sleep.

Now, in New York, all the buildings are locked up at night, so indoor sleeping isn't really possible.

And that sucks, because it was about minus 4 degrees at the time.

Where do I sleep tonight?

My first thought would be Central Park, because it's got grass, it'll be comfy.

The thing is, I don't know how safe the place is.

Excuse me, sir, do you know if Central Park, late at night, like 2, 3 a.m., is that safe?

It's not.

It's not safe?

It is not safe, because in the end, you can't see anything, and you don't know who's in there.

Very stupidly, I didn't take the advice from the officer.

It got to about 1 a.m., and I was just knackered.

It is a ghost town right now.

I've never seen New York like this.

This is my home for the next several hours.

It was good knowing you.

Be safe.

I'll see you tomorrow, yeah?

It was now just me and this dark, gloomy place.

I don't know how well you can see this.

I think I'm going to just chill here.

I think this is the best I'm going to do.

There's no lights around here, so I don't think anyone will be able to see me.

So, I think I'm alone.

This was a bad spot.

I tried to fall asleep, but rats were just running around everywhere.

It was disgusting.

So, I found this bench a couple of minutes away, and tried to fall asleep on there.

It was just me and this dark, gloomy place.

The bar closes at 1 a.m.

You have to take your departure.

No worries.

It was getting much later.

It was also getting much colder, and I was back to square one.

It's at 3 a.m.

I'm getting tired.

I walked around New York for a bit, seeing if there was any possible indoor area where I could stay.

I even tried to waffle to security guards to let me stay in the reception of their hotel.

Hi, mate.

This is a very, very weird one.

Essentially, my mate is staying in the hotel, and he's on a Tinder date.

I'm just going to be completely honest.

And the last thing I want to do is cockblock the guy.

So, I don't want to go up to the room when he's with this girl.

He's just mad.

He's making a good impression.

Is there any way I can just chill in the corner there for like an hour or two while he waits?

Not this early.

Not this early?

There's no chance.

I will not make...

If I make a peep, you can kick me out.

Yeah.

No worries, man.

Thank you anyway.

At this point, it wasn't looking good.

Getting so tired.

Open to the public. 24 hours.

This place might have to be where I try and sleep for the night.

It's not the worst.

You know, pretty cosy over here.

I slept on and off for about an hour.

But just how cold it was, I couldn't take it anymore.

Hello.

It is Joe from a couple weeks in the future.

I kind of just want to explain what happened after I slept on that bench.

Essentially, I got too cold.

I felt horrible and I just couldn't hack it.

I didn't complete the challenge.

I'd like to keep it real with you.

I don't want to fake anything.

In total, I believe I managed 18 hours.

So, not the best, but yeah.

Thank you guys for watching the video.

I'll see you in the next one.

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