In this YouTube video, hosts Rusty and Chris explain that instead of simply handing out cash to homeless individuals, they decided to coordinate with local shelters to identify specific needs and purchase items accordingly. After calling shelters, they compile a shopping list that includes washers, dryers, a stove, cleaning supplies, toothbrushes, computers, monitors, towels, coffee, and other essentials. They load the items into a U‑Haul, drive to a Salvation Army shelter (after an initial location declined), and unload the donations while interacting with shelter staff (Speakers C and D). Throughout the segment, the hosts intersperse casual banter, jokes about sponsors (notably a Tide ad), and calls to action for viewers to comment, subscribe, and purchase merch. The video showcases the logistical planning, the personal interactions with shelter staff, the philosophy behind needs‑based giving, and the tension between sponsorship and audience perception.
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What's up? Well, I don't have any cash, but I got some gift cards if you need some help to get food and clothes and all kinds of stuff. Where that at?
Macy's?
Yes, sir.
Where that at?
I believe it's in the mall. I think there's one in the mall, which is the Applebee's right over there.
Yes, sir. I'm eating tonight.
You're gonna eat good?
Oh, yeah. God bless y'all.
Yes, sir.
No problem.
Yes, sir. Thank you, man.
My name's Rusty.
Nice to meet you, Rusty.
In my previous homeless videos, I just went around and gave money to random homeless people, and, uh, you know, it did have a positive influence on most of their lives, but I don't think that's the best way to go about it. So what we're actually going to do today is we're going to call homeless shelters, get a list of things they need, go to the store, buy it, and deliver it to them.
What exactly would you guys need, and what would be most helpful for you guys? If you guys need like couches, TVs, beds, anything.
Yeah. Uh-huh.
Wow, look at that, it's only $399. You know what else is $399?
No.
It's something.
I can't— what else is $399?
It's something that can do stuff like this.
No, I thought it was more of a thisy. All I know is for $399 you can get a washer. I wouldn't buy anything else for $399. Whoops.
Nah.
Nah. Nah.
Ooh.
I don't like that washer. It's kind of ugly.
Nah.
Just kidding, guys. Everyone comment how great of a washer Chris is.
Stop telling people to comment things about my life because last time everybody was like, don't have kids.
What's up guys, I just moved down. I have this $6 million mansion right here. We got a nice microwave, table here. It's been pretty— what'd you say? Lunch is ready? So the homeless shelter told me that they spend most their time washing clothes, so this is an $800 washer and dryer, and we got 2 of each of these because if they spend most their time washing clothes, we might as well make it easier. So we're waiting on all the washer and dryers to be grabbed from the back, and yeah guys, I think they're almost done, so let's go check. So the next thing they said they needed was a stove, and by the way, if you guys don't want this, I will gladly microwave a microwave microwaving a microwave microwaving an iPhone inside of here. So if you don't want this, just give it right back to me. But yeah, it does have an open and closer just like PewDiePie's chair.
It's got the knobby boys.
Wow, this stove has the Fast Boy. Wait, what's inside of here? I'm fast as fuck, boy! Next, they said they needed a lot of cleaning supplies, so we're just gonna dump it all in here.
Have you seen the thing where if you pour—
Chris, what are you doing?
Getting those gains.
Ha!
All right, I think that's enough gains.
We should tone it down.
We gotta get the gains. More games. Can they use some Cascade? I think they want Cascade. Did we do good, viewers?
This is one clean cart.
And remember, guys, it's always a Tide ad.
And we won't get demonetized because these are actually for laundry. Should you eat Tide Pods, Jimmy?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I bet you thought this video was us giving stuff to homeless people. Nope, it's a Tide ad. You're so extra.
And call me gay. Yeah, thanks. All right guys, so we just bought a bunch of washer dryers. We bought a stove. We bought a bunch of soap, especially Tide because you know this is a Tide ad. Now we're going to head to Walmart, buy a bunch of stuff from Walmart, and yeah. Last time I came to this Walmart, I got kicked out. Can I ask what you're doing? I'm just working on a video. Okay, we cannot do that in the store. Not allowed. All right.
Absolutely not.
All right. Okay.
I'll leave.
So I'm not quite sure what type of shampoo homeless shelters want, so we're just going to start grabbing. Thanks. Next, they said they needed a lot of toothbrushes, so, uh, we have about 200 toothbrushes. They said that, uh, toothbrushes obviously can only be used once and they need a lot.
All right, so the next thing on the list was they said they needed a bunch of computers. They said they had a grant, but it fell through, so they didn't get computers.
So, yeah, what's up, man?
Uh-oh, here we go.
It's about to happen.
You're gonna be on YouTube.
What? I need 5 i5 desktops and 5 monitors.
Got it.
What's up, man? All right, Tyson, I appreciate it. Y'all have a good one. I love what you guys are doing.
Say anything to them?
If anyone's never, never watched, you need to. It's awesome. Everything they do is for a great cause. MrBeast, want my free shirt?
All right, so we ended up getting 5 monitors, 5 really nice desktops. These ones will do them just well.
We just drove an hour with the U-Haul full of stuff. We're here We're here at Salvation Army because the Salvation Army near where I live didn't want anything, so we had to drive an hour for one that actually needed stuff.
So is there anything special we need to do or just, uh, just start unloading it?
Just start unloading.
All right.
See, I'm doing work.
Yep. That is awesome!
They've got Microsoft Office and antivirus with them.
I mean, we can, uh, help you guys open up stuff if you want to. We're just trying to be as helpful as we can. If you want us to open it up and help you with it.
Do your old ones— do y'all need those hauled off? Because we've got that truck there, unless y'all are going to donate them or something.
Probably give them to the— the old ones to the family store. And we have people that are in our rapid rehousing program.
So we're going to split half the stuff we bought with them and then give the other half to the other ones. So we bought a bag full of flip-flops and stuff. That should be pretty useful.
Awesome. That's great.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate it. And this is what?
That's, uh, brand new towels.
And these are towels?
Yes.
I tell you what, put them right there.
And do y'all need any coffee? We've got a bunch of coffee.
Yes, sir. We— they drink it.
So like, just take the wash and dry, for instance. We put the new in, the old that comes out, we'll end up putting it in our store.
Gotcha.
Uh, but every— all the money that goes in that store goes right back into community. Yeah, for helping people. Yeah, it's awesome you guys are doing this and thinking about us.
Just like helping people.
Yeah, it's awesome.
It's not— y'all use stuff like this? Cleaning wipes, uh, cleaning spray, washing powders, Lysol.
We've been buying this right here like I don't know what. Lysol, flu season.
Oh yeah, I bet y'all had a hard time with that.
More?
More? What's wrong with these guys?
I know, awesome!
Where are y'all from? Unfortunately, we got to head all the way over to Rocky Mountain, but I appreciate y'all letting us come in here and film and everything.
Anytime, thank y'all so much, and good luck.
Thank you, thank you. So the first place went really well. I'm actually really happy with how that went. This is the second place. We called ahead, we got a list of everything they needed, like a washer, a dryer, tons of other stuff. So I'm really happy to see how they react to it. Should be a lot of fun. I'm excited.
We spoke to somebody yesterday about making a donation. We got some washers and dryers for you guys, a bunch of— So we stopped by and we donated some stuff to Salvation Army, so now we're here for you guys.
Okay.
Alrighty. Alright.
Where's the best place to put it right now?
It's a stove.
This one, the oven stopped working before I got here.
Yeah, but the eyes work.
That one, the oven works, but the eyes don't.
I can't really tell the difference.
I don't see— I mean, which one was the new one again?
I think the left one's the new one. I can't really tell. Yeah, so they told us to throw everything else in this room, so I guess we're just throwing it in this room.
Are they old computers? These are probably at least like 5 years. That one's at least 10.
This looks like it's from when I was born. This will be their new computer. I don't trust you on that.
I'm sorry.
I thought this was sponsored by Quib, but it's a Tide ad.
This is how you have to move famous people.
You're fired if I drop.
Whoa! Royalty.
Royalty at its finest.
Old MrBeast. So we've basically offloaded everything. We have the monitors, the tower, bed sheets, that, just tons of stuff over here. More computers, more monitors, washers, dryers. We put in the stove over there, more stuff. And yeah, hopefully it makes a difference.
Yeah, thank you.
I hope it really does.
Yes, thank you. Well, we really do appreciate, you know, what you all had done for us and, you know, in helping us to help those that are homeless and who are nearly homeless and we will, you know, put it to great use as far as like helping out with the homeless population.
That's really good.
We didn't use a sponsor because usually when I use sponsors, people just complain. I don't know why, but people just get mad at me for using a sponsor. Even when I give away all the money, people still get mad at me. So comment down below if you care whether or not we use a sponsor. Obviously, if we use a sponsor, we can give away way more money. And if you want to support me and allow me to do more nice things like this, buy my merch. It will be linked in the description. It's It's pretty fire. I'm not wearing it because it's just so fire. I would just be sweating right now. And shout out to this guy. He got first comment on my last video and won $100. If you want to win $100, get first comment on any of my videos. I message you the code. And last but not least, subscribe. And thanks.
Hello?
Hey, is this the homeless shelter in Tarboro? Yes, it is. We'd like to make a donation to you guys. Oh, let me let you talk to the lady. Okay.
