1 00:00:08,541 --> 00:00:12,245 ♪ When I came back from Luang Prabang ♪ 2 00:00:12,345 --> 00:00:16,316 ♪ I didn't have a thing ♪ where my balls used to hang ♪ 3 00:00:16,383 --> 00:00:19,586 ♪ But I got a wooden medal ♪ and a fine harangue ♪ 4 00:00:19,686 --> 00:00:22,922 ♪ Now I'm a fucking hero ♪ 5 00:00:23,023 --> 00:00:25,158 ♪ Mourn your dead land of the free ♪ 6 00:00:25,225 --> 00:00:29,429 ♪ You wanna be a hero, follow me ♪ 7 00:00:29,529 --> 00:00:32,599 ♪ Mourn your dead land of the free ♪ 8 00:00:32,699 --> 00:00:34,701 ♪ You wanna be a hero, follow me ♪ 9 00:00:34,768 --> 00:00:38,938 ♪ And now the boys all envy me ♪ 10 00:00:39,039 --> 00:00:42,075 ♪ I fought for Christian democracy ♪ 11 00:00:42,175 --> 00:00:45,345 ♪ With nothing but air ♪ where my balls used to be ♪ 12 00:00:45,412 --> 00:00:48,448 ♪ Now I'm a fucking hero ♪ 13 00:00:48,548 --> 00:00:51,551 ♪ Mourn your dead land of the free ♪ 14 00:00:51,618 --> 00:00:54,854 ♪ You wanna be a hero, follow me ♪ 15 00:00:54,921 --> 00:00:57,791 ♪ Mourn your dead land of the free ♪ 16 00:00:57,891 --> 00:01:00,693 ♪ You wanna be a hero, follow me ♪ 17 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,263 ♪ When one and twenty cannon thunder ♪ 18 00:01:03,363 --> 00:01:06,766 ♪ Into the bloody wild blue yonder ♪ 19 00:01:06,866 --> 00:01:10,036 ♪ For a patriotic ball-less wonder ♪ 20 00:01:10,103 --> 00:01:13,139 ♪ Now I'm a fucking hero ♪ 21 00:01:13,239 --> 00:01:16,042 ♪ Mourn your dead land of the free ♪ 22 00:01:16,109 --> 00:01:19,312 ♪ If you wanna be a hero, follow me ♪ 23 00:01:19,412 --> 00:01:21,214 ♪ Mourn your dead land of the free ♪ 24 00:01:21,281 --> 00:01:25,218 ♪ You wanna be a hero, follow me ♪ 25 00:01:25,285 --> 00:01:28,054 ♪ In Luang Prabang there is a spot ♪ 26 00:01:28,121 --> 00:01:31,591 ♪ Where the corpses of your brothers rot ♪ 27 00:01:31,658 --> 00:01:34,661 ♪ And every corpse is a patriot ♪ 28 00:01:34,761 --> 00:01:37,730 ♪ Every corpse is a hero ♪ 29 00:01:37,797 --> 00:01:40,500 ♪ Mourn your dead land of the free ♪ 30 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,970 ♪ If you wanna be a hero, follow me ♪ 31 00:01:44,070 --> 00:01:45,972 ♪ Mourn your dead land of the free ♪ 32 00:01:46,072 --> 00:01:49,175 ♪ If you wanna be a hero, follow me ♪ 33 00:01:49,275 --> 00:01:52,645 ♪ Mourn your dead land of the free ♪ 34 00:01:52,745 --> 00:01:55,081 ♪ If you wanna be a hero, follow me ♪ 35 00:01:55,148 --> 00:01:58,852 ♪ Mourn your dead land of the free ♪ 36 00:01:58,952 --> 00:02:01,087 ♪ You wanna be a hero, follow me ♪ 37 00:02:03,957 --> 00:02:07,794 Ladies and Gentlemen... The next I train... 38 00:03:07,587 --> 00:03:08,587 Hey man, it's Eli. 39 00:03:10,657 --> 00:03:14,160 Uh, look, we... we heard about Timothy and I'm really sorry. 40 00:03:15,862 --> 00:03:18,565 I know you probably don't want to hear much of anything right now 41 00:03:18,665 --> 00:03:19,665 We're here for you, man. 42 00:03:19,699 --> 00:03:22,835 We're at the studio, don't disappear on us. 43 00:03:34,681 --> 00:03:37,283 It means that poverty is a new slavery. 44 00:03:37,383 --> 00:03:38,084 It means that the new Jim Crow 45 00:03:38,184 --> 00:03:42,455 is an intense form of slavery. 46 00:03:42,555 --> 00:03:47,560 It means that working people locked into a declining economy 47 00:03:48,895 --> 00:03:52,298 in which wages stagnate, prices escalate, 48 00:03:52,398 --> 00:03:54,634 and profits go, hit the top, 49 00:03:54,734 --> 00:03:56,402 is also a form of slavery, 50 00:03:56,469 --> 00:03:58,471 metaphorically and literally speaking. 51 00:03:58,571 --> 00:04:00,549 Now, climate change for me, is a very serious issue. 52 00:04:00,573 --> 00:04:03,443 I don't think it's going to be the catalytic issue. 53 00:04:03,543 --> 00:04:07,247 I think it's either going to be revolutionary transformation 54 00:04:07,313 --> 00:04:09,415 that allows us to get some control 55 00:04:09,482 --> 00:04:10,950 over banks and corporations, 56 00:04:11,050 --> 00:04:13,286 so we can treat nature as a "thou" rather than an "it," 57 00:04:13,386 --> 00:04:16,990 but when I hear a lot of discourse on climate change, 58 00:04:17,090 --> 00:04:18,891 I hear people thinking, "Oh my God, 59 00:04:18,958 --> 00:04:20,827 my life is going to be like a wasteland." 60 00:04:20,927 --> 00:04:25,098 Well, you know, for poor people, it's a wasteland everyday. 61 00:04:50,290 --> 00:04:52,158 How y'all doing? I'm Will, and uh... 62 00:04:52,258 --> 00:04:54,694 I want to share a poem by a good friend of mine, 63 00:04:54,794 --> 00:04:57,830 Jan Barry, he served in Vietnam. 64 00:04:57,930 --> 00:04:59,832 How big would the War Memorial wall be 65 00:05:01,467 --> 00:05:04,037 if it listed all the names of soldiers who died of suicide? 66 00:05:04,137 --> 00:05:05,772 Abel Baker Charlie, 67 00:05:07,307 --> 00:05:10,109 Jacob David George, three tours in Afghanistan, 68 00:05:11,878 --> 00:05:13,212 Jeffrey Lucey. 69 00:05:14,781 --> 00:05:18,384 I dunno how long, looking out the glass door at this car, 70 00:05:18,484 --> 00:05:21,454 'cause I was convinced that somebody was coming, 71 00:05:21,521 --> 00:05:22,355 maybe not for me specifically, 72 00:05:22,455 --> 00:05:25,224 but like they, they picked my house 73 00:05:25,325 --> 00:05:27,694 and they were coming into my fucking house. 74 00:05:27,794 --> 00:05:29,505 I'm crouched in my kitchen at two a.m. holding a handgun, 75 00:05:29,529 --> 00:05:32,198 'cause there's a car parked across the street. 76 00:05:32,298 --> 00:05:33,900 Like what the fuck am I doing? 77 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,868 I wasn't in my body. 78 00:05:35,968 --> 00:05:37,904 I was... 79 00:05:38,004 --> 00:05:39,405 I don't know where I was. 80 00:07:03,990 --> 00:07:04,990 Did they? 81 00:07:08,227 --> 00:07:09,762 Really? 82 00:07:09,829 --> 00:07:12,098 Fuck kinda organization is that? 83 00:07:12,165 --> 00:07:13,165 - Well... - Yeah. 84 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:16,002 Okay 85 00:07:16,102 --> 00:07:17,403 What were the numbers? 86 00:07:17,470 --> 00:07:20,006 Operation Truth, you remember that? 87 00:07:20,106 --> 00:07:22,141 - Well, I'm gonna go back in... - Alright... 88 00:07:22,241 --> 00:07:24,977 - Need a hand? - Yeah. 89 00:07:25,077 --> 00:07:29,182 In 1969 and '70, in Okinawa, 90 00:07:30,249 --> 00:07:33,786 There was a, like a GI, uh, concert hall 91 00:07:33,853 --> 00:07:36,522 that they called themselves The Filmore West. 92 00:07:36,622 --> 00:07:40,359 Yeah I mean you could get it, but it was real expensive 'cause it was not home grown... 93 00:07:40,460 --> 00:07:43,429 Like opium, hashish and all that... 94 00:07:47,266 --> 00:07:52,438 This really wild beach, where you had to wade across this lagoon, to get to it... 95 00:07:55,508 --> 00:07:59,979 climb around on these hills, and there were these caves... 96 00:08:00,046 --> 00:08:03,850 find these like porcelain boxes... 97 00:08:03,950 --> 00:08:06,719 on what look like dragon-claw feet 98 00:08:06,819 --> 00:08:08,888 and when you open it up 99 00:08:08,988 --> 00:08:11,624 inside was a human skeleton... 100 00:08:12,325 --> 00:08:14,126 What's up? 101 00:08:14,193 --> 00:08:16,329 Hey, how's it going? 102 00:08:16,395 --> 00:08:17,555 You're here for the workshop? 103 00:08:17,630 --> 00:08:20,233 - Yeah. - Right on, my name's Eli. 104 00:08:20,333 --> 00:08:21,333 Isabelle. 105 00:08:22,668 --> 00:08:23,503 Good to meet ya. 106 00:08:23,569 --> 00:08:24,804 You a vet? Yeah. 107 00:08:24,871 --> 00:08:25,505 What branch? 108 00:08:25,571 --> 00:08:26,239 Marines. 109 00:08:26,339 --> 00:08:28,140 Cool, welcome home. 110 00:08:28,207 --> 00:08:30,576 I was in the Army myself, I was a Medic. 111 00:08:30,676 --> 00:08:31,744 What was your MOS? 112 00:08:31,844 --> 00:08:34,847 - MP. - All right, that's cool, 113 00:08:34,914 --> 00:08:36,682 even MP's are all right here. 114 00:08:36,749 --> 00:08:38,885 Which state were you in? 115 00:08:40,486 --> 00:08:42,021 Confusion. 116 00:08:42,088 --> 00:08:44,323 The idea is that we make handmade paper 117 00:08:44,390 --> 00:08:45,390 from military uniforms. 118 00:08:45,424 --> 00:08:48,694 We want vets to tell their own story 119 00:08:48,761 --> 00:08:50,596 in their own words and images 120 00:08:50,696 --> 00:08:52,865 on paper that they make themselves. 121 00:08:52,932 --> 00:08:54,600 So, we do letterpress printing... 122 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:57,770 If you want to do a book, maybe, out of your old journals. 123 00:08:57,870 --> 00:09:00,840 I'm working on stencil over here. 124 00:09:00,907 --> 00:09:04,076 It's a memorial for a buddy of ours. 125 00:09:06,712 --> 00:09:09,048 These guys are binding a book right now, 126 00:09:09,115 --> 00:09:10,683 all by hand 127 00:09:10,750 --> 00:09:13,686 and right here, we're just cutting some rag. 128 00:09:13,753 --> 00:09:16,455 So this is where the whole thing begins, basically. 129 00:09:19,091 --> 00:09:21,561 Hey guys, the cops are here. 130 00:09:22,962 --> 00:09:24,363 I'm just kidding, this is Isabelle. 131 00:09:24,430 --> 00:09:26,190 She's a MP for the Marines, she just got out. 132 00:09:26,232 --> 00:09:28,267 Semper Fi, Baby. 133 00:09:29,235 --> 00:09:30,636 This is uh, this is the gang. 134 00:09:30,736 --> 00:09:32,138 These are our Vietnam geezers here. 135 00:09:32,238 --> 00:09:35,074 Walt, he's a Vietnam vet 136 00:09:35,141 --> 00:09:36,742 and his son was in Afghanistan too. 137 00:09:36,809 --> 00:09:39,478 We got Jan over here, he was in Vietnam. 138 00:09:39,579 --> 00:09:41,380 Kevin's Iraq vet. Hey. 139 00:09:41,447 --> 00:09:42,915 Malloy over here was in Iraq too. 140 00:09:44,550 --> 00:09:46,452 These guys over here, this is Will over there, 141 00:09:46,552 --> 00:09:49,088 he was in Iraq and Afghanistan. 142 00:09:49,155 --> 00:09:51,657 Nate was in Iraq back during the invasion, 143 00:09:51,757 --> 00:09:53,659 that's around the time I was there too. 144 00:09:53,759 --> 00:09:55,328 Um, you got your own uniforms? 145 00:09:55,428 --> 00:09:56,963 I do, I didn't bring them though. 146 00:09:57,063 --> 00:09:59,041 That's cool, that's what these are here donated for, 147 00:09:59,065 --> 00:10:01,400 so really it's a pretty straight forward process. 148 00:10:01,467 --> 00:10:02,878 We cut this stuff up and it goes in the machine in there, 149 00:10:02,902 --> 00:10:07,473 it beats it to a pulp and then we form sheets on screens, 150 00:10:07,573 --> 00:10:09,651 press them, dry 'em and then it's up to you, a blank slate. 151 00:10:09,675 --> 00:10:12,645 So yeah, we give you the toolbox, 152 00:10:12,745 --> 00:10:15,147 it's up to you to decide what you want to do with it. 153 00:10:15,247 --> 00:10:18,084 We're just going to help you along the way, so.. 154 00:10:18,150 --> 00:10:19,728 You know, just to kind of get yourself going, 155 00:10:19,752 --> 00:10:22,688 do something easy first, you know? 156 00:10:24,624 --> 00:10:25,157 The best come out of the Survival... 157 00:10:25,257 --> 00:10:25,858 Feels good, huh? 158 00:10:25,958 --> 00:10:26,859 Survival manual... 159 00:10:26,959 --> 00:10:28,494 How to get water out of a cactus... 160 00:10:28,594 --> 00:10:29,862 I been hooked on paper making 161 00:10:29,962 --> 00:10:31,722 ever since the first time I heard that sound. 162 00:10:32,965 --> 00:10:34,634 Snare a seagull's leg or some shit. 163 00:10:34,700 --> 00:10:35,368 Like impossible things, 164 00:10:35,468 --> 00:10:38,137 if you got to jump off a ship, 165 00:10:38,204 --> 00:10:40,172 they advise you to take your pants off 166 00:10:40,272 --> 00:10:40,873 and put them over your head. 167 00:10:40,973 --> 00:10:41,540 That shit works? 168 00:10:41,641 --> 00:10:42,708 I don't know. 169 00:10:42,808 --> 00:10:45,711 I guess it kinda does! It's better than nothing, but... 170 00:10:45,811 --> 00:10:47,179 So sometimes what we'll do 171 00:10:47,279 --> 00:10:50,149 is we'll cut the uniform off the veteran's body. 172 00:10:51,484 --> 00:10:52,694 So like the first guy who did it, 173 00:10:52,718 --> 00:10:54,387 he cut it from his own body 174 00:10:54,487 --> 00:10:58,391 and then I had him and another friend cut it off my body 175 00:10:58,491 --> 00:10:59,959 as this sort of rite of passage. 176 00:11:00,026 --> 00:11:00,559 Okinawa's a pretty trippy place 177 00:11:00,660 --> 00:11:02,662 even without LSD. 178 00:11:02,728 --> 00:11:05,898 So I remember going, in high school, 179 00:11:05,998 --> 00:11:08,067 going the guidance counselors office. 180 00:11:08,167 --> 00:11:11,537 "What do you want to do after you graduate?" 181 00:11:11,637 --> 00:11:13,706 So I wrote on there, 182 00:11:13,806 --> 00:11:17,143 I wanna go to college and work with computers 183 00:11:18,411 --> 00:11:21,881 and I spelled college and computers wrong. 184 00:11:21,981 --> 00:11:23,381 I was never really good at spelling. 185 00:11:25,484 --> 00:11:26,484 I'm better now, but 186 00:11:27,853 --> 00:11:29,822 the guy pivots in his chair, within arm's reach 187 00:11:29,889 --> 00:11:33,559 is a whole rack of recruiting pamphlets. 188 00:11:33,659 --> 00:11:36,429 He grabs the US Army with the Apache helicopter 189 00:11:36,529 --> 00:11:37,897 right on the top. 190 00:11:37,997 --> 00:11:40,008 Up against the car and I said, I'm here for the party. 191 00:11:40,032 --> 00:11:42,068 I'm here for the party because I genuinely thought 192 00:11:42,168 --> 00:11:43,345 that I was at the right house. 193 00:11:43,369 --> 00:11:45,604 I thought I was there for, for a party 194 00:11:45,705 --> 00:11:46,915 and he said, I don't know that guy. 195 00:11:46,939 --> 00:11:51,777 They cuffed me, stuffed me, took me to the county jail. 196 00:11:51,877 --> 00:11:56,082 Wrong fucking house. Felony criminal trespass, 197 00:11:56,182 --> 00:11:58,284 public intoxication, 198 00:11:59,185 --> 00:12:00,619 do 90 days in jail, 199 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,857 then after that go to the military, I get a clean record. 200 00:12:04,924 --> 00:12:08,894 My life was going this direction and very suddenly, 201 00:12:10,196 --> 00:12:12,198 it turned and went this direction, 202 00:12:12,264 --> 00:12:15,101 like I stepped into an alternative reality or something. 203 00:12:16,202 --> 00:12:17,870 So how are you holding up, man? 204 00:12:19,071 --> 00:12:20,071 I'm good man, thanks. 205 00:12:23,275 --> 00:12:25,244 You sleeping? 206 00:12:29,882 --> 00:12:31,150 Yeah, me neither. 207 00:12:31,250 --> 00:12:32,728 So, you've been in touch with his family yet, or what? 208 00:12:32,752 --> 00:12:35,788 Yeah man, I uh, called his mom. 209 00:12:38,891 --> 00:12:41,060 I didn't know what the fuck to say, just hysterical. 210 00:12:41,127 --> 00:12:42,595 There's not much you can say. 211 00:12:42,661 --> 00:12:45,998 I'm here, you know, need anything, blah, blah, blah. 212 00:12:46,098 --> 00:12:48,734 Ask her for a photo or uniform, make a memorial. 213 00:12:50,803 --> 00:12:52,147 It seems like every time I'm finishing up one, 214 00:12:52,171 --> 00:12:53,211 I got to start on another. 215 00:12:55,841 --> 00:12:58,010 Yeah man, just let me know what you want. 216 00:12:58,110 --> 00:12:59,445 I'm happy to help. 217 00:13:02,448 --> 00:13:03,458 When I was at WestPoint, they were talking about, 218 00:13:03,482 --> 00:13:06,485 "Well, we'll send them the big battalions." 219 00:13:06,585 --> 00:13:08,687 That's what they sent in in 1965. 220 00:13:08,788 --> 00:13:11,290 Battalions? Not divisions? 221 00:13:13,192 --> 00:13:15,027 We didn't even have helmets that much 222 00:13:15,127 --> 00:13:16,829 in, in that timeframe in Vietnam. 223 00:13:22,868 --> 00:13:25,037 You know, I never saved any of my uniforms, 224 00:13:25,137 --> 00:13:27,039 so I don't have one to cut up. 225 00:13:27,139 --> 00:13:28,541 Really? 226 00:13:28,641 --> 00:13:30,285 Yeah, I just wanted to get out of the military, 227 00:13:30,309 --> 00:13:31,486 Finally got so frustrated, I went and joined 228 00:13:31,510 --> 00:13:35,781 a peace demonstration in 1967. 229 00:13:37,983 --> 00:13:39,285 Somebody had provided a banner 230 00:13:39,351 --> 00:13:41,487 that said Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 231 00:13:41,554 --> 00:13:42,388 so they were at the very beginning of this march 232 00:13:42,488 --> 00:13:43,722 coming out of Central Park 233 00:13:47,660 --> 00:13:48,460 and we'd been told 234 00:13:48,527 --> 00:13:50,362 that you'd get in big trouble 235 00:13:50,462 --> 00:13:53,666 if you wore a uniform to a political event, 236 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,569 but in January of 68, 237 00:13:56,669 --> 00:13:58,337 enough people were fed up with the fact 238 00:13:58,404 --> 00:14:00,840 that the war continued and continued. 239 00:14:49,221 --> 00:14:50,856 Timothy or Tim 240 00:14:51,724 --> 00:14:52,858 either is really fine. 241 00:14:52,925 --> 00:14:55,628 So am I supposed to say how I feel or something? 242 00:14:55,728 --> 00:14:56,862 Know how the little smileys, 243 00:14:56,929 --> 00:14:58,597 you know, that says like, "How d'ya feel?" 244 00:14:58,697 --> 00:15:00,399 - Nah... - Yeah? 245 00:15:02,401 --> 00:15:04,403 - All right? - Yeah, fair. 246 00:15:13,078 --> 00:15:15,047 Hi, Neil. 247 00:15:15,114 --> 00:15:18,918 Thousands of people, veterans, staff members, 248 00:15:18,984 --> 00:15:21,086 family members coming and going to the hospital 249 00:15:21,153 --> 00:15:23,389 and also residents on the street. 250 00:15:24,423 --> 00:15:25,624 I took out this sign. 251 00:15:29,929 --> 00:15:31,797 This project had been on my mind for some time. 252 00:15:31,897 --> 00:15:35,167 Alright, Bud, I'll see ya next week. 253 00:15:35,267 --> 00:15:36,568 Okay, thank you. 254 00:15:37,636 --> 00:15:38,570 Awesome. 255 00:15:38,637 --> 00:15:41,173 Every time I called it a war Timothy got upset. 256 00:15:41,273 --> 00:15:42,273 Corrects me. 257 00:15:43,409 --> 00:15:44,729 What did he want you to call it? 258 00:15:45,945 --> 00:15:47,079 An occupation. 259 00:15:49,281 --> 00:15:52,084 Shit, Vietnam was an occupation too, still a war. 260 00:15:53,252 --> 00:15:54,586 This is different. 261 00:15:54,653 --> 00:15:56,789 Every generation thinks their war is different. 262 00:15:56,855 --> 00:15:58,657 You know, I'm back on the meds myself. 263 00:15:58,757 --> 00:16:02,027 I'm sorry to hear that. 264 00:16:02,127 --> 00:16:04,663 I figured I was pretty well past all this shit. 265 00:16:06,031 --> 00:16:11,170 Then I started seeing you guys coming home, burned, 266 00:16:12,805 --> 00:16:16,375 amputated limbs, PTSD, this traumatic brain injury now, 267 00:16:17,109 --> 00:16:17,876 all that shit. 268 00:16:17,977 --> 00:16:19,057 Just like when I came back. 269 00:16:21,313 --> 00:16:22,681 Resurrects a lot of shit. 270 00:16:24,149 --> 00:16:26,986 You've been doing peer to peer now for what? 271 00:16:27,052 --> 00:16:29,388 Three years? It's inevitable. 272 00:16:29,488 --> 00:16:31,056 You were gonna go through this. 273 00:16:31,156 --> 00:16:33,225 I'm thinking some time off. 274 00:16:33,325 --> 00:16:36,495 Did you speak to his regular doctor or his VA shrink? 275 00:16:36,562 --> 00:16:39,131 The department's looking into this kid's case, 276 00:16:39,198 --> 00:16:40,866 but you know what they're going to say. 277 00:16:40,966 --> 00:16:43,669 They didn't know about the other meds. 278 00:16:44,503 --> 00:16:46,572 Everyone signs that agreement. 279 00:16:46,672 --> 00:16:49,675 They're not getting meds from an outside provider. 280 00:16:49,742 --> 00:16:51,076 That's how they cover their asses. 281 00:16:51,176 --> 00:16:53,012 VA is gonna wash their hands of it. 282 00:16:53,078 --> 00:16:56,715 I know the system's fucked in a lot of ways, 283 00:16:56,815 --> 00:16:58,150 but it ain't on them. 284 00:16:58,217 --> 00:17:01,086 And it ain't on you either, brother, you gotta know that. 285 00:17:01,186 --> 00:17:05,224 Either he had a provider from outside the system 286 00:17:05,324 --> 00:17:07,393 or he was getting that shit off the street. 287 00:17:08,427 --> 00:17:09,995 I know what you're going through. 288 00:17:12,364 --> 00:17:16,668 I mean, shit, if he was lying about what he was taking, 289 00:17:16,735 --> 00:17:19,538 there's really no way for anyone to know. 290 00:17:20,873 --> 00:17:24,076 I hate to say it, but if a kid wants to die, 291 00:17:26,879 --> 00:17:28,347 he's gonna find a way. 292 00:18:41,653 --> 00:18:43,422 Out of nowhere, 4,000 Vets show up. 293 00:18:43,489 --> 00:18:47,860 I mean, you can feel it, people, Arkansas, California. 294 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:49,695 Was cold as shit. Cold as shit! 295 00:18:50,696 --> 00:18:51,430 The youth started that fight. 296 00:18:51,497 --> 00:18:53,699 - Hm mm. - The elders lost it. 297 00:18:55,267 --> 00:18:56,034 'Cause they were telling us, 298 00:18:56,135 --> 00:18:57,536 "Yeah, we can trust the courts." 299 00:18:57,636 --> 00:19:00,706 "This thing it's gonna be fine, we can go home." 300 00:19:00,806 --> 00:19:02,541 "We don't want anyone to get hurt." 301 00:19:03,842 --> 00:19:06,278 Meanwhile, the kids were the radicals. 302 00:19:06,345 --> 00:19:08,156 They were saying, "No, we don't want this pipeline." 303 00:19:08,180 --> 00:19:10,015 "Or any pipeline." Right, right. 304 00:19:10,115 --> 00:19:13,719 "We don't trust no court. We don't trust the President. 305 00:19:13,819 --> 00:19:15,721 "We're gonna physically block this thing." 306 00:19:15,821 --> 00:19:17,789 - Hey, welcome back. - S'up? 307 00:19:17,856 --> 00:19:19,725 Just getting set up. 308 00:19:20,492 --> 00:19:21,527 Can I help? 309 00:19:21,627 --> 00:19:22,907 Yeah all of this has to go out. 310 00:19:27,499 --> 00:19:27,966 You bring your uniform? 311 00:19:28,033 --> 00:19:30,002 I did. 312 00:19:31,003 --> 00:19:33,672 Standing Rock was nuts... 313 00:19:41,380 --> 00:19:45,317 Belgium. They rebuilt it, actually... 314 00:19:45,384 --> 00:19:47,920 When you rebuild a building like that, though 315 00:19:48,020 --> 00:19:49,087 is it still, like... 316 00:19:50,689 --> 00:19:51,890 it's not the same thing. 317 00:19:53,192 --> 00:19:55,994 Feel like they should have to give it a different name 318 00:19:56,061 --> 00:19:59,598 If something's destroyed you can't rename its replacement the same thing 319 00:19:59,698 --> 00:20:04,036 Well, ya know, the... Let the name die with the thing 320 00:20:04,102 --> 00:20:05,704 It didn't die 321 00:20:07,039 --> 00:20:08,340 If it burned down, it fuckin died 322 00:20:08,407 --> 00:20:09,775 it was resurrected 323 00:20:09,875 --> 00:20:12,177 It's a building, it ain't- a fucking Messiah. 324 00:20:12,244 --> 00:20:14,189 Well, I'll tell you something, if there's any possibility... 325 00:20:14,213 --> 00:20:18,417 of a ressurrection, I would think... 326 00:20:19,551 --> 00:20:24,256 Nah, I was uh... I deployed three times. 327 00:20:26,124 --> 00:20:29,761 Once in Afghanistan, twice in Iraq. 328 00:20:29,861 --> 00:20:30,861 Intel. 329 00:20:34,266 --> 00:20:36,702 He's a guy... everybody should know Smedley Butler 330 00:20:36,768 --> 00:20:38,203 Practically nobody does. 331 00:20:40,372 --> 00:20:41,616 But in the Marine Corps, he - he is still a hero. 332 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:46,378 Even Leatherneck magazine acknowledges what he did, 333 00:20:46,445 --> 00:20:51,283 y'know, warning Congress about all these capitalists 334 00:20:51,383 --> 00:20:54,886 wanting to overthrow the Roosevelt administration. 335 00:20:54,953 --> 00:20:56,154 Fucked up 336 00:20:56,255 --> 00:20:57,255 It's okay 337 00:20:58,323 --> 00:20:59,400 Sometimes you'll get really rough ones like this, 338 00:20:59,424 --> 00:21:01,064 but you know, once you get the hang of it, 339 00:21:01,126 --> 00:21:04,329 you can make them smooth and corners sharp. 340 00:21:04,429 --> 00:21:08,734 Can kind of control how much of that... 341 00:21:09,968 --> 00:21:11,937 Super-handmade paper look you want. 342 00:21:12,004 --> 00:21:12,504 What's that ARMY stand for? 343 00:21:12,604 --> 00:21:13,604 What's that A R M Y? 344 00:21:14,239 --> 00:21:16,275 Aren't Ready to be Marines Yet? 345 00:21:17,776 --> 00:21:19,254 What is that, United States Moron Club? 346 00:21:19,278 --> 00:21:21,847 Anyway, tell the Beglians that. 347 00:21:21,947 --> 00:21:23,749 I'm not saying people shouldn't rebuild shit 348 00:21:23,815 --> 00:21:25,984 when it's destroyed, by all means we should, 349 00:21:26,084 --> 00:21:29,521 but I think you should give it a new name, a new identity 350 00:21:29,621 --> 00:21:31,432 part of acknowledging... Well, I'm gonna write... 351 00:21:31,456 --> 00:21:33,358 that it came to the end of one life, 352 00:21:33,458 --> 00:21:36,695 and it's beginning another... Wait, no, not in there. 353 00:21:36,795 --> 00:21:38,106 I'm gonna write them a letter... 354 00:21:38,130 --> 00:21:40,532 C'mon, I'll show you. 355 00:21:40,632 --> 00:21:42,634 A letter, the Belgians and tell them... 356 00:21:42,701 --> 00:21:44,336 Tell em to change that fucking name. 357 00:21:44,436 --> 00:21:46,038 Rename it the Eli Wright Building. 358 00:21:46,138 --> 00:21:47,506 No, no... 359 00:21:47,606 --> 00:21:49,766 cause he has an opinion to straighten you people out. 360 00:22:02,054 --> 00:22:04,623 Pour it in there. 361 00:22:08,026 --> 00:22:11,396 See, one thing that I love about this process is, 362 00:22:12,197 --> 00:22:15,534 it's forgiving, you know? 363 00:22:17,502 --> 00:22:19,871 Like if you fuck up, you can always fix it 364 00:22:19,971 --> 00:22:21,840 and you can always do it over. 365 00:22:24,509 --> 00:22:26,589 I mean, it's not like some exclusive art in that way. 366 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,048 Anybody could do it. 367 00:22:34,052 --> 00:22:35,654 See, in here, you got... 368 00:22:36,355 --> 00:22:38,490 sand, blood... 369 00:22:42,527 --> 00:22:47,432 Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Carolina. 370 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:53,872 Uranium, sweat... Panama... 371 00:22:59,945 --> 00:23:02,748 You, uh, you seen the paper yet? 372 00:23:27,906 --> 00:23:29,708 This is a dope process, man. 373 00:23:29,775 --> 00:23:31,777 Right? 374 00:23:32,411 --> 00:23:34,279 It's messy as fuck. 375 00:23:34,379 --> 00:23:36,081 Fun to get your hands all... 376 00:23:42,788 --> 00:23:46,224 I had this uh... "incident" happen. 377 00:23:48,126 --> 00:23:51,830 It wasn't an incident. 378 00:23:51,930 --> 00:23:53,398 But it got me thinking... 379 00:23:53,465 --> 00:23:56,668 it'd be good to be around people more. 380 00:23:57,235 --> 00:23:58,570 I mean... 381 00:24:00,105 --> 00:24:01,506 Not just any people. I mean... 382 00:24:03,175 --> 00:24:04,509 I only feel comfortable 383 00:24:04,609 --> 00:24:06,478 around people who want to kill themselves. So. 384 00:24:18,924 --> 00:24:20,459 Yeah. 385 00:24:21,626 --> 00:24:23,528 Think I hear you on that. 386 00:25:16,381 --> 00:25:18,316 Was as much of a hero in civilian life 387 00:25:18,383 --> 00:25:19,384 as he was as a general. 388 00:25:19,484 --> 00:25:23,088 Yeah, sometimes Marines can... 389 00:25:23,188 --> 00:25:27,058 can do something that's a halfways intelligent. 390 00:25:27,158 --> 00:25:29,261 What? 391 00:25:29,361 --> 00:25:31,663 Wait a minute. 392 00:25:31,730 --> 00:25:33,498 Does that shirt say "bad brains"? 393 00:25:37,502 --> 00:25:39,437 What's that "bad brains" mean? 394 00:25:41,106 --> 00:25:43,108 It's a Reggae punk band from the Eighties, 395 00:25:43,208 --> 00:25:44,609 don't you know that? No... 396 00:25:46,378 --> 00:25:47,378 Better. 397 00:25:54,619 --> 00:25:56,788 Reggae punk band from the Eighties. 398 00:25:58,223 --> 00:25:59,233 ♪ Ain't no cure for the summertime blues ♪ 399 00:25:59,257 --> 00:26:01,426 Best version ever. 400 00:26:04,195 --> 00:26:08,800 Well, Motorcycle Irene? Stark naked, 401 00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:10,101 unsacred Motorcycle Irene. 402 00:26:10,201 --> 00:26:12,304 I'm just gonna use a book-binding knot 403 00:26:12,404 --> 00:26:12,971 This is tough. Yeah 404 00:26:13,071 --> 00:26:14,406 If you... 405 00:26:14,472 --> 00:26:16,942 are more comfortable doing that. 406 00:26:17,909 --> 00:26:19,778 It doesn't necessarily matter 407 00:26:19,878 --> 00:26:21,046 what type of knot you use. 408 00:26:21,112 --> 00:26:22,881 I use this knot because it's... 409 00:26:22,948 --> 00:26:28,653 how I learned to do it in medicine, so, it works for this. 410 00:26:30,121 --> 00:26:32,057 If you have a book binding knot by all means. 411 00:26:33,892 --> 00:26:36,561 I'm pretty sure I fucked this up pretty bad. 412 00:26:36,628 --> 00:26:39,965 Oh, you didn't snip your thread, that's why. 413 00:26:40,065 --> 00:26:41,766 That's all... 414 00:26:41,833 --> 00:26:42,734 - Okay, well... - But don't take it out. 415 00:26:42,801 --> 00:26:43,835 You're fine there, 416 00:26:43,935 --> 00:26:45,770 all you gotta do is... 417 00:26:46,938 --> 00:26:49,007 Just do it there, right there? 418 00:26:49,107 --> 00:26:50,241 Yeah, go ahead. 419 00:26:51,443 --> 00:26:53,011 How're those tweezers working for you? 420 00:26:53,111 --> 00:26:55,313 - Fuck off! - Those aren't scissors. 421 00:26:55,413 --> 00:26:56,557 The fuck do they look like? 422 00:26:56,581 --> 00:26:58,083 All right, hang on. 423 00:26:58,149 --> 00:26:59,226 They teach you how to use a gun as an MP 424 00:26:59,250 --> 00:27:02,354 but you can't even use a pair of scissors? 425 00:27:02,454 --> 00:27:05,690 Are Marine MPs more bad-ass than army MPs? 426 00:27:05,790 --> 00:27:06,791 Fuck yeah, of course! 427 00:27:07,926 --> 00:27:09,103 The fuck kinda question is that? Shit! 428 00:27:09,127 --> 00:27:10,338 That's why they don't hire Army MPs 429 00:27:10,362 --> 00:27:11,429 to guard the embassies. 430 00:27:11,496 --> 00:27:13,431 Only the Marines get to do that... 431 00:27:13,498 --> 00:27:16,301 So did you want to be a cop... as a civilian? 432 00:27:16,368 --> 00:27:18,303 And used the Marines as a way to get there, or... 433 00:27:18,370 --> 00:27:19,938 No, the only... nah... 434 00:27:20,005 --> 00:27:20,538 What was your thing? 435 00:27:20,639 --> 00:27:22,707 You got a pet peeve? 436 00:27:22,807 --> 00:27:25,043 No, I, I did something really stupid. 437 00:27:26,711 --> 00:27:28,880 I headbutted my brother and I knocked him out. 438 00:27:28,980 --> 00:27:30,382 Ho ho! Headbutted? 439 00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:31,482 Damn! 440 00:27:32,517 --> 00:27:33,837 What'd he say to deserve that one? 441 00:27:35,487 --> 00:27:36,964 Nah, it wasn't like that, game was already over. 442 00:27:36,988 --> 00:27:38,748 Dude comes up, fucking shoves me in the back, 443 00:27:38,790 --> 00:27:39,967 while I'm putting on my jacket 444 00:27:39,991 --> 00:27:41,893 like he wants to fucking say, "Good game, Bro!" 445 00:27:41,993 --> 00:27:43,353 But he's trying to start something. 446 00:27:43,828 --> 00:27:45,063 So of course I do. 447 00:27:46,064 --> 00:27:47,104 Next thing you know, we... 448 00:27:49,467 --> 00:27:50,467 Fuck it. 449 00:27:57,175 --> 00:27:58,309 Hey, kiddo! 450 00:27:59,010 --> 00:28:01,746 Look it 451 00:28:01,846 --> 00:28:03,515 got you a smartphone. 452 00:28:04,816 --> 00:28:06,060 Alright, get rid of that piece of shit that you have, 453 00:28:06,084 --> 00:28:07,986 get you on the family plan, okay? 454 00:28:08,053 --> 00:28:10,555 Anyway, yo, that thing I was saying yesterday about 455 00:28:10,655 --> 00:28:13,091 starting a dog farm... that was a dumb fucking idea. 456 00:28:13,191 --> 00:28:16,561 But you know, I got more where those came from. 457 00:28:16,661 --> 00:28:19,431 You know, maybe you uh... find something outdoorsy 458 00:28:19,531 --> 00:28:21,433 ya know, that's you. 459 00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:27,572 Oh, before I forget, uh, about the visit. 460 00:28:30,341 --> 00:28:32,410 Not this week. 461 00:28:32,510 --> 00:28:34,913 Yeah, she said she's, she's not feeling so good. 462 00:28:35,013 --> 00:28:36,414 Her back, you know? 463 00:28:39,350 --> 00:28:42,287 - That's why I raised concerns - Okay? Let's get to it. 464 00:28:42,387 --> 00:28:44,198 About the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo, 465 00:28:44,222 --> 00:28:47,459 the abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, 466 00:28:47,559 --> 00:28:49,728 torture of prisoners at Guantanamo. 467 00:28:49,794 --> 00:28:51,362 Serving in the US military as a chaplain 468 00:28:51,429 --> 00:28:54,032 that I had to speak out. 469 00:28:54,099 --> 00:28:55,743 Motherfuckers think you owe them something 470 00:28:55,767 --> 00:28:59,938 that the greatest casualty really is, 471 00:29:01,539 --> 00:29:03,308 being left behind, 472 00:29:04,075 --> 00:29:05,443 left behind. 473 00:29:07,879 --> 00:29:09,748 Timothy, lemme ask you something. 474 00:29:09,814 --> 00:29:12,951 You been out a few years... does it get any better? 475 00:29:14,886 --> 00:29:15,886 I don't know. 476 00:29:17,155 --> 00:29:18,456 I hate the word healing. 477 00:29:22,127 --> 00:29:25,096 It's not some fucking point of arrival. 478 00:29:25,930 --> 00:29:27,132 It's just... 479 00:29:27,232 --> 00:29:30,668 something you're doing... all the time. 480 00:29:48,453 --> 00:29:49,521 I wanna... 481 00:29:49,621 --> 00:29:50,655 Time to kill though? 482 00:29:50,755 --> 00:29:52,257 - Yeah. - What do you think? 483 00:29:52,323 --> 00:29:54,403 We can drive this guy in a circle for a fucking hour. 484 00:31:08,066 --> 00:31:10,101 What about you, Isabelle? 485 00:31:10,201 --> 00:31:12,201 You got something you're gonna read at the gallery? 486 00:31:13,538 --> 00:31:16,107 Yeah, I got one, I mean, 487 00:31:16,207 --> 00:31:17,408 it's not finished, it's just, 488 00:31:17,508 --> 00:31:19,110 I've been kind of scratching it out. 489 00:31:23,448 --> 00:31:26,718 It's about... a detainee. 490 00:31:27,719 --> 00:31:29,520 We covered their eyes with sandbags, 491 00:31:29,587 --> 00:31:32,123 deprived their will of singing praise. 492 00:31:32,223 --> 00:31:32,790 Nine men kneeling. 493 00:31:32,891 --> 00:31:34,759 None of them cried out. 494 00:31:35,894 --> 00:31:36,728 Like secret police snaking the night, 495 00:31:36,794 --> 00:31:39,564 we slipped into their bedrooms. 496 00:31:39,631 --> 00:31:42,533 We zip-tied their wrists, tight, blood droplets, 497 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:43,968 ink on their orange jumpers. 498 00:31:44,068 --> 00:31:45,737 We tried to snatch their dignity, 499 00:31:45,803 --> 00:31:49,040 spread fear by word of mouth. 500 00:31:49,107 --> 00:31:51,876 We learned it don't work like that, who knew? 501 00:31:51,943 --> 00:31:54,445 A cornered human won't eat from your hand, who knew? 502 00:31:55,780 --> 00:31:57,649 We covered their eyes with sandbags 503 00:31:57,749 --> 00:32:00,151 deprived their will of simple purpose. 504 00:32:00,251 --> 00:32:01,152 We got the right guy. 505 00:32:01,252 --> 00:32:04,455 LT says again and again, again and again, 506 00:32:04,555 --> 00:32:05,790 echoing off into nothing. 507 00:32:07,158 --> 00:32:10,128 Even then I knew, even then I felt the black hole open. 508 00:32:11,496 --> 00:32:12,797 I'll try harder in another life. 509 00:32:12,897 --> 00:32:16,334 I won't pretend to be a man, born to kill. 510 00:32:18,102 --> 00:32:19,637 Now their ghosts wander my thoughts. 511 00:32:19,737 --> 00:32:22,507 They're somewhere else already. 512 00:32:22,607 --> 00:32:23,607 And I am here. 513 00:32:24,943 --> 00:32:26,144 Listen. 514 00:32:26,244 --> 00:32:28,913 What haunts me are not their curses, but this: 515 00:32:28,980 --> 00:32:30,949 the man who speaks perfect English, 516 00:32:31,015 --> 00:32:36,688 whose name is not ISN154234, but Ahmed. 517 00:32:37,622 --> 00:32:38,790 He's a fruit seller. 518 00:32:39,791 --> 00:32:40,792 Father of three. 519 00:32:41,993 --> 00:32:46,531 He passes me a paper flower, says he forgives me 520 00:32:46,631 --> 00:32:47,631 for I know not what I do. 521 00:32:50,868 --> 00:32:53,338 See what the gallery crowd makes of that. 522 00:32:54,939 --> 00:32:56,841 That's a gut punch they're gonna need to hear. 523 00:32:56,941 --> 00:32:58,810 What are you gonna read, Eli? 524 00:33:00,278 --> 00:33:03,381 I'm not sure yet I've been working on this one. 525 00:33:03,481 --> 00:33:05,984 This is all the things I wish I would have figured out. 526 00:33:08,219 --> 00:33:09,454 I never knew what to say. 527 00:33:11,456 --> 00:33:12,323 Never knew how to cut through 528 00:33:12,390 --> 00:33:15,226 all the contradictions and confusion. 529 00:33:15,326 --> 00:33:18,563 It's like dancing on landmines and swimming in sandstorms 530 00:33:18,663 --> 00:33:21,065 while marching into a war you didn't get to vote for, 531 00:33:21,165 --> 00:33:23,668 with a rifle slung over one shoulder 532 00:33:23,735 --> 00:33:25,803 and a medical aid bag over the other. 533 00:33:25,870 --> 00:33:27,147 It's doing everything you can to save a man's life 534 00:33:27,171 --> 00:33:30,875 who just did everything he could to end yours. 535 00:33:30,975 --> 00:33:33,344 It's seeing medics engaged in torture 536 00:33:33,411 --> 00:33:35,213 and infantrymen engaged in medicine. 537 00:33:35,313 --> 00:33:38,483 It's feeling deaf from the sound of a pounding heart 538 00:33:38,549 --> 00:33:40,060 while praying for a pulse and preaching to the choir 539 00:33:40,084 --> 00:33:43,087 about salvation. It's choking on the smoke 540 00:33:43,187 --> 00:33:44,756 of everything you used to believe in, 541 00:33:44,856 --> 00:33:47,025 after you burned it all to the ground, 542 00:33:47,091 --> 00:33:49,260 it's building bridges then putting up barriers 543 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,262 so nobody can cross them. 544 00:33:51,362 --> 00:33:53,765 It's like locking all the doors everywhere around you. 545 00:33:53,865 --> 00:33:55,666 Then scattering the keys in obvious places, 546 00:33:55,733 --> 00:33:57,201 hoping nobody will find them. 547 00:33:57,268 --> 00:34:00,104 It's like coming back, feeling like a stranger 548 00:34:00,204 --> 00:34:02,840 then running away to feel at home again, 549 00:34:02,907 --> 00:34:04,018 it's being surrounded by everyone you love 550 00:34:04,042 --> 00:34:07,245 and feeling suffocated at the exact same time. 551 00:34:07,345 --> 00:34:11,449 Like writing speeches when you feel completely speechless 552 00:34:11,549 --> 00:34:14,118 and speaking out while you're being strangled, 553 00:34:14,218 --> 00:34:15,953 it's ducking for cover in the sunshine 554 00:34:16,054 --> 00:34:18,556 and searching for a ray of light in the shadows. 555 00:34:18,623 --> 00:34:22,060 It's drinking away the night just to sleep away the day. 556 00:34:22,126 --> 00:34:24,295 It's chain smoking cigarettes under stress 557 00:34:24,395 --> 00:34:25,730 just to catch your breath. 558 00:34:25,797 --> 00:34:28,199 It's your worst vice saving your fucking life. 559 00:34:29,567 --> 00:34:31,011 It's why I've taken to wearing my heart 560 00:34:31,035 --> 00:34:33,371 on my sleeve nowadays to escape the prison of my rib cage 561 00:34:33,438 --> 00:34:36,974 because I'm sick of being trapped in this past life. 562 00:34:42,146 --> 00:34:44,749 How big is this gallery? How much wall space? 563 00:34:45,817 --> 00:34:47,061 It's a decent size gallery space, 564 00:34:47,085 --> 00:34:50,788 we got at more than a few hours, to... 565 00:34:50,888 --> 00:34:53,057 We're doing poetry first, or...? 566 00:34:53,124 --> 00:34:55,927 Yeah, like let people come in, just see the artwork, 567 00:34:55,993 --> 00:34:57,128 check it out for a while. 568 00:34:57,228 --> 00:34:58,996 Right, don't want to scare 'em away. 569 00:35:01,132 --> 00:35:02,834 ♪ There is power, there is power ♪ 570 00:35:02,934 --> 00:35:05,837 ♪ In a band of working folks ♪ 571 00:35:05,937 --> 00:35:10,007 ♪ When we stand, hand in hand ♪ 572 00:35:10,108 --> 00:35:12,677 ♪ That's a power, that's a power ♪ 573 00:35:12,777 --> 00:35:14,846 ♪ That must rule in every land ♪ 574 00:35:14,946 --> 00:35:19,350 ♪ One Industrial Union Grand. ♪ 575 00:35:19,450 --> 00:35:22,854 ♪ Would you have freedom ♪ from wage slavery ♪ 576 00:35:22,954 --> 00:35:24,689 ♪ Then come join the Grand... ♪ 577 00:35:24,789 --> 00:35:27,325 ♪ Industrial Grand ♪ 578 00:35:27,425 --> 00:35:29,861 Why does it keep doing that? 579 00:35:31,362 --> 00:35:32,362 Because... 580 00:35:32,797 --> 00:35:35,032 You suck at inking. 581 00:35:35,133 --> 00:35:37,802 ♪ There is power, there is power ♪ 582 00:35:37,869 --> 00:35:39,149 ♪ In the hands of working folks ♪ 583 00:35:39,203 --> 00:35:42,039 ♪ When we stand, hand in hand ♪ 584 00:35:42,140 --> 00:35:45,143 Well, I don't got it all over my face. 585 00:35:45,209 --> 00:35:47,712 ♪ Power that must rule in every land ♪ 586 00:35:47,812 --> 00:35:51,949 ♪ One Industrial Union Grand ♪ 587 00:35:52,016 --> 00:35:54,552 Looks like you gave me a black eye over here. 588 00:35:55,887 --> 00:35:57,321 Alright, let's do this for real now. 589 00:35:57,388 --> 00:35:58,055 Hold on to that. I got this. 590 00:35:58,156 --> 00:36:00,224 Oh, you got this. 591 00:36:00,324 --> 00:36:03,461 I bet you had to say that all the time in Iraq. 592 00:36:03,528 --> 00:36:05,863 My CO even said he'd put that on my grave at Arlington 593 00:36:05,963 --> 00:36:06,864 if I died out there. 594 00:36:06,964 --> 00:36:09,634 No more room at Arlington. 595 00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:10,878 Well, we gotta come up with, 596 00:36:10,902 --> 00:36:12,012 what's the new Memorial gonna be? 597 00:36:12,036 --> 00:36:15,239 If can't keep putting headstones down. 598 00:36:15,339 --> 00:36:16,574 Just get a big screen. 599 00:36:16,674 --> 00:36:20,478 Jumbo-tron. Flash all the faces and names. 600 00:36:21,913 --> 00:36:24,482 We are guys who like to drink! 601 00:36:32,990 --> 00:36:37,662 Well. Off-hours, anyway. 602 00:36:39,163 --> 00:36:41,232 Maybe we could have a system like, 603 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:43,240 make labels, or something. 604 00:36:46,103 --> 00:36:48,439 Yeah, we used to have something like that. 605 00:36:48,539 --> 00:36:49,819 I don't know what happened to it, 606 00:36:52,877 --> 00:36:55,213 Fuck labels, man! 607 00:37:12,029 --> 00:37:15,466 I been laying on my bed... and I'm just awake, 608 00:37:15,566 --> 00:37:18,069 just always fucking awake. 609 00:37:20,404 --> 00:37:22,540 Lately I can't stop thinking about how 610 00:37:24,542 --> 00:37:27,878 my mother, before I deployed, 611 00:37:28,646 --> 00:37:31,782 she was talking about how... 612 00:37:32,917 --> 00:37:35,486 what's a woman doing in a war 613 00:37:35,586 --> 00:37:37,888 what's a woman doing in a uniform 614 00:37:39,457 --> 00:37:43,561 What's a woman doing, trying to act like... a man or something. 615 00:37:43,628 --> 00:37:45,630 And she basically said to me, 616 00:37:46,464 --> 00:37:47,465 "If you go there, 617 00:37:48,499 --> 00:37:51,335 I don't want to know nothing about you." 618 00:37:51,435 --> 00:37:53,337 "You're not mine anymore." 619 00:37:56,107 --> 00:37:59,810 I don't know if she meant that or what, but anyway, 620 00:37:59,910 --> 00:38:03,080 that's what the fuck I've been thinking about at night. 621 00:38:25,636 --> 00:38:29,040 I do, uh, peer to peer counseling. 622 00:38:36,514 --> 00:38:41,218 And one of the guys that... he's the youngest guy I was... 623 00:38:42,987 --> 00:38:46,457 And he... a month ago, 624 00:38:48,326 --> 00:38:50,027 he killed himself. 625 00:38:58,836 --> 00:39:02,073 You want to think that like... you can know it's gonna happen. 626 00:39:02,173 --> 00:39:03,173 Right? 627 00:39:04,375 --> 00:39:07,345 You can feel it, you can do something. 628 00:39:19,924 --> 00:39:22,860 What was his name? 629 00:39:28,866 --> 00:39:31,102 Timothy. 630 00:39:34,038 --> 00:39:36,741 You remember how 631 00:39:36,841 --> 00:39:38,409 they used to fire off guns at weddings? 632 00:39:40,244 --> 00:39:43,614 Full auto, 30 round bursts. 633 00:39:46,283 --> 00:39:47,718 Must go through a dozen magazines 634 00:39:47,785 --> 00:39:49,065 every time someone gets married. 635 00:39:59,397 --> 00:40:02,299 In the beginning when we first got in country, 636 00:40:04,635 --> 00:40:08,806 we'd hear shots off in the distance, 637 00:40:08,906 --> 00:40:10,107 four or five miles away. 638 00:40:10,207 --> 00:40:13,210 And we'd see the tracers flying up through the air. 639 00:40:13,277 --> 00:40:16,280 We would go tearing down the road 640 00:40:16,380 --> 00:40:17,900 in our gun trucks, looking for a fight. 641 00:40:21,152 --> 00:40:22,152 But there was nothing. 642 00:40:25,122 --> 00:40:28,826 No firefight, no insurgents. 643 00:40:30,127 --> 00:40:32,062 Just, just a couple of people getting married. 644 00:40:38,269 --> 00:40:41,839 Of course. After, after a while we figured it out, 645 00:40:43,407 --> 00:40:45,943 we'd hear the gunfire at the certain hour 646 00:40:46,010 --> 00:40:49,513 and look at our watches, figure out 647 00:40:49,613 --> 00:40:53,417 what day of the week it was, nod back and forth and say, 648 00:40:53,484 --> 00:40:58,355 "Yup, just another wedding." Right? 649 00:41:08,966 --> 00:41:14,038 But I don't think we ever really did figure it out. 650 00:41:19,009 --> 00:41:22,179 What was there to figure out? 651 00:41:27,351 --> 00:41:29,553 That it was... 652 00:41:29,653 --> 00:41:32,823 just a couple of people getting married. 653 00:41:34,158 --> 00:41:35,558 Timothy, let me ask you something. 654 00:41:37,328 --> 00:41:39,530 Why do you think they turned down your claim? 655 00:41:40,364 --> 00:41:42,132 I really don't know. 656 00:41:44,235 --> 00:41:45,703 Look, 657 00:41:47,204 --> 00:41:49,306 to be approved by the VA for post-traumatic stress. 658 00:41:50,641 --> 00:41:53,744 You got to demonstrate some traumatic experience. 659 00:41:53,844 --> 00:41:58,482 Life-threatening situation, something along those lines. 660 00:41:59,483 --> 00:42:01,485 See what I'm saying? Yeah. 661 00:42:04,688 --> 00:42:07,157 When I looked at the VA's decision, 662 00:42:07,224 --> 00:42:09,560 it says you didn't have that kind of experience. 663 00:42:11,362 --> 00:42:13,097 I told them my story. 664 00:42:14,265 --> 00:42:16,066 They just didn't get it. 665 00:42:21,705 --> 00:42:23,374 Yeah, well. 666 00:42:24,074 --> 00:42:26,210 That happens. 667 00:42:29,113 --> 00:42:30,948 You think you could tell me your story? 668 00:42:37,187 --> 00:42:38,187 Yeah. 669 00:42:41,225 --> 00:42:42,225 Yeah, of course. 670 00:43:32,443 --> 00:43:33,843 Eli, the labels go on lower right? 671 00:43:35,279 --> 00:43:36,347 Yeah. 672 00:43:36,447 --> 00:43:38,849 He's gonna come along and move 'em all, anyway... 673 00:43:41,619 --> 00:43:42,996 All the artwork you see in this gallery 674 00:43:43,020 --> 00:43:46,190 was handmade from American military uniforms. 675 00:43:46,290 --> 00:43:49,360 We take the uniforms, we cut them into small pieces 676 00:43:49,460 --> 00:43:51,762 and we put them... We were involved in 677 00:43:51,829 --> 00:43:52,949 Interrogation processes... 678 00:43:54,932 --> 00:43:56,676 Sure, US put him in there in the first place. 679 00:43:56,700 --> 00:43:58,620 As a medic they want you to monitor and - and - 680 00:44:00,871 --> 00:44:04,708 - throw acid on LaVena Johnson's genitals 681 00:44:04,808 --> 00:44:08,145 whether they're able to endure further interrogation 682 00:44:08,212 --> 00:44:11,281 So, at this point, this dude had been in there for three days 683 00:44:11,348 --> 00:44:12,383 It's been a disaster! 684 00:44:12,483 --> 00:44:14,718 Johnny was involved in multiple situations 685 00:44:14,818 --> 00:44:16,887 Where they kept calling him back to take care of... 686 00:44:16,987 --> 00:44:18,031 all of these prisoners Peace is the only... 687 00:44:18,055 --> 00:44:20,891 Real war memorial. - interrogation processes that... 688 00:44:20,991 --> 00:44:22,359 included torture. 689 00:44:23,460 --> 00:44:25,271 Coming back from Iraq, Johnny killed himself. 690 00:44:25,295 --> 00:44:27,064 They give you a free hall if someone dies. 691 00:44:27,164 --> 00:44:29,166 A lot of the artists are on the premises now 692 00:44:29,233 --> 00:44:30,801 All outta wine, I'll go get some. 693 00:44:30,868 --> 00:44:32,803 Nah, it's cool, I'll get it. 694 00:44:32,870 --> 00:44:36,373 It is a way to kind of tell their stories, 695 00:44:36,473 --> 00:44:37,473 since they can't. 696 00:44:37,508 --> 00:44:39,677 Thank you for your service! 697 00:44:57,194 --> 00:44:59,229 You heading out? 698 00:44:59,329 --> 00:45:00,864 Yeah, I was gonna get some smokes. 699 00:45:07,404 --> 00:45:09,707 Man, I love Eli's piece with the dude with a skeleton hand 700 00:45:09,773 --> 00:45:11,275 and the phone? That shit's bananas. 701 00:45:11,375 --> 00:45:13,444 Ah yeah, super dope piece. 702 00:45:13,544 --> 00:45:14,945 Barbed wire? 703 00:45:15,045 --> 00:45:20,050 I'm gonna do something with barbed wire, I got... an idea. 704 00:45:20,117 --> 00:45:21,585 Thought you quit? 705 00:45:22,386 --> 00:45:24,188 I did. But. 706 00:45:26,590 --> 00:45:27,291 I don't know, cigarettes are my friend right now 707 00:45:27,391 --> 00:45:29,727 you know? 708 00:45:29,793 --> 00:45:32,196 Sometimes, you know, "cause it kills you!" is just not 709 00:45:32,262 --> 00:45:33,342 a fucking 'nough, you know? 710 00:45:35,365 --> 00:45:36,266 Yeah, I try and just think of it 711 00:45:36,366 --> 00:45:38,469 like this giant corporation that could 712 00:45:38,569 --> 00:45:40,129 give a fuck whether I die or live, so... 713 00:45:41,872 --> 00:45:43,540 I don't want to be run by that. 714 00:45:44,641 --> 00:45:46,041 Don't wanna be dependent, fuck that. 715 00:45:50,547 --> 00:45:53,484 You talk with a kind of a lilty, like, lispy thing. 716 00:45:53,584 --> 00:45:55,786 Where are you from anyway? 717 00:45:57,254 --> 00:45:59,256 Baton Rouge. 718 00:46:02,726 --> 00:46:04,161 I don't think you mean lisp. 719 00:46:12,836 --> 00:46:14,571 And all those people in there? 720 00:46:14,638 --> 00:46:16,940 It's great that they come out, you know, but... 721 00:46:18,609 --> 00:46:20,511 you can't, like, have the conversation. 722 00:46:21,345 --> 00:46:22,746 You can't really have it. 723 00:46:23,981 --> 00:46:26,016 No one wants to talk about dying, yeah. 724 00:46:26,116 --> 00:46:28,252 There's never any context for it, you know, 725 00:46:28,318 --> 00:46:30,487 we don't make space for it, ever. We just... 726 00:46:32,856 --> 00:46:34,691 But then how do you...? 727 00:46:34,792 --> 00:46:35,969 Well, yeah, I mean, how do you prevent something 728 00:46:35,993 --> 00:46:38,796 that you can't fucking talk about ever, right? 729 00:46:41,098 --> 00:46:45,202 I had, uh, I had a friend from New Orleans once, 730 00:46:45,302 --> 00:46:48,005 he was kind of a drug dealer, but he was, he was a cool guy. 731 00:46:57,347 --> 00:47:00,017 It's right here. 732 00:47:00,117 --> 00:47:01,117 I'll wait here. 733 00:48:11,221 --> 00:48:12,789 Yo, what are you doin'? 734 00:48:14,057 --> 00:48:15,058 I'm okay. 735 00:48:15,125 --> 00:48:16,793 I'm just, this fucking thing just keeps 736 00:48:16,894 --> 00:48:18,729 correcting me all the fucking time. 737 00:48:18,795 --> 00:48:20,297 I'm fine. 738 00:48:20,397 --> 00:48:21,397 I'm good. 739 00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:38,916 Hey, maybe you should just breathe, you know, 740 00:48:40,784 --> 00:48:41,785 take a breath? 741 00:48:45,389 --> 00:48:46,389 I'm okay. 742 00:48:49,726 --> 00:48:52,496 I had a flip phone, man. 743 00:48:52,596 --> 00:48:54,965 It like fucking creaked when you opened it, 744 00:48:55,065 --> 00:48:55,832 it went 745 00:48:55,933 --> 00:48:57,567 and it worked fine. 746 00:48:59,102 --> 00:49:01,772 It fucking was fine. It never told me what to do. 747 00:49:01,838 --> 00:49:02,838 You know? 748 00:49:20,123 --> 00:49:23,193 Are we gonna stand here... and breathe? 749 00:49:26,263 --> 00:49:28,223 And you're gonna tell me that I'm not a bad person 750 00:49:31,101 --> 00:49:32,301 and that I deserve to be okay. 751 00:49:34,304 --> 00:49:35,304 Right? 752 00:49:36,139 --> 00:49:37,641 You're not a bad person. 753 00:49:41,845 --> 00:49:42,980 How do you know? 754 00:49:57,127 --> 00:50:01,665 Look, let me bring these in and I'll like... come back down. 755 00:50:01,732 --> 00:50:02,732 Okay? 756 00:51:11,968 --> 00:51:14,047 Ya know I don't really know what you're doing over there 757 00:51:14,071 --> 00:51:15,472 at that uh - that paper thing. 758 00:51:15,572 --> 00:51:17,474 But I was trying to tell Mom about it? 759 00:51:17,574 --> 00:51:19,543 I don't know how she's gonna be. 760 00:51:19,609 --> 00:51:21,111 I told her that you wanted to see her, 761 00:51:21,211 --> 00:51:22,813 but she still got that pain in her back. 762 00:51:22,913 --> 00:51:24,147 And I don't know, it's a... 763 00:51:27,250 --> 00:51:28,770 Hey, how's that, uh, phone working out? 764 00:51:33,056 --> 00:51:34,491 Cha cha cha. 765 00:51:49,739 --> 00:51:51,975 What? 766 00:51:52,075 --> 00:51:53,419 I've got Izze outside, she wants to say hi, 767 00:51:53,443 --> 00:51:55,612 you know, she came over, she's doing better... 768 00:51:55,679 --> 00:51:57,519 What's different, with her? What's different? 769 00:51:57,581 --> 00:51:59,015 It's a good thing. 770 00:51:59,116 --> 00:52:00,259 You know, she she's got her whole life sorta worked out 771 00:52:00,283 --> 00:52:02,085 Vets, military... Ugh, God! 772 00:52:02,152 --> 00:52:03,353 No, no it's good. 773 00:52:04,688 --> 00:52:05,355 No, it's it's a good thing, it's good. 774 00:52:05,455 --> 00:52:08,091 Let her dedicate herself. 775 00:52:15,298 --> 00:52:16,967 She came all the way out here. 776 00:52:17,033 --> 00:52:18,311 Do it for me please. Would you just go talk to her? 777 00:52:18,335 --> 00:52:20,971 I dragged her all the way out here. 778 00:52:22,472 --> 00:52:24,672 I'm - I'm too busy today... you're enough, believe me... 779 00:52:28,311 --> 00:52:31,848 You're enough, you fill my heart, it's all I need ok... 780 00:52:34,017 --> 00:52:36,486 She's standin out there, just... 781 00:52:41,691 --> 00:52:44,494 Sorry, kiddo she doesn't want to see you right now. 782 00:52:44,561 --> 00:52:45,795 Next time, okay? 783 00:53:02,579 --> 00:53:05,582 Well we have to create, in essence, 784 00:53:05,682 --> 00:53:10,220 walled communities, where we nurture and protect 785 00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,423 those values, that the wider society 786 00:53:13,523 --> 00:53:14,563 are attempting to destroy. 787 00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:21,865 As much as possible we have to create parallel institutions 788 00:53:21,932 --> 00:53:24,668 to sustain ourselves and empower ourselves. 789 00:53:25,936 --> 00:53:27,871 And all of that will be done locally. 790 00:53:30,073 --> 00:53:32,876 Because when collapse comes, 791 00:53:32,943 --> 00:53:34,411 we'll have to take care of ourselves. 792 00:53:34,511 --> 00:53:39,449 That's why, you know, food, local food markets, 793 00:53:40,717 --> 00:53:44,454 sustainable agriculture, sustainable energy. 794 00:53:45,956 --> 00:53:48,925 You know, all of this becomes, in moments of distress, 795 00:53:49,025 --> 00:53:51,061 these become political acts. 796 00:54:11,548 --> 00:54:13,583 How you doing with this? 797 00:54:15,085 --> 00:54:16,553 You doing all right? 798 00:54:16,620 --> 00:54:17,754 You wanna hand with this? 799 00:54:17,821 --> 00:54:19,623 Gimme a sleeve, I'll help you out. 800 00:54:19,723 --> 00:54:21,157 Yeah, pass me some, too. 801 00:54:22,492 --> 00:54:24,427 What's the story with this uniform? 802 00:54:24,494 --> 00:54:25,854 What was the last time you wore it? 803 00:54:37,407 --> 00:54:38,407 It was checkpoint. 804 00:54:41,978 --> 00:54:43,146 In Youssoufia. 805 00:54:44,481 --> 00:54:46,650 I was out there so fucking long, I don't even know. 806 00:54:48,618 --> 00:54:52,422 Days, nights, weeks, 807 00:54:52,489 --> 00:54:53,923 just out there in the heat, 808 00:54:56,126 --> 00:54:57,527 staring down a highway. 809 00:54:58,962 --> 00:55:00,722 A hundred hours of heat goes by with nothing. 810 00:55:02,699 --> 00:55:04,968 And then a car comes out of nowhere. 811 00:55:07,203 --> 00:55:09,806 Our CO told us there's only one way to tell, 812 00:55:12,042 --> 00:55:13,643 the good guys from the bad guys. 813 00:55:17,814 --> 00:55:19,449 The bad guys don't stop. 814 00:55:22,519 --> 00:55:26,556 We'd fire, and we'd walk up to the vehicle, 815 00:55:31,161 --> 00:55:33,663 and almost every single time, 816 00:55:34,698 --> 00:55:38,835 there was nothing, there were no explosives. 817 00:55:38,902 --> 00:55:40,470 There were no weapons. 818 00:55:46,810 --> 00:55:48,378 And we kept trying to figure it out 819 00:55:48,478 --> 00:55:50,180 what the fuck was going on? 820 00:55:51,081 --> 00:55:53,249 Why don't they fucking stop? 821 00:55:55,385 --> 00:55:59,589 I know in our AO, we covered everything 822 00:55:59,689 --> 00:56:00,809 between Ramadi and Fallujah, 823 00:56:02,692 --> 00:56:05,095 almost to Abu Ghraib, we were over there 824 00:56:05,195 --> 00:56:06,663 when the photos got leaked, 825 00:56:07,897 --> 00:56:09,141 all of a sudden word's out on the street, 826 00:56:09,165 --> 00:56:12,402 every Iraqi knows that we're torturing the shit out of them. 827 00:56:14,337 --> 00:56:16,457 I don't blame them for not stopping at the checkpoint. 828 00:56:17,607 --> 00:56:18,274 They thought that we might arrest them 829 00:56:18,375 --> 00:56:20,510 and send them to Abu Ghraib too. 830 00:56:22,212 --> 00:56:24,681 We never never get the story from the Iraqi's perspective. 831 00:56:26,282 --> 00:56:28,385 Some foreign military was on my street? 832 00:56:32,355 --> 00:56:34,391 You know how that would go, here in the US. 833 00:56:36,126 --> 00:56:39,095 Red Dawn in every town. 834 00:56:39,195 --> 00:56:40,563 Guilt and shame... 835 00:56:41,765 --> 00:56:45,201 are pretty fucking heavy to carry with you. 836 00:56:47,604 --> 00:56:49,448 World War II vets didn't come back and kill themselves 837 00:56:49,472 --> 00:56:52,475 in these kinds of numbers, right? 838 00:56:52,575 --> 00:56:53,710 They had a clear mission. 839 00:56:53,777 --> 00:56:55,211 They knew who they were fighting. 840 00:56:56,579 --> 00:56:58,081 They believed in their purpose. 841 00:57:02,118 --> 00:57:04,320 It didn't take me very long to realize 842 00:57:04,421 --> 00:57:08,057 that there was nothing there for me to believe in. 843 00:57:12,162 --> 00:57:14,097 In this bullshit war, who's proud? 844 00:57:17,267 --> 00:57:18,401 I'm proud I survived. 845 00:57:19,636 --> 00:57:22,005 Yeah, proud of doing this. 846 00:57:26,443 --> 00:57:30,013 Take a lot of pride in how many uniforms I've cut up. 847 00:57:32,282 --> 00:57:34,984 Wonder what kind of uniforms will be cutting up in 10 years? 848 00:57:35,084 --> 00:57:36,128 You know, what color are those going to be? 849 00:57:36,152 --> 00:57:36,686 Spacesuits. 850 00:57:36,786 --> 00:57:38,621 Spacesuits. 851 00:57:38,688 --> 00:57:40,156 Spaceforce! 852 00:57:40,256 --> 00:57:42,659 Tinfoil and goddamn nylon. 853 00:57:42,759 --> 00:57:45,237 You guys are startin to sound like a couple of Commies over here 854 00:57:45,261 --> 00:57:46,541 I don't give a fuck, I'll say it 855 00:57:47,797 --> 00:57:49,175 We'll be up there fighting space ISIS, in orbit! 856 00:57:49,199 --> 00:57:52,502 Space ISIS, there you go. 857 00:57:54,838 --> 00:57:56,449 Coming home from a war that you don't feel 858 00:57:56,473 --> 00:57:59,509 morally justified being a part of... 859 00:57:59,609 --> 00:58:00,877 is not easy to live with. 860 00:58:04,547 --> 00:58:07,717 Especially if you drank the Kool-Aid all along... then have 861 00:58:07,817 --> 00:58:12,822 to wake up to that one day and realize that instead of 862 00:58:14,357 --> 00:58:16,317 being one of the Jedi, we were the Storm Troopers. 863 00:58:32,809 --> 00:58:36,913 Find out that my bags are lost on the airline 864 00:58:37,013 --> 00:58:39,415 and all I got's my Black Sabbath t-shirt. 865 00:58:40,683 --> 00:58:42,352 So next morning I show up to formation. 866 00:58:42,418 --> 00:58:44,220 Sergeant comes out and he goes, 867 00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:46,689 "What the fuck are you doing?" 868 00:58:46,756 --> 00:58:47,657 I don't have my uniforms. 869 00:58:47,724 --> 00:58:50,226 He said, all right Ozzy, just get down 870 00:58:50,326 --> 00:58:51,594 and start pushing. 871 00:58:51,694 --> 00:58:52,929 Ozzy... 872 00:58:53,029 --> 00:58:54,397 Moment of truth. 873 00:58:54,497 --> 00:58:57,767 Hey, have you guys seen Will in the past couple weeks? 874 00:58:57,867 --> 00:58:59,402 Nah, not really. 875 00:58:59,502 --> 00:59:00,502 It's been a while. 876 00:59:01,337 --> 00:59:03,239 Think he went upstate? 877 00:59:03,339 --> 00:59:04,339 To his dad's place? 878 00:59:06,709 --> 00:59:09,245 Yeah, probably hiding out in the bunker for a little bit. 879 00:59:09,345 --> 00:59:11,281 I could use some time chilling in the bunker, 880 00:59:11,381 --> 00:59:12,115 out of the city. 881 00:59:12,215 --> 00:59:14,284 It's a nice spot, too. 882 00:59:14,384 --> 00:59:15,552 You been up there yet? 883 00:59:15,618 --> 00:59:18,187 No, it's near where my parents are from though. 884 00:59:18,254 --> 00:59:19,689 I know the town. 885 00:59:23,026 --> 00:59:24,026 Will, what's up? 886 00:59:24,394 --> 00:59:25,394 It's Nate. 887 00:59:26,596 --> 00:59:27,463 I don't know if you got my last message, but... 888 00:59:27,564 --> 00:59:30,967 just calling to see how you're doing. 889 00:59:32,068 --> 00:59:36,439 It's been busy, we made a hell of a mess. 890 00:59:36,539 --> 00:59:40,476 So maybe it's good you're gone, but I don't know. 891 00:59:42,445 --> 00:59:44,213 Calling to see how you're doing. 892 00:59:45,214 --> 00:59:46,115 Yeah, man. Hope you're well. 893 00:59:46,215 --> 00:59:47,483 Hit us up,. Peace. 894 01:00:19,582 --> 01:00:22,185 Get out of the way! 895 01:00:34,464 --> 01:00:35,131 Yo. 896 01:00:35,198 --> 01:00:37,100 Get out of the way! 897 01:00:38,801 --> 01:00:39,702 Hey kiddo! 898 01:00:39,802 --> 01:00:42,605 What you doing out this late, huh? 899 01:00:42,672 --> 01:00:43,873 Whoa, whoa! 900 01:00:46,476 --> 01:00:47,543 Hey look, I got her, Nick 901 01:00:48,511 --> 01:00:49,846 I got the Marine 902 01:00:50,713 --> 01:00:51,713 C'mon, try and get out. 903 01:00:52,315 --> 01:00:54,951 Come on. 904 01:00:55,985 --> 01:00:56,853 Is that the best you got? 905 01:00:56,953 --> 01:00:57,553 I'm barely even holding on. 906 01:00:57,654 --> 01:00:59,222 Come on soldier! 907 01:00:59,322 --> 01:01:00,356 Come on. 908 01:01:01,157 --> 01:01:02,492 Why you go so easy on me? 909 01:01:03,660 --> 01:01:06,396 Yo, we're heading to Claude's if you wanna come. 910 01:01:07,463 --> 01:01:08,463 No? 911 01:01:09,065 --> 01:01:10,065 All right. 912 01:02:05,221 --> 01:02:06,789 Buddy, move back. 913 01:05:51,814 --> 01:05:52,814 Hey. 914 01:05:53,449 --> 01:05:57,453 I am... sorry. 915 01:05:58,154 --> 01:05:58,688 I'm sorry. 916 01:05:58,788 --> 01:05:59,522 You okay? 917 01:05:59,622 --> 01:06:00,622 Me? 918 01:06:01,123 --> 01:06:02,959 I'm, yeah, are you okay? 919 01:06:05,795 --> 01:06:08,364 I almost got fucking sideswiped by this pickup truck 920 01:06:08,464 --> 01:06:09,464 coming up here. 921 01:06:10,766 --> 01:06:12,046 Fucking Confederate flag hanging. 922 01:06:15,604 --> 01:06:16,872 What's that even mean up here? 923 01:06:19,275 --> 01:06:22,845 Upstate New York, fucking dodo. 924 01:06:22,945 --> 01:06:24,146 Right? 925 01:06:24,213 --> 01:06:27,183 Why didn't you like call me, or...? 926 01:06:30,686 --> 01:06:35,691 I just, I just needed to get the hell out of the city and, 927 01:06:38,661 --> 01:06:39,661 I'm sorry. 928 01:06:40,830 --> 01:06:44,500 I didn't mean to scare you. 929 01:06:50,239 --> 01:06:53,476 Who has a Confederate flag up here, man? 930 01:06:54,744 --> 01:06:56,512 What does that mean except "I am a racist" 931 01:06:56,579 --> 01:06:58,647 "I am a racist" right? 932 01:07:01,384 --> 01:07:02,485 Look... 933 01:07:03,753 --> 01:07:06,389 Look uh... I got something for you. 934 01:07:06,489 --> 01:07:08,190 On the bus coming here all frustrated 935 01:07:08,257 --> 01:07:10,926 I wrote some shit down... on the back of this thing here. 936 01:07:12,762 --> 01:07:13,762 Should I read it? 937 01:07:20,536 --> 01:07:23,039 Yeah, sure. 938 01:07:23,105 --> 01:07:24,105 Read it. 939 01:07:31,714 --> 01:07:32,714 Uh... 940 01:07:34,517 --> 01:07:35,951 We don't want to fuck. 941 01:07:36,052 --> 01:07:37,887 We don't want to love. 942 01:07:37,953 --> 01:07:39,688 We don't want to feel anything. 943 01:07:40,723 --> 01:07:42,283 We just want to know what it feels like. 944 01:07:44,727 --> 01:07:48,397 We're like those chickens with their heads blown off. 945 01:07:49,098 --> 01:07:50,098 We know... 946 01:07:52,401 --> 01:07:54,970 Whatever, it keeps going. 947 01:07:56,572 --> 01:07:57,572 It's like a poem. 948 01:07:58,908 --> 01:08:00,576 I was using the royal we. 949 01:08:04,246 --> 01:08:05,281 I can just go. 950 01:08:06,582 --> 01:08:10,586 This is fucking nuts, I'm a fucking nut. 951 01:08:10,653 --> 01:08:11,653 No, no, hey! 952 01:08:13,923 --> 01:08:14,290 It's okay. 953 01:08:14,390 --> 01:08:16,659 Hey. 954 01:08:16,759 --> 01:08:18,160 It's okay. 955 01:08:18,260 --> 01:08:19,260 I'm sorry. 956 01:08:22,598 --> 01:08:23,598 Don't be sorry. 957 01:08:25,100 --> 01:08:27,937 Does this make me like a psycho or something? 958 01:08:37,580 --> 01:08:39,582 So what was up with those chickens? 959 01:08:43,819 --> 01:08:45,588 I was voluntold. 960 01:08:58,300 --> 01:08:59,602 This is where you live? 961 01:09:01,670 --> 01:09:02,972 I don't have to come in. 962 01:09:03,038 --> 01:09:06,709 I just wanted to see... that you're okay. 963 01:09:12,681 --> 01:09:13,681 How do I seem? 964 01:09:24,693 --> 01:09:27,196 Which one of those clowns gave you my address? 965 01:09:28,564 --> 01:09:29,865 Everyone's Google-able. 966 01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:34,203 They said Danby, so I just... 967 01:09:36,639 --> 01:09:38,007 It's furniture. 968 01:09:38,073 --> 01:09:40,509 You hungry or thirsty? 969 01:09:40,576 --> 01:09:41,576 I got my walnuts. 970 01:09:42,811 --> 01:09:45,247 I always carrying walnuts and almonds 971 01:09:45,347 --> 01:09:48,083 in case there's ever a total fucking crisis. 972 01:09:48,184 --> 01:09:49,184 I'm good. 973 01:09:50,386 --> 01:09:51,587 Okay. 974 01:09:51,687 --> 01:09:52,855 Well I'm having something. 975 01:09:56,425 --> 01:10:01,397 I got this tea someone gave me, supposed to be dope. 976 01:10:02,231 --> 01:10:03,231 Calming type shit. 977 01:10:03,933 --> 01:10:05,768 Valerian root and Tulsi. 978 01:10:13,876 --> 01:10:18,380 I made all these fucking notes... for being here. 979 01:10:22,117 --> 01:10:24,587 This looks kinda like a Granny place. 980 01:10:27,790 --> 01:10:29,458 Yeah, I guess. 981 01:10:30,859 --> 01:10:33,028 My, uh... 982 01:10:34,063 --> 01:10:35,864 Pops found this place in the seventies 983 01:10:37,299 --> 01:10:40,769 and then my mama got it in the divorce. Then my Auntie, 984 01:10:42,371 --> 01:10:44,773 She was here for a while, but she just moved out. 985 01:10:44,873 --> 01:10:47,376 It's paid for, taxes aren't bad, so we're keeping it. 986 01:10:52,581 --> 01:10:55,651 The quiet is hurting my ears. 987 01:11:48,837 --> 01:11:49,972 Tulsi... 988 01:11:52,641 --> 01:11:53,842 Tastes like dirt. 989 01:12:02,051 --> 01:12:03,319 Those your notes? 990 01:12:05,020 --> 01:12:06,622 These are directions to you. 991 01:12:07,956 --> 01:12:09,436 Fuck GPS, I don't depend on that shit. 992 01:12:20,903 --> 01:12:21,983 So this is where you were 993 01:12:23,839 --> 01:12:25,708 This is where you walked 994 01:12:28,677 --> 01:12:29,978 And this is where we are? 995 01:12:36,885 --> 01:12:37,885 Yeah. 996 01:12:43,192 --> 01:12:47,162 All right, well you can help me build this bed frame. 997 01:12:47,229 --> 01:12:49,069 I was pretty fucking hammered when I sawed most 998 01:12:49,164 --> 01:12:53,769 of that shit up, so there's a good chance it'll be just a bunch 999 01:12:53,869 --> 01:12:55,170 of random ass fucking pieces, 1000 01:12:55,237 --> 01:12:59,007 and I be sleeping on the floor again. 1001 01:13:03,712 --> 01:13:06,615 Let's build a shed by mistake. 1002 01:13:09,885 --> 01:13:11,453 I could live in a shed if I had to, 1003 01:13:12,454 --> 01:13:15,257 I could survive in small spaces. 1004 01:13:17,860 --> 01:13:18,860 With your walnuts? 1005 01:13:23,265 --> 01:13:24,700 Here, wanna play some music? 1006 01:13:26,101 --> 01:13:28,437 There's a hookup right over there. 1007 01:13:28,537 --> 01:13:30,305 Cool, give you that thing. 1008 01:13:47,990 --> 01:13:55,990 ♪ This is how it feels to be alone ♪ 1009 01:14:03,105 --> 01:14:07,743 ♪ This is all that we can call our own ♪ 1010 01:14:08,944 --> 01:14:10,779 Can you hand me that hammer? 1011 01:14:12,681 --> 01:14:16,952 ♪ Dust, flesh and bone ♪ 1012 01:14:24,426 --> 01:14:26,595 You making plans for this thing? 1013 01:14:28,130 --> 01:14:30,966 No, that's just something my dad... before he split, 1014 01:14:32,468 --> 01:14:33,812 he was always saying - "check if something's a piece of shit 1015 01:14:33,836 --> 01:14:35,537 or not, feel the weight of it" 1016 01:14:36,538 --> 01:14:37,698 Cause if it ain't got weight, 1017 01:14:39,007 --> 01:14:40,209 it's worthless. 1018 01:14:48,283 --> 01:14:51,453 Uh, sorry, this shit is putting me to sleep. 1019 01:14:54,389 --> 01:14:55,791 And I don't sleep either. 1020 01:15:14,910 --> 01:15:17,379 Will...? 1021 01:15:19,047 --> 01:15:20,047 Yeah? 1022 01:15:23,685 --> 01:15:30,092 Nothing. 1023 01:15:44,172 --> 01:15:46,241 It's awesome you have a place to hide out. 1024 01:15:47,743 --> 01:15:49,611 Like anything could happen here, right? 1025 01:17:57,005 --> 01:17:59,174 Wish I could fucking sleep. 1026 01:18:08,350 --> 01:18:09,710 I don't even know what month it is. 1027 01:18:19,561 --> 01:18:21,196 I'm okay. 1028 01:18:28,036 --> 01:18:29,204 You don't have to be. 1029 01:18:56,431 --> 01:18:58,633 You want me to sleep here? 1030 01:19:02,871 --> 01:19:05,874 I would love it if you slept here. 1031 01:20:29,324 --> 01:20:31,293 Stay 1032 01:20:34,663 --> 01:20:36,898 I just wanted to see what was going on out here, man. 1033 01:20:41,803 --> 01:20:43,839 You want some breakfast before you go? 1034 01:20:47,142 --> 01:20:49,744 Yeah, I was gonna go... Buy a bunch of food 1035 01:20:49,845 --> 01:20:52,347 and I didn't wanna just take your truck. 1036 01:20:52,414 --> 01:20:54,214 I mean, you might wonder what the hell, right? 1037 01:20:55,250 --> 01:20:57,770 And then I didn't know where to fucking go, because of my phone. 1038 01:20:58,720 --> 01:21:00,021 It's good, 1039 01:21:00,088 --> 01:21:01,088 you know? 1040 01:21:02,390 --> 01:21:03,390 You're a good egg. 1041 01:21:08,263 --> 01:21:09,263 Yeah, so are you. 1042 01:21:14,035 --> 01:21:15,035 Good egg. 1043 01:21:16,705 --> 01:21:19,741 Sleep is so fucking important! 1044 01:21:20,408 --> 01:21:21,408 I gotta write that down. 1045 01:21:27,048 --> 01:21:29,117 Hey, I just didn't want you thinking 1046 01:21:29,217 --> 01:21:31,386 I came up here for some sketchy reasons. 1047 01:21:32,454 --> 01:21:36,858 I just wanted to see... that you're okay. 1048 01:21:38,059 --> 01:21:40,262 So that's why I'm... 1049 01:21:40,362 --> 01:21:41,529 It's okay. 1050 01:21:42,731 --> 01:21:44,099 It's okay that you're here. 1051 01:21:49,271 --> 01:21:50,271 Okay. 1052 01:21:51,239 --> 01:21:52,239 Alright. 1053 01:21:53,975 --> 01:21:55,377 Okay. Okay. 1054 01:21:55,443 --> 01:21:56,611 Cool. Cool. 1055 01:21:56,711 --> 01:21:57,711 Okay. 1056 01:22:00,215 --> 01:22:01,215 Good. 1057 01:22:01,416 --> 01:22:02,918 All right. 1058 01:22:23,939 --> 01:22:25,106 I can do better. 1059 01:22:27,776 --> 01:22:29,444 Yeah that was the one. 1060 01:22:37,686 --> 01:22:38,753 Okay. 1061 01:22:40,288 --> 01:22:41,289 Ow! 1062 01:22:51,266 --> 01:22:52,968 All right, I know what we gotta do. 1063 01:24:02,370 --> 01:24:04,439 FUCK!!! 1064 01:24:18,953 --> 01:24:22,090 That a fuckin horse? What is that? 1065 01:24:24,959 --> 01:24:27,062 Fuckin demons everywhere. 1066 01:24:30,465 --> 01:24:33,968 There's this homeless couple on my block... I always see them, 1067 01:24:36,071 --> 01:24:37,072 just sitting there. 1068 01:24:42,911 --> 01:24:45,246 I just want to sit down, I just want to do nothing. 1069 01:24:45,313 --> 01:24:49,818 I'm wanna tell them: I know, I get it, 1070 01:24:49,918 --> 01:24:54,589 I'm there! When you can't - move - one - more... 1071 01:24:56,724 --> 01:24:58,059 But I can't tell 'em. 1072 01:24:59,761 --> 01:25:01,096 My throat doesn't work. 1073 01:25:05,633 --> 01:25:07,235 Someone... 1074 01:25:08,103 --> 01:25:09,337 someone said to me, 1075 01:25:09,437 --> 01:25:11,072 just make sounds, 1076 01:25:12,273 --> 01:25:14,909 just to keep on making sounds. 1077 01:25:17,579 --> 01:25:19,848 There's so much and I can't say it. 1078 01:25:24,285 --> 01:25:25,687 I have threshold, man. 1079 01:25:27,622 --> 01:25:28,622 I have a threshold. 1080 01:25:29,290 --> 01:25:30,859 That's all I'm saying. 1081 01:25:32,627 --> 01:25:34,462 What's your threshold? 1082 01:25:42,370 --> 01:25:43,972 Timothy, 1083 01:25:45,473 --> 01:25:47,275 Last time we talked together, 1084 01:25:47,342 --> 01:25:50,311 told me about this woman in a hardware store... 1085 01:25:52,113 --> 01:25:55,483 apron... selling him something, 1086 01:25:55,550 --> 01:25:56,684 who... 1087 01:25:57,819 --> 01:26:01,556 thanked him for his service. 1088 01:26:03,658 --> 01:26:08,696 How he doesn't blame her, but... he's so fucking confused. 1089 01:26:12,901 --> 01:26:16,037 Are you thanking me for killing people in Sadr City 1090 01:26:16,137 --> 01:26:18,006 who were just - driving down the road? 1091 01:26:19,908 --> 01:26:22,243 Or how about for ripping a man in Samarra away 1092 01:26:22,343 --> 01:26:23,343 from his family? 1093 01:26:25,346 --> 01:26:27,182 Humiliating him, detaining him, 1094 01:26:28,983 --> 01:26:30,585 starving him, torturing him, 1095 01:26:30,685 --> 01:26:32,153 thousands and thousands of him? 1096 01:26:33,388 --> 01:26:35,390 Are you thanking me for blowing up a school 1097 01:26:35,490 --> 01:26:37,559 or for blowing up a hospital? 1098 01:26:39,360 --> 01:26:43,097 Are you thanking me for slaughtering a family in Mahmudiya? 1099 01:26:45,233 --> 01:26:48,736 Maybe you're thanking me for collateral murder. 1100 01:26:50,271 --> 01:26:53,942 For SOP 360 rotational fire on an entire village 1101 01:26:54,042 --> 01:26:55,877 in response to an IED. 1102 01:26:56,878 --> 01:26:58,179 Or you feel some gratitude 1103 01:26:58,246 --> 01:27:01,449 that we protected the interests of Exxon - and laid down 1104 01:27:01,549 --> 01:27:06,020 our lives for Halliburton or quadrupled profits for Raytheon. 1105 01:27:06,087 --> 01:27:08,456 Could you be thanking me for Abu Ghraib? 1106 01:27:08,556 --> 01:27:10,625 Or just for taking the pictures? 1107 01:27:11,960 --> 01:27:15,430 No... you're thanking me for the kill count. 1108 01:27:16,564 --> 01:27:19,067 200,000 dead civilians. 1109 01:27:20,235 --> 01:27:21,875 Or is it "thank you for the drone strikes" 1110 01:27:21,903 --> 01:27:26,874 that destroyed Mosul, Ramadi, Aleppo, Baghdad, Rakka... 1111 01:27:28,876 --> 01:27:31,212 Thank you for MST? 1112 01:27:31,279 --> 01:27:33,448 For burn pits? 1113 01:27:33,548 --> 01:27:36,951 Maybe I should thank you for standing by while it was all happening. 1114 01:27:37,051 --> 01:27:39,487 I mean, I know you're not thanking me for being a hero. 1115 01:27:39,587 --> 01:27:41,256 I was a pawn. 1116 01:27:48,896 --> 01:27:49,896 Anyway. 1117 01:27:51,833 --> 01:27:53,401 That's what I would've said. 1118 01:27:57,572 --> 01:27:59,107 I would never say all that. 1119 01:28:01,509 --> 01:28:02,810 That's what his death said. 1120 01:28:05,413 --> 01:28:06,681 A final fuck you. 1121 01:28:08,082 --> 01:28:09,817 All of them, just sitting there. 1122 01:28:09,917 --> 01:28:13,421 They don't even know they're watching him die. 1123 01:28:17,492 --> 01:28:20,495 It's just the proportions are off, you know? 1124 01:28:21,663 --> 01:28:23,698 Like why am I carrying all this shit? 1125 01:28:25,300 --> 01:28:27,935 You'll never see a recruiter in the Upper West Side. 1126 01:28:30,972 --> 01:28:32,040 Fuck it. 1127 01:28:36,511 --> 01:28:38,846 Three cheers for the American dream. 1128 01:28:40,315 --> 01:28:42,884 The whole goddamn world's nightmare, but... 1129 01:28:43,451 --> 01:28:45,053 our dream. 1130 01:30:12,373 --> 01:30:13,373 What? 1131 01:30:16,310 --> 01:30:17,745 What the fuck man? 1132 01:30:19,414 --> 01:30:22,817 Nothing, I'm just fucking with you. 1133 01:30:24,419 --> 01:30:26,363 I just wanted to do one of those war movie moments, 1134 01:30:26,387 --> 01:30:28,656 you know, where the veterans like, oh fuck, 1135 01:30:28,756 --> 01:30:31,659 I'm going back there, and then he like freaks the fuck out. 1136 01:30:34,162 --> 01:30:36,164 Some dude army crawling at his kid's birthday 1137 01:30:36,264 --> 01:30:37,899 when a balloon pops. 1138 01:30:37,965 --> 01:30:39,567 Incoming! 1139 01:30:50,745 --> 01:30:51,945 I hate those fucking movies. 1140 01:30:53,414 --> 01:30:54,415 Yep. 1141 01:30:54,482 --> 01:30:56,517 Fuck American Sniper. 1142 01:30:56,617 --> 01:30:57,185 Fuck Hurt Locker. 1143 01:30:57,285 --> 01:30:59,821 Fuck Zero Dark Thirty. 1144 01:30:59,921 --> 01:31:02,857 Especially fuck Saving Private Ryan. 1145 01:31:02,957 --> 01:31:05,693 Fuckin ra ra military bullshit. 1146 01:31:05,793 --> 01:31:06,928 Good War bullshit. 1147 01:31:06,994 --> 01:31:08,596 Like there can be a good one. 1148 01:31:09,130 --> 01:31:10,498 Fuck that. 1149 01:31:25,279 --> 01:31:26,447 Yo check this out. 1150 01:31:27,949 --> 01:31:29,851 This is the outer material for a sleeping bag. 1151 01:31:31,953 --> 01:31:36,390 Doesn't have any date on it, but I think it's like - Fifties? 1152 01:31:36,491 --> 01:31:37,625 Maybe even Forties? 1153 01:31:39,393 --> 01:31:41,195 It was the rain cover. 1154 01:31:43,664 --> 01:31:44,999 Keeps everything out. 1155 01:31:47,702 --> 01:31:49,342 This would make some awesome paper, but... 1156 01:31:51,973 --> 01:31:53,893 It's also pretty fucking awesome as it is, right? 1157 01:31:55,676 --> 01:31:57,178 I don't know what to do with it. 1158 01:32:03,184 --> 01:32:04,184 What's up? 1159 01:32:08,322 --> 01:32:09,924 We gonna have a staring contest? 1160 01:32:17,365 --> 01:32:18,365 What is it? 1161 01:32:19,367 --> 01:32:22,103 Sorry, I'm sorry I can't... fucking talk... 1162 01:32:22,203 --> 01:32:25,106 Stop saying you're fucking sorry, Jesus! 1163 01:32:29,176 --> 01:32:30,044 Come on, what is it? 1164 01:32:30,111 --> 01:32:31,111 Just... talk. 1165 01:32:34,048 --> 01:32:35,048 You're not mad? 1166 01:32:36,117 --> 01:32:37,618 Does it look like a mad at you? 1167 01:32:38,920 --> 01:32:40,163 You're all here and then you disappear, 1168 01:32:40,187 --> 01:32:41,789 you just left me there, man! 1169 01:32:41,889 --> 01:32:43,558 I left because of my own shit. 1170 01:32:49,463 --> 01:32:50,463 I know. 1171 01:32:52,600 --> 01:32:55,703 I don't know what I told you about him... 1172 01:32:57,538 --> 01:33:01,242 Yeah, you... you told me. 1173 01:33:03,411 --> 01:33:05,913 Okay. 1174 01:33:05,980 --> 01:33:07,148 I don't always remember. 1175 01:33:13,588 --> 01:33:15,823 You know what you're doing, man. 1176 01:33:16,657 --> 01:33:19,627 You know how to be with people. 1177 01:33:19,727 --> 01:33:21,729 You know how to be alone. 1178 01:33:21,796 --> 01:33:24,498 You have it, I mean, I want to know how you... 1179 01:33:26,434 --> 01:33:28,936 You make it look easy, man, just being here! 1180 01:33:31,272 --> 01:33:33,841 Nothing about this is easy, okay. 1181 01:33:33,941 --> 01:33:35,743 I don't know what you're seeing. 1182 01:33:36,677 --> 01:33:37,612 I don't have this down 1183 01:33:37,678 --> 01:33:39,814 to some kind of fucking science. 1184 01:33:39,914 --> 01:33:41,682 All right, I'm making it up as I go. 1185 01:33:43,250 --> 01:33:45,953 I'm just trying everything I can think of from one moment to 1186 01:33:46,020 --> 01:33:49,657 the next that doesn't hurt anyone or hurt myself or, 1187 01:33:51,158 --> 01:33:53,103 land me in some fucking abyss where I just hate myself 1188 01:33:53,127 --> 01:33:54,127 to fucking death, so. 1189 01:33:58,633 --> 01:34:00,635 You know how to live. 1190 01:34:02,970 --> 01:34:04,972 No. I really don't. 1191 01:34:16,317 --> 01:34:17,218 That's what I'm doing, man. 1192 01:34:17,318 --> 01:34:20,788 I keep... It's like sick, it's like, 1193 01:34:20,855 --> 01:34:25,626 I keep trying to fucking find someone and grab them and be like, 1194 01:34:26,894 --> 01:34:28,996 okay, show me how to fucking live! 1195 01:34:35,836 --> 01:34:37,171 Okay. 1196 01:34:37,238 --> 01:34:39,040 I'm catching on, all right. 1197 01:34:40,841 --> 01:34:45,379 This body, this being - mine. 1198 01:34:46,047 --> 01:34:48,482 Responsibility, mine! 1199 01:34:49,150 --> 01:34:50,150 Right? 1200 01:34:53,688 --> 01:34:55,322 Yeah, pretty much. 1201 01:34:58,059 --> 01:34:59,994 Fuck. 1202 01:35:04,165 --> 01:35:07,268 I wanna tear my fucking skin off, man! 1203 01:35:07,368 --> 01:35:10,371 I fucking hate myself so much. 1204 01:35:12,707 --> 01:35:17,611 Fucking die, I hate you, fucking die. 1205 01:35:25,953 --> 01:35:26,953 I'm here. 1206 01:35:34,562 --> 01:35:36,864 I feel a lot for you. 1207 01:35:41,402 --> 01:35:43,270 That's okay, isn't it? 1208 01:35:44,538 --> 01:35:46,307 I don't know. 1209 01:35:46,407 --> 01:35:47,407 What? 1210 01:35:52,913 --> 01:35:55,216 Maybe I came here to hurt you. 1211 01:36:01,822 --> 01:36:03,057 Everything hurts me. 1212 01:36:04,892 --> 01:36:06,292 There's nothing you can do about it. 1213 01:36:20,441 --> 01:36:22,510 I don't want to be bitter. 1214 01:36:22,610 --> 01:36:25,846 I don't want to live that way. 1215 01:36:33,120 --> 01:36:34,922 That's what you know how to do. 1216 01:36:48,469 --> 01:36:51,372 I could barely walk across those things with my boots on. 1217 01:36:52,473 --> 01:36:54,141 Do you ever take those boots off? 1218 01:36:54,208 --> 01:36:54,508 Yeah. 1219 01:36:54,608 --> 01:36:55,976 Yeah? 1220 01:36:56,043 --> 01:36:56,710 Yeah. 1221 01:36:56,811 --> 01:36:58,546 I take a shower sometimes. 1222 01:36:58,646 --> 01:36:59,380 Yeah right. 1223 01:36:59,480 --> 01:37:00,281 Once a week at least. 1224 01:37:00,347 --> 01:37:01,827 That's very attractive, that's dope. 1225 01:37:04,652 --> 01:37:06,220 I'm going to triple these up. 1226 01:37:06,320 --> 01:37:08,722 These are gonna be strong motherfuckers. 1227 01:37:08,823 --> 01:37:09,823 All right? 1228 01:37:10,791 --> 01:37:12,202 I mean, I think double is fine, but you know, 1229 01:37:12,226 --> 01:37:13,794 do you. 1230 01:37:15,663 --> 01:37:17,898 You're just putting the - the birthday? 1231 01:37:17,998 --> 01:37:19,466 You're not putting the...? 1232 01:37:20,167 --> 01:37:22,570 Nah. 1233 01:37:22,670 --> 01:37:23,404 It's cool. 1234 01:37:23,504 --> 01:37:24,504 This is... 1235 01:37:26,841 --> 01:37:27,841 You know... 1236 01:37:27,875 --> 01:37:29,043 Remember life. 1237 01:37:42,690 --> 01:37:44,250 Woods are like outer space to me, man. 1238 01:39:16,850 --> 01:39:17,952 Should I read it? 1239 01:39:18,018 --> 01:39:19,018 Yeah. 1240 01:39:20,287 --> 01:39:23,757 Marine cammies will be your flesh, will be your pride. 1241 01:39:23,824 --> 01:39:25,526 My DI told me. 1242 01:39:25,626 --> 01:39:28,195 Too baggy, too long, don't matter. 1243 01:39:28,295 --> 01:39:29,997 You'll fill them, you'll blend in. 1244 01:39:31,198 --> 01:39:33,167 Learn to kill silently. 1245 01:39:33,267 --> 01:39:35,035 Learn to kill screaming. 1246 01:39:35,135 --> 01:39:36,971 Learn to take more and more and more. 1247 01:39:39,139 --> 01:39:39,506 Remove your uniform. 1248 01:39:39,606 --> 01:39:41,642 It's been lying. 1249 01:39:41,709 --> 01:39:43,644 Remove it, cut it to pieces. 1250 01:39:43,711 --> 01:39:46,714 It's a lie, your performance, your pride. 1251 01:39:46,814 --> 01:39:49,483 What tells me to kill, who tells me to kill. 1252 01:39:50,851 --> 01:39:52,653 Hear the whispers grow to shouting, 1253 01:39:52,720 --> 01:39:56,657 shouting from inside, from that place begging no more, 1254 01:39:56,724 --> 01:39:59,827 shouting no more, screaming no more. 1255 01:39:59,893 --> 01:40:02,629 Shout what you already know, what your new tribe 1256 01:40:02,696 --> 01:40:04,198 has come to know. 1257 01:40:04,298 --> 01:40:08,135 The world you once loved has brought you to this place. 1258 01:40:08,202 --> 01:40:12,673 The world you once loved never was, never will be. 1259 01:40:40,534 --> 01:40:42,369 Do you need something? 1260 01:40:45,839 --> 01:40:48,909 Just tell your brother to come over. 1261 01:40:54,048 --> 01:40:58,752 I have to call Herbert again about the sink. 1262 01:40:59,553 --> 01:41:02,723 Every fucking day with this guy. 1263 01:41:04,058 --> 01:41:07,895 At least your brother dropped that what's her name, huh? 1264 01:41:09,730 --> 01:41:11,231 Did he? 1265 01:41:11,799 --> 01:41:13,200 You would know. 1266 01:41:20,307 --> 01:41:22,242 He's stealing my Tramadol. 1267 01:41:26,246 --> 01:41:28,215 Either that or I'm going fucking nuts. 1268 01:41:30,551 --> 01:41:32,086 The right to keep and bear a gun... 1269 01:41:36,623 --> 01:41:40,127 You have no idea what it's like... 1270 01:41:40,227 --> 01:41:43,964 Oh, that's your father, always saying 1271 01:41:44,064 --> 01:41:45,799 "you have no idea what it's like 1272 01:41:45,899 --> 01:41:48,335 You have no idea what it's like" 1273 01:41:49,436 --> 01:41:50,504 You wouldn't remember. 1274 01:41:51,805 --> 01:41:52,805 You were too young. 1275 01:41:55,509 --> 01:41:58,512 I have an idea of what it's like. 1276 01:42:00,747 --> 01:42:03,347 We used to have the ten commandments posted in our school rooms... 1277 01:42:04,518 --> 01:42:08,655 our students would see what God almighty has said, thou shalt not murder... 1278 01:42:09,356 --> 01:42:10,257 You see this? 1279 01:42:10,324 --> 01:42:11,859 You see this on my skin? 1280 01:42:18,198 --> 01:42:20,100 I can't stop taking this shit. 1281 01:42:29,376 --> 01:42:30,376 Look at me. 1282 01:42:32,813 --> 01:42:34,148 You have no idea... 1283 01:42:35,883 --> 01:42:37,484 The people I work with... 1284 01:42:39,319 --> 01:42:42,222 they think I'm contagious. 1285 01:42:46,360 --> 01:42:49,897 And that nigger downstairs keeps staring at me. 1286 01:42:51,331 --> 01:42:52,331 He's nice. 1287 01:42:53,333 --> 01:42:54,468 He smiles. 1288 01:42:55,669 --> 01:42:57,838 But why is he standing there? 1289 01:43:00,841 --> 01:43:02,409 There's other places. 1290 01:43:09,716 --> 01:43:12,085 I didn't sleep again last night. 1291 01:43:13,187 --> 01:43:14,187 Just... 1292 01:43:14,988 --> 01:43:16,390 Just tell your brother to come over! 1293 01:43:27,034 --> 01:43:29,903 I bought a stool last summer... for my birthday 1294 01:43:30,437 --> 01:43:31,437 and uh... 1295 01:43:32,172 --> 01:43:34,107 I bought a notebook, also... 1296 01:43:34,208 --> 01:43:38,412 And I bought a round trip bus ticket to the Port Authority bus terminal. 1297 01:43:38,512 --> 01:43:41,949 I walked to the Veterans Administration hospital. 1298 01:43:42,049 --> 01:43:44,851 The disability I was claiming 1299 01:43:44,918 --> 01:43:46,787 was post traumatic stress disorder. 1300 01:43:48,355 --> 01:43:50,715 I was interviewed by a Veterans Administration psychiatrist. 1301 01:43:52,192 --> 01:43:55,596 "Do you know that most Vietnam veterans with your diagnosis 1302 01:43:55,696 --> 01:43:57,965 killed themselves a long time ago?" 1303 01:43:59,399 --> 01:44:04,238 At that time, 1970, 71... I was experiencing brutal nightmares 1304 01:44:07,274 --> 01:44:08,442 every night, 1305 01:44:08,542 --> 01:44:09,977 night after night, week after week, 1306 01:44:10,077 --> 01:44:11,211 I would wake up screaming, 1307 01:44:13,280 --> 01:44:15,382 fighting demons and ghosts. 1308 01:44:17,484 --> 01:44:19,319 And that psychiatrist told me 1309 01:44:19,419 --> 01:44:21,722 it was only going to get worse. 1310 01:44:24,758 --> 01:44:28,829 At that time... I was having terrible depressions. 1311 01:44:30,397 --> 01:44:33,300 In hindsight, I would say... I was close to being catatonic. 1312 01:44:35,269 --> 01:44:37,838 It took everything I had, to put my feet over the edge 1313 01:44:37,938 --> 01:44:40,674 of the bed in the morning and to stand up like a man. 1314 01:44:43,010 --> 01:44:45,245 And that psychiatrist told me 1315 01:44:45,312 --> 01:44:47,180 it was only going to get worse. Never better. 1316 01:44:49,483 --> 01:44:51,985 One of the first lessons I had to learn as a medic 1317 01:44:52,085 --> 01:44:53,954 was that in order to treat the wound, 1318 01:44:55,188 --> 01:44:56,266 first we have to expose it. 1319 01:44:56,290 --> 01:44:59,293 That body armer that used to protect you, 1320 01:45:00,594 --> 01:45:02,394 that camouflage that was supposed to hide you. 1321 01:45:03,163 --> 01:45:04,443 Now it's just getting in the way. 1322 01:45:07,968 --> 01:45:10,370 At that time... 1323 01:45:10,470 --> 01:45:12,350 the single biggest thing in my mind was suicide. 1324 01:45:14,341 --> 01:45:15,621 It was not where, it was not how, 1325 01:45:17,144 --> 01:45:18,144 it was only when. 1326 01:45:19,279 --> 01:45:20,881 Tonight. Tomorrow. 1327 01:45:21,648 --> 01:45:24,217 Just when. 1328 01:45:24,318 --> 01:45:26,953 I could not cross a railroad track 1329 01:45:27,020 --> 01:45:28,388 without thinking of stopping 1330 01:45:28,488 --> 01:45:30,057 and putting my head on the rail. 1331 01:45:31,992 --> 01:45:35,228 I could not cross a high bridge 1332 01:45:37,331 --> 01:45:39,900 I probably spent 1000 hours on the George Washington bridge, 1333 01:45:40,000 --> 01:45:42,369 pacing back and forth. 1334 01:45:42,469 --> 01:45:46,173 And that psychiatrist told me it was only going to get worse, 1335 01:45:48,008 --> 01:45:49,008 never better. 1336 01:45:53,180 --> 01:45:54,681 So now. About 44 years later. 1337 01:45:54,748 --> 01:45:57,217 About 44 years later. 1338 01:45:57,317 --> 01:45:58,919 Another psychiatrist tells me 1339 01:46:00,520 --> 01:46:02,923 do you know that most Vietnam veterans with your diagnosis 1340 01:46:03,023 --> 01:46:05,192 killed themselves a long time ago? 1341 01:46:05,258 --> 01:46:08,395 As I thought of him, a little poem came to my mind. 1342 01:46:11,698 --> 01:46:12,698 You called me monster. 1343 01:46:14,534 --> 01:46:17,237 You cornered me and trapped me. 1344 01:46:18,505 --> 01:46:23,009 You forced me to chew my leg off... and to hobble 1345 01:46:23,076 --> 01:46:24,444 from one suicidal day to the next. 1346 01:46:27,681 --> 01:46:28,715 It don't mean nothing. 1347 01:46:30,217 --> 01:46:32,217 That's great, you wanna bring the troops home... 1348 01:46:32,252 --> 01:46:33,787 that's the campaign you're runnin on? 1349 01:46:33,887 --> 01:46:35,722 Cool, we got a plan to help you with that, 1350 01:46:35,789 --> 01:46:38,859 because we're the troops who've been there, and done that... 1351 01:46:40,427 --> 01:46:42,271 And the cops, you know, it's the middle of summer, 1352 01:46:42,295 --> 01:46:43,655 the cops are in full battle rattle, 1353 01:46:45,399 --> 01:46:49,136 much fancier gear than we had, in Iraq. 1354 01:46:49,236 --> 01:46:50,370 And they were hot as shit. 1355 01:46:50,437 --> 01:46:51,905 You could tell they were miserable, 1356 01:46:51,972 --> 01:46:53,807 sweating. 1357 01:46:55,575 --> 01:46:59,780 And so we were talking directly to the cops - tellin 'em, look 1358 01:46:59,880 --> 01:47:01,314 we know what y'all are dealing with. 1359 01:47:01,415 --> 01:47:03,025 We been out there in the heat and all this gear too, 1360 01:47:03,049 --> 01:47:05,485 it sucks, doesn't it? 1361 01:47:05,585 --> 01:47:08,064 You should just go home, cause... you don't really need to be here 1362 01:47:08,088 --> 01:47:09,923 doing this shit with us. 1363 01:47:11,658 --> 01:47:15,162 Anyway, a couple of them ended up walking off the line. 1364 01:47:15,262 --> 01:47:16,406 And... whole front rank of vets, 1365 01:47:16,430 --> 01:47:18,598 all in dress uniform, carrying flags. 1366 01:47:18,665 --> 01:47:21,668 They stepped off and said, I'm not going to like, 1367 01:47:21,768 --> 01:47:26,173 I'm not going to go beat a bunch of fucking veterans carrying flags. 1368 01:47:28,475 --> 01:47:30,110 They weren't going to do it. 1369 01:47:30,177 --> 01:47:33,013 We kept telling them... we're going to advance, we're going to advance. 1370 01:47:33,113 --> 01:47:35,081 And we kept advancing slowly. 1371 01:47:35,148 --> 01:47:38,985 Yeah, but we kept saying we're unarmed 1372 01:47:39,085 --> 01:47:41,955 and we're here to make a statement. 1373 01:47:42,789 --> 01:47:44,524 Hundreds of us there. 1374 01:47:45,792 --> 01:47:47,027 So after the long standoff, 1375 01:47:47,127 --> 01:47:49,296 they did end up letting two of them in. 1376 01:47:50,664 --> 01:47:53,166 And they presented it and his military affairs guy was like 1377 01:47:53,266 --> 01:47:55,535 Hey, this is a solid plan. 1378 01:47:55,635 --> 01:47:57,346 We want to talk to you guys further about this. 1379 01:47:57,370 --> 01:47:59,973 Let's implement this into our policy. 1380 01:48:01,508 --> 01:48:04,811 So. We thought everything's good, the cops called it off. 1381 01:48:04,878 --> 01:48:06,158 Everybody was cheering, hugging. 1382 01:48:07,948 --> 01:48:09,850 And then we packed up and went to the RNC 1383 01:48:09,950 --> 01:48:12,886 to try to do the same thing, not nearly as successful there. 1384 01:48:15,121 --> 01:48:16,165 And you know the rest of the story from there, you know? 1385 01:48:16,189 --> 01:48:18,058 Obama gets elected 1386 01:48:18,158 --> 01:48:19,025 the left goes to sleep 1387 01:48:19,125 --> 01:48:20,126 the war continues on 1388 01:48:20,193 --> 01:48:21,661 and here we are. 1389 01:48:22,896 --> 01:48:24,416 Go up on the left just a touch...?