[horns honking]
[R.E.M., "Everybody Hurts"]
♪ ♪
- ♪ When your day is long ♪
♪ ♪
♪ And the night ♪
♪ The night is yours alone ♪
♪ ♪
♪ When you're sure
you've had enough ♪
♪ Of this life ♪
♪ Hang on ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Don't let yourself go ♪
♪ ♪
♪ 'Cause everybody cries ♪
♪ ♪
♪ And everybody hurts ♪
♪ Sometimes ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Sometimes
everything is wrong ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Now it's time
to sing along ♪
♪ When your day
is night alone ♪
♪ Hold on ♪
♪ Hold on ♪
♪ If you feel like
letting go ♪
♪ Hold on ♪
[siren wailing]
- The following show
was recorded
over a four-week period
in New York City after dark.
Over 150 taxi drivers
were interviewed
to find the drivers who were
chosen for this program.
A taxi was rigged with five
lipstick size hidden cameras.
The passengers who hailed
this cab were not aware
that they were
being videotaped
until after
the ride had ended.
- How you doing tonight?
- Pretty good.
f*cking tired as hell.
- Going to work now?
- Yeah.
- You a cop,
or are you just working the--
- Yeah, I'm in the rescue squad
next door to the precinct.
- Oh, really?
- I did my other job
today all day.
f*cking heat.
- What do you do?
- Construction.
- Two jobs?
- Yeah.
- That's a--
- Everybody needs money,
you know what I mean?
Trying to save for a house.
- Really?
- Sucks.
- Well, you do what you
got to do, you know?
The rescue squad is
your regular PD, or--
- Yeah, you got to be
a regular cop first.
- Uh-huh.
- Have at least five years
on the job,
and then you try out
for the rescue squad.
It's all that SWAT sh*t,
rescue stuff, you know?
- Yeah.
- Jumping out of helicopters,
climbing bridges--
- Really?
- Went scuba diving.
- Really?
- So it's f*cking
ten times better
than being a regular cop.
- Sure you could
tell some stories.
- Oh, forget it.
- Anything recently?
- I was busy as f*ck
last night.
- Really?
What'd you do?
- f*cking shootings,
and killings, and f*cking--
- Around here?
- Um...
Avenue V.
f*cking
destroyed this guy, man.
They made Swiss cheese
out of him.
- Drug thing?
- We don't know yet.
Probably, you know,
when you figure it out.
This guy was riding on
one of those mountain bikes.
- Yeah?
- They tried to rob him
and they f*cking
started sh**ting at him.
And after 14 times,
I think the guy's dead.
- Yeah, I'd say so.
- Give him a break already.
I mean, I've seen
every conceivable way
a person could die, I've seen.
- Really?
- Numerous times.
- What was the most, like,
upsetting thing you ever saw?
- When a guy gets
hit by a train.
Not run over by a train,
when he gets stuck in between
the platform and the train.
You know when a guy's standing
on the edge of the platform?
- Yeah.
- OK,
somebody pushes him
into the train
as the train's coming in.
You fall in between--you
ever see that little space?
- Yeah.
- You fall in there.
Now what happens is when
the train is coming down,
it spins you around.
And what happens is,
from your waist down,
it spins you around.
[whistles]
It actually, like, folds you
around and just twists you
up like a like a plastic bag.
- Right.
- You're standing there.
All of a sudden,
what the thing does
is it spins you around
like this, OK?
And you're stuck like this.
- All twisted up.
- You're all twisted up.
- Oh, God.
- Now, what happens is when I
push that train off your body,
the bottom part of your
legs spin back this way,
and all your guts fall
down and you die--
[snaps fingers]
--in less than a minute,
you're dead.
So what happens is,
when that train
holds your body together
this way, twisting you,
you're alive.
- Yeah.
- Your heart's beating.
Your brain's OK.
You're alive.
I can talk to you like this.
- Right.
- And I have to tell you,
you're going to die.
OK, that's the sad part,
because
I got a lot of young people
that has happened to--
- You have to tell them--
- You got to tell them,
because you're gonna die.
- How the hell do you--
- We know you're gonna die.
That's it.
There's nothing.
I can have a hospital right
there, expert doctor's
right there,
you're gonna die,
because as soon as
your body untwists,
all your guts and everything--
'cause they've been
ripped apart
when that train sucks it.
- How do you tell someone--
- So you got to explain
to them,
you know, look, the train
came down, it spun you around.
You feel like you're OK
because you're numb
from the waist down.
You don't feel it.
Most the time,
they don't feel their legs.
But then we have to explain
to them that your ba*ls
are facing the wrong way.
- This is what's
gonna happen.
- So what happens is
once we take the air bags
and push the train
off of you
and try to get you out of
there, you're gonna die
in less than two minutes.
So you want to speak to your
wife, you want a priest,
do you want this?
You want--
- Really?
- Usually what we do is we know
when we get a job like that,
we automatically
call the priest
and try to find out
who the guy is.
We get his family down there
and we explain to them.
- Wow.
- One day we left--
we had a priest come,
the guy's wife,
and we cleared the
whole f*cking train station out
and left his wife down there
with the priest.
- And he was alive for that?
- Just so she could hug him,
and kiss him,
and say whatever she wanted to
say to him
before we f*cking did it.
- You knew he was--
- That's it.
You're dead.
It's an injury that there's
no way they can fix it.
Picture right from
underneath your rib cage
down, everything just spins
around and gets ripped apart.
- Jesus Christ.
- It's f*cking horrible.
That's sad because you're
talking to the person,
you know?
And then, of course, when
you get a young girl, or--
- When you--if you get
into a situation where,
I mean, the person's
already hurt, or dead, but--
- But there, you go in there
and the guy's screaming at you.
"Come on,
get me the f*ck out of here."
And he's trying to
get himself out.
You know, he's pushing himself.
Meanwhile, he has no idea
how bad his injuries is.
But I've seen guys with their
heads cut off, blown up, burnt,
shot, stabbed,
poisoned, hanged,
run over by trains,
cars, blown up.
I mean, f*cking you name it,
I've seen it.
- How do you go home
to your family
after seeing all this crap?
- You know, it's a job.
I go home
and I forget about it.
- Can you, like, leave it?
- The only thing is,
I noticed that when
I'm out with my family, I'm
always, like, looking around.
Always looking for
the f*cking bad guy
to come over and break ba*ls.
- Do you expect
the worst thing?
- Yeah.
I expect some idiot to try
to mug us, or f*cking hurt--
- Yeah.
- But I'll f*cking sh**t you
in a minute,
because I don't give a f*ck.
That's the best thing
that being a cop,
they give you--carry the g*n.
- Yeah.
- He knows not anybody's
gonna f*cking hurt me.
- Just in case.
- I'll be damned if I'm
gonna get f*cking hurt.
- It's this block, right?
- The next block.
There's a small block
right after this.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[siren wails]
♪ ♪
- Where to, hon?
- 12th Street and First Avenue.
- 12th Street and First Avenue?
- Mm-hmm.
- So is that your girlfriend,
then?
- That?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
That's not my girlfriend.
- Just a friend?
- Not even.
- I can see she cared
a lot for you.
- Yeah.
Well, it's a problem.
- Can you sit back,
though, babe?
- I know.
- Yeah.
- I tried to sit back
that way before
and you were just like, no.
- No, I don't want you
to get hurt.
- Why?
Do you drive that wild?
- No, I don't drive too wild.
- But, like, I can't do this.
- Yeah.
Yeah, you can do that.
- I can do that?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
So you had a good time
at the club tonight?
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
- But girlfriend had
to go home alone, baby.
[chuckles]
Hmm?
- Well, yeah.
Well,
she's got other girlfriends.
- You're not the only one?
- Oh, I'm not even--
I'm not even one.
Like, no.
I'm not her girlfriend ever.
- No?
Who's your girl?
- Who's my girl?
Who are my girls?
- Who are your girls?
- Mm-hmm.
- More than one?
- Mm-hmm.
- Do you have a favorite?
- Yeah.
- What's she like?
- She's big and quiet.
- Sexy?
- Of course.
- Wow.
- Of course, right?
[laughing]
- Do you live with her?
- Mm-mm.
I don't live with anybody.
I'm never that--
that much of a fool.
- No?
- Nuh-uh.
You can't, like--
you cannot live with a girl.
You cannot live with a girl.
- You don't like
living with anybody?
- Because you know, I love--
I love women.
I love them.
I think they're beautiful,
and wonderful,
and there's so many things I
can do with them and whatever.
But--
- Like what?
- You know, whatever.
You know?
But...
I never like anything
to get normal.
I don't want to be normal.
I want to be like--
I want to be having sex
with you.
I want to be, like,
making love to you
day and night, night and day.
I don't want to,
like, shop with you.
Like, that's f*cked up.
I don't want to shop with you.
I just want to make love
to you, you know?
I want to see you naked.
I want to like--
You know what I mean?
- Yeah.
- It's like, I don't want
to be married to you.
I don't want to have kids
with you.
I don't want to do anything
with you.
I just want to, like,
see you naked
and, like, feel that love,
and just, like,
oh, look at you.
You're so beautiful.
I just want to, like,
do it, oh.
You know?
I just want to have, like,
full on desire, you know?
- You go out with any men, too?
- Mm-mm.
- No?
- Mm-mm.
- Why?
Somebody broke
your heart, love?
- Men?
No, I broke their hearts.
- I can see that.
You're very pretty.
And I'm sure they all find
you very, very desirable, so--
but you'd rather not, huh?
- Oh, please.
Those boys.
- Why?
Are they boring?
- Boring?
Boring?
Boring is, like,
an amusing word for them.
They're just--"simple" is the
best word I can come up with.
Simple.
Well, wait.
So you go with girls?
- Who, me?
- No.
- You never--you never
gone out with a girl?
- No.
- You never went out
with a girl?
I find that hard to believe,
you never wanted to.
- Um,
maybe.
[laughing]
I'm married.
- You're married to a man?
- Yeah.
Yeah.
- I'm sorry you're working
right now,
because I would invite you up
to my home.
- Oh.
What would happen
if I came over?
- Definitely I'd want to
make love, but you know.
If you didn't want to
you could just come and--
- Just what?
- You know, just, like,
lay with me for a while,
you know, whatever.
- Just want to cuddle up, babe?
- I know you're working.
You're working.
I have a kind of an urge
to see you naked.
- Excuse me?
- Nothing.
- Come on, tell me.
- You heard me.
You heard me.
- Come on, tell me.
You got an urge
to see me naked?
- Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
- I see.
- I want to kiss you.
I want to kiss your neck.
I want to touch you.
[laughing]
I can't believe you're not
gonna come in for a second.
- Oh, honey,
I really wish I could.
But--
- No, I know.
You're married.
- No, it's not that.
I got to work.
- Don't you think
you could just--
you could have, like,
a thing with me
and your husband
would never know.
You could just, like, park the
car and like, come up with me,
do the thing, and keep working.
He would never, never know.
He would never know.
- Never know?
- Never know.
- Ooh.
[jazz music]
- If I hire you,
I will fire you.
I pay taxes.
Check that out.
♪ ♪
- All right.
I'm going to the
Silver Star restaurant.
It's on 64th Street
and Second Avenue.
- All right.
Sounds good to me.
Good coffee there.
- Yeah, I know--
I know the night manager.
His name is Gus.
They treat you nice.
- Are you still--are you
still living on the street?
- Yeah.
Unfortunately, I'm still
living on the street.
- What happened?
How come you're on the street?
- Let me tell you something.
It makes me cry, right?
But you know, sometimes
you just got to let it out
and you got to tell it, right?
Well, I got cancer.
They did the operation
at Lenox Hill Hospital
and I stayed there
for two and a half months.
And while I was in the hospital
for two and a half months,
about a month went by, and
finally I had a little strength
to get out of bed.
And a nurse took me out of bed.
And I went into
the smoke lounge.
And I was sitting there,
you know how it is.
There was people in there,
other patients.
There happened to be a woman,
a female patient.
And we got to talking
and everything.
Got to be good friends.
She was in there for ulcers,
right?
And they were talking about
aftercare
because they're gonna
release me soon.
And I had--and I needed--
I needed special attention
because I was sick.
I mean,
I had a major operation.
I had tubes still in me
and they were gonna send me
to a convalescent home.
And now this girl didn't
know me from nothing.
And we were talking
and you know, she was--
I felt warm.
I felt something towards her.
And when I told her
they're sending me
to a convalescent home,
she said to me, Bob,
I know this is gonna
sound funny to you
because you who don't know me,
but tell the doctor you can
come and live with me,
and I'll take care of you.
And her name was Patricia.
I said, you know,
I really feel good.
I said, Miss, man, I'm sick.
I don't feel good.
Wow, that's really nice.
I said, I'd like to go,
to tell you the truth.
I said, I'm not going to
no convalescent home.
A convalescent home,
you relate to an old age home.
And I told my doctor, I said,
doc, man, I don't want
to go to a convalescent home.
I want to go to
the girl's house.
He said, what girl?
You don't have nobody.
I said, the girl in the next
room, that girl, Patricia.
Well, he said to me, no, man.
Well, he conferred
with her doctor
and they came and talked to me.
They said, no, man.
We told Patricia
she can't do it, man.
You don't know,
you need special care.
And she kept on insisting,
no, doc.
And I said to myself,
hey, listen, man.
She can give me care.
I don't know where this
girl is, but I don't know.
She was a Christian girl
and I'm Jewish.
She owned a private school
on 60th at Central Park West.
And lo and behold,
they released me and she took
me home, this girl, right?
And let me tell you something.
This girl was a diamond,
man, inside and out.
This girl meant so much to me.
She sold her private school
to take care of me--
- But what happened
to this girl?
- Now, I'm gonna tell you.
And you know, lo and behold,
right after a while,
you fall in love.
Right, and we fell in love,
and we got married,
and she became pregnant.
I got a job
[inaudible] Casualty
and Surety on Long Island,
right, making $2,000 a week.
I was back on my feet, man.
This girl was everything
in life, man.
And she was seven and
a half months pregnant.
And the night before I had to
do the seminar in Garden City,
she started to stain,
bleed a little bit.
So we call the doctor up
in middle of the night.
And he said, Bobby, well, if
she doesn't--if the bleeding
continues, it gets heavy, bring
her right into the hospital.
Well, it didn't get that heavy,
and it stopped a little bit,
and that was it.
So when we woke up
in the morning,
wasn't gonna go to school,
work,
and I had to go to Garden City.
And I left all my keys home.
And I said, Patricia,
I took a cab.
It didn't matter, because
it was an expense account,
all the way to Garden City.
I said,
as soon as I get to there,
I'll call you up
and see how you feel.
Well, I got there,
I called the house up,
and there was no answer.
I told my boss, listen,
I just called the house up.
Patty was sick.
There's no answer.
Here's everything I've been
working for three months.
You got to give this to him.
I don't care if you fire me.
My wife,
something is wrong with them.
I gave him everything.
I didn't care.
Didn't matter.
I couldn't care
if he said to me,
we're gonna
arrest you, right.
I took a cab.
I went downstairs in
Garden City and Westbury,
took a cab all the way back
to 103rd and Riverside.
But I didn't have no keys
or nothing.
I couldn't get in.
I was going crazy, frantic.
I saw a police officer in
the street and I asked him,
did you have a--
did you got a call--
anybody get a call,
an ambulance,
respond to this
building over here?
They said, yeah, we heard it,
but we didn't respond.
Another patrol car, they took
someone from this building
to Saint Luke's Hospital.
Well, I ran over to
Saint Luke's Hospital.
I was frantic.
I went into the emergency room
and I said, can you tell me
the condition of Patricia?
I started to walk down
to the corridor.
I saw a whole bunch
of people crying.
It was her mother and father
and her family.
She was dead.
She died having a baby
before I got to the hospital.
- f*ck.
- That's how I met
her mother and father.
Now you tell me life is--
life is fair.
She had more money
than I could ever see.
I made $300,000 a year,
she had over a half
a million dollars in the bank.
I couldn't give it
to the doctor
and say, bring back Patricia
and the baby.
f*ck this f*cking life.
That's why I'm homeless.
You take the drugs and alcohol
and shove it up your a*s.
I should be jumping
off the roof,
but I'm not gonna
jump off the roof.
That's what happened
in my life.
She was dead.
That's why I'm homeless.
I had a nervous breakdown.
I had a nervous--
when that happened.
So I can tell you--
- That's very understandable.
- I mean,
I'd rather not talk about it.
- How do you survive
on the street?
Do people--
- Now I have to--
- People take care of you?
- I don't care anymore.
After a while, it gets to
a point you don't even care.
When you go to sleep outside,
who knows if you're gonna
wake up?
Hey, mister,
you know something?
I'll be honest with you.
When I go to sleep,
people pray to God--
I pray to God
so I shouldn't wake up.
I'm telling you the truth.
I'm not crazy.
- You didn't tell me
there was five.
You gonna
squeeze in the back?
I'll take two bucks
off the call.
- What?
- I'll take two bucks
off the call.
He didn't tell me
there was five.
- She didn't tell us.
It's fine.
- Well, you didn't tell me.
- Oh, my gosh.
- [inaudible] so close.
- Sorry about it.
- Thank God we're
all freaking skinny.
- Excuse me.
You want my little lap quilt?
- Wait a minute.
I ain't in.
- Make sure it's closed.
OK, ready to roll?
- We're ready.
- How much is this call?
- You guys better
be f*cking careful.
- Seven, but we'll
cut it down to five.
- Oh.
- It's because you
had to squeeze.
- All right.
- Thank you.
- So what's on
the agenda, girls?
Out for dinner and then--
- No.
We're just going
straight to the club.
We sent our husbands off.
- To where?
- Who knows?
- Mine went to Aruba.
[laughing]
- You're all married?
- Yeah.
- No.
- The three of us are.
These two aren't.
- Because we're smart.
- No, but she wants to
get married, trust me.
- How do you like married life?
- Love it.
- It sucks.
- Wait a minute, now.
- Well, her and I love it.
- Why does it suck?
- Chrissy will tell you.
- Why does married life suck?
- No, it's good.
But it's all right.
- It's good.
[interposing voices]
- It's good sometimes.
- She doesn't like cooking.
- Are you jumping on the Belt?
- Huh?
- Are you jumping
on the Belt Parkway?
- No, why?
- No?
- Why not?
- You want to?
- Yeah, because I got to stop
at Zio's, two seconds.
- Oh, my God.
- All right?
You know where Zio's is?
- Yeah.
- OK.
- I'll be two minutes.
- It's two bucks
- Two.
It's gonna cost you $2 now.
Now it's back up to $7.
- No, it's--all right.
- You can keep that.
- No, no.
That's OK.
It's OK. It's OK. It's OK.
- We squoze back here.
- My husband only gave me
a certain amount
of money for cab fare.
[laughing]
- A certain allowance.
- Why am I explaining
myself over here?
What the f*ck?
- Well, in my household--
- Chris takes care
of everything.
- I take care of the money.
- Poor Frank.
- In my house, I just steal it.
- We pity him.
- I just [inaudible]
myself over here.
- I'd never steal
that much money.
$275?
No f*cking way.
- Yeah, she just goes to Macy's
and spends $400 on makeup.
And then tells them, Mike,
I spent $400 on makeup.
- No, I didn't tell him.
- I'm really sorry.
- He found the bill.
- You spent $400 on makeup?
- Estée Lauder runs very high.
[laughing]
- You did not.
- That f*cking Estée Lauder
counter?
- $400?
- They f*cking attacked me,
those sales girls.
- Well, if you're going to
have the hydrating cream,
you have to have
the cleanser, too.
- Oh, and this
doesn't work without--
- I'm like, OK,
[inaudible] buy it.
- [indistinct] everything.
- So where are your
husbands tonight?
- Her husband's at a club
with his friends
and her husband's with
his little brother
showing him a porno movie.
[laughing]
- What?
- No, he's not.
No, he's with his
little brother.
They're playing Nintendo
and drinking wine.
Home.
- They're not worried about you
girls going out on the town?
- My husband has
no reason to worry.
- That's good.
- Ever.
- That's good.
- She's so serious.
- This is so--
- It's the truth.
- She is just so serious.
- [inaudible]
- I got everything I want.
- [inaudible]
- How the f*ck am I
gonna go out there
and keep a straight face?
She goes--
- I heard about it--
- And I have such wonderful--
- [inaudible].
- Such wonderful friends,
yourself included.
- Why do you have those on you?
- She had to take
them off because she
can't run in somewhere.
- Let me see.
- What a big mouth.
- I love this.
- I love it.
I love it.
- Hey, please don't
f*cking lose it, all right?
- This is her ring.
- So I'll be gone
for two minutes.
You ladies will have
some more [inaudible].
- Thanks.
- Better hurry your a*s up.
We ain't sitting here all day.
[laughing]
- [inaudible] wrinkles.
- All right.
- [inaudible].
- And I'll be right out.
- She wants to hold
your panties, too.
[laughing]
- I'm gonna pull up
over there, OK?
- Yeah.
Please.
[laughing]
- She's a--
- Wait, let's scream at her.
You go, girl.
- What's she doing?
- Go, girl!
- Go, girlfriend!
- Oh, my God.
Where's she going?
- We have no idea.
- You have no idea?
- She lives a secret life.
She just had to stop off
at the secret life.
- She'll be back in a sec.
- Everybody has a secret
identity or just her?
- Just her, trust me.
- And Terry here.
- No secrets going on here.
[laughing]
- And good old Terry.
She's really the
mother of three.
sl*t left her kids, left
her husband, left everyone.
[laughing]
- Where the f*ck is she?
- Did you ever see him,
her boyfriend?
- Mm-mm.
- It's her ex-boyfriend
from f*cking 10 years ago.
- Dang, he's not yours.
- [inaudible] exchange.
- Did he?
- He's gorgeous.
- Yeah?
- He's real f*cking
good lucking.
- Who?
- Chrissy's not a bad person.
She don't mean
what she's doing.
- Chrissy knows
what she's doing.
- She just accidentally
fell in the sack with him.
[laughing]
Oh, I didn't you mean that.
Excuse me.
[laughing]
It slipped.
[laughing]
- It's probably her
husband in disguise.
- Oh, OK.
- Oh, here she is.
- Oh, my God.
- Want these back
or you want to leave them off
the rest of the night?
- Thank you.
[laughing]
- How was it?
Quickie?
Quickie?
- They're eating dinner.
What do you think
I did in there?
- You need some
freaking baby wipes?
- How are your knees?
[laughing]
- We love you, Chrissy, girl.
[chuckling]
[Johanna Fetsch,
"Slot Machine"]
♪ ♪
- ♪ 1, 2, 3, 4 ♪
♪ ♪
♪ [inaudible] ♪
♪ Because you don't
stop f*cking them ♪
♪ 1, 2, 3, 4 ♪
♪ ♪
- Now I'm going to
Columbus Avenue at 85th.
- Columbus and 85th?
- Yep.
- OK.
So how long you
two been friends?
- I met Roland maybe
about five years ago.
I've been here since 1971.
- Married?
- No.
- You sound like you--
you say that with,
like, something's wrong--
- I don't want to get married.
- --with that institution.
You don't want to get married?
- No.
- Why not?
- I don't want to get involved.
- You don't want
to get involved?
- Yeah.
- What do you want to do?
- I just want to play.
I have boyfriends and
boyfriends and boyfriends
and boyfriends.
- Oh, plenty of boyfriends.
Talk to me, honey.
- But I don't want to decide
on one and get stuck to one.
Because I know in a few years,
they'll have a pot belly
and the beauty is gone.
And I don't want anything
to do with them anymore.
- That's it?
- Oh, yes.
- What makes you so sure
that they're
gonna have a pot belly?
- Oh, it always happens.
Either that,
or they lose their hair,
or they sag,
one way or another.
Or sex is not as,
you know, hot anymore.
- It's juicy?
- Yes.
- Oh.
Don't you think you can liven
it up a little bit, though?
- Well, I don't want to do that
anymore, if I don't have to.
- Oh, OK.
You don't want to do the work?
OK.
- Why exert that mental effort?
[laughing]
- Is that your friend?
- Yeah.
- He's just my sister.
- He's what?
- Like my sister.
- Oh, he's like your sister.
- Yeah.
- That's good.
So I guess--
- We have a lot of
things in common.
We like the same places,
we like the same food,
and we gossip about
everything, which is nice.
- Ooh, tell me some
of that gossip.
- Well, about boyfriends,
you know?
He has many boyfriends, too,
so we keep telling each other.
And I say,
I'm tired of this one.
Do you want him?
- If he doesn't want him,
he gives him to you?
- Yeah.
- Oh, OK.
[laughing]
Share and share alike.
I like that.
Go ahead, babe.
- It's that simple.
- It's very simple?
- Yeah.
Well, for me, it is.
Because, like, I have no--
what you call this?
I have no fear about
the reality of my life.
- Which is?
- You know, I like young boys.
When they're tight, taut,
and they don't know too much.
- And you can teach them?
- No, I don't want to.
I want them to stay that way.
- [laughing]
- Well, heck.
If I could turn back the years,
I don't want
to know everything I know now.
- No?
- Yeah.
Because the sweetest times
are when
you are, like,
in your teenage years
and you don't know many things.
I mean, you only feel.
You don't have
the practical side of you.
- I see.
- Those are the sweetest times.
- So who's your
favorite boyfriend now?
- The one at home.
- What makes him special?
- Because--
because he
doesn't give me any problems.
- Is he young?
- 22.
- 22?
- Yes.
- Oh, he's a baby.
- Of course.
I call him my baby.
That's my baby.
- Oh.
Is he also Filipino?
- No.
- No?
- He's Greek.
- He's what?
- He's Greek.
- He's Greek?
Whoa, that's right
up your alley.
[laughing]
- And yours.
And yours.
- Hey, no.
I'm staying out
of that one, baby.
- Yeah?
- No, not everybody's like--
- How long have
you been with him?
- It's a funny joke.
Six months.
- Six months?
That's new meat.
- I met him New Years Day.
- Uh-huh.
- Yeah.
I said, OK,
I'll begin my year new.
- New?
- Yeah.
- Oh, that's great.
And he's exclusively yours,
though, right?
- Oh, I doubt that.
- You doubt that?
- Of course.
- Why?
- Well, that's the way
the g*y life is lived.
That's just the way it is.
- Explain that one to me.
You share your mean, or--
- Well, I don't know.
He gets a lot of calls
from a lot of people.
And I'm not nosy
about those things.
- It doesn't bother you?
- No.
He tells me he
wants to go out, go.
- Huh.
- Go.
I said,
I'll pick your wardrobe.
Just as long as he's beautiful
when he goes out, fine.
- And you don't
get jealous at all?
- I'm like his mommy.
- Oh, dude.
Kissing mama.
I love it.
- I'm like his mommy.
- You're his mommy?
- No, I really
don't get jealous.
[groovy music]
♪ ♪
- Everybody looks at me
like I'm crazy here.
- Why?
- Because my earrings
and stuff.
And my head.
- I can't really see,
but where--
oh, in your nose?
- No, my eyebrow.
- Get out of here.
Your tongue?
- Uh-huh.
- Oh, God.
How do you eat?
- Regular.
- Wait, let me see that thing.
It's through both sides?
- Uh-huh.
- How do you eat
with that thing?
- It's a barbell.
- Oh, my God.
Does that hurt?
- Not when they did it,
but for like three weeks after.
So now you can tell why I don't
go to these places over here.
- Oh, man.
If you don't mind me asking,
what's the point of--
- What's the point?
I don't know.
I just--It's like an
addiction, I guess.
Like, first I did my nose,
my eyebrow, my lip.
- Your eyebrow?
- Mm-hmm.
- Oh.
And your lip?
- Yeah, it's over here,
but I don't have it in now.
- I have eight here and one--
I have eight in one ear
and one in the other.
- Oh, my God.
How did you get addicted to--
- I don't know.
It's just like--it's like
a roller coaster ride.
Like, you're scared to go on.
But then when you get off,
you want to go on again.
It's like a rush
when you get it done.
But my tongue, when they
did it, it didn't hurt.
But for like three weeks
after, forget it.
- Really?
- My tongue was swollen.
I sounded like I was deaf.
- How do your parents
feel about that?
- My mother's dead.
- Oh.
I'm sorry to hear that.
- And my father,
I don't even talk to him.
- Really?
- But my grandparents--
my grandmother hates it.
My grandfather
thinks it's cool.
He's cool.
- Really?
- Mm-hmm.
- How about your boyfriend?
How does he feel about that?
- He'd like me
to take them out.
But it doesn't
really bother him.
Like, he hates my head.
Yeah, he hates it.
I did have long, long hair.
- Really?
- You ought to see it
before this.
- Oh, it's growing in now?
- No.
Here, I'll show you a picture.
It was really, really red.
- Oh, my God.
This is--this
is you over here?
- Yeah.
- Wow.
- Oh, and see what that is?
- What?
- Look.
It's a pierced p*nis.
- A pierced p*nis?
- Whose is this?
- Not my boyfriend's.
- Get out of here.
- Yeah.
You can't tell?
- Ugh.
- Did I make you sick?
I'm sorry.
- What is it, like
a sexual aid or something?
- No.
I mean, it's great to have
your genitals pierced.
It's like, it's supposed
to enhance everything.
- For--
- For a woman or a man.
- How about yourself?
- Yeah.
It's--
- You got that pierced, too?
You did?
Get out of here.
Was it painful to get
pierced like that?
I mean, your private parts?
- For the first second, it
was the worst pain of my life.
Of my life.
You got to--
- Where'd you get it done, on
the side or on the--on the--
- No, on--you could get
could--you could get,
like, your outer lobes,
your lips pierced,
your cl*t pierced.
I got it on my cl*t.
- You say these earrings
make sex better, huh?
- Oh, yeah.
Yeah, they say that.
- They say that?
- Yeah.
- Or what do you say?
- I don't really know.
Like, I mean, I guess it's
the person that you're with.
But it's not that they say
it makes sex better--
- Doesn't it get
in the way, though?
- No, it wouldn't get
in the way at all.
When I speak--when
I spoke to the girl,
she told me when I was getting
it done, she said,
that there's women
that get it--
excuse me--and they
could just have an orgasm.
- When they get it.
- Just walking down the
street, or just sitting down.
They could just have one.
- Oh, because those earrings
flopping around down there?
- Mm-hmm.
There's women that get it
that they have to take it out
because they can't take it.
Like, they can't
even control it.
- They can't take what,
walking down the street
and getting an orgasm
- No, they have it so much
where they can't have--
like, you can just
have it sitting down.
Like what if you're at home
with your family and eating
dinner and something
like that happens?
- And you start shuddering.
- And you're looking--
you're looking at your
father or your grandfather
or somebody, and you're like,
what are you gonna do?
- That ever happen to you?
- No, no.
Thank God. Thank God.
[laughing]
- How were you, like,
growing up?
I'm trying to figure out how--
was it different?
Were you different, as far as--
- My mother, I didn't
really live with her.
But she was like, really cool.
And then she died
when I was like 11, 12.
- What happened to her?
- She died of pneumonia.
But I mean, all her friends--
like, she had the
wrong friends and sh*t.
Like, drugs and stuff.
- Really?
- And my father's
a drug addict, too.
- Really?
- Mm-hmm.
- I'm sorry to hear that.
- Believe me,
I'm used to anything.
Everything bad happens to me.
- Like what?
- Everything.
Everybody dies in my family.
Forget it.
I had a brother,
but he died, too.
- What happened to him?
- He got k*lled.
- Oh, boy.
Somebody k*lled him?
- Yeah, he got shot.
- You've been through
a lot of stuff.
- Yeah, I guess so.
I'm young, but you know,
I guess I feel like I'm old.
I grew up too fast
for my own good.
- So what do you think about
marrying and settling down.
Your boyfriend's the
marrying type or what?
Do you ever think about it?
- I don't know.
I mean, I really do love him,
but I don't know.
All my friends, they don't
think I'm the marriage type.
- All your friends?
- Yeah, they don't--they
think I'll never get married.
- What do you think?
- I don't know.
I mean, I wish.
I mean, I guess
every person wishes
one day they get married
and, you know,
have kids, you know,
the normal life.
But I haven't had one yet.
So anything normal happens
to me in my life.
- Yeah, it's always--
- I don't think it's
gonna work that way.
I guess I just have
to take it day by day.
- Hmm?
- I don't even--
I don't even plan the future.
I don't know
what's gonna happen.
- [speaking French]
- Sorry, what was that?
I can't understand.
- Franklin Street.
- Yeah.
- West Broadway.
- Oh, no I thought you
were saying something else.
I couldn't understand what
you were talking about.
- No, no, no.
We were talking in French.
- Oh, it was in French?
- Yes.
- So you guys are from France?
- Yes.
- From Paris.
- From Paris.
- But we're in a hurry.
Can you do, like, quickly?
- Uh-huh.
I get you there as
quick as possible.
That's what taxi cabs are for.
- Can I ask you,
like, a service?
- Sure.
- OK.
Because we're gonna have
just to get up to our apartment
and then we're
gonna come back.
But it will take about five
minutes to do something
and then we're gonna
come downstairs again.
- OK.
No, that's no big deal.
No problem.
So what's going on?
How come you guys
have to go back home?
- You know, just to drink
something more because it's
so expensive here, you know?
- Uh-huh.
- And then to maybe
to smoke a bit.
- Uh-huh.
- That's good.
- You're smoking what?
- Like, marijuana or something.
- Uh-huh. Sure.
So how do you like
American girls?
- Have you seen
the girl inside?
It's amazing.
I mean, only beautiful girls.
I mean, they're all models,
or what?
- Uh-huh.
- I don't know
because I see
so many beautiful girls.
- In France, you haven't--
- As much--as many wonderful,
beautiful in place like this.
- Uh-huh.
Oh, they don't?
You see this girl here
on the right?
- Yes.
- That's actually not a girl.
- It's a man?
- It's amazing, isn't it?
- You know--
- You never know.
- We have to be so careful
because in the club,
we feel like wonderful girls,
you know?
- Right.
- Big--I don't know
their name in English.
You know, like big here.
- Big, big breasts.
- Big breasts?
- Right.
- That's it?
- Or big t*ts.
- Yes, big t*ts.
- Wonderful legs,
and everything.
But in fact, it's a guy.
- Right.
- We have to be,
like, so careful.
- You have to reach
under and feel.
- Yes.
So has that ever
happened to you,
where you thought
you were with a--
- Could happen.
- Yeah.
- It could happen.
- Because it's so--
I mean, they do so well.
It's wonderful.
I mean, you don't think
it could be a man.
- Right.
So did you have any
interesting experiences
happen to you here in New York
while you've been here?
- Which kind of experience
are you talking?
- Girls?
- [inaudible]
- Girls.
- Girls.
- Because we came here
last year, too
and it's so nice girls.
I go with American girl
and I mean, they do--they
do the right way, you know?
So that's good.
- What do you mean
the right way?
- I mean, like, you f*ck them,
for example, or to go--
I don't know,
to suck a d*ck, you know?
Because they do it so well.
- Right.
They know how to do it.
- They know more than
French people, you know?
- Really?
- Because French girls, I mean,
you have to wait a long time
until they do that for you.
But American girls,
it goes so quickly.
- Really?
- But I mean,
it depends on the girl.
I mean, we can't say, like,
all American girls do that.
But sometime, I mean,
they do it, like, quickly.
- Uh-huh.
- So that's good.
- Right.
- But I mean to make love with
them, it's more difficult,
I think.
- With American girls?
- Because then maybe you
have to wait a long time.
I don't know, because
I go with two girls.
So this is my own experience.
But I don't know if it's always
the same with other girls.
- So tell me about this
particular experience
that you had with
this American girl.
- The night--it
happened this night.
We go to a club
and then we go together.
I sleep in her bed.
- Uh-huh.
- And, like,
then she sucks my d*ck.
And after she comes
to my apartment.
And I mean, I do everything
so she gets excited.
After she gets so exciting,
then she does it.
- So you used proper technique.
That was good.
That was--and
mission accomplished.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Yes, sir.
Nobody calls me sir anymore.
- Some people have manners.
- How did you get the manners?
- I grew up in
the right family.
- Anyway, this guy left
the state for seven years.
Seven f*cking years.
He was hiding out.
- Wow.
- And he figured
he'd come back.
- Yeah.
- Everything blew over.
- You caught up with him
seven years later.
- Came into the local bar.
He walked through the door.
- Who was this?
- This f*cking guy.
What happened was a friend
of mine got m*rder*d.
We took a collection for
his funeral, you know?
- Really?
- This guy stole the money
and then he split.
He left.
He was gone for seven years.
He figured things blew up.
He came into the local bar
at, like, f*cking
He walked into
the f*cking door,
my f*cking legs started
going like this.
Your leg ever start shaking?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- From the f*cking adrenaline.
I saw him and my legs
started f*cking shaking.
Here's another guy.
And I told my friend,
I said, look,
you see that m*therf*cker?
I'm gonna f*cking
take him out right now.
You got my back?
Guy said, yeah, I got you.
I f*cking walked up to him,
f*cking hit him as hard
as I could in his f*cking face.
His f*cking face
f*cking exploded.
Boom, boom.
Beat the f*ck out of him.
Had him on the floor.
I was f*cking strangling
with his own f*cking shirt.
They had to f*cking
take buckets of water
and f*cking hose
the f*cking blood--
- Oh, my God.
- --off the
m*therf*cking sidewalk.
- Oh, God.
- That m*therf*cker did
the wrong f*cking thing
to the wrong f*cking people.
- It was the wrong thing.
Taking that--the lady was
on welfare to bury her son.
- The money for her mother,
man, and he took it.
- And you took a collection
to bury this guy?
That m*therf*cker.
- He hurt a lot of people, man.
He hurt a lot of
f*cking people.
I'll tell you something.
I went after the guy.
At the time, in 1984,
I went after the f*cking guy.
All my friends held me back.
My clothes got all
f*cking ripped.
They held me back, the cops
came, the guy got away.
And he was gone for years.
The first f*cking time
I saw him--
- See that?
- --I was in a f*cking bar.
And he came walking in.
- You can't escape
what you do--
- And I f*cking snapped.
- --when you do wrong.
- I just f*cking snapped.
All I need was one person
to watch my back.
I see this guy Dominic.
I said, you got my back?
He goes, yeah, I got your back.
This guy was
a heavyweight wrestler.
I'm not talking about
I ganged up on somebody.
This guy was f*cking my height
and he weighed
about f*cking 270 pounds.
This guy was a big, f*cking
fat, Black m*therf*cker.
- Wow, that's a big guy.
- Piece of sh*t m*therf*cker.
And I f*cking
took him out, man.
I had so much f*cking
aggression,
years of aggression in me.
- Exactly.
That's what--plus, it's the
whole point of the whole
thing, too.
- Right or wrong.
Right or wrong?
- Right, but--
- That's it, man.
- There are a lot of good
Black people, too, really.
- No, no, no.
- No, Black has
nothing to do with it.
- Understand me, sir.
- It's the fact of what he did.
- It's got nothing to do
with the color of his skin.
It's got everything to do
with what he did, man.
Stealing f*cking money from
a f*cking dead man's family.
- To bury him.
You know, that's--
- It's like Hitler.
There's right and there's
wrong, you know what I mean?
It's so clear cut.
He did the wrong
f*cking thing, man.
- Uh-huh.
- And not only the wrong thing,
but, like,
- Right.
- Yeah, exactly.
- You know,
there's wrong and there's--
- At this point, did you--
have you wished that
you k*lled them?
- No.
No, he got what he--he
got what he deserved.
I don't wish I k*lled him.
I gave him what he deserved.
My friend f*cking Dominic
grabbed me, put me in the car,
took me to another f*cking bar.
Me and him f*cking high fived.
And I'll tell you something--
- Wow.
- I felt like f*cking 1,000
pounds lifted off my back.
[techno music]
♪ ♪
- So you've been locked up?
- Oh, yes.
- How often?
- I've been locked up
approximately 50 times
in New York.
- How often?
- About 50 times in New York.
- 50 times, baby?
- Mm-hmm.
- You're not afraid
of these guys out here?
- Oh, yeah. Very afraid.
I've been cut.
I've been shot, kidnapped.
You name it.
I've probably
been doing it all.
I've been doing it
for 15 years, so.
- And you still
want to continue?
- It's not the question
of want to,
it's the question of I have to.
It's my life.
This is all I know,
so this is what I do.
- You have a family?
- Oh, yeah.
- How many kids?
- I have two kids.
- So you're supporting them?
- Yes. I have to.
Who else will?
Their daddy died in a car
accident, so I have to.
- Well, God bless you.
How'd you get started?
- That's kind of
like a tough one.
It's been so long.
But I remember I was
dating a Black guy
and he turned out to be a pimp.
And I so-called was in
puppy love with him.
I thought it was real love
at the time.
And you know how
that puppy love goes,
your first,
you'll do anything for him,
and that includes
selling my body.
So I did.
And when I went to get away
from it, it was no going back.
So it's like he forced me
to do it for quite a while.
- Did he turn you
on to drugs, too?
- Oh, yeah.
You won't find one girl over
here that does not do drugs.
If she says she's not,
she's lying.
- Does that help you to be
able to go out with the johns?
- Yes, 100%.
I could not be with a trick
unless I got off in a way.
Impossible.
- How much do they
usually pay you?
- $20 to $100. It depends.
- What do you have
to do for the $100?
- Full service.
- Full service?
- Yeah.
- What's full service, baby?
- Half-and-half.
Sucking and f*cking.
- And that gives them--and
they pay you $100 for that?
- Oh, some pay
a whole lot more.
- What's the least?
- That's the lowest I go for.
And some--hey,
but you never know.
Some girls out there
are so hard up for a hit,
or a bag of D,
or whatever,
they'll do for 20 bucks
if they have to.
- So what kind of drugs
do you do?
- I do crack.
- How long have you
been doing it, babe?
- I've only been on crack--
well, that's long enough,
a year and a half.
- Year and a half?
- Mm-hmm.
- You're not afraid
for your kids?
- Before then, I was on heroin.
I'm very afraid.
But, you know, like I said,
I've never finished school
and never had a job in my life.
I mean, what else can I do?
Their father's dead.
I have to support my children.
- How old are you kids?
- I have one 10 and a half
years old
and I have one eight years old.
- How old are you, baby?
- Me?
I'm 33.
- You ever thought of trying
to find another type of job?
- I have tried.
I've went home many times
to Missouri,
where I live at, where my
family lives at and stuff.
And I mean, I've tried
working various jobs.
Waitressing, maid service.
I've tried many things since.
No, I can't.
I just can't do it.
I end up right back out here.
Like within a week.
The longest I lasted
was a week.
- Does your family know
what you're doing?
- Yeah.
- What do they say?
- Well, I don't have
no father no more.
My father died.
He disowned me.
It tore him apart.
It's like, when he died,
I didn't get to say goodbye.
He didn't want to--
we knew he was gonna die
before he died
and he didn't even want
to say goodbye to me.
He didn't want to see me
or nothing.
- That must have been
very hard for you.
- It still is.
Still is.
- Tell me about the kids,
honey.
Who takes care of them?
- The guy I stay with now.
I live right over here
on 47th and 10th,
and he watches my kids
while I step out
and do what I got to do.
I live with him and stuff.
- Is he your pimp?
- No, I don't--
Since that time--
well, actually,
since eight years ago,
I do not believe in p*mps.
All they ever did was
beat me up and take my money.
I had to ask them when I could
talk, when I could take a bath,
when I could go to sleep.
That ain't for me.
- Did they used to beat you up?
- Oh, God, yes.
I had one.
They called--
I have a tattoo here.
You had to be branded by him.
When you get with him,
you have to have
his name tattooed
and his picture tattooed,
a picture of his--
- Where did they
have it tattooed?
- And this man was--
right here.
- On your shoulder?
- On my shoulder, yeah.
- Wow.
You had that tattooed on you?
- Uh-huh. You have to.
And it's like, I don't know.
Everything like that just
has turned me against it.
And then I found this guy here,
and I've been living here
now for over a year.
He's a sweetheart.
- What does he do for you?
- What does he do for me?
He keeps me alive.
He keeps my sanity.
And he wants--he's almost got
me up out of this business,
whereas I used to work
almost 24 hours a day.
And he's got a bad complex
about himself
I wish he'd get over it--
- Which is?
- Because he was burned--
he was burned up,
first and third degree
burns when he was eight years
old and his house burned down.
And he's got--his whole
left side of his body
is burnt up,
except for his face.
But he's a beautiful guy to me.
Looks is only skin deep,
you know?
I believe that he's teaching me
about life again, teaching me
that there's somebody out
there that cares for me
instead of some as*h*le.
- Does he do drugs, too?
- No.
And he doesn't
want me doing drugs.
He wants--he's asked
me to marry him.
And he's got a job of his own.
And I don't know.
I think it might be
a turning point in my life.
I don't know yet.
- What keeps you away
from trying it?
- Scared [inaudible].
- You're scared?
Scared of what, babe?
- Myself.
- Yourself?
- I just don't--see,
I don't want to hurt him.
I care for him an awful lot.
But I don't know
if I'm ready for that.
And if I'm not,
it's going to hurt him.
And I don't want to--
I refuse to hurt this man.
He's done too much for me.
- It sounds as if you
really care for him
and you're in love with him.
- I do.
I care a lot about him.
- Don't you think this
is your chance, maybe?
- Yeah, I know it is my chance.
I know it is.
It's just, I don't know
if I'm just ready.
But there's only one way to
find out, too, and I know that.
And that's to do it.
That's to do it.
[electronic music]
♪ ♪
- You know what
my first name is?
My--well, before
I was changed.
- Before you were changed?
- Yeah.
- Uh-huh.
Medically?
Surgically?
The whole route, huh?
- You know it.
- How's it feel?
- I feel like a c**t.
- You feel like a what?
- I feel like a c**t.
- Ha ha.
Hey, as long as it works
for you, right?
- It does very well.
- It does?
- I'm always getting stopped.
- Oh, really?
Well, I have to say,
you do look very pretty.
- Yeah.
I had my period today.
[laughing]
- So in the operation,
do they, like--
do they--
- Do you mean, do they hack
it off, like Jason's mother?
- Yeah.
- No.
- No?
What do they do?
- They go and they cut it
like a banana split.
- Right.
- And they shove it in.
- Really?
- Uh-huh.
- So the d*ck is
actually still there.
- It's inside.
Pushed inside.
They cut it in four to make
it, you know, into a vag*na.
- Wow.
- Interesting, huh?
- How does it feel?
- When I'm getting f*cked?
- Yeah.
- It feels f*cking A.
- Feels really good?
- Uh-huh.
- Excellent.
- Excellent, dude.
- So you have a lot
of feeling down--
when you have sex?
- Yeah, more or less.
Yeah.
- Well, that's a bonus.
- It's a bonus.
I please everyone.
- Oh, so you're good.
- I'm very good.
- Ah.
- Extremely good.
You ever see the Kirby
upright vacuum cleaner?
Better than that.
- Oh, better than that?
- Yeah.
- A-ha.
You mean blowjob-wise?
- Oh, blowjob-wise?
Well, I can suck, and f*ck,
and stand up straight,
and do whatever you want.
- Well,
you're a fun kind of gal.
- You know it.
- I am woman, hear me roar.
[chuckling]
I like guys that are dark hair,
muscular, Italian, dark.
I like the ones who take me
and just quiver me all over.
I just love big boys, you know?
I like--definitely I like men.
I don't like g*y men.
- Do they know that--
- Do they know?
- Yeah.
Or do you let them know?
- No.
Mm-mm.
- No?
Do you like
for them not to know?
- Exactly.
Do men ever say, like,
right before they have sex
or during sex,
if they
feel anything different,
they say anything different?
Or is the operation that good?
- Yeah, it's well done
that nobody knows.
They say gynecologists
don't know.
- Really?
- Uh-huh.
- Wow.
- Amazing, right?
- It is.
And you don't tell these
guys after you f*ck them.
- No.
I want them--I want them
to f*ck me down.
[laughter]
I want them to put it in my
p*ssy and f*ck me forever.
f*ck me like a Snickers bar.
Um, make a right here.
- Was that a hard decision
to make for you?
- No.
- It wasn't.
You were ready for it and--
- Mm-hmm.
- My parents didn't care.
- Your folks are OK with it?
- Daddy always said,
looks just like his mother.
[laughing]
Always.
Daddy's little girl.
- How long have
you been a woman?
- How long?
- Yeah.
- Since I was 17.
- 17, wow.
And how old are you now?
- 25.
- 25?
Is that, like,
legal to do at 17,
or do you need your parent's
permission to do it?
- My parents signed papers.
- Oh, really?
- My parents paid for it.
$27,000.
- How much convincing
did it take
to get your parents to do it?
- They knew when I was young.
- Oh, really?
- Something's wrong here.
[chuckles]
- Did they used to--
did they say that?
- Uh-huh.
- Oh.
- Something's wrong here.
I said, yes, mother.
There is something wrong here.
I'm a woman, g*dd*mn it.
Take me out of
this g*dd*mn body.
It's like "The Exorcist."
Just, like, flip the
head around, you know?
I go to the China Club.
There's a straight bar over
there called the China Club.
And it's all straight guys from
New Jersey, real butch guys.
I go in there all the time.
And I'm body slamming and
dancing with all these guys,
and they don't know nothing.
- Really?
- Because they're so stupid.
- Do you pick people up there
and f*ck them, too?
- All the time.
- And they f*ck you?
- Yeah.
- Damn.
- And they never know
a thing, huh?
- Uh-uh.
They're dumb.
Honey, there's no such thing
as a straight man,
'cause they're all
straight to bed, OK?
- Right.
Exactly, right?
- Catch it.
Eat it up.
Smell it.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, they're all pigs.
Men are dogs anyway.
- Yeah.
- They'll f*ck anything
that walks and bows.
It's true.
- So they'll get
a little c*ck up,
and then they'll see you
and be like--
- They'll be drunk--
I'm from upstate New York,
in the Catskills.
I used to go
and get boys drunk,
and I'd take advantage of them.
- Ah.
- It was fabulous.
'Cause it's easy.
Because I think that every male
has a h*m* tendency
towards them anyways.
It's just natural.
- But when a guy
comes on to you,
he's not being g*y because
he thinks he's with a woman.
- Exactly.
But there's a lot
of transsexual clubs
in New York City, that one
you just picked me up at.
- Right.
- These guys are married,
they have children,
and they go out to this bar
and pick up girls.
They think they're girls, but
they've got chicks with sticks.
OK?
And they go after it.
They're right down
to the cookies.
They go right down
to the cookies.
You follow?
- Yeah.
They want to see if there's
something in the package.
- They want d*ck.
They want d*ck.
But they're not saying
that they're g*y.
They just--they have an
illusion of being with a woman
with t*ts, with a c*ck.
They think,
oh, wow, it's great.
You know, it's acceptable.
You know?
Which I guess it's OK,
because,
I mean, I lived that lifestyle,
but not anymore.
I go to straight clubs a lot.
- So you're not into
those other types of guys?
- I don't like
anything feminine.
I like masculinity.
I like a man to be a man.
- Right.
- I don't want to
take a guy home
and just say, call me flipper.
You know, I'm not into that.
- Yeah.
- I'm not into flipper.
You know,
most of the guys that I've met,
I take them home.
Oh, Chrissy, f*ck me.
I'm like, give me a break.
I'm not gonna f*ck you.
I'm the b*tch here, you know?
- You f*ck me.
- Exactly.
I'm the c**t, you know?
- All right, [inaudible].
That's all.
[inaudible]
- How you doing, buddy?
- Yeah, go on up to 49th
and make a left turn.
- Now you're out to
cause trouble tonight?
- I was playing, and--
- Oh, you play?
- Yeah, I play the violin.
- Great.
- What's your favorite song?
- My favorite song?
God.
- What is it?
- Let's see.
What is it?
- What's your background?
What's your foreground?
- "Sweet Georgia Brown."
[playing violin]
♪ ♪
- How about that?
- That's great.
That's great.
- Where you from?
- I'm from Boston.
- I'll play "Yank My Doodle."
It's a dandy.
[playing violin]
♪ ♪
- You're from New York,
too, right?
- Of course.
And I did a lot of time
up in Boston.
- Good for the women, too,
playing music?
- Women f*ck my brains out.
You have to do that.
- Of course you do.
- I got to do my job.
- How many women do you
think you've been with?
- I tell my doctor friend I've
been with over 10,000, easy,
because I was active at 10.
- [laughing]
- Yeah, I was active at 10
because I lived in a very--
I was brought up in Brooklyn
in a very crowded neighborhood.
[laughing]
My story is long.
I'm warning you.
- That's all right.
- wh*res, murderers, p*mps,
smugglers,
I was there.
So many--so much.
- "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life,"
one of the greatest songs
ever written.
The whole song is the--
you know, the enigma of life,
the fact that
we are in existence,
which is a big number.
[violin continues]
- We're doing a documentary
for HBO
called
"Conversations in Taxicabs."
- Yeah, right.
- I swear to God.
- No.
- We've been driving around
for about a month now
all night long, just talking to
people in the car--
- You're kidding.
- And getting their viewpoints
on life, and how they feel,
and how their day was.
- Wait. Are you for real?
- I swear to God.
- I don't believe you.
- You have informed me that
you are producing a videotape.
Look!
[screaming]
Look!
- My name is Lawanda!
- Listen. Listen!
Look, it says it right here.
Taxicab [inaudible]
entertainment [inaudible]
HBO programming service.
[laughing]
[violin continues]
- You want to sit back and
sometimes and look at yourself
and examine yourself.
And when I ponder,
the question, you know,
is begging the question,
"Ah, Sweet Mystery"
is this, the great
sweet mystery of life.
What a gift, huh?
How lucky you got in.
[violin continues]
♪ ♪
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01x01 - Taxicab Confessions: America Undercover Part 1
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When passengers enter the cab, they are recorded with several small cameras hidden in the taxi.
When passengers enter the cab, they are recorded with several small cameras hidden in the taxi.