[car horns blaring]
[R.E.M.'s "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 ♪
♪ ♪
♪ 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]
- 4th?
- Yeah.
Could you get us there as
quick as possible, please?
- As quick as possible?
- Yeah.
- I'm sorry.
- Thank you.
- What's the hurry?
- We're just in a rush.
- You're in a rush?
- For a change.
Yeah, we got work tomorrow.
- You mind the smoke?
- You mind the smoke?
- No, that's fine.
- Oh.
[laughter]
Do you mind if we drink?
- Uh, no.
I don't mind.
Where are you guys coming from?
- We're just hanging out,
having a few drinks,
not talking.
- Headed home?
- Yeah, yeah, we are.
- Slumber party?
- It's always a slumber party
with us.
- Yeah.
Are you guys together?
- Sometimes.
- She doesn't want to.
- She doesn't want to?
- She keeps hitting on me,
but, you know,
I know it's just a joke.
Don't tell our secrets
to just anybody.
- I always want to kiss her,
but she doesn't let me
kiss her.
I mean, I was with two girls,
but they didn't let
anybody kiss.
It was like
a non-kissing thing.
- Oh, you were with two girls,
but you guys didn't kiss?
- We weren't allowed to kiss.
We just, like,
fingered each other,
but I couldn't come from them.
They both came.
- Really?
- Yeah, but I couldn't come.
- Why not?
- Like, I had to wait
till they left the room,
and then I, like, just--
- What?
- I masturbated.
I like to come,
but I don't like to come,
actually, from being f*cked.
- Are you joking?
- No.
- Anything about sex
that I'm into, it's men.
I just love men.
- You love men?
- Yeah.
I love penises.
- Stop it.
I love blowing guys.
I love having--
- I know. You're so--
- I love having it in my mouth.
I just love it.
- What do you love
about giving a blow job?
- I love it.
- Are you not into it or--
- I've always been jealous
of you for that.
Always. I swear.
- I love it. I swear.
- And also--
- It's so crazy.
Like, I just love
feeling c*ck in my mouth.
I love it. I just--
I don't know what it is.
It's really crazy.
- [laughs]
- And, like, I can't get
so into the blow-job thing.
- What, you're not into it,
or you're not good at it?
- No, I'm sure I could be
good--I could be good at it.
- If you're not into something
you really can't be good at it.
See, that's the thing with sex.
- Right.
- Were you like--
were you guys--
- I think that men
don't know the importance
of n*pples.
- Of what?
- n*pples.
- I agree completely.
- Completely, right?
- You know what it is?
- They don't understand,
like, what a nipple is.
- It's crazy.
This is what it is.
Guys are, like--the first
time they're with you,
they're trying to undress you,
you know, touch you.
And then after that, it's just
like, straight for your c**t.
- And they don't realize,
like, n*pples
are the most important thing.
- It's not even just n*pples.
It's the whole feeling thing.
- Well, we both got our
belly-button rings together.
- You got belly-button rings?
- Yeah, yeah.
Do you want to see hers?
- I would love to.
- Mine's totally covered up.
Show him. Show him.
- Here's my belly-button ring.
Can you see it?
- Yeah.
Barely, though.
- Well, how could I show it
to you more?
- I don't know.
- [laughs]
Because she has all
these new friends,
and now I'm not
important anymore.
- Oh, stop.
- I mean, I know
that Amy's not going
to kiss me because she'd
rather kiss Rachel,
like, her new best friend.
- I kiss you.
- No, you'd rather
could kiss Rachel.
- No, I kiss you.
- If I have a job--
- So you lose touch
with her touch.
- Touch?
[laughter]
She comes over
and tries to touch me.
- She does?
- But, no, I have to play--
I have to play the flute.
- This is a sad story.
She loves you.
- Go ahead. Kiss me.
I'll kiss you.
- Okay, go ahead.
- Look at how you're
stopping the cab.
- That's a red light.
Go ahead.
- Yeah, whatever.
- Yeah, kiss me.
- I'll kiss you.
- Very hot.
- That's not
such a good kiss, though.
She's too nervous to kiss me.
- Mm!
[laughter]
- Because
she doesn't know her--
Like, she can't even
experiment her bisexual side
because she's never
even masturbated and come.
- No, I have.
- [laughs]
- You have?
- Why should I tell you,
though?
- Because I'm your best friend.
- That's the reason, right?
It's private.
Actually, I have masturbated
thinking about you before.
- Seriously?
- Mm-hmm.
- What exactly
were you thinking?
- Yeah, what were you thinking?
- Just about her. That's all.
- Would you want to, like--
[hisses]
- No, I was just thinking about
her touching me, that's all.
- You were what?
- That's all.
Just you touching me.
That's it.
- Like, what part of you?
Did you want me
to, like, suck your c**t?
- Mm-hmm.
- [laughs]
- But, see, men don't know how
to do that very well either.
- It's true.
- Oh, come on.
- No, because guys say that
they love to suck some p*ssy.
- To suck c**t.
- They're like--
- They don't know--
- I love p*ssy.
But then they're just like--
- They don't know
what they're doing.
- It's true.
- I mean, I love--
I love foreplay.
- Me too.
- But I also--
I really like to come.
Like, I like
the end of the thing
to just be a come, you know?
Like, I want to come
at the end.
[laughs] Like, I like to come.
What's wrong with that?
Men like to come.
Why can't women like to come?
- No, women
should like to come.
- What are you going to do at
this party of yours tonight?
This slumber party.
- Hopefully Amy
you'll kiss me tonight.
- I kissed you already.
I'm over that.
- Come on.
- Not for you.
- Kiss me again.
- Nuh-uh.
- Come on.
- Uh-uh, I'm not
kissing you again. Mm.
I'm just kidding.
Come here.
- That's it?
- Yeah, that's it.
[laughter]
Maybe I shouldn't
be celibate anymore.
- How long have
you been celibate?
- For a while, actually.
- How long?
- Four months?
No, less.
Three months? Three months.
- Three months is not so bad.
- Do you like women?
Like, do you love women?
- I love women.
- Why?
- What do you love about women?
- What do you love about women?
- What's the best thing
on a woman's body?
- Oh, um...
Her a*s.
- Get out of the cab.
[laughter]
- You get out of the cab
and let me see your--
- Yeah, I'll walk
around real quick.
- You will?
- Mm-hmm.
- All right.
Right over here?
- Uh-huh. Sure.
- Okay, real quick.
- Okay.
- I got to walk totally around
the back to my door, though.
Is that okay?
- Yeah, right here.
- Okay.
- Should she walk
around the cab?
- [speaks indistinctly]
- Rate the a*s.
[laughs]
- Oh--
- [chuckles]
- I can't--
- You didn't get a good look?
Here, wait till she gets in,
and then we'll tell her
to turn around.
You have to turn around because
he didn't really see it.
- Oh, I have to turn around?
- Yeah, let me see.
- Can I turn around here?
- Yeah.
Pull it up a little.
- A little more.
- It's up!
- We can't tell from here.
Ah.
Very nice.
[laughter]
- Amy, you're a sick chick!
[laughter]
- It's more
for you than for him.
- What was that?
- Nothing.
[laughter]
- It's our own private
little joke here.
- That was cool.
- Right.
- This is so good
because this is
such a bonding period for me.
- That's right.
Now we're, like, friends.
- I know, we haven't been
together a long time.
- Oh, you guys.
I thought you meant us.
[laughter]
- Who the f*ck are you?
For real.
- Kiss you.
[electronic music]
♪ ♪
- Just getting out of work?
- No, I don't work no more.
- No?
- I don't know what's going on.
- You going out or going home?
- I don't even know myself,
tell you the truth.
If I knew where
I'm going, I just--
I just go.
That's about it.
[electronic whirring]
- What prompts that?
- You can't stay home...
look at the walls.
- What's at 30th and 8th?
- There's nothing there but
walls, let's put it that way.
- You get stir crazy, I guess.
- Yeah.
What can I tell you?
The whole city is upside down.
- What do you mean
the whole city is upside down?
- The mayor made
it upside down.
- How?
- In a lot of ways.
Smoking.
These ones are going bankrupt.
And a lot more that
I won't go into it.
- You can smoke if you want.
- Huh?
Oh, no, I don't smoke.
- All right.
What do you do? Do you drink?
- No, I don't drink, smoke.
I'm not g*y.
I'm nothing.
Just perfect.
And I don't want no girls.
I don't want no guys.
- You don't want girls either?
- I don't want nothing now.
No, no more.
My days are over.
- You got to do something
for amusement, right?
- Just walk around feeding
my birds, that's all.
- I think they made a law
against that, too.
- That's right. Now you hit
it on the head now.
Now, you see?
And he did that. See?
You know what I'm
talking about?
World's upside down.
He's upside down.
The mayor is no good.
So I'm hoping is
that he gets shot,
which is sick, because
they're all sick.
We have a mayor that's
very, very, very sick.
I love the pigeon--
the pigeon has to be
the most intelligent
animal in the whole world.
Is the pigeon, and he's trying
to get rid of it.
The most intelligent
animal in the whole world.
It's in the encyclopedia, even.
I'm a realist.
I'm very dangerous in a sense
of knowing right and wrong.
The mayor is deadly.
- What about, like, with
the pigeons and everything?
- The mayor--why did he change
and say the signs,
that birds should be k*lled
and all that?
Because you know why?
You don't know why, do you?
- No.
- He got paid off
by the Germans
where I used to feed
the birds, on 45th and 46th.
They paid him off, because
they want to put me in jail.
They were looking for me.
- I'm the one they were
looking for, I was on TV.
- Did they put you in jail?
- No, they didn't catch me.
But that German right
across the street--
the Germans don't have
birds and animals, you know?
- Where's this--45th and 46th?
- That's right.
People don't know about that,
but they'll find out soon.
- Why don't the Germans have--
- They recognized me, and they
called the sergeant up,
and the cop ran over to me and
said, get the hell out of here.
They're looking for you.
It was a nice colored cop.
He says, get out of here
because they're
going to lock you up.
And it was the Germans across
the street, paid off the mayor.
- Why don't Germans have birds?
Or--
- They're crude.
They're the ones
that start all the wars.
Why?
They k*lled 60 million--
six million Jews.
- Are you Jewish?
- No, Greek.
- Oh. You're Greek? Really?
- Yeah.
I'm putting an ad
in "The Times,"
and my name will be Smithers.
I'm going to destroy
the mayor completely.
I'm spending a fortune.
Maybe in three more weeks,
it should be in "The Times."
I don't know when they're
going to put it out.
But you'll see a blast-off.
I'm going to destroy him.
He says they carry diseases.
They were tested
by the highest vets--
one on 25th Street
and one out--
another one out tomorrow
on 83rd Street,
and they carry no diseases,
like they said.
- Oh, really?
- The mayor is no f*cking good,
and that's all there is to it.
Yes, he is a terrible person.
Crude. He's definitely
And schizophrenic--I had a
wife, that's why I studied it,
and I know all about it.
- Oh, really?
- I had a wife
that was very sick.
- Your wife was schizophrenic?
- Very sick. Crude.
- Oh, yeah?
What happened to your wife?
- Eh, she took off.
Very, very sick girl.
- Where do you figure you got
your love of animals from?
- Oh, I was born with that.
You got to be born with that.
You got to have that--
that beautiful--
The--the bird animal is
the highest intelligent--
makes a dog, a cat, all them
look like a piece of sh*t.
Even though I like all the
animals, I wouldn't say that.
I'll give you
a little fast example.
What animal can fly 2,000 miles
and find a windowsill?
One windowsill?
No, no. Nothing in the world.
- Mm-hmm
- And their ba*ls
are not hanging,
their c*ck is not hanging.
Their sh*t don't stink.
- [laughing]
- Yeah, this is perfection.
I'm a perfectionist.
Yeah.
They don't lick
their a*s, the bird.
And when it does, it does it
with charm and beauty.
And his sh*t don't stink.
But a dog carries the diseases,
and they can't stop the dog.
They can't say
all dogs will be gone,
because they'll k*ll them.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Because the money
is being made--millions.
The bird--there's
no money to be made.
You see how I'm talking?
I'm educating you
that the world doesn't know.
They're too dumb.
See, the bird has been
destroyed many a times.
They try to k*ll them.
He's k*lling them now because
they're starving to death,
and it's the most intelligent
animal in the whole world.
I'm just telling you now,
is the bird.
They're beautiful.
They mate.
I even left that out.
They mate, and they
don't f*ck other an--
A dog will f*ck
anything that has a hole.
A cat will f*ck any a hole,
an elephant and all.
As long as there's a hole,
they'll f*ck.
You got to turn down here.
- Yeah, on 30th.
- You see, when I finish this
ad, they're gonna put me on TV.
I'm gonna destroy
the mayor completely.
- Do you keep in touch
with your wife at all?
- No, never.
- Why do you think she left?
- Because she was sick.
- But I mean, what--
what kind of things did she do?
What?
- [chuckles]
What'd she do? She ran away
with the other guy.
She cut his c*ck off.
She cut his p*nis off.
That's how--
- Are you kidding?
- That's right.
Lucky she didn't cut mine off.
- That's a fact?
- Yeah.
Because I went to see him.
- You went to see him?
- I went to see her and him.
She was there and
threatened me to get out.
Your wife don't love you.
And I got the phone number
of the private home.
She gave me the number,
and I gave her mine.
And she called me on the house
after a couple of days
and said, your wife
cut his p*nis off.
So you won.
[electronic music]
[woman moaning,
fingers snapping]
♪ ♪
- I want a man.
- No luck tonight?
- Oh. It's horrible.
- What kind of man are
you looking for, babe?
- A Spanish man, honey.
- You like Latin lovers?
- Damn.
Either Puerto Rican or Cuban.
And dark skin.
I don't like nothing
whiter than me.
I need a man.
A man who can fly.
A man who makes me
feel like a woman.
- All right.
You go, girl.
[laughs]
So now you're
looking for a man.
- I know a g*y bar
where I could find one.
- You usually luck out there?
- Mm-hmm.
I know all of
them, the g*y bars.
- The real macho men?
- No, I like them
the other way.
I like them
when they're pussies.
- Really?
- Mm-hmm.
You know,
it's the Fourth of July,
and these guys drink all night.
Then when it's 5:00,
they want a suck and f*ck,
and I ain't got patience
for them, honey.
They try to get a freebie.
I'm a businesswoman.
- No freebies, huh?
- No, honey.
When they want freebies,
I go like, no.
I go get the freebie,
have him put it out.
- Are you good?
- To look like this,
what do you think?
- Mm-hmm.
- I've been in this business
since I was 16, and I'm 24.
I was married to a mobster guy.
- Well, tell me about this
Mob guy you hooked up with.
- Well, I was with him
since I was 17.
- How did you meet him?
- Hustlin',
when I came to New York.
And then he paid for some
of my surgeries, you know.
He pays for some of my things.
- What kind of surgery?
- My first breasts, my face,
things like that.
You know, like,
I wanted to leave him.
I got tired of his attitude
because he used to control me
like an Italian guy.
And I said, honey,
I'm leaving you.
He has kids.
He has his wife.
- Really?
- I was gonna
blackmail him that way.
I was gonna tell his wife,
listen, your husband, darling,
goes out with me.
I know his bank account.
I know everything.
He said he was gonna give me
in, you know, to the cops,
you know, that I was
running a whorehouse.
And I told him.
I said, m*therf*cker,
I'll blackmail your a*s.
If you really think
I won't, watch me.
So, you know,
when I said that to him,
the next week, he had
somebody shot me in my back.
I was in a hospital
for two months.
You know.
I had to go home and rest.
And I just got back
to New York about a month ago.
- You weren't afraid after
he shot you, though, baby?
- Mm, was I afraid?
Yeah.
I went home to my mom and my
dad and they took care of me.
- What was that like?
- It was a shock to them,
you know,
because all these years and--
see, I did a lot of
surgeries to myself,
you know, I changed everything.
- You had it?
- No.
- The sex change
and everything?
- No, I still have it.
I refuse to get that off.
You know, because I'm scared.
I had the money three times,
you know, in front of me,
you know, for the sex change.
I had $10,000 in front of me
three times.
But I don't want it now,
you know?
Before it was something
that I really--
I had to have it.
But I seen a lot of
my girlfriends die.
After they get their
sex change, they go crazy.
So I don't want it.
I'm happy like this.
- Why would they go crazy,
though?
- Why? Because it's--
because they can't come,
and when you're used to
selling your a*s and your d*ck,
in plain English, and then
when somebody cuts it off,
I mean,
it makes a big difference.
You know,
because most of these guys
want to get f*cked by us.
So when you get a p*ssy,
there's no f*cking no man.
And that frustration,
you know, freaks you out.
- Mm-hmm.
- I had three girlfriends in
the past 2 and 1/2 years that,
you know, k*lled themselves
after they get the p*ssy.
- Wow.
- And my best friend,
just recently,
she hanged herself with a gas
pipe after she got the p*ssy.
And I watched her go through
the p*ssy, get everything,
and she was gorgeous as I am.
And I say, no way.
I won't destroy myself
like that.
- What, they can't reach
a cl*max no more?
- No.
You don't feel nothing.
It's a dry hole.
- Really?
- You know,
they say they feel it.
But you see, I've been around
too many girls
and I can tell
they don't feel nothing.
I seen it with my own eyes.
I'm very--
- Was it hard
growing up like this, then?
- Not really.
Not for me.
I'm very proud what I am.
Nobody could put me down.
If somebody says to me,
you are transsexual,
you just a hooker,
you're no good.
I'll tell them, you know what,
m*therf*cker?
You can kiss my a*s,
'cause I'm rich
and I have it all.
And you don't.
And--
- You're proud of what you are.
- You can't even
look to afford
to buy a pair of shoes for me.
You understand?
That's the attitude
that I have.
- Do you have anybody special
that you're in love with
in your life?
- Not really.
I can't really love nobody.
- Why?
- When a man gets too close
to me, I run away.
- Really?
- I'm scared.
It's like, see, I've been
doing this since I was 16,
so it's been many years
of loneliness.
When I feel lonely,
I'll go into a bar
and pick up a young boy,
and I'll go home with him.
And I have fun.
Whatever.
And after it's finished,
I put him out.
He says, can I--
can I have your number?
No, I'm married.
Can I see you again?
No, honey.
I have a husband.
My husband is coming home
in half an hour.
I don't let these boys
get to know me.
I put a wall in front of me.
- How did you manage
to put up a wall so thick?
You know.
- It don't matter
how gorgeous they are.
Oh, I have a big d*ck.
I have this.
I'm gorgeous.
I drive a Mercedes,
I drive a Cadillac.
It don't do sh*t for me.
The only thing I want from them
is their wallet.
- Everybody needs
somebody to love you.
- Won't never fall in love
with no trick again.
I refuse, because it made my
life miserable for six years.
Him going home to his wife
and to his kids.
- You wanted him to leave her?
- Yeah.
He says,
I'll do anything for you.
But see, when a man is married,
they'll never leave their wife.
You're just a mistress to them.
- You didn't want to be
his mistress anymore?
- No, I wanted more than that.
I wanted something else
in my life.
That's what I want.
- How you doing?
- Okay.
I'm going to East 90th Street.
- East 9-0?
- Yeah.
- What do you do?
Lift trucks for a living?
- Nah.
Just trying to just--
stay fitness, that's all.
[laughter]
Why do you say that?
- You're a pretty big dude.
- Lift trucks?
[laughter]
That's a good one.
I thought you wasn't
gonna stop for me.
Black people have a hard time
catching cabs out here, man.
- For real?
Is that true?
- For real, man.
I'm dead se--
Okay, next time you pick up
a Black passenger, ask him.
When you pick him up, just--
just ask him, you know.
And he'll tell you.
- How long were you waiting?
- About 15 minutes.
- You're kidding me.
- These cabs going by.
- You got cabs passing you by?
- Passing by.
The light is on, you know.
But they scared to pick up
Black people, man.
Why is that?
[laughter]
Why'd he get scared, huh?
I know some Black people,
you know, into crime,
you know, but not all of us
are, you know, bad, you know.
- It's true.
Do you deal with a lot
of racism and sh*t, man?
- Yeah.
But I--I don't pay it
no mind, you know.
It's not even worth it,
man, you know.
Talk is cheap, man, you know?
- So, like, what kind of sh*t
have you dealt with?
- Perfect example is like, um--
if you're riding,
if you're a subway rider,
you know, I'd say if a white
lady get on the train, right?
And there's a big Black guy,
you know.
Say, the way I'm dressed now,
in my gym clothes, you know.
- Right.
She immed--she immediately,
she'll clutch her bag,
you know?
[laughing]
For real.
I'm telling you,
I've seen it, man.
And another perfect example,
when you go in stores,
they watch you,
especially if you go in
one of these expensive store
on Fifth Avenue, Madison.
You know
they're gonna watch you.
You Black?
Watch him, Joe.
Watch him. Watch him.
[laughter]
I used to go to Macy's, man.
It'd be funny, man.
You know?
Watch him. Watch him.
He's coming down, Black guy.
And so-and-so does that
description, you know, blah.
Blah, blah.
Blah, blah.
[laughter]
- So how did that make
you feel inside, man?
- Well, it was f*cked up.
It hurts, you know.
But what can you do about it,
you know?
- I guess--
- This color--
this color is a bad color, man.
[laughter]
- Why do you say that?
- It is a bad color.
It is, man.
Because it's hard.
It's harder
for the minorities, man.
Especially job-wise, you know.
It is, man.
It--it's just, it's just like,
it's unexplainable, man.
- I guess if you
let it bother you, man,
you just f*cking go nuts.
- You know, it used to
bother me when I was younger,
but that don't bother me
no more.
Well, that door won't,
you know, open up,
I open another door open up,
you know?
You can't just stop.
You got to keep going,
you know?
- Yeah, right.
- I have a lady so, you know,
I'm pretty content.
- Oh, yeah?
So tell me about like,
your relationship.
- I struck gold on that one.
I never thought I could pull
that type of lady.
- Oh, yeah?
- I'm just--just an
average working guy,
construction worker,
you know.
I never thought, you know, a
lady with, you know, her status
would be into a guy like me,
you know?
- Right.
- And that resume--
man, I can't even recite
half of the stuff
that was on there, man.
But she's down to Earth,
you know?
She accept me
for what I am, you know?
You know, people just try
to look down on people,
like they're nothing.
Like they're a piece of sh*t,
you know.
Oh, he's just a messenger,
you know.
Oh, he's just a security guard.
So what? They're people.
You know, maybe, you know this
guy just as far as he can go,
you know?
But that don't give you
the right to down him.
- Right.
- You know.
- Yeah.
- So you never look down on
people, man, because you know,
anything can happen, you know?
- That's true.
- You go from riches to rags,
you know?
[laughter]
It's not funny, but you know--
you know what I notice
about white people,
I hate to say it,
to say it like this.
If they go--if they like,
if they lose all their money,
they go bankruptcy,
they commit suicide.
But a Black person
will not do that.
[laughing]
I'm telling you.
No.
I can't go.
No, not the poverty.
No!
[laughter]
You know what I mean?
- Poverty--
- No!
- Poverty sucks.
- Oh, no, not my Mercedes.
No!
My home, my mortgage.
I'm finished.
I'm through.
You know?
That's something, right?
But see, it's--it's a big
difference when, you know,
somebody give you something.
But when you work hard for it,
it's totally different, man.
You know?
You work hard all your life,
you know?
You know, you feel proud,
you know?
- You had to work hard
all your life?
- Nobody gave me nothing, man.
When I was out of a job
and unemployment ran out,
I didn't know where the next
meal was coming from, man.
I mean, I was like, I starved
for, like, a week, man.
No food, nothing, man.
Going in supermarkets trying
to survive, man, you know?
I--when I--before I hit
them garbage cans,
I rather go in the supermarket,
you know?
- What, eating off the shelf?
- Yeah.
I go in there, and you know?
I shoplift
and take a couple steaks,
and whatever I can get
my hands on, you know?
Security tried--
security try to stop me,
I had to mess him up to
get out of there, you know?
- Running?
- Yeah, man.
I had to f*ck him up
to get out of there.
I did what I had to do, man.
I had to get out of there.
Trying to survive, man.
You know?
- So you have experienced
poor, then.
- Yeah, I know.
I know how it is, man.
So that's why I don't look
down on nobody, you know?
And try to put them down,
'cause I know.
'Cause I've been there.
So I know how it is.
But you know, some people
just don't want to see you,
you know,
make it.
Some people
want to see you down.
- Really?
- See, that's one thing
about Black people, man.
They envy one another.
That's why
we never get nowhere.
That's why.
That's why we can never unite.
Too much animosity, man.
Too much hostility.
Man, we--it's always,
it's too much, man.
That's why.
The average Black person
do not get along.
I'm telling you, they don't.
What you looking at?
You know?
See, we can't look at one
another in the eye, you know?
Because it's an ego thing,
you know?
What you looking at?
Well, if we was to--
if we was to ever unite,
oh, we'd be unstoppable, man.
If all Black people were to
unite, forget about it, man.
[hip-hop music]
♪ ♪
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Hey.
Uh, 76 and 2nd, please.
- All right.
So from the East Village,
we're going uptown.
What are you gonna--
- Uptown.
Uh, that's where I live.
- Oh, really?
- Yeah.
You think I'd live downtown.
Can't afford to live downtown,
so I live uptown.
We just came from a club.
- What was happening?
- Went to see
a couple of bands.
- How'd you guys, uh, meet?
- How'd we meet?
- Yeah.
- Oh, in a bar.
- In the bar?
- Yeah, just tonight.
- You sh*t--you're kidding me.
Just tonight?
- Yeah.
[chuckles]
- So--
- About four hours ago.
- I bought him a drink.
- Yeah.
- A Cuba libre.
It's very effective.
I believe it's an aphrodisiac.
What kind of place do you have?
- It's a small one-bedroom.
Really cheap, though.
- Ah.
- $525.
Yeah, pretty--
- What, is your--
is your bathtub in the kitchen?
- No, no.
Bathtub's not in the kitchen.
What makes you think
the bathtub
would be in the kitchen?
- Because most places
that are that cheap
have something wrong with them.
[laughter]
Actually,
I met a guy last night
who has a two-bedroom
up on the east side,
and he said he paid $552.
Also.
- Yeah?
- For a two-bedroom.
It's also a rental.
- I think he was lying to you.
- Yeah.
Yeah, there is something sexy
about a--
a good lease.
- Leash or lease?
- What's that?
What's sexy about that?
- Yeah,
what's sexy about a good lease?
- Means a guy
can make a good deal.
And if you can
make a good deal,
that means he's gonna
be good in bed.
- Is that true?
- Absolutely.
This all has to do
with scheming
and planning and preparation.
- I'm doing all right.
[laughter]
Do you work tomorrow?
- Yeah.
- Are you still in school?
- No, I graduated.
- Yeah.
- Just this year, actually.
- Ah.
Where did you go to school?
- Had a huge--Columbia.
- Wow.
It's too bad you pay,
like, what,
$15,000 a year or something?
- Ah.
But you get
a liberal arts education.
- That spells unemployment.
[laughter]
- I don't know.
I make pretty good money.
- What do you do,
you make good money?
- This and that.
- Oh. Okay.
This and that.
- What do you like
look for first in a guy?
- I look to see
if he's well hung.
It's very important,
because guys
that aren't well hung usually
have inferiority complexes.
- How can you tell?
- You can tell
in their attitude a lot.
- That's why they
wear tight pants.
- Guys--guys that have small
penises have weird attitudes
of inferiority
and feel like
they have to prove something.
And you can see it right off.
Definitely.
- Really?
Even with the pants on.
- Even with baggy pants on.
- Ooh.
- So, uh. Did you--
- She's good.
- Did you scope this handsome
guy out to the right or what?
- Oh. Definitely.
But he has slightly
tight pants on,
so it's much easier to tell.
- But at this point,
you don't really know
how big he is, right?
Or you can just--
- You can't tell my religion,
can you?
- I bet you're Catholic.
- Wow, you're good.
[laughter]
- Are you Catholic?
- Yeah. Go figure.
- You look Catholic.
You've got Catholic
mama's boy eyes.
- Do I?
I have Catholic
mama's boy's eyes.
- But you still
really don't know?
- Well, I mean, I kind of know.
- Kind of?
- Really?
- Well, what you can see,
and what you can feel.
- I didn't know that you were
looking in that direction.
- Yes, you did.
- Oh. Maybe.
I don't know.
- One look at you and
you told me everything.
- These Catholic boy eyes
can't lie.
- [laughs]
- So what if he would say
to you right now,
I got a small one, would you,
like, abandon the cab
or would you--
- [chuckles]
- Like,
still proceed to find out?
You know.
- Well, it would be okay
because he has
a big-one attitude, you see.
- Oh, it's the attitude.
- I have a big-one attitude?
What the hell does that mean?
- It means you don't have that
weird inferiority complex.
And even if you did
have a small p*nis,
which I'm sure you don't,
it wouldn't matter.
Because it's not
the p*nis size.
It's that guys
with small penises
are strange, bizarre,
and somehow mentally dwarfed
because of their continuous
worries over their size.
- Well, I wouldn't know,
but what--
is this, like,
a general statement?
As far as guys
with small penises.
- It's a general statement.
- Ah. That's pretty vicious.
- They all have
something to prove.
I fooled around with a guy
with a small one, one time,
and after that,
I could always tell.
- What happened there?
- Nothing.
He was just inadequately small
and inadequately paced.
If you know what I mean.
- Mm-mm. I don't.
- By inadequate pacing?
- Right. Been a long night.
- Let's just say
he got a little too excited
and couldn't hold himself back.
- Miss Columbia University
with the
poly-sutra doctorate.
[laughter]
- What do you do?
Well, I know
you play in a band.
- Yeah.
Well, that's it.
That pays the rent, baby.
[snickers]
- Oh, I doubt it.
I bet you have a second job.
- The income I get from--
from meeting women,
that's just like--pay my way.
- Hm.
- So maybe you can be.
- Does that mean they--they
pay you in gratification?
- Well. [chuckles] Maybe.
Perhaps.
Maybe tonight.
- So what's gonna
happen tonight?
- I don't know.
Are we gonna bang?
- I think so.
- Probably.
- So how'd you like--uh,
convince her to come up here?
- Um...
Actually, it was her idea.
- Her idea?
- Yeah, she didn't--
you didn't want to go home
or something?
- No, I didn't want to go home.
I always like to see
new people and new places.
- How did you--
like, he suggest it?
- He didn't suggest it.
I suggested it.
- How did--
how did you suggest it?
- I said, do you want to
go back to your place?
And he said, sure.
- I said, sure.
- I could pay for the cab.
You said, no problem.
[hip-hop music]
♪ ♪
- Where you going?
Port Authority? Are you going--
- No, I'm going up
to The Playpen.
- What goes on at The Playpen?
I've never been.
- Just--uh, a lot of--a lot
of hookers dancing around.
I just want to grab a tit
and jerk off, man.
- All right, there.
[laughs]
They let you do that
at this place.
- You have a girlfriend, man?
- I had.
- What happened
to the girlfriend?
- Uh...she--
we didn't see eye to eye.
It was, uh...
The sex was one way.
I wanted it, and she didn't.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- What was her problem?
- I don't know.
She's, like, weird.
She's a psychopath.
I don't even know where
the hookers are anymore.
Last time I saw hookers outside
of the, like, show places was--
- You want to drive by them?
- No, I want to jump out
and grab a hooker.
- Yeah, we'll just cruise
by the hookers.
Why did you--how'd you end up
with this psycho girl,
though, after all these--
- She wasn't psycho.
She was cool.
She was cool as sh*t.
But, you know.
Uh...
I don't know.
She told me I treated her
wrong, treated her bad.
- But why did this one
stop liking sex?
- See, it's not that
she didn't like it.
She just didn't like it
as much as me.
- She'd be like,
don't touch me,
kick you out of bed
type of sh*t?
Or--
- No, no.
Not like that.
It's just some--some days.
Some days we would,
some days we wouldn't.
- And you needed it every day.
- Yeah.
And on top of that, I'm jerking
off two, three times a day,
to some porn or,
you know, something.
Playpen.
- What kind of hooker you like?
- All kinds.
Preferably ones without
dicks between their legs.
- This one right here.
[turn signal clicking]
I just want to see
if your n*pples were
sticking out of your shirt.
What's going on?
g*dd*mn.
Are those real?
- Yes.
What would you like?
- What you got?
You got a price list?
What you got going on?
- Blow job?
- How much?
- It's $20.
- $20, wow.
How about I hold your hand and
take a walk down the block?
How's that?
- Right.
- You got a place for us to go?
- Sure.
- Wow.
You--those things are nice.
Damn.
- So are you gonna--
- You're not a man, are you?
- No, no.
- No?
- Is she a guy?
- How come--how come your--how
come your eyes are all closed?
- Huh?
- How come your eyes
are all closed?
Not even looking at me.
Oh, there you go.
- Maybe somebody else.
- Yeah, I--
- I don't have to take this.
- [laughs]
- You just grabbed her tit
for free, man.
- For free. See that?
- You jack off three, four
times a day all the time?
- Yeah.
Yeah, pretty much.
- Yeah?
- Whenever I get a chance.
It's either that or I'd
probably be a mass m*rder*r
with all that testosterone.
- Oh, yeah?
- So I figured I'd rather sit
in my room and jerk off
than go out and k*ll people.
- It's dead out here.
- It is dead.
- All right.
We'll just--
- Cruise to the Pen.
- We'll cruise to the Pen.
Any part of you want to
get back to this girl
that you broke up with?
- Yeah. She was cool as sh*t.
She was really nice.
She did a lot of sh*t for me.
- Lot of--
- She was tolerant for--
for a long-a*s time.
- Yeah?
- But then she just kind of
finally got fed up, I guess.
- Where did you grow up,
in Jersey?
- Yeah.
- What was your family like?
- My family?
- Mm.
- My family's f*cked up.
Nah, they were cool
for a while.
I still--I live with
my two brothers still.
My--uh...
My mother died a few years ago.
- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.
- What of?
- A g*nsh*t.
- No.
- Yeah. My father k*lled her.
- What?
- Yeah.
- Your dad?
- Yeah, she was--she was
sleeping with another guy,
k*lled the both of them.
- What?
- I'm serious.
- Are you being serious?
- Yeah.
I wouldn't make
something like that up.
That's f*cking--that's nuts.
Pretty wild sh*t.
- Wait a second.
Did you know that your mom
was sleeping with somebody?
- Yeah.
Yeah, we all knew.
- What happened to your dad?
- He's in jail.
- He's still in jail?
- Yeah. 30 years.
- Do you talk to him?
- Yeah, I still talk to him.
- What?
Aren't you pissed at him?
- I am pissed at him, but,
you know, I don't know.
You walk in, your lady's
f*cking somebody else,
you know.
You got to look at it
both ways.
I do, anyway.
Maybe it's wrong.
- Right...
- But, you know.
You got to look at it
both ways.
Not saying you should--
that you should do that.
Not saying
you should k*ll anybody,
but you just don't know
what you would do.
- What does your dad say,
though,
when you see him in prison?
- How he hates prison.
[chuckles]
- Then why--
- How he--how he wishes he had
that day back all over again.
You know, just sh*t like that.
My--my old man
never did anything wrong.
He was just--he worked his
a*s off, and to support us.
And that--you know,
that was it.
[sighs]
- Do you not like
talking about this?
- Eh.
Rather talk about hookers,
tell the truth.
Look at her.
- Must have changed
your life totally.
- Completely.
I think that's why I'm more
of a mental patient.
And I can't hold on to a girl.
- What was your mom like?
I mean, was she--
- She was cool as sh*t.
- Really?
- Yeah.
She was, like, my best friend.
It's a--it's a kind of long,
complicated story.
I mean, we all knew about it.
They tried to work it out.
I wanted them to work it out.
So I was kind of the mediator
between the two.
- Did you think that you
could get them back together?
- I thought, yeah,
that's what--
those were my intentions.
I guess I went for
the wrong intentions.
- You don't blame yourself
at all?
- [sighs]
In a way, yeah.
In a way, no.
But in a way, I guess I do.
- How, though?
How could you?
- I don't know.
I don't know.
I feel a lot of stuff.
You know,
if I had it to do over again,
I probably would have done
everything I did differently.
I would have thought with
my head instead of my heart.
- How would you have
done it differently?
The mediate, I mean.
- I mean, I--
there was still a bunch
of situations that came up
where they were just gonna go
their separate ways,
and uh, I put a stop to it.
- They must have wanted to,
though.
- I think they did, and at
the same time, I think--
you know, I guess they didn't.
So I don't--you know,
I don't know what they wanted.
I don't think I'll ever know.
[jazzy hip-hop music]
♪ ♪
- Thank you, sir.
They just stole it.
Can you go to A Street?
'Cause my girlfriend is there.
- They stole your dog?
- Yeah.
My car is parked right there,
and I went to get her, right?
Five minutes.
I lock all the doors,
and then when I came back,
the dog weren't there.
And the back window?
- Uh-huh.
- It was, like, ripped off.
Somebody's like, they
pulled out the window like,
like the dog--because they
f*cking broke this window.
It's--she has nine puppies.
She just gave birth yesterday.
- Where's the car?
- Right there,
the station wagon.
Let me call her.
Fuchsia, sorry.
Get in to see--
I told him, and he told us
that--he told me that he saw
something like it on house--
- Like little itty bitty
puppies, like this big?
- We're gonna try
to find them, okay?
- They're a day old.
- Thank you.
- Thank you, sir.
- [breath huffing]
- We just came--man, they're
just like two days old.
- It was 15 minutes!
- Okay, so you left the car
empty for a while?
- Like this--
- Like 15 minutes!
- It was, like, 15 minutes.
- They went to--to spare
change for food, right?
- Right.
- They're asking for money.
Then I was in the car watching
the dog and the puppies.
But we were supposed to meet
when I left the car,
so I closed all the windows.
Just let like,
this big out for air.
I locked all the doors
before I left.
- They knocked
my side window out
'cause it's kind of broken.
And they knew that.
- Did you see anybody?
Nobody?
- I found a bag with
somebody's picture in it.
- We found a bag out of the
car with somebody's picture.
This girl that--that
we seen in the park.
Then we had two ID cards.
Take this, sir.
We found that near the car,
with a bag and a sleeping bag.
- It was a squatter,
I think it was, stole my dog.
- All right,
you just make sure to hold this
and give it to the police.
- Yeah, right?
- Are you squatters?
- No.
- No.
- Just homeless.
- Our car got broke down, like,
two weeks ago because somebody
broke into the car,
and they like,
I think they try to put
a screwdriver in the ignition.
So then the key wouldn't fit,
and the transmission
was locked.
They broke into the car,
did that to the ignition
and they stole the bags with
the f*cking IDs and everything.
And we had like 150 bucks.
Can't believe this city's
getting so f*cked up
that people would
steal puppies.
- And today I heard
some of the--
the squatters talking about...
- But like, the thing is--
- How they were mad because
she wouldn't give them a dog.
- Yeah, 'cause like--
- And they were
bitching 'cause--
- I want to give them
to good homes.
- Here, let me explain.
The--there's this
squatter chick.
She's no squatter either.
She's homeless, right?
Her pit bull got her
dog pregnant, right?
And she wanted
a puppy to--
like, to split the puppies,
but she--she stole
some sh*t from the car.
So we said that any time
our dog gave birth,
we weren't gonna
give her any puppies.
Then today she showed up with,
like, four more girls.
- All being nice to me.
- Trying to be nice,
oh, let me see the puppies
and this and that, you know?
- Right.
After she was just
talking sh*t about me.
- sh*t about her,
- Yeah, and she was
saying it to me.
- And then she went to the car
trying to be all nice to her,
trying--oh, I want this puppy,
and this and that.
And then they left.
Then they came back later.
And at night, three more guys
were back by the f*cking car,
like walking around the car.
I said, what the f*ck
are you doing?
They were, oh,
we want to see the puppies.
And I was like,
no, you can't see the puppies
because the f*cking dog
is sleeping.
- They didn't even take...
- We came back.
- Her food, you know?
They're gonna try to steal
my dog and take care of her,
they need at least
take her food to feed her.
- I know that whoever stole it
did it just to f*ck with you.
Because f*cking--
- What's that dog over there?
Does the dog look like
that a little bit.
- No, she's just--
- I just want to get an idea
of what I'm looking for.
- She's real fluffy.
She's blonde.
- It's half chow, half
German shepherd, real thin.
- And she's about
up to my knee.
Yeah, she's real tiny
'cause she has worms.
- How big were the puppies?
- Might have to, but you
can fit them in one hand.
- There was nine puppies.
They were just
born yesterday.
- Have the cops been
hassling you over there?
- Yeah.
- Yeah? What do they do?
- They just woke us up
for the f*ck of it.
'Cause, like, you know,
they were supposed
to clean that side
of the street,
but the machine
just went by us.
You know?
They do it--they did it
already, like, half an hour
before the cop came.
Then the cop came
and was like, hey, you guys,
like, knock on the f*cking
door, move that car,
'cause this street is
gonna be cleaned.
And they already cleaned it.
And the car is broke down.
He was like, well,
if you don't move it,
I'm gonna get it towed.
We're like, yeah,
I know you f*cking enjoy
seeing that f*cking--
- Did you tell them
that you lived in the car?
- Oh, he said,
this is your house.
You want your house towed?
- That's Jolene.
Stuffing them in the trunk.
Can you make a U-turn?
So we can--because the girl
that f*cking--
I think she f*cking has them.
This b*tch better tell me
where the f*cking dog is.
If she doesn't--
- Go ahead. Go talk to her.
- Can I talk to her here?
- Be nice.
- [inaudible] too.
- Right. Right.
[people clamoring]
Go get her!
f*cking--and pay for it now.
- [inaudible].
- For--yeah, f*ck it.
Fuchsia!
Where is it?
[horn beeps]
- Fuchsia.
- What?
- Right there.
No, f*ck that.
Because you don't have no
rights to get into the f*cking
car and take the dog.
- You take her?
- She took the f*cking dog.
[people clamoring]
- Why didn't you ask?
- I did, remember?
- You didn't ask me!
- No. No.
[people clamoring]
No, ah. No, ah.
Don't get--I want the dog
out of the squat, man.
- She moved them--
- I have a place to move--
[people clamoring]
- Back to the g*dd*mn car?
- It's not your f*cking
problem, Jolene.
You f*cking broke into our car
and you guys are in trouble,
okay?
- I did not break
into your car.
- You guys are in trouble
because a lot of homeboys
are looking for
the f*cking dog.
[chain clinking]
Okay?
- Thank you.
- No.
Like, we want all of them now.
We want them now.
Listen, Jolene,
you walk to those brokers
because he's gonna
take us there.
If you're not there,
you guys are gonna f*cking
get in really big trouble.
- What, are you gonna take her
and leave her back in the car
so they can just--
- That's none of your
f*cking business.
- f*cking crazy!
- And you have no f*cking
rights to get into the f*cking
car and take nothing in there.
So you go to those brokers,
man,
or you guys are gonna
get in trouble, okay?
- Well, f*cking seize the--
- No, f*ck that. f*ck that.
You go to those brokers
or you're gonna f*cking--
you better not
go to sleep tonight.
- What am I supposed
to do with them?
- Huh?
- They're going back in the
car, and get dehydrated--
- They're not
getting dehydrated!
- What you mean dehydrated,
b*tch?
We f*cking feed them.
You weren't even there, okay?
It's not your f*cking business.
I saw the f*cking puppies
get birthed, okay?
And I feed f*cking--
so I stay with her
the whole f*cking time.
Where were you at,
f*cking drinking, b*tch?
I want the puppies now!
- Let's just go!
- No, you go to
those brokers now.
- Let's just go.
- We'll meet there.
If you're not there, man,
you're gonna f*cking regret it.
- Let's go. Let's go.
- You're gonna regret it.
'Cause you broke into the car.
I'm gonna get
you arrested, b*tch.
g*dd*mn it.
- Okay.
- What are you--what
are you focused--
- I'm not all together
right now.
I'm upset, Carlos.
- What, are you just
getting off work or what?
- No.
I'm a patient
with a bad nosebleed,
so I had to go get treated.
I have A*DS, is all.
- I'm sorry to hear that.
How long have you had A*DS?
- It's the best thing
that's ever happened to me.
- Excuse me?
- I'm serious.
I would have never completed
medical school if I hadn't,
you know?
I was busy just f*cking around.
I wasn't gonna be a doctor
until I was 50
at the rate I was going.
Until I got sick.
So I ain't f*cking around
while--
with the time I got left.
- How did you get A*DS?
- Butt f*cking.
- Yeah.
- I like men and women, and
when I found out I liked men,
it was in 1980,
and nobody knew about A*DS.
- What happened to your lover?
- Three of them are dead.
- Yeah?
- I feel real guilty
'cause who knows
who gave it to who, you know?
There's a positive part
to grief
and early death
and that kind of stuff.
Terminal illness.
'Cause it's brought me
so much closer to God.
- You're unbelievable.
- See, you can't grieve.
You got to rejoice.
You're going somewhere better
than this place.
There ain't gonna
be no heat waves.
There ain't gonna be
no taxicabs.
We'll be able to fly around.
You believe in angels?
- Yes, I do.
- You do?
Then that's where I'm going.
Get me a set of wings
and I'm out of here.
- How far advanced are you?
- Pretty bad.
No T cells.
About 35.
Getting sick
every two weeks now.
- How long were you in
the hospital this time?
- Well, I just got out, and
I've been in about a month,
so everybody thinks
this is still a death sentence,
and it's not.
Everybody thinks death is
an awful thing, and it's not.
It's part of life.
Get over it.
Go on, live while you're here.
You know what I'm saying?
- You're not afraid of death,
huh?
- Me?
Sometimes I--I embrace it.
- And other times?
- When I feel like
flying off my roof
or see what color
my blood is tonight
or, you know,
that kind of stuff.
- So what was it like, though,
in 1980 when nobody really
talked about A*DS or HIV?
- It was great.
It was like Candyland.
Yeah, I could pick and choose.
I could have anybody
I wanted, practically.
that likes to suck d*ck?
[scoffs] Please.
- So how does your family
treat you, though?
- Well, they're stupid,
you know?
It's like, they're so panicked,
and they had me dead already.
And they grieve so much,
they get, like, lost in--
- So is your family
at least supportive, though?
You know, they come
and see you at the hospital?
- No, they'd never come to--
they came to see me once.
- Once?
[paper rustling]
- Since August.
- How does that make you feel,
sweetheart?
- Abandoned.
Things have changed a lot
all over the country.
It's like, g*y people are
sort of cool, but they--
sick people are still,
like, very uncool.
- Where is your family then?
- Kentucky.
It's cool--
- Are you an only child?
- No, I have an older,
fat pig brother.
But you're not--
- How's your
brother towards you?
- Scared to death.
Hates the--hates the g*y part,
and hates the A*DS even worse.
He won't let his kids near me.
He's afraid I'll molest
his, uh, 17-year-old son.
- Has your brother told
his children about you?
- I think the older one knows.
I told my grandmother.
And that's what the family
didn't want me to do,
is tell my father's mother,
'cause she's a little
hysterical.
But I finally asked her,
I said,
what do you think's
wrong with me?
She's like, well, I don't know.
You're real sick.
I just told her it's A*DS.
You know what it is, Granny?
I said, she goes, not exactly.
Because she listens to like,
these religious fundamentalists
who always say people
with A*DS are bad people.
She's changed her tune on that.
It's like,
they start talking about me,
she gets real mad.
She turn that TV off.
Stop sending them money.
- How did your parents
teach you
when you were a kid, though?
- Taught me to go to church,
read the Bible.
Listen to this.
I was given a painful
physical ailment
which acts as Satan's
messenger to beat me
and keep me from being proud.
And three times I prayed
to the Lord about this,
and ask him to take it away.
But his answer was,
my grace is all you need,
for my power is greatest
when you are weak.
I'm content with persecutions
and difficulties
for Christ's sake.
For when I am weak,
then I am strong.
Amen.
- What does that mean?
- That sick people are strong.
That there's strength
in infirmities.
And I have the power.
Amen.
[somber jazz music]
♪ ♪
- That's on Lafayette
on 7th Street.
- You can follow
that taxi over there.
He's going to the same place.
- What's going on tonight,
fellas?
- You know, I don't know.
- Last day of school.
- Last school, that's it.
Chilling, you know.
Getting a little bit buzzed
and having a good time.
- Right on.
- Yeah.
- What's your idea
of a good time?
- Uh, girls.
- Girls and girls and girls
and--
- You know.
- And more girls.
[laughter]
Too bad the girls
are over there.
- Oh, are they
your girlfriends?
Or--
- They're friends.
- No, just friends.
- So far.
- So far.
- Yeah, but uh...
- We're gonna do
a sneak tip.
I'm going to have water.
They're going to have vodka.
- That's right.
- All right.
- Water on the rocks.
Oh, you're gonna drink the
water and give them the vodka?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, that's a great idea.
- Mm-hmm.
- Has it worked in the past?
- Oh, yeah.
[laughter]
Always.
- Always works.
- When was the last time
you did it?
- When we did--in Florida?
- Florida, yeah.
- What happened?
- We just--like,
we're drinking, and we had--
we're running short on cash.
Over there, it's expensive.
Down in South Beach.
- Right.
- And we're just hanging out
with these girls,
and they're like,
oh, buy us a drink.
Buy us a drink.
And we got them all messed up.
We just buy them drinks,
we'd be drinking water or Coke.
[laughter]
- Oh, really?
- We got 'em wasted.
We ended up, now we're home.
- So did they turn out
to be good?
- It turned out right.
- Uh...
- Yeah, you know.
- When they're drunk, they--
- I don't know.
- It's not the best, you know?
- So why bother getting
them drunk, then?
- I don't know.
They just wanted to drink.
They say they want drinks.
You know?
- Like, maybe it's easier.
I don't know.
- Man, I'll tell you,
there are some good-looking
people down there.
- Oh, man.
sh*t.
That's--those beaches, man.
- Better believe it.
I had a video camera.
- Oh, yeah?
- sh*t.
- Getting the bikinis?
- Oh.
- No bikinis.
- No bikinis, bro.
- No bikinis.
It's topless over there.
- Oh.
- Topless or nude.
Some of them, they even
go nude all the way.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- You should go down there.
It's good stuff, man.
- And you were filming them?
- Oh, yeah.
- So, man, seeing
all those naked chicks
around the beach, man, must
have gotten you guys all ready.
- We were in the water a lot.
[laughter]
- Yeah, just like,
cool down over there, man.
- You don't want to raise the
tent while you're on the beach.
- Yeah.
- The soldier was saluting
too much, man.
[laughter]
- So did y'all ever
date anybody steady?
- Nah.
I used to date somebody
for, like,
four years and a half.
- What happened?
- Man, eh,
they didn't turn out right.
- Oh, be quiet.
You're still with her.
- Sort of.
[laughter]
You were with somebody, like,
for two years and something.
And she was looking for him
for, like, a whole year.
- Yeah, but--ah, screw her.
- Screw her.
- I got my share of
video tapes with her.
[laughter]
- You made video tapes of her?
- She didn't even know it.
- You're kidding me!
- Seriously.
- It's funny, bro.
- How'd you do that?
- I just put it on--
you know, when it blinks,
the--the red light?
I just put black tape over it,
and I always had
that video camera in my room.
So, you know,
she never knew about it,
and I used a remote control.
- You're sh1tting me.
- No, seriously.
- So you'd be doing her
and stuff and--
- Yeah. She wouldn't know.
- Taping it?
- No.
Yeah, it's good 'cause
you last longer, you know?
You know, If you're--if
you know you're on camera,
you pose, everything.
- Oh, yeah?
- [laughs]
- So what kind of stuff did you
get--get yourselves doing?
- Everything.
Everything I could think of.
Everything.
- That sh*t is funny.
- Like what?
- We did all the positions
you could think of.
I did some slapping.
That was good stuff.
- What, like spanking her
and sh*t?
- No, spanking her
and slapping her p*ssy.
Everything.
- It was really good.
- Oh, man, that's funny.
[laughter]
So are you gonna do
some more in the future?
- Hopefully, after I get
my video camera fixed.
[laughter]
- Where would you,
like, put it?
What would you--
how would you do it?
- Right there,
right on my desk.
And I'd--I'd like, prepare it
before, you know,
she comes over.
- Right.
- With the candle lights.
- Yeah, you know,
have like, really
dim lights and everything,
and that music going on,
that Jon Secada stuff going
on, or whatever, you know?
And then as soon
as she's like,
oh, I have to go
to the bathroom for a second,
that's when you turn it on.
Start recording.
- Get in the mix.
- But the problem is,
is that, you know,
you have to put it
at the right position
so you can--
it's not too far away,
and it's just right there.
- Yeah, so you don't miss
any of the good stuff.
- Yeah, so you don't
miss any of the good stuff.
- So you got to like,
reposition yourself on the bed.
- And I always face her
to the camera
when I'm doing doggy style.
Face her right into the camera.
I want--I want her face
right there in the camera.
[laughter]
- That's sh*t's funny, bro.
- Yeah, I'm giving peace signs.
She doesn't even know it.
[laughter]
b*tch, come on.
- Get it on.
- So have you, like,
watched them then, after?
- No.
My video camera's broken.
The last time I watched it,
this guy saw it.
- That sh*t was funny, bro.
I couldn't believe it.
I thought he was lying, man.
Like, you're lying, bro.
You're lying to me.
You're lying to me, man.
I can't--I'm not
gonna believe you
until I see that sh*t.
I saw that,
I was like, hoh-oh-oh!
- Piss drunk.
He's like, you got any pornos?
I go, you want to watch mine?
[laughter]
[techno music]
♪ ♪
- What time is it?
- It is 3:00.
- I'm early today.
[laughter]
- How was it in there tonight?
- It was nice.
So this is my third place
tonight.
- So what, do you go to home
to a husband now?
Or--
- Yes, today is my anniversary,
and he don't even know it.
- How many years?
- 10 years.
- Are you kidding?
He doesn't know it?
- He don't know it.
- Does he forget every year?
- Every year
for the past 10 years.
- He must have some kind of
like, a mental block?
- No,
he's just a f*cking enema.
He's just a f*cking enema.
I love to torment him.
I think that's why we last 10
years, to tell you the truth.
- What do you do
to torment him?
- I just--
like what I did tonight.
I went out dancing.
I hung out with all my--
now I'll go home
and I tell him I went to
three different clubs.
- Will it bother--
will it bother him, with the--
- No. He'll look at me
like I'm a nut.
He goes, you know,
you're f*cking crazy.
And I says, hey,
I had a wonderful time.
I drank, I danced.
My feet are k*lling me
right now.
- Does he like to go dancing
or anything?
- No.
- No?
- My husband is 15 years
older than me.
I have two children.
I have a nine-year-old
daughter,
and a six-year-old son
who's a handicap.
- Oh.
- He's paralyzed
from the waist down.
So he babysits for me,
but he made me--
he made a deal with me.
He said that I can go out
once every weekend,
one night, Friday night
or Saturday night.
So, you know,
to forget about everything,
to forget I'm married,
to forget I have children,
just to unwind.
And I do it.
- So what about
your little boy?
Was he born like that?
- Yeah, he was born--
he was born with spina bifida.
- Uh-huh.
- He has water in the--he
has multiple handicaps now.
- Yeah?
- Right now he has this--
uh, scoliosis of the spine.
He has a--this kidney,
this bladder disorder.
He has water in the brain,
and he's paralyzed
from the waist down.
But he's a gem.
He's a gem.
He's my heart.
- Uh-huh.
- Like he tells me, he's--
he's the boss of the house,
and I have to do
what he tells me to do.
Just like that.
- He's six, you said?
- He's gonna be six
in October.
- It must be hard, huh?
- He's very independent.
It is hard.
- Sure.
- I have to empty out
his bladder,
like, every three hours.
Before--before I go out,
I make sure I do everything
for him.
So this way,
there's like, no problem.
- How's your daughter with him?
- Oh.
She--she torments his life.
- Does she?
- She torments him.
- Well, that's good.
That's a normal relationship.
- She goes, I can't stand him.
Isn't this typical?
I go, a brother and sister
that gets along
and says
that they love each other,
it's not true.
- You think she might
get jealous?
- She's very jealous.
- Oh, yeah?
- She--
- Because he needs
so much attention?
- Yeah.
So now I'm teaching him how to
play basketball and baseball
with his wheelchair.
- Really?
- Now his favorite thing
is karate.
- Is it?
- His thing is karate, and
I can't get a karate school
on the ground level for him.
- Oh.
- You just look at his legs
from the knee down.
They're all black and blue.
- Really?
- Because he goes
next to the wall
and he starts hitting the wall
with his legs.
And he'll sit there
and he'll punch it.
And he made a hole in my wall.
I says, hey,
knock yourself out.
- So is your son okay
with his handicap?
- Oh, yeah.
He--well, he's not a handicap
for himself.
- Right.
- He tells you, they're
broken and I'm paralyzed,
but I can do anything
I want to do.
Lots of times I forget.
- That's a good, good attitude.
- And I forget.
I forget.
Lots of times I forget
he's a handicap.
- Do you?
- Because lots of times
he's in the house,
and he told me, Ma,
you know my legs are broken.
You know I'm paralyzed.
It's your job.
You're supposed to
do it for me, Ma.
The hell with you.
You're gonna learn.
I got him to get off the sofa.
I got him to get off the bed,
and I got him
climbing on the sofa.
Climbing on the bed.
I got him going to
the bathroom by himself.
Oh, no.
And maybe my job is to teach
you how to do it yourself.
- That's it.
- I said, but you better
do it yourself.
I'm not doing it for you,
I tell him.
But he's my heart.
- Oh, yeah.
- Without him, I ain't nothing.
And my daughter.
- Down here?
- Yeah.
My feet are k*lling me.
I can't believe I did--
today, I really danced.
I celebrated.
[Louis Armstrong "On the Sunny
Side of the Street"]
- ♪ And if I never
had a cent ♪
♪ I'll be rich as Rockefeller,
man ♪
♪ ♪
♪ With gold dust at my feet ♪
♪ On the sunny side
of the street ♪
- I'm doing a documentary
film for HBO
called "Taxicab Confessions."
[laughter]
- What we do is we drive
around for 30 days
and we gather about 500 rides.
- Nah, your--you, no,
I don't believe this.
You're pulling my leg.
- You're on--we've just
videotaped this ride.
♪ ♪
- You're telling me
I'm on camera?
- And we're making--
oh, yeah, you are.
- Huh?
- On camera right now.
- For real?
- For real.
- Oh, no. [laughs]
- I swear to God.
- Are you a cop?
- No.
- You're doing it right now?
- Yeah.
- Get the f*ck out of here.
- Hi, Mom and Dad.
Hi, Granny.
♪ ♪
- I don't believe
you did this to me.
[laughter]
Well, why did you
do this to me?
♪ ♪
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01x02 - Taxicab Confessions: America Undercover Part 2
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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.