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"Lands End" tells the story of Clare, a new mother with post-natal depression who spends much of her time sobbing under | dG1fODdheldla3REOXM
Transcript
00:00 (skateboard engine roaring)
00:03 There's not a lot left that you can do in skateboarding.
00:09 That's like the first time that something's being done,
00:11 like for him to be like,
00:13 I'm going to do this momentous, like full stretch
00:15 from John McGraw to Land's End for this foundation
00:18 that's set up in the memory of my friend
00:20 and I'm doing it for me.
00:21 It's mental.
00:29 It is shining a light on that really dark situation
00:32 that one of Barney's close friends killed himself.
00:35 With suicide, it's something that is so impossibly difficult
00:47 to try and understand.
00:48 Don't brush suicide under the carpet, man.
00:57 This is real.
00:58 People are losing friends and family every day
01:02 and a lot of it's men
01:04 because we ain't so good at talking to each other.
01:07 It's our job to continue talking about why
01:13 and what happened there,
01:15 'cause if we don't, he just died.
01:18 He didn't take his own life, he just died.
01:20 It's not the same thing.
01:21 (gentle music)
01:23 This is his way of like making a mark
01:31 and like contributing to this ongoing conversation
01:34 and this change that's happening within skating.
01:36 The further and the harder I push myself
01:44 and the longer we're on the road,
01:45 if I don't give up,
01:47 it's just to push the awareness that much more, isn't it?
01:50 (gentle music)
01:52 Going through an entire country piece by piece
01:59 with my friends, it's hard going,
02:01 but it's a great moment in my life.
02:03 I don't wanna take it for granted.
02:06 (gentle music)
02:09 (thunder rumbling)
02:12 (rain pattering)
02:15 (gentle music)
02:17 (gentle music)