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00:01:05 - This is the story of two friends
00:01:23 that grew up surfing together in 1950s Montauk, New York.
00:01:26 Alan Weisbecker and Patrick Abrams.
00:01:31 - Our friendship evolved
00:01:33 eventually into criminal enterprises
00:01:37 and it was all based on surfing.
00:01:39 How does not have a job?
00:01:42 Your jobs interfered with what we really wanted to do.
00:01:46 - They began transporting multi-ton shipments of marijuana
00:01:49 from Columbia and Jamaica into the United States
00:01:52 by ball sea and air.
00:01:53 - Back then it was like the wild west, you know.
00:01:57 Plenty of money to be made.
00:01:59 You gotta watch out.
00:01:59 - It lures you into the web and then you get noticed
00:02:04 and then you become a star for the feds.
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00:02:07 - Yeah, we'd have ships and planes.
00:02:09 It was not that suitcase stuff
00:02:12 and we got to the point where
00:02:14 well, I lost a load of 100,000 pounds.
00:02:19 - The violence of the emerging cocaine trade
00:02:22 and the threat of the DEA forced them to separate.
00:02:25 - If these people are looking at our pictures
00:02:28 and maybe we'll be picked up
00:02:32 and if we put pressure on us,
00:02:35 we might even tell on each other.
00:02:36 We know we love each other
00:02:37 so I should find a place where he didn't know I would go
00:02:41 and he'll pick a place and don't ask, don't tell.
00:02:44 - Alan moved to Hollywood
00:02:46 and cashed in on his marijuana running experiences
00:02:49 by writing for Miami Vice.
00:02:51 Patrick moved to Porviejo,
00:02:53 a town along the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica
00:02:56 in search of the fastest and most dangerous wave
00:02:58 in Central America, Salsa Brava.
00:03:01 After 20 years, Alan sold his home
00:03:06 and bought a truck with a camper
00:03:08 and went looking for his old friend Patrick in Costa Rica.
00:03:11 On this trip, Alan wrote, "In Search of Captain Zero."
00:03:15 It has become one of the most popular books
00:03:17 in the surfing culture.
00:03:18 Upon his arrival in Porviejo,
00:03:23 Alan was shocked to see what had become of his old friend.
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00:03:28 - It was terrible.
00:03:34 And he's living in a tent on the beach
00:03:37 but the first thing he said to me just about
00:03:39 was let's go on some crack.
00:03:41 But the problem for me was he wasn't surfing.
00:03:45 He had sold his board for crack
00:03:50 and that is as low as you can go.
00:03:54 He wasn't as interested in me anymore as a friend.
00:03:58 - You don't berate yourself,
00:04:03 you just rearrange your priorities, head to start.
00:04:08 - After a lifetime spent on the edge,
00:04:11 can Patrick's downward spiral destroy their friendship?
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00:04:26 - 1948, New York City, Alan Weisbecker is my name.
00:04:39 Grew up in the suburbs of Manhattan,
00:04:44 had a strange father who was a weightlifter
00:04:49 in the early 50s before when you had to buy weights
00:04:53 from an oddball company.
00:04:56 And he took me spearfishing off Long Island,
00:04:59 Montauk Point one time.
00:05:04 And I still remember my first ocean excursion
00:05:09 and it changed everything.
00:05:11 From then I knew that the ocean would be
00:05:14 a big part of my life.
00:05:17 My birthday is one, two, three, four, five,
00:05:20 unusual indeed, January 23rd, 1945.
00:05:25 My mother was found on a doorstep in 1918,
00:05:29 if you can believe that.
00:05:30 (laughs)
00:05:31 In Brooklyn, New York, yeah.
00:05:32 I was born in Copaig Hospital, Long Island, New York.
00:05:36 Well, my arrival on the planet, 1945, January 23rd,
00:05:46 it was an accident.
00:05:47 And my mother's husband with two children,
00:05:52 with Bill Abrams was in Europe for over a year.
00:05:56 And my father had a wife and two children in Connecticut
00:06:02 on his way home from Europe and they had an affair.
00:06:06 And here I am, thank God for lust.
00:06:09 And then love intervened.
00:06:15 I don't know how long it was,
00:06:16 but I'm sure glad they got it together.
00:06:18 They would call me, I'm an original love child.
00:06:24 And I caused a lot of hardship for mom,
00:06:26 I'll tell you that.
00:06:27 She had a lot of explaining to do
00:06:28 and Bill Sr. came back, "Hello!"
00:06:32 (laughs)
00:06:33 Surprise!
00:06:34 Actually, no, my mother of course later on in life did.
00:06:38 I never met her until I was,
00:06:39 well I met her off and on,
00:06:41 but they were trying to put me up for adoption,
00:06:44 but I was an unadoptable, cantankerous child.
00:06:48 So they tried not to get us together too much
00:06:54 so we wouldn't bond.
00:06:55 Brookwood Hall is an orphanage in Long Island,
00:07:00 East Iceland, on the border of both townships
00:07:02 that I was raised in for a number of years.
00:07:05 They gave me the foundation of my life.
00:07:07 Probably the most emotional, wonderful feeling
00:07:09 that I've ever had.
00:07:11 And I was a privileged child to live with these people.
00:07:14 An average day was like this.
00:07:16 First of all, they had juniors, intermediates,
00:07:19 and senior dormitories.
00:07:21 And this is like a giant Vanderbilt house
00:07:24 that looked like the Vanderbilts walked out.
00:07:27 I mean, huge, beautiful archways,
00:07:29 gargoyles carved around the building,
00:07:31 52 acres, Ball Field Lake.
00:07:33 My experience in Brookwood Hall, I believe,
00:07:35 was my organization of my whole moral principles
00:07:43 and I think the basis of this whole beautiful feeling
00:07:48 because we are the receivers when we do that.
00:07:51 It comes directly from the people
00:07:54 that raised me in Brookwood Hall.
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00:08:10 - And this is where I met Patrick out in Montauk.
00:08:14 We became friends, quick friends there.
00:08:18 This is '64, '65.
00:08:23 And we'd camp out, spend the summers in tents
00:08:27 near the surf break.
00:08:28 - Well, the first time I met Alan is hard to remember,
00:08:31 but I remember him showing up in Montauk every summer
00:08:34 for when we were young, older teenagers.
00:08:37 He was like the most likely to succeed,
00:08:41 the class president, and we were so opposite.
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00:08:47 - Graduated from high school on '66 in June.
00:08:54 In California by August, did my first acid trip
00:08:59 with the Doors at the Whiskey Go-Go.
00:09:00 Still legal at the door at the time, never forget it.
00:09:03 Jim Morrison was playing at the time.
00:09:06 Jackson in September, I was in Vietnam by April.
00:09:09 So, you know, it was pretty quick.
00:09:10 And then by the following September,
00:09:14 I was a hardened military guy.
00:09:19 I love it, I can get it.
00:09:20 So I volunteered for Airborne Rangers,
00:09:24 and then I went to Fort Sill, Oklahoma,
00:09:27 and I did artillery training.
00:09:29 I was a radio man, life span's not good.
00:09:32 And then I did jump training in Fort Benning, Georgia.
00:09:37 And then I did ranger school in Vietnam
00:09:41 and all JT, on the job training.
00:09:44 I was a radio man for a photo observer for artillery.
00:09:48 Way out there, way up front, you know.
00:09:51 And we had a company of men, usually understaffed,
00:09:57 and we were always being harassed
00:10:02 and mortared and it didn't happen.
00:10:06 If it happened a dozen times,
00:10:08 we actually hit any real hard stuff
00:10:11 for the whole time you're there.
00:10:13 And some groups are harder than others,
00:10:16 and so it's hard to compare.
00:10:18 But I've seen my share.
00:10:20 Sleeping on the ground 24/7, 365, you know.
00:10:25 I mean, you're way the fuck out there.
00:10:29 Humping, I'm talking about,
00:10:32 you wouldn't see people for maybe a month, even.
00:10:35 One of the scariest things,
00:10:39 orientation for the first couple of days
00:10:42 before jungle school, he goes,
00:10:43 "Most of you boys will be going home in body bags."
00:10:49 Thank you very much.
00:10:50 And there's one thing I can guarantee you, they're coming.
00:10:57 Might be your first day, it might be your last.
00:11:00 Doesn't matter if they come, as long as you're ready.
00:11:03 Well, I've been ready all these years.
00:11:05 I figured I was such a problem anyway,
00:11:09 I better do something right.
00:11:11 And I went.
00:11:12 And now I'm glad, of course, I'm glad I went to Vietnam
00:11:16 because my half a joke is that this prepared me for life.
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00:11:23 The thing I did leave out was I spent two years
00:11:31 on the North Shore of Oahu,
00:11:32 was surfing at, you know,
00:11:36 I lived between Pipeline and Waimea in '68 and '69,
00:11:40 which were the two most formative years
00:11:44 and formidable years in the history of surfing.
00:11:47 I don't think anybody would disagree with that.
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00:11:52 I really felt that I could do anything.
00:11:56 I felt surfers could do anything.
00:11:59 I felt that the people that did what we did
00:12:01 on the North Shore in those years,
00:12:03 we could rule the world if we wanted.
00:12:06 That would never occur to us,
00:12:07 but we could just do whatever we wanted
00:12:10 and nothing could go wrong.
00:12:11 I was wrong, of course.
00:12:15 Things always go wrong.
00:12:18 But so that was very much a part of my
00:12:22 forming who I am.
00:12:26 And at that time, at that same time,
00:12:28 Patrick was in Vietnam going through
00:12:30 completely other things.
00:12:32 And I don't know how he got through that
00:12:36 with the cheerful attitude he has now.
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00:12:44 The government made me an adrenaline junkie.
00:13:06 And I needed the rush, I needed the excitement,
00:13:09 I needed the thrill, if you'd call it thrilling.
00:13:12 Of course, I was getting paid a lot better
00:13:13 than Noah's head yet, paid me back.
00:13:15 And it turned out to be quite an interesting guy.
00:13:18 And of course, the compatibility and all the variables
00:13:21 that go along with smuggling
00:13:23 fit my qualifications.
00:13:29 And then I did a recon with a friend of mine.
00:13:32 - At 1970, it was just after the winter of '69,
00:13:38 which was the real formative winter for me,
00:13:42 surfing and mental attitude-wise,
00:13:45 when I believed I could do anything.
00:13:47 So I decided to go to Europe
00:13:50 and buy a Volkswagen van and drive around,
00:13:55 look for waves.
00:13:56 And I quickly ended up in Morocco,
00:13:59 where I realized I could buy a kilo of hash for about $40.
00:14:03 And it was, that hash could be sold for about $1,000.
00:14:08 Actually, it was 1,000 a pound, I think, in the States.
00:14:11 Trying to remember now.
00:14:13 But whichever it was, it was ridiculous.
00:14:15 And all you had to do was bring it back.
00:14:18 And I had a connection and bought a few kilos of hash
00:14:22 and smuggled it back.
00:14:24 And I had various ways of doing it
00:14:26 without putting myself at risk, actually.
00:14:29 I used the US Navy to do it,
00:14:34 and other ways.
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00:14:39 You know, I don't know, it was 1971 or '72,
00:14:43 and I had like $50,000.
00:14:45 22-year-old kid by then.
00:14:48 That's a lot of money in those days.
00:14:49 And I wanted to buy a boat.
00:14:55 And I knew I could put a lot more in a boat.
00:14:57 I could pack that sucker, bring back a ton.
00:15:02 And that led to Columbia and Learjets.
00:15:06 I mean, the level I was on,
00:15:15 I would do business with CIA people.
00:15:18 They were mostly Cuban exiles
00:15:22 that were in the pot business
00:15:29 to raise money to do something to Castro,
00:15:32 to do various other nefarious CIA activities.
00:15:38 CIA has been smuggling drugs forever.
00:15:40 I mean, that's common knowledge now,
00:15:42 but I know from personal experience.
00:15:45 - Sail out from Fort Lauderdale,
00:15:50 bank around the Bahamas,
00:15:52 and then we would sneak up behind Haiti
00:15:54 and Dominican Republic,
00:15:56 come in by an egg reel.
00:15:57 Hopefully not get stopped by anybody.
00:15:59 We would have to show papers or get a stamp.
00:16:02 And then load up and then bank down behind the Caymans.
00:16:06 And if it got tricky,
00:16:07 we would tuck in behind the islands
00:16:09 off the coast of Mexico
00:16:10 and between Mexico and the islands,
00:16:11 then pop up out into the Gulf.
00:16:14 And so you were far enough away
00:16:15 where if you did get stopped by the patrols,
00:16:18 you could say you're out on a day sale,
00:16:21 which is a couple of days of sailing around the Gulf.
00:16:24 And any probable cause,
00:16:25 and of course, you could go on a boat.
00:16:27 The only way you could find it
00:16:28 was to tear the fucking walls out.
00:16:30 Of course, whenever there's money involved,
00:16:32 you have predators,
00:16:33 so you have to watch out.
00:16:34 We weren't involved with it.
00:16:35 We didn't care about the police much,
00:16:37 but there were robbers.
00:16:38 - Yeah.
00:16:40 In Colombia, both happened.
00:16:43 Shot at and arrested for a few minutes
00:16:48 until they realized who my connection was.
00:16:50 And then the cops were literally kissing my feet.
00:16:53 Sorry, sorry, kind of thing.
00:16:56 And in Morocco, I had a real close call
00:16:59 at a roadblock in the middle of the night.
00:17:02 - Look, it's interesting that they would call me Captain Zero
00:17:10 because I was the captain.
00:17:11 I never wanted the responsibility,
00:17:15 but I could take over at any minute,
00:17:17 and there's no doubt about it.
00:17:19 Sometimes I didn't have to.
00:17:20 I could just say a couple of sharp little things
00:17:23 and straighten them out,
00:17:24 give him the confidence,
00:17:26 say, "No, it's okay."
00:17:27 I never had to push him out of the way
00:17:29 and grab the fucking wheel.
00:17:30 It's okay, though.
00:17:31 I know he's a competent man.
00:17:33 But sometimes, I think my experiences in the past,
00:17:36 don't panic.
00:17:39 You know what I mean?
00:17:42 Steady as she goes, the end of the torpedo,
00:17:44 they'll shoot me off.
00:17:45 - The thing about Patrick, which I still love,
00:17:49 is no matter what happens, it doesn't seem to bother him.
00:17:54 The downside to that is he's not really thinking about
00:17:57 how to get out of a horrendous situation.
00:17:59 He's going, "Dig this.
00:18:02 "It's like a story we're gonna tell later."
00:18:04 And I'm going, "Yeah, if we get out of it."
00:18:06 But he was fun that way, and he always was fun.
00:18:11 We ended up parting ways
00:18:13 when I decided that it was a bad business to be in.
00:18:22 It was just when marijuana was on its way out,
00:18:26 cocaine was on its way in.
00:18:27 Things were getting very, very dangerous.
00:18:31 It wasn't fun anymore.
00:18:33 I was just getting tired of it.
00:18:37 I also got to the point where
00:18:39 I would have had to kill some people
00:18:42 to stay in the business and be respected.
00:18:46 Do you know what I mean?
00:18:47 And it was a choice.
00:18:51 I found out who I am in a way.
00:18:53 I wasn't fear, I just didn't wanna do it.
00:18:57 I could have paid somebody to kill this guy
00:18:58 who ripped me off, and I didn't do it.
00:19:01 I just left.
00:19:02 But I couldn't do both.
00:19:03 I couldn't stay in the business
00:19:04 and let this particular person live, so I just left.
00:19:09 That's really a lot to do with it.
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00:19:21 We were going on an ultimate surf trip,
00:19:26 and we had enough money to go around the world,
00:19:29 but then instead of that, we decided to make more money,
00:19:32 and one thing led to another,
00:19:35 and we ended up parting ways
00:19:38 in the '80s.
00:19:42 And of course, Alan went to Hollywood,
00:19:47 and that's cool, thank God.
00:19:49 And then after a period of time, we felt we were okay.
00:19:52 Of course, I hadn't seen him.
00:19:54 He was really hot at the time,
00:19:56 'cause he had accumulated material,
00:20:00 and so they were constantly, me, the fuck,
00:20:03 they could look at me, I didn't have shit.
00:20:05 Now, I had a great fucking time,
00:20:08 and I've been all over, and of course, money.
00:20:09 I was going first class,
00:20:11 and there was no tomorrow after Vietnam.
00:20:14 You never know.
00:20:16 So I was always like, people say,
00:20:17 "What'd you do with the money?"
00:20:18 I go, "I spent it!"
00:20:20 No regrets, you know?
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00:20:27 It was getting to be narco-terrorism,
00:20:50 what they would call now.
00:20:53 And so I decided to change my occupation,
00:20:57 and I became a screenwriter.
00:20:59 Why I picked that, I can't explain.
00:21:03 I had something in me that wanted to be a writer
00:21:06 for a long time, and I decided to get out of the business.
00:21:11 I thought, well, why don't I just write that story
00:21:13 that I had in my head, and I'll write it as a movie?
00:21:17 And that's what I did.
00:21:19 I spent a month in limbo in a hotel in New York City,
00:21:23 bought a book on screenwriting,
00:21:25 how it looked and everything,
00:21:26 and wrote it, and went out to the West Coast.
00:21:29 And I happened to know one person there, a TV producer,
00:21:34 and he told me to come out if I ever wrote a script.
00:21:38 And I came, went out, and he knocked on his door
00:21:40 and Bel Air, and handed him the script.
00:21:43 He read it that day,
00:21:45 because it was an actor's strike at the time.
00:21:48 He had nothing to do.
00:21:49 Read it by his pool, snorting coke,
00:21:52 and bought it from me, optioned it, I should say, that day.
00:21:57 So it was probably the world's record
00:21:59 of a jerk showing up in Hollywood and getting a deal.
00:22:03 It was within hours.
00:22:04 So I thought, man, this isn't so hard.
00:22:08 Michael Mann hired me.
00:22:10 He had optioned the screenplay I wrote a few years before,
00:22:14 and when he started the show, he called me about it.
00:22:17 And eventually I agreed to write for the show.
00:22:22 I had never, of course, it was the first season.
00:22:25 I hadn't heard of it, and I hadn't been on,
00:22:26 and the pilot hadn't shown yet.
00:22:28 And I didn't think we had a really dumb idea,
00:22:32 but he persuaded me to go down to Miami
00:22:34 and rewrite this thing that was being shot,
00:22:37 and it was an emergency, you know,
00:22:38 the script's no good, and we need blah, blah, blah.
00:22:40 So I went down, and it was a script
00:22:42 about marijuana smugglers, which was my business.
00:22:45 So yeah, I made it more authentic.
00:22:48 I can't tell you specifically that it was based
00:22:54 on my experiences, but I became a Hollywood asshole
00:22:59 for a few years.
00:23:00 And you know, I don't look back
00:23:03 on those Porsche days very fondly.
00:23:07 I spent more time in my Porsche
00:23:10 than sitting on a surfboard.
00:23:12 It's funny how my past nefarious dealings
00:23:17 led me into some success in the film business
00:23:24 or TV business.
00:23:26 (dramatic music)
00:23:29 (car engine roaring)
00:23:32 Quit my job, I stopped doing that.
00:23:48 I sold my house, bought a truck with a camper on it.
00:23:53 And in the meantime, Patrick had disappeared.
00:23:57 He up and went south, and that's sort of,
00:24:02 to make a long story short, all we knew,
00:24:04 we knew he was down somewhere in Central America or Mexico,
00:24:09 but probably Central America.
00:24:11 And so I decided to go and find him and say hi.
00:24:15 And I spent a year traveling between Mexico
00:24:20 and Costa Rica, and did, and irony is,
00:24:26 I couldn't go any further south is where I found him.
00:24:30 It was at the end of the road,
00:24:32 the bottom of Central America in Puerto Viejo,
00:24:35 Salsa Brava.
00:24:36 I came from Puerto Viejo,
00:24:40 and a friend of mine recommended this area,
00:24:42 and I had heard a saying about the Salsa Brava,
00:24:45 and I came for 90 days,
00:24:48 and I've never set foot on American soil, end of story.
00:24:50 - What is your name and where are you?
00:24:55 - Leon Salazar.
00:24:57 From '50 to '60, '53, the oil company from Caracas,
00:25:02 from United States, the Lohven Brother Company,
00:25:05 come to Costa Rica and find oil.
00:25:09 And '88, we have power in Puerto Viejo.
00:25:14 That is the best news.
00:25:17 Well, everybody have light,
00:25:18 because first time we used to have generator.
00:25:20 That's how we have a plant generator.
00:25:22 Everybody have that from four o'clock
00:25:24 till eight o'clock in the night.
00:25:26 No more than that.
00:25:27 Everything finish in the night.
00:25:28 And from 1990 to 2000,
00:25:34 from 1992, we have phone.
00:25:37 Everybody have phone.
00:25:39 - Holly Edmiston, July 24th, 1952.
00:25:43 Since I've come here, all of Costa Rica's changed,
00:25:48 which is since 1978,
00:25:51 I guess I first came down to Costa Rica.
00:25:53 It's changed a lot.
00:25:55 I've known him for many years, I guess since the '70s.
00:25:59 Montauk, New York, which is at the end of Long Island,
00:26:02 and it's a surfing town, I guess, fishing town.
00:26:06 And I met Patrick there a long time ago.
00:26:09 And knew him for many years after that, ever since.
00:26:14 And in Florida, where he lived for quite a while.
00:26:17 And then he showed up in Costa Rica one day.
00:26:21 - You know, it was something about the people here.
00:26:26 Can you imagine us going to another culture,
00:26:29 and a little culture village like this,
00:26:31 and being accepted, inquisitive to let us stay,
00:26:36 encouraging, "Oh, it's okay to have children,
00:26:43 "and marry this other galaxy person."
00:26:47 And then, of course, my behavior has been exemplary
00:26:51 over the years, and forgiveness of that.
00:26:54 (soft music)
00:26:57 - Dangerous?
00:27:15 - Well, I equate it to a pitching machine.
00:27:18 You know, where you see that thing coming out of there?
00:27:21 (yells)
00:27:22 It fucking flies, buddy.
00:27:24 Yeah, and once you master, which you never really do,
00:27:26 but once you kind of get the fear of God,
00:27:30 and you're taken off on fucking salsa brava,
00:27:32 if you wanna pretend you're a big wave hero,
00:27:35 this is a good place to come.
00:27:37 All right? (laughs)
00:27:39 - I'm Kurt Van Dyke, born in Santa Cruz County.
00:27:42 March 25th, '59.
00:27:45 I just, my main life when I grew up,
00:27:49 the main thing to life was Pipeline and Sunset Beach
00:27:52 in those days, so that's where I lived in the winters,
00:27:55 and that's what I rode by the time I came down here
00:27:59 to settle down here.
00:28:01 It was about the time all these other waves
00:28:02 started getting discovered,
00:28:04 but I was already tied into this,
00:28:06 and surfing, you know, six weeks swells that were empty,
00:28:12 six weeks, eight to 10, 12 feet,
00:28:15 surf, just right hand stand up barrels all day long,
00:28:18 I had no reason to go anywhere.
00:28:21 Still don't. (laughs)
00:28:23 Yeah, my uncle Fred's an old famous surfer
00:28:29 from a legend from one of the first five
00:28:32 that rode YMA, and my dad surfed all his life,
00:28:34 my uncle too, my mother surfed,
00:28:38 great-grandfather surfed.
00:28:40 You know, it was great, it was sunny,
00:28:42 it was beautiful, turquoise green, beautiful tubes,
00:28:45 I couldn't believe how hollow the place was.
00:28:48 It was mind-boggling.
00:28:49 The first bowl out here is every bit as fast
00:28:52 as taking off a back door or anywhere else in the world.
00:28:55 It sucks out so fast, it's incredible.
00:28:58 Yeah, I've seen some bad white-bots,
00:29:02 I've seen some guys come in with their faces
00:29:04 so cut that their skin curled up like meat,
00:29:09 you know, like dreads on their face and shit.
00:29:12 And I've taken some bad blows myself.
00:29:15 Just yesterday I took off on one and got in this huge tube
00:29:19 and it compressed me down, threw my arm up over my shoulder
00:29:22 or something, kinda partially dislocated it,
00:29:25 you know what I mean?
00:29:26 Went numb for about 30 seconds on me.
00:29:28 So you're constantly, it's a challenging way,
00:29:37 not only the fact that it's a challenging way,
00:29:40 it's challenging to stay in one piece.
00:29:43 You know, you wanna, that's the main part there.
00:29:47 I know of someone who broke their neck there.
00:29:53 I don't know of anyone who was killed there
00:29:56 and I'm surprised about that.
00:29:58 I'll give you an example, the first time I paddled out,
00:30:01 I remember there were 11 guys out
00:30:02 and eight were wearing helmets
00:30:05 and I had never seen that anywhere.
00:30:07 You know, and it became obvious why after my first wave.
00:30:11 My name is Federico Pelluzzo.
00:30:14 I was born 7/7/1983.
00:30:18 I am 25 years old.
00:30:19 And yeah, yeah, the guys always tell me,
00:30:23 "Yeah, I broke his board,
00:30:24 "he came out all scratched up, all his back,
00:30:26 "this and that."
00:30:27 Yeah, everybody gets hurt in that place for sure.
00:30:31 Well, first, you know, as soon as you take off,
00:30:34 you can definitely tell that it goes into knee-deep water
00:30:38 and there's a bunch of sea urchins and reef,
00:30:41 like a live reef.
00:30:43 So you know that if you fall, you're gonna hit the reef
00:30:47 or even if you duck dive, you're gonna get smashed on it.
00:30:52 Yeah, it definitely gets me big,
00:30:57 yes, big barrel for sure.
00:31:01 Well, Salsa Brava,
00:31:03 started surfing in '65, '66.
00:31:09 It was good, I mean, it was huge.
00:31:14 You can put 18 wheelers in that tubes
00:31:18 and you feel that board going.
00:31:20 When the board, you start in that tube
00:31:22 and you start making, you know, moves
00:31:26 and the board is going, "Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo."
00:31:30 And it start, I call it mash one, mash two, mash three.
00:31:33 The board start vibrating and vibrating
00:31:36 and you feel like it's turning to jelly.
00:31:39 The whole board is turning to jelly
00:31:41 and you just go, "This is gonna blow up,
00:31:44 "this is gonna blow up."
00:31:45 And wham, and you come out of the tubes.
00:31:48 So it was intense, it was,
00:31:50 the adrenaline rush was nothing like that.
00:31:54 And I don't think I experienced any other rush in my life
00:31:58 like that one, come out of huge tubes
00:32:02 and then you get to speed out 15 feet up in the air.
00:32:05 - When I set out on the trip,
00:32:12 I didn't have any idea that I would write a book about it.
00:32:15 I thought I would take some pictures
00:32:16 and write some articles that were travel
00:32:19 or surf or whatever, just to pay some bills.
00:32:22 But as I started,
00:32:26 because of Patrick and because of where I was going
00:32:30 and the environment, I started thinking about my past
00:32:33 and I just started weaving my backstory
00:32:38 into the front story, the trip.
00:32:43 And it just evolved into a memoir.
00:32:46 I don't remember when I realized I was writing a book
00:32:51 but at some point I realized this is not an article anymore.
00:32:55 And it became,
00:32:57 it became not an obsession, but I wrote about everything.
00:33:05 The book was four times longer than it was gonna be.
00:33:09 I just wrote whatever, I wrote every day.
00:33:12 And that's when I really,
00:33:14 I'd written screenplays, a lot of screenplays
00:33:16 but screenplay writing is different than prose writing.
00:33:19 And I didn't know if I could write prose, I had no idea.
00:33:23 And I slowly evolved a voice,
00:33:27 a style or whatever that seemed to work for me.
00:33:33 The backstory and Captain Zero has to do with invariably
00:33:38 my relationship with Patrick.
00:33:41 My looking for Patrick, I believe in retrospect
00:33:48 was a rationalization for making the trip.
00:33:52 I mean, the trip was really about me.
00:33:54 I needed to escape and I needed to get back
00:33:57 to my roots of surfing.
00:33:58 You know, I just had a lot of experiences that I,
00:34:02 you know, I'd always thought that a memoir writers,
00:34:05 there must be something wrong with them
00:34:07 that they think their life is worth
00:34:09 somebody else spending hours reading about.
00:34:12 And maybe that's still correct, I don't know.
00:34:15 But it seemed, I realized that I had done some things
00:34:20 that were, I never thought of my life
00:34:22 as being that interesting.
00:34:24 You know, the smuggling and all that just seemed like things
00:34:26 that I did that are done now, you know.
00:34:30 But when I started to describe them, I got a kick out of it.
00:34:34 (upbeat music)
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00:34:49 (upbeat music)
00:34:52 (upbeat music)
00:34:54 (upbeat music)
00:34:57 - That this guy, Patrick Abrams wrote to his friend
00:35:04 Alan Weisbecker, a postcard and signed it,
00:35:09 you know, never coming home.
00:35:13 This is your buddy in the jungle, Captain Zero.
00:35:16 And he picked up on it and made the article
00:35:18 for the men's journal and then it turned into the book
00:35:21 and holy shit, here I am.
00:35:24 And it's just a fantastic thing, you know.
00:35:27 And it's helped me realize this who the hell I am.
00:35:33 You know, I laugh, apparently he's doing well
00:35:37 as Captain Zero.
00:35:39 And you know, I get emails all the time about people
00:35:41 that, you know, they got off the bus and I'm Captain Zero
00:35:46 and I'm your guide and he is fun to be with.
00:35:50 And you know, he apparently, from the impressions
00:35:54 I've gotten from people that I don't know that write to me
00:35:57 because of my books, I know who he is and all.
00:36:00 Well, some of them are negative,
00:36:03 but most of them, they write to reassure me
00:36:08 that he's fine and they really liked him.
00:36:11 - I'm Melba Maldon and I am 65 years old.
00:36:16 - Do you think he enjoys his celebrity?
00:36:20 - Certainly, man.
00:36:21 I mean, you know, it's like, I mean, it's like,
00:36:24 we wouldn't want him to get him like t-shirts and hats,
00:36:27 you know, so he can identify himself as Captain Zero
00:36:30 all of the time, not just, you know, by word of mouth,
00:36:34 you know, so he can actually wear a badge.
00:36:36 Since I'm Captain Zero, you tell he enjoys it.
00:36:40 He loves it.
00:36:41 - Oh, he loves it.
00:36:44 Yeah, he loves it.
00:36:45 It's very, it's very exciting to him to be looked at
00:36:50 in a different way or in that way.
00:36:53 And he plays up to it, sure.
00:36:55 He loves it.
00:36:57 It's good for him.
00:36:58 - Actually, being Captain Zero
00:37:00 and having become Captain Zero
00:37:02 has been a great experience for me.
00:37:04 I finally got a job, you know.
00:37:07 I needed a job and I got one.
00:37:09 I had leisure consulting,
00:37:10 but Captain Zero also has given me an identity.
00:37:15 And I kind of knew I was Captain Zero
00:37:20 before I was Captain Zero,
00:37:22 but I didn't know if anybody else noticed, you see.
00:37:25 But I can handle a part
00:37:27 and I'm quite capable of being the captain.
00:37:30 Get that straight.
00:37:31 - Okay, what does he call it?
00:37:34 He calls it Captain Zero Adventure Tours,
00:37:37 or no, better than that, it was leisure something.
00:37:42 A leisure consultant.
00:37:44 Perfect, you know, title for him, a leisure consultant.
00:37:48 And so, you know, by God,
00:37:50 if you can make a living as a leisure consultant,
00:37:52 God bless you, huh?
00:37:54 (chuckles)
00:37:57 (gentle music)
00:38:24 - I mean, we hadn't seen each other for a long time.
00:38:27 We were good, we were good friends,
00:38:29 but you know, you go your separate ways.
00:38:31 And I hadn't seen him in eight year, well, five years.
00:38:35 And the years before that,
00:38:37 we really had drifted apart, you know.
00:38:40 I mean, it was like he went his way, I went mine,
00:38:44 and we'd go for years without speaking
00:38:46 or having any reason to.
00:38:49 So it was tough in the beginning.
00:38:53 You know, like I said, the first thing he suggested
00:38:56 was let's buy some crack.
00:38:58 And you know, and we used to party in the old days,
00:39:00 but you know, when I said I didn't want to,
00:39:03 it was like a light went off in his head.
00:39:06 - Oh, yeah, tremendous amount of people doing crack.
00:39:09 It's pretty much devastated the community in a lot of ways.
00:39:14 I think, you know, drugs really have come here
00:39:18 and hurt the community in many ways
00:39:22 because it's so small.
00:39:24 She, you know, got involved with crack and stuff like that.
00:39:27 I guess at that point in time,
00:39:29 nobody really probably wanted to deal with them
00:39:31 because no one usually wants to deal with anybody
00:39:33 that's on that kind of drug.
00:39:36 And yeah, I think a lot of people really like Patrick.
00:39:39 A lot of people don't.
00:39:41 - Because he make his living going in town
00:39:46 and buying drugs for the foreigners.
00:39:48 So he say, oh, $50 and he spent 20 and he win 30.
00:39:53 So he always got some money coming from that.
00:39:56 You know, it's a lot of people looking for drugs
00:39:58 in town, tourists.
00:39:59 So he goes and talk and this and that.
00:40:02 And he comes out with a line that Capital Zero, I am,
00:40:05 here's the book.
00:40:06 So people go, whoa, yeah, far out and this and that.
00:40:09 So actually he used that as a bait, you know,
00:40:13 to get money from you or anything.
00:40:17 So actually I don't dislike the old man, you know,
00:40:22 he got his, that's his way of living,
00:40:25 but he's not a person to trust.
00:40:28 - Bill Mauldin and 11, 1952.
00:40:34 The very first time, I guess you'd call it street hustling.
00:40:40 And he came up and offered the contraband, I suppose.
00:40:46 And I gave him some money and we came back six months later
00:40:51 and actually got the contraband.
00:40:55 So I didn't see him again in that visit.
00:40:58 So, you know, but it was not, we did get what we asked for.
00:41:03 So I guess everything's cool.
00:41:07 - Actually we ran into him on the beach, you know, just.
00:41:15 - Yeah, he was actually seeing if we needed anything
00:41:18 of any contraband, actually.
00:41:22 And that's how we met him, you know.
00:41:26 But he was a real friendly guy, so, you know.
00:41:30 Well, he's made some other people mad.
00:41:37 I know that he personally,
00:41:39 we hadn't had too many bad experiences with him.
00:41:42 You know, he normally corrects whatever mistakes
00:41:45 he makes with us.
00:41:46 Now, whether or not he corrects those
00:41:48 with the other people, I don't know.
00:41:50 But he normally takes care of,
00:41:53 it might not be in the time or the fashion
00:41:56 that you wanted it in.
00:41:58 But if you live long enough,
00:42:00 he'll finally get even with you.
00:42:02 - Yeah, crack cocaine is a formidable adversary.
00:42:07 Now I recommend it for the young, particularly.
00:42:10 Because the emotional, physical, spiritual,
00:42:14 and mental states are shifting and variable.
00:42:19 And of course, it has the ability
00:42:22 to make you think you want more.
00:42:27 And therefore, you lose sleep,
00:42:31 and then you become a bit disoriented.
00:42:33 And sometimes you can go for days.
00:42:35 Not that you're not enjoying it,
00:42:37 but it can be confusing, over-consumption,
00:42:39 more than any other drug.
00:42:41 - I've been doing crack cocaine every day for years.
00:42:45 And don't try that at home either.
00:42:48 Yeah, I'm a veteran, I'm an experienced guy,
00:42:50 so I can get away with shit like that.
00:42:52 I think to pass on is the rock bottom.
00:42:56 Where there's life, there's hope.
00:42:59 And no, I've never felt that I was in any danger.
00:43:01 Yeah, I was probably 50 pounds underweight.
00:43:05 Smoking coke, let me think about that.
00:43:09 I may have started, I mean, I might have
00:43:12 smoked my first coke, probably.
00:43:14 I would suspect when I got here.
00:43:20 You know what I mean?
00:43:22 It might have been one or two times.
00:43:23 They didn't call it, they called it freebase.
00:43:25 But I believe it's the same stuff, you know what I mean?
00:43:29 Never really where I felt I was overindulging
00:43:33 and enjoying it.
00:43:35 One would never think that you were overindulging
00:43:37 and enjoying it.
00:43:38 Of course, I look back on it now and I say,
00:43:39 what the hell was that all about?
00:43:42 What, were you crazy?
00:43:43 Yeah, I probably was.
00:43:44 - And I'm sure he had his moments
00:43:47 during that period of time.
00:43:49 But luckily, he got out of that
00:43:53 and he had the strength to get out of it on his own,
00:43:58 which I think is pretty commendable.
00:44:01 - To be honest with you, there were times when I,
00:44:07 when I thought that maybe I should cut back on it,
00:44:09 but I didn't know how I was gonna do it.
00:44:11 Something happened subliminally, I think.
00:44:14 But it kind of like just faded, you know?
00:44:17 I mean, it's like going through a storm,
00:44:19 you know, all of a sudden there's storms of size.
00:44:21 - Don't think that I didn't have some periods
00:44:26 where I go, you know, leave this thing.
00:44:30 But I knew I would and I didn't know where
00:44:36 and I was very surprised at how I kind of slid out of it
00:44:40 and I just one day never even cared.
00:44:43 - I always admired him, you know?
00:44:58 - What about him?
00:44:59 - Leading an interesting life.
00:45:01 First of all, his intellect and of course,
00:45:03 his ability to see intellect in me,
00:45:06 which, you know, we were from different worlds together.
00:45:08 Kind of like more structured education in mind.
00:45:12 But I always felt flattered that Alan would be,
00:45:15 would interact with me and that he would find
00:45:20 our philosophical discussions fruitful.
00:45:24 'Cause I sure did his, you know?
00:45:25 He was a part of everything I was very sure of.
00:45:29 - Yeah, sure.
00:45:30 Yeah.
00:45:32 Yeah, I hope I do.
00:45:34 I'm not gonna go back to Costa Rica, I don't think.
00:45:37 And he's apparently not going anywhere.
00:45:41 So it seems unlikely, but we'll see.
00:45:44 Yeah, I'd love to see him.
00:45:48 (soft music)
00:45:50 - My name is Ama MacDonald and I was born in 1972.
00:46:10 I'm the guy making this film.
00:46:11 I had originally planned to end the film there,
00:46:14 but after watching that ending,
00:46:15 I realized I would have to reunite these guys.
00:46:18 The last two times they'd met up,
00:46:19 they only argued and worse yet,
00:46:21 they had not surfed together in almost 30 years.
00:46:24 Alan had left Costa Rica three years ago
00:46:27 under life-threatening circumstance and could not go back.
00:46:30 He was currently living in Mexico.
00:46:32 Patrick would have to make the trip to visit his old friend,
00:46:35 despite not having been on a plane in 20 years.
00:46:38 It would be a huge challenge to get Patrick to make the trip.
00:46:41 I was excited and nervous to see what would happen
00:46:43 if I could get them to reunite.
00:46:45 - A couple of minutes just to do what I'm gonna do
00:46:48 and in fact walk away.
00:46:50 - First time in 20 years I've flown in an airplane
00:47:05 and this guy that sent me the ticket never told me
00:47:08 it'd have to be on three airlines, three different planes.
00:47:10 I feel like I'm in another galaxy.
00:47:14 You know, a long time.
00:47:16 Well, I got a call from Alma who said,
00:47:19 "Drop what I'm doing."
00:47:21 And I'm on my way to my first house in 20 years.
00:47:24 I've been camping for seven, I mean, sorry, seven years.
00:47:27 I have electricity and I have running water
00:47:34 and I have an outside toilet, but it's a real toilet.
00:47:36 You know, I have outside cooking, but it's nice shelter,
00:47:38 which I like anyway, 'cause I like to be out.
00:47:41 I am an animal.
00:47:43 I am not a man.
00:47:44 I happened to pass by a place where I get messages
00:47:48 and I have a plane ticket waiting like the next morning,
00:47:53 which means I have to get up at four o'clock in the morning
00:47:55 and it's like already 11 o'clock in the afternoon
00:47:58 and I have to catch a bus for a four hour bus ride.
00:48:02 And I was up partying the night before,
00:48:06 celebrating my new house.
00:48:08 Anyway, somehow the powers got me here, you know?
00:48:12 I walked up there and I was freaked out.
00:48:14 I mean, here you are, here he is.
00:48:16 Then I found out you both just walked
00:48:18 into the freaking building a few minutes before me,
00:48:20 like it was meant to be.
00:48:22 And Alan looks pretty damn good, you know?
00:48:24 (laughing)
00:48:26 This is the old Alan I know right here, look.
00:48:30 Yeah, we couldn't look at each other
00:48:31 and not get a good fucking laugh.
00:48:33 Yeah, I was in Mexico.
00:48:40 Even now, we're just settling it down.
00:48:44 Except I haven't seen him in seven years either.
00:48:47 My last, the last time I saw him, I guess it was 2004.
00:48:53 It's in my book, it's funny that I don't remember the year.
00:48:59 Or 2005.
00:49:01 Came here and as soon as I saw the point
00:49:10 and the setup in terms of little cabinas
00:49:14 and restaurants on the sand and nothing over two stories high
00:49:19 and no elevators, no traffic lights within many miles,
00:49:23 I decided I liked it.
00:49:26 So I came back last year, drove here from New York
00:49:31 with my camper and spent five months.
00:49:34 Most of it, I'd rented a place.
00:49:38 And then decided that I wanted to be here semi-permanently.
00:49:43 So when this year, for financial reasons
00:49:49 and because of the way I like to live,
00:49:51 I had planned on camping and making a really slick campsite
00:49:55 that's really comfortable.
00:49:56 It's very consistent.
00:49:58 Last year in six months,
00:50:01 there was not one day that was unsurfable.
00:50:03 And most days, it was chest high or bigger.
00:50:07 I mean, I'm talking 90% of the time last year.
00:50:09 This year has been a little less spectacular,
00:50:12 but still like today, these are good waves.
00:50:16 - And it tickles me to see him living in a tent.
00:50:19 The power of influence.
00:50:22 And you know something, he's a happier man for it.
00:50:24 So I really feel this way.
00:50:27 - It's like we're an old couple that's arguing
00:50:32 and you did it, and you did it,
00:50:34 and after all these years,
00:50:35 it's immediately back to the same way it was
00:50:40 when you were buddies.
00:50:43 And so I'm yelling at him and he cops an attitude
00:50:47 and walks away for the things like what he just did,
00:50:50 smoking a joint right in public where I live
00:50:55 with kids having, and their families eating
00:50:58 in a restaurant right there, feet away.
00:51:00 And he lights up a joint, smoke everywhere.
00:51:04 And he thinks that's okay.
00:51:05 - Is he smoking a joint?
00:51:08 - Yeah. - Oh man.
00:51:10 - He's always smoking a joint.
00:51:11 - Yeah, well it's not cool.
00:51:12 - Oh, it's not cool? - No, fuck no.
00:51:14 - All right.
00:51:16 - But it's strange with Patrick when you,
00:51:18 it's like I haven't seen him for two years
00:51:22 or four years or whatever.
00:51:24 And it's like the odd couple from hell kind of thing,
00:51:29 the two of us.
00:51:30 You know, that's about all I can say about poor Patrick.
00:51:35 Anyway, we'll probably see him again later today,
00:51:42 don't you think?
00:51:42 - Oh no, of course I was happy to see him.
00:51:44 All these few meetings have been like,
00:51:48 like separated husbands and wives, you know,
00:51:54 like kind of like suing for the estate.
00:52:00 (laughs)
00:52:01 Well, I was bothered because I thought I should get
00:52:03 a piece of the pot.
00:52:05 Yeah, but you know, look, I don't want a hair set up.
00:52:08 If it's coming, it's coming.
00:52:09 If it's not, it's not.
00:52:10 It's irrelevant at this time.
00:52:12 And you know, look, I always had a policy where
00:52:16 I would never let money interfere with my friendships.
00:52:20 And the one thing about it is that I've been right
00:52:22 on the money all that time.
00:52:24 Now, of course, when I don't have any money
00:52:26 and I think, "God damn it."
00:52:28 No, but that's not the point here, you know.
00:52:31 - He has his persona now.
00:52:32 I mean, as he said to you, he's Captain Zero.
00:52:35 It makes him money and it makes him feel good.
00:52:39 How he could be angry at me and at the same time,
00:52:41 use the book, you know, for part of who he is
00:52:46 and to make money on is, I mean, you can't do that.
00:52:51 You can't be angry at the person and plus then take
00:52:54 advantage of what that person did that you're angry about.
00:52:57 It doesn't work that way.
00:52:58 - My smoking and cracking on there, my preoccupation
00:53:02 and now he's trying to communicate with me.
00:53:03 It was hard to really get through.
00:53:05 Hello, Patrick, is anybody home?
00:53:08 Yeah.
00:53:11 - That if you're friends with someone, you know,
00:53:14 and you've been through a lot together,
00:53:15 you try to put it aside, you know.
00:53:20 Things have changed so much since the old days
00:53:24 when we were flush and big shots in the underground empire
00:53:29 and running around in jets and--
00:53:31 - I'm always excited to see Alan.
00:53:32 I'm sure that's why he comes,
00:53:34 'cause he's excited to see me too.
00:53:36 But, you know, like it's been a long time
00:53:40 since we've been maybe on this even plane.
00:53:42 So look at me, I mean, I was my own worst enemy
00:53:45 back in 2005 and '96.
00:53:47 So there you go, there you have it.
00:53:51 But anyway, look, Alan, I'm just glad to see him.
00:53:54 I'm just glad to see him.
00:53:55 I'm just glad to see him.
00:53:57 I'm just glad to see him.
00:53:58 I'm just glad to see him.
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00:55:56 [MUSIC - THE LIMITLESS, "I'M NOT GOING BACK"]
00:55:57 Glimpses of the future.
00:56:01 Follow past familiar.
00:56:02 Success becoming failure.
00:56:07 Meaning everything you say.
00:56:15 Living like today's the day.
00:56:20 The hopelessness will fade away.
00:56:25 You're on your own.
00:56:30 Death from a broken promise.
00:56:35 Held you back.
00:56:36 Taking on your own control.
00:56:42 Finding out what you don't know.
00:56:49 Leaving what took its toll.
00:56:54 Meaning everything you say.
00:56:59 Living like today's the day.
00:57:04 Hopelessness will fade away.
00:57:08 You're on your own.
00:57:10 Death from a broken promise.
00:57:18 Held you back.
00:57:19 Held you back.
00:57:27 The promise is I will die or become stronger.
00:57:32 The promise is I will take this any longer.
00:57:37 The promise is I will die or become stronger.
00:57:42 The promise is I will die or become stronger.
00:57:48 I will die or become stronger.
00:57:53 I can take this any longer.
00:57:58 I will die or become stronger.
00:58:02 I can take this any longer.
00:58:07 I will die or become stronger.
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00:58:22 He had a relationship with a kid named Kiko here.
00:58:39 He always used to look after, basically.
00:58:42 I think he had a difficult home life.
00:58:44 And Patrick was always very conscientious
00:58:47 about seeing after him and talked to him a lot.
00:58:50 And he's 21 now, and I heard he's expecting twins.
00:58:55 And he's quite young for that, I guess.
00:58:57 But he still looks at Patrick for advice.
00:59:02 And he's a good kid.
00:59:04 And I think Patrick helped in that.
00:59:07 I met Werner-- he was Kiko when I met him.
00:59:10 But as he grew older, he'd become more sophisticated.
00:59:13 He'd say, don't call me Kiko, Werner.
00:59:16 And so Werner was going-- he was hustling his pig home
00:59:20 that he was sent out because none of the other children
00:59:24 wanted to do it.
00:59:25 So Kiko was four years old, and he had this big twitch.
00:59:28 And he had this 800-pound hog.
00:59:31 The visual of this was outstanding.
00:59:34 And this hog knew Kiko all his life.
00:59:39 And he was a buddy of his, basically.
00:59:41 And I noticed that Kiko was--
00:59:44 and it was snorting and grunting like they were talking to each other.
00:59:47 It was too much, man.
00:59:48 So then he was grabbing the ear like this, you know.
00:59:51 And I knew right away what he wanted to do.
00:59:53 He wanted to go and jump on that hog's neck.
00:59:55 This was a first for him and the hog.
00:59:58 I'm born in '87, and my name is Werner.
01:00:02 I was four years old, going for five years.
01:00:06 And I met him while I was riding my piggy from school back home.
01:00:12 My piggy went to look for me at school.
01:00:15 I used to have a piggy.
01:00:17 She knew what time I was coming from school.
01:00:20 That was like a dog, you know, a really nice pet.
01:00:24 I ride down by the pig.
01:00:25 She used to ride me home, go like a bike.
01:00:30 She used to go around with me, and nice.
01:00:33 Yeah, he helped me out a lot.
01:00:35 He's like, wow, amazing.
01:00:37 And always I talk about this, about Patrick.
01:00:41 He came up to be like one of my--part of my family, you know, like a second dad.
01:00:48 I liked him a lot.
01:00:49 He bought me a bike, and we used to go around town riding bike.
01:00:54 And that was my first bike I ever got as a present for my birthday.
01:00:59 He used to teach me a little bit about the map.
01:01:01 He had a huge map.
01:01:03 He used to teach me a little bit of that, this, and, you know,
01:01:08 a little reading in English and stuff like that.
01:01:11 Helped me out a little bit with my homework, English homework, yeah.