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Growing up in the '60s, I
was surrounded by images

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of the ideal middle-class,
suburban life,

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and I wanted nothing more than to have

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my own big, fat slice
of that American pie.

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Can you blame me?

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Those smiling white people
made happiness and prosperity

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look so damn appealing.

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It only seemed fair...

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if other families got to have these
cool, middle-class experiences,

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who said mine couldn't, too?

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Hey, Dad. Can we go to the beach?

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Sharks.

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My dad. That's who.

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Hey, Dad, can we rent
a cabin in the woods?

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Bears.

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Hey, Dad, can we get a dog?

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Fleas.

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But I was not going to
give up that easily.

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I was on a mission to
find my own version

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of the suburban middle-class dream,

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one my dad couldn't possibly say no to.

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And I got this one for archery,

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and this one was for canoeing.

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- What's that one for?
- Camping.

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We went on this super cool
trip to the state park.

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We didn't shower or brush our teeth

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- for two whole days.
- Cool!

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Yeah. And I chopped down a
tree with a hatchet by myself.

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Oh, man.

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The Dixie Scouts. Of course!
It had everything...

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the great outdoors, terrible hygiene,

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and the unsupervised use
of a lethal weapon.

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Couldn't get more
all-American than that.

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Hey, Brad. Cool uniform.

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And it appears the ladies
love a man in uniform.

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That clinched it.

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Is my sink done leaking?

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Yep.

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Third time's the charm.

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I think you mean the fifth.

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Hey, Dad.

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Can I join my friend
Brad's Dixie Scout troop?

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The Dixie Scouts?

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So you want to join the white troop?

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Or as I call them, the junior Klan.

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No, but, Dad, it's not like that.

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Brad's father is the Scoutmaster.

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I'm sorry, did you say Scoutmaster?

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The man in charge is called "master"?

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Listen to yourself, son.

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But, Dad, all my other
friends are doing it.

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Yeah, your white friends.

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I'm not letting you join in with
those East Montgomery boys.

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Well, what's the harm in it, Bill?

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Well, for starters,

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I don't like how the white
Scouts stole all their rituals

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from African tribal rites of passage.

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My dad was of the opinion
that if there was

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something of value in American culture,

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it was definitely stolen
from Black people.

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Elvis Presley?

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Everything he does, Big
Mama Thornton did first...

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except better.

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Coca-Cola? Please.

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They'd be nowhere if Africans hadn't

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domesticated the kola nut.

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Santa Claus?

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You know the real Saint
Nicholas was a black Moor.

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Are you sure about that, Bill?

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I thought the Scouts got their
rituals from the Native Americans.

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And where do you think they got it from?

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I shouldn't have been
surprised that my Dad

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didn't want me joining Brad's troop.

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Like a lot of men from his generation,

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he didn't think we needed to mix with
white people to have a better life.

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But that didn't change the fact
that I really wanted this.

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Lucky for me, my mom was
there to save the day.

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Well, you want to be a Scout,

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you can join the troop
your brother belonged to.

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That's right. We got a
perfectly good troop

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right in our own neighborhood...
a Blacktroop.

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I forgot all about it.

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Yeah, I'm not surprised.

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You were on the road with
your band back then,

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and I used to take Bruce
to all his meetings.

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Well, I'm here now,

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so I'll take Dean, get him signed up.

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You don't have to worry your
pretty little head about a thing.

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Ask for Deacon Loren at the church.

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He's the troop leader.

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Right.

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Now you don't have to worry
about one little thing.

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Let's go, Dean.

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www.subtitulamos.tv

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Sorry, men.

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Troop 24 is no more.

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- How come?
- We had to shut it down when

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the older boys got drafted
to Vietnam to fight.

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Guess I did too good a
job teaching those boys

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how to run through the woods and shoot.

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Well, my friend Cory and a few
others would like to be Scouts.

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Maybe we could start it up again?

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No, not with me.

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I'm too old to be sleeping out
there on that hard ground,

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and eating all of those weenies
and beans out of a can

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gave me the gout.

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- Well, son, we tried.
- Dad, you could do it!

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Wait, what?

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Yeah, you could be the Scoutmast...

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Scout leader.

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You already know a lot about it,

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like how the Scouts stole all
their ideas from Africa.

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Is that so, Bill?

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I didn't know that,

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and I was a Scout for 40 years.

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True, I'm acquainted with the history,

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but you know how busy I am
with the college and the band.

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Don't worry. You'll figure it out.

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You're good at everything.

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Welcome to the Scouts, Bill.

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Look, Ma.

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Bruce's old uniform fits like a glove.

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Well, it fit about as well as
Bruce's old baseball glove,

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which I had to attach to my arm with
duct tape to keep from falling off.

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It looks good,

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but it's gonna look even
better after I take it in.

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Or cut it in half.

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Can't wait to fill this
baby up with merit badges.

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So which one should we do first, Dad?

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"We"?

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Yeah, Dad's taking over as troop leader.

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- You?
- Yeah, me.

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Where are you gonna find the
time to run a Scout troop?

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Well,

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I thought maybe you could help
me out with the paperwork...

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and making snacks...

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and maybe lead a few meetings
if I have band practice.

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Where am Igonna find the time
for you to run a Scout troop?

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Looks like somebody's not
getting her Kissing badge.

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Dad's gonna be a great leader.

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He's smart. He can figure out anything.

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You're right about that.

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Your dad is the smartest man I ever met.

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And what I don't know

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is all explained right here in the book.

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I couldn't wait for my
first troop meeting,

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and we had a great turnout.

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My dad had a full slate
of activities planned.

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You all ready to get these merit badges?

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- Yes!
- Let's have some fun.

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Keep stacking that wood, son.

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How's that leak coming?

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Just need to put in the
washer, Mr. Williams.

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Excellent. You're one step closer
to getting that Plumbing badge.

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I finished trimming the bushes.

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Good work, Norman.

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Now clear the weeds out
of that flower bed

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and you'll have yourself
a Gardening badge.

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Man.

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We are never getting
the stinky-boy smell out of this house.

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Bill, why is there a young
man painting our front door?

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He's working hard to earn his
Home Repairs merit badge.

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You sure he's not just checking
items off your Chore Chart?

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Is there a Laundry badge?

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'Cause I don't feel like
doing my chores, either.

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Lillian, merit badges...

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"Encourage boys to try
out new activities

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that may result in new skills."

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I'm sure that is not what these
little boys signed up for.

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Yeah, Dean said we'd go
out camping and canoeing,

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not digging up other folks' weeds.

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Looks like somebody doesn't
want his Good Citizen badge.

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Hey, Bill.

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Come to get Cory. How's it going?

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You know. Just over here, men being men.

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Alright, now.

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What's up, Dad?

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Hey, Mr. Williams, I'm almost
done baking those cookies.

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Now, I remembered not to use walnuts, 'cause
you said it makes your tummy hurt, right?

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You know what, Cory?

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I'm just gonna go ahead and
give you that Cooking badge.

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And First Aid, too. You could
have just saved my life.

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- Congratulations, son.
- Thank you.

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Hey, Bill.

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These boys need to be
outside, in nature...

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hiking, fishing,

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sleeping under the stars
like I did when I was a Scout.

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- Yeah!
- Yeah! -Yeah!

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Hey, Dad, you could take us camping.

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Well, I wouldn't want
to step on Bill's toes,

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but if you need my help or
rather, my expertise...

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He doesn't. He can take us.

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Right, Dad?

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Of course, son.

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Bill Williams.

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What you know about camping?

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It's just like going on the road with
my band, except more marshmallows,

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but if you want to spend
time with your boy,

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I guess it'd be okay if you came along

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as my assistant.

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Well, I see it as a co-leader situation.

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Let's not get hung up on titles.

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- We're doing this for the boys, right?
- Of course.

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- Titles are just words.
- Just words.

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Like, "Eagle Scout."

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"1/16 Cherokee."

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Just words.

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Just words.

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Spending a weekend in the woods
with a bunch of 12-year-olds

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was definitely not my dad's
idea of a good time,

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but there was no way he was gonna
let Coach Long show him up.

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So before our trip,

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he broke the bank at the
sporting goods store.

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- The man came to play.
- Bill?

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What... What... What you
doing with all that stuff?

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Now, you know I could survive for a week

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with just a knife, a canteen,

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and two sticks to rub together.

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Well, you enjoy your sticks.

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I believe that if you're
gonna do something,

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you should do it in style.

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This tent had all the
bells and whistles...

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literally, it had a bell.

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Not sure why. Maybe to scare away bears.

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Anyway, it was amazing, and I
couldn't wait to put it up.

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I think we put A-23
where C-27 should go,

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and where's B-26?

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Be cool.

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It's just letters and numbers.
We'll figure it out.

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Y'all still working on that, huh?

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Now, don't you worry, Bill.

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If it rains, you can put that
pretty box over your head.

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Yeah, well...

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if you hear a bear in the
middle of the night,

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don't come running to ring my bell.

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It's at a frequency only bears can hear.

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Yeah, bears don't work like that.

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- Who wants to go chop some firewood up?
- Me! - Me!

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Come on, y'all.

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I'll stay and help with the tent.

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Thank you, son.

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I refuse to believe that
this grinning idiot

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is smarter than me.

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I think that's supposed
to be a skylight.

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Well, it's a door now.

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Hey, Dean. You won't believe it, man.

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We were chopping down trees, right?

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And a copperhead came
up from under the log!

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Then Mr. Long cut it in
half with the hatchet!

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But, listen, the head
was still wiggling.

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Then a hawk flew down,

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grabbed it, and carried it away.

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00:10:03,470 --> 00:10:06,032
If it wasn't for my dad,
we'd all be dead from that snake.

254
00:10:06,058 --> 00:10:08,314
And Norman would have been
carried off by the hawk.

255
00:10:09,408 --> 00:10:12,451
Well, the boys are exaggerating a bit,

256
00:10:12,603 --> 00:10:16,126
but, I did work up an appetite
saving all these lives.

257
00:10:16,423 --> 00:10:18,170
You know, some of y'all start a fire.

258
00:10:18,196 --> 00:10:20,751
And the rest of y'all, sharpen up some sticks
so we can roast some hot dogs. Come on.

259
00:10:20,777 --> 00:10:22,693
Actually, I know you
told me to get hot dogs,

260
00:10:22,719 --> 00:10:24,759
but I did a lot better than that.

261
00:10:27,701 --> 00:10:30,274
Freeze-dried beef stroganoff.

262
00:10:31,664 --> 00:10:33,204
What you feeding us?

263
00:10:33,394 --> 00:10:35,406
Beanies and weenies would
have been a whole lot easier.

264
00:10:35,431 --> 00:10:37,201
Cliff, this is the food of the future.

265
00:10:37,226 --> 00:10:39,479
The salesman told me this
is what the astronauts use.

266
00:10:39,504 --> 00:10:41,101
All we got to do is add hot water

267
00:10:41,126 --> 00:10:43,040
and we'll be eating like kings.

268
00:10:57,091 --> 00:10:58,463
Come on, guys.

269
00:10:58,488 --> 00:11:01,841
If you close your eyes, it's just like
eating at a fancy restaurant in...

270
00:11:01,926 --> 00:11:04,294
whatever country beef
stroganoff comes from.

271
00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:06,402
In that moment, all I could think about

272
00:11:06,427 --> 00:11:09,497
was what my mom and sister were
having for dinner back home.

273
00:11:11,833 --> 00:11:12,995
Mama, no.

274
00:11:13,020 --> 00:11:14,700
I couldn't possibly have one more piece

275
00:11:14,726 --> 00:11:16,703
of Dean's favorite cornbread.

276
00:11:16,851 --> 00:11:19,661
Not after I ate two helpings
of Dean's favorite short ribs!

277
00:11:19,687 --> 00:11:22,350
Girl, well, I hope you saved some room

278
00:11:22,376 --> 00:11:25,489
for a big piece of coconut cake.

279
00:11:26,565 --> 00:11:28,419
It's Dean's favorite.

280
00:11:33,799 --> 00:11:36,245
At 6:00 a.m., Dad decided to wake us up

281
00:11:36,271 --> 00:11:38,393
with a Scout bugle call that he told us

282
00:11:38,394 --> 00:11:42,219
was a tradition stolen from the
Matabele warriors of Zimbabwe.

283
00:11:46,916 --> 00:11:48,409
Alright, men, grab your notebooks,

284
00:11:48,435 --> 00:11:50,096
'cause I want you to explore the area

285
00:11:50,122 --> 00:11:51,512
and identify native plants

286
00:11:51,538 --> 00:11:53,101
so you can earn your Nature badges.

287
00:11:53,302 --> 00:11:54,471
Oh, man.

288
00:11:54,497 --> 00:11:56,797
Or I saw on the map there's
a crystal-clear lake

289
00:11:56,823 --> 00:11:58,620
with a swimming dock
not too far from here.

290
00:11:58,646 --> 00:12:01,049
Who wants to get their Hiking
badge andtheir Swimming badge?

291
00:12:01,075 --> 00:12:02,810
- Yes!
- Yeah! - Alright!

292
00:12:02,836 --> 00:12:04,979
Okay, now we're talking.

293
00:12:17,625 --> 00:12:19,878
Walking sticks? Seriously?

294
00:12:19,904 --> 00:12:22,471
That salesman clearly
worked on commission.

295
00:12:23,033 --> 00:12:24,727
Hey, you sure you know
where you're going?

296
00:12:24,753 --> 00:12:26,042
We're almost there.

297
00:12:26,068 --> 00:12:27,493
Let me see.

298
00:12:27,927 --> 00:12:29,401
Wait, wait, wait.

299
00:12:30,862 --> 00:12:32,836
We been off this map at least a mile.

300
00:12:32,862 --> 00:12:33,776
Impossible.

301
00:12:33,802 --> 00:12:36,065
My lensatic compass tells me
the lake is just up ahead.

302
00:12:36,091 --> 00:12:38,180
Well, my 1/16 Cherokee blood

303
00:12:38,206 --> 00:12:39,531
tells me it's back that way.

304
00:12:39,557 --> 00:12:41,634
Are you still spewing that
BS about being part Indian?

305
00:12:41,660 --> 00:12:43,612
I didn't believe you in third
grade when you made it rain,

306
00:12:43,638 --> 00:12:45,003
and I don't believe you now.

307
00:12:45,029 --> 00:12:46,375
Let's go, son.

308
00:12:53,716 --> 00:12:54,901
Almost there.

309
00:12:54,927 --> 00:12:57,120
You said that 20 minutes ago.

310
00:12:57,534 --> 00:13:00,557
Look, I don't care about
the lake anymore.

311
00:13:00,617 --> 00:13:03,901
Can we please just go
back to the campsite?

312
00:13:05,942 --> 00:13:07,057
Fine.

313
00:13:07,362 --> 00:13:08,635
Let me see here.

314
00:13:08,661 --> 00:13:10,811
Admit it... you're lost!

315
00:13:10,911 --> 00:13:13,448
You have no idea where we are.

316
00:13:15,726 --> 00:13:17,940
I know exactly where we are.

317
00:13:23,894 --> 00:13:25,393
- See ya, Lisa. Bye.
- Bye.

318
00:13:25,419 --> 00:13:26,891
- It was nice meeting you.
- Good meeting you, Sharon.

319
00:13:26,917 --> 00:13:29,495
Dean, where you been, man?

320
00:13:29,521 --> 00:13:31,098
We ran into these Pixie Scouts,

321
00:13:31,123 --> 00:13:32,893
- and they were really nice.
- Yeah.

322
00:13:33,111 --> 00:13:35,705
One of them didn't have nobody to
talk to, so I told her about you.

323
00:13:35,731 --> 00:13:37,018
She wanted to meet you.

324
00:13:37,044 --> 00:13:39,112
She was wearing a two-piece.

325
00:13:40,409 --> 00:13:43,351
Alright, it's getting late, men. Let's
go ahead and head back to the campsite.

326
00:13:43,799 --> 00:13:45,885
But I didn't get a chance to swim!

327
00:13:45,911 --> 00:13:48,588
I don't think I've ever
been so angry at my dad.

328
00:13:48,614 --> 00:13:51,487
I knew I shouldn't let it out,
but I couldn't help myself,

329
00:13:51,513 --> 00:13:53,346
so I turned to him and summoned up

330
00:13:53,372 --> 00:13:55,784
all the 12-year-old
eloquence I could muster.

331
00:13:55,810 --> 00:13:58,215
This stinks! You stink!

332
00:13:58,241 --> 00:14:01,081
You ruined this trip for me because
you don't know what you're doing!

333
00:14:01,295 --> 00:14:03,652
You shoulda just let Coach
Long be the leader!

334
00:14:03,909 --> 00:14:06,135
I stood there, waiting
for my dad to whoop me

335
00:14:06,161 --> 00:14:08,667
for being so fresh or
drown me in the lake...

336
00:14:08,693 --> 00:14:11,034
Wait a minute. Nobody brought
that hatchet, did they?

337
00:14:11,121 --> 00:14:13,456
There's no telling what
this man might do.

338
00:14:16,184 --> 00:14:18,635
But he did nothing.

339
00:14:22,773 --> 00:14:24,487
Coach Long is right.

340
00:14:26,576 --> 00:14:28,799
It'll be dark soon. We
should head on back.

341
00:14:29,866 --> 00:14:31,518
You lead the way, Cliff.

342
00:14:57,666 --> 00:15:01,359
I could tell my dad was feeling
terrible about what I said at the lake.

343
00:15:01,674 --> 00:15:03,962
I was feeling pretty lousy myself,

344
00:15:03,988 --> 00:15:06,794
and he obviously needed my
help putting up that tent.

345
00:15:07,146 --> 00:15:09,414
But you know what? I was
cooking a marshmallow,

346
00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,167
and those things go from
brown to black real quick.

347
00:15:13,927 --> 00:15:16,266
It looks like your
father could use a hand.

348
00:15:16,767 --> 00:15:19,186
It's not my fault he doesn't
know what he's doing.

349
00:15:19,820 --> 00:15:21,375
He's really bad at this.

350
00:15:21,401 --> 00:15:22,570
Bad?

351
00:15:22,794 --> 00:15:24,737
He's the worst.

352
00:15:25,594 --> 00:15:27,493
Always has been.

353
00:15:27,838 --> 00:15:31,258
Now, when we were around your age,

354
00:15:31,284 --> 00:15:33,675
a bunch of us would go
out into the woods,

355
00:15:33,701 --> 00:15:36,809
and your father would stay home
and practice his saxophone.

356
00:15:37,619 --> 00:15:39,250
And he would yell at us,

357
00:15:39,631 --> 00:15:41,875
"Y'all can waste your time
chasing those squirrels,

358
00:15:42,015 --> 00:15:45,844
'cause I'm gonna stay home and practice so I
can play at the Blue Note in New York City."

359
00:15:46,649 --> 00:15:48,453
And I'll be damned if
he didn't play there

360
00:15:48,479 --> 00:15:50,289
before we graduated college.

361
00:15:52,336 --> 00:15:54,026
And I'll be honest...

362
00:15:54,938 --> 00:15:56,563
I couldn't believe when I heard

363
00:15:56,589 --> 00:15:58,635
he volunteered to be the troop leader.

364
00:15:58,774 --> 00:16:00,258
Then why'd he do it?

365
00:16:01,177 --> 00:16:03,640
Well, if I had to take a guess,

366
00:16:04,732 --> 00:16:07,492
he wanted his son to do something
that was important to him,

367
00:16:08,265 --> 00:16:09,836
and if that meant

368
00:16:10,669 --> 00:16:12,492
looking a little foolish...

369
00:16:13,547 --> 00:16:17,328
well... he was man
enough to let it happen.

370
00:16:22,734 --> 00:16:24,420
Boy, how many times I told y'all

371
00:16:24,446 --> 00:16:26,389
about playing catch with the hatchet?!

372
00:16:26,415 --> 00:16:27,531
Hold up.

373
00:16:31,180 --> 00:16:34,633
When you're 12, it's hard to
process the first time you realize

374
00:16:34,659 --> 00:16:36,422
your dad isn't good at everything.

375
00:16:37,097 --> 00:16:39,749
Or in the case of my son, when he was 8.

376
00:16:40,117 --> 00:16:41,945
Stupid "John Madden Football."

377
00:16:41,971 --> 00:16:43,800
Like that proves anything.

378
00:17:12,867 --> 00:17:15,911
There were so many things I wanted
to say to my dad in that moment...

379
00:17:15,937 --> 00:17:19,640
that it was hard to realize he wasn't
the perfect man I thought he was.

380
00:17:19,788 --> 00:17:21,390
That I was ashamed of the way

381
00:17:21,416 --> 00:17:23,229
I embarrassed him back at the lake.

382
00:17:24,085 --> 00:17:25,773
That I was grateful he was willing to

383
00:17:25,799 --> 00:17:28,218
leave his comfort zone and
do something he hated

384
00:17:28,244 --> 00:17:30,249
so I could do something I loved.

385
00:17:30,569 --> 00:17:33,413
All these thoughts swirled
around in my head,

386
00:17:33,669 --> 00:17:35,413
until finally, I said...

387
00:17:35,439 --> 00:17:36,507
Dad...

388
00:17:37,632 --> 00:17:39,788
I haven't BM'd in two days.

389
00:17:40,614 --> 00:17:42,187
Is that a bad thing?

390
00:17:44,172 --> 00:17:45,666
I think you'll live.

391
00:17:46,137 --> 00:17:47,934
Just don't tell your mother

392
00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,317
or you'll be gulping down castor oil.

393
00:17:50,455 --> 00:17:53,247
That stuff is almost as
nasty as my stroganoff.

394
00:17:55,008 --> 00:17:56,640
Y'all see that lightning?

395
00:17:56,903 --> 00:17:58,872
Grab your things and get to the car.

396
00:17:59,567 --> 00:18:02,122
We do not play with God! Come on!

397
00:18:03,594 --> 00:18:05,059
Come on, now!

398
00:18:18,216 --> 00:18:21,888
Well, men, it looks like
it's not letting up.

399
00:18:22,982 --> 00:18:25,489
Now we can't earn any more badges.

400
00:18:26,481 --> 00:18:28,536
You know, there's one more badge

401
00:18:28,561 --> 00:18:30,317
I remember seeing in the
book that we can still get

402
00:18:30,343 --> 00:18:32,114
before your parents expect you home.

403
00:18:59,438 --> 00:19:00,625
You hear that?

404
00:19:00,651 --> 00:19:02,249
The bass player lays down a melody,

405
00:19:02,275 --> 00:19:04,016
and the cat on the piano responds.

406
00:19:04,042 --> 00:19:05,329
It's called "antiphony."

407
00:19:05,355 --> 00:19:07,125
Straight from traditional African music.

408
00:19:07,151 --> 00:19:09,000
Thanks to my dad's quick thinking

409
00:19:09,026 --> 00:19:11,348
and a $5 bill he slipped
to the maître d',

410
00:19:11,374 --> 00:19:14,360
that was the night we all got
our Music Appreciation badges.

411
00:19:14,549 --> 00:19:16,532
- Who's ready for another round?
- Me! - Me! - Me!

412
00:19:16,558 --> 00:19:20,231
It was also the night we ordered
our first drinks from a bar.

413
00:19:21,063 --> 00:19:24,071
There's no alcohol in a Roy
Rogers, but we didn't know that.

414
00:19:24,097 --> 00:19:26,216
We were convinced we were wasted.

415
00:19:26,242 --> 00:19:28,508
Maybe it was all that cigarette smoke.

416
00:19:31,102 --> 00:19:34,539
Or maybe it was because
none of us had BM'd in two days.

417
00:19:34,565 --> 00:19:37,602
Ladies and gentleman, I see
a familiar face out there.

418
00:19:37,628 --> 00:19:41,039
If y'all make enough noise,
maybe we can convince Mr. Bill Williams

419
00:19:41,065 --> 00:19:43,391
to come and join us for a number!

420
00:19:52,271 --> 00:19:54,188
Go, Mr. Williams!

421
00:20:12,358 --> 00:20:14,553
This was also the night I realized that

422
00:20:14,579 --> 00:20:16,988
my slice of the
middle-class American dream

423
00:20:17,014 --> 00:20:19,358
might not look like other people's...

424
00:20:19,572 --> 00:20:22,108
but I had a cool cat for a father,

425
00:20:23,740 --> 00:20:27,092
a man who would do just about
anything to make me happy...

426
00:20:28,786 --> 00:20:30,483
and that was enough.

427
00:20:30,509 --> 00:20:37,851
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