Bernie Mac Documentary (2003)

I'm about to bust a move it's the people you thought you knew like you've never seen them before the inspiration that's a mom that's what I won't do I saw a big c'mere so you never had to cry again this struggles whatever job he could do to bring you some money for his family the successes the Bernie Mac show started when I was five years old Bernie Mac next on biography would you crease Bernie Mac the original King of Comedy has been so open about his life and his struggles fans can't help but wonder if it's all just an act but the movie and sitcom star has overcome painful and sometimes tragic obstacles that were far from funny Bernard Jeffrey McCullough was born on the south side of Chicago on October 5th 1957 his mother Mary was a smart level-headed woman but she had gotten pregnant after falling for the line of Bernie's father Jeffrey Harrison a silver tongue to charmer it was a smooth articulate real nice dresser I could see what my mother you know was attracted to Bernie's parents never married and his father was rarely around but Bernie did have a loving extended family that included aunts and uncles a brother and several cousins we like was thereby newest as the Magnum will call us Bernie and his family lived in a two-bedroom apartment over a storefront Church there was a lot of people in this house at one point it might have been ten people in 2-bedroom apartment that's a lot of people the McCullough's attended services regularly at the church downstairs where Bernie's grandfather Thurmond often preached lowbrow follows Dacula the church explore work pray churches very important coasts we weren't living in all the best neighborhood a lot of things going on so I was like foundation when Bernie wasn't in church his grandmother Lorraine kept all the kids in line Big Momma was a strict disciplinarian and nothing got by her my grandmother she'll let you think you're getting away with something but you're really not she would tell us I'm a whip you I'm gonna get you we would go all day and you're like oh it's bedtime now know what soon as you get ready to doze off here she comes my grandmother was one of the strongest individuals in my life it was not a male she taught me respect respecting the most powerful thing in the world specially when you respect yourself respect is bigger than dollars and says Bernie grew up poor but his mother and grandparents made sure he had a rich outlook on life they always taught us to believe in what we wanted to do I mean that sticks with you don't let anybody put you down you know you can do anything you want to do in 1964 when he was six Bernie found his mother crying in the living room and discovered the power of comedy that's a mother cry okra and Bill Cosby came on the television we started doing his thing and my mother broke out laughs I said mom that's what I'm gonna do I saw a big premiere so you never had to cry again television became a key part of Bernie's childhood the family sitcoms of the 1960s became a window into an idealized world where fathers and sons got along and laughter solved everything Bernie's favorite program was the Andy Griffith Show I tell you why Andy Griffith is my favorite because he was so secure I love security well the thing to do when you're feeling sad is to shoot for the good feeling you understand what I mean I think so good television also taught Bernie how to be funny you know they just don't make men like you anymore he imitated all the greats Bill Cosby Jackie Gleason moms Mabley Flip Wilson and the star of Sanford & Son Redd Foxx Burnie loved the character of Fred Sanford and one Sunday while directing the church's children's choir the budding comedian gave the congregation a taste of TV's favorite junkman he just bust into a Fred Sanford grabbed his heart directed going back directing the choir and mic room I looked over at my grandmother oh if we could get a picture of her face but I mean it it was incredible he got in trouble big time for that during Sanford and Son but it was okay with him cuz he's gonna do something else you always say he's gonna be out of town even he's a kid he's gonna be an antenna Barney was just naturally funny who's just let's get that straight by the time he entered Chicago vocational high school Bernie had made up his mind that comedy would be his ticket to a better life but his friends weren't so sure at that time the only hair richard pryor Rhea Fox it wasn't on the level that it's on now so it was like what's the big thing about being a comedian you know going around telling jokes Bernie wasn't the first in his family to try show business his brother Darryl had a brief brush with Fame as a guitarist for the singing group the shy lights admired his style I admired him from the way he kept his self up but you just do self as an area Darryl ultimately left the shy lights but Burns still inspired though he didn't think much of Darryl's attitude 15 year old Bernie soon began imitating his brothers slick look he would make sure he comb his hair make sure his teeth was okay you know just start doing soaking his nails like joy you know you gotta you got a bigger nail file you know just taking more interest and things like that Bernie's life was on track though he wasn't the best student he had avoided all the pitfalls that claimed many young black men in the inner city but it was the 1970s and drugs were everywhere Bernie wasn't interested but marijuana was a favorite with some of his peers he majored a machine shop and a lot of the guys on the same south side ice they got high and stuff like that and he would play the role but he didn't get high and one guy settlement and think they put something in it and because he really flipped out Bernie's first time smoking marijuana landed him in the emergency room I never forget the look on my mother face doctor said son you got angel dust all in your system real nervous systems shot all the medication for two years Bernie had learned the hard way he wasn't going to let anything or anyone mess up his life again but in 1973 as Bernie entered the 11th grade he was hit with another crisis when cancer took the life of his mother Bernie was heartbroken and he faced more tragedy the following year when his brother Darrell died suddenly of a heart attack Bernie was devastated but he didn't let his feelings show I always looked at Bernie as laughing behind his tears it was strong he was talking he's seeing that there's life his death Bernie had taken hard knocks but he still had his dream the 16 year old kept telling jokes to anyone who would listen at school on the street even while riding the elk Bernie would just stand up on the Ale and just crack jokes like boys sit down I mean even have an audience even talk about your mother you talk about you just keep coming and keep coming and you just keep laughing by Bernie's senior year he thought he was on his way to living his dream of becoming a comedian nothing was going to stop him and then he met Rhonda Gore an attractive girl at his school at first Rhonda was put off by Bernie's appearance he was just I don't know it was just think he was really skinny and I was like but it was when I started talking to him and I realized I said he's really a nice guy his personality was really just beautiful you know he was very humorous Rhonda and I just saw hanging out and I really started liking her I asked her so would you be my girlfriend you know I was cool yeah I thought that was cool the relationship that started in the halls of CBS high school soon heated up but after graduation Bernie had to face the consequences of his teenage romance a mother Coleman she said Mack I need to talk to you so what's wrong he says Rhonda's pregnant I said about who you know that's how I talk his family was the time you do the right thing you know his grandfather that's how he was raised so he was like well we're gonna give me a and next thing I know my mother was planning a wedding we really didn't have much to say about it with Rhonda pregnant Bernie knew what he needed to do he had to step up to support his family comedy would have to wait at age 20 Bernie Mac was just a few years out of high school but he already had a wife and a baby on the way Bernie set aside his dream of becoming a comic he took a job as a janitor at General Motors and he and Rhonda moved into a run-down apartment Mac had already seen plenty of tough times and when his daughter Jenice was born he counted his blessings Bernie believed if his family was all right the rest would work itself out he wanted to be a comedian but he really wasn't working it towards it he was just working you know for the families to make sure we were okay and everything after five long years at General Motors Bernie was laid off due to company downsizing he began working a series of odd jobs including driving a moving truck and managing a fast food restaurant Bernie also helped kids in the neighborhood as the athletic director of the local community center coached a lot of the little boys teams and things like that whatever job he could do to bring you some money for his family that's what he did I didn't have steady work you know but I never was same about taking work that's one thing I really looked up to him for cuz a lot of me and won't do it they think things are beneath but he never did Bernie also started doing comedy again stand-up clubs were becoming hot date spots in the 1980s and by 1984 Mac was ready to test his jokes at the local venues there was a club called zany's another one called a funny firm who's on first they were predominantly white audiences and he wasn't received as well in the early 80s because that whole improv brick wall guy with a sport coat and a tie on style was really coming into its own and he was not that thing couldn't curse you couldn't tell ethnic jokes you couldn't tell sex jokes a couple of times when he couldn't even get up you know he didn't even get on because it was so crowded so you just go back the next weekend I wasn't bitter I was just determined I saying I'll let him beat me gonna let him play me for the next few years Bernie polished up his act he learned how to tell a joke in front of a brick wall but just as his dream was coming true the 28 year old was hit with more bad news Bernie's beloved grandmother a diabetic was told that she would have to have part of her leg amputated they had to cut from like the knee below and once that happened he said Rhonda grandma is not gonna lay up through there he said cus she was too independent you know to have her limb taken away Bernie was right big momma did not survive the surgery the shock of her passing was compounded by the death of Bernie's grandfather the following year at the funeral Bernie stood up and did what he did best he paid his respects by making his family and friends laugh normally when you go to a funeral when you talk about somebody it's a sad occasion and Bernie would go and take that same element and he would give people something to laugh at I had so much pain and so much sorrow and I lost so much my brother my grandmother grandfather and to be able to laugh through all of that people you saw was safe ain't funny I'll be laughing right now funerals are stopped you know I would laugh Bernie had learned how to be a straight comic but now at age 29 he was ready to be himself doing material that came from his soul was a revelation a lot of Bernie's comedy is cultural it drew up on his you know ethnicity and his you know his pet and you know you don't necessarily have to be an african-american to appreciate Bernie like his idols Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor Bernie used the shock value of foul language and off-color stories to give his comedy an edge when he does it I mean he's he's awfully funny you know people don't take it personally and it's not meant to be taken personally it's just comedy one of the first clubs that Bernie used to test his new Act was the Cotton Club Chicago's famed jazz venue Monday was Amateur Night it was a predominantly black crowd and Bernie let loose rich Burnie had found his audience and within months people in Chicago's black communities spread the word stock coming through the door people saw recognize that's him that's telling you about this thing like it just got bigger and even bigger their audience got bigger and bigger Bernie was on his way and nothing could stop him in 1989 while vacationing in Las Vegas the confident comedian convinced Redd Foxx to let him do a set during Fox's stage show he walked up here behind stage and went that's how he got up there and started talking to red Foxx and I was like I don't believe it I don't believe it I was because I was Sydney you just can't walk up there he said you watch me and he did it by 1990 32 year old Bernie Mac had a cult following in Chicago but at the time he was working as a driver for the Wonder Bread Company he said I can't take it no more and I said well what are you gonna do he said I really want to do my comedy with Rhonda's blessing Bernie stopped working for Wonder Bread and set out to pursue stand-up full-time that spring he started preparing for the Miller Lite comedy search hosted by Damon Wayans it was a chance for Chicago comics to get some national exposure we're at the Regal and he was one of the 10 finals I told my daughter's he's gonna win your daddy's gonna win and then when he learned we just all stood up and lost it lost it it was like we could not believe it I want $3,000 that was the biggest payday out of my life and I put that in the farm for my daughter's college college because that was a fear of mine being able to support of the golf school after that it seemed like things started opening up for recognition led to a string of high-profile gigs Bernie opened for Dionne Warwick Natalie Cole and even his idol red five then in 1993 TV viewers got a taste of what club goers had been roaring at for years when the 35 year old appeared on the HBO series def Comedy Jam audiences on the raucous show were known for heckling comedians they didn't like but Bernie was determined to win them over this was hostile and I came out and I did my little mag little walk along but everything I know cut it off the crowd loved Bernie's in-your-face attitude and the improvised catchphrase quickly became part of his act he would use it approaches his audience to let the audience know no matter what you do how you do it you can have go boo whatever you're scared hi how you doing although most of white America still had no idea who Bernie Mac was in the african-american community he'd become a star how the chitlin circuses they call it you know where it's all black people know you he was very well received on those circus I never seen it like this unbelievable but he was trying to get into movies too at that time and he figured that would really bring him to mainstream max first film was the Damon Wayans comedy Mo Money Bernie played a doorman and though he appeared only briefly in the movie the role helped him land other small parts in a series of predominantly black films he was the Cameo guy Bernie Mac comes into a movie he steals your movie and then he goes back on the road Bernie was also ready to give his act a twist at a time when black stand-up comedy was dominated by raunchy one-man routines Bernie gave fans some old-school entertainment just always say you know how Flip Wilson have those variety shows us that he's out when they do something like that in 1994 Bernie produced and starred in the who you wit tour the show featured the 10 piece Mack men band and the macaroni dancers it's an amazing thing Bernie Mac funny is one thing running back in front of a 10-piece band is a show like the aim all this music comedy dance at the same time Michael joseline lives in order and I was hidden places they didn't nobody want to go I was hitting secondary markers places that I didn't even know it exists Dothan Alabama Biloxi Mississippi we did Fairbanks Alaska Burnie took the show to Fairbanks you talking about some black people happy to see a shelf Burnie loved performing but he hated being on the road he missed his wife and his daughter we get off we go back to the hotel it's one o'clock in the morning was Bernie do calls home land at the airport get to the hotel been there 15 minutes where's Bernie he's on the phone talking to Rhonda it's what he does in 1995 Bernie finally broke out of the nightclub circuit and into mainstream television when he was offered a recurring role in the UPN comedy series Moishe the sitcom got Bernie's face in front of a bigger audience but still no one was offering him a show of his own at age 38 after 14 years on stage and screen Bernie Mac was afraid that he was destined to be America's most famous unknown comic [Music] in 1998 Bernie Mac was back on the road when he wasn't on stage Mac was at home taking care of his family his daughter Jenice was in her teens and Bernie wanted to make sure she was brought up the same way his mother and grandparents had raised him he was Stern but she wasn't a bad child anyway so it wasn't like she needed a lot of discipline and he always talked to her he always gave her life stories to help her through life Bernie was proud of the way Jenice had turned out but not everyone in his family had the same luck his 16 year old niece Toya was in trouble just one of those kids that kind of you know go astray it takes gotta learn things the hard way and that's pretty much what she did and she had a child and that's who we bought into our home Bernie took Toya in along with her two-year-old daughter Monique Bernie responded to Toya's tough attitude with a strict discipline his grandmother had shown him as a boy it was not a happy time but Bernie did find a way to work tOA's situation into his act Mack also drew on the similar experience of a close female friend I saw a guy Manisa man hug kid they live with me nah man I'm fine what she said I got muscles the key is to know which one and she told me a sister sister was one all judge and that's where he got the three kids the sister Andre you know and he just kind of made his own joke that fried that one on the road I put it on stage I got my sister cheering - oh and six and the four-year-old my sister must really begin higher huh cheering talk house you do a statue and like this it the new material came at a perfect time in Bernie's life he was now 40 years old and he had the authority needed to play the part of a stern old-timer the kids murdered man you gonna murder me I'm gonna kill that I can see y'all reading about it right now it's a shame how Bernie shut up Aldo goddamn kids it also coincided with an invitation for Bernie to become a part of a major comedy event the kings of comedy was a nationwide tour that featured the stand-up routines of guy Torry Steve Harvey Cedric the Entertainer and Bernie Mac see you know you successfully I'm going to see burn and it came right on time because I was getting burned out I was doing two hours out 45 minutes a night 43 residing here I got to the point where I got sitting here myself business to yo would hunt no sleeping ass she'll not want to go sleep like [ __ ] you know am I supposed to got high well I mean like she must know smoke reefer with her and did coke cuz she hungry all the time she wide alert you know Bernie was rejuvenated by the less demanding work schedule and soon the show became bigger than anyone could imagine initially they did 30 dates sold them all out and then they went larger and they went larger at one point the Kings of Comedy Tour was the most profitable tour on the road in the United States period I came today one o'clock in the morning the six-year-old won't walk past me like I'm a visitor the two-year-old sent him down there to get hustler Miller took us I said where you going get some milk and cookies I said pimples kind of late going back in the room he gonna go on the road to yours ain't letting no cookies he'll tell huh him downstairs like I ain't got no damn name [Applause] in 2000 Spike Lee documented the phenomenon with his concert film the original Kings of Comedy DL Hughley who had his own sitcom replaced guy Torry Bernie Mac was now suddenly in the center of the spotlight they'd known Steve etc from Steve Harvey Show and WB they know Neil Healey from being variety shows but who's this guy who's this guy that's going on last and destroying the crowd not everybody wants them right back when the dust settled many were asking the same question why doesn't Bernie Mac have his own TV show they didn't know what to do with Bernie Mac before they didn't know how they could put him on TV they didn't know how he could be funny I don't think it bothered him that much because he always said he really didn't want to do TV because TV handcuffs [ __ ] it stops him from being who he is but he said if the right show came along then he would consider it one man who thought he knew how to bring Bernie to television was producer Larry Wilmore a veteran of the hit Fox TV series In Living Color wilmore's idea was to take Bernie's outspoken attitudes about child rearing and pit them against a politically correct world that favored timeouts over corporal punishment the show would be based on Bernie stand-up routine about raising his sister's kids my supposed to do drug estate was gonna take the kids away you know well my black ass hit a volunteer and except these sons of [ __ ] most networks were concerned that max take-no-prisoners brand of comedy would never fly on television but in 1999 Fox TV decided to take the risk to see Bernie Mac on stage is much more raw experience in watching him on TV but TV can find a way to turn harsh comics into something a bit more palpable for mainstream audience Bernie Mac put his heart and soul into the new series juggling humor drama and an emotional resonance not usually found in half-hour sitcoms I'm gonna kill one monkey oh don't get me wrong I love oh they my blood I give him the [ __ ] off my back you ever see a chicken with his neck one can't land to the side all eating wheat that's what i'ma do little kids talk back to me one more time snap oh snap they Nick off the Bernie Mac show premiered on Fox television on November 14th 2001 joining Bernie as his on-screen family was colita Smith as his wife Wanda and Camilla winbush Jeremy Suarez and didi Davis as the three kids dropped into his lap either rise to the top or would go underneath the radar and it would be a thing that people just didn't get because of the style is very innovative you keep on talking to me with that attitude little girl I may not be your daddy but I'll whoop your ass just like your daddy and you go to jail like my daddy too don't come out here to the white meat that's right I said I'm a buffer here to the white meat show and I ain't the same that I said and ain't nobody gonna make me take it back from its pilot episode audiences embraced uncle Bernie's no-nonsense approach to fatherhood ya know what your Santa man I don't care what you talkin about burning that crew but it might be these kids okay and critics applauded the show's insightful mix of comedy and genuine emotion the show is very edgy as a family comedy goes but yet there are life lessons learned there is hugging that goes on in this show it isn't without warmth but it definitely has edge and Bernie Mac is that edge when it first started he was like they can't water me down you know if they walked me down I don't want to do it you know he said I got to be able to you know say the things that I want to say and deal with situation so what I want to deal with my stuff we break it down don't touch my TV don't touch my DVD don't touch my Dudek VCR and most difficult is to remove their works to TV the DVD and a dude that VCR any question can you know you can't just nothing matter of fact don't even look at it when you walk past close eyes Bernie also brought style to his sitcom by breaking the fourth wall and speaking directly to his audience when I say I want to kill those kids you know what I mean I don't have to explain I think the real innovation is having him as Bernie Mac look right at us and tell us what's on his mind yeah my sister's on drugs that's okay some of your family members messed up too what am I supposed to do allow these three kids to go to the state or some foster home or some white couple hold on I'm saying about wastes it's not about race I just don't want him talking our property like that you know beneath the surface the Bernie Mac show was a loving tribute to Mac's own family with its star taking on the role his mother and grandparents played in his own life the Bernie Mac show started I was five years old I see a lot from our childhood in the show and I see a lot of things for my family especially this grandmother the way he he does with the children cuz I don't think she took a whole lot from him so that's where he gets all that from the discipline so next Sunday give our day to the Lord God Bernie also shared another part of his childhood with America in the character of Jordan Jordan is Bernie Mac as a kid always is something you know mischievous not a bad kid just one outsmart everybody wanna be the center of attention you gotta be a man I made him some like myself when I look here you know so I'm gonna get in everything he had to watch him he was sinister with the ratings success of the Bernie Mac show everyone in Hollywood seemed to be knocking on Bernie's door but director Steven Soderbergh was one up on the competition before the sitcom even aired he'd already signed Bernie to appear in his big-budget star-studded remake of the heist movie Ocean's eleven the 44 year old actor shared the screen with some of the biggest names in Hollywood Bernie's part was small but he managed to shine with the rest of the stars I think everybody was quite surprised at how much notice he got out of having a small role in that film just because he was just so select so good that was the pinnacle for me the B un-clone E and the B would Brad Matt and Daichi Tomlin Elliot that was unbelievable for his part Bernie learned he had fans on the set who were just as excited to work with the original King of Comedy had seen him in a few things before and I just thought he was hilarious and I thought he was kind of it was gonna be a great experience to work with him with a hit TV series on the air and a movie blockbuster to his credit Bernie was becoming one of the Titans of Hollywood he was comfortable financially and to make sure things stayed that way Bernie put his wife Rhonda in charge of his bank account I'm gonna tell you his version of why he did it he said that if anyone is stealing from him it wouldn't matter because he's married to me he's getting sex and it's still in the family so the money's still there but the reason I feel I'm over it is because he knows I'm gonna watch every day he caused me a hawk i watch everything putting family first had worked for Bernie the lessons he learned from his mother and grandparents were keeping him on track hey camera mark by the spring of 2002 the Bernie Mac show was a runaway hit for Fox television and Bernie was proud of what he'd accomplished network executives were so pleased they gave the 44 year old star permission to take his show on the road for a one-hour season finale filmed in Bernie's sweet hometown Chicago I want to tap it a halt I wanted to go back to the beginning every now and then you got to go back to where it started making the trip with Bernie was his Ocean's eleven co-star Don Cheadle mom liver won't you let us take care of the funeral arrangement I mean do my heart real good please oh no no you said you'd angel but he's taking care of everything that's right it's gonna be a beautiful moment my character had a lot of lifelines and some actors wouldn't be comfortable with you coming into their world and and and doing that you know they kind of want you to be there to prop them up i'ma handle everything right but I'm still waiting for daddy's check from the government man you know slow they can be hey maybe you don't remember you know you big tired everything now but could you float me for a minute man you did not just say that he did not just ask me for money Bernie was you know he said to me look man if you if you jump across a floor into the splits you know how people I'll be right behind you like you know I'll be right there with you go ahead do you think it's wrong dude come on Bernie look like somebody shop class project Dan can cost more than $200 well what do you suggest D Bernie when biggie died all right Pete they put the brother in a gold coffin lie with velvet had his initials and diamonds on the top of it man I noticed man they trying to tell me that my daddy ain't as good as big well we do special requests but it can get a bit expensive hey man my father died no I know we ain't up in here trying to pinch pennies ain't that right bar I mean this is he want the man gotta say dear this won't last if we took out some more trouble Vernie had always been open about his childhood but in this episode he shared some of his most painful memories about his estranged father with his fans tastes um I never told nobody oh I was little boy maybe you know I had a birthday party that big mama gave me 15 up and my father called say he was on his way he never showed up oh yeah he showed up he showed up late but I was so excited and that's I didn't even care they start telling me about how his club broke down he had no idea how you go get the money and he grabbed my 15 tops the funny thing about it was Big Mama call him down the street she bashed his head it was a skillet she bought my $50 back max emotionally honest approach helped earn the Bernie Mac show a Television Critics Award a Teen Choice Award a Peabody Award and an Emmy Bernie also won an image award for his work on the series but the showbiz veteran didn't let any of the acclaim go to his head how does Bernie deal with the wards I think that he treats them all the same it's an honor that people think that highly of you but it doesn't change what you do [Music] by 2003 Bernie Mac was a hard man to miss he was a talk show regular he penned his autobiography called maybe you never cry again and he co-starred in the hit big-screen comedy head of state with Chris Rock Bernie Mac hadn't just crossed over now Hollywood producers and directors were shaping characters to fit him that brought up Bernie and everybody just immediately went oh that's great we love him in the summer of 2003 Bernie co-starred in Charlie's Angels full throttle he was cast as the brother of the character Bill Murray played in the first Charlie's Angels film I sort of thought wouldn't that be great if we treated it that you know the Bill Murray character was sort of adopted into the african-american bosley family who are you know a collection of detective geniuses so what does the body do running he connects us with Charlie I think Bernie just brings a freshness in an appreciation for the craft you know what I mean and he reminds you why you got involved in this game in the first place while shooting the film Bernie tapped into the improvisational skills he had honed over the years you all fine wood you crazy there was a scene where in the beginning of 2000 agency where the Charlie's the start hope the girls have a venture to yeah those hell I date fat woman he added you know a couple takes later you never know black Irish we take infinitum a career lucky Tom Sam Roxy Bernie has this thing if you say we might say this versus throw it at me that's fine I can hit it whatever it is I'll hit it don't worry I'll hit it and you know you're always sure to know that he will absolutely hit it but the thing is is that he throws stuff at us like hits us you know we're like you know we have to just go did he just say that I got sand in my butt I can't hardly walk even in the midst of his busy Hollywood career Bernie stayed true to himself from the beginning his heart and soul have remained in the city of his childhood Chicago was my life Chicago's my friend it's my base every time I get a hiatus or a break I'd run home I love the style I love the people I don't have anything celebrity plants I don't have any friends who talk business we signified and then drink beer smoke cigar play golf and we talk about everything but this and I love it family and friends are here it's kind of hard to leave people you love and care about so we're here during his 20 year journey to overnight success Bernie Mac has gone from a skinny kid telling jokes on the streets of Chicago to a TV and movie superstar and through it all he proved there wasn't anything he couldn't do as long as he remembered the lessons his grandmother taught him as a boy it's fleeting out here it's it's mercurial you could be happenin and then another second you're not happening and then the second year happening again so you have to have a strong sense of yourself and know who you are and I think Bernie absolutely has that he just wants to make everybody feel a little bit better about being alive for those moments that you spend with them he's kind loving gentle they don't see all that they think he's hard from the way he talks out loud years but he's really a kind soul my family is my life I bet my life my daughter my home if I didn't have that I wouldn't be the American y'all thought I was all wrong with everything job I'm sorry - sorry what did you do you don't know [Music] [Music] you

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