Documentário - Og: The Harry Jumonji Story

[Music] oh yeah the odds are against me but i'll tell you why i believe i can be dogs you know i know in my heart i can my mother say it can be jobs you know you know make it to see another day you know the sun's going to come back out tomorrow you know that's how i live my life a lot of people didn't get to wake up today it goes back to like being grateful you know you have no reason to complain about anything you got your board you know you have friends you know you got your body it's like damn somebody say you're not a city kid you know i'm not i'm not where i want to be right but thank god i'm not where i used to be you know [Music] you can't even put like a label on him because he's just a guy you want to be around harry was a [ __ ] new york og in the street defining that [ __ ] like nobody like every single skater in new york city owns their whole [ __ ] to harry he's like one of the last of the old school literally like you think of alva he's just he's got soul he's got emotion he's raw you know jumanji's jumanji man he got the name he has everything he had beautiful package and to this day i mean he's in his 40s he has the energy of a [ __ ] 12 year old that just kind of figured out how much he loves his skateboard as far as new york skating the arts i mean [Music] perry is new york that's harry's new york city [Music] skating was not what it was today it was really like if you were a skater you would see like another guy skating and that was your friend i mean you needed to hook up i remember the first time i met harry was in washington square park and there was a sort of core group of us who was skating there and one day i saw this guy just kind of flying around the park and the skateboard seemed to be attached to his his feet i'm like who's that guy who's who's that guy so it's harry that's harry i remember those dudes like flying into the park and it was like this very rando-esque wild ones you know when the black robot motorcycle club runs into town and it's just like oh [ __ ] like who the [ __ ] are these guys and harry was in the front like you know he's got a very distinct push and then a huge like backside slide and you know like kind of looking at everybody as he's sliding into them and you're just like oh [ __ ] we'd always skate from the park down to the banks harry was always the best always the first dude down there just doing the radish [ __ ] on the way down there just like out of control causing mayhem like with this [ __ ] crazy little haircut he had was called the spoiler she had like a spoiler in the front it was so crazy this blonde frosted tips and he was just like those were like harry is the first one downtown because he's got the most aerodynamic haircut this is a crazy story okay there's a guy named jimmy gestapo in the story at least everybody knows that jamaica stopped where he's really single murphy's law he goes yo jumanji man they got banks under the brooklyn bridge i was like he's the guy that told me and there were banks under the brooklyn bridge so i go watch the scratch where we met and then we went to the brooklyn menace we have so many people in the brooklyn banks nobody people throwing bottles at us and it was dirty the only time the brooklyn banks got cleaned when it rained and that was our skate park and we were happy with it you know so the first contest that happened at the brooklyn banks harry was a major star all those contests would just be like a demo for harry there was a thing in the brooklyn banks it was slalom freestyle and the banks you know i got the overall brooklyn branks skater you know i had the trophy you know harry was awesome he was just unique his own style uh he was the first person i saw like ollie over something high like in person like actually seeing someone like jungle overboards like stacked up probably like four boards at the brooklyn banks hillary was better than everybody he was smoother than everybody he just had it he was natural but he was also inclusive he wasn't like oh you can't skate with me he was just like yeah come on let's go skate let's go here let's go there and it's now like thinking too much to do a trick he always like oh let's try this i just saw this locomotive train type skater coming at me at like 20 miles an hour and he just did a sloppy nose grind and that just blew my mind and then he just kept going off and those are the moments where they're never repeated and when they happen you're just blown away and there's like a glow around him show him a trick you know this is how you do it basically he's like christian or soy like that you're just like kind of he would look at it like do it again kind of physically study you oh okay you're pushing with your okay let me do that and he'd have it and then he'd like style it out skateboard is like a brush and the streets is like the canvas and if you really want to paint a pretty picture i got this riding you know every time i saw him skate i was enamored with his skateboarding and we just hung out in washington square park and we'd hang out we'd party we'd skate [Music] so we we put a hat out that's dante and we do freestyle tricks the next thing you know mine like three hundred dollars your tour is five one you know like we made money and watch the school park and here's the crazy thing the police used to hold the crowd back there's a crew of like seven people i'm not talking about like people not cruising down the streets and that's when you were like dude you skate you know and you reach out to somebody bruno was there from the very beginning papitor is so good man coming in here from south america like the kid knew how to do ingredients and he adapted real quick with street skating and jeremy coming in here this is 30 years ago man like do your math you know i'm sitting there there's a guy on a bike he's got a casual yeah escape i say pablo then he comes and gets on his board i'm like dude this guy knows how to skate and then tony commerce like there was a crew of people that knew how to wall ride he was one of them you know it wasn't everybody know how to wall right wall ride is like here's the ball here's the ground and what do you do you [Music] somehow manage to shift aboard front flat ground to a 90 degree wall and ride it aliasha came a couple of years later but guess what he's one of the og's man [Music] then you got guys like andy kessler sandy was realistically in terms of historical value one of the most important people of skateboarding in new york like if you go into skateboarding history and you'll be the first guy like i said we don't have jay adams we don't got to never but we got andy you know that was street skating there was no one else i didn't know keith huffnagel he's supposed to be from new york i don't know him he's a dude with a shop in san francisco you know a lot i'm just saying there was seven or eight people that's who they were if you weren't in that group we didn't know you you know it was a time in new york when we sort of were in awe of california because california had the ramps and the pools and and all the california skaters and and all we had was one uh ramp out in red hook that we would occasionally go out to it's like this city is a spot skating to and from that's street skating you don't even need to do a trick do a slappy olly a [ __ ] crosswalk not like sitting around in 500 worth of [ __ ] pristine clothing and shoes with a brand new skateboard waiting for someone to build you a skate park every nook and cranny and tricks on everything and just utilizing your obstacles there [Music] street skating was what happened between washington square park and the brooklyn banks the madness they went down like you know when you portion on broadway and there's cabs and buses and people on bikes there's no green lights [ __ ] escape down broadway and let's see who gets down to the brooklyn banks first without getting hit by a car that was like the beginning of street skating for the world and this is even before mark gonzalez came to new york which is like the big beginning of street skating years before that rodney mullen says oh yeah people say i'm the godfather of the street skateboarding [ __ ] you you are not the first guy to always some over over some person squatted on the ground you know what i mean they're a citizen as much as mark gonzales and nadas kappas mary jumping truthfully just as much and i saw it skateboarding in the early 80s like mark gonzalez not as christian everybody had their own thing you know like i backside all the 180 off a jump ramp nobody done that i did a 360 slide nobody down there i still an edge carve wow where'd you found this guy's like new york but i'm not from new york i'm from brazil [Music] my father left when i was seven then i went with my mom and single parent incorrect but great you know my relationship with harry was always not too good never so good never i was kind of a father you know screaming yell at my children and i wanted like you know my uh i wouldn't even even think about them you understand so what they thought and things like that so my relationship with my tuning will never go never good never the real deal was that my father had like this great education like all these credentials like i actually seen some of his stuff you know like he went in cambridge all that you know like japanese english portuguese and then he does the import exporting and he he means the other guy by the bar called machine to brazil so that was big like gentech so you know they have this like huge office every day i'm just with my mom like i'm a little kid and then you know um like all these gifts and stuff and he's always wearing a suit i remember the smell of cologne but it wasn't the same memories with my mom my mother's the type of woman there's a thing in brazil called carnival okay people have customers and they go out and they party once a year and they live for that my mother's the woman they made the costumes for the people who had no money for free just so they can go and have fun you know um my mother's one is like building a skateboard ramp shoes with a hammer helping me those are my i don't know those are my greatest memory [Applause] harry was like always going to skateboard or to surf outside of the house is [Music] right 1976 is when i saw j adams on the cover of skateboarding magazine he was like like you know like flying off the ball grabbing the nose and the tail the trucks are the small i remember like was yesterday it was the cooper helmet which is made for hockey it was volleyball knee pads he had a pair of blue vans and a logo nuts keyboard bennett trucks and road lighter wheels i was in the surf shop and i was like wow i want to learn how to do that and um i somehow my mom helped me out i traded my board for a skateboard and then we put your wheels in it and people were getting barefooted like when there was no waves but it was like it was it man i remember i jumped on the board and i felt like at home sketchy absolutely ears and i can't express it i swear elbow pads on my knees i got footage just like small like big helmet like this gummy little formiga like a little ant you know like my feet was too small i skate he brought a real feeling to skateboarding he could just mix everything up you know so he was more than like we were he couldn't relate that you're like the next generation you know is just the gap itself [Music] foreign [Music] i got sponsored when i was 11 or 12 by a big surfing company in brazil and they had the licensing of the lightning bolt so i had a shirt says competition which means you know not racing team but like and um being on magazines already and did it like a bengay commercial you know but all that's just skateboarding you know but at the time you know i'm still like kidding like but i'm skating with older guys and i progressed real quick primeros we'll take like a bus from here to new jersey and then go to connecticut that's how far it was just to get to the skate park and then we stayed there for the weekend and then we come back on a sunday foreign that's one thing i never forget my mom knew i had a two backpacks i had a backpack with the books and i had a backpack when he passed over pets and helmet and when i leave the house she goes she knew where i went i went skating but then you know i come home with like the trophy you know and she was so supportive i mean she actually let me do what i love you know i tell you what i was not a good father now i can recognize i'm sorry i regret it very much because there's a lot of yelling in the house and a lot of [ __ ] [Music] my father had a girlfriend on his side who's prettier than my mom the whole time i met him um he never would go back to his house if he was like he did not have a house you like crash here crash there i guess he just wanted to be out you know and then she got tired of his [ __ ] and she broke out and then we went to this hotel you know i'm like a hotel you know what happened to home you know so at the early age i knew that the way things were you know i went to new york in 1983. i took harry whitby because i wanted them to be in the united states there was no negotiation i cried i didn't want to come i never figured that you know the impact would be so devastating of course you know now it's too too late i'm very sorry about that foreign [Music] i did my hotel you know i didn't want to go to school i didn't want to stay in new york city i was in queens it's like bayside it's [ __ ] snowing getting on the subways like crazy yo what you where is that like you know like people talk about the 80s that she was like the city was falling apart man their couch whatever the [ __ ] was crazy man scary [Applause] i mean if you spend one week in new york city and you're from brazil and you skateboard you'll be like [ __ ] this i'm out of here like 20 below so my dad is like oh you don't want to go to school you got to work you want to go to california work so i work for him and then i work at this fish market for like two weeks not me two months and he actually doubled my money 1800 i had 900 1800 he drove me to laguardia i got on the plane i was by myself you know i have weed on my kneepads it was crazy and i flew to lax [Applause] [Music] i went to this brazilian guys i'm escaped i have this weird intuition about people sometimes there's a certain i think internal geometry that people have that when they walk and talk or how they deal with you physically you can see that they're a little bit different than just the normal person on the street just kind of got the idea that he probably was pretty good skater and and enjoyed surfing and so here are some boards or something and then so i'm skating i was you know pleased actually that it was right again skateboarding continue but you know now i'm skating with the guys that i saw in magazines and they're like they accept me like you know [Music] that kid's like look at spiderman you know batman you know michael jordan jay-z dude i look up to like tony alva and jay adams christian so you know you said they were just like punk rock like skateboarders you know they're like amazing amazing went to san diego county huntington skated with the pros you know the nsa street skinny country huntington beach i remember september he's in a magazine and i say i remember harry skating there and i kept thinking this time of a [ __ ] keeps getting in my goddamn way and he's getting in the way of what i'm doing and what i'm trying to do and i was pretty pissed off at the time but now that i've done what i wanted to do and got to that point and i'm at the point where i actually appreciate what he was doing at that time marcos alex gave me he killed it you know those are the guys i absorbed like all that skateboarding the street skating was getting huge at that time and uh i was there i think i met harry hanging out in the streets just the young young brazilian new yorker you know with a lot of attitude spiked hair and a lot of style on a skateboard this kind of style that we skated with and it was refreshing and it was just a kid like 12 12 13 and he had the crazy really excited energy and had the hairy personality when he was a little kid but he had skills there's some legendary guys that they saw me in the alma and then we vibed them you know i told them how the front side roll in like from side of only is like you don't drop in from the tail you just roll and you drop in and i knew how to do that in brazil and it's like i made a difference from those guys and then they were like psyched like to like to have me in the park so i was one of those guys you know like i'll drop in harry so and then steve caballero yeah christian soy tony hawk and i remember like tony came up to me you know he he knew how to skateboard we did a commercial together he goes yo harry show me how to ollie that high i got up on the thing this high and you know like if i felt good at being a kid and having like tony hawk asking you show me how tall is that hi you can ask him you know so it's easy to get up on top of things like your scoop from the back and i learned that for rodney mullen so you know i ollie real high but i skipped it from the back and the only guy i know can't do it without scooping it from the back of my gonzalez who's in a whole different category harry's the skater skater he's got attitude he doesn't try to jump through hoops for people he does his own thing he likes to be original being in california in 83 was wow and everything's like go to down my skate park and when they closed delmar like i cried man it's crazy so they closed the skateparks and street skating got big and they had a jump ramps and you know you adapt you're getting where you fit in you know and i got real good at jump clamps his presence would just like take over the whole session you know he come in with his fresh style and just like we're like he's got to be pro because he got so much style then i took off for sure he was like you want to ride for us and then at the same time the guy from dog towns are like oh if things don't come out with christian callers dug down then the guy from vision came in and i'm like wow you know you know i didn't know i was that good i thought it was just like i stayed on my board for 45 seconds truth is i was more consistent i'd be able to shut down the contest the music everybody do my routine you know when he started skating for christian it was like oh [ __ ] of course that's perfect of course chris you know pasoy sponsoring harry by that time harry was the only uh east coast dude that used to skate for kristen going to show us gates and watching him like open his soy boxes and we were just kind of blown away because you're trying to like work for your mom to save up to buy a board every six months and this dude's getting like a box of like six to eight boards from hasoy who's a demigod unto himself i looked up to christian and his whole crew and harry's was a part of that so i basically tried to be like them they were like my idols christian was like the epitome of power and style like he was the icon for that type of skating look at the style you know looks knew how to skateboard real well very original very fluid you know and they helped me out him and his father helped me out online you know and they're like yeah go to new york or the rolling stones magazine this and that's like no i don't want to go to new york my father i'll come back to new york city and i came back and boom got an interview magazine huge you know huge huge event like you know street skating road warriors me and jose got the full pages that opened up a lot of doors at the time you know and i didn't know who kit hammy was but he actually painted a skateboard and gave it to me and i did a laid back he goes oh don't touch that that's art that's harry jumanj's you know skateboarding and laid-back so he gives me the sweatshirt and goes hey hey look i got for your budget says happy birthday harry andy wahoo and then keep having you know and hello and i was like wow you know maybe it would be nice if i would cap that shirt you know it was a shirt given to me you know for my birthday and this was 86. i didn't know how big it was i just saw crackers back you know pop was largely still new so we'd go to like a seabees matinee on sunday we'd all meet in washington square park skate around go to seabees go skate around the city go like take the train up town skate all the way back down to washington square park then go to like nells with with jeremy and you know let's hang out with chade while flavor flav played the piano that's like a real thing [Music] you know or like jeremy working on basquiat paintings jeremy is one of those guys that don't brag about it but [Music] at the time like you know dude boss guys to give us 200 go get like you know doors because he had the money to paint on canvas but he was good at painting on wood because that's all he had before he became big and the funny thing is basquiat was just crazy gifted but crazy you know like it took me 30 years like i went to the brooklyn show and i was like dude this guy was amazing man you know the downtown scene in those early 80s incredibly vital and just incredible melange of different influences keith herring was still alive jean-michel was still alive francisco clemente and all these different people were in this scene artists photographers just nobodies dancers transvestite you know it's like that was the vital time of everything coalescing and creating the whole popular culture we have today where skateboarding graffiti art music are like indistinguishable but all of a sudden the downtown scene was created right and harry was right in the middle of that there was a stupid thing under this village voice yeah and then the city they were screaming skate or die and now i look back i was like wow this just sounds corny but that's what they were saying scared or died you know look at the flat tops getting the banks so we did the shoot they did a story and they bought us like a quesadilla and we were cool you know it's like and then i don't know like 20 years later i found out you know village voices was amazing like norman malin is like you know downtown people talk about downtown by village voice was this [ __ ] you know like in night time you go to st marks it's like a big whole fake show you know i mean like bunk rock kids you know hanging out sitting on the sidewalks police didn't [ __ ] about that you know it was a big playground we were all into art skating and surfing music movies it's not every day you'll run into a skater and be like oh you know let's talk about el topo or something i don't give a [ __ ] when nobody say new york city is the center of the universe everything happens here i almost feel like we take it for granted because it was like a day-to-day thing and it was just the time and the place this was downtown and there was strange mix of people including skaters oftentimes we always knew the doorman limousines will be pulling up it's keith richards and mick jagger oh sorry you can't get in they diss them they're right there getting dissed harry me and someone else comes skating up literally bloody legs skateboards come up pop the board up hey what's up lisa right into the [ __ ] club hip hop and skateboarding are kind of commingling and and generally just starting to float then we put a half-life in area and that was crazy that was really crazy we skated a nightclub here's this ramp chain-link fence and then outside of the cage was the real zoo before i bang it you know like freaks you know like animals you know but then you turn around it's like grace jones man you know run dmc it was madonna you know it was insanely fun and jumanji was right in the mix he's kind of like the host of of everything you know what i mean and you know he could link everybody together because he's just a guy you want to be around that was the limit for harry because he you know one thing about the culture of skateboarding um a lot of people are devoid of personality it's kind of one-dimensional a little bit and harry wasn't a one-dimensional cat it could have been like what modern skaters do now it's like not only are they involved in skateboarding and skateboarding but they get involved marketing products things like that he was already doing it he was like too far ahead he got a whole page in treasure magazine this is my hero right there he was like a superhero guy's gonna be the next christian sword like undoubtedly he was unstoppable he was unstoppable [Music] what do you mean he's smoking crack that's crazy [Music] so you got the sponsors you got the girls skateboarding and it's like oh take a hit of this and it's over you know i hate to say it but you know andy introduced harry to drugs and and he stopped and harry you know carried on i knew it was getting hot you know he was doing upstairs and i'm gonna make this real short so i didn't know what was going up there not waiting for him downstairs you know he stood up there for like hours i'm like yo let's go skating then one time i went upstairs with him and then there's guys in the bathroom there's a little scale there's the tin foil and like oh wow and you know i wasn't even a pothead you know they were smoking heroin and they would cook up cocaine and smoking free base cocaine and um but he gave me my first hit and i was like whoa you know it's too much i did not like it drugs at that time was just they were everywhere washington square park and and so you know i mean it was one of the things that kind of broke up that whole group was was we were all doing a lot of drugs i go to the skate shop you know and i was like yo they don't got no blow and then this girl named bunny you know she was in a movie like wild style whatever she's break dancing and i remember like i was just this is crazy oh she put in the silly thing on the pipeline she lit up she took the torch her kids took the torch sat down and she was like and i went [Music] now remember the first thing i said i went like this i heard you shoot my pockets like can we get more i remember it's that crazy can we get more is that more you know harry was like a kid from out of the country no id no family there making his way in the city like you know i couldn't imagine that kind of a life and but he was in the big city and he would show up to skate but he had this whole other life i remember specifically uh the first time i ever tried crack was the first time i ever heard of it was harry hey man go try this you gotta try this what is it it's crack it's crack i was like let's crack i'm just trying to pipe to do it like this and i was there with my girlfriend at the time and and we both tried it but there wasn't that much we tried and i remember we were like wow wow that was really good that was really good let's go get some more and then we went back and harry was talking to this really really skeevy woman and there wasn't any left and and i think fortunately for me there wasn't any and i kind of went my separate ways and didn't really think about it but it then harry got into it and he got into it quickly within one month i was like oh i know where to cop you know and right here in the lower east side in washington square you know you had to go to harlem you could go to bodega i shouldn't say that and to go to the american guy and give him thirty dollars and he'd give it like a gram of coke and he'd go and cook it up at the time the rush was like like probably you know going into space and coming back down to skateboard i mean it was like insane you know it was like i was like wow you know and that's what it is it's like a five second to a 10 second rush that and then the 90 of the time you chase in that first hit but then i didn't know that like once like the dopamine stops coming out you know it's empty then that's it and then the nervous system that's had to be like you know tweaking you know or the paranoia comes in so in the beginning i'm like yeah i can't handle this you know [ __ ] within six months like he went from being like the guy hey happy all of a sudden i'd see him in the park and this was only a couple months later like sores on the mouth and and i have this image of him sleeping in washington square park just lying there without a skateboard anything like seeing him the only time i'd ever seen him without a skateboard i don't go back to queens to see my dad because i was a little dirty and i was up for like two to three days and um it's embarrassing you know like everybody else kind of went on to do things and then harry just kind of started disappearing then he'd be like yo what's up with jumanji he's like yo yo yo yo jumanji's out again he's out he's [ __ ] let's go look for him and i'd be like okay let's go [ __ ] look for harry it was like you know where's waldo it was sad but it was very true we're sorry you know i'll be right back and i'm gone like two three days pretty heavy stuff man we're not talking about sniffing coke ecstasy going to clubs it's like smoking crack on hallway in the projects like inhale like piss on the floor bottles but i don't want to say like yeah you sit in there like but that's where it takes you you know it will take you there i had a friend who had an apartment on st mark's place and one time we found harry [ __ ] up late night three o'clock in the morning like bum style like laid out so it's like all right we're gonna take you and like sober you up we bring them to this apartment starts to dt feeding him to the best of our ability i mean admittedly we didn't really know what we were doing other than keeping him off the street but then he gets to the place where he's like he wants to leave like he's good he's healthy enough he wants to get up and go get high we won't let them out i come back they've got harry zip tied to the bed now because he want to leave and they couldn't keep him i get left with harry dialoguing me hours on hours on end i know the errors in my way i see it's all about there you know we know tone you know it's about i have to remember mother ocean finally i'm like all right you know let him out of the zip cops i don't know i mean i like turn around he's out the fire escape gone from the apartment next thing i find out he's gone to the precinct and reported that we kidnapped him and this to this day stands as my example of how i cannot help a junkie friend if you're gonna use drugs use drugs but don't become a drug addict that the drugs are doing you instead of you doing the drugs okay look can we go skateboard no because you're out getting [ __ ] hot your hands down say crack cocaine brought me to my knees it's really it it just it didn't stow anything okay it just took me to a place where everything that it was sacred skateboarding because at the end of the day you know i like pricing beings like kids animals surfing skateboarding you know like a nice sunny day you know and it's like smoking crack is like all that's out the window i mean the fact that he's still alive is mind-boggling for all the [ __ ] he's been through he screwed up he got locked up which was probably the best thing for him the first time i got locked up and went into the system i was a little shook i just didn't show the fear because when you go to prison first time going to prison if you show fears a weakness and they eat up on that and i knew that before i went to prison but you know i was so mad i was so you know pissed off and i went to prison and uh screaming yelling at him you know and but it didn't work anyway i remember when i got locked up he was like you're an [ __ ] you're in jail for drugs next time we'll rob a bank and he's like you know do your time with digging and i was like whoa really he wrote a letter to our mother being sorry i'm doing wrong things would be in jail you know and she cried because she didn't know that he was in jail when you think about a friend of yours going to [ __ ] rikers for 18 months or going upstate or whatever you know you're just like god he's going to get eaten alive but i never really worried about harry that way just because of his personality and the type of person he is i'm like he'll be you know he'll work it out he'll figure it out he'll be fine clearly stated don't [ __ ] with drugs gambling gangs homos you know what i'm saying those are the things you don't do when you go to jail if you really want to do your time you know what i mean you can die in prison trust me i'm not i'm not a tough guy i'm [ __ ] i'm not tough the whole idea of just criminalizing that behavior seems so crazy it's an illness it should be there should be help for people like that there should be places where they can put them and where you're taking care of as opposed to rikers on and it's not a way to deal with drug addiction he's someone that seemed to clean up in jail even though you don't have to if you don't want to pretty well and i think the structure of a place like prison for him was good you work out you exercise your body you access your brain you go to the library you know and you do your bed you know it's like i refuse to be miserable like i've seen guys like yo don't let the time do you do the time and then i started doing my calligraphy so it's good you know and then the guys that are never gonna come home and i'm like making cards for the kids you know and this guy said hey you're smart why don't you get a ged man what are you gonna do like one day your kids are gonna say daddy help me do this what are you gonna tell them you're joking watching videos working out really skateboarding magazines get your ged and i thought about it six weeks later i got it and i haven't been since i was 12. bang ma blast that got the gd it felt good even my father like they had in the back skate shop they are like you know i didn't say kyogre correctional facilities that stayed in new york you know and um then i knew i could do something with my life [Music] the minute i met him he was so amazing that the the prison time in my head when i heard about it was behind him i thought he was he looked so healthy he was great never again he's learned his lesson straight shooter from now on if i saw a quack pipe i felt like throwing up i hate it i was like dude this robbed me out of my skateboarding time you know it robbed me out of time spent with my friends skateboarding i love skateboarding more than quack i think andy might have been the one who introduced him to like getting sober and getting [ __ ] together and andy was a very way worse than hairy drug addict and he was a real rough rough character and bullying you know used to steal kids skateboards and i knew that side of andy i mean andy was dark you know he'd be a real song a [ __ ] but andy having found sobriety was a perfect partner for harry he could identify with the damage that he had been done and the suffering that he was going through he really took him under his wing and really cared about him and loved him unconditionally you know harry used to listen to him that's the problem with harry harry never liked to listen to nobody you always like dude i think he's so meaning you know and then i clicked on after a while like the meetings going with andy you know it wasn't it wasn't really hard to like you know believe in having a guy that was smoking crack and doing dope every day and stopped skateboarding getting cleaned up and started building skateparks in new york city and helping all the addicts you know he was living proof and then with the 90 days that bug out it's like dude you come out and everybody says you're like you know you shine and everything then you bug out and like you don't know how to live you know how to stake me andy would try pull them to meetings put them in rehab detox and it was always like whoa andy when are you gonna just give it up and then he never gave up i remember like you know he said lift up your hand and say um i know how to skateboard i know how to go i know how to go to jail but i don't know how to live god i hate to say especially but like harry in new york city i can't see him clean i really can't if you come out of jail into the same environment you're gonna it's gonna be a recidivist situation there's no ambiguity it's a direct correlation and harry knows that city like you know the back of his hand he knows where the dangerous slippery spots are for him and where there's people that really love him want the best for him it's like if there was a big bank covered with ice you know and it looked like a perfect skate spot and it was covered with ice would you try and skate on it no because you're going to fall and you're going to get hurt but when it comes to the other aspects of life even though it's slippery and it's got ice on it it's still going to try and skate on it then he'd get locked up again and then he'd come out and it was this horrible cycle and i mean i saw him a while i can't it happened so many times you lose track every time i got arrested after a small crack for days i was like thank god this stopped you know i think unconsciously you know i um i don't know sometimes the cops would arrest people and i'd be in the spot and i was like yo how about me like i want to stop smoking crack i know it sounds crazy but some people ask for help you know i i don't know how that's for help i knew people i just i was embarrassed you know but i knew how to do time and i knew how to do time in jail and you know it's like you go back to jail like it's a vacation you know when it's time for him when he's tired that's where he goes he goes to jail you know and he likes to talk about how he's a celebrity in jail when like his commercials roar his video or santan all that [ __ ] like means nothing so i get arrested i go to the system i get out the next day no problem then i'm on the west side i'm on the east side saying [ __ ] crack cocaine undercover cop boom go in five years probation time served get arrested again five years special time so but by then i told my dad it's like this is not gonna work out he goes you know he looked out for me he's like come on i'll go back to california he was saying goodbye to friend of his and i don't remember his name and you know what they said i'll see you in heaven oh my god i couldn't believe that i still couldn't believe that and then the skateboarding people were there for me and it was nice but mo carter park downtown la by the pits and it's like an open drug market like washington square park but instead of weed and acid it was crack you know and i was like oh no problem i can do this and i stayed in that park i think for like a whole season i stayed there for like three months everything went out the window you know then um got arrested and got to nine months [Music] jumanji come on in close the door have a seat at bad news your mother died this morning in brazil and his mother died of aids from doing drugs and he um he never got to say goodbye to his mom and i think that's something that's always haunted him she gave me this little thing if you read the letters like i want you to remember me you know when we went fishing you know and she said when he first walked you know i was there like it was amazing i don't know if anybody knows but his father basically like took physically took harry away from his mother and like harry was crying his mom was crying and that's a big thing that a lot of people don't know that a lot all of this stems from is his mom he said i want you to think of me in the hospital the memories i kept the good memories i don't have no bad memories in my mind like forgive me that i wasn't that like you know i didn't get to see you i remember i called my dad and he was like come back to new york city well instead of go down by washington square and go see my friends downtown which i haven't seen him i stopped in times square like and this is before times square was disneyland this is like hookers peep shows crack cocaine and i remember i woke up by port authority and by the grace of god i don't know there was a thing right there and i saw people going in and i was like i went in there i said dude i need help i relapsed you know they sent me to project but no was the first time i ever ever went into like treatment it's the first time i got cleaned up and actually went out and got a job and did well probably the longest my whole life you know that was amazing i loved it and then be able to skateboard and everything i mean it was a it was it was an amazing time to be in new york city skateboarding you know and going to meetings and everything and of course i got i didn't know how to act after a while you know i didn't stop going to meetings started using again that was that was one of the first situations i remember in my life that he mysteriously disappeared because i didn't see him for about a month or so and the next time i heard from him i was getting a collect call from rikers island there's a cycle of self-loathing and fear of success um and accountability and responsibility that harry's never wanted to uh acknowledge or deal with you can deal with prison you can deal with addiction you can deal with anything you know at some point like you want somebody to come out on the other end he's a drug addict that's that's really the simple thing it's like he's a beautiful person but he's also a drug addict and he's been struggling with drugs for ever since i've known that but if you can say yo i'm getting high i'm out on a bender basically saying [ __ ] you in our friendship this the drug is way more important to me and as far as i'm concerned like [ __ ] you i'd love you to death but you're gonna kill yourself if you didn't see harry you just assume that he's in jail which is like kind of funny in a way because you oh he's not around so he must be in jail i spent seven years seven years within a little bit over a decade locked up with back okay it was seriously you couldn't believe it you know because everything else kept going on and then he came back and then you see him and you're like whoa what just happened that's insane yeah that's insane i now that i look back on it you know i'm just happy to be alive but yeah seven [ __ ] years skating had evolved it changed what's the analogy here it's like harry was playing jazz and then he got out of trouble and suddenly everyone else was playing pop music and as skating got more and more technical harry was also skating less and less because he was screwing up [Applause] but harry's the type of person he [ __ ] gets out of jail she's walking down the street some casting agent sees him two days later he's in a [ __ ] levi's commercial it's it's amazing though like you've seen a rail and it's made for people to walk up and yeah one day we're gonna be older than i have to use the rail but right now today shortcut right there and just grind it down you know what i mean it doesn't happen to normal people it happens to harry all the time harry had nothing nobody and and had to just like hustle still to this day he was hustling the bagel that he eats in the morning hustle the frittata he asked for lunch you know whatever but hey man it's effort and it's a skill set and it's one that a lot of people don't have come here at night and i give this guy one dollar to two dollars and guess what he does he feeds me dinner how could you be that in chinatown i'm talking about nice goddamn dogs so uh yeah why can't i do it right here just you know out of my heart because you gotta feel it correct your you know like he doesn't have like a dresser for full of clothes or a closet full of clothes and i've seen harry do this where if he needs a new sweatshirt like people just walk into a store and take a sweatshirt off the rack and they're just like yeah what's up harry you know like just it's like the longest ongoing sponsorship in skateboarding ever you know he just rolls into a sneaker store and they're like yo how are you need some kicks throw them like a box of fingers you know every time i see him the guy's got new gear on he looks better than us yeah i'm saying but you know he's got to look good he's always carrying a little bag and he's always got something going on he's got crazy add how's your mangie jumanji you know jumanji those guys will talk mad [ __ ] about harry the minute he walks out that [ __ ] he walks in they're flossing him with [ __ ] you know you are to his face nobody will dishearten because your street square store has no credibility without [ __ ] harry jumanji walking in there your store is nothing your whole lifestyle you sell is hollow without a hairy jumanji that really is what you're selling [Music] [Music] [Music] you know when you see him it's like i'm harry jumanji i'm harry jumaj a new york skateboarder like he builds up his own image and people fall into that this is legendary [ __ ] right here what's up yo rather i'm on a bike on a skateboard i'm still kicking new york [ __ ] you make more money than me harry jumanji baby harry jumanji wow i remember i got a box of shoes and i remember he asked me i said oh can i get some shoes i'm like oh yeah no problem take whatever you want but besides those black ones he's like okay and i got came back to grab the black ones and those like all the shoes were gone and then like later on maybe a week later one of my friends was like oh i saw that guy selling shoes on the bus uptown oh so good though like you know harry's also a shifty dude good job house you don't really know if he's on the streets you don't always get his money from so you always got to keep an eye on that guy like that in your in your apartment or whatever so so i you know he came over and i was like you want to get high you got to clean my apartment so like rips off all his clothing and it's just like in his underwear like his tiny white he's like it was like new jack city but it wasn't he was like jailhouse [ __ ] where he's just like puts his clothing like folds up high on the fridge so it doesn't get and he's just like right cleaning my whole apartment hiding his mind i was like i can't i got jumanji cleaning my [ __ ] apartment like butt naked basically then i'll always be like remember that time you clean my properties like stop telling people that you clean my apartment naked remember that's happening you always get mad that i would harry is a survival artist and um i think part of harry's survival mechanism is to use whatever's available to him to survive and that's you know that's just the truth i think i learned that because how i grew up i was raised in brazil i mean rich people come to batube on weekends you know in the summer to the boards you know it was crazy it's crazy i mean like i knew guys these are criminals they break into people's thousands to do everything we just took like their boards [Music] me how to like you know eat off the man you know jump on people's backyard and steal fruit and and go fishing you know and go clean up the boat and get free fish you know and cook had no money just find a way to like get food and not bringing anything for it that was funny i mean you always get by he's a good talker you know how i don't think i know growing up in brazil as a kid in the streets i learned how to hustle and that helped me later on in life in the streets in new york city but if you were to hustle foot the hustle to like positive hustle he could do amazing things jumanji was strong on the streets we were calling the downtown tax that was his nickname the downtown tax you know you gotta pay taxes in new york but he was a downtown tax because if he saw you he would run at you grab a piece of paper and write your name on a piece of paper and then sell it to you and you go to people's houses and you see their name or like their business on their wall you're like oh man [ __ ] the downtown tax got him you gotta pay your downtown tax man jumanji was the downtown tax like i saw him the other day and he he's like i want to draw something for you and he's all like high and [ __ ] so he just didn't shoot it's like his it's like his escape his like artistic flow like his writing and that's another beautiful thing that he has and he has all these great qualities about him he hasn't even touched his art hasn't even explored where it can go i was like yo jumanji you can write you can do that people would love what you have potential again [Music] one time consolidated was doing a board show art like a dex and i called up saying i was like yo dude you like have all these guys who really got nothing to do with skateboarding doing decks like wanna have jumanji and kessler do decks so me and harry decide we're gonna do it together he did all this like cool calligraphy on it and i did some like graffiti [ __ ] like i'm not much of an artist harriet like has like really he's like actually a gifted artist if you ever took it seriously and it was like amazing and like it moved a lot of people who were there like you know one of the beasts was there and he was like that's so [ __ ] cool and say adams was like that's the best board in the show like then of course harry like showed it showed up at the event like it was like a hurricane and he came in and he was like everyone's like you look great jesus girl what's up he's like i'm great like took a shirt off and like did like 100 push-ups in the hallway just walking around the shirt office the dead of winter and like no lie like there were chicks there just wanted they wanted to [ __ ] harry like with the shirt off and he's like all like he's like superstar again like i was like he's he's still got it and he's like yo you right dope maybe the writing came from your institutionalized [ __ ] jail time but you write it why don't you do something his hand style is insane it's beautiful i mean and it's natural honestly probably one of my favorites for sure if not my favorite i would love to collaborate with harry at some point i put him in our show i remember dyches projects had this show years ago and it was they they got these guys from chicago build a skateboard and it was about like skateboarding art but it was just like street artist skaters but it was like a big this one thought this is a dice but it's like at its height you know saying on worcester street and they asked me to be like the emcee of the party but then like my one thing's like if you guys are gonna do a show about skateboarding and art you've got to get your money and what we do have like those people they don't like your money was told diets jeffrey nice and the curious of the time i was like this is the wall i'm taking i'm going to give it to her i think the best part was like here man just write what skateboarding means to you and how you know and um i went i went deep i went beyond on the wall just like wrote his life story you know like really big too it was beautiful you know and like so i always wanted to put him in the conversation to help him get into that place i wasn't a writer like you know doing trains and stuff i learned how to ride when i went to prison and a friend of mine named steve olson asked me he said did you ever thought about your skating with your sharpie when you was locked up and i was like wow because you know it it's like skateboarding with the marker you know the calligraphy and then i look up the art of famine shape you know the letters is in harmony and i would like to take the calligraphy and you know do something with it like futura say you have an amazing handwriting don't waste it you know somebody else is like dude if you do stuff for a lot of people you should be worth so much money and i was like and i know this is gonna sound like an idiot if i die tomorrow the lady in the laundry and her kids and the pro skateboarder and the so-and-so will have a little piece of meat i gave him a little bit out of my heart to everyone you know [Music] andy started taking harry out too montauk with him quite a bit to get them out of the city to really start realizing that there's slippery slopes in the city that sometimes you can't avoid and the best way to avoid them is to get out of the city you know there was a bond that i had with andy like there was no you know oh i should no i i can tell anything you know anything you know then we started talking about life and you know we even talk about my dad and you know when was last time you seen your dad and uh i'll say the best part is go in the water with andy i know it sounds crazy but when you go in the water and you're surfing in montauk you come out it like it cleans your soul it helps you it's amazing because you can't just cut drugs out and not replace it with something so surfing was a great thing for them to go put their energy into you hadn't been on a surfboard i don't think for 20 years i think the first week you got them into you just stood right up and rubbed this wave and i saw him and i was like blown away i was like wow in one sentence montauk is uba tuba but on the east coast to me montauk and the beach and surfing i was like his passion and it's because of andy castro is because of the ocean and i don't know how to put it together but spiritually and in my heart montauk yeah this is it man you know [Music] and uh andy got stung by a uh wasp and he was allergic and he died and he didn't die right away it took a couple hours and they they went to a fire station they didn't have an epipen and before he got the hospital andy passed that's my [ __ ] that like you know that could have saved danny's life because the person who drove him [Music] didn't go straight to the hospital they don't have that anymore doc he went to like a doctor to the firehouse and i don't question the chain of events anymore but um zach when i was really really really hit fat shot me die they asked me and i can't say anything about skateboarding he saved my life and then he says i wish i could save his it's just was such a freak accident you know to have like a b allergy and be stung you know and and uh the way that that all happened there's no there's no explanation for it it's just it's just something that that happened and was uh was a lesson you know to everybody as well as just i think it's just it's it's part it was part of andy's story you know so i got the call when he died from dennis mcnet and a second later harry called like andy he called me on andy's phone and he was [ __ ] distraught when i got there um the police were there and um harry was standing there and just kind of looked really um in shock and not knowing what to do and uh i grabbed him and you know he uh came with me he ended up staying with me for about a month a month and a half and we uh kind of uh went through that process together i kind of was trying to help him grieve and grieving myself you know loss of a really good friend when we buried him out the harry was very emotional whole it was like something out of like a shakespearean you know play or something he was just throwing himself on the ground and putting his hands in the dirt just you know and it wasn't a show it wasn't like he was acting that's the passion that harry has you know and he loved andy a man who touched so many lives in so many ways he was a skateboarding pioneer legend and grandmaster he was a surfer friend he was an artist mentor and for some a last hope to become clean and sober and when they bury andy they bury my mother and andy because i didn't go to her funeral so how you like that you know i was angry but some days when it really kills me i go to a meeting with this and that and i'm just having just a [ __ ] hug from him like you know when you hug people and you feel it andy wasn't a hugging type of guy but he was that guy you know when you hugged him you thought that like you know it felt safe around any caster i don't feel safe tomorrow a lot of people in skateboarding and i miss that i miss my friend like i miss my mother and i was angry like why would you leave me now you know but um i didn't question anything you got a big paddle out you know for andy where like like hundreds of people came people came from the city people came from all over from this paddle out you know harry was very front and center sort of in depth as well and people really rallied around harry to it was almost a part of it he's deaf learning like how he was sort of like people really wanted harry to get clean so a lot of people got behind him and weren't involved one cat's pass he's skiing with alvin all his heroes and he was killing it him and tino were going out to autumn he was killing it and uh you know all those videos were like [ __ ] they were like showing up and he [ __ ] was ripping so much style the thing at autumn ball was beyond skateboarding and then we're here to celebrate his life now he's that big difference right we're here to look at the light not the darkness you know i mean it was insane the energy going on in the camaraderie and everything that was happening was just like such a dope moment he gave me the juju back you know he gave me that that magic that you know and like he loves to skate when he's clean and he rips rips being a kid and having a skateboard is a gift if you come from a broken family you know because then you think you're bored and you're out the house and you're like wow you know i have a friend you know i can actually say skateboarding was like my best friend i'll see here when washington square had stabbed and the cops used to drive into the circle so they put cement over the stabs and that became a little skatepark they never closed the park at night that's before crack i know you got to do your job but can we get just one shot look i promise it's gonna be five seconds [Music] harry tried to keep it real for andy as long as he could but straight out there was nobody there for him anymore when andy died i mean andy meant a lot to him and i thought that was if there was going to be a turning point that would be a turning point like harry's just probably have so many demons inside of him i'm sure that was just yet another form of ammunition for him to just go back down into this bell jar that he has within himself if you're going to get [ __ ] hot and get high but get the [ __ ] out of our face because you're disrespecting one of my best friends in life i'm servicing some the smoothness favorites [Music] it's like you know whatever smokers you know drink a beer in the [ __ ] car right and then what it does it becomes a habit right i can just bang and escape window yeah i chill right people like wow some people being on it but look what happens after the second and third day two bags there's three bags so what do you got now shipping you get a little [ __ ] back pain you know start running and then eventually you get a monkey on your back you know what i'm looking on your back is yeah and there's some people getting on the the old school guys you know me he's like i grew up with guys if you want to join in the city and they will beat you up don't drop anything i'm looking to see that see look look that's a professional way to do it and you call scarface you know but then it was like super thirsty like why would i waste it you know and that's funny it's like how do you can't do that with a dumbbell in the way like this you know learn from the best which is whatever you know it's not like you feel like something and i just feel silly right now it's like you know everybody lose your computer and of course i was lucky because my mother you know he's an individual so that's how skeptical is is we all wish harry the best and when he's got it together we are all there for him but i think it's been so long we've seen him struggle that you know we've all gotten burned emotionally or otherwise and uh i think a lot of us are unwilling at this point to extend ourselves unless she's gonna really really be clean and i saw dante ross the other day dr ross was real close to him and uh you know he said the same thing like when everyone gave up an area we always tried to help him out you know go and visit him in jail sending him money sending him sneakers no not white sneakers you know like whatever you know harry jumanji style stuff and it's like it hurts because you know you know like harry stole for me you know harry just just did a lot of horrible things you know he knew where i lived like when i lived on downing street for 20 years and he told me he would just come by and wait for me to come out you know he goes i know you live here i'm not going to like talk to your apartment i'm just going to wait for you to come out and then i'll talk to you whatever you know always asking for money you know can you lend me something but that's fine but i never you know turned him down and if i had some i'd give it to him a lot of times people like man i want to help you know i don't know what to do and if i give you the money you're just going to go get high but i just don't want to see you die and just [ __ ] that feeling because they will give you the money these are kids they look up to you you know going up skateboarding now they're good you know enough then the guilt you know as soon as you get a fix or you get high then you think about it how evil that [ __ ] is because you're back to square one you know it's like um you're not free [Music] i mean there was times where i'd see him and i'd cross the street because i could see the state he was in you know and it had been dozens of times i didn't want to hear it i'm like i'm over it man i love you but you're not going to listen to me everybody i'm going to give you 20 bucks and you're going to go get high you're not going to get something to eat and that's what harry's been doing starting all over again starting all over again i mean it's to the point where you can visually see the the the effects of his drug use it takes all the fluid out of your body to look insane like two percent body fat supposed to be this much and look at this this lasting two percent body fat stupid snotting look this is not even normal it's like skin like skin just the skin it's not like there's so much to see if you put your hand under your arm if you go like that around it like this is not normal here to have this much right here on the side i usually grab a nice chunk right here if everybody has it you know i think he's blowing it he hasn't blown it but definitely blowing it i heard andy say it too much we're pulling him out of the gutter and and he's all [ __ ] up and god knows what crack and dope and andy was like harry you got to get it together man i'm going to meet him right now let's go he's like i can't go to a meeting i'm high he's like you can do whatever you want and he told me he said i tried drugs you've been in jail [ __ ] lie you steal you cheat you blow it every time he's like you only got two things left to do die or get sober he'll stop when he was ready to stop and maybe he won't [Music] after he had relapsed our friend jennifer got him into a treatment center in virginia where he met monica i had gone to a meeting at a recovery center called edge hill and harry was at the same meeting and i remember hearing him share during the meeting and what he was talking about really like touched me after the meeting you know i went up to him and i was like wow you know hi my name is monica and you know your words really touched me and you know we started talking and he just has like such a presence about him that just attracted me to him you know every time i would go to a meeting i would see him and we just became friends that way you know he had this huge plan for us we're gonna move to california you know and start our life there and eventually moved to brazil together and you know we talked about getting married and having kids and you know the dream that everybody wants [Music] what are you thinking about [Music] harry look at me what are you thinking about are you still posing for the patient i ended up getting pregnant and we were both very happy we used to call it baby phoenix you know raise baby phoenix california and then go to brazil but just noticed that he just started slacking he stopped going to meetings and i just built up so many resentments towards him we were fighting all the time there was just so much financial stress on us and it caused a lot of problems between us unfortunately so we're in our separate ways you know he went to montauk [Music] and i stayed in virginia [Music] but i got scared you know how to deal with it i bugged out and i left you know i came to new york city you know just maybe it was for the best and it put a lot of pressure on harry you know he had andy die and then the kid and all that stuff and and i think like you know he really would like to be able to take care of his kid but he can't even take care of himself pregnant and watching the love of your life leave is so hard he used to tell everyone i would never leave monica or my child never i will always take care of them i will always be there for them do the good the bad the ugly but then he left and he just disappeared and that was the worst pain i've ever felt in my entire life he was already pretty convinced that he'd blow it with the kid so he just blew it it's like he fulfills this negative prophecy time and time again and so it gives them another piece of pain to kind of hold on to and also on some levels exploit when the baby was born and harry was freaking out about monica and everything i said harry i know from experience that you can be completely absent if you want from monica and your daughter's life for the first three years because he was like i got to get sober i gotta get money for monica i gotta i go harry all this craziness it's only gonna result in you going back to doing drugs because you're loading all that you've never had an apartment you've never had a job you've never had an income much less income to send to somebody so you're putting way too much pressure on yourself all at one time deal with your sobriety don't worry about monica she's in virginia with family and friends and she's got support you deal with getting yourself sober for your daughter i don't think that his last run is gonna be the last time he goes out you know i don't but it scares me because what am i gonna tell sophia [Music] every time he has a piece of those kind of like painful moments he will manipulate whether it's kessler dying whether it's a story about his being kidnapped his mom dying to aids or his child and how he can't be involved in a child's life and one of the things in a lot of those situations is harry doesn't take accountability for himself but the main thing that harry could do is get clean and be a dad to his daughter which is an amazing thing and and he may find is more amazing than anything he's ever experienced before [Music] i didn't think i was going to leave to see a child that's the chewing up when i saw it it broke me and then i'm [Music] it's weird it's like i say hold the board hold the baby no when you hold your own child they'll do something to you like in here they'll hit a spot there i don't know maybe the last time i felt that spot that i don't remember is when my mother hold me and that was a long time [Music] okay okay look look i'm close to you now okay i am your father i want you to go okay i know she's looking out for you she don't get around to the baby i want to take it to brazil and show him where i come from where my mom's running put it in the water and be like look at this now new york city mtv like yo check the water up in here this is where i come from look at that she's sleeping i definitely thought that he was going to be a part of her life in some way or another i didn't think that was going to be like the first time and the last time that he saw sophia [Music] well i met adam graham and he and i fell in love and he met sophia and he has basically been raising sophia as his own daughter since she was 18 months and that's basically all she knows is adam [Music] if harry were to get clean [Music] that's a really tough question because i also have to consider like how adam feels i would want him to be a part of sofia's life i really would i know it eats harry up inside that he can't be like there for the kid but he also can't be there for the kid unless he gets sober andy's gone now do it for your daughter um [Music] [Music] it hurts me because i wasn't part of i didn't get to see my daughter walk i didn't get to see my daughter talk you know and yeah it's never too late but part of me is like dude man man up you know there is a way the mother of my child you know she's doing a great job you know i'm not bitter and angry to me it's more like um god damn it not again harry what the [ __ ] are you doing i don't mean to cuss i'm sorry about that but um it's just i want the best for harry you know he needs to stop being harry jumanji the skater and just be hairy a person a human being that is just normal and i don't think he's enjoying life not the way he's living it's all a facade it's like dude aren't you tired don't you want something different i never heard a successful story about people smoking crack i never ever my whole life for guys like harry jumanji it's like is it worth it what do you value most in your life and if you really love skateboarding if you love being you love your freedom if you love your life then let's grow up a little bit and start making the right choices very recently i got back into the [ __ ] like i didn't get my feet wet i jump into the butter with [ __ ] all up to my neck here we are once again going towards the first step of recovery go to these houses it should be 14 days now it's only seven days a cut and a half i think american they're not painful much as i love skateboarding if i knew that that was gonna end up into the crack cocaine in the prison time i would have rather been a regular joe or went to school or even anything i'm going to try to do at this time if they're at a point where they need to be told look dude you're going to end up back in prison or dead is that where you want to go yeah we'll tell them that but we're still going to save a seat for them and just go dude just come back just dust yourself off and come [Music] back i'm at this place salvation army it keeps me busy i work i go to meetings you know i go to church on a sunday i'm doing things differently this time you know i'm not going around like hustling you know this is like it's like the last shot you know it's not about to have your jumanji anymore it's about the little girl you know you know it's about it's about my daughter it's about suffering the thing about harry is that uh he's a really great person with a lot to give he's so warm and loving and uh you really always want to see him make it and despite all the pain will do his damnedest to show how much he loves people and to me that means he's still in there pure and he's not broken because he cares once someone's really gone they don't give a [ __ ] they're walking around with ripped ass out the [ __ ] boxers with no pants on down you know broadway so i know that harry's still in there harry's kind of almost like a jay adams you know like he looks at the world through the wonderment eyes of a child you know he's got this purity about him he's excited you know and he doesn't let past stuff tear down his ability to live presently in the moment i would like to walk into the skateboard saw and saw like 20 hour christian lasagna and harry dumont skateboard tag this is what harry deserves and he's not gone so he still can be an inspiration you always get crazy about harry he's gonna probably outlive all of us you know what i mean he'll probably be like that old guy that outlives everybody you know because just because he's live not nine lives 90 lives you know he's more than a cat he just i don't know how he does it i think we're going to see a lot of great things coming out of harry's life [Music] max [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey [Music] seeing my father into me was weird because i kind of detached like you know if i die i got stabbed in prison or shot up you know projects or od it sounds selfish but i don't want to live with that so i kept simple when i saw him like you know he looks like yoda he's mad old he says i am sorry and he cried and i said i love you i want to say i love you no matter what i says i don't care what happened you're my father and i love you [Music] how does it feel this is surreal you know i want to spend the rest of my days here when i took my shoes off my feet hit the ground and then i hit the water i felt like i went to heaven when i was a kid and about two months like heaven 34 years later it was like [Music] the ocean everything just like it was i'm happy i came home [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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