Flesh and Blood Page #4

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Come on, get going.

Please, honey?

- Yes, stop talking.

- All right.

(laughs) You don't have to be like that.

No, whenever you have crazy news, I like...

No, no, it's really, it's good crazy news.

But it's gonna be like really hard.

I'm running for Vice President.

(laughs)

I thought for sure when

Jill first called me...

Who's Jill?

Jill Stein, she's from the Green Party.

And...

Wait.

I'm totally serious.

You're running for Vice

President of the United States?

[Cheri] I'm running for

Vice President of the

United States of America.

Massive amounts of more

speaking engagements.

It means much more problems

with political police in my life.

- Yeah.

- It means problems

with the IRS, the CIA, the FBI.

Great.

Maybe you can get me a job?

[Cheri] Hmm. A job?

That's a different story. (laughs)

[Mark] Well, I need a f***ing job.

Honey, everybody needs a job.

In your neighborhood here,

the number one source of income is welfare.

The second number one

source of income is drugs.

Nobody's got a job, honey.

Guess who's back?

[Mark] Hey.

Hi.

[Cheri] Long time no see.

Mark!

[Mark] How you doing?

[Woman] Good to see you.

Welcome back home.

Thank you so much.

It's great to be home.

[Cheri] She's been so good to Guillermo.

Yeah, you have?

I thought you were locked up.

[Cheri] Do you remember my son?

- [Man] Is this your son? - Yeah,

they both home. - How you doing, man?

What's up? Good to see you, man.

- Okay, congratulations.

- They both home.

[Mark] Thank you.

How much time did you do?

Well, I did 18 years.

18 years?

Yeah.

Mmm hmm.

When you're dealing with

addiction and issues,

Mmm hmm.

it's like a double bubble butt.

Both my parents died from addiction.

They both OD'd and died.

Yeah.

My mom had three other

guys OD and die on her.

It took me in bad places, losing jobs,

getting locked up, being homeless.

And the crazy thing is,

I kept going back for it

knowing the consequences that

was coming for it, you know?

I OD'd eight times.

I still went right back for it.

I started using drugs

at the age of 16 years old, you know.

And I'm 54 today.

But I came in because my life

was completely unmanageable.

I didn't hurt anybody outside of my family.

I always hurt my family, you know.

I was stealing from my family.

So you can't find employment

because you got felonies?

Yeah I got a few felonies.

[Cheri] Mmm hmm.

Like I came from a suburban area.

[Cheri] Mmm hmm.

They look at me so different now.

Mmm hmm.

Like I'm a piece of gum

stuck under the table type, you know?

Well, I've seen you over the weeks,

and you look like you're

really progressing.

Thank you.

The shy guy?

Um, my name Lloyd.

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