>> NARRATOR: Tonight, from David Sutherland, the critically acclaimed director of The Farmer's Wife, comes a special Frontline series.

For everyone who remembers what it was like to be young... >> You all right?

(laughs) >> NARRATOR: ...when the whole world seemed to stretch out in front of you while you were stuck in your own back yard, comes the story of Chris and Cody, two boys growing up in a hard land.

(train horn blows) >> My father can't work because he drinks.

>> That's me.

>> NARRATOR: Chris had to bear the weight of poverty.

>> My father isn't much of a role model.

I mean, I don't exactly want to be like him.

>> I'm going to walk on down the road.

>> NARRATOR: Cody had to bear the scars of tragedy.

>> I wrote a song about my dad, about how he died, how he shot my stepmother and then he turned around, pulled a gun and he said, "Dear Lord, forgive me," and he shot himself.

I miss him a lot.

>> NARRATOR: Both boys grew up hoping for a better life than they were born to.

For Cody, the struggle is to find a place to belong while staying true to himself.

>> I'm the town attraction, I guess.

I've gotten in fights with these big rednecks, 'cause they call me a "freak" all the time.

>> NARRATOR: For Chris, the battle is to overcome the limited expectations of a lifetime.

>> A lot of people have thought that you was nothing but a failure, and the thing of it is, Chris, you've got a brilliant mind.

It's not that you can't.

The only thing that you're lacking in is the "want to."

>> NARRATOR: Ultimately, this is the story of the American Dream seen through the eyes of two boys about to become men-- their failures and their triumphs, and their determination to beat the odds.

>> To some people, this diploma is nothing more than a piece of fancy paper.

But it means a lot more to me.

This diploma means that I have a future.

(applause) >> NARRATOR: And now, David Sutherland's Country Boys.

(dog barking) >> Chris.

Christopher, you got to get up.

You've got to wake up.

You got to get in the shower in a little bit.

Christopher, I'm not going to stand here and wake you up.

Come on, get up.

You've got to wake up for school.

Now.

Hear me?

Hop up.

Sit up.

Get woke up.

Chris.

Come on, get up.

>> This morning I got up real early.

>> Cody, that's good for you.

>> Yeah, I know.

>> Well, are you ready for school?

>> Yeah, I think so.

>> Would you like some more milk?

>> No, I got to go.

Jason will be here soon.

>> Okay, so we'll plan on working then, honey, after school.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> So are you nervous, Cody?

>> Yes.

>> Cody, you have an opportunity here.

You take advantage of it.

>> All right.

>> Well, good.

>> Mm-hmm.

(dog barking) >> ♪ I don't need a mansion, don't want a limousine ♪ ♪ I don't need no diamonds or fancy golden rings ♪ ♪ I like living in the country, sitting on a back porch swing ♪ ♪ Watching mama rock the baby, listen to the robin sing ♪ ♪ I'm just a country boy, that's how I was raised ♪ ♪ I'll stay a country boy, 'till they put me in my grave ♪ >> Hey, Cody.

>> Hey, my man.

Hey, Bubba.

I guess that's your seat.

>> We live in an impoverished area.

The Appalachian region, Eastern Kentucky, has been a media hotspot.

Not too long after the Civil War you had a lot of people traveling through this region.

They saw the big timber.

They saw the coal.

And the coal companies came in.

Towns starting popping up all over the place.

But then all of a sudden it died, and these coal towns shut down overnight.

>> ♪ The work was hard but we had a lot of fun ♪ ♪ On those hot summer days ♪ >> Kiss a girl on the cheek?

>> Just like that.

>> ♪ ...starting morn working till dark ♪ Putting up that hay ♪ ♪ I'm just a country boy, that's how I was raised ♪ ♪ I'll stay a country boy 'till they put me in my grave ♪ >> Then in the 1960s, the welfare system was created, the war on poverty.

And national TV crews came through here like crazy.

They showed how these mountain people were barbarians, uneducated.

I mean, really put 'em down.

>> ♪ I'm just a country boy, that's how I was raised ♪ ♪ I'll stay a country boy 'till they put me in my grave ♪ >> I hope you make a decision to break that stereotype that we're a bunch of ignorant hillbillies and all we know to do is draw a check from the government.

So, how many of you face problems in public schools with... do you all know what elite, the elite are?

>> A high-class citizen.

>> Yeah, high-class people, high falutin' people that own, you know, businesses, especially in our area.

>> How many of you had problems in public school with kids of those people?

Picked out, doted on because they didn't live in the head of the hollers?

Chris, tell us a story, an experience maybe that you've had where someone tried to degrade you, stereotype you.

>> First grade and up.

I've always had trouble in school.

It started when I was in first grade.

They figured a behavior disorder unit would be better for me, which only made me worse.

But that's when everything got complicated, because they approved me to get Social Security, Disability, which is helping the family out a great deal.

My mom tried to home-school me, but she couldn't cope with it.

And I never did anything.

>> What is Appalachia?

>> Two years later, I decide to go back to school.

The only problem was they were passing me without telling me.

In other words, I had like a seventh-grade education, and I was in high school.

>> Ah, Cody, have you had a different experience?

>> The family I come from actually is a pretty high-class family, but yet I still have problems with people in school that are high class just because I don't look like them.

I've just never been real good in school.

Last year at Prestonsburg, I was lazy.

I've gotten four "Fs," and I got in fights with these big rednecks because they call me a "freak" all the time.

I don't know what grade I'm in, but they said as long as I work hard, I can probably be a sophomore in the next semester.

So I'm just going to try to stay out of trouble.

This might be my last chance to really get through high school.

And like, I'm from a high-class family and I still get problems from them.

>> So there's kind of a lesson: you can't judge a book by looking at its cover.

>> Uh-huh.

(bell rings) >> Okay, everybody, that was a great class.

Hopefully you got something out of it.

>> How was school, Cody?

>> Good.

>> Good?

Cody, here's your frisbee.

Here's your hat.

Is that where they belong?

>> No.

>> Oh, gosh, Cody.

Lord, there's candy and stuff, little boy.

>> Huh?

>> Okay, here.

>> Yep.

>> Put your phonebook over there.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> That's more garbage.

What a mess, what a mess, what a mess.

What are you going to do with these old balloons here?

>> Oh, keep them.

>> When Cody was five months old, his mother shot herself.

And my daughter married Cody's father.

She was his fourth wife.

And he had this child, 18 months old.

Little dirty, little dirty, dirty, dirty boy.

So, I fell in love with Cody, and then they got divorced.

I would always send him things for his birthday and Christmas.

And I'd always asked everyone I could, "Have you seen Cody?"

Pink cheeks on his face, pretty child.

Then Cody's father passed away, and he lived with his aunt.

They couldn't get along, and Cody said, "I want to move with Liz."

So he's been with me two years.

>> That feels like a lot of hair.

>> It does?

>> Yeah.

>> Well, I'm not going to cut a lot everywhere.

But we need to cut... >> I want the back to grow out, too.

>> Well, it will grow out, but you need to trim underneath so where the top of it can come down, Cody.

You know, you look so scraggly whenever... >> I like looking scraggly.

>> I'm not going to cut the top of it.

Let it all come down, but keep this trimmed up.

Okay?

>> Okay.

>> So, that will look much better that way.

So, there you go, little boy.

>> No, that's too short.

>> Hm?

Now here, let's get the hair off of you.

(train whistle blows) >> So, Mom, how's work?

>> I'm getting tired of cleaning so much.

Lord, it's killing me.

It's wearing me out.

>> Any raises?

>> No.

>> No?

>> No.

(laughs) Just tired.

>> Ah.

>> Christopher, he's 16, but he's still my baby.

And he'll always be my baby, and he knows it.

>> Well, that's fine.

>> He knows if he wants to leave home, fine, just so you don't go too far.

But he also knows if he don't want to go, he don't have to, ever.

>> Ow, it hurts.

>> It's a splinter.

>> Ouch.

Second time I've had a splinter.

Ouch.

>> Give me your foot.

>> Ouch.

>> I've got a tiny needle.

In our house anything could happen.

I never know when I come from work what I'm walking into, because my husband, Randall, is so hooked on drinking he might set it off.

Randall's got cirrhosis, and he can't work.

And I took care of him for 17 years, like one of my kids.

>> I mean, that's all I've ever done.

>> Randall's real sick, and eventually he won't be around.

My kids know it.

I've told them that it's going to happen, but you just don't know when.

You just got to wait.

We can wheel and deal and work out something.

You got to have money, and someone had to pick up the slack, and it was me.

Me cleaning hotels has been the main source of income.

>> Come out here a minute, Chris, and I'll show you where it is.

>> Alrighty, Pop.

>> Turn that key on.

Just turn it on, that's all you got to do.

>> Crank it?

>> Yeah, good luck.

(car struggles to turn over) >> I'll tell you what it is, we had that new exhaust put on there.

>> Hey, Randall, that did it.

>> No way that car shouldn't run.

I can show you right here.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> Push that way up.

Double it all the way up, and then we can always... >> Here's our problem.

>> Here, let me have it again.

>> If I can just get that one corner... >> No, here, I'll show you how to do that.

Double it all the way up, see what I'm saying?

>> Yeah, I see it.

>> Right down here.

>> I am doubling it up.

>> Yeah.

Let's double it up here, if I can.

I'm...

I can't, I'm shaking too bad, Son.

>> If we can just get that... you got a flathead?

>> Nah, we'll get it here, Son.

>> No, Pop.

>> I know, patience.

>> No, right here.

My father can't work because he drinks.

He was the water boy at a construction site.

>> That's me.

>> Then he worked at McDonald's for a long time.

But then he just up and quit.

>> I'm back here by myself.

>> As you know, my father isn't much of a role model.

I mean, I don't exactly want to be like him.

>> That's the truth.

>> So I created my own personal hero.

Like, Xavier is a character with great power, strength, intelligence, bravery, not afraid to take on the odds.

I use this character to keep my problems and my anger under control.

When I go to the David School, I'm used to being invisible.

I'm always in the corner somewhere sitting, no one talking to me.

Any time I get stressed out, I become Xavier.

Just knowing even though he is fictional I can look up to him.

The thought of Xavier keeps me going.

>> Tom, third and fourth for shop.

>> That's great.

>> You have been talking throughout my entire class.

It's not appropriate.

>> I said, "Okay, look, I'll be quiet."

>> It's not appropriate.

>> I said, "Okay, I'll be quiet," and then you started bitching at both of us.

That's stupid.

That's retarded, just shut up, go away.

>> No, you got up into my face and you told me, "Hey, you think I'm hot, why don't you stare at me some more."

>> We'll talk about this after lunch.

I'm done eating my lunch, we'll talk about it then.

>> Yeah, because I have lunch duty.

So we will discuss this later.

While we're waiting, you guys can sit in here.

>> Cody, she contradicts herself a hundred times over.

>> She's always screaming at me, dude.

>> I'm sure I said, "Why don't you respect me?"

And I said, "I'm tired of hearing you guys run your mouths."

So now they said that it was unjustly provoked.

>> These boys have been tough to deal with.

>> They're constantly talking in my class, constantly.

>> Be direct.

>> I've spoken to them about it.

>> And she goes, "You're both benched."

>> I mean, I didn't say anything.

>> And this is not the first occasion.

Cody told me he doesn't treat his other teachers like that.

He just likes to give me a bad time.

>> Well, then you need to tell Mitzi.

>> She wouldn't let us talk.

I don't like Angie.

She kind of acts like she's better than all of us.

She always throws this college degree of hers at us, and I could really care less about her degree.

She's ten years older than us, and it seems like we've got more common sense than she does.

>> Then you sit there and you stare at me and stare at me.

>> Cody, teachers are teachers.

The students are looking at you as a leader.

They're looking at how you respect the rights of others and teachers.

Sometimes we misinterpret freedom of speech.

For example, Angie says you use that to her.

"Well, I can say anything to you because I have freedom of speech."

So we can improve on respecting the rights of others.

>> Okay.

>> I will prepare myself to be an independent person.

What are some of the things you're working on now to help Cody be an independent person, to stand on his own two feet?

>> I don't know, I think I pretty well do that.

>> Give me some examples of how you're doing that.

>> Well, what do you mean like examples?

>> Okay.

There was one thing in class we talked about, to just think of how much money it costs to feed us a week.

What if you had to supply that?

You know, if you have to buy your own car, how are you doing to do that?

>> Well, I do have to get a job here soon, because, like, I can't drive before I'm 18 anyways, but I need to start saving up money for insurance and stuff like that.

>> Mm-hmm, have you checked that out?

>> Not yet, since I'm not getting a job until the summer.

Liz told me she doesn't want me working while school is going on.

>> When will you be able to get your license?

You can now.

>> No, I can't, because I don't have any permanent guardian.

I just got temporary.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> So I can't get it until I'm 18.

>> Mm-hmm.

That's interesting.

>> And it costs like $1,200 to get a permanent guardianship, so... >> Mm-hmm.

Do you have any questions so far?

>> What grade am I in?

>> What grade are you in?

You're a sophomore.

>> Okay.

(bell rings) >> Man, Angie got me in trouble with Mitzi.

>> Hey Chris, where's Mom?

>> Honestly, I don't know.

How are you getting along in there, Amy?

>> That smells good.

>> You're going to have to get off there in a minute, okay?

>> Why?

>> The food is almost done.

>> Okay, just holler.

>> Okay.

>> I'll get out.

>> All right, I'll holler.

>> But tell me if Daniel comes back, I'll get I'll get whooped.

>> No, you won't.

>> Daniel told me not to come back in his room.

>> Well, that's Daniel.

>> But now, it's you.

>> That's right, it's me.

All right, Amy, come and get it.

>> All right.

>> It's from my own specialty.

>> That's enough.

>> Is that all?

>> No.

That's good.

Chris, mmm, you're acting like a chef.

>> Yeah, but I can't cook like one.

>> You make good 'pasghetti.

>> Thank you.

>> Best I've ever tasted.

>> Yeah, memaw's is always the best.

>> Uh-uh, yours is.

Chris, can you fix my bicycle?

>> Yeah, I'll fix your bike.

>> Because everybody's been making fun of me... >> Mm-hmm.

>> ...'cause of my bike.

>> Amy, just don't pay any attention to them.

>> I don't.

But they always squirt me with a water hose.

Remember that one day when I came home soaking wet?

>> Yeah, I remember.

>> I lied.

I wasn't up at Sherry's, I got soaked by the water hose.

They went and tied my hands together... >> But, Amy, you shouldn't tell fibs.

>> ...with an old, big rope.

(music playing) >> I heard yesterday that there was 20 confirmed cases of mononucleosis at the high school.

That's what they call the "kissing disease."

>> Oh, the what?

>> The kissing disease.

>> Oh, what's that?

What happens when you get mono?

>> You like...

I don't know, what happens?

>> Well, I think I'd have to read up on it, but I know that you get a little...

I believe your throat... you get sore throat and you get... you just feel like you're run down.

And it lasts forever, it's kind of chronic.

It's hard to get rid of.

>> Well, how do you know the difference between that and the meningitis thing?

>> Because the meningitis gets worse and worse.

Like Cody says, you get the stiff neck and then you get a headache.

Then eventually you get a rash on your body.

And then you get to you can't straighten your legs out.

And by that time, you're pretty sick.

You should be in the hospital by that time.

>> We should go get shots for that someday.

>> Yeah, I think so, too.

Daddy's home.

>> Yep.

>> Are you sure you don't want to sing, Jessie?

>> I don't want to sing, Daddy.

>> Yeah.

>> What's wrong with you guys?

>> (laughs) No singing.

>> You were singing up a storm.

>> No, no, no, no, no, no... >> Well, let's go down to the studio.

>> Why don't you sing, Daddy?

>> Okay.

I would play your style of music, but I just don't think I know the words to it.

>> My fingernails are the same color as your guitar.

(strums on guitar) >> Yeah.

Of course the only thing I play is songs I write.

And you'll be singing this to Jessica some day.

(guitar playing) >> ♪ Well, I've chased you all over this place ♪ ♪ I've been down on my knees ♪ >> Jessica's dad didn't really like me too well at first.

If you're her daddy and your little girl brought home somebody who looked like me, you wouldn't like him too much either.

But me and him get along pretty well now.

>> ♪ ...well, I went to my doctor ♪ ♪ I was a-feeling a little blue... ♪ >> There's a lot of rumors that went around.

They were like we did all of this sexual, immoral stuff.

Her dad don't know, 'cause if he had heard it, she wouldn't be allowed to see me.

>> ♪ Hell, I can't build a car, honey ♪ ♪ If you won't let me start ♪ ♪ Well, I can't be the one that's deep in your heart ♪ ♪ If you don't love me, if you don't love me ♪ (guitar playing) >> Cool.

>> That's good.

For country, it's good, I'm not much on country.

>> Like I said, Cody, someday when you get my age, you'll be singing that to her.

>> No, I won't.

(laughter) >> No.

>> My music, it's like a little bit of Goth and it's got some thrash in it.

And it's basically metal, and it's got all Christian lyrics.

All the metal bands out there, they just don't have any good morals, you know.

So I just went the opposite way and write a lot of music with the band about life experiences we've had.

♪ Well, I was 12 years old without a father... ♪ I wrote a song about my dad, about how he died, you know, like, I'm not going to see him again.

That's horrible.

♪ ...two shots to the chest, flesh hits the wall... ♪ How he went into that strip club with an AK-47 in a trench coat and shot my stepmother.

She was a stripper.

She called my dad and threatened to kill me and him both.

And I suppose that's why he did what he did.

♪ ...to your chest and blow yourself away... ♪ And then he turned around and he said, "Dear Lord, forgive me," and he shot himself, and it blew his whole back open.

♪ ...God is the only one keeping me sane ♪ ♪ Otherwise I would just put a bullet in my brain ♪ Before I got saved I was so suicidal.

And then afterwards I found a new reason to live.

(playing electric guitar) (dogs barking) >> Hey, Mitzi.

>> Hey, Chris, how you doing?

>> So far so good.

(laughs) Have a seat anywhere.

>> Okay.

Well, I wanted to bring you up to date on Chris' progress reports.

>> Now, that's scary.

(laughter) >> Well, it's not too scary and it's not anything that you can't do anything about.

It's all in your control.

>> Ugh.

>> And we're going to help you with it.

>> All right.

>> Chris' conduct in science class is very good.

>> Good.

>> At this point he is keeping up with class requirements.

But Jametta also has... >> Uh-oh.

>> ...under "Comments," maybe some ways to help out with not getting behind even if you are absent.

>> He won't get to bed early anymore, I still make him go.

>> Mm-hmm.

And Math.

>> Ugh.

>> "Chris is starting to grasp the idea of Math.

"He has made a lot of improvements this year.

Keep up the good work."

When I first met you, your comment toward math is, "Can't understand it."

So I think now that you're kind of getting some of the basics of this.

>> I'm starting to have fun with it.

>> Mm-hmm.

It can be fun if you put it into terms of how you're going to use it in life.

>> But you see, the reason why I'm keeping up in that class is he lets me work at my own pace.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> That's... that's what helps me out so much.

>> He's done a lot better this year.

>> Mm-hmm, socially and academically.

>> If he keeps this up, he might pass.

>> If he keeps it up, getting him to realize that.

>> Yeah.

>> I'm not much in book sense, but you put me in front of a computer, I'll figure it out.

It may take me a little while, but I'll get it.

>> Well, I'm hoping that by the end of next semester, the computer lab will be full force, up and going.

>> I've got something up here that helps you with resumes.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> Um, even we could make a David newspaper.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> And I've got it right up here, it's Cannon Creative.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> I... Heck, if you want, I could start a newspaper.

>> Would that be something that you would want to get with a couple of students and do, is do a newsletter every month, what's going on, what's.... And they give you their articles and you put them on the computer?

>> Well, yes, yes.

>> Let's do it.

>> All right.

>> Let's start it tomorrow.

>> Okay.

>> I think that's excellent that you're taking the step to do that.

So... so, okay.

Well, that's what I have on my plate for today.

If you guys don't have any other questions.

>> That covered all of mine.

>> He can do it, okay.

>> It's good seeing you again, Mitzi.

>> It's good to see you.

>> Since sometimes where there aren't any people in the office, if you want I can just put it all down on computer.

>> Well, that computer has crashed on me, so you're going to have to help me get that one up and going.

>> I'll give it my best.

Is yours on the Internet?

>> No, that one isn't.

>> I might have said some stuff.

>> Now, I can't help you on newspaper.

>> That just popped up.

I don't know what I'm going do, shoot me.

I don't know what I'm going to do anymore.

>> You'll figure it out.

>> Yeah.

I know grown-up pressures or problems, but teenagers have them, too, and now I'm just...

So far, I've basically said I'm going to get up in front of the school, I'm going to tell them about the newspaper-- me, scared to be in a group-- and I'm going to get up in front of the entire school, talk about a newspaper.

>> Yeah, but once you get it started, then it will all come easier to you.

>> Well it's going to be...

I know it's going to be rocky at first.

>> Yeah, everything is.

>> I really want it to work, but I don't know how good it will be.

>> Well... >> I'll give it my best shot, though.

>> It's the first time, you know.

Nobody is perfect on the first time.

>> You've got a point, I might do it... just do it.

>> All right, what I want Chris to talk to folks about an idea that he had mentioned at our home visit.

So, Chris, explain some of the things that you're going to be working on?

>> Well, I sort of got interested on the idea of a newspaper for the David School.

I mean, it would be a once-a-month thing, but I really haven't gotten any ideas on it.

But all I want to do is just find like a few reporters or just a couple of people who's real social, 'cause, as you know, I'm not.

So... and I'm not one of the fastest writers, but I've seen a few who can.

So if any of you guys like to help me out, I'd be happy for the help.

>> If we're going to do a newspaper, we need to put like teenage stuff in it... >> Well, yeah.

>> ...like, you know, a gossip column, good stuff like that.

>> Horoscopes.

>> Yeah, horoscopes.

>> Well, do we have any artists?

If anybody wants to do a funnies page, heck, I'll put that in, too.

>> What about Ann Landers and... >> Yeah, I know what she's talking about.

Like, people asking questions and crap.

>> "Lonely in Louisiana."

>> There we go: "Dear Abby."

>> It's like a "Dear Abby."

What can... you know?

>> Nah.

>> Do you understand it?

>> No.

>> Are you taking notes, Chris?

>> She's doing it.

>> Once my ideas go, they're... >> I'm a little slow, so she's doing it for me.

>> I'll just write it on this for right now.

>> Okay.

>> This newspaper gives me meaning.

I mean, to hell with glory, to hell with people noticing me.

All I care about is just having a meaning in life.

And right now, at this point, it's the newspaper.

The hell with everything else.

>> Chris, you need to decide on a date.

>> Hmm.

>> What date do you want?

I know you probably want to work some on this on Christmas break.

Have I got that correct?

>> Um-hmm.

>> So is there any way you guys can have some type of information on Friday, so we can let him take it home with him?

>> Yeah.

I can do like a rough draft for the paper just to give you guys the general idea.

>> Okay, so when is our first paper going to come out?

>> I'd say I'd have it in by... Well, whenever we come back.

I should have that rough draft by the time we come back.

>> Okay, the scheduled date is January the 3rd.

>> January 3rd?

>> Um-hmm.

>> Well, it should be in January 3rd.

>> Okay, on Friday have your articles ready, and we'll put it all in a packet for Chris to take home so he can work on it.

All right, does everybody got that?

>> Mm-hmm.

>> Okay, the main organs for the male testicles, the testes where the sperm is produced, and the penis.

When sperm is produced, it lives 48 to 72 hours.

Any questions?

>> Uh, they're just now starting to research being able to keep men pregnant.

Like they're gonna... they have to implant all of this stuff into them, and then they're born through a C-section and stuff like that.

>> Oh, my God.

>> A man being pregnant?

>> I don't think you should mess with what God has created.

>> Yep.

>> Because that can run into problems.

They clone sheep, and now they want to clone humans.

Do you think it will work?

>> No.

>> I don't think it's going to work.

>> It might work, but I don't think it's right.

>> It's not right, okay, now.

>> Jameta?

>> Uh-huh?

>> Have you ever heard about a baby having a stroke while it's still inside the mother's womb?

>> No.

>> I did.

>> Did you?

>> Yeah, it caused epilepsy, too.

I had a stroke while she was pregnant with me.

>> Wow, I know it can happen, but I've never heard of anybody doing it.

>> Yep.

>> Okay, you all, those of you that weren't here, you need to get the notes from someone that was in here yesterday.

And there's two drawings on the heart that you need to do.

>> When are these definitions due?

>> You can finish them tomorrow, if you don't get them done today.

>> Oh, okay.

>> Okay?

>> Yeah.

>> What you got on, black with glitter?

>> Yeah.

>> That's pretty.

(harmonica music playing) >> Hello.

>> Hey, babe, what you doing?

(laughs) Oh, sit down, Cody.

>> Yes, Ma'am.

(laughs) Am I spelling it right so far?

>> Yeah, he's your dad.

>> All right, okay, here it is, here it is.

>> Don't push back.

No, you want to find articles right there.

>> This is it right here.

>> That's it.

>> Hush now.

When my dad shot my stepmother and killed himself, it was on the front page news for about three days.

She never even got a restraining order against him.

>> Really?

>> Yeah, and she quit her job.

He didn't cause her to lose it.

Stupid asses.

I couldn't believe it happened.

It was a terrible feeling, like your whole world is being crushed.

>> There's you.

"There was no effort to contact his 12-year-old son's school."

>> Hold on... >> "Beaten?"

>> Oh, you're getting ahead of me.

Don't tell me what's up ahead.

>> Okay, all right.

>> He didn't beat her, I know that much.

She never had any marks on her or anything.

He just didn't believe in hitting women.

Oh, Jesus Christ.

>> Are you okay?

>> No.

So far from what it says right here, he probably would have went to jail anyway.

Hmmm, nobody tells the kid anything.

>> Oh, God.

>> Jesus.

>> Did you know about any of that?

>> Huh?

>> Did you know about any of that?

>> Yeah, a little bit.

>> They're making your dad sound like he's a jerk.

>> It says he was caught twice for carrying concealed weapons.

And this is my fault, actually, because I left one of my knives underneath the truck seat.

>> A Rambo knife?

>> Yep.

>> With a 12-inch blade?

>> Yep.

(laughs) That was mine.

>> Good one, Cody.

Did you get in trouble for that?

>> Yes, my dad was mad.

>> Oh, God.

>> But me and my dad, we weren't just father and son.

We were best friends.

>> Oh.

>> And actually, if it wasn't for my dad I probably wouldn't be playing heavy metal music.

>> Uh-huh.

>> He bought me my first Metallica CD... >> Yeah.

>> ...when I was ten years old.

>> Cool.

>> I miss him a lot.

>> Yeah.

>> And I think about him every day.

>> Yeah.

(train whistles blow) >> Hey, Jay!

>> What?

>> Okay, let's try and go around.

>> I'm trying to, Chris.

Wooo-oooh, wooo-ooooh!

You're going to drop me here!

>> Me and Jay, we're just friends.

He's easy to talk to.

He's like a giant kid.

>> I don't know.

>> Everyone thinks him stupid because how he speaks.

Would you mind letting go of my shirt so I could breathe?

>> Wooo-oooh!

>> He can't read, he can't write.

>> I don't want to kill myself.

>> But Jay is a very intelligent person.

>> Whoo!!

>> I'm a-comin, I'm comin, I'm comin-- you all right?

>> I'm dying.

>> How about we get over to the fence where you can grab on to something.

>> Yeah, oh.

>> Yeah, pretty dead tonight, isn't it?

>> It ain't much doing.

How's everything going at the David School?

>> Eh, I don't know.

>> How's the newspaper going?

>> It's fine.

>> Fine.

>> I don't think I'm going to stick with it, though.

>> Well, try, Chris, give it 100%, well?

>> My 100% is like 50% to most people.

There ain't no chance in hell I'll do it.

>> Try... keep trying until you get better.

Practice makes perfect, Chris.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> Do you got to be home now?

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah?

(train whistle blows) (dog barking) >> Cody, in school do they make you pray or anything?

>> Pray before you eat.

>> Oh, really.

>> Just a little short prayer, like, "God, thank you for this food, amen."

>> That's it?

God.

>> Sometimes they're praying and you don't even know it.

There's like talking about the day and stuff, and he'll say something every now and then like, "Thank the Lord," and he'll go, "Amen," and everybody is like... >> (laughs) I asked Christ to save me, and he provided me Cody.

Gave me Cody, that's what I needed, too.

God is just like so merciful.

And if you wanted to change yourself, God will save you just like that.

All you got to do is ask him.

And that is like the coolest thing.

>> Hug me, hug me.

>> I love Jessica a lot.

She's really fun to be around.

We've got interests in a lot of the same stuff.

And we've got the same sense of humor and everything.

She's like a female version of me.

>> Look what you did.

>> Except she's prettier.

>> I just stayed up until midnight cleaning this room.

>> ♪ Some people like to sing about the people ♪ ♪ That they love but I'm here to sing about heaven above ♪ ♪ Because you see my best friend he lives up there ♪ ♪ And promises someday his glories he will share ♪ ♪ Well, people can be nice ♪ ♪ But not like Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ He doesn't judge his love or the things you say and do ♪ ♪ He'll always stay the same and he'll keep on loving you ♪ >> The church's music is not my favorite music in the world, but I asked the minister and his son if they needed a lead guitarist, and they said they needed someone to play for them.

>> ♪ ...take this message and go out and share ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Okay, you're working into it more and more.

That's good.

We're going to try and meet an hour or so before.

>> So what day is it?

>> Saturday.

Next Saturday at 7:00 in Pikeville.

>> Okay, cool.

The thing I like most about their church is it's nondenominational.

And I like the fact that they do realize that not everybody is perfect, and like they didn't judge me.

I came in there the first time with my fingernails painted bright red, my hair was bleached out.

A lot of churches would have told me to get out, because that's happened before.

>> The trials that we have are various.

They could be your job, they could relationships.

They could be depression.

>> You know, God doesn't care if I'm wearing this or a tux, you know, he doesn't care.

>> These trials are a necessary part of life.

If you have your Bibles, turn to Job.

Probably one of the classic examples of somebody who was tested in faith was Job.

And there's this dialogue goes on.

God is sitting in heaven and Satan comes up and God says, "Hey, have you seen my servant Job?"

And apparently Satan had seen Job because he says, "He's a good guy, he's righteous.

But let's see his faith tested."

And so God allows Satan to take his family away, to take his wealth away, and to take his health away.

>> I try to follow what the Bible is telling you to do, like love everybody.

That's real hard for me to do, because there's a lot of people I don't like, and I try to be nice.

>> ♪ I seem to lose my faith ♪ ♪ Every time the going gets too tough ♪ ♪ Sometimes I wonder if this Christian thing ♪ ♪ Is just of love ♪ ♪ Oh, but deep inside my heart I will always know there ♪ ♪ Is an everlasting love with Him, everlasting flow ♪ ♪ And it's waiting for me with every tear ♪ ♪ With ever fear that tries to dominate my heart ♪ ♪ You'll be there ♪ >> Isn't it a sin to cut your hair?

>> It is not.

>> Well, here it is.

All right, in the Bible, they say it's wrong for me to have long hair and wrong for women to have short hair.

But what it says, it said this is by law of man, of nature.

But for whoever does not believe this, then this law does not apply to them.

So, basically, if you think it's wrong to cut your hair, then when you cut your hair it's a sin.

If you don't think it's wrong, it's not a sin.

>> Where is that?

>> It's in the Second Corinthians somewhere, I think, in like Chapter 10, it might be, I think.

I'm not for sure, though.

>> (whispers) How do you know this?

>> Cody reads it.

>> I'm a Christian and nobody believes me.

>> No, I'm not saying that, I'm not.

>> No, I'm just saying... no, I'm just saying the fact that nobody believes me.

>> Well, I believe you.

>> Well, good, somebody does.

I guess just you and my friends believe me.

The rest of them don't.

>> How much hairspray did that take you to do your hair?

>> Feel it.

>> What did you use in that?

>> Gel.

It's like this bucket of gel like that my grandma gave me.

(laughter) >> Chris, you said you will take on the school newspaper.

>> Yeah.

>> But I don't want everything on your shoulders.

>> Uh-huh.

>> Think of a student that you're pretty close to here at school.

>> Casey.

>> Okay.

>> He might do it, I'll have to ask him, though.

>> All right.

Would Casey be able to take notes and get the quotes?

>> Um, he has a... he can... he writes backwards, but I can understand what he writes.

>> Okay.

>> So, I mean, he'd probably be a lot more help than half the students I've tried to work with.

>> Well, then why don't you ask Casey if he would help you with... you know what I'm...

The more there are other students that you can get to help you with this.

Why don't we do this for the first edition?

You're going to take the photos tomorrow at graduation?

>> Yeah.

>> Um... >> When is their graduation, anyway?

>> 12:00 tomorrow.

>> 12:00 tomorrow?

>> Mm-hmm.

>> Well, I'll be there with a camera.

>> Okay.

>> Well, I have to bum a camera, but... >> Our school has a camera.

>> Oh, thank God.

(laughs) >> Okay, tonight I need you to do typing.

Start projecting how much space you want to give to each of the articles.

>> All right.

>> Great, do we got a plan?

>> We got one.

>> You've got a lot of work.

>> Oh, yeah.

(laughs) >> Okay, well, great, I appreciate it.

It's going to be great.

I know you... you're going to do a great job on this.

I know you are.

>> I hope.

>> Thank you.

>> That sounds good.

>> Good luck.

>> Good luck, well, I'll need it.

(laughs) (bell rings) Phew, out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Display, right?

>> Review, turn the little knob.

>> Uh, here?

>> Now hit Review.

>> Oh, God.

>> Turn to Review, now hit it, there you go.

>> Oh, okay.

("Pachelbel's Canon" plays in background) (camera clicks) Hmm.

>> Bless these graduates.

Give them courage, joy, peace of mind as they go out into the world.

May their lives be filled with the pleasure of youthfulness and success in all their endeavors.

We ask this in your name, through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, amen.

(applause) >> Thank you.

>> Hmm.

>> You're going to drop all of yours.

>> Yeah.

>> But I'll take one of those just the same.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> But Casey, just...

I don't want, like, statistics, okay?

Tell me how you feel about hunting, how hunting is supposed to be.

I mean, how you feel hunting should be, stuff like that.

I mean, I don't care if it's criticism.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> It's an article.

I'll put it in.

Today I'll start writing an article.

And you tell me the words and I type them down.

>> Okay.

>> I'll get on my computer and I'll start writing an article.

Good luck, compadre.

I'll be sure to slander your name.

>> Cody, here, I have found your Bible, Cody.

>> Thank you.

>> Put your dog collar up here.

Are those your dirty clothes under the bed?

Is that where they belong?

>> No.

>> What a mess, what a mess, what a mess.

Toilet paper in here, Cody?

>> That's when I was sick.

>> I'll go and clean your desk and then... Cody, honey, you can't hardly walk in here.

Oh, Cody, what is laying here?

>> What?

>> Yeah, what?

What is that laying there?

Hmm?

>> Huh?

>> Hmm?

>> It's a condom.

>> Um-hmm, yeah.

What is that?

>> Oh.

>> Hmmm?

I thought that was forbidden here, didn't you think?

Isn't that what we agreed to?

>> Yes.

>> Yes, well, well, what?

>> It's hard.

>> Well, how come it hard?

>> Well, what do you think?

>> Well, I have no idea, you tell me.

>> Uh.

>> I've suspected for quite some time that they were sexually active, and I found the evidence.

>> God.

>> That's what you were told to do.

So I said, "You're too young to have a child.

We don't need that."

>> No.

>> How would you support a family?

What would you do, be a welfare bum?

I mean, you need an education.

Oh gosh, Cody.

Of course, I know he's a teenager and they'll do what they can do.

So I said, "Well, if you're going to do this, you do it at her house."

He said, "Well, we can't do it there."

>> So, how did your day go?

>> Eh, it was okay.

>> You don't sound very enthusiastic.

>> Mr. Siemens bugged us.

>> What did he do?

>> Like, me and Cody, we were outside.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> We were waiting for his bus.

And it was like really, really, really cold out there.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> And so we were just huddled together so we could keep warm.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> And we weren't kissing or anything, and we were... >> Mm-hmm.

>> We weren't.

We really weren't.

>> (laughs) >> We were just out there all huddled up.

And Mr. Siemens came out there and said, "You two separate.

"This isn't a living room, this is a public high school.

You can't do that here."

I swear he said it just like that.

>> Did he?

>> And Cody was cranky anyway.

He was like, "arararararara" grumble, curse.

>> Now, you sure?

Because I know how you and Cody are when you get together.

>> We weren't doing anything, Mom.

>> You didn't have your lips all over him, Honey?

>> No.

>> Jessica is so in love with Cody.

And I worry that she's going to be sexually active.

But she says, "Cody and I are not going "to do anything like that.

"Um, we realize, you know, what a responsibility, and we know better and we're not going to go that far."

So I believe her, I trust Jessica.

I trust her to have good judgment.

But if Jessica is going to have sex no matter what, she needs to come to me and we need to talk about birth control.

I wonder if Dad's took the trash down yet.

I mean, you'll have to do that here in a little bit.

You think so?

>> Mmm, yeah, where is he at?

>> You know, when I was 16, I kind of messed my life up.

I had to get married because we had a baby coming, and it wouldn't... >> It wasn't me... >> It wasn't her.

>> ...it was his first wife.

>> It was my first wife.

And it was a hard life, I had to work all my life.

You know, I had to start very young.

And I definitely don't want to see Jessica go through that.

>> Okay.

That's as good as I'm going to get it, so... >> Okay, thank you.

>> You're free to go, all right.

>> Thank you.

>> Get out of here, kid.

>> Well, how's the big newspaper going?

>> You would bring that up.

>> So?

>> I'm not looking forward to meeting with Mitzi tomorrow for the newspaper.

>> Well, have you thought of anything, like you told Mitzi?

>> We're working on it.

>> I want a copy.

>> Yeah, I'd say you do.

>> I do.

(laughs) >> I told them it would be just a once-a-month thing.

>> Have you written down anything on it, or... >> I'm just now getting started.

>> You're just now getting started on it?

>> Phew.

Now, if I can just figure out a way to have a newspaper without having to kill myself doing it.

I mean, I have two weeks and all.

>> School's about out, Christopher.

>> Yeah, I know.

>> Then you're off until after New Year's.

>> I don't want to work on the newspaper the entire vacation.

>> No, Christian, uh-huh.

>> Let's go out and party.

>> I don't think so.

>> (laughs) Thought.

>> ♪ ...one horse open sleigh, o'er the fields we go ♪ ♪ Laughing all the way, ha, ha, ha, ha ♪ ♪ Bells on bob tails ring making spirits bright ♪ ♪ What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight ♪ ♪ Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells jingle all the way ♪ ♪ Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh ♪ (applause) >> Good morning, it's Friday.

I'm glad to see you guys made the effort the last day of school before our Christmas break to come on out and enjoy the fun and work today.

Also, we have a newspaper group was supposed to meet at 9:30 this morning.

Chris is not here.

If he happens to come in late, I'll let you know.

But he's not here, and that is our... kind of the project director of the whole project.

But if you do have articles, you have something, please turn those in and I can get those to your editor, Chris Johnson.

>> I got up, smoked a cigarette, and then it suddenly hits me: if I didn't go to school I couldn't collect the articles and work on that newspaper the entire two weeks I was off.

I mean, I don't want to work through Christmas, sit in front of a computer, wind up making my ass as sore as hell.

I mean, I'm not like one of these perfect editors.

So let the students have a good time, let me have a good time, and then we'll just start fresh and be ready to take on the paper whenever school starts back.

(music playing) >> Hey Jessica, what are you getting me for Christmas?

>> Uh, nothing.

(laughs) >> Yeah you did, come on.

>> A pony, I got you a pony, a pony and a monkey.

>> Guess... you know what I got you for Christmas?

>> What?

>> Couldn't tell you.

>> (laughs) Is it... >> Couldn't tell you.

>> They're beautiful Christmas lights, ain't they, Chris?

>> (laughs) Yeah.

Because all I got is a few lights up on the roof and maybe a couple of angels streamed across the wall.

>> (laughs) >> I figured we might as well rent some movies now.

>> Yeah, might as well.

>> Ah, why not?

S * *t, sit around, have us a little fun.

And we'll have us a hell of a night.

>> Hope so.

(dog barking) >> Ah, Pumpkin's dog is at it again.

>> So, maybe someday, Chris, you want to get a woman?

(laughs) >> Ah, why not, something to do.

>> Yeah.

>> I'd like to have a little fun before I have to go back to school.

>> Yeah.

>> So, how is your girlfriend doing?

>> Fine.

Chris, my girlfriend wants to fix you up on a blind date.

>> Oh, no, I ain't...

I ain't going with this blind date business.

>> (laughs) >> But seriously, though, all joking aside, maybe we just hang out tonight and watch a little anime or something.

Just something to do.

>> Yeah.

♪ ♪ (bell rings) >> Good morning.

>> Good morning.

>> Wow, it's good to see a full house today.

I hope you liked your Christmas break.

Um, well, Chris Johnson mentioned to me that he would like to kind of just talk about, you know, where the newspaper is at with us.

So, Chris, do you want to talk about the newsletter a little bit for us?

>> Well, I tried to find some participants to help out in that newsletter, but not many showed up.

I mean, I had a lot of people talk about it, but I didn't have too many show up.

So, with the help of the staff and...

When I came back to school, I thought the newspaper thing had ended.

I thought for sure they forgot about it, and I'm off the hook.

But when Mitzi mentions the paper, I couldn't believe it.

Then I figured there's no turning back.

I got myself into it, I might as well finish it.

Well, it should be done by Wednesday.

I mean, it's not much more I can say.

>> You should have your information by Wednesday?

>> Hopefully.

>> A week from today?

>> Yeah.

>> Okay.

And again, he's needing some help.

So, my thought for the day is this-- whoops-- opportunity knocked, guys, take advantage of it.

You guys have a good day, see you guys Friday.

>> See, you're able to talk to people, I can't do it.

I ain't got the bravery.

I'm shy in front of groups.

>> So that's why you won't write nothing for the newspaper?

>> Right, I can't...

I can't ask him, I ain't...

I just ain't got the nerve for it.

That's why-- hello-- that's why I'm trying to find somebody who's got the nerve, and I know you do.

(laughs) I know you do.

And you can't lie either, I know it.

>> That's true.

>> You're the most talkative person in the smoking area.

I'm sitting here like... >> That's just me though, I don't know why.

>> Hey, don't worry about it, that's a good trait.

>> I'm waiting mostly for... >> Me, I think I got the bad trait.

It's called, "Be seen but not heard."

>> I'm waiting for my mom to say my progress report... >> I'm scared to death to get my progress report.

>> Really?

>> I'm sitting there, like, "I'll never get all this done.

Newspaper, homework."

>> God, do you have to type it up all by yourself?

(dogs barking) >> Let me see... (typing) Midnight Blue Debut: Dave Reffet's band plays... (dog barking) >> So you want to be a music teacher, right?

>> Yeah.

>> That's good.

>> When my dad died, all in all I got about $65,000 in the bank for college.

>> That's great.

Listen, you guys can be anything you want to be.

>> Yes.

>> Let's go into the Army so we can get tattoos.

I was supposed...

I was supposed to get one in October, but I started going to the David School.

>> Now you ain't getting no tattoos, forget that.

>> Jessica wants to get a tattoo on the back of her shoulder.

>> No.

>> Real small.

>> No.

>> Covered up by her hair.

>> N-O.

>> She's already got it, too bad.

>> Sorry.

>> Has she?

(laughs) >> Mm-hmm.

>> You're so easy, you believe anything.

>> Okay.

Explain to me, explain to me what does a tattoo do for you?

>> What's clothes do that's important?

(laughs) >> I hope it hides your innocence.

>> Well, you can wear a loin cloth for that.

>> What does a tattoo... if you had one on your back and you're going to cover it up with clothes, what good would it do you?

>> Okay, Dad, when I'm 18, I will have a tattoo.

My hair should be dyed some kind of color.

>> When you're 18... >> And then... >> ...you're still going to be living with me.

And no, you're not going to have no tattoo.

>> I'm an adult.

>> What are you going to do?

>> And I'm going to get an eyebrow ring.

>> Jessie, don't go mess up your face.

>> I'll be 18, I'm sorry.

(laughs) You can't do anything about it.

I'm sorry.

>> Jessie, Jessie, I am not going to let you do that.

>> (sighs) Amazing grace how sweet the sound... >> I am serious, I am not going to let you do that.

That's crazy.

>> ♪ ...to save a wretch like me... ♪ >> Well, I don't agree with it, either.

Don't go looking at m, if she's 18 years old.

>> La, la, la... >> Yeah, but she saying, she ain't going to be living with us.

>> But she is.

>> What?

>> You said she's going to be living with us the rest of her life.

>> ♪ Sometimes I want to-- uh, uh-- run away.. ♪ >> Jess, give me one good reason.

>> I want to, that's my reason.

>> Okay, you want to, but why?

>> Hey, Ray, why do you smoke cigarettes?

>> Because it's a habit.

>> Why did you pick it up?

You have to give me one good reason why you picked it up.

>> Because I was young and dumb and stupid.

>> Well, you can't gripe at us until you quit smoking.

>> Uh-huh.

>> I'll you what I'll do.

>> Oh, please.

(laughs) Okay, what are you going to do, we want to hear it.

If it involves quitting smoking... >> I quit for a year, now didn't I?

>> Yeah, but... >> Yeah, but didn't you chew tobacco?

>> Yes, he did.

>> Uh-huh.

>> He smoked a pipe.

>> Well, but... >> I'll tell you what, Ray, if you just give up anything that goes in your body that's not good for you, I won't get another piercing or tattoo or nothing.

>> Get rid of everything you got and I'll get rid of the cigarettes.

>> You're saying if Cody got rid of all his earrings... >> All his earrings.

>> ...and fingernail polish?

>> ...and Jessica promise me she'd never do nothing like that, I'll give up cigarettes.

>> You would not.

>> Oh, I don't believe it.

>> Honey, once I gave up cigarettes, and you know for a fact I didn't smoke at all.

>> Yes, but you still did stuff with nicotine in it.

>> You don't think I would?

>> I know, I know you wouldn't.

You can't give up cigarettes.

>> I said if Cody will give up everything he's got, and you promise me you won't do that, then I'll give up the cigarettes.

>> No, that's not the deal.

I get no more piercing or tattoos, you give up cigarettes.

>> That's the deal.

Jessica, promise me that you won't do it.

>> I did not promise you anything.

>> And don't you ever put anything in your tongue, and I'm serious.

>> I didn't promise you anything.

I didn't promise you anything.

>> I don't care whether you did or not.

Don't you ever do that, that's sickening.

>> Dad, please.

>> Well, I'm telling you, don't ever do that.

>> I'm not going to do anything until I'm 18 and I'm allowed to do whatever I want.

>> That's right, until she's 18 you'd have to sign for her to do something like that.

And we're not going to do it, so.

>> And you can't, you can't do anything about it, is the thing.

>> Well, if that's... if that's the way you feel about it.

>> That's the way I feel about it.

I should be allowed to make my own decisions about how I look.

>> Well, go ahead.

>> All right, then.

And on to a different subject.

>> (laughs) >> There is church tomorrow, right?

>> I reckon... >> I hope when you go in the church when you're 18 that you have to get up there and sing and you have to get up there and speak, and you've got this earring in your tongue.

>> Oh, boy, I hope they condemn me for that.

They don't care.

>> They won't condemn you.

>> They don't care.

>> But they'll probably make fun of you.

>> Then they're good Christians, boy, aren't they, if they go, "Ha, Ha, look at that funny-looking thing."

>> What do you think they're going to think?

>> Daddy, I don't care what people think.

>> The thing is, Ray, I'll tell you this, man, not everybody in the world is as closed minded as you are, because you are closed minded, and don't tell me you're not... >> Because if you think... >> ...Because I've been around you a lot.

I've been around you a pretty good amount of time, and I've learned you're pretty closed minded.

>> I know you think I'm closed minded, but I'm not letting her have no eye earring, or whatever you want to call it.

(rooster crows) >> I got it.

>> Okay, let's see what you got.

>> Well, basically, everything I had last time.

>> Okay.

>> So, all right, Cody is right now working on the paper for the music review.

>> Okay.

>> And Casey is going to have his article in tomorrow.

>> Okay.

>> And I think Allison's doing hers now.

>> You need to project how much material you have, and start doing a template of layout.

>> Template of layout?

>> Well, just figure out, well, this article with the graduation, you can have a picture and at least a good paragraph or two.

>> You see, I took most of the pictures.

I didn't really have time to think it through about the article.

>> Okay.

>> I figured all I was doing was taking snapshots.

Someone else in the area would do the article.

>> All right.

Is there anybody that you can think of today that could help write up something?

>> Not at... not this quick a time.

Actually, no, maybe Dwayne.

If I'm lucky, I can talk to him and maybe he can give me a little brief outline about it; how he felt about being up on stage and stuff.

>> Okay, great.

>> (sighs) >> Chris, you could put above it, Happy Valentine's Day or just Valentine's Day someplace in your paper.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> And then you can put in there... >> Mm-hmm.

>> ...how many words can you make from the word "Valentine?"

Make it a contest, right, and put in there, "50, 100, 150?"

But I don't think you can.

I don't think anybody can get that many.

But anyhow, that's just an idea for an article someplace in your paper.

Because a heart is easy to make, okay?

>> Yeah.

>> How about that?

>> Mm-hmm.

>> All right, and I'm looking for more ideas for you.

>> Yeah.

>> But that's just a help, okay?

>> Casey, I'm going to make this my first and final issue of the newspaper.

>> Huh?

You're not going to do it again?

>> Maybe later once my grades catch up.

But where I'm doing this newspaper, plus trying to make up work, too, I can't do it all.

>> Oh, nobody is helping you?

>> F * *k, no, I ain't got nothing so far.

S * *t, damn paper.

Where was I?

"How many words can you make from the words 'Happy' and 'Valentine,' 25, 50, 75 or 100 or more?"

"Both students and faculty were treated to a good time at the Music Rollerland..." Oh, God.

As soon as I get off from school I start thinking about how my father's going to turn out.

You see, my father and I don't talk too much.

But if I'm like driving along with him, I start thinking about if he's had like a little nip.

That's usually when you find him on his bad days.

And if he doesn't say a word, it's best not to talk to him.

But I really enjoy the good days.

We'll laugh or joke around.

>> Whoooo!

>> A wee bit nippy, isn't it?

>> I wish there was a lot more of them.

>> I left my jacket in the house.

Wonder what they'd say if we walk up there.

>> I don't think they'd say anything.

We're potential buyers, aren't we?

>> I hope.

>> My mother told me the only way we could buy this huge new trailer is with my father's and my SSI checks.

Oh, man, I was enthusiastic as Hell, I was eager.

(dogs barking) >> Them dogs liable to eat a man up.

>> Nah, I've been up here before.

>> Yeah, but I ain't, though.

I just want to see what it looks like anyway.

>> But you can see the building right there, Pop, the garage.

>> I see the building.

>> Mom's thinking about turning that into like a little bedroom.

>> Lets go back down out of here, whoa.

Don't want to get eat up.

(laughs) >> You'll be all right, Pop.

>> Let's roll.

>> My father, he loves the old blue piece of junk that we now live in.

>> My mother says we're going to use his check whether he likes it or not.

>> Oh, it cold.

>> He's on Disability, Social Security, and my mother is his overseer, as she is mine.

She has to sign that check before it even gets in his hands.

>> Yeah, he a little crooked, though.

>> You know, if that's what we want, Randall's going to do it.

So I decided we might as well go and get us a bigger trailer.

The 'dozer's going to come down and they're going to take off part of the driveway here and widen it.

And then they're going to come back through here, they're going to knock out these trees right here.

And get rid of them, and all of that that's growed up all out through there.

So that they can take this trailer and pull it back in here and put the new one here.

That way they can leave this one sit for a few days until I can get moved out.

>> One, two, three.

(heavy electric guitar playing) >> ♪ Well, you thought that nobody loves you ♪ ♪ But I've come to say Jesus loves you ♪ ♪ And no matter what you say there's always... ♪ It was hard getting a Christian group together because I couldn't find any Christians to do it.

Finally, I found some guys that shared the same ambition I did, and we all liked doing it.

>> Woo-wow!

>> Whoa.

>> Hey, kick ass.

>> Ow.

>> We're now at the bottom of the hill.

>> It takes a lot longer to get up it than it does down it.

>> Can we rest now?

>> Yep, we're almost halfway.

(all coughing) >> Water?

>> Yeah, water.

>> Ooh, I love this.

>> Guys, if we can make this through together we going to do anything.

>> Truthfully, dude, I want to get a church started.

The thing I hate about churches around here, they're like, "You must be holy," but, man, people aren't perfect.

And, yeah, it would be nice if you could be like that, and it's nice to try.

But everybody screws up.

>> (laughs) Exactly.

>> It'd be nice to have a church where they can understand that, and everything they teach is solely on what is written in the Bible, not opinionated.

Everybody gets to decide what they interpret from it.

I mean, if they...

I'm not twisting words.

>> Yeah, which is why... >> But you know, it says in the Bible a lot of things you have to decide for yourself.

And everything is based solely on what's written in it.

>> I hate opinionated stuff.

>> That's an opinion.

>> Wow, I guess we'll go from that.

>> Herb!

>> Wow, that sounds funny.

(singing with reverb) >> Cool.

>> Check it out, guys.

>> So it's legal to be up here when it's not in operation, isn't it?

>> I think so.

>> Yeah, it's our American right.

>> Did you know 33% of America's land is owned by the government?

>> So?

>> That means, like, we don't have any rights.

>> The government is a system of a down.

>> Exactly.

I hate the government, I really do.

>> Actually, government is a good thing.

>> The good thing about government is controlling crime.

>> If there was no government, I'd just go "pow," and nobody could do nothing about it.

The strong will survive.

>> You see, we'd all be dead right now if it weren't for the government.

>> You have to decide for yourself.

>> Yeah.

The strong will survive.

>> Our government ain't perfect, man, but we got probably the best government there is.

>> Yes, right here.

(train whistles blow) ♪ ♪ (bell rings) >> Good morning.

>> Good morning!

>> Any announcements from the students today?

Chris?

>> The deadline is tomorrow, and I'm still missing a few articles.

So I've got plenty of room.

Anybody wants to put one in, bring it on.

I will be going around the first of third period, taking students out of class so we can go upstairs and work on the paper.

When I come and get you, just come to the foyer and wait for me to come there, and we'll just go on upstairs.

So, just look out for me.

>> You've done a lot of work on it, so, Chris, don't give up now.

>> I think that's about everyone, unless I'm missing someone.

No, I got everybody.

Okay, we're heading upstairs, okay?

Let's just see if they're ready.

>> Chris, you got the list of the articles.

>> Yeah.

>> What's the first article we want on the front page?

>> (laughs) Let's see... >> "The Passing of a True Friend."

"The students of Prestonsburg High School "mourned the loss of a senior, Chad Goodman.

While students of the David School also remembers Chad"-- okay, it...

I must have hit "enter" somewhere-- "Anyone who ever met him will tell you "what a great person Chad was.

"He always had a smile for everyone... Shawna Shepherd."

>> What if you take the Chad Goodman article... >> Mm-hmm.

>> ...and try to see if you can even pull it down tighter.

>> Tighter?

>> You know, maybe just say what you want to say in the least amount of words.

>> Well, you see, that's Shawna's article.

I'd have to ask her.

>> Okay.

Well, you're in charge, though, and you've got limited space.

>> Very limited.

>> What's your next one?

>> Music debuts, we got a little...

I don't know what that is, probably spaghetti sauce, right Cody?

>> Mm-hmm.

"February 26, Joe Rose's band, Slander, "is playing at the Allen Convention Center.

"And March 4, Cody Perkins' Band, Seven Rise Up, "is playing at the First Methodist Church.

They are a very unique breed of metal."

>> You're doing a little promo for yourself.

>> Yeah, I got to give myself publicity.

>> Well, that's good, that's good.

We're going to get it laid out today... >> Mm-hmm.

>> ...even if we have to finish it out in the morning, and have it ready to be handed out by lunch.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> Chris, great.

>> If it hadn't been for you guys, this paper would never have got off the ground.

>> I appreciate that, Chris.

>> Yeah, well, the articles make the paper.

>> Mm-hmm, well, great, so let's give everything to Jessica.

>> Yeah.

>> And you're going to work with her this afternoon?

>> That sounds good.

>> I don't like Word Pad, I use something else.

>> I can't get on there.

>> Oh, that's easy, okay, here's what you do.

Um, space...

I can't believe it.

I'm working on a newspaper.

It's actually starting to work, and I've never succeeded before.

Now you need this moved... >> Mm-hmm, ooh, I pushed the wrong button.

>> What's the matter?

>> I lost my thing.

Okay.

>> Just push down.

>> Ah!

>> Ah, don't tell me, oh God.

Your computer here didn't save.

Oh, wait, it might have, just in another area.

Where's your documents?

Hold on, I think I may have an idea of where it could be.

Document.doc.

That could be it.

Nope, newsletter.

>> Mmm.

>> Yep, it was in documents.

Tomorrow, I'm really looking forward to going to school.

The newspaper will definitely be out.

And then after we have it all printed, I'm going to frame the original copy to show that I did it.

Thank God.

Come sleet, nor rain, nor hell will stop us.

♪ ♪ >> Good morning, guys.

Me, too.

Independent.

Good morning, guys.

I love your shirt, Cody, "Tricks are for kids."

I'm looking for a Mr.

Bubble T-shirt.

>> I've got one.

>> You do?

Okay.

(bell rings) >> Good morning!

>> Good morning.

>> And Happy Valentine's Day.

I have some bad news for you guys.

Chris is not here this morning, so we'll get an update on the paper maybe in the morning.

He'll hopefully be here tomorrow and get our newsletter going.

And this is the student newsletter, so... (knocking on door) >> You out there, Chris?

>> I'm standing here, uh, Daniel.

>> Yep.

>> Is all of them in our living room done?

>> Yep.

>> Grab my clothes off the shelf up there.

>> They're all on the bed.

>> Hanging up, Daniel.

>> Oh, God.

>> The move happened in a hurry.

We didn't know when it was going to happen.

>> Is that it, or is there more?

>> What do you think?

>> Okay.

>> All of a sudden they called and said, "Guess what, we're bringing your new trailer in."

So I had to be here.

>> You better quit.

>> Hmm-mm.

>> It's starting to turn snow, how much more?

>> Sh * *load.

>> You got the boxes done?

>> Yeah, the boxes are done.

>> Just get a little... >> We just got oddball.

>> Don't worry about it all.

>> We got to.

>> It's sleeting.

>> It would be best just while we're working at this pace to just get it over with.

>> You've got to quit, it's a pouring the sleet.

Christopher.

>> Just give me your coat, and that will help.

>> Holler when you get another load, I'm going to the heap.

>> All right, bedroom.

We'll get the weights here later.

Come on, Daniel.

There you go.

>> Watch your step there, man.

>> Ah, Daniel?

Throw the cord under my arm here.

We're basically touch and go here.

I've got to move stuff from our old trailer to our new trailer.

And I've only got two days to do it in.

>> Christopher, just get the clothes out of it.

I quit for the day, totally, I'm too wore out.

>> A little heavy?

>> Because it will take me the rest of the day to get everything done in here.

>> As far as the newspaper goes, I'm sorry I had to suddenly take off on the paper.

Daniel?

Guess who's here to meet you.

My family needed me here, and I'm going to be here.

My teachers can't expect me to choose, because I know which one I'm going to choose.

It's going to be my family.

I mean, I really want to do the paper, but they've got to give me time.

I've got a lot going on right now.

I don't even know if I'll be able to go to school Monday.

I have other matters to attend to here.

>> Christopher.

>> Oh, God.

>> We're going to get rid of it, that hog is a monster.

Popeye.

>> (laughs) >> Come on.

>> You know something, buddy, I'm tired of fooling with you.

>> Come on, come on.

Tie him up now, we'll never get him out.

>> I'm going to get him out!

>> Slide a rope around his belly.

Come on.

Popeye.

>> You eat me, I swear I'll eat you.

>> Christopher!

>> That's all I got to say.

>> Hush, I'm nasty.

>> Oh.

Okay, get the rope, swing it over.

>> Hush, I'm trying to trick him.

>> S * *t, tricky.

>> Do it tight.

>> Oh, I'll get it tight.

>> Tight, tight, tight knot, tight knot, tight knot!

>> I'm trying, get pissed.

>> I'll beat the tar outta you.

I ain't a fooling with you honey, I'm sick of it.

Get outta there, big boy!

>> Grab him.

>> He's a going whether he wants to or not.

>> Hell with you, big man!

>> Get up there.

(pig screaming) >> Bill, under the belly, come on.

(pig screaming) >> Cody, go ahead and get to the rear.

I'm bringing him up.

I've got him.

Damn him.

My bootlace come loose.

>> I quit for the day, I'm too wore out and too dirty.

>> I can't lift anymore.

>> Ain't going to do anymore.

>> I done my body in that time.

>> My feet hurt.

>> My feet ain't... my body's sore.

When you pick up the rear end of a pig, it ain't easy.

>> I'd like to take me a good, hot bath and get a good night's sleep, and tomorrow I'll feel better.

>> I hate moving.

All I do is everybody else's work.

>> I need something to sit on.

Christopher, you better go and get that stuff.

>> Nobody ask me to do another thing.

♪ ♪ >> Oh, boy.

>> Our new trailer is a lot bigger, a lot bigger.

>> This used to be my room right there.

>> We're going to tear this old trailer down.

>> Oh, are we?

>> Just get rid of it and haul off what we can.

Because they can't pull it out of there.

It's sunk in the mud.

>> All right.

>> Christopher, go get that 2x4 down, let me beat this ceiling a minute.

Chris missed a lot of school while we were moving.

He got used to being home.

Mitzi told Christopher if he quit school he would lose his check; that she would have to report it.

And he had to go back to school.

You're caught up all classes?

>> Mm-hmm.

>> Well, you'll get out earlier.

They won't hold you over?

>> Uh-huh.

>> My mom is worried that I will lose my SSI check because she knows there's nothing wrong with me.

>> Y'all missed what, week, two weeks altogether?

>> And if the day comes I'm reevaluated, I will lose my SSI check.

Mom, I got 50 more days left of school.

>> Yeah.

You'll probably get out about the 7th.

>> And I don't feel like going to school tomorrow, but I need my check.

>> All right.

>> Chris, I wanted to get with you on some things that I was concerned about.

Because we're getting to the last of year, and if you notice, we've had a couple of people that's dropped out, and you've missed 15 days.

But the big thing I know was that, you know, you wanted to help your family get settled in.

And I think I touched base with you yesterday, and you said that everything was up and going and you got in your trailer.

>> Yeah, it's all together now.

>> Great.

And your SSI is very supportive for your family... >> Very, believe me.

>> ...and it's used.

>> That's all... it's paying payments on the house, land, my brother's computer, his video game, the whole nine yards.

I can't risk losing it.

>> Well, you're fortunate to have that... >> I kept it this long, so... >> ...to have that to help your family.

>> Yeah.

>> The other thing was the newspaper that you were working on.

The reason... >> Oh, God!

>> Yeah.

Don't panic on me, please, because that's, you know, that's an okay issue.

I just want to talk it out with you.

I know it was a lot of responsibility, but it's getting home visit time again.

And I thought back, well, at the home visit we talked about it, when I came out to your house, and about the newspaper and how excited you were and that you wanted to do that.

And then it kind of got into motion, and it kind of...

I think you felt overwhelmed at one point.

>> Well, when I finally got enough news to make a page, it was already old news.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> So it couldn't be published.

>> So you felt... >> Well, a little disappointed, because I had worked so hard on it.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> Then to find out that it can't work because the news is old.

>> Well, I looked at one that was pretty close to being finished, I thought it was wonderful.

>> But... >> But you come back with feeling good about... that's the closest that anybody has ever got to actually getting one started here.

So you need to feel good about that.

>> About my driver's license... >> Mm-hmm.

>> I'm needing that paper about the 4th.

>> When?

>> The 4th.

>> The 4th, oh, okay, I thought you said before.

>> No... >> But the big thing: I know that your mom had asked about your driver's license.

With the new Kentucky State Law, you have to be in school for me to sign on that paper.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> It's also passing, you have to pass, so uh... >> How am I doing so far?

>> Well, you know you do need to make up six assignments before I can actually put our David School seal on that paper.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> Then you can try for your driver's license.

>> Yeah.

Well, you see, the main thing is I'm really needing that license... >> Mm-hmm.

>> ...because I can't keep gas in the car because my father and his little drinking habit, so I really need that license.

>> Well, you need six assignments done, Chris, before you can try for your driver's license.

>> Yeah.

>> Cody?

>> What?

>> I've just about had it, I'm not going to tell you again.

>> Yep... Stupid hard ass.

You got me in trouble, you stupid ass.

>> How did I get you in trouble?

>> You're sitting there talking to me, and he came in there bitching at me.

>> I didn't get you in trouble.

>> Yeah, you did.

You and her both did.

>> I was just trying to talk to you.

>> Yeah, that's what got me in trouble.

>> Last year I got used to getting into fights.

It was mainly just the fact that I got picked on so much.

>> Cody?

>> What?

>> Look here.

>> Okay.

And this year I just realized, you know, there's no point in getting upset about little fights.

It's a real big change.

>> Fix that up, see there.

(bell rings) >> ♪ I got the blues over my finals 'cause I failed them ♪ ♪ I'll be a junior for the rest of my life ♪ ♪ I'll die a junior, too ♪ ♪ Oh, I failed my finals and I'm blue... ♪ >> How much more do you have left to do on your finals?

>> I will work on it next weekend.

>> No, you work on it tomorrow.

>> I don't want to talk about it.

>> Do you really think you're going to pass your junior year?

>> I have three weeks of school to do work.

>> Three weeks goes by fast.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> I just got a week and a half.

>> Really?

>> Yeah.

>> I always think to myself I don't deserve Cody.

He can find better than me.

But this past year our relationship has definitely changed from puppy to love to just love.

>> Is this your first anniversary dinner?

>> Yep.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> Well, Happy Anniversary.

>> Thank you.

>> You mean we've been together a year.

I thought it was six years.

>> Do you think she will stay with you six years?

>> Hopefully.

>> Yeah, mm-hmm.

>> Huh, you think so?

>> I like Liz a lot.

She can do everything.

But sometimes I get very tense around her because I think she expects sophistication, and I don't supply that.

>> Well, you know, she doesn't necessarily like you just because you're dating me.

>> Make a toast.

To many more.

>> To many more.

>> Happy anniversary.

>> I love you.

>> Chris, both hands on the steering wheel.

Well, when you take your test you take them hands off.

>> Mm-hmm.

How is that?

Is that fine?

>> It works for me.

>> Yeah, okay.

>> What do you do now?

>> Uh?

>> Give your signal.

>> Oh, you mean this?

>> You got... yeah, you got a car coming here.

>> If you'll excuse me, I must disappear.

>> Now take your time here.

>> Okay.

>> Oh, be very careful, be very careful.

Pull over here.

>> Right here?

>> Yeah.

>> Works fine.

>> You're doing good.

>> My mother quit school at 16 and gets her driver's license.

Then due to a stupid law, I can't go for my license right now.

For one reason: you have to have a paper stating you're in school and passing.

>> It's annoying that if you're under 18 you have to have a paper just about to wipe your own ass.

Hey Randall, do you know where the aspirin is?

>> I don't know.

>> Yeah, just checking.

Jerk.

I do plan to get the work done so I can get my license.

I owe a substantial amount of work, ten essays.

So far I've gotten one.

I owe Dwayne two or three or, yeah, two reports at least two pages long.

>> Chris, I told you... >> But I do plan to get the work done.

>> I knew... >> If I don't, I'm going to wind up like my father.

>> Exactly, mm-hmm, yeah.

>> I can't stand that.

>> I'm getting out of here.

(laughs) >> I will not stay on your cases to get your work in.

It's time that each one of you decides you either do it or you don't make the grade.

>> Sorry, I'm late.

>> Chris, you need to get your makeup work in.

You either do it or you get an automatic incomplete... >> S * *t. >> ...and you don't get your driver's license.

And Chris... >> Mm-hmm.

>> ...if you miss 15 days, it's an automatic incomplete.

>> Yeah.

>> And Chris?

>> Mm-hmm.

>> Vocabulary Chapter 1.

I've got it on the board, at least write the words down.

Okay?

>> And these notes here?

>> And the notes on Page 350 and 351, that's behind.

Write them down.

>> She says I'm behind in work, and she will not allow me to go for my license.

But it's stupid.

I had gotten my permit to drive before this law was passed.

>> I mean, this is a private school.

Why can't they just hand me the paper, get the s * *t over with, so I can go forward with my driver's exam.

>> Chris, I don't want to see you fail.

But you did real well the first nine weeks.

>> All right.

>> And then it seems like you didn't do anything after that.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> Sometimes you get your priorities in the wrong place.

That's easy to do when you're young.

>> Mm-hmm.

(bell rings) It's bulls * *t. Everyone's getting their driver's license but me, and I'm getting tired of this.

>> Do you think the teachers get tired of telling you three months ago that you had a paper, one paper to do in music.

Okay?

We've got five days of school left.

>> I was worrying about other classes, not just yours in particular.

>> Okay, well, what happened in your other classes?

>> I failed.

>> Why?

>> How should I know?

I sat there, I did what work I could.

All right?

If they can't like it, the hell with them.

I ain't worried about it anymore.

I don't care.

>> But "incomplete" does not, Chris Johnson, mean that you failed the class.

>> Then you tell my teachers different.

>> Well, if you're failing the class, you're failing the class.

>> You still have a chance to make it up.

>> That's right, but that may not apply to everybody.

>> It don't apply to me.

>> That may not apply to everybody.

Some people probably will have the opportunity to make work up.

>> Jameta told me I failed, that was it.

>> Well, it may be that you failed the stuff that she gave you while you was there, too, I don't know.

You have to talk to her about that.

But I'm just telling you, 15 days.

>> I'm like, the heck with it, I quit, I just don't care.

>> Yes, you do.

>> No.

>> Yes!

>> Well, I think I would care, 'cause, I mean, I want to get out of high school.

>> I'll never see the end of high school.

I'll be here until I'm 21.

>> If you change your attitude, you can do whatever you want to, and you know it.

>> Ah, don't give me that.

I've heard that from so many teachers, it's pathetic.

>> All right, I won't ever say it to you again, Chris.

>> All right.

>> I want my paper, though.

>> If I get around to it.

>> You will get around to it if I have to come over to your house.

>> Good luck finding me.

>> Oh, yeah.

I'll just get a hold of Randall, and Randall will rouse you up.

>> Shoot, yeah?

He don't even know if I'm home half the time.

>> All right, Chris, I told you.

>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> I want my two papers.

>> I heard you.

>> See you tomorrow, bye, Dwayne.

>> See 'ya, break a leg.

Oh, what a day.

Hey, Pop.

>> Yeah.

>> I'll tell you.

>> I'm burning up, Chris.

>> Chris, are you going to be there tomorrow?

>> Dwayne.

>> Yeah, Chris said he was going to treat me like dirt tomorrow.

I want my two papers, Chris.

>> Chris, two papers.

>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.

When I get around to it!

Like I've been telling him the last two hours.

>> You buckle up, Chris.

Yeah, I know.

>> I got gas.

>> Cody, can I stick this in your bag?

>> Go ahead.

Hey, Jess, on my birthday we can get to eat wherever I want.

>> I forgot about that, that's cool.

>> We're eating Chinese.

>> Ah, oops.

(laughs) Birds.

>> Since Jessica got her license, I haven't been home near as much, because I'm always with her.

She's a little more independent now.

She's able to do stuff by herself.

Go with your mom, I think.

But I don't really think Tammy and Ray like it that much because they're afraid that she'll get hurt.

>> Are you ready to go?

>> Yes.

>> Mom will be like, "Why'd you go to Wal-Mart?"

>> Is she expecting you home soon?

>> No, I think she's at work.

(gasps) >> What?

>> Well, dad will be there, though.

>> "Where've you been?"

>> Daddy.

>> I been to the liquor store.

>> He really was mad that we were lying on the couch.

Then later he said, "Are you mad at me?"

And I was like, "No, why."

>> I don't think I've ever kissed you in front of your dad.

>> You gave me like a kiss on the cheek once.

>> I remember he gave me a weird look.

I could see you dad, it'll be like our wedding day and I'll kiss you and he'll go, "Now why does she have to kiss him?"

>> How did things go in school today?

>> I just found out a friend of mine got his license, so that's getting annoying, Mom.

I mean, I was gypped from my license.

They keep saying, "You've got a lot of makeup work to do.

If you don't, you're going to fail.

And where I had missed 15 days-- and Jameta told me this to my face today-- where I had missed 15 days, every class: incomplete.

So I ain't going to worry about it.

I'll just tell Mitzi I'll come back next year on a positive note.

But this year you'll be lucky to get me to move, because I'm too tore up.

>> The license provoked it, Chris.

>> Well, that finished it.

>> No.

The license did every bit of it.

You wanted your license, you couldn't get them.

You got mad.

>> Mm-hmm, yeah.

>> And you quit trying.

>> Well, yeah.

>> That's it.

>> Basically.

>> That's all... that's all it boils down to.

>> I'm not going to ask for the paper.

>> I wouldn't even attempt to ask.

>> I'm just going to ask why.

>> I wouldn't even ask.

I wouldn't even fool with it until next year.

What's the point, Christopher?

It ain't worth it.

Why would you want to go to school though and just sit there bored out of your head?

Right?

>> Yeah.

>> Next year will be better.

>> Chris, Dwayne told me you owed him two papers.

>> I know, Dad, I'll take care of them.

>> Yeah, all I know is what Dwayne told me.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> He hollered out the window and told me.

>> I know.

>> Right or wrong?

>> But he told me that he'd bring me some books to take care of it.

>> Well, okay.

>> Because I didn't have the resources.

>> And said, "Two papers."

>> I know, two papers.

I honestly know.

>> That's what he told me.

>> And they will be taken care of.

>> Well, you have to.

>> I will.

>> That's all I'm saying.

>> This is about the only time I've seen my father take an interest in me.

And he really wants me to do one thing he could not do: finish high school, go to college... >> I know.

>> ...and find a job I'd really enjoy working, and make good money doing it.

>> Christopher, just like you said, you quit doing your work.

>> Yes, I did.

>> You ain't even fooling with it.

>> I'm doing what they gave me in class.

If I don't get it done, I don't turn it in.

I don't worry about it.

>> Okay, and next year if you do that they won't give you the papers.

>> I won't do it next year.

This year I will.

It's sort of like a little retaliation.

>> What's the point, Christopher?

You know, it's too late, wait until next year.

Next year you're going to bust your chops, and start out on a better foot.

You're not going to miss, and you're going to try very hard to keep your work caught up.

(dog barking) >> ♪ Home, come on home, 'Ye who are weary, come home ♪ ♪ Softly and tenderly come home, come on home ♪ ♪ Softly and tenderly come home, come on home ♪ (applause) >> Ms. Shawna Sheppard.

>> Graduation is a special time in everyone's life.

It only comes around once in a lifetime, but what does the future hold?

And I don't think any of us would be here now if it had not been for the David School.

I could never show my gratitude to the faculty, especially Mitzi, who's always there to talk to no matter what the problem may be.

Good luck Class of 2000.

(cheers and applause) >> Chris, you heading out?

>> Huh?

>> Yeah heading out?

>> Yeah.

>> I wanted to wish you good luck.

And I wanted to thank you for bringing your book back.

>> I know.

>> My book back.

>> I know.

>> But I must confess, I am extremely disappointed.

>> Well, I... >> Come here, come here.

>> I ought have known that.

>> You found my book, but you didn't find the papers.

>> I'll fax them.

>> No, you need to come in and spend some time with Mitzi.

>> (sighs) >> All right?

Can you do that?

You need to do that, Chris.

>> Maybe.

>> You need to do that.

>> Maybe.

>> No maybes here.

>> Maybe.

I want to at least have a little fun on my summer vacation.

>> You want to pass, right?

You want to be successful?

You want to succeed?

You want to be standing up here like these people did tonight?

>> I don't know.

>> Sure you do.

The only way you're going to do that is if you have faith in yourself and just grab the bull by the horns and do your work.

>> Fine.

>> And stay focused.

>> Okay.

>> All right?

>> Mm-hmm.

>> Okay?

>> Yeah.

>> Good luck to you.

>> All right.

>> Good luck.

>> Right after graduation, I finally realized I screwed up.

Everyone that graduated that day didn't have to come back.

G *d damn it.

And I'd have three more years at the David School.

Hey, Mom, give me a smoke.

>> Christopher, it's chilly out here.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> I'm the lock and my mother is the key.

If she wanted me to do my school work, I would have been more than happy to.

But she said I was being cheated out of my license.

>> Well, I got to go home.

I got a headache like you couldn't imagine.

>> Uh-huh.

(train whistle blows) >> ♪ My Jesus, my Savior Lord, there is none like you ♪ ♪ All of my days I want to praise the wonders ♪ ♪ Of your mighty ♪ You know, I wonder if we can bring this up.

I know it's going to mean changing everything, but this is... Oh, I'm playing in the wrong place.

>> I was wondering... >> Oh, I'm sorry.

>> Yeah.

>> You put a 41-year old guy and a 16-year old kid together, it takes a challenge.

>> I didn't really like playing with the preacher at first, because I wasn't as experienced playing guitar.

>> Are there any hymns?

Like you had mentioned before hymns of anything that you worked on, that you'd like to do for Mega Worship?

>> I'll play a song I wrote once for a Pentecostal Church, and that was kind of a funk sound, it was like... (plays heavy electric guitar) Like that.

I like shocking people, that's the thing.

I love seeing their faces after I'm done, because they're like... >> (laughs) >> My personal message is Christianity doesn't have to be so boring.

Because I myself don't believe that Jesus was a boring guy.

But I like...

I can play better on minor stuff.

I just want to tell people it's okay to just be you.

>> In fact, at Mega Worship I'd like to play that.

They're going to like you, Cody, at Mega Worship, that's your crowd.

>> ♪ I am the king of excuses ♪ ♪ I've got one for every selfish thing I do ♪ ♪ What's going on inside of me... ♪ >> The purpose of Mega Worship is just to get the kids out of the house so they have something to do once a month.

Basically, it's to keep kids out of trouble, pretty much.

It's a Christian organization, you know, to teach kids about Christ.

>> ♪ ...because you are in my light ♪ ♪ I want to shine like the stars in the heavens Oh, Lord... ♪ >> Usually, they just start out having a few plays, and then they'll have the worship band come on, which will be us.

>> ♪ ...all I want is to be in the light ♪ >> And next we have a cool band with a cool name.

Christ Fellowship Praise and Worship Team.

>> Are we doing them in the same order we practiced them in?

>> Yeah.

>> All right.

>> Good evening.

Scripture says that one day every knee is going to bow at the name of Jesus Christ.

And it also says that every weapon that is formed against us as Christians cannot prosper because Jesus Christ is greater.

And this is called "Jesus, Mighty God."

(applause) You guys ready?

>> Yeah, I'm ready.

>> One, two, three, four.

♪ ♪ >> ♪ Jesus, mighty God our rock, our fortress, our defense ♪ ♪ Every foe will tremble at your name ♪ ♪ Every foe will tremble at your name... ♪ (applause) ♪ ♪ >> What key?

What key?

>> F-sharp.

♪ ♪ (cheers and applause) >> Every foe.

♪ ...every foe will tremble at your name ♪ ♪ And every foe will tremble at your name ♪ >> See, I've never been out of the state.

I mean, I been to like Lexington.

>> I have only been out of state one time in my life.

I went over the Ohio River by accident.

>> I don't know.

I tell my mom and dad, when I get 18, I said I'm going to be out of here.

I'm moving to Michigan.

>> Me, I'll tell you the truth, if I can pull it off, I'll be out at 18.

>> Why?

>> I can't handle it.

>> I can't either, I mean... >> I mean, imagine being an 18-year-old, all right, living under your mommy and daddy's roof.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> The first time you have a girl over or something like that.

I mean, my grandmother does this, all right?

I don't even have to be dating the girl, okay?

She comes up.

The first thing Ann does is calls her a slut, a whore, anything, just to get rid of her, that kills me.

>> Well, the first thing my sister does if I have like a boyfriend over or something, I don't know, a friend, she will look at them and say, "Are you all dating or something?"

And then she will like start calling them hoochies... >> Yeah.

>> ...and everything you can think of.

>> Anything she can to get rid of them.

>> Yeah, and she will sit down and flirt with them.

It will make you so mad.

>> If it was truly up to me, I'd move out tomorrow.

But I can't because I'd have to have somebody sign for it.

>> Yes, if it was up to me, I would move out and get married.

>> You ever tried living single?

>> My sister, one of the reasons she got married... >> Was to move out, right?

>> Yeah.

>> Rosanna, God, she's exactly my type.

I mean, she's from a holler, and she's easy to talk to.

You don't have to fear about being around her.

But, you see, I don't honestly know if Rosanna is interested in me.

I mean, I'll probably never be able to tell her that I like her more than a friend because, quite frankly, I'm a chicken s * *t. Because, as you all know, I never really had a father tell me about these things.

All I've ever known is, "Keep quiet," "Don't say anything."

Honestly, if you just... (coughs) Excuse me.

If you just go out, find this guy, date him two, what, three, four weeks... >> My sister and her husband, before they got married they dated like... >> A week, wasn't it?

>> I think it was like not even a month.

>> Hmm.

>> And they got married, and they're about ready to get a divorce.

So, how many times have your parents ever split up or got a divorce?

>> Seven times.

>> Mine about three, about two or three.

This makes like the third time.

>> I think I...

I think my parents broke the record on breaking up and then getting back together, I mean, it was hilarious.

>> Did they ever get a divorce or separate?

>> Every time, they never did really...

They always separated, divorced.

And then got their divorce revoked and were married again?

>> I think if parents think they shouldn't be together should stay apart.

>> I have always been comfortable being a girl's just friend, you know?

I have never really been a girl's boyfriend, you know, like with romantic interests.

>> Like she's perfect in every way, she's like... >> I don't know what to do.

I mean, I'm frozen stiff when it comes to this.

>> She's talking about me, and I was like, oh yeah, I mean... >> And I don't even know if this is a real date.

So if I hold her hand, I could be actually doing something wrong.

>> I don't know, I mean... >> I could get her angry, upset.

Well, I don't really know anything about that because... Let's put it this way, I don't know if I have the testicular fortitude to just ask Rosanna if she'd like to go out Friday night.

>> I don't know.

>> Rosanna, are you ready to go?

>> Yeah, mm-hmm.

>> Okay, um... >> Gosh.

>> So, I was actually wanting to see if you wanted to go out sometime.

>> Huh?

>> I was actually wanting to ask you out on a date.

>> On a date?

>> Yeah.

>> I guess right now I'm kind of talking to somebody.

>> Well, that's fine.

I just thought I'd give it a shot.

Well, you can't blame a guy for trying.

>> Yeah, if I wasn't seeing somebody, it would be okay.

>> Don't worry about it, it never hurts to try.

>> Yeah.

(sighs) >> I wonder what Monday's going to be like?

>> I wonder what it's going to be like, too.

Probably like... >> Another one of those days?

>> Yep, I don't know.

>> Just pray to God you can get through the day.

That sounds about right.

>> I hope so, I mean... >> When I asked Rosanna out, it was a bold move.

You see, I was actually looking forward to maybe having a girlfriend.

I brought all my hopes up, and when she said no, I dropped them.

>> I don't know, easy.

>> It gets lonely after a while.

I mean, I see all these boys with their girlfriends.

>> Who knows?

>> They're holding hands.

I've never had that, and it looks like that may not happen for quite some time.

So tomorrow I'll make out as if I never asked her out, and maybe she'll do the same thing, just pretend it never happened.

>> Well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow.

>> All right, we'll see you later.

>> Bye.

>> Bye.

>> Yeah.

♪ ♪ >> ♪ There's been times in my life ♪ ♪ Yeah, I know I've crossed the line ♪ ♪ Mistakes that I've made weighs heavy on my mind ♪ ♪ If I could go back, Lord, I'd change many things ♪ ♪ But it's time to move on until my highway ends ♪ >> Tomorrow night, on David Sutherland's Country Boys, the story of Chris and Cody continues.

>> There is no chance I'm slacking off this year.

>> Two boys struggling with who they are.

>> I'm not giving up, not like I did last year.

>> And who they could become.

>> Me and Jessica, we really love each other.

>> A new year brings a new set of hopes, and a new set of problems.

>> Ray drinks a lot.

>> Did you know Cody was sleeping in her bed?

>> Not everybody in the world is as closed minded as you are.

>> And the risk of losing it all.

>> Let's party!

After school, I went to Kim's house.

We had a wild night.

>> Chris, this young lady was taken to the emergency room on Saturday evening.

>> Everything I had strived to do: the choir, the newspaper, everything got destroyed completely.

>> Tomorrow night, the dramatic continuation of David Sutherland's Country Boys.

>> Explore more about the story of Chris and Cody at our website.

You'll find interviews with the boys and film maker David Sutherland's account of how he came to this story.

More about the David School, special readings and essays, including the importance of caring adults in the lives of young people, and why teenagers are turning to religion.

Plus more about the film's music.

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