Scents and Sensibility Two Mates Fated Full Movie
Scents and Sensibility Two Mates Fated Full Movie
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00:01:00This is the story of two friends that grew up surfing together in 1950s Montauk, NY.
00:01:28Alan Weisbecker and Patrick Abrams.
00:01:31Our friendship evolved eventually into criminal enterprises and it was all based on surfing.
00:01:39How to not have a job, jobs interfered with what we really wanted to do.
00:01:46They began transporting multi-ton shipments of marijuana from Columbia and Jamaica into
00:01:51the United States by ball sea and air.
00:01:55Back then it was like the wild west, you know, plenty of money to be made, you gotta
00:01:59watch out, it lures you into the web and then you get noticed and then you become a star
00:02:05for the feds.
00:02:06Yeah, we'd have ships and planes, I mean it was not that suitcase stuff and we got to
00:02:13the point where I lost a load of 100,000 pounds.
00:02:19The violence of the emerging cocaine trade and the threat of the DEA forced them to separate.
00:02:26These people are looking at our pictures and maybe we'll be picked up and if we put pressure
00:02:34on us we might even tell on each other, we know we love each other so I should find a
00:02:40place where he didn't know I would go and he'll pick a place and don't ask, don't tell.
00:02:45Alan moved to Hollywood and cashed in on his marijuana running experiences by writing for
00:02:50Miami Vice.
00:02:52Patrick moved to Porviejo, a town along the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, in search of
00:02:57the fastest and most dangerous wave in Central America, Salsa Brava.
00:03:04After 20 years, Alan sold his home and bought a truck with a camper and went looking for
00:03:09his old friend Patrick in Costa Rica.
00:03:11On this trip, Alan wrote, In Search of Captain Zero, it has become one of the most popular
00:03:16books in the surfing culture.
00:03:21Upon his arrival in Porviejo, Alan was shocked to see what had become of his old friend.
00:03:32It was terrible.
00:03:35He's living in a tent on the beach but the first thing he said to me just about was let's
00:03:40score some crack.
00:03:43But the problem for me was he wasn't surfing.
00:03:46He'd sold his board for crack and that is as low as you can go.
00:03:54He wasn't as interested in me anymore as a friend.
00:04:02You don't berate yourself, you just rearrange your priorities and destroy them.
00:04:10After a lifetime spent on the edge, could Patrick's downward spiral destroy their friendship?
00:04:161948, New York City, Alan Weisbecker is my name.
00:04:41I grew up in the suburbs of Manhattan, had a strange father who was a weightlifter in
00:04:49the early 50s before when you had to buy weights from an oddball company and he took me spear
00:04:58fishing off Long Island, Montauk Point one time and I still remember my first ocean excursion
00:05:09and it changed everything from then on I knew that the ocean would be a big part of my life.
00:05:17My birthday is 1-2-3-4-5, unusual indeed, January 23, 1945.
00:05:26My mother was found on a doorstep in 1918, if you can believe that, in Brooklyn, New
00:05:32York.
00:05:33I was born in Copaig Hospital, Long Island, New York.
00:05:38Well, my arrival on the planet, 1945, January 23, was an accident.
00:05:49My mother's husband with two children, with Bill Abrams, was in Europe for over a year
00:05:59and my father had a wife and two children in Connecticut on his way home from Europe
00:06:04and they had an affair and here I am, thank God for lust, and then love intervened.
00:06:15I don't know how long it was, but I'm sure glad they got it together, you know.
00:06:21They would call me, I'm an original love child and I caused a lot of hardship for Mom, I'll
00:06:26tell you that.
00:06:27I got a lot of explaining to do when Bill Sr. came back, hello, surprise.
00:06:35Actually no, my mother, of course, later on in life did, I never met her until I was,
00:06:39well I met her off and on, but they were trying to put me up for adoption, but I was an unadoptable
00:06:46cantankerous child.
00:06:51So they tried not to get us together too much so we wouldn't bond.
00:06:56Brookwood Hall is an orphanage in East Islip, Long Island, on the border of both townships
00:07:02that I was raised in for a number of years that gave me the foundation of my life, probably
00:07:08the most emotional, wonderful feeling I've ever had and I was a privileged child to live
00:07:13with these people.
00:07:14An average day was like this, first of all they had juniors, intermediates and senior
00:07:19dormitories and this is like a giant Vanderbilt house that looked like the Vanderbilts walked
00:07:26out.
00:07:27I mean huge, beautiful archways, gargoyles carved around the building, 52 acres, Ballfield
00:07:33Lake.
00:07:34My experience in Brookwood Hall I believe was my organization of my whole moral principles
00:07:43and I think the basis of this whole beautiful feeling because we are the receivers when
00:07:50we do that, it comes directly from the people that raised me in Brookwood Hall.
00:08:10And this is where I met Patrick out in Montauk and we became friends, quick friends there.
00:08:18This is 64, 65 and we'd camp out, spend the summers in tents near the surf break.
00:08:28Well the first time I met Alan is hard to remember but I remember him showing up in
00:08:33Montauk every summer when we were young, older teenagers.
00:08:37He was like the most likely to succeed, the class president, we were so opposite.
00:08:49Graduated from high school in 66 in June, in California by August, did my first acid
00:08:58trip with the doors at the Whiskey Go-Go, still legal at the door at the time, never
00:09:02forget it, Jim Morrison was playing at the time.
00:09:05Drafted in September, I was in Vietnam by April, so you know it was pretty quick and
00:09:10then by the following September, I was a hardened military guy.
00:09:18I love it, I can get it.
00:09:21So I volunteered for Airborne Rangers and then I went to Fort Sill, Oklahoma and I did
00:09:27artillery training, I was a radio man, lifespan's not good and then I did jump training in Fort
00:09:37Benning, Georgia and then I did ranger school in Vietnam and OJT, on the job training.
00:09:44I was a radio man, photo observer for artillery, way out there, way up front.
00:09:52We had a company of men, usually understaffed and we were always being harassed and martyred
00:10:03and it didn't happen, if it happened a dozen times where you actually hit any real hard
00:10:10stuff the whole time you're there and some groups are harder than others and so it's
00:10:16hard to compare but I've seen my share.
00:10:21Sleeping on the ground 24-7-365, you know, I mean you're way the fuck out there.
00:10:29Humping, I'm talking about, you wouldn't see people for maybe a month even.
00:10:36One of the scariest things, orientation for the first couple of days before jungle school
00:10:43he goes, most of you boys will be going home in body bags.
00:10:49Thank you very much.
00:10:52And there's one thing I can guarantee you, they're coming.
00:10:57Might be your first day, it might be your last.
00:11:00Doesn't matter if they come, as long as you're ready.
00:11:03Well, I've been ready all these years.
00:11:06I figured I was such a problem anyway, I better do something right and I went.
00:11:12Now I'm glad, of course, I'm glad I went to Vietnam because my half a joke is that
00:11:18it's prepared me for life.
00:11:28The thing I did leave out was I spent two years on the north shore of Oahu,
00:11:33was surfing at, you know, I lived between Pipeline and Waimea in 68 and 69,
00:11:39which were the two most formative years and formidable years in the history of surfing.
00:11:46I don't think anybody would disagree with that.
00:11:53I really felt that I could do anything.
00:11:56I felt surfers could do anything.
00:11:58I felt that the people that did what we did on the north shore in those years,
00:12:03we could rule the world if we wanted.
00:12:05That would never occur to us, but we could just do whatever we wanted
00:12:10and nothing could go wrong.
00:12:12I was wrong, of course.
00:12:15Things always go wrong.
00:12:18So that was very much a part of my forming who I am.
00:12:25And at that same time, Patrick was in Vietnam going through a completely other thing.
00:12:31And I don't know how he got through that with the cheerful attitude he has now.
00:12:48The government made me an adrenaline junkie, and I needed the rush.
00:13:07I needed the excitement.
00:13:08I needed the thrill, if you'd call it thrilling.
00:13:11Of course, I was getting paid a lot better than the military had paid me.
00:13:16And it turned out to be quite an interesting guy.
00:13:18And, of course, the compatibility and all the variables that go along with smuggling
00:13:25fit my qualifications.
00:13:29And then I did a recon with a friend of mine.
00:13:321970 was just after the winter of 69,
00:13:38which was the real formative winter for me,
00:13:42surfing and mental attitude-wise, when I believed I could do anything.
00:13:48So I decided to go to Europe and buy a Volkswagen van
00:13:54and drive around looking for waves.
00:13:56And I quickly ended up in Morocco,
00:13:59where I realized I could buy a kilo of hash for about $40.
00:14:03And that hash could be sold for about $1,000.
00:14:08Actually, it was 1,000 a pound, I think, in the States.
00:14:11I'm trying to remember now.
00:14:12But whichever it was, it was ridiculous.
00:14:15And all you had to do was bring it back.
00:14:17And I had a connection and bought a few kilos of hash
00:14:22and smuggled it back.
00:14:24And I had various ways of doing it without putting myself at risk, actually.
00:14:31I used the U.S. Navy to do it and other ways.
00:14:37You know, I don't know.
00:14:39It was 1971 or 2, and I had like $50,000.
00:14:43A 22-year-old kid by then gets a lot of money in those days.
00:14:48And I wanted to buy a boat.
00:14:53And I knew I could put a lot more in a boat.
00:14:55You know, I could pack that sucker, you know, bring back a ton.
00:15:01And that led to Columbia and Learjets.
00:15:12I mean, the level I was on, I would do business with CIA people.
00:15:17They were mostly Cuban exiles that were in the pot business
00:15:25as to raise money to do something to Castro
00:15:32or to do various other nefarious CIA activities.
00:15:37CIA has been smuggling drugs forever.
00:15:40I mean, that's common knowledge now, but I know from personal experience.
00:15:47Sail out from Fort Lauderdale, bank around the Bahamas,
00:15:51and then we would sneak up behind Haiti and Dominican Republic,
00:15:55come in by night grill, hopefully not get stopped by anybody,
00:15:58where we have to show papers or get a stamp,
00:16:01and then load up and then bank down behind the Caymans.
00:16:05And if it got tricky, we would tuck in behind the islands
00:16:08off the coast of Mexico and between Mexico and the islands
00:16:11and pop up out into the Gulf.
00:16:13And so you were far enough away where if you do get stopped by the patrols,
00:16:19you could say you're out on a day sail,
00:16:21which is a couple of days of sailing around the Gulf.
00:16:24And any probable cause, of course, you could go on a boat,
00:16:27and the only way you could find it was to tear the fucking walls out.
00:16:30Of course, whenever there's money involved, you have predators,
00:16:33so you have to watch out. We weren't involved.
00:16:35We didn't care about the police much, but there were robbers.
00:16:40In Colombia, both happened.
00:16:43I got caught at and arrested for a few minutes
00:16:48until they realized who my connection was,
00:16:50and then the cops were literally kissing my feet.
00:16:53Sorry, sorry kind of thing.
00:16:56And in Morocco, I had a real close call at a roadblock
00:17:00in the middle of the night.
00:17:05Look, it's interesting that they would call me Captain Zero
00:17:10because I was a captain.
00:17:12I never wanted the responsibility,
00:17:14but I could take over at any minute, and there's no doubt about it.
00:17:18Sometimes I didn't have to.
00:17:20I could just say a couple of sharp little things
00:17:22and straighten them out, you know, give them the confidence.
00:17:25Say, no, it's okay.
00:17:27I never had to push him out of the way and grab the fucking wheel.
00:17:30It's okay. I know he's a competent man.
00:17:33But sometimes, I think my experiences in the past,
00:17:36you know, don't panic.
00:17:40You know what I mean?
00:17:42Steady as she goes, the end of the torpedo,
00:17:44just kick me off.
00:17:46The thing about Patrick, which I still love,
00:17:49is no matter what happens, it doesn't seem to bother him.
00:17:53And the downside to that is he's not really thinking
00:17:56about how to get out of a horrendous situation.
00:17:59He's going, this is, dig this.
00:18:01You know, it's like a story we're going to tell later.
00:18:04And I'm going, yeah, if we get out of it.
00:18:07But he was fun that way, and he always was fun.
00:18:11We ended up parting ways
00:18:17when I decided that it was a bad business to be in.
00:18:22It was just when marijuana was on its way out,
00:18:25cocaine was on its way in.
00:18:28Things were getting very, very dangerous.
00:18:31It wasn't fun anymore.
00:18:34I was just getting tired of it.
00:18:37I also got to the point where
00:18:40I would have had to kill some people
00:18:42to stay in the business and be respected.
00:18:45Do you know what I mean?
00:18:47And it was a choice.
00:18:51I found out who I am in a way.
00:18:54It wasn't fear, I just didn't want to do it.
00:18:57I could have paid somebody to kill this guy and rip me off.
00:19:00And I didn't do it. I just left.
00:19:02But I couldn't do both.
00:19:04And let this particular person live, so I just left.
00:19:08That's really a lot to do with it.
00:19:24We were going on an ultimate surf trip,
00:19:26and we had enough money to go around the world.
00:19:29But then instead of that, we decided to make more money.
00:19:32One thing led to another,
00:19:35and we ended up parting ways in the 80s.
00:19:44And of course, Alan went to Hollywood, and that's cool.
00:19:47Thank God.
00:19:49And then after a period of time, we felt we were okay.
00:19:52Of course, you know, I hadn't seen him.
00:19:54He was really hot.
00:19:56He had accumulated material,
00:19:59and so they were conscious.
00:20:01You know, me, who the fuck?
00:20:03They could look at me. I didn't have shit.
00:20:05Now, I had a great fucking time, and I've been all over.
00:20:08And of course, money.
00:20:10I was going first class, and there was no tomorrow
00:20:13after Vietnam. You never know.
00:20:15So I was always like, people say,
00:20:17what did you do with the money?
00:20:19I go, I spent it! No regrets, you know?
00:20:29It was getting to be narco-terrorism,
00:20:50what they would call now.
00:20:53And so I decided to change my occupation,
00:20:57and I became a screenwriter.
00:20:59Why I picked that, I can't explain.
00:21:02I had something in me that wanted to be a writer
00:21:05for a long time, and I decided to get out of the business.
00:21:10I thought, well, why don't I just write that story
00:21:13that I had in my head, and I'll write it as a movie.
00:21:16And that's what I did.
00:21:18I spent a month in limbo in a hotel in New York City,
00:21:22bought a book on screenwriting,
00:21:24how it looked and everything, and wrote it,
00:21:27and went out to the West Coast.
00:21:29And I happened to know one person there,
00:21:32a TV producer, and he told me to come out
00:21:35if I ever wrote a script.
00:21:37And I went out, and he knocked on his door
00:21:40in Bel Air and handed him the script.
00:21:43He read it that day, because it was an actor's strike
00:21:46at the time, and he had nothing to do.
00:21:49Read it by his pool, snorting coke,
00:21:51and bought it from me.
00:21:54He optioned it, I should say, that day.
00:21:57So it was probably the world's record of a jerk
00:22:00showing up in Hollywood and getting a deal.
00:22:03It was within hours.
00:22:05So I thought, man, this isn't so hard.
00:22:08Michael Mann hired me.
00:22:10He had optioned the screenplay I wrote
00:22:12a few years before, and when he started the show,
00:22:15he called me about it.
00:22:17And eventually I agreed to write for the show.
00:22:22Of course, it was the first season.
00:22:24I hadn't heard of it, and it hadn't been on,
00:22:26and the pilot hadn't shown yet.
00:22:29And I didn't think it was a really dumb idea,
00:22:31but he persuaded me to go down to Miami
00:22:34and rewrite this thing that was being shot,
00:22:37and it was an emergency.
00:22:38The script's no good, and we need blah, blah, blah.
00:22:40So I went down, and it was a script
00:22:42about marijuana smugglers, which was my business.
00:22:45So yeah, I made it more authentic.
00:22:49I can't tell you specifically
00:22:51that it was based on my experiences,
00:22:55but I became a Hollywood asshole for a few years.
00:23:00You know, I don't look back on those Porsche days
00:23:05very fondly, you know.
00:23:07I spent more time in my Porsche
00:23:09than I'm sitting on a surfboard.
00:23:11It's funny how, you know,
00:23:14my past nefarious dealings
00:23:18led me into some success
00:23:22in the film business or TV business.
00:23:44I quit my job. I stopped doing that.
00:23:47I sold my house,
00:23:49bought a truck with a camper on it.
00:23:53And in the meantime, Patrick had disappeared.
00:23:57He up and went south,
00:24:00and that's sort of, to make a long story short,
00:24:03all we knew.
00:24:04We knew he was down somewhere in Central America
00:24:08or Mexico, but probably Central America.
00:24:11And so I decided to go and find him and say hi.
00:24:15And I spent a year traveling
00:24:19between Mexico and Costa Rica.
00:24:23And the irony is,
00:24:26I couldn't go any further south
00:24:28is where I found him.
00:24:30It was at the end of the road,
00:24:32the bottom of Central America,
00:24:33in Puerto Viejo, Salsa Brava.
00:24:38I came from Puerto Viejo
00:24:40and a friend of mine recommended this area,
00:24:42and I had heard a saying about the Salsa Brava.
00:24:45And I came for 90 days,
00:24:47and I've never set foot on American soil,
00:24:49end of story.
00:24:52Where's your name and where are you?
00:24:54Manuel Leon Salazar.
00:24:56From 50 to 60, 53,
00:24:58the oil company from Caracas,
00:25:01from United States,
00:25:02the name Loveland Brothers Company,
00:25:05come to Costa Rica and find oil.
00:25:10In 88, we have power in Puerto Viejo.
00:25:14That is the best news.
00:25:16Well, everybody have light,
00:25:17because first time we used to have generator.
00:25:19That's how we have a plant, generator.
00:25:21Everybody have that from 4 o'clock
00:25:24till 8 o'clock in the night.
00:25:25No more than that.
00:25:26Everything finish in the night.
00:25:28And from 1990 to 2000,
00:25:33from 1992, we have phone.
00:25:36Everybody have phone.
00:25:39Holly Edmiston, July 24, 1952.
00:25:44Since I've come here,
00:25:45all of Costa Rica has changed,
00:25:47which is since 1978,
00:25:50I guess I first came down to Costa Rica.
00:25:53It's changed a lot.
00:25:54I've known him for many years,
00:25:56I guess since the 70s.
00:25:58Montauk, New York,
00:25:59which is at the end of Long Island,
00:26:01and it's a surfing town, I guess,
00:26:05fishing town.
00:26:06And I met Patrick there a long time ago,
00:26:09and knew him for many years after that,
00:26:13ever since.
00:26:14And in Florida, where he lived for quite a while,
00:26:17and then he showed up in Costa Rica one day.
00:26:23You know, it was something about the people here.
00:26:26Can you imagine us going to another culture,
00:26:29a little culture, a village like this,
00:26:31and being accepted,
00:26:35inquisitive to let us stay,
00:26:37encouraging,
00:26:40it's okay to have children,
00:26:43and marry this other galaxy person.
00:26:48And then, of course,
00:26:49my behavior hasn't been exemplary over the years,
00:26:53and forgiveness of that.
00:27:02Dangerous?
00:27:03Well, I equate it to a pitching machine, you know,
00:27:06where you,
00:27:07you see that thing coming out of there?
00:27:09Fwah!
00:27:10It fucking flies, buddy.
00:27:12Yeah, and once you're a master,
00:27:13which you never really do,
00:27:14but once you kind of get the fear of God,
00:27:17and you're taken off on a mission,
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00:32:20just to pay some bills. But as I started, because of Patrick, and because of where I was going,
00:32:30and the environment, I started thinking about my past. And I just started weaving my backstory into
00:32:41the front story, the trip. And it just evolved into a memoir. I don't remember when I realized
00:32:50I was writing a book, but at some point I realized this is not an article anymore.
00:33:00It became not an obsession, but I wrote about everything. The book was four times longer than
00:33:08it was going to be. I just wrote whatever I wrote every day. And that's when I really,
00:33:14you know, I'd written screenplays, a lot of screenplays, but screenplay writing is different
00:33:18than prose writing. And I didn't know if I could write prose. I had no idea. And I
00:33:25slowly evolved a voice, you know, a style or whatever, that seemed to work for me.
00:33:33The backstory and Captain Zero has to do with invariably my relationship with Patrick.
00:33:42My, you know, my looking for Patrick, I believe, in retrospect, was a
00:33:50rationalization for making the trip. I mean, the trip was really about me. I needed to escape,
00:33:55and I needed to get back to my roots of surfing. You know, I just had a lot of experiences that,
00:34:02you know, I'd always thought that memoir writers, there must be something wrong with them,
00:34:06that they think their life is worth somebody else spending hours reading about.
00:34:13And maybe that's still correct. I don't know. But it seemed, I realized that I had done some
00:34:19things that were, I never thought of my life as being that interesting. You know, the smuggling
00:34:25and all that just seemed like things that I did that are done now, you know. But when I started
00:34:31to describe them, I got a kick out of it.
00:35:04I got Alan Weissbecker a postcard and signed it, you know, Never Coming Home,
00:35:13This is Your Buddy in the Jungle, Captain Zero. And he picked up on it and made the article for
00:35:18the Men's Journal, and then it turned into the book, and holy shit, here I am. And it's just a
00:35:25fantastic thing, you know. And it's helped me realize just who the hell I am.
00:35:30I mean, you know, I laugh. Apparently he's doing well as Captain Zero. And, you know,
00:35:40I get emails all the time about people that, you know, they got off the bus, and
00:35:45I'm Captain Zero, and I'm your guide. And he is fun to be with. And, you know, he apparently,
00:35:53from the impressions I've gotten from people that I don't know that write to me, because of my
00:35:58book, they know who he is and all. Well, some of them are negative, but most of them, they write
00:36:07to reassure me that he's fine and they really liked him.
00:36:11I'm Melba Mauldin, and I am 65 years old.
00:36:18Do you think he enjoys his celebrity?
00:36:20Certainly, man. I mean, you know, it's like, I mean, it's like we wouldn't want him to get him
00:36:25like t-shirts and hats, you know, so he can identify himself as Captain Zero all of the time,
00:36:31not just, you know, by word of mouth, you know, so he can actually wear a badge, you know,
00:36:36says I'm Captain Zero. Yeah, he enjoys it. He loves it.
00:36:43Oh, he loves it. Yeah, he loves it. It's very, it's very exciting to him to be
00:36:50looked at in a different way or in that way, and he plays up to it, sure. He loves it. It's good for him.
00:36:58Actually, being Captain Zero and having become Captain Zero has been a great experience for me.
00:37:05I finally got a job, you know. I needed a job, and I got one. I had leisure consulting, but
00:37:11Captain Zero also has given me an identity, and I kind of knew I was Captain Zero
00:37:21before I was Captain Zero, but I didn't know if anybody else noticed, you see,
00:37:25but I can handle a part, and I'm quite capable of being the captain. Get that straight.
00:37:32Okay, what does he call it? He calls it Captain Zero Adventure Tours, or no, it's better than that.
00:37:39It was leisure something, a leisure consultant. Perfect, you know, title for him, a leisure
00:37:47consultant, and so, you know, by God, if you can make a living as a leisure consultant, God bless you, huh?
00:38:09I mean, we hadn't seen each other for a long time. We were good. We were good friends, but,
00:38:29you know, you go your separate ways, and I hadn't seen him in eight years, well,
00:38:34five years, and the years before that, we really had drifted apart, you know. I mean, it was like
00:38:42he went his way, I went mine, and we'd go for years without speaking or having any reason to,
00:38:48so it was tough in the beginning, you know. Like I said, the first thing he
00:38:56suggested was, let's buy some crack, and, you know, and we used to party in the old days, but,
00:39:00you know, when I said I didn't want to, it was like a light went off in his head.
00:39:07Oh, yeah, tremendous amount of people doing crack. It's pretty much devastated the community
00:39:14in a lot of ways. I think, you know, drugs really have come here and hurt the community in many ways
00:39:22because it's so small. She, you know, got involved with crack and stuff like that. I guess at that
00:39:28point in time, nobody really probably wanted to deal with them because no one usually wants to
00:39:32deal with anybody that's on that kind of drug, and, you know, I think a lot of people really
00:39:38like Patrick. A lot of people don't. Because what he's, he make his living going in town
00:39:46and buying drugs for the foreigners, so he say, oh, fifty dollars, and he spent twenty, and he
00:39:51win thirty, so he always got some money coming from that, you know. It's a lot of people looking
00:39:57for drugs in town, tourists, so he goes and talk and this and that, and he comes out with a line
00:40:03that Capital Zero, I am, here's the book, so people go, whoa, yeah, far out, and this and that. So,
00:40:10actually, he used that as a bait, you know, to get money from you or anything. So, actually, I
00:40:18don't dislike the old man, you know, that's his way of living, but he's not a person to trust.
00:40:31Bill Mauldin in 11, 1952. The very first time, I guess you'd call it street hustling, and he
00:40:41came up and offered the contraband, I suppose, and I gave him some money, and
00:40:51we came back six months later and actually got the contraband.
00:40:55So, I didn't see him again in that visit, so,
00:41:00you know, but it was, we did get what we asked for, so I guess everything's cool.
00:41:08Yeah, actually, we ran into him on the beach, you know, just,
00:41:15yeah, he was actually seeing if we needed anything of any
00:41:20contraband, actually, and that's how we met him, you know, but he was a real friendly guy, so,
00:41:30you know, well, well, he's made some other people mad. I know that. He, personally, we
00:41:39hadn't had too many bad experiences with him. You know, he normally corrects whatever mistakes he
00:41:45makes with us. Now, whether or not he corrects those with the other people, I don't know,
00:41:50but he normally takes care of, it might not be in the time or the fashion that you wanted it in,
00:41:58but if you live long enough, he'll finally get even with you.
00:42:04Yeah, crack cocaine is a formidable adversary.
00:42:08Now, I recommend it for the young, particularly, because the emotional, physical, spiritual,
00:42:14and mental states are shifting and variable, and, of course, it has the ability to
00:42:23uh, to make you think you want more, and, therefore, you lose much, you lose sleep,
00:42:31and then you become a bit disoriented, and sometimes you can go for days. Not that you're
00:42:36not enjoying it, but it can be confusing over consumption more than any other drug.
00:42:42Crack cocaine every day for years, and don't try that at home either. Yeah, I'm a veteran. I'm an
00:42:50experienced guy, so I can get away with shit like that. Yeah, I think to pass on is the rock
00:42:55bottom. Where there's life, there's hope, and no, I've never felt that I was in any danger. Yeah,
00:43:02I was probably 50 pounds underweight. Smoking coke, let me think about that.
00:43:09I may have started, I mean, I might have smoked my first coke
00:43:13probably. I mean, I would suspect when I got there, you know, I mean, that might have been
00:43:22one or two times. They didn't call it, they called it freebase, you know, but I believe it's the same
00:43:28stuff, you know what I mean? Never really where I felt I was like overindulging and enjoying it.
00:43:34One would never think that you would overindulge and enjoy it. Of course, I look back on it now,
00:43:39and I say, what the hell was that all about? What, were you crazy? Yeah, I probably was.
00:43:45And I'm sure he had his moments during that period of time,
00:43:50but you know, luckily he got out of that, and he had the strength to get out of that on his own,
00:43:58which I think is pretty commendable. To be honest with you, there were times when I
00:44:05thought that maybe I should cut back on it, but I didn't know how I was going to do it.
00:44:11Something happened subliminally, I think, but it kind of like just faded, you know?
00:44:18I mean, it's like going through a storm, you know, all of a sudden you saw some size in it.
00:44:21Don't think that I didn't have some periods where I go, you know, leave this thing,
00:44:30but I knew I would, and I didn't know where, and I was very surprised at how I kind of slid
00:44:38out of it, and I, you know, I just one day never even cared.
00:44:43I always admired him, you know, leading an interesting life. Well, first of all,
00:44:49his intellect and his, of course, his ability to see and select to me, which, you know,
00:44:53we're from different worlds, kind of like more structured education in mind, but
00:45:01he was a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,
00:45:08Yeah, sure, yeah, yeah, I hope I do. I'm not going to go back to Costa Rica, I don't think,
00:45:36and he's apparently not coming going anywhere so it seems unlikely but but
00:45:43we'll see yeah I'd love to see him
00:45:49My name is Ama MacDonald and I was born in 1972. I'm the guy making this film. I
00:46:11had originally planned to end the film there but after watching that ending
00:46:15realized I would have to reunite these guys. The last two times they had met up
00:46:19they only argued and worse yet they had not surfed together in almost 30 years.
00:46:24Alan had left Costa Rica three years ago under life-threatening circumstance and
00:46:28could not go back. He was currently living in Mexico. Patrick would have to
00:46:33make the trip to visit his old friend despite not having been on a plane in 20
00:46:37years. It would be a huge challenge to get Patrick to make the trip. I was
00:46:41excited and nervous to see what would happen if I could get them to reunite.
00:46:46A couple of minutes just to do what I'm going to do and in fact walk away.
00:47:02First time in 20 years I've flown in an airplane and and this guy that sent me
00:47:07a ticket never told me I'd have to be on three airlines, three different planes. I
00:47:11feel like I'm in another galaxy you know a long time. Well I got a call from Ama
00:47:18who said drop what I'm doing and I'm on my way to my first house in 20 years. I've
00:47:24been camping for seven years. I have electricity and I have
00:47:32running water and I have an outside toilet but it's a real toilet you know I
00:47:36have outside cooking but it's nice shelter which I like anyway because I
00:47:39like to be out. I am an animal. I am not a man. I happen to pass by a place where I
00:47:47get messages and I have a plane ticket waiting like the next morning which
00:47:53means I have to get up at four o'clock in the morning and it's like already
00:47:56eleven o'clock in the afternoon and I have to catch a bus for a four-hour bus
00:48:01ride and I was up partying the night before celebrating my new house and
00:48:07anyway somehow the powers got me here you know I walked up there and I was
00:48:13freaked out I mean here you are here he is then I found out you both just walked
00:48:18into the freaking building a few minutes before me like it was meant to be and
00:48:22and Alan looks pretty damn good you know this is the old Alan I know right here, look, that we couldn't look at each other and not get a good fucking laugh yeah I was in Mexico even now
00:48:41we're you know of course we're just settling it down you know seven I haven't seen him in
00:48:45seven years either my last the last time I saw him I guess it was 2004 it's
00:48:57in my book it's funny that I don't remember the year or 2005
00:49:07came here and as soon as I saw the point and the setup in terms of little cabinas
00:49:14and and restaurants on the sand and no nothing over two stories high no
00:49:19elevators no traffic lights within many miles I decided I liked it so I came
00:49:26back last year drove here from New York with my camper and spent five months
00:49:35most of it I'd rented a place and then decided that I wanted to be here semi
00:49:43permanently so when this year for financial reasons and because of the way
00:49:50I like to live I had planned on camping and making a really slick campsite that's
00:49:55really comfortable it's very consistent last year in six months there was not
00:50:01one day that was unsurfable and most days it was chest-high or bigger I mean
00:50:07I'm talking 90% of the time last year this year has been a little less
00:50:11spectacular but still like today you know these are good ways and it tickles
00:50:17me to see him living in the tent the power of influence and you know
00:50:23something he's a happier man for it so I really feel this way you know it's like
00:50:27we're an old couple you know that's arguing and you know when you did it that
00:50:33and I and after all these years it's you know it's immediately back to the same
00:50:38you know the same way it was when you laugh you know when you were buddies
00:50:42and so I'm yelling at him and and he cops an attitude and walks away for the
00:50:49things like what he just did smoking a joint right in in public where I live
00:50:54with kids having in their families eating in a restaurant right there feet
00:51:00away and he's lights up a joint smoke everywhere and he thinks that's okay
00:51:08yeah he's always smoking a joint oh it's not cool all right but it's it's
00:51:16strange with Patrick when you you know you've it's like you haven't seen him
00:51:21for all for two years or four years or whatever and it's like you know the odd
00:51:26couple from hell kind of thing the two of us you know that all I can say about
00:51:33that poor Patrick anyway we'll probably see him again later today don't you
00:51:42think oh no I was of course I was happy to see him all this few meetings have
00:51:47been like like separated husband and wife you know like kind of like suing
00:51:59for the estate well I was bothered because I thought I should get a piece
00:52:03of the pot yeah but you know look I don't want a hair set up if it's coming
00:52:08is coming if it's not it's not it's irrelevant at this time and and you know
00:52:13look I always had a policy where I would never let money interfere with my
00:52:19friendships and the one thing about it is that I've been right on the money all
00:52:23that time now of course when I don't have any money and I think you're god
00:52:28no but that's not the point here you know he has his persona now I mean as he
00:52:33said to you he's captain zero it makes him money and it makes him feel good how
00:52:39he could be angry at me and at the same time use the book you know for for part
00:52:46of who he is and and and and to make money on is I mean you can't do that you
00:52:51can't be angry at the person and plus then take advantage of what that person
00:52:55did that you're angry about it doesn't work that way my smoking a crack you
00:53:00know in there my preoccupation and now that's trying to communicate with me it
00:53:03was hard to really get through hello Patrick is anybody home yeah that if
00:53:11you're friends with someone you know and you've been through a lot together you
00:53:15see you try to put it aside you know things have changed so much since the
00:53:24old days when we were flush and big shots in the underground Empire and
00:53:28running around and jets and I'm always excited to see Alan I'm sure that's why
00:53:33he comes because he's excited to see me too but you know like it's been a long
00:53:39time since we've been maybe on this even planes don't look at me I mean I was my
00:53:44own worst enemy back in 2005 and 96 so there you go there you have it but
00:53:51anyway look Alan I just play to see him and let it let it happen whatever's
00:53:57going to happen and you know things I feel the energy see I'm on a real real
00:54:02just like a long time ago my intuition my instincts and of course my faith
00:54:08that's why I'm here we have fun he come up with some bizarre theory you know
00:54:14that he's not actually logical or whatever and I'd pick it apart and make
00:54:19fun of him and he'd make fun of me and and we get a laugh out of it okay
00:54:24anyway hey baby I love now you haven't fucking forget about you know I mean
00:54:28and he's a funny guy you know and I'm usually a funny guy you know I can be
00:54:34put it that way so you know we have had horrendous laughs together and when you
00:54:40you know I've been through a lot with someone you know you can communicate
00:54:46without explaining everything you know you just know what what's going on and
00:54:52that that's that's unusual
00:54:59yeah that's great okay answer the question or they go up
00:55:16you
00:55:46you
00:56:05success
00:56:09me
00:56:19the hopelessness
00:56:39taking on
00:56:53me
00:57:03this
00:57:08you
00:57:39Oh
00:57:46no
00:57:51strong
00:58:09strong
00:58:13you
00:58:32he had a he had a relationship with a kid named Kiko here he always used to look
00:58:40after basically I think he had a difficult home life and Patrick was
00:58:45always very conscientious about seeing after him and talked to him a lot and
00:58:50he's 21 now and I heard he's expecting twins it's quite young for that I guess
00:58:57but he still looks at Patrick for advice and he's a good kid and I think Patrick
00:59:05helped in that one I met Werner or he was Kiko when I met him but as he grew
00:59:11old and become more sophisticated don't call me Kiko Werner and so Werner was
00:59:18going he was hustling his pig home that he was sent back because none of the
00:59:22other children wanted to do it so Kiko was four years old and he had this big
00:59:27twitch and he had this 800 pound hog and the visual of this was outstanding you
00:59:33know this and this hog knew Kiko all this life and it was a buddy it was
00:59:40basically you know and I knew I noticed that Kiko was and it was snorting and
00:59:45grunting like they were talking to each other it was too much man so then he was
00:59:49grabbing the ear like this you know and I knew right away what he wanted to do
00:59:52he wanted to go and jump on that hog's neck this was a first for him to end the
00:59:57hog I'm I'm born in the 87 and my name is Werner I was four years old going for
01:00:04five years and I met him while I was riding my piggy from school back home my
01:00:12piggy went to look for me at school I used to have a piggy she was she knew
01:00:17what time I was going coming from school that was like a dog you know the really
01:00:22nice pet I ride on my the pig she used to ride me home go like like like a bike
01:00:30he used to go around with me and like nice yeah he helped me out a lot he is
01:00:35like wow amazing and always I talk about this about Patrick he's he came up to be
01:00:42like one of my part of my family you know like a second dad and I liked him a
01:00:48lot he bought me a bike and we used to go around town riding bike and that was
01:00:55my first bike I ever got good present for my birthday he used to teach me a
01:01:00little bit about the map he had a huge map he used to teach me a little bit of
01:01:04that this and you know little reading in English and stuff like that helped me up
01:01:11a little bit with my homework English homework yeah