Act since violent protests broke out over a public transit increase damage estimates are up in the hundreds of millions from metro stations city buses stores and offices multiple fires were set across the city resulting in dozens of injured much of the subway system went up in flames and remains closed officials say it could take months to fix schools in Santiago and the neighboring towns are canceled for the early part of this week riots were also reported throughout the entire country the president is meeting with officials to figure out how to reverse the 4 percent fare hike that led to the chaos the protesters say the transit hike was just the last straw they're demanding more equality in health care education and salaries for n.p.r. 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On the Pine Ridge Reservation in the Brusca native and non-native activists are gathering this weekend to mark 2 years since the nearby community of white clay closed its liquor stores alcohol is banned on the reservation but as Jim Kent reports for years White Clay was known for selling millions of cans of beer to its look oto residents the goal of the white clay summit says activist Jennifer a limb here is to create a trauma center in Whiteclay to combat the effects of alcoholism on luck go to children one in 4 Pine Ridge newborns is affected by prenatal alcohol exposure there's been generations of historical trauma with alcohol and the development of this trauma center this is just a start to begin to help the people heal well mirrors only father was Native American activist Franklin here he spent 20 years pushing to close down the white clay look at stores fan p.r. News I'm Jim can't on the Pine Ridge Reservation Australian airline Quantas today completed the longest nonstop commercial passenger test flight 49 people were on board wearing medical monitors they were in the air flying from New York to Sydney for 19 hours and 16 minutes Quantas is testing the effects of such long haul journeys on both pilots and passengers and is expected to do another nonstop test run from London to Sydney. Harbor Klein n.p.r. News in Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from Jane and Gerald catcher supporting the children's movements in Florida dedicated to helping all children enter school with the social emotional and intellectual skills needed to succeed more information is available at Children's Movement Florida dot org And Americans for the Arts. Compere x. This is the modern radio hour I'm stare Osteogenesis this episode is all about. Literal telephone calls and one story about a man's true calling I must say I don't love talking on the phone I'm a much stronger in person kind of friend but I've been practicing phone conversations more so when I do call my best friend well after she picks up the phone and says Wow I say we're doing our favorite saying We're talking on the phone . So we're doing this hour because when the phone rings it's like a great mystery and remember before caller id we didn't even know who was on the other line phone calls can change the direction of a story in an instant they reveal things like in this 1st story from Susan see Susan told it one of our open mike stories lands in Seattle where we partner with public radio station. A little appetizer of a story really sets the tone for this hour you'll see what I mean here's Susan feely live with them on Instagram. So I'm a mental health counselor I work with families and teens and one of the biggest questions you get is how do you know what your teenager is really thinking about you and I'm here to tell you I have the answer you don't have to go through the room it's not about reading texts or going on the computer I found out the hard way . So I'm out buying a car with my 17 year old daughter counsellor so I had a what I call the counselor car for many years they don't make it anymore a Honda Insight it's a pretend Prius. So stripped down there's nothing in this car and I'm kind of you. So that long to spin you know gas mileage and all but we're going to we're going to bump it up a little been I'm going to buy this new car my daughter's with me we're going to learn how to buy a car this is going to be cool and who I get is the sales guy is Chris the college kid Chris the college kid showing us around showing me the new things that you can get in a car so I'm learning I'm liking this car my daughter's next to me Chris's in the back he show me how all these things work in the car and it's got Bluetooth. I've never had Bluetooth I honestly didn't know how it worked people can hear things in their car this is amazing Chris show me Chris college kid how to use Bluetooth he says I can do this. So he says to my daughter you got your phone you know he says Ok you got your phone i see i got he was Ok Right now call your daughter on the blue 2. K. Call my daughter all the sudden all the sun like surround like I want you to know what's happening bumpin on bumpin on a bump 6. What is happening now if you don't know the song Carmina Purana you do know it because any movie that involves Satan has this song. I do not understand what is happening right now but Chris the college kid in the backseat does understand he and my daughter understand that this is her rings home for me. I see him in the bag riverman he's like. So I can see my brother I try to understand he's like yeah yeah you called your daughter you could have a conversation know. So so I follow up with was what really only a counsellor would ask I mean this takes training. I say Gabrielle. What is your father's ring to I. And she comes back with the Imperial March I. So bottom line you want to find out what your teenager thinks of you ring tones baby it's all about the ring tones. Thank you thank you oh that was Susan. Susan and her husband live in Seattle Washington where she still works as a counselor her daughter Gabrielle was in the audience the night Susan told the story Gabrielle says she remembers the incident in the same way but says that she was totally embarrassed and scrambled to turn down the volume on her phone reading . But now she and her mom laugh about it and they go to mosque shows together whenever they can. Our next story is told by Moran surf Moran is a neuroscientist and probably the fastest talker ever to appear at the mosque he speaks so fast that the transcript of the story is also at the mosque but org if you miss anything and you want to read it later this story is about a series of crossed wires and missed don't cause grand total that in the Adirondacks at a mosque main stage produced by North Country Public Radio Here's Moran surf live at the moment. I'm a neuroscientist. And I do research and people who don't get a lot of Fame doing that but I actually couldn't tell your story but Tom I did somehow end up being famous for that so in my research I work with patients undergoing brain surgery and we try to do all kinds of things to help them but also do a search with these patients and when. Of the things I did in the last couple of years was a study where we took patients who are undergoing brain surgery and put electrodes deep inside their brain during surgery to help them with clinical reasons but we also did something where we told them we're going to show you pictures and see how your brain looks when you see those pictures and we can have a map of your brain when you see those pictures and then we can basically know how your brain looks when you think of those things so a patient could sit in bed and think about the Eiffel Tower he would see a pattern that he has from before a nude picture with Project a picture of the Eiffel Tower in front of their eyes so patients would basically sit in bed think about things and we would protect their thoughts on a screen in front of their eyes and this was a remarkable project that took us 5 years to accomplish and when we finished we were very excited and wanted to tell the world about it and the way scientists tell the world about things is by publishing it in a paper so we write a paper describing everything we did and we said we could have people sit in bed think about things and projector thoughts on a screen and then you send this paper to a bunch of journals. You know all kinds of ranking in what in the journals basically take your work and try to find flaws in it and if they can't find any flaws they publish it and that's basically what you do as a scientist this is your career you know journalists get all kind of ranking and the highest ranking Journal in science they wanted to hire How does to get in is called nature nature is where you put your work if you really are going to change the world to give you an example this is where the discovery of d.n.a. Was published you know I think fifty's when they cloned the sheep Dolly it was published there when they discover a new galaxy they publish it there it's really the place where you put your work if you're going to change the wall so we submitted our work there and it took 6 months where people tried to find flaws in our work and eventually on a couple 1st I got the e-mail saying congratulations your work is going to be published in Nature in 3 weeks and I was excited this is something that doesn't happen regularly to scientists It happens usually 0 to $1.00 times a scientist so I was really happy that my work is going to be there I was still a graduate student at the time I was excited and then they tell you that they're going to come up to your work within 3 weeks so you have 3 weeks to kind of prepared things and then they have a press release where they announce to the wall do work that it really does personally don't go well people don't get it right so I had this idea I contacted nature and I said why don't we create a You Tube video explaining the work we can to make a life of video an interview myself my colleagues were going to show videos of the patients thinking about thing and protecting their thoughts when this video is going to explain to people how it's done and they were very happy with it and I said I'm going to make it I'm going to edit and make this movie so I spent the next weeks working and then making this movie and I actually worked day and night and I learned stuff and I did a lot of the cool things in the movie and ended up working until the very last day until the day the person it was about to happen and I worked all night and it paid am that morning actually put this video out there on nature's website and I just waited now the person list was scheduled for 1 pm so I had 5 hours to sleep and I said I'm going to go to sleep now. Before my glorious day comes out and I put my phone on vibrate and I went to sleep to excell it and I was planning to wake up at 1 pm to see how things kind of come out but actually ended up working up an hour before because my phone kept vibrating didn't paratime in walk me up and I pick up my phone to look at it and I had 50 missed calls and my answering machine was full of messages didn't know what's going on and the phone was ringing right away so I pick up the phone and on the phone who is the senior producer for b b c nightly news and he says I saw your work I saw your video. And I'm going to I'm going to want to open our nightly news with this video now here's the thing about the video individual I asked one of my colleagues a neurosurgeon in our team to explain what this work can be in the future what could happen in the future with this work and he says well in the future you can use this thing to have machines work just using just thoughts using memories using dreams and then the movie kind of ends gloriously with the future and we fade out and the guy on b.b.c. Called me and says I saw your video and I want to know about this the recording thing that you're doing just to be clear the recording is not what we did we'd never recall that when we have been thing with dreams we only had patients think about things in particular thoughts and just the movie ends with the final 2 words recording dreams so you ask me about it I say no talking about what is this doing called and he says some of you one of your colleagues in the team set up something about recording and I say well I don't think it's true maybe it was a mistake as I understand is it possible or impossible to say well until it's possible to say thank you. And so the last thing that I said to the b.b.c. Senior producer was that the recording is possible and that they were not a big deal one thing one little mistake is going to be a big deal probably 11 little fluke but doesn't matter now it's 1 pm and I look at the browser to see what comes out in the 1st thing is nature having this person is describing the the ability do it to have people think about things in the theater thoughts and the 2nd thing is b.b.c. With a headline. Scientists say that coding is possible. And I say well one mistake not a big deal and no one's going to notice that I have thought about it again Tennant's later m.s.n. B.c. Scientists have been recording dreams for the 1st about other Fox News scientists have been calling the keeping them in storage the 1st about what The Journal says according to him giving the database they have 100 of years of the story gets bigger and bigger everyone talks about the recording no one even mentions the ability to think of things and show them the screen no one even mentions it and as a person of ours are going to get more and more news outlets are talking about the scientist at Celtic who can record your dreams and I'm really frustrated I don't want to do and people call me and I answer and I try to explain to one by one each time that it's not the case but no one really cares that keep talking about the calling them to have a name for you know the d o m the coding machine and it has a place that people buy it and there's like you can buy 10 for a dollar and people talk about this thing and they mostly comment about it no one really cares and I'm really frustrated because this is my career on this project and no one cares so I called my dead who's a journalist and I said dead here's what's happening how can I kill this story because it won't die by itself and my dad say Look son. No one cares about science just turn off your phone for 2 days don't answer anything and the story's going to die by itself because no one cares about it and so I did just that 2 days later the story is number one they have to strengthen it's number one the b.b.c. And n.b.c. Fox News was a General Motors everyone keeps talking about the recording machine and because I didn't pick up my phone for 2 days now people do you mean me so I get the message people sending me their dreams people asking me to do it too can go to hearings with Syria explaining how they can believe. That for years now and I get more and more the same as all of that of course and I get this shit for famous British chef sends me says his dreams but at this particular recipe he can get ingredients he wanted to put across in his brain and given the ingredients an Apple cause when they say they want to have this limited machine in their next operating system and I say doesn't exist I don't know if they find you want to pay that far that way Ok We're going to open this thing so when you actually release this thing they're going to buy this it doesn't exist or you're really playing it up Ok good enough so people called me and asked about it and the story one died as like something that the Queen said and still. Trying to this thing and I don't know what to do with I'm feeling frustrated and my friends who've seen me upset for 2 days know the contact me to say you know it's hello we know 30 years it's like a fun night what if you got to just have a night out forget about this thing and just go out and actually find somebody the I'm going to go out with you guys and I do that we go out. And I dressed up and as a kind of a 3rd of the picketing sort of you were. Like for you did I put a little beard and a pipe and I cut my hair to the side and I have this little glasses and I go out and now we all have a great night out in New York and you take pictures of me and the night after putting it on Facebook and places and look for My Name Not only do they see my work but they also see a picture of me looking like Ford with a fight with one so called It was so the story gets even bigger because everyone now knows about this thing was actually the new Ford That's me. And I said oh my god this story is never going to know what to do and I tried to find all kinds of tricks to do to kill a story by you but by going on live shows and explain it it doesn't it's not the case but no nothing happens and now these people say you know what it's now October 30th but in 4 days the going to have to meet their relation in the Us November fall Surely this story's going to trump your story 4 days later the House changes hands but still the story number 2 know is about the scientists are going to go to the nothing will kill the story and I'm waiting it's been a week now and nothing nothing ends and I think that this never going to happen I mean my scientifically is over and at the same time there are other scientists who have been trying to recordings who have been commenting my work saying that it's impossible that I've been doing that because they've been trying for years now and other scientists that are competing with them say that of course they can do it because I'm better than them and there's like a battle between scientists all about my work where I'm not involved in. And I think to myself Well this is not going to end and I just have to wait and give up myself because you know when suddenly I get the phone call. I was sitting in my office when the phone rang it was 6 pm and answered the phone and on the line was this woman she says I'm going to put up with you in a 2nd and I wait for a 2nd and on the line is a person who this is instead of as Christopher Nolan. Famously maker who just released a movie called inception about the same time about people who could do stuff with dreams and he calls in and says Look at me look at your work now for a few days it's great we're going to have a d.v.d. Release of inception in a few days and I want you to be the face of this thing we want you I want to go on the Walter with me and explain how you've been doing it for a while so my work has been going to be getting the difficulty the static stamp and I say well. I don't want to stay it's really great movie but you know we never did it we never recall dreams and I don't think it's possible in the sense that you think it is and. Some of the people I want to read it in fact he was the 1st and only guy out of all the reporters all over the world actually asked me to give him the paper so I knew the paper and he read it and he called me back and I said look I look at your work yes there's nothing about dreams there but it doesn't matter I think you're going to do with me because you're now the face of the recording everyone thinks you are going to do with me and explain how it can be done no one really cares about we'll just go into the next thing I was done and I say well let me think about it because on the one hand lies fame and fortune the other hand my integrity in science and I need 24 hours to think about which which of the 2 I'm going to was. So I spend 24 hours thinking about it and after 24 hours the phone rings again and I pick up and I say. As much as they would have loved to help you in this I don't think I can go into 2 with you and explain how the coding is possible given that it's not. In his says well I understand if you ever change your mind we have a we were going to do and I say. Remember and I call you back and so all I was left was scientific project that gradually went right away and people actually know know the truth about it then a story thank you thank you very Atlantic Public Media and Woods Hole Massachusetts then presented by p r x. 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I'm sorry assed engine as we're exploring calls in this hour our next story is about a good kind of fun car is the kind that changes your life in a positive way Nancy mall was originally part of a mob community workshop we talked with Congregation Beth the t.v. Reconstructionist synagogue and fountain Baptist Church in New Jersey it was a math workshop that brought together 2 different faiths to connect across traditions Nancy then told their story at a community showcase in Brooklyn New York here's Nancy my life at the market. Thank you. Thank you. It was a regular Tuesday at work it was a beautiful day and I was standing on the roof of the New York Times building in Times Square. I was on the roof because I'm an elevator mechanic and that's where the elevator machine rooms are. And I was drinking a cup of coffee and watching the traffic below and I heard the phone ring in the motor and that usually is a bad thing it means somebody stuck in an elevator somebody is complaining about something so I went in to answer the phone and it was my mother. I hadn't spoken to my mother in maybe 2 years so it was strange on so many levels it was strange that she would call me that she would call me on the roof or the New York Times that she would know that I was on the roof for the New York Times and she said Are you Ok I said I'm fine sorry I haven't call didn't and she's like No Really Are you Ok and I said I'm Ok Are you Ok she said I'm Ok I said Ok that's great. That's the appeal a plane hit the the World Trade Center and I was worried about you and I says Well that that's ahead. She said No really it's serious in and I just want to make sure you're Ok and I said Ok I'm Ok and we hung up and I you know how the rest of the day went. The next day I was back at work and in the phone rang in the motor room and it was my mother. And she said How are you doing are your friends Ok. Where do you live is your house Ok And and I said My most of my friends are accounted for in houses Ok And and I'm I'm back in Times Square I'm safe in and and she said well how's my city and let me preface this by saying My mother was a New Yorkers she lived in Jackson Heights Queens and and then in Murray Hill and in 1037 she was missile arch months she'd have you know. And we don't. Well we didn't we didn't get along we didn't we didn't agree on and really much of anything. She was a Republican as a Democrat sliding toward communist and was and she's a devout Catholic person and I'm very much not and. She's she was straight and I'm gay and she didn't she had a really hard time with that and so any time we tried to talk about anything. Food movies politics religion. We'd end up in opposite corners of the room hissing at each other and and we just sort of gave up because there wasn't much in the relationship that fed either of us and every time we got together it ended in a terrible fight and and we just sort of let it go so here's she was calling me a 2nd time and I was really touched it seemed like she actually cared which I didn't think she did and. Then she said you know during the war when your father was overseas all us ladies had to go out and keep everything open we had to go to concerts and sports events and in museums and you're going to have to do that you can have to keep my city alive for me. My mother had left New York and gone out to take care of a sick relative in South Dakota and was foolish enough to marry a cowboy so she was calling me from the west and she hadn't been back to New York in in decades. But she still thought New York was her city and she wanted to know how it was so we. We developed a kind of a rhythm every morning I'd get a little 5 minute phone call from my mother to see how her city was and she'd asked me what I was doing and and so I said well I got tickets to Joe's Pub and I saw Justin Vivian bonded and they saying Benny Goodman songs to keep everyone spirits up and she told me about going to the Waldorf Astoria and dancing to Benny Goodman and she said you know what are you going to do tomorrow so I every day I had to come up with like a little what it I do and and how was I keeping her city alive and I was going to theater and I was going to sports events which I hate and you know I was. One night I was an emergency callback walk in through Times Square going up 6th Avenue and in my little flip phone rang and it was my mother because at this point she got my phone number so she could call me whenever she wanted to and she said how's my city doing Tell me about it hold up your phone and let me hear so I walked along 6 there were new and she could hear the horses clopping around Central Park and she could hear the taxis honking and she said what's it look like in a civil every Texas got this little plastic flag hanging out of the window every business has a flag on it even the gay bars have flags on them. So it looks like Kansas. And. My mother found that touching and she's like Well I'm glad you finally got some patriotism. And she said I I'm I'm. I'm thinking about visiting you so just put that in your mind and. This was a scary thought so I thought I'll just keep her at bay with a few more stories and then. I got to get tickets to the opera so the opera is something I never wanted to go to and I spent 4 hours listening to this Mozart thing that went on and on and on and everybody was just like my mother and it was very stuffy stuffy and it. Very boring and then at the end this red haired lady came out and she's saying this aria and it was gorgeous and I knew nothing about opera but I discovered that night that they sing without microphones they're just freaks of nature and they can fill this huge auditorium with just what God gave them and at the end of this aria all these Diflucan people stood up and they started pounding on the boxes and screaming and throwing flowers and shrieking and stomping and it was like Yankee Stadium in the cheap seats and I was like this is really raw This is really visceral I get opera. So when I told my mother about that she said we're going together I'm coming I'm coming to j.f.k. They come and pick me up so I drive out to the airport and I'm terrified because we've been having this beautiful little relationship where I make the city come alive for her and she makes the city come alive for me and everything's great in 5 minute increments but now we're going to be stuck together for a week and I don't know how smart this is because it's a beautiful thing and I think it's all going to go. So they pick her up they get her gigantic suitcases and put it in the car when we're driving in semi silence because I think she's also scared and she says so if you've been going to Mass. I just let that sit there for a minute. It was like you know. And then there was silence. And then she said well I have some things in the suitcase for you and hoping chocolate chip cookies it turns out the Legion of Mary went all over Sun City and bought every dust mask they could find which was really sweet because we had known all of the people who work in downtown were out and we appreciated that. And she said I've got something else for you so we got back to Jersey City to my little skinny 12 foot wide house and we went upstairs to the guest room and she ends up this bag and inside it was the flying from my father's coffin I think I mentioned he has a a b. 17 pilot in World War 2 And those caution flags are big and my house is small and she said Do you mind if we hang it on the house you know patriotic but yeah I would love it so we opened the 2 windows and we we dropped it down the front of the house and it basically covered the whole house. So if anybody doubted my patriotism they doubted it no longer I and the rest of the week went really well we had like one little fight and we worked it out and we stayed away from religion and raised a way for politics and we still. Culture we went to things together and we loved each other and we enjoyed each other and we had those 5 minute phone calls for the next 9 years of her life and I missed every one of them and I have tickets to the opera for next Saturday was thinking that was Nancy my auntie still was in fact she just so weird Paso at the Met which coincidentally featured an elevator shaft as a principal visual element. Came to New York one more time after this story took place she went to the New York Times to see her daughter and the editors and reporters and the president at the times Nancy said her mom wasn't willing to write . On the top of an elevator but she did peek down the shaft and screen. 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In this hour all about calls our last story is about a calling it's from Cheech Marin some of you may know Cheech is an actor he's one half of the hilarious duo Cheech and Chong and they've made 8 films together this is basically teaches origin story it's how teach became Cheech and it takes place at the time of the Vietnam War He told us that a Mark Knight must Angelus that is produced in partnership with public radio station and this young couple years change marrying my response. Was. I used to be a Cub Scout. I was a boy scout I was an altar boy I sang in the church choir I was a straight a student all through school when I graduated from high school I won the religion award. I was the product of a Catholic education and I was prepared for anything that happened here in the 12th century I. My father Oscar. Was a cop 30 years earlier. He. He was a World War 2 vet was in the Navy saw combat in the Philippines and he never talked about it. Except once he talked about it and then understood why he never talked about it was horrific and he only had one rule us. And that rule was my way or the highway. We didn't get along really great. But it was just because of that just because he worked me to death I wake up in the morning all right make a bed make a bed again those corners out right go out there and cut the lawn now edge the lawn now come in a vacuum now wash the car that dad. Hey listen you're rich. And you're always going to have to have 3 jobs. So get used to it. So when I went off to college man I was ready for anything get me outta here so I worked when I came home from work and my roommates had a little party going on and there was music and there was laughter and the lights were lol and it was really smoky in there for some reason. Then out of the blue somebody handed me this little hand roll cigarette and well I'm here to try anything so I took a hit. And I heard my dad's voice. If you ever smoked marijuana you're going to turn into a heroin addict and you're going to steal your mother's purse. So I took another hit I. Looked around and what else are they been lying about. For those of you who didn't go to college in the mid sixty's boy you missed it. Because it was happening there was a revolution going on there was a very unpopular under just immoral war going on and it was seen in fouls of young men over there to die in the jungles of Vietnam and they lied to us every step of the way. And my college was a hotbed of radical activities were a string of of speakers that came in a riled us up there was Floyd McKissick from snake there was enough from the Chicano Len movement there was Timothy Leary as. Well as the became a good friend of mine. To turn onto him and drop out 2 weeks before he was assassinated Robert Kennedy spoke at our university. Martin Luther had been killed just before that now Robert Kennedy and they were they were murdering our leaders but there was one person that came to school and he made the most impact on me and he wasn't the most fiery he wasn't the most bombastic he was actually the quietest his name was David Harris and he was the leader of the traffic distance movement and he had a very simple message if you're not registered for the draft don't register for registered Nichol you offer physical don't go to the physical if you've gone to the fiscal nasty to step forward to be inducted in the army don't step forward refuse to be a part of this machine. And this only thing that made sense to me during this whole period so that's what I'm going to do so I handed him my draft card gave it to David Harris myself and he put it on. Yes that accompanied him and his new wife Joan Baez on a speaking tour throughout the United States and it was on the cover of Time magazine and if you looked real closely in the corner you could see my name. And I was a revolutionary and I was going to make a change I was I was fearless until about 2 weeks later General Hershey who is the director of the draft of the time you should this proclamation that anybody who burnt their draft card or turned it in or were demonstrated in front of the draft board would be immediately reclassified drafted and sent to the front lines of Vietnam and that was his fix and I thought it doesn't seem like it's quite so legal but anyways that's what he did. So a little in from revolutionary to a little scared revolutionary. But another miracle happened that time I discovered that I was an artist. I couldn't draw and I couldn't paint or couldn't sculpt but I took a pottery class my last semester of school and my Mexican genes came trotting out. Here Holmes was come on don't know what back order. And I made pottery from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed I was a pottery making fool. And that became a laugh unless I found my calling I was going to be a part of I was going to go out and I was a make dig in the ground to make clay and make pots for the rest of my life. And then I got. Another notice that I had been reclassified one day ready to go I was in school had a 2 s. Deferment but they reclassified me because my political activity summary. So my pottery teacher who was kind of hip to what I was going through said you know what I have this in the mine who's a Canadian and he's very successful maybe you could be his assistant. Well that's all it took Man I get up gathered all the money I couldn't which was $80.00. But a bus ticket got ready to leave and before I left I want to say goodbye to my mother and my father happened to be there at the house they were getting divorced from the time. He learned about my plans and he said you know what I don't believe in what they're doing over there but if they called me I would go. Well that's the difference between this isn't it. I have the strength of my convictions didn't sit well with him. So we didn't part on really good terms but I was on the dog north. The last stop we had before we crossed over the border into Canada it was Great Falls Montana we pulled in the Great Falls late at night I got off the bus bone weary and went to check in those hotel and in the corner there was a bar with a bunch of cowboys having a good time getting drunk and one of the covers looked up a little slack a draft dodger you draft dodger go to go to Carol know you better not because we're going to be here in the morning we'll take care your ass. So I didn't spend quite so restful the night in May and I came downstairs quietly in early in the minute looked around the corner and there was no cowboys there I guess hangover trumped patriotism. So I got back on the dog and entered Canada now I had a picture of what I thought had it was going to be like it was going to be Sergeant Preston of the Yukon with a team of dogs and Eskimos and igloos the north man went to Alberta looked like Bakersfield. It's really cold. I met the guy and shot him once bicentennial exhibition of war that year I got there was a famous potter and I became Is the system and I went to work right the day I met him he said Ok. Go start clean those bricks work my ass and I work my ass off every day and I did everything apart or should do I dug clay I wedged Clay I. Wrapped Clay I just never threw clay because that was his job and I had to work my way up to it. Eventually I found a little look cabin to live in by the by the river and it had electricity had a possibility stove it didn't have any gas it didn't have an Iranian waters where we do have to go down to the river for my water and I have to chop wood every single day chop chop chop wood one night after work I was out there chopping wood it was already dark and man this is blown out of nowhere. The northern lights appeared. And they were. Going to be and I was standing in the middle of a cathedral of light was red blue yellow green orange pilot and I was like thank God I'll never be closer to nature than at this moment and I went back to chopping wood because that's what I did every day it was the coldest winter in Alberta in 80 years and there I was 20 below it chopping wood and I realized at that point that I can survive anything. But I can always support myself because I know how to work I know how to work because I was taught how to. So I went back to chopping wood some of a couple guys in town and they said hey you ever been skiing. Oh yeah we used to ski all the time in South Central have. Some of the best hills around Ok We're going to take it a band from a teacher how does he know we were going up on the Hill pointed me in a snowplow and says Ok this is how you turn this way for left. This way for right and push me. Right now I'm picking up speed here this is cool man I look like the brown blur. And this could the only thing they didn't teach me how to do was stop. And I'm going to hit a bag came down and broke my leg in half. In half just like that a compound fracture and I was in the hospital for a month I was in a full cast with with crutches for 6 months. So when I got out of the hospital my same friends said hey you want to come to Vancouver with us it's really cool there that's where we're from so. They had such good advice in the 1st place. So I went to Vancouver and it was like San Francisco all of the time except without the drumbeats of war and the protests there was just peace and love than sex and girls and flowers and butterflies and Stanley Park and I had a ball and sooner or later met this other guy that had gone to school with me he was a man who for the same reason and he said you know there's this guy in Vancouver and he's running this weird thing as an improv company in a topless bar. In Chinatown. Good role. You guys would have a lot in common. So that's how I met Tommy Chong. Thank you. He had come up the road with his band and he had seen improv theater and that's what he wanted to do but he wanted to keep the topless girls of the same time you know because we needed customers and so we started doing topless improv of . What it was was hippie burlesque that's what we were doing and we own the club so we could do anything and we did for. Hours of naked improv every single night. And so at the end of 9 months the troupe dissolved because all the members want to go to the hills to get their head together. My head was together my pocket book one together so we got to make a living doing this and so when we just compact what we're doing on this troop and into 2 guys in a. Comedy team go conquer the world yeah sounds good we could go to l.a. Where it was warm I knew everybody and it would be fun. Only one problem I was wanted by the f.b.i. At the time. And they were always coming around my mother's house according to her seeing if I was there. How we're going to get back in the country. Had a brilliant idea borrow phony id. Imagine that. So I did I borrowed my my friend Bill Norris driver's license. With a picture of Bill nor on it I. Went up to the immigration guy at the airport and I held it up to Hi I'm Bill nor I'm going down to l.a. To do some interviews and he looked at the picture and looked at me we both kind of dark places well welcome us. And I was in. Wow so but still I was still wanted still coming around so I said What am I going to do and every time I go onstage Tommy was saying hey you know he's one of by the f.b.i. Should. I just kill him that's not funny. And then another miracle happened. It was announcement in the paper that my case along with 600 others went to the Supreme Court it was a class action about that illegal drafting and the case got thrown out. And so now we were not. We were not felons. So the government tried to redraft me the next day. 3 years later. And they sent me a notice for a physical. Assent to ban from my x. Rays and went down to the induction center to stand in my underwear with my x. Rays along with a bunch of other guys doctor comes out smoking a cigarette. Looks at me you with a leg come over here takes me into his office these are x. Rays. Well you have about a 13 degree distortion in your leg that's going to come as bad news but you're not fit to be in the Army. I know it probably breaks your heart. But your for after. A lucky break. I think that's what the doctors. Like the brick in Yes sir it was a lucky break so now it's free we do anything I wanted to do is when my mom doing everything but had one last Sure. I could see my dad. So I took my buddy along with me for moral support and we took over to house where he was living with his new wife and I walked upon the porch of the force knocked on the door I can see him in the kitchen and he was in there and he was cooking a towel over his shoulder and I stood there for as long as I couldn't till he saw me outside. Come in can see me for 3 years or we talked not one word not a letter nothing so I walked in and he looked me up and down for a long time. So. You hungry. So set down by the need. For a long time. Look at least said. So what are you been up to the east. To work and. How to do that. I says yeah I do. Thanks. Thanks. That was cheeks Modine and Los Angeles. Chiefs is a 3rd generation Mexican American and in addition to his notoriety for Cheech and Chong he's directed a Broadway show been honored by the Smithsonian and he writes children's books his memoir she is not my real name but don't call me child is out now. Cheech also holds one of the largest private collections of Chicano art in the world. So that's it for this episode of The Martha Radio Hour all about calls and callings and if you want to contact us all of our information is that tomorrow. We hope you'll join us next time. Your host or was Sarah Austen Janice also directed the stories in the show along with Catherine Burns and Michelle the ski the rest of the directorial staff include Sarah Habermann Jennifer Hudson and make bowls productions reports from family cars . 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