sheriff, myself, the police department are all united. this task force has grown to over a hundred people in a matter of six months. and that s what we re committed to doing. and you know, we will do it until the day i die. woman: i lost one daughter to drugs. you know, whatever it takes. anthony: let s start by being honest with ourselves. as a nation, for decades, we were perfectly happy to write off whole neighborhoods, whole cities, whole generations of young men and women. as long as it was an inner city problem, an urban problem. which is to say, a black people problem, a brown people problem. send them to prison. into a system from which they ll never return. maybe now, now that it s come home to roost. now that it s the high school quarterback, your next-door neighbor, your son, your daughter. now that grandma is as likely to be a junkie as anyone else, we ll accept there s never been a real war on drugs. war on drugs implies an us versus them.
tolerance, long-time tradition of accepting artists, writers, the badly behaved, the gay, the different. it was paradise. the joy that can only come with an absolute certainty that you re invincible. that none of the choices that you make will have any repercussions or any effect on your later life. because we didn t think about those things. i don t even know what i thought i was going to be. at that point, i certainly didn t think i was going to be a cook. i don t know what i thought i was going to be. i was just, you know, hanging out in a beautiful place. anthony: a golden time, i look back on those fuzzy memories and they seem golden anyway. oh, there s john waters. first love, and there s me. this guy, johnny yingling was sort of a central figure in all of our lives. john: well, my name is john yingling, and this is
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spiritist pizza, it s been here since 1971. this town is everything to me. provincetown is a really special where people can be themselves. we all did drugs, acted young and crazy, and tony was he was probably a little wilder than some and not as wild as others. but he was always the guy who i always liked. anthony: and you let me sleep on top of the walk-in. john: i remember that. anthony: i cannot tell you how frequently i dream about spirtist pizza. i m walking down commercial street, and i m sort of dimly aware that spiritist has moved, and there s a sense of dislocation and a loss as i stumble around this sort of provincetown dreamscape of 40 years ago. i was still here and living in hope. cheers. john: unbelievable. anthony: many of the old places in p-town are gone. but the lobster pot is still going strong, all these years later. and still has what i want and need the essentials.
anthony: this town became redundant. ed: correct. anthony: again and again all over the country, i keep running into situations like this where industry has died or fled or simply relocated. i meet people like charles garbel. hometown heroes who for some reason though they could probably go anywhere take their skills and return to where they grew up. shady glenn diner, today s special, a tribute to the old european immigrant culture of the area, the new england boiled dinner. so i hear rumors of corned beef and cabbage, is that right? charles: yeah, we do every week we do a corned beef and cabbage dinner. anthony: slowly cooked corned beef, boiled potatoes, steamed cabbage. wow, that s a beast. awesome, thank you. how long have you been here? charles: two years. anthony: are you from the area? charles: yeah i grew up here, i ve been coming here since a kid. went through a few owners then came up for sale and decided to give it a shot. anthony: generally speaking, wh