previously on the great american pilgrimage. for right now i wanted to show our members that we could own our own businesses that's our home for good and let's find a way so that our children and their children have a better than what we have today. everybody i'm stephen ball. test hollywood guy usual suspects favorite movie proud american first of all i'm just as george washington and r.v.'s using. the big boy this is my buddy max famous financial guru and we'll she's a little bit different i'm honest. they're willing to windows up last but not least my larger than life. peter knight and aspiring star. with all the

drama happening in our country i'm shooting the road to have some fun. meet every day americans call it what's america our ancestors suffered the most and see how things got so i was naked and. keep writing to hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american pill which. are alone here makes his way through the midwest in hopes to reunite with max and also continue on the pilgrimage of no. max lost in chicago stephen has a new copilot look freo were in chicago. right now rio i like big cities from. there are new yorkers ready but i like come to chicago i've

got a lot of old friends here we've got great deep dish pizza. and look. i think both of us we need a little cleanup i'm going to head out find a partner shop and i'll bet your buddy we can find something for you to get all cleaned up nice and pretty sound good. in search of a barber shop stephen finds a cornerstone in the sell side neighborhood to get cleaned up and speak with the owner to get his perspective on what's happening in america so there's still. that afternoon also big brother thought i heard some good sort of love to get cleaned up if you have some availability i got a man standing by ready for you but i got a young lady we're going to give you shampoo for if you're going to take a hit go free thank you do me a favor have a seat with your righty thanks a lot. while waiting steven decides to photo bomb some selfies.

you guys especially quiet mr rooney is good with shampoo are all from a big club. and also gives one solicited relationship advice. your problem. you better get another job this is a girl you're. going to be ok. and i'm sure the lurch on the other one day the times are steven. are you ready almost. no. chance upset i'm revealing too many girl secrets you said. as a guy sharing that scene thank you so much. more than this last thing you have a seatbelt while he may be a distracted driver he always wears his seat belt continue the mission. to kill. so i think first of all. stephen is getting is here done rio is having

a spa day of his own. low. in the sand is well known well. i grew up you know with the dead that was the next mine so it was always when he was coming or harry's kids it was always clean around there all that stuff so you. say yeah i mean if that's cool but i mean i mean it and then. now we're at this end of the national today we're coming down pounds establishment. ready to go acceptable respectable well it's going to take more than

a shape for that and take more than. i just said that. so my friend with your mom be asking what brought you to our lovely tessa here let me get your first name play money pal listen pal powells barbershop where we have the heart of being a war when the middle of a very historical neighborhood here chicago is going through a lot of stressful things right now even here alan seventy four you must be doing something right yes we're doing good business we're good people here will professional we're licensed most barbershops back a day or historically you know a place where weather comes together me and they kind of has been changing of the generations of che mongolia's through to bring them back i want to make a place where i get my head that i was the give me one day when they would and i couldn't find a place for us so like you know what will push right here. it is more this more was

it you know i was here. and i stood here with a thirty thousand dollars business by myself or my three months the way he came in there one day i get to watch as the x. would go ahead three books and we were going ever since he kind of sort of defined facts vis a vis big favorite phrases believe b.m. and actually i was blessed to you know have some money instead of my work in film production. of live in this neighborhood for years i care about my people my situation is to be the best example to me so you know what i'm an on complain about not have the office appeal to one and so i went to bob college bob's license. of a tame a barber teacher's license so i would buy most of the animal bible chicago for a t.v. show you almost got for me to do was go to the marley with the me brother. we were traveling through self coda. and met a fellow who's

a native american who is part of the dakota lakota sioux nation ok and he runs and he started on the rez because there's a lot of poverty on the reservation so like you he said you know what i'm going to start a business on the reservation to all the young people can say you can have your own business he just said the same thing moved pretty much just you know there's no barber shop you did all of that at a time when it was probably the most difficult to do that in the economics of it yes and no i guess the no sick condo is one of most a gated cities in the world we have three different. sales african-americans were devoted to gang big ones so it's a lot of things that keep us apart said the barber shop is not just the easy thing to do just you know papa to do it with my books it's a lot of different factions that have to do with joe. business. to really.

know what you're saying one of the worst things they could have the two men went into is business happen to us here so somebody came to start right in started shooting two clients q. was shot. in his box shop two years ago. your barber right now was here. those below where badge ready for war. changed perception this is your neighborhood in your box from your barber shop to shop the logic you go back to the course is this pretty was no way would you like to go back to you would feel. you might. think this spirit of death. keeps people where nothing less well feels will pretty much have to happen. we have nothing to do with everybody knows that we're positive those that will stand it we license bob as we do is opposed and so by should just fall back and they did is one of situations with tragedy well

it's here we turn it to trial so was something bad happen but it was used for good so i was was wash out free ourselves somebody has bunch of these kids so they call for a cease fire label because they realise a bit to hear of the kids that are going out here kill each of us want to stand up because they expect to step up to the speaker so that's what we do with all the barbers go again obama palaces go give the kids fifty four barbers in the park for a couple of hours which is what they call the brotherhood offices for. what we do is empower the barbers to start to speak to their clients get this war starts there but right so if you're in power bob says the really realize who they are and what their. what their position is aside they use their power to create change and they start to talk to these kids the kids look up to the city until they come to you. they will miss the mayor actually pay the ten. they gave those two hours of the to

valdosta over the border college in the barbershop accost with mayor emanuel softened up may have been able we finally you've done some. of those were all this about this that you gave us where you are that is and by the way if you google me i'm perceived as a trump loven right wing christian and christian conservative all of the dead about to get about the bible reading but my here's the thing. bill this is new year's. are not about. you get to the t. word from there. you know who is so rude no not the whole israel is doesn't what i'm learning this i'm just stephen bach. who you are where you're from who i am one i've been through you know i'll tell you right now man i find myself more blessed and happy and joyous and free the more i stop whining

about how much i think i can impact all this politics and this and. try to save the world you can't save the world is the very last place is a billion people who are right where you can save your family by being the best example you could say to your community your coming your way a little bit where you live do it bobby you could exist as well as that we would always miss you know what's crazy is what i'm trying to do right now and i'm going to get in trouble for this one. but like rodney king said can't we all just get along and i believe we can once we get to know each other yet. you know what i'm all star trek these was star struck by going to be our prime directive you know me know most of you know roads other cultures best know because who you know will to be going to try to help the doolies only on star trek you know we have a prize you get all the cultural work we go and it will be won before the world like me could simply be that way but. people webpage and i am taking meds you go to

for chopra but you have a totally different perspective a was going on the world did not do we are here right now just struggling to. make sure our kids stay alive so i have a whole different perspective of the troops as waste of the youth but still. the small politicians like ourselves who love to swap a small poster isn't going to affect you know. chose it it was exactly the change effect the coach the way the people think the people who are here for the cues to see that's what really matters trump really doesn't matter to us at all we both we're here and we have to constantly educate us building. love couldn't be true either chump they want to turn everything a whole other direction but actually they obviously have to wonder why would you want them to why did you go because you know you will exactly go because there's a really good thing or. well. come and go with.

them. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race based on off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time time to sit down and talk. my body told me that i belong with the poor but my thoughts my mind would find in that belong with the girls. under some trees to be of any particular.

football person dr. i was born a male had a sex change when i was thirty years old. i've now been living as a woman for twenty eight years and i fully recurrent this. problem should have gone away from me by now but they hadn't so these surgeries are nothing more than plastic surgery i've had several female to male friends and you look at it and you just go god you paid for that it's horrible nobody can change genders it's impossible. is delusional it's a mental illness. this is now where one of my bone and flesh from from my flesh she shall be called woman pushy was taken down from a. you

know why did you move from exactly you'll see it to this really good question. well . almost good will it gets. you know well it's simple because me. the first thing i thought was going to be important with the next president is that that person. this quickly as possible to start. the economy in a way that allows people to make more money. is not the answer. you know what we're going to force the. first got elected we would like. is that we've got to look at the ready only do i don't know why it's so out of the money as it was just good because the flaws are the things that he's trying to write best pick like you're crazy oh. it's not going to be for a month existing empowers pay with education and put people. his recent make more

money attrition for the families of special events was up ok so let me ask you a question no one has a question look things are temps go up in the next two years by a thousand percent. here i would just ask them if they go ahead. so they got to go through all the shenanigans the. just to get. there though would deal with this deal with home as much purpose nor do i spend on them all the well when i want to do all of the google i twiddle each. day and only this also should media but everybody right. doesn't. there's not going to be as the president he has to be a certain. style of ethics nalang a step below obama was in frank. did your world change for the better.

team full of good health you had people. raise their. own and do things a little bit easier than have a lower lot of person from the political standpoint. or will we all could use a little cook that he gave to the people who need obama and then i went to bob because i do have to pay to go to war was spent all up. so like i said before. on the learn and all of you on the ferry and i'm latino that. brock obama be elected it was a chair they made first the first time ever a vote and i mean you know educated i know but it's also what made me feel included and when he won it gave us all hope that that was even possible even for him to be so eloquent in the ways you know care to some social for a gave us a great example of a man and it empowered a lot. a lot of kids are scholars now also so full based on if in that eight years

of barack obama more and more and more positive things happen for african-americans in america praise god. now my question is and you can if we if that were true for chicago how did the alignments get worse if you got positive stuff was happening at the same time as always existed but as of the course. of it the president is just a person that is in a position that we see this approach that we get to pick on the souls we hope we can point to say he's the problem but there are greater powers that control of things so so black folks when it's late for five hundred years we so-called free for a little bit over one hundred thousand years the dam is not a wall when she's in the dam is goes on both sides because you know why folks are damaged just like young black males that it was because we were raised in this same society so we had chicago chicago we had

a station we had the projects and the naacp all the projects there a lack of all a gang leaders and a vicinity all these people across chicago do you have kids out here with no fathers yet women i have been able to raise their kids and then now you know so they got all these and i don't really. matter these have about facebook because curls is silly stuff because of nonsense like it's really ignorance you have to ignore it's the state of ego and they know bit of a day scene from your perspective why is my one thing chris so much so in chicago it's almost a conspiracy tale but it's the truth so we have freight trains for a change one to one neighborhood and we had keys we used to build up the freight trains when you could get video games t.v. . and you could get done serious trends like that coming through long on mt. you know we did that we were pickets we get those for michael jackson many of them . please continue so good stuff all in all for it's am i understanding

this correctly if those weapons stop them train she sees that whole thing which i know is education as a case of the came here because it is ignorance if you really knew who you were you would want to kill your growth you know would you rather really was the who we came from in his history of his movies people you would kill that you would lift it up then you've got kids that don't have no instruction once well have no idea of the cost of the leadership they watch the t.v. in videos they have good ribs and they've been sensitized i'm totally d. says its eyes and feel with the fantasy yummy that their little literally living off the face put me off for the images that they create so you get key as dumb as their own face bill would goods not too long ago i woulda said where's all the black leaders in chicago stepping up to hear nothing. we had in the

form of we'll say gang levens was a get well you know we had a master for me that when organizations and i mean they started out street just like they can be started out selling liquor on those guys who only kennedy's thugs so. they could k. they got power in numbers they get grants. program a breakfast program for kids and a t.v. show to cable you know like the educational people this type of a good job prefer situation whole do they had. control of the neighborhood but then they brought drugs heroin country cocaine comes in distractions so all of our leaders all of the leaders that we. were told to you know revere an ominous also for their respect but how for me but then jeer right now by going to say what would you go as a black man would you go to pay for college for your daughter would you go if you.

want to open up a business you can go to a bank you way to the policy makers to give you money to invest in your future downtown like englewood was downtown period is like a second downtown we should go over there get out east say it was a movie deal there would. you feel. like it was amazing and they took all of that away and then we want to go there as big wow are we standing up doors open about half what it is i am servos we are but we have been conditioned to get educated and then we move on which is away from our actual neighborhoods so we don't have jefferson's yeah stephen exactly like the jeffersons you feel me you know i had people here they have the wherewith all right here are the keys they don't have right here all the men there are on drugs or alcohol when i'm out he's the do more than we shoot well i was neighborhood then i don't know how we got bridgeport running down the street with mayor daley it will raise them not about

allow kids to go today they will say that they're going to get up and they're going to police their neighborhood period they will work with the police all against the police but they will make sure that the neighborhood is all we should do the same thing but we don't have the brain trust that we should because the soon as we get educated we leave here but you're starting to change yes and if feels amazing i suppose it is yeah because this is going to be able generationally now young black men will graduate from your barber school and then be able to give their story a stand this is how my last change back to america when it's under weight has anyone checked in with real in a while. really can make a thinner moment. that the void. well it

won't. these jabs at your brother. he's got a good gig for the next eight years now don't know if it isn't even that the worst possible time. oh say just very loud and clear he applies a little pressure. i'm starting to election now. i remember my last question. so just tell what's america mean to you as there's still hope. america to me. is the idea of hope idea of hope for the actuality of america the reality is that we're. a country that was developed on genocide so therefore

we're going through the growing pains of dealing with a genocide and as we get over that we reconcile with what has happened to a lot of different people everybody has been subjugated and used to we would still be a bit of fear we want to see a certain race with a certain class in america just so and so we rectify those issues and. give some type of solace so that we can grow from this is where it's coming here and they. just at least have been. a bit of a sense in my experience to know that i'm going to do a whole lot more listening than talking. yeah. i understand the perception of a much better man than i did before i came into the school so i'm glad you were able to listen. and i'm glad to be. thanked for making they're for.

thank you so much elf this year all right i think we got to go check on. my little family. my little hounds got to rio. god bless you and this place thank you and your family to the ship syriana i'll be back there we do good. and i will alec eco. day one of chicago is a rat and stephen is amazed with this clean sheet. and how incredibly well miss l. trained its. final

and now he has a new perspective on the pill and hopefully soon we can make it. next time on the great american pill did come from new york so like i like you on you i'm live in new york i'm actually live on a farm in upstate new york long island new york new york new york new york new york city i'm from the can i can i am a little fun with you know. to sing like a children's tooth and i. know one two three four five six seven nine. i say. i sleep. on them years as a kid when i let that fuse he ran. out of the car is coming back.

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