danny, kelly collor johnny depp and eddie vedder. we have been blessed with iraqi this relationships and people we would not have met to other wise or the meditation a fire was out and could go to a doctor i never would have learned stuff like that so there are more things than i could never named that have been brought into my life and balance of think the thing we tried to avoid or stay away from is pain but i think it is true that deepens us most as human beings and develops our ability to empathize with other people as a great source of wisdom so what i have had to go through has made me a better person. >> do people want to ask questions? >> i would assume that means i am doing an amazing job. >> host: that was a joke one of the themes of the book i noticed you are very by neary with people there either the best or the worst humans on the planet not a lot of middle ground is that something this experience did or were you always that way? >> everything in the book is firsthand experience either people were being really good to me

-- i think eddie vedder's in a band -- [laughter] up and coming here in town. today brought you, they brought you here, right? and, like, took you shopping. >> eddie was, actually, in the courtroom the day we walked out. he came there just to be there for that. he brought us straight here. the day that we left arkansas, we left like refugees. i did not have a single penny in my pocket, i didn't even have a suit of clothes to change into. we had nowhere to go. so eddie brought us here, and his wife, jill, who's here tonight, um, took me out shopping and got me an entire new wardrobe, and i used to tell her eddie when he sees how much you spent, he's never going to let me back. [laughter] >> presumably, it was all black still? >> it was. >> with or did you change it up? >> yes, it was. [laughter] >> well, speaking of people who have been instrumental in damien's life and in trying to get more justice, a couple more people we want to bring up on the stage. writer and activist danny bland and also kelly canary who is, who's an attorney and worked with the innocence