The Soloist

00:38:56,375 --> 00:38:57,667 You understand what I'm saying? 492 00:38:57,752 --> 00:38:59,210 Do you feel what I'm saying to you? 493 00:39:05,217 --> 00:39:06,968 - You mind if I sit here? - Not at all. 494 00:39:07,053 --> 00:39:08,053 All right. 495 00:39:08,137 --> 00:39:10,138 - I'm Steve. - I'm Steve, too. 496 00:39:10,222 --> 00:39:11,514 Oh, boy. Hi. 497 00:39:11,599 --> 00:39:14,893 - I knew I picked the right spot. - Yeah, you're good. 498 00:39:17,855 --> 00:39:20,357 So are you a new Lamp staff, or... 499 00:39:20,941 --> 00:39:24,152 - No. I'm just waiting for somebody. - Okay. 500 00:39:28,449 --> 00:39:30,450 I just try to keep Leeann happy. 501 00:39:30,534 --> 00:39:34,120 He is a bright spot in my life. We value the same things. 502 00:39:35,247 --> 00:39:36,623 And we're comfortable together. 503 00:39:36,707 --> 00:39:40,168 Thank you, Leeann. That's so nice to hear you say that. 504 00:39:41,545 --> 00:39:43,185 I call him Piggy Boy and stuff like that, 505 00:39:43,214 --> 00:39:45,882 but I shouldn't, because he's in a bad shape. 506 00:39:45,966 --> 00:39:48,051 We thought his problem was cocaine. 507 00:39:48,135 --> 00:39:50,178 - But it was pancreatic cancer. - Yeah? 508 00:39:50,262 --> 00:39:53,556 KK's French, Egyptian, and African-American, 509 00:39:53,641 --> 00:39:55,433 and I am a quarter French. 510 00:39:55,518 --> 00:39:57,894 I know about disease. I know how to treat it. 511 00:39:57,978 --> 00:40:00,772 Now I understand people. I can help so many people fast, 512 00:40:00,856 --> 00:40:01,898 and I can comfort them. 513 00:40:01,982 --> 00:40:05,360 They've got Italian nurses, 6'4", in the county hospital. 514 00:40:05,444 --> 00:40:07,487 And one of them talked to me like I was trash. 515 00:40:07,571 --> 00:40:11,741 Now, this is probably that the hour of power that the Bible speaks of, 516 00:40:11,826 --> 00:40:14,786 somebody who speaks a harsh language, will have what the computer... 517 00:40:14,870 --> 00:40:16,264 The computer is probably the beast. 518 00:40:16,288 --> 00:40:18,164 My aunt ended up with 16 shock treatments 519 00:40:18,249 --> 00:40:19,434 because she didn't want to go to bed 520 00:40:19,458 --> 00:40:20,667 with her sex-crazed husband. 521 00:40:20,751 --> 00:40:23,253 He was paying call girls $100 apiece, 522 00:40:23,337 --> 00:40:24,648 going to bed with them and coming home 523 00:40:24,672 --> 00:40:26,312 and giving my aunt all kinds of diseases. 524 00:40:26,382 --> 00:40:28,425 I got sick. I was working over there. 525 00:40:28,509 --> 00:40:31,886 And I got sicker than a dog one day. I got an infection in my esophagus. 526 00:40:31,971 --> 00:40:35,140 The neighbor's dog was sick one day and the only thing I had on hand 527 00:40:35,224 --> 00:40:37,976 was a packet of tetracycline for my chickens. 528 00:40:38,060 --> 00:40:41,604 So they wouldn't... They were too busy to treat her at the moment. 529 00:40:41,689 --> 00:40:43,609 - You're fantastic. - They'd already given her... 530 00:40:52,992 --> 00:40:55,785 Ice cold. Ice cold. 531 00:40:55,870 --> 00:40:58,246 "Points West" by Steve Lopez. 532 00:40:59,373 --> 00:41:03,543 I put Nathaniel's new instruments in safekeeping and waited. 533 00:41:06,005 --> 00:41:08,882 Fifteen minutes. Thirty minutes. An hour. 534 00:41:11,635 --> 00:41:14,971 Too long, in fact, 'cause guess what, schmuck, 535 00:41:15,514 --> 00:41:17,932 you got a deadline tomorrow. 536 00:41:19,268 --> 00:41:22,645 And the story of a guy not showing up 537 00:41:22,730 --> 00:41:24,397 is not a story. 538 00:41:26,275 --> 00:41:28,776 Nathaniel. Nathaniel. Nathaniel. 539 00:41:48,672 --> 00:41:49,923 Okay. 540 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,819 So, you guys are basically united by non-belief. 541 00:42:12,571 --> 00:42:14,405 - That's right. - Yeah. 542 00:42:14,490 --> 00:42:16,449 So, do you non-gather? 543 00:42:17,159 --> 00:42:18,701 And non-worship? 544 00:42:18,786 --> 00:42:20,662 We tried, but... 545 00:42:22,498 --> 00:42:25,291 - You're not allowed to talk about it. - Yeah. 546 00:42:25,376 --> 00:42:28,002 - Now we have a website. - Swell. 547 00:42:31,674 --> 00:42:33,508 Anything else you don't believe in? 548 00:42:33,592 --> 00:42:35,051 - Sorry. - Yeah, actually... 549 00:42:35,135 --> 00:42:36,844 - Sorry. - Okay. 550 00:42:36,929 --> 00:42:39,097 - Lopez. - Can you hear this? 551 00:42:39,181 --> 00:42:40,306 Sorry, can't hear you. 552 00:42:40,391 --> 00:42:42,559 I said, can you hear this? 553 00:42:57,575 --> 00:43:00,577 This family thinks it can have this conversation at every step. 554 00:43:58,135 --> 00:43:59,738 This is my apartment. This is my apartment. 555 00:43:59,762 --> 00:44:00,928 This is my apartment. 556 00:44:01,013 --> 00:44:03,598 Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Junio