My Name Is Jonah (2014) - full transcript

No I think youre here.

That was good.

I think that looks cool.

All right.

Yeah.

Great, great, great, great.

See this stray here.

All right.

Um, Garry's got the story board.

There's a never ending

battle between good and evil

as to which side I'm on.

I'm not on either side.

You should never leave home

without your time bomb

remember that.

I make my own decisions.

I never do.

I don't take orders from

anybody...

Anybody.

Oh no.

I do what I want

I do it when I want to.

Yes, this is a time bomb,

and we may use it.

My name is Jonah.

I heard about him

quite a while before I met him.

The West Coast is raving

who's the phenomenon

called Jonah.

Man, he's just an animal

on the stage and off.

Always gives a 100%.

A bad man.

I wish I could use

the nunchucks like Jonah.

When I found out

he had an alter ego

of some sort of superhero,

holy shit.

Kathy Washnis:

There's something

definitely demonic going on.

He was wearing

a Wolverine outfit.

You couldn't tell he

was a human.

You want to it turn physical

you're going to really, really

regret it.

Uh... He was a

strange cat, right off the bat.

Those are real

Uzis and real AK 47s

and real, real weapons.

I knew right away Jonah

was something special.

He is an original guy.

There's, there's nobody

like Jonah.

He is Jonah.

Nobody like Jonah.

Dont know anybody like Jonah.

When you meet

Jonah for the first time...

You wonder what you're

getting yourself into.

He doesn't sit around

and let life happen to him,

you know.

He tries to take it by the

horns and

bend it to his will.

Hes quite different.

That's a good way to put it.

He'd be good on

uh, with Chuck Norris

as his sidekick.

As Jonah's sidekick.

Yeah.

Jonah versus the predator

predator be careful.

I mean I haven't

seen a guy that looks like that

since Schwarzenegger in Predator

or Rambo.

I'm not sure

Chuck Norris is real

where Jonah is.

He said he, uh...

it was the early 70s when he,

uh, was in Vietnam

which was a very dangerous time.

Yep.

He, uh, had a top secret

clearance also

and, uh, he was involved with

some things

that were classified.

They would just

drop him alone in the jungle

and he would go carry

out some mission.

When you look

in the eyes of someone

that has the 1000 yard stare

you can see that

one, he doesn't care

two, he'll do anything he has to

to protect himself.

I kind of said

You used to work for

the President of United States

in security, and he brought

me a card.

He showed it to me and it said

"If you're holding me for

any reason"

let me go or youre going

to be in a lot of trouble.

I don't think

I could last five minutes

in the jungle of Vietnam alone.

So my hat's off to him big time.

Nicest guy in the world

and hed give you the shirt

off his back.

Once you get to know him

there's so much inside of him

that just like explodes out.

It's like Dorothy

opening the door into Oz.

Sup.

You're here for Jonah, huh?

Guys come on in.

Here step up.

Hey!

Hey!

Lights.

Who's who?

Okay, well, uh, my name

is Jonah.

Uh, I'm kind of like got at a

first name basis with everybody

like Madonna, you know.

Nobody says "Jonah who?"

They just go,

"You know, Jonah."

Nobody says "Jonah who."

Its like saying "Madonna who."

Yeah.

You know.

I was born in Brooklyn, New York

August 18th 1953

at 7:25pm on a Tuesday night.

What I try to do is give

everybody the extraordinary.

Yeah, I can do ordinary things,

who can't?

I can sit here and

breathe oxygen,

who gives a fuck?

Well, let's see... the bathroom

You might want to know

where that is, right?

And the kitchen and the

dining room.

This is my roommate Mike.

I am Michael

Galton. I am Jonah's roommate.

Hey Mike.

Hows it going?

And this is the

workout/computer room.

Modest.

Every day.

My dad had told me

when I was really little

that if you do 10 push-ups

and then 10 sit-ups every day

you'll always be in good shape

and you won't be fat.

And there was that little gear

inside my head

thinking what if I do 100

or a 1000, you know.

So Ive kind of always

been like that.

Jonah was always one for, uh

running the laps around

the fence

around the, the school and...

He had metal,

weightlifting shoes that he wore

and hed carry a sledgehammer.

He was a well-conditioned

athlete.

When I get to his age

I want to be as good a

shape as he is.

I-I don't do heavy weights.

I don't deal with more

than my own body weight.

I don't need to bench press

500 pounds.

I weigh 167. If I can move

167 pounds quickly

that's all I care about,

you know.

If I'm at the top of a

burning building

and I need to jump to a

tree branch

to get off the burning building,

I can do it.

He's very,

hes very level headed.

It's not that he's a

crazy person.

But I do know

that if I saw somebody trying

to hurt one of my friends

or an animal or something,

even if I didn't know it

if I saw somebody trying

to rape some chick

or something like that,

I'll beat the fuck out of him.

A combat situation where

you're fighting hand to hand

is really just a chess game

with stamina

because you're trying

to out think the guy

at the same time you're

expending energy.

It takes more energy to

throw a punch and miss

than it does to hit.

Kathy Hayes: I've seen him

kick ass in four, five guys

by himself.

When he was in the service

he came out of a gym one night

and three guys attacked him

they were gonna rob him.

I guess he

was walking a friend out or...

a girl was getting jumped

by three guys.

He said, Dont, don't.

I suggest you guys

don't do this.

Three big guys, little Jonah.

These guys were armed

there's three against one,

you know.

They ran off and, um...

I don't know if they were

robbing her

or what they wanted to

do with her.

I snap kicked

this guy in the larynx.

So what happened then was...

One guy just barely lived

and the other two were

in the hospital

for a really long time.

I grabbed

this fucking guy by his balls

and put my hand in his mouth and

I fucking jerked, jerked him up.

I ran him right into a tree

three or four times

and broke all of his ribs.

Now, that's the way

Jonah is. But he warned them.

It was at that point

that I realized how dangerous

I was, and, um...

I was very hesitant to go out

to bars and things like that

because you know, I just was

you-you gain a self-awareness

when stuff like that happens.

There's no, there's no, no glory

to hurting someone, you know.

If, it, it's good to know

how to do it

but does it make it right.

Killing or anything like that.

There have been

situations where one of the...

one of the group had, had

problems with wannabe gangsters.

A few of us had to go calm

a neighborhood down.

Uh, like everything else, uh...

Jonah was uh, efficient

and methodical.

We didn't get in-in trouble

much as individuals.

There were times where,

you know, somebody younger

and, uh... a little bit,

uh, bigger than us

would try to, you know,

say something stupid.

Wed just look at him and go,

you know,

You don't realize, you know,

who you're screwing with.

The Inhumans.

That was a moniker

that was hung on us

on Avis Street.

I used to call

the, the group of...

you know it was four maybe

five, five guys "The Inhumans."

Chips had come up

with the Inhumans thing.

And if you're a Fantastic Four

fan

you know who the Blackbolt

and Karnak

and Gorgon and all that.

Medusa.

And...

That's about all I can tell you.

We don't want to get

either one of us

you know, talking to lawyers.

So we'll just leave it at that.

All right,

maybe you want to be able

to strike back at the

establishment, but you can't.

Maybe you're one of those

peasants in a Robin Hood movie

and you can't strike back

at the Sheriff of Nottingham

or Prince John.

But Robin Hood's got the

balls to do it.

So what do you do?

Give him some food, hide him

you do stuff like that.

And I think what happens

is I think people are

rooting for me

because I'm really not

a bad person.

I just do all this crazy stuff.

But I think people

want to see me succeed.

So when I got on Myspace

I pretty much dumped like

30 years worth of shit

on the whole world in

about a week.

And everybody's like...

"Who's this guy," right?

And, and everything

just kind of happened.

I heard about him

quite a while before I met him.

Particularly with the

Christmas cards

he was kind of legendary

about those.

Hi, I am Skip Evon.

I've been a friend to Jonah's

for close to 10 years.

My dad does

like everything for him.

He's got stuff in the

basement set up

to help edit his videos

and hes got the posters

and all his music.

Jonah is, um...

After Id known him a while

had this idea about a calendar

and thats, uh, when I got this

and started videotaping.

Calendar is a kind of

fantasy warrior theme.

The name he came up with

for it was Warriad

about a princes quest to find

a crystal to save his princess.

I usually the one

making the video clips for him

or helping him with the JPEGs.

Okay, uh, Danielle, get

a little angry.

I try to help him manage

his business and, you know

look out for him as

far as you know

trying to help him succeed

basically, that's all.

Wow,

we got Jonah's phone number?

No, no area code or

nothing no bruh?

You don't need it.

Its 5, uh, 505...

Hes a Dansville cat, right?

Yes.

Good morning.

Jonah!

How are you doing?

You wacky son of a bitch.

Yes, I am.

I-I consider myself a real

life adventurer

and a warrior and a musician

because I am.

Adventures don't come

knocking at your door.

You've got to make'em happen.

Jonah, are you taking an armor

in case they don't

serve our burgers right?

The stuff that you

think is normal

is not normal to the rest of us.

What you do is stuff

that we see in the movies.

There's other musicians, there's

other people they've CDs,

there's other martial artists,

but how many of them

do you know?

Okay.

Marisa, you can get in closer.

Marisa Cameron,

Im here in Rochester, New York.

Um, let's see...

I met Jonah

through an ex-boyfriend

in the early 90s.

Marisa Cameron,

she's like my best friend.

I, you know, she's

such a sweet lady.

I mean, her boyfriend Brett

is a very, very lucky guy

to have somebody that nice,

you know.

I met Marisa when

I had gotten out of the service

and was working as a janitor

in my old high school

and I think at the time

she was either a freshman

or a sophomore.

I know I got about

six years on her.

I didn't

know about Jonah's cards

before I met him.

You know, I, he'd show me

his cards from last year

or he'd show me the whole series

that he's gone through.

Cheese Cake, cheese cake.

I'll have a slice.

And maybe

if you get smacked in the face

with it right away

with the weapons

and the this, and the that.

Get a couple of those

assault rifles somebody.

Maybe that-that would kind of

push people away.

But if you know him first

and then you just understand

that this is just part

of his whole personality

and, you know, its, it's

not anything to be scared of.

He's a great guy. He's honest,

hes funny, we laugh.

What?

I just cant believe

were doing this.

Whatever Jonah wants to do,

he pretty much does.

And, uh, when he tells you that

something's going to happen

it pretty much does happen

just that way.

Thats right folks.

This is proof positive that

I'm in the Ukraine.

Nikolai, to my arch enemies

at the INS, I mean friends.

I don't really

get a chance to interact

with Jonah and the

rest of his clan

unless we're doing something,

you know, like, uh, I'm videoing

and they, you know,

they're doing uh, calendar

or modeling, photos

or something like that.

Stagger yourselves so I can

get both of you in the picture.

You know I bought the

video camera

more for doing stuff for Jonah

than for doing stuff for me.

The viewfinder image is

black and white

but when I open both eyes

the viewfinder image

is in color.

Quite amazing.

He documents everything he does.

When I met him,

I understood this right away.

If he's gonna to do something

I'm usually there with

the video camera.

Nice job.

Pre-recording session.

Pre-recording, pre-burn.

And uh...

Pre-Russia.

Its good to be king.

This is the beginning

of my rock stardom.

I'm Jackie Kasperson

and this is Dave Kasperson.

And he's really the fellow

who met Jonah to begin with,

so you should talk

about how you met Jonah.

Well, what are we saying?

Like 27 years ago I think

was when Jonah

first came into our studio

with a group called...

Cruise Control.

Cruise Control.

Tim, Tim Coon.

I play the bass.

They call me the big ugly man.

A better part of 30 years

anyway - 25, 30 years

I was going through a bunch of

bands in this building downtown

and Jonah was in one of them

and I was in another one

and, you know, guys switch

and swap around bands

and finally ended up in the same

group and the rest is history.

A lot of people come in studios

and they, they freeze up

and they are like afraid

of being at the studio.

But not Jonah.

He was a natural.

A lot of times

bands will ask him up to

play with him

and they wind up not liking him

because he just steals the show.

And, and he's not trying

to do it on purpose or anything.

It's just the way he is and...

He's got some attraction...

of some kind thats

all I can say.

Listen, I'm a mercenary.

I'm not signed by anybody.

I tell everybody

Im a mercenary musician.

You know, I'm not signed

by Atlantic Records,

Capitol Records, anybody.

I'm, Im an unsigned artist

and I can play as well

as anybody.

He gets going

so hard on a harmonica

that he'll blow it out.

Hell wreck the reeds

on a harmonica.

And he's blown a couple out here

and as a matter of fact,

he's given them to me.

Ive seen him one night

ripped a hole on the side

of his lip open

with the front of his harp...

Kept playing. That's punk.

He's proving and showing people

that that you can get

notoriety with music

and at a, uh, you know,

in your 50s basically,

you know, which is not typical.

I'm very excited about tonight.

Jonah is going

to be performing shortly.

We're at the Stumblin Inn

in beautiful downtown

Elba, New York.

Believe me when Jonah

starts playing

this place is gonna take note.

I started playing the harmonica

when I was in the service, um...

and I just took to it.

In 2002, I recorded my CD.

I've been playing harmonica

for about 33 years

and a good friend of mine

told me about Myspace

and I said, Okay, fine,

I'll go on there.

It's actually, even though I

had a website up on the internet

Myspace being as popular

as it was

afforded me a vehicle to people.

Amen!

Amen!

I have three different pages.

I have my main Punisher page

and then I have my music page

and then I have a page

for my dog.

He's got his own page.

He's a dog and he's dead

and he's got more hits

than most people..

What do you think

of Jonahs Myspace?

Its great..

All right.

I really think it's great!

So cool!

What's your favorite part?

I love the pictures!

All right.

Did you check any of

the videos out?

No, I didn't know

there were videos there.

Oh yeah.

Check the videos out too.

All right.

I take these quizzes on Facebook

and if I like...

if I like them I'll put them

on my MySpace page.

What soldier type are you?

Special forces.

What badass are you?

Chuck Norris.

What Marvel character are you?

Wolverine.

How tough are you?

Wow, you're hard,

youre the type of person

the army sends in first

to sort out a war.

You're so tough that

if 50 skinheads are fighting you

and you shouted Stop,

they'd run away crying.

Your middle name is

danger, right?

What animal represents

your spirit? The tiger.

Yeah, what animal are you?

A fucking bear.

What rockstar are you?

Angus Young from ACDC.

What dead rockstar are you?

Jim Morrison of The Doors.

I mean, I mean, its like,

ya know, isn't that funny

just by answering

these questions

I turned out to be like

all of my heroes.

You know, I'm so much

like these guys.

Its why I really don't belong

in civilized society.

Are you ready to rock?

Yes!

Believe it folks.

You people are weak!

You people are weak!

You people are weak!

Now, we went to

your, uh, MySpace.

Yes, sir.

And, uh...

According to your friend

who called us

you're getting all kinds

of MTV and radio stations.

Now we went to this place

and we understand

once we looked at

why people would call you.

Thank you.

That's the scary part.

Because you don't know if

they're making fun of you

but in all honesty,

if you end up on a reality show

obviously you don't care

if they're making fun of you.

So there's a lot of shit.

That's why I said, told Steve,

I said tell these girls I said

this is a big deal

if you get on this poster,

because its a really big,

big deal. It really could.

Youre going to be somebody.

Brother Wiese

just interviewed me.

I did an interview for Mob

Scene Magazine.

Yeah. The Doug Lando show

I'm gonna be on in Montreal.

Remind me to get

your autograph before you leave

because if I ever see you again,

I want to have it.

You'd think that

somebody'd want to sign me up

before somebody else does.

You know, if you're MTV

you want to get me before

the Sci-fi channel.

If youre the Sci-fi channel

you want to get me

before HBO does

because somebody

that's not stupid

that sees that potential

is going to say

Listen, we can make some

money with this motherfucker.

He's got people who are

already wanting to see him.

Numbers equate into dollars.

I mean, I remember one day

I think I got a whole

High School in Colorado.

I had like 224 friend requests.

I couldn't even keep up with it.

Tuesday alone,

I hit 263 new friend requests.

Wow.

He was getting

thousands of hit a day.

You know, he was up over 100,000

within a few months.

But it's the same way

when FHM Interview

uh, magazine found

me on MySpace.

They interviewed me,

I'm writing a column

for a magazine in Australia.

Ask Jonah.

Recently I bought my first car.

The other night it was keyed

the side mirrors snapped off

and a window smashed.

I'm sure the culprits were a

gang of kids in my neighborhood.

Theyre very hostile, so I don't

know if I should confront them.

What do you think?

Brimbo Dromana, Victoria.

Well, let me share

a similar experience.

I used to have a red

78 Thunderbird.

I just moved into the hood

and noticed several cars

have been broken into...

Windows smashed, side mirrors

broken off.

I saw the local gang members

scoping out my vehicle

and I introduced myself.

I said, You see that red

Thunderbird over there?

Well, if anything happens to it

I'm going to hunt each

and every one of you down

and end your lives

as you now know it.

They figured I was crazy

enough to do it.

So, if they even saw

anybody near my ride

they got the fuck out of dodge.

So get some of your bros

to discuss matters

with the street urchins.

They only respect toughness.

Be tough, or move.

I don't know if you want to call

it the starving artist thing

but I do all the things I do,

because I have a passion for it.

But I'm, Im still...

I can still succumb to the same

things as the rest of us can.

I mean, in, within the last...

I mean some bad things happened

to me in the last year.

You know, my mom passed

away, my dog died.

My wife left me.

You know, I wound up having

my house foreclosed upon

and they repossessed my car.

That little piece of shit car

out there is what I'm driving

around right now

because its, I, I got to eat

just like the rest of us.

And maybe that's the connection

that I have with everybody else

because a lot of times

I feel very out of place

in the normal world.

This is not the kind of car

you want to take chicks

on a date in, man.

Unless you want to hope

they pass out from the fumes

and have sex with them

or something, I don't know.

Like built-in ecstasy.

No, I mean you know this...

Is just, like I said, I'm, I'm,

Im fortunate I have wheels.

Skip and another friend

of mine got this

or I wouldn't have a way

to get back and forth to work.

I mean its beat, man.

Skips always laughing.

That things still running?

You know?

I spent the money when I had

it and I don't regret doing it.

Its just like the stuff

we do in the magazines

and stuff I do on the internet.

You never know who's

gonna hear it

and what's going to

come from it.

You know, maybe that one person

happens to be a record

industry guy

or a movie producer

or a TV director

or a magazine editor.

So I just put myself out there.

That's why I said,

I don't hide anything about me.

If anything, I'm flaunting

everything I got, you know.

I show everybody everything

in hopes that somebody

will pick me up.

Pick me up and get me the fuck

out of reality here, you know.

Uh, my father used to work

for the post office

and he, um,

he wound up moving to Buffalo.

I think he got transferred.

I had a brother that

was born there.

And then they wind up again

moving to Rochester

uh, where I had two sisters,

Karen and Kathy.

Uh, so I'm the oldest child.

Karen Lagraff:

I'm Karen Lagraff

and I'm Jonah's younger sister.

We grew up in a house in

Rochester in Greece, New York.

It was a pretty small house

by today's standards.

We each kind of found a spot

to call our own

because we didn't have

our own bedrooms.

My younger sister Kathy

my brother, Jimmy,

who's seven years older than me

and, uh, and I each kind

of took a part of the attic.

So we kind of made it

our own little cool rooms

if you will put the, you

know, black light posters up

and stuff like that.

And Jonah had, he had a spot

down in the basement.

Near the coal cellar.

It was just a dark closet with

a big heavy wooden door on it.

Karen Lagraff: But that was

like his little room

at the bottom of the stairs

where he hung out and

hung up his stuff.

And that was his

Fortress of Solitude.

The Fortress of Solitude.

All right, well, this is

my room.

This is where I live.

I mean, this is the Fortress

of Solitude or the Batcave.

I mean, I was fortunate that

there were shelves over here

that I was able to put some

of my knickknacks on and again

I always stress the point

that I had a whole house

that looked like this and the

Adams Family has nothing on me.

So this is basically

a whole house full of shit

that I can't fit where

I live right now.

Someone from MTV, I'm

not sure of the gentleman's name

contacted him and said

they were interested

in possibly doing like

a cribs episode.

I mean, it really would have

been a great opportunity for MTV

because his house

in Danville was...

I mean, it was like a museum.

This here is my house

at 6th Clay Street in Dansville.

When I got in here

I didn't really care what

the carpeting looked like

the wallpaper, the paint

on the walls.

Nobody was going to

pay attention to it.

The rooms were so busy

with action figures and

weapons and paintings

you didn't really even think

about what was behind them.

I knew how I was going

to flood the house with stuff.

Now, I've been here a couple

of years before I got married.

So you know, it was just

one of those things.

Well, the reason that I

bought this house

is because of this gigantic bed

that I had made

at a Renaissance Fair.

And if you

could have seen his bed...

Unbelievable.

I think, I think most women

would be afraid to

sleep in that bed.

The headboard

is seven foot three

and it's almost two parking

spaces wide.

So it's a king sized

bed and a half.

Uh, he commissioned

the guy to make it.

He actually drew it.

Jonah is very good at art.

Very... awesome...

sleeping quarters.

Its beautiful.

Did you get your bed?

I got my bed but Ive got...

Life is good

if you got your bed.

Yeah, well I've got

the mattress and box springs

because where I'm living the,

the actual bed will not fit.

So I've got a lot of my stuff

in a u-haul storage bed.

The bed, the bed is one

of the things.

Well, its in there, man.

I mean this,

you're not going to be able to...

I mean you might be able to see

sections of it.

The headboard is really buried.

Parts of it are, well...

I'm sorry that it's

all so buried.

There's nothing I'd like better

than to have it out

and actually be, be using

the whole bed, you know.

I mean this is part of

the situation I'm forced into.

I've just got everything

in boxes.

I had to duct tape everything up

and just get it sealed up

so I could get the hell out.

I got as many of my

favorite things

which are all to me

symbolic things

uh, in this little room here.

Over here I've got uh...

the poster from the

Warrior on the Edge of Time

which is the tattoo

on my right arm

you know the headboard of my bed

and the URL from my MySpace site.

There's Tonru my dog up in the

Chimney Bluffs on Sodus point.

Jonah got a dog

but it wasn't just uh, a dog.

It was a Tibetan Mastiff.

I mean, I saw a monster

movie called 'Man's Best Friend'

and it was a movie that was

kind of like a canine Terminator

you know, your Grade B

monster movie.

One of those ones

I like to watch.

Lance Henriksen's

this mad scientist

and he spices the DNA

of all these animals

into this Tibetan Mastiff.

And I didn't even know

what the breed was at the time.

And Ally Sheedy is

like this reporter

doing an animal rights thing

and they let this dog loose

and they don't know the dogs

like this Frankenstein monster.

I want that dog back.

We're not talking about

some street mutt here.

We're talking about a million

dollar research animal.

He regresses

and becomes more predatory.

And of course he can do things

other dogs cannot do.

So I really became in love

with the dog in the movie.

And uh,

I guess he had to go to...

Minnesota or somewhere

to pick him up.

And he did that and

came back with him.

He was just a tiny

bundle of fur.

He was just a little fluff-ball.

He was this big.

He was adorable.

You know, we just

went everywhere together.

I took him to work with me

you know, we went,

we walked all over the place

and you know, he was my pal.

Big 22 by 36 poster of me

as 'The Punisher'

from my '94 Christmas card shoot

and 'The Avengers'

Captain America.

When Jonah and I

were first, just met

this was one of the comics

we were trying to find.

And it was one of the ones

that he and I both

really liked a lot.

We liked the group

'The Avengers'.

He gave that to me and...

I hope

you get a chance to see Gary

because Gary is the one that

took a lot of these pictures

that you're looking at.

My name is Gary Bader

and I was born and raised

here in Rochester.

I worked for Kodak for 30 years.

Uh, okay I, I have 'X-Men'

one through 10 in here that

I've had for a long time.

Here they are here.

There's 'X-Men number one'

from 1963 and number two

'Nothing Can Stop the Vanisher'

and 'Beware of the Blob'

number three

X-Men number four

'The Evil Mutants'

and then 'The Angel is

Trapped' number five.

'Special Guest Star the

Submariner' number six.

'Return of the Blob'

number seven.

'Eunice the Untouchable'

number eight.

Um, this is where they tangle

with 'The Avengers'

number nine.

And 'Ka-Zar Lord of the Jungle'

number 10.

They're all original

although that one got

drawn on a little bit.

I was 9 years old when

'Amazing Fantasy 15' came out.

You know, so Spider Man and

all that stuff was brand new.

It was a real...

real left side of the brain

creative time to be growing up.

I first met Jonah through

a friend of mine George Kaidas.

And it was through

trading comics

and they showed up

at my house unannounced

one Saturday afternoon

carrying a box of comics

under their one arm.

And they said,

"George sent us."

I said to my mother,

"Who are these guys?"

And she goes, "I don't know."

So I let them in and

we traded comics

and they took, took me

for a ride.

They took every good

comic that I had and gave

me a bunch of lousy ones.

Hey!

Whats going on man?

Believe me

if you met my buddy Gary

he's nothing like me.

But he likes the same

kind of stuff.

It's just that, again I do stuff

other people read about it.

Other people think about it.

I do it.

What's going on here?

A wedding?

Oh yeah.

Somebodys decorated our lot.

That cool, man?

All right.

All right.

What year was that, John?

Um, 1997

and this is where we did the...

Oh, here they come

'Robin Hood'

Christmas card shoot.

The first time he said

he was going to do

a Christmas card of Robin Hood

I had no idea what the man did.

He wanted the most impressive

looking bow.

Marcia: Which was

Which was

an Oneida Eagle Bow with

Michigan Autumn Camo on it.

And uh...

he had his side painted up

special paint extra for that.

Well, it's like, I'm

almost to where the dragon is.

You'll be able to see

some of that.

This is the over length arrow

that I used for the Robin Hood

shoot

purposely so you could

see the end of it

hanging off the uh, from the

front of the bow for the picture

but normally you wouldn't.

The arrow would be closer

to where your hand is.

But for effect, I had this made

so it's kind of a special arrow.

Howard Hill tip too, of course.

Oh!

Somebody gave me that because

because it looks a

lot like Chips.

It looks, see Mr. Chips.

It looks just like the guy

that made all the

weird taxidermy.

I was bored

to the point of tears one day

and I decided to make Jonah

something that wasn't normal.

So I made him what would

turn out to be

we called it the

Chernobyl Woodchuck.

And the guy was weird.

I mean, like he'd make...

he had a thing about

killing animals.

From deer to skunks.

You know, if it had

fur or feathers, I did it.

He made a clock

and that and the 12, the 3,

the 6 and the 9

were squirrel's heads.

I don't see him.

I don't see him

or know him or call him

or anything.

So that's fine with me.

He's just goofy.

So he's a trip that guy...

Mr. Chips...

Insane. He's just insane,

you know?

You know, just another thing

for Jonah's menagerie.

So that's Chips.

All right. Well...

He had a Robin Hood sword

that he ordered in Spain,

and Jonah is so short

and the sword was so long

when he drew it out

of the scabbard

he couldn't get it all

the way out.

That picture out in

the other room

we have hundreds of

people every year

that ask us "Who is that?"

And we tell them,

"Oh, that's Jonah."

And explain a little bit

about him.

And, and he does

a Christmas card every year.

And one year, he wanted to be

the Robin Hood character

and uh...

they look at it just like

"Wow, you know, crazy guy."

Well, not crazy

just somebody's that got

an idea and a dream

and just makes it happen.

Like probably a lot of people

would like to do.

Well, I started doing

the Christmas cards in 1976.

Yeah, I mean, it got to be

a real cult phenomenon.

I guess that, you know, we're,

were at that juncture now

where, you know,

it's gotten so big.

And really, in 2006,

when I got on MySpace

all I really did was dump

30 years' worth of shit

on everybody at once.

And then everybody was like,

"Who the fuck is this guy?"

You know? And that's

basically what it was

because there were

all Christmas card pictures

and to go back again

the Christmas card really was

just something that I thought of

because they used to have

an ad on TV for Polaroid

and it was mom and dad

and the kids

and they said,

"Make your own card."

And then a little idea light

bulb goes over on my head

and I'm thinking I'll make

my own card

but it wont look like this.

And I decided to do the action

adventure thing, you know.

Thank you very much

for the horn!

So um, you know...

Playing on that theme

would do my take on different

characters out of the movies

or comic books or whatever.

And um, it turned

out really well.

I also had to accumulate

things I needed prop wise.

And again, out of

pocket expense.

And not being independently

wealthy

it would take me time to

save up vacation

pay or money out of

my paycheck to order swords

or have somebody custom make

leather capes or sheaths

or a mask for my dog

kind of a thing.

Dave: I've known

Jonah over the years.

It's, it's he comes, he used to

come in here every Christmas

with a new set of Christmas

cards all handmade special

with all special photographs,

all these beautiful women

and always some kind of theme.

Kathy Hayes: I was

in the very first one.

The very first one, if you

go to the website "Have Harp, Will Travel'."

It's me when I was like 27

or something.

The very first one

was just like a Polaroid.

And then they get

really elaborate

and you know, models and horses

and he's an amazing kind

of character.

Just amazing.

I delivered them by hand

because I always loved to see

the people's reactions

when they open the card.

Because let's face it,

you've got an ordinary card

and you open it up and

it's like, you know.

Everybody always like,

wait for a second.

After a while, just to see...

Because they know it's going

to be something wild, you know?

You could be a swashbuckler

or you could have been

a barbarian.

I was fortunate enough

to be in a few of them.

Yes, even the very first one.

Last name is Ferguson

and everybody just called me

Ferg from then on.

Ferg.

And I've known Jonah since 1963

just after the assassination

of President Kennedy.

His brother was my best friend

and pointed him out to me in the

hallway as we were passing by

and that was the first time

I really saw him... Yeah.

Uh. Just if he belonged

there or somewhere,

incarceration or something.

From, from my observation

okay, I think you know,

my brother Jimmy

and he'll tell Im sure

hell tell you more about this

than, than I will but,

he was always very athletic.

You know, he, he kind of

almost looked like, you know

had like the Joe Nemeth kind of

thing going on back in the day.

He was quarterback of

the football team

he had a lot of girlfriends.

Uh, he was very popular.

Um, Jonah was more, um,

reclusive, I would say.

What happened

was my mother remarried

and I end up moving

just on the same street

but five houses away from them.

So from '66 to whenever

he went into service

I was practically living

at his house.

I actually started seeing

his brother Jimmy

because we were into football

and we'd play catch in the

front yard and stuff like that.

But the more I hung around

I realized Jonah was

into 'Spies'

and 'Man from U.N.C.L.E'

and comic books

and all those things and

I kind of liked that as well.

So I would, you know

go over and start hanging

around with him

and eventually that's all

I did is hang around with him

and Jimmy went on his way

to do football and stuff.

I played varsity

when I was a sophomore.

First play, I came in,

I called for a bootleg pass

it was against Eastridge.

I came in, I took the snap,

and as I turned like this

the pulling lineman

tripped my feet

and I lost about four yards.

Now, I got second and 14

so I call for a screen pass.

So, I drop back to pass

and as I'm in the pocket

and I'm sitting there, this big

lineman is coming right at me.

He's about to cream me

and my running back

is over here in the flat

and there's a linebacker

waiting right behind him

to intercept the ball.

So I had to think fast.

So I pump fake like this

and got this guy up in the air.

That guy moved over to

intercept but I never threw it

and I turned around

and ran this way

he missed me.

And as I was running

to the right

I saw the tight end going down

straight down the sideline

I just rifled him a 40 yard ball

right on his fingertips.

He ran all the way

for a touchdown.

The crowd went nuts

on a broken play.

It was a broken play.

My name is Jim Washnis.

I'm Jonah's brother by blood.

I was given a lot of God

gifted abilities in sports.

My brother harbored

a lot of jealousy

toward me because of it.

We lived right next

to a schoolyard

you could jump the fence

and you're in a playground.

And we're throwing

the football around.

My brother was standing

on top of a slide

they had a pretty big slide

at this playground.

And I threw him a pass,

about a 30 yard pass.

It was a nice tight spiral

right between the numbers.

But my brother didn't

have the athletic, uh...

prowess that I had.

And when he went

to catch the ball

his fingers were all

stiff and it kind...

hit his fingers and stubbed him.

So he reached in his pocket

and pulled out something shiny

and threw it at me,

and I didn't know what it was.

I'm waiting, no I'm down

on the ground

I see the shiny thing.

I move, it was a knife

that stuck right in the ground,

right where I was.

And that's not the first time

that he did something like that.

He tried killing me

a lot of times.

A lot of times!

There's a lot of history

between my brothers.

Sibling rivalry, Cain and Abel

whatever you want to call it.

I remember

when I was a little girl

and I was upstairs in our attic.

And I was looking down

at the bottom of the steps

and Johnny, Jonah was

at the bottom of the steps

and he kind of motioned

he kind of went like this,

like to be quiet.

I remember him taking

a bow and arrow

and shooting at up the steps

and Jimmy, who was

in the back part of the attic

was sitting there.

And I remember him

you know coming out like,

What are you doing?

Like you could, you know,

you're going to kill me.

And he just started laughing

and I'm glad I kept quiet

because who knows if he would

have gotten up from that chair

what could have happened?

This man, isn't a man,

he's a monster.

He's not a brother.

He's not a brother

to anybody in my family.

He hasn't been a good son

to his mom or dad.

His friends are more

important to him.

His friends as a community,

on the internet and everything

the image that he

portrays as Jonah.

There's John and there's Jonah.

John is a good person.

My brother John, as I knew

him as a kid

before he became

into this Jonah.

John was a very honest

and good person.

Jonah is a conceited

deceitful, narcissistic rat

that I wouldn't trust

as far as I could throw him.

I call him Johnny

because I like John, you know.

Johnny's my brother that,

you know...

And Jonah is somebody

that I feel like

he's more or less he

named himself.

Yeah. I know

his real name, but he's Jonah.

Everybody that knows him

and jams with him, he's Jonah.

Uh, yeah, that was kind of a...

a weird transformation,

actually to me.

And the next thing I know

he's going, "call me Jonah."

I can't explain that.

That just happened to him.

They started calling him that

one weekend down

at the playground.

And uh, it just stuck with him.

Ever since then,

he was just Jonah.

He had totally you know,

gone away from Johnny.

Unique name for a

unique character. Yeah.

Um, well, if I go back

to elementary school

I mean

I don't think I was ever normal.

I don't know it was a normal

growing up period or not.

I've always kind of done

my own thing

and heard a different drummer

and probably more situations,

you know

even in high school where

people just didn't accept me.

Fraternities, drama club

sports, uh... whatever.

The honor roll society.

I just don't give a

shit about this stuff.

He and his best friend

were Romulus and Remus.

And they were Gothic.

I mean, back then, back in

the '60s it was unheard of.

They always wore black, you know

they just were more

into being the outsiders.

They wore the black

t-shirts, black jeans

black shoes, every day, all day.

All the time

with holes in the shirts.

That's all they wore.

No showers.

People, you know,

gave them a wide margin

and they didn't understand them.

But they were great people.

Prayed to the devil.

Good athletes.

Just stayed to themselves.

He used to call out

demons names and stuff

when we were kids.

I remember he did that one night

and the door slam shut

during a rainstorm.

It scared the living

shit out of me.

It scared the shit out of me.

I'm telling you the

God's honest truth.

I mean, Jimmy was...

you know, very good at

you know, football

you know, he was

attractive and had no problem

you know, getting the dates

and such.

And Johnny, I think

was a bit jealous of that.

And I don't think that ever

really kind of got resolved.

I think it just escalated

into a lifetime of bad blood.

He, he treated me

differently than everybody else.

He didn't treat me

like a brother.

He treated me like "You're

the person I've got to beat."

I never really

got along with my brother.

Um... I don't know why he...

he's, you know,

he's mean spirited about me.

I don't know if he's jealous

or he feels that I'm

downplaying him or whatever.

I often think to myself,

you know

if I had somebody like me

for an older brother,

would it be the coolest

thing in the world

or would I have somebody that

Id have to try to live up to

and I could never do.

I don't know.

When he found out that he

wasnt getting any attention

he changed.

You know,

three days after Jonah turned 18

he enlisted in the army.

So I think he was doing what

he wanted to do just to get out.

It was August 21st, 1971.

And I remember it very well,

I was about 12.

So it was...

it was very traumatic

especially for my mother.

I remember my mother

crying herself to sleep

that night when he left.

Happy Memorial Day, everybody.

Happy Memorial Day.

So, could you tell us

what you're wearing.

Oh, I just thought

I'll wear some, um...

quasi green military

kind of stuff

to honor all of our veterans

who have passed away

making the ultimate sacrifice.

And uh... I thought that

since I'm a warrior myself

that it would just be

very apropos

to sit in front of

my castle here

and have a nice drink

out of my skull mug

of whatever I'm drinking.

I'll let you figure that out.

You want fast action?

Outdoor action?

Real man-sized action?

Well, here's action that

tops them all

in the combat branches

of today's army.

Well, Jonah spoke to me

about his years

in the service in Vietnam.

Not a lot. He doesn't

go into a lot of detail.

Well he was in Special Forces.

You know, from what I understand

he was in special operations

and basically they would just

drop him alone in the jungle

and he would go carry out

some mission.

I did stuff that was

classified, and you know

I just don't need any of that

come back to haunt me.

But I don't like to think about some

of the stuff that happened then.

I had a war movie on,

I think 'Saving Private Ryan'.

He's like, "Yeah, I was hearing

all the gunfire and stuff"

and they were kind of

giving him flashbacks there

"from listening to all the

bullets and stuff flying by."

I got out of the service

August 21st, 1974

three days after my

21st birthday.

I don't know that I

really had a plan

when I got out of the service.

My plan was just to, you know

let my hair grow and...

definitely not being

told what to do.

To this day, I don't like

taking orders.

I don't care if it's a wife,

a boss, I don't take orders.

You can give me a suggestion

you can ask me nice

to do you a favor

but Im not your dog.

And I will not be anybodys dog.

The establishment or

anybody else.

You know youre in

for a fight, for sure.

I mind my own business

and I respect other

people's property

and their pets, and their kids

and everything else like that.

I'd probably be the first one

to step right up

if I saw somebody trying to rape a girl

or kidnap a kid or something like that.

Shooter ready?

Yep.

Standby!

It's all lies.

Whoa! Easy does it.

Rack it. Just rack it.

Rack the slide. Rack the slide.

Whoa, tripped on a log.

You all right?

Yeah, I'm all right.

Im stuck in the wood

or something.

Thats what happens

when you miss the whole target.

Stuck behind here.

Oh, man!

He was never in Vietnam.

He was in Germany selling hash

and doing acid.

In Ansbach, Germany.

He was never in Vietnam.

He was not in ning bang dang

or whatever all that crap was

and I've got all the paperwork

right down here to prove it.

It was off an internet site.

I really don't know.

I don't have information about

when, you know

the specifics of when he was in the

army, other than when he was um...

You know, in Europe.

I know he was in Germany and I

know he went through Fort Dix.

But other than that, I really

don't have that information.

If you are going, if you're

doing any covert operations

if you were like in a train,

you'd be in a sealed car.

They didn't want you to see

where you were going

they didn't want anybody else

to know you were there.

You did whatever you had to do

and you came back.

I, I've never known Jonah

to exaggerate anything that he

says he has done or can do... ever.

He tells you he can do it or has done it,

I think you can pretty much believe it.

They would intercept your mail that

you got and read it before you read it.

We used to send cassettes

back and forth to each other.

We at that time, we had a

relationship where we could talk.

And we actually kind of missed

each other at that point in time

because that's probably

the first time in our lives

that we were ever

really separated.

So a lot of times, I might

have been in one location

and they may have actually

forged a letter from me

to say I was someplace else.

He wants to be somebody

that nobody else is like.

You know, he wants to, that's

more important to him than family.

It's more important than going

and visiting your dying mother

or helping your father

up the stairs.

The family has turned

their back on him

because he's turned his back

on the family.

He had 10 years to go up

and see my mother.

He showed up there

for her funeral

10 years later.

Where the hell were you?

Where were you?

Your mother's dying.

Where are you? Nowhere.

I was there all the time

when I had the job for Suburban.

I was in the vehicle during the

day, I'd stop and visit her.

I even took the dog there.

My dog Tonru.

We went into the elevator and

freaked everybody out, you know.

I got permission, I had to

sign a thing

the dog could come

to the freaking home, you know.

But my mom had Alzheimer's.

She didn't recognize me anyway.

You go there to visit somebody that

can't feed themselves and all this.

Its very sad to watch somebody

deteriorate like that.

It's harder on the family than it is

on the person that's got the disease.

That's not a hero to me.

It's like

if you're in the woods and...

And you, you got your arm pinned

under a tree, you got to decide

do I stay here and freeze to death,

or I cut my own arm off to get away?

Because nobody's going

to come rescue me.

So you either die

or you amputate yourself.

And it's one of those things

where I've got to take care of me

so that I can take care of

people in the future, you know?

He's filled to the

brim with hate

and jealousy, and

sibling rivalry

and it showed up at the wake.

When he went to shake my hand

that was for a show in

front of everybody

almost to make me look bad.

I just looked right through him.

Never said a word.

Some people thought that

was wrong of me.

To me, it was one of the most

wonderful points in my life.

You know, there were other

challenges growing up that...

You know, I, I probably wouldn't

get into but let's just say

we, you know, we had some

challenges growing up as a family.

Mrs. Washnis?

Mrs. Washnis: Yes?

Mom kept her family together.

She took no shit from my father.

She might have been a

small little woman

but she took no shit from dad.

I'll tell you what, mom was,

mom would stand her ground.

Dad would drink a half a gallon of

whiskey and four cases of beer a week.

It was very difficult growing up in the

house with an alcoholic for a father.

And my father was a big man

he's 6"3 and 230

so that was a little imposing and

intimidating to you know, young kids.

We made a point of not, not

hanging around a lot of times

if he was, if he was there

and running around, you know.

Because he had a, every once while

he'd tip, tip the bottle a little bit

so, I don't know if I should

really say that but he did and

And, and because my brother Jonah

was the oldest he probably, you know,

he had to deal with it

more than any of us.

There's something

inside Jonah driving him

Umm...

because he felt inadequacies

growing up.

I mean, I mean you

got to remember like...

You know, if you're growing

up in a...

In a, in a pseudo dysfunctional

household

and you're having, you know,

you're looking for role models

I can't think of any better

role models than superheroes

Zorro, Superman, Robin Hood.

I mean, you're looking at people

who have abilities

and they're helping

other people.

They're not asking

for anything in return.

You've got a faction that

is suppressing

I don't care if they're the

peasants, or serfs, or regular people

or they're criminals going after

victims or the rapists or whatever

you've got somebody willing

to stand up against them

and not expecting

any remuneration in return.

I don't even care if I

get a thank you.

It's not about that.

It's just about me being me.

If I can help somebody

out, fine.

I think of myself

as the quintessential warrior.

I mean, I got this tattoo

on my 38th birthday.

And I got it in my right arm

because it's my sword arm.

Which is from an album cover of

the 'Warrior on The Edge of Time'

a psychedelic group from Britain

called Hawkwind which I really like.

I think we get a lot of

our creativity from my father.

I went to school to be

a video artist.

My sister actually

has a pretty incredible singing voice

that a lot of people don't know.

And now Jimmy's

learning keyboard.

My father actually even

wrote a book.

It's called 'The Ballbreaker'.

So anyhow, my wife is at

the hospital giving birth to Kathy

and I got this shot at

babysitting again.

And I had to change

Karen's diaper

but I was afraid of doing it

after that experience with Jim.

So I didn't change her diaper

for three days

so she got back from

the hospital.

When she was coming home, Karen

was getting a little raunchy.

So I gave her this putty knife,

I said

"Go in the toilet scrape yourself

up before your mother gets home."

And I don't know whether the putty knife

disintegrated or what happened to it

but I never saw it again

and I want it back.

I remember he made a...

it is a big deal

I mean, he made a big deal that

he had written a book and...

That I had to go buy it.

And I believe Ive probably

got it here someplace.

But whether I actually read the

whole thing I don't think I did.

That's the exploits of his

father growing up in Pennsylvania

in a coal mining town.

Different situations, and then he's

going into the military from there.

His father's got like a

whole chapter

on having anal sex with

this lady that he picked up.

I served with the seventh

Infantry Division in the Pacific

back in 1945 and 1946.

And that I believe is what

inspired me to write this story.

But this is not a war story,

not at all.

I mention my military service

only to lend credence to some of the

events that take place in this story.

My dad sent him $50 for his birthday,

he sent it back, return to sender.

My sister Kathy calls him

he doesn't return any calls.

My sister Karen calls him

he doesn't return any calls.

And I certainly don't want

anything to do with him.

I don't want to be

a burden to anybody

I don't want to be around

people that don't like me.

It doesn't make any sense.

I don't want to go to a party

where everybody's going to

say bad things about me.

I know the way he thinks.

And I know the way he thinks

probably better than anybody

does because I grew up with him.

I grew up in that same house with

him, with that alcoholic father

and my mother

who kept their family together.

You know, I grew up in

that house.

It's, I, I know it sounds weird

and I probably, people are going to look

at this and say, "This guy's crazy,"

but I miss the dog

more than I miss my mom.

I didn't see my mom every day.

When I was a kid I saw my mom

every day.

But the dog is my kid.

I got my dog Tonru, I got him

from a breeder out in Nevada.

That's right, Nevada

The name that I got for

the dog which is Tonru

I got it from an old

Star Trek episode.

It goes...

I am Tonru. I am the other.

I thought, well,

I'm one and Tonru is the other.

I named him Tonru.

Who do you think uh,

would be a better Captain Kirk?

Oh, I'd be Captain Kirk.

Well, I'm sure my brother

would want to be Captain Kirk.

The kids in high school

called me Captain Kirk.

They signed my yearbook

Captain Kirk.

He did tend to be a

leader being the quarterback.

So I guess if you looked

at it that way

you would say he'd make

a good Captain Kirk.

I mean, Jim had a, an excellent

Captain Kirk imitation.

Jonah'd be a Klingon.

Jonah would be a Klingon.

I'd probably

be like a Klingon, you know.

Definitely rebellious.

Definitely evil

There is something cool about

being the bad guy, you know.

And definitely wanting people to

believe in his theories... Oh, yeah.

Where as Jonah

would be good as far as...

If he was in command of a, a group of

people like when we did the photographs.

And there he is,

the man himself.

But I can see Jonah

in that position.

Yes, uh, pursuing some hostiles

through space.

That's a toss up.

That's a toss up.

Its the cali... genetic caliber of

the, of those, from that family.

His father's a great man and...

His mother was just a,

just a wonderful person.

And, uh...

The genetic stock of the

Lithuanian-Italian, they're just...

Invincible, invincible.

I remember as a younger teenager,

he wasn't into physical fitness.

He was a real thin,

uh just regular kid.

And then I...

I started working out

and I started developing

I had these big forearms

and he liked that.

And then he went

into the service.

He went into Germany

he had talked with his parents

about what his future would be

and they figured that'd be

a good, a good move for him.

We didn't know anybody that was

going in the military at that time.

In our age group,

nobody volunteered.

There was a draft that was

going on, but he volunteered.

So, if you're

for fast action,

if you're an action kind of guy

take a long strong look at

today's army.

What's the next step? Into

your army recruiter's office.

But while he was in the service

he was big time into

weightlifting and working out

and he'd walk all over Europe.

So when he came back,

he was a transformed...

You know, from a little

kid to this big muscle-bound

you know, what you're

seeing now basically.

When he came back from the army,

he was definitely different.

He was much more outgoing than the

person I remember when he left.

Jonah... Jonah...

Jonah... Jonah...

Used to do a lot of uh chemical

enhancement back in the day too.

Enhanced his performance

with mind-altering stuff.

I got into the drug stuff

when I was in the military.

And when I got out I stayed with

it probably for about 10 years.

I was doing stuff. And then again, you

know, I'm like Mr. Abuse, you know.

You know, let's see how

much you can do.

I didn't, uh, ever do anything like

that with him to be honest with you.

So that apparently was with,

with Mr. Chips.

Oh, that's Mr. Chips.

This guy with the beard.

Yeah.

That's-thats Chips.

That's Chips, that's my

buddy Dan, that's Ferg.

Dan was the best man at my

brother's first wedding.

Ferg was the best man

at my brother's second wedding.

He accused both of them

of sleeping with his wives.

And that's my brother

with crutches on him.

We were all, uh, unmarried, and,

uh, just, uh, a very lively place.

Just the music and

the laughs and...

A good core group of people. It

was like a haven of adolescence.

Just stop by Avis St.

To see whats going on.

And it was always somebody

making something to eat

or making a strange piece of art

or playing music or something.

The whole sense of the whole

group was trust each one

could totally rely on the other.

And Jonah was the core.

He was the, he was the heart, the

heartbeat of the Avis Street, yes.

We partied a lot

together, you know...

He always had to do more

than anybody else.

My brother would roll big fat

joints, he called them Jonah joints.

And we were smoking,

uh, Jonah joints

which were

small telephone poles, you know.

From what I understand they were

quite thick like a-like a tornado

if you can picture that.

Whirlwinds of sensations, yes.

You put this much pot

in a joint and you take a hit,

and you're, youre burning it all

into the air and just wasting it.

But he did it because it was

bigger than anybody else's

like his dog was bigger

than anybody else's

like his gun was bigger

than anybody else's.

That's what he's all about.

Making sure it's bigger

than anybody else's.

Jonah did extensive drugs.

He did Angel Dust, he did heroin,

he didn't do much cocaine.

I never really liked doing

cocaine or anything like that.

I mean anything that

would drain down my nose

and make me, make it harder for me to

breathe when I was playing the harmonica.

I just didn't care for it.

It was an expensive drug and it,

didn't, didn't last very long.

Meanwhile, you know I could

spend like a little bit of money

on a pill about this big and

be high for 18 hours, you know.

I didn't feel full,

I just had a great time.

We did a lot of

partying back then.

We smoked a lot of weed

but I think more than anything

Jonah did a lot of acid.

I'd do, five hits of acid.

Not one, he would eat five;

five hits of blotter at once.

And Id see what I could

do, you know

kickbox or go see the ACDC

or something like that.

But there wasn't anything I did.

So I-I-I don't know when they did

it, how they did it or anything.

I had nothing to do with that.

Kathy Hayes: To me, for someone to do

six hits of acid and you can't even tell

I was amazed.

I remember

I was in a band with Tim.

Called Cruise Control.

Back in 1982,

and we were on our way to a gig

at a bar called the

Orange Monkey.

And it was snowing outside.

And I didn't know how to

get to the bar.

And I always figured, "let's

see if I drop the acid now

and in about a half an hour

it'll hit me

and Ill have just enough time

to get to the bar", right?

It hit me before I got to the

bar and there was a blizzard.

And I got this wild costume on and

my face is all flushed, and you know

I'm watching the snowflakes melt

on the windshield and I go,

"Oh man, it's getting really hard to see

between the lines on the road", you know.

And then I stopped to ask

directions, you know.

And Im this wild eyed crazy guy

dressed up like a freaking

renegade Indian, you know...

I had a feather and I wore like

a black headband to keep that

because that was before

contact lenses.

I wore my glasses

and everything.

My hair was longer and I had

like a Ted Nugent belt I made.

You know, I had like fox tails,

raccoon tails and bear claws.

I had buck skin boots on and I just

came in and played the harmonica

like Jimi Hendrix would,

would do with the guitar.

He's a terrific harmonica

player. Bar none.

Probably hes maybe the best

I've ever even heard.

But he puts a little bit too

much into a bridge instrument.

Hed be, you know,

literally laying on his back

and flipping around on stage

while he was playing harmonica

and he just had, you know,

endless energy.

He started his act in a cage.

He was wearing a Wolverine outfit,

you couldn't tell he was a human.

And came out of the cage

playing harmonica

and it terrified people in

the audience.

It was, it was just a great act.

We don't well,

know him well enough to know

that all his highs might

be natural highs or...

You know... Assisted highs.

You know something, I don't,

I don't, I really don't believe

- Jonah would do drugs.

- Jackie Kasperson:

I don't think

so. He's, he's too natural.

Maybe I'm-maybe I'm wrong

but he's got that natural energy.

I don't know if he needs it.

And I realized that I was

burning the candle on both ends.

I just said, Look,

I gotta make a choice.

Do I want to go this route

or this route?

And I just dropped the

other thing.

And I did, completely

just like that.

People that saw me party couldn't

believe I just didn't want to.

Theyd go-theyd go to

hand me a joint

and Id say, No, I don't do that anymore.

I just don't want to do it, you know.

It was just that easy for me.

Jonah hasn't done

drugs in a long time.

He's probably extremely

physically healthy person.

I mean, health wise, he's probably

extremely physically healthy

except for mentally.

Mentally, he's delusionary.

But I have a strong mind.

You have to have a strong mind

to be able to say no.

Im going to get my,

a refill here.

Having my cranberry

juice and rum.

That's my normal Saturday

if I don't have any place to go.

That's what I do. I just like

to make some cheeseburgers...

A little sliced red onion,

little...

Little uh, based in

Worcestershire sauce

with a little, just a

hint of fresh garlic.

They're good.

It doesn't take long

if you preheat the bun.

Messy part of the video.

It was a great honor to film

Jonah and Annas wedding.

Well, the first part of the video

was, was a montage that I created.

I took little bits of video of

Anna's preparation for the wedding

and the audio was terrible.

It was all people talking and,

you know, it was in a hair salon

there was all kinds

of distracting stuff going on.

And I-I couldn't think of a good way

to present this as part of the video

and not have it be terrible

to listen to.

So I deleted the audio track and just

put in Jonah's music in the background

and then I, once I started

doing that and blending scenes

I actually figured, while she's

probably thinking a lot about Jonah

while she's preparing for a wedding so why

not put a few things of Jonah in there too

just to kind of show the

flow of thinking

and, and you know, try to

get the mood.

And I thought it came out great.

I gave your bag to, to him.

Okay.

Stay right there, now.

Oh...

They are all watching...

I can't now speak.

He had met, uh,

a young lady in the Soviet Union

and, uh, carried on a relationship

with her long distance at first.

He met Anna online.

Jonah...

Found Anna on the internet.

They corresponded for a long time on

the internet before anything happened...

And so then, then he told me

he was saving up his money.

He was actually going to go to Russia

and get her and bring her here.

He started writing her and she was writing

him and of course, they had never met.

So I thought that was a little,

little odd

but being a friend, I supported

him with it, you know.

I'm not going to tell him,

"don't do it", you know

"It's not going to ever work"

or anything like that.

I never thought that way.

So and he went over there and...

met his, met her family and,

and spent quite a bit of money.

You have to pay their

government, our government

this, that, the other thing,

all these forms...

Uh, was she going to be a citizen?

This, that, the other thing

and he had to pay

a ton of money to do this.

He bought her

a beautiful Emerald ring.

And, uh, and she...

It all came... to fruition.

I mean, he brought her

home and married her.

I was, I was maid of honor.

And they lived together for,

you know, down in Dansville

they did wind up moving to Dansville

and which I was sorry he did that

because I-I didn't get

to see him as often.

And I, and I think a lot of his friends,

we didn't really get to see him as often.

And, um...

And that, and that was it. I-I would

see him, you know, off and on and...

You know, as it got later and later

I-I wouldn't see him quite as much.

No, no,

I was-I was ecstatic for him.

He was, he was happy

and I was happy for him.

I just missed him.

This whole hallway

was like the night gallery.

I had 22 by 30 posters of a lot of

the pictures you've seen on MySpace

which were my Christmas

card pictures.

And they adorned both of

these walls all the way down.

This was the room

that my wife used to use.

I had an old, I still

have, its in storage.

An old organ, you know, they

used to play church music on it.

And I was trying to learn how to

play "In A Gadda Da Vida", you know.

So you could see where all

the water damage had happened.

Pieces of plaster would

be falling.

And I started feeling really bad about

all that, you know, because it was...

It was just uh, you know,

one of those things.

Things were happening faster

than I could deal with them.

Uh, I'd been working

and then I got laid off.

And then, you know, you start dipping

into your 401k and your bank account

pretty soon there's

nothing left to dip into.

And not really living

beyond my means either.

Just trying to eat and

keep the heat on...

And, you know, there was a week

we, it was like 10 degrees outside

and we had no heat.

We had these little space heaters.

We moved from room to room

and I know, I - I finally...

Because I was going through

some hard times and stuff

I never thought I'd go through the heat

thing for, um, gas electric benefits

and food stamps, you know,

you know, all that stuff

you know, getting free

baked goods from the church.

I mean everything I

could to keep us going.

I would also like to

just say that Id like to...

Promise to Annas mother

and her sister

that I would do my best

to try to take care of her

and be a good husband

and maybe a father someday.

And do my best to just be the best

person I can for her in her life.

Sword cane.

I remember when I was in rehab for my

knee, the guy at the rehab place loved me.

He goes, You know, this guy's done.

He's coming here to work out every day.

You know, he's, you know,

he's gotten his leg good again

and he's using all the weights

and everything.

So they finally stopped

doing it.

But I-they loved me because I had

sword canes and stuff, you know.

You could fence, right?

Yeah.

Could you show us a couple

moves with that?

Well, I mean, look, you know,

I mean we-we did fencing stuff.

I did stuff like that,

but, you know, a lot of it...

It's hard without somebody else

actually fencing with you, you know.

You get a lot of parries

and thrusts and stuff like that.

But, you know, it's not a lot

of the hack and slash stuff

you see in the Conan movies,

you know.

A lot of it is real, just,

you know

tipping somebody that way

so you can jab at him, you know.

They were made for stabbing,

they weren't made for slashing.

They werent made for slashing.

This is what my buddy Tim

Baxter was holding under his arm

when he was, uh, Little John for

the Robin Hood thing, you know.

Actually found this too when I

was working on the garbage truck.

Somebody was throwing it out. I just

thought it was cool and brought it home.

Leave it in the room...

But it's for real.

I would get on the writing step

and grab one of the handles.

And I used to do pull ups

when we're going down the road

at 60 miles an hour, you know.

And I'd stick my foot

in the mouth of the barrel

because the barrel to

the passenger side

if you hit a bump

and it rolled off the curb

it's going to roll up

in somebody's lawn.

The one on the driver's side would roll

in the path of an oncoming vehicle.

So by me riding on

the drivers side

and standing in it,

it's not going to take off.

The last thing that

I did for him

I helped move him down to his house

to Dansville and I bought him tickets

to a Blue Oyster Cult concert.

Before he bought the house in Dansville,

he was in a really bad accident.

We were parked.

Dark blue truck,

bright sunny day.

And they were facing due east.

So as the sun got to the

top of that hill

you were totally blind because the

sun was right on the horizon there.

This girl had her visor

down and was doing her makeup

and she was 19 years old

on her way to the deli department

of the supermarket where she worked.

She's flying down the road

and nobody knew it, you know.

And we just, well

we just stopped

I just threw some trash

in the back of the truck

and hung my cart on the little

hooks that we had on the back

put my foot in the mouth of the

barrel and my other foot right here

I just pulled myself up, my partner

was getting ready to move the truck

and all of a sudden

it was like a shark attack.

And all of a sudden it

was like a shark attack.

She hit the bottom

of the barrel.

She hit the bottom

of that barrel.

Mouth of the barrel hit me in the ass, and

drove my knee into the cast iron tread.

I spun as high as

the winch cable

came down on the

hood and windshield

and trampolined to the

opposite shoulder of the road.

And I was conscious

the whole time.

He bumped off the hood of

the car and woke up unconscious.

When he woke up he was inside

the hospital with a fake knee.

Meanwhile, I'm still

in the road.

So now my partner hears

everything, looks in the rearview

I'm gone and there's a car

where I used to be.

So now traffic stops and I'm

in the middle of the road.

My partner thinks I'm dead.

He comes running out.

The girls already out of her car on

the other side of the road crying.

I'm so sorry.

She's crying, right?

My partner, Mark, comes out of the

car and he goes, Are you alright?

No, I'm not okay. Call

an ambulance, you know.

I'm thinking,

"I got to get my sandwich."

How am I going to get

to eat my lunch

because if they're gonna operate on

me, they won't let me eat any food.

You know, so I'm trying

to get to my sandwich

and then goes, He's in shock.

No, I'm not in shock.

I'm in pain, you know,

There's a big difference.

He doesn't even remember

it because he was unconscious.

And I never got

my fucking sandwich.

He's got a, a knee

that's completely rebuilt

because the car shattered

his kneecap.

I'm not one to

go running to the doctor.

Pretty much go to work

with a gunshot wound

unless they make me go to the

hospital, you know.

So, I have injuries that people

don't know about that I deal with.

Hey Vasca... What?

Youre scared?

Whats the matter?

Whats the matter, huh?

You want to play with the

happy face man?

You want to play up here?

Come on.

One of the most relaxing things that

I do is just playing with my cat.

You know, I just need a little

bit of time where I smile.

It's-its just nice to know that

somebody or something cares.

You know, for whatever reason,

you know.

The cats really all I've got

left from the house in Dansville

after the house got foreclosed

and the bank took it.

You know my wife, we went our

separate ways too, you know.

Financial duress, sometimes

people bail out instead of...

You know, sticking with

the ship, you know.

Well, I had gotten, uh, a lot of, uh,

cards from customers on the garbage route

saying how much they missed me. They

used to call me the designer garbage man.

So this guy just runs

the whole time.

He's out there and they say

that, after you left

they got a pickup truck and

three other guys to replace you

because nobody could

keep up with you.

And then, you know, I was wearing

a leg brace a donjoy brace

for about 10 years

and I still have a big scar

where they cut all the

way up my leg here.

My whole right knee

got destroyed.

He sued and got some money from

it and bought an Eagle Talon car.

I ordered it.

I paid cash for it.

I ordered from the dealership.

So I had the, I had great

custom leather bucket seats

it was a black car,

I had the Jonah1 license plates.

That's the first car

those came on.

You know it had cruise, and air, and

a killer stereo, and turbo charger.

You know. Excuse me.

It was really nice.

He had uh

An extravagant...

Flair and...

A great imagination.

State. And I, I ended up, uh, being

able to borrow one of the saddles

Oh excellent.

Yes, we do have

horse trainers in this cart.

We have everything.

Videos, TV. I hope.

When I did something

permitting a lot of

artistic license

that's why the cards turned out

as well as they did.

If I, like I really

went all out.

When I did the Sinbad one, it, I had

written Sinbad Jedi Knight /Time Traveler.

That accounts

for the dinosaurs and Sinbad

having a light saber as well

as a sword.

And it was a great

combination of things.

I had one girl dressed

up like a pirate

Marisa was dressed

kind of like Xena

we were traveling through time

battling monsters

time, space dimensions,

whatever, you know.

I don't know where he got all

the people to be honest with you.

Some, some he must have just met

at, you know, the corner store

"and said, Do you want to be in my

picture this weekend?" Or something.

Its gonna be a porno film.

I can tell, man. Oh boy.

It's like, "Oh,

did you get Jonah's new card?"

"Oh, did you get

Jonah's new card?"

And I used to look at them

and I think to myself

there's nothing more ridiculous

than a fool busy in a project.

Occasionally, somebody would say

"this doesn't have anything

to do with Christmas."

And of course, my...

You know, my response is always, It

has everything to do with Christmas.

It has to do with giving.

It has to do with giving without

expectation of reciprocation.

You don't have to say thank you.

I'm giving it to you

because I want to.

He just

wants to do things for people

and he wants it to be meaningful

and wants them to appreciate it.

I really, I really wasn't

trying to tread on any toes.

I was trying to have a

good time and share my...

feelings and things I liked

with the people I cared about.

Its amazing how the people that know

about these Christmas cards are.

He, he does like 250 of them.

They go to Japan, everywhere.

You make that many cards

not everybody's going to be

home when you stop by.

So Id stick them in the doorway.

A week or two after Christmas,

I don't hear anything.

I call, Did you get the card?

Oh, yeah.

Did you like it?

Yeah, it was great.

Then why didn't you

say thank you?

Why didn't you at least

acknowledge that you received

it even if you didn't like it?

And I started feeling like people

were taking the card for granted.

You know, it's like going

to the faucet

and turning the sink and

expecting the water to come out.

And he just pulled the plug

on the whole operation.

I'm trying to think when

Anna came into the picture.

That might have been...

that might have been

when the cards stopped.

Hey! Welcome

to the Ukraine.

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

Enjoying a late meal

after watching some

hearty videos

of me and Christmas

card pictures

and CDs.

And now, for the rest

of the evening

were trying to do our first installment

of a video of us live and in color.

And Annas favorite color is

lts green.

Look at the camera and tell them

Say.

Are you nervous?

I would not like to think

that she went through all that

just to get into the United

States and get citizenship

and, you know, but it

appears that way.

I don't know

whether or not there was a scam.

I-I don't think well ever know.

Kathy Hayes: So I heard that

he was, when he was moving

he, he quit his job and

got a job with...

He was working for

a paper service or something.

He wanted to do more

with his life.

He quit the job and spent money

going back and forth to Russia

with her and that's where all

the cash went and lost his house.

And he was moving.

And he was like, No, nothing.

So now I hate her.

"If I ever see her, shes

going to pay."

He married that girl,

Anna from Russia.

She had to learn the

English language.

When she learned it good enough

and she probably learned that every

sentence didn't begin with the letter 'I'

that's probably when she realized

that this was not going to work.

I mean, at the same time Jonah

was going from Johnny to Jonah

I think Jimmy was going

from Jimmy to whoever

because he's just

not the same person that he was.

I mean, not at all.

It seems like they have

rev-reverse personalities.

Jonahs becoming more extroverted

and Jim's becoming more introverted.

When they were growing up,

it was just the opposite.

Remember that, remember the

song'Glory Years by Bruce Springsteen?

All right, after high school

football, that was it.

That was my brother's big thing. He was

a quarterback in high school. That's it.

That was the passion of my life, football.

I still love it.

I still think it's

the best game.

I mean, I wasn't satisfied

with just stopping there.

I keep doing things. I'm

doing things to this very day.

I love sports.

I love music.

I just recently picked up the

keyboards about five years ago.

Um...

And now I'm really getting

to figure out things

so I'm ready to play

in a band now.

Im gonna jam. Here we go.

You want to talk about

Jonah, how egotistical he is?

That Christmas card

is to put the attention

he, this guy actually

wants to put himself

more important than

the real meaning of Christmas.

The real meaning of Christmas

is about Christ.

It's not about Santa Claus,

an anagram of Satan

who comes down a

fire chimney in red

and robs his glory from Christ.

It's not about that.

It's not about anything else

but the birth of our Savior

who came to save us.

It's not about Jonah.

He wants to be it.

Worship Me, I'm Jonah,

the second anti-Christ.

He is in the

spirit of antichrist.

I'll tell you something very interesting

that you can keep right on this footage.

The number 666 adds up to 18.

Jonah was born on the 18th.

Jonah was born in 1953,

which adds to 18.

Jonah graduated in 1971,

which adds to 18.

Jonah worshipped the devil.

Jonah is an apostate of Satan.

I believe that.

I don't think he realizes...

How, how evil or bad things are.

I, so, yeah, there's something

definitely demonic going on for sure.

I-I think there's a battle

going on. Definitely.

And so I don't know where he's

gonna end up in the afterlife.

I'm praying for him because right

now he's on his way to hell.

He's magnifying himself in an

antichrist type of fashion.

He is in the spirit of

antichrist Jonah.

He wants people to worship him.

Were not, he's not the one to worship.

Christ is the one to worship.

Wow.

This is the sword that I got

for my 40th birthday.

Man: Yes! Huzzah!

The will of steel!

I actually had my buddy Don use

it for his sword in the calendar.

Don: What do you guys want? What do

you guys want? What do you want, Jonah?

Whatever dude. There you go. Two handed.

There you go. Two handed.

Don: Two handed?

Yeah.

Thats good!

Hurry up.

I cant hold the stuff forever..

We did, we had done stuff

on a, like a big lazy "Susan"

in front of a blue screen.

And we're, you know, we, you know

we take several pictures of us

as they, as they kept turning the,

the carousel we were standing on.

So that if you put it on the internet, you

move the mouse, you could spin us around

and see what the costume looks

like from all different angles.

Im-Im like, my mind is like,

you know

way, left side of my brains

working real hard, right?

That's a calendar, right Jonah?

- Jonah.

What?

That's a calendar, right?

Thats a calendar I hope.

But, eh I think the guy that

was going to do the printing

one of the guys, the characters

actually worked at the print

shop and lost his job, so...

I guess he was doing it

behind the scenes, you know

not really with the, the total

permission of the company

and he got fired for it.

Now look at Don.

Is that Errol Flynn or what?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, right.

We were waiting

for that to come out

for where we could see if

we could sell some of them

and that kind of fell through.

It was a big disappointment.

Seen some better years.

Things are getting

a little rusty out here.

But I've got all the

stuff in the can.

Well get it eventually. Yeah,

eventually we'll get it done.

But it was a great,

I had said just like this...

These guys are thinking about like doing

a cartoon of my skull ranger character.

Wouldnt that be great?

Or a video game?

Sure.

You know, without really

knocking a lot of things over

if I pull these blankets aside, you

can probably see the lion and the wolf.

And again, the, the bed that

I'm sitting on is the...

the mattress and boxspring, because the

actual bed wouldn't fit in this room.

It's too tall and too wide.

And you know, maybe someday again,

I hope someday again before I die

I'll be able to set the

whole thing up.

And it's, it's an edifice to

look at much less sleep in.

And that's, uh, pretty much

my room.

Pretty much.

- Stay.

He wont even know.

Well do it so smooth he

won't even know he's turning.

Yeah?

Stay there.

- Good boy. I hope.

- Female:

Stay.

Despite Jonah's best efforts to, to

help him Tonru developed some cancer.

It was it was truly one of the

greatest losses I've ever experienced.

I carried him when he died

on his own terms.

And I called Skip and took a day off

from work the next day and we buried him.

And he really hurt,

hurt a lot when he died.

It was a real sad thing.

I had a large dog myself, Scout

that actually passed away...

a year or so before Tonu,

Tonru did.

They're buried side by side and got crosses

on their graves out in our hunting camp.

Yeah it's funny how animals can

be so much a part of your life.

But you know, you don't see

people all the time

but you see the animal

every day.

And uh, like I said, again

he was a lot more...

a lot more important to me

than most people.

You know, I, you know, I don't know

how many real friends you guys have.

I don't even know how

many real friends I have.

But I know one thing,

this guy was really my friend.

And I could count on him.

Oh, they're sorely missed.

That's for sure.

Yeah. Good friends.

No doubt about it.

Man's best friend.

Amen.

Well, you know, I had a

lot of bad things happen.

I mean, I mean,

you know any one of these things

could have pushed, you know,

I don't want to say a normal person

making me superhuman or abnormal

but, you know, boom boom,

but it's like being in a fight.

Every time you get up,

somebody knocks you down

again, but you keep getting up.

You keep getting up.

Jonah really showed the

strength of his character.

I mean all within the space

of less than a year and a half

you know his dog died

he lost his house

had to declare bankruptcy

and lost his wife.

He still kept smiling.

You know, I mean, I...

I'm not saying he ever got sad

or depressed or anything

but I mean, they were momentary.

I mean he just...

Hes too much into life to let

anything get him down for too long.

You know hes really

a indomitable spirit

like nobody I've ever known.

I know that the only value that I have

in this life is one of entertainment.

It's taken me a long time

to accept that conclusion.

Nobody really gives a shit

about me as a person

just what I say or wear or

what I can do.

I've created me and I

have to go on being me.

There's no turning back.

With great power

comes a great responsibility.

Words of wisdom

for me to live by.

I've spent more time alone

than I do around other people.

And maybe that's why I've been

able to delve within myself

to harness those powers that most of us

have but never tap into full capacity.

Pedal to the metal and volume

at ten is all that I know.

I'll continue to be over

the top until I drop.

Maybe I spend too much time alone,

but you know how we punishers are.

I've already run the different question

and answer scenarios in my head

if I wind up in Conan O'Brien,

Leno, Letterman or Stern

although I am not camera shy and

have no mic fright whatsoever

and Im wildly spontaneous.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

God how I love that phrase.

As The Doors Jim Morrison once said

in The Celebration of the Lizard

Now night arrives with a purple Legion;

retire now to your tent and to your dreams.

Tomorrow, we enter the town of my birth;

I want to be ready. And I will be ready.

Okay action, Jonah.

This is what

I should be doing, you know.

I shouldn't

be working a real job.

I mean I really shouldn't.

I don't belong here.

You know, I mean...

You know, there's a place for

that, there's a place for people,

but I just have, I just have too many

other skills to be stuck doing that.

And I, even if I made the same pay,

it'd be better doing something I like.

My hobbies are what gets

everybody's attention.

That's what I tell everybody

Even though people want to know what

makes me tick for the documentary,

they don't want Sylvester

Stallone, they want Rambo.

They want Rocky; they want the character,

so I give them the character, you know.

So I'm gonna have fun tonight, I'm

really like looking forward to it.

Where's the gig?

It's some shitty ass

little town called Elba.

It's between Albion and Batavia.

Oh, Okay. And it's a

ro, ts a roadhouse.

Its called, um,

The Stumblin Inn.

I think, I think its time.

Whats your name?

Jonah.

Jonah.

Jonah. We have to...

Are you serious?

Crazy about you

over your documentary.

Oh yeah, Ive had the TV crew...

You're really not Jonah.

Yeah, thats my name.

Youre really it...

because I thought you were

somebody else like imposing.

Youre the shit and

youre carrying your own stuff?

Well, yeah.

Let me help you.

Can we help you carry your stuff?

Oh, yes, if you want.

Come on, Jonah. All right.

All right girls.

Should I carry your tuba?

Uh, no, thats okay.

Female:

Where am I going with this?

Uh, around the corner.

I guess.

Do you not color your hair?

Because Im a hairdresser.

Uh, I don't color

my hair but I might...

Because, you know what?

Its a fucking wig, Jonah.

Yeah. I can tell.

You think?

What do you got underneath that shit?

Take it off.

And why are you still

making me carry this?

I don't know.

You offered.

Some of the stuff I saw

some of the people I met,

some of the places I traveled to

you know, it's priceless.

It's it's there, and some of it

because of me being me

having the mindset to

document things

throw that camera,

run that video.

Yeah, it is a legacy. I mean, let's

face it, my whole life has been...

You know, documentation

of incredible events.

You know, things that I, that I do or

how I look or how I sound or how I think.

I mean whats that phrase

"Destiny go confidently in

the direction of your dreams"?

Henry David Thoreau.

That that's what I do, you know.

My destiny is just being

confident and following my dreams

and trying to just enjoy life

instead of, you know, being shuttled

into a particular direction.

Yeah he's uh, has a chance to...

To enjoy some,

a little bit of fame.

He's led a life of anonymity and

then now it's time for him to...

blossom and...

And become something that

he's always wanted to

maybe be, to share his

talent with everybody

and then just break out of that mold

of being by yourself all the time.

It's almost like he knows

he has the potential

to be out there because

people appreciate him

people want to see him,

people want to talk to him.

And he just wants to

get that step

just make that step

for those 15 minutes of fame.

He's hes worked for

his whole life.

Nothing's going to stop Jonah.

Nothing will stop him.

So...

Douchebag!

Youre putting your shit in the back

of a fucking station wagon. Really?

Yes.

Its not a station wagon.

Yes it is.

Its a Subaru.

Its a goddamn outback.

Thats thats

Jones.

Thanks, sweetie.

I love you.

I love you too. I'm glad

I got to see you tonight.

Thank you.

Have a wonderful night.

You too. Thanks for helping.

Dont grab my ass.

Oh, I didn't. Can I?

Grab my ass.

You want me to?

Grab it.

All right.

Thank you. I love you.

I love you too.

You take it easy, Erica.

You take it easy.

All right guys.

That was, uh the,

the the crescendo at that point.

I had the beautiful girls roadying

my stuff back to Skips car.

Ah well, it's been a,

it's been a long day.

Now I'm losing my voice.

I got the Ted Nugent scream

at the end of cat scratch fever

and I think that finally

killed me.

Ted always screams.

Cat scratch fever baby!

Thank you very much!

Wild thing, I think I love you.

Yeah.

How did the show go? Are we on?

Oh, the show was great.

- It was phenomenal.

Erica was awesome.

Yeah, Erica was awesome.

Uh, the girls were, yeah,

definitely in the palm of my hand.

I had a great time.

I lost uh, lost myself

in the monitor a little bit

when I do the switch

to the wireless mic.

I went on stage, I couldn't

hear myself over the guitar

but I went with just instinct.

Jumped out on the dance floor and

just started rocking with the girls.

A la Angus Young of ACDC.

So I started running around and

playing and they were loving it

and I was loving it and everybody

wanted their pictures taken

and I was getting kisses and uh, you

know, it's a total rock star thing.

What can I tell you? Phenomenal day

right from the beginning to the end.

You guys are great.

I'm great. It's good, man.

What are you gonna do now?

Be greater.

Uh, die.

Yeah, no, we're gonna go uh

go back put my stuff back

and I'm gonna try to

get some sleep.

I'm, Im whooped, man.

It's been a long day.

Really has.

I'll tell you the first thing

I'm going to do though

is eat those three pieces

of that tuna club

that we had at the restaurant

because Im starved.

Can you turn around and

walk that way towards the car?

Yep. Good night gents.

Party on!

Rock and Roll will never die!

Okay, now I'm fried, dude.

I am fucking fried.

Are we heading out?

Yeah, let's go.

I'm freezing.

I'm soaking wet

from being on the dance floor

and I got a nylon tank top on.

It's probably 40 degrees

out here.

You people are weak!