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Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.40,0:00:10.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a kid I used to think that pork chops and karate chops were the same thing
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.46,0:00:13.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought they were both pork chops
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.16,0:00:16.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because my grandmother thought it was cute and because they were my favorite
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.100,0:00:19.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she let me keep doing it
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.24,0:00:21.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not really a bit deal
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.37,0:00:25.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one day before I realized fat kids were not designed to climb trees
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.95,0:00:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I fell out of a tree and bruised the right side of my body
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.94,0:00:35.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't want to tell my grandmother about it because I was scared I'd get in trouble for playing somewhere I shouldn't have been
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.41,0:00:39.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A few days later the gym teacher noticed the bruise and I got sent to the principals office
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.79,0:00:47.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from there I was sent to another small room with a really nice lady who ask me all kinds of questions about my life at home
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.42,0:00:50.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw no reason to lie as far as I was concerned
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.70,0:00:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,life was pretty good
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.62,0:00:56.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told her whenever I am sad my grandmother gives me karate chops
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.63,0:00:59.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this led to a full scale investigation
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.62,0:01:06.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was removed from the house for three days until they finally decided to ask how I got the bruises
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.79,0:01:11.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,news of this silly little story quickly spread through the school and I earned my first nick name
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.74,0:01:13.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pork Chop
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.87,0:01:15.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To this day
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.95,0:01:20.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hate pork chops
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.25,0:01:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not the only kid who grew up this way
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.62,0:01:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.20,0:01:33.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about sticks and stones as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.33,0:01:36.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we got called them all
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.37,0:01:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.50,0:01:43.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we'd be lonely forever
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.83,0:01:49.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we'd never meet someone to make us feel like the sun was something they build for us in their tool shed
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.44,0:01:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so broken heart strings bled the blues as we tried to empty ourselves so we would feel nothing
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.12,0:01:59.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't tell me that hurts less than a broken bone
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.70,0:02:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.36,0:02:07.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that theres no way for it to metastisize it does
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.69,0:02:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she was 8 years old
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.04,0:02:13.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our first day of grade three when she got called ugly
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.71,0:02:19.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we both got moved to the back of class so we would stop getting bombarded by spit balls
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.34,0:02:24.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the school halls were battle grounds and we found ourselves out numbered day after retched day
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.17,0:02:28.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we used to stay inside for recess because outside was worse
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.59,0:02:32.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outside we'd have to rehearse running away or learn to stay still like statues
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.79,0:02:34.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,giving no clues we were there
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.70,0:02:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in grade 5 I taped a sign to the front of her desk
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.20,0:02:41.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saying beware of dog
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.54,0:02:44.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to this day despite a loving husband
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.69,0:02:47.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she doesn't think she's beautiful
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.70,0:02:51.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of a birth mark that takes up a little less than half her face
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.66,0:02:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kids used to say she looks like a wrong answer
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.88,0:02:57.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that someone tried to erase but couldn't quite get the job done
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.45,0:03:04.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they'll never understand that she's raising two kids who's definition of beauty begins with the word Mom
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.54,0:03:07.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they see her heart before her skin
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.75,0:03:09.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because she's only ever always been amazing
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.84,0:03:11.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.87,0:03:15.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a broken branch grafted onto a different family tree
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.95,0:03:17.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,adopted
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.79,0:03:21.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not because his parents opted for a different destiny
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.24,0:03:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was three when he became a mixed drink of one part left alone
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.12,0:03:26.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and two parts tradgedy
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.37,0:03:28.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started therapy in 8th grade
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.66,0:03:30.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had a personality made up of tests and pills
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.95,0:03:33.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,live like the uphills were mountains
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.24,0:03:35.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the down hills were cliffs
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.29,0:03:36.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fit for suicidal
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.80,0:03:38.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a tidal wave of antidepressants
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.67,0:03:41.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and an adolescences of being called popper
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.45,0:03:43.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one part because of the pills
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.79,0:03:46.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,99 parts because of the cruelty
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.60,0:03:48.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he tried to kill himself in grade 10
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.96,0:03:50.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when a kid who could still go home to mom and dad
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.87,0:03:53.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had the audacity to tell him "get over it"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.84,0:04:00.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if depression is something that could be remedied by any of the contents found in a first aid kit
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.79,0:04:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to this day he is a stick of TNT lit from both ends
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.50,0:04:09.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could describe to you in detail the way the sky bends in the moments before it's about to fall
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.45,0:04:12.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and despite an army of friends who all call him an inspiration
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.91,0:04:16.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he remains a conversation piece between people who can't understand
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.29,0:04:24.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that sometimes being drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.49,0:04:27.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we weren't the only kids who grew up this way
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.79,0:04:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to this day kids are still being called names
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.25,0:04:34.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the classics were hey stupid
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.45,0:04:36.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hey spaz
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.91,0:04:40.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seems like every school has an arsenal of names getting updated
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.29,0:04:41.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every year
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.95,0:04:44.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if a kid breaks in a school and no one around chooses to hear
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.92,0:04:46.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do they make a sound?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.95,0:04:50.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or are they just background noise from a sound track stuck on repeat
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.19,0:04:52.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people say things like kids can be cruel
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.95,0:04:55.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every school was a big top circus tent
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.86,0:04:58.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the pecking order went from acrobats to lion tamers
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.45,0:05:00.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from clowns to carnies
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.45,0:05:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of these miles ahead of who we were
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.44,0:05:04.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were freaks
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.54,0:05:06.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lobster clawed boys and bearded ladies
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.49,0:05:08.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oddities juggling depression and loneliness
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.79,0:05:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,playing solitaire spin the bottle
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.58,0:05:12.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to kiss the wounded parts of ourselves and heal
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.49,0:05:15.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but nights while the others slept
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.08,0:05:16.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we kept walking the tight rope
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.99,0:05:20.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as practice and yes some of us fell
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.37,0:05:23.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I wanted to tell them that all of this
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.29,0:05:25.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is just debris
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.75,0:05:29.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leftover when we finally decide to smash all the things we thought we used to be
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.79,0:05:32.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you can't see anything beautiful about yourself
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.58,0:05:34.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get a better mirror
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.50,0:05:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,look a little closer
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.04,0:05:37.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stare a little longer
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.95,0:05:42.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there is something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.37,0:05:44.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you build a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.87,0:05:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you signed it They Were Wrong
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.58,0:05:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cause maybe you didn't belong to a group or a clique
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.12,0:05:53.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe they decided to pick you last for basket ball or everything
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.54,0:05:55.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe you used to bring bruises and broken teeth
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.50,0:05:57.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to show and tell but never told
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.41,0:05:58.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because how can you hold your ground
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.91,0:06:00.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if everyone around you wants to bury beneath it
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.99,0:06:05.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have to believe that they were wrong
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.36,0:06:08.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they have to be wrong
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.58,0:06:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why else would we still be here
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.12,0:06:14.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we grew up learning to cheer on the underdog
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.62,0:06:17.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we see ourselves in them
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.95,0:06:22.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we stem from the root planted in the belief that we are not what we were called
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.86,0:06:26.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are not abandoned cars stalled out and sitting empty on some highway
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.70,0:06:29.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if in some way we are don't worry
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.74,0:06:32.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we only got out to walk and get gas
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.33,0:06:37.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are graduating memers of the class of we made it
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.54,0:06:44.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not the faded echoes of voices crying out names will never hurt me
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.19,0:06:47.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of course they did
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.38,0:06:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.04,0:06:54.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has less to do with pain
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.99,0:06:58.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and more to do with beauty