WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.470 align:middle line:84% But first I want to thank Patricia Spears 00:00:04.470 --> 00:00:08.490 align:middle line:84% Jones for the beautiful, truly phenomenal reading 00:00:08.490 --> 00:00:09.150 align:middle line:90% this evening. 00:00:09.150 --> 00:00:12.086 align:middle line:84% And what an act to follow for us. 00:00:12.086 --> 00:00:12.740 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:00:12.740 --> 00:00:17.220 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:00:17.220 --> 00:00:19.860 align:middle line:84% And thank you to the University of Arizona 00:00:19.860 --> 00:00:26.070 align:middle line:84% for hosting this year's Thinking Its Presence Conference: 00:00:26.070 --> 00:00:31.040 align:middle line:84% The Ephemeral Archive, and especially to my dear friend 00:00:31.040 --> 00:00:34.950 align:middle line:84% Prageeta Sharma for bringing all of you 00:00:34.950 --> 00:00:40.470 align:middle line:84% here and really creating this amazing network of writers 00:00:40.470 --> 00:00:45.240 align:middle line:84% and poets and artists and playwrights. 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:50.770 align:middle line:84% So thank you so much, and let's begin. 00:00:50.770 --> 00:00:53.650 align:middle line:84% The Buffalo Play, a play by Ciara Griffin 00:00:53.650 --> 00:00:57.970 align:middle line:84% and Kendra Mylnechuk Potter, Montana NYC Collaborative. 00:00:57.970 --> 00:00:59.420 align:middle line:90% Cast of characters. 00:00:59.420 --> 00:01:06.190 align:middle line:84% Woman, a woman played by Ciara; Buffalo, a Buffalo, a bison 00:01:06.190 --> 00:01:11.860 align:middle line:84% cow played by Kendra Mylnechuk; Hank, a rancher played 00:01:11.860 --> 00:01:17.800 align:middle line:84% by William Hubbard; and baby bison, a baby bison calf played 00:01:17.800 --> 00:01:23.320 align:middle line:84% by Aja Sherrard; and I will play voices of various news 00:01:23.320 --> 00:01:26.800 align:middle line:90% anchors heard off stage. 00:01:26.800 --> 00:01:29.770 align:middle line:90% Prologue, in darkness. 00:01:29.770 --> 00:01:31.360 align:middle line:90% And I have a memory. 00:01:31.360 --> 00:01:35.560 align:middle line:84% It's not my own, but it's in my bones of the smell of sagebrush 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:39.040 align:middle line:84% warmed by the sun; the sweetness of horse manure 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:42.670 align:middle line:84% released in hot sun; the sound of grasshoppers 00:01:42.670 --> 00:01:46.360 align:middle line:84% clicking as we rode through tall grass in the springtime; 00:01:46.360 --> 00:01:48.910 align:middle line:84% and I remember a symphony of crickets. 00:01:48.910 --> 00:01:53.320 align:middle line:84% I remember walking next to freed slaves and starvation. 00:01:53.320 --> 00:01:55.600 align:middle line:84% And there is a memory of the rhythm 00:01:55.600 --> 00:01:58.000 align:middle line:84% of a song I'm not allowed to sing, 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:01.630 align:middle line:84% speaking a language in hurried hushed whispers. 00:02:01.630 --> 00:02:04.900 align:middle line:84% And I remember forgetting this language. 00:02:04.900 --> 00:02:06.400 align:middle line:90% Act one, scene one. 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:11.470 align:middle line:84% Lights barely rise to reveal the silhouette of a bare jail cell. 00:02:11.470 --> 00:02:15.130 align:middle line:84% Bunk bed, no window, a single blade of grass 00:02:15.130 --> 00:02:18.220 align:middle line:84% grows up through a crack in the cement floor; 00:02:18.220 --> 00:02:21.520 align:middle line:84% a woman sleeps in the lower bunk with her back to us. 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:23.170 align:middle line:90% Maybe we don't see her. 00:02:23.170 --> 00:02:25.840 align:middle line:84% From outside of the theater we hear a wailing. 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:28.632 align:middle line:90% [WAILING] 00:02:28.632 --> 00:02:31.000 align:middle line:90% 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:33.580 align:middle line:84% The doors to the theater burst open. 00:02:33.580 --> 00:02:36.070 align:middle line:84% A mother buffalo carries her dead calf 00:02:36.070 --> 00:02:39.550 align:middle line:84% as if in offering through to the audience. 00:02:39.550 --> 00:02:42.470 align:middle line:84% She lays the calf's body on the stage. 00:02:42.470 --> 00:02:44.620 align:middle line:90% She puts her nose to the floor. 00:02:44.620 --> 00:02:47.080 align:middle line:84% She quietly sniffs, snorts, nuzzles 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:49.765 align:middle line:84% and bellows at the dead baby as if in ritual. 00:02:49.765 --> 00:02:53.370 align:middle line:90% [WAILING] 00:02:53.370 --> 00:02:57.090 align:middle line:84% This wakes our sleeping inmate in an absolute fright. 00:02:57.090 --> 00:02:59.820 align:middle line:84% They startle in their discovery of one another. 00:02:59.820 --> 00:03:02.370 align:middle line:84% Woman leaps to the top bunk, Buffalo 00:03:02.370 --> 00:03:04.350 align:middle line:84% goes to protect her child's body. 00:03:04.350 --> 00:03:06.600 align:middle line:90% She spoons the dead baby. 00:03:06.600 --> 00:03:09.720 align:middle line:84% The woman never takes her eyes off the buffalo. 00:03:09.720 --> 00:03:12.600 align:middle line:84% The buffalo falls asleep holding the child. 00:03:12.600 --> 00:03:15.540 align:middle line:84% Woman discovers a single piece of grass growing up 00:03:15.540 --> 00:03:16.290 align:middle line:90% through the floor. 00:03:16.290 --> 00:03:20.700 align:middle line:84% She plucks it and puts it as an offering where the calf is. 00:03:20.700 --> 00:03:25.050 align:middle line:84% She crouches in the opposite corner of the room. 00:03:25.050 --> 00:03:32.860 align:middle line:84% Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, 00:03:32.860 --> 00:03:36.090 align:middle line:90% stupid, stupid, stupid. 00:03:36.090 --> 00:03:37.110 align:middle line:90% Lights out. 00:03:37.110 --> 00:03:41.580 align:middle line:84% Act one, scene two, we hear media playing. 00:03:41.580 --> 00:03:43.750 align:middle line:84% In other news, a woman from Brooklyn, 00:03:43.750 --> 00:03:45.630 align:middle line:84% New York is facing federal charges 00:03:45.630 --> 00:03:50.010 align:middle line:84% after loading a bison calf into her vehicle at Yellowstone 00:03:50.010 --> 00:03:51.150 align:middle line:90% National Park. 00:03:51.150 --> 00:03:53.430 align:middle line:84% When questioned by park officials, 00:03:53.430 --> 00:03:56.670 align:middle line:84% the woman expressed concern for the calf's welfare 00:03:56.670 --> 00:03:59.230 align:middle line:90% as the bison appeared cold. 00:03:59.230 --> 00:03:59.730 align:middle line:90% Ha. 00:03:59.730 --> 00:04:02.340 align:middle line:90% 00:04:02.340 --> 00:04:06.190 align:middle line:84% Daytime temperatures this may average around 50 degrees, 00:04:06.190 --> 00:04:08.730 align:middle line:84% as Jim in the weather center pointed out. 00:04:08.730 --> 00:04:11.370 align:middle line:84% Park officials are currently attempting 00:04:11.370 --> 00:04:13.620 align:middle line:84% to reunite the calf with its herd 00:04:13.620 --> 00:04:16.769 align:middle line:84% and are frankly stunned the woman was not 00:04:16.769 --> 00:04:19.260 align:middle line:90% attacked by the cow. 00:04:19.260 --> 00:04:20.130 align:middle line:90% Lights up. 00:04:20.130 --> 00:04:21.990 align:middle line:90% More grass grows in the cell. 00:04:21.990 --> 00:04:25.020 align:middle line:84% The buffalo stares at the woman from across the room 00:04:25.020 --> 00:04:27.490 align:middle line:90% chewing her cud. 00:04:27.490 --> 00:04:30.080 align:middle line:90% We walk into storms. 00:04:30.080 --> 00:04:33.200 align:middle line:84% Straight in, if a blizzard is coming, a thunderstorm, 00:04:33.200 --> 00:04:36.830 align:middle line:84% hailstorm, we walk straight into it head down, side by side, 00:04:36.830 --> 00:04:38.120 align:middle line:90% we herd up. 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:39.980 align:middle line:90% We walk forward. 00:04:39.980 --> 00:04:42.500 align:middle line:84% By walking through it we do not get stuck in it, 00:04:42.500 --> 00:04:45.230 align:middle line:84% we get to the other side quicker. 00:04:45.230 --> 00:04:47.040 align:middle line:84% My herd is not the most intelligent, 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:51.320 align:middle line:84% but we do know how to weather a storm and stay warm. 00:04:51.320 --> 00:04:53.130 align:middle line:90% We very rarely freeze to death. 00:04:53.130 --> 00:04:54.920 align:middle line:84% In fact, no one in my herd has ever 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:57.380 align:middle line:84% been frostbit, or my mother's herd or her mother's herd 00:04:57.380 --> 00:05:00.080 align:middle line:90% before her. 00:05:00.080 --> 00:05:02.250 align:middle line:90% I didn't know that. 00:05:02.250 --> 00:05:05.190 align:middle line:84% I didn't know you walked straight 00:05:05.190 --> 00:05:07.695 align:middle line:84% into storm with-- my god, that's so poetic. 00:05:07.695 --> 00:05:11.190 align:middle line:90% 00:05:11.190 --> 00:05:13.620 align:middle line:90% Po-e-tac. 00:05:13.620 --> 00:05:15.210 align:middle line:90% Poetic. 00:05:15.210 --> 00:05:17.490 align:middle line:90% Poeatic. 00:05:17.490 --> 00:05:18.030 align:middle line:90% Poetic. 00:05:18.030 --> 00:05:19.140 align:middle line:90% Poeatic. 00:05:19.140 --> 00:05:19.640 align:middle line:90% Poetic. 00:05:19.640 --> 00:05:22.030 align:middle line:90% Quack. 00:05:22.030 --> 00:05:24.930 align:middle line:90% Poe tac quack. 00:05:24.930 --> 00:05:26.380 align:middle line:90% I cannot say it but I am it. 00:05:26.380 --> 00:05:29.280 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:05:29.280 --> 00:05:31.230 align:middle line:90% Holy shit you are. 00:05:31.230 --> 00:05:34.410 align:middle line:90% 00:05:34.410 --> 00:05:38.970 align:middle line:90% Look, I'm sorry about your-- 00:05:38.970 --> 00:05:41.290 align:middle line:90% [SHIVERING] 00:05:41.290 --> 00:05:41.790 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:05:41.790 --> 00:05:44.070 align:middle line:84% Actually I don't even know how to apologize. 00:05:44.070 --> 00:05:47.550 align:middle line:90% I am so, so-- 00:05:47.550 --> 00:05:49.350 align:middle line:84% I would never try to protect your child. 00:05:49.350 --> 00:05:50.970 align:middle line:84% I would never go near your child. 00:05:50.970 --> 00:05:53.440 align:middle line:90% I don't actually have a child. 00:05:53.440 --> 00:05:54.840 align:middle line:90% It's for political reasons. 00:05:54.840 --> 00:05:57.870 align:middle line:84% I'm an environmentalist, overpopulation. 00:05:57.870 --> 00:06:01.060 align:middle line:90% How did she die, exactly? 00:06:01.060 --> 00:06:03.215 align:middle line:90% I don't know really. 00:06:03.215 --> 00:06:04.840 align:middle line:84% I dropped her off at the ranger station 00:06:04.840 --> 00:06:06.910 align:middle line:84% and they brought me here and booked me. 00:06:06.910 --> 00:06:09.035 align:middle line:84% I didn't know until you brought her here that she-- 00:06:09.035 --> 00:06:09.993 align:middle line:90% She didn't smell right. 00:06:09.993 --> 00:06:10.630 align:middle line:90% --died. 00:06:10.630 --> 00:06:13.960 align:middle line:84% She smelled of Industrial Revolution. 00:06:13.960 --> 00:06:15.460 align:middle line:90% Industrial Revolution? 00:06:15.460 --> 00:06:19.520 align:middle line:90% 00:06:19.520 --> 00:06:22.440 align:middle line:90% Did she have a name? 00:06:22.440 --> 00:06:23.820 align:middle line:90% Do buffaloes have names? 00:06:23.820 --> 00:06:24.690 align:middle line:90% Her name? 00:06:24.690 --> 00:06:26.520 align:middle line:90% I knew her by scent. 00:06:26.520 --> 00:06:28.810 align:middle line:90% I smelled her. 00:06:28.810 --> 00:06:29.620 align:middle line:90% I am sorry. 00:06:29.620 --> 00:06:32.980 align:middle line:90% I hope you know that. 00:06:32.980 --> 00:06:34.360 align:middle line:90% I know, it was dumb. 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:37.390 align:middle line:90% 00:06:37.390 --> 00:06:41.610 align:middle line:84% I didn't mean to have all of this happen. 00:06:41.610 --> 00:06:43.335 align:middle line:90% I've made a horrible mistake. 00:06:43.335 --> 00:06:46.400 align:middle line:90% 00:06:46.400 --> 00:06:50.210 align:middle line:84% Well, what am I supposed to do now? 00:06:50.210 --> 00:06:54.410 align:middle line:90% No, I am like genuinely asking. 00:06:54.410 --> 00:06:55.460 align:middle line:90% Lights out. 00:06:55.460 --> 00:06:59.660 align:middle line:84% Act one, scene three, media update. 00:06:59.660 --> 00:07:03.290 align:middle line:84% A bison calf recently had to be euthanized at Yellowstone 00:07:03.290 --> 00:07:05.420 align:middle line:84% National Park after a woman put it 00:07:05.420 --> 00:07:07.580 align:middle line:90% in the back of her rental car. 00:07:07.580 --> 00:07:10.010 align:middle line:90% Now, many are asking, why? 00:07:10.010 --> 00:07:13.550 align:middle line:84% Park rangers tried to get the bison calf to return to a herd, 00:07:13.550 --> 00:07:17.000 align:middle line:84% but it kept getting rejected, park officials said. 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:20.180 align:middle line:84% They added that the calf wouldn't eat 00:07:20.180 --> 00:07:23.000 align:middle line:84% and kept returning to the roadway trying 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:25.640 align:middle line:90% to nurse on tailpipes. 00:07:25.640 --> 00:07:26.780 align:middle line:90% Back to you, Roger. 00:07:26.780 --> 00:07:28.860 align:middle line:90% Euthanize. 00:07:28.860 --> 00:07:30.350 align:middle line:90% Euthanization. 00:07:30.350 --> 00:07:31.850 align:middle line:90% Euthanasia. 00:07:31.850 --> 00:07:34.983 align:middle line:90% Eu-thin-asia. 00:07:34.983 --> 00:07:35.650 align:middle line:90% You will never-- 00:07:35.650 --> 00:07:37.520 align:middle line:90% This is not natural. 00:07:37.520 --> 00:07:38.870 align:middle line:90% I know. 00:07:38.870 --> 00:07:40.490 align:middle line:90% Woman reaches out to comfort. 00:07:40.490 --> 00:07:42.950 align:middle line:90% Don't touch me! 00:07:42.950 --> 00:07:45.300 align:middle line:90% Don't touch me. 00:07:45.300 --> 00:07:46.380 align:middle line:90% What is wrong with you? 00:07:46.380 --> 00:07:48.790 align:middle line:84% Don't you read the [BISON NOISE] signs? 00:07:48.790 --> 00:07:51.240 align:middle line:84% Danger, bison are wild and dangerous. 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:52.430 align:middle line:90% Do not approach. 00:07:52.430 --> 00:07:54.800 align:middle line:84% Danger, do not approach wildlife. 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:57.260 align:middle line:84% Many visitors have been gored by buffalo. 00:07:57.260 --> 00:07:59.870 align:middle line:90% Think safely, act safely. 00:07:59.870 --> 00:08:02.570 align:middle line:84% Or do you think that signs don't apply to you? 00:08:02.570 --> 00:08:04.673 align:middle line:90% You're not supposed to touch. 00:08:04.673 --> 00:08:05.715 align:middle line:90% I will [BISON NOISE] you. 00:08:05.715 --> 00:08:06.660 align:middle line:90% I will gore you. 00:08:06.660 --> 00:08:12.230 align:middle line:90% 00:08:12.230 --> 00:08:13.945 align:middle line:90% Buffalo sings to her dead calf. 00:08:13.945 --> 00:08:14.570 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:08:14.570 --> 00:08:21.350 align:middle line:84% (SINGING) Go to sleep, my little one. 00:08:21.350 --> 00:08:27.140 align:middle line:90% The grass is green forever. 00:08:27.140 --> 00:08:30.460 align:middle line:90% The path is clear. 00:08:30.460 --> 00:08:33.010 align:middle line:90% No walls in sight. 00:08:33.010 --> 00:08:38.470 align:middle line:84% You rest, my love, till morning light. 00:08:38.470 --> 00:08:43.000 align:middle line:84% Your bones belong now to the sun. 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:45.100 align:middle line:90% Your spirit's free. 00:08:45.100 --> 00:08:49.050 align:middle line:90% Your body's done. 00:08:49.050 --> 00:08:53.330 align:middle line:90% So stay asleep, my little one. 00:08:53.330 --> 00:08:56.480 align:middle line:90% 00:08:56.480 --> 00:09:02.370 align:middle line:84% Listen, I didn't know about the storms or the frostbite. 00:09:02.370 --> 00:09:03.900 align:middle line:90% I just saw her shivering. 00:09:03.900 --> 00:09:04.890 align:middle line:90% No one was around. 00:09:04.890 --> 00:09:07.290 align:middle line:90% I thought she was abandoned. 00:09:07.290 --> 00:09:11.140 align:middle line:84% Do you know that there were coyotes out there with her? 00:09:11.140 --> 00:09:15.070 align:middle line:84% I saw her touch noses with one of them. 00:09:15.070 --> 00:09:17.410 align:middle line:90% Been in nature before? 00:09:17.410 --> 00:09:21.030 align:middle line:84% I'm part of the New York Ramblers Hiking Club. 00:09:21.030 --> 00:09:22.710 align:middle line:90% And you're an herbivore? 00:09:22.710 --> 00:09:23.790 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:09:23.790 --> 00:09:26.070 align:middle line:84% Well, I mean I'm mostly vegetarian. 00:09:26.070 --> 00:09:28.170 align:middle line:84% Sometimes at brunch every once in a while 00:09:28.170 --> 00:09:31.110 align:middle line:84% I always have a bite of bacon and we always 00:09:31.110 --> 00:09:33.030 align:middle line:84% eat at Peter Luger's on Christmas Eve. 00:09:33.030 --> 00:09:35.850 align:middle line:84% So not strictly, but, like, mostly. 00:09:35.850 --> 00:09:37.680 align:middle line:90% So you do not know. 00:09:37.680 --> 00:09:39.240 align:middle line:90% Well, I'm fairly well educated. 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:41.400 align:middle line:84% Not Ivy League, but I do have a doctorate degree. 00:09:41.400 --> 00:09:42.660 align:middle line:90% In nature? 00:09:42.660 --> 00:09:45.240 align:middle line:90% No, in social justice. 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:48.990 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:09:48.990 --> 00:09:49.630 align:middle line:90% Justice? 00:09:49.630 --> 00:09:51.510 align:middle line:90% What is justice? 00:09:51.510 --> 00:09:55.500 align:middle line:84% The administering of deserved punishment, or reward 00:09:55.500 --> 00:09:56.580 align:middle line:90% based on a judgment. 00:09:56.580 --> 00:09:58.320 align:middle line:90% What is judgment? 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:01.590 align:middle line:84% Well, it's when you decide if something is good or bad. 00:10:01.590 --> 00:10:04.440 align:middle line:90% What is punishment and reward? 00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:07.260 align:middle line:84% A reward is a gift for a good deed. 00:10:07.260 --> 00:10:12.090 align:middle line:84% A punishment is inflicted pain or retribution for an offense. 00:10:12.090 --> 00:10:15.470 align:middle line:90% 00:10:15.470 --> 00:10:17.840 align:middle line:84% It's like hurting someone physically 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:22.190 align:middle line:84% or limiting their freedoms for that deep-- 00:10:22.190 --> 00:10:26.170 align:middle line:84% We do not have judgment in nature. 00:10:26.170 --> 00:10:27.730 align:middle line:90% There is not justice. 00:10:27.730 --> 00:10:30.970 align:middle line:90% There is just is. 00:10:30.970 --> 00:10:33.710 align:middle line:84% I would like justice for my child. 00:10:33.710 --> 00:10:37.750 align:middle line:84% I would like to give you punishment for your bad deed. 00:10:37.750 --> 00:10:40.930 align:middle line:84% She was not my first calf, and she will not be the last. 00:10:40.930 --> 00:10:43.780 align:middle line:84% I will give birth most every year of my life until I die. 00:10:43.780 --> 00:10:46.280 align:middle line:90% It is my way. 00:10:46.280 --> 00:10:49.610 align:middle line:84% The coyote who followed her, my baby, he has hunger. 00:10:49.610 --> 00:10:54.290 align:middle line:84% You should not attempt to interrupt someone's hunger. 00:10:54.290 --> 00:10:55.700 align:middle line:90% It is as it is. 00:10:55.700 --> 00:10:57.200 align:middle line:90% We should die natural deaths. 00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:58.950 align:middle line:84% You inserted yourself into the circle 00:10:58.950 --> 00:11:02.780 align:middle line:84% and now it starts turning in the same smooth way. 00:11:02.780 --> 00:11:06.020 align:middle line:84% Her body was of no use to coyote after the tailpipes. 00:11:06.020 --> 00:11:08.018 align:middle line:90% It is simple. 00:11:08.018 --> 00:11:10.560 align:middle line:84% It may not be easy or clear to you, but the circle is simple. 00:11:10.560 --> 00:11:13.080 align:middle line:90% Coyote does coyote things. 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:15.810 align:middle line:90% I do buffalo things. 00:11:15.810 --> 00:11:19.870 align:middle line:90% What do you do besides just is? 00:11:19.870 --> 00:11:21.600 align:middle line:90% Human things. 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:25.160 align:middle line:84% I do not know about human things, human hunger. 00:11:25.160 --> 00:11:27.240 align:middle line:84% Well, it's complicated to explain. 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:29.330 align:middle line:90% Then don't. 00:11:29.330 --> 00:11:33.310 align:middle line:84% What should I do if I can't explain myself? 00:11:33.310 --> 00:11:34.936 align:middle line:90% Just stand still. 00:11:34.936 --> 00:11:38.830 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:11:38.830 --> 00:11:40.690 align:middle line:90% Like tadasana? 00:11:40.690 --> 00:11:43.917 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:11:43.917 --> 00:11:47.110 align:middle line:90% Mountain pose, well, it's yoga. 00:11:47.110 --> 00:11:50.820 align:middle line:84% It's a pose that is just standing still. 00:11:50.820 --> 00:11:51.820 align:middle line:90% I don't know about that. 00:11:51.820 --> 00:11:52.870 align:middle line:90% I just know stand still. 00:11:52.870 --> 00:11:55.850 align:middle line:90% 00:11:55.850 --> 00:11:58.070 align:middle line:90% The woman tries to be still. 00:11:58.070 --> 00:12:01.890 align:middle line:84% She tries very hard as long as she can. 00:12:01.890 --> 00:12:04.820 align:middle line:90% She settles into it. 00:12:04.820 --> 00:12:08.660 align:middle line:84% Perhaps she rides some waves of emotions. 00:12:08.660 --> 00:12:13.630 align:middle line:84% She rides stillness, finds a little peace. 00:12:13.630 --> 00:12:17.680 align:middle line:84% This can take as long as it needs to, although it 00:12:17.680 --> 00:12:20.800 align:middle line:90% should be at least 1.5 minutes. 00:12:20.800 --> 00:12:25.580 align:middle line:84% Act one, scene four, media update. 00:12:25.580 --> 00:12:27.830 align:middle line:84% This incident, along with the incident 00:12:27.830 --> 00:12:30.920 align:middle line:84% of an entire family being gored after they tried 00:12:30.920 --> 00:12:34.520 align:middle line:84% to ride an adult male bison, the incident 00:12:34.520 --> 00:12:38.660 align:middle line:84% of a 16-year-old boy being dissolved alive 00:12:38.660 --> 00:12:43.820 align:middle line:84% after he dove in headfirst to a geothermal hot pot, 00:12:43.820 --> 00:12:46.520 align:middle line:84% as well as the incident of the couple who 00:12:46.520 --> 00:12:50.120 align:middle line:84% fell over the railing into Yellowstone's Grand Canyon 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:53.900 align:middle line:84% while trying to take a selfie, plummeting 1,200 00:12:53.900 --> 00:12:57.530 align:middle line:84% feet to their deaths, has made this season's visitors 00:12:57.530 --> 00:13:01.100 align:middle line:84% the most mentally dull Yellowstone has ever 00:13:01.100 --> 00:13:05.480 align:middle line:84% experienced in its 145 year history. 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:08.060 align:middle line:90% Back to you, Roger. 00:13:08.060 --> 00:13:09.830 align:middle line:90% Lights half up. 00:13:09.830 --> 00:13:11.570 align:middle line:90% Hank, a rancher. 00:13:11.570 --> 00:13:14.900 align:middle line:84% A rancher, shitfaced, is thrown into the cell. 00:13:14.900 --> 00:13:16.670 align:middle line:90% It is 2:17 AM. 00:13:16.670 --> 00:13:21.600 align:middle line:90% 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:23.430 align:middle line:90% Good evening, miss. 00:13:23.430 --> 00:13:24.270 align:middle line:90% Excuse me. 00:13:24.270 --> 00:13:27.240 align:middle line:84% I think that this is a female cell. 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:29.480 align:middle line:90% You're in the wrong cell. 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:31.380 align:middle line:90% You put him in the wrong cell. 00:13:31.380 --> 00:13:33.990 align:middle line:84% You're not allowed to be in the same cell as me. 00:13:33.990 --> 00:13:35.760 align:middle line:90% P-R-E-A is a law. 00:13:35.760 --> 00:13:36.510 align:middle line:90% Ever heard of it? 00:13:36.510 --> 00:13:39.510 align:middle line:90% There is only one cell in town. 00:13:39.510 --> 00:13:42.360 align:middle line:90% I'm not going to bite, too hard. 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:44.500 align:middle line:90% [GIGGLING] 00:13:44.500 --> 00:13:45.000 align:middle line:90% Nope. 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:46.320 align:middle line:90% Wouldn't hurt a fly. 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:48.090 align:middle line:84% Done enough damage for one night. 00:13:48.090 --> 00:13:51.232 align:middle line:90% 00:13:51.232 --> 00:13:56.090 align:middle line:84% I'm going to pass out and then I'm repent for my sins. 00:13:56.090 --> 00:13:58.610 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] 00:13:58.610 --> 00:14:01.790 align:middle line:84% He face plants, passed out drunk. 00:14:01.790 --> 00:14:02.870 align:middle line:90% Things bad, huh? 00:14:02.870 --> 00:14:04.100 align:middle line:90% You know him? 00:14:04.100 --> 00:14:05.960 align:middle line:84% Tried to shoot me once with a bow and arrow. 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:06.770 align:middle line:90% Terrible shot. 00:14:06.770 --> 00:14:07.370 align:middle line:90% What? 00:14:07.370 --> 00:14:08.490 align:middle line:90% Why would he do that? 00:14:08.490 --> 00:14:10.370 align:middle line:90% I wandered out of the park. 00:14:10.370 --> 00:14:12.530 align:middle line:84% Sometimes he gets lost in thought 00:14:12.530 --> 00:14:15.622 align:middle line:84% and forgets to close the fence after he feeds. 00:14:15.622 --> 00:14:17.580 align:middle line:84% There was a little clearing in the barbed wire. 00:14:17.580 --> 00:14:19.940 align:middle line:84% I walked through, went to smell his cattle. 00:14:19.940 --> 00:14:22.850 align:middle line:84% They smell almost like us, but different pheromones, maybe. 00:14:22.850 --> 00:14:24.530 align:middle line:90% Alluring, really. 00:14:24.530 --> 00:14:27.740 align:middle line:84% They smell like the organic state of paper wealth. 00:14:27.740 --> 00:14:29.960 align:middle line:84% Putrid, sweet fermented corn silage 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:35.120 align:middle line:84% breakfast, and the fattened up dirt flowers off of Lucerne, 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:36.830 align:middle line:90% salty. 00:14:36.830 --> 00:14:38.540 align:middle line:90% They smell of salt. 00:14:38.540 --> 00:14:40.460 align:middle line:84% And if you can get close enough to lick them, 00:14:40.460 --> 00:14:42.080 align:middle line:90% sometimes they taste salty too. 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:44.780 align:middle line:84% But Hank does not want me licking his cattle. 00:14:44.780 --> 00:14:47.090 align:middle line:84% So he tried to shoot me, screaming 00:14:47.090 --> 00:14:49.490 align:middle line:84% that I was an abortionist and to stay the hell away 00:14:49.490 --> 00:14:51.200 align:middle line:90% from his cows. 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:52.610 align:middle line:90% I bellowed back at him. 00:14:52.610 --> 00:14:54.110 align:middle line:90% [WAILING] 00:14:54.110 --> 00:14:54.890 align:middle line:90% Abortionist. 00:14:54.890 --> 00:14:56.840 align:middle line:84% Why would he call you an abortionist? 00:14:56.840 --> 00:14:58.190 align:middle line:90% What is an abortionist? 00:14:58.190 --> 00:14:59.885 align:middle line:84% Someone who performs an abortion. 00:14:59.885 --> 00:15:02.440 align:middle line:90% 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:04.960 align:middle line:84% They take the embryo out of the womb of the mother 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:08.950 align:middle line:84% so she doesn't have to be pregnant anymore, 00:15:08.950 --> 00:15:10.330 align:middle line:90% and the embryo dies. 00:15:10.330 --> 00:15:13.040 align:middle line:84% It doesn't become a fully grown baby or get born, 00:15:13.040 --> 00:15:14.960 align:middle line:84% the doctor sucks it out of the womb. 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:16.900 align:middle line:84% This is why he wants me away from his cows? 00:15:16.900 --> 00:15:20.170 align:middle line:84% He thinks I will suck their babies out of the womb? 00:15:20.170 --> 00:15:22.540 align:middle line:90% Make their babies be born dead? 00:15:22.540 --> 00:15:23.080 align:middle line:90% I guess. 00:15:23.080 --> 00:15:24.525 align:middle line:90% Abortion is not what I do. 00:15:24.525 --> 00:15:25.650 align:middle line:90% I do not perform abortions. 00:15:25.650 --> 00:15:27.640 align:middle line:90% I would not think so. 00:15:27.640 --> 00:15:33.400 align:middle line:84% Brucellosis comes mostly from elk, but we get blamed. 00:15:33.400 --> 00:15:34.300 align:middle line:90% Brucellosis. 00:15:34.300 --> 00:15:35.050 align:middle line:90% We carry it. 00:15:35.050 --> 00:15:37.120 align:middle line:84% Sometimes it causes us to deliver our young 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:37.870 align:middle line:90% before their time. 00:15:37.870 --> 00:15:38.370 align:middle line:90% Oh. 00:15:38.370 --> 00:15:39.250 align:middle line:90% But I do not have it. 00:15:39.250 --> 00:15:41.680 align:middle line:84% My children have all arrived when they were meant to. 00:15:41.680 --> 00:15:43.230 align:middle line:90% Oh. 00:15:43.230 --> 00:15:45.390 align:middle line:90% Do you know an abortionist? 00:15:45.390 --> 00:15:46.080 align:middle line:90% I do. 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:48.300 align:middle line:90% In fact, I've met one. 00:15:48.300 --> 00:15:50.190 align:middle line:90% Did you shoot an arrow at her? 00:15:50.190 --> 00:15:51.690 align:middle line:90% No. 00:15:51.690 --> 00:15:55.110 align:middle line:84% Women can choose if they want to have a baby or not. 00:15:55.110 --> 00:15:58.710 align:middle line:84% Do you fight human bulls away if they come to mate? 00:15:58.710 --> 00:16:02.250 align:middle line:84% Sometimes I guess, but sometimes we 00:16:02.250 --> 00:16:05.660 align:middle line:84% mate when we don't want to conceive. 00:16:05.660 --> 00:16:06.890 align:middle line:90% Sex is fun. 00:16:06.890 --> 00:16:09.680 align:middle line:84% It's pleasurable if it's consensual. 00:16:09.680 --> 00:16:11.190 align:middle line:90% Mating is called sex? 00:16:11.190 --> 00:16:11.690 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:16:11.690 --> 00:16:13.500 align:middle line:90% We have a lot of words for it. 00:16:13.500 --> 00:16:15.710 align:middle line:90% What else do you call mating? 00:16:15.710 --> 00:16:21.290 align:middle line:84% Intercourse, fornicating, penetration, making love, sex, 00:16:21.290 --> 00:16:24.950 align:middle line:84% fucking, boning, bumping nubbins, shagging, doing it, 00:16:24.950 --> 00:16:26.810 align:middle line:84% having the sex, going all the way, 00:16:26.810 --> 00:16:28.430 align:middle line:90% home base, rolling in the hay. 00:16:28.430 --> 00:16:29.248 align:middle line:90% You roll in hay? 00:16:29.248 --> 00:16:31.040 align:middle line:84% I would not have thought that was your way. 00:16:31.040 --> 00:16:34.250 align:middle line:84% I've never literally rolled in hay. 00:16:34.250 --> 00:16:35.960 align:middle line:90% Sex is really complicated. 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:38.330 align:middle line:90% It is clear for us. 00:16:38.330 --> 00:16:41.390 align:middle line:84% There is the rut in the hot time and then all of the cows 00:16:41.390 --> 00:16:45.140 align:middle line:84% are pregnant, then we deliver our calves and care for them. 00:16:45.140 --> 00:16:47.210 align:middle line:90% We don't have a rut. 00:16:47.210 --> 00:16:48.710 align:middle line:90% Hank russels around. 00:16:48.710 --> 00:16:51.760 align:middle line:90% They stare at him. 00:16:51.760 --> 00:16:53.140 align:middle line:90% Are we safe with him? 00:16:53.140 --> 00:16:54.400 align:middle line:90% We are fine for now. 00:16:54.400 --> 00:16:57.280 align:middle line:84% Sometimes his spirit goes out of his body and another enters, 00:16:57.280 --> 00:17:00.460 align:middle line:84% but his true spirit always returns. 00:17:00.460 --> 00:17:01.750 align:middle line:90% He will not hurt a fly. 00:17:01.750 --> 00:17:03.280 align:middle line:84% That would require a dexterity he 00:17:03.280 --> 00:17:04.599 align:middle line:90% lacks in his current condition. 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:06.880 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:07.659 align:middle line:90% Hank wakes. 00:17:07.659 --> 00:17:10.650 align:middle line:90% 00:17:10.650 --> 00:17:16.380 align:middle line:90% Well, where'd I get-- 00:17:16.380 --> 00:17:18.380 align:middle line:90% oh. 00:17:18.380 --> 00:17:21.240 align:middle line:90% Oh, shit. 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:22.710 align:middle line:84% Has there been any word on Frank? 00:17:22.710 --> 00:17:23.640 align:middle line:90% You are drunk again. 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:25.569 align:middle line:84% You have not been drunk for a very long time. 00:17:25.569 --> 00:17:26.760 align:middle line:90% Well, how late is it? 00:17:26.760 --> 00:17:30.150 align:middle line:90% I don't know, maybe 8:00. 00:17:30.150 --> 00:17:32.370 align:middle line:90% Hey. 00:17:32.370 --> 00:17:32.870 align:middle line:90% Hi. 00:17:32.870 --> 00:17:36.070 align:middle line:90% 00:17:36.070 --> 00:17:37.945 align:middle line:90% Nobody stopped by you, did they? 00:17:37.945 --> 00:17:39.470 align:middle line:84% Did anyone say anything about Frank? 00:17:39.470 --> 00:17:39.970 align:middle line:90% No. 00:17:39.970 --> 00:17:40.960 align:middle line:90% Nobody's been by. 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:43.840 align:middle line:90% 00:17:43.840 --> 00:17:44.410 align:middle line:90% Excuse me. 00:17:44.410 --> 00:17:46.990 align:middle line:90% 00:17:46.990 --> 00:17:51.610 align:middle line:84% Oh, dear Lord, I know we haven't spoken in a while, 00:17:51.610 --> 00:17:55.280 align:middle line:90% but please take me to Frank. 00:17:55.280 --> 00:17:56.450 align:middle line:90% Let him pull through even. 00:17:56.450 --> 00:17:59.690 align:middle line:90% 00:17:59.690 --> 00:18:00.770 align:middle line:90% What are you in for? 00:18:00.770 --> 00:18:02.370 align:middle line:90% I'd rather not talk about it. 00:18:02.370 --> 00:18:03.920 align:middle line:90% Well, no need to be secretive. 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:06.500 align:middle line:84% It's you're telling me as soon as I asked, you're visiting, 00:18:06.500 --> 00:18:07.640 align:middle line:90% and I can see that much. 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:10.050 align:middle line:84% Now, did you get caught with some reef around '89? 00:18:10.050 --> 00:18:10.940 align:middle line:90% No. 00:18:10.940 --> 00:18:14.090 align:middle line:84% I swear to Christ, some of you tourists kids get stoned 00:18:14.090 --> 00:18:15.770 align:middle line:84% and drive 30 miles an hour like you're 00:18:15.770 --> 00:18:18.950 align:middle line:84% from goddamn Madison County where 00:18:18.950 --> 00:18:20.900 align:middle line:90% you can get into the park. 00:18:20.900 --> 00:18:21.690 align:middle line:90% Damn nuisance. 00:18:21.690 --> 00:18:22.190 align:middle line:90% What? 00:18:22.190 --> 00:18:23.420 align:middle line:90% No, that's not it. 00:18:23.420 --> 00:18:25.670 align:middle line:84% You're not one of those protesting, what 00:18:25.670 --> 00:18:30.570 align:middle line:84% do you call it, water protector libtards, are you? 00:18:30.570 --> 00:18:31.070 align:middle line:90% No. 00:18:31.070 --> 00:18:32.700 align:middle line:90% I was not at Standing Rock. 00:18:32.700 --> 00:18:34.670 align:middle line:90% Well, I had a few then. 00:18:34.670 --> 00:18:37.730 align:middle line:84% One freeloading hippie kid was in here a few months back 00:18:37.730 --> 00:18:40.010 align:middle line:84% for locking himself to a bulldozer. 00:18:40.010 --> 00:18:42.050 align:middle line:90% Little dipshit. 00:18:42.050 --> 00:18:46.040 align:middle line:84% Kid like that should be working, contributing. 00:18:46.040 --> 00:18:47.750 align:middle line:84% Why the hell are you paying bills chained 00:18:47.750 --> 00:18:51.500 align:middle line:90% to a piece of machinery? 00:18:51.500 --> 00:18:54.140 align:middle line:84% My daddy would have beat me half to death 00:18:54.140 --> 00:18:57.290 align:middle line:84% if I had pulled a stunt like that. 00:18:57.290 --> 00:18:58.640 align:middle line:90% Do you want a lit? 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:00.730 align:middle line:90% No, thank you. 00:19:00.730 --> 00:19:02.660 align:middle line:90% So where are you coming from? 00:19:02.660 --> 00:19:03.740 align:middle line:90% Brooklyn, New York. 00:19:03.740 --> 00:19:05.150 align:middle line:90% You're a long way from home. 00:19:05.150 --> 00:19:06.530 align:middle line:90% Yes, a world away. 00:19:06.530 --> 00:19:09.010 align:middle line:90% I was looking for an adventure. 00:19:09.010 --> 00:19:11.135 align:middle line:84% Did you imagine that included a night in the clink? 00:19:11.135 --> 00:19:12.230 align:middle line:90% Ha-ha-ha. 00:19:12.230 --> 00:19:13.520 align:middle line:90% No. 00:19:13.520 --> 00:19:15.800 align:middle line:90% New York, huh? 00:19:15.800 --> 00:19:19.430 align:middle line:84% Well, did you hear about that idiot city slicker put a baby 00:19:19.430 --> 00:19:22.640 align:middle line:90% bison in the back of their car? 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:24.020 align:middle line:90% Oh my goodness. 00:19:24.020 --> 00:19:25.565 align:middle line:84% What's the world come to these days? 00:19:25.565 --> 00:19:27.523 align:middle line:84% I haven't had such a good laugh in a long time. 00:19:27.523 --> 00:19:28.670 align:middle line:90% It's not that funny. 00:19:28.670 --> 00:19:32.120 align:middle line:90% God, it was cold. 00:19:32.120 --> 00:19:34.580 align:middle line:84% I mean, how idiotic you got to be 00:19:34.580 --> 00:19:38.435 align:middle line:84% to think a buffalo who was going to freeze to death in May? 00:19:38.435 --> 00:19:42.420 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:19:42.420 --> 00:19:42.920 align:middle line:90% Oh. 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:47.240 align:middle line:84% Pardon me, ma'am, but it is a strange world we live in. 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:49.780 align:middle line:90% Oh, that poor little bugger. 00:19:49.780 --> 00:19:52.130 align:middle line:84% They're kind of cute when they're little guys. 00:19:52.130 --> 00:19:55.280 align:middle line:84% They get to feeling good, run around, kicking, 00:19:55.280 --> 00:19:56.120 align:middle line:90% chasing each other. 00:19:56.120 --> 00:19:57.980 align:middle line:90% Cattle do it too. 00:19:57.980 --> 00:20:00.080 align:middle line:84% Nothing cuter than those little ones in spring. 00:20:00.080 --> 00:20:04.670 align:middle line:90% 00:20:04.670 --> 00:20:08.660 align:middle line:84% Now, you don't look like an outlaw. 00:20:08.660 --> 00:20:09.590 align:middle line:90% I'm not. 00:20:09.590 --> 00:20:14.228 align:middle line:84% I'm the asshole who put the calf in my car. 00:20:14.228 --> 00:20:17.660 align:middle line:90% Well, I'll be. 00:20:17.660 --> 00:20:20.480 align:middle line:90% Pardon me there. 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:23.055 align:middle line:84% For Christ's sake, I saw you on the news. 00:20:23.055 --> 00:20:24.680 align:middle line:84% What the hell are you still doing here? 00:20:24.680 --> 00:20:26.840 align:middle line:84% Well, the incident happened on Friday morning 00:20:26.840 --> 00:20:29.420 align:middle line:84% and no one can see me in any courthouse for sentencing 00:20:29.420 --> 00:20:30.050 align:middle line:90% until Monday. 00:20:30.050 --> 00:20:32.300 align:middle line:90% So here I am. 00:20:32.300 --> 00:20:34.280 align:middle line:90% I'm sorry, I'm on the news? 00:20:34.280 --> 00:20:34.970 align:middle line:90% My face? 00:20:34.970 --> 00:20:36.240 align:middle line:90% Yes, ma'am. 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:36.740 align:middle line:90% Local. 00:20:36.740 --> 00:20:39.560 align:middle line:90% Saw the story on KTVQ yesterday. 00:20:39.560 --> 00:20:43.460 align:middle line:84% This is a really good intention gone very bad. 00:20:43.460 --> 00:20:45.500 align:middle line:84% Well, what did you think exactly was 00:20:45.500 --> 00:20:47.960 align:middle line:84% going to happen when you put that baby 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:50.990 align:middle line:90% in the back of your SUV? 00:20:50.990 --> 00:20:53.570 align:middle line:84% He puts his hand on top of her head. 00:20:53.570 --> 00:20:57.590 align:middle line:84% He contracts it over and over again as if his hand 00:20:57.590 --> 00:20:58.850 align:middle line:90% is eating her brain. 00:20:58.850 --> 00:21:00.020 align:middle line:90% Hey. 00:21:00.020 --> 00:21:00.950 align:middle line:90% You know what this is? 00:21:00.950 --> 00:21:02.240 align:middle line:90% No. 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:04.002 align:middle line:90% It's a brain eater. 00:21:04.002 --> 00:21:05.210 align:middle line:90% And you know what it's doing? 00:21:05.210 --> 00:21:05.690 align:middle line:90% No. 00:21:05.690 --> 00:21:06.190 align:middle line:90% Starving. 00:21:06.190 --> 00:21:08.490 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:21:08.490 --> 00:21:11.810 align:middle line:84% I didn't act out of some idiotic thoughtlessness, OK? 00:21:11.810 --> 00:21:12.310 align:middle line:90% Oh. 00:21:12.310 --> 00:21:15.870 align:middle line:84% Well, you clearly had a thought, but it was idiotic. 00:21:15.870 --> 00:21:18.890 align:middle line:84% I was driving through the fucking parking lot that 00:21:18.890 --> 00:21:21.480 align:middle line:90% is Yellowstone National Park. 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:23.580 align:middle line:84% It was literally bumper to bumper traffic 00:21:23.580 --> 00:21:25.860 align:middle line:84% all the way from Norris to the Paint Pots. 00:21:25.860 --> 00:21:28.650 align:middle line:84% I decided to skip Old Faithful so I could get ahead 00:21:28.650 --> 00:21:31.620 align:middle line:84% of the crowds, and as I drove around the corner, 00:21:31.620 --> 00:21:37.590 align:middle line:84% I saw this baby buffalo bedded down in the clover. 00:21:37.590 --> 00:21:39.240 align:middle line:90% Look, I read the brochures. 00:21:39.240 --> 00:21:41.250 align:middle line:84% I stayed a good distance away and I watched. 00:21:41.250 --> 00:21:42.990 align:middle line:90% She was so fucking cute. 00:21:42.990 --> 00:21:46.050 align:middle line:90% I mean, super young. 00:21:46.050 --> 00:21:48.390 align:middle line:84% I've never seen a baby buffalo, but she 00:21:48.390 --> 00:21:52.470 align:middle line:84% looked just like she was a day or even a few hours old. 00:21:52.470 --> 00:21:53.220 align:middle line:90% She was orange. 00:21:53.220 --> 00:21:55.470 align:middle line:84% I didn't know that they're orange when they're babies. 00:21:55.470 --> 00:21:56.550 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:21:56.550 --> 00:21:58.230 align:middle line:90% Baby bison enters. 00:21:58.230 --> 00:22:00.330 align:middle line:90% She plays by herself. 00:22:00.330 --> 00:22:01.290 align:middle line:90% She is precious. 00:22:01.290 --> 00:22:04.230 align:middle line:90% 00:22:04.230 --> 00:22:06.600 align:middle line:90% Till fall most times. 00:22:06.600 --> 00:22:08.940 align:middle line:90% Ma'am, they're big brown beasts. 00:22:08.940 --> 00:22:10.650 align:middle line:90% Well, she was orange. 00:22:10.650 --> 00:22:16.680 align:middle line:84% She could stand up, and I don't know, moo or bleat or whatever. 00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:18.820 align:middle line:90% It was such a forlorn sound. 00:22:18.820 --> 00:22:21.250 align:middle line:90% It was awful. 00:22:21.250 --> 00:22:23.487 align:middle line:84% I felt like I knew exactly what she wanted 00:22:23.487 --> 00:22:24.570 align:middle line:90% and because I understood-- 00:22:24.570 --> 00:22:25.620 align:middle line:90% [COUGHING] 00:22:25.620 --> 00:22:28.605 align:middle line:84% --I had to watch her, and her mother came back for her. 00:22:28.605 --> 00:22:30.990 align:middle line:84% Mothers don't just reject perfect babies. 00:22:30.990 --> 00:22:34.260 align:middle line:84% I mean, human mothers maybe, but not in nature. 00:22:34.260 --> 00:22:36.030 align:middle line:84% Well, you're wrong about that, miss. 00:22:36.030 --> 00:22:38.840 align:middle line:84% I tried to google behaviors of baby and mother buffalo. 00:22:38.840 --> 00:22:42.240 align:middle line:84% There is no Google in the goddamn forest. 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:43.780 align:middle line:90% Because wilderness. 00:22:43.780 --> 00:22:47.730 align:middle line:90% But you put her in your trunk. 00:22:47.730 --> 00:22:51.540 align:middle line:84% I didn't just, like, roll up and pop her in the trunk. 00:22:51.540 --> 00:22:54.340 align:middle line:84% I watched her from my car for eight hours. 00:22:54.340 --> 00:22:57.150 align:middle line:84% She didn't move from that spot, except to get up 00:22:57.150 --> 00:22:58.530 align:middle line:90% and look around. 00:22:58.530 --> 00:23:02.490 align:middle line:84% Over the following, baby bison gets up, walks in a pattern, 00:23:02.490 --> 00:23:06.600 align:middle line:84% leaves, looks around, goes back to her spot, waits. 00:23:06.600 --> 00:23:08.760 align:middle line:90% This becomes the waiting dance. 00:23:08.760 --> 00:23:12.000 align:middle line:90% Woman watches as she speaks. 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:16.170 align:middle line:84% It was almost like she was working on some inner clock. 00:23:16.170 --> 00:23:18.750 align:middle line:84% She would get up every 12 minutes and walk in this, 00:23:18.750 --> 00:23:21.030 align:middle line:84% like, pattern around the clover bleeding, 00:23:21.030 --> 00:23:23.400 align:middle line:90% then she'd lay down and rest. 00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:25.230 align:middle line:84% After hours of this she got weaker, 00:23:25.230 --> 00:23:28.500 align:middle line:84% her breathing was labored, and her walk got messier. 00:23:28.500 --> 00:23:29.630 align:middle line:90% Sounds like a sick one. 00:23:29.630 --> 00:23:31.530 align:middle line:90% She wasn't sick. 00:23:31.530 --> 00:23:33.420 align:middle line:90% She was perfect. 00:23:33.420 --> 00:23:35.040 align:middle line:84% Then the herd came by and she ran up 00:23:35.040 --> 00:23:36.220 align:middle line:90% to every buffalo, every one. 00:23:36.220 --> 00:23:37.470 align:middle line:90% She was looking for her momma. 00:23:37.470 --> 00:23:38.820 align:middle line:90% Rejected by the herd. 00:23:38.820 --> 00:23:39.695 align:middle line:90% Happens all the time. 00:23:39.695 --> 00:23:40.987 align:middle line:90% It was, like, to get protected. 00:23:40.987 --> 00:23:42.960 align:middle line:84% She had to make herself more vulnerable. 00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:45.210 align:middle line:84% She was just wandering around, calling out. 00:23:45.210 --> 00:23:48.000 align:middle line:90% It was the saddest thing. 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:50.880 align:middle line:84% Other buffalo were just kind of shoving her off, 00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:52.920 align:middle line:84% and then this coyote started following her. 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:54.990 align:middle line:90% Well, sounds about right. 00:23:54.990 --> 00:23:58.500 align:middle line:84% She even ran up like nose to nose with the coyote. 00:23:58.500 --> 00:23:59.760 align:middle line:90% She was so desperate. 00:23:59.760 --> 00:24:01.800 align:middle line:84% And the herd went away and she just 00:24:01.800 --> 00:24:05.490 align:middle line:84% went back to her clover patch and just lay there. 00:24:05.490 --> 00:24:08.430 align:middle line:84% She was so thirsty, she was panting. 00:24:08.430 --> 00:24:11.790 align:middle line:84% A stream of milk flows from the buffalo's udder. 00:24:11.790 --> 00:24:12.810 align:middle line:90% The woman notices. 00:24:12.810 --> 00:24:18.700 align:middle line:90% 00:24:18.700 --> 00:24:21.880 align:middle line:90% But you put her in your car. 00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:22.930 align:middle line:90% What choice did I have? 00:24:22.930 --> 00:24:25.930 align:middle line:84% I couldn't just watch the thing be eaten by a coyote. 00:24:25.930 --> 00:24:29.155 align:middle line:84% Did you come to Yellowstone for a live action Disney 00:24:29.155 --> 00:24:29.905 align:middle line:90% movie, sweetheart? 00:24:29.905 --> 00:24:30.405 align:middle line:90% What? 00:24:30.405 --> 00:24:30.970 align:middle line:90% No. 00:24:30.970 --> 00:24:32.500 align:middle line:90% But I just couldn't, OK? 00:24:32.500 --> 00:24:33.630 align:middle line:90% So you put it-- 00:24:33.630 --> 00:24:34.510 align:middle line:90% Fuck! 00:24:34.510 --> 00:24:37.150 align:middle line:90% Yes, I put it in the trunk. 00:24:37.150 --> 00:24:39.490 align:middle line:84% I drove to the goddamn ranger station 00:24:39.490 --> 00:24:42.970 align:middle line:84% and said I have a baby buffalo here and it's been abandoned 00:24:42.970 --> 00:24:44.780 align:middle line:84% and it's shivering and it's quite weak, 00:24:44.780 --> 00:24:47.140 align:middle line:90% and we need to find its mother. 00:24:47.140 --> 00:24:48.730 align:middle line:84% The poor little bugger was rejected. 00:24:48.730 --> 00:24:50.500 align:middle line:84% What did you think the ranger station 00:24:50.500 --> 00:24:51.730 align:middle line:90% is going to do about it? 00:24:51.730 --> 00:24:52.810 align:middle line:90% Fix it. 00:24:52.810 --> 00:24:54.910 align:middle line:84% I thought the rangers could fix the situation. 00:24:54.910 --> 00:24:58.270 align:middle line:84% Don't they have a responsibility to care for these animals? 00:24:58.270 --> 00:24:59.890 align:middle line:84% Isn't it in their job description? 00:24:59.890 --> 00:25:01.750 align:middle line:90% Keep the buffaloes alive? 00:25:01.750 --> 00:25:04.140 align:middle line:84% And what about the fact that buffalo-- 00:25:04.140 --> 00:25:05.565 align:middle line:84% They're called bison, sweetheart, 00:25:05.565 --> 00:25:06.940 align:middle line:84% and I don't need any lecture on-- 00:25:06.940 --> 00:25:07.900 align:middle line:90% Fine. 00:25:07.900 --> 00:25:09.138 align:middle line:90% Bison are like going extinct. 00:25:09.138 --> 00:25:10.305 align:middle line:90% What's their responsibility? 00:25:10.305 --> 00:25:13.450 align:middle line:90% There is no buffalo orphanage. 00:25:13.450 --> 00:25:15.950 align:middle line:84% It's not their job to interfere with nature. 00:25:15.950 --> 00:25:17.800 align:middle line:84% Do you have any idea how to get a cow 00:25:17.800 --> 00:25:19.630 align:middle line:84% to take a baby that's not her own? 00:25:19.630 --> 00:25:21.350 align:middle line:90% How? 00:25:21.350 --> 00:25:24.680 align:middle line:84% One, you got to find a cow within the herd whose calf has 00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:29.420 align:middle line:84% recently died; two, you have to skin that dead baby 00:25:29.420 --> 00:25:34.160 align:middle line:84% calf; three, you got to place its hide on the abandoned calf. 00:25:34.160 --> 00:25:37.490 align:middle line:84% You got to trick the mother into thinking it's her baby. 00:25:37.490 --> 00:25:39.395 align:middle line:90% That's deceitful. 00:25:39.395 --> 00:25:41.720 align:middle line:90% It's nature. 00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:44.030 align:middle line:84% We have no responsibility to nature, honey. 00:25:44.030 --> 00:25:44.795 align:middle line:90% We are nature. 00:25:44.795 --> 00:25:46.100 align:middle line:90% And we fucked it up. 00:25:46.100 --> 00:25:47.960 align:middle line:90% Ha-ha. 00:25:47.960 --> 00:25:51.320 align:middle line:90% You can't fuck up nature. 00:25:51.320 --> 00:25:52.880 align:middle line:90% It's so much bigger than you. 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:54.410 align:middle line:90% You get to fuck nature up. 00:25:54.410 --> 00:25:56.420 align:middle line:84% But about as soon as you can fuck up Mike Tyson, 00:25:56.420 --> 00:25:58.310 align:middle line:90% it'll eventually swallow us. 00:25:58.310 --> 00:26:00.140 align:middle line:90% Look at that piece of grass. 00:26:00.140 --> 00:26:01.000 align:middle line:90% Look at it. 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:03.800 align:middle line:90% 00:26:03.800 --> 00:26:04.910 align:middle line:90% I see it. 00:26:04.910 --> 00:26:09.080 align:middle line:84% The woman realizes this is the same blade of grass she plucked 00:26:09.080 --> 00:26:11.120 align:middle line:90% to offer to the dead baby. 00:26:11.120 --> 00:26:13.460 align:middle line:90% She is in disbelief. 00:26:13.460 --> 00:26:15.110 align:middle line:90% Oh my god. 00:26:15.110 --> 00:26:18.780 align:middle line:84% It just grows up from the cement. 00:26:18.780 --> 00:26:21.570 align:middle line:84% It's always grown, slowly consuming, 00:26:21.570 --> 00:26:24.840 align:middle line:84% everything we built, making cracks in the sidewalks, 00:26:24.840 --> 00:26:27.210 align:middle line:90% busting up foundations. 00:26:27.210 --> 00:26:29.130 align:middle line:84% Builds itself up, burns itself down, 00:26:29.130 --> 00:26:33.170 align:middle line:84% so slow that if you're not sitting still and watching 00:26:33.170 --> 00:26:37.682 align:middle line:84% real hard, you might not realize it's happening. 00:26:37.682 --> 00:26:40.180 align:middle line:84% Oh, sure, you can throw a little Roundup on it, 00:26:40.180 --> 00:26:42.790 align:middle line:90% but it'll sprout up again. 00:26:42.790 --> 00:26:44.900 align:middle line:84% You can fuck up a lot of things in this life. 00:26:44.900 --> 00:26:47.350 align:middle line:84% Trust me, I know firsthand, but this great big world 00:26:47.350 --> 00:26:48.190 align:middle line:90% is not coming. 00:26:48.190 --> 00:26:49.930 align:middle line:90% What about air pollution? 00:26:49.930 --> 00:26:52.240 align:middle line:84% What about fracking creating fault lines where 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:54.670 align:middle line:84% there were none before, and people's drinking 00:26:54.670 --> 00:26:55.780 align:middle line:90% water catching fire? 00:26:55.780 --> 00:26:56.590 align:middle line:90% Nuclear war? 00:26:56.590 --> 00:26:59.600 align:middle line:84% What about the nuclear fish in Japan? 00:26:59.600 --> 00:27:01.540 align:middle line:84% What about the fucking Berkeley Pit I 00:27:01.540 --> 00:27:04.270 align:middle line:84% just visited in Butte, and Monsanto 00:27:04.270 --> 00:27:06.130 align:middle line:90% destroying biodiversity? 00:27:06.130 --> 00:27:10.770 align:middle line:90% 00:27:10.770 --> 00:27:14.130 align:middle line:84% Well, I better make a phone call. 00:27:14.130 --> 00:27:16.200 align:middle line:84% I need to see if Frank's going to pull through. 00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:17.430 align:middle line:90% Sheriff! 00:27:17.430 --> 00:27:19.230 align:middle line:90% We hear the cell unlock. 00:27:19.230 --> 00:27:22.380 align:middle line:84% Hank walks out; woman goes to grass, 00:27:22.380 --> 00:27:25.170 align:middle line:84% plucks it, three blades of hearty wheat grass 00:27:25.170 --> 00:27:28.710 align:middle line:84% sprout and grow to full maturity as she watches. 00:27:28.710 --> 00:27:30.810 align:middle line:90% Holy shit. 00:27:30.810 --> 00:27:31.680 align:middle line:90% Holy shit. 00:27:31.680 --> 00:27:35.300 align:middle line:90% Did you just see that? 00:27:35.300 --> 00:27:37.300 align:middle line:90% Who are you talking to? 00:27:37.300 --> 00:27:38.060 align:middle line:90% What? 00:27:38.060 --> 00:27:39.680 align:middle line:90% Wait, what? 00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:41.480 align:middle line:90% Who are you talking to? 00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:44.570 align:middle line:90% I'm talking to you. 00:27:44.570 --> 00:27:45.695 align:middle line:90% Who are you talking to? 00:27:45.695 --> 00:27:47.510 align:middle line:90% To whom do you speak? 00:27:47.510 --> 00:27:49.070 align:middle line:90% I'm talking to you. 00:27:49.070 --> 00:27:51.050 align:middle line:90% The grass just grew. 00:27:51.050 --> 00:27:51.815 align:middle line:90% Grass grows. 00:27:51.815 --> 00:27:54.650 align:middle line:90% 00:27:54.650 --> 00:27:56.060 align:middle line:90% That is what grass does. 00:27:56.060 --> 00:27:56.900 align:middle line:90% You did not know? 00:27:56.900 --> 00:27:57.500 align:middle line:90% I knew. 00:27:57.500 --> 00:28:01.100 align:middle line:84% I know grass grows, but it just happened so fast. 00:28:01.100 --> 00:28:03.950 align:middle line:84% Sometimes growth feels slow, other times it is fast. 00:28:03.950 --> 00:28:05.180 align:middle line:90% Did you see it grow? 00:28:05.180 --> 00:28:08.300 align:middle line:84% When you learn to stand still, you also learn to watch 00:28:08.300 --> 00:28:11.140 align:middle line:90% and time becomes more. 00:28:11.140 --> 00:28:12.600 align:middle line:90% More? 00:28:12.600 --> 00:28:13.840 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:28:13.840 --> 00:28:16.410 align:middle line:90% More what? 00:28:16.410 --> 00:28:16.910 align:middle line:90% More. 00:28:16.910 --> 00:28:19.760 align:middle line:90% 00:28:19.760 --> 00:28:20.720 align:middle line:90% Oh. 00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:22.130 align:middle line:90% She picks the grass. 00:28:22.130 --> 00:28:23.930 align:middle line:90% They stand still. 00:28:23.930 --> 00:28:29.130 align:middle line:84% The grass grows back with five blades of mature grass. 00:28:29.130 --> 00:28:29.630 align:middle line:90% Wait. 00:28:29.630 --> 00:28:33.500 align:middle line:84% Did the grass grow fast, or did I just stand still 00:28:33.500 --> 00:28:34.835 align:middle line:90% for weeks or what? 00:28:34.835 --> 00:28:37.250 align:middle line:84% How long does it take grass to grow? 00:28:37.250 --> 00:28:39.140 align:middle line:84% I do not know about how long it takes 00:28:39.140 --> 00:28:41.060 align:middle line:90% except that it takes time. 00:28:41.060 --> 00:28:44.160 align:middle line:84% Hank re-enters, wiping tears from his eyes. 00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:46.400 align:middle line:84% He doesn't make eye contact with the woman. 00:28:46.400 --> 00:28:49.610 align:middle line:90% She studies him keenly. 00:28:49.610 --> 00:28:51.750 align:middle line:90% Are you all right? 00:28:51.750 --> 00:28:52.250 align:middle line:90% Me? 00:28:52.250 --> 00:28:55.370 align:middle line:90% 00:28:55.370 --> 00:28:56.300 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:28:56.300 --> 00:28:59.210 align:middle line:90% Well, no. 00:28:59.210 --> 00:29:02.240 align:middle line:84% I just got a little wind in my eye. 00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:04.490 align:middle line:84% That's what my grandma used to say when she cried. 00:29:04.490 --> 00:29:05.420 align:middle line:90% I'm not crying. 00:29:05.420 --> 00:29:07.840 align:middle line:90% Of course not. 00:29:07.840 --> 00:29:10.394 align:middle line:84% But if you needed to, that would be all right. 00:29:10.394 --> 00:29:11.310 align:middle line:90% Here. 00:29:11.310 --> 00:29:14.010 align:middle line:84% Pulls out a wad of tissues, picks through them. 00:29:14.010 --> 00:29:15.600 align:middle line:90% Sorry, that one's been used. 00:29:15.600 --> 00:29:18.360 align:middle line:84% I had a lot of wind in my eyes when they brought me in. 00:29:18.360 --> 00:29:22.110 align:middle line:84% When wind gets in my eyes I put my head to the Earth. 00:29:22.110 --> 00:29:23.850 align:middle line:90% He takes one of the tissues. 00:29:23.850 --> 00:29:25.710 align:middle line:90% He cries a lot. 00:29:25.710 --> 00:29:29.160 align:middle line:84% The more he tries not to, the more he cries. 00:29:29.160 --> 00:29:31.770 align:middle line:90% It might make her cry too. 00:29:31.770 --> 00:29:33.810 align:middle line:84% After a few beats, he gets a hold of himself. 00:29:33.810 --> 00:29:40.180 align:middle line:90% 00:29:40.180 --> 00:29:40.690 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:29:40.690 --> 00:29:43.350 align:middle line:90% 00:29:43.350 --> 00:29:46.140 align:middle line:84% Look, just so we're straight, I'm not 00:29:46.140 --> 00:29:49.410 align:middle line:90% self-pitying son of a bitch. 00:29:49.410 --> 00:29:52.870 align:middle line:90% These are tears of joy. 00:29:52.870 --> 00:29:54.790 align:middle line:90% Frank's going to be OK. 00:29:54.790 --> 00:29:57.490 align:middle line:84% Just got off the phone with the vet. 00:29:57.490 --> 00:29:58.810 align:middle line:90% What happened to him? 00:29:58.810 --> 00:30:04.380 align:middle line:90% 00:30:04.380 --> 00:30:06.030 align:middle line:90% I accidentally shot my dog. 00:30:06.030 --> 00:30:08.640 align:middle line:90% 00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:12.430 align:middle line:84% I thought he was a damn wolf chasing the cattle. 00:30:12.430 --> 00:30:14.950 align:middle line:84% Turns out I left the gate open and several 00:30:14.950 --> 00:30:16.570 align:middle line:84% steers wandering in the next pasture 00:30:16.570 --> 00:30:19.160 align:middle line:84% and he was just rounding them up. 00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:21.520 align:middle line:84% Well, Frank's the smartest goddamn dog I've ever had, 00:30:21.520 --> 00:30:26.990 align:middle line:84% but I didn't have my glasses on and I shot at him. 00:30:26.990 --> 00:30:28.250 align:middle line:90% He yelped. 00:30:28.250 --> 00:30:31.550 align:middle line:84% I knew I made a mistake, but thought he'd bleed out 00:30:31.550 --> 00:30:32.680 align:middle line:90% before I got him into town. 00:30:32.680 --> 00:30:38.225 align:middle line:84% I just laid there in the pickup staring at me, 00:30:38.225 --> 00:30:41.546 align:middle line:90% trying to stay alive. 00:30:41.546 --> 00:30:44.100 align:middle line:84% He was panting hard at first and then started 00:30:44.100 --> 00:30:45.600 align:middle line:84% taking short little shallow breaths. 00:30:45.600 --> 00:30:49.350 align:middle line:84% I didn't think there was any way that pup would survive. 00:30:49.350 --> 00:30:52.395 align:middle line:90% I shot him with a shotgun. 00:30:52.395 --> 00:30:53.615 align:middle line:90% Little son of a bitch. 00:30:53.615 --> 00:30:56.190 align:middle line:90% 00:30:56.190 --> 00:30:57.420 align:middle line:90% I got him to the vet. 00:30:57.420 --> 00:30:59.220 align:middle line:84% I felt like my heart was going to fall out. 00:30:59.220 --> 00:31:00.930 align:middle line:84% I looked into his sweet little face 00:31:00.930 --> 00:31:04.120 align:middle line:84% and told him he was the best cow dog there ever was, 00:31:04.120 --> 00:31:07.020 align:middle line:84% and if he did fight so hard, he could come back home with me 00:31:07.020 --> 00:31:08.747 align:middle line:84% and he could gnaw on that deer leg 00:31:08.747 --> 00:31:10.580 align:middle line:84% I've been saving in the deep freeze for him. 00:31:10.580 --> 00:31:14.263 align:middle line:90% 00:31:14.263 --> 00:31:15.305 align:middle line:90% And then I went downtown. 00:31:15.305 --> 00:31:18.310 align:middle line:90% 00:31:18.310 --> 00:31:23.620 align:middle line:84% I bought a bottle of 10 High and I drank the whole damn thing. 00:31:23.620 --> 00:31:25.870 align:middle line:84% I didn't figure there was any point in living if I 00:31:25.870 --> 00:31:28.870 align:middle line:90% killed my only true friend. 00:31:28.870 --> 00:31:31.960 align:middle line:84% So I drank the whole damn bottle and got in my pickup 00:31:31.960 --> 00:31:35.260 align:middle line:84% and was on my way to the river when I got pulled over. 00:31:35.260 --> 00:31:37.540 align:middle line:90% I hadn't had a drop in 15 years. 00:31:37.540 --> 00:31:41.380 align:middle line:90% Not since my wife left. 00:31:41.380 --> 00:31:45.580 align:middle line:84% That sounds like a really bad country song. 00:31:45.580 --> 00:31:48.740 align:middle line:90% Well, that sure does. 00:31:48.740 --> 00:31:51.380 align:middle line:84% So you're not the only idiot around here, 00:31:51.380 --> 00:31:56.210 align:middle line:84% but you're getting quite famous out there. 00:31:56.210 --> 00:31:56.930 align:middle line:90% Excuse me? 00:31:56.930 --> 00:31:59.660 align:middle line:84% Well, you better off in here talking all kinds of shit 00:31:59.660 --> 00:32:00.170 align:middle line:90% out there. 00:32:00.170 --> 00:32:01.253 align:middle line:90% Fox News have a field day. 00:32:01.253 --> 00:32:03.753 align:middle line:84% You could be a movie of the week before all of this is over. 00:32:03.753 --> 00:32:04.580 align:middle line:90% Fox News? 00:32:04.580 --> 00:32:06.020 align:middle line:90% I'm on the local news? 00:32:06.020 --> 00:32:07.940 align:middle line:90% No, national. 00:32:07.940 --> 00:32:09.590 align:middle line:90% Mornings with Maria. 00:32:09.590 --> 00:32:11.343 align:middle line:90% Jesus Christ. 00:32:11.343 --> 00:32:12.260 align:middle line:90% What am I going to do? 00:32:12.260 --> 00:32:14.690 align:middle line:84% Oh, what you got to do sweetheart, face the music. 00:32:14.690 --> 00:32:15.380 align:middle line:90% You're famous. 00:32:15.380 --> 00:32:16.580 align:middle line:90% I know fox. 00:32:16.580 --> 00:32:18.230 align:middle line:84% Low to the ground, enjoys rabbits 00:32:18.230 --> 00:32:20.720 align:middle line:90% and other small animals. 00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:22.700 align:middle line:84% I have not known fox to eat humans. 00:32:22.700 --> 00:32:24.650 align:middle line:90% No, this isn't that kind of fox. 00:32:24.650 --> 00:32:25.880 align:middle line:90% There are others? 00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:30.740 align:middle line:84% Well, this is a Fox who shares information with us. 00:32:30.740 --> 00:32:32.420 align:middle line:90% Sort of, only they skew. 00:32:32.420 --> 00:32:34.130 align:middle line:84% I have known Fox to be mysterious. 00:32:34.130 --> 00:32:36.050 align:middle line:90% They do skew. 00:32:36.050 --> 00:32:37.280 align:middle line:90% What did they say about me? 00:32:37.280 --> 00:32:38.870 align:middle line:90% I didn't hear the whole clip. 00:32:38.870 --> 00:32:41.210 align:middle line:84% I was on the horn with my vet, but I sure as hell shit 00:32:41.210 --> 00:32:42.110 align:middle line:90% saw your picture. 00:32:42.110 --> 00:32:43.160 align:middle line:90% What? 00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:43.910 align:middle line:90% Which picture? 00:32:43.910 --> 00:32:45.110 align:middle line:90% I don't know. 00:32:45.110 --> 00:32:47.572 align:middle line:84% You had a shit eating grin and an ice cream cone. 00:32:47.572 --> 00:32:48.072 align:middle line:90% Oh. 00:32:48.072 --> 00:32:50.595 align:middle line:84% Jesus Christ, my old profile picture. 00:32:50.595 --> 00:32:52.220 align:middle line:84% You're better off here for the weekend. 00:32:52.220 --> 00:32:53.512 align:middle line:90% They're going to eat you alive. 00:32:53.512 --> 00:32:54.830 align:middle line:90% That is not the fox I know. 00:32:54.830 --> 00:33:00.880 align:middle line:84% Fox eats rabbit and vole, but it begins with the grass. 00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:04.690 align:middle line:84% It begins with the grass as all things do and have forever. 00:33:04.690 --> 00:33:09.370 align:middle line:84% It begins tall and strong and holds the sun, 00:33:09.370 --> 00:33:11.050 align:middle line:90% holds water in its body. 00:33:11.050 --> 00:33:12.730 align:middle line:90% We crunch. 00:33:12.730 --> 00:33:16.540 align:middle line:84% Deer, pronghorn, antelope, insects, rodents, fox, owl, 00:33:16.540 --> 00:33:18.520 align:middle line:90% bird and snake eat rodents. 00:33:18.520 --> 00:33:20.740 align:middle line:90% Coyote eats rodents. 00:33:20.740 --> 00:33:22.000 align:middle line:90% Eagle eats rodents. 00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:24.100 align:middle line:90% Buzzard eats rodents. 00:33:24.100 --> 00:33:25.300 align:middle line:90% Buzzard eats coyote. 00:33:25.300 --> 00:33:26.500 align:middle line:90% Fungus eats buzzard. 00:33:26.500 --> 00:33:27.700 align:middle line:90% Fox is near the top. 00:33:27.700 --> 00:33:29.260 align:middle line:90% Fox is the top. 00:33:29.260 --> 00:33:32.590 align:middle line:90% Only one who's not fake news. 00:33:32.590 --> 00:33:35.050 align:middle line:90% Sound cue of Fox News. 00:33:35.050 --> 00:33:37.720 align:middle line:90% Lights shift to studio lighting. 00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:40.030 align:middle line:84% The buffalo turns to the audience. 00:33:40.030 --> 00:33:43.600 align:middle line:84% She speaks into a microphone made of grass. 00:33:43.600 --> 00:33:46.660 align:middle line:84% She and Hank re-enact the newscast. 00:33:46.660 --> 00:33:48.400 align:middle line:84% Well, John, it's the story that has 00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:51.310 align:middle line:84% PETA's feathers all ruffled, the Brooklyn woman 00:33:51.310 --> 00:33:53.500 align:middle line:90% who's been deemed a calf napper. 00:33:53.500 --> 00:33:56.650 align:middle line:84% New details on that baby bison taken from the park, 00:33:56.650 --> 00:33:58.720 align:middle line:90% it has sparked so much outrage. 00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:00.610 align:middle line:84% Park officials explain why they had 00:34:00.610 --> 00:34:03.760 align:middle line:84% to euthanize it after a tourist put it in her SUV. 00:34:03.760 --> 00:34:06.550 align:middle line:84% This footage shows the baby bison earlier that same day 00:34:06.550 --> 00:34:09.580 align:middle line:84% struggling to cross the river and keep up with its mother. 00:34:09.580 --> 00:34:12.070 align:middle line:84% And here is the baby bison trembling and sticking 00:34:12.070 --> 00:34:13.150 align:middle line:90% close to a car. 00:34:13.150 --> 00:34:16.449 align:middle line:84% As you can see, many people saw this baby bison 00:34:16.449 --> 00:34:18.159 align:middle line:90% on that fateful afternoon. 00:34:18.159 --> 00:34:21.550 align:middle line:84% It was really tragic and hard to see that little calf 00:34:21.550 --> 00:34:22.330 align:middle line:90% in the road. 00:34:22.330 --> 00:34:25.480 align:middle line:84% Sentiments the tourist clearly shared. 00:34:25.480 --> 00:34:28.090 align:middle line:84% She was moved so much she chose to put the bison 00:34:28.090 --> 00:34:31.915 align:middle line:84% calf in the back of her car, the results of which we now 00:34:31.915 --> 00:34:34.300 align:middle line:84% know led to the bison being rejected from her herd 00:34:34.300 --> 00:34:38.320 align:middle line:90% and ultimately being euthanized. 00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:40.090 align:middle line:84% The calf napper has been identified 00:34:40.090 --> 00:34:42.850 align:middle line:84% and images of her driver's license and school transcripts 00:34:42.850 --> 00:34:45.340 align:middle line:84% have been leaked as you can see on your screen. 00:34:45.340 --> 00:34:49.000 align:middle line:84% She is a 35-year-old New Yorker with a PhD in social justice 00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:51.880 align:middle line:84% from the University of Chicago, and apparently 00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:54.130 align:middle line:84% a penchant for artisanal ice cream. 00:34:54.130 --> 00:34:56.860 align:middle line:84% She's being held in a small town jail 00:34:56.860 --> 00:35:00.550 align:middle line:84% as criminal charges are pending for her federal offense. 00:35:00.550 --> 00:35:02.890 align:middle line:84% Protesters are expected at her hearing 00:35:02.890 --> 00:35:05.110 align:middle line:84% Monday, as many people have congregated 00:35:05.110 --> 00:35:06.940 align:middle line:84% at the site where the baby bison was 00:35:06.940 --> 00:35:11.020 align:middle line:84% taken from the bosom of the wilderness. 00:35:11.020 --> 00:35:12.730 align:middle line:84% When I heard they killed that baby 00:35:12.730 --> 00:35:14.140 align:middle line:84% I had to come mourn her properly. 00:35:14.140 --> 00:35:15.670 align:middle line:90% It's just sad. 00:35:15.670 --> 00:35:18.610 align:middle line:84% Some people are laughing, but, well, she was somebody's baby. 00:35:18.610 --> 00:35:21.490 align:middle line:84% I hope the lady who did this loses something close to her 00:35:21.490 --> 00:35:25.750 align:middle line:84% and that she's prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. 00:35:25.750 --> 00:35:28.330 align:middle line:84% At the end of the newscast, Buffalo 00:35:28.330 --> 00:35:30.970 align:middle line:84% takes a bite out of her grass microphone. 00:35:30.970 --> 00:35:32.905 align:middle line:90% She chews and chews. 00:35:32.905 --> 00:35:37.010 align:middle line:90% 00:35:37.010 --> 00:35:39.860 align:middle line:84% We all eat the sun and the sun eats us. 00:35:39.860 --> 00:35:41.210 align:middle line:90% Fox fakes its direction. 00:35:41.210 --> 00:35:42.180 align:middle line:90% It's the fox way. 00:35:42.180 --> 00:35:45.440 align:middle line:84% Oh, my motherfucking Goddamn Jesus Christ. 00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:47.660 align:middle line:84% You've got to be fucking kidding me. 00:35:47.660 --> 00:35:50.600 align:middle line:84% Well, guess you got your 15 minutes of fame, right? 00:35:50.600 --> 00:35:51.740 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:35:51.740 --> 00:35:54.140 align:middle line:90% You really chapped some hides. 00:35:54.140 --> 00:35:55.820 align:middle line:84% Most hated woman in the west, huh? 00:35:55.820 --> 00:35:56.360 align:middle line:90% Purt near. 00:35:56.360 --> 00:35:58.730 align:middle line:84% My driver's license photo, that is cruel. 00:35:58.730 --> 00:35:59.630 align:middle line:90% I hate that photo. 00:35:59.630 --> 00:36:01.250 align:middle line:84% I have my mother's chin in that photo. 00:36:01.250 --> 00:36:02.650 align:middle line:90% I hate my mother's chin. 00:36:02.650 --> 00:36:05.660 align:middle line:84% I'd be proud to have my mother's chin. 00:36:05.660 --> 00:36:07.520 align:middle line:90% I have my mother's hoofs. 00:36:07.520 --> 00:36:08.900 align:middle line:90% They look at the buffalo. 00:36:08.900 --> 00:36:12.920 align:middle line:90% She chews and blinks at them. 00:36:12.920 --> 00:36:15.308 align:middle line:90% You are majestic. 00:36:15.308 --> 00:36:16.850 align:middle line:84% Your mother must have been beautiful. 00:36:16.850 --> 00:36:18.180 align:middle line:90% She is my mother. 00:36:18.180 --> 00:36:19.160 align:middle line:90% She eats grass. 00:36:19.160 --> 00:36:20.720 align:middle line:84% Her hooves are strong from walking. 00:36:20.720 --> 00:36:22.070 align:middle line:90% I have my mother's hooves. 00:36:22.070 --> 00:36:23.270 align:middle line:90% Is your mother still alive? 00:36:23.270 --> 00:36:24.260 align:middle line:90% I believe she is. 00:36:24.260 --> 00:36:26.240 align:middle line:84% Yes, my mother is too, I think, but I 00:36:26.240 --> 00:36:27.500 align:middle line:90% was raised by my Aunt Lydia. 00:36:27.500 --> 00:36:29.450 align:middle line:84% My dear mother has been gone a long time. 00:36:29.450 --> 00:36:32.810 align:middle line:84% Was 1/2 raised by my dad until my grandmother caught him 00:36:32.810 --> 00:36:34.370 align:middle line:90% filling my bottle with whiskey. 00:36:34.370 --> 00:36:37.370 align:middle line:84% I remember my grandmother, she was killed by a bear. 00:36:37.370 --> 00:36:39.210 align:middle line:84% Bear will eat anything alive; not fox. 00:36:39.210 --> 00:36:40.580 align:middle line:90% Fox eats small animals. 00:36:40.580 --> 00:36:42.710 align:middle line:90% Fox will eat me alive. 00:36:42.710 --> 00:36:44.060 align:middle line:90% Maybe they should. 00:36:44.060 --> 00:36:46.410 align:middle line:90% Is this your social justice? 00:36:46.410 --> 00:36:47.270 align:middle line:90% I mean, maybe. 00:36:47.270 --> 00:36:48.890 align:middle line:90% We all do stupid things. 00:36:48.890 --> 00:36:54.530 align:middle line:84% You just did a really, really, really stupid thing. 00:36:54.530 --> 00:36:57.110 align:middle line:90% She did not know. 00:36:57.110 --> 00:36:59.270 align:middle line:84% She did not know what a bison was. 00:36:59.270 --> 00:37:02.630 align:middle line:84% If she had known, she would not have put my baby in her SUV. 00:37:02.630 --> 00:37:03.860 align:middle line:90% I know what a bison is. 00:37:03.860 --> 00:37:04.520 align:middle line:90% It is OK. 00:37:04.520 --> 00:37:05.512 align:middle line:90% No need to be ashamed. 00:37:05.512 --> 00:37:07.220 align:middle line:84% You obviously did not have the knowledge. 00:37:07.220 --> 00:37:08.190 align:middle line:90% I'm not stupid. 00:37:08.190 --> 00:37:10.040 align:middle line:90% I know what a buffalo is. 00:37:10.040 --> 00:37:15.460 align:middle line:84% It's the largest mammal on the North American continent. 00:37:15.460 --> 00:37:16.570 align:middle line:90% We are? 00:37:16.570 --> 00:37:17.380 align:middle line:90% Disbelief. 00:37:17.380 --> 00:37:20.200 align:middle line:84% She tries to imagine being the largest. 00:37:20.200 --> 00:37:22.690 align:middle line:90% It strikes her with awe. 00:37:22.690 --> 00:37:25.070 align:middle line:90% Yes, you are. 00:37:25.070 --> 00:37:27.280 align:middle line:84% There was once so many of you on the prairie 00:37:27.280 --> 00:37:30.640 align:middle line:84% that if you looked at all you could see was bison and sky. 00:37:30.640 --> 00:37:36.010 align:middle line:90% 00:37:36.010 --> 00:37:37.780 align:middle line:90% I remember this. 00:37:37.780 --> 00:37:40.360 align:middle line:84% Inside the sinews there's a vague memory there, 00:37:40.360 --> 00:37:43.990 align:middle line:84% but the memory belongs to the grass and the Earth 00:37:43.990 --> 00:37:45.010 align:middle line:90% and all of our herd. 00:37:45.010 --> 00:37:47.680 align:middle line:90% 00:37:47.680 --> 00:37:53.760 align:middle line:84% I remember, we were sea across the plains, important, honored. 00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:57.160 align:middle line:84% As numbered as the grass as we move within the herd as a blade 00:37:57.160 --> 00:37:59.260 align:middle line:90% moves within the prairie. 00:37:59.260 --> 00:38:00.530 align:middle line:90% We move as one. 00:38:00.530 --> 00:38:04.070 align:middle line:90% We think as one. 00:38:04.070 --> 00:38:08.300 align:middle line:84% There's a memory of running from wolves, a memory of grass, 00:38:08.300 --> 00:38:12.650 align:middle line:84% chewing of cold and heat, of running for running, 00:38:12.650 --> 00:38:15.170 align:middle line:84% of lying in hot dust with all of the others; nothing 00:38:15.170 --> 00:38:21.120 align:middle line:84% but us tails swish at flies; tails move back and forth, 00:38:21.120 --> 00:38:21.980 align:middle line:90% back and forth. 00:38:21.980 --> 00:38:24.870 align:middle line:90% 00:38:24.870 --> 00:38:28.020 align:middle line:84% The buffalo begins to pull sinews full of memories 00:38:28.020 --> 00:38:29.130 align:middle line:90% out of herself. 00:38:29.130 --> 00:38:31.380 align:middle line:84% This triggers the woman and Hank. 00:38:31.380 --> 00:38:34.200 align:middle line:90% They also pull out their sinews. 00:38:34.200 --> 00:38:38.730 align:middle line:84% It is if the memories are their literal makeup, their DNA, 00:38:38.730 --> 00:38:41.580 align:middle line:84% their sinews and bones, long flags. 00:38:41.580 --> 00:38:44.400 align:middle line:84% Visual scenes of their ancestral history 00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:46.860 align:middle line:84% reveal themselves in these sinews. 00:38:46.860 --> 00:38:49.800 align:middle line:84% As they begin to overlap the dialogue, 00:38:49.800 --> 00:38:51.780 align:middle line:84% their memories become braided together 00:38:51.780 --> 00:38:55.800 align:middle line:84% until the stage is covered with guts and muscle, and tendons 00:38:55.800 --> 00:38:59.220 align:middle line:84% and bones, and image upon image of the ancient and recent 00:38:59.220 --> 00:39:02.175 align:middle line:90% history of the west. 00:39:02.175 --> 00:39:07.780 align:middle line:84% A memory of thunder, of drums, of hooves. 00:39:07.780 --> 00:39:09.010 align:middle line:90% I have my mother's hooves. 00:39:09.010 --> 00:39:11.110 align:middle line:90% I have my father's cheekbones. 00:39:11.110 --> 00:39:13.210 align:middle line:84% My mother once told me I looked nothing like her; 00:39:13.210 --> 00:39:15.065 align:middle line:90% that I was 100% my father. 00:39:15.065 --> 00:39:17.440 align:middle line:84% Well, my father always said you got younger blood in you. 00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:19.130 align:middle line:84% You got it from your mother's side. 00:39:19.130 --> 00:39:21.550 align:middle line:84% That's where you get that curly hair, from those outlaw 00:39:21.550 --> 00:39:22.980 align:middle line:90% relatives of yours. 00:39:22.980 --> 00:39:23.980 align:middle line:90% I have my mother's hair. 00:39:23.980 --> 00:39:24.480 align:middle line:90% It's true. 00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:28.720 align:middle line:84% I have his cheekbones, the 1/16th Native American. 00:39:28.720 --> 00:39:29.290 align:middle line:90% It's true. 00:39:29.290 --> 00:39:31.960 align:middle line:84% My grandmother may have been a Cherokee Indian princess. 00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:36.060 align:middle line:84% Of mounting, of the rut, of birth. 00:39:36.060 --> 00:39:39.020 align:middle line:84% Mixed in his Yankee blood with damn Confederate blood, 00:39:39.020 --> 00:39:40.420 align:middle line:90% but I emerged [INAUDIBLE]. 00:39:40.420 --> 00:39:45.640 align:middle line:84% Emerging wet, warm, licked clean by mother; unsteady legs. 00:39:45.640 --> 00:39:49.270 align:middle line:84% The only thing that survives of this woman, my key to belonging 00:39:49.270 --> 00:39:50.650 align:middle line:90% is her cheekbones. 00:39:50.650 --> 00:39:53.320 align:middle line:84% My only exoticness comes from these cheekbones. 00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:57.640 align:middle line:84% Whatever secrets she knew, her life experiences, her story 00:39:57.640 --> 00:39:58.330 align:middle line:90% was vanished. 00:39:58.330 --> 00:39:59.650 align:middle line:90% Her memory wiped clean. 00:39:59.650 --> 00:40:00.910 align:middle line:90% I was good at killing things. 00:40:00.910 --> 00:40:04.090 align:middle line:84% Even before I was born, a master killing animals. 00:40:04.090 --> 00:40:06.040 align:middle line:84% I emerged with buckshot in my bones. 00:40:06.040 --> 00:40:08.290 align:middle line:84% A memory of fires chasing us; of falling over 00:40:08.290 --> 00:40:09.370 align:middle line:90% the edge of the Earth. 00:40:09.370 --> 00:40:13.090 align:middle line:84% I remember Missouri, though I never been there; 00:40:13.090 --> 00:40:16.080 align:middle line:84% robbing banks in Minnesota though I never 00:40:16.080 --> 00:40:17.060 align:middle line:90% lived there either. 00:40:17.060 --> 00:40:19.018 align:middle line:84% Heart palpitating so hard, and running. 00:40:19.018 --> 00:40:20.560 align:middle line:84% Always running, running from the law. 00:40:20.560 --> 00:40:21.700 align:middle line:90% All of us running. 00:40:21.700 --> 00:40:25.030 align:middle line:84% A photo of her remains; of course, not smiling. 00:40:25.030 --> 00:40:25.630 align:middle line:90% Why would you? 00:40:25.630 --> 00:40:28.240 align:middle line:84% You had to hold very still back then. 00:40:28.240 --> 00:40:30.190 align:middle line:84% The face would tire and the eyes dulled 00:40:30.190 --> 00:40:32.330 align:middle line:90% to hold a smile for that long. 00:40:32.330 --> 00:40:35.740 align:middle line:84% She looked so awkward, like two cheekbones 00:40:35.740 --> 00:40:37.600 align:middle line:90% on top of a pioneer woman dress. 00:40:37.600 --> 00:40:40.840 align:middle line:84% There's a memory wagon wheels of cold, hard winters 00:40:40.840 --> 00:40:42.863 align:middle line:90% in a dream I can't remember. 00:40:42.863 --> 00:40:44.405 align:middle line:84% I shot bison for moving [INAUDIBLE].. 00:40:44.405 --> 00:40:47.650 align:middle line:84% Of locomotives with men and guns shooting at us as 00:40:47.650 --> 00:40:50.350 align:middle line:90% they sped by a falling down. 00:40:50.350 --> 00:40:54.280 align:middle line:84% I don't believe her name has ever been spoken in our family. 00:40:54.280 --> 00:40:58.225 align:middle line:84% It was the name we forgot; the story we didn't pass on; 00:40:58.225 --> 00:40:59.350 align:middle line:90% the memory we [? killed ?]. 00:40:59.350 --> 00:41:01.660 align:middle line:84% A memory of being chased from the prairie, 00:41:01.660 --> 00:41:05.980 align:middle line:84% onto different land, penned up, dying; 00:41:05.980 --> 00:41:10.930 align:middle line:84% the sea of us becoming a lake then a pond of us to a puddle; 00:41:10.930 --> 00:41:14.950 align:middle line:84% bulging eyes of our bodies strewn across the plains; 00:41:14.950 --> 00:41:18.430 align:middle line:84% grasses blowing against our wasted flesh, 00:41:18.430 --> 00:41:20.410 align:middle line:84% waiting for death to take us so we 00:41:20.410 --> 00:41:24.160 align:middle line:90% could once again join the way. 00:41:24.160 --> 00:41:25.600 align:middle line:90% Baby Bison enters. 00:41:25.600 --> 00:41:28.990 align:middle line:84% She gets tangled up in the sinews and historical memory 00:41:28.990 --> 00:41:32.390 align:middle line:84% ribbons of the other three until she is stuck. 00:41:32.390 --> 00:41:34.150 align:middle line:90% Momma? 00:41:34.150 --> 00:41:35.380 align:middle line:90% Lights out. 00:41:35.380 --> 00:41:36.520 align:middle line:90% Act two, scene one. 00:41:36.520 --> 00:41:40.630 align:middle line:84% In the dark we hear media update. 00:41:40.630 --> 00:41:43.690 align:middle line:84% The woman ultimately responsible for the death of a bison 00:41:43.690 --> 00:41:45.460 align:middle line:84% calf at Yellowstone Park is scheduled 00:41:45.460 --> 00:41:47.890 align:middle line:84% to be released for sentencing today. 00:41:47.890 --> 00:41:50.110 align:middle line:84% Concern for the woman's safety is 00:41:50.110 --> 00:41:53.830 align:middle line:84% mounting after receiving vicious threats over social media. 00:41:53.830 --> 00:41:56.500 align:middle line:84% News organizations tweeting about the incident 00:41:56.500 --> 00:41:58.780 align:middle line:84% have received comments like this. 00:41:58.780 --> 00:42:02.440 align:middle line:84% Cruel comments overlap into a wild sound montage 00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:05.890 align:middle line:84% that grows to a cacophony, then fades away to lights up. 00:42:05.890 --> 00:42:09.490 align:middle line:84% The sinews are now hanging across the cell, unfurled 00:42:09.490 --> 00:42:13.600 align:middle line:84% into flags or scenes of each of their ancestral lineage. 00:42:13.600 --> 00:42:16.660 align:middle line:84% The cell is still the cell, though it has been almost 00:42:16.660 --> 00:42:18.250 align:middle line:90% taken over by nature. 00:42:18.250 --> 00:42:20.620 align:middle line:84% One leg of the bunk is now a tree. 00:42:20.620 --> 00:42:22.810 align:middle line:90% Grass has sprouted up all over. 00:42:22.810 --> 00:42:26.020 align:middle line:84% The floor is covered in dirt and one wall of the cell 00:42:26.020 --> 00:42:28.030 align:middle line:90% has been replaced by a stream. 00:42:28.030 --> 00:42:29.980 align:middle line:90% The light is different. 00:42:29.980 --> 00:42:31.810 align:middle line:90% Baby Bison stands chewing. 00:42:31.810 --> 00:42:32.800 align:middle line:90% Hank sleeps. 00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:34.570 align:middle line:90% Woman washes in the stream. 00:42:34.570 --> 00:42:38.275 align:middle line:84% For a moment we see her on stage simply bathing herself. 00:42:38.275 --> 00:42:41.170 align:middle line:90% 00:42:41.170 --> 00:42:45.230 align:middle line:84% I never knew I had more pit hair under one arm than the other. 00:42:45.230 --> 00:42:46.210 align:middle line:90% What's pit hair? 00:42:46.210 --> 00:42:49.330 align:middle line:84% It's the fur that grows under your arm. 00:42:49.330 --> 00:42:50.720 align:middle line:90% Why didn't you know? 00:42:50.720 --> 00:42:53.620 align:middle line:90% Because I never let it grow out. 00:42:53.620 --> 00:42:54.370 align:middle line:90% I shaved it. 00:42:54.370 --> 00:42:57.610 align:middle line:84% I always cut the hair under my arms and on my legs. 00:42:57.610 --> 00:42:59.380 align:middle line:90% Why? 00:42:59.380 --> 00:43:05.230 align:middle line:84% Well, because that's how I feel sexy. 00:43:05.230 --> 00:43:08.140 align:middle line:84% Because it's what most people do. 00:43:08.140 --> 00:43:09.800 align:middle line:90% Hank has fur on his legs. 00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:10.300 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:43:10.300 --> 00:43:12.340 align:middle line:90% It's what women do. 00:43:12.340 --> 00:43:13.540 align:middle line:90% Oh. 00:43:13.540 --> 00:43:14.860 align:middle line:90% Why? 00:43:14.860 --> 00:43:16.520 align:middle line:90% To attract men. 00:43:16.520 --> 00:43:17.360 align:middle line:90% Oh. 00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:17.860 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:43:17.860 --> 00:43:19.990 align:middle line:90% I'm never doing it again. 00:43:19.990 --> 00:43:22.300 align:middle line:90% What else do women do? 00:43:22.300 --> 00:43:23.830 align:middle line:90% We put on makeup. 00:43:23.830 --> 00:43:25.420 align:middle line:90% We color our face. 00:43:25.420 --> 00:43:26.560 align:middle line:90% Why? 00:43:26.560 --> 00:43:30.640 align:middle line:84% To look like we do right after we mate. 00:43:30.640 --> 00:43:34.750 align:middle line:84% We wear shoes that make our backs sway of the movement. 00:43:34.750 --> 00:43:39.760 align:middle line:84% We wear special clothes to make our udders look more full. 00:43:39.760 --> 00:43:41.450 align:middle line:90% Full of what? 00:43:41.450 --> 00:43:43.840 align:middle line:90% Of milk, I guess. 00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:45.760 align:middle line:90% What else? 00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:47.800 align:middle line:84% We use special ointments on our skin 00:43:47.800 --> 00:43:49.650 align:middle line:84% to make it shine and look younger. 00:43:49.650 --> 00:43:52.090 align:middle line:84% We use goop on our teeth to make them whiter. 00:43:52.090 --> 00:43:54.370 align:middle line:84% We put deodorant on to cover up our smell 00:43:54.370 --> 00:43:58.180 align:middle line:84% and then we put perfume on to smell like flowers. 00:43:58.180 --> 00:44:00.850 align:middle line:90% Do you need bees to mate? 00:44:00.850 --> 00:44:02.155 align:middle line:90% No. 00:44:02.155 --> 00:44:07.120 align:middle line:84% During the rut, deer, the bucks and does both urinate 00:44:07.120 --> 00:44:09.670 align:middle line:84% on their hind legs and move them together 00:44:09.670 --> 00:44:11.380 align:middle line:90% to activate the tarsal gland. 00:44:11.380 --> 00:44:15.340 align:middle line:84% It makes an unmistakable smell, deer sex. 00:44:15.340 --> 00:44:17.870 align:middle line:90% 00:44:17.870 --> 00:44:20.360 align:middle line:84% Begins to drizzle inside the cell. 00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:23.420 align:middle line:84% Over the following, Hank uses the memory sinews 00:44:23.420 --> 00:44:26.780 align:middle line:90% to create a makeshift shelter. 00:44:26.780 --> 00:44:29.420 align:middle line:84% We just think that we have to hide any portion of our body's 00:44:29.420 --> 00:44:30.620 align:middle line:90% natural self. 00:44:30.620 --> 00:44:35.780 align:middle line:84% Smell, look, age, feel in order to be able to attract a mate. 00:44:35.780 --> 00:44:38.540 align:middle line:90% Wow, we are not deer. 00:44:38.540 --> 00:44:40.970 align:middle line:90% What else? 00:44:40.970 --> 00:44:44.330 align:middle line:84% We wait until we are sure before we speak in a group. 00:44:44.330 --> 00:44:47.150 align:middle line:84% We apologize for our feelings, a lot. 00:44:47.150 --> 00:44:49.340 align:middle line:84% We take pills to make sure we don't get pregnant 00:44:49.340 --> 00:44:50.720 align:middle line:90% before we're ready. 00:44:50.720 --> 00:44:52.098 align:middle line:90% When are you ready? 00:44:52.098 --> 00:44:54.140 align:middle line:84% Well, we aren't ready when our bodies say we are. 00:44:54.140 --> 00:44:55.190 align:middle line:90% I know that much. 00:44:55.190 --> 00:44:56.720 align:middle line:90% We aren't ready then. 00:44:56.720 --> 00:44:58.850 align:middle line:90% When are your bodies ready? 00:44:58.850 --> 00:44:59.480 align:middle line:90% It varies. 00:44:59.480 --> 00:45:01.100 align:middle line:90% I was 11. 00:45:01.100 --> 00:45:04.440 align:middle line:84% I don't know when I'll be ready emotionally, if I'll ever 00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:04.940 align:middle line:90% be ready. 00:45:04.940 --> 00:45:09.080 align:middle line:84% I mean, I can't really do better than my plant and my cat, 00:45:09.080 --> 00:45:11.150 align:middle line:84% and I didn't have a great role model as a mom. 00:45:11.150 --> 00:45:14.240 align:middle line:90% So I don't know. 00:45:14.240 --> 00:45:16.550 align:middle line:90% Why not? 00:45:16.550 --> 00:45:19.880 align:middle line:84% She just made some pretty shit choices. 00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:21.770 align:middle line:84% She shouldn't have been a mother. 00:45:21.770 --> 00:45:24.470 align:middle line:90% What were her choices? 00:45:24.470 --> 00:45:27.980 align:middle line:84% It was a combination of choice and circumstance I guess. 00:45:27.980 --> 00:45:32.240 align:middle line:84% She didn't want to be who she was or where she was. 00:45:32.240 --> 00:45:34.550 align:middle line:90% Who did she want to be? 00:45:34.550 --> 00:45:37.880 align:middle line:84% She wanted to be someone else from someplace else. 00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:40.310 align:middle line:84% She didn't know how to play or cook or just, like, be, 00:45:40.310 --> 00:45:41.790 align:middle line:90% and then she left. 00:45:41.790 --> 00:45:43.220 align:middle line:90% She just left. 00:45:43.220 --> 00:45:45.558 align:middle line:90% Where did she go? 00:45:45.558 --> 00:45:46.100 align:middle line:90% I don't know. 00:45:46.100 --> 00:45:48.620 align:middle line:84% I came home from school one day and she was gone. 00:45:48.620 --> 00:45:49.553 align:middle line:90% I was 12. 00:45:49.553 --> 00:45:51.470 align:middle line:84% My aunt was there and she took me to her house 00:45:51.470 --> 00:45:54.380 align:middle line:84% and I lived with her from then on. 00:45:54.380 --> 00:45:56.180 align:middle line:84% Some years I got a postcard on my birthday 00:45:56.180 --> 00:45:58.370 align:middle line:90% from places around the world. 00:45:58.370 --> 00:45:59.747 align:middle line:90% 12? 00:45:59.747 --> 00:46:01.330 align:middle line:84% How long do you live with your mother? 00:46:01.330 --> 00:46:02.830 align:middle line:90% Longer than 12. 00:46:02.830 --> 00:46:04.840 align:middle line:90% 18 for most people. 00:46:04.840 --> 00:46:07.150 align:middle line:84% I would have lived with mine for three cold times 00:46:07.150 --> 00:46:09.970 align:middle line:90% before I became full grown. 00:46:09.970 --> 00:46:10.870 align:middle line:90% Oh. 00:46:10.870 --> 00:46:13.360 align:middle line:84% My fur would turn brown first and I 00:46:13.360 --> 00:46:17.140 align:middle line:84% would have begun to eat grass and grow big. 00:46:17.140 --> 00:46:19.180 align:middle line:90% Where was your mom? 00:46:19.180 --> 00:46:21.250 align:middle line:90% I don't know. 00:46:21.250 --> 00:46:23.680 align:middle line:84% I was watching you and you looked for her. 00:46:23.680 --> 00:46:25.510 align:middle line:90% How did you get separated? 00:46:25.510 --> 00:46:26.680 align:middle line:90% I don't know. 00:46:26.680 --> 00:46:28.480 align:middle line:90% Were you scared? 00:46:28.480 --> 00:46:29.890 align:middle line:90% I don't know. 00:46:29.890 --> 00:46:32.140 align:middle line:90% I was scared for you. 00:46:32.140 --> 00:46:34.690 align:middle line:84% Why did you put me in that metal [? cow? ?] 00:46:34.690 --> 00:46:36.400 align:middle line:84% Throughout the following, their movements 00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:38.440 align:middle line:90% build to a dance in unison. 00:46:38.440 --> 00:46:41.950 align:middle line:84% The baby bison dances her same dance in the clover, 00:46:41.950 --> 00:46:44.950 align:middle line:84% waiting and looking, her own inner clock. 00:46:44.950 --> 00:46:49.180 align:middle line:84% The woman moves with her own rhythm, her own waiting dance. 00:46:49.180 --> 00:46:51.550 align:middle line:84% They both tremble as they wait and search 00:46:51.550 --> 00:46:53.710 align:middle line:90% for their respective mothers. 00:46:53.710 --> 00:46:55.450 align:middle line:90% I was afraid. 00:46:55.450 --> 00:46:57.430 align:middle line:84% I know what it's like to be left and afraid, 00:46:57.430 --> 00:46:59.620 align:middle line:90% and I didn't want that for you. 00:46:59.620 --> 00:47:01.750 align:middle line:84% I was watching you and I remembered one time 00:47:01.750 --> 00:47:06.170 align:middle line:84% when my mom left one night after she thought I was asleep. 00:47:06.170 --> 00:47:08.902 align:middle line:84% She got all dressed up and I heard the front door close. 00:47:08.902 --> 00:47:11.110 align:middle line:84% I got up to pee and I could still smell her hairspray 00:47:11.110 --> 00:47:13.270 align:middle line:90% and perfume in the hall. 00:47:13.270 --> 00:47:17.080 align:middle line:84% I searched the whole house calling her. 00:47:17.080 --> 00:47:19.120 align:middle line:90% I was so scared. 00:47:19.120 --> 00:47:21.520 align:middle line:84% Eventually I just lay down in the middle of the hallway 00:47:21.520 --> 00:47:22.570 align:middle line:90% under her sweatshirt. 00:47:22.570 --> 00:47:25.990 align:middle line:84% It smelled like her, like a mix of perfume, cigarettes 00:47:25.990 --> 00:47:26.560 align:middle line:90% and sweat. 00:47:26.560 --> 00:47:29.310 align:middle line:90% I loved her smell. 00:47:29.310 --> 00:47:32.580 align:middle line:84% I was too scared to lay alone in my bed. 00:47:32.580 --> 00:47:34.470 align:middle line:84% I felt less alone in the hall somehow, 00:47:34.470 --> 00:47:36.600 align:middle line:84% like someone would discover me there. 00:47:36.600 --> 00:47:38.700 align:middle line:84% I would wait until the grandfather clock 00:47:38.700 --> 00:47:40.200 align:middle line:90% made a dong every 15 minutes. 00:47:40.200 --> 00:47:43.560 align:middle line:84% I promised myself I'd wait 15 more minutes before I 00:47:43.560 --> 00:47:44.670 align:middle line:90% could look for her again. 00:47:44.670 --> 00:47:47.380 align:middle line:90% 00:47:47.380 --> 00:47:49.840 align:middle line:84% You were trembling and I thought the rangers could 00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:53.140 align:middle line:84% help you find your mom, and I didn't want you to be hurt. 00:47:53.140 --> 00:47:55.690 align:middle line:90% The woman's stomach grumbles. 00:47:55.690 --> 00:47:57.610 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:47:57.610 --> 00:47:58.690 align:middle line:90% Excuse me. 00:47:58.690 --> 00:48:00.550 align:middle line:90% How embarrassing. 00:48:00.550 --> 00:48:02.140 align:middle line:90% I haven't eaten in a while. 00:48:02.140 --> 00:48:05.350 align:middle line:84% Her stomach grumbles again long and loud. 00:48:05.350 --> 00:48:08.335 align:middle line:84% I felt like a fish in there, moving without walking. 00:48:08.335 --> 00:48:10.030 align:middle line:90% A fish. 00:48:10.030 --> 00:48:12.070 align:middle line:90% That's funny. 00:48:12.070 --> 00:48:14.660 align:middle line:90% I just wanted you to live. 00:48:14.660 --> 00:48:16.000 align:middle line:90% It was warm in there. 00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:19.300 align:middle line:84% I thought maybe since it was warm, like my mother, 00:48:19.300 --> 00:48:20.340 align:middle line:90% I was safe. 00:48:20.340 --> 00:48:20.840 align:middle line:90% I know. 00:48:20.840 --> 00:48:22.120 align:middle line:90% Me too. 00:48:22.120 --> 00:48:25.100 align:middle line:84% I thought maybe I was in another mother somehow. 00:48:25.100 --> 00:48:27.940 align:middle line:84% So when I came out of one I tried to drink from its udder. 00:48:27.940 --> 00:48:28.490 align:middle line:90% I heard. 00:48:28.490 --> 00:48:30.490 align:middle line:84% That's not an udder, it's a tailpipe. 00:48:30.490 --> 00:48:32.810 align:middle line:90% Cars aren't alive. 00:48:32.810 --> 00:48:34.060 align:middle line:90% What is it tailpipe? 00:48:34.060 --> 00:48:35.530 align:middle line:90% I know about tails. 00:48:35.530 --> 00:48:37.870 align:middle line:84% It's like a tail that lets gas out. 00:48:37.870 --> 00:48:38.980 align:middle line:90% It didn't taste good. 00:48:38.980 --> 00:48:40.840 align:middle line:90% That's because it's not food. 00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:44.490 align:middle line:84% But then I stopped being a bison. 00:48:44.490 --> 00:48:45.840 align:middle line:90% I know. 00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:49.170 align:middle line:84% You were a bison and now you're not. 00:48:49.170 --> 00:48:52.380 align:middle line:84% I thought I saw myself in you, that we were the same, 00:48:52.380 --> 00:48:53.040 align:middle line:90% but we're not. 00:48:53.040 --> 00:48:54.150 align:middle line:90% Well, we kind of are. 00:48:54.150 --> 00:48:56.250 align:middle line:84% You're a magnificent creature and I'm 00:48:56.250 --> 00:48:58.320 align:middle line:84% like a garbage person from a big city where 00:48:58.320 --> 00:49:00.270 align:middle line:84% the most useful knowledge I have is, like, 00:49:00.270 --> 00:49:02.910 align:middle line:84% not to take the L train on weekdays until 10 AM 00:49:02.910 --> 00:49:04.890 align:middle line:90% if I can help it. 00:49:04.890 --> 00:49:06.420 align:middle line:90% Being a human is weird. 00:49:06.420 --> 00:49:08.940 align:middle line:84% Being a human in the city is super weird. 00:49:08.940 --> 00:49:11.430 align:middle line:84% You know, all of these things that 00:49:11.430 --> 00:49:14.400 align:middle line:84% are really useless in the grand scheme of things. 00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:16.710 align:middle line:90% Well, except maybe navigation. 00:49:16.710 --> 00:49:17.730 align:middle line:90% That seems important. 00:49:17.730 --> 00:49:19.980 align:middle line:90% Snow pack is how we navigate. 00:49:19.980 --> 00:49:22.690 align:middle line:90% It shows us the way. 00:49:22.690 --> 00:49:25.630 align:middle line:84% This is the stupidest thing I've ever done 00:49:25.630 --> 00:49:29.472 align:middle line:84% and everyone in America knows about it. 00:49:29.472 --> 00:49:33.670 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:49:33.670 --> 00:49:36.910 align:middle line:84% I don't even care because I'm here with you, 00:49:36.910 --> 00:49:38.730 align:middle line:90% and you are beautiful. 00:49:38.730 --> 00:49:42.300 align:middle line:84% You are like a child of poetry and so pure and so innocent, 00:49:42.300 --> 00:49:45.450 align:middle line:84% and your mom didn't leave you to go out on a date or something. 00:49:45.450 --> 00:49:47.910 align:middle line:84% She left because she was walking with her herd 00:49:47.910 --> 00:49:50.100 align:middle line:90% and you lost your way. 00:49:50.100 --> 00:49:53.910 align:middle line:84% It was the natural order of things and I fucked up nature. 00:49:53.910 --> 00:49:55.410 align:middle line:90% Can't fuck up nature. 00:49:55.410 --> 00:49:59.040 align:middle line:84% I fucking broke nature in some small but significant way. 00:49:59.040 --> 00:50:02.670 align:middle line:84% A coyote didn't get to eat you because the grass wasn't, like, 00:50:02.670 --> 00:50:05.520 align:middle line:84% being fed by the phosphorous in your bones; 00:50:05.520 --> 00:50:07.875 align:middle line:84% and you inhaled a fucking tailpipe; 00:50:07.875 --> 00:50:09.000 align:middle line:90% and then you kept doing it. 00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:11.100 align:middle line:90% It was some sort of crack pipe. 00:50:11.100 --> 00:50:14.910 align:middle line:84% So I basically ghettoized you, and I am so sorry. 00:50:14.910 --> 00:50:16.992 align:middle line:90% I am so-- 00:50:16.992 --> 00:50:20.394 align:middle line:90% [SCREAMING IN ANGER] 00:50:20.394 --> 00:50:33.030 align:middle line:90% 00:50:33.030 --> 00:50:36.180 align:middle line:84% Woman begins to move into a primal stance. 00:50:36.180 --> 00:50:39.270 align:middle line:84% She stays away from the bison, but she finds in herself 00:50:39.270 --> 00:50:41.610 align:middle line:84% a new level of connection to something. 00:50:41.610 --> 00:50:44.310 align:middle line:84% She makes the sounds for as long as she needs to. 00:50:44.310 --> 00:50:45.810 align:middle line:90% This should be a moment. 00:50:45.810 --> 00:50:49.680 align:middle line:84% This is the moment she finds that she is part of nature. 00:50:49.680 --> 00:50:51.750 align:middle line:84% Woman's stomach growls and grumbles 00:50:51.750 --> 00:50:53.670 align:middle line:84% as if a great earthquake is taking 00:50:53.670 --> 00:50:55.620 align:middle line:90% place inside of her intestines. 00:50:55.620 --> 00:50:58.110 align:middle line:84% It is the deepest hunger she has ever felt. 00:50:58.110 --> 00:51:00.960 align:middle line:84% She howls deep and guttural from the pain of hunger. 00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:03.450 align:middle line:84% Buffalo, shocked by the abnormality of the woman, 00:51:03.450 --> 00:51:05.610 align:middle line:84% shrinks to the ground and watches in awe. 00:51:05.610 --> 00:51:09.810 align:middle line:84% Woman shrinks again and on pure instinct reaches inside Buffalo 00:51:09.810 --> 00:51:12.750 align:middle line:90% and pulls out buffalo cream. 00:51:12.750 --> 00:51:14.370 align:middle line:90% She devours it. 00:51:14.370 --> 00:51:16.170 align:middle line:90% She eats more and more. 00:51:16.170 --> 00:51:17.850 align:middle line:90% Buffalo never runs out. 00:51:17.850 --> 00:51:20.220 align:middle line:84% The woman eats so wildly that the cream 00:51:20.220 --> 00:51:21.510 align:middle line:90% covers her whole head. 00:51:21.510 --> 00:51:24.240 align:middle line:84% Buffalo undulates with each handful of cream. 00:51:24.240 --> 00:51:27.840 align:middle line:84% The woman takes from her body a fluid and sacrificial movement 00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:29.010 align:middle line:90% that is beautiful. 00:51:29.010 --> 00:51:31.290 align:middle line:84% It is not painful after the initial shock 00:51:31.290 --> 00:51:33.750 align:middle line:84% of having your buffalo cream pulled out of you. 00:51:33.750 --> 00:51:37.590 align:middle line:84% She consumes the buffalo in a joyful and messy dance where 00:51:37.590 --> 00:51:40.950 align:middle line:84% ultimately she has been covered, hair slicked back, 00:51:40.950 --> 00:51:44.940 align:middle line:84% white vernix like cream on her skin, blood and small clots 00:51:44.940 --> 00:51:46.930 align:middle line:90% stuck to her face. 00:51:46.930 --> 00:51:48.930 align:middle line:84% She looks like she's just been born. 00:51:48.930 --> 00:51:52.410 align:middle line:90% I know what a buffalo is. 00:51:52.410 --> 00:51:55.290 align:middle line:90% The rain has finally arrived. 00:51:55.290 --> 00:51:57.150 align:middle line:90% It rains inside the cell. 00:51:57.150 --> 00:51:59.760 align:middle line:84% Hank pulls more memory sinews down 00:51:59.760 --> 00:52:02.820 align:middle line:84% onto the floor to complete this shelter. 00:52:02.820 --> 00:52:05.670 align:middle line:84% Baby Bison enters, throws off her hide 00:52:05.670 --> 00:52:09.540 align:middle line:84% and uses the opportunity to turn this into a slip and slide. 00:52:09.540 --> 00:52:11.160 align:middle line:90% She slides on it. 00:52:11.160 --> 00:52:13.380 align:middle line:90% I'm not a buffalo anymore. 00:52:13.380 --> 00:52:15.150 align:middle line:90% I'm a light. 00:52:15.150 --> 00:52:18.780 align:middle line:84% People sometimes get sad about dying because they won't 00:52:18.780 --> 00:52:21.210 align:middle line:90% see the body be loved anymore. 00:52:21.210 --> 00:52:25.905 align:middle line:84% We stopped being in a body, like we weren't a body before. 00:52:25.905 --> 00:52:29.310 align:middle line:84% Before, I was a light, then I was a bison, 00:52:29.310 --> 00:52:31.680 align:middle line:84% and then I went back to being a light. 00:52:31.680 --> 00:52:34.890 align:middle line:84% A different light, but still the light and I 00:52:34.890 --> 00:52:36.360 align:middle line:84% can become another body if I feel 00:52:36.360 --> 00:52:38.640 align:middle line:90% like it and it makes sense. 00:52:38.640 --> 00:52:40.560 align:middle line:84% Does a person become another person? 00:52:40.560 --> 00:52:45.300 align:middle line:84% She can, or she can become a rat or a dog, a wild dog 00:52:45.300 --> 00:52:46.020 align:middle line:90% with a family. 00:52:46.020 --> 00:52:47.670 align:middle line:90% Can a dog become a person? 00:52:47.670 --> 00:52:49.290 align:middle line:90% I become a dog every day. 00:52:49.290 --> 00:52:50.910 align:middle line:90% I play wild dogs. 00:52:50.910 --> 00:52:53.580 align:middle line:84% When you're a light you can become whatever you like. 00:52:53.580 --> 00:52:55.800 align:middle line:84% Baby Bison runs and does the slip 00:52:55.800 --> 00:52:57.400 align:middle line:90% and slide a few more times. 00:52:57.400 --> 00:52:59.310 align:middle line:84% Each time she hits the end of the slide 00:52:59.310 --> 00:53:01.950 align:middle line:84% she yells out a different animal or person's name 00:53:01.950 --> 00:53:04.080 align:middle line:84% or whatever she feels like she has become. 00:53:04.080 --> 00:53:09.090 align:middle line:84% Gorilla, chicken, amoeba, velociraptor, tiger. 00:53:09.090 --> 00:53:09.960 align:middle line:90% Et cetera. 00:53:09.960 --> 00:53:13.050 align:middle line:84% And runs back to the front of the slide as that animal. 00:53:13.050 --> 00:53:15.660 align:middle line:84% She gets Buffalo to do it a few times. 00:53:15.660 --> 00:53:17.790 align:middle line:84% Woman gets ready to join in before she's 00:53:17.790 --> 00:53:20.370 align:middle line:84% stopped, hit with a wall of sound, 00:53:20.370 --> 00:53:23.100 align:middle line:84% maybe hundreds of simultaneous news reports, 00:53:23.100 --> 00:53:25.740 align:middle line:84% she realizes her life won't be the same. 00:53:25.740 --> 00:53:27.960 align:middle line:90% A storm is brewing. 00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:29.040 align:middle line:90% What is happening? 00:53:29.040 --> 00:53:31.380 align:middle line:90% Hold on to your britches, kiddo. 00:53:31.380 --> 00:53:33.180 align:middle line:90% Shit's about to hit the fan. 00:53:33.180 --> 00:53:35.100 align:middle line:84% I've been watching it brew for a good bit now 00:53:35.100 --> 00:53:36.850 align:middle line:84% and it's pretty near ready to land on you. 00:53:36.850 --> 00:53:39.220 align:middle line:90% What is it? 00:53:39.220 --> 00:53:40.570 align:middle line:90% I feel it in my bones. 00:53:40.570 --> 00:53:44.350 align:middle line:84% Well, let's just say the storm's coming on strong now. 00:53:44.350 --> 00:53:45.670 align:middle line:90% I'm still me, aren't I? 00:53:45.670 --> 00:53:46.510 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:53:46.510 --> 00:53:52.360 align:middle line:84% Still you, still here, and they found you. 00:53:52.360 --> 00:53:55.090 align:middle line:90% The media shit storm. 00:53:55.090 --> 00:53:58.870 align:middle line:84% The internet is going crazy, projections 00:53:58.870 --> 00:54:01.420 align:middle line:84% all over the cell; first of individuals making 00:54:01.420 --> 00:54:03.970 align:middle line:84% weird choices about how they interact with nature 00:54:03.970 --> 00:54:05.350 align:middle line:90% and then about the woman. 00:54:05.350 --> 00:54:07.420 align:middle line:84% The storm moves through the internet 00:54:07.420 --> 00:54:09.280 align:middle line:90% into an elemental storm. 00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:12.730 align:middle line:84% Reporters pounding on the door to the jail are thunder, 00:54:12.730 --> 00:54:16.390 align:middle line:84% flashbulbs are lightning, helicopter whirring is wind. 00:54:16.390 --> 00:54:18.550 align:middle line:84% Hands with microphones pop through the bars 00:54:18.550 --> 00:54:22.070 align:middle line:84% of the cells come down out of the tree even beneath the bed. 00:54:22.070 --> 00:54:23.050 align:middle line:90% But am I different? 00:54:23.050 --> 00:54:24.400 align:middle line:90% Don't ask me. 00:54:24.400 --> 00:54:25.660 align:middle line:90% I see things now. 00:54:25.660 --> 00:54:26.500 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:54:26.500 --> 00:54:28.040 align:middle line:90% I know what a bison is. 00:54:28.040 --> 00:54:30.910 align:middle line:84% And you know how we weather a storm. 00:54:30.910 --> 00:54:32.440 align:middle line:90% Hank readies himself. 00:54:32.440 --> 00:54:35.230 align:middle line:90% He puts on old '80s ski goggles. 00:54:35.230 --> 00:54:38.440 align:middle line:84% The buffalo puts baby bison's hide on the woman, 00:54:38.440 --> 00:54:40.660 align:middle line:84% then lifts the baby bison's body. 00:54:40.660 --> 00:54:41.870 align:middle line:90% They herd up. 00:54:41.870 --> 00:54:44.560 align:middle line:84% Turn to face the storm, put their heads down, 00:54:44.560 --> 00:54:48.700 align:middle line:84% and in perfect unison against rain, snow, wind, media, they 00:54:48.700 --> 00:54:53.003 align:middle line:84% slowly and steadily exit the theater and play. 00:54:53.003 --> 00:54:56.454 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE, CHEERING] 00:54:56.454 --> 00:54:58.681 align:middle line:90% 00:54:58.681 --> 00:55:02.090 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:55:02.090 --> 00:55:13.310 align:middle line:90% 00:55:13.310 --> 00:55:15.120 align:middle line:90% Can I just say one little thing? 00:55:15.120 --> 00:55:15.620 align:middle line:90% No. 00:55:15.620 --> 00:55:16.310 align:middle line:90% Say it. 00:55:16.310 --> 00:55:18.540 align:middle line:90% Do it. 00:55:18.540 --> 00:55:21.950 align:middle line:84% Kendra and I are not in academia. 00:55:21.950 --> 00:55:28.370 align:middle line:84% We're theater majors and this experience for us, 00:55:28.370 --> 00:55:31.670 align:middle line:84% the conversations that we were able to hear, 00:55:31.670 --> 00:55:35.210 align:middle line:84% I think changed the way we will approach work. 00:55:35.210 --> 00:55:37.700 align:middle line:84% And this is the second draft of the play and we 00:55:37.700 --> 00:55:42.365 align:middle line:84% were very stuck on how do we flip archetype on its head 00:55:42.365 --> 00:55:44.075 align:middle line:90% and how do we-- 00:55:44.075 --> 00:55:46.670 align:middle line:90% 00:55:46.670 --> 00:55:47.170 align:middle line:90% but yeah. 00:55:47.170 --> 00:55:49.150 align:middle line:84% There's just a lot of tricky things 00:55:49.150 --> 00:55:52.900 align:middle line:84% that we're trying to dive into, and being here 00:55:52.900 --> 00:55:55.570 align:middle line:84% I think has really, really inspired us 00:55:55.570 --> 00:55:59.710 align:middle line:84% on which conversations are important to be having and 00:55:59.710 --> 00:56:00.650 align:middle line:90% how we have them. 00:56:00.650 --> 00:56:03.940 align:middle line:84% So we would like to thank you all so much for letting us 00:56:03.940 --> 00:56:06.010 align:middle line:90% be here. 00:56:06.010 --> 00:56:09.520 align:middle line:84% This has been a seriously life changing experience. 00:56:09.520 --> 00:56:10.390 align:middle line:90% Absolutely. 00:56:10.390 --> 00:56:17.050 align:middle line:84% And because of the fact that we are works in progress 00:56:17.050 --> 00:56:18.730 align:middle line:90% and the piece is very-- 00:56:18.730 --> 00:56:20.320 align:middle line:84% I mean, we were like up last night 00:56:20.320 --> 00:56:25.660 align:middle line:84% cutting and moving and trying to find a way for it to feel good. 00:56:25.660 --> 00:56:27.370 align:middle line:90% Second draft is early. 00:56:27.370 --> 00:56:33.790 align:middle line:84% So any feedback that anyone has about things that were working, 00:56:33.790 --> 00:56:36.640 align:middle line:84% that were not working, that were severely-- 00:56:36.640 --> 00:56:41.380 align:middle line:84% I mean, we heard some of the problems, 00:56:41.380 --> 00:56:43.750 align:middle line:84% and we don't need to take up everybody's time. 00:56:43.750 --> 00:56:46.600 align:middle line:84% We don't have to do this in a big public way necessarily, 00:56:46.600 --> 00:56:50.290 align:middle line:84% but we really would welcome any feedback. 00:56:50.290 --> 00:56:51.710 align:middle line:90% And thank you guys so much. 00:56:51.710 --> 00:56:56.530 align:middle line:90% This has been great, and hard. 00:56:56.530 --> 00:56:59.880 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:56:59.880 --> 00:57:05.000 align:middle line:90%