Afflicted
All right.
- All right, I'm Clif Prowse.
- And I'm Derek Lee,
year-long trip around the world!
This is the trip that I've been
waiting to do my entire life.
Clif and I, six continents,
over 30 countries.
We're gonna see the Eiffel Tower,
the pyramids, the Great Wall.
It's gonna be epic.
My parents stalled me traveling
when I was really, really young,
and up until the day
that I graduated,
spare moment on the road.
And then, I don't know,
I got what I thought was a
great opportunity in I.T.
Next thing I know,
five years have gone by
with me sitting behind a desk,
and I'm thinking to myself,
"What the hell did I
just do with my life?"
Hey, buddy. Are you okay?
Hello. My name is Clif Prowse.
I am a filmmaker and documentarian.
I have known the
aforementioned Derek Lee
since we were both, uh,
pimple-faced teenagers,
and I basically forced him to be
in every single one of my movies.
Am I nervous? Hell, yes.
Okay? I don't like planes.
I don't like heights.
I don't like the Ebola virus.
I don't even like spicy food.
But this is gonna make for
some spectacular footage.
We are going to film
the entire thing.
We are going to post it online
as the world's greatest
video travel blog ever.
We're calling it
"Ends of the Earth."
And we wanted this to be as
interactive as possible.
So you guys post suggestions,
anything you want us to do.
The craziest sh*t. I don't care.
You want us to go eat live
crickets in Cambodia,
we will do that.
Derek will do that, and I
will film him doing that.
- Whoa!
- Everybody. Everybody.
This is a very important
Chinese tradition.
Jade is to ward off evil spirits. It
can never be bought for yourself.
It must be given by
another. So, Clif...
Going away for an entire year,
I am going to need someone
to watch my back.
I need someone who has seen
me puke my brains out.
I need someone who's seen
me at my absolute worst.
I need someone who would
take a bullet for me.
That's Clif.
I am so envious that you
guys are about to take off
on this awesome trip
around the world.
Most of us experiment in college.
You guys take until now,
but we're thrilled.
We're thrilled you guys are
finally taking this leap.
To Clif and Derek.
I think that Derek's decision to
go on this trip is courageous,
but there are some people
who think it's a mistake.
- Hey, man, how's it going?
- Good.
Uh, we're leaving,
uh, soon. Very soon.
What does, uh... What does
Mom think? You talk to her?
- Yeah, I...
- She's starting to get a bit concerned
because if something goes wrong on
the road, it's really hard to...
Look, if anything does happen,
there's only really, like,
A 4 percent chance
in some sh*t-box town
on a long-distance bus
is a hell of a lot different
than falling on the floor
in your kitchen, where your
roommates will pick you up,
call the hospital and say,
"He's somebody who has AVM."
A few months ago, I started
getting really bad headaches.
Um, I went to the doctors.
They took an MRI.
And they told me I have something
called an arteriovenous malformation,
Or AVM,
which is basically like a tangle
of screwed-up blood vessels
in my brain which if it ruptures,
can cripple or kill me.
Look, Derek, I'm not gonna tell
you not to go on your trip,
but if you develop severe
headaches, weakness in your limbs,
loss of the ability to write,
it could be a sign that
your AVM has ruptured,
and it's really important that you
seek medical attention right away.
I have to go, dude, so it's, uh...
She's not gonna understand,
and she's never gonna understand.
And she's my mom, so
she's not supposed to.
- I get that. That's cool.
- Whatever, dude.
I don't think you have to...
Yeah. Whatever. Okay.
Given everything he's dealing with,
I think it's pretty incredible
that Derek is going on this trip.
Um, he is a normal guy who
and in spite of that, he's
not letting it stop him
from doing the things
that he loves.
I'm going on this trip because
and I'm documenting it
because I want to share his
story with everyone back home.
I don't know how much time I have,
and I don't wanna regret anything.
I don't wanna look back on my life
and wish I had done
something bigger or better.
I just wanna travel.
And if I'm gonna see the world,
I kind of have to go right now.
Okay, here we go.
Clif has entrusted me
with the B cam here
to get some establishing shots.
That's really lame,
so instead, you guys get to
- Hello.
- Hello, people.
- My God.
- Come. Come see my studio.
What are you doing
with all this gear?
- Are you ins...? Oh, man.
- This is where the magic begins
that is "Ends of the Earth..."
That will be "Ends of the Earth."
That's a lot of gear, dude.
What exactly is this?
That is a strap-on.
- A what? Ha, ha.
- Strap-on.
Basically, I put that on,
which means I can shoot
multicameras at the same time.
One man, multicamera shoot.
Up to three cameras, in fact.
- It is, in fact, amazing.
- Ha-ha-ha.
Um...
This is gonna be
awesome, by the way.
- What up?
- All right, we are here
in beautiful Barcelona, Spain, in front
of the Christopher Columbus statue,
about to start our year-long
trip around the world.
Derek, can you explain to us,
why are we starting here?
You mean other than that?
Easy. Rock stars.
Edo Van Breemen and Zach
Gray are two friends of ours
who are here on tour with
their band, Unalaska.
We're gonna hang out with
them here in Barcelona
before joining them in Paris
Oh, there he is.
- How's it going?
- Voyeurism, monsieur.
- I can't believe I'm seeing you here.
- Hey.
Has he been doing this for however
long you guys have been here?
Did you guys check in or not?
Yeah. No, this is the camera gear.
Heh. You're kidding. Ha-ha-ha.
- Okay. Guys.
- Oh, no.
We're here. Check it out.
- The GoCar.
- The GoCar.
So I have to say, we're already
having a hard enough time
because we're naturally less
cool than all Europeans,
and now this.
It'll provide for some bonding time
- between the two of you, I suppose?
- Yes.
- Everyone...
- Wait. Why am I in this thing?
Why are you guys not excited?
- It's cool.
- What the hell...?
You're gonna pick up
a lot of girls today
riding this thing around town,
especially at the beach.
Fine. No one else gets
it, but I get it.
And we're gonna have a
damn good time today.
I don't really care
what these guys say.
All right. B camera right here.
Two cameras, baby. Two cameras.
This is the best city in the world.
The only two factors that determine
how good a time you have
in a new city are the
weather and the people.
And I don't think we
could ask for much more.
We've had an amazing two days.
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