Dear John Page #8
Yeah?
699
00:
43:06,931 -- 00:43:08,398No, it's a mule.
700
00:
43:09,800 -- 00:43:13,167lt's a what?
A mule. An error coin.
701
00:
43:13,337 -- 00:43:15,168Every now and then
they make a mistake,
702
00:
43:15,339 -- 00:43:18,035batch accidentally
slips through, this thing,
703
00:
43:18,209 -- 00:43:19,801head's a nickel,
tail's a penny.
Thing's a mule.
704
00:
43:19,977 -- 00:43:23,003Really more of a novelty
than anything.
705
00:
43:23,180 -- 00:43:25,671iRemember the horse sense/i
iyou were talking about?/i
706
00:
43:25,850 -- 00:43:27,875--the kid found it
l will buy it anyway.
707
00:
43:28,052 -- 00:43:30,486Twenty bucks. Huh?
708
00:
43:32,123 -- 00:43:33,147No, thank you.
709
00:
43:33,324 -- 00:43:34,882iWell, my dad has it too./i
710
00:
43:35,059 -- 00:43:37,220Now, wait a minute.
Hang on.
711
00:
43:37,395 -- 00:43:39,590Hey, sir. Sir, let me take
another look at that real quick.
712
00:
43:43,067 -- 00:43:44,557John, let's go.
713
00:
43:44,735 -- 00:43:46,327l'll be damned.
714
00:
43:47,104 -- 00:43:49,664Do you know what this is?
No.
715
00:
43:58,316 -- 00:43:59,977Look at that.
716
00:
44:00,151 -- 00:44:01,516That's your coin.
717
00:
44:01,686 -- 00:44:03,176You want my advice?
718
00:
44:03,354 -- 00:44:05,015Dad to Dad?
719
00:
44:05,189 -- 00:44:06,520Keep it.
720
00:
44:06,691 -- 00:44:09,421Hold on to it.
Pass it down to your son.
721
00:
44:09,593 -- 00:44:12,494Let him pass it to his son
and on and on and on,
and l'll tell you what,
722
00:
44:12,663 -- 00:44:16,56530, 40, a hundred
years from now...
723
00:
44:17,234 -- 00:44:20,362you're gonna have
something worth a whole
lot more than $4000.
724
00:
44:20,538 -- 00:44:22,267l promise you.
725
00:
44:23,908 -- 00:44:25,375Hey.
726
00:
44:25,543 -- 00:44:27,101Do you want to keep it?
727
00:
44:28,546 -- 00:44:29,672[CHUCKLES]
728
00:
44:29,847 -- 00:44:32,111Good for you.
Thank you. Thank you.
729
00:
44:33,451 -- 00:44:36,181iAt first l loved chasing after/i
ithose mules with my father./i
730
00:
44:36,354 -- 00:44:38,686iWe finally had something/i
ito talk about./i
731
00:
44:38,856 -- 00:44:41,290iYou know, something/i
iwe could do together./i
732
00:
44:42,126 -- 00:44:45,493iBut he became obsessed with them./i
iYou know how he is./i
733
00:
44:46,130 -- 00:44:49,566iAnd then l became a teenager/i
iand you know how l am./i
734
00:
44:49,734 -- 00:44:52,794All the way up to Wooster
for another coin show.
l'm just--
735
00:
44:52,970 -- 00:44:54,995No, l'm not doing that.
736
00:
44:55,172 -- 00:44:57,640You're going to one
every weekend now.
737
00:
44:58,909 -- 00:45:02,470Oh, that's good.
l love warm milk.
That's nice.
738
00:
45:02,646 -- 00:45:04,580You spend all of our
money on coins.
739
00:
45:04,749 -- 00:45:06,649Get a fricking fridge
that works.
740
00:
45:14,492 -- 00:45:18,155iEventually he stopped talking/i
iabout coins with me altogether./i
741
00:
45:19,530 -- 00:45:24,331iAnd then when that happened,/i
iwe found there wasn't all that/i
imuch left to talk about./i
742
00:
45:24,935 -- 00:45:27,768[ROCK MUSlC
PLAYlNG ON STEREO]
743
00:
45:30,207 -- 00:45:32,641iSo that's the story./i
744
00:
45:34,378 -- 00:45:36,313il miss you so much it hurts./i
745
00:
45:38,382 -- 00:45:39,872Sorry, sorry.
746
00:
45:40,051 -- 00:45:41,143[CELL PHONES RlNGlNG]
747
00:
45:41,318 -- 00:45:43,878GlRL:
Oh, my God.My brother was in the towers.
748
00:
45:44,055 -- 00:45:45,215BO Y 1 :
l love you too, babe.
749
00:
45:45,389 -- 00:45:47,584BO Y 2:
Please call me as soon as you can.
750
00:
45:47,758 -- 00:45:50,852[STUDENTS CHATTERlNG
AND SOBBlNG]
751
00:
45:52,730 -- 00:45:54,595BO Y 3:
Susan. Susan, is my dad there?
752
00:
45:54,765 -- 00:45:56,528BO Y 4:
Just calm down.
753
00:
45:56,734 -- 00:45:59,726[i/i]
754
00:
46:05,176 -- 00:46:08,168[MAN SPEAKlNG
lN FORElGN LANGUAGE ON TV]
755
00:
46:32,870 -- 00:46:34,667All right, fellas, here's the deal.
756
00:
46:34,839 -- 00:46:37,103Requesting permission
to extend my tour, sir.
757
00:
46:37,274 -- 00:46:39,139Requesting permission
to extend as well, sir.
758
00:
46:39,310 -- 00:46:41,574Requesting permission
to extend as well, sir.
759
00:
46:41,745 -- 00:46:43,440Requesting permission
to extend as well, sir.
760
00:
46:43,614 -- 00:46:45,912Requesting permission
to extend as well, sir.
761
00:
46:46,083 -- 00:46:47,175STONE:
Okay, guys, listen.
762
00:
46:47,351 -- 00:46:49,979We're gonna get our orders
from Operations on Monday.
763
00:
46:50,154 -- 00:46:53,988So before we do anything rash,
let's take the weekend to mull
this all over, all right?
764
00:
46:54,158 -- 00:46:55,989l got a wife and kids
to think about here.
765
00:
46:56,393 -- 00:46:59,055DANlELS:
Nobody's asking you
to stay on too, captain.
766
00:
46:59,230 -- 00:47:01,289STONE:
Yeah, you are. This is my team.
767
00:
47:01,465 -- 00:47:02,932Where you go, l go.
768
00:
47:03,100 -- 00:47:05,466Where we go, we all go.
769
00:
47:05,636 -- 00:47:08,366lf everyone still wants to extend
on Monday, then we'll do it.
770
00:
47:09,173 -- 00:47:10,538Together.
771
00:
47:14,445 -- 00:47:15,878Y'all don't get into
trouble over there.
772
00:
47:16,046 -- 00:47:17,070Take care of yourself.
773
00:
47:17,248 -- 00:47:18,272Always.
774
00:
47:18,449 -- 00:47:20,940Yo, let's go, man.
The plane to Paris
leaves in an hour.
775
00:
47:21,118 -- 00:47:22,676You ready? Are you ready?
776
00:
47:22,853 -- 00:47:24,514lt's gonna be amazing.
l can't go.
777
00:
47:24,688 -- 00:47:26,121What are you talking about?
Of course you're going.
778
00:
47:26,290 -- 00:47:27,951l can't go to Paris.
l gotta go to Charleston.
779
00:
47:28,125 -- 00:47:29,490You're going to Charleston?
Yup.
780
00:
47:29,660 -- 00:47:31,855Dude, what are you, nuts?
We got two days off, man.
781
00:
47:32,029 -- 00:47:35,192By the time you fly there and back,
you're gonna have like 1 8 hours
on the ground, tops.
782
00:
47:35,366 -- 00:47:37,630lt's 1 8 more than
l had this morning.
783
00:
47:38,569 -- 00:47:41,663l don't know when
l'll get that again,
so l gotta go.
784
00:
47:42,606 -- 00:47:44,335All right, man.
Nothing l can say
to change your mind?
785
00:
47:44,508 -- 00:47:45,776Nope.
786
00:
47:46,777 -- 00:47:49,769[JOSHUA RADlN & SCHUYLER
FlSK'S ''PAPERWElGHT'' PLAYlNG]
787
00:
47:54,952 -- 00:47:56,476SAVANNAH:
John!
788
00:
47:58,522 -- 00:48:01,082John. John.
789
00:
48:37,361 -- 00:48:40,956You sure he--?
He actually said that?
He wants to come?
790
00:
48:41,232 -- 00:48:42,392[CHUCKLES]
791
00:
48:42,600 -- 00:48:44,261l think he will.
792
00:
48:44,435 -- 00:48:47,802He wasn't so sure about it, but...
Yeah, l'll bet he wasn't.
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