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to one of our services.

Do you know anything

about our religion?

- No.

- No?

All right, I'll give you

some background information.

How it started is, uh--

a young boy by a--

at the age of 14,

wanted to know

which church to join,

because he noticed

there were so many.

So he knelt down

and he prayed,

and he said,

"As I prayed,

a pillar of light

descended upon me

and when that pillar

reached me,

I saw two figures

directly above me.

The figure

on the right said,

'This is my son,

Jesus Christ, hear him'."

God sent Jesus

to the earth

to be the most

pure being

to ever walk

the earth.

And he was sent

to be sacrificed

so that we didn't

have to sacrifice lambs

to be forgiven.

Now, all we have to do is ask

with a sincere heart to be forgiven.

Back then you couldn't talk to God

unless you were pure.

So by puri--

by killing something pure--

by sacrificing something

that was innocent,

you became innocent

yourself.

- Let me get a--

- Can you--

- can you talk to God now?

- Yes, when we pray.

- We've gotta go.

- You gotta go?

We have to go. We have

a lot of area to cover today.

We want 'em to stay,

right guys?

Is there a time

we can come back?

Blake?

Blake.

...when you come out,

because if you truly go--

if you truly go inside...

you know, if you

actually go there...

when you come out,

it can be

very frustrating.

Mmm.

Very...

I don't know,

it's just hard--

it's hard to speak

with other--

because you're speaking

like a different, uh...

Thank you

for your time.

Um, in the book--

- in the cover, there's scriptures--

- These?

Yes, and our phone number

if you have any questions.

- Thanks for the book.

- Thank you for having us inside.

- Nice to meet you.

- You have a good day.

Our number's in there

and if you could read

over the scriptures

and then give us a call

if you have any questions.

- All right.

- We have services on Sunday

from-- at 9:
00.

Um, okay.

You guys talk to Jesus for real?

Huh? Huh?

Then one day he thought the way

to make money--

there are a lot of--

a lot of people who had

exotic backgrounds in vaudeville.

There was a Chinese magician

named Ching Ling Foo

who was doing really well.

So Billy Robinson

sort of disappeared

and he resurfaced

as a Chinese magician

named Chung Ling Soo.

He had his hair cut off

and made into a queue--

you know, one of those long queues

at the back of his neck.

And he uh--

he had himself made up

to look like a Celestial.

And he became incredibly

well-known performing...

- Was he a prophet?

- ...in England.

No, he was a magician.

He was a stage magician.

- Oh.

- He did these really wonderful shows.

And the real

Chinese magician,

Ching Ling Foo, got

outraged and he tried

to have a competition with him.

There was headlines in the paper,

"Soo fools Foo,"

"Foo sues Soo."

You know, they had

this amazing rivalry.

Basically, the guy who wasn't

Chinese kind of won the contest,

as this great

Chinese magician.

The other thing he did--

he actually tried

to catch a bullet

in his teeth on the stage.

- What?

- And marksmen would get up.

They'd have

a bullet autographed.

I mean, you would nick with

your nail an initial into the bullet,

and a rifleman

would fire it at him.

And this Billy Robinson dressed up

as Chung Ling Soo would stand--

stand on the stage with a plate

in front of his mouth,

and the marksman would

fire the bullet.

And Chung Ling Soo would catch

the bullet in his teeth,

and then spit

the bullet onto the plate.

- You're shitting me.

- And they would check it.

And it would be the same mark that was

made by the guy in the audience.

- It was an amazing effect.

- Whoa.

It goes back

to the 16th century.

What was

that book called?

There was a book about it called

"The Riddle of Chung Ling Soo"

by a guy named

Will Dexter, but...

- I'll check that out.

- The thing that's amazing

is he's performing one day

at the Wood Green Empire Theatre,

you know,

in London in 1918.

And he's doing

this stunt--

they shoot him,

he drops to the ground

and he's dead. He actually dies

trying to catch the bullet

- in his mouth.

- No!

To this day, there's still

all sorts of speculation

about what really happened.

"Was it an attempt

to commit suicide?"

He had some rocky relationship

with his wife Dot,

who performed with--

under the name of Suee Seen.

But the thing I always

remembered about the case--

you know, being a P.I.

I guess is that

the Coroner's report

called it "misadventure."

"Death by misadventure."

Not bad.

- This is a great castle.

- Look at this stonework.

- Stonehenge.

- Well, not quite, is it?

No, but there's

a similar castle down

three miles from here

that has a replica.

Of Stonehenge?! They moved

the Salisbury Plain up here?

Just a replica.

Was built for like

the princess of Romania,

by this guy, Sam Hill Rockefeller.

That guy-- that auto man

from Arizona-- McCulloch

had the whole London Bridge

brought out to Arizona.

Yeah, same thing.

In 1831, there was this guy

who played his chin

at the opening of the bridge.

Michael Boai.

Played "Ladoiska,"

by Kreutzer.

The whole overture, man.

Sample that

for some music.

- Out.

- Yeah.

- Hey, man, have you seen Blake?

- No, I haven't seen him.

'Cause Blackie says

she hasn't seen him for a week.

- Who's this guy, man?

- Blackie told me to lead him around,

try to find him, 'cause she's

worried about him, actually.

Come back later

without him.

All right, man.

Um...

we could probably

go over to, uh...

Vanessa and Page's house.

He might be sleeping

on their couch.

- Who are they?

- Just some kind of

girlfriends that

we all have.

Like, hang out kind of--

just mutual friends.

So Vanessa and Page

are both women?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

For every...

for every thought

of good--

for every thought of good

that my death...

will benefit.

I...

Lost...

something...

on my way.

I lost something

on my way...

to...

wherever...

I am today.

I remember...

when--

I remember...

when--

I remember...

when--

Are you okay?

- Who's that?

- Yeah, right.

- That isn't--

- Hey, girlie. Oh, man.

- Who is it?

- That isn't Donovan.

Yeah, it is.

F***ing motherf***er.

- I'd like to kick his ass.

- Oh, yeah.

- F***ing a**hole.

- Scumbag.

F***ing d*ckhead Don.

I cannot believe

that wuss.

Who the f*** is

that with him?

- I have no idea.

- Oh, God.

Hey, Blake!

Blake!

It's me, Donovan.

Blake?

Hey, Blake!

Blake?

Blake?

Yeah!

Yeah!

Hey, you.

Hey.

Are you free?

Sort of.

Free enough

to play that guitar?

Yeah.

I haven't been

playing very much.

Have you talked

to your daughter, hm?

I have been talking to her

on the phone.

What do you say to her?

I do the voices

she likes, you know.

I tell her I miss her.

Do you say "I'm sorry

that I'm a...

rock and roll cliche"?

Hmm.

Are you writing

all that down?

Do you want something

to drink? Something--

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