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My American hero was born so poor, nobody gave him a chance of ever

anything.

He was from kind of a big family, being the 10th of 17 kids.

They ate a lot of stew and bread, and soup with pickles.

His house had two rooms on two floors, kind of small, and kind of cold in the

winter too.

Only one room had a fireplace.

Benjamin Franklin is my American hero.

He invented the air bath.

They're mom and dad's best friends. They'll understand if you don't finish

today. Yeah, they know you're doing it for them. Is it a favor? I promised I'd

have it done by today.

I gave them my word.

Besides, Monday I start that new big job in Ellsworth. Favor or no favor, I'm

not going to have time to keep going over to McAllister's house and finish

So I'll come down and help you. No, you stay at Buck's. Steve will help me out.

I will pick them up this morning at the lumberyard. They're looking for Gary's

back.

How's that annual poker game going at Buck?

Soda says Buck's running real big. Yeah, today's the last day. It's down to Buck

and two other guys.

Buck's some type of player, is he? Yeah, he's a real bluffer. He could have four

aces or two deuces.

You'll never know which until you see his cards.

I'm doing a real good job hustling on tips, too.

Buck says all the big winners, they give you a taste of the pot.

Some meatloaf sandwiches and a beer.

You can save me some time by depositing this today.

Sure thing. If the porno goes in today, I'm going to be writing some pretty big

checks, buying material for the elsewhere shop.

Okay. See you next week.

See you next week. Good luck.

I sure hope he gets that roof on in time.

He'll get it done.

Larry's a man of his word.

Hi, pony boy.

Morning, Scout.

It's writing.

Speech. About what?

Benjamin Franklin.

Why him?

Because he did a lot of things.

Because he was different.

How?

Well... He would have been one of us.

The only difference was he lived a long time ago.

One of these days I'm going to take an air bath.

Just like Ben Franklin.

An air bath.

She's like skinny dipping, only with the wind.

And the ladies love them, too.

Kind of the same way all the boys love cherry.

I'm almost finished.

But I need it. I need time to practice.

Practice what?

Just so I get so embarrassed standing up in front of people. Look, I had to

study for a lab test in biology.

I'll get it done for you. Don't let me down, pony boy. I won't. This real

leather?

You did great, Jerry.

Must be imitation.

You mean right outside of history class, okay?

Can't she write her own speech? You have to write it for her?

Jerry's a good friend of mine, Scout.

Even if she asked, I wouldn't ride in that car.

Imitation leather always creases my jeans.

for you today, pig.

I hope you like chili and Chinese food.

Hux, she was the most gorgeous, wide -hip female marine you ever saw in your

life.

What the hell took you so long, kid?

Kobe, Japan.

She was a radar operator.

If this chili's cold, you're gonna be wearing it, kid.

Egg for young, chicken chow mein, and a half a dozen of fortune cookies.

Fresh towel.

Been collecting fortune cookies for 25 years.

When I pass on, you boys will have to have a party, open them up, find out

my life might have been.

I got a couple of bullets.

What would you want with a female Marine?

Now, there's Japanese girls. Give you baths, walk on your back.

Kings of nine.

I almost married a Japanese girl once, Hux.

But that's one story I don't ever tell.

Three tens.

Get me a whiskey, kid.

Get him what he wants.

And by the way, Hux, the boy works for tips.

We hit that beach so hard, I think we nearly broke a hole in the sand.

When I looked up, it wasn't Normandy.

Hell, you know you can work and talk at the same time.

So scared my mother didn't even recognize me.

Of course, that's what makes a hero.

Somebody who's scared stone white and still does their job. Well, why don't

do your damn job and eat this?

Been noticing that medal.

Ron Starr.

Wasn't that the war, did you?

Like I said, Normandy, and hell with the land crab.

Yeah, what I remember most was lying there in that wet sand, staring at a

crab two inches from my face.

Hey, Pitts, we're here to shingle a roof, not to take breaks.

And I was thinking, How I wish I was at Landcraft.

Fifteen bucks?

No way.

I thought you'd be five bucks. You're the one who has to pass this test, not

I'm going to give you ten then.

Listen, big guy.

I got a lot of guys who want to buy this test from me.

And I think I'll sell it to them.

I don't even like you.

All right, twelve.

Nah, forget it. Hey.

Listen, no test, no grade.

No grade, no scholarship.

No scholarship, no college. No college, no football.

No football, no nothing.

All right, 15.

Good luck, jock face.

This one's Rick Kramer, your new best friend.

He paid 15 bucks for an algebra test that ain't worth a quarter.

Well, it still looks like it could get pretty rough.

I really appreciate you being here to help out.

It's no problem.

Fuck didn't need two people to watch a card game anyway.

Pitt should be back any minute with those three -by -sixes.

If this wind gets any worse, we'll have to use him to nail down this roof.

Where'd you find Pitt, anyway?

Lumberyard. He was there this morning.

Looking for a day's work.

So far, it seems like he's been more talk than work.

Yeah. He'll be out of here by the end of today. He'll take his war stories with

him.

Gary, has your father ever been in war?

Yeah, he was.

Seems like everybody back then was in the war, huh?

Dad was in the Navy.

Come on, Pets, hurry up.

Your dad ever talk about it?

The war?

He wouldn't even watch a war movie on TV.

Once I think it was, like... 10th anniversary of the end of the war, and

Chamber of Commerce sponsored this parade for all the vets.

I remember that.

Dad got out his old uniform, put it on.

It fit him like yesterday, you know?

That mom and I took a look at it, and he took it off, put it back in the trunk,

and he said, hell with this parade. If you marched in one, you marched in one

too many.

And they're guys like Pitts, huh?

Yeah, there were a lot of guys in the war. Not too many of them were like my

dad.

Mine either.

The pits will be long. We better hurry up and get back on the roof before that

storm gets here.

70, 80, 90.

100. Thank you, boys.

Where are you going?

Outside.

Listen, son, I want you to close up the Louvre Bay, and I'm going to go look for

Pig, all right? You ain't leaving this game. You're not leaving here a winner.

Hawks, we're going to have to all take a break now.

You're not buying this beer. You're just borrowing it. I said you're not leaving

the game.

Deal, Fancy.

Hey, Buck, I can take care of it.

All right.

All righty.

Fifty up, boys.

Make it a hundred.

My pleasure.

Where'd you get it? Where'd you get it?

Now! Hey, back off!

Ron Starr, something went into war, kid. I wanted me!

Liar!

Daryl! I heard it on the radio. Twister's coming.

Touchdown 50 miles west of here.

I'm heading into town to pick up my kids at school.

They said it might be heading this way.

If I were you, Darry, I'd get off that roof.

Steve, Pitts, get up here. I need you guys up here now.

What's so special with you about my metal, huh?

You know damn well what's so special about that metal. I wouldn't stick

much longer, Darry. There's no telling when that twister's going to touch down

next. Now, if I were you, I'd get you and the boys and I'd save that roof for

another day.

Just hope it don't blow away.

You heard him. He's right.

Got no cause to stay.

Charlie, they'll give you right back into town. I'm staying. I'm not going to

let the wind take this roof.

How about you, Dave?

What about you?

I'm staying, too.

Good luck.

Vince, before you come out, make sure you secure the ladder.

If you want any more trouble, you'll find it right here.

Don't be nervous.

Ben Franklin was a funny guy.

The two of us were going to laugh. We were going to smile and laugh.

Ben Franklin. Why would I write a speech about Ben Franklin?

Because you would have liked him.

And I know he would have liked you.

Will you stay and listen?

Who wouldn't miss it?

Hey, you sold him last year's tent.

Are you kidding? I got him dead.

I wouldn't miss a thing.

You heard him, Matthews. He brought his money back.

Well, gee, I already spent it. I see we have some guests with us today.

I'd like to welcome you all to something we like to call American Hero Speak.

I want my 15 bucks back.

I'm trying to memorize my speech.

Randy.

You're giving a speech?

Abraham Lincoln had this to say about the most critical issue of his time.

I hold that humanity and Christianity both require that the Negro shall have

every right, every privilege, and every immunity consistent.

With the safety of the society in which he lives.

Ow! Come on, you guys, I'm trying to listen to Randy's speech.

A little over a hundred years later, we must ask ourselves what a great American

like Abraham Lincoln would have said about how far we've come in giving all

citizens fair and equal rights.

I think that he would have asked the question that all of us are probably

to answer.

Has our national honesty become our national hypocrisy?

Bob Dylan says that times are changing.

If Abraham Lincoln were still alive, I think he would say that they must

Thanks.

Hey, he left out the part about the cherry tree.

Kick your butt, man.

With a little help. Our next speaker will be Miss Cherry Valance.

My American hero was born so poor, nobody gave him a chance of ever

anything.

It was from kind of a big family, being the 10th of 17 kids.

And they ate a lot of stew and bread and soup with pickles.

His house had two rooms on two floors, kind of small.

Only one room had a fireplace.

Is she reading it like you wrote it?

Benjamin Franklin is my American hero.

He invented the air bath.

May I have your attention, please?

The Director of Public Safety has informed us that a tornado has been

within 40 miles of Walker Ridge.

No one will be allowed to go home.

Please make sure all the doors and windows are locked when you leave the

classroom.

You've all been drilled on what to do. Go straight to the basement. Stay away

from windows.

Let's all stay calm.

There'll be flashlights and transistor radios in the basement. Let's move

quickly to the basement.

I'm not finished with you, Matthews. Let's go in the bathroom right now.

you got it, man.

And bring the ape with you, because Pony will back me up.

Close up the lube bay, shut off the gas.

I can't find Pig.

Can't find her anywhere.

Three ladies and a pair of nines.

Excuse me, boys.

Hey!

I told you once, you ain't going nowhere, not with my money in your

I said I'm going to get my dog, Hawks. To hell with your dog. There's three

seats in this game. Man loves his dog, and I can appreciate that.

Maybe more than he does his money.

No, not me. Suda, I said I'd be right back.

Sit in for a couple of hands.

Buck, I played a little bit of blackjack.

Not hardball poker.

How much can you lose?

Hey, kid.

Don't know what to do?

Just bluff.

Andy up a hundred.

That you...

Pressure.

Steve, you and Pitch finished off what's left.

Uh, Pony will be safe at school, and I'm going to check on Soda and the house.

Right. And if it gets any worse, there's a basement out back.

Last time you got this scared, I snuck you into Starburst Motel in Lunarock,

remember?

And the ice machine exploded outside our room and I had to buy the motel a new

carpet?

National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for the counties of Long

Bridge and Walker.

Do you remember Lisa Marie Duffin?

Uh, yeah.

Graduated two years ago.

Her mom was a checker over at Piggly Wiggly.

We used to meet here.

We did some gym class.

No way.

You and Lisa Marie Duffin?

Right there where you're sitting.

If I ever lied to you, Ponyboy, you can never lie.

How's that for a little algebra, huh?

Right off last year's test, huh, man?

Too late for answers, jock face.

Come on!

Make believe me up there. This is your job.

You're not only a liar, Pitt.

You're a thief.

You're a great guy. September 3rd, 1959.

That's my father.

Everybody's got a father.

Some guys get medals and win wars.

Other guys get them for rolling golf, you know.

Go ahead.

Brave man, won't you use it?

Go ahead.

You want it so bad, pick it up.

Bucks have been missing a long time, kid.

You've been losing a lot of his money.

He ain't gonna appreciate that at all.

That's to you.

What's the matter?

You need more light to see your cards?

Why not bet him like you see him?

Play your phone, kid.

You think this storm is trying to tell us something?

We could all be blown away.

Just a blink in God's eye.

I got a pair of jacks.

Bear King.

Give me your beer, kid.

Teddy, no.

Come on.

Have you seen Ponyboy?

No.

Everybody knows about Abraham Lincoln and Bob Dylan.

What did your speech have to do with them?

The times change and you have to change with them.

Or what?

I don't know.

But we're going to get caught right in the middle of it.

got a chance to hear the end of your speech why don't you pick up from where

left off benjamin franklin right something about an air bath

benjamin franklin was not only well known for taking

baths in the wind he was most of us know famous for his inventions and

discoveries like electricity and for the books he wrote and for helping our

country become free

But to me, what is most important about Ben Franklin is that he believed in

being loyal to his friends.

It didn't matter if they were rich or poor.

It didn't matter how many people talked behind his back about the kinds of

friends he had.

If you were his friend, you were always his friend.

Today, we'd probably laugh at his wig and funny pants and socks.

But we'd also know he was a greaser from Boston.

who never forgot where he came from, who his friends were, even when he became a

soci in London, Paris, or Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Written by Ponyboy Curtis.

Delivering papers just to get up enough money to get it engraved.

I don't give a damn about your old man.

Never saw him or heard of him.

Where you from, anyway?

Everywhere.

What are you doing working a real job? Do you just get tired of rolling drunks

in alleys?

You're a great guy.

He's a drunk, wasn't he?

Hell.

Picked up this medal in a pawn shop.

Skokie, Oklahoma.

1961.

When I gave this to him, he'd been sober for three months.

I was so proud of him.

The only thing he ever did was something in the war, something he never wanted

to talk about.

You know, all he had to show for it was this.

And then he died drunk.

Steve! Steve, are you in there?

What happened?

I lost control of the truck. He went into a ditch.

I came back here. You guys got to help me.

That tornado could take this whole house.

There's only one way to save it. We have to nail down a roof and cleats.

We gotta keep the wind from going underneath the shingles.

If we don't, the McAllister's gonna lose everything.

Basement's right around the corner!

We're on our only way!

Let's do it!

There's also that chance.

If that tornado catches us on the roof... I'm with you.

Let's do it.

Gag it up!

I pull.

Raise you 200.

All I have is 100, man.

I'll loan you the rest.

But not because I like you.

But because I love the action.

Turn on the cars.

Your cards real life for money is the only winner

I'll

see you

I'll raise you 100.

Me and Pig, we've been taking a little nap.

There you go, Pig. Atta girl.

Kids lost a lot of your money while you were sleeping.

Soda? I had to deal Darian to this hand, Buck.

I said I'll see you 200 and raise you another 100.

It's all your hunting.

It's down and dirty.

I want you gutting the belt, kid.

Enough.

That's on you, Hawks.

400.

over ten.

Cowboys fall.

Poor lady.

Her

name's

not Ted.

Soda.

Soda Pop Curry.

Drinks are real bad.

Nurse Martin, over here.

Put him here.

Easy, son. You're all right.

Where have

you guys been?

We were stuck on the second floor.

Glasses exploding everywhere.

Rick got hurt.

We went back to help him and he had a piece of glass in his leg.

Right next to the artery.

The three of us helped him.

Hey,

how'd you learn all that stuff about arteries and not taking a glass out of

Rick's leg?

Health class?

Only one of us is awake.

Hey,

listen!

It's gone.

We heard Cherry's speech, but we never heard your speech.

Who wants to hear Tubit's speech?

Let's hear it for Tubit!

Well,

he was just a country boy.

He was raw.

He was real.

He was a greacher, just like me and my buddies.

Soda pop, Steven Pornboy.

Now, he came out of Mississippi.

Tupelo was his town.

Then he traveled off to Memphis.

Just a boy, a dream, and his guitar.

He was looking for a home and a place to sing.

Now, he was part country, and then he was part black man's blues.

He was gospel, and he was pop.

His soul was the music of his all.

My American hero changed the world forever.

Now, I came to high school wearing...

Pink shirts and black pants.

His hair was long.

His hair was green.

He was different.

He was cool.

He drove a truck to earn extra money and help out his folks.

And one day, the most important day in the history of music, he parked that

truck and walked into the recording studio, asked Mr. Sam Phillips if he

make a record for his mother.

Now, before long, he was singing songs for all of us.

Before long, he was down along the street, living in a heartbreak hotel.

And his song is our song.

He's a part of us. Nobody can ever take that away.

Now, they tried to stop him, but they couldn't.

Mr. Ed Sullivan said, well, he's unfit for family audiences.

And Mr. Honeymooner himself, Jackie Gleason said, Well, he can't laugh.

Yeah, but we made him laugh.

We all made him laugh.

You know what makes us laugh?

It makes us cry.

It gives us music like we never had before.

We made him our hero, and he still is.

He had nine gold records.

Two years.

Nobody's ever done that.

They say he even drives a different car for each day of the week.

But he never got too big for the country he loved.

Gave it all up to serve the army no different than the rest of us will be

one day soon January 20 1957 he gave up his guitar

The king was going to Germany where he'd meet his own Priscilla the girl of his

dreams Now if the politicians were as smart as you me

Well, they know he don't need guns and bombs guys like me to fight the

communists

Just let him see and hear the king.

And he'll show the whole world where the good times are.

Elvis Presley, my American hero.

The hero to the whole world, forever.

And I'll thank you.

Every poker palace between here and

Vegas, I hear about how you and your four ladies put old Hawks and his

right out of the game.

All right.

$1 ,000, $1 ,050, $1 ,200. That squares me up with what I won before I went to

look for pig.

So that leaves $1 ,850, $300, $400 for you.

Yeah, you won, but you lost.

I'm down $300 of diary's money.

He's planning on spending all that money on the new job over there in Ellsworth.

Yeah, a guy can dig himself a mighty deep hole when he's trying to do another

fellow a favor. You could have lost all of Derry's money.

But didn't I say that you'd be working for tips and a taste of the winner's

You said that, Buck.

You sure did.

That ought to be about $300 right there.

Actually, $400 with the...

My taste.

You're a man of your word, Buck.

You sure are.

A promise made is a promise kept, Hunter.

There's something I want to know.

What's that, Buck?

What made you keep playing?

Well, I guess it's just from hanging around you so much, Buck.

You never let Hawks or anyone bluff you into a corner.

But, you know, you could have quit after you nearly lost all my money.

And you knew how important Derry's money was to him.

But you played it anyway. Why?

When I almost lost all your money, Buck.

Hawks, he thought I was out of the game for sure.

This guy here, Fancy, he offered to bankroll me.

Just to see what would happen.

No way I was going to owe that guy.

Hawks. He was just sitting there waiting for me to fold my cards.

And I got to thinking.

What Darryl tells Ponyball all the time.

Whatever you do, you got to believe in yourself.

So before I could even stop thinking, I was reaching down and grabbing Darryl's

money belt.

From there on, cards, they did their own talking.

And Angeluck, she was on my side.

I got to get into town, Buck.

Check on Ponyboy at the school.

Get over to McAllister to see if Steve and Daryl got through the storm.

Soda, how about one cut of the cards?

Winner take all.

High card wins.

Ah, Buck.

The Cincinnati kid here, he played his game for the year.

Well, maybe next year.

You know, Hawks will be back.

He'll want a piece of you, big piece of you.

Next year, Buck, I'll have to be playing with my own money.

I'll feed tomorrow, buddy.

I'll be there.

We'll be heading out. Where are you going?

St. Louis.

Big hotel there. Reunion of my division, you know, from big WW2.

Thanks a lot for your help up there. Yeah.

Steve, we gotta get this place cleaned up. Okay.

Just telling Curtis, uh, heading out for St. Louis.

Yeah, I heard.

Never was in the war.

Never nothing.

Got me a medal.

Told my war stories.

Hey, Pitt.

This is yours.

One time in my life, he was my hero, but that was a long time ago.

Here.

You get to that reunion.

You remember my dad to him, okay?

You tell him the real story.

Guadalcanal, November 2nd, 1942.

3rd Battalion, 180th Air Infantry.

Ben Franklin once wrote, Resolve to perform without fail what you resolve.

I guess what he meant was do what you got to do and do it right.

That's kind of what happened to me and Soda and Derry that day.

The day Walker Ridge got its biggest airbath ever.

Al Bundy here.

Tonight, I'll be judging a beauty contest surrounded by beautiful babes.

know, I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but life is good.

Catch an all -new episode of Married with Children later tonight, right after

The Simpsons. Now, stay tuned for America's Most Wanted next.

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