- [Mark] Shawn,
- Yep.
- [Mark] we're here in Denver,
you're out here homeless.
Tell me about it.
- Well, I don't know,
what do you want me to tell you?
- [Mark] Where did you sleep last night?
- Oh last night, I just got into town, dude,
I was flying a sign on 16th Street,
and some dude came up, he's like,
fuckin' want to stay at my motel,
so I fuckin' stayed at his motel.
And then like I woke up in the morning,
I took a shower, it was the first time I'd
gotten a shower in awhile dude,
I've been like hitchhiking and shit.
And then I woke up in the morning
and fuckin', it was like seven o'clock,
and this dude's like telling me,
if I wanted to go back to his like pad,
it's like eight miles south of here.
He's like you can move into my pad,
try to get a job.
So I was like oh this dude's a fuckin' wierdo,
and he went to go get coffee,
and I fuckin' bounced, you know?
(laughs)
- [Mark] You get that a lot,
there's a lot of freaks out here.
- He seemed cool dude, at first,
but then he started saying like,
I just met this dude, and he's like do you want
to move into my fuckin' house,
I'm like no thanks dude, you know?
- [Mark] So you said you'd been homeless off and on
since you were 16.
- Yeah.
- [Mark] What happened at such a young age
that got you out here on the streets?
- Well, I fuckin', my parents,
my dad was a heroin addict and he died,
well he wasn't dead yet,
but he's always been fucking running
around shooting dope and shit.
And my mom was a meth addict,
so I got put into group homes
when I was like 12 years old.
I got out of 'em when I was 16,
then they put me back with mom,
and she started doing meth again and shit,
so I just bounced.
I actually went to stay with my sister for like a month,
but then I just took off.
The first place I went
was actually from Riverside,
I hitchhiked to Denver, Colorado
with my friend Randall when I was 16, 17.
That was the first trip I took.
- [Mark] Gosh.
- No not Denver, Grand Junction.
- [Mark] Grand Junction.
- Yeah.
- [Mark] Yeah, I just drove through there.
And how do you survive,
I mean, growing up out here on the streets?
- I just panhandle and shit.
When I first got here last night,
I flew a sign here.
I usually go to a town outside of the main city
and fly a sign in the shopping centers
and I make alright money doing that.
- [Mark] If you had three wishes, what would they be?
- Three wishes?
I guess, shit
to have an immune system that I couldn't get any sick ever,
you know, have super immune system,
and it was like in fuckin' wolverine or some shit.
Like any cut would heal immediately,
and like I could never get sick.
Probably live for a long ass time,
that would be the first one.
The second one would probably be like
a big ass property with a house on it
somewhere like, maybe like upstate New York or something,
and then I could have all my fucking friends that I know
everywhere come fuckin' stay there.
And the third one would probably be,
there's was a girl that,
I'm actually married still
to this chick but I fucked it up,
because I'm a heroin addict.
She didn't like that.
She got sick of that.
I'd probably go back and try to do shit different with her.
If I, so a time warp.
(laughs)
- [Mark] Well thank you very much for talking with me.
- No problem, man, thank you.