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A grad student films interviews before isolating himself in Georgia's mountains to write, believing great art comes from darkness. With only a camera and basic supplies, he faces mounting psychological pressure.
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00:01:30Now, why was that so painful?
00:01:33Why was that 60 seconds the most uncomfortable part of your day?
00:01:39See, I think it's because society tells us to avoid silence.
00:01:46And we're conditioned to think that something's wrong with the quiet.
00:01:50Okay, I can't take it anymore.
00:01:53What's in the bag?
00:01:54You really want to know?
00:01:55Yes!
00:01:56Okay, I know it's a little late, but happy graduation, babe.
00:02:00Oh my gosh!
00:02:02That looks amazing!
00:02:03Did you make this?
00:02:05I made the decision to buy it.
00:02:09Okay, just think about living here.
00:02:12Would you get lonely?
00:02:14I mean, there are times where you'd want to go here for a vacation or an escape, but the
00:02:20idea of living here routinely, day to day.
00:02:24If I'm being honest with myself, I don't.
00:02:28Ah, that must be Hunter.
00:02:33Well, patience is his best quality, so obviously he's a piece of shit.
00:02:39I mean, what the fuck?
00:02:42You're just gonna let yourself in, huh?
00:02:44Yes, and you're welcome for me being here.
00:02:46What else would you be doing?
00:02:48I'm getting late.
00:02:50But, is too much silence a bad thing?
00:02:55Are the mundane relationships that we keep the only things weaving us to sanity?
00:03:03Are you sure this is okay?
00:03:05I mean, I know I said we'd go out to celebrate.
00:03:07I said, you can't look at this.
00:03:10Okay, this is perfect.
00:03:15Just us, that's okay?
00:03:22So, are you able to meet with my cousin next week?
00:03:25Um, no.
00:03:27Why not?
00:03:28There's a position open and she wants to interview you.
00:03:30I mean, we could maybe get you out of your parents' house?
00:03:33Uh, um, I'm busy next week.
00:03:38The whole week?
00:03:39You're just busy?
00:03:42Yeah.
00:03:44Okay, Mr. A-man, what are you busy with?
00:03:47Well, it's a surprise.
00:03:50Like a good surprise?
00:03:51Well, I think it's a good surprise.
00:03:54For you, it's like a, like a surprise car crash.
00:03:58Hey.
00:04:03Yeah, she's a little mad at me.
00:04:06Hey, Dad.
00:04:07Hey, son.
00:04:08Hey, can I interview you?
00:04:10Sure, what about?
00:04:11Um, just like your job and, you know, your career?
00:04:19Yeah, maybe later.
00:04:22Some of the best art in the world was created in the darkest hours of those artists' lives.
00:04:28And I'm talking about the whole artistic spectrum, okay?
00:04:31Poets, musicians, filmmakers, painters, novelists, anyone who creates.
00:04:37And the thing is, those, those artists happily shared it because they, I don't know, they had to.
00:04:53I don't know, but I don't know, but I don't know, but I think it's a waste of time, but
00:05:00then also, I think it's kind of fucking dumb.
00:05:03Wow, okay.
00:05:04I mean, clearly, you're going through a quarter-life crisis, so that's fine.
00:05:07Anyways, back to the interview.
00:05:09You've spent the last three months growing a depression beard.
00:05:11This isn't a depression beard.
00:05:13That is a depression beard, and you know it.
00:05:15You are three days away from a straight-up homeless beard.
00:05:18Okay, cool, man.
00:05:20Thanks, thanks so much for coming out.
00:05:22You know what?
00:05:22I'm being a good friend, and good friends tell the fucking truth.
00:05:26Ernest Hemingway said that terrible mood of depression, of whether it's any good or not, is known as the artist's
00:05:31reward.
00:05:34I'll be honest with you, I haven't taken anything seriously in a very long time.
00:05:41It's time I do.
00:05:43So, the plan.
00:05:45To create loneliness.
00:05:47Michaela's going to drop me off deep in the Georgia mountains.
00:05:50No town whatsoever for 20 miles.
00:05:53No car, no phone, no GPS.
00:05:55Just me, alone in the woods, with my thoughts for five days.
00:06:01You know, look at me, man.
00:06:02I did it.
00:06:03I did the sellout thing that you're talking about.
00:06:05It got me two weeks paid vacation, benefits, and, you know, I get to pretend I'm good at golf every
00:06:09once in a while.
00:06:10It's not bad.
00:06:11Wow.
00:06:12No, I'm sorry.
00:06:14There's so much to look forward to when you put it like that.
00:06:16You know what I think your fucking problem is?
00:06:17Is that I think you've seen too many movies with manic pixie dream girls in them.
00:06:21Okay?
00:06:22What?
00:06:22You know what I'm talking about.
00:06:23It's just these girls who are just like, just find your passion.
00:06:26It's exactly what you sound like.
00:06:27Okay?
00:06:27Just find your passion.
00:06:28And then once you've found that passion, just hug it.
00:06:31Okay?
00:06:31And then that hug will bloom into happiness and joy.
00:06:36And you'll just come back from the dead and start just loving life.
00:06:42Oh, you're done.
00:06:43Thank God.
00:06:43You're done.
00:06:44Okay.
00:06:44Manic pixie dream girls aren't real.
00:06:46Let's just do the thing that I invited you over here to help me with.
00:06:50Okay?
00:06:51Can we just do that?
00:06:53Please.
00:06:55Where were we?
00:06:57Where were we?
00:06:59We were at finding your passion and hugging it.
00:07:05All right.
00:07:06So, Hunter.
00:07:06Yes?
00:07:07Tell me about your best friend, Clayton.
00:07:11Oh, man.
00:07:12He is the clumsiest person in the world.
00:07:14I mean, he's clumsy, but I wouldn't say he's the clumsiest person in the world.
00:07:18No.
00:07:18It's true.
00:07:19Anyone clumsier than Clayton is dead.
00:07:22Let's see.
00:07:22What else?
00:07:23It's going to be so good.
00:07:25I mean, he is really smart, but you can't call him bright.
00:07:30One time, he ate gas station sushi.
00:07:33Okay.
00:07:33He likes baths better than showers.
00:07:35Okay, I mean things pertaining to this experiment, not weird shit you know about each other.
00:07:40In high school, he would make study guides at finals time for all the students, but he would
00:07:48spend so much time making these study guides to sell them that he wouldn't spend any time
00:07:53actually studying, and then he would fail himself.
00:07:58But, you know, I mean, he'd always come off with like a thousand bucks or so for Christmas or summer
00:08:03break or whatever.
00:08:06That's just the first thing that comes to me.
00:08:09No, that's good.
00:08:14Can I just say one more thing?
00:08:15Oh my gosh.
00:08:17So what?
00:08:18God, you just graduated.
00:08:19You don't know what you're going to do with your life.
00:08:20Welcome to everybody's thought process that's ever graduated.
00:08:24You're just scared.
00:08:25First time in your life you don't have everything planned out for you.
00:08:29Yes, thank you.
00:08:31It's finally been said, okay?
00:08:33I think you're fine, and we can continue now, but I think you're fine.
00:08:38Okay.
00:08:40Alright, so what's the first fucking question?
00:08:45Um...
00:08:49I don't know.
00:08:50I don't know.
00:08:51What's that?
00:08:55There's like a whole foot.
00:08:57I know.
00:08:59Hunter, are you on a wide enough lens to capture all of your hatred?
00:09:02Got it.
00:09:03Oh, good.
00:09:04We can continue now.
00:09:05Alright.
00:09:06Good afternoon, Michaela and Clayton.
00:09:10It's the eve of your solo camping trip.
00:09:13And how are we feeling this afternoon?
00:09:15Take it back.
00:09:16How are you feeling?
00:09:18Excited.
00:09:19Uh, a little nervous.
00:09:20And what about you, Michaela?
00:09:24Annoyed, frustrated, upset, angry, confused.
00:09:29Just all the negative words in the English language.
00:09:32Uncolaire.
00:09:35It's French for something mean.
00:09:38Hunter, how did I describe how she is treating me the other day?
00:09:43It was a metaphor.
00:09:45No, I'd love to hear this metaphor.
00:09:47No, I wouldn't do it.
00:09:48No, please.
00:09:49I would, I'd love to hear it.
00:09:51Don't.
00:09:52You're treating me like I am running over your dog while I'm stabbing your family to death
00:09:58while simultaneously banging your best friend.
00:10:04So?
00:10:08We can start the interview now.
00:10:11Okay.
00:10:12Um, uh, why, Michaela, uh, why on your best, I mean to your, uh, understanding, to your best
00:10:21understanding, is he doing this?
00:10:23What?
00:10:24Like, why is his inspiration to do this?
00:10:28Or, or what?
00:10:29Dude, you're gonna have to work on your interviewing voice.
00:10:31And, and your dyslexia.
00:10:33Like, I straight up wrote the question.
00:10:34Just read it off the card.
00:10:35Stop.
00:10:35He's helping you.
00:10:37No, no, no.
00:10:38Right now, it feels like I'm helping him by giving him a fucking reading lesson.
00:10:40Clayton!
00:10:42No, that was good.
00:10:43And, uh, you mentioned that story from high school earlier?
00:10:48Yeah, yeah.
00:10:50Um, in 10th grade.
00:10:51Our teacher, um, she made us write these, uh, plays.
00:10:56You know, these short plays.
00:10:58And Clayton decides to write this crazy story about, uh, a mythical land with this king and
00:11:07queen, and it's like a bunch of bullshit.
00:11:09But, the queen gets kidnapped by the enemy king of another land.
00:11:14So, the queen's name was Syphilis.
00:11:19Okay?
00:11:20So, I mean, just imagine this.
00:11:22This, you know, class full of immature high schoolers just on the floor.
00:11:27The teacher gives him an F.
00:11:30She said it was well written, but the material was inappropriate.
00:11:35I don't know.
00:11:36I think that story really sums up both sides of Clayton.
00:11:41Michaela, I'm gonna be fine, okay?
00:11:43I mean, I'm pretty sure if Tom Hanks did it for five years, then I can do it for five
00:11:47days.
00:11:48Tom Hanks?
00:11:49Yeah, he did it in Cast Away.
00:11:52That's a movie!
00:11:53Tom Hanks isn't real!
00:11:55No, Tom Hanks is definitely real.
00:11:57Okay.
00:11:58It's not you just going out into the woods that bothers me.
00:12:03What bothers me is the fact that you're disconnecting from literally everything.
00:12:08No car, no phone.
00:12:11I mean, what if you get hurt?
00:12:13What if you get attacked by a bear or someone robs you?
00:12:16I mean, I don't know if he's out there.
00:12:17No, none of that's gonna happen!
00:12:19I'm gonna feel alone.
00:12:21That's it.
00:12:22I'm gonna learn things about myself and the process.
00:12:25I'm gonna come back with a great story.
00:12:31That...
00:12:34That's it.
00:12:38Michaela.
00:12:38Michaela.
00:12:44Oh, that was awkward.
00:12:47Oh, what are you gonna do?
00:12:49Side with her now?
00:12:52So, this is it.
00:12:55Last thoughts before I head up.
00:13:01I'm a little nervous, but this is my chance.
00:13:07This is my chance to harness some sort of storm.
00:13:11And once evolved, share it.
00:13:24So, wish me luck.
00:13:27So, wish me luck.
00:13:45Clayton, it's way too early.
00:13:48I want you to look into this camera and say one positive thing.
00:13:52It can be anything.
00:13:53Hey, it's pretty cool that the sun rose this morning.
00:13:57It's awesome that we're both currently not on fire.
00:14:01Because that would suck.
00:14:02You know, I could just turn around.
00:14:04No, no.
00:14:05That's...
00:14:06We're good.
00:14:07I just wanted to be said, though, ahead of time, that I'm gonna come back with this dissertation
00:14:12on life.
00:14:13You know, this life dissertation.
00:14:15And you're gonna apologize.
00:14:17Prediction submitted.
00:14:18There it is.
00:14:20Can you please just not talk about the trip anymore?
00:14:27I'm sure Christopher Columbus's girlfriend wasn't happy whenever he went on the boat to America.
00:14:32Yeah, that's the same.
00:14:35She was literally like, you're gonna fall off Earth.
00:14:38She probably wasn't as mean to him.
00:14:41You win.
00:14:42Turn the car around.
00:14:44I'll find a different means for creative inspiration.
00:14:46Involving black tar heroin and alley syringes.
00:14:50Oh my god, Clayton.
00:14:56Jokes that do not land.
00:14:58Starring Clayton Thompson.
00:15:01Written, directed, and produced by Clayton Thompson.
00:15:05Jokes that do not land.
00:15:12I fucking love that show.
00:15:14I watch it every day.
00:15:28Hey, let's play a game called What Decade Is It?
00:15:32Excuse me, ma'am.
00:15:33Where's the nearest rollerblade store?
00:15:42The fact that you one day woke up without a sense of humor kind of bothers me.
00:15:47Well, you know, actually, I'm storing up every stupid thing you say in my head so I can laugh at
00:15:54it later.
00:15:55You know, just so I won't give you the satisfaction.
00:15:57Oh, that's the best news I've heard in a long time.
00:16:03Yeah, well, I'm a sick person.
00:16:08Can you just put the camera down?
00:16:11Let's just talk.
00:16:13Yeah.
00:16:15But did you?
00:16:16Did you ever play?
00:16:17Um, I played T-ball, but I got kicked off the team.
00:16:21You got kicked off your T-ball team?
00:16:24Yes.
00:16:24Wait, T-ball like when you're five?
00:16:27Yes, it's not funny.
00:16:28Give me a thousand years of guesses.
00:16:30I'd have no idea.
00:16:31Like, how does somebody get kicked off the team?
00:16:33Okay, all right.
00:16:34I'll explain.
00:16:35So, every week the teammates would take turns bringing snacks for after the game.
00:16:40Uh-huh.
00:16:40And when it was my week, my mom made these boss chocolate and peanut butter cupcakes.
00:16:45Anyways, there's this one girl who never threw me the ball, was always kind of rude to me,
00:16:49and she refused to eat my mom's cupcakes, which is unacceptable.
00:16:54So, I got sick of it one day and smashed a cupcake in her face.
00:16:58And, uh, then she went to the hospital.
00:17:01What?
00:17:03Turns out she was severely allergic to peanuts.
00:17:08So, uh, yeah, that traumatizing event ended my baseball career.
00:17:13Why did you never tell me that?
00:17:15Well, I tend to skip stories where I almost kill a five-year-old child.
00:17:22So, what is this place, exactly?
00:17:25Uh, I don't know.
00:17:26Just some patch of land between two mountains.
00:17:29Nothing's there, though.
00:17:30That's all I know.
00:17:46So, I wait for days and days and days.
00:17:55Drawing circles around my grave
00:18:00And still you never show
00:18:04Where were you
00:18:07When the moon was setting you
00:18:12When the devil came grinning you
00:18:17What have you been up to?
00:18:32I guess this is it.
00:18:35You sure?
00:18:37Yeah, better place than any.
00:18:43All right.
00:18:52You sure?
00:18:53I'm positive.
00:18:53All right.
00:19:21Wow, we really are out in the middle of nowhere.
00:19:24Good.
00:19:26I hope I remember how to get back here.
00:19:29No, that's not funny.
00:19:30Okay, you use your phone and you drop a pin.
00:19:32Baby, you know I lose things all the time.
00:19:34Wow, no.
00:19:35It didn't get any funnier that time.
00:19:37Well, you know, what if I die?
00:19:39And no one's here to come get you in six days.
00:19:42An 18-wheeler just runs me off the road and bam.
00:19:45No more Mikayla.
00:19:47No one to come get you.
00:19:51Well, that was dark.
00:19:53Yeah, and you know, I actually didn't even need a loan camping trip for that one.
00:19:56It just sort of came to me.
00:19:59Well played.
00:20:03Hey, I'm gonna meet with your cousin when I get back.
00:20:08Look, I know you don't want to be a corporate vlogger.
00:20:11Yeah, but I still want to meet with her.
00:20:15Well, I mean, there's no harm in trying.
00:20:18Yeah, exactly.
00:20:21Look, I'm sorry I've seemed like such a bitch lately.
00:20:27It's just, you know, it's because I love you, right?
00:20:31Of course.
00:20:32Yeah.
00:20:56Shit.
00:20:57Shit.
00:20:58What?
00:20:58The tree's down.
00:21:00I guess this will do.
00:21:09Here.
00:21:16I'll lead you in.
00:21:23Mikayla?
00:21:27Okay.
00:21:28Turn this way.
00:21:31You're not gonna kill me, are you?
00:21:33No.
00:21:36Okay.
00:21:37Hang on.
00:21:37Let me get this up.
00:21:42Alright.
00:21:45Okay.
00:21:46I'm gonna be fine.
00:21:48What, what will fix this?
00:21:49Nothing.
00:21:50No.
00:21:52Don't say nothing, okay?
00:21:53What will fix this?
00:21:55It's not like that.
00:21:59When I am done with this whole project, okay?
00:22:02I, I will spend time in church.
00:22:05I will watch Full House.
00:22:06Okay, stop, stop.
00:22:07I don't need your sarcasm right now, okay?
00:22:09Just, just let me feel how I feel.
00:22:14Okay.
00:22:15Okay, I just want you to be real for a moment.
00:22:18No.
00:22:19What?
00:22:23What do you want?
00:22:25Okay, what do you want out of this?
00:22:28I want us.
00:22:32You're gonna have to explain that to me.
00:22:34I just said it.
00:22:36I want us.
00:22:36Look, I'm not even using the misogynist answer of you.
00:22:40I want us.
00:22:41That doesn't even make sense, okay?
00:22:43Because as far as I am concerned, you have us.
00:22:49So, I want to know what you actually mean when you say you want us.
00:22:54It means I want us, okay?
00:22:57I am not willing to give you some dispassionate version of that person, okay?
00:23:02Some detached guy who gave up on every single dream straight out of the gate.
00:23:06I'm not gonna do that.
00:23:08You deserve better.
00:23:11Give me the camera.
00:23:13Give me the camera.
00:23:14What? Why?
00:23:15Give me the camera!
00:23:22Okay.
00:23:25Clayton, I'm gonna ask you one more time.
00:23:30Alright?
00:23:31What do you want?
00:23:32What is the driving force behind this?
00:23:35What is bothering you so much that you feel like you have to do this?
00:23:39Okay?
00:23:40Just say it!
00:23:46My dad feels stuck at his job.
00:23:50He doesn't say it, but he doesn't have to.
00:23:56I'm not gonna be that way.
00:23:58You love your dad.
00:23:59Don't talk shit about him, okay?
00:24:01I love him.
00:24:01I don't respect him.
00:24:02There is a difference.
00:24:04Your father works a job he hates so he can provide for his family.
00:24:08How is he not a fucking superhero?
00:24:12You just...
00:24:14You don't understand.
00:24:17So what are you gonna do now?
00:24:20I've already told you.
00:24:21I'm here.
00:24:22You've seen this thing.
00:24:23I'm going to write a story.
00:24:25I'm gonna make a novel.
00:24:26I'm gonna write it.
00:24:27I'm gonna make you proud.
00:24:28You are going to be proud of me!
00:24:31I am proud.
00:24:42Okay.
00:24:46I am proud.
00:24:50Look.
00:24:52I know how you're feeling, Clayton.
00:24:56Alright?
00:24:57You want...
00:24:58You want to be great.
00:24:59Everyone does.
00:25:00Put the camera down.
00:25:01No!
00:25:02No.
00:25:03You want to be great.
00:25:05Okay?
00:25:06You're gonna listen to me.
00:25:11You see people post things online.
00:25:15And you think they're happy.
00:25:17But they're only posting the highlight reels.
00:25:23But you look at them.
00:25:25And you think you're not good enough.
00:25:28What the hell?
00:25:29You are.
00:25:31You are good enough.
00:25:39Watch this in a couple days and see if you believe yourself.
00:25:48Come here.
00:25:49Come here.
00:25:49Come here.
00:25:56I love you.
00:25:58I love you too.
00:26:00I love you more than the nostalgic memory of a blockbuster video.
00:26:05I love you more than peanut butter and chocolate.
00:26:08No, that's impossible.
00:26:09Don't say something you can't take back.
00:26:11It's true.
00:26:12I do.
00:26:13I do.
00:26:18Goodbye.
00:26:20Bye.
00:26:21I'll see you in a couple days.
00:26:22Please.
00:26:59Mikaela?
00:27:02So this is it.
00:27:07This is where I'll find myself.
00:27:10Spend all my graduation money
00:27:13buying a camera,
00:27:15batteries, and cards.
00:27:19I'm a fucking idiot.
00:27:23First night.
00:27:26It's not so bad out here.
00:27:30Just quiet.
00:27:31Besides the cicadas, it's quiet.
00:27:36I can actually hear myself think.
00:27:39I don't love it, but I can.
00:27:46It's definitely creepy out here.
00:27:49But I have to ask the question.
00:27:54Would having someone with me make it any less dangerous?
00:28:00And the answer is no.
00:28:03But it takes being alone to realize you're afraid.
00:28:18Hello?
00:28:21Is anyone there?
00:28:26So I survived the first night.
00:28:28I just ate breakfast, a granola bar, which will also be dinner.
00:28:35Let me say one thing.
00:28:37This is not the body of a man who eats two granola bars a day.
00:28:40This is the body of a man who eats a granola box a snack.
00:28:46So, thoughts on last night.
00:28:50One thing that comes to mind, one word would be aware.
00:28:57I was aware of every sound that was around me.
00:29:02The trees blowing in the wind.
00:29:06The leaves skipping on the ground.
00:29:08Everything was so crisp.
00:29:12Honestly, it was amazing.
00:29:18Well, I am bored as shit.
00:29:22Look what I found.
00:29:24Bottom of the seventh.
00:29:26Two outs.
00:29:27Two strikes.
00:29:28No balls.
00:29:29Man on second and third.
00:29:31And the pitch.
00:29:32Oh, it's hit a mile high and three miles long.
00:29:38Yes, it could go all the way.
00:29:42Upper Decker home run.
00:29:43And that pitch will send Clayton into a month-long binge of depression, alcoholism, and self-loathing.
00:29:52Lumberjackin' in the forest!
00:29:56That is not happening.
00:29:59Oh!
00:30:01C-COME ON!
00:30:19Huh.
00:30:24That is a creepy tree.
00:30:29These trees are monotonous.
00:30:31It'd be hell to get lost in it.
00:30:35I don't know.
00:30:36It's somehow not as scary in the daytime.
00:30:39It reminds me of whenever I was a little kid and I just ran out into the forest.
00:30:45Making up stories along the way.
00:30:47Living my own little journey.
00:30:52Often times being chased by something.
00:30:57A ninja.
00:30:58Like all the time actually.
00:30:59I don't know what the hell that's about.
00:31:09I can make that jump, right?
00:31:15You got this.
00:31:18Oh!
00:31:19Oh!
00:31:22So gross!
00:31:26What the hell water is that?
00:31:29You got it.
00:31:31Jeez.
00:31:32Disgusting.
00:31:40Night's coming.
00:31:42Soon enough.
00:31:47Oh.
00:31:49If you guys could smell me right now.
00:31:51There are no words.
00:31:53I used to be like, bullshit!
00:31:55There's a word for everything.
00:31:56Nope.
00:31:57Not this smell.
00:32:00Smells like two dead animals crawled inside of three dead animals just to shit.
00:32:09And then die.
00:32:11It's night two.
00:32:13It's late.
00:32:14Real late.
00:32:17Heard a lot of noises tonight.
00:32:19It's the longest I've ever gone without seeing someone.
00:32:25I mean, sure.
00:32:26I've had those days where I disappear into a sofa and binge watch 12 hours of TV while screening all
00:32:32my calls.
00:32:33I call those dark days.
00:32:36But I also call them everything I've ever wanted days.
00:32:40A new observation.
00:32:42There's a fine line between delight and depression.
00:32:50I don't know though.
00:32:51This is just different.
00:32:59Nothing's there.
00:33:02Nothing's there.
00:33:18Nothing's there.
00:33:21What the fuck?
00:33:40Hello?
00:33:43Are you kidding me, Michaela?
00:33:45Are you kidding me?
00:33:47No, no.
00:33:48This is not cool.
00:33:49This is not cool.
00:33:50Yes, I'm fine.
00:33:51You have to quit worrying.
00:33:53What?
00:33:54When?
00:33:54When?
00:33:54When?
00:33:54No.
00:33:55I will not calm down, okay?
00:33:57Okay?
00:33:57I will not calm down.
00:33:59No.
00:33:59Do not assume the worst whenever you call back, okay?
00:34:02Because this phone is going to be in pieces on the dirt.
00:34:08My heartbeat hasn't slowed.
00:34:11So, Michaela snuck in a burner phone into my bag whenever I was gassing up.
00:34:19She also left this.
00:34:23Some sort of memory card with something to play.
00:34:28Anyway, cheap scare of the night.
00:34:30Moving on.
00:34:34I keep hearing those noises, though.
00:34:38Sounds like footsteps.
00:34:42I have this theory about pushing the limit of sleeplessness.
00:34:48It goes like this.
00:34:49When you stay awake longer than you're used to, your brain, being such a powerful and mysterious thing that it
00:34:57is, it becomes aware that you're tired.
00:35:02And the brain, being the powerful and mysterious thing that it is, it compensates.
00:35:11What I've found is it overcompensates, creating some sort of a heightened creative state.
00:35:20So I might just stay up riding all night.
00:35:27Well, I...
00:35:30I won't bore you with this.
00:35:40Hello?
00:35:44Hello? Is anyone there?
00:36:00Hello?
00:36:02Hello?
00:36:02Hello?
00:36:02Hello?
00:36:19Hi, hi.
00:36:20You know, it was an animal.
00:36:23I just didn't see it.
00:36:26It was big.
00:36:28It was...
00:36:35You always feel like you're being followed in the woods.
00:36:39You never are.
00:36:41It's just paranoia in the night.
00:36:50You never think that's right...
00:37:06You never think that's right?
00:37:07You never think that's right.
00:37:11You never think the system will be wrong.
00:37:24Nothing's been touched.
00:37:29A couple weeks ago, I had a dream.
00:37:34And in this dream, I was writing the short story about this character that was going crazy because of this
00:37:40dark, shadowy entity that wouldn't leave him alone.
00:37:45And I'm laying on my stomach on the sofa, typing on my laptop, and then I fell asleep.
00:37:54And that's when it happened.
00:37:58I woke up to something slowly pulling me.
00:38:04And the second that I became aware of what it was, it yanked me off the sofa.
00:38:12And I flew upright, and I was levitating.
00:38:16My feet were off the ground, and I was frozen.
00:38:22And I tried to scream, but the second I tried, the most unbelievably tight grip came around my throat.
00:38:32And it all went blurry.
00:38:35And then I woke up.
00:38:39I woke up in the exact same place I had fallen asleep.
00:38:48If immersing myself in this terrifying world can affect me that much, down deep, there is a story waiting to
00:38:55be found.
00:38:56I'm kind of scared to fall asleep now.
00:38:59I was hoping you could keep me company, though.
00:39:05What was it?
00:39:07My mom used to quote this verse in Joshua something.
00:39:13Be strong and courageous.
00:39:15Do not be frightened.
00:39:17Do not be dismayed.
00:39:18For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
00:39:26Everything is going to be fine.
00:39:30I know that.
00:39:31I know it.
00:39:34Everything is fine.
00:39:40My uncle used to say that if you live close enough to people where you can't scream at the end
00:39:47of a bad day without getting in trouble, then you live too close to people.
00:39:56My uncle was a fucking liar.
00:40:15So the sun is offensively bright in the morning.
00:40:22Just like a big old fuck you from nature.
00:40:30But I survived night two.
00:40:35Yay!
00:40:38Being out here, I've really gotten to recall some memories I'm pretty sure I would have forgotten.
00:40:44Once again, it comes back to this idea that I can't shake, that we're just surrounded by so much noise
00:40:51and we don't get the time to even exercise these great memories.
00:40:59Anyway, the last couple hours, I've been thinking about some of the funniest stories of my life.
00:41:09Kind of makes me wish I had journaled more.
00:41:14I've had too good of a life not to.
00:41:18One story, though.
00:41:20Um, it was the first camping trip that we had ever taken.
00:41:25We went camping and we went on this drunk hike through the forest and we ended up on this gravel
00:41:31road.
00:41:32Not a car, not a sound for miles.
00:41:36And then all of a sudden, Hunter said it.
00:41:38He said, guys, guys, turn off your lights, turn off your lights.
00:41:41So we did.
00:41:42We all ducked down on the gravel road.
00:41:44We were scared.
00:41:46And we said, what's up?
00:41:47What's going on?
00:41:48And he said, this is life.
00:41:54Dark, unsure, uncertain.
00:41:58And you can sit here and not become a man or you can walk towards it.
00:42:05And we all said, Hunter, you've probably drank too much.
00:42:09But he stood up and he said, no, no.
00:42:13I am seriously.
00:42:15Be seriously.
00:42:16I am seriously right now.
00:42:20He said, this is how I want to live my life.
00:42:23I want to sprint towards life.
00:42:26And so he said, you assholes, keep off your flashlights.
00:42:32And then he sprinted.
00:42:35He sprinted as fast as he could.
00:42:39For a long time.
00:42:42And then we hear it.
00:42:45Thud.
00:42:46Ah, shit.
00:42:50He had ran directly off the road and into a tree and then fell into a giant pile of thorns.
00:42:59And the whole time we were walking him back, he just kept saying, that's life.
00:43:04That's life.
00:43:06Life is hard.
00:43:10I know I'm telling that story to nobody right now, but...
00:43:16Any excuse to tell it.
00:43:22So, I just got back to the campsite and something got into my food.
00:43:30On top of that, there is a hole in the bottom of my water jug.
00:43:38So, that's where we're at.
00:43:48Hey friends, I found the story I want to write about.
00:43:53It involves a protagonist who's a little bit lonely.
00:44:01I don't know.
00:44:02I've always been taught you write what you feel.
00:44:06You write what you feel, or you write something that doesn't mean anything.
00:44:14And I think, honestly, if I can somehow isolate fear with my protagonist...
00:44:24I think I'll have the story I'm looking for.
00:44:29A character with only his own thoughts to believe in.
00:44:35That's what I'm looking for.
00:44:41Fuck.
00:44:42I've never been able to get inspired in the daytime.
00:44:46I always get sidetracked and watch TV.
00:44:51Well, I think that fits my theory about creativity.
00:44:58It'll come at night.
00:45:02So, until then, I'll just wait.
00:45:08Wait.
00:45:08Wait.
00:45:19I have to see him.
00:45:43What is it?
00:45:57What?
00:45:59What?
00:46:27It's the third night.
00:46:30I've heard footsteps since about 9 o'clock.
00:46:35We haven't stopped.
00:46:42I can't leave.
00:46:46This has to be some sick joke.
00:46:51At this point, I'm talking just to not hear silence.
00:46:57Disregard any and all bullshit I speak about.
00:47:00Okay, I might tell a story.
00:47:02I might create a story.
00:47:04I might sing a fucking nursery rhyme.
00:47:06I don't know.
00:47:07I might talk even though I don't know what I'm fucking saying.
00:47:10I know my sensitivity to noise is heightened out here.
00:47:17But I heard something.
00:47:27Hello?
00:47:28Hello?
00:47:31Is anyone there?
00:47:33Is anyone there?
00:47:41Stop it!
00:47:59What the fuck was that?
00:48:05I'm not going back.
00:48:10I'm not going back.
00:48:12I don't care.
00:48:14I don't care.
00:48:15I don't care.
00:48:16I'm not going back.
00:48:18I'm not going back.
00:48:49I'm not going back.
00:49:02At this point, I want to run into somebody.
00:49:08I want to know what I'm fucking running from!
00:49:23I've been walking for two or three hours now.
00:49:35I haven't seen a road or a house or heard a car.
00:49:49Everything is the same.
00:49:54Where am I?
00:50:26How did you get to go of me now?
00:50:26You're going to have to go of me now.
00:50:26You're going to go of me now.
00:50:37I'm done.
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