We set up training programs specifically for minority non-commissioned officers. Of my 6 companies by the time I left, 3 of them were commanded by African Americans and 5 out of 6 First Sergeants were African American or Hispanic.

I hear a shout from halfway across the lobby, “You cheated me out of $10,000!” I couldn’t help but yell back, “It was only nine!”

Nowadays you're lucky if you make minimum wage with your hands on a hammer. I used to be a framer, now I live in a tent back over there by that tree

" I just got off spending 4 years in the penitentiary. It's hard, ya know. You come out and the whole world's different. I don't know how to explain it but it's all just different, people look at you different.

Andi jumped in with a lot to say when he heard someone else being interviewed.

A conversation by the roadside shows a side of America often passed by.

I got to talk to Cindy the trumpeter in the bit of time before her orchestral rehearsal

We sat down to talk with an American-British-Swedish citizen living in LA. Three nationalities, one person, like a Chimera of citizenship.

The first California interview had some interesting things to say about how America works.