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Casey Neistat

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first: 2020-03-02
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“Yeah, I mean, you're jumping ahead a little, but Tom Scott, our financier, he would come visit us every six weeks to see what we had been doing, to check in on his investment And I remember the first time he came, we had 43 minutes of little videos all play at once, just back to back to back to back. And he looked at it and he was like, I don't know what this is, but keep going. And he said the same thing the next month. And he said the same thing the next month. In the fourth month, he showed up with this woman. And he introduced her. Her name was Christine Bashan.”
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“No, no, no, no one was watching her. Well, there's no way to watch videos then. We had our videos on our website that we updated as best we could, and there was definitely like a little cult following because we... Put our videos into little film festivals. We made a lot of bicycling videos, so they were in the bike film festival in New York City. And at that time, certainly still the pie in the sky was to make a feature film that got into a sundance or something like that. That was still the... Ultimate destination as a filmmaker.”
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“So, Billy Bragg said, Love is like being on a ride at the fun fair, the sort you want to get off because it's scary, and then as soon as you're off, you want to get right back on again. That's the uncertainty, the excitement you get by embracing ego. John Lennon compared love to a flower.”
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“I remember a guy, one of the videos was my girlfriend at the time who's now my wife, my girlfriend at the time we're having just wild problems in our relationship. And I made a movie that took probably a month to make. And it was called Love versus Ego. And it was my love for her versus like the ego that is the fighting that the two of us were having and how to reconcile that. This is Candace, my future ex-girlfriend. In the source of all the material I needed to make this movie. That was a movie that I was only able to make because I was able to sort of indulge because we didn't have to worry about paying rent.”
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“That sounds totally awesome. And he wrote a movie called The Blue Monster. And I went to the beach and I covered myself in blue paint and seaweed. And he had to battle that monster. And the movie was like a story of... My kid and me wanting to make a movie.”
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“We didn't spend it on gear. I don't know that we would have known what to buy. We're still using iMovie, but basically it was like, what's an awesome video we want to make today? You know, like, I think a good example of that is I wanted to make a movie with Owen, like a real movie with Owen. I was like, Owen, let's make a movie together. And he's like, okay, great. And I was like, can you write it? And, you know, he was eight years old, nine years old at the time. And he's like, yes, I can. Okay, so you want to make a movie about a cruise ship wherein a gigantic blue monster crushes the ship and kills all the people on board?”
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“To talking about it now, he was just like, I saw in YouTube a kind of spark that, you know, that I identified with. And I knew that you were just sort of being held back by a lack of resources. So if I were to free that up, I knew it would take us places. And we shook hands, and he agreed to finance us. And we walked out of there. It was the hugest deal we could have ever imagined.”
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“We struggle to make them because we spend so much time trying to keep the lights on. So if you can agree to trying to pay our overhead for the next year in that time, we will make a mountain of videos and we'll figure out what to do with it. And our pitch guy than that. That's all it was. Well,”
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“Yeah, and he turned that into a wildly valuable company that he sold and became very wealthy because of that. And then he built a media company. And we went and met with him. And I remember him being very stoic and sitting in the corner sort of nodding his head at Van and I as we're doing our dog and pony show. And he looked at us and he said, I want to do something big with you guys. What would you like to do? And we're like, okay, great. And we went away. And we're like, what is something big mean? And I think to this day that what he meant was he wanted to make a big movie with us, but we didn't understand that then. So we came back to him and we said, look, all we really know how to do is make these little videos”
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“And we went and made some fashion videos for him. And he remains one of the most sort of brilliant marketers in the game. And under his direction, I think we made really powerful, really smart videos for Kate Spade handbags. And that was a kind of validation that obviously went way further for us than making kind of a terrible candy bar commercial. And ultimately, we were introduced to a guy named Tom Scott through Andy Spade. And Tom Scott was just genius entrepreneur.”
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“Two very, very dear friends of mine and two people I love very, very much. But at the time, I didn't know who they were, and we were invited by. I knew that Kate Spade was a handbag company. We went and sat with the CEO Andy, and he's like, oh, I like the little videos you guys do. And we're like, yes, sir, thank you, sir. And he was like, you know, we're going out to Arizona next week to film, to take some photos for our spring line or whatever it was. And he's like, if I give you guys a couple bucks, if I give you some money, you think you can come with us and make videos. And we're like, yes, we can, sir. Of course we can, sir.”
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“It was a kind of hustling that was able to be furthered by the fact that we no longer had day jobs. So Van and I just ran at making movies like nothing else. We just one after another after after. But we didn't say no to anything then that involved showing up with a camera. And the opportunities were all over the place, everything from like wedding videos to being introduced. And I don't know who the conduit was for this, but being introduced to a guy named Andy Spade.”
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“That sounds glamorous, but what it literally was a candy bar company wanted to test their candy bar marketing in a very tiny market, and they had $10,000 as an all-in budget. And the minute they greenlit that and we got the money, I quit my job. We're like, okay, we're professional filmmakers now. And what was left of the money we spent to get our first studio, and it was a tiny 400 square foot studio in Chinatown. And I remember we had enough money for one month. And at the end of that month, we wouldn't be able to pay anything unless we could figure out how to make money in the next 28 days.”
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“I was still an assistant. I was getting paid very well though, you know, because I was running the entire shop. I was running the whole kind of career of this prolific artist. And I felt like all of a sudden I sort of was figuring it out in New York. And after iPod's Dirty Secret exploded, so many people came to my brother Van and me saying, what else have you done? And we're like, are you kidding me? Here's a hundred other movies we've done. That happens enough where people are like, okay, these guys have something. And the opportunities we got then started to be more and more interesting. I remember one time getting an offer to direct a TV commercial.”
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“It was a kind of attention that I had never experienced before. I remember the Washington Post wrote a huge article and it was the first time I'd ever read the word viral video. But it was everywhere. It was viral in the most literal sense of the word viral. Everywhere it went. It just sort of multiplied. I remember being back in Connecticut with little Owen and we were walking around and somebody came up to us and he was like, hey, I work in energy and I just got back from Saudi Arabia and I saw your face and your video on the news there. You made something about Apple. And I was like, yeah, that's me. So it was kind of a, it was something that I don't think we could have in our wildest dreams ever anticipated.”
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“Yeah, it was like $4 And then I remember just like very angrily emailing every single journalist I could find this email saying like, hey, check out this movie we made or pretending to be someone else being like, hey, look at this movie I found and just trying to get somebody to publish it somewhere. And within 24 hours, it was everywhere to the point where the site was crashing. But it did millions and millions of views in the days when to go viral required actually emailing somebody the video.”
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“It was brightly colored. They were everywhere And much like you would see a disclaimer at the bottom of a pack of Marlborough reds that says these cigarettes will give you cancer, we spray painted using a stencil, a disclaimer on the bottom of every one of those posters that said iPods unreplaceable battery lasts only eighteen months. And we made a video of just that. And this is three years before YouTube, so we put it on a splash page. We bought iPod's DirtySecret.com, and we put it on that splash page.”
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“The visuals and the video are my brother Van and I running around Manhattan and this is when they had that ubiquitous ad campaign of the silhouettes dancing with yeah.”
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“And I had one. It was given to me as a gift, and they cost $400. So it was something way outside of my price outside of anything I could afford. But I had one. And the battery died in it. It wouldn't hold a charge. So I called Apple computers. They had like an 800 number that a human would answer back in 2003. The person on the other end of the phone explained to me that Apple as a policy does not replace the batteries in their iPods. I was so offended. I was so upset. Love my iPod guy, I was so upset that I again felt like that fifteen year old kid with a parent saying don't do this or a teacher saying no to me that I was like I need to vent this. So I called them back.”
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“This is 2003, so like the first generation iPod had been around for a little while, but it was still the talk of the town. It was the hottest piece of tech there was”
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“No, in the zoom in, in the micro, we were just too terrified individuals. But to zoom out from there, we had this sort of, I could say it was confidence, but I think it was far more just arrogance. We were just these arrogant, I was 21 at the time, Van was 26 at the time. We're just these arrogant kids who thought we knew something that nobody else did.”
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“No, that never occurred to us ever. It didn't. I mean that. Just like the dishwasher who was just like doing that as a holdover until he figured out his career. We were Oscar Award-winning world famous filmmakers that the world had never heard of again.”
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“Vividly, guy. So, Fred Hockberg, whose birthday it was, who was a prominent businessman, his mother is Lillian Vernon of the Lillian Vernon catalog, who was sort of the catalog queen of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. So we made the president a t-shirt that said Fred Hawkberg turned 50 and all I got was this lousy t-shirt from Lillian Vernon. Which is funny because she was a huge campaign contributor. And when he saw the t shirt, the president just started laughing and he did the joke just as we asked. He held up the t shirt in the entire room full of people there to celebrate, burst into laughter, and it was a big hit. That was the first real paid gig we ever had.”
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“But then they left us alone in the conference room and we jumped on the teleprompter and kind of reset it, turned it off. And then when the president came in and sat down, he sat there and I just remember him like looking left, looking right, kind of looking his handler, like being like, guys, what are we doing here? And I turned to him and I was like, Mr. President, I have a funny idea. And he smiled. And I was like, here's what I want you to say. And he was like, sure, that sounds hysterical. And we hit record and he delivered the joke. And it was the standout highlight of the video that we played at Fred Hawkberg's 50th.”
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“I mean, I remember interviewing guy showing up for the interview with President Clinton, and this is just a few years after he left office. And we had a really funny gag we wanted to do for the video. We had a funny joke we wanted the president to deliver. And we showed up and we told his handlers, we had this joke, and they're like, absolutely not. We've got a pre-approved script. And that's all he'll be reading. And we were intimidated. There were secret service men there with guns. We're like, no problem, we understand.”
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“For $5,000, and now that I know what it costs to have a meal at La Cerque, I understand why he didn't bat an eye at the $5,000 bill for the video, because that's probably what he spent on martinis that night. But then he handed us a list of people to interview. And it was like, you know, people like President Bill Clinton and the current governor of New York. And it was these high-profile individuals”
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“You know, effectively, just wanted a funny video of people saying, Happy birthday, Fredge, to play on a screen at Le Cirque for Fred's 50th birthday. For $5,000. And I think...”
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“So, the artist we worked for liked the little videos we made, and one of his art collectors, a guy named Tom Healy, went to, the artist was like, you know, I need to make a video for my husband, Fred's 50th birthday party. How do I do that? And he's like, oh, you need to talk to the brothers, talk to the brothers. I remember being so nervous speaking to Mr. Healy because he's this fancy art collector. And we were like, did we charge him $100 or $500? And ultimately we landed on $5,000. Like worked for the swing of the fences here. Yeah. Yeah. It was the biggest number we could think of.”
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“Anything. Every time I'd see something interesting, I'd make a video about it, not only that, but my proximity to my brother Van for the first time wasn't 100 miles or 300 miles, but he lived right down the street. So Van and I were spending every waking moment together making videos. And we were kind of all over the place. Ultimately, we landed a real gig, like a high-paying, high-profile video job to make a birthday video for someone.”
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“So it started with finding a place. There was sort of a mass exodus of, I think, people like me that were sort of on that precipice of surviving or not in New York City. And a lot of them left. And one of those people was like a friend of a friend. And he had lived in this, something called an SRO, a single-room occupancy. And it's where you sort of get a room, but you don't get a bathroom or a kitchen. And it wasn't much of an apartment, but it was a room that had a door with a lock on it that was mine. And no matter what I couldn't be kicked out of there, it was mine. And that... You know, the ground from underneath me going from a liquid to a solid.”
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“And I remember speaking to Owen's mom's friends, the ones who put us up when we had nowhere else to stay. And they gave me the same sort of line that's like, you'd be crazy to stay there. Like you don't even have a place to stay right now. You don't really have a job. What are you going to do? And ironically, it was making that decision. Like, I'm not going anywhere. That's when things started to turn around for me. That's when I started to find a footing in New York City that had eluded me in the previous three months”
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“And I'm just white. But that's really for me, that's the bookmark where my life in New York City began. Because if ever there's a reason to kind of give up or throw in the towel, it's a terrorist attack of such severity that changes the daily life for, I think, all Americans. But to be so literally so close to it, I remember my dad called and he just said, like, it's time to come home.”
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“And I looked out the window and saw paper falling, and I thought it was like maybe a promotion where they're like shooting a cannon full of flyers for free tacos or something absurd like that. And I looked up and saw a building on fire. And ultimately, I left. I ran, I got on my bike and was biking away, biking north to my big brother's apartment. And the second plane hit. And I remember feeling the heat from the second plane and falling off my bike and stuff was falling around me. It was just a kind of terror that... That I'll never forget. I had my video camera, my DV camera in my hand, and there's one shower where I'm trying to, as I'm biking away, film the towers and it crosses over, and in that crossing over, you can see my face.”
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“I remember being like just thinking it was a canon. I don't know, whatever reason I remember the scene in Mary Poppins, the family that's the subject of the movie. They lived down the street from an old ship captain, and he fires the cannon every hour. The whole house shapes, right? And like in that moment, like half asleep, half awake, I assume someone had fired a cannon.”
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“Yeah, I mean, the first three months in New York City were really separate from the other 17 and a half years I spent ended up spending in New York City. The first three months were unique because those first three months were June through September of 2001. And my sublet was up August 31, 2001. And I think it was September 1, I moved into another friend's house who they were only living there for a month and they're like, sure, you can flop here if you give us a couple hundred bucks because we're moving out. And they lived on Rector Street in the financial district. And I moved in with them. And I bought myself another month. And then 11 days later was September 11th, 2001. And we were hundreds of feet from the base of the World Trade Centers. So much so that when the first plane hit, I was knocked off the couch.”
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“So I did temp work at first and ultimately I got a job as sort of an artist assistant getting $10 an hour. But it was exciting because I got to be around an artist who was using his creativity to sort of make a living in a career, which is something that was fascinating to be close to. I'd never seen that before in my life. And there was consistency there because he had a lot of work to be done in as many hours as I could work, he would pay me for. And I needed it. I needed the job because I was taking the train every four days back to Connecticut where I was staying in my dad's building of his company. He had an attic that was unused, which was just used for storage. That's where I would stay with Owen because I, to go a week without seeing him was, I would just start to implode.”
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“I mean, I would say that it was probably like two duffel bags. And I remember Van's girlfriend, whose name was Melissa, she was like Casey, you know, I have this sublet, like this friend of mine is looking for somebody to live in their couch to help subsidize the rent for this summer. Do you want to do it? I'll loan you the money. And I was like, really? And she put up the like $1,500 for three months to be on this couch. It was like a 250 square foot studio apartment in these village that had been walls had been put up to make it a two-bedroom.”
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“Yeah, I think that when she and I split, you know, I was upset about it and ultimately I just kind of made a rash decision because I was going into New York to visit my brother then with some degree of frequency. And he and I and his girlfriend kind of hatched this cockami plan to like start a movie production, a video production company. I was like, great, great. I'll be the CEO. And they were like, of course, of course you'll be the CEO. And the minute that happened, it was not I'm going to go stay in New York. It was I am moving to New York City. And I remember during a smoke break in the back, like having this conversation with the cooks at the restaurant in the weeks preceding my leaving. And I remember them saying to them, you know, like, the great thing about this restaurant is that if you ever want to come back, Casey, you can just come right back and pick up right where you left off.”
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“But no, I never considered these to be home videos. I considered these to be like These were movies And immediately then, when I would show up at the restaurant I worked in, all I would talk about to everybody I worked with was how I'm now like a filmmaker. That's what I do for a living. Washing dishes is what I'm doing now, but I'm a filmmaker.”
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“Yeah, that's pretty close. I mean, there's literally a video of Owen next to a duck pond, an old mystic village, which is across the street from where we live. There's a duck pond, and that's where I shot one video. I remember like one of my first big movies, like the one that I was immensely proud of was Owen's mom's birthday. And I went and filmed the birthday and all this. And then at the end of the video, I jumped off of the garage into the swimming pool at her cousin's house. And like, that was like the grand finale. And I made every family member I had watch that stupid movie over and over and over.”
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“Oh, I mean, guy, I considered these like Academy Award winning movies. The version of sharing them then, or the version of virality then, is I would then take those VHS tapes on my nights off and I would drive to my friend's house, to my relatives' house, I'd make them all sit on the couch, I'd put the VHS tape in, I'd make sure everybody was quiet, and then I'd click play and make them watch my videos, then I'd take my VHS tape's house, and I'd drive to the next house. That was how I found my audience.”
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“Yeah, it was shooting to tape. And moreover, the machine only had a 10GB hard drive, which held about 12 minutes of video. So I would edit one video at a time, and I remember I would back up my footage to VHS tapes because VHS tapes were pretty cheap. I remember then every video then guy opened with the title screen and the title screen was trailer park productions and there was a picture of my trailer. Because we had one car, and Owen's mom would take that car to work in the morning. So everything was shot within the confines of the trailer park.”
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“I was his sole caretaker. So he was my partner in crime, but he was also my muse in the subject of all of my videos. And that's all we did.”
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“Because I just wanted to manipulate video. It was just so exciting for me, guys, like that moment. And after that vacation came to an end, we got back to Connecticut and I applied for a credit card so I could buy that machine. And I was only able to get a credit card with a $400 limit. So I got another credit card that also had a $400 limit up to $800 if you're keeping track. And that in combination with my tax return from that year gave me enough money to buy a computer of my own. And my life immediately changed because all my days were Owen, my two-year-old at the time, almost two years old. He and I are making videos, and that's all we did all day, every day”
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“That moment, I mean, I can tell you how the room smelled. I can tell you exactly the layout. I can tell you where his computer was in relationship to his bed. Like that moment, which was almost exactly 20 years ago, was so crystal for me because it was such a big deal. I had never sort of had my breath taken away so much. I'd never seen such a Tool of empowerment, a way to express yourself. I imagine it was like when you put a pianist in front of a piano for the first time or you hand a writer a pencil for the first time, I just remember having my breath taken away by this machine. And when we ran out of footage to edit, it came with like a dog being bathed in a kiddie pool that came to fault on the computer so you could have some footage of play. We edited that.”
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“Purple is the next year. And that's what he was doing in New York. And I remember when he bought that computer, he called me to tell me about it. And that sounded like the coolest thing I'd ever heard. And that year, Owen wasn't quite two yet, but that year we drove into the city and we stayed in his apartment, his one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. And while we were there, all we did was play with my brother's computer. Because he had a computer, but he didn't have a video camera. And I had a video camera, but no computer. So we had all this footage of my son running around the Central Park Zoo, and he and I just tried to figure out how to edit it. Wow.”
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“So he actually didn't finish. He didn't graduate from William and Mary. My parents couldn't afford tuition any longer, so he had to drop out. And he dropped out of college and moved to Brooklyn. And he had a series of kind of interesting gigs. And throughout that, he bought an IMAC computer, which was the first, kind of the first consumer marketing. Computer that you can edit video on.”
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“I always had this vision of the future. Like I always used to say, even when I was very young to my sister, I was like, well, when I grew up, I'm going to be rich. And I remember when Owen was born and I was working in a restaurant, I remember sort of hatching these plans and spending 40, 50 hours a week in the bottom of a chowder pot scrubbing it. You sort of spend a lot of time in your own head. And I remember then just like obsessively identifying the weaknesses and the way that the restaurant, the business was run and being like, okay, so when I start a restaurant, here's exactly how I'm going to run it. Here's how it's going to be profitable. Here's how it's going to work. That's the plan.”
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“Yeah, I was optimistic, and I was, you know, I think because I had nowhere else to go, I was home every day with my kid. His mother worked days. I work nights, which meant every day from 7 a.m. till 4 p.m. It was just the two of us. And we were wildly close. He was my little boy. And his first word was daddy. And I was there for his first word and his first step. And it was wonderful. I loved every second of it.”
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“I bought a trailer like a mobile home, and we lived in a trailer park, which was amazing. I remember being so proud of that. That was such a defining moment in my life because the trailer, I think, was $12,000. And I put, I think, $800 or $900 down and then got a mortgage for the rest that my grandmother co-signed for. And then we had to rent a little piece of land that we parked it on. And we lived there. And to me, that was like an unbelievable source of pride. I remember like getting an argument with Owen's mother because I would have to have the carpet vacuumed in a certain pattern. And if the pattern wasn't there, I'd be upset. So I was vacuuming like three times a day because I was so proud of this home that I had for my family.”
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