- Tonight on jon benjamin has a van...
We bring you the story of one man's courage
In the face of adversity.
The historic little italy section
Of new york city is getting smaller and smaller.
Is it in danger of disappearing altogether?
And we talk to the youngest person
Currently on death row.
Do you feel remorse for what you did?
All this and more on tonight's
Jon benjamin has a van.
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- Ahh!
- This is the story of courage and strength
In the face of great adversity.
In 2008, 32 year old farmer bross lockley
Suffered a horrible accident
While working right here on his farm.
After falling into the feeder of a grain thresher,
Bross was basically flayed alive.
After countless surgeries even the best doctors
In the world couldn't repair
The horrendous deformities
That bross had suffered.
In 2009 he was interviewed
By nebraskan reporter, greg devlin.
- It was probably the most disgusting thing
I'd ever experienced in my life.
- Where were you when you saw him?
- Over there in that barn, interviewing him.
I've done a lot of stories in my life,
And this was by far the worst thing i'd ever seen.
His face was...
Like a pile of raw chicken fat
With blood drizzled on it...
And eyes.
- Greg provided us with some of the raw footage
From his interview that day.
when i woke up from my coma,
I didn't even comprehend
The extent of damage to my body.
I've been so pumped full of drugs,
It was like being in a dream.
- Three minutes into the interview
Greg already struggles to maintain his composure.
- And so when they brought my daughter
In to see me, she screamed at the top of her lungs.
- 15 minutes in, greg manipulates his vision
By suddenly crossing one eye so that bross' face
Is slightly blurred.
How did you make it through till the end?
- I don't know.
Every ounce of strength in my body
I used it to not run away.
- Mm-Hm.
- Then i just ran away.
- Wow, that's incredible.
- I still have nightmares.
she screamed
At the top of her lungs.
- That's, uh, not where you should put out your cigarette.
- I don't like nightmares.
- I understand, but you can't
Throw cigarettes at people.
We return to lockley farm to speak with the wife
Of the disfigured farmer about her experience
With greg devlin.
- He just had this feeling of strength coming off him
The moment i met him.
- Hmm.
- That interview was, like, three hours long
And he sat there the entire time.
- Yeah, i mean, that's-
hey, hon.
I made some iced tea. - Ooh... oh.
- I'm so sorry. Honey, i told you to knock.
- Mr. Benjamin? Mr. Benjamin?
- Well, i was in his house, uh, interviewing his wife
For my story about you.
- Ah. - And your interview with him.
- And what, uh, what happened?
- Well, he came into the room.
And, um, he said something about iced tea,
And then i immediately passed out.
- Oh.
I really, really wish i could have passed out.
- Well, to each his own.
- Well, um, i don't know if you knew this
But, uh, mr. Lockley passed away recently
Due to complications.
- Yeah, yeah, the wife emailed me.
- Ah, well, his death takes nothing away
From your incredible story.
- Or yours, i mean you are the one that started it.
- Thank you very much. - No, thank you.
I mean, i- - Not that i'm looking for it.
But thank you very much. - No, it was my pleasure.
I mean, we both-
- Thank you. - Yeah.
- Thank you very much for talking with me.
- Uh, no problem, greg, thank you for having me.
- Ah, thank you.
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- Hey, man, do you have a second to discuss gay marriage?
- No. - Okay.
Do you have a second to discuss gay marriage?
Do you have a second?
- You have a second to discuss the issue of gay marriage?
- Uh, i'm sorry, i really don't.
- Oh, i mean, are you for or against?
- Oh, absolutely for. - Oh, we got that light.
- I'm sorry, thank you. - Absolutely.
- Excuse me, sir.
- Gay marriage? I don't know much about that.
All i could tell you is when god made man-
- Oh, i'm sorry, hold on.
Hello?
Hold on one second.
Hey... yeah.
I'm doing the interview.
Um, in brooklyn.
i know.
Well, no, i felt the same way
'Cause that was- When i left last night
That was-That was...
Very awkward.
No, i mean i'll call her,
I just didn't feel like i wanted to deal with it there
Because two other people were there
And i was, like, um...
- You know, i felt it would have been completely awkward
If i spoke to her then.
Well that's a possibility- - More than a moment.
- Was it? Yeah. Oh, you have to go?
Okay. - Well-
- Yeah, go ahead, i'm sorry.
- Okay, yeah.
All i can say is, god made man-
- I can't-I know, i can't- Uh, 'cause i'm on the phone.
- With a history spanning back over a century,
Little italy remains one of new york city's
Premiere tourist destinations.
However, in recent years,
Little italy has shrunk dramatically.
Now consisting of only a few new york city blocks.
Much of it has been absorbed by neighboring china town,
And wealthy real estate developers.
But just as little italy is being squeezed
By outside forces,
They themselves are squeezing out someone else.
- Through that door, to the right.
You'll see it.
- Okay.
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Hi.
Hello. - Mangia, mangia, you hungry?
- Oh, no thanks, i just ate.
- Pervert!
- Sorry.
- Hey, what are you doin'? What's your name?
- I'm jon, i'm just visiting.
- Hey watch it, big man!
- Excuse me. - Where you goin', eh?
- Sorry. - What the matter with you?
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- I don't mean to be insulting,
But i never even knew there was a little, little italy.
well, not many do anymore.
See before we came here, uh, we lived in an area
Of italy called "little italy. "
- Mm.
- Uh, but then fascism
Came into little italy like it came to regular italy,
So many of us came to america to have a better life.
- So because there was already a little italy
In america, you became little, little italy.
- Yes, that's how
Little, little italy started.
At first little, little italy and little italy
Uh, we all get along.
We share everything.
- And then what happened? - Well, then things change.
See, little italy starts to shrink
And then they take room from us.
And then it starts to get ugly.
- Hm.
- And now all we got
Is the back room of this deli.
And who knows how long before they take that from us too?
- For clarification on this land dispute,
I interviewed little italy
Neighborhood association president frank palantino.
- It's not their land. It's our land.
We let 'em use it.
I mean, you know, they're lucky to have the back room.
And if we need it back,
It's ours to take.
Hey, who'd you talk to over there?
- Um, nino. - Nino?
- Nino. - Nino?
- Yeah.
- You tell nino he's lucky
We don't take it all.
I got a lot of people want to rent out that back room.
You know, those little.
- Well, i mean, he did say they were getting squeezed, so...
- You tell nino shut is mouth!
And that's all you need to understand.
You got me, pal? - Yeah, yeah... yep.
Frank palantino told me
To tell you to shut your mouth.
allora, is that so?
Frank palantino has some trouble
With his communication skills, huh?
- Well, i guess what he's trying to get across is
That little italy has always just let little, little italy
Stay here, and, you know, space is a premium, so...
- You know what?
I'm glad you came to see me, jon.
- Okay.
- Because i don't like
This bad blood.
- Right.
- I want you to do me a favor.
I make the gesture to frank
To make things right.
Now my daughter, she make delicious italian cookies.
Pizzelle con la macchina.
Much better.
Uh, cara, gabriella, bella,
Bring me a box of pizzelle.
Ah.
This is my daughter gabriella.
The is the interview man i told you about.
- Hi, gabriella.
- Now you bring this box to little italy
And you give it to frank to smooth things over.
- Right, right, okay.
Fine, yeah, i'll do it, um...
- Yeah, hurry.
Before frank leaves, okay?
- All right. Bye, nino.
Bye, gabriella.
Just so you know this has gotta be the last time
I go back and forth between you and nino.
- Yeah, sure. - Thank you.
Oh, nino asked me
To give you this.
This, um, pizelles. - Pizelles?
I love pizelles, thanks.
- Yeah, it's a peace offering i guess.
His daughter makes them, so, uh...
- Nice.
What the...
- Booooomb!
Aah!
You mother-
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- So just explain what you're doing,
As you're doing it.
- Okay.
I'm going on-In, uh, on the-On, uh, email.
I'm going on web.
On net.
- Okay.
Log on.
You wanna log on? - I don't know how.
- Hm.
- I'm going to try to go to my inbox.
- Mm-Hm.
- Do you want me to do anything here?
- We don't want to read your mail.
- Oh...
Aw, it's not that secret.
- All right, let's read some mail then.
Yeah, do you check it every day, or...
- Yeah, every morning.
So you got 34 new messages this morning?
- Uh, yeah, these are they.
- Mm-Ooh, look, "sarah, chat tonight. "
- Yeah, right, right.
- What's that all about?
- Well, let's see sarah.
"My name is sarah. " - Yeah, "my name is sarah. "
You don't wanna do that.
- Okay.
- Oof!
- Tom brokaw, how you holding up?
- Yeah, how you doin', anderson cooper?
- Ha-Ha, i get it, 'cause i'm on tv, that's funny.
- Yeah, kramer.
- What are you talking about?
- Kramer, from seinfeld.
- This guy does interviews.
- I don't watch the news.
- Geez.
Listen, jon, we can do this
All day long.
But i'm asking you only one more time.
How long you been working for nino?
- I told you guys, i don't work for nino.
I just host a tv show. That's it.
- Aw, this is making me hungry, you guys wanna eat?
- I could eat. - Yeah, let's eat, let's eat.
- Hit him one more time, that'll give him
About 20 minutes to think about it.
- No, come on.
Oh!
- What do you guys want, chinese?
- Yeah, that sounds good. - Yeah, let's get dumplings.
- Why'd i get involved in a turf war between
Little italy and little, little italy?
- Psst, jon.
Over here.
- Gabriella?
What are you doing here?
- I came for you.
I can't stand papa.
He acts like he's a saint, but he's a hypocrite.
- What?
- He makes his money
From importing tiny prostitutes from italy.
- That's awful.
- I know.
We have to hurry.
- What is this place?
- Originally it was a stop on the underground railroad.
Since then we use it when big tourists
Want to stay in little, little italy.
- That's interesting.
- Take off your shirt.
- What?
- I'm going to wash your wounds.
- Okay.
I'm sorry about-
I let myself go.
Ow.
- I'm sorry.
- Aah. - Your hands.
They're so...
Large.
- Your eyes...
They're so small.
yes.
- Gabriella, we shouldn't.
I...
I don't think it's-
- Shh.
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- Oh, yes.
Oh, god.
Ooh.
Oh-Ooh.
Aah... aah.
[Laughs
Oh, god!
- Gabriella!
- Nino. - Papa!
- It's not what you think.
- Papa... i love him.
- Get him!
- No, please, you don't understand! Nino!
- Hyah! - Ow.
- This is what you do to me after i trusted you.
- You lied to me, you had me deliver a bomb.
- And you didn't deliver it, you're still alive.
- It exploded in his hand, nino, it was a tiny bomb.
- That's not the point, the point is that
I trusted you with my little girl,
And you slept with her.
- With all due respect, sir.
She's a full-Grown woman,
She can make her own decisions!
- She's 15, you sick!
- What?
- Yeah, that's right. - Oh, my god, really?
15!
- I couldn't tell, the scale was off.
She's so small.
- It's too late for excuses,
This is not mississippi where the age of consent is 12.
- It's 14, actually.
- Ugh! - Ow.
- Hey, paulie, finish him off.
- Nino! They're coming!
It's happening tonight.
Frank palantino and his gang,
They're gonna try to wipe us out.
Little italy is coming!
- What? - We don't have much time!
- This was bound to happen.
All right, i want everyone to gear up,
I want all the guns on the street!
And i'll deal with you later.
Andiamo.
- Nino. - What, scum?
- Cut me loose.
- What?
- You heard me.
I'll fight for you.
You can't win this.
You're all too small and you know it.
- Oh, jeez.
cut him loose and give him a gun.
- This is it, no mercy.
- No mercy.
All:
- Aah!
- All right, all right, all right!
We're done.
Let's eat.
- Aah!
Aah!
jon.
- Gabriella.
help me.
- You should have told me you were 15.
I can get in a load of trouble for that.
- Please, do something.
I love you-
Sorry.
- How'd the story go?
- It didn't end well.
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