[00:00.000]One thing I was sure of,
[00:02.200]My uncle Leo was definitely the hero of my childhood.
[00:06.800]The smell of his "Old Spice" cologne carried me back into that lost childhood more than the home movies did.
[00:13.500]My uncle didn't know it, but it was the sweet cheap smell of car dealers that took me back.
[00:18.400]And made me dissolve into a dream of the past.
[00:22.300]Leo was the last dinosaur that smelled of cheap cologne.
[00:26.100]And he believed in the American dream.
[00:29.600]I was crazy about him because he believed in miracles.
[00:32.500]And even though he lived inside of life and sold Cadillacs, he always looked like a 10 year-old boy whose sleeves were too long.
[00:41.200]When I was 10, Leo gave me this great movie camera and my mother always hoped that I'd become the next Milton Berle.
[00:47.400]But dreams about houses and cars and fresh cut lawns aren't dreams when they become real.
[00:52.200]And somehow I understood what my mother meant by "Good morning, Columbus."
[00:57.350]And even if my mother didn't like what I was doing with my life, I think she'd understand.
[01:05.700]When I was 11, I got this really weird earache that wouldn't go away.
[01:10.400]I went to about a hundred doctors but none of them could help me...
[01:13.500]So what Leo did was, he went into Mexico and brought back this fat lady witch doctor who did some mambo jambo and fixed me right up.
[01:21.800]I was grateful but somehow I thought I might've been better off mute.
[01:25.900]All in all I had a very happy childhood.
[01:29.300]My father was a border guard who spent most of his life trying to keep people from crossing lines.
[01:34.150]Every night for 15 years he'd go out and smooth down the road between Mexico and Arizona.
[01:39.000]And every morning he'd be out there looking for footprints in the dirt.
[01:43.100]But my father always said that work was like a hat you put on your head.
[01:46.300]And even if you didn't have pants you didn't have to walk down the street ashamed of your ass, as long as you had a hat.
[03:06.200]And if somebody was to ask me why I don't get up right now and catch the next train back to New York, it's because you can't say no to your childhood hero.
[03:14.500]I decided to be his best man but one thing I was sure of, no matter how much I loved the smell of cheap cologne...
[03:21.200]I was never going to become my uncle.
[03:23.900]And I was never gonna sell Cadillacs