0:00:41.787,0:00:43.636
I bought new shoes,

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and I wanted to show them to you.

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I bought them from this guy.

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His name is Catalino.

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He's been living at the North Rosario[br]train station for 20 years.

0:00:56.798,0:00:59.831
Here's Catalino giving me his shoes.

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I bought them especially for this talk,

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because for me,[br]it's a very special occasion,

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and I wanted to wear new shoes.

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I studied advertising in Buenos Aires.

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We were once given an assignment

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to go out into the street,[br]change something,

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and then observe people's reactions.

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So I dressed the way I'm dressed today,

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and I went to the Obelisco monument,

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and when cars stopped at the light,

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instead of asking for money,[br]I gave them one peso.

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What did I learn?

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I realized how prejudiced people are.

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Because as soon as they saw me[br]approaching their car,

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they closed the window[br]or looked straight ahead,

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pretending nobody was there.

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That created an uncomfortable situation,

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which would last until the next red light,

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when they'd become uncomfortable[br]again, ignoring another person.

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Women would usually put[br]their purses in the back seat.

0:02:05.286,0:02:07.199
The exercise was a success,

0:02:07.223,0:02:11.307
and that's how I got my first job[br]at Agulla y Baccetti.

0:02:11.945,0:02:14.665
Later, I worked at Vega Olmos Ponce,

0:02:14.689,0:02:19.974
and in 2001, I escaped all the rioting

0:02:19.998,0:02:22.730
by going to London[br]with a thousand dollars,

0:02:22.754,0:02:25.825
a tourist visa, and speaking[br]no English at all.

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I survived one year,[br]I worked washing dishes,

0:02:30.364,0:02:33.438
building scaffolding[br]for construction sites,

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and installing heating and AC systems.

0:02:37.210,0:02:38.385
I returned from London,

0:02:38.409,0:02:42.900
having been deported for working illegally[br]and at double the allotted hours,

0:02:42.924,0:02:46.135
but it was the best experience of my life.

0:02:46.917,0:02:52.075
I returned to work in advertising[br]for two years in a new agency,

0:02:52.099,0:02:56.976
until I got an offer[br]from an agency in New York,

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which I took without a second thought.

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But this time I had a paid apartment[br]across from the Empire State Building,

0:03:02.568,0:03:04.799
and a salary of US $60,000 a year.

0:03:05.863,0:03:07.698
A completely different experience,

0:03:07.722,0:03:11.597
but one that I could really[br]appreciate after London.

0:03:12.539,0:03:15.054
Then I met my girlfriend.

0:03:15.078,0:03:18.380
Soon after we moved in together,

0:03:18.404,0:03:21.739
I got a call from another agency[br]in Austin, Texas,

0:03:21.763,0:03:22.959
offering me a job.

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I told them, "Listen, I just moved in[br]with my girlfriend a month ago.

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I can't accept the offer,[br]she has a job here."

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And they said,[br]"We'll give her a job, too."

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So we went to Austin for a weekend,[br]we liked the city, and we moved there.

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We arrived on a Sunday,

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and on Monday we found out[br]she was pregnant.

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So we got married; I flew[br]my parents in from Argentina,

0:03:44.816,0:03:47.245
and we got married[br]in Puerto Rico, pregnant.

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We got married pregnant,[br]but we were really happy.

0:03:52.258,0:03:56.747
In 2009 Elena was born.[br]She is the love of my life.

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She's the baby in the photo.

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When Elena was a year and a half old,

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I got a call from my brother.

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I was having lunch,

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and he told me that my parents[br]had been in a really bad car accident.

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He didn't even know how they were,

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only that they were in serious condition.

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It had happened near Rafaela,[br]coming from Santiago Del Estero.

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There was no other news.

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Having no other information,[br]I hopped on a plane.

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A friend was waiting for me[br]at Ezeiza Airport.

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He took me to Rafaela.

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And I was met with this.

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I learned that my father was in coma.

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(Sobs)

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All of my mom's bones were broken.

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My dad was in a coma[br]for 10 months until he died.

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My mom was in bed for six months,[br]and had six surgeries.

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This was the last time[br]I held my father's hand.

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At first, he would listen[br]to me and respond,

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but then later, he stopped responding.

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So I went back to Austin to work --[br]I had to keep working.

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There was a day, five months[br]before my father died ...

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My wife and I had an argument[br]in the morning,

0:05:19.602,0:05:21.816
and I left for work, slamming the door.

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The next day I was served[br]with divorce papers.

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I was left on the street.

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I lost my daughter, I lost my house,

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and with my parents' situation[br]back in Argentina,

0:05:32.346,0:05:33.614
I was completely alone.

0:05:33.638,0:05:36.906
I went to stay with a friend,[br]and sleep on his couch.

0:05:37.597,0:05:41.551
At that time I was using Instagram,[br]like everyone else,

0:05:41.575,0:05:45.057
taking pictures of the sky, a bird,[br]whatever crossed my path.

0:05:45.443,0:05:48.691
Until one day I met this man.

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I asked if I could take his picture,[br]and paid him a dollar for it.

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We started chatting[br]and he told me his story.

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And suddenly all my problems[br]became very small compared to his story.

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It helped me to appreciate[br]all the things I had,

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which were quite a few:

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I was healthy, my daughter was healthy,

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and I had a couch to sleep on,[br]which is a lot.

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Since that day,

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I focused on taking portraits[br]of people who lived in the streets.

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I found in them the family I lacked,[br]the support I needed.

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Their stories made me[br]appreciate everything I had.

0:06:31.850,0:06:33.929
I started gaining followers.

0:06:34.580,0:06:39.051
I always uploaded a person's picture[br]along with their name,

0:06:39.075,0:06:41.908
plus a bit of their story[br]if I found it interesting.

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I found in them the family I was missing.

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One day I met this guy.

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We talked, I took his picture,[br]paid him a dollar.

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And before I left, he told me,

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"Do you know the only thing[br]I'd like to do before I die?"

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I said, "No." And he said, "Oktoberfest!"

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(Laughs)

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"Oktoberfest?"

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He told me he was of German descent,

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and he had always dreamed[br]of visiting Germany.

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We laughed and I went to work.

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And on my way to work --

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at that point, I had[br]like 5,000 followers on Instagram --

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on my way to work,

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I had the idea that if every follower[br]I had donated one dollar,

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which is what I paid for each portrait,

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I could take this guy to Germany,

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and write a book about the experience.

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I started dreaming about it.

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Without much thinking, I uploaded[br]his picture with the headline:

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"Who wants to take this guy[br]to Oktoberfest?"

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I opened a Paypal account,[br]I created a site called One Dollar Dreams.

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Suddenly, a lady from Japan[br]sent me 100 dollars,

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a guy from South Africa sent five,

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a guy from the United States sent two ...

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I realized I had a good idea, a big idea.

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My father died around that time,

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and I have a friend who lives[br]in Colombia who said,

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"Why don't you come and stay with me?

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Forget about your problems for a while."

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I bought a ticket using miles,[br]and went to Colombia.

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In Colombia, I took pictures.

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While my friend was at work,[br]I went out and took pictures,

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I listened to stories[br]and wrote down names.

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I found a completely different reality[br]from the one in the United States,

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like in any other Latin American country.

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The reality of the people who live[br]on the streets here is very different.

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I met this guy,

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who asked me for money to buy shoes.

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And since I knew he was going[br]to spend the money on something else,

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I went with him to buy them.

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Here he is trying on the shoes.

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Here he is, happy with his new shoes.

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I kept taking pictures until I met --

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this is how people sleep in Colombia.

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And it's part of the landscape,[br]we don't even notice them.

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See how people keep on walking,[br]as if he didn’t exist.

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He might as well be another trash can.

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Look how close that bus passes by.

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I met this guy, whose name is Alex.

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Alex was from a small, inland town[br]and moved to Medellin

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to play the guitar on buses.

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He was addicted to crack cocaine.

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One day he went to buy drugs,[br]and when he finished,

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they cut him with a knife[br]and stole the drugs,

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his guitar, his shoes, everything.

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He'd been living on the streets[br]for three days,

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his feet were swollen, he couldn't walk.

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In his hand he had a card[br]from a rehab center.

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He told me he couldn't handle it anymore.

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He had asked the police[br]to give him a ride to the center,

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but they ignored him.

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Then I asked him[br]if he really wanted to quit.

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He said it was what he wanted[br]more than anything --

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he couldn't take any more.

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So we got into a cab[br]and I took him to rehab,

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I became his guardian.

0:10:02.092,0:10:05.738
Alex was in rehab for ten months[br]until he left and got a job.

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I went back to Austin, and the agency[br]sent me to Mexico for a commercial shoot.

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After the shoot, I stayed[br]over the weekend with a friend,

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and took pictures.

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That boy is the first picture I took.

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He was painted as a clown,[br]asking for money at the traffic light,

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and his parents were at the corner[br]drinking wine and waiting for the money.

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This is Mexico.[br]Lots of kids on the streets.

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I kept gathering stories[br]and telling them over Instagram.

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I gained more followers;[br]people gave me encouragement,

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which helped me a lot, personally,

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and also because I've always[br]worked in advertising.

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I like ideas, I'm passionate[br]about ideas and solving problems,

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but I'm not passionate about selling[br]cheese puffs for Monsanto, you know?

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So I found in this project[br]something that really filled my life.

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I had to go Los Angeles[br]to edit a commercial,

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and I had to do it[br]from Wednesday to Thursday.

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I didn't have any money, so I spent[br]the weekend on the street.

0:11:25.117,0:11:29.301
I spent the weekend sharing[br]the experience live on Instagram.

0:11:30.705,0:11:33.909
I took pictures in Los Angeles,[br]and then went back to Austin,

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where I found this man.

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He was an unemployed chef.

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I took him to a store and bought him[br]all kinds of chef equipment,

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plus a set of knives.

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We went to different restaurants,

0:11:46.709,0:11:50.326
and I offered to advertise[br]for them over my social networks,

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if they would give him a job.

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He got a job at the first place we went.

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I was invited to give a speech in Uruguay,

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I went 10 days early,[br]and took pictures there.

0:12:00.559,0:12:04.476
I took a guy from the street[br]to the conference.

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This guy, Sebastián.

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And I did the opposite[br]to what I did here today --

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I dressed him up like an advertising exec,

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complete with a hotel room[br]and new clothes,

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so mixed in with the people[br]attending the festival.

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I realized that a person's appearance[br]can have the opposite effect.

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If you're well-dressed, no matter[br]if you're alcoholic or homeless,

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people respect you.

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Then I went to Spain to visit a friend --

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it's great to have friends[br]all over the world.

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I took pictures in Madrid for 10 days,

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and through Instagram a journalist[br]asked me for an interview.

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After the interview, she offered to let me[br]use her apartment in Barcelona,

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so I stayed there for 10 days,[br]taking pictures.

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All this is Spain -- I took[br]lots of pictures in Spain.

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After Spain, I was invited[br]to El Salvador to speak,

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and I did the same, went 10 days[br]early to take pictures.

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For my talk,

0:13:04.048,0:13:08.355
I contacted the mother of a guy[br]in the audience without his knowing.

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I dressed her as a homeless person,[br]and took pictures of her.

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Then when I was showing[br]the photos as I'm doing now,

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suddenly this guy's mother[br]appeared on screen, this one.

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Nobody knew but him.

0:13:27.241,0:13:32.161
Now he will no longer see[br]the homeless the same way.

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Why? Because our perspective changes[br]when that person is a loved one.

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It changes when we care about them.

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And those people on the streets[br]are someone's brothers,

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someone's children,[br]someone's mother, all of them.

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After that I returned to Austin,

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and wanted to do a larger study[br]of the United States,

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because I had only[br]looked at Austin and L.A.

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I had no money,

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and as usual, I took my car[br]and left with thousand dollars,

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the same amount of money[br]I had when going to London.

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So I set out.

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I was on the road for two months;[br]I traveled ten thousand miles.

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I went to Las Vegas, Los Angeles,[br]San Francisco, Denver,

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Saint Louis, Detroit, New York,

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Washington, Atlanta, Miami, Key West,

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New Orleans and I returned to Austin.

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People opened their homes to me,

0:14:36.611,0:14:40.541
they gave me money, food,[br]and a lot of support.

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In San Francisco, I invited[br]a homeless guy to come with me,

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and we traveled together for a month.

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I left him in Key West.

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The trip was a success.

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And finally, I want to talk about luck.

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The importance of luck.

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Because we often discriminate[br]against people for their appearance,

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but we don't consider that it's all luck.

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You are very lucky to be here today,[br]well-dressed, listening to this talk.

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Luck is a major factor,

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not only in what we get from life,

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but also in the decisions we make.

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Because that determines[br]how you make decisions later.

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For example, this hat that I'm wearing

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is the result of an alcoholic[br]and abusive father.

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This hat.

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This jacket is my brother, who gave me[br]some glue when I was seven.

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That's what it represents.

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These shoes that I have on represent[br]never having gone to school.

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These shoes from Catalino.

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His very painful shoes.

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This shirt that I'm wearing.

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It's about all the times I was beaten up[br]by friends, by good friends.

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And finally, these pants are my mom,[br]who worked as a prostitute

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and was never home.

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We are all equal, as you can see.

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We may have very small differences.

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But I always try to be thankful[br]for what I have,

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and not concerned for what I lack.

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(Applause)

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This --

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This underwear --

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represents being born[br]at Sanatorio Británico,

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with the help of first-rate doctors.

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That's what this underwear represents.

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This shirt represents having gone[br]to a private Marist school,

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from preschool to high school.

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Martín Jáuregui: Wait, I'll help you.[br]Let's keep applauding, don't you think?

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(Applause)

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Pachi Tamer: Ironed by my mom.

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She ironed it last night.[br]She's here somewhere.

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These pants represent[br]starting three different majors,

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and the parents who supported me[br]until I found what I liked.

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(Applause)

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And finally these are my shoes,[br]which I wear every day.

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They represent my mom's sacrifices,

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because at 74 she keeps working,

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so a fucking divorce[br]doesn't leave me on the streets.

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These are my shoes.

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Thank you all for walking[br]in them for 18 minutes.

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Thank you mom. Thank you all.

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(Applause)