1
00:00:07,632 --> 00:00:09,968
(Singing in background) (♪) Who gave you those? (♪)

2
00:00:09,968 --> 00:00:11,803
-My name is Glen “Pops” Freeman.

3
00:00:11,803 --> 00:00:14,139
I'm a street musician
living here in Seattle

4
00:00:14,139 --> 00:00:19,561
now, for the last 35 years,
and I write my own music.

5
00:00:19,811 --> 00:00:24,274
I play percussion and sing,
my choice of instruments

6
00:00:24,274 --> 00:00:29,529
is a water bottle. (Indistinguishable singing)

7
00:00:29,946 --> 00:00:33,074
(♪) And he gave you his heart. (♪)

8
00:00:35,201 --> 00:00:36,119
It's entertainment.

9
00:00:36,119 --> 00:00:38,038
People like to be entertained.

10
00:00:38,038 --> 00:00:39,748
(Singing upbeat song in background)
They like the fact that it's

11
00:00:39,748 --> 00:00:43,043
personal interaction,
like a personal concert.

12
00:00:44,085 --> 00:00:46,713
I grew up in San Diego,
California,

13
00:00:46,713 --> 00:00:48,131
grew up in a junkyard.

14
00:00:48,131 --> 00:00:50,383
My mother had 14 children.

15
00:00:50,383 --> 00:00:52,260
I never met my dad.

16
00:00:52,260 --> 00:00:55,263
I've never really even seen
a picture of my dad.

17
00:00:55,722 --> 00:00:57,265
His name was Thomas Freeman.

18
00:00:57,265 --> 00:00:57,974
You know, matter of fact,

19
00:00:57,974 --> 00:00:59,976
I have a poem
I've written about him.

20
00:00:59,976 --> 00:01:02,562
It's called
“The Man I Never Knew”

21
00:01:02,562 --> 00:01:04,022
‘You would have had to have been cool.

22
00:01:04,022 --> 00:01:05,857
You would have had
to have been real damn cool,

23
00:01:05,857 --> 00:01:08,860
good looking, smart
and a damn good hustler, too.

24
00:01:09,027 --> 00:01:10,528
Because I know my Momma
and she wouldn't

25
00:01:10,528 --> 00:01:13,406
have fell for no fool.
But you're just a man

26
00:01:13,406 --> 00:01:14,657
I never knew.’

27
00:01:14,657 --> 00:01:17,202
(♪) Now, my
mom always said she loved

28
00:01:18,369 --> 00:01:18,912
you,

29
00:01:18,912 --> 00:01:21,915
and she loved her, too.

30
00:01:22,207 --> 00:01:26,503
And if you did,
what would make you leave

31
00:01:26,628 --> 00:01:30,256
You leave her and your family too?

32
00:01:30,256 --> 00:01:34,511
Turn your back,
never look back.

33
00:01:35,470 --> 00:01:37,889
What were you running from?

34
00:01:37,889 --> 00:01:40,892
What were you running to?

35
00:01:41,017 --> 00:01:43,144
You’re just the man that I never

36
00:01:43,144 --> 00:01:44,979
knew. (♪)

37
00:01:44,979 --> 00:01:47,273
-I first met
Pops in The Rendezvous.

38
00:01:47,273 --> 00:01:50,443
I was probably sitting here or
here, and Pops came up to me

39
00:01:50,443 --> 00:01:53,446
and asked if I would like him
to do a poem.

40
00:01:54,155 --> 00:01:55,990
And I said, ‘Sure’.

41
00:01:55,990 --> 00:01:58,326
He did a poem for me
called “Broken Glass.”

42
00:01:58,326 --> 00:01:59,452
-My love is cut now.

43
00:01:59,452 --> 00:02:01,621
It has cut completely through

44
00:02:01,621 --> 00:02:04,541
as I try to hold
the broken edge of you.

45
00:02:04,541 --> 00:02:07,669
And I'm unable to see through
the lie or find the truth.

46
00:02:08,169 --> 00:02:09,087
So of my love

47
00:02:09,087 --> 00:02:10,755
now all remains are shattered

48
00:02:10,755 --> 00:02:13,341
feelings, broken window panes.

49
00:02:13,341 --> 00:02:14,175
And when I think

50
00:02:14,175 --> 00:02:17,887
of what we had, my heart's
like fragments, broken glass.

51
00:02:17,929 --> 00:02:20,056
-When Pops
performed this piece for me,

52
00:02:21,516 --> 00:02:22,725
I was speechless.

53
00:02:22,725 --> 00:02:23,977
It was beautiful.

54
00:02:23,977 --> 00:02:25,687
He played to
an audience of one.

55
00:02:25,687 --> 00:02:28,690
He connected like this.

56
00:02:28,690 --> 00:02:32,861
-I come in here, I mean,
and I feel like I'm at home.

57
00:02:33,444 --> 00:02:37,991
And she is the person that is
the nucleus of this place.

58
00:02:37,991 --> 00:02:41,244
And she holds it up and she
she makes me

59
00:02:41,244 --> 00:02:44,247
feel as if I am always
welcome here.

60
00:02:44,539 --> 00:02:45,790
And she speaks to everyone.

61
00:02:45,790 --> 00:02:47,792
‘Oh, you should hear Pops!’

62
00:02:47,792 --> 00:02:49,752
She's my number one fan,

63
00:02:49,752 --> 00:02:51,462
I think I would like to say.

64
00:02:51,462 --> 00:02:54,382
I'm Glen “Pops” Freeman,
 I'm a street musician.

65
00:02:54,382 --> 00:02:57,218
I've written an original song
every single day

66
00:02:57,218 --> 00:03:00,221
for three and a half years
and a poem a week.

67
00:03:00,513 --> 00:03:04,392
-Wherever he is,
whenever he talks to you, he's

68
00:03:04,392 --> 00:03:07,979
100% in the moment
and he brings

69
00:03:09,272 --> 00:03:12,942
love and light and generosity

70
00:03:12,942 --> 00:03:17,405
and authenticity
every single time he talks.

71
00:03:17,405 --> 00:03:19,282
I've never seen anything else
from him.

72
00:03:19,282 --> 00:03:20,783
-This is the
story of my grandmother's ‘52 Chevy.

73
00:03:22,118 --> 00:03:24,579
(♪) My grandma used

74
00:03:24,579 --> 00:03:27,582
to drive this old

75
00:03:27,624 --> 00:03:31,461
beat up green, ‘52

76
00:03:31,711 --> 00:03:33,880
Chevy.

77
00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,966
With the dents in the side.

78
00:03:37,967 --> 00:03:40,094
The one

79
00:03:40,094 --> 00:03:41,679
headlight. (♪)

80
00:03:41,679 --> 00:03:46,226
See my songs I keep, when
I play at about one minute.

81
00:03:46,935 --> 00:03:49,896
The reason is that's how long
it takes the light to change.

82
00:03:52,023 --> 00:03:52,607
(Laughs)

83
00:03:52,607 --> 00:03:55,610
(Indistinguishable singing)

84
00:03:55,860 --> 00:03:59,030
I'm planning on this trip
home to San Diego.

85
00:03:59,072 --> 00:04:02,075
And this is one of the things
that I'm

86
00:04:02,116 --> 00:04:05,119
in the process
of dealing with.

87
00:04:05,203 --> 00:04:06,537
I left.

88
00:04:06,537 --> 00:04:08,539
Never really went back.

89
00:04:08,539 --> 00:04:10,625
35 years I've been here.

90
00:04:10,625 --> 00:04:15,463
When I left San Diego,
I had been going out with

91
00:04:16,130 --> 00:04:17,465
a woman.

92
00:04:17,465 --> 00:04:19,717
And one day I was up here
and someone

93
00:04:19,717 --> 00:04:22,720
I ran to from San Diego.

94
00:04:23,137 --> 00:04:24,180
We got to talkin’.

95
00:04:24,180 --> 00:04:26,933
‘Did you know you
had a daughter?’ I went, ‘Nope.’

96
00:04:28,184 --> 00:04:30,395
And I said, ‘Well, I

97
00:04:30,395 --> 00:04:32,689
should probably go down there
and see her.’ Yeah well, 

98
00:04:32,689 --> 00:04:33,856
Yeah. I never went.

99
00:04:33,856 --> 00:04:37,151
Never went, never went, never went.
Now I’m gonna go.

100
00:04:38,611 --> 00:04:41,197
I'm doing this
concert at the Rendezvous here

101
00:04:41,197 --> 00:04:43,157
to raise money
to support this trip.

102
00:04:43,157 --> 00:04:44,200
I'm homeless.

103
00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,161
I'm hoping to make enough
from this show

104
00:04:47,161 --> 00:04:50,373
in order to pay
my needs to go down there.

105
00:04:51,165 --> 00:04:54,168
But if I don't have a dime,
I'm still going.

106
00:04:54,168 --> 00:04:57,171
Backstage at The Rendezvous!

107
00:04:57,505 --> 00:05:00,049
Um, preparing for my concert tonight.

108
00:05:00,049 --> 00:05:02,844
A lot of friends,
a lot of love out here.

109
00:05:02,844 --> 00:05:04,804
I'm ready.

110
00:05:04,804 --> 00:05:06,347
Well, hello, everybody.

111
00:05:06,347 --> 00:05:09,309
-Hi Pops!

112
00:05:09,309 --> 00:05:12,312
(♪) It's time to rock.
But don’t let go.

113
00:05:12,603 --> 00:05:14,439
But don't let go.

114
00:05:14,439 --> 00:05:15,648
I'm so happy.

115
00:05:15,648 --> 00:05:17,567
I'm near to die.

116
00:05:17,567 --> 00:05:19,610
But don't let go.

117
00:05:19,610 --> 00:05:20,570
Don’t let go. (♪)

118
00:05:20,570 --> 00:05:23,656
(♪) Emancipate yourself

119
00:05:24,407 --> 00:05:27,410
from (indistinguishable)

120
00:05:28,244 --> 00:05:30,913
None but ourselves can 

121
00:05:30,913 --> 00:05:32,081
free our minds,

122
00:05:33,458 --> 00:05:36,461
(Crowd singing along) we’ll meet again.

123
00:05:36,502 --> 00:05:38,504
Don't know where,

124
00:05:38,504 --> 00:05:40,506
don't know when.

125
00:05:40,506 --> 00:05:43,176
But I know we’ll meet again

126
00:05:43,176 --> 00:05:47,638
some sunny day. (♪) 

127
00:05:55,146 --> 00:05:56,189
My mind's always

128
00:05:56,189 --> 00:05:59,192
searching for the best thing
I've ever written.

129
00:05:59,650 --> 00:06:01,235
I'm trying to find
the best thing

130
00:06:01,235 --> 00:06:03,071
I've ever written,
and I haven't written it yet,

131
00:06:03,071 --> 00:06:04,280
but I'm going to find it.

132
00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:06,407
So I'm always
searching for it.

133
00:06:06,407 --> 00:06:08,868
You know, I don't see
the sun setting, you know,

134
00:06:08,868 --> 00:06:12,246
I see there's the world
spinning one way and the sun

135
00:06:12,246 --> 00:06:15,083
is going the other way
and we're just in between.

136
00:06:15,083 --> 00:06:18,044
And I watch the light come,
and I watch the light leave.

137
00:06:18,044 --> 00:06:19,879
And I try to figure a way

138
00:06:19,879 --> 00:06:24,092
to put it all into this
thought to where you go.

139
00:06:24,092 --> 00:06:27,095
‘Wow, I never seen it that way.’

140
00:06:29,347 --> 00:06:31,516
(Announcement on loudspeaker) 
-Good morning and welcome to Amtrak.

141
00:06:31,516 --> 00:06:32,141
Passengers

142
00:06:32,141 --> 00:06:34,394
traveling in sleeping
cars or Business Class,

143
00:06:34,394 --> 00:06:36,104
please
have a seat in the lobby.

144
00:06:36,104 --> 00:06:36,646
-All right.

145
00:06:36,646 --> 00:06:37,772
Thank you, ma'am.

146
00:06:37,772 --> 00:06:40,358
-Pops, this is yours.

147
00:06:40,358 --> 00:06:41,484
(Indisinguishable)
-You got your picture on the wall.

148
00:06:41,484 --> 00:06:42,735
It's going to
be there when you get back.

149
00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:45,822
-All right,

150
00:06:45,822 --> 00:06:47,156
We're doing it.

151
00:06:47,156 --> 00:06:48,658
We're doing it.
-Proud of you.

152
00:06:48,658 --> 00:06:51,661
-I like to catch people off
to themselves

153
00:06:51,661 --> 00:06:52,829
when they're walking home

154
00:06:52,829 --> 00:06:55,248
after the bars have closed,
and they stop

155
00:06:55,248 --> 00:06:56,833
and they're willing to take
the chance.

156
00:06:56,833 --> 00:06:58,543
It's just me and them.

157
00:06:58,543 --> 00:06:59,919
And we're two feet away

158
00:06:59,919 --> 00:07:02,130
and I look at them
straight in the eye.

159
00:07:02,130 --> 00:07:03,881
And they look at me
straight in the eye.

160
00:07:03,881 --> 00:07:05,633
And I sing them a song.

161
00:07:05,633 --> 00:07:07,718
They go, ‘Wow.’

162
00:07:07,718 --> 00:07:09,011
I love that.

163
00:07:09,011 --> 00:07:10,805
It's more than performing.

164
00:07:10,805 --> 00:07:12,765
It's actually like wrapping

165
00:07:12,765 --> 00:07:15,768
your arms around someone
and holding them.

166
00:07:15,768 --> 00:07:17,728
Yeah, that's what it's about.