am i under arrest i forgot i'm under arrest yeah i'll explain everything before i talk before i explain myself to you if we talk to each other i need to read your rights okay what am i gonna harass for well like i said you read your rights first obviously the charge is robbery okay yeah i'll explain it i'm under arrest for robbery you are but let me read your rights real quick okay and then i'll explain it all to you is that okay let me do that real fast all right jeff can you read with
me just reading your head okay before we ask you questions you must understand what your rights are you the rights remain silent anything you say can will be used against the court of law does that make sense you've probably heard these before haven't you does that make sense do you understand your rights do you understand your rights jeff yes or no you understand do you understand why i read you did you comprehend when i read you jeff i'm just here to talk to you and figure out what happened and move you on out of here
at least something did you understand the rights i read to you if you got something that says you didn't do this robbery this is your chance to talk to us okay good job no usually i'm the prick you look like the prick this is jeff jeff is a heroin addict and has been for the last 14 years he is six foot five weighs 153 pounds and has now found himself in the unfortunate circumstance of being charged with armed robbery this is in the state of georgia so if found guilty they will render him the minimum
term of 10 years without parole up to the maximum term of life in prison jeff has been through the system multiple times over and he will know that if indeed found guilty his sentence will be considerably longer than the minimum 10 years due to his previous convictions jeff do you understand your rights yes or no i'm not asking if you want to talk to me at this point i just wanted to understand what i read to you that's on my under arrest yes you're under arrest get me back to the show i don't talk to
you [ __ ] okay you want to cope coke you're gonna be able to pop it opener and you meet you jeff has become somewhat of a cult figure in the domain of interrogation footage his recognition seems to have grown through his own popularity as opposed to the notoriety of his crimes like most others conveying the exact reasoning behind this can be tricky as the interest in this character will no doubt vary by the individual yet we've found the most collective reason can be explained through a single pop culture reference the anti-hero while the concept
is timeless the actual term was created through the realm of modern cinema there's a diverse number of characters passing through the decades that fit the criteria yet perhaps the most textbook example could be the protagonist from the 2003 feature bad santa a middle-aged man simply known as willy this is a character that lies cheats steals swears at children drinks an inconceivable amount of alcohol and is generally extremely unpleasant to every single person he comes across here jimmy it's santa [ __ ] great let's tell what you want for christmas i'm on my [ __ ]
lunch break okay on paper this is an extremely unlikable individual yet for some reason we root for him while following his story anti-heroes are flawed as are we their moral complexity mirrors our own and just like us they are learning and growing as they move along the path of life their mistakes make us think of our mistakes and perhaps the reason we root for their redemption is the reflection of ourselves rooting for our own so you might be curious about the contrast between the anti-hero and the villain one we embrace and relate to while the
other we despise and detach from both are driven by selfish motivations yet our emotional response differs between them the reason for this while not necessarily obvious is a relatively simple formula the anti-hero must have a glimmer of humanity alongside a noticeable vulnerability this is what allows the viewer to truly connect with a character it allows us to forgive them when they are unethical but admire them when they are noble it allows them to be angry cowardly and greedy but also cheerful brave and empathetic the [ __ ] is thurman is that you is your name
thurman thurman merman yeah jesus with relation to jeff while many of us can't relate to the feeling of being addicted to heroin for well over a decade we can certainly understand the feeling of sadness while we may not be able to put ourselves directly in the shoes of an addict we can somewhat relate to the adversity that comes with it not to mention the incredible magnitude of the situation he is going through in this video how he responds to this very moment is quite literally the precursor to his entire future he is at a crossroad
moment in life where on one side is the possibility of hope and on the other side is the outright guarantee of despair the long-term path he goes down will be the consequences of the short-term choices he makes all of which have to be judged and decided on while going through the early stages of heroin i need withdrawal though you need methadone i don't have any do you have a medication for it or i mean a prescription for it what do you need methadone for because i'm a [ __ ] junkie and you guys didn't know
i can't live no i'm gonna go through withdrawal here a minute where do you usually get your methadone from i don't get it i don't get iron how long you been using heroin long time buddy what are you trying to talk to me about here talk to you about what happened last night look here's the deal either you're in a bed bad set of circumstances or you wouldn't commit an armed robbery last night yeah i'm in a shitty uh wrong place at the wrong time obviously i didn't commit no [ __ ] armed robbery all
right then let's talk about this i don't know i don't talk to the police man i think it's in your best interest too i don't resolve your holiness okay i've been through this system but i don't know i don't know i know you have you're not my friend i'm not your friend you're trying to [ __ ] get me or you're trying i'm not trying to all you're trying to get is some [ __ ] stupid-ass [ __ ] confession and you're not going to get one jeff i'm not going to get a confession out
of you for nothing exactly because i know i'm trying to get a confession out of you okay i'm going to tell you i ain't committing no armed robbery and you only got no [ __ ] evidence saying i did let me go all you did is find me sitting in my buddy's house because my [ __ ] buddies dogs going ape [ __ ] i go outside there are cops everywhere and they spot like me they say come here i said what's up they search me ain't fine let me read this no yeah because i'm
not gonna sign it you don't have to sign it so let me read it for you okay i'm not saying enough you don't have to sign it let me read it you already read it to me earlier i know we did but i'm gonna read it to you again thanks for the code you're welcome before we ask any questions you must understand what your rights are if you cannot afford a lawyer and want one the lawyer will be provided for you if you decide to answer questions now without a lawyer present you will still have
the right you also have the right to stop answering at any time until you talk to a lawyer you understand the rights i've explained to you huh yeah okay tell me what happened last night plain and simple your your side of the story i'm not talking to you all right this is what i don't understand i know this is what i don't understand jeff you were sitting there talking just like you're ready to sit here and tell me what happened last night and then all of a sudden i read that to you and just screw
it i ain't talking to you i'm a lawyer i don't understand that what what's your name because i told you what i already told you what happened you didn't i didn't know you didn't tell me what happened last night how didn't i just tell you what but now you've handcuffed me and i can't talk to you because you asked for an attorney so okay that's fine but i will tell you right now you're still on a hold for a robbery i know i don't know why i need a [ __ ] lawyer because uh obviously
i didn't do nothing and obviously you guys know i didn't do nothing because i've been arrested for the same [ __ ] before and you guys don't interview me this much so wham bam thank you for the coke put me back in a cell all right i know we did this twice but i gotta do it again every time okay if we're asking you questions i gotta read your eyes you understand that okay go ahead there let me take a guess off look i'm not trying nothing okay you don't have sorry buddy you understand your
rights though right that's all i need is a verbal yes yeah yeah so what's this code gonna be here or is that just that fairy tale it's coming he's getting there right now he'll be here about two minutes just watching the sewer machine tastes good i have enough evidence like one of the armed robbery okay but you know if if you're saying you didn't do it you need to give me your side of the story i didn't do it okay well give me your side of the story you gotta convince me because i got a
lot of evidence i got a lot of physical evidence well like what name why don't i why should i tell you that i mean you haven't been if you haven't been helpful to me at all because i don't believe that you got any internet you haven't helped me out a lot you give me a little bit i give you a little bit we go back and forth i'll give you one more piece of evidence now give me a little something you know i know anything i say here can and will be used against me sure
but anything you say here i can also tell your your parole officer and you help me out that doesn't mean dick there's no way i didn't do it there's no way how drunk were you were you drunk no i was pretty sober so you're in your right mind you remember everything about the night right so you couldn't have done something not remembered you couldn't have gone around the place not remembered [ __ ] no okay so you would remember if you robbed the place because i'm willing to go to the prosecutor i'm really into a
parole officer and say this guy's a good guy he held me i know you don't want about jail right back to prison well [ __ ] it looks like i am if you and you're going to charge me with some bogus [ __ ] you guys don't i mean what what do you got really that i was at a buddy's house and i happened to come outside because you guys were [ __ ] swarming the area and which door did you come out at i came out of the uh front door you know what i'm
not saying myself i'm done man [ __ ] this the only reason i came up here is to get a [ __ ] coke okay you're not good now i don't know i can't find it you can finish it make it quick i got things to do butterfinger i didn't promise you that i said we'd see what happens all right like i said you haven't helped me out at all why should i help you out i got your soda that's good jeff was released from custody just under 12 hours later and that takes us to
the final and perhaps the most important component of an anti-hero the conclusion which unfortunately in this particular case is unknown the final outcome of this story will vary depending on the source some with a happy ending others a cautionary tale one legend has it that jeff got clean soon after his release and now works in the corporate marketing team for coca-cola while another states that he was picked up the day after for the same charge and is now facing down a 15-year sentence in georgia state prison if we go by the hollywood formula an anti-heroes
actions throughout the course of their life are so drastic and single-minded that they only ever lead to salvation or destruction and their final decision is always dictated by what they have learned and how they have changed throughout the course of the story the paradox here is that we don't even need the theme of imprisonment to mold the outcome of this particular story as the theme of addiction is more than enough whether he goes to prison or not jeff will either manage to get clean and rebuild his life or he won't he is headed for salvation
or destruction no matter what and that single concept can perhaps define jeff as an anti-hero his outcome is a mystery but either way it goes it most certainly conforms to the anti-heroes ending santa yeah you're bringing my present early no but i never told you what i wanted i said i didn't bring it [ __ ] okay good i want a stuffed elephant a pink one well wish in one hand [ __ ] and the other one see which one fills up first
