It's Florida, Man. (2024) s02e02 Episode Script

What you're about to see may be dangerous,
illegal, unethical,
petty, misguided, immoral,
and most definitely stupid.
But it's also all true. Sort of.
This was back in 2012.
I had done so many drugs,
I wasn't even sure what was happening.
The alarm wouldn't stop
and it was terrible.
I'm like, "What have I done here?"
And the phone rings.
And I go answer it.
Hello?
And it's the security people
and they're like
Hey, what's going on? Is everything okay?
And I say, "It's fine.
Yeah, everything's fine."
It's fine. Yeah, everything's fine.
And then I look down and realize
I'm in my boxers and socks.
So, I see an apron, and I grab the apron,
and I put the apron on.
And I grabbed two waters and a brownie,
and I jump out the window.
Hi, my name's Chad Corn.
I grew up in Pensacola, Florida.
I'm an appliance technician.
I have Tourette's syndrome.
It's trying to, like, hold back
an involuntary movement,
like it's a sneeze.
It's like you can resist it for so long,
but then here it comes, you know?
And then you have the facial tic
or the vocal tic.
As I got older, I started drinking,
and then the drinking
always made all my feelings go away,
and it's like
I wouldn't notice my Tourette's.
As I drank more, I got into other drugs.
Other drugs.
As I did more and more drugs,
I realized there was another version
of myself that I didn't like.
You know, it was Bad Chad.
Bad Chad was the evil version of me.
Yeah! Chad! It's me!
The one who wanted to get high and party.
He was just very crazy.
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
So, one day I'm at work wasting time.
I'm scrolling through Facebook,
and I see my friend Jimmy
has a music show coming up.
He's opened up
for several major music artists
and is very successful.
I'm Jimmy Vandever.
Artist, performer, concrete finisher,
generational curse breaker,
lightworker, star seed.
Jimmy V on a stage.
Artist, through and through.
They can be blind, but do time
Guaranteed, dog they sniffing a seat
Woman or man, please understand
I don't give a damn how you feel about me
I've known Chad for 25 years, best friend.
Actually he made me
the godfather of his daughter,
which is a huge blessing.
We was born, like, 11 days apart.
So, it's like we're peas and carrots.
So, I head to this local bar
where Jimmy's playing
and this place is jumping.
There's a big stage
that Jimmy was rapping on.
Artist, performer, concrete finisher
Generational curse breaker
I'm a truth deliverer
Lightworker, star seed
Yeah, bitch, I'm built for the fight
That's my buddy.
We're born, like, 11 days apart.
- We're like peas and carrots.
- Cool.
I'm not really feeling it, so I'm like,
"Okay, I gotta get turnt up right now."
I gotta get turnt up right now.
- I mean, I really love to party.
- I love to party.
So, I call my drug dealer,
you know, speed dial.
He's like,
"Okay, I'll be there in 15 minutes."
- I'll be right back.
- Okay.
Thanks for coming.
People are gonna remember this night.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
Go back in
Chad shows up and instantly,
man, you could tell.
He was Man,
his jaw was sitting like over here.
Teeth grinding back and forth
like he's trying to grind something.
I went into the bathroom.
Start doing a little.
Start doing a little more.
I never had a stop button
when it came to drinking or using drugs.
I just kept going and going.
So, I went back out into the club.
I used to joke and say the girls
would hear my story and say,
"Man, that guy,
that guy knows how to party."
That guy knows how to party.
Trouble is, I can dance when I'm sober,
but I think being that messed up,
I just looked completely stupid.
And then I try to go get a drink
to, like, calm me down a little.
- One more alcohol, please.
- Two.
And they wouldn't sell me any more alcohol
because they thought that I was drunk.
- You're drunk.
- But I was really high.
Actually, we're high.
I guess and drunk at the same time.
- And drunk at the same time.
- No.
- Hey, fuck you, man!
- Hey, fuck you, man!
Don't give me this shit!
Fuck your mom, man.
Fuck your mom. You wanna fuck me?
I'll fuck you! No, fuck you!
I remember, I started getting paranoid.
He was wired to the max, bro,
like, gilled out, like you know?
Yeah, he's wired to the max, now
Just like he's gilled out
Eyes twitchin' side-to-side
All filled with self-doubt
Jaw sittin' sideways, teeth grindin' raw
Like he's chewin' on a secret
That he never even saw
Yeah, that was Bad Chad that night.
I thought, like, the cops
were coming in to the music show.
Are you okay?
I was so high, like,
my mind was playing tricks on me.
I went back to the bathroom
to get rid of all the evidence.
Don't do that, bro.
Cops will find it in the pipes.
You gotta eat it.
- Yeah, that makes sense.
- Good luck.
Instead of flushing it down the toilet,
I ended up eating the rest of it.
I told myself, like, right then.
I was like,
"Man, I gotta get out of here."
And I left.
I leave the bar and I still feel like
the cops are following me.
Sir, where are you going?
I was trying to just get out of that area.
I'm just trying to get out of the area.
Even though I realized there are no cops,
I'm like, "Man,
I need to get off the road. "
I know there's a swamp up ahead.
I just ran and ran
until I got to this bridge.
And I can get up
on the bridge and walk across,
or I can go through the swamp.
They're expecting you to take the bridge.
Take the swamp.
So, I'm like, I'm not gonna
walk across this road.
I'm gonna walk down here
through the swamp.
So, I'm walking through the swamp.
It's mud up to my knees.
And I pull my foot out, and I realize
that the mud done grabbed my shoe.
- So, I'm like, "Fuck, man."
- Fuck!
So, I pull my other shoe off and throw it.
I'm like, "I don't need this no more."
I don't even have a matching pair.
And then I come up through some trees.
I walked up to the side of a building.
I don't even know what the building was.
I was trying to get on top of it.
So, I take my pants off
and I throw around an electrical box
and try to pull myself up.
I can't pull myself up.
My pants end up ripping and getting stuck
on like, some type of bolt up there.
So, I'm like,
"Don't need those anymore. Fuck it."
- Fuck it.
- Somehow, I lost my shirt as well.
Now it's 7:00 in the morning.
What's your problem?
And there's a Chick-fil-A.
And I was just so out of it, you know,
dehydrated and been up all night.
I'm like, "I need something to drink."
So, instead of going into the front door
of Chick-fil-A,
I try to go in the back door.
I'm in my boxers and socks.
The employees are like,
"What are you doing here?"
I was like, "I just need some water."
Where are your pants?
I think they're stuck
to an electrical bolt or something.
So, then I leave the Chick-fil-A.
At this point, I was so dehydrated.
It was really getting serious.
But then I see a Little Caesars.
Look through the window,
I don't see anybody in there.
I still feel dehydrated.
In my mind, I felt like if I didn't get
something to drink, that I was gonna die.
I'm like, "Okay,
how do I get in this place?"
And then I see a flagpole.
And it just had
a Little Caesars flag on it.
I take the flagpole down.
I shove the pole in the door.
And I hit the door lock
with the pole and the door pops open.
- Thank God.
- And when the door closes,
it locked me inside.
I see the drinks cooler
and I grabbed two Pepsis.
The drive-thru window was open
and I jumped out the window.
And I And I left.
It felt like the first Pepsi
I ever drank in my life.
I drank both of 'em like it was nothing.
Still thirsty, aren't you?
I just felt like the two Pepsis
wasn't enough. I was still thirsty.
- I am still thirsty.
- So, I went back.
What are you doing?
Do you ever wonder how they make
Hot-N-Ready pizzas for only five dollars?
Bad Chad started acting crazy.
Come on, man! Come on!
Where's the fucking secret, Chad?
He was trying to figure out
how Little Caesars has pizzas
"Hot-N- Ready" and for only five dollars.
- Here. Thick and juicy.
- With the crust.
- He was obsessed with this secret.
- Yeah.
Where's the fucking secret?
There's no secret.
I'm Owen Craig
and I work at Little Caesars.
The process of Hot-N-Ready
is pretty simple.
You can just look through the window.
You can see 'em making the pizzas.
About every hour or so, we make about ten
cheese and pepperoni pizzas.
We'll keep 'em on the shelf
next to the oven.
As people order them,
we put 'em in the oven.
We keep about three
in the hot boxes up front
for about 20 to 30 minutes
before we gotta throw 'em out.
Or we eat 'em if we get hungry.
After all those Pepsis,
I wasn't thirsty anymore,
but I was definitely hungry.
- Pepperoni, dude!
- They had pepperoni
cheese sauce.
It tasted pretty good at the time.
And then the alarm starts going off.
Bad Chad!
I'm like, "What have I done here?"
And the phone rings.
Don't answer that!
And I go answer it.
Hello?
And it's the security people,
and they're like, "Hey, what's going on?"
- "Is everything okay?"
- What's going on? Is everything okay?
Sir? Is everything okay?
Don't tell her anything!
Hang up the phone!
- I said, "It's definitely not okay."
- It's definitely not okay.
"It's bad. It's really bad."
It's bad. It's really bad.
I realized in that moment in time,
like, "Bad Chad, you fucked up."
You're a bad influence on me.
It's time for that to be over with.
I don't think
I can do this anymore, Bad Chad.
Don't say that, Chad. I love you, man.
We were made for each other.
Yeah, I can't be with ya no more,
Bad Chad. I told him, I said,
"Bad Chad,
I'm leaving you here at Little Caesars."
I'm leaving you here at Little Caesars.
- Chad?
- Bad Chad didn't take the news very well.
Bad Chad, no!
I'm thinking this could be bad.
It was horrible.
He was just very angry about everything.
I'm just very angry about everything.
You need me. We're like peas and carrots.
There's a saying that's an old Indian,
you know, proverb saying,
"You got two wolves inside of you."
"The one that you feed
is the one that's gonna grow."
I'm hot and ready, Chad!
No.
No!
And then I was just like,
"I need to leave."
So, I went to the back of the restaurant
and climbed up on top of the cooler,
where I was able to climb up
into the ceiling tile.
When I was up in the ceiling,
I was so high,
I didn't know if I wanted
to go up or down, left or right.
I really just wanted
to get the hell out of there.
You'll never escape me!
And then I felt the ceiling give way.
Well, I fall in the middle of the thing
where everybody stands
to take their orders.
I fall through right there.
And then I look down and realize
I'm in my boxers and socks.
So, I see an apron.
And I grab the apron
and I put the apron on.
I put my number
on a piece of paper and said sorry.
Sorry.
Then I grab two waters
and a brownie and I jumped out the window.
Dang.
Fuck.
And, of course, a cop was there.
A burglary suspect
caught wearing only boxers,
socks, and a Little Caesars apron.
Picture that.
The way I found out
about Chad goin' into Little Caesars,
my kids' mother sent me the news article,
and was like "Do you see
what your brother's done now?"
So, I-- I knew he was off to the races.
I'm Mike Corn.
I'm Chad Corn's older brother.
They say he took bottles of water
and a brownie,
then put on an employee's apron
before trying to leave.
When I was in lockup, I meet these guys
and they're like,
"Oh, shit! I seen you on TV."
"You're a legend, man. You're a legend."
And then they started callin' other people
over, it's like,
"Oh, here's the fuckin' legend, man!
The Florida man!"
Deputies say they caught Corn
as he was climbing out
through the drive-thru window.
So, I ended up getting one year in prison.
He got outta prison,
I went and picked him up,
and then brought him
straight back to rehab,
and he's excelled ever since.
He recently bought his own car.
He works for me now.
'Cause I can trust-- When he's clean,
I can trust him.
So, told him "As long as you stay clean,
you'll be okay."
After being successful
at the recovery home,
me and my brother
ended up moving in together.
He's a great boss, and teacher
and coworker, brother, all the stuff.
Let's see them reflexes, boy.
I believe that over the last few years,
Chad's found what he's needed to find.
He can look in the mirror
and he can be happy
with the person that he's looking at.
Everybody in this world's
done crazy, weird shit.
So Everybody! You know what I mean?
This was a defining moment in my life.
Very embarrassing.
But, man, if my story helps other people,
it inspires them,
like, "Hey, if this motherfucker
that broke into Little Caesars
and fell through the ceiling
high on meth and alcohol,
if he can change his life
and switch it around"
I'm hot-n-ready, Chad!
"then, who's to say I can't?"