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the pride of south side. playing -- [inaudible]. rachel: drivers, by the way, thank you, girls. awesome band. drivers are gearing up for -- will: brian started -- rachel: they deserve it. they're gearing up for race day. only one can walk away as the winner. pete: here today, we have a special guest to give us a sneak-peek at the 130-pound vulcan trophy. will: i mentioned him a moment ago, talladega superspeedway president brian cite ton who joins us. >> thank you for having me on tomorrow. will: let's not look over small details. 130-pounds is the winner for example the going go 500 at talladega superspeedway. i said pete, pick it up, didn't give me any warning how heavy it is. he fails. >> hope you didn't strain anything. pete: i did, i won't hold it
regional roots and small tracks around here as well. after daytona, atlanta, what do you anticipate happening on this track? >> amazing race. we saw the nextgen car with the superspeedway package at daytona. also at atlanta. a phenomena race at atlanta. we hope for a great 188 laps. sometimes they go over time. usually three, four wide finish. sometimes we have them going backwards across the start finish line. pete: spinning out, finishing backwards. >> finishing backwards. eric amirola finishing backwards. two or three others. pete: happening in reality. happened in talladega nights. >> eric didn't have to ricky bobby across. will: three or four wide potentially with the big wreck.
honduras. when you get to the united states, if you get there, what is your plan? to study and to work. what would you do with the money you earn in the united states? you will send it to your family in honduras? are you going to make it? a little boy, 12 years old, who says that he thinks he is going to make it. remember, at that age, he wants to come to the united states to work and then send money back to his family. that is the crisis that the united states along with the countries down in this region have to address. it's not an easy one, as children are taking it upon themselves to head north. eric didn't tell his mother he was leaving. >> that was difficult to watch. have you seen any signs as you have been down there of any of
okay? you weren't born hating anyone. if you do hate somebody, why do you hate them? who told you to hate them? those questions are going to help you identify who you are inside. only you guys can make the right choice. so that's all i'm going to say. that's my story. >> i'm not a professional psychologist. i'm an ex-nazi who for the last 20 years has tried to stop other people from making the same mistakes that i made. but when i saw eric telling his story up there, made me really proud. >> you're very brave. >> oh, thank you. >> thank you. i wish you the best. >> thank you very much. >> nazi germany was defeated in 1945. but today's neo-nazi movement is flooding our world with falsehoods that fuel recruitment
>> the protocols of the elders of zion. >> this was my homework. >> the protocols of the elders of zion was a fraudulent document released in 1903 by the russian czar. this was a way to demonize the jews, claiming that a secret group of powerful jews were conspireing to control the finances of the world and the entertainment and the media and things like that. >> through the roaring '20s and the crash that followed, the protocols were held up of proof that economic suffering was caused by a jewish conspiracy. half a million copies for printed by henry ford, complimentary with every car sold. eric tells me he denied his father's indoctrination and endured years of emotional and physical abuse.
evil regime, war of the rebelli rebellion. >> eric was told his father was far away fighting a war until his mother told him the truth. >> i said, you know, people do bad things. your father did something that was pretty bad. and he went to jail for it. and that's where he is right now, not at war. he's in jail. >> can you tell me what your relationship was like? >> i loved him to death. he was my john wayne. he looked like john wayne. >> but pat tells me that over time that love was poisoned by hate. her husband's obsession with bigotry and anti-semitism spiralled out of control. >> he was so engrossed in it. he was eaten alive like a cancer. and then eric was born and eric
for most of his life, eric agonized over what his violent, white supremacist father might do. when he became an adult, eric asked his father to move in with him. he wanted to keep a close eye on the old man. but when james asked his only son to carry out a suicide attack in washington, d.c., eric reached his breaking point. >> when the man asked me to kill myself for something he knew i didn't believe in, that pretty much ended our father-son relationship. >> you wanted out right at that point? >> yeah. >> eric had graduated from the university of maryland and was eager to put as much distance from him and his father as possible. he decided to move to florida for a fresh start. but the night before he left, as they said their good-byes, eric
if that's not being courageous, if that's not being a good person, i don't know what else to tell you. extremism leaves all different kinds of casualties. eric's story is really interesting because he's still battling the scars of what his father did to him. but also what his father did to special officer johns. he holds that inside as if it was his responsibility. he's got a lot of damage that he needs to repair. >> eric sees his life story the way i used to see mine, as a source of sadness and shame. i have an idea how i can help him. but for a prominent neo-nazi like jeff scoop, the path
but a lifetime of resistance took its toll. >> is this where you took drugs? >> yeah. i had a $1,600 a month habit. >> where would you find the money for that? >> stealing, selling, repeat diving, that kind of stuff. >> you said you had squatters in here? >> yeah. >> wow. you can't even see the garage. >> for yearly a decade, eric has struggled with ptsd, anxiety and addiction. the legacy of his father's effort to bend him to his will. and he tells me that as james grew older, his hate grew more extreme. he even posted his racist manifesto online for all the world to see. eric didn't know where to turn. so he moved james in with him to
>> that the holocaust never happened. i knew what he was saying was wrong, but i had to play that game of, please teach me more because i felt that if i accepted what he believed he would love me. i said, okay, dad, let's go to a movie. it was a jam packed theater. opening credits rolled. and every time a producer's name would pop up, he would stand up and shout, jew! jew! that guy is a jew! the whole theater just turned around and looked at me. i'm just like this. i wanted a father. but he wanted a desipple. >> eric shows me a 400-page document warning the world of the threat he believed was posed by black, liberals and jews.