S7.E10 ∙ Ironwood Road: Father Knows Best

An exploration of the act of eating, both as an interaction among people and between people and nature.

Mariano Cruz Ordoñez is a bullfighter who is living the middle of his life and the end of his artistic career. He was a figure of bullfighting in Ecuador and has performed in the most important venues of his country and the world, he lived the glory. The years have passed and prohibitions have arisen regarding bullfighting, the successes have already been consumed and he only has left to fight against several adverse circumstances. Now he has three daughters, who are his reason to be, his energy, his motor of life and now he is forced to separate from them with the objective of moving forward.

Imagine for the moment: You are a rape victim. In the aftermath of such a traumatic event, the police will ask to collect DNA evidence from your body, a process that can take four to six hours. Police will take this evidence, known as a rape kit, and you might think it is on its way to be tested for a DNA match that could lead to a prosecution and conviction. But in the end you find out the police had everything they needed to prosecute a case but chose to ignore the evidence and the taped confession. While you wait months for your rape test kit to get tested, if it ever does, you get the results from the rape kit to find out that his semen was found on your genitals. When you call to follow up on your case, your told your case was already closed.

In January of 2010, a team of 23 volunteers set off on what should have been an ordinary medical mission. They had no way of knowing the devastation to come. On their final evening, they treated their last patient and set off towards their sleeping quarters. Suddenly they felt a jolt of panic as the world began to shake violently beneath them. Within hours, the entire team was thrust into the center of one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. The documentary film, Today We Saw the Face of God transcends viewers from their comfortable homes into the poverty-stricken world that Haitians navigate daily. As the team journeys back, they recount the harrowing reality of being first responders in an unprecedented medical crisis.

He stood up to the mob, feuded with Sinatra, and sold out every show. He's the greatest voice you've never heard.