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What do you most want to be when you grow up? Probably a baseball player. An inventor. Do you believe in God? Mm hmm. Teach me to walk in the light. I'd like to invent some remote-control roller blades. What do you think he looks like? Well I see in pictures brown hair with a red robe. Out of 100 people your age, the 100th being the happiest, where would you fit in? Maybe 85. 101. What makes you angry? When my brother calls me names. My little brothers. Do you love your brother? Sort of. Do you have trouble with him sometimes? Yes. Do you think your brothers look up to you? Not really. You never want to be like your brother? No.

How important is religion to you? It's probably half of my life. What's the hardest thing about being a Mormon? Not dating until you're 16. What's the most difficult thing about your relationship with Sam? He's solves things by hurting me. If you could say something to Sam directly what would you say to him? I think we have a pretty close family. So ideally, how would you like to relate to your older brother? Better. I just want to see our relationship would have changed in 10 years. I'm not sad about anything.

I really am not. Turn the camera off. So you don't think there's any hope for this relationship?

So Sam, what are your chances going into the election? Explain the process. Not great. I ran against a kid named Daniel [UNINTELLIGIBLE], who's really funny, really great, magnetic personality. He was the president of a lot of clubs. We were driving home from school that day, and we drive by the Old Country Buffet, and we see this guy dancing in a bee costume, just dancing in front of the Old Country Buffet. And I'm like, oh great, I'm going to go in there and see if could borrow that for you to dance in front of the school for my election. Luke's like, Sam, that's the stupidest idea I've ever heard. And then in his presidential campaign we hit it off. What did Luke do? He went and danced to "Dancing Queen" and some other songs. A whole bunch of people gathered around. Luke really helped. He was key. I won 60-40. Sam's told me what he went through his entire adolescence up until the middle of last year. I think it started in seventh grade, and it seemed like it got progressively worse. Did you know that he cried himself to sleep every night? No I didn't. I never would have guessed. You know, I started getting really, really sad. He'd try and put on a false image that he was just fine. It came to a point, if I stayed where I was, where I'd be in five years, and where I'd be in 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, and it was scary. I knew that I had a Heavenly Father that I could pray to that would help me, and He did. Life turned around. It had a lot to do with the gospel. With my depression I feel like that was probably-- at the point in my life when I changed-- that was my greatest weakness of anything. And to in one day change that to my greatest strength and keep that my greatest strength for two years now, it gives me a lot of confidence. If I can change my greatest weakness what else can I do? It's been since then that-- me and Luke haven't fought for over one year. I just start talking to my brother. People are nicer than you think they are. Do you think the turnaround with Luke has to do with the turnaround with you? Yeah. Do you talk to him about everything, basically? Yeah. Girls, everything. It's like some people have a journal, I have an older brother. But it wasn't always that way. No. I kind of look up to him. He's like my role model. I'm like, in some situation, what would Sam say right now?

I would say, without a doubt, he's my best friend. Me and Luke are best friends.

Two Brothers Apart

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Follow Luke and Sam over several years as they struggle to understand and connect with each other.
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