70 Men Ages 5-75: What Is The Most Difficult Thing You've Ever Done?

[Interviewer] What is the most difficult thing

that you've ever done?

When I had to clean up too much cards.

When I got over my fear when I went in the ocean.

I dove all the way down to the pool's floor.

It was crazy.

Doing a back flip into a pool.

I went on a zip line.

Going on a roller coaster.

A math test.

Rock climbing.

Some really hard math homework.

Trying out for the soccer team.

Climbing a large staircase.

I did the hard course of a zip line park that I went to.

Stand up to bullies.

Learn how to swim, because I'm scared of water a little.

Doing a 20 page paper in my 12th grade English class.

Coming to terms with who I am.

Fighting a drug addiction on my own.

Bury my dad.

I wrote an eight page final in college

in two hours before the deadline,

and I got an A.

I'm an immigrant and I think the hardest thing

I've ever done is try to try to adjust to the US.

Honestly, anything involving math or science.

I don't know, I guess waking up

and trying life again every day.

I came out to my family when I was 19.

Get my CELTA certification.

Deciding to start seeing a therapist.

Move to New York.

Probably attempt to climb the Half Dome in Yosemite.

Graduating from Cornell Law School.

Move all the way from Tennessee to New York.

Switched career paths.

Probably leaving a relationship that was not good for me

and was not what was gonna help me grow.

Terminate an employee.

Dated.

In high school, I got bullied and I had to give a speech,

and when everyone's looking like kind of down at you

and then I got up there and did it,

I felt like a sense of accomplishment.

I think the most difficult thing I ever did

was moving to the US.

Rebuilding myself.

Leave my country.

Getting into Columbia.

Survive high school in Detroit.

I was playing football in seventh grade

in Bloomington, Indiana.

If you know anything about Indiana and Martinsville,

its one of the birthplaces of the clan.

So we had to play a football game

knowing that the clan was in the stands on the other side.

Manage a team of 40 people.

To quit my job.

Learning math.

Taking my first flight from New York to Denver

all by myself.

Try to walk when I was paralyzed.

I worked in child protective services

for a number of years,

and I've had to do a number of removals.

Saying goodbye to my dad.

Bootcamper walking from Katmandu to Mount Everest.

Going through life being deaf in one year.

That's about the hardest thing I can do, I have done,

and I accomplished it.

I did a search warrant at a location

that was run by a cult.

Burying my daughter.

I had to overcome my shyness when I was...

I had to go and find my first job.

Going to school part-time, to graduate school part-time

and working full-time and having two jobs at the same time.

A big work project that I didn't think I would get through

but I did get through it.

Deciding to change careers mid mid-life.

When I was 17, my brother was in medical school,

medical school called up the family and said,

Mr. Franco, you have to come pick up your son,

there's something wrong with him.

And we brought him to New York Hospital

and they diagnosed him as a chronic schizophrenic.

At 18 I told my dad, Dad, go take care of Dominic,

I'll run the business.

Dealing with my mother's health

and the challenges that come with it.

Quit smoking.

Opening to the mystery of my life.

Having to say no to my brother.

Having to break up with an ex-girlfriend.

Bury my mother.

Put my dog to sleep.

I think confronting someone with an

uncomfortable subject area.

Being a good husband.

Have to evict tenants of mine

that they couldn't pay the bills.

Starting my own business.

Losing contact with my father.

Five short pieces for Klavierstücke.

It's a very difficult piano piece.

It really made me sick.

As an army brat, moving around to different classes,

different schools, different countries, different states.