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If you know me, you know
that I love to talk,

I love people.

But really it's that
I love to listen

and hear people's stories

and learn about
their experiences.

Which is why
I am really excited

to meet actor,
Daryl "Chill" Mitchell.

Well, here I am.
Hello, Mississippi.

Hey, I like this
little town, man.

I didn't know this

but he was part
of the early days of hip-hop.

He was in the '90s
hip-hop band Groove B Chill.

And then he became

a really successful actor
and TV and film.

Started with House Party,

and then he was in
The John Larroquette Show,

Veronica's Closet,

Galaxy Quest,
10 Things I Hate About You.

In a town like this,
everybody speaks.

Hey, how are y'all doing?

See, they wave right back.
I like that.

Huge star and then boom,

he's in an accident
and he's paralyzed.

World changed forever.

But there are ways to zero
time getting back to work.

He's going on to star
and aired

in NCIS: New Orleans,
Fear the Walking Dead,

and then finally
Ben's Workshop.

Hey!

- Chill!
- Hey, dude.

How you doing, man?

First time in a woodshop?

Well, yo, I took up woodshop
in school, believe it or not.

We used to make,
like, picture frames.

And then
I used to make planks.

But more than anything, I love
working with my hands, man.

- Okay.
- And honestly, I...

haven't had the opportunity
to work with my hands

- like I like to...
- Yeah

...since I had the accident.

- You're gonna work today.
- This is gonna be big, man.

This is gonna be good.
So, I'm really excited
that you're here.

Like, I've been a fan of yours
for a long time.

Ed was one of my favorite
TV shows.

I got back on TV four months
out of the hospital.

So, people didn't catch up
with the accident

because it wasn't
really publicized

that I had an accident.

To this date,
people are still going,

"Dude, you really
didn't watch Ed?" I'm like...

"You've been living
under a rock."

Yeah.

- Are these working clothes?
- They are now.

- Yeah.
- Yeah, it'll do.

All I need is a pencil,

apron and some goggles.

-'Cause I gotta look like
I know what I'm doing.
- You gotta look the part.

- Yeah, I gotta look the part.
- All right, let's get to work.

Here is what I've got in mind.

When we talked, you said you
wanted to build

something that would help...

- people who had had
spinal injuries.
- Right.

Erin's brother, he's a doctor,
physical therapy,

but he work
with spinal injuries.

- And Diane is a doctor
of physical therapy.
- Wow.

So, I went to them,
I was like, "Okay.

What could we build?"

And they were like,
"What if you build
something to work with,

you know, strengthening
your upper body?"

- Very important.
-'Cause you're strong.

- Oh, yeah, man.
- You gotta be.

Gotta be, 'cause
you gotta be able
to do things like this.

You know, they gotta be able

to get the pressure
off the hips.

Right. Yeah.

- I mean, you do everything
with your hands.
- Everything.

So, what I wanted to build
was an incline board.

It's essentially
an exercise machine

- that goes on a table top,
all right?
- Yeah.

This is the base,
so it sits on a table.

Then we're gonna build a tray
using French dovetail joints.

Inside the tray will be a box

that we'll build
using English dovetails

that will be
our piece that slides.

We'll attach the handles

and have drawer slides underneath

- so it'll slide all the way
from top to bottom.
- Right.

You got a kickstand
coming down

that'll have
different notches.

- so you can adjust that angle.
- Oh!

- So you'll be pushing
almost straight up.
- Straight up, yeah.

Or kinda down, kinda out.

That's very important, man.

We constantly push right here.

- Pushing down.
- Pushing down,

- but we don't have
a stretching up.
- Mmhmm.

That shows that
somebody put some effort.

It's meaningful, man.

You gotta boost your spirits.
So, what am I gonna do?

- Oh, you're gonna do
all of that.
- Okay.

- You're doing it all.
- Dude, I'm ready to go.

All right.

- I'm ready to go, man.
- You ready?

Let's go pick some wood out.

Let's do it.

Hi, Chill!

- You hadn't shut up
about the apron.
- Exactly.

- That's what I needed, bro.
- There you go.

- I told you,
I need an apron...
- There's your apron.

...and some glasses.

And I'm gonna let you
pick your glasses.

Oh, oh, hold it, player,
hold it.

These things right here, baby.

They are saying
something to me, baby.

- Got glamour on.
- A little sparkle.

- Gotta pop my apron,
you know what I mean?
- There you go.

All right,
let's pick some wood.

So, here's some walnut.

- I like the way walnut
does with maple.
- Oh.

This right here.

See how that looks
against there.

- So you see how you get
all that contrast there?
- Oh, cool, man.

I like that. It's time
to show some unity here.

- This is showing
some unity, baby.
- There we go, there we go.

Some unity in a community.

I got something
special for you.

- Talk to me.
- Okay.

So we've looked at
walnut and maple cherry.

What we got going
on here, player?

Yo, what is this?

- You dyed that?
- No.

Come on, stop playing, man.

This is really the true color
of this wood?

This is the true color
of this wood.

- What is this called?
- This is purple heart.

When they cut the tree down...

- Ben, stop playing, man. You...
- ...that's what it looks like.

You dyed this wood, bruh.

- No, I swear.
- Wow, man.

- Isn't that pretty?
- This is real pretty, bruh.

So, what I want here...

is for us to mix
contrasting wood species.

- Energy, man.
- Energy.

- Like hip-hop energy.
- Energy. You working with me.

Lovely segue,
that's the basis of hip-hop.

I don't know about
any other genre of music

that brings so many people
together than hip-hop.

Who is Groove B Chill?

Groove B Chill is my group.

Signed a record deal
with Uptown Records.

These guys who was
directing my videos,

the Hudlin brothers,

they was inking out a movie.

House Party. When they shot
this movie for $2 million,

that we thought was, "Okay,
we happened to be in a movie."

didn't know
it was gonna be this...

- boom of a movie.
- Huge. Yeah.

So, I figured
if I do more movies,

I would sell more records.

Who knew.
I went to LA for two weeks

to stay for 15 years.

Hey... Mm, I'll take it.

Let's gather up some wood.

Then move back over here,
to our table.

To build the tray,
we'll actually join up
the panels.

What we're gonna do is,
make us some
big wide flat pieces.

We're gonna get that
all glued up

and clamp them together
so that they'll dry tight.

So, this is gonna be
the bottom of our tray

that will actually raise up,

so that you can do
the shoulder exercises.

And then this is the base,
the piece that actually sits

- on the table.
- Right.

In the late '90s,
your career was,

- on a rocket ship.
- Yes.

You did
The Larroquette Show,
Galaxy Quest...

Oh, man.

- 10 Things I Hate About You.
- Yeah, yeah.

- Your own top of the world.
- Oh, yeah.

Like, what do you... What's
going through your mind?
What's next?

I was hoping to have something
developed personally for me.

- All right.
- And right before I got to
that point,

that's when tragedy stuck.

We was in South Carolina.

Hey, I am on vacation.

My nephew asked me
to ride his motorcycle.

He had just got a trick down,
all of those kind of stuff.

I go up the road one way,
is good.

But when I come back
the other way,

it's loose gravel.

The bike shot
right from under me.

And that's when I went
flipping and flipping
and flipping and then boom.

I woke up three days later
in the hospital.

So, I was in a coma
for three days.

And they was hitting me
with those shockers.

And I could feel it
but I couldn't tell them.

That, yo, it's called being
consciously unconscious.

I could feel them hitting me
with that thing, man.

I'm like, "Yo, hold it."

And my brain is like, "I feel
this." But I couldn't tell it.

But three days later,
I wake up in the hospital

and the doctor come to me.
He's like, "Hey, man,

there's a strong possibility
you may never walk again."

So, what goes to your head?

"I gotta get out this bed,
doc, with legs."

"So, did you hear
what I said?" I said,
"Yeah, I heard you.

But... I gotta get
out of this bed."

He said,
"I'mma come back tomorrow

'cause you maybe in shock
right now."

I said, "Dude, you come back
tomorrow, the day after
and day after,

I'm gonna ask you
the same question.

What's next 'cause I gotta
get up to my feed my family."

He was like, "Well,
you got rehabilitation,

you got this,
we gotta do surgery,

we gotta stabilize your spine,
we got this..."

I said, "All right, we gotta
do what we gotta do."

And I said to myself,
"I'm gonna fight."

And one of my inspirations

to get me to fight
were my kids.

- Which is always the point.
- Yeah.

But my little one...

he didn't know.
He was only two.

Man, he was on the bed
crawling all over me,

stepping on me in his boots
and everything.

But when it was time to leave,
he was like,

"Daddy, let's go."
I heard him.

- I was like, "I gotta get up."
- Yeah.

Got to get up now.
And he's like,
"Daddy, let's go."

It is amazing what kids
do for you, right?

It makes us superhuman

because you're like
something that

you probably couldn't
have accomplished before.

You're gonna do it
for your kids.

Right. At that point,
I tell everybody,

in the face of adversity,

you have to make
a decision right there.

What you gonna do?

You either gonna roll or fold.

And that's one of the things
that made me say,

"Yo, I gotta push."

- You have people around you.
- You got people
around you, man.

- Let's let this dry.
- All right.

And then we'll move on
to the next thing.

Cool. Hell yeah, man.

Chill, this is our
dovetailing machine.

- Okay.
- So if you think about a dove,

- or a duck,
or any kind of bird...
- Right.

...the tail of it is fanned.

- Correct.
- Now, if you think about

two pieces of wood,

and you got a piece of wood
that's cut into this shape,

and then another piece
that's the reverse of that.

When you slide
that together...

- Right.
- ...it can't pull that.

Oh, right, right,
right, right.

Okay? So, that's what
a dovetail is.
It's kind of a--

- You see that on the drawer,
on the dressing drawer.
- Yes.

- See? See?
- Yeah.

That's what we're gonna
use to put our box together.

- All right.
- Okay.

They call it ducktail.

- Dovetail.
- Okay, DuckTales is a cartoon.

All fingers are clear?

And that's it.

See how that's fixed together?

Oh, I got you now.
Oh, look at that, man,

So, on Ed...

were they looking for someone
in a wheelchair?

Of course not. They knew that
they were looking to

add another cast member,
or somebody new in.

It was like, "You know what,
you guys should see Chill.

'Cause he's ready
to go back to work."

And they were just
like, "Mm...

But I got in there
and always thought of doing

was talking about
all the funny things

that I was experiencing.

They just called me up
and was like,

"Hey, dude,
you got the part, man."

- That's cool.
-'Cause that's my first
job back.

And it was a test

because I didn't want nobody
to see me as a liability.

So, even in
my roughest moments,

I had to figure it all out.

One of the things I did,

I would make them send me
my wardrobe the night before.

You show how ready.

I'm dressed
when I show up to work.

'Cause I know what I gotta go
through to get dressed.

Yeah. You know,
you just adjust, man,
you know what I mean?

Was there any awkwardness?

A lot of people...

they saw me as fragile.

And I told them, "I'm injured.

And it's a severe injury
but it's an injury.

- Yeah.
- And I'm alive."

You know, but I had the people
around me long enough, man,

the wheelchair disappears.

It's nothing,
you know what I mean?

It's like, "Oh, it's him."

You just learn that
people know luck, man.

You know, it ain't
the end of the world.

- Yeah.
- Yeah, man.

- That's crazy.
- Yeah.

Yeah.

Let's run this thing.
That's it, baby.

All right. I know you wanna
talk about this.

- Of course. You know
I love the purple.
- I want you to feel this.

Oh, Ben. Whoo.

- See? That's heavy.
- Jeez Louise, man.

That's a... You said that's
some heavy, thick, dense wood.

So, here's the thing
about purpleheart,

it is very hard
and it is very strong.

- Like you.
- Thank you, brother.

All right? And it's beautiful.

Like your wife.

All right. But...

once it sits in the sunlight,

once it's been out for a while
eventually it turns brown.

It will loose it's color.

We have to seal it
really well

with a UV protector
so that the sun
takes longer to affect it.

We're gonna use this
for the box,

- that will slide.
- Right.

And the color is gonna
inspire people.

With the purpleheart,

one edge of this slab
is already squared up.

And so we will
cut our section out

and it's gonna be the lid

of our exercise mechanism.

And then we'll take it
over to the band saw

and we will cut a relief

so that it has a piece
that sticks out.

And then that was actually
going to fit into our box.

Oh, man.
I love this wood, man.

Now that the base
and tray are set,

we need to cut them
down to size.

- All right.
- Checked my skills?

- That's good, man.
- Yeah, man.

- Bring that with you.
- Oh, let's do it.

Hey, you know what, Ben,
I think I can build a house.

You could build a house.

- Okay.
- All right, all right.

So...

- what we did over here
with that dovetail machine...
- Yeah.

- ...that's English dovetails.
- Right.

You can see them
from the side.

- Okay.
- This is a sliding dovetail

or a French dovetail

and I actually prefer it.

- This is our router table.
- Right.

And you see this bit?

- Okay.
- You see the shape of it?

- Yes.
- It's shaped
like this dovetail.

- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- But it's gonna be spinning

- and as you slide that board
through here...
- Right. Cut into the groove?

- ...it's gonna cut that shape
in a groove. All right?
- Got it. Right.

So, then we'll do
the opposite on our walls,

and they will slide into that.

- Right, right. Got you.
- And then they are there.

- Okay?
- Got you, got you.

- All right. So, what I'm gonna
get you to do...
- Uh-huh.

- ...you're gonna
take this board...
- Right.

...you gonna start out here,

- you gonna slide it
under these fingers...
- Uh-huh.

...all the way
till your pass it.

But you don't keep your hand
over here.

- Of course.
- Okay.

- You gonna keep it tight
against that fan.
- Yup.

This is the only modifying

that we did
in the entire shop.

You did all that
for little ol' me?

Just for you.
Because this...

router table is so tall,

and so we put it
on this smaller table...

Oh, okay.

- ...to get it down lower.
- Wow.

See, this is what
I'm talking about, man.

All right, I'm gonna...
cut the dust collector on.

You got it.

- Yeah. There you go!
- Mmhmm.

Now you gonna cut it on.

For the tray, we're
gonna do the French style
sliding dovetails.

And that will allow
our walls to slide in.

If we were just to take it

and glue them together
and maybe put a tack in them,

it would hold for a long time,

but eventually,
that joint will fail

if you just do a bud joint,

but having those
sliding dovetails

and it locking together,
it will last...

a lot longer than Daryl
and I are gonna last.

Whoo!

- Chill's getting groovy.
- Come on, baby.

- You make a good assistant.
- I do what I can.

Yeah, it's my shop now.
It's my shop for the day.

Career is launched...

- you had the accident,
you jump right into Ed.
- Right.

When Ed wrapped,
did you get worried?

I did. Roles was coming up

that I knew that
I wasn't able to do.

So, it got a little...

It got a little sketchy
at one point.

But I have dealt with
that kind of before because...

certain roles,
they were written

and said, right?

So, I had to go in there
and change their perception.

- Yeah.
- So, you know now is like,

a whole another
community of people.

It should be more diversity.

- Yeah.
- You know what I mean?

So, it's good for the audience
to see this.

Especially people
with disabilities

because they can watch this
and say,

- you know,
"I can do this too."
- Yeah.

They watch you own NCIS.

And they feel that connection,
they see themselves.

Exactly. I mean, you know,
just think about it.

I was in Fear the Walking Dead
and in Apocalypse.

And my chair is...

dope. Got blades
come out the back.

I got a serious chair, man.

- That's real cool.
- This is cool.

- All right, I'm thirsty.
You thirsty?
- Yeah.

- I got us some coffee.
Let's roll out here.
- Oh, cool.

Cool, cool, cool.

- So, what are your hobbies?
- I hunt, I fish.

But not only do I fish,

I learned how to bow fish.

- Hold up.
- Yes.

I'm a New York City boy
with a country twang.

- Okay, okay.
- Geechee Gullah to the bone.

- Gullah to the bone?
- Gullah to the bone.

I grew up on wild games,
hunting, fishing.

See, my mom and dad,
they grew up off...

You know,
they grew up off the land.

At the age of ten,
I knew how to skin a deer.

- Damn.
- The whole deer.

My papa come home
with deer skin.

Means like a survival.

Yeah, surviving,
you know what I mean?

It's just the fact that
that's what you did.

You were, uh, preparing for
Fear the Walking Dead.

I was preparing for
Fear the Walking Dead, baby.

How do you bow hunt?

It's interesting.
I went out with these guys

from New Orleans.
So, we went out there

and the bow,
interesting enough,
was kinda high.

- Okay.
- So, leaning over,

it was kind of
difficult at times,

to get over the bow
to go at them.

- And then you learn--
- Hold up, you're bow fishing?

You're bow fishing
but you gotta learn

that the fish, what...

What it looks like
in the water,

you gotta angle it
in a different way

'cause the fish
is not right there.

- Okay.
- So, you have to angle it.

So, the guy,

after seeing me, he rebuilt...

He built a new bow,

where he raised the platform
and lowered the wall.

So, now it's made
so that I could just roll
right on the bow.

After seeing me in working,
he made that.

So he said, "You know what,
I'm gonna start working it out

so I can invite people
on the boat with a wheelchair.

People modify so many
different things.

You never wanna see that shot
for saying no more.

No, I'm really not.

Okay, break time's over.
Ready to finish this thing?

I do.

- Let's go do it.
- Let's go do it.

We're down
to the finishing steps now.

We need to cut our notches.

We're gonna
add the kickstand.

We're gonna drill holes
into the purpleheart

so that we can fit
the dowels for handles.

The handles are gonna
be really simple.

It's just gonna be
walnut dowels.

These walnut dowels are left
over from my niece's baby crib
that Jessie built.

I'm gonna spray
lacquer finish on this.

It's something that'll hold up
for a long time

so that the hospital
can clean it as they need to.

And it's just
gonna be so fine.

All right, we got
all our pieces here.

We fix and do
the final... assembly.

Even unassembled,
this thing is pretty.

- Isn't it?
- It is. It's... With...

Without even being together,
it's beautiful

Yeah, it is beautiful.

All right, how many seasons
did NCIS run?

We did seven. I was supposed
to do two episodes.

- Two episodes--
- Two episodes turned to 12.

Twelve turned into a regular.

And I went out there
for two episodes,

stayed there for seven years.

And then, you know, we got
Fear the Walking Dead,

so I was there
for three seasons.

And not only that,
I do my own stunts.

- Really?
- I did an episode

where I had
a airplane flew by...

- eight to ten feet over me.
- Right.

But it was fun, man,
it was fun.

'Cause I had to dive out
the chair in a...

When I dived out the chair,

I had to crawl
across a runway.

So, I had to pull myself,
upper body strength, so...

gotta stay in shape too, man,
to be able to work.

- Yeah--
- But, I mean, this, you know,

all this right here...

this is healthy.

All right, so do you think
you've changed
Hollywood's perception?

I'm here.

I'm here.

Okay, you talking about NBC.

I've worked with them.

CBS, I've worked with them.

AMC, I've worked with them.

And I'm here now, on HGTV.

So, you tell me. I'm here.

And I'm not...
I'm not acting, I'm working.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You understand?

- Yeah.
- I'm... Well, I'm here.

So, that says a lot about...
the change.

The thing with me is
I just don't like

- the "limited to
wheelchair people."
- Yeah.

'Cause I've worked
with some of them.

Some of them are great actors
and actresses.

They're not disabled

but they just never
been given the opportunity.

Do you understand?
I've worked 15 years,

able body
and 15 years disable.

So, 30 years in the business,
you know what I mean?

So, I'm getting opportunities
because people know.

So, it's my responsibility
to show up and show out.

- Yeah.
- It's not just what I do

in front of the camera.

That's gonna
create opportunities
for other people,

but it's what I do behind
the... Behind the camera.

You know, showing up on time,
showing... Being a...

An asset and not a liability.

- It is a lot,
you know what I mean?
- It is a lot.

Well, I carried away.

All right,
crowning achievement.

- Look at that.
How do you like that?
- I love it.

- That's it, man.
- I love it, man.

What's next
for Chill Mitchell?

Oh, for me?

Yeah, I mean, you're gonna
open a woodshop obviously.

Of course I gotta make a,
you know, woodshop

on my backyard but...

I did what I had to do,

now I can do what I wanna do
which is music.

So, now I'm back
in the game, baby.

I got a new single I just did.

- No way!
- Yes, I did, brother.

So, just like
in the early '90s,

you started acting
to promote your rapping.

- And now
you're using your acting--
- Acting.

To promote my rapping.

That's what I'm doing.

- I got a new single.
- You got a new song.

Yeah, man. I'mma play it
for you in the truck.

Oh, sweet.
I wanna hear some ramming.

By the time
we get around the curve,
you'll be singing the hook.

- All right.
- I guarantee it!

You play too much, dawg.

♪ Chilly Chill, chilly Chill ♪

♪ Fire ♪

- ♪ Hey, Chill ♪
- ♪ What? ♪

♪ Don't bump the table ♪

- ♪ What'd you say? ♪
- ♪ Don't bump the table ♪

- ♪ Hey, Chill ♪
- ♪ What? ♪

♪ Don't bump the table ♪

- ♪ What'd you say? ♪
- ♪ Don't bump the table ♪

- ♪ Hey, Chill ♪
- ♪ What? ♪

♪ Don't bump the table ♪

- ♪ What'd you say? ♪
- ♪ Don't bump the table ♪

- ♪ Hey, Chill ♪
- ♪ What? ♪

♪ Don't bump the table ♪

- ♪ What'd you say? ♪
- ♪ Don't bump the table ♪

- ♪ Fire ♪
- ♪ Chill ♪

What's up?

- Well, hello there!
- What's going on?

Y'all, this is
Daryl "Chill" Mitchell.

Nice to meet you.

So, who are
our patients today?

- I am Brianna.
- Hi, Brianna.

- What are you working on?
- ACL surgery, recovery.

- And you are, ma'am?
- I am Doris Roberts.

- Hi, Miss Doris. How are you?
- I'm good.

And I've rotator cuff repair.

- Oh, okay.
- Hey, this thing that we built

- will help with that.
- Cool.

- Oh, yeah. We got
something for that.
- Okay.

He and I have been
working on something

for the therapy department.

Daryl worked real hard
on this.

I want y'all
to be real proud of him.

Oh, wow. It's beautiful.

Thank you, thank you.

It helps for reaching.

But what if you wanna do
some strength training?

You get something here.

Come on, what do you think?

- I love it.
- You love it?

I think it's very versatile.

We can use it in the clinic,
we can use it in the home.

And it's very
attractive-looking,
so we love it.

- It gives the energy, right?
- Yeah.

With the color of the woods.

I love coming back here because...

I've learnt that even in
peak tier, it starts here.

Then it's here.

Then it's here and here
and here and everywhere else

but it starts in your mind.

You gotta be ready to go.
At all times.

You know what I mean?
And that's...
That's the main thing.

I'm proud of you.

Proud of you guys.

It really, really does
my heart good to see this.

Chill's mission
is to help people.

People who are injured
and they're trying to get back
to normal life.

Um, people with disabilities.

We are fulfilling
his mission here.

I've made a lot of things
that are beautiful

that people will get
a lot of use out of.

But I have never gotten
to build something like this

that is helping people get
back to living their lives.

And that's... That's special.