All language subtitles for Desert.Coffee.2017

[train rails rattling]

[train rails rattling]

[birds calling]

[helicopter whirring]

[motorcycle revving]

[bleak music playing]

Shrieka? Where are you, baby?

[man] You know, they say
it's the last free place in America.

And it is, you know,
for people that live here year round.

People got places they can stay, you know.
And they're safe, you know?

[woman] We do have name streets,

we do have neighborhoods,
like a normal city.

But we're not paying land rent.
We could never pay land rent here.

[man] What do I need a city for?

[chuckles] Can just live out here,
for free.

[man 2] If Palm Springs
and Deadwood, South Dakota

would have an illegitimate child,
it would be Slab City.

And that's Deadwood, South Dakota
of 1876, not today.

Shrieka?

Oh, Shrieka? Where are you, baby?

Shrieka!

Dammit dog, where are you?

My name is Robert Lane.

I came down here two and a half
years ago to visit my best friend.

And he wanted to trade
his place for my truck.

After thinking about it for a day,
um, I decided to stay.

So he took my truck and I got a home.

I always start off with my home town news,

even though I haven't been
there in nearly three years.

It's nice to be able to know what's
going on in other parts of the world.

To know that people
are the same everywhere.

They all have the same worries
and concerns that we do.

Color of our skin doesn't mean shit.

[helicopter whirring]

[helicopter whirring]

You fuck around with children,

or threaten children,
you're gonna see my dark side.

Um, I even trained my dogs
to protect the children around here.

Last week,

somebody had every last possession
they owned stolen or burned.

Um, it's what's known as "Slab justice".

He was… He was a real asshole.

He went to jail two weeks ago
for threatening somebody,

and within 24 hours of him being in jail,

all of his stuff was stolen
and burned to the ground.

Nobody called the police
when the fire was immediately set.

They waited 'til it was inextinguishable
before calling the fire department.

That's how hated this person was.

So there is… there are morals out here,
they're just different.

A lot of people
have put a lot of taboo about it,

but it's just like
any other neighborhood,

any other city,
any of that you'd find here in the US,

as far as I know.

Where is that bag?

-What bag?
-Our shit.

It's the same thing to me, man.

If somebody took my fuckin' travel bag,
I'm gonna beat the shit out of 'em.

[clattering]

Where's my bag?

There's a fuckin' black widow there,

don't be puttin' your goddamn hand
down there, grab your--

No, the black widow's right there.

Have you seen my green duffel bag?

It's right here, Bro.

You just get the wrong impression,
you know.

I mean, if I looked at somebody like this,

that looked like me,
I don't think I would trust him.

But I'm the most trustworthy person
you'll ever find, I mean…

You give me a thousand dollars
to hold for 'ya for six months,

when you come back,
you might get 999 dollars back, you know?

I might have spent a dollar on some
bubble gum that I can't chew.

[laughing]

Fuckin' buried.

Ah.

Hey, the wind stopped blowin'.

Hah.

[sighs]

Life is good out here.

[guitar riffing]

[guitar riffing continues]

[dog barking]

[guitar riffing]

Some hippies do shave.
Not very many, but some.

[guitar riffing continues]

[Rob] I own a place called
the Slab City Internet Cafe.

The only public place in town
for internet, electricity,

and, in the mornings, coffee.

[guitar riffing continues]

The coffee situation…

It's interesting,
he don't even like coffee.

I can't stand the crap.

It's the nastiest tasting stuff I've ever…

-…tried.
-Huh.

And I tried it twice just to make sure.

He has never drank coffee,
he's gonna live longer than us.

[laughing]

I can't even stand the smell of it.

The smell turns my stomach.

But my customers like coffee,
so I give them coffee in the morning.

He taught me how to make it his way.

Can you carry this one out?

[chattering]

-Holy shit.
-Holy shit.

-Holy fuckballs!
-Holy fuckballs!

[Donita] Fuck shopping malls!

So great. Java loves us!

Ah, so good!

[laughing]

My day usually starts pretty early.

The wintertime, I'll start coffee
about 6 o'clock in the morning

to get coffee out
for the customers by 7 a.m.

I wouldn't know if I make
good coffee or bad,

but I've been told I make
the best cup in the county.

[guitar riffing]

It gathers a lot of coffee in your mouth
before you even try to take a sip.

Yeah.

[Rob] I do coffee from 7 a.m.
'til 10 a.m.,

or 7 a.m. 'til 11 a.m.,

depending on how many people are around.

I'm open seven days a week.

I don't have coffee all day long,
because they could drink me dry.

[sipping]

[helicopter whirring]

[video game sounds playing in background]

-Oh! I wasn't blocking!
-[laughing]

[Rob] So I run strictly solar,
but I have enough power

coming off my panels
that I can provide electricity

up until a couple…
maybe two hours before sundown.

I have no power, no lights, no nothing.

This place, you can take your cell phone,
you can plug it into a power cord,

you can charge it up,

you can do that with your computer, too.

And if you've got people
you wanna keep in touch with,

well, you can get online,
which seems to be pretty unique.

I think he's got six or eight batteries
over there

and a thousand watts of solar power,

so the people can come in there
and plug in, you know.

And then all he is asking
is for donations, you know.

So he can pay for some of that stuff,
you know.

[Zack] Rob's one of my best friends.

The cafe has always been…
it's always been like a home for me.

A home away from home, you know.

It's probably one of my
favorite places to hang out.

Pretty fuckin' awesome.

[George] It's a community,
it's like a small neighborhood.

Everybody out here
is pretty much like family.

Not everybody, but most of us.

Damn, it's already 11 o'clock.

God, this morning's gone quick!

[Donita] Hey, Charlie!

Come here, baby. Come here, baby.

[babbling]

[ambient sound playing]

Shrieka!

Oh, Shrieka…

Shrieka!

Damn that dog.

Shrieka!

Come on!

It took a little while to get used to the
heat, but…

it definitely beats the cold.

Less than 300 people live here
during the summer, and…

Wintertime, there could be as many
as 2,000 people here.

Um, but come June and the real heat…

they're all gone.

You're talking just…

Just the people who can tolerate
extreme heats.

[Donita] Which is a very hard thing to do
for a lot of people

that come out without…

the knowledge or understanding
of this desert.

Because it does get very,
very hot in the summer.

[laughing]

[Rob] A 125 degrees, 130 degrees.

Like, we're talking
50 to 55 degrees Celsius,

for people who can't convert.

Hey!

[George] When it gets up to 125 degrees…

I hardly ever drink during the summer,
because the alcohol dehydrates you.

So I do all my drinking when it's cool.

[laughing]

Get my… get my belly ready for the summer.

[ambient sound playing]

[dog barking]

[ambient sound playing]

[ambient sound playing]

I'm not going anywhere ever.

-No, in your mind?
-Oh, in my mind?

Oh, no, in my brain, I'm here,
waiting on a bus. Don't you remember?

Okay.

Yeah, I'm here, waiting on a couple
of buses and the president.

But that's never gonna happen.

But that's okay.
I'll just sit around, waiting patiently.

[Nathan] I randomly found my way
to Slab City.

I was on my way
to my friend's court case in LA,

and we ran into a friend
that mentioned Slab City,

so we made the way here, we rented a BMW,

and that car blew up, we traded
it for a van, that blew up…

And we finally made our way here.

[Donita] I was travelling through
when people were talking about this

free place to live in the winter, and…

We came out here to check it out.
I fell in love with the place.

I was like a snowbird, I would come down
every winter over to Arizona.

While I was camped there,
two ladies came up and said,

"George, you ever been to Slab City?"

"No, I've heard of it." You know?

"But I've never been there."

"Oh, God, you gotta go there,
you'd fit right in,

you'd fit right in to Slab City life."

Snowbird is a type of person
who runs away from the cold,

kind of like I did.

But they only come down for the winter,

and then as soon as the weather
starts to warm up,

they'll go back north
to where they came from.

[Donita] I decided to change
my life around.

Be wild, and…

Do the things they told me I couldn't do

when I was teenager
and all that other stuff,

rebel against society and everything.

Got myself in legal troubles
that sent me to prison for seven years.

And, in the last year,
I've just gotten out of prison.

[Nathan] There is no… hostility.

I don't think
there's a single person here that…

hates another person at all, I mean…

It's been amazing.

It's been a long time since I felt
this accepted in a random environment.

Now, I'm starting over my life
as a single, elderly lady.

Paid my debt to the society
and got out and came down here.

I hadn't intended on staying permanently…

There is a lot of quiet moments,
which is nice, I'm…

I spent a lot of time in a big
city, I enjoy the big city,

but I also like the peace
and quiet of the country.

[ambient sound playing]

[helicopter whirring]

[helicopter whirring]

[ambient sound playing]

[Nathan] I dunno, just coming here though,
has really changed me

in multiple ways,
like mentally, physically…

Before I got here I was, honestly,
just hurting other people and myself.

That's what I was.

And now I've came to the realization
of who I am and what I'm worth…

I have Slab City
and the people here to thank for that.

Hey, come here!

Now.

[ambient sound playing]

Well, we got enough for now.

There are no public utilities
out here, so…

If you need water,
you have to obtain it for yourself.

You don't pay rent but you still pay.
You gotta pay for water.

You gotta pay for your food.

You gotta pay for your clothing
and the laundry.

The upkeep on your dog.
The upkeep on your place.

You gotta pay for that,

and you gotta find a way to do it out here
the best you can.

[Rob] One tank is between
270 and 300 gallons of water.

That usually lasts three to four weeks.

[woman] George?

One of the great things about my place

is that I'm the only one out here
that's got a shower

that's got a hot water tank on it.

Everybody stops by
and I gotta help 'em, yeah.

It's not really a public shower.

You do gotta come over
and ask permission, but…

George is a nice enough guy
that most people, he will say "yes" to.

People come by and I charge 'em
three dollars for a shower.

'Cause I've gotta burn my propane.
And then the water too, you know…

I gotta run in and haul my water, so…

Three bucks is pretty cheap.

[Rob] You have to be very conservative
with your water out here.

If you take a shower,
you take a trickle shower, you know.

You wet yourself down, turn the water off,
soap yourself up, turn the water back on,

rinse yourself off.

So you flip a light switch and it turns
the pump on.

And you take your shower.

If you could do a shower
in less than five gallons,

you know, that just means you've got
shower water for another day.

Don't use it during my TV time!

It's pretty cool.

Oh, you look so much better!

I bet you smell better, too.

I feel pretty… Oh, so pretty.

[laughing[

Yeah, well, you don't look any better!

[laughing]

I give him his showers for free.
That's how good of a friend it is.

[laughing]

Like, it costs three dollars
to be my friend.

[laughing]

[sighs]

[train rails rattling]

[Philip] A good day for me
is a slight breeze outside

with a nice sunshine,

so I can go outside
and do my normal activities.

[ambient sound playing]

I live out here in Slab City
because it's awesome.

I've three older brothers
and one sister, four dogs…

I work out here every Saturday,

picking up garbage
off the side of the road.

There is no more jobs out here to do,

except being a gas station worker
or a food market worker.

During the week I go off to school, and…

basically do nothing except school stuff.

Then I just go home and do my homework.

Well, supposedly do my homework.

And… That's about it.

[helicopter whirring]

[helicopter whirring]

I am still hoping to be able
to go to the moon one day.

I'm serious, I've… I've been wanting…

I've been wanting to go to the moon

since Neil Armstrong touched down
on the moon in 1969.

I may not be able to travel
to another star, but…

In five to ten years,
I could very well stand on the moon.

And I would love that!

I wanna be like a soldier
in the US Army or Air Force…

Somewhere around there, when I grow up.

Because, I wanna just hear gun battles,

and see what it's really like
instead of video games and movies.

[cannon firing]

On the other side of the fence,

off of Canal Road here in Slab City,
we have three military bases.

We've got the Marines,
the Air Force and the Naval.

And every once in a while,
you get the airplanes going over,

you get the bombs going off,
you get the firing…

Test sites is what it is.

It makes it quite loud
if you're not used to it,

but you get used to it when
you're out here long enough.

[cannon firing]

Once in a while you'll see
a cloud of smoke

rise up off of the top of the mountain,

and then like 10 seconds later,
you'll hear this… boom!

You know, the cloud of smoke
will already be there,

you're just hearing it afterwards.

It's like delayed.

[laughing]

[helicopter whirring]

[Philip] I like seeing the helicopters
fly over our heads…

What they mainly do in the morning

is go really, really low
and really, really loud.

Ah.

They're not supposed to wave at us.

Um, about a month ago,
there was three of 'em that flew…

they were flying real' low over here.

And I stood out here with a beer,
waving at 'em.

And somebody hung out
the door and waved back.

I don't know if they got
in trouble for it or not,

but that was the first time
in two-and-a-half years

anybody had ever waved back, so…

Yeah, made me feel pretty good.
They saw me.

[laughing]

[guitar strumming]

[birds chirping]

[guitar strumming]

[clattering]

[peaceful music playing]

You know how you send around
notes in classes and shit,

the teacher tries to catch you
and it doesn't work?

Anyway, we're passing around notes
and Miss Reed comes around:

"Listen, Mr Fields.

What are you doin' passin' around notes
while I'm trying to teach a class?"

-I'm like, "Well, I'm bored."
-Bored as fuck.

-[laughing]
-And she was… and she was like,

"Well, you can leave this classroom
right now and get suspended."

"Or you could stay in this classroom
and go to detention."

I'm like, "Miss Reed, you're my
favorite teacher, I love science."

"But if you give me detention,
I'm not goin'."

I'd say I'm kind of a greeter,
but I'm kind of family too.

A bunch of the kids like to talk to me
and hang around with me.

I'm saying kids like half my age,
20-year-olds.

They adopt me as "Mom".

I was thinking to myself:
why do I have detention?

I haven't done anything wrong!

So you know what I did?
I stopped doin' all of my work.

I didn't do fuckin' shit.

I went to the class
and I put my head down.

[Donita] They won't say it out loud
or anything else,

but there is a couple of 'em
that look at me like Mom.

I kind of fit into that role.

I've had five kids, you know.
My youngest is 21, my oldest is 30.

I got four grandkids right now.
Haven't seen any of 'em.

So it finally came to the point
where I met the principal.

So I'm sitting here like this,
sleeping on my desk,

and this motherfucker comes in,

takes that big-ass fuckin'
textbook off the table…

Wham!

Fuckin'… he didn't hit the table,
he hit me!

Yeah, I'll beat the hell out of him.

I jumped off that chair

and fuckin' knocked him one
right in his fuckin' mouth!

Well, Zack is my brother.

Personally, that dude is funny, he is…

I like waking up and Zack is right there,

and knowin' that I got a brother
that's with me right now.

-You know what, ever season brings…
-Bitches!

[Phenom] My brother was killed
by the law enforcement,

and my cousin was killed because of gangs.

I miss them.

So much.

I miss 'em.

I was flippin' the fuck out.

I'm not allowed on any public
school grounds in California.

Ever.

Ever.

Zack is my guy.

He is cool, man.
He helped me out when I first came here.

He was like, "You! I like you!"

And I'm like, "I like you too, bro."

We've been cool ever since.

[laughing]

Metal changes temperature
faster than water.

Did you take my cigarette?

Yup.

Man, I can't have nothing around here.

You know Casey and Timmie?

My older brother taught 'em

that it was cool to run up to me
as fast and as hard as they could,

power slide, and punch me in the balls.

I can't have any more kids
besides the one I have,

and I don't feel anything
if you punch me in the testicles.

So, good luck! [laughing]

You don't feel pain in your testicles,
I don't feel pain in this foot.

'Cause I've been kicked in it
so many times,

'cause everybody keep thinkin'
that's my weak spot.

No, buddy! It's actually my strong spot.

[laughing]

All through my life people thought
that just because I walk like this,

that foot is my weakness.

At one time, it used to be.

But so many people
have tried to kick me in there,

actually have kicked me in there,

that I felt pain when it first started.

But I'm just so used
to gettin' kicked there.

Doesn't mind it no more.

And I'm gonna do to you what I would do
to anybody else that throws a kick at me,

-I'm gonna grab your foot…
-[Phenom] You think you're invincible?

I'm not invincible,
but I'm gonna grab that foot…

That's what you're thinkin'.

So let's go out there and test the theory,

or it can get dropped right now.

-You wanna go test that theory?
-[Zack] Yes.

[hip-hop music playing]

I won't put you to sleep,
but you will tap.

[Phenom] I love music.

Actually, I am a beat creator.

I have been making beats
since I was young.

Started gettin' good,
everybody recognized it,

it was like, "You're doin' good."

"Man, you should keep goin'!"

Okay. Kept goin'.

You can hear one of my instrumentals.

[piano playing]

It has a piano solo…

[chuckles] And the beat drops, boom.

[grunting]

[dogs barking]

[hip-hop music playing]

Tap! Tap! Tap!

[hip-hop music playing]

[hip-hop music continues playing]

[flies buzzing]

[laughing]

[grunting]

Not again!

[grunting]

[yelping]

[hip-hop music continues playing]

Woo!

Middle school,
I got tired of gettin' bullied,

so I'm like, okay, I'm a cripple.

Okay, so I'm gonna get
my fighting skills better.

[dog yelping]

[Phenom] Joined wrestling.

I had to wrestle.

You win some, you lose some.
But you live to fight another day.

Never give up!

[grunting]

[barking]

[yelping]

That my friend,
is a professional wrestling match.

I smile a lot because I try
to hide all the pain that's inside of me.

That's all I do, every day.

[Rob] We do have a moral code.

As warped as it may seem at times,
there is a moral code out here.

It may be a little anarchical out here…

Everybody lives by their own rules.

As long as it doesn't interfere with me
or affect my life negatively,

adults can do as they please.

As skewed as it may seem
to the rest of the world,

um, we have a very strong moral fibre.

Your neighbor waking you up at 3 o'clock
in the morning when you're sound asleep?

Then go live in a residential community
where there's a fuckin' bed-time…

[Rob] Oh, I don't give a fuck for tweakers

any more than I give a fuck
for alcoholics!

I banned that shit from my cafe!

I'm not condoning
the bad behavior of people,

but I'm saying you can't categorize
someone by the substance they do.

You know what? Yes, I can.

Because if they know they have a problem,

they have the power to stop it!

[George] I respect Rob.

He's… He's tryin' to do well over there.

He started gettin' tired of the tweakers,
so he started runnin' them out.

You know, and…

And everybody liked him for that.

You know they'd stay up all night
yellin' and screamin' and everything.

And he was gettin' tired of it.

We have a big problem
with meth addicts out here.

Americans call them tweakers,

because they like to tweak with things.

[Steve] Uh, stealing things
from other people, you know.

They're very desperate drug addicts, and…

The police can't do much about that.

And they're not much worried
about it, either.

It's very hard to get the police
to respond out here.

[grunts]

You can't make rules in a place
where there's no rules, you don't even--

So you've got the fucking right to wake
me up at three in the morning?

Fuck you!

You even have a sign in front
of the internet café!

"We remember freedom"!

Freedom is not the right
to fuck your neighbors!

[Rob] A lot of people didn't like
what they saw here personally,

and refused to see the whole picture,

and they go away thinking that Slab City
is nothing but a bunch of drug addicts.

And it's not that.
It's an artists community.

There are unfortunately
a lot of alcoholics and drug users here.

Um, that's the type of place it is
when you don't have to pay rent.

You're keepin' us all up over here

because you've got all these
fuckin' tweakers over here,

and ya'll are always up all fuckin' night.

Well, guess what?
You're gonna fuckin' leave.

If you don't like it,
shit's gonna start happenin'.

[Zack] Come on, Rob.

I'll be there in a minute.

There may sometimes be a lot of yelling
and screaming, but you know what?

It's better to yell
and scream and get it out,

than to hold it in and let it build up.

And let it come to the point
where you harm somebody.

[rope whirling]

And I understand what you're saying, Rob,
and I apologize,

I get it and I agree.

But how can you take someone's side,

and let them come in
when it's not his fuckin' situation,

and he's done more damage to the Slabs
than anybody fucking here?

[Rob] Zack has had,
just like a lot of people here,

has had a very fucked up life.

I have a chance, given time,
to show Zack that there are better ways…

He could have walked up behind that guy
and put him in the fucking grave.

He didn't.

The Zack that I met two-and-a-half
years ago would have just fucking

taken a club and beaten'
the guy over the head.

Dude, I'll beat the shit out of you
with both of these coffee thermoses

and then pour 'em on you.

I can't say nothin' bad about him.

All the people will be like,
"Oh, he is this, he is that…"

You know, I've been with Zack
ever since I've been here,

and I haven't seen him do nothin' wrong,
unless it's for a reason.

You have to respect people out here,
or they're not gonna respect you at all.

[Zack] Hey! Look at these douche bags!

Hey, look, it's a couple of fucks.
Look at the tapeworms!

[Rob] This is an alpha community.
Everybody up here is an alpha.

Um, and, of course,
when two alphas come together,

they're eventually gonna butt heads
if they don't have their space.

But, we do live…
we do for the most part live in harmony.

Rob doesn't like violence at the cafe.

We don't induce violence at the cafe.

We try to stop it as much as we can.

[Rob] In the cafe,
the only thing I allow is pot.

Anything harder and they get tossed out.

I don't even allow alcohol anymore.

So if they wanna get drunk,
they can go somewhere fuckin' else.

[ambient sound playing]

[sniffling]

I try not to be negative,
as much as I can.

When negativity happens,
when there's fights and stuff like that,

I try to forget those.

I remember 'em,
but I try not to harbor on them…

And I try to look at
the chirping of birds.

You know, the beauty of the desert.

I try to remember something
beautiful in that situation,

and that's what I try to live my life by.

[sniffling] Sorry, Rob.

I accept your apology.

-I know you didn't…
-[sniffling]

None… None of what you did
was intentional.

[Nathan] Well, Rob, I gotta tell you…

He's one of the wisest men I've met,
actually.

The way he brings himself, and the way he…

Like, if somebody gets an argument,

the way he diffuses it
and the way he words things…

He loves to conversate with people,
he loves learning about people, and…

He just loves people.
Rob's a great person.

[coughing]

-Hey, Steve?
-[Steve] Yeah?

I'm just peeking in to see
if Shrieka is in here.

[Steve] Yes, she came in.

Shrieka did come in?

[Steve] Yeah.

Shrieka? Are you in here, baby?

No, she's not in here.

Shrieka!

A lot of us have got our dogs
and we get attached to 'em.

And the cafe's got their own dogs.

They were puppies that were born
together at the same litter.

If we didn't have all the dogs,

then there would be
a lot of problems around here.

'Cause whenever I get angry,
all I do is pick up my puppy,

and look at her face,
and all my anger leaves.

Gentle.

[growling]

You teach her gentle.
Yes, you teach her gentle, Kato.

We protect children, we protect animals.

We treat our animals better
than we treat ourselves.

[George] Me and my dog, we usually spend

all day here with nobody comin' around.

I enjoy the solitude of just being alone
and being able to relax.

Yeah, I love it out here. I just love it.

If I had one wish,

I wish I could find me a nice woman.

I even posted it online, on Facebook.

"I'm looking for a nice woman
to stay with me,

do the cookin' and cleanin',
do my laundry…" [laughing]

And everybody said, "You want a maid,
you don't want a fuckin' wife!"

[laughing]

Tomorrow's my birthday.

I'm gonna be 65 years old, and, well…

It'd be nice to settle down a little bit.

And it'd be nice to stay with a woman,
yeah.

Share that with, you know.

And now I'm gettin' all
sentimental and shit.

[laughing]

[whining]

Shrieka?

[whistling]

Shrieka?

[ambient sound playing]

You get to know the animals,
you get to know them by name.

You know, they'll run out, they'll talk
to you,

they'll say hi to you in the mornings,

and then they go on to
their journey of the day.

There you are, baby! Hi! Come here!

Come on!

You had me worried, baby.

Come on up!

[coddling]

-[panting]
-Hi, Gator.

Yes, hi, Gator.

You had me worried, baby.

[Zack] Well, then, I gotta avoid
the police until April 30th.

[Phenom] Is it traffic tickets?

It's traffic court,
it's not a ticket, bro.

It's a fuckin' "evading arrest"
and I also--

[Phenom] You was evading arrest?

-I destroyed a cop car with a F-350.
-[dog whining]

-[dog whining]
-Hey! Fuck off!

You're gonna come play right next to me
when I'm drinking coffee.

Piss off! Go!

-Go!
-[dog whining]

Go, motherfucker!

And that's how I got caught up

and that's why I'm going through all this
stupid bullshit now.

Today is my brother Zack's birthday
and he is turning 19,

and we're goin' to celebrate it
by doin' everything under the sun

that cannot get us in trouble…

While still having fun at the same time.

I at least have to not go to jail
until after my birthday.

[wind blowing]

[ambient sounds playing]

[Rob] I will eventually,
one day, be leaving.

Um, there will come a day when I won't
be able to go up on the roof anymore,

to move the panels around.

[ambient sounds playing]

Hey, Zack? You wanna come here?

[Zack] Yo?

Yeah, come here.
I need you to fix this a little bit.

We've got this back,
we can't have the cord hanging down, so…

We need to…

[Rob] And when that day comes,

that will definitely be the day
that I leave.

Um, who knows?

It may be sooner.
But, right now, this is home.

[ambient sounds playing]

[ambient sounds playing]

[Phenom] And we're goin' to get
so hammered tonight.

I don't know what we're doin',
but we're gonna have fun tonight.

We are at The Range,
it's a very special place.

I advise everybody to come to The Range
at Slab City.

Please.

[guitar strumming]

[guitar strumming]

[laughing]

Saturdays, like tonight,

is one of the biggest nights of the week,

because we all gather up on the stage
that was set up by Builder Bill.

And it's called The Range.

[George] That's when the alcohol
flows through,

and I do have my good times
on Saturday nights.

Sundays are my day off.
I don't do nothin'.

Somebody comes over, wants somethin' done,
I'll tell them I'll do it on Monday,

because I've usually got a hangover.

It's fantastic, I just go out there
and dance, dance my heart out.

[feedback ringing]

And I'm better when I come back on Sunday.
A whole better person again.

[feedback ringing]

[static blaring]

[ambient sounds playing]

[ambient sounds playing]

[ambient sounds playing]

[ambient sounds playing]

[ambient sounds playing]

[ambient sounds playing]

[Donita] Yeah, we work hard
and we play hard out here, too.

Different tones, different pitches,
different instruments.

I've seen all the way from a cello,

to a flute, to harmonica playing the blues

up there on that Range.

It is a range of music.

[ambient sounds playing]

[lamp buzzing]

[ambient sounds playing]

[feedback ringing, drums thumping]

[guitar strumming]

[guitar strumming, singing]

[Rob] I may go down to listen to…
listen to a new musician

for half an hour to an hour,
but that's pretty much it.

This place keeps me pretty busy
and by the time that's goin' on,

I'm pretty tired,
and just wanna sit back and relax.

Dream on!

Thanks.

[bird calling]

[ambient sounds playing]

[ambient sounds playing]

[Rob] I'm as human as everybody else,
I make my stupid mistakes.

But I do tend to be self-reflective.

Think about…

Geez, what did I just do?
What I wanna really do?

[ambient sounds playing]

[Rob] Don't stop learning,
don't stop growing…

Work harder each day to be a better
person than you were yesterday.

And never rest on your laurels.

For your own personal growth,
you need to constantly learn.

That's the mistake too many people make,
is resting on their accomplishments.

You gotta keep doing something new.

[ambient sounds playing]

My mother worked
for the same employer for 32 years.

My sister is months away from putting in
her 30th year with a single employer.

Couldn't do it!

Maybe if I was an astronaut for NASA, yes.

I plan on going to the moon before I die.

[guitar strumming]

Chill.

-Don't let her come to you.
-[whining]

[guitar strumming, singing]

[guitar strumming, singing]

[guitar strumming, singing]

[guitar strumming, singing]

[guitar strumming, singing]

[guitar strumming, singing]

[guitar strumming, singing]

[guitar strumming, singing]

[guitar strumming]

They keep kicking me off
the private network

and it's really pissing me off.

So before you leave, we definitely
have to take care of the internet

and me getting on and off
without complications.

Yeah.

[guitar strumming]

[guitar strumming]

[muffled music playing]

[guitar strumming]

[guitar strumming]

[guitar strumming stops]

[ambient sounds playing]

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