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All right, I'm excited.

- Hey. - I'm... Hey.

What's up, buddy?

What are you doing here? I'm doing an interview.

I'm... I'm interviewing you, dude. That's why I'm here.

- They told me... Yeah, yeah. - No.

We did the show. I'm doing the interview, okay?

- Yes. - This is not gonna work.

I'm here. So, let's just... let's make the best of this, okay?

It's good to see you. Look, you need to explain the show.

Explain to everybody how we got here.

Yeah, there's going to be a cool opening for the show

with sparks, and the trucks, and the people that we see.

It's going to be awesome.

Let's go!

So, I'm buying these decommissioned government vehicles...

to help reimagine them to serve this community again,

just in a different way.

Hold on, hold on, hold on. Back up, back up for a second.

Explain how we got here. Start at the beginning.

Yeah. Okay, the beginning.

Since I was a kid, I've always loved to build,

whether it was forts, bikes, go-karts. I just love to create.

As I got older,

my passion for building turned into huge vehicles.

Oh, this is amazing! Look at this thing.

I got a lot of them. Fire trucks, city buses, semi-trailers.

Which ones are his?

- They're all his. - He said he bought two.

I saw really good machines being discarded, sold off

when I knew they still had a lot of life.

But I knew they could serve a higher purpose.

I decided to reimagine, repurpose, and renovate these vehicles.

Out here in the fields

I wanted to turn these vehicles into something incredible.

I fight for my meals

And I want to do it for communities...

There you go.

...and for kids all over the world.

Let's show Hawkeye

how we play soccer.

Nice shot.

So, I teamed up

with four organizations that help kids in need.

Based in four different communities, spread across the planet.

So, for each community, I rebuilt an old vehicle

and gave it a new purpose

to help each organization fulfill their mission.

We're going to change this truck into a water filtration truck.

A mobile dance studio.

A music studio bus.

A mobile rec center.

Then I gave them the reimagined vehicles.

Yes, yes, yes, I love that.

- I was still talking. - What?

I also brought along...

...some talented and familiar friends

to help me deliver them.

To do the work,

I assembled a rockstar team of builders.

How long do we have to build this one, Jeremy?

We got two or three weeks on this thing.

And finally, I needed a co-pilot on this global journey.

And that's where Rory comes in.

Yes, it's about time.

You'll get it.

He's charming and handsome in the dark. All right...

Why're you laughing?

Yes!

You'll wonder what he does. And you're not wrong.

Holy...

Let's just say he makes this project way more fun.

I broke the blade. Don't tell Jeremy.

He has a way with people. You'll see.

- Bum, bum, bum... - Step on the line!

He stepped on the line!

Hey! Thank you.

You're meaning that in a good way, right? A good way with people?

Yeah.

I know this whole thing seems a little crazy.

But the only difference

between crazy and courage is a plan.

You know how good this is going to feel when we can actually get it done?

Okay, Jer, what's the plan?

I want to make actionability and thoughtfulness of others

cool as...

Right?

You can't say... ...on Disney, dude.

You can't do that.

We just did.

There's a house

In New Orleans

They call the Rising Sun

It's been the ruin

Of many poor boys

And God I know

I'm one

Music has always been my first love.

It's a very personal thing for me.

Something that I fell into when I was younger.

Kept me out of trouble, and becoming an adult, it still is.

Anytime I get overwhelmed with personal problems or job,

music is such a therapeutic outlet for me.

But I didn't really share any music until

even more recently in the last, like five years or so.

And in doing so, it opened my eyes and opened my heart.

It gave me a sense of belonging.

Music unites people. That to me is exciting.

Wow! Wow! Unbelievable, seriously unbelievable.

The acoustics is like at Sydney Opera House.

Shouldn't you be working?

No... Dude, there's no one here.

It's just us.

It's fantastic.

Ooh, come on, you can do it

Nothing for free but the freeway Turn up the music, crank up the bass

If I'm gonna do it, do it all the way

It's a good day Just me and my four wheels

I'm gonna touch the sky

Call me the bad guy, call me the saint

Tell me I'm crazy, call me insane

I was born a dreamer with a heart of gold

Call me a rebel I'm just a rebel on the road

Call me a rebel

I'm just a rebel on the road

Look at these vehicles.

Just waiting to be reimagined, repurposed,

and renovated to serve communities in a new way.

All right, they need some work,

but don't we all?

So, I picked one

for an incredible organization

in Chicago that gets kids off the street.

Thank you Jeremy Renner for being so nice to Rory.

No, it doesn't say that

'cause that's not true.

And we turned it into a mobile music studio.

I know it sounds a little crazy.

But I knew the perfect vehicle. The 54-foot Prevost bus.

Okay, let's get back to the day the build began.

- Look at that thing! - Whoo!

Oh, that thing's huge! Wow!

- You're good. - Bring it in, bring it in.

Whoo! That's a big boy.

Look at the size of that radiator.

You got to love Rory's enthusiasm,

but yeah, he's still learning about vehicles.

That's not a radiator, buddy.

Holy crap!

When Jer talked about doing a music bus for kids, it landed immediately.

Jeremy taught my daughter how to play the piano,

and it's made an enormous impact in her life.

Look at that.

It's just one of the extraordinary tools

for kids to express themselves and to have a creative outlet.

Oh, yeah. Hey, hey!

He can get out the other side.

Unlike Rory, Corey knows everything about vehicles.

That’s why I've been working with him for years.

To see this tour bus was surprising to me.

Jeremy bought it

and he was going to keep it as a production bus.

But when he found out an organization in Chicago needed a bus,

he gave it to 'em. Not everybody would do that.

But he's that guy.

- This is the Cadillac. - It is. It's like a Cad...

- 'Cause it's a Prevost, man. - Cadillac.

All right, as a build crew you should know

that music is a big part of my life, so if I get excited,

it's because this project is very personal to me.

I cannot wait.

So, all the chairs come out and all this comes out

and then we can rebuild.

But there's all AC that runs through here,

a bunch of wiring, a lot of stuff that we don't know what's happening.

So let's just be gentle

about what we're opening, what we're doing.

We have a computer on this bus that... Right? That...

If you mess with one thing,

the whole thing is just not going to work.

It'll shut down the engine, right? It won't even work.

- So, Rory, you're not allowed on the bus. - All right, fine.

You're like a rhino in a China shop, right?

But first, we got to take everything out of this bus

and start from scratch.

You guys finding any horror stories back there?

That's Bender. He runs the crew.

Fun fact, he got his nickname from bending his trucks while off-roading.

Yeah, he built the vehicles, but I don't let him drive.

Anyway, he fabricates vehicles for a living.

So, if there's anyone I trust to get this build done, it's him.

I felt really good about the team.

What I didn't feel really good about

is tackling something that's never been done before.

But these builders bring passion and vision and creativeness to the table.

Almost every single one of us, me included,

come from the off-road racing and rock crawling community.

We all have experience building a vehicle completely from scratch.

So as long as I could convey the vision to them,

they take it and run.

You got dirt bikes or anything, quads?

No, not currently.

Yeah, I have not had a bike since I wrecked mine,

but, you know, someday.

I work in a huge shop down in Southern California.

Again, again.

We make some of the most amazing high-quality parts.

Ta-da!

I love working on cars, whether it's trucks

or rock crawlers, or rock racers.

Done yet?

So when I found out about this project, I was like, "Throw me in, Coach."

Like, "Let's go build something."

It's really exciting to be on this build team.

There's a lot of really talented fabricators.

I'm a fabricator as well, but I build sculpture art for Burning Man.

So, I felt really confident.

We're going to be turning out something really neat for these kids.

You're probably wondering,

why we decided to build a mobile music studio

instead of a normal music studio.

Well, the plan came together after a friend introduced me

to an incredible organization called BASE Chicago.

You can give me all your troubles

And nothing but bad news

You can take all my money...

- You're up, Renner. - Oh, we got a lefty in the house.

Yes, right. Lefty, lefty, lefty.

Jeremy Renner took from his time

to say that he wants to help community on the West side of Chicago.

Haven't done this in about 15 years.

Wow.

And that means the word gettin' around

that The BASE Chicago is doing some good things.

Hey, my grandmother

gave me that bucket.

Good.

What we do is more than just rolling the baseballs out or the basketball.

Line those knuckles up.

We searching out young people that need help

and rescue them from their environment.

Because the gangs are out there, every day.

Keep your head down, see it, get through it.

There you go.

There's some kids that have had four, five, six of their friends murdered.

And my job

is making sure that every one of these kids can get home safely.

My mother used to say, "You know, you might grow up in the projects,

"but the projects will never grow up in you."

I want the whole world to know that there's some awesome

young people that live in this area.

And I think that what we're doing now is just a mere shadow

of what we plan to do in the future.

You want to tell me a little bit about BASE,

and... So he can understand a little bit about BASE as well?

Well, Frank was a firefighter, and I was a Chicago police officer.

We had a front-row seat to everything that was wrong with our city.

What you see at The BASE is us taking action.

We want to give our kids an opportunity to dream.

Dream, dream, dream, whatever that means.

Is there one particular area that you need some support

or would like, you know, us to create something for you?

There's one thing that every kid here will tell you...

I'm really a rapper.

Really, really, really?

Love it.

I got lyrics.

So, when we talk about music in this community...

- Yeah. - ...that's a winner.

It's pretty inspiring, I think, music.

And we all have different ties to music, right?

But it's... No matter of our race, color, creed, music is a uniting thing.

That's... that's a great point.

I really advocate for our entire city being more together.

We've been so polarized with the North side versus the South side.

When we all get on the same side,

- this city's gonna start moving. - Yeah, I like that.

We'll have to bounce some ideas off each other

and make something really special.

Music is a universal language

that gives people an outlet.

We go high

Music could help connect the community

by engaging people from different neighborhoods.

They go low, we go high

But the kids need more than just a place to play instruments.

They're going to want to learn skills to create and record music themselves.

We had so many ideas.

The kids needed a chill-out area to collaborate and write.

A soundproof room with instruments to jam.

And a mixing area with all the gear and technology to finish the tracks.

Basically, a high-end music studio inside a bus.

Bender's going to have a field day with this.

Here we are, here we are, boys.

- Let me get that for you, Bender. - Thanks, brother.

Uh-oh, I don't trust you.

All right, so, this is a really close project to me.

It's a Prevost bus, it's a monster, monster bus.

I got it in Florida

and they were using it for passenger travel.

It's a 55, 57 passenger bus.

Thinking this as a music studio bus will be great for these kids.

But I want this to be more fun than baseball, softball, and basketball

combined for these kids.

We're not doing anything crazy to the outside of this bus.

This will probably just get a paint job and we'll put some cool logos.

Yeah, I see this picture with the roof cut off

and that concerns me.

- This is just so we can see inside. - Okay.

There's a roof on this thing.

Building a music studio is not foreign to me.

I've done a couple of them myself. I've just not done it in a bus.

Until now, right? So check out the designs and listen up.

This bus needs three rooms.

The first room is a lounge where the kids can hang out,

collaborate, and write music.

The middle room is for live performances. It's the biggest room of them all

and packed with instruments and recording equipment.

All this gear connects to a snake nest of wires

that run to the third room in the back.

A full studio is set up with a computer, recording software, and mixing board,

for the kids to make beats and engineer their own tracks.

It's going to be amazing. I wish I had something like this growing up.

The interior and exterior walls are soundproof

to create a barrier between the music and the street.

It's kind of the theme here.

Bender, I can't wait to see what you put together.

No, it's super easy,

it's right there.

How's it driving, mechanically? You've driven. Is it good mechanically?

Yeah, it runs and drives great.

These buses are really well-built to begin with.

You know, they're built for...

To withstand a rollover or anything like that.

The biggest challenge, I think, is probably gonna actually be power.

Yeah, can't have those big generators going like you have

- in the other ones, can you? - No.

Well, here's the thing,

here's the important part of things that's really, really important.

Because generators, even with the quiet ones,

you still get vibrations and things like that.

If you're actually doing any recording in there, you don't want that on.

So, we want to be able to have some sort of power system that's quiet.

Honestly, Jeremy, I don't know anything about soundproofing.

You're going to have to educate me because I'm absolutely ignorant.

I'll bring in my engineer,

who's the big gearhead, who knows where everything goes.

- Pratt? - Pratt's the guy.

He lives at my house, he lives in the studio,

and this is all he does for a living and he loves it.

He's been sound-deadening the guest rooms ever since I've been staying there.

So he's got a lot of expertise.

I was tired of hearing all the groans and moans getting out of bed.

- The "Rory Rumble" is a real thing. - The Rory Rumble.

How long do we have to build this one, Jeremy?

Yeah, we got two, three weeks on this one, yeah.

That's doable, right?

What could possibly go wrong, hey, big guy?

Once it warms up, BASE gets very busy,

and then their summer programs are starting up,

and they'd really like to kick it off with some music programs.

The more puzzled you get,

the more your bill in your cap flips up more.

- You get a little more... - You know what that's from?

It's from beating my head on the table like this.

It looks like Rory's bangs.

All right, we have a lot of work to do.

Bender is an incredible leader.

He also won a high school handwriting contest.

Well, I'm not sure if that's true,

but either way, look at those letters. Impressive.

All right, guys.

Big thanks for getting that interior stripped out of this thing.

Well, here's the plan for this bus.

I figured Justin and Roxanne,

you guys could break this bus into pretty much three compartments

with the steel frame in there.

Merri and Ryan will build some walls.

- Maybe some cool flooring. - Yup, absolutely.

Corey, how's this thing mechanically?

This bus is sound.

However, we demo'd out the HVAC system,

so I think we'll have to throw units on top of it.

And then power generation.

Okay. AK?

I think our biggest hurdle is honestly going to be power.

You got to really get creative on that one.

- Right. - We got this.

The other thing is, cosmetically, we're missing a window.

So, what happened to it? Did somebody lose their temper?

- Well, I don't know. - Tempered glass.

High-five.

All right, guys, let's get to work.

That guy, the one you can't see because of the welding shield,

that's AK. He's a talented builder, and relentless with the dad jokes.

You'll see. I'm sorry.

We got to run three rooftop air conditioner heaters.

All of the sound equipment, all of the lights,

huge, huge power requirements.

And it needs to be quiet.

That's not a thing, to have a quiet power supply.

We gotta build it.

I decided to buy 20 deep-cycle automotive batteries.

I've gotta wire this thing.

I've gotta make sure all of the voltage is exactly where it needs to be.

It is definitely an engineering nightmare. But for me, it's a fun puzzle.

Show me what you got going on here.

I got a great idea for how we can power this thing,

all day long.

The AC system was in here. Since we don't need it anymore,

we're going to build like a pallet. So we can load two rows

- of five batteries, stacked two high. - Nice.

We're going to have three 5,000-watt inverters

and we're going to tie it in

to the existing charging system of the bus.

So, how long are we going to be able to run just on battery power?

I planned this out to run all three ACs, music at max volume with all the bass

that Chicago can handle...

- ...and run it for eight hours straight. - Eight hours straight.

All these batteries and I'm not going to charge a thing.

- All right, let's do it. - Good on you, brother.

I am half-Hawaiian, half-White, what you would call "hapa haole."

I grew up on O'ahu.

But when I moved from Hawaii to Texas as a child,

I didn't really fit in. So when I was a kid,

I spent a lot of my time in the garage with my grandfather.

He could create anything.

My grandfather only had a sixth-grade education.

But he was one of the smartest men I've ever met.

And I believe that anything that I can imagine

can become a reality.

How long do you think it's gonna take you

to get the battery banks built?

In the next two days, I should have this thing fully built.

I'll give you three.

That's a ridiculous task.

Eyes.

There's so much stuff that goes into this.

To pull this thing off... ...you know, that's monumental.

We got some bets going on. Don't really know how it started.

But we're all kind of betting cheeseburgers

on whether or not he would get it done.

We'll see who's buying all the cheeseburgers

by the end of the build here.

Let's make a deal.

You have this thing built, I'll buy five cheeseburgers, bro.

Good deal.

So you're a car builder and a floor installer also?

I get what needs to be done, done, but I'm going to tell you right now.

I'm not completely new at it, just new enough to know I don't like it.

Recently, actually, I had pulled up my friend's floor

and put it in my house, so it would pass inspection.

Because you're supposed to have like a floor in your house, apparently.

So, this is definitely nothing new.

Ryan, you think it's worthy for my resume?

I'd say so. Done!

I'm your reference.

Merri has a great wealth of knowledge

when it comes to building cars, especially off-road.

She's a rock crawler like myself.

And she's one of the few people I've met

that legitly has me beat on the injury scale.

But she's got a personality that stands out

amongst the brightest personalities.

Anybody knows me, knows I joke around a lot.

But I have not always been a happy outgoing person.

A few years ago, I was in an accident

and it opened my eyes and changed my perspective.

I got cut off on the road, ended up losing control

and bounced off a couple trees.

Woke up 31 days later.

After a couple years of being stuck in bed,

in the wheelchair,

I decided I'm not going to waste any of the days that I have left.

Every time I take a ride I feel alive with nowhere to go

I'm a king of the road

Now baby, let's ride

We got nothing but time

You get all the reactions You're the main attraction

Okay, Bender wasn't learning about music studios on his own.

So to move things along, I invited him over for a lesson

from my friend and sound engineer, Pratt.

You're the perfect distraction

You're the main attraction

- That could all be done on the bus. - This place is amazing.

Pratt, this is his domain.

- Pleasure, brother. - He lives in here, sleeps in here.

And this is his, like, little Death Star.

All right, so Pratt, why don't you tell Bender, kind of,

you know, the workings of how this room works in particular

and then how it relates to the room outside,

the live room, if you will?

This is more like the sound section, so like, this is a guitar sound,

so you could change guitars, like change vocal sounds.

Then all of that leads over here to the digital side.

Everything is wired underneath

in a very, very complex way.

These are basically just soundproof like insulation almost.

And it's just wrapped in burlap.

And so we have them all over the room.

These things are very important. It really helps deaden the sound.

It's like the value of a foot of concrete.

Oh, wow.

I've never made a music studio before.

It seems real easy, you make a room and that's it.

But it's not that simple.

So, this is the idea of what the middle of the bus

should hopefully kind of be like.

The engineering behind making this thing needed to be absolutely perfect.

So, yeah, so the ports that are on the other side

feed right here.

Basically, I'm feeding every one of these channels over there,

and vice versa. So, like, you can have access

to all the instruments in this room and still play from that room.

When you peel back those layers...

...there's so much stuff that goes into this.

Wow.

This one is challenging to me because I can't hear the things

that normal people hear.

I'm almost 70 percent deaf. Everything over 3000 hertz is just gone,

like I can't hear a watch, I can't hear squeaks, I can't hear beeps.

I can hear somebody talking, you know, unless it's the wife

but so...

The idea is, like, condense this down into the bus.

It's about the same size, I think this is about eight feet.

It's challenging to get out of my comfort zone

and trust that Pratt can fill in all those blanks of this puzzle.

Although frustrating,

it's going to be super rewarding when it's done.

So you can fit quite a bit of stuff in there

and lay it out and you have a lot of room for a lot of magic to happen.

Man, I got to get to work.

We're getting close to this bus having to get on the road

- and go to Chicago. - Yep.

So, you know, I want to plus this thing up a bit.

I feel like the bus has turned out so great.

I just feel like there's another way to create more attention.

And I'm thinking of a friend of mine who I just saw at the Oscars.

- And I want to give her a call. - Well...

- Her name's Vanessa. - Vanessa, who?

She's in High School Musical.

My kids see... My kids watch that.

- So maybe you know her from that. - Yeah, yeah.

- And she's a singer, obviously. - Yeah, singers. She's a singer, actress.

- Hi. How are ya? - How you doing? What are you doing?

I'm great, I'm just chilling. What's going on?

I got a little thing.

And if you got some time, I'd love your help.

I got a bus

- that I built into a music studio... - Yeah.

...for these kids in Chicago. My worry is that I'm not enough.

I know that you love kids, I know you love music.

Can you please come help me to deliver this thing?

I love this chain of sentences

that is happening.

So, where do you need me? You need me in Chicago?

Chicago. It'd be a lot of fun with you and me

and then my friend, you're going to despise.

- What do you mean? I'm right here. - I'm so sorry.

- I'm throwing you under the music bus. - And backing... beep, beep.

"Why? I looked out for you!"

Okay, sounds like my cup of tea.

Okay, good, good.

Can you come hang out with me for a day or two?

I want to talk to you about some more details about it.

Sounds amazing. I can't wait. I'll talk to you soon.

- Bye. - Bye.

Yeah, yeah, I know we were tight on time.

And the team was working as fast as they can.

I wanted to see instruments in the bus.

But before that happened,

I was told that we needed, you know, walls.

And not just ordinary walls. I'm talking wood,

vinyl, and steel sandwiches.

This is definitely an ambitious build.

I have never done so much carpentry work in my life.

But floors were installed, walls were put up,

things were upholstered.

Hey, Ry. How does it look over there?

I mean, we're good.

I can't get over how much we did.

We're going to need to insulate doors,

walls, some of the ceiling.

- Okay, you're ready? Let's do this. - Okay.

That's Chewbacca.

- Did that work? - I think it works.

But it was a little bit of a learning curve.

Because of my accident, I have a short-term memory.

I was hitting something with a hammer. I can't remember what it was.

You ever see 50 First Dates? That's like me.

Uh... If I was painter's tape, where would I hide?

But considering all the injuries I have,

I'm happy that I can still do what I'm good at.

I collapsed this lung, punctured this one, broke seven discs in my back.

I broke this arm in three different places.

I got a titanium rod and six screws in that one.

I'm almost RoboCop by now.

It's going to be so crazy in here.

I laugh because I'm like, you tried to take me out

and I'm still here.

There's something about Merri.

Where's your marker?

Merri is a wild child. Hyper.

She bounces all over the place. But if you can focus that energy,

you can rest assured that project will be done to perfection.

She's awesome.

- Hey, lady, how you doing? - Hey, Bender.

Oh, geez, you're good.

I'll tell you what, if you were any better, they'd call you Bender.

That looks amazing, though.

Okay, seeing is believing.

So to better understand the impact music can have on kids at BASE,

a recent BASE graduate

set up a lesson at a local school for some current BASE students.

Jamison can rip.

Even got Rory to stop talking.

Love that guy.

Amazing. Where'd you learn to play?

- I started when I was around six or seven. - Oh, wow.

- How did that come about? - Oh, my dad just bought a drum set.

There you go.

- You guys are just learning? - Yeah, yeah. We're beginners.

All right, I mean, everybody's got to begin somewhere, right?

So in the community, the resources involved in music

are really limited.

Students and people around the neighborhood

do not have easy access to instruments.

- You play an instrument? - I mean...

I've taken a couple of piano lessons at the school.

- Yeah. - But I'm much more of a vocalist though.

- Yeah, yeah. - Yeah.

It's like music, it's so good because instead of having all that emotion

bottled up and doing something bad, you can just release the effort

into doing something good with your life and doing music.

I started off with drums, and then moved to guitar.

He had a band, his first band.

And you'd never going to forget, what it's called. It was called Hot Ice.

He had the mullet, he had the whole thing going.

What was the song called? It was "Straight to the Top,"

or "Rise to the Top"? What was the big track?

- Yeah, I don't remember. - Yeah, you do.

Kids are vulnerable.

It's tough to feel alone,

surrounded by distractions without a safe outlet.

Music bus is designed as a cool alternative to the street.

A place where kids can escape

and release their emotions in a constructive way, through music.

That's the dream.

Hey, Pratt, check this out.

- Oh, man. - What do you think?

This is absolutely incredible.

I'm pretty happy with the way it's turned out.

The crew's just absolutely killed it.

You have a lot of stuff to put in here.

I do, we might have went overboard, but...

it's going to be fun.

I don't think that "overboard" is in Jeremy's vocabulary.

- Well, let's go get some junk. - All right, let's go get it.

That's...

This is going to be a...

This is gonna be a lot of work, dude. For Pratt.

All right, cool. Another silver Strat.

Oh, that's beautiful.

Yeah, these necks are great, man. These are such...

You get such great sound out of these necks.

- Yeah. - Oh, my God, this is so great.

This is gonna rip.

This is gonna rip.

I mean, I thought I had a lot of good stuff in my studio before this,

but this... this is a lot better version of a studio than I got.

This is awesome.

- This is like Christmas morning. - Yup.

It is like Santa came.

- Yeah. - Santa!

I had to lean on Pratt really heavy

with all the music equipment that goes into this thing.

And pretty soon, this simple project takes on a life of its own

and it just gets bigger and better than I ever thought imaginable.

It far exceeded every expectation that I even had designing the thing.

Oh, my God.

What my team has been able to create is mind-boggling.

But no matter how confident

I felt about my design or the overall picture,

when it really comes down to it, we need to be able to power everything.

That was huge.

- I need you to push this in. - Yup.

- Do you want to crimp this one? - Nope.

You want to see how this works?

You do the sound effects.

You have how many more crimps to do?

- A lot. - Seriously, Bender, you want to try it?

- I mean... - No.

I don't want to crimp your style or anything.

Uh-uh. No.

I know that you're not really down for working.

- No, not at all. But I'll watch you. - Yeah.

The power system at this point is still a theory.

I really only had about a day

to figure out exactly how we were going to pull this off.

I hope it works.

Morning, boys.

- Hey. - Hey. Hey.

- How's it going? - I'm good. I'm glad you showed up.

I'm sure you are. What do we got here?

- We have an assembly line going here... - Yeah.

...and you can definitely help us cut the cable.

- That... Is this live right now? - It is.

In all serious, don't let metal touch...

Oh, dude, I'm not touching this thing.

I don't wanna have like a perm coming out of this when I touch this.

- You will. - Yeah.

Your ears would definitely be smoking.

So the key to all of this is that

you just... you really want to have a positive attitude.

Oh... Ba-dum-tss. AK with the one liners, hey.

- You can bank on it. - You can bank on it.

All right, so...

That's just... It's way too early

for those one liners.

You see what I mean about the dad jokes?

Relentless.

Yeah, we don't normally see you till lunch.

Yeah, the crack of noon.

That's like the Canadian military. We get out of bed at the crack of noon.

I'm gonna leave you two at it.

I'm gonna go get some parts. Is there anything else you need?

Cables, wires, a little time, and a few kind words.

That's really cool.

Well, I'm going to let you keep going on this...

No, no, the work's about to start.

Now, we've talked about what we're going to do.

- Hey, Mom. Yeah. Hey, just... - Oh, my God.

Gotta jump here, buddy.

- All you do is slow me down. - AK says hi.

I thought I was training you how to do this.

Oh, no, you have a good one. Have a good day.

- What's up, amigo? - Oh, hey.

How's this coming?

I put the last inverter in right now. And then...

we get to test this thing.

I definitely need some help putting the batteries in.

Bring it up.

All right, perfect. Bring it forward.

AK, he's got so much pressure on him.

You're in. Set it down all the way.

We have a lot weighing on this.

- Will all of these turn on at one time? - Yeah.

Maybe. I don't even know if it'll work.

It'll work.

Either that or the whole thing blows up.

All right.

This is it, the moment of truth. If the lights turn on,

the battery system is working, we're good to go.

If they don't turn on, I'm screwed. Can you check that connector on the floor?

- We're all hooked up, let's go. - Let's try it.

It works.

Maybe we should open up a tanning business instead.

Nailed it! So bright.

I am so happy that I'm done with this thing.

It passed that test with flying colors.

We've got more than enough power to power anything they can think of.

Hey ho, let's go!

Yeah, it's done.

Hey ho, let's go!

We'll be able to run this thing at max power with the AC on,

all the amps, all the recording for eight hours completely quiet.

This thing is crazy. It just blows my mind.

It was really cool because we didn't use an off-the-shelf fix for this power.

We used normal, everyday automotive car batteries

and made our own power supply.

My grandfather would definitely be...

he would definitely be proud of me.

Where's my cheeseburger?

- Let's go. - Beautiful.

Hey ho, let's go!

Finishing touches.

You guys did all the work. I get to do this last part.

It's hard to even put into words, this satisfaction as a builder.

That day that you unveil something that you've built.

You got it. Come on, muscles.

- Chi-Town. Yes! - Yeah.

Hey, Bender, great job.

Looks like you got all your bases covered.

I can't say enough about these builders and their ability

to overcome a problem

and create this... this unbelievable project.

So, you guys just grand slam with this one.

This is crazy over the top.

- AK killed it on the... the power. - Thanks.

You guys killed it on the interior. Congratulations.

I can't wait to see the look on these kids' faces.

- It's all done, right? - Got my bags packed.

I'm ready for the drive.

Hold on a sec. You didn't think

that I was going to drive the bus to Chicago, did you?

- No, that's Corey's domain. - Let's go.

Let's go, let's go.

He's the lead mechanic. He's got loads of experience on the road.

The bus is in good hands.

You got it, you got it, you got it.

Yeah!

- Welcome to Chicago. - Thank you, thank you.

I'm so happy to be here. Kids are, obviously, they are our future...

- Yeah. Yes. - ...so anytime I can get around them

to inspire them, I'm... I'm so there.

They're going to lose their minds. It's going to be such a beautiful moment.

Music is everything, music is life.

- Yeah, yeah. - It really is though.

What does it mean to you? Like music in your life, you know.

Music to me in my life is... there constantly.

I don't think I would be as joyous as I am today

if music wasn't a part of my life

- as a kid. - A hundred percent agree.

It genuinely brings so much joy

- and wonderment. - Yeah.

And that's something that I think we lose as adults.

So, we have to be conscious to keep it alive.

- Yeah. - But it... Music provides that.

A hundred percent agree. And it's what it is for me as well.

- Yeah. - What we can do,

and we can do together, and you can really help me,

is be here and create an even bigger, brighter spotlight for The BASE.

And for this community and what they do.

- Yeah. - I'm so here for it.

- Yeah, thank you so much. - Let's bring the kids the music.

That is right.

Here we go.

All right, let's do it.

We did it.

- One, two, three! - Base!

- Four, five, six! - Ground base!

I have another friend I want to introduce to come out

and help deliver this bus with me.

Vanessa, come out.

Hey, Vanessa!

We've got the builders here as well.

Thank you, thank you so much.

So, to make it official, I pass this on to you.

We forever indebted to you, man. Thank you so much, thank you.

Go check out the bus! Yeah!

Wait until you see inside.

I didn't choose This was my world

I can't lose, got to fight more It's the love I would die for

If I fall, they should cry for me

And I know they got eyes on me But I'ma be fine, you'll see

'Cause I'ma be royalty

When I make history

I'ma make history

Oh, but you cry for me

'Cause I'ma make history

Come on, come on.

Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.

Let's go.

- Oh, what? - Welcome to your own personal paradise.

Oh, my gosh.

Ogechi was in there and I just got to see her face light up.

I feel like I don't even deserve this right now.

- Like this is... - You do.

Thank you so much. Oh, bro, in five years, you gonna know me.

That's right. Heard it here first.

It's pretty awesome to see all the kids light up.

These kids deserve goodness in their life, beyond the music.

You have to be bold, and be brave, and pave your own path.

Beautiful, beautiful.

Wow. Wow, man.

Frank and I, we've had a lot of dreams of things we wanted for our kids.

We have so many young people that are trying to find their way.

Now, we have more adventures that we're going to create for our kids

and hopefully the whole city of Chicago.

Man.

My youngest daughter plays the piano because Uncle Jeremy here

taught her and inspired her for the first time.

Oh, here we go. Hawkeye on the keys, baby. Tickle the ivory, Hawkeye, come on.

Woah!

I killed it, right?