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I see some guy laying in the middle of the road

taking pictures of plants.

Like, just laying there, just taking pictures.

We asked him, "Are you all right?"

He's like, "Yeah, I'm just fascinated with the desert."

I'm like, "Okay, that's great. Continue."

And he says, "Isn't it exciting living here?"

I'm like, "No, not really. It's all right.

But, I mean, it's a place that I call home."

And she... And they're like, "Yeah, that's great."

And they say they wish they were from here.

I'm like, "I bet you'll think twice if you lived here.

You will have a diff... Second opinion."

One, two, three. Eight!

One, two, three. Nine!

One, two, three. Ten!

Besides football and school,

I wish there was more things to do.

It's like once you're in Trona, you're...

That's it, you're sinking in.

That's what the talk is at school,

but I don't believe that.

If you want it, you chase it, I guess.

In case something does happen with the center. All right?

So, guys, we need to work hard this week on offense.

Okay? But for now, get this finished up,

get down, and let's get out of here.

My dad will probably say

I should go to college, stuff like that.

So I don't know.

I don't know what I'm gonna do.

Hopefully, I don't work at the plant.

Hopefully.

But first is the school.

That's the first thing I need to do.

From there is, gonna get a job, and then there...

...who knows?

I guess time will only tell.

Look at that line. Everyone's going to work.

I feel real lucky.

Probably, kids in my class don't even...

Don't even make, like, what I make.

Only like a few of us is going to college

and doing something.

But not many people are doing things.

I wanna go to the ocean again. That's one thing I miss.

I only seen it once, the whole ocean.

One time. One time.

It was like a giant lake to me.

Like a giant lake.

I asked my dad, "Is this a giant lake?"

And he's like, "No, it's the ocean."

And as he explained it, I thought it was scary...

because he told me all the stuff that lives in the ocean,

like sharks and stuff like that.

So I got kind of scared. I stayed close to the shore.

The waves washed me in.

It was fun.

I miss that.

I wouldn't mind living in a city or something.

Go to France, stuff like that.

I wanna go to New York, see the Statue of Liberty,

see how big it is.

I've seen the one in Las Vegas. I've seen that one.

I wanna see the real one.

I wanna see what else is out there

besides a small town like this.

What's the date?

What's the date? Yeah.

Seventeen? Uh... Sixteen.

You all ready?

You ready?

My name is Larry Young,

broadcasting 1-16-010.

Today's topic is about sugarcane and what come out of sugarcane.

Did you know in these things we get all our sugar?

And, also, rabbits come out of here.

This piece of thing right here, so delicious.

How about you have it?

Have it.

Would you like to have it? Yes, come on, just take it.

And that's the topic.

Yep, that's them.

That's a baby there.

I think we only got three red lights in Pahokee.

Yeah, three red lights. Got few restaurants.

On school days, only thing I do is go home,

watch TV, take a shower, and go to sleep.

And go to school the next day.

I peeled it.

Best friend is Randy.

Stay right in the back of my house.

Yeah, he crazy.

Sometimes we go fishing together.

We sit on my back porch, play cards.

Go in the house and play the game.

Everything.

There ain't nothing for the kids to do around here.

They had a teen club.

They closed it down because fighting and everything.

They can't keep nothing down here.

I just missed three years of my life, man,

so I'm trying to catch up.

For me. You know what I mean?

Right here, this right here, I'm trying to catch up.

Prison is prison.

It's... Prison is somewhere you sleep behind a door.

The food messed up, like, stuff like that.

But prisons, you sleep, you do your time, you get out of there.

I mean, it ain't... It's a bad place to be,

but it's not dangerous.

I ain't experienced no bad things in there.

Everything different.

I've been gone so long, everything different.

Everybody growed up, got kids...

...stuff like that.

No, there ain't too much we wanna really talk about,

'cause it ain't...

Pahokee is Pahokee, you know what I mean?

We could've filmed good in the sugarcane field

and stuff like that.

But I ain't got no dirty shoes to go out rabbit-hunting in.

I ain't got none of that.

I can jump that right there.

Here's where we live right here. Muck City.

You already know.

Come on, man.

We missed that big rabbit there.

What do you say? Wanna hit the other side over there?

Right in there, three come up.

Found one.

Yeah, go down low. There she is.

Go down low, go down low. Check the space.

Where you at?

We got...

Oh, no! Got one over there!

Shot the shit out of one.

You took them out of the bucket?

In this town, it's about the worst to make money.

The jobs here has got a lot more to do

with either computers or fast food.

That's about it. That's all we got around here.

If it wasn't for working on cars,

I don't know what I'd be doing.

I'd say just the way the economy is now,

I'd probably be in jail.

I put more time into racing than anything.

I mean, that's just what I was raised around.

I'm used to doing it.

I try to control myself where I spend time with the family.

But racing always takes over. I got racing through my veins.

I don't know what it is.

I'm not much of a NASCAR fan, because I feel like it's...

It's not really racing. It's just driving on pavement.

Who can't drive a car on pavement?

Dirt racing, you got to have some pretty good talent.

It feels like any kind of thought or worries

you ever had in your life's all gone.

I mean, you're sitting in heaven, to me.

It's something I would never wanna live without.

Hey, bub. Running, driving.

That's gonna drive like a brand-new truck.

Yeah, but I'm gonna go ahead and start it.

That baby staying in there?

Yeah, it'll be all right. It's cool.

Is it not loud?

Kind of.

He had this truck. I was fucking around

and said, "I'll buy that truck off of you."

He said, "No, I don't wanna sell it."

See, he went to the Army and shit.

Bought this truck. He dumped the money in that motor.

He thought this thing... He act like

this thing was a 2012 Corvette.

I mean, he was like, "I'm telling you

right now, this thing, it'll run."

On and on and on.

He said it's got a true posi rear end,

got them aftermarket rally wheels on it.

He said, "You wouldn't believe

people offer me money for them wheels."

What'd you get them for?

Come on. Too much.

Two grand.

I'm in it.

Two grand.

You're close. Real close, guarantee it.

Twenty-two.

You're close.

Hey, baby.

Give me a kiss. I got to get ready.

Kiss. I got to get in the car.

Kiss.

Kiss me, I'm gonna get ready.

I'm going over.

Okay.

If I get my ass waxed in this dash?

We're going to do a flip-around, see what we can do.

What we got to lose? Don't run on the high side.

I did in that modified. I run where I got to go.