Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00:00♪
00:00:30♪
00:00:35♪
00:00:40♪
00:00:45♪
00:00:50♪
00:00:55♪
00:01:00♪
00:01:05♪
00:01:10♪
00:01:15♪
00:01:20♪
00:01:25♪
00:01:30♪
00:01:35♪
00:01:40♪
00:01:45♪
00:01:50♪
00:01:55♪
00:02:00♪
00:02:05♪
00:02:10♪
00:02:15♪
00:02:20♪
00:02:25♪
00:02:30♪
00:02:35♪
00:02:40♪
00:02:45♪
00:02:50♪
00:02:55♪
00:03:00♪
00:03:05♪
00:03:10♪
00:03:15♪
00:03:20♪
00:03:25♪
00:03:30♪
00:03:35♪
00:03:40♪
00:03:45♪
00:03:50♪
00:03:55♪
00:04:00♪
00:04:05♪
00:04:10♪
00:04:15♪
00:04:20♪
00:04:25♪
00:04:30♪
00:04:35♪
00:04:40♪
00:04:45♪
00:04:50♪
00:04:55♪
00:05:00♪
00:05:05♪
00:05:10♪
00:05:15♪
00:05:20♪
00:05:25♪
00:05:30The point is for me to do something
00:05:32that he and I had talked about doing
00:05:34since we were knee-high to puppies,
00:05:36but we never got to do because something always got in the way.
00:05:39He got married, I got married.
00:05:41Somebody died, somebody had a kid.
00:05:43We changed jobs, we relocated.
00:05:45Something always happened.
00:05:51I can't do it, man. I'd like to do it, but I can't do it.
00:05:54You're gonna be a fuck all your life.
00:05:57A week, man!
00:05:59Oh, you look at it. Sounds great.
00:06:01I can't go, and I don't think you should go.
00:06:03I mean...
00:06:05Okay, I'll go by myself. Thank you.
00:06:09Chip some more balls, and I'll see you later.
00:06:12And don't hit me on the way out.
00:06:14You ain't going anywhere.
00:06:16It's a nice idea. Think about it.
00:06:18If I thought about it...
00:06:20Take the box, go on a plane, take it to New Orleans,
00:06:22and do what you gotta do.
00:06:24That's not the deal.
00:06:26It's the bus that his dad gave to him,
00:06:28and he's gone, and there's a bus in my driveway.
00:06:32I can't go.
00:06:34I'd love to go. I can't go.
00:06:36No, you don't want to go.
00:06:38I can't go.
00:06:40Is that your final word?
00:06:42Yeah, I don't think you should go.
00:06:44No, I'm going. I'm gonna do it.
00:06:46Why the hell not?
00:06:50I'll call you.
00:06:54I ain't going!
00:06:58I ain't going!
00:07:28Fuck!
00:07:30Oh, shit.
00:07:55Would you do me a favor?
00:07:57Would you do me a favor
00:07:59and not drive in this lane?
00:08:01I gotta drive in this lane.
00:08:03Why?
00:08:05Because I got the pedal to the floor right now.
00:08:07So?
00:08:09I can't go any faster.
00:08:11Let them go around you.
00:08:13You're making me nervous.
00:08:15They are going around me.
00:08:23Shit.
00:08:25Shit.
00:08:30We haven't even reached downtown yet.
00:08:32I know.
00:08:36I told you this thing ain't gonna make it anywhere.
00:08:38We can't even get out of L.A.
00:08:42Have you had this thing checked out or anything before we...
00:08:44Oh, I mean, I had the guy at the service station look at it.
00:08:46He said it's fine.
00:08:48He changed the oil. He lubed it.
00:08:50We're inside the borders of the United States.
00:08:52What can go wrong?
00:08:55I don't know.
00:09:25All the time.
00:09:27I never do it.
00:09:29I have.
00:09:31I tell you, when I fly into Phoenix,
00:09:33I know exactly where I'm at.
00:09:35Because you get all these old broads
00:09:37with these fake suntans and these fake boob jobs
00:09:39and their faces that don't move, you know?
00:09:41Right.
00:09:43Those perpetual smiles.
00:09:45So that's why you date younger women.
00:09:47That's exactly why I date younger women.
00:09:49Hey, we're almost there.
00:09:51We get to the top of this hill, it's cooking time, baby.
00:09:53These here?
00:09:55Yeah, right there. Buddy of mine.
00:09:57Friend of mine, actually.
00:09:59Friend of yours?
00:10:01Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:10:03I talked to her after we came by the other day.
00:10:05I said we're going to do this trip.
00:10:07Dropped him by for the trip.
00:10:09Hey, this is good.
00:10:13So is she one of these youngsters?
00:10:17She's a nice gal.
00:10:19She makes a good cookie.
00:10:23And you refer to her as a nice gal?
00:10:25Yeah.
00:10:27Not a nice lady, a nice friend,
00:10:29or a nice woman, but a nice gal.
00:10:31So what are you doing?
00:10:33Distancing yourself from this woman, or what?
00:10:35No, I just, um...
00:10:37No, not at all.
00:10:39So I'm asking you, who is this?
00:10:41Tell me a little bit about her.
00:10:43Friend of a friend.
00:10:45How many women friends of yours make your cookies?
00:10:47That's what I thought.
00:10:49You know what?
00:10:51Well...
00:10:53Yeah.
00:10:55We're good.
00:10:57We're good, though.
00:11:09You ever get lonely?
00:11:11I mean, lonely in the sense that
00:11:13I wish I had somebody with me here
00:11:15every day, good, bad, and different,
00:11:17but somebody...
00:11:19Every day?
00:11:21Yeah.
00:11:23The same person.
00:11:25You have to know her smell,
00:11:27her attitudes, her moods.
00:11:29Usually when that happens,
00:11:31they're gone.
00:11:33It's over.
00:11:35I hear you.
00:11:37I got some great advice years ago
00:11:39from a buddy of mine.
00:11:41He said to me, he said,
00:11:43you know, you go out and do stuff,
00:11:45you know, you go to the theater,
00:11:47music, or, you know,
00:11:49and then you have a girl that,
00:11:51you know, kind of philosophical,
00:11:53spiritual kind of, somebody you can actually talk to.
00:11:55Yeah, right.
00:11:57And then you got a girl that,
00:11:59you know, she's not even sure
00:12:01what her name is.
00:12:03It's okay.
00:12:05I know her, too, yeah.
00:12:07Well, let me ask you a question.
00:12:09A type girl comes along,
00:12:11and she has all three
00:12:13of those qualities.
00:12:15She's easy to be with.
00:12:17Yeah.
00:12:19Fun, great sense of humor,
00:12:21great conversation.
00:12:23She's gregarious with your friends.
00:12:25Yeah.
00:12:27Everybody likes her.
00:12:29Yeah.
00:12:31She's an intellectual or near an intellectual.
00:12:33She loves the arts.
00:12:35Stop, stop, you're going too far.
00:12:37And in bed, you're glad to go to bed,
00:12:39because she's so important.
00:12:41She make good coffee.
00:12:43Yeah, she make good coffee.
00:12:45And I'm still alive.
00:12:47And do I have the strength to drink it?
00:12:49Yeah, now you got my attention.
00:12:51Yeah.
00:12:53So what would you do?
00:12:59Ha!
00:13:01The old man is stumped.
00:13:03But here's the other thing.
00:13:05You got to make sure that with the number three,
00:13:07when you're in the throes of the passion,
00:13:09you don't call out the wrong name.
00:13:11Number two.
00:13:13You look like number one to me.
00:13:15Ha!
00:13:17This one is good to call out,
00:13:19oh, God, oh, Jesus, oh.
00:13:21Any biblical, whatever.
00:13:23Any biblical.
00:13:25Ha!
00:13:35Look at these things.
00:13:37Amazing, isn't it?
00:13:39And they're huge.
00:13:41Look at these things.
00:13:43Look at the size of them.
00:13:45Look how much the world's changed
00:13:47since this thing was made.
00:13:49That's what we're looking at, you know what I mean?
00:13:51That's true.
00:13:53All right, favorite baseball player.
00:13:55What?
00:13:57Favorite baseball player.
00:13:59Who is it?
00:14:01Oh, man, Maury Wills, easy.
00:14:03Oh, Maury Wills, I like Maury Wills.
00:14:05Yeah, because he'd get on base most of the time.
00:14:07Junior Gilliam would come up next.
00:14:09Gilliam, right?
00:14:11And work the pitcher,
00:14:13and Maury would get another base stolen.
00:14:15Oh, man, exciting base.
00:14:17That's when baseball was baseball.
00:14:19Let me drive.
00:14:21No, I'm driving. I'm good.
00:14:23No, I want to drive this time.
00:14:25You've been driving all day.
00:14:27I want to drive. Come on.
00:14:29I'm driving.
00:14:31Hey, Oliver brought the bus to my house.
00:14:33I want to drive.
00:14:35Yeah, but you couldn't even back it out of my driveway.
00:14:37Half the reason I'm here with you.
00:14:39Why?
00:14:41Because you're a shitty driver.
00:14:43So I'm driving. Let's go.
00:14:45Fuck.
00:14:51Look how fast the world is moving.
00:14:53I know.
00:14:55This is a semi-truck passing us on a hill.
00:14:57On a hill, right?
00:14:59You're not being in any hurry in this thing.
00:15:01No.
00:15:03Makes me realize how wound up I am, you know?
00:15:05It's like...
00:15:07So now you see it's a good reason you came on this trip.
00:15:10You know what?
00:15:12If you're going to drag my ass to Phoenix,
00:15:14we got to get ourselves a good bottle of scotch.
00:15:16Look how close we are.
00:15:18A good bottle of scotch.
00:15:20Look how good.
00:15:22A nice shot of scotch it tastes.
00:15:24Once we get out of this relic...
00:15:26Say what?
00:15:28Since you're doing the driving, I'll buy you a good bottle of scotch.
00:15:30Elevation sea level.
00:15:32What is sea level?
00:15:34How can you be elevated at sea level?
00:15:36I was born in Louisiana.
00:15:38What do I know about waterline and sea level?
00:15:40That's why.
00:15:42Phoenix, 241.
00:15:44We're making time, baby.
00:15:46Whoa!
00:16:16Whoa!
00:16:47Hey, Augie!
00:16:49Wasn't one hell of a drive today, man.
00:16:54Yeah.
00:16:58That shit takes longer every year.
00:17:03Augie.
00:17:07What?
00:17:11What?
00:17:14What?
00:17:16What the hell?
00:17:18What is that?
00:17:44Hey, Augie.
00:17:48Augie.
00:17:58Jesus Christ.
00:18:13Oh, my God.
00:18:44Like a rock.
00:18:46And you?
00:18:48Not too much, no.
00:18:50Because of this?
00:18:52What the hell is that?
00:18:54It's a breathing machine. It blows air.
00:18:56I have sleep apnea.
00:18:58Otherwise, I snore like a banshee.
00:19:00Ask my neighbors, and they'll tell you.
00:19:02Well, you're lucky you live alone, man,
00:19:04because that thing is noisy.
00:19:08Well, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
00:19:10I mean, that's all I can say. I'm sorry.
00:19:12You sleep. I'll drive today, okay?
00:19:14So you can sleep in the car.
00:19:16Yeah.
00:19:18Hey, um, I was just checking my e-mails,
00:19:20and I got to get back to the...
00:19:22I got to get back to L.A. I got to get back to the agency.
00:19:24Why?
00:19:26There's a thing going on. Look, I checked the...
00:19:28We just left yesterday.
00:19:30I know, I know, I know, but I got to get back to this account.
00:19:32To be on the road for almost a week or more.
00:19:34Yeah, well...
00:19:36What?
00:19:38I'm a little surprised we made it this far to begin with,
00:19:40so I wasn't really prepared to be gone for a week or more,
00:19:42to be truthful with you.
00:19:44I took one look at that bus.
00:19:46I just figured maybe downtown L.A.
00:19:48at the most, San Bernardino.
00:19:50I never thought we'd get this far out of L.A.
00:19:52You know, I...
00:19:54You know what?
00:19:56I hate to admit this. I'm kind of embarrassed for you.
00:19:58Did you really think all those things
00:20:00after agreeing to go with me?
00:20:02And you know why I want to go?
00:20:04It's not because I want to sit in a bus for six weeks.
00:20:06It's because I told you.
00:20:08I told you we could do this, and you agreed.
00:20:10Then let's... I tell you what.
00:20:12We'll get on a plane, fly to New Orleans.
00:20:14It's not the same.
00:20:16And we'll do what you got to do.
00:20:18It's not the same, Joey.
00:20:20It's not the same.
00:20:22He asked me to drive it to New Orleans.
00:20:24I'm embarrassed.
00:20:26I got to get...
00:20:28And I guess I'm pissed, too, really.
00:20:30Damn, man.
00:20:32Hey, I got an e-mail from Lindsay,
00:20:34and I probably should be back there.
00:20:36You know what?
00:20:38Suddenly, I don't believe you anymore.
00:20:40I'm gonna tell you the truth. I think you're lying.
00:20:42To your eyes.
00:20:44Eyeball to eyeball, I think you're lying.
00:20:46Because of that fabricated story
00:20:48you fabricated.
00:20:50I think you're lying.
00:20:52You know what? Call her.
00:20:54I know. Lindsay, call her.
00:20:56Let me hear Lindsay say to you
00:20:58you have to get back.
00:21:00How does Lindsay know
00:21:02whether I need to be there or not?
00:21:04She's an assistant.
00:21:06She knows more about what you're doing than you do.
00:21:08All right, I'll call Lindsay.
00:21:10Wait, wait, wait. Cancel that.
00:21:12What?
00:21:14Cancel it. Just cancel it before it rings.
00:21:16If she says she doesn't need you,
00:21:18we continue on.
00:21:20I'll talk to Lindsay.
00:21:22No, on speakerphone.
00:21:24I know it has a speakerphone.
00:21:26You can shoot down a satellite
00:21:28with that goddamn thing.
00:21:30Let me hear it. Come on.
00:21:32Hi, Lindsay. Joey here. How are you doing?
00:21:34Hey, Joey. Are you working from home
00:21:36again today?
00:21:40Hey, I was wondering about that
00:21:42Sculling account. How's that going?
00:21:44What do you mean, how's it going? It's on hold, remember?
00:21:48Yeah, but
00:21:50did they take the storyboards and look at them?
00:21:52Storyboards? Joey, we don't have storyboards.
00:21:54They haven't even decided if our team's getting the job.
00:21:56Okay.
00:21:58Very good.
00:22:00Thank you.
00:22:02Okay. Bye.
00:22:04Bye.
00:22:10You know what I'm going to do right now?
00:22:12I'm going to take a royal piss.
00:22:14You fuck.
00:22:16God.
00:22:18Goddamn.
00:22:20Take your ass back to L.A.
00:22:22Shit.
00:22:24Shit.
00:22:26Hey, you're never going to make it through the...
00:22:54Shit.
00:23:24Forty miles.
00:23:26Not bad.
00:23:54I looked down
00:23:56at the speedometer here, and it said 70,
00:23:58almost 75 miles an hour.
00:24:00The sign that we just drove by that says
00:24:02the radar sign, it said 53.
00:24:04Ha, ha, ha.
00:24:19Hey, baby, how you doing?
00:24:21Yeah.
00:24:23Yeah.
00:24:25Those cookies were fantastic.
00:24:27Yeah, they were great.
00:24:33Okay, yeah. No, I got to go.
00:24:35I got to go. Yeah, we're somewhere in Arizona.
00:24:37Okay. I got to go. Bye.
00:24:39Hand me a water, will you?
00:24:53Need to wash your pee-pee hands?
00:24:55Wash your pee-pee hands.
00:24:57Ha, ha, ha.
00:25:07So what's in the box?
00:25:09I don't know.
00:25:11I haven't opened it yet.
00:25:15You haven't looked in the box?
00:25:17No.
00:25:19Well, let's open it.
00:25:21I'm just going to open it when I get to New Orleans.
00:25:27So there's
00:25:29more to this trip every day.
00:25:31Ha, ha, ha.
00:25:33What else is there you haven't told me?
00:25:35That's why I want you to go with me.
00:25:37So you don't know what's in the box?
00:25:39No, I don't.
00:25:41When I open the box and find out what's there,
00:25:43I would like you to be there with me,
00:25:45because you're as dear a friend to me as Oliver was.
00:25:47Can you handle that?
00:25:49I can't handle that.
00:25:51No.
00:25:53It's too intimate.
00:25:55Oh, man.
00:25:57But you are my friend.
00:25:59You are, you are.
00:26:01I feel that. I appreciate that.
00:26:07You know, I don't want to
00:26:09sound stupid or anything, you know, but...
00:26:11Everybody must have
00:26:13some sort of a blue bus trip.
00:26:15You know, something they haven't done, huh?
00:26:29All right, my friend.
00:26:31I love you.
00:26:33You fuck.
00:26:35Ha, ha, ha.
00:26:41Fuck.
00:27:03Have some fun, man.
00:27:05Take your hand up slowly.
00:27:07You look too aggressive here.
00:27:09Be nice.
00:27:11No, stiffen your hand.
00:27:13They're going to bite your finger otherwise.
00:27:15Oh, Jesus.
00:27:17What happened to the tough guy I know?
00:27:19Oh, Jesus.
00:27:21Ha, ha, ha.
00:27:23Uh-oh.
00:27:25Oh.
00:27:27They prefer you. Look at that.
00:27:29Ha, ha, ha.
00:27:31Ha, ha, ha.
00:27:33Ha, ha, ha.
00:27:35Ha, ha, ha.
00:27:37He's licking your scalp.
00:27:39Get that son of a bitch off my head.
00:27:41That's all I got to say.
00:27:43Ha, ha, ha.
00:27:45I wish I had a kid.
00:27:47So, listen.
00:27:49Are we going to stay in really down-home hotels?
00:27:51I'm picking the next spot.
00:27:53We'll talk about it.
00:27:55Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
00:27:57Stop.
00:28:05I know where I'm going.
00:28:07No, you don't.
00:28:09We got off over there.
00:28:11We're going to get back on over there.
00:28:13We'll be back on the interstate.
00:28:15I'm out of problems.
00:28:17You have no sense of direction.
00:28:19Yes, I do.
00:28:21You can't even get to my house without calling for help.
00:28:23Okay, which way is north, dummy?
00:28:25I can see the goddang interstate from here.
00:28:27Where's the underpass?
00:28:29You can't see the interstate from here.
00:28:31We're lost.
00:28:33Where are we, guys?
00:28:35Go back and ask that guy where we are.
00:28:45My cousin in Portland
00:28:47had his prostate removed.
00:28:49And his number spiked all of a sudden.
00:28:51He had his removed within a year.
00:28:53It's not quite a year yet.
00:28:55So he and his wife were just
00:28:57beside themselves thinking, uh-oh.
00:28:59But you were pronounced clearer,
00:29:01weren't you, after all that?
00:29:03Yeah, I was, but my number spiked
00:29:05after we found out about him.
00:29:07So it really shook me.
00:29:09Got you thinking.
00:29:11Got me to thinking.
00:29:13And I thought, you know what?
00:29:15I'm in the third act of my life.
00:29:17Yeah.
00:29:19Right?
00:29:23He's in there, isn't he?
00:29:25He's in there, right.
00:29:27Is he in there?
00:29:29Just don't turn on any fans
00:29:31when I open the box.
00:29:33He'll be all over the place.
00:29:35Come on, seriously.
00:29:37I don't know what's in the box.
00:29:39You haven't looked?
00:29:41I haven't looked.
00:29:43What if those were his ashes?
00:29:45It could be.
00:29:59When I left Florida,
00:30:01I never looked back.
00:30:03That old Dago shit,
00:30:05I didn't want any part of it, man.
00:30:07All those family dynamics and things.
00:30:09What do you mean, that old Dago shit?
00:30:11What do you mean by that?
00:30:13One of my brothers was dating a gal
00:30:15that wasn't Italian,
00:30:17and they were having issues with him.
00:30:19Really? Interesting.
00:30:21That's one of the reasons I left New Orleans,
00:30:23because of that bullshit.
00:30:25You got the white culture, the Cajuns,
00:30:27and the blacks or African-Americans
00:30:29who can't claim to be Creole.
00:30:33And where do you fall in all that?
00:30:35I don't fall into any of it, because I hate it.
00:30:37But I fall in on the Creole side.
00:30:39My mother's family was mostly all Creole.
00:30:41She had family members
00:30:43who became Paso Blanc,
00:30:45meaning they passed for white.
00:30:47They looked like they were white.
00:30:49That was in a place called
00:30:51the Seventh Ward,
00:30:53where I grew up.
00:30:55It was known as the Creole Ward of New Orleans.
00:30:57It was all Creole.
00:30:59Yeah, for the most part, yeah.
00:31:01And all Catholics.
00:31:03And most of the girls
00:31:05were virgins forever.
00:31:07And all of the boys
00:31:09were virgins forever trying to get laid.
00:31:11To virgin girls who didn't want to give it up.
00:31:13Very frustrating.
00:31:17Yeah, I met a Catholic Italian virgin once.
00:31:19Did you?
00:31:21Oh, yeah.
00:31:23Did you corrupt her?
00:31:25I think she corrupted me, actually.
00:31:27She corrupted you.
00:31:29Free at last! Free at last!
00:31:31Thank God Almighty!
00:31:33I'm free at last!
00:31:37Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay.
00:31:39Girl, girl, girl.
00:31:53Tiger Woods.
00:31:55Absolutely number one athlete in the world.
00:31:57Maybe of all time.
00:31:59He's a golfer.
00:32:01I don't consider those guys athletes.
00:32:03Well, how about a soccer player
00:32:05that never stops running?
00:32:07Yeah, okay, so he's running.
00:32:09They're good, but they have other players.
00:32:11They never stop running and leaping and jumping.
00:32:13Yeah, he's got other guys he can count on on a bad day.
00:32:15Tiger has nobody.
00:32:17Tiger, what other athlete in the world
00:32:19has changed his sport?
00:32:21Joe, yes.
00:32:23Joe Lewis, two.
00:32:25Okay.
00:32:27Should I go on?
00:32:29Tiger Woods, three!
00:32:31I understand who he is.
00:32:33I say I admire him, but it's the game of golf
00:32:35I have a problem with.
00:32:37You want to know about some trivia I heard?
00:32:39Yeah.
00:32:41You know why you play 18 holes of golf?
00:32:43Because you've got nothing better to do.
00:32:45The reason that you play 18 holes of golf
00:32:47is that when they invented the game,
00:32:49and you know how many shots there are
00:32:51in a fifth of whiskey or scotch?
00:32:53No.
00:32:5518.
00:32:57No kidding.
00:32:59Yes.
00:33:01That's brilliant.
00:33:03We should test that theory tonight.
00:33:05Well, we should, yeah.
00:33:07I mean, you ever think why you don't play
00:33:0916, 17, 21, 32, whatever, whatever?
00:33:11Don't go there.
00:33:13Why do you have nine innings of baseball?
00:33:15Why do you have four quarters in football?
00:33:17I became a Dodger fan when I was about six or seven.
00:33:19It was when I was playing
00:33:21in my grandmother's backyard.
00:33:23My aunt Lorraine
00:33:25was listening to the broadcast
00:33:27of the Brooklyn Dodgers,
00:33:29and they were talking about Jackie Robinson
00:33:31being acquired and playing.
00:33:33That's when I became a Dodger fan.
00:33:35We used to take newspapers
00:33:37and roll them up very tight,
00:33:39about this wide, about, I don't know,
00:33:41four inches wide, and take twine
00:33:43and roll it around, roll it around,
00:33:45roll it around, roll it around.
00:33:47It tied knots so that you had a solid object.
00:33:49That was our baseball.
00:33:51And we'd go in the middle of the street
00:33:53and we'd draw a home plate
00:33:55or we'd put an old garbage can down or whatever.
00:33:57We just fielded any team we could field.
00:33:59But we were playing baseball
00:34:01in our own way, you know what I mean?
00:34:03Because we played ball on the street all the time.
00:34:05You got home from school,
00:34:07you threw your books anywhere,
00:34:09and you couldn't get out there fast enough to play
00:34:11until it was time to eat.
00:34:13But we did.
00:34:15Exactly.
00:34:17George Carlin did a bit
00:34:19about raising kids today.
00:34:21He goes,
00:34:23whatever happened to a kid
00:34:25who sat in the front yard
00:34:27with a stick,
00:34:29and he dug a fucking hole.
00:34:31He doesn't even know why he's digging the fucking hole.
00:34:33But he's sitting there,
00:34:35and at some point he looks at the stick and goes,
00:34:37why am I holding this fucking stick?
00:34:39And he's sitting there next to a hole with a stick
00:34:41and he knows why he's there.
00:34:43But he's been out there for hours.
00:34:45Kids don't do that anymore.
00:34:47No, they don't.
00:34:49I'm afraid not.
00:35:11Right now I'm probably
00:35:13at the only place
00:35:15on the entire planet
00:35:17that I can wear this shirt.
00:35:19I was about to say, it's a good color.
00:35:21It's a good color on you.
00:35:23Yeah, well, don't get used to it.
00:35:29Welcome to New Mexico,
00:35:31the land of enchantment.
00:35:33Hot chili peppers.
00:35:35Oh, right.
00:35:37Hot chili peppers again.
00:35:39Oh, right.
00:35:41Hot chili peppers and cold beans.
00:35:43Oh, shit.
00:35:45All right.
00:35:47And his two brothers,
00:35:49Homer and Poochie,
00:35:51from Merchant Marines, World War II.
00:35:53Poochie? Poochie.
00:35:55Some of the names, man.
00:35:57Some of the names.
00:35:59Boogie Red, Bebolo, Snag,
00:36:01Icky Bicky Green.
00:36:03Oh, there was Four Eyes.
00:36:05There was Crip, because he was crippled.
00:36:07There was him.
00:36:09My cousin Donald, Duck.
00:36:11My brother Wesley, because he's got
00:36:13his reddest reflection.
00:36:15Red. Nickname. Everybody's got a nickname.
00:36:17What was yours?
00:36:19Earthworm.
00:36:21Fuck you, too.
00:36:23Earthworm!
00:36:25Fuck you. I shouldn't have told you that.
00:36:27Fuck.
00:36:29All right, Earthworm.
00:36:31I wasn't thinking. You just came out.
00:36:33That's what you get for being honest.
00:36:35God damn it. Why?
00:36:37Because you're the guy that's afraid
00:36:39you're the stick digging a fucking hole.
00:36:41That's why whenever I heard
00:36:43Louis Armstrong singing
00:36:45Back to Night on the jukeboxes,
00:36:47I thought it was a song about New Orleans.
00:36:49Because he sings about
00:36:51Lottie Lincoln,
00:36:53Sweet Lucy Brown, Back to Night.
00:36:55All those nicknames.
00:36:57I swear to God, I thought it was a song
00:36:59about New Orleans, man.
00:37:01Until I was grown and I realized
00:37:03it came from a fucking opera
00:37:05written by these German guys
00:37:07in 19-fucking-33.
00:37:09But all those guys were on their street cars and roaming.
00:37:11Absolutely, because everybody had a fucking nickname.
00:37:13Really?
00:37:17So the story goes
00:37:19that one day somebody bet Wilfred
00:37:21that he wouldn't punch the next guy
00:37:23that walked in the bar in the fucking jaw
00:37:25for five dollars. I was thinking it was two dollars.
00:37:27Wilfred said,
00:37:29you offered me, betting me two dollars
00:37:31that I won't punch the next motherfucker
00:37:33that walks through that door in the jaw.
00:37:35Bet. Wilfred's standing inside the bar
00:37:37with Joey G.
00:37:39The door opens and he hauls open
00:37:41and cold cocks the guy
00:37:43who walks through.
00:37:45The guy stumbles onto the street
00:37:47and falls down. It's his fucking nephew, Gerald.
00:37:53He fucking cold cocked him
00:37:55and collected his money
00:37:57and never fucking apologized.
00:37:59Park it. It was a bet.
00:38:09Oh, wow. Speed limit 75.
00:38:11All right. Not to worry.
00:38:13We're doing 60. We're hopping.
00:38:15Yeah. Not even.
00:38:17We ought to get a ticket just for the hell of it.
00:38:19You know what? I'm putting it to the floor right now.
00:38:21Put it to the floor, Parker.
00:38:23Ticket and Demi, here we go.
00:38:25Let's get a ticket.
00:38:29Oh!
00:38:31I'm flying!
00:38:3570.
00:38:3775.
00:38:39Hell, yeah.
00:38:45Here we come. Watch out now.
00:38:47Better run and hide.
00:38:5378.
00:38:5578.
00:38:5978.
00:39:0178.
00:39:07Come on, baby.
00:39:0984.
00:39:11I didn't think this thing
00:39:13was going to say 84.
00:39:1984.
00:39:21That holding, 84.
00:39:2384.
00:39:2584.
00:39:27Get out of the car.
00:39:29I'm getting comfortable here.
00:39:31We may make this a habit.
00:39:33This year, New Orleans.
00:39:35Next year, spring training for baseball somewhere.
00:39:37And a ticket in each state.
00:39:39And a speeding ticket.
00:39:41We may need a ticket in each state.
00:39:43I'm actually looking forward to this whole New Orleans thing.
00:39:45I've never been there, you know?
00:39:47Well, it's a place of...
00:39:49Fuck it. Let's drink.
00:39:51Does it? Yeah.
00:39:53There's a hurricane coming.
00:39:55Oh, fuck a hurricane. Let's drink.
00:39:59My last Christmas home
00:40:01with my mom, I was in a den watching television
00:40:03or something, and she was in the kitchen cooking.
00:40:05A Christmas gumbo.
00:40:07Cooking it the day before.
00:40:09A big, huge pot of gumbo.
00:40:11So I walked into the kitchen.
00:40:13I said, hey, Ma, how you doing?
00:40:15She said, I'm all right, baby.
00:40:17I'm all right, baby.
00:40:19She was stirring a pot.
00:40:21And I said, do you like Johnny Mathis?
00:40:23She said, oh, he has a beautiful voice.
00:40:25I said, yeah, I know.
00:40:27And I said to her, you know what, Mom?
00:40:29People say that when I sing,
00:40:31I also sound like Johnny Mathis.
00:40:33She's stirring a pot without even looking up.
00:40:35She said, oh, boy, you never could sing.
00:40:37It was like she said,
00:40:39give me that jar of pepper up on the shelf.
00:40:41You know what I mean?
00:40:43The phone's ringing.
00:40:45Answer the phone.
00:40:49Hey, what do you do with that?
00:40:51You know?
00:40:53What do you do with that?
00:41:03You always like to wonder
00:41:07Born a free man
00:41:09Been on this road
00:41:13Since you don't know when
00:41:15Since you don't know when
00:41:19You may be more lost now
00:41:21Than you've ever been
00:41:25But you will find
00:41:29Your way home
00:41:33Again
00:41:39It was in your mind
00:41:41Go around the world
00:41:45Make yourself a dollar
00:41:49Find yourself a girl
00:41:51If you come back wild
00:41:53Now this is a hotel, man.
00:41:55Now this is a hotel,
00:41:57and that's where shitholes have been standing.
00:41:59It's a nice place.
00:42:01I might give in on this one.
00:42:03This one looks like it has a little bit of history.
00:42:05This is classic.
00:42:07Let's check it out.
00:42:09Hey, I don't want my own room tonight, you cheat.
00:42:11You know what?
00:42:13My only hope is they don't have a golf course.
00:42:15I think they do.
00:42:21There might be some bodies buried around here.
00:42:23First of all, what was that lady saying
00:42:25about there was a ghost or something up here?
00:42:27Oh, Rebecca.
00:42:29Rebecca, yeah.
00:42:31Guests at the lodge in the early 1940s.
00:42:33That's World War II, baby.
00:42:35That is World War II, isn't it?
00:42:37That is World War II, isn't it?
00:42:39You were alive then, I wasn't.
00:42:41I wasn't even a year old.
00:42:43I was pooping in a diaper.
00:42:49That's funny.
00:42:51That's funny.
00:42:53Let me ask you something.
00:42:55What?
00:42:57What took you so long?
00:42:5930 years you guys wanted to do this.
00:43:01My grandmother used to say everything happens for a reason,
00:43:03so maybe this is the time I would really enjoy it,
00:43:05and maybe the reason you came with me
00:43:07is because this is the only time in your life
00:43:09that you could really enjoy it.
00:43:11Well, I'll tell you what.
00:43:13What?
00:43:15Thank you, Oliver.
00:43:17Thank you, Oliver.
00:43:19Our Mardi Gras float is here.
00:43:21So you have floats too on Mardi Gras Day?
00:43:23Crawfish races.
00:43:25You don't think we're going to have an event
00:43:27and not do it, right?
00:43:29When I was a kid, we used to go out early
00:43:31and find a spot, spread blankets,
00:43:33and my grandmother would bake a ham
00:43:35that was, I don't know, when I was a kid,
00:43:37it seemed like this big, right?
00:43:39And homemade biscuits and homemade pies.
00:43:41And we'd spend the day on the neutral ground.
00:43:43We didn't have a lot of money,
00:43:45so our costumes were usually a jeans
00:43:47and a cowboy shirt and a straw hat.
00:43:49We were cowboys for the day.
00:43:51My grandpa, he was in the Cajun band.
00:43:53He was in the Lake Charles Ramblers.
00:43:55Every Saturday night, we would go two-step and walk.
00:43:57Everything about Mardi Gras is just incredible.
00:43:59It really is.
00:44:01Do you like the beach?
00:44:03Absolutely. Everything about it.
00:44:25So tell me,
00:44:27what is this I hear about
00:44:29Rebecca the ghost?
00:44:31We gotta go hear some Rebecca stories then, right?
00:44:33Who's gonna tell those Rebecca stories?
00:44:43Do you refer to Rebecca as Rebecca?
00:44:45Or as a spirit?
00:44:47Or a ghost?
00:44:49She's Rebecca to me.
00:44:51Really?
00:44:53She's for real.
00:44:55You're a believer.
00:44:57I'm a believer.
00:45:27Okay.
00:45:45And she was murdered on this bed?
00:45:47No, not on this bed.
00:45:49It was in this room.
00:45:51Well, they never found her body.
00:45:53They just found the blood.
00:45:55Okay.
00:46:25Don't.
00:46:39Don't. Don't touch me.
00:46:49She's been lonely.
00:46:55Hey, Joe?
00:46:57Joe?
00:46:59Hey, Joe, wait a minute. Joe?
00:47:01Joe?
00:47:03Wait on me, please.
00:47:05Joe!
00:47:07What?
00:47:09Wait.
00:47:11What, are you fucking with me?
00:47:13It was real.
00:47:15What, you're candling or something?
00:47:17What the hell is that?
00:47:19Never felt this before in my life.
00:47:21I've had some strange experiences, my friend.
00:47:23But never like this.
00:47:25Really.
00:47:27You're fucking with me, aren't you?
00:47:29You're fucking with me.
00:47:31You brought that girl tears. You're fucking with me, aren't you?
00:47:33I would like to say yes, but I'm not.
00:47:35And I'm sorry about the girl crying,
00:47:37but what happened in there was real.
00:47:39That's it, man. We're out of here.
00:47:41Wait, Joe.
00:47:43You're a nut.
00:47:45Joe, listen to me, man.
00:47:47Joe.
00:47:49Hey, you know what?
00:47:51Guess what, Joe, huh?
00:47:53Hey, paisano.
00:47:55I don't want to drive. You drive.
00:47:57I'm not up to it right now.
00:47:59You've always wanted to drive. I'm begging you to drive.
00:48:01You drive.
00:48:05I didn't know you were a nut.
00:48:07You're a nut.
00:48:11I'm on a road trip.
00:48:13Joe, wait, wait, wait. Don't drive.
00:48:15You're a relic of a boss.
00:48:17Joe, Joe, Joe.
00:48:19Come on.
00:48:21Count to ten.
00:48:23Two. Ten. Let's go.
00:48:31Come on, man. Just pop the clutch.
00:48:33Let's go.
00:48:35All right.
00:48:37Just pop the clutch. Come on.
00:48:39Thank you. Let's get out of here.
00:48:41You're a nut, man.
00:48:43Watch it. There's a car.
00:48:45Slow down.
00:48:47I don't want to stay in some spooky place, man.
00:48:49Why did we even go there?
00:48:51What were we thinking, going up there,
00:48:53spending the night at that place?
00:48:55It was just weird, man.
00:48:57We went there because you wanted to go there, you fuck.
00:48:59That's why we went there.
00:49:05You know, Joe, you were comfortable
00:49:07with all that stuff, man, all that stuff in New Orleans
00:49:09you're always telling me about.
00:49:11I mean, that was weird, man.
00:49:13Did you feel the way the room got cold?
00:49:15It was weird, man.
00:49:17You know what? You're a nut.
00:49:19I don't want to talk about ghosts anymore.
00:49:21I grew up with that.
00:49:23New Orleans is a superstitious place.
00:49:27I've seen ghosts before.
00:49:29Everybody in my family has seen ghosts.
00:49:31I'm serious.
00:49:33You're Italian.
00:49:35You eat pasta. That's all there is to that.
00:49:37You see ghosts. That's it.
00:49:39Big deal.
00:49:41So you've seen ghosts?
00:49:43Oh, yeah!
00:49:45I saw Abraham Lincoln.
00:49:47You laughed, right?
00:49:49You don't believe me, do you?
00:49:51I don't know.
00:49:53Where'd you see him?
00:49:55I was in the kitchen with my mother
00:49:57washing dishes, and I looked up
00:49:59and standing in our bedroom
00:50:01was this tall white man.
00:50:03He was dressed in a black suit,
00:50:05the long black coat,
00:50:07and he had a stovepipe hat
00:50:09on his head.
00:50:11I looked up, and the image was there,
00:50:13and I turned around to get another dish,
00:50:15and I realized I'd seen something, right?
00:50:17And I turned back, and it was gone.
00:50:19Now, it was only years later
00:50:21when I knew who Abraham Lincoln was
00:50:23that I realized that's the image I saw.
00:50:27I grew up with my grandmother
00:50:29telling stories about ghosts,
00:50:31and my uncle's telling stories about ghosts,
00:50:33and my mother's telling stories about ghosts.
00:50:35But ghosts are all over the place.
00:50:37♪
00:50:41The show,
00:50:43the show is on the road,
00:50:45the road.
00:50:47Let's pack it up and go,
00:50:49let's go.
00:50:51This is the life we know,
00:50:53the road.
00:50:55The show is on the road.
00:50:57The show is on the road.
00:50:59♪
00:51:17You know what's really nice?
00:51:19I gotta tell you, those gals were really nice.
00:51:21Yeah, they were.
00:51:23Right? I like those two ladies.
00:51:25Yeah, nice ladies.
00:51:27You still got it, man.
00:51:29What are you talking about?
00:51:31That brunette.
00:51:33Oh, man.
00:51:35I think she'd like you.
00:51:37That could have been the beginning of a nice long weekend, you know?
00:51:39No. Really?
00:51:41Yeah, I think you still got it.
00:51:43That brunette, I think she's gonna like you.
00:51:45I got it.
00:51:47I got it.
00:51:49I still got it.
00:51:51You do got it.
00:51:53You're jealous, aren't you?
00:51:55You know what? I gotta ask you one thing.
00:51:57You're jealous, aren't you?
00:51:59You got it.
00:52:01You got it.
00:52:03Leave me alone.
00:52:05I got it.
00:52:07I got it.
00:52:09The show is on the road,
00:52:11the road.
00:52:13Let's pack it up and go,
00:52:15let's go.
00:52:17This is the life we know,
00:52:19the road.
00:52:21The show is on the road.
00:52:23The road.
00:52:31What are we gonna do?
00:52:33Should we stay or should we go?
00:52:35Let's go.
00:52:37It's blowing hard, man.
00:52:39It's going straight across.
00:52:41This is not wind.
00:52:43I used to walk to school in this.
00:52:45Come on.
00:52:47This ain't windy, brother.
00:52:49Ten feet of snow.
00:52:51We're gonna be in the mountains,
00:52:53and it's gonna be the whole weekend.
00:52:55I saw the weather map.
00:52:57Ten dollars, it's clear.
00:52:59Ten dollars?
00:53:01All weekend long, pal.
00:53:03We're going right into it.
00:53:05You're on.
00:53:07$20.
00:53:09Let's go.
00:53:11But I'm telling you right now.
00:53:13Easy $20.
00:53:15It's gonna blow our ass around.
00:53:17If I get blown around too much,
00:53:19we're gonna have good scotch.
00:53:21There's more wind coming out of your mouth
00:53:23than you're blowing across.
00:53:25Look at the skies out there.
00:53:27We're driving right into it.
00:53:29By the time we get there, that won't be there.
00:53:31By the time we get there, it'll be August.
00:53:33Whatever, but that won't be there.
00:53:35Now I know why all the people
00:53:37in New Orleans,
00:53:39when there's a hurricane,
00:53:41you guys just stay.
00:53:43You don't believe anything.
00:53:45You believe in ghost spirits,
00:53:47you believe in dead broads
00:53:49that were screwed with some lumberjack in a motel,
00:53:51but you don't believe we're driving into a storm
00:53:53that I can see.
00:53:55Those are just clouds.
00:53:57That's exactly what I'm talking about.
00:53:59That's my point.
00:54:01Remember the elderly couple sitting
00:54:03against the four wall?
00:54:05Two of them came out,
00:54:07and this lady had a Texas troll
00:54:09that was plastic, right?
00:54:11She looked at the bus, and she said,
00:54:13did you really drive that from California?
00:54:15Whoa! You feeling that shit?
00:54:17I'm telling you, we're driving into the storm.
00:54:19Will you calm down? We had this when we left.
00:54:21Look how fast those guys are going.
00:54:23I know.
00:54:25You know what they're doing?
00:54:27I bet they're outracing the goddamn storm that's gonna hit us.
00:54:29Are we driving into it?
00:54:31Get that fucking storm!
00:54:33Where the hell are you taking me?
00:54:35I want out!
00:54:37Get me the hell out of here!
00:54:39We'd be in Texas, baby.
00:54:41Oh, my God, you need a fucking babushka on your head.
00:54:43You know that?
00:54:45Did she?
00:54:47Ha, ha, ha, ha!
00:54:49Ha, ha, ha, ha!
00:55:01This gal's a pig.
00:55:03This gal?
00:55:05Yeah.
00:55:07Gal have a name?
00:55:09Yeah, she's got a name.
00:55:13I get a call like at...
00:55:152 in the morning.
00:55:17Right.
00:55:19And it's her.
00:55:21She goes, what are you doing?
00:55:23I go home sleeping.
00:55:25She says, I'm about ready
00:55:27to take a fresh loaf of homemade bread out of the oven.
00:55:29It's 2 o'clock in the morning.
00:55:31She called you to tell you that?
00:55:33Right.
00:55:35She says, if you come over,
00:55:37I'll cut you a warm slice of butter and honey.
00:55:39You're lying.
00:55:41No.
00:55:43So I went over there, man.
00:55:45She put this loaf of bread
00:55:49on a nice wood cutting board.
00:55:51You know, cut it.
00:55:53Steam came up.
00:55:55We ate bread.
00:55:57About an hour.
00:55:59And it was
00:56:01magnificent.
00:56:03But you still
00:56:05call her gal.
00:56:07She's a great gal.
00:56:09I got a gal.
00:56:11Her name is Sue.
00:56:13How's that go?
00:56:15I could never sing.
00:56:17I got a gal.
00:56:19Her name is Sue.
00:56:21Everybody can sing, man.
00:56:23You got a sweet voice.
00:56:25You and I were just singing together.
00:56:27Don't you realize that?
00:56:29It was fun.
00:56:39It was fun.
00:57:09See that over there?
00:57:31Yeah.
00:57:33That's one of my memories as a child
00:57:35before I left here.
00:57:37My uncle Andrew, the fisherman
00:57:39who was always making nets.
00:57:41And any chance he had, he was out fishing
00:57:43or crawfishing or crabbing.
00:57:45Sometimes he'd take us with him.
00:57:47That's what we do.
00:57:49See that little boy sitting on that yellow drum?
00:57:51That's what we do.
00:57:53Hold the fishing pole.
00:57:55This is Louisiana.
00:57:57This is the Louisiana I remember as a child
00:57:59with my uncle Andrew.
00:58:01Hey, you know what?
00:58:03I feel like I'm a new man, baby.
00:58:05I will drive 2,000 miles to do that with you.
00:58:07Thank you.
00:58:09You're welcome, Bubala.
00:58:11To New Orleans.
00:58:13Seriously,
00:58:15thanks for thinking of me.
00:58:17How long has it been since you've been back here?
00:58:19Oh, geez.
00:58:23I left when I was 17.
00:58:25You haven't been back since?
00:58:27Nope.
00:58:29Why not, man?
00:58:31I wanted to get away.
00:58:33There's too much stuff
00:58:35I couldn't deal with.
00:58:37So I left.
00:58:39Quit high school.
00:58:41Joined the military.
00:58:45Finished my education
00:58:47in the military.
00:58:49I even missed my mother's funeral.
00:58:51Really?
00:58:53Yeah.
00:58:55How old were you when your mom died?
00:58:5719.
00:58:59You couldn't get back to the funeral?
00:59:01No, I was in Saudi Arabia at the time.
00:59:03I mean, you know what?
00:59:05I could have fought to come back.
00:59:07I really could have got on my knees and begged
00:59:09and went to the company commander
00:59:11and called the Red Cross.
00:59:13I could have got an emergency leave.
00:59:15But I just didn't want to come back.
00:59:17I was feeling a lot of
00:59:19anger, guilt.
00:59:21All those things mixed in together.
00:59:23Pot of spaghetti.
00:59:25Wet spaghetti.
00:59:27How do you untangle that?
00:59:31So listen.
00:59:35Joey.
00:59:37Let's sing a song.
00:59:39Sing a song.
00:59:41I love it when you sing.
00:59:43What do you want me to sing?
00:59:45Whatever this place does to you.
00:59:47Let me hear the tune.
00:59:55Do you know what it means?
00:59:57That's a good song.
00:59:59I'm going to teach you the first line.
01:00:01Of what?
01:00:03That song.
01:00:05I'll do this.
01:00:07Out of respect for you and New Orleans.
01:00:09I'm going to sing.
01:00:11I've never sung in my life, but you know what?
01:00:13Who's going to hear me down here?
01:00:15We're singing to the gods.
01:00:17Here we go.
01:00:29Good old drink.
01:00:31Good old food.
01:00:33Everybody's
01:00:35happy and they're singing
01:00:37too.
01:00:39It's the love for New
01:00:41Orleans.
01:00:43By the way.
01:00:45There's bread coming out of your beer.
01:00:49All right. Let's do that song
01:00:51one more time.
01:00:53I want to ask you a question.
01:00:55Is this where you sing?
01:00:57I want to answer your question.
01:00:59How's a cooking girl going to deal
01:01:01with this?
01:01:15We've got a full tank of gas.
01:01:17We'll have to stop three or four times
01:01:19because you've got to always pee.
01:01:21I've got to pee and you've got to light
01:01:23a cigar.
01:01:25Let's get to New Orleans.
01:01:27Pee in a bottle.
01:01:29That's what black folk had to do through the south years ago.
01:01:31I'm serious.
01:01:33What?
01:01:35Pee in a bottle.
01:01:37That's where it comes from.
01:01:39For us.
01:01:41Back in the 50s you drove through the south.
01:01:43Forget it.
01:01:45You could buy gas
01:01:47and you could buy candy at a store,
01:01:49but you couldn't use the restrooms.
01:01:51I was traveling with my cousin and his wife
01:01:53so both I was were pregnant
01:01:55riding in the backseat of this
01:01:57I think it was like a 54 Chevy or something
01:01:59we had. It was my cousin's car.
01:02:01So the gas station attendant had come out
01:02:03white guy, and I said,
01:02:05where's your restroom?
01:02:07And he said, oh we don't have a restroom for colored.
01:02:09And I told my cousin,
01:02:11do you have enough gas? He said, yeah.
01:02:13I said, take the nozzle off.
01:02:15And they said, oh no. And I said, no.
01:02:17No, I'm not giving this guy my money.
01:02:19What the hell with him?
01:02:21The next town we came to, we stopped at this store
01:02:23we bought a large jar of mayonnaise
01:02:25wiped it out.
01:02:27That was a pea jar for them.
01:02:29What year was that?
01:02:311960.
01:02:33People forget, man.
01:02:35When we shopped in New Orleans when I was a kid
01:02:37we could buy clothes, but we couldn't try them on
01:02:39in the store.
01:02:41We couldn't use the dressing rooms.
01:02:43It was for whites only.
01:02:45When I was a kid
01:02:47it cost seven cents to ride the bus
01:02:49in New Orleans.
01:02:51But it was segregated.
01:02:53There was a screen.
01:02:55So whites sat in front of the screen,
01:02:57blacks sat behind.
01:02:59And there were places you just couldn't go?
01:03:01French Quarter.
01:03:03Bourbon Street? Yes, Bourbon Street.
01:03:05And you couldn't go there?
01:03:07If you were an entertainer you could go as an entertainer,
01:03:09but you couldn't turn around and go through the front door
01:03:11and sit down as a patron and eat at a table
01:03:13in a restaurant.
01:03:15Because when my father was overseas,
01:03:17I remember my mother had to get a job
01:03:19because the money he was sending us wasn't enough.
01:03:21So the only job she could find
01:03:23was as a dishwasher
01:03:25at a very famous restaurant
01:03:27called Galatoire's.
01:03:29And the only way she could get that
01:03:31job was for whites only.
01:03:33She became passable.
01:03:35My mother looked like a white woman.
01:03:37When I was a kid the only people who were allowed
01:03:39to collect garbage were whites.
01:03:41Our drive buses
01:03:43were whites only.
01:03:45There weren't any jobs
01:03:47for colored people in New Orleans
01:03:49when I was a kid. Very few.
01:03:51It's hard to just
01:03:53be an individual in the African American
01:03:55community because whites
01:03:57expect you to act a certain way
01:03:59because they really don't know who we are,
01:04:01to be honest.
01:04:03And certain African Americans expect you
01:04:05to act a certain way.
01:04:07For instance, when I read
01:04:09about a crime and it's been committed
01:04:11by a black person,
01:04:13the whole black community is affected
01:04:15because the white people
01:04:17look at the whole black community
01:04:19as if they perpetrated that crime.
01:04:21We didn't blow up a building
01:04:23in Oklahoma.
01:04:25You know what I mean?
01:04:27We didn't hook up a white boy with a chain
01:04:29and drag him behind a pickup truck
01:04:31while he was alive and as we drove
01:04:33his body was disintegrated.
01:04:35We didn't do those horrible things.
01:04:37And I'm saying that because
01:04:39when that happened, the black race
01:04:41didn't look at the white race and say,
01:04:43you did that. We looked at the individuals
01:04:45who did that. But when you turn that camera around,
01:04:47the whole black race
01:04:49is looked down upon.
01:04:51And you can feel it in the air
01:04:53when you go places.
01:04:55That's just embedded in your generation.
01:04:57I don't know if it's changed that much.
01:04:59I really don't think it's changed that much.
01:05:01I really don't.
01:05:03After a while, you see a pattern.
01:05:05And a pattern tells you something
01:05:07after a while.
01:05:09You see rain clouds
01:05:11after a while, you know it's going to rain.
01:05:13That's what I'm saying.
01:05:15Yeah, exactly. No, it's not going to rain.
01:05:17Just give me my $20.
01:05:19I'm going to get the $20.
01:05:21You know what?
01:05:23Look at the sky.
01:05:25You say no rain in New Orleans
01:05:27this weekend? None.
01:05:29But if a one drop of rain...
01:05:31No, no, no, no, no.
01:05:33If it rains this weekend.
01:05:35No, no, no, you fuck.
01:05:37I know what you're going to do.
01:05:39No, no.
01:05:41Not one drop of rain.
01:05:43No, no, no.
01:05:45The bet was not one drop of rain.
01:05:47The bet was rain or no rain.
01:05:49Let's define rain right now
01:05:51because I want my $20.
01:05:53Okay, let's define rain.
01:05:55What is rain?
01:05:57Water hits these windshields.
01:05:59What might be a bird pissing up in the air?
01:06:01Waterfall.
01:06:03How much water and for how long?
01:06:05Intermittent thundershowers is what I said.
01:06:07Is it rain that ruins the weekend?
01:06:09The answer is no.
01:06:11I didn't say ruin the weekend.
01:06:17Baton Rouge, 38 miles.
01:06:19Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
01:06:21I can't believe I'm down here.
01:06:23I don't know why I was so resistant.
01:06:25I've always wanted to come down here.
01:06:27And look, you drove all the way.
01:06:29Thank you.
01:06:31Thank you.
01:06:33Right now, let's just say
01:06:35don't let a year go by
01:06:37where we don't go somewhere in the blue bus.
01:06:39Don't sound like Ollie.
01:06:41Don't sound like Oliver, man.
01:06:43No, seriously, come on.
01:06:45This has been great.
01:06:47We should just take a week,
01:06:49put it on our calendar,
01:06:51one week out of the year,
01:06:53pick a spot, go in the blue bus
01:06:55and enjoy it as real as it is.
01:06:57Bring the pee bottle.
01:06:59Bring it.
01:07:05That's a bayou.
01:07:07See, look, we're over the swamp.
01:07:09This is swamp land.
01:07:11Nothing but water down there,
01:07:13snakes and alligators.
01:07:15Look at that, man.
01:07:17If you get off this main road right now,
01:07:19you can go 10 feet off the highway
01:07:21and you may never be seen again.
01:07:23Uh-oh.
01:07:25You got to be kidding me.
01:07:27What's wrong?
01:07:29I don't know what's wrong.
01:07:31I swear to God.
01:07:33Oh, shit.
01:07:35Pop the clutch.
01:07:37You got gas?
01:07:39Yeah, gas.
01:07:41But I don't have any transmission.
01:07:43Are you serious?
01:07:45I'm serious.
01:07:47Holy shit.
01:07:49I got engine.
01:07:51Holy shit.
01:07:55Oh, man, this is not a good place to be.
01:08:03Something just popped underneath.
01:08:21Oh, shit.
01:08:33You know how long this fucking thing goes for?
01:08:51Uh-oh.
01:09:21You know what I say?
01:09:23What I'm thinking?
01:09:25That we...
01:09:31Here's what I'm thinking.
01:09:33We catch the flight out of Baton Rouge
01:09:35and go back to L.A.
01:09:37You don't want to go?
01:09:39No, I don't want to go.
01:09:43We're 130, 150 miles away,
01:09:45and now you're...
01:09:47What's the difference between
01:09:49130 miles away...
01:09:51You're telling me you don't want to go?
01:09:53The point is, she broke down,
01:09:55and maybe, maybe,
01:09:57I don't know, maybe...
01:09:59What, you think it's a sign or something?
01:10:01Yeah. Why did this happen?
01:10:03Maybe this is a sign.
01:10:05I don't. I don't want to go.
01:10:07I don't need New Orleans.
01:10:09I really don't. I really don't.
01:10:11I really don't.
01:10:13After everything we just did,
01:10:15130 miles, I'll go to New Orleans,
01:10:17and you do what you want to.
01:10:19I'm going back to L.A. I don't want to do this.
01:10:21I don't want to do this.
01:10:23I'm not ready.
01:10:25Oh, shit!
01:10:27What?
01:10:29Where's the box?
01:10:31The box!
01:10:33¶¶
01:10:43¶ My only ride just quit on me ¶
01:10:46¶ And I'm as broke as I can be ¶
01:10:49¶ Lady luck is wearing a frown ¶
01:10:52¶ And I just feel a little down ¶
01:10:56¶¶
01:11:05¶ Sometime it rains on my parade ¶
01:11:08¶ And all the plans that I have made ¶
01:11:11¶ I guess there's only one thing I can do ¶
01:11:16¶ I'll find the nearest honky-tonk ¶
01:11:19¶ And drown my troubles away ¶
01:11:22¶ Then everything will be all right with me ¶
01:11:31¶ Oh, let's party down in the street ¶
01:11:35¶ With everyone that we meet ¶
01:11:39¶ We're having such a great time ¶
01:11:43¶ I'm really feeling so fine ¶
01:11:47¶ Having such a great time ¶
01:11:51¶ I'm afraid to lose my mind ¶
01:11:54¶ Hi-de-ho, hi-de-ho ¶
01:11:56¶ Clap your hands, clap your hands ¶
01:11:58¶ Clap your hands now ¶
01:12:00¶¶
01:12:01Yeah!
01:12:02I'm back.
01:12:03You're back.
01:12:04I'm back.
01:12:05You're back, baby.
01:12:06I'm back.
01:12:07You're back.
01:12:08¶¶
01:12:10¶¶
01:12:17¶ Benny May ¶
01:12:20¶ Won't you please come home ¶
01:12:24¶ Benny May ¶
01:12:26¶ Won't you please come home ¶
01:12:30¶ Ain't had no loving girl ¶
01:12:33¶ Since you been gone ¶
01:12:36¶¶
01:12:49¶ Oh, yeah ¶
01:12:51¶¶
01:12:54¶ There's a place in New Orleans ¶
01:12:58¶ Where the hip cats make the scene ¶
01:13:02¶ Gonna jam on Bourbon Street tonight ¶
01:13:07¶ Oh, yeah ¶
01:13:09¶ I'm going on a place ¶
01:13:12Dad is coming home!
01:13:15¶ And have some kicks ¶
01:13:17¶ We'll be jammin' ¶
01:13:19¶ Playin' jazz all night ¶
01:13:24¶¶
01:13:32¶¶
01:13:42¶¶
01:13:52All right!
01:13:54You decided to stay here,
01:13:56that could be you in 20 years.
01:13:58That's true.
01:13:59Look!
01:14:01Gotta get one.
01:14:03Big, easy, or bust.
01:14:05Hey, you know what?
01:14:06She made it here, but the rubber
01:14:08wasn't quite on the pavement.
01:14:10But she made it.
01:14:11B.D. made it, man.
01:14:13How would you like to, uh...
01:14:17to be part of a jazz fan?
01:14:19A jazz fan?
01:14:20You mean a New Orleans jazz fan?
01:14:22Yeah.
01:14:23Yeah, when is it?
01:14:24Tomorrow!
01:14:25I'm in!
01:14:26What else am I gonna do
01:14:27in New Orleans?
01:14:28All right, I'll come to New Orleans.
01:14:30¶¶
01:14:33¶¶
01:14:40¶¶
01:14:48When I was a kid,
01:14:49that lady used to have a cow,
01:14:51used to get fresh milk,
01:14:52and that was a polling place
01:14:54my father voted.
01:14:55This guy here owned a cleaner's.
01:14:57He sponsored the Little League team,
01:14:59which I didn't make.
01:15:01I didn't have those skills.
01:15:03You gotta be able to run,
01:15:04hit, and throw.
01:15:05Right.
01:15:06That was my grandmother's
01:15:07house right there.
01:15:08You see where that water heater is?
01:15:10Mm-hmm.
01:15:11That was the crapper
01:15:12when I was a kid.
01:15:16And right down the street
01:15:17is Roman and to the right,
01:15:18that's where Oliver lived.
01:15:20Oh, right over there
01:15:21is Oliver?
01:15:22Yeah, you see that pink house
01:15:23in the corner?
01:15:24Yeah.
01:15:25When I first saw Oliver,
01:15:26see the first step
01:15:27after the vacant lot there
01:15:29with the debris?
01:15:30Uh-huh.
01:15:31I was sitting in a stroller
01:15:32in front of the step,
01:15:33and Oliver's mom
01:15:34pushed him across the street
01:15:35right here,
01:15:36and I saw him for the first time
01:15:38being pushed across the street.
01:15:40That's when I first met Oliver.
01:15:42Hey.
01:15:43We were in strollers.
01:15:44Wow.
01:15:45You brought him home.
01:15:46Let's see what he has to say.
01:15:48Huh?
01:15:49Wow.
01:15:50Where you first met him,
01:15:51right here?
01:15:52Yeah, right down there.
01:15:53It was his mama,
01:15:54Miss Irene,
01:15:55my mother,
01:15:56and my nanny.
01:15:57Yeah.
01:15:58This is it.
01:15:59This is my grandma's house.
01:16:011549 Playhouse.
01:16:03This is it.
01:16:05And you see,
01:16:06in the summertime,
01:16:08I used to sit right here
01:16:09in the middle, right?
01:16:12Because my grandma
01:16:13would sit here,
01:16:15my mother would sit here,
01:16:17my Aunt Elvira
01:16:18would sit here,
01:16:19and my Aunt Lorraine
01:16:20would sit here.
01:16:21Three sisters with their mother
01:16:22and my grandmother.
01:16:23Oh.
01:16:24Right?
01:16:25Yeah.
01:16:26And I'd just sit here
01:16:27with the oak trees
01:16:28Yeah.
01:16:29All this, you know,
01:16:30metal stuff you see now.
01:16:31Kids playing, crickets.
01:16:33And this is where my mother
01:16:34would ask me to comb her hair.
01:16:36Sometimes, you know.
01:16:37She'd take out a comb
01:16:38and she'd sit here
01:16:39and she'd scoot around
01:16:40a little bit
01:16:41and they're still chatting.
01:16:42Da-da-da-da-da.
01:16:43Guys walk by and say,
01:16:44How you doing, ladies?
01:16:45Dolphin in her hat.
01:16:46And I'm combing her hair.
01:16:47Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
01:16:51And she said,
01:16:52Thank you, baby.
01:16:53That feels so good.
01:16:54Oh.
01:16:55It was great.
01:16:56Yeah.
01:16:57It was great.
01:16:59I'm home.
01:17:06Hmm.
01:17:12Time?
01:17:13You think?
01:17:14Yeah.
01:17:15Yeah?
01:17:17You got a credit card in you?
01:17:19Here, try that.
01:17:20Thanks.
01:17:28Hmm.
01:17:41Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
01:17:47Ollie.
01:17:53Hmm.
01:17:58Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
01:18:00You know what that says.
01:18:03Now, it wasn't that fun.
01:18:05Welcome home.
01:18:06Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
01:18:10Oh, my God.
01:18:12Old dog.
01:18:13What's with this, though?
01:18:14Well.
01:18:15Oh, check out the beads, though.
01:18:16I love that.
01:18:17Well, that's us.
01:18:18That's Mardi Gras.
01:18:19Can I see this?
01:18:20We used to go to parades together
01:18:21and we'd collect,
01:18:22see who caught the most beads.
01:18:23We'd have a contest.
01:18:24Yeah.
01:18:28Wow.
01:18:33Old Ollie.
01:18:34Ha-ha-ha.
01:18:35Better scotch than him.
01:18:36I thought he was in the box the whole time.
01:18:38Well, it was a thought, wasn't it?
01:18:40Yeah.
01:18:41Yeah.
01:18:42We bought this about 40 years ago
01:18:45to take on our trip,
01:18:47our cross-country trip to New Orleans together.
01:18:50Hmm.
01:18:51Right?
01:18:52But it never happened.
01:18:53But every time we got together,
01:18:55we'd take a shot out of this, see?
01:18:56Yeah.
01:18:57So you're looking at 40 years' worth
01:18:59of shot-taking out of this.
01:19:01Ha-ha-ha.
01:19:02Spotless scotch.
01:19:03Ha-ha-ha.
01:19:04It's my buddy Ollie.
01:19:05Well, I love.
01:19:06Yeah.
01:19:07Hmm.
01:19:09Would you like to share a shot with me?
01:19:11Oh, yeah.
01:19:13Sit down with me.
01:19:15Sit down with my relatives.
01:19:17They're here.
01:19:18Hmm.
01:19:20My mother, my grandmother,
01:19:22my Aunt Elvira, my Aunt Lorraine.
01:19:25Careful.
01:19:26Don't squeeze her out.
01:19:28Ha-ha-ha.
01:19:29The way you described your Aunt Lorraine,
01:19:31I wouldn't be sitting here.
01:19:32Ha-ha-ha.
01:19:33No, she is a nice lady.
01:19:35Yeah.
01:19:36She's the one who listened to the Dodgers
01:19:38in the back kitchen ironing,
01:19:40and I'd be in the backyard playing.
01:19:42Yeah.
01:19:43My love with the Dodgers.
01:19:44That's where it started, in the backyard.
01:19:46Right back here.
01:19:47When I was a little boy.
01:19:48Oh, man.
01:19:49She's in the back door ironing in the summer,
01:19:51and I'm playing in the backyard
01:19:53listening to the Dodgers from Brooklyn.
01:20:05Ah.
01:20:06Ha-ha-ha.
01:20:09Nice.
01:20:11Nice.
01:20:14Nice.
01:20:29Good stuff?
01:20:30Good stuff.
01:20:31Ha-ha-ha.
01:20:33Whoo!
01:20:34Good stuff.
01:20:35Yeah, good stuff.
01:20:37This is for you, Ollie.
01:21:08Okay, Joey.
01:21:10Let's go.
01:21:13Ah.
01:21:14Mm.
01:21:29D-E-B-O-I-S-B-L-A-N-G.
01:21:34D-E-B-O-I-S-B-L-A-N-G.
01:21:36How would you pronounce that?
01:21:38Dubois.
01:21:40Dubois Blanc.
01:21:42Dubois Blanc.
01:21:44Dubois Blanc.
01:21:45You sound like a New Orleans person.
01:21:46Dubois Blanc.
01:21:48Dubois Blanc.
01:21:54But look for that Alexis grave.
01:21:57I don't know.
01:21:58He said Alexis.
01:21:59Looks like they got hoops up there or something.
01:22:01That's to hold the flowers, man.
01:22:03You ever been in a graveyard before?
01:22:05Not one of these.
01:22:06Hey, look at this.
01:22:07Italia.
01:22:08Palermo.
01:22:09Hey!
01:22:10My family's from Palermo.
01:22:12That could be a relative.
01:22:20West side.
01:22:21We're on the west side.
01:22:22West side, yeah.
01:22:24Is that it?
01:22:31Yeah.
01:22:51That's it.
01:22:56That's my mom.
01:22:58That's my mother, man.
01:23:28Deep river, my home is over Jordan.
01:23:57Deep river, Lord.
01:24:07I want to cross over into campground.
01:24:22Oh, don't you want to go to that promised place?
01:24:47That promised land.
01:25:02Where all is peace.
01:25:16Deep river.
01:25:30I want to cross over into campground.
01:25:51I love you, mom.
01:25:53I'm sorry.
01:25:56I'm sorry.
01:26:03I'm home.
01:26:06Home.
01:26:19Joey.
01:26:21Hold that.
01:26:24Remember that New Orleans funeral I told you about?
01:26:27Open your umbrella.
01:26:31All right.
01:26:32You can hold it like this.
01:26:33Come on.
01:26:34Put it over your head.
01:26:35Yeah.
01:26:36Now follow me, all right?
01:26:37You know this song.
01:26:38You ready?
01:26:39What song is it?
01:26:40You ready?
01:26:41Oh, when the saints go marching in.
01:26:43Oh, I know this.
01:26:44Yes!
01:26:45Oh, when the saints go marching in.
01:26:48Yes!
01:26:49Oh, I want to be in that number.
01:26:52Sing with me, baby.
01:26:53All right, baby.
01:26:54Oh, when the saints go marching in.
01:26:56Okay, here I come.
01:26:57Oh, when the saints.
01:26:58Oh, when the saints.
01:26:59Marching in.
01:27:00Marching in.
01:27:01Marching in.
01:27:02Marching in.
01:27:03Marching in.
01:27:04Marching in.
01:27:05Marching in.
01:27:06Marching in.
01:27:07Marching in.
01:27:08Marching in.
01:27:09Marching in.
01:27:10Marching in.
01:27:11Marching in.
01:27:12Marching in.
01:27:13Marching in.
01:27:14Marching in.
01:27:15Marching in.
01:27:16Marching in.
01:27:17Marching in.
01:27:18Marching in.
01:27:19Marching in.
01:27:20Marching in.
01:27:21Marching in.
01:27:22Marching in.
01:27:40Say good-bye, mom.
01:27:45Bye, mom.
01:27:46That's your mama.
01:27:48She's in there.
01:27:50and now she's happy.
01:27:52You can buy me a scotch.
01:27:55I'll buy you one.
01:27:57I'm gonna buy you one with your money, you know why?
01:27:59No, you know why?
01:28:00Why?
01:28:01Check it out, baby.
01:28:02Oh, no, no, it's not gonna rain.
01:28:03It's gonna rain.
01:28:04It's not gonna rain.
01:28:05We got thunder now.
01:28:06I don't feel the rain.
01:28:08Thunder means nothing.
01:28:09Thunder's music down here.
01:28:11You know what I mean?
01:28:12It's music.
01:28:13I'm buying you a scotch, but I'm buying it with your $20.
01:28:16No, I won the bet.
01:28:19So that's a New Orleans funeral.
01:28:21That's right.
01:28:22And then you just walk away?
01:28:23Yeah, it's done.
01:28:24And you go drink.
01:28:25It's done.
01:28:26Now we're drinking.
01:28:27And you mourn.
01:28:28Here, I'll go out this way.
01:28:29You mourn, you say goodbye, and you celebrate.
01:28:30That's it.
01:28:31I'm loving it.
01:28:32Huh?
01:28:33That's it.
01:28:34We got a gypsy bus
01:28:36Starting out from L.A.
01:28:39Ho, ho!
01:28:41We got a gypsy bus
01:28:44Starting out from old L.A.
01:28:48It's right down that road
01:28:51Coming home to New Orleans
01:28:53Oh!
01:29:05How we doing out there, good people?
01:29:07People, how y'all doing this rain dance today?
01:29:12You win.
01:29:14This is rain.
01:29:26A little bit more of a problem.
01:29:28I see what you're supposed to say.
01:29:30Oh, here's a test.
01:29:32All right.
01:29:33Hey, Joey, look at this.
01:29:35Oh, those are nice people in there.
01:29:37Hey, what do you have there, man?
01:29:39We got a little something for Michelle Marie.
01:29:41Where do you want to go drink?
01:29:43Do you want to get a drink?
01:29:44Michelle Marie?
01:29:45So the cookie girl has a name, all right!
01:29:47Get out of here, come on, let's go get a drink.
01:29:50Hey, I'm buying!
01:29:51So you got something for Michelle Marie.
01:29:53Is there something else you want to tell me?
01:29:57I've been all over the world
01:30:03And seen many sights all around
01:30:09I've walked the Champs-Élysées
01:30:14And rode through London town
01:30:21There's no place like New Orleans
01:30:27That's where I'd rather be
01:30:33When I'm home in New Orleans
01:30:39That's where c'est la bombe
01:30:46C'est la bombe
01:31:01I've strolled on Waikiki
01:31:06And stood by the fountains in Rome
01:31:11There's no place like where I'm from
01:31:16The city I call home
01:31:22There's no place like New Orleans
01:31:27That's where I'd rather be
01:31:32When I'm home in New Orleans
01:31:38C'est la bombe
01:31:41I dig the jazz on Bourbon Street
01:31:46Jammin' all night long
01:31:51I dig the jazz on Bourbon Street
01:31:56Jammin' all night long
01:32:01I dig the jazz on Bourbon Street
01:32:06I dig the jazz on Bourbon Street
01:32:11Jammin' all night long
01:32:16If you want the best to eat
01:32:21Go to Café du Monde
01:32:26There's no place like New Orleans
01:32:32That's where I'd rather be
01:32:37When I'm home in New Orleans
01:32:42That's where c'est la bombe
01:33:02C'est la bombe