1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:11,470 --> 00:00:13,865 -Places like this don't exist... 4 00:00:13,889 --> 00:00:16,868 The proximity to the beach, the wildlife refuge. 5 00:00:16,892 --> 00:00:19,787 -Boca Chica did not change for a lot of years 6 00:00:19,811 --> 00:00:21,623 until SpaceX came in, 7 00:00:21,647 --> 00:00:24,083 and then it's changed drastically. 8 00:00:24,107 --> 00:00:25,835 -Our first thoughts were, 9 00:00:25,859 --> 00:00:27,420 what's going to happen to us? 10 00:00:27,444 --> 00:00:30,590 I'm guessing that Elon Musk makes the big decisions. 11 00:00:30,614 --> 00:00:34,093 -The people that are fans see him as a visionary, 12 00:00:34,117 --> 00:00:35,553 and there's truth to that. 13 00:00:35,577 --> 00:00:38,431 I see him as a ruthless businessman. 14 00:00:38,455 --> 00:00:41,517 {\an8}-Musk sold his first computer program at the age of 12, 15 00:00:41,541 --> 00:00:43,686 {\an8}and he hasn't stopped selling since. 16 00:00:43,710 --> 00:00:47,857 {\an8}-Tesla CEO Elon Musk is set for an electrifying payday. 17 00:00:47,881 --> 00:00:50,151 {\an8}-His other high profile company, SpaceX. 18 00:00:50,175 --> 00:00:53,905 {\an8}-While some say colonizing other planets is a pipe dream, 19 00:00:53,929 --> 00:00:56,908 the SpaceX CEO has a very different outlook. 20 00:00:56,932 --> 00:00:59,452 -Who's got our back? No one. 21 00:00:59,476 --> 00:01:01,621 All the politicians, they love SpaceX. 22 00:01:01,645 --> 00:01:03,373 It means money in their pockets. 23 00:01:03,397 --> 00:01:06,542 -It feels like sort of total domination of the area. 24 00:01:06,566 --> 00:01:08,378 I mean, like this is happening. 25 00:01:08,402 --> 00:01:12,340 When you have a corporation telling you, 26 00:01:12,364 --> 00:01:14,926 "Accept the offer or else," 27 00:01:14,950 --> 00:01:17,178 it was definitely a threat. 28 00:01:17,202 --> 00:01:19,180 -"This is the offer, you take it." 29 00:01:19,204 --> 00:01:20,807 -There's a few people here 30 00:01:20,831 --> 00:01:22,892 that probably would rather die than sell. 31 00:01:22,916 --> 00:01:26,312 -There are a few still out there that don't want to leave. 32 00:01:26,336 --> 00:01:30,733 I would sure encourage these people to truly consider, 33 00:01:30,757 --> 00:01:32,235 "Is this worth it?" 34 00:01:32,259 --> 00:01:36,680 -We knew that we were totally screwed. 35 00:01:39,808 --> 00:01:46,582 {\an8}♪♪ 36 00:01:46,606 --> 00:01:53,423 {\an8}♪♪ 37 00:01:53,447 --> 00:02:00,221 {\an8}♪♪ 38 00:02:00,245 --> 00:02:07,020 {\an8}♪♪ 39 00:02:07,044 --> 00:02:13,860 {\an8}♪♪ 40 00:02:13,884 --> 00:02:20,658 {\an8}♪♪ 41 00:02:20,682 --> 00:02:23,578 -I was aware of Elon Musk, and I'd seen him on 60 Minutes, 42 00:02:23,602 --> 00:02:25,830 and he seemed sort of interesting. 43 00:02:25,854 --> 00:02:27,248 {\an8}And then next thing you know, 44 00:02:27,272 --> 00:02:28,958 {\an8}he wants to come to Boca Chica, 45 00:02:28,982 --> 00:02:31,919 {\an8}and I'm like... like... like, there's got to be some... 46 00:02:31,943 --> 00:02:33,463 Are you kidding me? 47 00:02:33,487 --> 00:02:35,590 I mean, this is just a tiny little neighborhood 48 00:02:35,614 --> 00:02:38,801 in the middle of a national wildlife refuge. 49 00:02:38,825 --> 00:02:42,972 {\an8}♪♪ 50 00:02:42,996 --> 00:02:45,099 I just went bananas. It's, like, I was, you know, 51 00:02:45,123 --> 00:02:48,436 getting in touch with whatever environmental groups I could 52 00:02:48,460 --> 00:02:50,772 about, you know, everything that I could think of. 53 00:02:50,796 --> 00:02:54,025 I mean, birding and stargazing and, you know, who knows what. 54 00:02:54,049 --> 00:02:56,235 And I just kept hoping something would happen 55 00:02:56,259 --> 00:02:58,237 to keep this from going forward. 56 00:02:58,261 --> 00:03:01,157 But I guess they'd been working on the relationships 57 00:03:01,181 --> 00:03:04,952 with the politicians back in 2011. 58 00:03:04,976 --> 00:03:08,122 {\an8}♪♪ 59 00:03:08,146 --> 00:03:10,875 -I used to head up the economic development division 60 00:03:10,899 --> 00:03:12,210 here in Brownsville, Texas. 61 00:03:12,234 --> 00:03:15,380 {\an8}It's a group that back in its day 62 00:03:15,404 --> 00:03:17,423 {\an8}used to recruit the companies into town. 63 00:03:17,447 --> 00:03:19,050 By far, the most exciting project 64 00:03:19,074 --> 00:03:21,969 that I had personally worked on was SpaceX. 65 00:03:21,993 --> 00:03:25,181 The initial communication with the company 66 00:03:25,205 --> 00:03:26,808 was almost 10 years ago. 67 00:03:26,832 --> 00:03:29,394 And I remember that because I was at a parking lot 68 00:03:29,418 --> 00:03:32,897 of a Chuck E. Cheese for one of my son's birthdays. 69 00:03:32,921 --> 00:03:34,607 And, you know, I got... I got the phone call 70 00:03:34,631 --> 00:03:39,153 from then Governor Rick Perry's Chief of Staff. 71 00:03:39,177 --> 00:03:41,948 Two weeks later, we were already meeting with Elon Musk. 72 00:03:41,972 --> 00:03:45,868 And, you know, he starts talking about interplanetary travel 73 00:03:45,892 --> 00:03:47,703 and what have you, and he kind of paused 74 00:03:47,727 --> 00:03:49,789 and, you know, put his hand on his chin 75 00:03:49,813 --> 00:03:53,418 and he asked, you know, "Do you know why I'm doing this?" 76 00:03:53,442 --> 00:03:56,003 And then he proceeds to say, 77 00:03:56,027 --> 00:04:00,925 "Humanity can no longer sustain itself on this planet. 78 00:04:00,949 --> 00:04:03,344 I'm going to be part of the solution 79 00:04:03,368 --> 00:04:07,849 and help and save humanity by colonizing Mars." 80 00:04:07,873 --> 00:04:10,935 And we're there like... 81 00:04:10,959 --> 00:04:13,229 "Right, this was a nice trip. 82 00:04:13,253 --> 00:04:16,858 I'm going to get fired. 83 00:04:16,882 --> 00:04:20,194 "How am I going to come back to Brownsville, Texas, 84 00:04:20,218 --> 00:04:23,531 one of the poorest communities in the nation, 85 00:04:23,555 --> 00:04:28,453 communicate that we should use our hard-earned tax dollars 86 00:04:28,477 --> 00:04:30,288 to incentivize a company 87 00:04:30,312 --> 00:04:32,999 and have them come in, build rockets 88 00:04:33,023 --> 00:04:34,584 and launch them into space. 89 00:04:34,608 --> 00:04:38,129 And then we met with County Judge Carlos Cascos. 90 00:04:38,153 --> 00:04:40,631 And at first he was kind of like, "Really? 91 00:04:40,655 --> 00:04:42,341 This is a project that you have?" 92 00:04:42,365 --> 00:04:45,887 But then he started looking at the economics behind it. 93 00:04:45,911 --> 00:04:49,515 {\an8}We were in competition with several other good communities. 94 00:04:49,539 --> 00:04:51,517 {\an8}Puerto Rico was one, of course. 95 00:04:51,541 --> 00:04:53,561 I think Alabama was another one. 96 00:04:53,585 --> 00:04:56,439 I believe Florida was another one. 97 00:04:56,463 --> 00:04:59,108 Our incentives were, we're below 98 00:04:59,132 --> 00:05:02,361 what other areas were were offering. 99 00:05:02,385 --> 00:05:06,657 But I believe that Elon Musk saw this area as an opportunity. 100 00:05:06,681 --> 00:05:08,868 {\an8}-The path of the rocket needs to be one 101 00:05:08,892 --> 00:05:11,871 {\an8}that is safe for the people below it. 102 00:05:11,895 --> 00:05:14,415 {\an8}And you also want to launch eastward 103 00:05:14,439 --> 00:05:16,125 {\an8}with the Earth's rotation. 104 00:05:16,149 --> 00:05:19,504 Because when no rocket is launched off of a coast, 105 00:05:19,528 --> 00:05:22,840 it has to get launched over a large body of water. 106 00:05:22,864 --> 00:05:25,301 In case of some catastrophic event, 107 00:05:25,325 --> 00:05:27,136 it just falls into the water. 108 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,514 So there's times when that area 109 00:05:29,538 --> 00:05:34,352 will have to be shut down for rocket operations. 110 00:05:34,376 --> 00:05:36,854 -Mr. Oliveira, who is a state representative, 111 00:05:36,878 --> 00:05:40,149 introduced legislation to give counties the authority 112 00:05:40,173 --> 00:05:43,819 to specifically close Highway 4 to Boca Chica Beach 113 00:05:43,843 --> 00:05:46,197 for SpaceX launches. 114 00:05:46,221 --> 00:05:51,911 -Some high-level staff members from SpaceX approached me 115 00:05:51,935 --> 00:05:54,163 and asked for my support. 116 00:05:54,187 --> 00:05:57,041 {\an8}And of course, the more I heard about it, 117 00:05:57,065 --> 00:05:59,168 {\an8}the more excited I got about it. 118 00:05:59,192 --> 00:06:01,879 Immediately he was going to create 600 jobs 119 00:06:01,903 --> 00:06:05,716 with an average salary of $55,000 a year. 120 00:06:05,740 --> 00:06:09,554 That may not seem like a lot of money in some areas, 121 00:06:09,578 --> 00:06:13,558 but when you're one of the poorest counties in the nation, 122 00:06:13,582 --> 00:06:15,643 it does mean a lot. 123 00:06:15,667 --> 00:06:18,396 -The biggest problem under Texas law 124 00:06:18,420 --> 00:06:21,357 is all Texas beaches are open beaches. 125 00:06:21,381 --> 00:06:23,442 They normally cannot be closed. 126 00:06:23,466 --> 00:06:25,903 SpaceX justifiably required 127 00:06:25,927 --> 00:06:30,950 that the beach be closed about 12 hours before the launch 128 00:06:30,974 --> 00:06:34,287 and then 12 hours after the launch. 129 00:06:34,311 --> 00:06:38,583 And that had only been done one time in the history of Texas, 130 00:06:38,607 --> 00:06:41,002 and it was for a Brad Pitt movie, 131 00:06:41,026 --> 00:06:42,962 and it was done in Galveston. 132 00:06:42,986 --> 00:06:45,047 It was done illegally in Galveston 133 00:06:45,071 --> 00:06:46,882 because they violated the law. 134 00:06:46,906 --> 00:06:49,927 They just... Nobody bothered to enforce it. 135 00:06:49,951 --> 00:06:53,097 I got to know Elon Musk very well. 136 00:06:53,121 --> 00:06:56,309 We had to go before the House Appropriations Committee 137 00:06:56,333 --> 00:06:58,251 to get some tentative funding. 138 00:07:00,462 --> 00:07:01,897 {\an8}-We're talking about something 139 00:07:01,921 --> 00:07:03,649 {\an8}that's that's really the big leagues here. 140 00:07:03,673 --> 00:07:05,192 {\an8}This would be kind of 141 00:07:05,216 --> 00:07:08,237 {\an8}a commercial version of Cape Canaveral, 142 00:07:08,261 --> 00:07:11,365 {\an8}so it would be an historical first in the world. 143 00:07:11,389 --> 00:07:15,119 {\an8}It would be of very great significance, 144 00:07:15,143 --> 00:07:20,583 {\an8}both to the local economy, as well as to the world, really. 145 00:07:20,607 --> 00:07:24,003 {\an8}-That room was very impressed and receptive 146 00:07:24,027 --> 00:07:25,713 with his vision. 147 00:07:25,737 --> 00:07:28,007 -Brownsville officials say they're one step closer 148 00:07:28,031 --> 00:07:30,551 to getting SpaceX to build a launch site in the Valley. 149 00:07:30,575 --> 00:07:33,179 They say support from State Rep. René Oliveira, 150 00:07:33,203 --> 00:07:35,514 who filed a bill yesterday supporting the project, 151 00:07:35,538 --> 00:07:36,932 will go a long way. 152 00:07:36,956 --> 00:07:39,852 -After a lot of negotiations, 153 00:07:39,876 --> 00:07:42,563 a lot of hard work, a lot of give and take, 154 00:07:42,587 --> 00:07:44,732 we finally signed it 155 00:07:44,756 --> 00:07:48,152 and approved by the commission on a 4-1 vote... 156 00:07:48,176 --> 00:07:49,945 -That would allow the temporary closure 157 00:07:49,969 --> 00:07:51,822 of Boca Chica Beach for the launches. 158 00:07:51,846 --> 00:07:55,076 And Brownsville officials say this sends a message to SpaceX 159 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:57,453 that they are wanted here in Cameron County. 160 00:07:57,477 --> 00:07:59,664 -It brought joy to my heart. 161 00:07:59,688 --> 00:08:02,333 I said, "This is going to happen. 162 00:08:02,357 --> 00:08:04,335 This isn't a dream anymore. 163 00:08:04,359 --> 00:08:09,632 It's not a childhood fantasy about space travel. 164 00:08:09,656 --> 00:08:11,467 It is real." 165 00:08:11,491 --> 00:08:14,720 -A rebirth of sorts in industry for the city of Brownsville 166 00:08:14,744 --> 00:08:17,139 as they win the bid to house SpaceX 167 00:08:17,163 --> 00:08:19,433 and bring hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars 168 00:08:19,457 --> 00:08:22,019 in salaries right here to Valley. 169 00:08:22,043 --> 00:08:23,771 -Everybody that wanted to be somebody 170 00:08:23,795 --> 00:08:24,855 was was at the groundbreaking. 171 00:08:24,879 --> 00:08:26,774 Governor Perry came down, 172 00:08:26,798 --> 00:08:29,735 Elon Musk and other other dignitaries. 173 00:08:29,759 --> 00:08:32,279 The mood was electric. 174 00:08:32,303 --> 00:08:35,616 It was one of the biggest economic opportunities 175 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:38,327 that the area had ever seen. 176 00:08:38,351 --> 00:08:40,663 And it put us on the map. 177 00:08:40,687 --> 00:08:42,289 -Long-term goal is to create 178 00:08:42,313 --> 00:08:46,460 the technology necessary to establish a base on Mars. 179 00:08:46,484 --> 00:08:48,879 So it could very well be that the first person 180 00:08:48,903 --> 00:08:53,718 {\an1}that departs for another planet could depart from this location. 181 00:08:53,742 --> 00:08:56,679 [ Applause ] 182 00:08:56,703 --> 00:08:59,014 -I still get goose bumps just, you know, 183 00:08:59,038 --> 00:09:00,683 thinking about when he said that. 184 00:09:00,707 --> 00:09:03,018 And I'm like... 185 00:09:03,042 --> 00:09:05,044 "I keep my job, right?" 186 00:09:06,379 --> 00:09:08,733 -The Boca Chica Beach area, 187 00:09:08,757 --> 00:09:10,484 a lot of it is owned by the state, 188 00:09:10,508 --> 00:09:13,028 Texas Parks and Wildlife, and then you have pockets 189 00:09:13,052 --> 00:09:17,241 here and there where it's owned by private parties. 190 00:09:17,265 --> 00:09:19,034 That's how you ended up with that little subdivision 191 00:09:19,058 --> 00:09:21,912 out there, the Boca Chica village. 192 00:09:21,936 --> 00:09:24,999 {\an8}♪♪ 193 00:09:25,023 --> 00:09:27,001 I remember driving in, 194 00:09:27,025 --> 00:09:31,589 and it was it was a little eerie because it was abandoned 195 00:09:31,613 --> 00:09:35,968 and there was just a handful of families living out there. 196 00:09:35,992 --> 00:09:38,220 -The few people that live out there, 197 00:09:38,244 --> 00:09:42,016 you have no wastewater, no freshwater. 198 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:47,730 It's got to be, at least by modern standards, a hard life. 199 00:09:47,754 --> 00:09:49,106 -A lot of these folks are retirees. 200 00:09:49,130 --> 00:09:50,858 They've been there for decades. 201 00:09:50,882 --> 00:09:53,027 I can tell you that when I was there, 202 00:09:53,051 --> 00:09:54,779 there was no discussion 203 00:09:54,803 --> 00:09:57,764 regarding what are we going to do about this community. 204 00:10:03,436 --> 00:10:04,663 -Come here. 205 00:10:04,687 --> 00:10:05,998 No! Come here. 206 00:10:06,022 --> 00:10:08,417 {\an8}♪♪ 207 00:10:08,441 --> 00:10:10,711 So the house was built in 65. 208 00:10:10,735 --> 00:10:13,130 {\an8}My mother-in-law and father-in-law 209 00:10:13,154 --> 00:10:16,759 {\an8}originally bought it, and it's been in the family 210 00:10:16,783 --> 00:10:18,886 {\an8}for at least 40 years. 211 00:10:18,910 --> 00:10:21,597 {\an8}♪♪ 212 00:10:21,621 --> 00:10:24,725 And this is where we get our water... 213 00:10:24,749 --> 00:10:27,144 A big old water tank. 214 00:10:27,168 --> 00:10:30,839 And they come about once a month and fill the tanks. 215 00:10:32,757 --> 00:10:34,735 [ Barking ] 216 00:10:34,759 --> 00:10:36,278 All right. 217 00:10:36,302 --> 00:10:39,323 Puppy is my watchdog. 218 00:10:39,347 --> 00:10:44,119 I'm a high-school secretary at a small town in Iowa. 219 00:10:44,143 --> 00:10:46,705 I prefer to come in the summer, which is when I can come 220 00:10:46,729 --> 00:10:49,208 because I work at a school so we have the summer off. 221 00:10:49,232 --> 00:10:52,294 My husband is a farmer and he likes to fish. 222 00:10:52,318 --> 00:10:55,589 So being close to the beach, that's a plus. 223 00:10:55,613 --> 00:10:57,174 I just like to sit on the beach. 224 00:10:57,198 --> 00:11:00,553 So that's my draw... To sit and enjoy the waves 225 00:11:00,577 --> 00:11:03,264 and the sand between your toes. 226 00:11:03,288 --> 00:11:04,974 {\an8}♪♪ 227 00:11:04,998 --> 00:11:07,643 I don't know. For us, this little bit of nothing here 228 00:11:07,667 --> 00:11:10,104 is probably the only vacation home we'll ever have. 229 00:11:10,128 --> 00:11:13,732 So eventually it'll be retirement, you know, 230 00:11:13,756 --> 00:11:17,194 but... I know it's not much, but. 231 00:11:17,218 --> 00:11:22,408 {\an8}♪♪ 232 00:11:22,432 --> 00:11:26,120 {\an8}♪♪ 233 00:11:26,144 --> 00:11:28,330 {\an8}-Oh! 234 00:11:28,354 --> 00:11:32,167 {\an8}Yeah, I've been here in Boca Chica Beach 235 00:11:32,191 --> 00:11:33,711 {\an8}since 1982. 236 00:11:33,735 --> 00:11:36,505 {\an8}It's almost 30 years now, 237 00:11:36,529 --> 00:11:40,259 This has been a part of my life, my whole life, actually, 238 00:11:40,283 --> 00:11:42,052 because when we were little, 239 00:11:42,076 --> 00:11:45,973 my parents used to bring us here to the beach. 240 00:11:45,997 --> 00:11:50,519 I bought two houses here because I have two sons. 241 00:11:50,543 --> 00:11:53,063 So I figure that when I die, 242 00:11:53,087 --> 00:11:55,232 one of my sons can have a house each, 243 00:11:55,256 --> 00:11:58,652 and then they would always keep their roots here. 244 00:11:58,676 --> 00:12:01,739 Here I am surrounded by water. 245 00:12:01,763 --> 00:12:06,076 There's a bird sanctuary here. We see tons of birds. 246 00:12:06,100 --> 00:12:10,289 Like one time, there was like 200 or 300 blue buntings. 247 00:12:10,313 --> 00:12:12,207 They're iridescent blue. 248 00:12:12,231 --> 00:12:15,252 And then they all came and landed on a tree 249 00:12:15,276 --> 00:12:17,087 and it looked like a Christmas tree 250 00:12:17,111 --> 00:12:18,923 decorated with blue buntings. 251 00:12:18,947 --> 00:12:20,424 It's a wildlife refuge. 252 00:12:20,448 --> 00:12:23,677 There is no... no other place like this. 253 00:12:23,701 --> 00:12:30,684 {\an8}♪♪ 254 00:12:30,708 --> 00:12:37,691 {\an8}♪♪ 255 00:12:37,715 --> 00:12:41,570 {\an8}-So this is probably the most undeveloped beach in Texas. 256 00:12:41,594 --> 00:12:44,031 The only thing you see here are occasional garbage cans. 257 00:12:44,055 --> 00:12:46,075 There's no bathroom, there's no store, 258 00:12:46,099 --> 00:12:48,994 there's no... no nothing. 259 00:12:49,018 --> 00:12:50,663 There are several species of terns, 260 00:12:50,687 --> 00:12:52,831 several species of plovers. 261 00:12:52,855 --> 00:12:56,877 In the wetland areas, you'll have curlews, dowagers 262 00:12:56,901 --> 00:12:59,338 and all kinds of shorebirds. 263 00:12:59,362 --> 00:13:01,507 Of course, you get brown pelicans 264 00:13:01,531 --> 00:13:04,760 coming over us right now. 265 00:13:04,784 --> 00:13:08,597 {\an8}♪♪ 266 00:13:08,621 --> 00:13:12,977 {\an8}♪♪ 267 00:13:13,001 --> 00:13:14,561 Most of the public and the politicians 268 00:13:14,585 --> 00:13:17,231 are so enamored by the space program 269 00:13:17,255 --> 00:13:19,066 that they probably think it's great. 270 00:13:19,090 --> 00:13:22,778 And even Elon Musk said it's not a problem if things blow off. 271 00:13:22,802 --> 00:13:24,822 There's nothing... There's nothing out here. 272 00:13:24,846 --> 00:13:27,992 There is a lot out here. But it's... it's subtle. 273 00:13:28,016 --> 00:13:30,160 It's not in plain sight. 274 00:13:30,184 --> 00:13:33,163 It has none of the majesty of, you know, 275 00:13:33,187 --> 00:13:38,210 the Redwoods or Yosemite or the Grand Tetons. 276 00:13:38,234 --> 00:13:40,170 But it has more plant and animal species 277 00:13:40,194 --> 00:13:42,047 than any of those by far. 278 00:13:42,071 --> 00:13:44,341 It's not even close. 279 00:13:44,365 --> 00:13:50,931 {\an8}♪♪ 280 00:13:50,955 --> 00:13:57,521 {\an8}♪♪ 281 00:13:57,545 --> 00:13:58,939 {\an8}♪♪ 282 00:13:58,963 --> 00:14:01,382 [ Trash clunks ] 283 00:14:02,717 --> 00:14:06,405 {\an8}♪♪ 284 00:14:06,429 --> 00:14:10,659 {\an8}♪♪ 285 00:14:10,683 --> 00:14:14,204 {\an8}-I have a Facebook page, "SpaceX Boca Chica," 286 00:14:14,228 --> 00:14:19,585 {\an8}that is a documentation for the progress of SpaceX. 287 00:14:19,609 --> 00:14:25,591 {\an8}♪♪ 288 00:14:25,615 --> 00:14:29,553 Before SpaceX got here, there was no traffic 289 00:14:29,577 --> 00:14:32,890 except for local fishermen. 290 00:14:32,914 --> 00:14:35,017 {\an8}There was more bird life, 291 00:14:35,041 --> 00:14:37,436 {\an8}more pilots walking around. 292 00:14:37,460 --> 00:14:41,440 {\an8}I was a sunrise photographer. 293 00:14:41,464 --> 00:14:46,445 {\an8}It's all about getting right out of bed and down to the beach. 294 00:14:46,469 --> 00:14:51,366 {\an8}Yeah, it was... it was the funnest place I'd ever lived. 295 00:14:51,390 --> 00:14:54,411 {\an8}♪♪ 296 00:14:54,435 --> 00:14:57,081 {\an8}One morning, I looked out my bedroom window 297 00:14:57,105 --> 00:14:59,792 {\an8}and I said, "Wow, it's happening." 298 00:14:59,816 --> 00:15:03,253 {\an8}I realized there's no stopping this. 299 00:15:03,277 --> 00:15:05,881 {\an8}And once you realize there's no stopping it, 300 00:15:05,905 --> 00:15:08,717 {\an8}then you make Plan B. 301 00:15:08,741 --> 00:15:11,845 And Plan B was to get the camera out. 302 00:15:11,869 --> 00:15:15,706 {\an8}♪♪ 303 00:15:20,670 --> 00:15:24,024 -September of 2019, um, 304 00:15:24,048 --> 00:15:25,818 we all got these... 305 00:15:25,842 --> 00:15:30,364 These sort of ridiculous letters saying, um, 306 00:15:30,388 --> 00:15:32,908 "Here's the appraisal that we did on your house." 307 00:15:32,932 --> 00:15:35,953 It was just what we were all calling a drive-by appraisal, 308 00:15:35,977 --> 00:15:38,622 but we're offering you a three times offer 309 00:15:38,646 --> 00:15:42,000 of that ridiculously low appraisal. 310 00:15:42,024 --> 00:15:45,045 And then you have two weeks from the date of the letter 311 00:15:45,069 --> 00:15:46,421 to decide. 312 00:15:46,445 --> 00:15:51,135 -I get this big package from FedEx, 313 00:15:51,159 --> 00:15:56,682 and it's a 65-page offer to buy the house. 314 00:15:56,706 --> 00:16:00,561 So I decided, since I am retired, to read it. 315 00:16:00,585 --> 00:16:02,354 And I read it. 316 00:16:02,378 --> 00:16:06,650 And as I read along the contract, the offer, 317 00:16:06,674 --> 00:16:09,570 I kept getting more insulted about it. 318 00:16:09,594 --> 00:16:11,780 One of the things he said was that Brownsville 319 00:16:11,804 --> 00:16:14,533 had the most uneducated people. 320 00:16:14,557 --> 00:16:18,579 That insulted me because my family... 321 00:16:18,603 --> 00:16:21,373 I have teachers in the family, 322 00:16:21,397 --> 00:16:24,084 I have lawyers in the family. 323 00:16:24,108 --> 00:16:28,589 I have never, never seen such a huge stack of papers 324 00:16:28,613 --> 00:16:31,049 to make us such a small offer, 325 00:16:31,073 --> 00:16:34,303 and a threatening, bully-type offer. 326 00:16:34,327 --> 00:16:37,306 {\an8}♪♪ 327 00:16:37,330 --> 00:16:40,100 -They were willing to pay three times 328 00:16:40,124 --> 00:16:43,896 what their appraiser from the road said it was worth. 329 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:45,814 So that gives us $150,000. 330 00:16:45,838 --> 00:16:47,774 What are you going to do with it? 331 00:16:47,798 --> 00:16:51,028 You can't go buy a house a mile and a half from the beach 332 00:16:51,052 --> 00:16:53,572 for that nowhere. 333 00:16:53,596 --> 00:16:56,700 So, of course, we rejected them. 334 00:16:56,724 --> 00:17:00,287 Got kind of a nasty voicemail from their Realtor. 335 00:17:00,311 --> 00:17:02,873 Let me see if I can find it here. 336 00:17:02,897 --> 00:17:06,192 Somewhere, somewhere in this mess it's here. 337 00:17:08,903 --> 00:17:11,882 -Hey, this is Elizabeth over at JLL. 338 00:17:11,906 --> 00:17:18,096 SpaceX is riding me because they want to have... 339 00:17:18,120 --> 00:17:21,600 all the offers in, and they said 340 00:17:21,624 --> 00:17:23,727 that if they don't hear back from people, 341 00:17:23,751 --> 00:17:26,897 they will assume that they are no longer interested. 342 00:17:26,921 --> 00:17:29,608 This worries me because that three times value 343 00:17:29,632 --> 00:17:31,443 will be off the table, 344 00:17:31,467 --> 00:17:36,073 and you won't be able to get anything close to that offer 345 00:17:36,097 --> 00:17:41,662 should the county step in and proceed with eminent domain. 346 00:17:41,686 --> 00:17:43,396 Thanks, bye. 347 00:17:48,985 --> 00:17:51,672 -You know, when you go through eminent domain, it's because 348 00:17:51,696 --> 00:17:53,131 there's a government purpose. 349 00:17:53,155 --> 00:17:55,175 I didn't believe... Still don't believe... 350 00:17:55,199 --> 00:17:56,718 It would be appropriate 351 00:17:56,742 --> 00:18:00,722 to to use eminent domain for for a private company, 352 00:18:00,746 --> 00:18:02,015 regardless of what it is. 353 00:18:02,039 --> 00:18:03,517 I think... I don't think that that's... 354 00:18:03,541 --> 00:18:04,851 I don't think that that's right. 355 00:18:04,875 --> 00:18:08,313 -The state has the power to take property, 356 00:18:08,337 --> 00:18:10,107 but I've never wanted to invoke that, 357 00:18:10,131 --> 00:18:12,067 never thought about invoking it 358 00:18:12,091 --> 00:18:15,529 and was never asked by SpaceX to invoke it. 359 00:18:15,553 --> 00:18:20,284 So to their credit, they've accepted them as neighbors. 360 00:18:20,308 --> 00:18:22,160 Whether they can live with each other, 361 00:18:22,184 --> 00:18:24,830 we'll see as time passes. 362 00:18:24,854 --> 00:18:26,790 {\an8}-An exciting announcement expected this week 363 00:18:26,814 --> 00:18:29,793 {\an8}about ongoing developments for SpaceX. 364 00:18:29,817 --> 00:18:31,420 The company is planning a presentation 365 00:18:31,444 --> 00:18:33,130 on the future of its operations, 366 00:18:33,154 --> 00:18:35,215 including the future of the Starship right here 367 00:18:35,239 --> 00:18:38,969 near Boca Chica Beach tomorrow, September the 28th. 368 00:18:38,993 --> 00:18:43,223 -Elon Musk planned a big event here and invited us to go. 369 00:18:43,247 --> 00:18:45,767 And I think my curiosity got the best of me, 370 00:18:45,791 --> 00:18:48,979 and a lot of the other neighbors were going to go. 371 00:18:49,003 --> 00:18:50,605 So I decided to go. 372 00:18:50,629 --> 00:18:54,484 -They wanted the villagers to all go as a group, 373 00:18:54,508 --> 00:18:58,655 stuck us in a bus, and took us over there. 374 00:18:58,679 --> 00:19:02,159 -When we got there, they led us to this roped-off area 375 00:19:02,183 --> 00:19:04,953 that was kind of at the front to where we would be able 376 00:19:04,977 --> 00:19:06,747 to see him at the podium. 377 00:19:06,771 --> 00:19:09,541 -The critical thing that we need to focus on, I think, 378 00:19:09,565 --> 00:19:14,546 is the fastest path to a self-sustaining city on Mars. 379 00:19:14,570 --> 00:19:19,509 -We had just got it in this buyout letter just days before, 380 00:19:19,533 --> 00:19:23,930 and it had some pretty unfriendly language. 381 00:19:23,954 --> 00:19:25,390 And I think Elon wanted 382 00:19:25,414 --> 00:19:28,143 to smooth that unfriendly language down. 383 00:19:28,167 --> 00:19:33,065 He wanted to see us sell. 384 00:19:33,089 --> 00:19:35,609 -I mean, I think the actual danger to Boca Chica Village 385 00:19:35,633 --> 00:19:37,903 is low, but it's not... It's not tiny. 386 00:19:37,927 --> 00:19:40,864 So therefore, and we want super tiny risk, 387 00:19:40,888 --> 00:19:42,991 so it'd probably have a time 388 00:19:43,015 --> 00:19:46,787 it would be better to buy out the villagers, 389 00:19:46,811 --> 00:19:48,705 and we've made an offer to that effect. 390 00:19:48,729 --> 00:19:51,249 Yeah. 391 00:19:51,273 --> 00:19:55,003 -I got some great pictures, and I was ready to go home 392 00:19:55,027 --> 00:19:58,090 and they said a special visitor wants to meet you. 393 00:19:58,114 --> 00:19:59,758 -And it's like, well, of course 394 00:19:59,782 --> 00:20:01,593 we know who they're talking about. 395 00:20:01,617 --> 00:20:04,388 I mean, by the time he came, it was ridiculously late. 396 00:20:04,412 --> 00:20:06,139 I want to say it was like 11:30, 397 00:20:06,163 --> 00:20:09,601 and we were there for hours. 398 00:20:09,625 --> 00:20:12,396 So, you know, he comes in with his entourage and comes up 399 00:20:12,420 --> 00:20:14,564 and we were pretty harsh, 400 00:20:14,588 --> 00:20:17,234 you know, started asking him questions about everything 401 00:20:17,258 --> 00:20:21,071 and, you know, all about these buyouts and appraisals. 402 00:20:21,095 --> 00:20:23,615 -It was a very tense moment of number one, 403 00:20:23,639 --> 00:20:26,660 why did you leave us sitting up here when we're priority? 404 00:20:26,684 --> 00:20:29,496 Number two is what's this letter all about?! 405 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:31,123 You know, what do you mean? 406 00:20:31,147 --> 00:20:35,252 You're going to give us three times offer or else? 407 00:20:35,276 --> 00:20:36,670 -He didn't say a whole lot. 408 00:20:36,694 --> 00:20:39,881 He did a lot of telling the woman 409 00:20:39,905 --> 00:20:42,134 that he was treating as his assistant, 410 00:20:42,158 --> 00:20:44,970 kind of like if we would say something, he'd tell, you know, 411 00:20:44,994 --> 00:20:47,681 he'd say something to her, like, "Look into that." 412 00:20:47,705 --> 00:20:49,015 They just let us talk. 413 00:20:49,039 --> 00:20:50,600 It's not going to change anything. 414 00:20:50,624 --> 00:20:53,353 And it didn't. 415 00:20:53,377 --> 00:20:55,147 -So when I told him you all happened 416 00:20:55,171 --> 00:20:56,606 right out my bedroom window, 417 00:20:56,630 --> 00:20:59,025 that's when I started documenting on Facebook. 418 00:20:59,049 --> 00:21:00,944 And he goes, "Well, I've seen your page. 419 00:21:00,968 --> 00:21:03,363 And it's nice because I like it. 420 00:21:03,387 --> 00:21:07,117 And I was flattered. 421 00:21:07,141 --> 00:21:11,246 He got very quiet and he just barely leaned over 422 00:21:11,270 --> 00:21:16,877 towards me and said, "You don't want to live there." 423 00:21:16,901 --> 00:21:21,798 And... that's when the light bulb went off in my head. 424 00:21:21,822 --> 00:21:24,950 It wasn't a question of if, it was a question of when. 425 00:21:29,622 --> 00:21:36,104 {\an8}They're getting ready to extend the boundaries 426 00:21:36,128 --> 00:21:42,319 {\an8}across the field here to the new acquired properties. 427 00:21:42,343 --> 00:21:46,198 {\an8}This is going to be a parking lot, I think. 428 00:21:46,222 --> 00:21:48,325 {\an8}That's my guess. 429 00:21:48,349 --> 00:21:53,747 {\an8}There has been tons of freight going down to the launchpad. 430 00:21:53,771 --> 00:21:56,750 {\an8}There's been freight all night long on the road, 431 00:21:56,774 --> 00:22:02,631 {\an8}and there's been a pile-driving over here. 432 00:22:02,655 --> 00:22:04,865 {\an8}Very noisy this morning. 433 00:22:06,742 --> 00:22:10,263 {\an8}Well, they're moving into the neighborhood, 434 00:22:10,287 --> 00:22:11,765 {\an8}They bought the village homes, 435 00:22:11,789 --> 00:22:14,542 {\an8}except for about five of them, the last I heard. 436 00:22:19,838 --> 00:22:23,527 {\an8}So they're coming over to the next lot... 437 00:22:23,551 --> 00:22:26,071 {\an8}and those... only one lot left 438 00:22:26,095 --> 00:22:31,409 {\an8}between this property and SpaceX's, so... 439 00:22:31,433 --> 00:22:33,578 {\an8}out my bedroom window, 440 00:22:33,602 --> 00:22:37,123 {\an8}literally came almost to the window 441 00:22:37,147 --> 00:22:38,750 {\an8}before we got moved out. 442 00:22:38,774 --> 00:22:42,462 {\an8}So we lasted longer than I thought we would. 443 00:22:42,486 --> 00:22:43,713 {\an8}Even though I'm moving, 444 00:22:43,737 --> 00:22:46,383 {\an8}I still take care of my garden. 445 00:22:46,407 --> 00:22:49,928 {\an8}And the wife of the senior engineer 446 00:22:49,952 --> 00:22:53,223 {\an8}that's going to be moving in here, 447 00:22:53,247 --> 00:22:56,101 {\an8}I think wanted this house especially 448 00:22:56,125 --> 00:22:59,354 {\an8}because it had a landscaped, 449 00:22:59,378 --> 00:23:02,590 {\an8}beautification, curbside appeal. 450 00:23:05,593 --> 00:23:08,572 {\an8}They told us we should sell 451 00:23:08,596 --> 00:23:11,992 {\an8}because it's not going to be recognizable in six months, 452 00:23:12,016 --> 00:23:14,869 {\an8}and if you're not out of here soon, 453 00:23:14,893 --> 00:23:16,871 {\an8}you're going to be sorry you're not. 454 00:23:16,895 --> 00:23:19,332 {\an8}So they were right. 455 00:23:19,356 --> 00:23:21,126 {\an8}So I love all you guys. 456 00:23:21,150 --> 00:23:23,670 {\an8}It's been a real, real joy 457 00:23:23,694 --> 00:23:28,967 {\an8}to be neighbors with SpaceX up until now 458 00:23:28,991 --> 00:23:33,638 {\an8}and bringing you [voice breaking] the future. 459 00:23:33,662 --> 00:23:35,789 {\an8}It's been a real joy. 460 00:23:38,250 --> 00:23:45,191 {\an8}♪♪ 461 00:23:45,215 --> 00:23:47,027 -And it was abundantly clear 462 00:23:47,051 --> 00:23:50,196 that, you know, we weren't part of this at all. 463 00:23:50,220 --> 00:23:52,782 I mean, it was kind of like the old Western movies... 464 00:23:52,806 --> 00:23:55,577 {\an1}you know, what is it when, like, the Indians surround the Cowboys 465 00:23:55,601 --> 00:23:57,203 {\an8}or I don't know which way it goes, 466 00:23:57,227 --> 00:23:59,956 {\an8}but that's that's the way it felt. 467 00:23:59,980 --> 00:24:04,336 {\an8}♪♪ 468 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:07,839 From the get-go, it's been kind of... 469 00:24:07,863 --> 00:24:11,551 not... you know, like they don't need to tell us anything. 470 00:24:11,575 --> 00:24:14,012 You know, they establish relationships with the people 471 00:24:14,036 --> 00:24:17,474 that they needed to have in their corner. 472 00:24:17,498 --> 00:24:19,643 And, you know, 473 00:24:19,667 --> 00:24:22,062 we were just something to sort of be dealt with 474 00:24:22,086 --> 00:24:23,647 as far as I'm concerned. 475 00:24:23,671 --> 00:24:26,298 Almost like a bug you'd just shoe off somebody's arm. 476 00:24:27,383 --> 00:24:29,319 -I don't believe that Cameron County 477 00:24:29,343 --> 00:24:31,988 reached out to these folks. 478 00:24:32,012 --> 00:24:35,659 I don't know if anyone ever anticipated that SpaceX 479 00:24:35,683 --> 00:24:39,162 was going to want to acquire them. 480 00:24:39,186 --> 00:24:42,791 That was never a discussion, to my knowledge. 481 00:24:42,815 --> 00:24:46,336 So obviously, they... they weren't happy about it. 482 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:51,675 Their Shangri-La was was being basically ruptured. 483 00:24:51,699 --> 00:24:54,344 But I think Spock said, "Watch that 484 00:24:54,368 --> 00:24:56,846 the good of the many is better 485 00:24:56,870 --> 00:25:00,392 than the good of the few," or something like that. 486 00:25:00,416 --> 00:25:04,938 -The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. 487 00:25:04,962 --> 00:25:07,023 {\an8}♪♪ 488 00:25:07,047 --> 00:25:11,069 I wish we could have made it better for them. 489 00:25:11,093 --> 00:25:14,322 But just like you couldn't stand in the way 490 00:25:14,346 --> 00:25:18,618 of train tracks coming into the West... 491 00:25:18,642 --> 00:25:21,061 you can't stop these things either. 492 00:25:27,818 --> 00:25:32,156 [ Machinery, engines whirring ] 493 00:25:35,492 --> 00:25:37,220 -This is the new home. 494 00:25:37,244 --> 00:25:41,707 This is SpaceX still in my backyard. 495 00:25:43,584 --> 00:25:48,398 That's the production complex and the launch pad 496 00:25:48,422 --> 00:25:50,090 still in the haze. 497 00:25:53,010 --> 00:25:56,138 Just couldn't move too far away yet, you know. 498 00:26:00,267 --> 00:26:01,977 Okay, let's roll. 499 00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:09,753 Some people like to run these stop signs, 500 00:26:09,777 --> 00:26:12,213 but I kind of like them. 501 00:26:12,237 --> 00:26:15,759 Gives me a chance to say hi to everybody. 502 00:26:15,783 --> 00:26:17,761 Never lived in civilization before. 503 00:26:17,785 --> 00:26:21,431 I've always been a wilderness girl. 504 00:26:21,455 --> 00:26:24,267 Well, there's a road closure today, 505 00:26:24,291 --> 00:26:26,269 tomorrow and Wednesday, 506 00:26:26,293 --> 00:26:31,733 and I'm heading out to SpaceX's compound 507 00:26:31,757 --> 00:26:34,194 to film for my Facebook page. 508 00:26:34,218 --> 00:26:36,362 I come out here about three times a week. 509 00:26:36,386 --> 00:26:39,306 I like to get out before the road closure. 510 00:26:43,185 --> 00:26:45,187 Yes, we're in! 511 00:26:46,230 --> 00:26:50,150 This is the checkpoint and it's opened. 512 00:27:08,001 --> 00:27:12,065 I cooperated in the sale of my property, 513 00:27:12,089 --> 00:27:15,151 so they gave us benefits, perks. 514 00:27:15,175 --> 00:27:17,153 They call us influencers. 515 00:27:17,177 --> 00:27:19,531 What Elon said he wanted me to do 516 00:27:19,555 --> 00:27:22,575 was to do what I have always done, 517 00:27:22,599 --> 00:27:24,452 but just do it from the street. 518 00:27:24,476 --> 00:27:29,207 So I said, you know, that's not a bad deal. 519 00:27:29,231 --> 00:27:30,941 Not a bad deal. 520 00:27:45,247 --> 00:27:49,102 This place used to be pristine. 521 00:27:49,126 --> 00:27:52,129 It was very quiet back here just yesterday. 522 00:27:56,383 --> 00:27:57,986 Oh. 523 00:27:58,010 --> 00:27:59,988 One minute. 524 00:28:00,012 --> 00:28:03,056 [ Construction equipment rumbling ] 525 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,753 I'm just going to film the expansion 526 00:28:15,777 --> 00:28:19,173 and make sure it gets respected. 527 00:28:19,197 --> 00:28:20,925 I'll put it in my video. Okay. 528 00:28:20,949 --> 00:28:22,760 - Thank you. - Thanks. 529 00:28:22,784 --> 00:28:25,638 You got any suggestions where I can go to the bathroom now? 530 00:28:25,662 --> 00:28:27,891 - I don't know. - I don't either. 531 00:28:27,915 --> 00:28:30,560 [ Laughs ] Thanks. 532 00:28:30,584 --> 00:28:33,420 Yeah, we got to stay on the county side. 533 00:28:40,093 --> 00:28:44,741 {\an8}♪♪ 534 00:28:44,765 --> 00:28:50,121 {\an8}♪♪ 535 00:28:50,145 --> 00:28:53,291 -Just got back down here yesterday, 536 00:28:53,315 --> 00:28:55,501 and the first thing I noticed is, like, you can tell, 537 00:28:55,525 --> 00:28:59,505 they've been using the side of our house for a driveway. 538 00:28:59,529 --> 00:29:02,842 When I first seen it, it was just like, what the heck? 539 00:29:02,866 --> 00:29:07,013 I parked my jeep in the way so they couldn't go that way. 540 00:29:07,037 --> 00:29:08,306 It's very frustrating. 541 00:29:08,330 --> 00:29:10,266 But they just, like, while we're gone. 542 00:29:10,290 --> 00:29:12,393 It's like you never know what you're going to see 543 00:29:12,417 --> 00:29:15,146 when you come back down. 544 00:29:15,170 --> 00:29:20,526 This time it was the trees, and they just disappeared. 545 00:29:20,550 --> 00:29:22,904 And like, so this is our view now. 546 00:29:22,928 --> 00:29:25,782 {\an8}♪♪ 547 00:29:25,806 --> 00:29:29,118 This is not acceptable. 548 00:29:29,142 --> 00:29:31,454 I mean, the yard was never glorious before that, 549 00:29:31,478 --> 00:29:34,189 but now it's like... demolished. 550 00:29:35,482 --> 00:29:38,461 But they can cut all the trees down they want. 551 00:29:38,485 --> 00:29:40,213 We'll still be here. 552 00:29:40,237 --> 00:29:43,216 -Sometimes our neighbors are our best friends 553 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:48,805 and sometimes our neighbors are a big pain 554 00:29:48,829 --> 00:29:50,473 that we have to live with. 555 00:29:50,497 --> 00:29:53,351 And SpaceX comes with, 556 00:29:53,375 --> 00:29:56,437 you know, its blessings and curses for them. 557 00:29:56,461 --> 00:29:58,481 I would sure encourage these people 558 00:29:58,505 --> 00:30:01,401 because I think they're good people to... 559 00:30:01,425 --> 00:30:06,179 to truly consider, "Is this worth it?" 560 00:30:07,848 --> 00:30:12,370 -Back in December, my rental house was broken in 561 00:30:12,394 --> 00:30:16,708 by one of SpaceX's employees, one or two. 562 00:30:16,732 --> 00:30:19,794 I went over there and somebody had broken into the house 563 00:30:19,818 --> 00:30:23,423 and broken the door locks and broken the window. 564 00:30:23,447 --> 00:30:25,091 Threw a brick in. 565 00:30:25,115 --> 00:30:28,261 The brick was still there and the glass was still there 566 00:30:28,285 --> 00:30:30,054 and they were living there. 567 00:30:30,078 --> 00:30:33,599 They had it set up. So I guess the owner came in. 568 00:30:33,623 --> 00:30:35,852 They would climb on a stool, then on a dresser 569 00:30:35,876 --> 00:30:38,604 and then up into the attic and hide. 570 00:30:38,628 --> 00:30:40,857 So I called the sheriff's department. 571 00:30:40,881 --> 00:30:42,358 It took me about five months, 572 00:30:42,382 --> 00:30:45,594 but SpaceX did end up paying for the damage. 573 00:30:48,221 --> 00:30:51,534 The employees have been really kind of weird. 574 00:30:51,558 --> 00:30:54,871 Even if you try and be friendly, wave to them, 575 00:30:54,895 --> 00:30:56,330 they don't wave back. 576 00:30:56,354 --> 00:30:58,332 They made me feel like I was an intruder. 577 00:30:58,356 --> 00:31:00,650 And actually, they're the intruders. 578 00:31:02,819 --> 00:31:06,799 {\an8}♪♪ 579 00:31:06,823 --> 00:31:11,387 {\an8}♪♪ 580 00:31:11,411 --> 00:31:15,016 -So this is an alert we would get from SpaceX 581 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:16,601 that the sheriff would deliver 582 00:31:16,625 --> 00:31:20,021 regarding an upcoming testing event, 583 00:31:20,045 --> 00:31:22,148 and it just says, "Alert, potential risk 584 00:31:22,172 --> 00:31:24,734 to health and safety. Action required. 585 00:31:24,758 --> 00:31:28,196 To residents or occupants of Boca Chica Village, 586 00:31:28,220 --> 00:31:31,199 SpaceX will conduct spaceflight activities. 587 00:31:31,223 --> 00:31:32,742 There is a risk that a malfunction 588 00:31:32,766 --> 00:31:35,745 of the SpaceX vehicle during these activities 589 00:31:35,769 --> 00:31:38,915 will create an overpressure event that can break windows. 590 00:31:38,939 --> 00:31:42,418 At a minimum, you must exit your home or structure to avoid 591 00:31:42,442 --> 00:31:45,630 or minimize the risk of injury." 592 00:31:45,654 --> 00:31:47,590 It started May 3rd. 593 00:31:47,614 --> 00:31:49,509 So May 3rd, May 4th, 594 00:31:49,533 --> 00:31:51,302 I guess through the 6th. 595 00:31:51,326 --> 00:31:54,472 And it was like 12, 14, 15, 596 00:31:54,496 --> 00:31:59,894 16, 17, 18, 19... 597 00:31:59,918 --> 00:32:03,064 You know, and sometimes it would be 12 hours at a time. 598 00:32:03,088 --> 00:32:06,025 It was 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. And when they started that, 599 00:32:06,049 --> 00:32:07,318 they came and knocked on the door 600 00:32:07,342 --> 00:32:10,530 at 6:00 a.m. to deliver this. 601 00:32:10,554 --> 00:32:12,949 I don't think they just decided at 5:30 in the morning 602 00:32:12,973 --> 00:32:14,325 that they were going to do this. 603 00:32:14,349 --> 00:32:16,619 They certainly could have told us before. 604 00:32:16,643 --> 00:32:18,955 The way they handled all this 605 00:32:18,979 --> 00:32:21,874 was like harass the people that are here 606 00:32:21,898 --> 00:32:23,334 so they won't want to be here. 607 00:32:23,358 --> 00:32:26,153 I mean, so, you know, it's all by design. 608 00:32:32,367 --> 00:32:35,179 -I have one of my bedrooms boarded up 609 00:32:35,203 --> 00:32:37,515 because, you know, they blow in every test. 610 00:32:37,539 --> 00:32:39,892 Every rocket they test, they've blown it up. 611 00:32:39,916 --> 00:32:44,480 {\an8}♪♪ 612 00:32:44,504 --> 00:32:47,984 The explosion was so loud 613 00:32:48,008 --> 00:32:51,195 that all the windows rattled, of course. 614 00:32:51,219 --> 00:32:55,199 The explosion before that broke my kitchen window. 615 00:32:55,223 --> 00:32:59,829 {\an8}♪♪ 616 00:32:59,853 --> 00:33:05,126 {\an8}♪♪ 617 00:33:05,150 --> 00:33:06,669 This last one left me kind of deaf 618 00:33:06,693 --> 00:33:09,589 for about a half-hour, 45 minutes. 619 00:33:09,613 --> 00:33:13,676 {\an8}♪♪ 620 00:33:13,700 --> 00:33:17,805 {\an8}♪♪ 621 00:33:17,829 --> 00:33:21,225 I call that my bunker because that's where I go 622 00:33:21,249 --> 00:33:23,603 when they're going to do the testing. 623 00:33:23,627 --> 00:33:26,063 {\an8}♪♪ 624 00:33:26,087 --> 00:33:31,694 I went from my nice peaceful vacation home to a war zone. 625 00:33:31,718 --> 00:33:34,763 {\an8}♪♪ 626 00:33:47,734 --> 00:33:52,298 -SpaceX has turned out to be a larger threat 627 00:33:52,322 --> 00:33:55,468 than... than we we first realized. 628 00:33:55,492 --> 00:33:58,888 There have been multiple explosions, at least two fires. 629 00:33:58,912 --> 00:34:03,059 There was an explosion that then caused over 100-acre brushfire 630 00:34:03,083 --> 00:34:06,896 on wildlife refuge land. 631 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,899 What SpaceX is doing now is very different 632 00:34:09,923 --> 00:34:14,237 than what they said they would do back in 2013-14. 633 00:34:14,261 --> 00:34:18,324 Starship is going to be the largest rocket 634 00:34:18,348 --> 00:34:19,992 ever made in the United States, 635 00:34:20,016 --> 00:34:24,038 and that's being developed and tested here. 636 00:34:24,062 --> 00:34:27,333 That's a much different thing 637 00:34:27,357 --> 00:34:30,253 than having a launch every one or two months. 638 00:34:30,277 --> 00:34:34,090 Their appetite for taking over more and more of this area 639 00:34:34,114 --> 00:34:36,300 just seems kind of unstoppable. 640 00:34:36,324 --> 00:34:41,931 {\an8}♪♪ 641 00:34:41,955 --> 00:34:47,520 {\an8}♪♪ 642 00:34:47,544 --> 00:34:53,943 {\an8}♪♪ 643 00:34:53,967 --> 00:34:59,198 -I read what people write to me from all over the world. 644 00:34:59,222 --> 00:35:01,951 And it makes you cry. 645 00:35:01,975 --> 00:35:06,872 The hope that they see... Another building going up. 646 00:35:06,896 --> 00:35:09,667 And the dreams that they have... 647 00:35:09,691 --> 00:35:11,318 That's our old house. 648 00:35:15,488 --> 00:35:19,468 Yeah, so totally consumed. 649 00:35:19,492 --> 00:35:23,848 {\an8}♪♪ 650 00:35:23,872 --> 00:35:28,811 {\an8}♪♪ 651 00:35:28,835 --> 00:35:30,604 This is our old house. 652 00:35:30,628 --> 00:35:33,024 If it looked like my old house, 653 00:35:33,048 --> 00:35:34,734 I'd probably feel pretty bad. 654 00:35:34,758 --> 00:35:39,488 But now that it's been converted into an industrial zone, 655 00:35:39,512 --> 00:35:42,533 it doesn't have much of an appeal. 656 00:35:42,557 --> 00:35:45,036 So you're looking right at the front door, 657 00:35:45,060 --> 00:35:49,206 the house was all tiled floor throughout 658 00:35:49,230 --> 00:35:52,501 with a big great room and for the small square footage, 659 00:35:52,525 --> 00:35:54,378 it felt like a very big house. 660 00:35:54,402 --> 00:35:57,673 You can, you know, just go down to the beach 661 00:35:57,697 --> 00:36:00,051 and have a party with people you didn't even know. 662 00:36:00,075 --> 00:36:01,677 [ Laughs ] It was easy. 663 00:36:01,701 --> 00:36:03,679 That house was rocking. [ Laughs ] 664 00:36:03,703 --> 00:36:06,414 That was just a rocking house. 665 00:36:10,585 --> 00:36:13,230 We howled with the coyotes. 666 00:36:13,254 --> 00:36:14,815 It's corporate America. 667 00:36:14,839 --> 00:36:17,234 It's going to come to your front door soon, too. 668 00:36:17,258 --> 00:36:19,260 It's not just us. 669 00:36:21,554 --> 00:36:24,492 The people that sold to SpaceX that aren't the holdouts, 670 00:36:24,516 --> 00:36:27,828 we walk around with chump change in our pocket. 671 00:36:27,852 --> 00:36:30,790 I'm one of the chump changers, and that's what you got to do 672 00:36:30,814 --> 00:36:34,293 when corporate America takes over your front yard. 673 00:36:34,317 --> 00:36:39,406 And in our case, our backyard and our side yard and our house. 674 00:36:42,575 --> 00:36:45,596 So if you want to do something and it's not on the up-and-up, 675 00:36:45,620 --> 00:36:48,790 come to Texas, you can get her done. 676 00:36:51,251 --> 00:36:55,231 -Did you guys hear anything yet? 677 00:36:55,255 --> 00:36:58,633 Did you hear any change in access? 678 00:37:03,596 --> 00:37:08,744 Did you see my letter that gives me exclusive to have access 679 00:37:08,768 --> 00:37:11,372 to all special events and closures? 680 00:37:11,396 --> 00:37:15,709 -I was told today by SpaceX, okay... 681 00:37:15,733 --> 00:37:18,671 -That's Alma. Alma is local. 682 00:37:18,695 --> 00:37:22,216 I'm dealing with Hawthorne, California. 683 00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:24,343 And this was a negotiated... 684 00:37:24,367 --> 00:37:26,345 -Let me go out there and make... SpaceX, 685 00:37:26,369 --> 00:37:28,264 and I'll come back and let you know, okay? 686 00:37:28,288 --> 00:37:30,683 -And I printed out to Elon to help me. 687 00:37:30,707 --> 00:37:33,102 He's got my phone number also. - Okay. 688 00:37:33,126 --> 00:37:36,480 -But they said he's off of Twitter right now. 689 00:37:36,504 --> 00:37:39,466 - Let me go out there and check. - Okay. Thanks. 690 00:37:43,887 --> 00:37:45,573 When I sold my property, 691 00:37:45,597 --> 00:37:48,200 I didn't want any interruption to what I was doing. 692 00:37:48,224 --> 00:37:51,871 One of the main things that I wanted to make sure of 693 00:37:51,895 --> 00:37:57,960 {\an1}is that the access to being able to film, like Boca Chica Maria. 694 00:37:57,984 --> 00:38:01,297 I wanted that to continue even during the road closures. 695 00:38:01,321 --> 00:38:03,632 And they assured me that there would be no interruption 696 00:38:03,656 --> 00:38:06,927 to what I ever did before. 697 00:38:06,951 --> 00:38:10,848 I'm supposed to continue doing what I do 698 00:38:10,872 --> 00:38:17,229 because I cooperated fully with the sale of my property. 699 00:38:17,253 --> 00:38:22,091 So that cooperation has definitely not paid off today. 700 00:38:29,849 --> 00:38:32,077 -We were under a lot of pressure. 701 00:38:32,101 --> 00:38:34,747 It was like basically, "Take this or else." 702 00:38:34,771 --> 00:38:37,166 And then you're going, "What's the 'or else'?" 703 00:38:37,190 --> 00:38:41,086 It was definitely a threat. 704 00:38:41,110 --> 00:38:43,130 I sold the house, 705 00:38:43,154 --> 00:38:47,176 and then immediately regretted it. 706 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,678 Holidays hit and sometime after the holidays, 707 00:38:49,702 --> 00:38:52,097 I was looking for an attorney. 708 00:38:52,121 --> 00:38:55,935 We talked about what it takes to unwind a sale in Texas. 709 00:38:55,959 --> 00:38:58,229 And, you know, there's... There's three elements. 710 00:38:58,253 --> 00:38:59,647 And I had two of them. 711 00:38:59,671 --> 00:39:02,691 One was under duress and fraudulently induced 712 00:39:02,715 --> 00:39:04,902 because they were telling us from way back 713 00:39:04,926 --> 00:39:07,363 that it wasn't safe for us to be here. 714 00:39:07,387 --> 00:39:10,616 And they made it seem as if they were going to just, 715 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:11,992 you know, bulldoze the houses 716 00:39:12,016 --> 00:39:13,869 and no one was going to live here. 717 00:39:13,893 --> 00:39:15,579 Some of the houses that sold 718 00:39:15,603 --> 00:39:17,915 have SpaceX employees living in them, 719 00:39:17,939 --> 00:39:19,833 and we'll see them jog up and down the street. 720 00:39:19,857 --> 00:39:22,044 And I've seen a couple of people with a dog 721 00:39:22,068 --> 00:39:25,881 and, you know, they're just, you know, living here. 722 00:39:25,905 --> 00:39:28,717 If I have to give up everything and they get to ruin 723 00:39:28,741 --> 00:39:32,638 this amazing area, it's like, you know... 724 00:39:32,662 --> 00:39:35,099 I'd actually like to go to court with them. 725 00:39:35,123 --> 00:39:39,562 I would like SpaceX to have to answer to someone 726 00:39:39,586 --> 00:39:41,462 for what they've done. 727 00:39:49,762 --> 00:39:52,491 {\an8}This is this is Georgie. 728 00:39:52,515 --> 00:39:54,410 {\an8}This is Georgie. 729 00:39:54,434 --> 00:39:56,120 {\an8}I know. 730 00:39:56,144 --> 00:39:59,772 {\an8}I just thought I'd stop by and see how you're doing. 731 00:40:03,359 --> 00:40:06,463 {\an8}That I don't go? Well, we'll see. 732 00:40:06,487 --> 00:40:08,716 {\an8}That's kind of been depressing me, actually, 733 00:40:08,740 --> 00:40:10,676 {\an8}because it's like, you know, 734 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:16,181 {\an8}how do you replace this, you know? So... 735 00:40:16,205 --> 00:40:18,183 She's my best friend. 736 00:40:18,207 --> 00:40:19,935 She's fighting back 737 00:40:19,959 --> 00:40:24,148 because everybody here sold under duress. 738 00:40:24,172 --> 00:40:28,485 The way they made their offers and bullied us 739 00:40:28,509 --> 00:40:33,282 and made me feel like I had a gun pointed at my head. 740 00:40:33,306 --> 00:40:34,867 This is America. 741 00:40:34,891 --> 00:40:37,828 And in America, we don't do business like that. 742 00:40:37,852 --> 00:40:41,290 I says, "In America, when a house goes up for sale, 743 00:40:41,314 --> 00:40:45,544 the buyer and the seller both walk away happy 744 00:40:45,568 --> 00:40:48,005 or there is no transaction made." 745 00:40:48,029 --> 00:40:51,759 And that's why I have resisted selling to SpaceX, 746 00:40:51,783 --> 00:40:54,678 even though they threatened with eminent domain. 747 00:40:54,702 --> 00:40:57,056 I still refused. My question is, 748 00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:58,932 why should I give up my dream 749 00:40:58,956 --> 00:41:01,268 for Elon to accomplish his dream? 750 00:41:01,292 --> 00:41:06,482 It is no longer the Boca Chica Village 751 00:41:06,506 --> 00:41:09,985 Boca Chica Beach that we always knew, 752 00:41:10,009 --> 00:41:12,821 but I still love it and I still intend to stay here, 753 00:41:12,845 --> 00:41:15,765 unless they kick me out forcefully. 754 00:41:22,188 --> 00:41:25,793 -Elon Musk is the seventh wealthiest person 755 00:41:25,817 --> 00:41:27,461 in the world now. 756 00:41:27,485 --> 00:41:31,674 If he wants to offer them $5 million for, you know... 757 00:41:31,698 --> 00:41:34,093 At some point someone is going to take the money. 758 00:41:34,117 --> 00:41:37,012 I just don't think that they realize 759 00:41:37,036 --> 00:41:39,973 the commitment that some of these people 760 00:41:39,997 --> 00:41:45,854 that have lived there for decades have, in my opinion. 761 00:41:45,878 --> 00:41:47,773 -I know there's like, people look at it and say, 762 00:41:47,797 --> 00:41:49,650 "Oh, it's like a little cardboard box. 763 00:41:49,674 --> 00:41:51,860 Why would they just not get rid of it?" 764 00:41:51,884 --> 00:41:54,446 You know, but somebody who worked all their life 765 00:41:54,470 --> 00:41:56,281 and saved up for it, you know, 766 00:41:56,305 --> 00:42:00,619 and then they just want... Somebody scoops in and says, 767 00:42:00,643 --> 00:42:02,895 "I want you guys all to leave," you know? 768 00:42:04,731 --> 00:42:07,793 I mean, he knew we were here, 769 00:42:07,817 --> 00:42:11,797 and I don't know if he, Mr. Musk, 770 00:42:11,821 --> 00:42:14,717 just thought that we wouldn't care, you know, 771 00:42:14,741 --> 00:42:17,052 like we would be easy to get rid of. 772 00:42:17,076 --> 00:42:19,680 I kind of just think he thinks money can buy everything, 773 00:42:19,704 --> 00:42:22,933 and we should be glad we were getting the three times 774 00:42:22,957 --> 00:42:26,687 and we should just go, but... 775 00:42:26,711 --> 00:42:31,692 no, money can't buy everything, so... 776 00:42:31,716 --> 00:42:32,943 here we are. 777 00:42:32,967 --> 00:42:38,198 -Four, three, two, one. 778 00:42:38,222 --> 00:42:39,742 -There it goes, there it goes. 779 00:42:39,766 --> 00:42:41,410 It's going, it's going. It's going. 780 00:42:41,434 --> 00:42:44,371 -A major test for the hopper rocket in Boca Chica 781 00:42:44,395 --> 00:42:46,540 was a huge success. 782 00:42:46,564 --> 00:42:49,626 -It's just phenomenal, and it's just the beginning. 783 00:42:49,650 --> 00:42:54,590 -Elon Musk's SpaceX won a multibillion-dollar contract 784 00:42:54,614 --> 00:42:55,841 with the Department of Defense. 785 00:42:55,865 --> 00:42:59,887 -The SN5 now up in the air. 786 00:42:59,911 --> 00:43:03,015 -It's part of an economic necessity for our area. 787 00:43:03,039 --> 00:43:08,854 It's part of the future of mankind and of humanity. 788 00:43:08,878 --> 00:43:12,274 We can't stop it for a few people. 789 00:43:12,298 --> 00:43:15,903 We have to... have to look... Look to space 790 00:43:15,927 --> 00:43:18,155 for the future of humanity. 791 00:43:18,179 --> 00:43:23,368 {\an8}♪♪ 792 00:43:23,392 --> 00:43:28,540 {\an8}♪♪ 793 00:43:28,564 --> 00:43:33,754 {\an8}♪♪ 794 00:43:33,778 --> 00:43:38,967 {\an8}♪♪ 795 00:43:38,991 --> 00:43:44,890 {\an8}♪♪ 796 00:43:44,914 --> 00:43:47,392 -I have no interest in going to Mars. 797 00:43:47,416 --> 00:43:50,646 It's not even safe to go to Mars. 798 00:43:50,670 --> 00:43:52,105 Apparently if people go to Mars, 799 00:43:52,129 --> 00:43:54,399 they probably won't make it back okay. 800 00:43:54,423 --> 00:43:56,151 I mean, they may not make it back alive 801 00:43:56,175 --> 00:43:58,237 and they probably won't be okay if they come back. 802 00:43:58,261 --> 00:44:01,114 So if they want to just go live on Mars, that's fine. 803 00:44:01,138 --> 00:44:03,432 I hope Elon's the first one to go.