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This is Darren bond.

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The fearless leader
of our story.

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A very adventurous character.

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Referred to around
these parts as "boombah".

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Marlon Perkins was this guy
that does these wildlife shows

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back in the 70s and 803
and whatever I grew up with.

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White-haired,
elegant-looking guy, anyway...

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He was always standing
from a distance,

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and he had
his trusted companion,

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who was this
big barrel-chested guy.

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He was down there, like,
wrestling with a grizzly

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while Marlon Perkins
was way up somewhere,

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"oh, and look at him!

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He's wrestling
with the grizzly bear!"

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That's what it feels like
with you guys.

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I'm wrestling the grizzly
by jumping off of this

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while you guys
safely stand in the tower.

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Darren is often
pegged as a workaholic...

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Who made a living
from building Bridges.

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You want it,
I hook this big one...

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Does this feel about right?

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Hey! Did you pay the insurance?

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Hey, first time I was up here,

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took me 15 minutes
and I would refuse to jump.

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Look out!

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There we go.

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It doesn't look like much
when you're down here.

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My impression of Darren bond
is something, uh...

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That's really hard
to describe with words, um...

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Darren was actually
kind of a... a nerdy kid.

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What it is... is the alien
takes over this guy's body,

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but he's conscious and is still
in his... in his head, right?

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But he's trapped.

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So he's got this,
it's like this room

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with all these... this stuff,

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and it's all his baggage,
and all of his,

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you know, everything
he's done and everything.

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And that's what it feels like
when you come in the bunker,

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kind of like it's my brain.

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He was born an okie

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and he still resides
in Oklahoma.

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Surrounded by cattle, forests,

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fields and a fully
nuclear bunker

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with a hidden library
surrounded by an art gallery

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attached to a mid-century
Italian chapel.

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It's Darren's sanctuary.

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For philosophy, art...

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And life.

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I guess to understand Mr. Bond
just a little bit better,

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I'll need to show you
the hidden world

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of the esoteric bunker.

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[Lively music playing

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Hey, I'm not
a professional, you know.

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I live in the middle of nowhere.

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This crazy bunker
that Darren has,

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that the walls
are lined with books,

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and it's dark

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but it's so unique and so cool.

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The bunker blew my mind.
I was like, it was insane.

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The top side, you know,

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in the regular building,
there's like,

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this church that's in there too,

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where I guess
people get married.

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So much stuff
that's artwork in there,

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it's like,
a lot to absorb, right?

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Like, every time
you're in there,

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you see something new
that you didn't see before.

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Basically, it's got Satan

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chained down in the middle,
for the chains,

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and then in the middle

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the quo represents the serpent.

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Each room is like
its own unique thing.

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It's the idea
that we live a physical life

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in a material world.

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If the rain comes,
it makes a mud hole,

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and we have to fight through it,

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so we have all these things
that we're dealing with

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in the world
that the physical world...

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But yet what do we
really aspire to?

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What are the things
that really move us?

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And the things
that move us are...

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Is kind of represented
by the term esoteric,

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which, it could be anything.

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It could be an idea,
it could be a religion,

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it could be a...
A narrative of your history,

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or whatever,
or it could be art or music.

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For this music festival,

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that was the esoteric part,

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to enjoy this music
together as a community.

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None of us
are getting out of this alive.

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So it's how we live
that makes a difference.

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You gotta take
the good with the bad,

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and turn what looks bad
into something good.

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The meaning of the bunker part

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is the idea
that we pull into ourselves.

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I mean, this is
a physical representation.

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If you think you could
be saved by being in a bunker,

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you're completely wrong.

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Being in the bunker
might make you last

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a couple extra weeks,

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but it's not going to save you,

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and you can't be saved
by being in a bunker anywhere.

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That's probably the realization
when it comes to...

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I believe in being prepared
for anything,

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but you're not gonna
save yourself inside

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if you don't have friends
communing around you,

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that's what we're creating.

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Community is
so the bunker mentality

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is something
that we all embrace at times,

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it's my tribe
against your tribe,

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my country against your country.

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And the...
That's part of our ego.

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Our ego is there for a reason.

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It allows us to survive,

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but we have to let go of it

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and realize
that we're all the same.

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We're all connected,
we are all one.

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And if you realize that,

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and even apply a little bit
of that thinking to your life,

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hopefully it will
help you help us all.

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Darren does
some really cool stuff.

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His mind never shuts off.
I don't see how the guy sleeps.

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Hey, you want
some razzle-dazzle?

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How's that?

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Darren's got a mind of his own.

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He's got some sort of
creativity bug in him

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that I can't even
put my finger on.

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He had started thinking about

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having a music
festival out here.

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It is a form of art,

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and it's the one
that probably permeates

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our daily life
more than anything.

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Darren came to me
about three years ago,

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I'd say,
wanting to do this thing.

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He had an idea for a festival
on his property.

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A co-worker asked me
if I wanted to come out

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to this guy's property,
about an hour,

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hour and a half away
from downtown Oklahoma city,

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to see if I thought,
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it was something
that we could pull off...

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Within six to seven months.

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A guy by the name
of mikael called me

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and he said "I'm planning
to do a festival.

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Do you have time to go look
at the property next week?"

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It's located
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a town called Asher.

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Just south ofasher, actually.

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We get out there,

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it's this beautiful
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Down his driveway,
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and I'm like "oh my god,
I'm in the middle of nowhere."

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It's just massive.

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I hear about all these buildings

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and all these things
that this guy's built.

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Honestly, I didn't believe him.

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His brain thinks so much

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and he has all this stuff
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and you're like,
"what is all this stuff for?",

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and then you'll stumble
upon 50 safes

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that he's made, like,
artwork out of,

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and you're like
"man, this dude is great."

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It's a really cool bar.

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I can definitely
picture myself sitting in there

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and drinking
a good old-fashioned

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or some bourbon in there,
you know?

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My mind was blown.

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Getting the lay of the land,

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going a mile
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going a mile to the highway

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that's just west
of where we're at.

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And I... I still haven't seen
all the... the whole property.

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It's just,
every time you turn a corner,

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there's something
that you've never seen before.

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This is a Jewel that I bought,

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that put in
our little Halloween...

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Haunted forest or whatever.

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It's not gonna be, uh,

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it's gonna be right over there.

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It's just a little area
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to run around
and, uh, chase people.

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Kind of reminds me the...

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That truck on...

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Uh, jeepers creepers,
that movie?

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Where that guy,
that strange creature

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has that truck that he drives
around and nabs everybody.

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We kind of realized early
on that he had something cool.

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You know, we wanted to be
a part, but the, you know,

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the overall vision
wasn't there yet.

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We said go, and then
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the question was, could we do
something quick enough now

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to actually ha...
Make it happen this year,

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was it gonna just need
to flow to next year.

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I think we kind of
wanted to make it

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a little bit smaller at first,
than he was trying to go.

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But we decided to do a 5000-ish
capacity music festival.

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If it's a first time for them
to throw a music festival,

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some of the questions
we... we tend to have is, uh...

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I hope these people know

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what they're getting
themselves into.

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Hoping they understand
the amount of money

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they're about to spend
to do the show.

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We wanted this to be
something unique for Oklahoma,

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something that hasn't
really been here before.

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Different sized stages,

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where we could put stages,
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where they could utilize
some of these giant structures

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that Darren
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Taking an empty field

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and turning it into essentially
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takes a lot.

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He wanted it to be edm.

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Why edm?

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Well, uh,
that's just what we chose.

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I hadn't... it's not like that
was my genre, preferred genre.

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I don't know that much about it.

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I know nothing about edm.

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I had never heard edm music
before in my life until Friday.

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I'd heard that this event
was gonna be edm music,

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and I'd still never heard edm.

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It doesn't matter

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whether you're
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Edm is... those people

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are very hardcore
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and I appreciate that
because I like my music

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and it motivates me
and inspires me

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and does all those things.

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And so I saw that in him too.

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I like these festivals,
because people come here

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because they
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It's loud, it's rad.

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Well, there's a lot of rhythm
and beat to it,

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and if you sit there
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without ever hearing it before,

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you'll find yourself
starting to move.

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When people say
you need to be zigging,

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I'm usually zagging,
so there... there you go.

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Every two weeks,
every three weeks,

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they'd hit me up and say,

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"okay, we've gotten
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can we come chat
about this with you now?

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Like, we want to put a pad
out there in the field

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for the stage line to go on.

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What size pad do we need

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if we want to be doing shows
five years from now."

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And I'm like, "holy cow."

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And, uh, every time
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we gave the guys advice

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and, um, Darren
would roll with it.

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We knew
that we're gonna basically go

252
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from our barns and office here
and go... go to the west,

253
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use that space
of about 20, 30 acres.

254
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And so what did we need to do?

255
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Well, we needed
to change the grass.

256
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We had a kind... type of
grass growing in there

257
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that's built for hay,
it's not built to get a good,

258
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you know, mat of cool grass
underneath your feet.

259
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I gotta run
and get some, uh, tools,

260
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I'll be right back.
I'll let you help me.

261
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He did it all right.

262
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Whatever advice we gave him,

263
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he'd show up two weeks later,
the work was done.

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If there anyone interested,

265
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basically, this is
a John deere excavator,

266
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and I'm, uh, gonna throw
some trees over the fence,

267
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and that'd be an easy cleanup.

268
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We own this, uh,
this is part of our, uh,

269
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work tools
that we use to clear land

270
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and dig the dirt
that we built the roads out of.

271
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I gotta be
a little careful here,

272
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because that pipe you see, uh,

273
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by the excavator is actually
a well... a well head.

274
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That's our new well
that we built, uh,

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to provide a...
Provide some extra water

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for the... for the site.

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Uh, we had to put...
Install the system

278
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so that we could put
in our new grass.

279
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So we got our new grass in
and it's... it's in place

280
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and we've been growing
on it this season.

281
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It looks pretty good,

282
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but it'll be really good
by sometime next year.

283
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This area over
to my left is, um,

284
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backstage of the...
Our main stage,

285
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uh, still needs
to be cleaned up.

286
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You know, once
we kind of finally got

287
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the ball rolling
with the artists,

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everything kind of
took off from there.

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Landing a headliner
like zeds dead and, uh, kayzo,

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and some of the other acts
that we had, you know,

291
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definitely gave us
the momentum to push forward.

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All of our possible,
you know, uh,

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themes or whatever would be
some Halloween orientation,

294
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and then edm fit
that fairly well.

295
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We were talking about, uh,

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where to put
some of the zombie props

297
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for these performing artists.

298
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Yeah. Yeah, and we're...

299
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Okay, so...
So on the zombie stuff,

300
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I want to... I'll get some
meat cleaver-looking things,

301
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and we'll, like, get the bl...

302
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I don't, I know nothing...
To buy me fake blood.

303
00:15:52.493 --> 00:15:54.704
But... oh, I'm sorry...
But, like, uh...

304
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Yeah, you've gotta deal
with the blood.

305
00:16:00.001 --> 00:16:02.170
Oh, okay, so like, you know,
packing all over that.

306
00:16:02.295 --> 00:16:04.189
I'll definitely throw some
blood all over this stuff.

307
00:16:04.213 --> 00:16:05.339
Okay. Cool.

308
00:16:05.465 --> 00:16:06.841
So this is going to be something

309
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like universal studios
fright night,

310
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or whatever they call it,

311
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where they run around with
meat cleavers chasing people?

312
00:16:12.180 --> 00:16:13.723
Umnpmn I'm hoping so.

313
00:16:13.848 --> 00:16:16.517
We started designing
the daybreak setup,

314
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the stage setup, with the...
The masked-out video wall

315
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with the circle truss around it,

316
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the... the fire,
and I would say by... by August,

317
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all the final designs
were submitted,

318
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and we chose
what we were gonna do.

319
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And it was go time.

320
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We just had to wait until
October to execute a show.

321
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Today's October 22nd.

322
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As of four hours ago,

323
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we have less
than 48 hours until doors.

324
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We got rain
within the past 24 hours,

325
00:16:54.764 --> 00:16:55.973
we had a tornado touch down

326
00:16:56.098 --> 00:16:58.476
within two miles
of this location.

327
00:16:58.601 --> 00:17:00.787
So we're kind of still dealing
with a little bit of issues

328
00:17:00.811 --> 00:17:02.522
in regards to some of, uh,

329
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the infrastructure
we have built.

330
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The artists are coming,

331
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and they're going to be here
whether we're ready or not,

332
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so it's kind of like,
what can you prioritize

333
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and get done
in the least amount of time.

334
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You know, there are
a couple of places

335
00:17:20.790 --> 00:17:22.309
where we could add
a little more surface course,

336
00:17:22.333 --> 00:17:24.835
just in case we get
some unexpected weather.

337
00:17:26.128 --> 00:17:28.048
I don't know whether
it was the right thing to do

338
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or the wrong thing to do.

339
00:17:30.007 --> 00:17:31.717
It was gonna be
a huge undertaking,

340
00:17:31.842 --> 00:17:34.345
but with Darren's skillset,

341
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I felt like, and I still
feel like it's something

342
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that we're going
to be able to manage.

343
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Music industry,
when the doors open at four,

344
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the doors open at four.

345
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You can't have, you know,

346
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in this case we'll probably have

347
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at least
3000 people at the gate.

348
00:17:51.487 --> 00:17:52.947
We can't be
not opening the doors,

349
00:17:53.072 --> 00:17:54.574
that's just gonna create issues

350
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and, uh, hopefully we...

351
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I know we can tackle those
issues if they arise,

352
00:17:59.078 --> 00:18:03.833
but I would rather... rather
not have to leap that hurdle.

353
00:18:10.756 --> 00:18:12.466
I... there's
a story about buddy.

354
00:18:13.050 --> 00:18:14.802
I got, uh, a lot of the...

355
00:18:14.927 --> 00:18:16.363
A lot of the stuff that I'm
incorporating in the buildings

356
00:18:16.387 --> 00:18:18.306
came from a particular
junkyard in Ada.

357
00:18:18.431 --> 00:18:20.016
When they sold
the property and left,

358
00:18:20.600 --> 00:18:22.310
left their dogs...
Left three dogs there,

359
00:18:22.435 --> 00:18:24.520
and even after a year,
being abandoned,

360
00:18:24.645 --> 00:18:26.081
buddy was the only one
that survived.

361
00:18:26.105 --> 00:18:28.190
So anyway,
when I got thejunk I, uh...

362
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I took some dog food
and coaxed him

363
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into finally, uh,
getting close to me,

364
00:18:35.072 --> 00:18:36.490
then I got
to know him a little bit,

365
00:18:36.616 --> 00:18:38.218
and about a week later,
I snatched him up,

366
00:18:38.242 --> 00:18:39.886
put him in the pickup
and he came back here

367
00:18:39.910 --> 00:18:42.288
and seems to enjoy it.

368
00:18:42.413 --> 00:18:43.539
We're glad to have him.

369
00:18:44.790 --> 00:18:45.833
Right, buddy? Come here!

370
00:18:46.626 --> 00:18:47.793
Come on!

371
00:18:47.918 --> 00:18:49.962
Are you moving slow today? Huh?

372
00:18:52.506 --> 00:18:53.549
Huh?

373
00:18:56.761 --> 00:18:58.387
Stuff that, uh,
they use at the, uh,

374
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at the music festivals
is three phased.

375
00:19:00.765 --> 00:19:02.224
So we had, uh,

376
00:19:02.350 --> 00:19:04.270
uh, did some kind of...
I don't know what it was,

377
00:19:04.393 --> 00:19:06.204
some kind of convertor
or something to make it work.

378
00:19:06.228 --> 00:19:09.106
Otherwise they were gonna have
to spend 360,000 dollars

379
00:19:09.231 --> 00:19:11.734
to actually bring three bays
all the way to here.

380
00:19:11.859 --> 00:19:13.569
But anyway, we got it going,

381
00:19:13.694 --> 00:19:16.614
so hopefully when we plug it
in here in a couple of days,

382
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it'll all work.

383
00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:19.840
But that's what I know
about electricity.

384
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J“ hey brother, it's time
to put your hands on j“

385
00:19:40.096 --> 00:19:43.599
j“ because we're building
a stage to stand on j“

386
00:19:43.724 --> 00:19:48.104
j“ oh, we 're building
a stage to stand on j“

387
00:19:48.229 --> 00:19:50.731
j“ getting taller and taller j“

388
00:19:51.565 --> 00:19:52.858
Some of the challenges

389
00:19:52.983 --> 00:19:54.443
that we started facing
along the way

390
00:19:54.568 --> 00:19:56.445
was getting this venue
built up from scratch.

391
00:19:56.570 --> 00:19:58.739
80 building the stages
was most priority.

392
00:20:08.082 --> 00:20:09.709
We saw the chances of rain.

393
00:20:09.834 --> 00:20:11.687
They were started looking out
10 days or two weeks,

394
00:20:11.711 --> 00:20:13.003
which didn't mean anything,

395
00:20:13.129 --> 00:20:14.606
but when you get down
to the last week,

396
00:20:14.630 --> 00:20:16.149
you can see
that we definitely had a day

397
00:20:16.173 --> 00:20:17.925
that we're gonna be impacted,

398
00:20:18.050 --> 00:20:19.986
but I didn't... didn't worry
about it really much then,

399
00:20:20.010 --> 00:20:21.610
because I thought
our impact was gonna be

400
00:20:21.637 --> 00:20:23.556
on setup day
on Thursday, mainly.

401
00:20:25.725 --> 00:20:27.143
About eight o'clock,

402
00:20:27.268 --> 00:20:29.353
you could hear
the first raindrops falling,

403
00:20:29.478 --> 00:20:32.231
which we expected,
but then it started.

404
00:20:37.862 --> 00:20:40.197
October being
the second-wettest month

405
00:20:40.322 --> 00:20:41.699
of the year here in Oklahoma,

406
00:20:41.824 --> 00:20:43.367
and we laughed about it,

407
00:20:43.492 --> 00:20:46.328
we were like "we'll be fine,
man, we'll be fine."

408
00:20:46.454 --> 00:20:49.081
And nine inches of rain later...

409
00:20:50.624 --> 00:20:53.210
It was the second-wettest
month in Oklahoma.

410
00:20:55.254 --> 00:20:57.339
Wednesday night,
the bottom falls out,

411
00:20:57.465 --> 00:20:59.133
and it just pours.

412
00:21:02.511 --> 00:21:04.722
Called battle,
and we made the call

413
00:21:04.847 --> 00:21:06.515
to go ahead and set the stage.

414
00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:09.059
Wednesday night
at 10:30 with no light,

415
00:21:09.185 --> 00:21:10.311
it started raining.

416
00:21:13.397 --> 00:21:15.858
When it started
raining so early,

417
00:21:15.983 --> 00:21:19.445
so hard, that was
when I was concerned.

418
00:21:19.570 --> 00:21:23.240
We were literally walking into
the perfect storm, essentially.

419
00:21:30.998 --> 00:21:32.374
This is big creek.

420
00:21:32.500 --> 00:21:34.502
It's a little bit bigger
than it normally is,

421
00:21:34.627 --> 00:21:36.879
it really is normally
not very big at all,

422
00:21:37.004 --> 00:21:39.965
but, uh, got a little...
Kind of shows

423
00:21:40.090 --> 00:21:41.530
that we did get
a little bit of rain.

424
00:21:42.426 --> 00:21:44.178
Oklahoma weather changes

425
00:21:44.303 --> 00:21:46.096
in a matter of 30 minutes.

426
00:21:46.222 --> 00:21:47.848
I'm sure
it does everywhere else,

427
00:21:47.973 --> 00:21:50.643
but in Oklahoma
it... it can be heaven or hell

428
00:21:50.768 --> 00:21:51.811
within 30 minutes,

429
00:21:51.936 --> 00:21:53.896
anditcan be unprecedented,

430
00:21:54.021 --> 00:21:55.523
no warning whatsoever.

431
00:21:55.648 --> 00:21:57.358
My guys show up in the bus,

432
00:21:57.483 --> 00:22:00.653
and I show up,
and the field is just muddy.

433
00:22:01.403 --> 00:22:02.883
That looks a lot of water,
doesn't it?

434
00:22:06.450 --> 00:22:09.537
It looks like, uh, our pipe
got broke or something,

435
00:22:09.662 --> 00:22:11.497
probably, out there
in the middle of the...

436
00:22:12.665 --> 00:22:13.958
Middle of the sand,

437
00:22:14.083 --> 00:22:15.709
and so the drainage
pipe got stuck.

438
00:22:16.377 --> 00:22:18.217
Oh, loo... hey, look,
it's bubbling over there!

439
00:22:19.380 --> 00:22:20.923
Well, rain's an issue
with any property

440
00:22:21.048 --> 00:22:22.359
because nobody likes
to, obviously,

441
00:22:22.383 --> 00:22:24.468
stand in mud
or water to do anything.

442
00:22:24.593 --> 00:22:26.387
It makes everything complicated.

443
00:22:26.512 --> 00:22:28.740
We do have certain segments
of the ground that we prepared,

444
00:22:28.764 --> 00:22:32.434
that we put new soil on,
to grow better grass.

445
00:22:32.560 --> 00:22:34.186
And so those tend
to be a little muddier.

446
00:22:34.311 --> 00:22:36.522
And it's just gonna be
a long day.

447
00:22:36.647 --> 00:22:38.583
The parking crew are gonna
have to work really slow.

448
00:22:38.607 --> 00:22:40.293
Right, what... what...
What we need to do is,

449
00:22:40.317 --> 00:22:42.254
we need to make sure that...
That... that we're gonna...

450
00:22:42.278 --> 00:22:44.405
We're g...
We'll create some exits

451
00:22:44.530 --> 00:22:46.031
and our entrances
or whatever off

452
00:22:46.156 --> 00:22:47.867
of... of the areas
that we want them to go.

453
00:22:47.992 --> 00:22:49.386
I just made
the common... I was like,

454
00:22:49.410 --> 00:22:50.953
"well, you see, this big giant,

455
00:22:51.078 --> 00:22:52.806
like, two-and-a-half-inch,
three-inch rock here,

456
00:22:52.830 --> 00:22:55.249
if you could get
a lot of that here,

457
00:22:55.374 --> 00:22:58.335
we'd probably be able
to at least work back and forth

458
00:22:58.460 --> 00:23:00.004
and... and get
stuff to the stage,

459
00:23:00.129 --> 00:23:02.590
and get it installed,
and as stuff dries up,

460
00:23:02.715 --> 00:23:04.925
we'll be able to use
that element of the show

461
00:23:05.050 --> 00:23:07.052
and in... incorporate it
into the stage.

462
00:23:07.177 --> 00:23:09.597
Oh, you know the roads
are relatively stable

463
00:23:09.722 --> 00:23:12.308
but, you know,
the back stage is a bit, um...

464
00:23:13.267 --> 00:23:15.603
No, it's... you go over there,
it's... it's gets messed up,

465
00:23:15.728 --> 00:23:17.104
so we gotta fix it,

466
00:23:17.229 --> 00:23:19.523
so they can
do their thing there, and...

467
00:23:19.648 --> 00:23:21.191
I would like all five of 'em,

468
00:23:21.317 --> 00:23:22.985
and then... and then, uh,

469
00:23:23.110 --> 00:23:24.629
depending on our needs
we'll probably just turn around

470
00:23:24.653 --> 00:23:26.614
and go do another...
Another round or two.

471
00:23:27.448 --> 00:23:29.658
Gonna call my dozer guy
and see what kind of rock

472
00:23:29.783 --> 00:23:31.493
he's been getting
from one quarry.

473
00:23:31.619 --> 00:23:33.662
We got five more trucks
coming from another quarry.

474
00:23:34.371 --> 00:23:35.456
So we've, uh...

475
00:23:36.540 --> 00:23:39.126
Got about twelve trucks
making two or three rounds,

476
00:23:39.251 --> 00:23:42.087
so we'll have forty...
Four days over

477
00:23:42.212 --> 00:23:45.049
at forty loads of rock
to use wherever we need it.

478
00:23:45.174 --> 00:23:47.676
No joke, fifteen,
twenty minutes later...

479
00:23:49.219 --> 00:23:52.264
Dump trucks
and semi-folds of rock show up.

480
00:24:02.399 --> 00:24:04.068
I'll get out of your way,

481
00:24:04.193 --> 00:24:06.004
and you just bring the lot
around there to that dozer,

482
00:24:06.028 --> 00:24:08.268
he's gonna help you dump there
in the middle of the road.

483
00:24:40.562 --> 00:24:42.398
Spending all the extra money
on, you know...

484
00:24:42.523 --> 00:24:43.923
Whether or not
it's my money or not,

485
00:24:44.024 --> 00:24:45.985
just trying
to watch out for Darren

486
00:24:46.110 --> 00:24:47.987
and being as up front
as possible as, you know,

487
00:24:48.112 --> 00:24:49.592
this is going
to cost a lot more money

488
00:24:49.655 --> 00:24:51.073
to keep this thing going.

489
00:24:51.198 --> 00:24:52.592
I'm not
that worried about the product

490
00:24:52.616 --> 00:24:54.284
one way or the other,
just availability

491
00:24:54.410 --> 00:24:56.471
and get it here so we can
put it in the right spot, so...

492
00:24:56.495 --> 00:24:57.855
But anyway, yeah,
I'll wait for you

493
00:24:57.955 --> 00:24:59.206
and I'll... I'll...

494
00:25:00.958 --> 00:25:02.876
Uh, it's electronic dance music,

495
00:25:03.002 --> 00:25:06.005
um, got about 75 bands,
and we're gonna have

496
00:25:06.130 --> 00:25:07.548
several thousand
people for sure,

497
00:25:07.673 --> 00:25:09.675
but, uh, other than that...

498
00:25:09.800 --> 00:25:11.468
It's gonna look...
It's gonna be fun,

499
00:25:11.593 --> 00:25:13.095
but it's... it's not...

500
00:25:14.054 --> 00:25:15.514
It's not exactly
what you wanted.

501
00:25:15.639 --> 00:25:18.225
You don't want
the flood the day before,

502
00:25:18.350 --> 00:25:20.227
but I mean,
all things considered,

503
00:25:20.352 --> 00:25:22.062
I'm... we're in...
We're in decent shape.

504
00:25:22.187 --> 00:25:23.188
It's been better.

505
00:25:23.313 --> 00:25:24.314
I got... we got, like,

506
00:25:24.440 --> 00:25:26.150
trucks out the wazoo now.

507
00:25:26.275 --> 00:25:28.169
I don't know how many we need,
but I'll probably get us

508
00:25:28.193 --> 00:25:31.113
at least four loads
of, uh... of mulch,

509
00:25:31.238 --> 00:25:32.531
that way we can put it

510
00:25:32.656 --> 00:25:33.967
in different places
for foot traffic.

511
00:25:33.991 --> 00:25:35.951
Hey guys!
On that... is that y'all's?

512
00:25:36.076 --> 00:25:37.327
Are you all driving this?

513
00:25:38.037 --> 00:25:39.747
Y'all driving that?
Okay. Thank you.

514
00:25:39.872 --> 00:25:42.750
I'm enjoying interacting
with the... the people

515
00:25:42.875 --> 00:25:44.918
that are coming here,
you know, uh, once we kind of

516
00:25:45.044 --> 00:25:46.524
get out of the crisis mode,
hopefully.

517
00:25:47.379 --> 00:25:50.466
Uh, but we've got
everything stabilized right now

518
00:25:50.591 --> 00:25:52.471
fairly well, I think,
for what we're doing here,

519
00:25:52.551 --> 00:25:55.429
with our vendors
and getting our artists in,

520
00:25:55.554 --> 00:25:57.765
and getting
production stuff going,

521
00:25:57.890 --> 00:25:59.308
so I'm comfortable with that,

522
00:25:59.433 --> 00:26:01.018
but then the...
The challenge will be...

523
00:26:01.143 --> 00:26:02.311
Uh...

524
00:26:03.645 --> 00:26:05.105
This thing's, uh...

525
00:26:05.230 --> 00:26:06.990
When... when everybody
gets here.

526
00:26:07.066 --> 00:26:09.109
When you get, you know,
hundreds of cars here,

527
00:26:09.234 --> 00:26:10.778
and they start pulling them in,

528
00:26:10.903 --> 00:26:13.030
then it'll be... they'll be
different challenges.

529
00:26:13.572 --> 00:26:16.867
So we have nine,
ten, eleven, twelve...

530
00:26:16.992 --> 00:26:18.702
We have 14 trucks running.

531
00:26:19.369 --> 00:26:20.370
Who's in my spot?

532
00:26:20.496 --> 00:26:22.122
Yes, that's your spot?

533
00:26:22.247 --> 00:26:24.142
- That's my spot, man!
- Oh, you want it back?

534
00:26:24.166 --> 00:26:25.366
Who are you? Come on!

535
00:26:25.417 --> 00:26:26.668
- Tell me who you are!
- Skyler.

536
00:26:26.794 --> 00:26:28.545
Skyler,
nice to meet you, Skyler.

537
00:26:28.670 --> 00:26:29.981
I'm a merchandise
vendor; I'm with deval Chicago.

538
00:26:30.005 --> 00:26:31.757
If you need it, you can have it.

539
00:26:31.882 --> 00:26:33.276
We're temporarily sitting here.
I'm trying to figure out...

540
00:26:33.300 --> 00:26:35.094
Stay there,
I'll go some place else.

541
00:26:35.219 --> 00:26:37.596
Typically
if we do, like, an arena show,

542
00:26:37.721 --> 00:26:40.849
you can flip 30 trucks
in five or six hours.

543
00:26:40.974 --> 00:26:43.852
Out there,
'cause of the elements,

544
00:26:43.977 --> 00:26:45.896
everything was coming
off the truck by what...

545
00:26:46.021 --> 00:26:49.399
What we call an "off-road,"
"forklift," or a "lull."

546
00:26:50.526 --> 00:26:53.153
Each semi was
about three to four hours

547
00:26:53.278 --> 00:26:54.947
at a time to offload it.

548
00:26:55.072 --> 00:26:57.366
You're only able
to do two cases at a time,

549
00:26:57.491 --> 00:26:58.951
and then get it
over to the stage,

550
00:26:59.076 --> 00:27:01.453
cause the... the semis
were stuck in mud.

551
00:27:02.246 --> 00:27:04.456
Uh, so we were unable
to back 'em up to the stage

552
00:27:04.581 --> 00:27:06.500
like we typically
would to offload them.

553
00:27:09.169 --> 00:27:11.797
It really slowed
down the loading time,

554
00:27:11.922 --> 00:27:15.926
and it made it, uh
just like a fourteen-hour day.

555
00:27:16.051 --> 00:27:17.611
And we still
didn't get everything done,

556
00:27:17.719 --> 00:27:18.762
in that first day.

557
00:27:21.014 --> 00:27:23.433
There was no way
for us to prepare

558
00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:25.394
what we were
getting ourselves into.

559
00:27:30.983 --> 00:27:32.401
Daybreak? Oh, man.

560
00:27:32.526 --> 00:27:34.611
It's been a wild ride,
I'll be honest,

561
00:27:34.736 --> 00:27:35.863
like, get here, you know?

562
00:27:35.988 --> 00:27:37.447
It's raining, pouring down.

563
00:27:37.573 --> 00:27:40.159
We roll up, this guy
named Paul picked us up

564
00:27:40.284 --> 00:27:41.410
in a pickup truck lift.

565
00:27:41.535 --> 00:27:42.911
I've never been

566
00:27:43.036 --> 00:27:44.556
in a truck lift in my life,
by the way.

567
00:27:44.663 --> 00:27:47.040
But... so we roll up
through the mud, you know,

568
00:27:47.166 --> 00:27:48.500
trucking through, four...

569
00:27:48.625 --> 00:27:50.169
Like, four wheel drive,
getting here.

570
00:27:51.086 --> 00:27:54.381
Pull up, hop out the car,
he says "welcome to Oklahoma."

571
00:27:58.427 --> 00:28:01.054
Whenever you have
thousands of pounds of gear,

572
00:28:01.180 --> 00:28:03.473
coming out of semis,
it's hard to get

573
00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:06.393
across a muddy field
to deliver the product

574
00:28:06.518 --> 00:28:08.228
that you're trying to
to those stages,

575
00:28:08.353 --> 00:28:10.480
and make it flow
the way it should.

576
00:28:14.568 --> 00:28:16.028
I... I drove around

577
00:28:16.153 --> 00:28:17.654
with a couple people
in the truck...

578
00:28:18.488 --> 00:28:21.700
Uh, assessed what was happening
and what was about to happen,

579
00:28:21.825 --> 00:28:25.621
and, I just,
physically and financially

580
00:28:25.746 --> 00:28:27.789
thought it was gonna be
really difficult

581
00:28:27.915 --> 00:28:29.124
to make the show go on.

582
00:28:31.126 --> 00:28:33.486
We couldn't even get
the semis to the loading dock,

583
00:28:33.545 --> 00:28:35.505
'cause the semis were
getting stuck in the mud.

584
00:28:36.215 --> 00:28:38.508
The off-road forklifts
were getting stuck.

585
00:28:38.634 --> 00:28:40.886
And they were having to
pull them out with bulldozers.

586
00:28:55.943 --> 00:28:59.196
The only thing
that we didn't foresee

587
00:28:59.321 --> 00:29:01.073
was the... the weather.

588
00:29:04.076 --> 00:29:05.911
After doing it for twelve years,

589
00:29:06.036 --> 00:29:09.665
I've never seen
a festival ground so wet.

590
00:29:15.379 --> 00:29:17.339
Knowing how long
it had taken on the build,

591
00:29:17.464 --> 00:29:20.092
just to build one stage,
the main stage,

592
00:29:20.217 --> 00:29:22.928
and, like, all the things
that weren't going to, like,

593
00:29:23.053 --> 00:29:26.014
be able to fire off
that night, like,

594
00:29:26.139 --> 00:29:29.101
I just did not see
it all working out.

595
00:29:29.935 --> 00:29:31.829
I've seen festivals shut down
because they weren't prepared

596
00:29:31.853 --> 00:29:33.146
for this type of stuff.

597
00:29:33.272 --> 00:29:35.649
This is a classic
three-act play, whatever.

598
00:29:35.774 --> 00:29:38.402
- Exactly, exactly, go.
- Setup, conflict, resolution.

599
00:29:38.527 --> 00:29:39.629
Sure, no problem there.

600
00:29:39.653 --> 00:29:40.862
All right.

601
00:29:40.988 --> 00:29:42.382
80 this is the climax right now?

602
00:29:42.406 --> 00:29:43.508
- This is the conflict.
- Ooh.

603
00:29:43.532 --> 00:29:44.908
One, one after the other,

604
00:29:45.033 --> 00:29:46.552
it's roads,
and then it's fire marshal,

605
00:29:46.576 --> 00:29:48.453
and then it's lasers,
and then it's pyro.

606
00:29:48.578 --> 00:29:50.580
I was completely
determined to see it through,

607
00:29:50.706 --> 00:29:52.958
because the biggest fail
that I could have

608
00:29:53.083 --> 00:29:55.252
as the guy running it
was to cancel it.

609
00:29:55.377 --> 00:29:57.230
We couldn't do that,
and we didn't want to do that,

610
00:29:57.254 --> 00:29:59.134
because these people
were here to see the music.

611
00:30:01.675 --> 00:30:03.260
I felt like we need
to shut it down,

612
00:30:03.385 --> 00:30:05.220
it felt like, um...

613
00:30:07.389 --> 00:30:09.683
Ours getting,
like, blasted with people,

614
00:30:09.808 --> 00:30:11.601
like, you know, like,

615
00:30:11.727 --> 00:30:14.187
hit me up, "what's going on?

616
00:30:14.313 --> 00:30:15.731
I'm trying to get in,

617
00:30:15.856 --> 00:30:17.733
I can't, 'cause people
are getting stuck."

618
00:30:17.858 --> 00:30:19.836
You need to think about this,
you know, you didn't...

619
00:30:19.860 --> 00:30:21.629
You need to think
about cancelling, potentially.

620
00:30:21.653 --> 00:30:23.423
I don't know what your
cancellation insurance is like,

621
00:30:23.447 --> 00:30:24.823
but you need to look into it.

622
00:30:24.948 --> 00:30:27.117
And Darren's response
was "cancel what?"

623
00:30:27.242 --> 00:30:28.722
I never had
any thoughts of giving up,

624
00:30:28.827 --> 00:30:30.203
but I'm... some of the troops,

625
00:30:30.329 --> 00:30:31.872
asked that question
at a point in time,

626
00:30:31.997 --> 00:30:35.000
a couple of times,
but I think we made that clear

627
00:30:35.125 --> 00:30:36.376
that that wasn't gonna happen.

628
00:30:38.503 --> 00:30:39.897
He was looking
kind of different stuff,

629
00:30:39.921 --> 00:30:42.007
but mentally,
I was just in this state

630
00:30:42.132 --> 00:30:44.092
where I...
I couldn't see the end.

631
00:30:45.052 --> 00:30:47.721
Sometimes when you get
in a bad place in your mind,

632
00:30:47.846 --> 00:30:49.973
even when you realize
what the problems are,

633
00:30:50.098 --> 00:30:51.617
and you start
fixing them, some people,

634
00:30:51.641 --> 00:30:53.119
they just... they want
to dwell on the problems

635
00:30:53.143 --> 00:30:54.561
like from the beginning,

636
00:30:54.686 --> 00:30:56.326
even though you're
solving them as you go.

637
00:31:09.368 --> 00:31:10.660
It wasn't perfect.

638
00:31:10.786 --> 00:31:12.454
There were gonna be
people get stuck.

639
00:31:22.047 --> 00:31:24.257
I was watching it
along on Facebook,

640
00:31:24.383 --> 00:31:26.703
and seeing where the rain...
And people were getting stuck,

641
00:31:26.760 --> 00:31:28.887
and Darren was hauling in rock,

642
00:31:29.012 --> 00:31:31.473
and just wood chips, you know,

643
00:31:31.598 --> 00:31:35.018
all around the margins,
and, uh, told my wife,

644
00:31:35.143 --> 00:31:36.812
I was like
"I think Darren's in trouble."

645
00:31:40.315 --> 00:31:42.085
We... we had
a four-wheel drive pickup,

646
00:31:42.109 --> 00:31:44.444
and we had a tow strap,
you know, which I brought in,

647
00:31:44.569 --> 00:31:46.005
'cause it's, you know,
from what I'd seen

648
00:31:46.029 --> 00:31:49.074
on Facebook,
so, uh... yeah, I was just,

649
00:31:49.199 --> 00:31:50.867
they'd hook it up, and I'd pull.

650
00:32:04.506 --> 00:32:05.733
They didn't worry about it.

651
00:32:05.757 --> 00:32:06.877
Some of them just got stuck,

652
00:32:06.967 --> 00:32:08.427
and went about their business,

653
00:32:08.552 --> 00:32:10.071
and... some of them
moved a little bit,

654
00:32:10.095 --> 00:32:11.346
or whatever, but, you know?

655
00:32:11.471 --> 00:32:12.681
We're all in it together.

656
00:32:27.946 --> 00:32:29.590
You don't really
trust Oklahoma weather,

657
00:32:29.614 --> 00:32:30.699
I figured out.

658
00:32:32.534 --> 00:32:33.869
It might just shut down.

659
00:32:33.994 --> 00:32:35.434
They mightjust
call it at this point.

660
00:32:37.247 --> 00:32:38.558
There was the first night,

661
00:32:38.582 --> 00:32:40.041
it was just raining in sheets

662
00:32:40.167 --> 00:32:41.543
as the main acts were going on.

663
00:32:45.547 --> 00:32:48.133
J“ day is breaking j“

664
00:32:49.468 --> 00:32:51.178
j“ we're gonna start a fire j“

665
00:32:55.974 --> 00:32:59.728
j“ long time waiting j“

666
00:32:59.853 --> 00:33:01.980
j“ flames keep getting higher j“

667
00:33:11.448 --> 00:33:14.159
It was just
like a monsoon soaking,

668
00:33:14.284 --> 00:33:16.012
and it just kept raining
and raining and raining.

669
00:33:16.036 --> 00:33:17.621
J“ we're gonna start a fire j“

670
00:33:22.083 --> 00:33:25.003
j“ hell or heaven j“

671
00:33:25.128 --> 00:33:27.422
everything was
under a hydraulic structure,

672
00:33:27.547 --> 00:33:29.341
we had the walls up on it,

673
00:33:29.466 --> 00:33:33.303
uh, problem was the rain
was coming in sideways.

674
00:33:36.264 --> 00:33:38.683
For about 12 to 16 hours,

675
00:33:38.808 --> 00:33:41.853
and it got the lighting
system completely soaked.

676
00:33:45.732 --> 00:33:47.943
The soak hold,
the consoles were shutting off.

677
00:33:48.068 --> 00:33:50.320
We had to find jet heaters
to keep them going.

678
00:33:50.445 --> 00:33:51.780
Not really sure if you're going

679
00:33:51.905 --> 00:33:53.299
to make it
through the weekend because

680
00:33:53.323 --> 00:33:54.950
the conditions are so terrible,

681
00:33:55.075 --> 00:33:56.469
you're not really sure
if somebody's going to cancel,

682
00:33:56.493 --> 00:33:57.762
or one of the headliners
is gonna decide

683
00:33:57.786 --> 00:33:59.079
he doesn't want to play because

684
00:33:59.204 --> 00:34:00.564
his special effects
aren't working.

685
00:34:10.340 --> 00:34:11.633
When people were coming in,

686
00:34:11.758 --> 00:34:13.426
they were committed
to being there.

687
00:34:13.552 --> 00:34:15.720
And so we were equally
committed to doing what it took

688
00:34:15.845 --> 00:34:18.431
to assist them
to get there and stay there.

689
00:34:19.766 --> 00:34:21.366
Didn't matter
how much it was gonna rain,

690
00:34:21.476 --> 00:34:23.061
once the place was super soaked,

691
00:34:23.186 --> 00:34:24.604
it was super soaked.

692
00:34:24.729 --> 00:34:26.374
The rain and all the mud
and everything, you know,

693
00:34:26.398 --> 00:34:27.774
the situation gets in the way,

694
00:34:27.899 --> 00:34:29.043
and people
don't want to go through that.

695
00:34:29.067 --> 00:34:30.402
And I feel that.

696
00:34:30.527 --> 00:34:32.112
And so you get this
idea in your head,

697
00:34:32.237 --> 00:34:34.364
like "oh, it might be
the same situation for me.

698
00:34:34.489 --> 00:34:36.783
Maybe no one's gonna come out
because it's still muddy.

699
00:34:36.908 --> 00:34:38.261
Maybe no one's
gonna do this," you know?

700
00:34:38.285 --> 00:34:39.995
Where's mikael, do you know?

701
00:34:40.120 --> 00:34:42.205
Mikael, he just went up front.

702
00:34:42.330 --> 00:34:43.970
He just went up to the box.

703
00:34:44.082 --> 00:34:45.542
- The box up...
- That way. Okay.

704
00:34:47.544 --> 00:34:49.424
I swear, I thought
they said mikael was up here.

705
00:34:52.215 --> 00:34:56.219
Two-wheel drive
Honda civics just blast

706
00:34:56.344 --> 00:34:59.931
through the mud
and semis getting stuck,

707
00:35:00.056 --> 00:35:02.851
and forklifts getting stuck,

708
00:35:02.976 --> 00:35:05.854
and people getting stuck.

709
00:35:05.979 --> 00:35:07.522
Tents getting stuck.

710
00:35:07.647 --> 00:35:09.107
Everything getting stuck.

711
00:35:09.232 --> 00:35:11.776
Oh, just didn't ever see that.

712
00:35:11.901 --> 00:35:12.986
That was crazy.

713
00:35:13.111 --> 00:35:15.196
It looked like a war zone.

714
00:35:15.322 --> 00:35:16.757
You know,
people are getting stuck

715
00:35:16.781 --> 00:35:18.366
in the mud right and left.

716
00:35:18.491 --> 00:35:20.869
As an event producer,
you know, you have to start

717
00:35:20.994 --> 00:35:23.288
thinking about "is this...
Are these conditions safe?"

718
00:35:23.413 --> 00:35:25.582
In my mind,
like, I could just see

719
00:35:25.707 --> 00:35:27.792
people, like, not making it,

720
00:35:27.917 --> 00:35:30.670
like, sleeping in their tents,
and like, the water filling up,

721
00:35:30.795 --> 00:35:33.715
and... drowning,
like, it was scaring me.

722
00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:35.800
I just couldn't see
the... I couldn't see it

723
00:35:35.925 --> 00:35:37.177
at the end of it.

724
00:35:37.302 --> 00:35:38.654
You know, okay...
We... we gotta do

725
00:35:38.678 --> 00:35:39.929
what we gotta do.

726
00:35:40.055 --> 00:35:41.473
We... we can't do it,
and basically,

727
00:35:41.598 --> 00:35:43.326
this is when we, need you
to use your social media

728
00:35:43.350 --> 00:35:45.030
to explain to people
what we're up against,

729
00:35:45.060 --> 00:35:46.478
but we're going on anyway.

730
00:35:46.603 --> 00:35:48.355
And it may not be
to the highest quality,

731
00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:49.731
but what else are you gonna do?

732
00:35:49.856 --> 00:35:51.125
We're gonna
shut down and go home?

733
00:35:51.149 --> 00:35:52.776
I don't think so.

734
00:35:52.901 --> 00:35:54.629
So, why can't we communicate
to that, to these kids?

735
00:35:54.653 --> 00:35:56.363
These kids will do it,
and they'll say,

736
00:35:56.488 --> 00:35:57.673
"hey! This is a... this..."

737
00:35:57.697 --> 00:35:59.282
I know. I know.

738
00:35:59.407 --> 00:36:01.260
But I want you to...
I want you to explain to 'em,

739
00:36:01.284 --> 00:36:02.845
because you're always worried
what they're thinking.

740
00:36:02.869 --> 00:36:04.469
Well, fine, tell 'em
what we're thinking,

741
00:36:04.537 --> 00:36:05.777
tell 'em what we're up against.

742
00:36:12.754 --> 00:36:15.882
Ten am. On Friday,
and we just finished

743
00:36:16.007 --> 00:36:19.427
installing the, uh...
The waterproof lighting system.

744
00:36:19.552 --> 00:36:22.847
Mikael was really
concerned with the amount

745
00:36:22.972 --> 00:36:25.934
of water
that the grounds were holding.

746
00:36:26.935 --> 00:36:28.978
He had been, uh, doing some laps

747
00:36:29.104 --> 00:36:31.481
around in the truck,
and checking stuff out.

748
00:36:31.606 --> 00:36:33.191
You know,
it wasn't going my way.

749
00:36:33.316 --> 00:36:34.776
You know,
the way that I had an...

750
00:36:34.901 --> 00:36:37.445
Kind of envisioned it,
uh, fall into play.

751
00:36:43.868 --> 00:36:44.994
We're kind of, uh,

752
00:36:45.120 --> 00:36:46.871
assessing the current situation.

753
00:36:47.580 --> 00:36:48.790
At one point...

754
00:36:49.582 --> 00:36:51.918
We're like "should we do this?

755
00:36:52.043 --> 00:36:53.795
Should we not?"
And Darren looks at us.

756
00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:56.297
And he's like
"we've come this far,

757
00:36:56.423 --> 00:36:57.716
we're doing a show.

758
00:36:57.841 --> 00:36:59.968
What do we need
to make it happen?"

759
00:37:00.093 --> 00:37:04.097
It's been raining now for...
I don't know how long,

760
00:37:04.222 --> 00:37:07.308
but it's been raining
for a day, day and a half,

761
00:37:07.434 --> 00:37:08.852
it's supposed
to rain all day today,

762
00:37:08.977 --> 00:37:11.229
it's supposed to, uh...
Maybe kind of stop

763
00:37:11.354 --> 00:37:12.814
sometime
in the morning, I think.

764
00:37:12.939 --> 00:37:15.608
So, hopefully we'll have...

765
00:37:15.734 --> 00:37:18.278
The final day will be, uh...

766
00:37:18.403 --> 00:37:19.904
Have some sunshine for the...

767
00:37:20.947 --> 00:37:22.907
For the... the final big day.

768
00:37:23.032 --> 00:37:24.659
Oh, there's nothing
you can do about it.

769
00:37:24.784 --> 00:37:25.952
What, cancel it?

770
00:37:26.077 --> 00:37:27.871
I surrender, but never give up,

771
00:37:27.996 --> 00:37:29.539
and that surrendering, the fact

772
00:37:29.664 --> 00:37:31.124
that you're not in control is...

773
00:37:31.249 --> 00:37:33.585
It's critical
to being happy and content.

774
00:37:33.710 --> 00:37:35.253
He's a go-getter, you know?

775
00:37:35.378 --> 00:37:38.548
You can't tell him "no,"
and he'll be like "okay."

776
00:37:38.673 --> 00:37:41.468
He... you tell him "no,"
he'll show you how it's done.

777
00:37:42.135 --> 00:37:44.262
All I can say
is that approaching problems

778
00:37:44.387 --> 00:37:46.765
with daylight is much easier

779
00:37:46.890 --> 00:37:49.058
than trying to contend
with them in the dark.

780
00:37:53.271 --> 00:37:55.815
Anyway, we're heading
south on our road,

781
00:37:55.940 --> 00:37:59.027
and it is a muddy mess,
but it is... it is stable,

782
00:37:59.152 --> 00:38:01.738
it's just... it's got
a lot of skim on it, so...

783
00:38:02.697 --> 00:38:04.115
It just gotta go slow and...

784
00:38:05.784 --> 00:38:07.410
Uh, take it easy.

785
00:38:07.535 --> 00:38:09.537
Then once we get past here,
we'll go down the road,

786
00:38:09.662 --> 00:38:12.123
you'll... it gets,
it's... it's all right.

787
00:38:12.248 --> 00:38:13.583
It's passable.

788
00:38:20.089 --> 00:38:21.758
The weather isn't gonna stop me.

789
00:38:21.883 --> 00:38:23.510
Like, nobody can control that.

790
00:38:23.635 --> 00:38:24.945
That's what they call
an "act of god," right there.

791
00:38:24.969 --> 00:38:26.137
You know what I mean?

792
00:38:29.933 --> 00:38:32.352
Well, I'll just
dump 'em some place else.

793
00:38:32.477 --> 00:38:33.677
What you're telling me, right?

794
00:38:37.106 --> 00:38:38.506
The more I watched Darren

795
00:38:38.608 --> 00:38:40.568
fight to see
this show through...

796
00:38:40.693 --> 00:38:43.321
My mind kept
bringing up the same question.

797
00:38:43.446 --> 00:38:46.699
"Why is this boomer
from Oklahoma so gung-ho

798
00:38:46.825 --> 00:38:49.035
to shell out millions
of dollars on a festival

799
00:38:49.160 --> 00:38:51.788
filled with music
he doesn't even listen to?"

800
00:38:51.913 --> 00:38:54.165
Yeah, are there people
waiting to get in?

801
00:38:55.250 --> 00:38:56.793
Ah, okay. All right.

802
00:38:56.918 --> 00:38:59.254
This question
was driving me crazy

803
00:38:59.379 --> 00:39:01.005
so I sat down
with the only person

804
00:39:01.130 --> 00:39:02.799
willing to give me
a straight answer.

805
00:39:03.967 --> 00:39:07.136
We actually had
a class together.

806
00:39:12.851 --> 00:39:14.769
I was a sophomore.

807
00:39:14.894 --> 00:39:18.565
He was a junior,
and we had speech and drama.

808
00:39:19.315 --> 00:39:20.650
And so we met.

809
00:39:22.151 --> 00:39:25.029
Darren's always
been really directed.

810
00:39:25.154 --> 00:39:28.366
He has a goal, he sets a goal,
and he gets to that goal.

811
00:39:29.701 --> 00:39:31.995
But now he's
much more mellow about it.

812
00:39:33.079 --> 00:39:34.664
I wanted a baby,

813
00:39:34.789 --> 00:39:36.457
so I was like,
"we could go somewhere,

814
00:39:36.583 --> 00:39:38.463
we could adopt one,
we could get a little girl,"

815
00:39:38.501 --> 00:39:39.836
because we had three sons,

816
00:39:39.961 --> 00:39:41.641
and he was like
"uh, I don't..." You know,

817
00:39:41.754 --> 00:39:44.674
"I don't want to be
responsible for another life,

818
00:39:44.799 --> 00:39:45.925
I don't want to do it."

819
00:39:46.050 --> 00:39:47.302
And he was like, "get a dog.

820
00:39:47.427 --> 00:39:48.803
Go get that dog you want."

821
00:39:49.470 --> 00:39:53.266
So we got biscuit in 2003.

822
00:39:55.018 --> 00:39:56.227
Darren doesn't sit.

823
00:39:57.020 --> 00:39:58.855
Probably the hardest-working
person I know,

824
00:39:58.980 --> 00:40:01.858
but he always
has to be doing something.

825
00:40:01.983 --> 00:40:05.320
And with biscuit,
he could just sit.

826
00:40:06.821 --> 00:40:07.947
It was for me...

827
00:40:08.740 --> 00:40:12.118
But the dog did
so much more for Darren.

828
00:40:19.292 --> 00:40:22.211
He was getting older,
he was ten.

829
00:40:23.421 --> 00:40:25.798
He had really slowed down.

830
00:40:25.924 --> 00:40:29.469
But I hadn't really
noticed him being sick.

831
00:40:29.594 --> 00:40:31.930
Inoflced
that he slept a lot more.

832
00:40:34.849 --> 00:40:37.727
He was in bed with us,
and I kind of picked him up

833
00:40:37.852 --> 00:40:41.272
and brought him over to me,
and his belly was swollen.

834
00:40:42.190 --> 00:40:43.983
I was like, "what is up?"

835
00:40:44.108 --> 00:40:47.654
And then the next day,
he was super, super skinny.

836
00:40:48.738 --> 00:40:50.740
And so I took him
to the vet that day,

837
00:40:50.865 --> 00:40:54.327
and, um, she did an ultrasound,

838
00:40:54.452 --> 00:40:56.704
and she said,
"I just am not seeing

839
00:40:56.829 --> 00:40:59.040
even that much of a liver left.

840
00:40:59.165 --> 00:41:02.502
He probably, maybe
could live another 30 days

841
00:41:02.627 --> 00:41:05.004
to three months,
if we did a feeding tube."

842
00:41:05.838 --> 00:41:07.423
So I did that.

843
00:41:07.548 --> 00:41:10.176
Our daughter-in-law, Becca,
bless her heart, she was,

844
00:41:10.301 --> 00:41:13.846
you know, in the living room,
and I'm just boo-hooing,

845
00:41:13.972 --> 00:41:17.016
and she's texting Darren
and her husband, Jake,

846
00:41:17.141 --> 00:41:19.894
and it was like,
"biscuit's really, really sick.

847
00:41:20.019 --> 00:41:21.872
You get Linda's, you know,
beside herself, you can..."

848
00:41:21.896 --> 00:41:23.982
And I mean, Darren was just as...

849
00:41:24.107 --> 00:41:25.775
He was like,
"what do we have to do?"

850
00:41:27.527 --> 00:41:29.529
A day or so later,
I got to bring him home,

851
00:41:29.654 --> 00:41:32.407
and our whole
family was mourning

852
00:41:32.532 --> 00:41:34.784
this little 17-pound dog.

853
00:41:36.869 --> 00:41:39.330
Darren went out and found a spot

854
00:41:39.455 --> 00:41:41.958
where, you know,
we wanted him buried,

855
00:41:42.083 --> 00:41:45.086
and... so, you know,
he got that all fixed up,

856
00:41:45.211 --> 00:41:48.548
and he got built this
little rock bench out there.

857
00:41:56.347 --> 00:41:58.033
So that last day,
we were gonna have the vet

858
00:41:58.057 --> 00:42:00.685
come that day,
and he... he didn't need

859
00:42:00.810 --> 00:42:02.490
the vet, cause,
you know, we were all there

860
00:42:02.603 --> 00:42:04.665
in our... our bedroom,
and it was like, two of my sons

861
00:42:04.689 --> 00:42:06.458
were there and my wife and I,
and we... you know,

862
00:42:06.482 --> 00:42:08.402
he was just lying there
in our bed, and you know,

863
00:42:08.526 --> 00:42:11.571
he has that raspy
kind of sound that people make

864
00:42:11.696 --> 00:42:13.090
when they're
breathing as they're...

865
00:42:13.114 --> 00:42:14.657
As they're winding down.

866
00:42:14.782 --> 00:42:16.284
And we just
told him to, you know,

867
00:42:16.409 --> 00:42:19.996
to... to let go,
it... he was... he was okay.

868
00:42:21.539 --> 00:42:24.208
So anyway, he... he
passed away and we buried him.

869
00:42:32.216 --> 00:42:33.968
Biscuit was the catalyst.

870
00:42:34.093 --> 00:42:36.637
That's why I think
he wants to do the festivals.

871
00:42:49.317 --> 00:42:51.611
Biscuit thought
he was bigger than he was.

872
00:42:51.736 --> 00:42:54.113
He liked to chase butterflies.

873
00:42:54.947 --> 00:42:57.992
He would just go nuts
over a butterfly,

874
00:42:58.117 --> 00:42:59.827
and he would run,
and he would jump,

875
00:42:59.952 --> 00:43:02.955
and he would just
do this all the time.

876
00:43:03.081 --> 00:43:04.999
And so while he was dying,

877
00:43:05.124 --> 00:43:06.501
you know,
and I was loving on him

878
00:43:06.626 --> 00:43:08.186
and petting on him,
and you know, I say,

879
00:43:08.211 --> 00:43:09.962
you know,
"baby boy, you can just go.

880
00:43:10.088 --> 00:43:12.632
And then you can
chase all the butterflies...

881
00:43:14.092 --> 00:43:15.343
You want to chase."

882
00:43:16.219 --> 00:43:18.846
This, uh... it made me cry
and it will sound silly

883
00:43:18.971 --> 00:43:22.600
all at the same time,
but, um... so I told him,

884
00:43:22.725 --> 00:43:24.811
I said, "but let me know
that you're okay.

885
00:43:24.936 --> 00:43:28.523
Let me know that you're
chasing those butterflies."

886
00:43:28.648 --> 00:43:30.358
We Bury him,

887
00:43:30.483 --> 00:43:32.235
and I kind of
hang back a little bit.

888
00:43:32.360 --> 00:43:35.113
And this little white butterfly

889
00:43:35.238 --> 00:43:38.533
just started
flying all around me.

890
00:43:38.658 --> 00:43:40.868
This... this is
my dog telling me,

891
00:43:40.993 --> 00:43:42.954
"it's cool, I'm good.
Look, I'm happy, I'm free.

892
00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:44.372
I don't hurt anymore."

893
00:43:44.497 --> 00:43:45.998
And it stayed with me

894
00:43:46.124 --> 00:43:48.000
the whole time I was walking
back to the house,

895
00:43:48.126 --> 00:43:51.379
and I got
just past the tree line

896
00:43:51.504 --> 00:43:54.924
and it went back towards, um,

897
00:43:55.049 --> 00:43:56.134
where we had buried him.

898
00:43:56.259 --> 00:43:58.261
But after that,

899
00:43:58.386 --> 00:44:00.429
just about
every time I went out there,

900
00:44:00.555 --> 00:44:02.431
there would be
a white butterfly.

901
00:44:05.101 --> 00:44:08.604
Whether it's Darren's artwork,
or if you just see

902
00:44:08.729 --> 00:44:11.149
a little white butterfly
attached to something,

903
00:44:11.274 --> 00:44:13.460
well, you have butterflies
kind of scattered throughout,

904
00:44:13.484 --> 00:44:16.195
all of that
is tribute to biscuit.

905
00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:19.407
The hand statue, you know,
and some of this stuff

906
00:44:19.532 --> 00:44:23.369
is kind of evolved
with its own meanings as well,

907
00:44:23.494 --> 00:44:26.622
but the butterfly and the hand
was originally for biscuit.

908
00:44:30.293 --> 00:44:32.503
I don't think
he thought he could be

909
00:44:32.628 --> 00:44:36.090
that connected
to something that wasn't human,

910
00:44:36.215 --> 00:44:40.052
and biscuit let him...

911
00:44:40.761 --> 00:44:42.221
Let him experience that.

912
00:44:42.346 --> 00:44:44.432
Made him a better person,
made him a better father,

913
00:44:44.557 --> 00:44:46.142
made him a better husband.

914
00:44:46.267 --> 00:44:49.604
Saw that he could be
something other than this guy

915
00:44:49.729 --> 00:44:52.106
that his goal was to make money.

916
00:45:00.031 --> 00:45:02.783
There's a lot
to be taken from the hand,

917
00:45:02.909 --> 00:45:04.243
with the butterfly, you know,

918
00:45:04.368 --> 00:45:06.037
it... the...
The bottom of it, you know,

919
00:45:06.162 --> 00:45:08.706
there's the barbed wire
and all that, so the struggle

920
00:45:08.831 --> 00:45:11.375
and all of that,
and then the hand rising up.

921
00:45:11.500 --> 00:45:13.461
And the butterfly, and I think

922
00:45:13.586 --> 00:45:16.380
whether it was conscious
or whether it was unconscious,

923
00:45:16.505 --> 00:45:18.633
and he wanted biscuit
to be a part of it,

924
00:45:18.758 --> 00:45:20.593
I... the hand is opening up,

925
00:45:20.718 --> 00:45:22.511
and this butterfly is there,

926
00:45:22.637 --> 00:45:25.681
and so for me, symbolically,
sometimes I think,

927
00:45:25.806 --> 00:45:29.227
"that's Darren opening up,
and it's biscuit...

928
00:45:30.394 --> 00:45:33.105
That, you know,
brought him to that."

929
00:45:36.984 --> 00:45:39.987
The dog had
a profound impact on Darren

930
00:45:40.112 --> 00:45:43.866
that led to him wanting
for other people,

931
00:45:43.991 --> 00:45:45.409
I think, to feel...

932
00:45:46.244 --> 00:45:48.871
That connection with life.

933
00:45:48.996 --> 00:45:50.581
That... that living things,

934
00:45:50.706 --> 00:45:53.167
that we're all connected,
we're all in this together.

935
00:45:53.292 --> 00:45:54.585
We're... you know, we're one.

936
00:45:54.710 --> 00:45:55.962
It helps you see the importance

937
00:45:56.087 --> 00:45:58.506
of relationships, and, you know,

938
00:45:58.631 --> 00:46:01.050
that hasn't always
been my main goal.

939
00:46:03.302 --> 00:46:04.553
Frankly, it wasn't.

940
00:46:04.679 --> 00:46:05.989
It was to succeed
and all that stuff,

941
00:46:06.013 --> 00:46:08.015
all those trappings
and when you see

942
00:46:08.140 --> 00:46:09.725
how really
unimportant they really are,

943
00:46:09.850 --> 00:46:12.228
that, you know, we're here
today and gone tomorrow.

944
00:46:12.895 --> 00:46:14.313
You... you never know, you know?

945
00:46:14.438 --> 00:46:16.399
You need to... you need
to live... live each day,

946
00:46:16.524 --> 00:46:18.317
because it's... it's gonna end,

947
00:46:18.442 --> 00:46:20.278
and that you gotta
find the joy in living.

948
00:46:35.584 --> 00:46:36.961
As bad as it got,

949
00:46:37.086 --> 00:46:39.171
it was just, like,
"okay, well, this is just

950
00:46:39.297 --> 00:46:40.649
something new
we have to deal with."

951
00:46:40.673 --> 00:46:43.259
You know, it's...
It's just another element

952
00:46:43.384 --> 00:46:45.636
in this show that we're...
We're gonna have to overcome.

953
00:46:45.761 --> 00:46:48.014
Because we've had
such a non-stop rain event,

954
00:46:48.139 --> 00:46:49.724
and it keeps going, that, uh...

955
00:46:49.849 --> 00:46:52.226
State fire marshal said
that we can't use the cryo

956
00:46:52.351 --> 00:46:54.520
or the pyro for now,
until it dries up.

957
00:46:54.645 --> 00:46:56.480
So that's... that's one thing.

958
00:46:56.605 --> 00:46:59.984
The other thing is the lights,
because on the mainstage or so,

959
00:47:00.109 --> 00:47:01.420
uh, the... you know,
they're kind of subject

960
00:47:01.444 --> 00:47:02.796
to the elements,
I can't really keep

961
00:47:02.820 --> 00:47:04.739
the... the water out of it, uh,

962
00:47:04.864 --> 00:47:06.657
they can't be turned on
or else they'll fry.

963
00:47:06.782 --> 00:47:08.576
So we're gonna have to go
heavier on lasers,

964
00:47:08.701 --> 00:47:10.286
and do some
waterproof lights, so...

965
00:47:10.411 --> 00:47:12.131
It's not gonna
necessarily be up completely,

966
00:47:12.163 --> 00:47:14.290
the standards everybody
wanted to do for today,

967
00:47:14.415 --> 00:47:16.834
but you know,
uh, that's on the mainstage.

968
00:47:16.959 --> 00:47:18.627
Pyramid stage, uh, third stage

969
00:47:18.753 --> 00:47:20.546
and second stage
are all good to go fine.

970
00:47:20.671 --> 00:47:22.798
I felt like it would work,
and then it wouldn't,

971
00:47:22.923 --> 00:47:24.342
then it would work,
and it wouldn't.

972
00:47:24.467 --> 00:47:26.385
The... the loads
that I'm getting next,

973
00:47:26.510 --> 00:47:27.803
Tony doesn't want 'em.

974
00:47:27.928 --> 00:47:29.305
He's gonna keep
his trucks running,

975
00:47:29.430 --> 00:47:31.015
so he'll keep
coming out there with you.

976
00:47:31.140 --> 00:47:32.701
And I'm just gonna take...
Go up to there in a minute,

977
00:47:32.725 --> 00:47:34.643
and then we'll dump,
uh, when they get here.

978
00:47:34.769 --> 00:47:36.538
And you tell me where to...
Where to go with them.

979
00:47:36.562 --> 00:47:38.105
- Cool.
- All right, thank you.

980
00:47:38.230 --> 00:47:42.443
J“ I guess you're just broken j“

981
00:47:42.568 --> 00:47:46.655
j“ I guess
you're just hopin' for more j“

982
00:47:48.783 --> 00:47:53.245
j“ I guess
you're just reachin' j“

983
00:47:53.371 --> 00:47:57.583
j“ I guess
you're just in need of love j“

984
00:47:59.043 --> 00:48:01.670
j“ but you're not alone j“

985
00:48:02.671 --> 00:48:06.217
j“ you're not alone j“

986
00:48:07.218 --> 00:48:08.886
j“ in this j“

987
00:48:15.768 --> 00:48:19.146
J“ I guess I'm just broken j“

988
00:48:19.271 --> 00:48:21.440
ten minutes!
And we'll have some more rock.

989
00:48:21.565 --> 00:48:24.944
J“ I guess
I'm just hopin' for more j“

990
00:48:27.321 --> 00:48:28.864
where do I want to put the rock?

991
00:48:28.989 --> 00:48:30.634
You want the rock
to just keep coming up here?

992
00:48:30.658 --> 00:48:32.243
Well, we're gonna... okay.

993
00:48:32.368 --> 00:48:34.870
Invested a lot of money
in infrastructure, which...

994
00:48:34.995 --> 00:48:36.640
You know, you weren't gonna
get that back, but...

995
00:48:36.664 --> 00:48:38.541
You know, operationally,
you wanted to try

996
00:48:38.666 --> 00:48:41.061
to get close to breaking even,
or not be too far in the hole.

997
00:48:41.085 --> 00:48:43.754
I mean, this is a tremendous...
It was a big hole.

998
00:48:43.879 --> 00:48:45.399
You just want it in here, then?

999
00:48:45.423 --> 00:48:46.590
All the way over there?

1000
00:48:52.012 --> 00:48:54.682
J“ I'm not alone j“

1001
00:48:55.516 --> 00:48:57.935
j“ I'm not alone

1002
00:48:59.937 --> 00:49:01.063
j“ in this j“

1003
00:49:01.689 --> 00:49:03.566
so once it's wet,
it's wet, right?

1004
00:49:03.691 --> 00:49:05.411
- Just deal with it, it's...
- That's right.

1005
00:49:05.443 --> 00:49:07.363
We'll have more people
to deal with here shortly.

1006
00:49:08.779 --> 00:49:11.907
J“ I guess I'm just broken j“

1007
00:49:13.242 --> 00:49:17.455
j“ I guess
I'm just hopin' for more j“

1008
00:49:18.414 --> 00:49:19.975
the performers,
that they will, like, bail,

1009
00:49:19.999 --> 00:49:21.476
or they'll say
it's too wet, or whatever,

1010
00:49:21.500 --> 00:49:22.900
or is that
not even really an issue?

1011
00:49:24.253 --> 00:49:28.632
J“ I guess
I'm just in need of love j“

1012
00:49:30.217 --> 00:49:32.094
j“ I'm not alone j“

1013
00:49:32.219 --> 00:49:33.762
we saw no one all day,

1014
00:49:33.888 --> 00:49:35.598
the people were
in their tents all day,

1015
00:49:35.723 --> 00:49:37.433
and... and I can remember

1016
00:49:37.558 --> 00:49:39.238
having the conversation
with the gentlemen,

1017
00:49:39.268 --> 00:49:40.828
and I was, like,
"here in a little bit."

1018
00:49:41.479 --> 00:49:42.897
Whenever it gets bright lights,

1019
00:49:43.022 --> 00:49:44.398
and lasers start going off,

1020
00:49:44.523 --> 00:49:45.816
and pyro starts going off,

1021
00:49:45.941 --> 00:49:47.067
people are gonna be dancing

1022
00:49:47.193 --> 00:49:48.444
in this knee-deep water.

1023
00:49:51.572 --> 00:49:53.572
Y'all plan that weather?
Did you book that weather?

1024
00:49:54.116 --> 00:49:55.927
Luckily, my shoes
are the same color as the mud,

1025
00:49:55.951 --> 00:49:58.204
so, the weather didn't stop me.

1026
00:49:58.329 --> 00:50:00.515
You see nothing when you come
through the gate up there.

1027
00:50:00.539 --> 00:50:02.666
But on top of the hill
it was, uh...

1028
00:50:02.791 --> 00:50:04.877
You seen all the tents,
and, you know, all the people

1029
00:50:05.002 --> 00:50:07.129
and, uh, it was overwhelming,

1030
00:50:07.254 --> 00:50:10.174
how many people were here
in the middle of the storm.

1031
00:50:10.299 --> 00:50:11.675
It's raining.

1032
00:50:11.800 --> 00:50:13.719
You got staff frantic,
running around

1033
00:50:13.844 --> 00:50:15.513
trying to figure
everything out, you know?

1034
00:50:15.638 --> 00:50:17.014
Stage sound cuts out.

1035
00:50:17.139 --> 00:50:18.575
They're going out,
they're fixing it.

1036
00:50:18.599 --> 00:50:20.309
It's not...
There's no hesitation,

1037
00:50:20.434 --> 00:50:22.436
they're just on top of it,
the whole time.

1038
00:50:22.561 --> 00:50:24.271
They're figuring out
what the problem is

1039
00:50:24.396 --> 00:50:25.564
and they're fixing it.

1040
00:50:25.689 --> 00:50:27.024
Well, putting out fires,
you know,

1041
00:50:27.149 --> 00:50:28.469
trying to get
the road stabilized,

1042
00:50:28.526 --> 00:50:30.027
trying to get people unstuck.

1043
00:50:30.152 --> 00:50:31.463
And you know, there's
always a thousand things

1044
00:50:31.487 --> 00:50:32.905
that can be done,
need to be done.

1045
00:50:33.030 --> 00:50:35.115
And... uh, I did wander around

1046
00:50:35.241 --> 00:50:37.493
and... uh, uh,
I had a good experience

1047
00:50:37.618 --> 00:50:39.203
in the... in the other barn,

1048
00:50:39.328 --> 00:50:41.288
when we had
some of the artists in there

1049
00:50:41.413 --> 00:50:43.475
with their lights, and the...
Their music going inside.

1050
00:50:43.499 --> 00:50:45.143
And I thought
that was a special time, too.

1051
00:50:45.167 --> 00:50:47.461
I... it was really
something I really enjoyed.

1052
00:51:22.705 --> 00:51:24.623
The feeling
of walking around and seeing

1053
00:51:24.748 --> 00:51:26.834
the whole thing put together
was... was amazing.

1054
00:51:26.959 --> 00:51:28.544
I love this place.

1055
00:51:28.669 --> 00:51:30.605
I've never played on a stage
that big, regardless,

1056
00:51:30.629 --> 00:51:32.756
but I'm honored to be here
and I'm not expecting

1057
00:51:32.881 --> 00:51:34.441
anything other
than to have a good time.

1058
00:51:43.851 --> 00:51:46.562
It's not always fun
to work in the rain,

1059
00:51:46.687 --> 00:51:49.565
but sometimes you have to do
what you don't want to do.

1060
00:51:49.690 --> 00:51:51.334
It was good to see people
that were willing

1061
00:51:51.358 --> 00:51:53.038
to still be out there
enjoying their music.

1062
00:52:00.242 --> 00:52:01.702
We all have
dull parts of our life,

1063
00:52:01.827 --> 00:52:03.587
you know, work
that we have to do every week.

1064
00:52:03.662 --> 00:52:05.873
But it's always nice to have
something that's important,

1065
00:52:05.998 --> 00:52:08.208
that's outside
of our normal context,

1066
00:52:08.334 --> 00:52:12.796
that allows you to pull that
familiar person that you are,

1067
00:52:12.921 --> 00:52:15.049
put that... that outer skin off,
and, you know,

1068
00:52:15.174 --> 00:52:16.985
kind of try to be
something a little different.

1069
00:52:17.009 --> 00:52:18.689
Or... or... it's not...
That's not correct.

1070
00:52:18.802 --> 00:52:20.220
It's not you trying
to be different,

1071
00:52:20.346 --> 00:52:21.866
it's just you trying
to be who you are.

1072
00:52:31.315 --> 00:52:33.567
They were dancing
in water knee-deep,

1073
00:52:33.692 --> 00:52:35.361
and going hard at it,

1074
00:52:35.486 --> 00:52:38.781
and enjoying the time
and they were ready to rock.

1075
00:52:39.531 --> 00:52:40.658
They'd been cooped up.

1076
00:52:54.421 --> 00:52:57.591
I don't think I looked
in one spot in that field

1077
00:52:57.716 --> 00:52:59.259
that was covered
in knee-deep water

1078
00:52:59.385 --> 00:53:00.886
that people
weren'tjumping around,

1079
00:53:01.011 --> 00:53:03.305
and mud wasn't flying
six foot in the air.

1080
00:53:06.433 --> 00:53:08.102
Whenever I'd be able
to find the time,

1081
00:53:08.227 --> 00:53:09.827
I'd turn around
and look at the audience.

1082
00:53:09.895 --> 00:53:11.456
That's really the one
that you're here for.

1083
00:53:11.480 --> 00:53:12.648
To make them happy.

1084
00:53:28.414 --> 00:53:29.808
The weather ain't
stopping me, come on.

1085
00:53:29.832 --> 00:53:32.584
Some rain? I didn't shower.

1086
00:53:32.710 --> 00:53:33.794
Chilled in the rain.

1087
00:53:40.509 --> 00:53:43.262
It's like people were
picking up mud and flinging it,

1088
00:53:43.387 --> 00:53:45.222
but it was just them
jumping up and down.

1089
00:53:54.440 --> 00:53:56.900
The people out there,
those are the real legends.

1090
00:54:21.216 --> 00:54:22.926
I thought
we were gonna see an exodus,

1091
00:54:23.051 --> 00:54:24.428
but it wasn't.

1092
00:54:24.553 --> 00:54:28.182
You know, the bizarre
devotion to, uh...

1093
00:54:29.057 --> 00:54:30.851
Staying and... what,
seeing the show

1094
00:54:30.976 --> 00:54:32.269
was overwhelming to us.

1095
00:54:35.731 --> 00:54:38.942
People were staying for sure.

1096
00:54:44.406 --> 00:54:46.450
But we had the hope that,
you know,

1097
00:54:46.575 --> 00:54:47.910
at least for the last day,

1098
00:54:48.035 --> 00:54:49.675
that... that maybe
the sun would come out.

1099
00:55:03.258 --> 00:55:06.053
So it was Saturday
when it finally broke apart,

1100
00:55:06.178 --> 00:55:08.222
the storms,
and allowed us to do a show.

1101
00:55:12.684 --> 00:55:14.829
That was, like,
the saving grace of everything.

1102
00:55:14.853 --> 00:55:17.213
You go through all the rain,
the whole time we've been here,

1103
00:55:17.314 --> 00:55:20.692
and then, sure enough,
Saturday shows up, clear skies.

1104
00:55:20.818 --> 00:55:21.860
Sunny

1105
00:55:25.656 --> 00:55:27.157
now that they experienced that,

1106
00:55:27.282 --> 00:55:29.368
it's just gonna be
a whole different vibe.

1107
00:55:30.369 --> 00:55:33.080
People are gonna be out in it,
getting crazy... you know,

1108
00:55:33.205 --> 00:55:35.541
they don't care about the mud
anymore, it's just sunny.

1109
00:55:35.666 --> 00:55:36.986
Everyone's gonna
have a good time.

1110
00:55:51.515 --> 00:55:54.893
Despite adversity,
humanity goes on, people go on,

1111
00:55:55.018 --> 00:55:56.687
but the human spirit survives

1112
00:55:56.812 --> 00:55:58.814
and it overcomes everything
it needs to overcome,

1113
00:55:58.939 --> 00:56:00.107
and we go on.

1114
00:56:17.165 --> 00:56:18.584
The artists
loved the experience,

1115
00:56:18.709 --> 00:56:20.127
for the most part.

1116
00:56:20.252 --> 00:56:22.296
They like the eclectic
nature of the buildings,

1117
00:56:22.421 --> 00:56:24.131
and how they were treated.

1118
00:56:24.256 --> 00:56:25.924
And we want to treat them right.

1119
00:56:26.049 --> 00:56:27.819
We want to treat them
like we want to be treated,

1120
00:56:27.843 --> 00:56:29.386
and I think
they appreciated that.

1121
00:56:29.511 --> 00:56:31.072
But we don't want to...
We don't... we don't...

1122
00:56:31.096 --> 00:56:32.681
I... they're...
They're not idols to us.

1123
00:56:33.307 --> 00:56:35.017
We try to treat
our guests the same way,

1124
00:56:35.142 --> 00:56:37.936
our vip, whatever... whatever
group is we're talking about

1125
00:56:38.061 --> 00:56:39.479
needs to be
treated respectfully.

1126
00:56:39.605 --> 00:56:41.106
Best part about the festival...

1127
00:56:41.857 --> 00:56:44.860
I would say,
is how hospitable they are.

1128
00:56:44.985 --> 00:56:47.821
They are so accommodating
to everyone. Everyone.

1129
00:56:47.946 --> 00:56:51.283
Artists, staff,
people that are actually here,

1130
00:56:51.408 --> 00:56:53.660
you know, the consumers,
the people that come,

1131
00:56:53.785 --> 00:56:55.913
miles away, fly here, you know.

1132
00:56:56.038 --> 00:56:58.141
They came here, it's raining.
Like, how would that feel?

1133
00:56:58.165 --> 00:56:59.875
"I spent a hundred,
two hundred bucks

1134
00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:02.120
to get into this festival
and it's raining," you know?

1135
00:57:02.169 --> 00:57:03.563
And they're still out there,
like I said,

1136
00:57:03.587 --> 00:57:04.689
they're still out there,
fixing it,

1137
00:57:04.713 --> 00:57:06.089
doing everything they can

1138
00:57:06.214 --> 00:57:07.614
to make it a good time
for everyone.

1139
00:57:07.674 --> 00:57:09.009
And I think
that's the best thing,

1140
00:57:09.134 --> 00:57:10.344
is that they care so much.

1141
00:57:23.732 --> 00:57:25.492
The hospitality.
Everyone here cares.

1142
00:57:25.609 --> 00:57:27.378
Everyone's working so hard.
They're actually on top of it.

1143
00:57:27.402 --> 00:57:30.197
They don't care that there's
not 7000 people out there,

1144
00:57:30.322 --> 00:57:31.406
you know what I mean?

1145
00:57:31.531 --> 00:57:32.908
Like, I've played
festivals before

1146
00:57:33.033 --> 00:57:34.427
where I didn't get
a meal ticket because

1147
00:57:34.451 --> 00:57:35.851
I'm not playing
mainstage, you know?

1148
00:57:35.911 --> 00:57:37.287
And here, they...
They're straight

1149
00:57:37.412 --> 00:57:39.581
taking care of me,
like, hardcore.

1150
00:57:39.706 --> 00:57:41.792
80... and not just me, everyone.

1151
00:57:41.917 --> 00:57:43.710
And, like,
everyone from the staff,

1152
00:57:43.835 --> 00:57:46.463
to the stage,
to the sound, to the location.

1153
00:57:47.214 --> 00:57:48.924
Everything is ten out of ten.

1154
00:57:53.136 --> 00:57:55.097
If you've never been
to a music festival,

1155
00:57:55.222 --> 00:57:59.017
you're missing one of the most
impactful moments of your life.

1156
00:57:59.142 --> 00:58:01.186
There's so much
opportunity out there,

1157
00:58:01.311 --> 00:58:02.604
more than
just hearing the music.

1158
00:58:02.729 --> 00:58:04.314
It's... it's building
the camaraderie.

1159
00:58:04.439 --> 00:58:06.775
It's seeing things
you normally wouldn't see,

1160
00:58:06.900 --> 00:58:09.569
and it's... it's a feeling
of gratification inside,

1161
00:58:09.695 --> 00:58:11.697
of doing something
that is just...

1162
00:58:11.822 --> 00:58:12.990
It's phenomenal.

1163
00:58:13.699 --> 00:58:14.783
It's life-changing.

1164
00:58:20.372 --> 00:58:24.668
Darren's persistence
on basically every Avenue

1165
00:58:24.793 --> 00:58:26.294
is the reason
why it worked, you know.

1166
00:58:26.420 --> 00:58:27.754
He pushed us to the limits

1167
00:58:27.879 --> 00:58:29.359
to make sure
that it was gonna happen.

1168
00:58:47.774 --> 00:58:49.836
I think the... overall,
the success of the festival,

1169
00:58:49.860 --> 00:58:52.279
it... you know, financially,
it's not gonna be a success,

1170
00:58:52.404 --> 00:58:54.865
but ultimately, financially,
I think it will work out,

1171
00:58:54.990 --> 00:58:57.451
because it lays the groundwork
for the next steps.

1172
00:58:57.576 --> 00:59:00.370
And you have to go
through that process

1173
00:59:00.495 --> 00:59:02.622
to get credibility
to go to the next step.

1174
00:59:04.583 --> 00:59:06.418
Ekali finished his set.

1175
00:59:06.543 --> 00:59:08.086
The crowd grew silent

1176
00:59:08.211 --> 00:59:09.771
as we stood in the mud
at the mainstage.

1177
00:59:09.880 --> 00:59:11.381
And I started thinking...

1178
00:59:11.506 --> 00:59:13.550
Darren built Bridges
for a living,

1179
00:59:13.675 --> 00:59:15.927
allowing people to get
from one place to another.

1180
00:59:16.762 --> 00:59:18.638
And the last few days,

1181
00:59:18.764 --> 00:59:20.223
I think he provided a way for us

1182
00:59:20.348 --> 00:59:21.628
to get to where we needed to be.

1183
00:59:27.272 --> 00:59:28.315
Together.

1184
01:00:20.659 --> 01:00:22.410
So the show must go on.

1185
01:00:22.536 --> 01:00:24.764
It's a term you hear, day in
and day out, in our industry.

1186
01:00:24.788 --> 01:00:26.588
Everyone kind of
showed up and made it happen.

1187
01:00:33.380 --> 01:00:35.090
It's the end of the world,

1188
01:00:35.215 --> 01:00:37.401
and everything is kind of
falling apart around it, and...

1189
01:00:37.425 --> 01:00:39.305
You kind of push through it,
and make it happen.

1190
01:01:03.118 --> 01:01:04.703
It's always frustrating,

1191
01:01:04.828 --> 01:01:06.597
but you can't allow it
to get the best of you.

1192
01:01:06.621 --> 01:01:08.874
You just have to figure it out
and keep moving forward.

1193
01:01:12.711 --> 01:01:14.296
Oh, it was overwhelming.

1194
01:01:14.421 --> 01:01:16.256
The turnout. With the weather.

1195
01:01:16.381 --> 01:01:17.841
Just can't imagine

1196
01:01:17.966 --> 01:01:20.844
many other venues
that would have stayed.

1197
01:01:27.058 --> 01:01:28.435
It was awesome.

1198
01:01:28.560 --> 01:01:29.895
Seeing 2000 people there,

1199
01:01:30.020 --> 01:01:31.479
just having
the time of their lives,

1200
01:01:31.605 --> 01:01:34.024
despite the worst
possible conditions.

1201
01:01:34.149 --> 01:01:35.734
It's what gives you life.

1202
01:01:40.697 --> 01:01:42.133
For the most part,
I think everything was perfect.

1203
01:01:42.157 --> 01:01:43.491
I think it was a great venue,

1204
01:01:43.617 --> 01:01:45.410
and I think
a lot of people were happy

1205
01:01:45.535 --> 01:01:46.912
with the way
the venue turned out.

1206
01:02:02.510 --> 01:02:06.264
I think the biggest
thing was having

1207
01:02:06.389 --> 01:02:10.894
the owner of the property
and investor being so involved,

1208
01:02:11.019 --> 01:02:12.520
being all hands on deck

1209
01:02:12.646 --> 01:02:14.231
whenever he was
asked and needed,

1210
01:02:14.356 --> 01:02:15.815
or even whenever he wasn't.

1211
01:02:15.941 --> 01:02:18.026
I mean, the guy worked
night and day months,

1212
01:02:18.151 --> 01:02:20.195
preparing for just those
three days that we had

1213
01:02:20.320 --> 01:02:21.446
out at his property.

1214
01:02:33.667 --> 01:02:36.836
Darren wasn't gonna
allow the show not to happen.

1215
01:02:36.962 --> 01:02:38.356
You know,
Darren's the whole reason

1216
01:02:38.380 --> 01:02:39.547
that that still happened.

1217
01:02:40.340 --> 01:02:41.940
On that Sunday, when I drive up,

1218
01:02:42.050 --> 01:02:44.010
it wasn't any big deal,
but the people were happy.

1219
01:02:44.135 --> 01:02:45.553
But they weren't complaining,

1220
01:02:45.679 --> 01:02:47.180
and we were all in it together.

1221
01:02:47.305 --> 01:02:48.905
And they saw
that we were in it together,

1222
01:02:48.974 --> 01:02:50.534
because they saw
that we were trying to do

1223
01:02:50.558 --> 01:02:53.103
what we could to... to try
to get them in there.

1224
01:03:03.947 --> 01:03:07.200
Live music
in a festival scene is amazing.

1225
01:03:07.325 --> 01:03:09.786
And it... it'll change you.
It really will.

1226
01:03:09.911 --> 01:03:12.289
You make connections,
lifelong connections.

1227
01:03:12.414 --> 01:03:14.165
There's people
that I worked with,

1228
01:03:14.291 --> 01:03:16.459
that are now
lifelong friends, because

1229
01:03:16.584 --> 01:03:19.296
a music festival allowed us
to... to cross paths.

1230
01:03:22.549 --> 01:03:24.509
Building
the relationships with people,

1231
01:03:24.634 --> 01:03:26.074
that's what I was
most excited about.

1232
01:03:28.930 --> 01:03:30.650
We essentially
gave a free concert.

1233
01:03:31.433 --> 01:03:33.768
If I'd charged them what
it costs, maybe... you know,

1234
01:03:33.893 --> 01:03:35.613
we probably wouldn't
have sold many tickets.

1235
01:03:38.315 --> 01:03:40.084
I'm really
just excited for the future.

1236
01:03:40.108 --> 01:03:42.027
I think that
we've got something here.

1237
01:03:45.655 --> 01:03:47.365
We all have struggles in life.

1238
01:03:48.033 --> 01:03:52.078
It can be the end all, be all,
or you can overcome adversity.

1239
01:03:52.203 --> 01:03:54.622
You can take the struggle
that you're having

1240
01:03:54.748 --> 01:03:56.458
and figure out
a solution for it,

1241
01:03:56.583 --> 01:03:58.710
and run with it
and get a lesson out of life.

1242
01:03:59.252 --> 01:04:01.046
It makes us who we are.

1243
01:04:01.171 --> 01:04:03.298
It's what defines our character.

1244
01:04:18.980 --> 01:04:21.261
We are much easier
to conquer when we're divided.

1245
01:04:22.233 --> 01:04:23.860
You can have
a much better society

1246
01:04:23.985 --> 01:04:25.737
with just a pledge
to try to get along,

1247
01:04:25.862 --> 01:04:27.947
and not have wars
and try to be fair-minded.

1248
01:04:30.617 --> 01:04:32.285
We learn a lot more
from our failures

1249
01:04:32.410 --> 01:04:33.995
than we do from our successes.

1250
01:04:34.120 --> 01:04:36.498
We just gotta let go
of our egos and quitjudging.

1251
01:04:37.665 --> 01:04:39.834
We judge everybody so harshly.

1252
01:04:41.753 --> 01:04:43.004
Don't prevent me from dancing

1253
01:04:43.129 --> 01:04:44.672
because
you can't hear the music.

1254
01:04:45.382 --> 01:04:47.217
I think
there's a lot of truth to that.

1255
01:04:47.342 --> 01:04:49.260
A lot of us are actually
dancing to the music,

1256
01:04:49.386 --> 01:04:51.221
and the other people
can't hear it.

1257
01:04:57.394 --> 01:05:00.814
As they worked together,
under horrible circumstances...

1258
01:05:01.940 --> 01:05:03.942
It was nine inches of rain

1259
01:05:04.067 --> 01:05:06.069
and the Sandy soil.

1260
01:05:09.656 --> 01:05:11.741
That, to him, I think,

1261
01:05:11.866 --> 01:05:15.954
solidified what he's thinking,

1262
01:05:16.079 --> 01:05:19.290
trying to get people
to listen to one another.

1263
01:05:27.382 --> 01:05:29.342
When people sacrifice together,

1264
01:05:29.467 --> 01:05:30.844
for whatever the cause is,

1265
01:05:30.969 --> 01:05:32.637
I mean...
It's easier to get things done.

1266
01:05:33.555 --> 01:05:36.307
The hardship,
the struggle and the suffering

1267
01:05:36.433 --> 01:05:38.309
actually makes
the experience grander.

1268
01:05:43.898 --> 01:05:45.984
We have to resolve
the spiritual crisis.

1269
01:05:46.693 --> 01:05:48.236
Whether we want
to call it that or not,

1270
01:05:48.361 --> 01:05:50.121
because it... who are
we and why are we here?

1271
01:06:04.627 --> 01:06:06.754
It's been
over a year since daybreak.

1272
01:06:09.507 --> 01:06:12.218
We've had to weather
a lot of storms since then.

1273
01:06:12.927 --> 01:06:15.054
With COVID-19...

1274
01:06:15.180 --> 01:06:18.641
Riots and the nation
fighting for political power.

1275
01:06:22.103 --> 01:06:24.147
I take hope, though,
when I think about daybreak.

1276
01:06:25.940 --> 01:06:28.401
Watching people charge
into the storm in the mud

1277
01:06:28.526 --> 01:06:29.777
to take care of each other.

1278
01:06:32.280 --> 01:06:34.073
I like to believe
there was a force of life

1279
01:06:34.199 --> 01:06:35.283
behind that event.

1280
01:06:39.787 --> 01:06:41.080
A small dog dies.

1281
01:06:43.541 --> 01:06:44.918
A little farmer's enlightened.

1282
01:06:47.879 --> 01:06:49.756
And 2000 people
at daybreak learn

1283
01:06:49.881 --> 01:06:51.508
what it means to be human.

1284
01:06:53.676 --> 01:06:55.637
It really puts things
into perspective.

1285
01:06:56.971 --> 01:06:58.348
How a little
consideration and love

1286
01:06:58.473 --> 01:06:59.974
make a huge difference.

1287
01:07:01.851 --> 01:07:02.977
Darren knows that.

1288
01:07:06.564 --> 01:07:08.441
And that's why
he's dedicated his ranch

1289
01:07:08.566 --> 01:07:10.693
to creating events
that bring people together.

1290
01:07:14.822 --> 01:07:17.075
Darren...

1291
01:07:17.200 --> 01:07:20.036
Well, he's fighting
for a better tomorrow.

1292
01:07:23.456 --> 01:07:24.749
He's fighting for the daybreak.

1293
01:07:28.294 --> 01:07:32.257
J“ daybreak's in a single man j“

1294
01:07:32.382 --> 01:07:35.969
j“ with one hammer
and two hands j“

1295
01:07:36.094 --> 01:07:39.097
j“ he begins
with a nail and plank j“

1296
01:07:39.222 --> 01:07:42.183
j“ steel pushing
through the wood grain j“

1297
01:07:42.308 --> 01:07:45.937
j“ all the racket he makes
from his one-man crew j“

1298
01:07:46.062 --> 01:07:49.774
j“ that draws another man
seeking to build, too j“

1299
01:07:49.899 --> 01:07:53.861
j“ now with four strong arms
and one desire j“

1300
01:07:53.987 --> 01:07:56.656
j“ now it's moving along
in double time j“

1301
01:07:56.781 --> 01:08:02.078
j“ hey brother, it's time
to put your hands on j“

1302
01:08:02.203 --> 01:08:05.957
j“ cause we 're building
a stage to stand on j“

1303
01:08:06.082 --> 01:08:09.460
j“ oh, we're building
a stage to stand on j“

1304
01:08:10.670 --> 01:08:13.965
j“ getting taller and taller j“

1305
01:08:14.090 --> 01:08:16.843
j“ from the ground
it began on j“

1306
01:08:16.968 --> 01:08:20.638
j“ and we're building
a stage to stand on j“

1307
01:08:20.763 --> 01:08:24.309
j“ oh, we're building
a stage to stand on j“

1308
01:08:25.685 --> 01:08:28.187
j“ when the day breaks again j“

1309
01:08:29.606 --> 01:08:33.234
j“ the two men return
to where they've been j“

1310
01:08:33.359 --> 01:08:37.488
j“ to see
the crowd of people gathered j“

1311
01:08:37.614 --> 01:08:41.326
j“ with their saws
ropes and ladders j“

1312
01:08:41.451 --> 01:08:44.871
j“ the cast of workers
hoist and heave j“

1313
01:08:44.996 --> 01:08:47.665
j“ and their labor sounds
much like a symphony j“

1314
01:08:47.790 --> 01:08:52.128
j“ so many hands and heads
composing it j“

1315
01:08:52.253 --> 01:08:55.506
j“ the last dance closer,
closing in j“

1316
01:08:55.632 --> 01:09:00.762
j“ hey brother, it's time
to put your hands on j“

1317
01:09:00.887 --> 01:09:04.474
j“ cause we 're building
a stage to stand on j“

1318
01:09:04.599 --> 01:09:08.102
j“ oh, we're building
a stage to stand on j“

1319
01:09:09.228 --> 01:09:12.690
j“ getting taller and taller j“

1320
01:09:12.815 --> 01:09:15.568
j“ from the ground
it began on j“

1321
01:09:15.693 --> 01:09:19.238
j“ and we're building
a stage to stand on j“

1322
01:09:19.364 --> 01:09:23.076
j“ oh, we 're a building
a stage to stand on j“

1323
01:09:30.333 --> 01:09:33.961
J“ and we're building
a stage to stand on j“

1324
01:09:39.217 --> 01:09:41.636
J“ and it happens j“

1325
01:09:42.804 --> 01:09:44.972
j“ the pounding ceases j“

1326
01:09:46.557 --> 01:09:49.852
j“ and on the land
the structure stands j“

1327
01:09:49.977 --> 01:09:52.605
j“ made from
thousands of pieces j“

1328
01:09:53.856 --> 01:09:56.359
j“ illuminated j“

1329
01:09:57.193 --> 01:09:59.404
j“ standing strong j“

1330
01:10:01.072 --> 01:10:04.075
j“ the stage is finished now j“

1331
01:10:04.200 --> 01:10:07.412
j“ built for all to stand on j“

1332
01:10:08.955 --> 01:10:11.916
j“ whoo j“

1333
01:10:12.500 --> 01:10:15.169
j“ whoo j“

1334
01:10:16.087 --> 01:10:19.173
j“ whoo j“