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Mm mm. Mhm. Well, things are getting rough for the poor folk in this country. We can't afford to travel very far. Mhm. The price of gasoline is always raised them slightly. A few of us can still afford a car. Our last three, right? I was waiting

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on water. Our last three writers waiting on the wind. That's the only freeway gonna take us anywhere. I guess we're all gonna have to go, Sam. Mm. Oh, mhm. Allow last three, right? Wait. That's the only way.

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Mm. My name is Saul Rueda. I came here in the mid sixties, and so did most of my friends. We came to experiment with life for the freedom to create a lifestyle of our own. When somebody get a new boat, we'd all pitch in and help

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turn it into a home. We built our house boats from whatever we could scrounge that would float navy surplus chunks of Styrofoam and plywood. Anyone looking for an easy life didn't find it here. We paid for our independence with hard work. It's no secret that boats

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have a tendency to leak and have been known to sink. You see, for us voluntary poverty was not just some kind of fashion statement. We were proud to be poor, self reliant and free of the system. Uh, the good times we had back then how well

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I remember them. Who's too much. Hello. Joe Tate and I went sailing a lot on his Chinese junk. The Wang Ho. I remember when he found it. What a mess. The whole was sunk and full of holes. Joe halted from the mud and had it shipshape

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in no time. Well, good enough. So he and Pam and their kids, Sammy could live on it without fear of drowning. Thank you. No love sailing, especially in his own backyard. He knew the bay. Well, much better than I ever did. Hey, go. Hey, Give me

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a toe, man. My engine don't work. Job. It looks like Saul out there in his diary. And Charlie wanna go check it out? His growing pretty hard against the tide and not making it Looks like his motor died. We'll bring it over here. I tried everything.

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I checked the bug. I'll fix your mother for you for five bucks, and I guarantee you will never cause you any trouble ever again. whatsoever. Their deal. I'll go. Not going to take you long. No, I can do it right away. I know just how to

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do this. The mechanics. I'm a mechanic right now. Where's the five? I'm gonna fix your motor for you saw. All right, that's all. Now, you pay careful attention to this. Sometimes you might have to do this yourself. Yeah. Just take these. Can get this one loose.

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Well, you can't get him loose. You're slipping off like this. Hey, Joe. Why'd you do that for? Well, there you have it. So why don't you have never caused any trouble ever again? I guarantee it. It's just like my guarantee. Don't worry. Oh, that engine cost

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me five bucks. Yeah, Joe sometimes had a strange way of helping you. Looking back on it now, he probably saved us from drifting out to sea. Hey, Joe, how is your sale today? It's okay. Where'd you go? At the gate. Are you ready? Oh, I'm reading

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about some pirates. What they do. Well, it's kind of interesting. It says right here. Early in April, 17 17, they captured a Boston slope commanded by a captain. Beer off the cost of South Carolina. Captain Bellamy said the captain bear an apology. You are a sneaking

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puppy. And so are all those who will submit to be governed by laws which Richmond have made for their own security. They robbed the poor under the cover of law for suit. And we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage. It's all pirates

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and stuff. Joe had an imagination, all right? But he also had a dream. Like, of course, he had set for himself. Yes, don't you? Many is. The poor man would like to live a rich man's dream. Find him a ship to set out on the ocean.

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Take him sailing on the sea. Well, you know, Tim, this little chunk is great for sailing around the bay, But I want to ship. I can sell anywhere in the world how much money you want for your crummy old wreck, anyway. Well, I don't know some.

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It's probably about $1500. How come you want to get off of what's the matter with it? Damn, I don't know what to do with a big boat like that. That's a That's a giant project. Um, you know I got it from my grandfather and the family

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didn't know what to do with it, so they gave it to me. Hell, I live way up in Santa Rosa. You know, I'm no boatman. I don't know what to do with just too much, huh? It's probably gonna be too much for us to, uh can

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make you a deal. I'll give you this goddamn both straight across. This was ready to go. You can sail around and have a good time. That might be a thing. This is a little bit smaller. How does this thing work? How do you drive it? Well,

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you steer it right here. Your point. If you want to go that way, you push it over this way, and if you want to go that way, then you push it over. This way, I get it. Sort of went. It's the sales and just blows it

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around, You know, there's nothing to it. It's a free ride. You know, I don't have to buy any gas. Uh huh. Sure you want the Richmond? It's all wood, man. I don't know what the bottom is like, You know, It could be Who cares, man? I'll

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fix the bottom. There's a lot of pieces missing on that. Oh, well, it would be a It's a problem, you know? But this is this enough old boats and stuff around here, I can just scrounge all kinds of junk. Me? I'm energetic, man. I'll put the

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goddamn thing back together. It ain't no problem. Not that much work I've got. I've got the rock and roll bands. Five of us. We're all going to work on it. You need a little boat. You don't need a big book. Uh huh. Joe, I never got

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a deal. I'll do it. I'll trade you straight across out of sight. Give me five Jack. Like this. Like that. You got yourself a boat. Alright? Whereas you already had an action. So Joe got himself a big old boat. The Richmond was not exactly a classic

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yacht like you'd find in a fancy marina, but it did have a decent haul sales and plenty of potential. I think Joe knew what a big risk he was taken for himself and his growing family. Judges naturally seem to take on the hardest and dirtiest jobs.

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You might say he thrived on challenge He usually succeeded, too, because he made working fun. So what the heck, we'd help him with his new boat And maybe even shares dream of sailing her around the world. Joe is a man of many talents. He could play

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music, write great songs and lyrics and get people to do almost anything. Hey, would you get this too? All we traded for a freebie. It's all right. Have a nice X. Nothing at all, huh? We're just gonna play this gig. That's all they say. Sailors used

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to paint a red stripe down their pant legs to keep the seams from splitting apart. For us, it was kind of an initiation ceremony. A visible line that separated us from the straight establishment crowd. To be a red leg meant you were part of an extended

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family that shared everything. Food, laughs, music, whatever the Whenever the red legs had a jam session, which was often there would be an instant party. Playing for free was fine, but a guy still got to eat. So as the self appointed road manager for the Redlegs,

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I called a business meeting the agenda, turning our music into some bread. This is fresh. Yeah, yeah. Just can't do it. Let's just wait The tide goes out and hang out for a while and let the tie this Where to act. Yeah. What? What? Hey, Joe,

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how about us getting a couple gigs, man? You know what? Shops are getting down, man. It wouldn't hurt. You know, the way I look at it is this. People think we're lousy and outrageous and all that kind of crap, but there's always that certain occasion when

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everybody wants to get together and really raise hell and have a cooking band, right? They call, they call us, and that's it. You know, whatever you want it, we got it. Otherwise, I don't feel like running around hustling a lot of gigs and stuff because there's

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no percentage in that. Because most of time, nobody wants that. But when they want, we got it. It's just such a hassle running around all over the place, talking to all the jive ass club owners and all that stuff here. But I'll do it, You know,

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we use your truck. Yeah, sure thing, man. Who's gonna buy the gas? Well, I'm sure I'm gonna roll somebody I will do something. You're gonna buy the gas. Okay? Right. I'll drive. Let's go. All right. Sure. I'm ready. Mhm. Like it all day. I don't get

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okay, man. All night and day out of fright. Scott Rock and Roll band. Give us a hand. Mhm. Yeah, Fixing my car. I don't know what we are working on a boat about, okay? Is involved. Well,

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they really want to be paid in advance in advance. That's the arrangement we made. Hey, don't you trust me? We trusted Nick. How much is it? It's 100 bucks. Like we said, it's company policy. $100? That's right. He goes 20. Yeah. 40 60 80. How about

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2011? No, Nick, it's better this way. We're all squared up. Okay, Joe, I got us a job playing in a used car lot in San Francisco. Not exactly Carnegie Hall, but it was his start left so that he was just a fool. Now she got a

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cat that in school taking money away. And I wanted to talk body. Yeah, moment. God knows nobody can do most anything, but no with my good morning Mhm. Hi, soul brother. How are you? Didn't I see you at Woodstock. Look at this car. Is this the

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one you've been looking at? Look at this price. Let me show the engine here. That's all right. Let me show. The engine is right back here. Good body. Yeah, with this body can do. Don't. I'll get everybody body. This star is low mileage. Look at that

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engine like that. That's a good sounding end. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Take your time. Take your time. Yeah, that's very nice. Show you more about this car. Best car in our lot. I love this car you'd really be smart to buy. We got soul prices today during

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this soul music supercar just for you. Mm. How have you seen my face? Mm. Wow. Spring move. A little warmer Thai life. Well, the crowd we attracted, like the music that wasn't in the mood by cars that day, night and night. Hey, get down off there.

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Got to have it now. Here are some of the gigs I got us. We're pretty weird now that I think back on it. Nobody ever complained, though. At least not to my face. Sure. I've had some crummy gigs lately. Mhm. Yeah. So always gives us the

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real psycho jobs. He's my standard of bad taste. Anyway, what's the difference? We're all just so human comic strip characters. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. It wasn't a bad taste. I would I would have no taste at all. Yeah, yeah. Mhm. So I took it upon myself to

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make sure the Redlegs got ahead in the world. And believe me, that wasn't easy. Hey, Joe. You done there, man? Yeah, I'm here. I got a registered letter for you. Yeah? Yeah. And you're from Luna Records. I guess you guys been waiting for this a long

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time. Yeah. Do you want to sign for it? Mhm. Okay. Yeah. The lunar records. Yeah. Okay. Looks like you guys finally made it. I'll see. Who knows? Let me wipe your pin off for you. I'm a little sleazy. That's okay. Okay. Hey, Joe, where you gonna

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open the letter? Mhm. Oh, yeah. Let me let me look at this goddamn thing. Mhm. You know the records, huh? Yeah. What's it say? Too much. You wanted to come in and do a recording session next Tuesday? I will see you at two. PM and anticipated

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productive session under my personal direction. George Weekly. Yeah, we'll make it better to do on Tuesday. Hey, you ever see this thing, right? No, I've never been down. They're gonna come and check this out. Yeah, I'd like to see him. Come on, now. Yeah. Wow. I

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might have to prime it up once. Oh, yes, there is. 60 years old at the time. Gonna have electric star of hard like Oh, yeah. Hey, are you mhm? Oh, great. Beautiful. Real nice. Real nice. We'll go with that. Take. Let's

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try the same old lady Blues tape rolling. Ready? Same old lady blues. Take one. The Redlegs were great with a live audience, but a recording session require discipline and a serious attitude. It's common type. I won't. Oh, got to ask you now. Oh, silly questions. How

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can I go on or with the same old? I'll let him Blue, right. What's wrong? What's wrong? For one thing, the basis attitude. Yeah. So do me a favor, um, for me to have a little Mm mm. Mhm. All right, Joe, listen on this next take,

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huh? Let's clean up the guitar a little bit. Okay, Let's play a little cleaner a little smoother, okay? good. Right? Take two. Same old lady blues. Okay, dandy. The third number. It's come Mhm. I won't. I want to ask you to hold it. Cut. What's the

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matter, George? Okay, you put it a little slower at the beginning. You really put your heart and soul into it, like slow and then kind of speed it up. Okay. Can we do that? You want to change the tempo? Yeah. OK. Can you do that? It

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seems like an unusual request. I don't see a reason why we couldn't change the tempo. You guys do understand, huh? All I'm trying to do is make it a little more commercial. Perfect. You guys are playing. You know, I'm not gonna you know, just do it

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my way. I probably trust me. No problem. Okay. Swell. Take three from the top. Same old lady blues One more time. Okay? Mm. I guess I come right to the point. A long, long time ago. We play that joint me reluctant time role. Don't you ever

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sell your story when we come again? It's got to be Well, let's good catch. Okay. To just plain no good, cause y'all nasty. Oh, boy. Yeah, Yeah. Classical. Mm. Mhm. Mm. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Got no plan. Why

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try? Mhm. Mhm. You are Master Master Master. That's what I said, Boy. What the hell was that? That was supposed to be the same lady blues, huh? Don't you guys want to make a record? What is

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there? Forget it. Hey, let's go home. This guy make a record? Hell, we made world. You guys want to go? Hey, Steve. Hey, Steve. You want to make sure you get the guitars, George? Believe like, you know, I guess it just wasn't possible for the red

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legs to not have fun with their music. After that episode, I decided to cool it for a while. Besides, the band needed to begin work on the Richmond if we were going to turn Joe's dream into reality. Uh huh. Yeah, come

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on. Mhm. Well, after the bottom job's finished, Joe, what do you say we get out of here, You know, and go someplace uncivilized or something? Yep. We gotta take the band and load all our shit on the boat. I'm like, maybe in July or August, try

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to catch the west winds and get down the coast we could get. Like a lot of cities in Mexico and Central America. We could come sailing in there, just for openers. Come in singing five part harmony as we come up to the pier or drop the

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anchor. Uh, like all the all the logos would just come out and say, Hey, what's going on? We probably wouldn't be able to speak their language. We just get our guitars out and start playing. Sure. So did everybody should come down and play at the local

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bars. We can probably go in there and make as much as $100 in that. That's the basic problem of world cruising. Is having enough money to get from one place to the next to buy your groceries and stuff like with the band like this. We can

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probably make it very easily. Maybe we could go all way around the world like that. I've been over here and pick the Richmond's knows. Here's another one. Okay, right. All right. Uh huh. I'll admit sailing around the world playing

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rock and roll may have been a naive fantasy, but if anybody could pull it off, we could. We were young and willing to work. Nothing was impossible for us. Mhm. Okay. Mhm. Mhm doing, Joe? Just put some wood. Okay? That's right. Sure, man. Start from here

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and work this way. See that mark there? Look down. Go this way. Oh, yeah. All right. Don't go beyond that, though. People cuts on it. Yeah, cut it down. All right. Okay. Okay. Just kind of rounding them. Also. You hit your head against it hurts so

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much. How's that? Perfect for everything we're doing now will be memories later. You better do the fact that you can. And if you start right now, it's bound to get better. You'll soon have much more, you understand? And I think we're living in the good old

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day best anybody's ever had. I think we're living in the good old days. So cheer up my breath and black in the past Ain't nothing but a shadow in your mind tomorrow. May not Uh huh. It's all enough. You're Wait. Don't give up whole

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day. Yeah. The Richmond seemed to take forever, but everyone found a job to do. And we didn't quit till it was done. Joe was good at keeping us inspired. He had a knack for finding parts. They had been stuck in the mud for who knows how

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long. Today? You'd say we were recycling back then. It was scrounging for junk. We had rejected the system, and we're quite happy to live outside. It's stifling conformity. We did our own thing and didn't bother anyone. Well, almost anyone You knew when you saw the suits

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and ties, there was going to be trouble. But it wasn't going to come from us. We were usually too occupied with our friends and our boats to be the cause of anything that would disturb the peace and tranquility of our community. Take that. Yeah. Multi wiring

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and can see it doesn't have a rail. I have some letter after letter. Talk to everybody who listen and and nothing. Just place the pig style. Uh huh. Yeah. I mean, okay. Mm. Yeah. Believe it or not, Swanson, this is prime real estate. And the county

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wants a development as soon as the Board of Supervisors votes the proper authority. Yeah, It's all this in your report. Indeed it is, Michael. No running water, no proper bathrooms. I've never seen so much junk in my life place. is a disaster. That Well? Yeah. Who

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are these weirdos, anyway? Most of them are refugees from Haight Ashbury. Robbie? I recognise Swanson, but who's the other guy with him? I don't know, man, but they're sure giving all the bad vibes this way. You know, I think they want to take this place down.

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Oh, man, they've been talking that crap for years. They're not going to take it down. They'll take it down over my dead body about myself. I like that out. But that's ridiculous. I don't know how you can stand to live in a thing like that. Why

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you can't even stand up in it. Yeah, well, I don't need to stand up anyway. I go back to my boat. I like to sit down or I like to rest and lay down. Oh, come on. You can't mean to tell me that you play your

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guitar lying down? Sure. Why not? Well, I'm here to tell you that the building code will not permit you to live in a boat that does not have standing headroom. Mr. Inspector, I don't tell you how to build your house. I bet you're telling me how

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to build my vote. Well, of course, it's for your own good for safety. We don't want anything bad to happen to you. That one over there. Incredible. I've seen so much of it. You get used to it after. I don't think it's supposed to go there.

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That, uh oh. Here comes one. I am. That's it. You're my heart counting, huh? Come to see the animals in the zoo. Just let's go. Wait. Yeah. Mhm. Eventually, the Richmond made a nice home for Joe, Pam and Little Sammy, which

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was good because they were about to have another baby. Another cup of coffee? No. I'm going to cut out. You want to go? No, I don't think I can make it. You know, you might pop today while we're gone. I better not pop while you're gone.

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It's too bad you can't go. If I went, I'm afraid you'd have to carry me. Mhm. Okay. Well, I'll see you later. Okay, Bye. Goodbye. Yeah. Mr. Swanson, would you please make your presentation? Thank you, Ladies and gentlemen, Board of Supervisors. The houseboats in Sausalito do

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not come up to the community standards either in terms of sanitation or housing since one picture is worth 1000 words. My assistant here, Ralph, has a slide show that I think amply demonstrates the seriousness of the problem. We have rights now, please. Yeah. Now, here we

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see a typical houseboat in Sausalito. You'll notice that there is no guard railing there to prevent Children and animals from falling into the bay. Mhm. It doesn't have the required numbers of doors between the bathroom and the kitchen. It has no electricity, and it has no

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hot and cold running water. Uh, you also notice that there's a certain amount of visual pollution connected with a boat that looks like this. We have a film here that was taken by a local TV station, and I believe that you have a right to see

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the kind of life that live down there. Yeah, from company. Oh, mhm got dirty way, Mr. Chairman, That concludes my presentation. Thank you very much. You should do. Thank you, Mr Swanson. I want to commend you for a fine job on that presentation, Mr Chairman. Thank

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you, Supervisor Whitehead. At this point, unless the supervisors have anything to say, we will now open the discussion to the floor. Is there anyone who wishes to speak on this matter? Yes, sir. The gentleman over there in the third row. My name is James W. Hazelwood

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from Tehran. Mr. Chairman, I'd like you to know that I feel that the land occupied by these houseboats is an unproductive land. Also, the taxes obtained from these houseboats is extremely small compared to conventional property. Thank you. Mhm. Wow. Mr. Chairman, My name is Mrs Bell.

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I'm from South Toledo. The movies we have seen here tonight clearly demonstrate the levels that these people will stoop to. And I don't think our Children should be. Let's go through this. Yeah, no problem. All this pollution and housing code stuff is just a smokescreen. The

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fact is, is that a lot of people with power and money want to make this area into a rich man's playground trying to rip us off. All right, Please, Please. I would like very much for the Board of Supervisors will not tolerate this form of behavior

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from the audience. And if it continues, we will have this, uh, this meeting room clear. So I want you to be quiet. All right? Is there anyone else who wishes to speak? Yes, sir. That gentleman. The back row there. My name is pure Okaroh. I live

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in game five on a ferry boat called San. Not here, I've lived there. I've lived on the waterfront for more than 20 years. I'd like to tell you about the excellence of our community for more than those 20 years on that mud flat. A very important

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a very healthy community has come into existence. This community is composed largely of your sons and your daughters, The Children of the middle class. They come in usually very incompetent, often psychotic, often with cops at the bags, not knowing how to solve board. But they come

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in and nobody says yes or no to them. They find a place and they spend the next year sometimes two and three, building and rebuilding. This their houseboat turns out to be interestingly, vernacular architecture very interesting and very important. Also, they come to do a very

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other important thing. They come to find a world in which they can operate and they can move. The reason that they come is because the world that was your world cannot accommodate their needs. They either have too much energy or too much talent or too much

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rebellion. In any case, there, the up and accommodation has to be made for. If you pass this ordinance, you'll make it impossible for those kind of young people to live on the waterfront. You'll make a middle class marina too expensive for us. What the? Well, you

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can build more hospitals. You can build more jingles. You can hire more police. You can have more social workers probation officers. But that's what would have happened if these people had not come onto this waterfront. As it is for 20 years, I've watched these people come

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in. Now they're all my old friends. A young man comes in and makes himself a home and finds a chip and has kids. The kids now are growing up in high school and college. It's a very healthy and excellent community where people live freely and well,

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and the adoption of this ordinance. We'll bring that to an end. I hope that you will not adopt the order, Mr. Chairman, I find this kind of emotional plea as disgusting as a sewage permeates that area down there, and I, for one vote for this or

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the adoption of this ordinance. Mhm. I do believe in humanistic values in the society and I vote against this ordinance. Mhm. This issue, as I see it, is one of sanitation and building codes. So under the circumstances, I have to vote in favour the adoption of

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the ordinance from the evidence presented here this evening, both pro and con. It's clear to me also that the real issue here is not one of sanitation is the real issue here. Tonight is the issue of a difference of lifestyle and therefore I have to vote

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against this measure, right? Mhm. I haven't been that there are 24 and two opposed. I will have to cast the deciding vote. Keeping in mind the facts which have been presented here tonight I vote for the ordinance. Water Order, Please Order! Please order the border, please.

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Now move on to item number eight on the agenda and we'll all move on home. Okay. Mhm. Yeah. Oh, I am. Oh, let's blow out about four more of those, huh, Sam? And we'll get him working up on deck because your mother how

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awful you are. Yeah. Uh huh. This will be used. This, huh? How long have you been doing this? Well, six years ago, I delivered my first babe this down on his houseboat. We named him. See, Boy, that's appropriate. Yeah, well, I think I'm going away. Buzz

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off and do their work. I'll see you later. Mhm. Thanks for pulling this mark. Calling on Can do stuff, Uncle Fred. Mhm, Uncle Colin. So now Joe had two kids, a rock and roll band clamoring to sail away and a county government hell bent on destroying

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his home and community. But Joe was not afraid of the future. And when he said, Don't worry, everything's gonna work out fine. You could almost believe him, but times were changing, and not even Joe could stop the tide. The developers had caught onto a good thing

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and weren't about to let go. Not when they could turn a profit on the space we occupied. But it was more than money. They simply felt threatened by our lifestyle. Mm. I know it's been moving along slowly, but we've just about got things wrapped up now.

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But, Jimmy, we've only had approval for a month. Look, we've got a good man on the job, and it shouldn't take long. Hey, Ralph. What about boat number 10? I think they painted it. It's a lot nicer. Kind of a burnt orange. Let me see. Yeah,

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they're fine. Number nine. Mm. Well, what about it? I can't seem to locate eight, sir. 998 Ralph, Keep looking. You'll find it. Mhm. Nancy, could you come over here for a moment, please? Nancy, I've got a plan. Another plan? Yeah, we are short of information. Ralph

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and I only have a list of names, but what we really need is a lot more. I think what we need are some feminine charms. Uhh! Mr Swanson. Yeah. Yes, you do. It's very important to us that you do this. All right. Now, this is what

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I want you to do. You're gonna go down to the waterfront. Yeah. Hello. The houseboat community was very confusing to outsiders. We had few street addresses or telephones. And houseboats frequently changed locations as couples got together or broke up. It would be hard for the county

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to find anyone, especially with names like Captain Garbage and Michael Woodstock. With all the goings on lately, we had every right to be suspicious of strangers entering our territory. I'm looking for Joe Tate. Do you know where I could find him? What did you want him

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for? Well, I'm with the Census Bureau, and I'd like to ask him some questions. He lives over behind the towel. Over here. You just go out the door here and across the field and ask anyone in the parking lot. And I'll tell you. Thank you. She'll

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never find him. I know, as usual, the wrong tool for the wrong job. Hey, Joe. Hey. Check out that tuna. Well, baby, I should like to get you dirty. Mhm. Okay? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Mm. Okay. Just to hear Mr K. Are you here? Yes. Yeah.

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At your service, man. Who is it you're looking for? Are you really a sheriff? And I think you're the guard for the shipyard. Sorry. Like the local cop? Oh, I was looking for Mr Joe Tate. Do you happen to know where he is? He doesn't live

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around here. Somebody's been putting you on, ma'am. He lives near the old yellow dredge, and the only way to get there is to go by boat. You take the main channel aways. Then turn left after the red light. Watch out for more in line. Yeah. Time

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to go. Really? Oh, mhm. Uh huh. Yeah, yeah. What? Mm. Yeah. Hey, have you guys seen Rotate around? Joe Tape. See, I I I saw Miss Martin. What do you want it for? I'm with the Census Bureau. Jeez, have you seen him? Have you seen your

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tits off? You want to see him for? Yeah, he's no good. He's just awful the worst. Tell you what, Come over to my place, and I'll show you my bullet. No, no, I have to find Joe tape. Well, good luck. Yeah, the guy you should talk

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to is Leroy Dong. He's got a boat out there and ask anybody for Leroy. Don. He knows. Where's your potatoes? Can't miss it. No. Mhm. Yeah, Yeah, yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah. Mm. Mhm. Mhm. Okay. Mm. Mhm. Uh huh. Yeah,

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Yeah. Damn it. Uh huh. Swan. Yeah. Feminine charms. What a bunch of bullshit. Right? Mm. Go Ralph. Right up there. Yeah, Higher committee. Good timing. Good timing. It's Saturday night in the full moon. Oh, may I borrow that contraption? Hey, wait. A minute. Those

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are County Staples. Thank you. 600 people dance here tonight. You people are unbelievable, You know that? Why do you realize this neighborhood would be really weird if we didn't get to dance once in a while? Yeah. Yeah. Come on, Ralph. It's getting cold out here and

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throat go. Yeah, I remember the Charles Van Dam, a worn out old ferry boat that the Redlegs converted into a homemade dancehall. It was funky. All right, but that didn't stop people from flocking on board come Saturday night.

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Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah. Okay. Lets her one more time for the starboard watch now. Great, aren't they? Joe ran these parties like he led his life. No liability insurance, no closing time. And the only idea required was two bucks at the door. We were definitely out

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of control, enjoying freedoms that the rest of society had long ago repressed. Well, Mama, she really can't. Yeah. Oh, Every dance was a benefit for some local cause. A form of

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group insurance. If someone felt sick or got hurt, or if your boat sank a benefit would raise some cash and get your floating again. Okay. This is my benefit, and I do feel responsible for it. But this

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Saturday night it's been set up for a week. If you don't stop it, we're going to have to go in and stop it. We can taper it off, but we can't stop it dead. Everyone's got to be out of here and on their way home. Never

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make it in 15 minutes. What's going on, Joe? He just says 15 minutes to clear the boat. Yeah, never make it in 15 minutes way people like What's the deal? What you want to clear them out for? Those are Mr Swanson's orders. You want to wait,

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So why don't you go in and see what you can do to get the people will be a lot easier that way. You want me to go up and tell them that they've got to leave? Yeah, it's going to make it much easier. And if we

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have to listen, if you wanted to leave and you want somebody to tell them you're gonna have to do it yourself. But I'll be accommodating to the point that you can use my microphone. In the meantime, I'm gonna go play. That place is like a bottle

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of nitro in there. You know, you're gonna be easy with. It'll blow up. Yeah, yeah. Follow a following all the way. Did you baby a bottle of wine? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I drink a bottle of wine. Well, what is it, Robbie? We have a special announcement

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here from Robbie. You ought to know something. The cops are outside right now the Maroon County Sheriff's Department, And they're going to come in here because right now we're not supposed to be having a bash. They let us have bashes before this one. They're cutting off.

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So if you're holding anything, get off. And if you're drunk and underage, colon, cause they're coming in So you at least know, man, you know? Yeah, well, you know, anytime somebody comes up to me and says I can't have any fun, I just do like this.

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I take two steps back, All right. By Red Rocket. May I have your attention, please? This is an illegal assembly. We hereby order you. This is an illegal assembly. I hereby order you to disperse and leave these premises immediately. Any person failing

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to leave these premises immediately will be subject to arrest Okay, Please move out. And as first as quickly as possible. Well, look at guys. I don't know about the rest of you, but I think I'm gonna get out of here. This is what it looks like.

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A great Oh, yeah. Long time no see. Sure. We're together. We've been playing a lot. Yeah. Oh, yeah, Yeah. Expecting a big crowd over there tonight, huh? Uh huh. You want you want to be there at six o'clock? Yeah, we can do that.

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The equipment coming in the boat right now. Okay. Yeah, we know where Winterland is. I'll see you at six. Okay, Bye. I'm going to vote. Let's go meet the boat, huh? Come on. Yeah, We're gonna go meet the boat. Don't ask me how I managed to

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get the Redlegs an invitation from Bill Graham. Here was our big chance. Or so I thought. As Mr Responsible road manager, I was determined to get us and the equipment to the gig on time. And rather than lugging all that heavy gear, I figured it was

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faster and easier to move it by boat. Well, I'll do it fast. Looks okay. Huh? What? Come on now. Okay, Come on. All right, let's go. What? Hi, there. Don't worry, Joe. It's always easier taking it by both. Been carrying it by. No work at all.

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Now I'll meet you over there. Sure, man. Take your time. Yeah, Yeah. Mhm. Ouch. Right. Keep your head still and nothing will go wrong. Thank you. Mhm. Uh huh. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Well, it's just coming along. Just great. Won't believe yourself. Mm. Mhm. Oh, shit. Look

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at that. Come here. And wow. Well, hey, Jeff. You hear it? Mhm. I knew it. Hi. I'm sorry, man. Uh huh. This this should be all right. Right? You guys gonna play tonight, Jeff? Well, it might be saltwater blues golf. I hate to Washington. You lose,

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buddy. This was not my proudest moment. I should have known better. Now. My grand plans were sunk. Yeah, the Richmond was just about seaworthy. That turned out to be a good thing to because the beginning of the end was about to arrive. Okay. Mhm. I think

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I know. What is this thing? It's just a bunch of bullshit. Are you going to do? What can we do? That's the thing. I was on a boat this morning. Said notice to remove or destroy Look serious. It says were substandard. Should you do something? Well,

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the boat isn't running. We're not going anywhere. They you know later for SWATs. And I'll do better than that. I'll remove it and destroy it. Mm hmm. Wow. That all right? A lot more time. I seen it. Tommy troubled times. Here again. I got no money

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to pay my bills. Well, and it showed us a black truffle times again. The price of beans. Amanda, I get hard, Get no gas. If I could, Would I go? They just go down. The funhouse made a mess. Swanson.

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He's definitely on the spot. Yeah, well, he leaves us in the spot. Our trouble with him is that he doesn't see that it's a much milder affair. And so he's at war with us. We've become the enemy. They'll do the wrong thing. You can be sure

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of that. They'll do it stupidly. They'll be outrageous, and they're doing of it. And in the end, that's what will save us. Hopefully, hopefully well, they'll pay for every step they take in here. Well, we'll pay for it too. Yeah. Come when somebody wants what you've

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got bad enough. You can bet they'll keep on trying to get it away from you. The developers had managed to get the law on their side. And so the day finally arrived when the county sent in the cops to remove and destroy our houseboats. Uh huh.

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Yeah, Yeah. Great. Yeah. The cops didn't know the rules were going to be different that day. Now that they had dared to venture onto our turf, they knew how to tow a car, not a houseboat. And they were clearly out of their league. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah.

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Mhm. Hey, what the hell do you think you're doing? Come on, buddy, Make it easy on yourself. Just get off the boat. We'll get off. I'm getting off this boat. Come on. This is my property. Everybody notified that this floating home is occupied or used by

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you is in violation of the uniform building code in Marin County Ordinance 1675 You've had ample notice already. You leave these premises immediately or be subject to arrest for interfering with an officer in the performance of his lawful duty. This structure will be towed to the

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heliport holding area. You have 48 hours to remove your personal belongings. Then this structure will be subject to demolition. Well, I'm moving off this boat. It's mine. Yeah, You better get off the boat or you're gonna be arrested. You ain't heard the last of this. You

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guys, you'll hear about it. Mhm. Mhm. That's correct. Command Central Tugboat 12 commands that Tugboat 12. Come in. Over. Talk about 12. Dragged that derelict down to heliport Beach out. Hey, Joe. Joe! Hey, what's happening? They just took my boat away. Who did? The sheriff. They

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towed it up to the heliport. They just went out the channel. No shit. Yeah, they just left. We gotta do something about it, man. They will. Hang on. Okay. Okay. How long they've been gone? They just left. They just towed it out the channel. Oh, yeah.

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Well, maybe we can catch him. Hey, Kim. Hey, look at me and I just took The sheriffs came and took Eddie's float away. Hey, Coogan. Yeah? The police just took Eddie's boat away. Man, we gotta do something. We're gonna go out and chasing swept out the

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channel. Let's go get it. Come on, Dodger. Mota? Yeah, Yeah. Bring it on in. Bring it in now. Killed. Yeah, Sheriff, This operation was going like clockwork. Mhm. Yeah. In exactly 12 minutes, that boat will be back to pick up number three. Stand clear out

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there. Get that boat out of here! Come on! Come on! Throw it away! Throw it out! This is my property. You're not going to beat it. Hey, buddy, get off that boat! Hey, Eddie, cut the line! Let's get out of here. Put that knife down! Just

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put that knife down and nobody will get hurt. Now move out! Here's a gun on me, Joe. I think we better get out of here. She's mhm. All right, let's get this thing out of here. What's going on here? Just cops to be here. This is

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my home. This is where I live. You can't take my house. I'm sorry. We're going to have to tell us about it. Maybe you can do something about later, but right now, please, please don't take it. Don't you guys realize what you just did? You guys

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just You just took our house away. Hey, those guys are saying robots and something goes off the pick off the boat. All right. Quit talking. About what? What? Mr. Swanson? Looks like trouble down there. Could I just quit? Quit. You can't

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quit. He can't quit. Get on that boat. You better get up, guys. Yeah, I'll give you something to walk on. What's up? Okay, Tell you what. Drop your club and I'll give you a first. Put your asshole. Hello. Coast Guard, this is emergency. Come in, Coast

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Guard, come in. Coast Guard. All right, back away. Hi. Yeah, but on the other. Don't worry, Sheriff. Coast Guard will be here in just a moment. Alright? We're getting close enough. All engines ahead. One half. Great weather already on the story. We're making our approach now.

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We're not gonna tell that both the Coast Guard is not in the towing business. You've got to violation of all night. No dice. I will not tell that boat. Mr. Swanson, What are we going to do? The captain told the boat and there's people all over

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here so that boat away, when people just won't let us see about my men. Well, that's your worry. We're not in the towing business. What do you want to Give me that. Mike Swanson, this is Sheriff Beasley. Never mind about that boat getting my men off,

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you know. Aye, aye, sir. We're going and get them. Helmsman all back. Let's back in and get those people. Sheriff, let's go back. Let's go get Hey! Yeah, Okay. Yeah, Yeah. All right. When you get these people under control, Here

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we go Now. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah! Yeah, I get that. Here we go. Way back, man. Mhm! Yeah! Yeah, yeah! A Yeah, yeah! Come on. Mhm! Yeah,

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Lieutenant, I want these people to do it. I don't want them running around my boat. Lieutenant, can you get these people under control? Stand clear. This is a Coast Guard vessel. You got them. Got it. Okay, do any good right now. Come on, get below. It's

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getting near the time. They're putting on the screws to the free people and the people on the hill with all the money. Say we've had a No. And we're judge and we'll jury. Let's make it time. Let's make some law so we can cut the right

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of free people. Show them independence of the souls. No match for the state and the people on the hill. What they've done some day too late. Those were only just as free as the least of us can be

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freed. People we watch our rights being. So we taken away. Yeah, Yeah, we had plenty to celebrate that day. We had held back the authorities. I wish that moment could have lasted forever. But an era was about to come to an end. The future would see

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the community split apart and scattered by the forces of change and development. Now, the community that once flourished here has left without hardly a trace. Only the memories remain along with these pieces of film to tell our story. Mm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

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As you feel, Joe. Great. You want to help? You know you're doing okay. Hold on. You ought to try it. No, that's okay. I'll let you run her all the way to Costa Rica. Things are getting rough for the poor folks in this country. We can't

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afford to travel very far. Okay, let's get the facts. The price of gasoline always raise it slightly. A few of us can steal a four car our last free life. Wait on off our last year waiting on the way. That's the only freeway gonna take us.

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Anyway. I guess we're all gonna have to go say now I take a train to somewhere. Oh, but I ain't got me. Or I could take me a planed elsewhere, But I get there from now. Be able to lease a

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Yes. Don't you know many is? The poor man would like to live rich man's dream. Find a ship to take out on the ocean. Three. Right? Wait on the water. Last thing.