American Honey Page #7

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Yeah? You're f***ed without me,

you understand? I have insight.

I can teach you this sh*t.

Without me, you're...

I don't need your help.

I can do this sh*t on my own.

You wanna do this on your own?

Got you. Do you, then.

I will.

Star. Stop being stubborn. I have insight.

- Hey!

- Where are you going?

To make money.

[JAKE] You don't know how!

What the f*** are you doing?

Is that punk giving you trouble?

[JAKE] Oh, my God.

- What the f*** is this?

- Yeah, he is actually.

- Are you going to the f***ing rodeo?

- Hop in.

This is like a f***ing TV show.

It's like...

- Thanks.

- [COWBOY 1] You bet.

# Mamas, don't let your babies

# Grow up to be cowboys

# 'Cause they're never alone...

[COWBOY 1] Who is that?

- Some a**hole.

- I don't give a sh*t, Star!

- Really, I don't care.

- Your beau?

No, he's just training me.

[COWBOY 2] Where can we take you, darling?

Anywhere, as long as

it's far away from him.

Where you from?

Oklahoma.

You don't sound like you're from Oklahoma.

I was born in Texas.

My mom died three years ago,

so I was sent to Oklahoma.

I'm sorry to hear about that. Cancer?

Meth.

[BOTTLES CLINKING]

Thanks.

You're a long way from home, huh?

Yeah, I do selling. Door-to-door.

Door-to-door selling? What you selling?

Nothing anyone ever wants to buy.

[COWBOYS LAUGH]

Try us.

Magazines.

What kind of magazines?

Is it like porn magazines?

Porn, crochet, fishing. Everything.

I'm sh*t at it, though.

No one ever buys from me.

Well, I tell you what.

We're gonna go burn some steaks,

have some beers.

Why don't you come join us?

We'll buy some of your magazines.

Y'all would do that?

We ain't got nothing better

to spend our time and money on.

All right.

It'll be my first sale.

[BIRD SQUAWKING]

[BOTTLES CLINKING]

- [COWBOY 1] I'll get the charcoal.

- Is this your dog?

[COWBOY 2] Have to get that stuff out

of your truck.

- [COWBOY 1] Come on.

- Hi.

[COWBOY 1] This way then.

- This your house?

- Yep.

[WHISTLES]

All right, baby, right this way.

We're gonna go downstairs

and out back to the patio,

fire up the barbecue.

Step right this way. [HUMMING]

[DOOR CLOSES]

Watch your step, now.

These stairs are a little creepy.

All right.

[COWBOY 1] All right.

- You've got a pool?

- [COWBOY 1] Yep.

Towels are right in there in the cupboard.

- You want another beer, honey?

- Have you got something stronger?

Well, I think I might have some mescal.

- What's that?

- Mescal!

That's... That's some kind

of a spooky, powerful drink.

That's... That's kind of a hard liquor.

Women can't normally handle that.

Give me some of that, then.

[COWBOY 2] You want some of that, dear?

Is that what you want?

- Well, all right then.

- I don't know.

It's not like normal liquor, you know.

It's got some other kind of power to it.

Sends you to kind of an ecstatic place.

Come here.

[COWBOY 2]

Like... Like ecstasy. Love drug.

[COWBOY 3] Yeah, I drank

a little too much of this...

I got you.

[COWBOY 2 LAUGHING]

[COWBOY 2] Some kind of hoodoo-doo-doo.

[COWBOY 3]

You drink enough of that, you'll bark

like a dog and howl at the moon.

[COWBOY 2] Mescal.

I would like some of this.

- [STAR HUMMING]

- [COWBOY 3 WHISTLING]

[COWBOY 2] You wanna go for a swim?

I don't know how to swim.

Well, you don't really have to swim.

You can stand right there.

Your head'll be above the water.

Mmm.

[COWBOY 3 LAUGHING]

[MUFFLED SCREAMING]

[GASPING]

- Holy sh*t. [LAUGHING]

- Come on.

That's the best way to learn.

Here you go. There you go.

You're all right. [LAUGHING]

There you go.

That's the best way to learn.

[GRUNTS]

[COUGHING]

I cannot stand in that.

[COWBOY 3] You're a little wet

behind the ears, aren't you?

- Pour that up.

- Here you go, darling.

[COWBOY 2 LAUGHS]

[COWBOY 1] You want another one?

Oh, yeah.

- I like a girl with spunk.

- Easy.

- There you go.

- [COWBOY 3] Yee-hah!

[COWBOY 2] That's a hoodoo drink.

I told you, women shouldn't drink that.

That's bad for women to drink.

- F*** it.

- Hey, hey!

[COWBOY 1] Hey, hey, hey. Careful.

[COWBOY 2]

That's a hoodoo drink there, baby.

- Oh!

- Hoodoo, voodoo drink there.

[ALL LAUGHING]

[COWBOY 1] Oh, no.

Careful with that stuff.

Hoodoo voodoo-woo. That's a hooja!

[GRUNTS]

- What the f*** is that?

- [COWBOY 1] That?

That's a worm.

- A worm?

- Yeah, you're supposed to

eat it when the bottle's empty.

Oh, gross.

Well, it's supposed to bring you love.

[COWBOY 2] And luck. [CHUCKLES]

Wait. Is it dead?

[COWBOY 1]

Either that or it's real, real drunk.

[BOTH LAUGH]

That's so gross.

[COWBOY 2] Yeah, people like that worm.

[COWBOY 1] Some people says

they have magical properties.

[COWBOY 3] You eat that worm,

you'll go on a trip and not even leave.

[COWBOY 2 GRUNTS]

[COWBOY 2 EXCLAIMING]

[COWBOY 3] Oh, no.

Mercy.

- [COWBOY 2 GRUNTING]

- Oh!

[COWBOY 3] Magical.

[GRUNTING]

[COWBOY 1]

That'll wake you up in the morning.

[COWBOY 3] No. Put you to sleep.

[COWBOY 2] I think that's enough.

Careful.

I told you now, that's a very

powerful kind of a substance there

to be fooling around with.

You're fascinated with

that worm, aren't you?

You thinking you might

wanna eat that worm?

[COWBOY 3]

No, she ain't woman enough to eat that.

Put the bottle away.

- [COWBOY 1] It's not for women.

- [COWBOY 3] No.

[COWBOY 1]

And especially not for little girls.

Well, then, let me eat the worm.

- [COWBOY 2] Let you eat the worm?

- I got this.

You wanna eat that worm?

We'll buy five of your magazines

if you wanna eat that worm.

Go ahead, eat the worm.

We'll buy five of your magazines

right now at the table.

That's my proposition for you, right now.

[COWBOY 1] I'm in.

You know they're like

40 bucks each, right?

[COWBOY 2] Yeah.

[COWBOY 1]

Boys, put your money on the table.

That's $120 apiece.

[COWBOY 3] I only got $60.

[COWBOY 1] Don't worry about it.

I'll put in for you.

[COWBOY 3]

You should. I bought the steaks.

[COWBOY 2] Here we go.

[COWBOY 3] Yeah, you got me

in trouble with my wife.

[ALL LAUGHING]

[COWBOY 2] There you go. Done deal.

Take it easy. Just take it easy.

[COWBOY 1] Money blowing everywhere.

- Let me go get my pad case.

- [COWBOY 1] Okay.

[COWBOY 2] Get her a towel. [STAMMERING]

What you got there?

I need your name and your address.

[COWBOY 3] Name, address, phone number.

You want our blood type too?

[COWBOY 2] I need my glasses.

[COWBOY 3] Put my name at your address

being as I spend more time at your house.

[COWBOY 2] Forms.

I don't believe in that protocol.

Y'all are serious, right?

- [COWBOY 3] A deal's a deal.

- [COWBOY 1] Yep.

- And we are men of our word.

- [COWBOY 3] That's right.

- [COWBOY 1] Uno, dos, tres.

- Okay, little guy, I'm sorry.

- [COWBOY 3] Oh, there it goes!

- [COWBOY 1] There it goes.

[ALL CHEERING]

- [COWBOY 3] Well done.

- [COWBOY 2] Waggy-daggy!

[COWBOY 3] There you go. Yay!

- All right.

- Pow!

[COWBOY 3] Well done. Well done.

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