Joe
Hey, old man,
you look at me.
I got something
to say to you.
Every time we land
someplace new,
you say it's gonna be
different, but it ain't.
You mess up a lot,
then you leave a mess
for me and Mama
and that ain't right.
That's all I'm saying.
Hell, I do
what I gotta do.
You do whatever
the hell you want,
whatever you can
get away with.
You're just
a selfish old drunk.
Yeah, that's
what you is.
This place is
gonna be after us.
Hell, they'll be
on you,
and they're
gonna beat your ass.
And I hate
to see you go down.
I know
you're my daddy.
You know you sure are,
ain't you?
I'm talking at you.
What you done
this time,
they'll beat
your ass to sh*t.
That's what
they're gonna do.
You can
count on it.
...service but was looking
and it looked as if close
with a little
thunderstorm complex-
Round 'em up, Junior.
- Yo, it ain't lunchtime yet.
- Round 'em up.
Let's pack up the gear, guys.
Let's get
out of here!
One at a time,
one at a time.
- Hey, hey, hey- one at a time.
- I'm trying to get situated.
Go, go, go.
Why y'all moving so slow? Looks
like y'all goddamn turtles out there.
It's getting
rained on!
Damn, Joe, when you
gonna get that new truck, Joe?
What's wrong with this one?
It's raggedy. You can't
tell what's wrong with it?
- You don't know?
- Yeah-
- Damn right.
Let me get
a cigarette.
I'm gonna have to start
taking this out of your pay.
All right, then.
See you tomorrow
if the sun comes up.
I'll holler at you
in the morning. Let me know.
All right.
Which jersey now?
Pittsburgh yellow?
All right!
You can see
the moisture moving northward
out of Mexico and also
out into the Gulf of Mexico,
meeting up
with this frontal system,
which is slowly being-
been sagging southward.
As we look at temperatures
with the cloud cover,
not as hot as what
we've been seeing,
but the cool-down isn't
related to Canadian air.
Here's some Canadian air over the
northeastern part of the country.
Very high dew points.
This represents a whole lot
and to those tall clouds
producing the heavy rains.
So the showers and
thunderstorms during tonight...
- Morning, Junior.
- Morning, Joe.
Sh*t, Joe. If it's gonna
rain, call me. I'll show up.
What about Shorty?
He get drunk last night?
- Shorty almost got arrested last night.
- What? He what?
Hell, yeah.
All right. Yeah, I'll be up
at Coleman's in 30 minutes.
- Y'all be ready.
- Bye-bye!
Ooh, Shorty, that was
Almost didn't make it
to work this morning, boy.
- I heard some stories.
- You'd be surprised.
Drinking and trying to
touch this lady on the butt.
Here's Joe, y'all. Here's Joe.
Come on, Joe,
help a brother out, now.
- Good morning, Joe.
- Morning.
Y'all come go with me.
- All right.
- Don't know why, either.
Don't make no sense,
though, you know?
- Morning, John.
- Hello, Joe.
- You want some coffee?
- No, I can get it.
It ain't cold, is it?
It was cold yesterday.
Now let's see, you're Bill, right?
I'm Shorty,
he's Bill.
- Where's Sammy today?
- Sammy gone fishing, Joe.
Hell, Sammy told me
you fired him.
I fired his ass
three times already.
You tell Sammy I'm gonna
fire him for good
if he don't start
helping me out some.
- Y'all want some coffee?
Yeah, sure, man.
- See that ball game last night?
- Yeah.
Them boys played
one hell of a game.
Shorty, you want some of these wieners?
- I'm good.
Shorty, if you had one like this,
you'd be a bad boy, God damn.
Uh-huh, whatever. You got
That's a shriveled Slim Jim.
Act like you ain't
got nothing to do today.
Y'all gonna quit
pussyfooting around me today.
You gonna get some
work out of me, Junior.
All right, you're gonna take
the east side over here.
Take the east side
over there.
I want you to take the west
side over here today, all right?
Why you looking at me
like you retarded?
Get that thing on
and go with him.
- Shorty, you all right today?
- Yeah, I'm good, man.
Feeling pretty good? You look
like a goddamn Ghostbuster today.
You all right? You gonna
fight like one today?
- You gonna work like one?
- I work well, my man.
- Huh?
- I'm good.
- All right, don't trip on it.
- Yeah.
Huh? Yeah, you're gonna go
bust a move on me today, Shorty.
Yeah, bust them trees.
A snake!
Better watch it
there, man.
I don't know. That
cottonmouth's pretty big.
Look here.
Look at that. Don't know how big he is.
- Watch it there!
- Watch it!
- Ooh!
Hey, Junior.
Whoo-hoo,
that's a big one now!
He can be known as the snake god.
Joe, you got
nuts of a bear, Joe.
That's what that woman
told me last night-
"I need another snake. "
I've seen one today.
Yeah.
That's what that fat woman said.
We got company.
Let me see that snake.
- Ain't he a nice one?
- Mm.
See those fangs?
You get bit by those,
you're gonna die.
You're gonna wanna die.
Y'all don't kill it.
It's my friend.
- Whoa!
- Damn!
Almost throwed it over by me!
Get back to work, y'all.
The show is over with.
- I heard you screaming.
- I wasn't scared. I just move fast.
Whatever.
What y'all doing?
Y'all cutting these trees?
We're killing trees.
What for?
Nedermeyer land.
get rid of what's on it
so they can come in
and put strong pines on it.
Nobody wants these trees.
These trees are weak.
They're not good
for anything.
These boys will sit down if
I don't stay on their asses.
- Hey, mister.
- Yeah?
I got a question
for you.
You see, me and my daddy
just got into town.
I was wondering if you'd
give us a job.
We're looking for work.
- How old are you?
- 15.
Well, you got 45 seconds to
tell me why I should hire you.
I baled hay before,
I worked on a truck.
I picked tomatoes,
zucchini, cucumbers.
Uh, okra.
Squash.
All right. You're not
afraid of work. Good.
- What's your name?
- Gary Jones.
I'm Joe.
I pay a day's pay
for a day's work.
I pay on Fridays, so you
- Okay.
- But your first real payday is next Friday.
in the morning,
quit at 1:
00or 2:
00.And if we work till dinner or get
rained out, I pay for the whole day.
- Does that sound fair enough?
- Yes, sir.
All right. Follow this line of trees-
- Yes, sir.
- Close to a half mile back to my truck.
- Juice hatchets are in the back.
- Yes, sir.
You get yourself one,
fill it up with poison,
come on back
same way you went out.
- Yes, sir.
- And don't get lost.
- I won't.
- Hey!
Don't you want to know how
much you're getting paid?
- How you doing?
- Good.
Doing all right?
You ready to work today?
- Yes, sir.
- I'm Junior.
- Gary.
- Well, Gary, I'm gonna be over you today.
Raise your right hand. You're gonna have
to swear you're gonna work hard for me.
Not that hand, your right
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