Promised Land Page #6

Yeah, come on in, man, come on up,

hey I got some coffee brewing.

Yup, there you are, I got you. Okay.

In order to use a drill this big,

it needs a little help. So,

they're shooting all this water and all

this sand into the ground with the drill!

And with all that,

they also shoot chemicals.

No, doesn't look scary?

Okay, great. So what I'm gonna do,

I'll just leave that with you and

and just read that over, just look

Oh hey, I'll sign it right now.

No no, well you should read it over,

and I'm gonna come back.

I'm gonna be in town for a couple of days.

They don't just use one chemical.

They use all of em,

all at the same time,

and some chemicals,

they don't even tell us about.

So,

when they go to do that drilling,

let me show you what happens.

It's dirty!

Oh gross, what is that?

Hey, let me ask you something?

What d'you think?

What d'you mean?

Well I mean, the well, what I mean.

So when they finally start drilling,

there's no way to tell

where all those chemicals are gonna go.

So they start mixing with the dirt

and the sand and the water,

You think it's gonna be a gusher?

Is that what you call it, a gusher?

Well, we're gonna have to do

some test, andand you know,

there's a whole process

No, come on,

we're gonna go through.

now!

I'm not tellin' bout tests.

Between me and you?

We're gonna be partners?

Come on, you could tell me, I ain't gonna

tell nobody. What's your gut feeling?

Uh

Uhm you really seem like a lucky guy.

Yeah.

Whoo! Yeah! That's what

I'm talking about!

Alright!

Yeah.

We preciate you guys comin' by, right?

Thank you.

You want me to show you how bad it is

to have all that dirty water come back up

to the land in a pretty farm like mine?

Let's take a look.

Hey, let me show you.

Oh no, that'sI don't think

Don't worry, I got it.

Uhm

Trust me. Alright, ready?

Wow!

Wait wait wait.

Why do you think it's cool?

Come on guys, we had all

these beautiful animals like cows,

and horses, and chickens,

we even have turtles.

What's this guy's name?

Trigger!

This is Trigger?

Hey Trigger.

Now, do you think Trigger

can survive in my farm?

No.

You don't think so?

No.

Right, let's try it.

NO!!

God, Dad! We struck it big, right here!

Huh? This little two acre lot!

Alright, there you go, take one.

Stick em anywhere you

can, get in trouble.

No. Don't get in trouble.

Alright, so I willI will see you around.

Great.

Alright. Bye.

See ya.

Damn, that's your birthday everyday,

Oh, stop it.

isn't it?

What's he got?

1.8 acres.

How much?

Smart.

Let's just go.

Oh come on, the guy's

gonna get a free 5000 bucks.

Sh*t. Don't say anything!

Hello.

Two dollars.

Yeah. Lynn.

.. So I wake up, 6 a.m. on the ground,

I was on the ground, I didn't know I fell.

Just like this. All the way down, bang!

I kidd you not! I kidd you not!

Wooh! Ma'am, thank you,

I'm gonna bounce at it.

Steve! There he is!

Good morning.

Wow wow, you alright, Adam?

Me animals lost him.

It's not that funny, my God! But you

make me feel good, I'm not gonna lie.

Yeah great, so I'm the bad guy.

I mean, never mind the fact

that we use it. Here, I got it.

You know we spend a billion dollars a day

to freight for that stuff, overseas?

When we got this huge resource right here

in our backyard, I mean that's insane.

Now I got to deal with

some hippie running around.

I mean I don't even know

what that guy's saying.

Mr. Butler, you ain't gonna hold it.

Listen

You seem like a nice enough man, so

I'm gonna be straight with you,

so as to not waste your time.

That little boy right there?

He lost his father, my brother,

you ain't gonna lecture me on the

whole foreign oil dependency routine.

But let me ask you a question, Steve.

If I do this

what I'm gonna tell that boy?

What am I telling him about this farm that

my daddy gave me and his daddy gave him?

What am I telling him about what his

daddy went to the desert to fight for?

See, Steve,

you and I both know that the only

reason you're here, is cause we're poor.

How many wells you got up near Manhattan?

Or Pittsburgh?

How bout Philadelphia? Huh?

It's okay. I get it.

Gd. ht' wht u

yu'r hr fr, rght?

You bout ready, Blake?

Listen, Steve

you ain't never get what you

came here to take from me.

To be honest with you, I don't even

like the fact that you're here trying.

Two minutes, Blake!

You can see yourself out.

Turn around.

Well We definitely have the space.

Food and games to the left, put the

animals and bathrooms to the right.

I bet we could even do

a tractor pull back there

behind the ferris wheel right next

to the you know, the whirly thing.

That's it, I mean what am I

what am I missing?

I don't know.

Oh come on, Sue!

I have never even been to a town fair.

I'm not P.R., this is for

the back up team.

We are the back up team!

Trust me, you wanna win?

This is how you do it.

Look, if we can't sign

everyone to a lease,

at least we let them know what

it feels like to have some money.

Now what am I missing?

Bouncy castles.

Congratulations.

You just got a job in P.R.

Well hello there.

Are you the owner of this place?

Oh good. We're starting

in a field left out. Come on in.

Quite a house.

Yeah. For such a single lady.

I didn't say that.

Yeah, you didn't have to.

I was expecting that

it would have way more cats.

No, that wasn't really a big deal

for me to move back here.

I was living in the city

when my Dad died, they asked me

if I wanted to sell, and

You know, it had been in

my family for generations, and

I didn't wanna be

the one that'd give it up.

It's beautiful.

Yeah.

You know, according to our records,

you do have 82 acres up.

I can give you a couple of tips

to boost your crop there.

Right, that's not for me,

that's for my students.

Oh really?

Yeah, I bring em out here, and I

lock em to the process.

You're teaching farming kids how to farm?

I'm not teaching em how to farm.

Oh, I'm sorry. No, you're teaching

farming kids how to garden.

No, I'm teaching them

how to take care of something.

Alright.

Gimme me the pitch.

You came all the way out here.

No, it's getting late.

Are you serious?

No, it's a whole thing, I mean,

you know, I have a

PowerPoint presentation,

there's an interpretative dance section,

takes atakes a while.

Gimme a little bit of it.

Just the dance.

II can come back.

Hi.

Someone told me

well, I heard youyou from Iowa,

and your daddy,

your daddy he was a farmer.

Grandfather.

What'd you say?

Doesn't matter.

So you got somethin' to say?

Right then say it!

Really?

Yeah!

You guys just f***ing baffle me.

How you just don't get it.

Yeah?

Why don't you tell me?

'Cause I'm really curious about

what it is that I don't get.

Money.

Money.

And I'm not talking about

little pay increases.

I'm talking about F*** you money.

You don't wanna apply for

college loans for your kid?

This money says F*** you, loans.

You worried about car payments?

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