We Are Kings Page #3

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Ladies and gentlemen,

we want to welcome you

to the blues

we appreciate you coming out.

we gonna come out and

play some blues for you.

We need you to help us out.

Put some money in the

bucket, ladies and gentlemen.

make blues today.

Ladies and

gentlemen, hailing from

Baton Rouge Louisiana,

the original swamp fox,

Dustin Ladue, two thousand

12 gator wrestling champion!

Wake up , wake up

ain't not gator I can't handle.

What does the

blues mean to you?

Besides country music,

the blues tells the story

of the human condition,

so when I'm playing

my heart's on my sleeve,

my head don't hurt.

If you don't feel

it in your heart

it can't possibly be the blues.

That's something else.

I like Mississippi

Fred McDowell

that slide, you

know what he say?

I don't play no rock and roll.

That's what he say.

That's on the front

of his record.

I like him.

And then of course you got

the great Robert Johnson.

Now Robert Johnson

everybody has played

Robert Johnson's music

from the Rolling Stones

to Led Zeppelin, Robert

Johnson was the mother

of all blues, but

we wasn't the first.

Layla Knuckles

here gonna play

the laundromat next,

I have no idea why.

But we will follow

Captain King anywhere.

Soup's on!

Tuna and

hotdog buns, that's it!

What did you do

with all the money we made?

That 20 dollars?

18 of it went for gas and

there's not much left.

Well, if

this is all we have

we might as well be thankful.

Can I say grace?

Of course you can.

Lord, thank

you for this tuna.

It's all we have and

boy are we thankful.

And we're thankful to be on this

musical adventure with IB.

Even if playing at

an empty laundromat

was a complete

failure of vision.

Now hold on a

minute there Lord.

You know there was

no

failure of vision

'cause I worked that way

for years made money

and then I ran into

the terror from Baton

Rouge and Miss Goldilocks

and they ruined my business.

Hey now, you

know the Lord always

makes a way for us and I'm

sure he will this time.

Let's observe that with

a moment of silence.

Amen.

Amen.

Now don't

get me wrong I got

no problem with cold tuna fish.

Put some ketchup

on that and whoo!

Do we have any ketchup?

Ketchup, what do you

think this is a restaurant?

Hey guys, listen

to me I have an idea.

How about we play

at a high school.

A high school?

That's the craziest

idea I ever heard.

A 60 year old man

with a wife dying,

club going down the

drain, foreclosure

and you want me to go

play for a bunch of kids

that don't have any money.

you still

getting ready for school?

I know you not.

You pull me up outta here

daddy's not gonna be happy!

Daddy's really not

gone be happy now!

Is he asleep?

Yeah.

I'm a fire

up his P.A. system.

I got a blue

bucket, we need to fill up

dm,dm,dm,dm

So we can make it

to the next town

In a 'ole beat up blue truck

That's right people.

Just one dollar at a time

As long as tuna ain't our dinner

everything will be alright.

I told

you to get ready

for school didn't I?

But you can't get

ready for school

'cause you got your face

in this damn internet.

Look at this place.

For I go upside yo' head!

Man why you

always hitting me?

You ain't never hit me before.

Quit

taking my damn picture!

Let's go!

Wait, do

you have an appointment?

Whoa, whoa,

whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

Hi my name

is Layla Knuckles.

We're super rushed.

If I could just have

a minute of your time

just to explain

what we're doing.

Hi there

Hey, I didn't know

there was another bus.

Today there is.

I mean but I

just missed the bus.

No you didn't.

Uh, that's not

gonna work with me.

Sorry.

Today is a very

special day and you'll see.

Come on, get aboard, let's go!

I missed the bus

and another comes along

I'm sitting in back and the

driver's singing a song.

A driver singing, dad hitting me

and my ears are

ringing very strange.

This is

like reality T.V. show.

It's happening, it's live.

It's happening, it's all

going on, it's like reality

It's like a

whole new art form.

And this is my paintbrush.

What's

with the bucket?

Oh, this bucket.

It's for our arts foundation.

The kids can contribute.

It's for a really good cause.

Hey, we wanna thank

y'all for coming out today.

We trying to make some money

to get to the next town.

You see, we uh, I lost my job.

Can't use the car no more.

Then we ran into this

drunk half frozen guy.

And now we're eating one

can of tuna fish a day.

and we don't have nothing

Yes, the foundation, give

some money to the foundation.

What are you doing?

Nothing

Who are you?

Nobody, man get

that thing out of here.

All y'all sitting out

there looking at me for?

Y'all look like

Popsicles with hair.

You frozen.

Look here, come on up.

Come up closer.

You want to learn the blues

you got to get up

here close to it.

Aw yeah!

Princess,

I give you these

hotdog buns in the highest

amount of gratitude.

I accept these buns

and knight you king of barbecue.

Thank you

Princess Knuckles.

I'm flabbergasted.

A, let's just find

the hotdogs alright?

Holy Moly!

What's going on out here?

What the hell!

Hey kid, hey, hey,

hey it's the kid

from the school, remember?

Get up kid.

Get him in there.

What the hell is this?

Where'd you come from?

Who are you?

Talk to me man!

Where you going?

South

South, south where?

Arkansas to see my aunt.

What you running

away from boy?

My dad's been beating me.

Son I can't hear

it, you got to go!

Do you understand that?

I ain't going back.

Aw naw, you

going back, you going

you got to go back!

I can't take you with me.

You'll get me in

all kind of trouble.

Come on man,

have some heart!

Heart?

Boy I got more heart than

everybody in here combined.

I'm not going to

jail for no minor.

We can't

just leave him here.

We're in the middle of no where.

He don't care.

Look at him, look at him.

He already, he filming.

At least drive

him to the next town.

Dammit there

is no next town.

We got to stop by a

field and cook our food

and we'll just have

to drop him off.

If he can film, he can walk.

And you need to put

that thing away anyway.

Get out my face.

What I'm a do with you boy?

I better go

see about the dogs.

Don't want them to get

burnt up out there.

Oh, it's cold out here.

How they coming?

They almost done.

Tell me, what is your story.

Well it's like

what I already told you

ever since my mom

died my dad's been

just mad and frustrated

all the time.

And hitting you.

Yeah he's just not himself.

Maybe he is himself.

Well he just different.

You miss your mom I bet.

Yeah, I talk to her a lot.

Well, what you gone do?

What are we gonna do with you?

I don't know

but just please don't

let me go back home

Mr. King, please.

Well for right now,

you just take care

of these dogs.

You know they sang so dang good

at the high school

I had an idea.

We got to make a record.

You mean like on

of those plastic things?

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