VICE Does America (2016) s01e05 Episode Script
The Creationist & The Oval Office
1 Martina: I'm gonna ask now if I'm gonna be happy with the results of the elections of 2016.
So, this is the past, present, and future.
This is kind of being content, having the needs covered somehow.
King of rods represents fire, and it would represent a figure, too, in the present.
Could this be Trump or Obama? Is it, like, a current figure? - It's a current figure.
- So I think that's Obama.
Yeah, that could be Obama here.
The moon is not seeing things clear and being kind of stuck and, like, not knowing what to expect.
And the future is going to be the 8 of Cups.
Leaving the hope behind, somehow, I would say.
You said it's leaving the hope behind? It's having to move away from a situation because you don't have any other option.
That's very intense.
- No more Obama.
- Yeah.
We're reading the cards that are here, but we have also to think about the cards that are not here.
And this is not a good card.
My name's Abdullah.
I work at Vice as a writer and reporter.
Aah! I'm traveling from L.
A.
to D.
C.
with my two co-workers Wilbert and Martina.
As the country gears up for the most polarized election in our lifetime, we're zigzagging across America, - meeting people - [Screams.]
and exploring the issues they care about, until we reach our ultimate destination - Hey.
- The White House.
[Cheers and applause.]
We're halfway through our journey across the United States about 1,400 miles from Washington, D.
C.
We've been traveling through Texas, learning about the changing demographics here.
Some things in Texas don't change, however, and those are the pockets of fringe culture that have always been a part of its identity especially when it comes to religion.
We're in Glen Rose, Texas, and we're about to go meet Dr.
Carl at the Creation Evidence Museum, where he's gonna show us that we came to be the way we are very differently from how science tells us.
How you doing, Dr.
Carl? Hello, Abdullah.
- Hello, Will.
How's it going? - Hi.
You must be the lady to whom I spoke on the phone, right? - No, I don't think so.
- [Laughs.]
Okay, well, very happy to have you with us.
[Laughter.]
Welcome to the Creation Evidence Museum.
Dr.
Baugh: This museum is different from any other museum in the world.
There is a record the Biblical record, which has never been disputed scientifically.
The Bible is a scientific document so that man is not hundreds of thousands of years old.
We can date all of us back 5,000 years, to Noah.
We're all familiar with the story of Noah's Ark.
God announced in advance, "There's gonna be a flood.
" So he commissioned Noah to build a boat called the ark.
He told him how to build it.
He told him to build it 515 feet long.
Most creatures are very small.
The average size would be the size of a sheep.
There would be enough room on one level of the ark to get all all of the kinds of animals.
Wow.
No kidding.
Here, we have dinosaurs represented on the ark.
- Dinosaurs were on the ark? - Yes.
Alexander the Great saw a dinosaur in the age of India.
Mokele-mbembe has been sighted a number of times in Africa around Lake Tele.
He's a living dinosaur.
So, like, the Loch Ness Monster is there some truth to that? Possibly, he would be a plesiosaur.
Dinosaurs are still alive, but very few of them.
Cool.
Wilbert: I want to know what's the connection between creationism as a theory and our current political, you know, dialogue? There's Republican candidates who are talking a lot about creationism, and there's also discussions, like, I think even in Texas where there's sort of a battle about what gets taught in schools.
In the state of Texas, there is a textbook mandate that in the science classes, if there is evidence alternative to the evolutionary theory, it should be taught to the students.
So you're saying evolutionists have not compiled - a sufficient amount of empirical data? - That's correct.
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of, lot of, lot of scientists like, way more than creation concept scientists that say evolution is true.
I mean, they've all accumulated data.
That's a lot of data.
Evolution has become a mandate that it's the only thing that can be taught.
It's the king.
No one else gets a chance to speak.
If you read the Bible closely, there is a matrix of scientific statements interwoven into all the books of the Bible.
So the Bible is a scientific document.
Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth.
" In that single statement, you have space, time, and mass all explained and the causative factor behind it.
So, do you want me to identify the God of creation? The fact that there is a God is required in space, time, and mass.
I think it's like, it doesn't necessarily have to be like, you don't know it seems like you haven't sufficiently proven that there is a God.
- It's not to say that there isn't one.
- Well, that - that's what I'm in the process of doing.
- You know what I'm saying? It's just, like, there's a lot of so-called evidence in this museum, but what is the evidence that a creator actually exists? If there's evidence and there is evidence for creation there has to be a creator behind it.
A Big Bang hypothesis doesn't explain any of that.
Only the Biblical record.
This is a museum having to do with evidence Creation Evidence Museum.
So we look at the evidence.
For instance, this is the Delapparentia, and it's really the icon of the museum.
There was a man who stepped the great toe, second, third, fourth, little toe, the ball.
An acrocanthos dinosaur stepped on and pushed into his footprint.
- Wilbert: Good arches.
- Yes.
That flies in the face of evolutionary theory.
Well, I've heard some people talking about evolutionary theory, saying that the designs of evolution itself are what God created.
What do you think of that? Well, the problem is, if we arrived by a process of evolution but the creator said he created us, then he lied to us.
Now, that's a major problem.
If you're religious.
Yes, if you're religious, but we have evidence that man was present among dinosaurs that was an intelligent civilization.
Were they, like, more capable than we are now in any way? We're much more capable.
We genetically produce 200 billion brain cells.
But we've lost the environment in which we were created.
So by the time we're born, we end up with 100 billion brain cells.
So there's some design going on that is beyond our ability to accomplish.
So, we should have had big ol' heads, right? Um, well, a little larger.
Abdullah: What was it that made the planet different that we can't have bigger brains? Well, actually, I hold a patent on the answer to that.
In fact, I guess this is a good time for us to take a look at that.
Yeah, let's go check it out.
Dr.
Baugh: You're actually inside the world's first hyperbaric biosphere.
We know that the conditions were different in the past.
Plants would grow much larger.
Lepidodendron that today gets 18 inches in the fossil record, is up to 120 feet tall.
What the hyperbaric biosphere will do will be to simulate these conditions.
We're gonna monitor the preference of insects and mammals and avians and reptiles.
You're gonna make big bugs in here, basically? Yes.
If this experiment is 100% successful, what the result will be? If we can demonstrate that under these conditions, life-forms are much more viable, then we will have demonstrated that the creation model is superior science.
And, if this project is successful, we're going to actually grow a little dinosaur.
No matter what you believe, I think you can get behind the idea of making dinosaurs in a tube.
- That's pretty cool.
- [Laughs.]
Abdullah: We'd love to come back when the biosphere's all ready.
Well, when you do, I promise to do my best to take you inside the biosphere.
Thank you so much, Dr.
Carl.
- Thanks for having us over.
- My pleasure.
Abdullah: It's really surprising me that somebody would reference so much science when they're obviously denying so much other science.
Wilbert: It's easy to work backwards, right? How can you ever just discover or figure out anything new if you're only working within a limited point of view? Everything you see, you're using it to confirm what you already believe.
We live in such a religiously charged environment where you have people who are trying to be presidential candidates who are pointing to the science as a backbone or underpinning to their outlook into the world and the way that they're gonna govern.
And, like, those political candidates, also, I feel like, in a lot of cases, they support the idea of creationism because it almost gives us more right to do whatever we want on the planet.
Guys like Dr.
Carl are just a cog in this political mechanism to be able to keep drilling oil and fracking and build the Keystone Pipeline.
I got into a little accident.
The [bleep.]
bumper bumped up against this thing, and it's broken off.
So this is, like, one of the first casualties of the trip.
- Let this shit - [Thud.]
Ooh, my God! [Laughs.]
Abdullah: Before we end our stint in Texas, we're making one last stop at Ron Wade's house.
Ron's got the biggest collection of American presidential memorabilia, including a life-size Oval Office.
So we're gonna go chill in the president's chair for a minute.
["Hail to the Chief" plays.]
Wade: I'm glad to have y'all.
- Welcome to the Oval Office.
- Wow! I've loved politics my whole life, ever since I was a little boy.
And I've been collecting since I was 10 years old.
Feel free just make yourself at home.
Thank you.
So, this is a life-size replica, huh? - Can I sit right there? - Oh, please do.
This is 85%.
I was unable to do 100% because the city wouldn't let me build closer to the next house to make it 100%.
Abdullah: Oh, gotcha.
The desk is identical to the one the president uses every day.
And every president from Rutherford B.
Hayes to Barack Obama have used this desk.
So, this is, like, the the red phone? That's the red phone.
It would automatically dial the Kremlin.
President Kennedy used it during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Bombs away.
Martina: Send a message.
[Laughter.]
Okay, in here this right in here - is what I call my X-rated collection.
- [Laughs.]
My Bill Clinton with his girls.
Um, I have Monica Mouthwash.
- Oh, my God! - Ron, you dirty dog.
Bubba Bill.
[Laughter.]
[Laughter.]
[Laughter.]
Okay.
This is a model of the Lincoln that President John F.
Kennedy was assassinated in.
And these are all replicas of the Kennedy assassination car.
Oh! Would you like to see one? Wait, you've got an actual one? I've got one of John F.
Kennedy's Lincolns.
- Can we take a ride? - Let's go ride.
Abdullah: Some people have collections of, like, you know, baseball cards.
Some people get really specific, and just have a billion Garfield things.
But this is some next-level shit right here.
That is a lot of presidential memorabilia.
He's got pictures and autographs as well as the big shit, like, I mean, an entire Oval Office.
He's got an entire Oval Office in his house.
That's amazing.
Ron, can we please hang out in the Oval Office some more? - Oh, please, yes, yes.
- Have a little chat? - Yes.
- Very cool.
Thanks for the ride, too.
- You bet.
You bet.
- That was super fun.
[Laughs.]
Abdullah: All right, so, who is your absolute, all-time-favorite U.
S.
President? Oh, by all means, my favorite is George W.
Bush.
He's the only president in my lifetime who said what he was going to do if he was elected and then did it.
And then, on the flip side, who is your least favorite all-time U.
S.
President? - Barack Obama.
- Wow! I mean, you know, Barack Obama is an historic president 'cause he's the first black president.
Do you think that that's valid or, you know, that should put him down in history? Oh, yeah.
When he was elected, I thought it was the worst thing that had happened in history.
First of all, I think he was an illegally elected president.
I don't think he was ever a citizen of the United States.
You don't believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States? No, he was born in Africa.
And, um Can you tell me can you tell me how you know? Oh, I don't know.
I don't know.
I just kind of have a feeling.
I just don't think he was born in Hawaii.
There is no proof whatsoever that he was born in Hawaii.
Besides a birth certificate.
That was fabricated absolutely fabricated.
And he immediately said, "Congress is not gonna pass anything that I want, so I'm going to make a decision through executive authority to do these things anyway," which I think is gonna go down in history as illegal.
And, uh, if he had not been black, I think he would have been impeached long ago.
I'm not sure what his goal was, except to socialize the United States, and he's done it.
He's he's accomplished that.
I have health insurance now.
He's so [Laughs.]
I actually do.
I have Obamacare.
- Which we sure hope to repeal.
- I didn't have health insurance before that.
So, top three presidents after George W.
Bush? I don't know.
That would be hard to say because there's so many really good presidents.
I'll put you down one of my least favorite, and that was Abraham Lincoln.
Oh.
How come? He is almost equal to Barack Obama because he [Laughter.]
He, uh He broke the law in so many ways.
He freed the slaves, though.
- He ended slavery in the United States.
- Wilbert: He emancipated Against his he didn't want to.
Slavery would have been done away with if Abraham Lincoln had never existed, but Abraham Lincoln broke every law that there was.
He should have also been impeached.
So, if it wasn't for Lincoln, there would be the Confederate States of America and the Union States, right? - I mean - Which I would support.
I think that we should have two separate countries.
And I don't care which is which.
I think that we could give half of the nation to the liberals and half the nation to the conservatives.
The liberals are gonna be in such a mess after a few years.
We're gonna have to build Trump's wall so big because the liberals are gonna be in such a mess.
I need you to hold this.
[Laughter.]
No, no, I'm not touching that.
I'll take a picture with you.
Come on, guys, I want you all in the picture.
[Camera shutter clicks.]
Wilbert: Shit got really, really real with Ron when he told us that he believed that Barack Obama was not American, he was from Africa, and that he knew it.
I'm not, like, an Obama guy.
You know, I'm not gonna fistfight you in the street for the honor of Barack Obama.
I understand he disagrees with Obama, but he can't accept that Obama is from the same country as him? It's crazy.
Shower customer 132.
Your shower is now ready.
Wilbert: Abdullah, it's time to get that poop out of the old tank.
[Laughs.]
Ah, fuck.
Martina's saying she won't do it.
I didn't pee or poop in there.
[Chuckles.]
I don't own that.
Abdullah: Where's the fucking what do we even hook it up to? There's no nozzle.
So, this is the water right here.
That's the poo hole, yeah, that's the water.
They're trying to find the poop and the pee.
This is the prophesied black snake that the Lakota have been talking about.
You see? How does that work? Look at how they put this thing Okay, but look.
We have it backwards.
Look.
They have this as the end that goes - Yeah, but - All right, you know what? Just drop that shit in there.
Will it fit? No, the shit's gonna splash everywhere.
None of the pieces fit.
It's like fucking bullshit Lego.
Take your septic hose and run one end out the bathroom window.
- What?! - What? And the other end down the toilet, but not too far.
What? This is so complicated.
You know what at this point, even if we just let it all out on the goddamn street, - [Laughter.]
- I don't even care.
[Buzzing.]
I don't know what that noise is.
Did you see any piss coming out of the thing? I mean, it's moving.
Oh, it was moving, though? It's moving, but I don't know if Right now? Right now, it's moving.
Nah, it's just the wind.
It's just the wind.
- [Laughs.]
- Just the wind? Just the it's just the wind.
If we don't Like, and also, it's like, according to the YouTube video, it's a lever that you have to pull.
I don't see any levers anywhere.
Man, this thing is fucked.
Hey, do you know anything about RVs? Yeah, we don't, either.
Up in here or on the inside.
- On the inside? - Yeah.
Oh! Watch out! No, we don't have any duct tape.
[Laughter.]
- Thank you, guys.
- Thank you so much.
Abdullah: The part of America that I've lived in for most of the time that I've lived here, I don't think people would so readily offer their help, especially with emptying out a septic tank.
Martina: Can you feel it? Yeah, I can see it.
- Oh, my God! - Ohhhh! [Laughter.]
Hey, man, thank you so much for that.
Thank you so much, man.
God bless.
- God bless y'all.
- Appreciate it.
Take care.
- Thanks so much, man.
- Anytime, man.
Abdullah: As human beings, we're creatures of prejudice.
We generalize.
That's just our nature.
People out here think differently.
People everywhere think differently, and really, what I'm learning is that there's no regional train of thought.
There's no one kind of American.
There's no one kind of America.
That's the nature of it.
I hope that that's something that I remember when I go back home.
Woman: Whenever they ask me, "Oh, where are you from?" I say I'm from the end of the world.
In 50 years, this will not be here anymore.
Martina: Oh, wow! This place is really sinking underwater.
Are you freaked out seeing all these Confederate flags, man? Each man must decide and choose which side he supports.
I support the Union.
[Laughs.]
Die, you federals! [Gunshots.]
Wilbert: We're all playing make-believe.
Cease fire! But you singled me out for my race.
Okay, cut it off.
Cut it off.
We're not doing that.
- We're not about that.
- You brought it up!
So, this is the past, present, and future.
This is kind of being content, having the needs covered somehow.
King of rods represents fire, and it would represent a figure, too, in the present.
Could this be Trump or Obama? Is it, like, a current figure? - It's a current figure.
- So I think that's Obama.
Yeah, that could be Obama here.
The moon is not seeing things clear and being kind of stuck and, like, not knowing what to expect.
And the future is going to be the 8 of Cups.
Leaving the hope behind, somehow, I would say.
You said it's leaving the hope behind? It's having to move away from a situation because you don't have any other option.
That's very intense.
- No more Obama.
- Yeah.
We're reading the cards that are here, but we have also to think about the cards that are not here.
And this is not a good card.
My name's Abdullah.
I work at Vice as a writer and reporter.
Aah! I'm traveling from L.
A.
to D.
C.
with my two co-workers Wilbert and Martina.
As the country gears up for the most polarized election in our lifetime, we're zigzagging across America, - meeting people - [Screams.]
and exploring the issues they care about, until we reach our ultimate destination - Hey.
- The White House.
[Cheers and applause.]
We're halfway through our journey across the United States about 1,400 miles from Washington, D.
C.
We've been traveling through Texas, learning about the changing demographics here.
Some things in Texas don't change, however, and those are the pockets of fringe culture that have always been a part of its identity especially when it comes to religion.
We're in Glen Rose, Texas, and we're about to go meet Dr.
Carl at the Creation Evidence Museum, where he's gonna show us that we came to be the way we are very differently from how science tells us.
How you doing, Dr.
Carl? Hello, Abdullah.
- Hello, Will.
How's it going? - Hi.
You must be the lady to whom I spoke on the phone, right? - No, I don't think so.
- [Laughs.]
Okay, well, very happy to have you with us.
[Laughter.]
Welcome to the Creation Evidence Museum.
Dr.
Baugh: This museum is different from any other museum in the world.
There is a record the Biblical record, which has never been disputed scientifically.
The Bible is a scientific document so that man is not hundreds of thousands of years old.
We can date all of us back 5,000 years, to Noah.
We're all familiar with the story of Noah's Ark.
God announced in advance, "There's gonna be a flood.
" So he commissioned Noah to build a boat called the ark.
He told him how to build it.
He told him to build it 515 feet long.
Most creatures are very small.
The average size would be the size of a sheep.
There would be enough room on one level of the ark to get all all of the kinds of animals.
Wow.
No kidding.
Here, we have dinosaurs represented on the ark.
- Dinosaurs were on the ark? - Yes.
Alexander the Great saw a dinosaur in the age of India.
Mokele-mbembe has been sighted a number of times in Africa around Lake Tele.
He's a living dinosaur.
So, like, the Loch Ness Monster is there some truth to that? Possibly, he would be a plesiosaur.
Dinosaurs are still alive, but very few of them.
Cool.
Wilbert: I want to know what's the connection between creationism as a theory and our current political, you know, dialogue? There's Republican candidates who are talking a lot about creationism, and there's also discussions, like, I think even in Texas where there's sort of a battle about what gets taught in schools.
In the state of Texas, there is a textbook mandate that in the science classes, if there is evidence alternative to the evolutionary theory, it should be taught to the students.
So you're saying evolutionists have not compiled - a sufficient amount of empirical data? - That's correct.
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of, lot of, lot of scientists like, way more than creation concept scientists that say evolution is true.
I mean, they've all accumulated data.
That's a lot of data.
Evolution has become a mandate that it's the only thing that can be taught.
It's the king.
No one else gets a chance to speak.
If you read the Bible closely, there is a matrix of scientific statements interwoven into all the books of the Bible.
So the Bible is a scientific document.
Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth.
" In that single statement, you have space, time, and mass all explained and the causative factor behind it.
So, do you want me to identify the God of creation? The fact that there is a God is required in space, time, and mass.
I think it's like, it doesn't necessarily have to be like, you don't know it seems like you haven't sufficiently proven that there is a God.
- It's not to say that there isn't one.
- Well, that - that's what I'm in the process of doing.
- You know what I'm saying? It's just, like, there's a lot of so-called evidence in this museum, but what is the evidence that a creator actually exists? If there's evidence and there is evidence for creation there has to be a creator behind it.
A Big Bang hypothesis doesn't explain any of that.
Only the Biblical record.
This is a museum having to do with evidence Creation Evidence Museum.
So we look at the evidence.
For instance, this is the Delapparentia, and it's really the icon of the museum.
There was a man who stepped the great toe, second, third, fourth, little toe, the ball.
An acrocanthos dinosaur stepped on and pushed into his footprint.
- Wilbert: Good arches.
- Yes.
That flies in the face of evolutionary theory.
Well, I've heard some people talking about evolutionary theory, saying that the designs of evolution itself are what God created.
What do you think of that? Well, the problem is, if we arrived by a process of evolution but the creator said he created us, then he lied to us.
Now, that's a major problem.
If you're religious.
Yes, if you're religious, but we have evidence that man was present among dinosaurs that was an intelligent civilization.
Were they, like, more capable than we are now in any way? We're much more capable.
We genetically produce 200 billion brain cells.
But we've lost the environment in which we were created.
So by the time we're born, we end up with 100 billion brain cells.
So there's some design going on that is beyond our ability to accomplish.
So, we should have had big ol' heads, right? Um, well, a little larger.
Abdullah: What was it that made the planet different that we can't have bigger brains? Well, actually, I hold a patent on the answer to that.
In fact, I guess this is a good time for us to take a look at that.
Yeah, let's go check it out.
Dr.
Baugh: You're actually inside the world's first hyperbaric biosphere.
We know that the conditions were different in the past.
Plants would grow much larger.
Lepidodendron that today gets 18 inches in the fossil record, is up to 120 feet tall.
What the hyperbaric biosphere will do will be to simulate these conditions.
We're gonna monitor the preference of insects and mammals and avians and reptiles.
You're gonna make big bugs in here, basically? Yes.
If this experiment is 100% successful, what the result will be? If we can demonstrate that under these conditions, life-forms are much more viable, then we will have demonstrated that the creation model is superior science.
And, if this project is successful, we're going to actually grow a little dinosaur.
No matter what you believe, I think you can get behind the idea of making dinosaurs in a tube.
- That's pretty cool.
- [Laughs.]
Abdullah: We'd love to come back when the biosphere's all ready.
Well, when you do, I promise to do my best to take you inside the biosphere.
Thank you so much, Dr.
Carl.
- Thanks for having us over.
- My pleasure.
Abdullah: It's really surprising me that somebody would reference so much science when they're obviously denying so much other science.
Wilbert: It's easy to work backwards, right? How can you ever just discover or figure out anything new if you're only working within a limited point of view? Everything you see, you're using it to confirm what you already believe.
We live in such a religiously charged environment where you have people who are trying to be presidential candidates who are pointing to the science as a backbone or underpinning to their outlook into the world and the way that they're gonna govern.
And, like, those political candidates, also, I feel like, in a lot of cases, they support the idea of creationism because it almost gives us more right to do whatever we want on the planet.
Guys like Dr.
Carl are just a cog in this political mechanism to be able to keep drilling oil and fracking and build the Keystone Pipeline.
I got into a little accident.
The [bleep.]
bumper bumped up against this thing, and it's broken off.
So this is, like, one of the first casualties of the trip.
- Let this shit - [Thud.]
Ooh, my God! [Laughs.]
Abdullah: Before we end our stint in Texas, we're making one last stop at Ron Wade's house.
Ron's got the biggest collection of American presidential memorabilia, including a life-size Oval Office.
So we're gonna go chill in the president's chair for a minute.
["Hail to the Chief" plays.]
Wade: I'm glad to have y'all.
- Welcome to the Oval Office.
- Wow! I've loved politics my whole life, ever since I was a little boy.
And I've been collecting since I was 10 years old.
Feel free just make yourself at home.
Thank you.
So, this is a life-size replica, huh? - Can I sit right there? - Oh, please do.
This is 85%.
I was unable to do 100% because the city wouldn't let me build closer to the next house to make it 100%.
Abdullah: Oh, gotcha.
The desk is identical to the one the president uses every day.
And every president from Rutherford B.
Hayes to Barack Obama have used this desk.
So, this is, like, the the red phone? That's the red phone.
It would automatically dial the Kremlin.
President Kennedy used it during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Bombs away.
Martina: Send a message.
[Laughter.]
Okay, in here this right in here - is what I call my X-rated collection.
- [Laughs.]
My Bill Clinton with his girls.
Um, I have Monica Mouthwash.
- Oh, my God! - Ron, you dirty dog.
Bubba Bill.
[Laughter.]
[Laughter.]
[Laughter.]
Okay.
This is a model of the Lincoln that President John F.
Kennedy was assassinated in.
And these are all replicas of the Kennedy assassination car.
Oh! Would you like to see one? Wait, you've got an actual one? I've got one of John F.
Kennedy's Lincolns.
- Can we take a ride? - Let's go ride.
Abdullah: Some people have collections of, like, you know, baseball cards.
Some people get really specific, and just have a billion Garfield things.
But this is some next-level shit right here.
That is a lot of presidential memorabilia.
He's got pictures and autographs as well as the big shit, like, I mean, an entire Oval Office.
He's got an entire Oval Office in his house.
That's amazing.
Ron, can we please hang out in the Oval Office some more? - Oh, please, yes, yes.
- Have a little chat? - Yes.
- Very cool.
Thanks for the ride, too.
- You bet.
You bet.
- That was super fun.
[Laughs.]
Abdullah: All right, so, who is your absolute, all-time-favorite U.
S.
President? Oh, by all means, my favorite is George W.
Bush.
He's the only president in my lifetime who said what he was going to do if he was elected and then did it.
And then, on the flip side, who is your least favorite all-time U.
S.
President? - Barack Obama.
- Wow! I mean, you know, Barack Obama is an historic president 'cause he's the first black president.
Do you think that that's valid or, you know, that should put him down in history? Oh, yeah.
When he was elected, I thought it was the worst thing that had happened in history.
First of all, I think he was an illegally elected president.
I don't think he was ever a citizen of the United States.
You don't believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States? No, he was born in Africa.
And, um Can you tell me can you tell me how you know? Oh, I don't know.
I don't know.
I just kind of have a feeling.
I just don't think he was born in Hawaii.
There is no proof whatsoever that he was born in Hawaii.
Besides a birth certificate.
That was fabricated absolutely fabricated.
And he immediately said, "Congress is not gonna pass anything that I want, so I'm going to make a decision through executive authority to do these things anyway," which I think is gonna go down in history as illegal.
And, uh, if he had not been black, I think he would have been impeached long ago.
I'm not sure what his goal was, except to socialize the United States, and he's done it.
He's he's accomplished that.
I have health insurance now.
He's so [Laughs.]
I actually do.
I have Obamacare.
- Which we sure hope to repeal.
- I didn't have health insurance before that.
So, top three presidents after George W.
Bush? I don't know.
That would be hard to say because there's so many really good presidents.
I'll put you down one of my least favorite, and that was Abraham Lincoln.
Oh.
How come? He is almost equal to Barack Obama because he [Laughter.]
He, uh He broke the law in so many ways.
He freed the slaves, though.
- He ended slavery in the United States.
- Wilbert: He emancipated Against his he didn't want to.
Slavery would have been done away with if Abraham Lincoln had never existed, but Abraham Lincoln broke every law that there was.
He should have also been impeached.
So, if it wasn't for Lincoln, there would be the Confederate States of America and the Union States, right? - I mean - Which I would support.
I think that we should have two separate countries.
And I don't care which is which.
I think that we could give half of the nation to the liberals and half the nation to the conservatives.
The liberals are gonna be in such a mess after a few years.
We're gonna have to build Trump's wall so big because the liberals are gonna be in such a mess.
I need you to hold this.
[Laughter.]
No, no, I'm not touching that.
I'll take a picture with you.
Come on, guys, I want you all in the picture.
[Camera shutter clicks.]
Wilbert: Shit got really, really real with Ron when he told us that he believed that Barack Obama was not American, he was from Africa, and that he knew it.
I'm not, like, an Obama guy.
You know, I'm not gonna fistfight you in the street for the honor of Barack Obama.
I understand he disagrees with Obama, but he can't accept that Obama is from the same country as him? It's crazy.
Shower customer 132.
Your shower is now ready.
Wilbert: Abdullah, it's time to get that poop out of the old tank.
[Laughs.]
Ah, fuck.
Martina's saying she won't do it.
I didn't pee or poop in there.
[Chuckles.]
I don't own that.
Abdullah: Where's the fucking what do we even hook it up to? There's no nozzle.
So, this is the water right here.
That's the poo hole, yeah, that's the water.
They're trying to find the poop and the pee.
This is the prophesied black snake that the Lakota have been talking about.
You see? How does that work? Look at how they put this thing Okay, but look.
We have it backwards.
Look.
They have this as the end that goes - Yeah, but - All right, you know what? Just drop that shit in there.
Will it fit? No, the shit's gonna splash everywhere.
None of the pieces fit.
It's like fucking bullshit Lego.
Take your septic hose and run one end out the bathroom window.
- What?! - What? And the other end down the toilet, but not too far.
What? This is so complicated.
You know what at this point, even if we just let it all out on the goddamn street, - [Laughter.]
- I don't even care.
[Buzzing.]
I don't know what that noise is.
Did you see any piss coming out of the thing? I mean, it's moving.
Oh, it was moving, though? It's moving, but I don't know if Right now? Right now, it's moving.
Nah, it's just the wind.
It's just the wind.
- [Laughs.]
- Just the wind? Just the it's just the wind.
If we don't Like, and also, it's like, according to the YouTube video, it's a lever that you have to pull.
I don't see any levers anywhere.
Man, this thing is fucked.
Hey, do you know anything about RVs? Yeah, we don't, either.
Up in here or on the inside.
- On the inside? - Yeah.
Oh! Watch out! No, we don't have any duct tape.
[Laughter.]
- Thank you, guys.
- Thank you so much.
Abdullah: The part of America that I've lived in for most of the time that I've lived here, I don't think people would so readily offer their help, especially with emptying out a septic tank.
Martina: Can you feel it? Yeah, I can see it.
- Oh, my God! - Ohhhh! [Laughter.]
Hey, man, thank you so much for that.
Thank you so much, man.
God bless.
- God bless y'all.
- Appreciate it.
Take care.
- Thanks so much, man.
- Anytime, man.
Abdullah: As human beings, we're creatures of prejudice.
We generalize.
That's just our nature.
People out here think differently.
People everywhere think differently, and really, what I'm learning is that there's no regional train of thought.
There's no one kind of American.
There's no one kind of America.
That's the nature of it.
I hope that that's something that I remember when I go back home.
Woman: Whenever they ask me, "Oh, where are you from?" I say I'm from the end of the world.
In 50 years, this will not be here anymore.
Martina: Oh, wow! This place is really sinking underwater.
Are you freaked out seeing all these Confederate flags, man? Each man must decide and choose which side he supports.
I support the Union.
[Laughs.]
Die, you federals! [Gunshots.]
Wilbert: We're all playing make-believe.
Cease fire! But you singled me out for my race.
Okay, cut it off.
Cut it off.
We're not doing that.
- We're not about that.
- You brought it up!