Carpet Cowboys (2023)

1. - Everybody wants to go to America

2. and live the dream.

3. Well, I had that dream.

4. - I was unloading the truck and I looked down at the ground

5. and I saw something shiny,

6. and I bent down and it was a silver dollar.

7. This is a true story. I swear to God it's a true story.

8. Started looking around, I found seven silver dollars

9. in the dirt.

10. Why they were there, God only knows.

11. And I've been looking down ever since "cause the money's

12. on the ground.

13. There is no other industry that is centered in the nucleus

14. of one geographic location, that has so much influence

15. on the world.

16. - Welcome to Dalton, Georgia,

17. the carpet capital of the world.

18. 85% of carpets in the United States come from Dalton.

19. And we export nearly 50% of the world's carpets.

20. That means we're home to some big business.

21. With a great location, favorable tax and regulatory

22. environment, our region has long been a great place

23. to do business.

24. So prepare to be floored by what our community has to offer.

25. - Nothing to it.

26. Back in the day, I remember in the 80s, mauve,

27. an off pink kind of shade, mauve was big.

28. You can't find a mauve carpet on none of these sample boards

29. anymore.

30. Plaid.

31. Real popular.

32. That's sort of a Christmasy plaid.

33. Or if you wanted something a little more neutral.

34. Let's say infinite choices.

35. That's my favorite.

36. - This industry's really put together by a bunch of

37. North Georgia hillbillies, and half of them couldn't read

38. or write.

39. Just one thing led to another.

40. - No, I think it was probably my early 20s, maybe 30

41. before I realized that there was more to the world

42. than just carpet.

43. Our towns are all about wineries.

44. Yeah, carpet was always it here in Dalton.

45. - This is interesting right here.

46. Just this right here.

47. - So what you're actually saying, when you photo-shoot,

48. you can take that and put into your craft of hand drawing?

49. - Look, see.

50. I would manipulate that. - Wow.

51. - That could be a six by nine rug there,

52. and all of a sudden you've got a bestseller, maybe.

53. You just call it the organic collection.

54. - Okay. - That's awesome.

55. - That's a rug right there, man.

56. - That's really cool.

57. - You see what I'm saying?

58. - So you're bringing nature indoor for people.

59. - Exactly.

60. This is all designed.

61. That God gave us.

62. There's just so much that you take for granted.

63. You just got to look, guys.

64. - Right.

65. - Okay.

66. There's a rug right there.

67. This is a part of my life

68. that I have grown to love and cherish,

69. is the American country lifestyle.

70. It's the truest form

71. of character that I've ever met.

72. And these mountains that we're surrounded by remind me

73. of my homeland, of Scotland.

74. It's very similar

75. to the start of the Highlands.

76. Our highlands are very big.

77. So carpet design, country lifestyle,

78. it just fits.

79. It fits the mold.

80. And I am obviously building my brand of home, hotel and

81. men's apparel line around all that.

82. And we hope it's going to be a big success.

83. I'm a cowboy.

84. They call me a Scottish Cowboy, but I'm still a cowboy.

85. I'm an entrepreneur.

86. I'm a politician in a way.

87. And I'm always pushing the envelope to do it better

88. than anybody else has done.

89. I've never really met anybody like me, in a way.

90. Come with me.

91. This was given to me from my father.

92. "To our Braveheart son, Roderick.

93. Defend freedom always, mom and dad."

94. So this was presented to me in 2001

95. when I had Scotia Design Group for

96. the Best Rug Award in a price point.

97. This represents a hand knot in the rug

98. in the handmade side of the business.

99. The whole industry was out in front of me,

100. and they stood up and applauded.

101. That was bigger than getting the award.

102. That told me I'd done something right.

103. Can you grab my glasses in there, Jon?

104. - Which one do you want?

105. - Just the black ones

106. Huh?

107. - 1 didn't know. - Oh, it doesn't matter.

108. Thank you.

109. - I'm just a country boy.

110. Roderick, to me, is just born to be an entrepreneur.

111. We met about a little over three years ago.

112. He said, "Why don't you move from where you're at,”

113. and we just group up.

114. He just reaches out to people.

115. He's brilliant.

116. I think Rod and I getting together, it's like

117. a Yin and Yang.

118. Roderick, to me, is one of the big guys, I feel, in Dalton

119. that brought a lot of designs here in our hometown

120. for the carpet industry.

121. So I'm real excited to just be working

122. with a part of history.

123. He does it from the heart.

124. And in America, a lot of Americans have lost that.

125. And not only is he as a designer, he and I, we'll be doing

126. music with Scotia and doing commercial jingles.

127. But Roderick James is incredible.

128. He's the Lone Ranger and I guess I'm the Tanto.

129. - Hello! - Hey there.

130. - I am here for some feces collection.

131. - Okay.

132. Let me find out where that is.

133. - All right.

134. So we'll just fill these bags up,

135. and then we'll put it in our freezer.

136. So we have some feces left, there's some blood in there.

137. Sometimes we'll use ice cream and things

138. for different projects.

139. Here's some synthetic vomit that we use.

140. So, yeah.

141. - One of the main concerns in the carpet industry

142. is how well something resists stains or can be cleaned.

143. Carpet is obviously on the floor, so many things get

144. dropped on it, spilled on it, tracked in on it.

145. This particular group of stains would be urine, feces,

146. vomit and soil.

147. So that's a fun job too.

148. They're actually testing steps.

149. They have to put so many passes across the carpet,

150. 20,000 passes, which takes two weeks.

151. - It was great in it's day.

152. And it's advertising.

153. Portable billboard.

154. It works.

155. And a good friend of mine, guru in the business,

156. this man owned a bank, he owned a gold mine,

157. he owned a coal mine.

158. He had a jet airplane out here that could carry eight.

159. And anything you ask him about business,

160. he'd have an answer right then.

161. We all know that onions sell food,

162. makes you hungry, somebody's cooking onions.

163. So I ask him, "What kind of smell do you want that sells

164. carpet?”

165. He said, "Vanilla flavoring.”

166. Sells general merchandise.

167. If you walk into a bakery,

168. gives you a warm feeling back of your head.

169. And believe this or not, you can buy little spray cans

170. of vanilla flavoring.

171. I just bought me a case of them, every day I go through

172. the showroom and put vanilla flavoring.

173. But he was the one that told me about this subliminal

174. sign thing, and drew out a little bit of it.

175. Of course, the lettering, I did take drafting,

176. and well,

177. a lot of sex stuff in it.

178. Like the bottom of the A that goes across there,

179. you got those two little humps.

180. That's pretty obvious.

181. You got a whole lot of what you'd call a penis sign on it.

182. Carpet just took a bad beating about being dirty.

183. Because it's a little harder to clean.

184. And the best way to clean is just plain vacuuming,

185. just to remove what fell on it.

186. - I find it funny, a lot of people in Dalton

187. won't have carpet because they work so much and they see

188. so much of it, they don't want to be nowhere around it

189. at home.

190. - The more I live, the more I realize I don't like carpet.

191. Carpet is nasty.

192. Carpet collects dirt.

193. It's hard to clean.

194. It makes your floor warm.

195. That's one of the plus sides of it, but I don't like carpet.

196. And after a while, being 60 hours a week in a building

197. and realizing I didn't even like carpet,

198. and I decided I'd do something else.

199. And I prayed about it for divine guidance, okay,

200. and I started laying stone.

201. These are some of my favorite ones.

202. See how the light.

203. This one, we dug out of the pasture,

204. and he's the ugliest one.

205. But the facial features to me, they just jump out.

206. Now, some people may think I'm stretching it,

207. but I see the nose and the eyes and the mouth here.

208. And I like this one.

209. You got the eyes and your mouth here and your nose.

210. Some of them, it's all with light.

211. You've got eyes here and you got your nose here.

212. This one sat on the mantle in the rock barn for 20 years.

213. My son found it years ago.

214. And that's before we began to see all the other ones.

215. Those are some of the spooky ones.

216. I would like to set these up in a small museum somewhere.

217. This is a very large stone.

218. And when you get just the right light on this, it's a face,

219. and it's looking up toward the heavens like it's crying out

220. to the heavens.

221. In joy and happiness, fear or bewilderment,

222. or sadness and pain from his soul,

223. and his emotions take flight.

224. To me, this is the basic of all these carvings

225. that I've seen.

226. It's just an expression of this old.

227. I think that there were people here 40,000, 50,000

228. years ago carving in stone.

229. And these stone carvings were done so that possibly someone

230. would see these one day and know, hey, we were here.

231. So, I think people feel a need to express their creativity.

232. Maybe we're reaching back to

233. trying to be a creator.

234. - Hey guys! - What's up?

235. - How you been?

236. Yeah, man!

237. Absolutely.

238. These are my good friends.

239. This is Jamie.

240. - How's it going?

241. - And- - Ethan.

242. - Ethan.

243. This saying,

244. I had to learn.

245. But this is a real country saying:

246. "How's your momma and them?”

247. How's your momma and them?

248. Just fine.

249. Basically translate, how's your mother and them?

250. When I come here, hang out with people like this

251. who are the most honest, trustworthy

252. people to be around.

253. And they've welcomed me in.

254. So it's kind of cool.

255. It's kind of cool.

256. I did this.

257. This is carpet.

258. That's carpet.

259. And I added a little design aspect to it, around it,

260. and then I think I signed it.

261. I said,

262. Roderick James, the Scottish Cowboy.

263. So the country lifestyle has brought a lot of authenticity

264. to what I'm doing.

265. It's just fantastic.

266. So it grounds me.

267. How do I hold this again?

268. - You just back it on up a little bit.

269. - Back it up.

270. - Back it up about right there.

271. - Oh, that's right, that's right.

272. - Get you about right there.

273. - That's right, that's right.

274. No, I'm trying to remember.

275. And to be honest, this is just the second time in my life

276. being a bachelor.

277. I got married at 19, the first time.

278. Second time I had two weeks in between marriages.

279. Third time, she didn't feel secure

280. because I'd lost a contract.

281. She didn't feel like I would get it back or keep going.

282. Well, I'm still here and that's three years later.

283. I gave up on Western women.

284. I was actually looking at China.

285. But it ended up being

286. a Filipino I met in Hong Kong.

287. That wasn't on my list, my list was to go to China

288. and set up shop there.

289. And this hit me like a ton of breaks when I met her.

290. And really got to know her via WeChat every day

291. for eight months.

292. You okay, honey?

293. - Yeah.

294. We all miss you here.

295. Yesterday, they keep asking me when you're coming back.

296. - Well, we'll see. We'll see what happens.

297. - With carpet mills,

298. the neighborhood I was born in is completely gone.

299. They took away 36 houses over here to put in

300. Galaxy Carpet mills.

301. On my mom's side, her parents had a cute little house,

302. and just the dozers dug everything out.

303. I used to play on that tree as a child

304. and swing on it.

305. And as you can see, it's all parking.

306. But I understand things.

307. This may have took away homes, but it brought work

308. to other people.

309. You see what I'm saying?

310. So it's just part of the cycle.

311. - I slept right there for 18 years.

312. My bedroom was right there where the drive-thru window is.

313. My daddy bought this corner house in 1957 and he sold it in

314. 1999, I think.

315. Somewhere in that range.

316. This used to be our backyard.

317. Me and my brothers would take off,

318. go all the way down to the creek.

319. It's just changed so much, it's just unreal.

320. - $19.92,

321. - Huh? - What's y'all video

322. recording for? - For free.

323. Smile.

324. - Have a good day. - Yeah, thank you.

325. - I got it, Pawpaw.

326. I got it.

327. Step on that corner.

328. No more roll, it's cold.

329. - This was made for the Masonic

330. the Greek.

331. It's called the Fellowcraft Lecture.

332. A 45 minute lecture that goes with it and talks about

333. everything on it.

334. - He's one of the few that know that lecture by heart.

335. I couldn't even begin 45 minute verbatim word for word.

336. 45 minutes, really?

337. - It's built on the stairway.

338. There's three, five, seven steps

339. to achieve enlightenment.

340. Corn, wine and oil.

341. - Olive oil.

342. - Anyway.

343. I've watched the industry change.

344. In the early days, I got fired for drag racing

345. on a lift truck in 1961.

346. Didn't move my car out of the parking lot,

347. I just walked across the street and got me another job.

348. In the old days, you could walk in and talk to the owner

349. of the company.

350. And you can't do that anymore.

351. - Back when carpet first began being very, very popular,

352. mills would pop up everywhere.

353. Anybody that could buy a tufting machine could make carpet.

354. So, there were 480 something mill within 25 miles of here.

355. - And it really got massive in the 70s and 80s.

356. - Everybody knew everybody.

357. Everybody was doing business with everybody.

358. There was a camaraderie, even though it was competitive.

359. You had lots of players.

360. You used to see people out and about all the time.

361. It had a pretty wild nightlife for Dalton.

362. At one time, it had the second highest divorce rate

363. in the nation, outside of Las Vegas.

364. And more millionaires per capita than most any place

365. in the country.

366. - So you started seeing some of the larger companies

367. purchase some of those smaller mills and absorb them.

368. - And by the 90s,

369. we were down to a dozen carpet manufacturers.

370. - The difference is that these have become

371. big corporations.

372. There is not the social aspect that once existed

373. in the industry.

374. - This was how me and my father got here.

375. - What is it? Couristan?

376. - Couristan Carpets, and they were a New York based company.

377. And I think George might like this.

378. You don't. Okay.

379. All right.

380. Well, that's fine.

381. No, no, I understand.

382. Well, thanks for taking my call anyway.

383. I appreciate it.

384. Oh, no problem. No problem.

385. Okay, George.

386. Thank you.

387. I'll talk to you. Bye-Bye.

388. Nice.

389. These guys have been around since.

390. - 60 years.

391. This was one of the designs I did.

392. Customers would come up and say, "Oh, who did that?"

393. And they would put my name forward and I ended up

394. getting a year contract in China.

395. Here you can see Roderick James on the label.

396. - We can go next door.

397. - Sure.

398. - Let's go this way.

399. Actually, I had already given your name.

400. - Oh, you did. To an Indian.

401. - To Sam.

402. You know Sam?

403. - Sam.

404. - Just recently,

405. they had had the conversation of wanting to do

406. some freelance design work.

407. - Really? - Yeah.

408. - Oh, buddy.

409. - I can make that phone call.

410. - Oh, I'd love you to do that, Joe.

411. If you wouldn't mind.

412. - We'll go set you up in this office and let you

413. get to work. - Yeah, okay.

414. That'll be good.

415. Okay.

416. I got to get this setup so that you can see it.

417. Oh it's back there. Dammit.

418. I just did this

419. for a hotel.

420. I was just thinking, anyway.

421. Oops.

422. Shit.

423. Dammit.

424. - Actually, y'all do your thing. I'll be back.

425. - Okay.

426. There we go.

427. One, two, three.

428. The carpet industry's gotten stale for me.

429. I've got to have something new.

430. I'm a furniture designer.

431. Apparel designer.

432. I'm a musician.

433. I'm a businessman.

434. I'm a father.

435. Sometimes.

436. - Yeah, I really like the John Deere better.

437. - That will be Roderick James Country, the brand.

438. I'm seriously looking at opening a bar

439. in the Philippines.

440. The only country bar.

441. It'll all be outfitted, of course, with yours truly brand.

442. And next door is going to be the apparel store.

443. A bit like Hard Rock.

444. They have a small retail area for buying T-shirts

445. and knick-knacks, but I plan to have a lot more than that.

446. I know style.

447. I've always had an eye for what looks good.

448. I can put things together.

449. So easy for me.

450. A lot of guys can't dress.

451. The way you're dressed, there's that style

452. and then there's my style with the cowboy hat and the boots,

453. my boots.

454. Yeah, so I'm going to build a business.

455. Trust me, these are going to sell like hotcakes.

456. Hotcakes.

457. It's a winner!

458. I know it is.

459. - No. - A bottle or two.

460. - You know what I'm saying?

461. You know what I'm saying? - Sing that again.

462. - And then after we run through that part, then you come in

463. and you narrate it and go something like-

464. - No, I'm not doing that. - Apply a small amount-

465. - No, no, no.

466. We're just coming up with a jingle.

467. - Oh, okay.

468. - Hi, mom.

469. Jon and I are writing a jingle for a young man here

470. in Dalton, Georgia, 12 years old who invented

471. this Le-Glue.

472. It's hard to see it.

473. This Le-Glue,

474. which he invented.

475. And he went on "Shark Tank."

476. "Shark Tank" is a big show on the TV

477. where you go and you try and raise capital.

478. This 12 year old kid from Dalton went on "Shark Tank"

479. and got the money to launch his company.

480. - The world's first non-permanent adhesive, Le-Glue,

481. is created for kids, by a kid.

482. So the next time this happens,

483. you just keep on playing.

484. So Sharks, who wants to stick with me with Le-Glue?

485. - Hello?

486. - It's on the side of the iPad.

487. - What the hell's all this?

488. - Do you see?

489. This is unbelievable.

490. No, no, no, no, no.

491. On the side of the.

492. On the side.

493. - Where, which side?

494. - The right side.

495. Do you see the buttons?

496. Up and down.

497. I love you all very much.

498. But I have to go on right this song here.

499. This jingle.

500. - Of course.

501. - So here we are.

502. - So this is the big stage of Dalton.

503. If we could play here before we left,

504. that would be- - Be awesome.

505. - That would be pretty cool.

506. - Yeah.

507. - Hi, honey.

508. I'm singing to you right now, okay?

509. - Good morning, sis.

510. - Oh, I screwed it up.

511. - Hi, guys!

512. Don't leave!

513. We're just getting started.

514. - Sounds great!

515. - Let me say hello to mom.

516. - Mom. - Hi, mom.

517. Good to see you. I miss you.

518. - We all miss you here. Come home.

519. - Aw, I know, baby.

520. - What about you brother, Jon?

521. - You know I want to come as soon as possible.

522. - Can't wait.

523. - So what do you think about

524. everything in the Philippines right now?

525. You think it's going to work out okay or what?

526. What do you think? - Absolutely.

527. There's no doubt.

528. With what's left in my life, God willing.

529. I want to produce my own stuff.

530. Now, the Philippines comes along,

531. and all of a sudden it fits.

532. I'm two hours from Shanghai, not 20 on a plane.

533. - So you'll be fine to do the business.

534. - I can go in then come out.

535. I can go in and come out.

536. Dalton, Georgia, it's been great.

537. - Right.

538. - It's been great, but you know what-

539. - It's a mill town and it ain't-

540. - You've done what you've had to do here.

541. I've done what I've had to do here.

542. I still have business interests here.

543. You still have interest here.

544. But you don't have to be here, man.

545. It's time to take a jump.

546. And I think

547. you should jump ship and come with.

548. - Only thing I'm going to miss the most is my family's farm.

549. And it's just something about farming that

550. you have that serenity and that-

551. - They got farms there, buddy.

552. - Oh.

553. - You got to come, man.

554. - I'm going to.

555. I'm going to go. I'm going to go.

556. It's just woo, old country boy.

557. - I need you. I need you. - I need you too.

558. - I need you because

559. I'm bringing eight bags this trip.

560. - Oh, well, there you go.

561. - You got a tote four. - Right.

562. - I got a tote four.

563. - I got at least one suitcase.

564. - Absolutely.

565. This contract, I've got two in the works,

566. one from Hong Kong and one from China.

567. As soon as that hits, then I'm off.

568. I'm gone.

569. I'm out of here.

570. One way or the other, if I can just get a ticket.

571. If I just have money for a ticket, I'm gone.

572. Because I know I will.

573. Somebody in China, once they know I'm there,

574. they will work me.

575. They will give me work.

576. I'll find it.

577. I've just got to get there.

578. - I remember in high school,

579. after school, we would go to the Conasauga River,

580. and every day of the week the river would run

581. a different color.

582. It would run purple, it would run green,

583. it would run gold,

584. It would run red.

585. Because they discharged the dye directly into the river.

586. So environmentally, the carpet industry

587. affected tremendously the earth around here.

588. Missy, there's some pretty interesting carvings

589. in these stones over here.

590. There's so much lost.

591. And as quickly as mankind has progressed, it is regressing

592. in the basic knowledges that comes from the ground.

593. I don't think humankind can go much further

594. without destroying itself.

595. Pick up a hand full of dirt

596. and just remember that's where we come from

597. and that's where we're going back to.

598. The ground.

599. What are we hearing over there?

600. Did you hear it, Missy?

601. - Yeah, I've been hearing it.

602. - What was it? Is it Sasquatch?

603. - I think it's a turkey.

604. - A turkey don't make that kind of racket.

605. - Well, what does? Sasquatch?

606. - I didn't hear it real good.

607. Well, see if he'll holler back.

608. I wish I had the means to-

609. - And this is what I'm trying to find in the Philippines

610. to rest my hat, so to speak.

611. Which is a lot about half this size,

612. fenced on either side,

613. with a barn for two horses.

614. That's what I want.

615. - And a helicopter pilot.

616. - No, no.

617. - Look how pretty that moon is.

618. - Buwan. - Look at that.

619. - Buwan.

620. - One? Oh, yeah. - Buwan.

621. - Sing that song.

622. - Buwan? - Yeah, sing it.

623. You got it.

624. - That's good, bro.

625. - There you go. - I buy it.

626. - It's a beautiful song.

627. - Yeah.

628. - I don't know what it means.

629. - What language is that in?

630. - Tagalog.

631. - Tagalog?

632. I'll get on my Google app and translate it.

633. That's a beautiful sound right there, you know?

634. - Oh yeah.

635. - You know what that cow's saying?

636. - What?

637. Feed me. - Yeah.

638. - I took some time

639. and I basically picked five homes in the area.

640. Rosario has a big family obviously,

641. so the bigger house would be better

642. for me.

643. - And then also Jon, right?

644. - And Jon. Of course, of course.

645. Now this house here, seven bedrooms,

646. seven baths.

647. I bring my two daughters over there,

648. and then the whole family is in that house.

649. Then that's a happy home.

650. You know what I mean?

651. My Kids.

652. And my grandson.

653. I haven't seen them in

654. three years.

655. It comforts me to be around people.

656. I don't like to be alone.

657. I've never liked it.

658. It's not me.

659. Sam.

660. Let me see if he'll pick up.

661. Please leave your message

662. after the tone.

663. - Hello, Sam.

664. How you doing? It's Roderick here.

665. Hope everything's good with you, my friend.

666. Happy Chinese New Year to you.

667. I just wanting to follow up with you on the contract.

668. So if you could let me know, Sam, for sure.

669. If you feel like this is going to go through

670. relatively quickly with the government and all that.

671. I'd greatly appreciate it.

672. Thanks, Sam.

673. All the best.

674. Bye-bye.

675. How are you, buddy?

676. Just asking about, the R&D center,

677. whether that was something that's up and running.

678. What I was wanting to ask you,

679. are you still planning for me to kind of

680. be involved in some way in that?

681. - The mother company, has another project

682. for the government.

683. - I'm with you.

684. - The sun company.

685. - That's okay.

686. Thanks.

687. - How are you?

688. - I'm doing okay, baby, I'm doing all right.

689. - I wish you were here.

690. - I know.

691. I know.

692. - Please, come home.

693. - So, I'm waiting again, honey.

694. I'm waiting again.

695. You know?

696. Okay.

697. Yep.

698. - Is that part you want?

699. - Oh, yeah.

700. Are putting that "mm" in there?

701. - I don't know. - Well, tell me.

702. - I don't know. - Yeah, it's good.

703. - I don't know how it's going to fit on the timeframe.

704. - No, it will.

705. - What have you got there?

706. - Whatever you did there after Le-Glue, you went.

707. - I know, but where

708. was we left off, because we took a note.

709. - I know, but I got to include that.

710. - Oh, okay.

711. - Right.

712. - And then we'll close it with this.

713. - Perfect.

714. - Now did we get all that?

715. Because I can't remember, I write it as I'm doing it.

716. - Hang on.

717. Just hold on.

718. - Look, when you start cutting records for Highland Drifter,

719. this pressure- - Hey, I'm writing!

720. - I know, but pressure will really be on you.

721. When you're in the studio, this is nothing.

722. - No, no, no.

723. This is fine. - Okay.

724. - But we got to get it down on paper.

725. - All right.

726. - Now I've forgotten what you said.

727. Hang on.

728. Just wait. - Okay.

729. - You need to sign this?

730. - You got authorization, you sigh my name.

731. - Good!

732. Don't forget the guitar.

733. Oh, Lord.

734. I just lost my ring.

735. Wait a minute.

736. Oh my god.

737. I lost my ring.

738. - Lost a ring?

739. - Yeah.

740. - The magic of the whole concept was he wanted to play

741. with his actual creations that he made.

742. That's what makes it awesome.

743. And he's got two trademarks and a patent.

744. He was about six months from being the youngest

745. patent holder in the history of the United States.

746. - What are you doing, Roderick?

747. - I lost my ring.

748. - Lost a ring? - Yep.

749. Right.

750. - So how we going to do this?

751. - What do you mean?

752. - How we going to lay all this out? You got it?

753. - Yeah.

754. We just going and do it.

755. How we doing, Lee? - Hello.

756. - Hello, young man.

757. It's a pleasure to meet you.

758. - You too.

759. - You are awesome, buddy.

760. - Thank you.

761. - You're doing great. Hey, Lee.

762. - How are you, sir? - How you doing?

763. Good to see you.

764. You've been all over the world, have you?

765. - Yeah, yeah.

766. Well, I'm excited for you.

767. It's great.

768. You're showing us old guys how to really think different.

769. What we've done, we've studied,

770. well, you can see here.

771. This is how we do it.

772. There's pages of notes

773. on buzzwords and the key things.

774. But it also has to be catchy.

775. Now this is raw, okay?

776. - Okay.

777. - We haven't gone to the studio yet with it.

778. - Oh.

779. - So this is right out.

780. We just did this Saturday for you.

781. And sorry it took so long, but here you go.

782. Hope you like it.

783. - I think it's catchy.

784. - It's catchy.

785. - So if you like it, then we'll take it further.

786. It hits on the key points.

787. Not all of the benefits, but it's enough I think.

788. And I think it might be catchy enough.

789. Well, we'll probably take this to the studio

790. and let you hear it that way.

791. Well, good luck to you, young man.

792. - Thank you so much, Lee

793. - It's always a pleasure to see you, man.

794. - Appreciate you, brother.

795. - Awesome. Thank you. Good stuff.

796. - Y'all happy, we happy.

797. - This is getting close to the final chapter for me.

798. The hourglass is running out.

799. I really don't know where America's going right now.

800. I thought I did.

801. Work hard, Rod.

802. Build your dream.

803. That dream's gone here for me.

804. I'm pushing a wet noodle uphill.

805. In China,

806. I'm the man.

807. It's more of a pull through on the noodle.

808. I'm over it.

809. I've done everything I can do.

810. - Here's eggs.

811. Yeah, hardboard eggs with toast.

812. - Thank you, brother.

813. - Not a problem.

814. - Staple. - Hope they're good.

815. Do they got good eggs and Philippines?

816. - Do I have the money? No, I don't.

817. But I'm gone.

818. I'm out of here.

819. Hi, honey!

820. How you been?

821. - I'm okay.

822. All right.

823. All right.

824. - Thank you, baby.

825. - Welcome to Naga, Philippines!

826. - Yes.

827. - You will love the place, baby.

828. - Really? - Yeah.

829. - Hi, kids

830. - Hi!

831. - Okay, now, you got to share it, okay?

832. You got to share it.

833. You share it.

834. - I told Rod, I say, why don't we move in?

835. So I told him I want to do something.

836. So he said, "Oh, okay.

837. Wherever you are happy,

838. I'll follow you."

839. So he follow me here.

840. So we started our life here.

841. - How are you, sir?

842. Doing okay?

843. - You don't see

844. a man walking around the street wearing cowboy hat.

845. Very new to us.

846. We can only see that in a movie like that.

847. So I thought.

848. - This is my steel horse I will ride.

849. - I introduced him to my family.

850. They're okay.

851. They accepted him.

852. - Wave on!

853. - I love it.

854. I need to because he's, you know,

855. he's cowboy.

856. - Hang on.

857. There's no stirrup.

858. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

859. Whoa, boy.

860. Okay.

861. All right.

862. You want to go?

863. Come on.

864. - Don't go there, okay, because.

865. - Yeah, it's okay.

866. He's not moving.

867. Come on, buddy.

868. - That's from construction work.

869. I busted my ass off all my life.

870. But now I'm just going to do music for the world

871. and be done with it.

872. I'm the real deal.

873. Jon Black.

874. Yeah, set it up, dude.

875. You bought the mic, dog.

876. I'm going to take me a deal.

877. - You read the history,

878. and you look at different cultures,

879. different countries and empires;

880. and most of them, big majority lasted just

881. a couple hundred years.

882. Take the Vikings, we were only known as Vikings

883. for just a couple hundred years.

884. So it does make you kind of wonder about this country.

885. We don't think we could collapse, but

886. if we did, it'd be an interesting time to live through.

887. But it's like death, you know it's coming.

888. You don't need to fear it, you just need to prepare for it.

889. Same thing.

890. But I'd like to stick around and see what these crazy people

891. do next.

892. - I'm getting there.

893. - Yeah. You know that song very well.

894. - I need a kickstart with each verse.

895. - You have to start in high so you finish you higher.

896. - Higher.

897. What the fuck was that?

898. - What's that? It's a fish!

899. - It wasn't a fucking fish!

900. It's a goddamn, fucking something.

901. Son of a bitch!

902. - What is that? - I don't know!

903. A lizard.

904. It's a fucking lizard.

905. - There's no lizards here.

906. - Yes, it was!

907. It came off the boat.

908. - Maybe a snake.

909. - Oh, come on.

910. Let's go.

911. - You're scared of the snake.

912. - Honey, you have no idea.

913. - No, it's a fish.

914. It's only a fish.

915. - Shit.

916. - Right now I'm not focused on entrepreneurship or Le-Glue.

917. 'Cause we have employees now.

918. And I'm just trying to live a normal life.

919. Just be a 15 year old.

920. The money from Le-Glue helped me buy this car,

921. because I didn't have to

922. work for multiple years.

923. Most people have to work for two years to get

924. even a cheaper car.

925. I got a 2005 Lexus LS430.

926. The interior was so smooth.

927. I've been on the cover of the newspaper more times

928. than I know about.

929. I really have no clue how many times I've been on it.

930. 'Cause my grandma would call me,

931. 'cause she reads the newspaper, I don't.

932. My family doesn't really read it.

933. I think my definition of success is

934. whenever you can just kind of chill.

935. And not a lot of people can.

936. - This place.

937. Every time I look at anything around here,

938. there's some memory about

939. the way things used to be and

940. I guess just echoes of the past.

941. I can just picture him sitting right there with a cigarette

942. in his mouth and ash that long.

943. And him trying to make it to the ashtray and it falling off.

944. It's going to be those times that I miss the most.

945. Yeah.

946. Hey, dad.

947. - Pretty little car.

948. Since Rodrick's left, I'm sad about it,

949. but I know I don't have no choice about it.

950. Oh, man.

951. If he wants to put a blazer on with a cowboy hat,

952. John Wayne did it.

953. Rodrick looks at me 'cause he knows I am the real deal.

954. Yep.

955. To me, a cowboy's just a country boy.

956. I am a cowboy.

957. Cowboy's about dirt,

958. ride horses.

959. We just changed our ways.

960. Levi's, working boots and ball cap.

961. To me, that's a cowboy.

962. - Oh, fuck.

963. Oy.

964. - I miss you, mate. I miss you.

965. - Okay.

966. I miss you too, but what's going on?

967. You're not going to believe where I'm at.

968. Look.

969. Johnny,

970. do you see this?

971. This whole land?

972. - Yes, sir, I hear you.

973. - Okay, the plan is I'm going to buy all,

974. listen to me, I'm going to buy all this

975. and put my and Rosario's house.

976. - Yes, sir. - Barn, a big ass

977. barn house right here.

978. Three floors.

979. - Where you going to put our private jet though?

980. - No, forget about that, buddy.

981. You need to shelve that idea.

982. See these kids right here? Y'all put your hats on.

983. Put your hats on.

984. Okay, you see this?

985. - They got the cowboy hats on. I like that.

986. - Oh yeah, buddy.

987. Absolutely.

988. - I love it.

989. - So, that's the plan, bro.

990. For the Rodrick James country home.

991. - Put a big ole walnut cross on the island.

992. - A walnut cross?

993. - A big walnut cross on the island.

994. - They have no walnut trees here, man.

995. It's all pine trees.

996. - It's colder than shit out here.

997. I'm freezing.

998. - I ain't coming back, man.

999. - I miss you, man.

1000. - It'll be okay.

1001. You just hang in there.

1002. You keep doing what you're doing.

1003. Anyway, listen,

1004. I got to go.

1005. The sun's setting.

1006. All right?

1007. - I miss you, man.

1008. - I got to go.

1009. - Hey, wait!

1010. - Hello? Oh, there we go.

1011. If everybody could join us down here.

1012. Everybody ready?

1013. All right, so here we go.