the, the, the, my last real job. last job i got a paycheck from was a college professor in new york city at the digital video film academy. and i taught uh like 20 programming languages in different classes. i have all the courses here and found them all recently, which is great, like i was within my google drive and i was like, i have recordings of my lectures. i have my quote, i have my lesson plans my are is, is digital. i actually joined a, our community in brooklyn to, to just to, to prove that to myself and to other people that are taken out to do is art as well

. and, you know, by the end they agreed, you know, because i was making a i that talked back and i was doing gallery shows where we will put people in a room. you know, we have like a bunch of mannequins like 5 mannequins with different different personalities and a little different, a personalities. and we put people in the room for 5 or 10 minutes. and as soon as you say a single word, they all start cascading a golf of each other. so you have this really like a intense conversation with 5 different people, like i one had a jamaica next. and that goes that different temperaments are women. have you ever heard of the technological singularity? the technological singularity is the hypothesis that the invention that artificial super intelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth resulting in onside and the goal changes to human civilization muffler. the

can you tell please, what is its left and what is the cost of sitting there? should i have right here? like i say, this is one of the dining halls. so, and you can tell that by this long stretch right here. this is where the dining room was, is where the officer set down and 8. that was probably a storage thing because you could tell there was walls went there. you can tell were all the walls when i bet any money that high rise section right there. there was where they went and got their food. it was a mess. all the other soldiers food place. you know, we call the mess in the military. i don't know why they call it the mess, but that's what it is, right? there are forest labs just like this one around here. i mean, exactly the same pattern, the military, this was just a temporary base during world war 2. while there are training the guys to go to war, you know, this. and then after the worst they,

they close this base down the think a 1st year i was out here. all these feel this was like a field and there was so much green on it like the plants. so we see right here. well like, feel like it looked like a blanket blanket of green and there was these, i don't know what kind of butterfly they were, but they're migrating and you walk through and they just like lift up and it was like, you know, like a blanket moved on right here, i'm gonna put in uh, a grover and orchard with um apple trees, ill citrus, a full variety palmer around it, a lot of different things. my sister's husband bought me 14 trees for trees. so maybe putting those in the i built the staircase

of 4 years ago now it goes down or up the end of the up to the top of the tank wall . and then i did a whole ladder on the inside that goes down into the tank. and it's a if you're afraid of heights and might be a little challenging, but all cell phone, cell phone for me. so i've built this staircase and 7 days for the just to get in the thing the, i want to make it into an off of bond where i have vertical aqua phonics coming down the walls. and then i want to grow bits in here. and i want to have a truck all way around. $471.00 foot circumference. yeah. it's going to be a big project like to go enough to provide for the community for the most part for

young fruits and vegetables. and maybe you have livestock as far as chickens, i always want to keep costs for garden dogs. easily coming down the wall right here, the like that and come back and drop down into the trough. this trough would be like maybe 3 feet off and wall about 3 feet high and just put a familial parrot that wall right here to check this back. yeah. i just use what i got here. usually i re opposed service, but i'm kind of looking for something like drugs here. i'm sure. well i will say that i got something to do every day and it's a good thing your life. stay busy because i've been through some crap in my life

and i'm a processor and really a, you know, i don't hold myself to my pass, but if you say you don't think about it, you know, believe me, i've done some pretty james now. yeah, that's why i'm saying, uh maybe even help me out cuz i'm telling you, man, it's a weird bike. put those par shoppers, harrigeville. yeah. cuz just go the other way. a fish like that. yeah. last night and my last wife i shot my brother in law like i said, to bring in board. i just thank god today i doing telling me yeah. so yeah, this is nice that they didn't want to hours or she divorce me. you know, no. i mean, i can talk about it now, but it was a very difficult time. i. i remember that time and being in prison on top of that,

i couldn't even talk me. i i go to, oh my mouth, i my grass, which is and think i was broken, hasn't man, but that, that day in there. i mean, it was a restaurant space. yeah. i remember though to see it was only 5 years ago or so for me you yeah. about 5 years minus the 7 months the 7 months that i left it for prison for 7 months, i'd rather talk about the future in like what i'm doing now. you know, then, and then all the problems they gotten here, but i mean, you know, you have to bring it up i suppose, just to, you know, the, the whole story. you don't want to. yeah. yeah. it's not that big a deal though, i guess just seem like a lot when i was going through it though, you know, to and i've seen a lot of other people too. so i got compassion from people cuz i've been there kind of a lot of on

a lot of the homeless things and stuff like that now. so i know what i know what it's like to get down or they've gone in and try and come back up. and i'm, i'm doing it doing this slowly. and so will you be here? about 5 years, they picked me up about 6 months and after i'd been here, they picked me up right in my b mx bicycle down the side of the road was about 30 feet off the road. they stopped me for no light on my bike after sunset, and i had a warrant from san diego felony warrant for some stuff and, and that's why i came out here to try and trying get away from them because they're just, they were looking for things they were creating, creating problems where there was no problems, so they could profit off of it. okay, jim, you've already put flight stuff in the seat up even after people are here because they have no risk to go. or they can't function

in society. and the other hand of here because they loved the place and there's nowhere else they'd rather be than here. but i'm one of those people. so i to leave and i did for a little while. and i, i always remember that. and that's why i'm patient intolerant. with people because the, so i'm not serving, i'm taking a spot somewhere. someone can live here who has, who can live anywhere else. and so if i'm going to live here by my own choice, when i have the option to go to los angeles and do fine, and then i need to serve the maker and student to earn my spot here. several 100 people have passed through here. either under way, somewhere else or provide safe space to abuse women, to elderly people, to mentally ill, people, to addicts, to children. you know, if i have an extra trailer, i always i always make rooms out of it so that when people come near phase the

state and they have one that i was married to until executive for, for all this 25 years that that had an extensive bank account. tell me. no. i play the game. i did a whole further than my cousin asking on time. what was it like living in the white man's world? and i went to the sales floor and i'm like what we call them culture volt service. know that white man mentality of their just spectators. they're not participants in life, but they pay for adventures. college living right are good to live it every day. i was a born again. christian conservative house was for predict 6

again, 6152. the baby came after me, then once on that mostly and tough risk them swear, i lost my mind. it's no better place to be to the village in this beautiful features and live free live. however you want to get along with everyone who had all the dogs. how did the dogs get along with the goats? all these things, susan, one of them, this is just the horn dog. your name again is uh mike, uh, mark. so he is my pulled hard for info and marco paul. uh no. i know i get it

as low as julie, and i guess in the sense that there are no authority is within the city. everyone is their own citizen, including the animal of her own free. awesome. and there's no organization except for what comes out except for what emerges from everyone coming together, bring their own situation to it, and creating their own home and environment. and joining in when i 1st came there, most of the population here was snowbirds, you know, mom and pop. get to retirement age, the kids a wall left. so they sell the house and buy a big motor home and start traveling. and you could stay here for free. and so those were the people i met when i 1st came here. the people all started getting

old owning of motor home got is 30 getting more expensive, then the economy started going down and are all those factors together? those that crowd of people died out. but now i, in the world today, there's a lot of people that i don't have a way to build a life that you'd want, you know? so look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except we're so shorter is it conflict with the 1st law? should we live in justification? we should be very careful about our personal intelligence. at the point obviously is to make a truck rather than ship the area. i mean with the artificial intelligence, we have so many with demon the

robot must protect this phone. existence was on the wrong. just don't you have to safe house after and engagement because the trail when so many find themselves will depart. we choose to look for common ground, the the next or anything on since he's like. so what did you say is i'm going to start remembering the whole. so there, we have a lot of refugees. we don't have to have in the regrets for refugees because we got refugees right here. you know, you see the, all, the,

the blue tart homeless people in los angeles and, and the other cities. i'm sure this is better living the living and skid road, los angeles, you know, that's gotta be so hopeless. it's heavy though. think about this because i'm in fear of what they think about. then i see a bunch of hungry people feel. and this is blessing right here for all that food. we get him. we good try like you to feel out of this whole thing to they come and look every month but every month feel they make sure that we hit. we have food out here. you know, a lot of people are hungry. there. don't have no money or anything vices. you say it's all good to love the community that helps people out here. that's what i love the most likely that all this is one big happy family. that's what i like.

and even though you see people here with nothing, you know, some cardboard checks, you know, but the cardboard shack of real coffee. if you just been sleeping around the dirt, you know, and you get a few odd jobs and maybe you could find a run down broken down trailers to live in. you know, you can pull your life together and that kind of way here. where if you're in the city, is it never, ever, they can't sleep in your car and say, yeah, you know those, they'll side to run you off. but i'm not always nice because that's why we call this the last free place because it is not because you can live here in free. it's because you can be here and nobody's going to persecute or prosecute you about it. you know, you just laid down in the dirt here. people are just coming to ask if you're all

right. if nobody's going to guard you off to jail for oh, $77.00 decades, don't insure time. but so, you know, here you can do the things you want to do without having to have a, you didn't turn in jail, you have people think what you all are now. i gotta talk reading, join sometimes, who is doing this brown over here. so yeah, i think this is my little kitchen area is in transition, as is, everything's really in transition all this time. but uh, yeah, so it's all scrambled around right now and when i get done with it, well i have a good job. what is it? i don't know what could come with gas now. you were out for 2 days. yeah, i don't know. hardly ever run, i guess, but somehow, within flushing away it is and things cost. and so what we're apps for agger,

i just heard from my beer because it's like i said, inflation oh, inflation is gone up. so i know last one year, i mean it's been going up for like 4 or 5 years now. but the last year that's just really take this right here in wallace, you know, right in a money department, if you force, you know, if you get money out here, some of the shar and some of the start. everything has gone up and show much impression. and especially if you have to shop right here in town through, gosh, a robbery is a 1st degree you get food stamps once a month. i just but i buy cheap natives. very try to get my money is last as long as i possibly can. i mean, i got a couple more years, so i retired ads. that's the goal here in future retire and a half. and after that,

now got some things to do. 6 bucks. fixed for the new added step 7. said 17, obviously i just, i bought a new $7.00 for going see here, is that the bottom line is that for this added to a $1.99 or 10 to the airbag issue, stick gotta get ready to get your money. oh, well uh, worst you for 25 years and whatnot. and then all a sudden it gave me as uh you know, um, literally disturb time ago. but i have no live here in the body shop here for uh, you know, you got your option down the highs and lows and this type of thing. and that is, uh, you know, considered to be a handicapped of such that to where they, you know,

shop on your hands on there. i mentioned that mine was, uh, yeah, i will. i love the torch feeding we show a welder too. but, well, garage a pretty good welder, but in your torch department and feeling, you know, why was that the tough? so would you say i wouldn't be probably able to make it out there with the amount of money. oh, hell no. but you have to have 2 or 3 people you know, conglomerate, and together to do, you have enough money to pay the rent to pay your electric, just pay your sewer bill. and obviously, again, by your groceries, you know, as so it has a good combination of people where, where here, which we do do it in combinations that people only help each other. sure. and that's a good thing. over a year ago we started what we call these labs, the soup kitchen, cuz every poor community, an american and brought like it, almost a world nowadays has some kind of free feeding,

but we didn't like study. so i'm starting a little over a year ago on christmas morning. we started feeding on sundays and we've been feeding every sunday for a year. and as you can see, we're starting it a little thing here. um and it just is just trying to help our neighbors out. and i mean, it is a place to congregate, a place to eat. and joe is all done by one man named lorenzo. even when he's our cook. i kind of put it together in between to, to meet him in a couple of their homes and put it out. you're on the streets and i mean, you know, trying to change what change kind of change those things out here. i'm sure you see, i mean, slab. so these are place, you know, a free meal and a bag of food is a nice thing every week. we're on out at the back of food yet, but we're trying to get bags of food too. but we do every sunday we feed before i can this lives. i was on the streets. i've been excited for 15 years. i've been in prison. i've sold drugs. i've, i've done a lot of things. and for one is i want to do something nice for somebody. so we decided feet. and i mean, i cleaned up stop doing drugs and open up the soup kitchen in my town. yeah, i'm start getting bags that always taking. i mean,

everybody goes up. everybody goes up, somebody has always started early, early learning, you know, call me slow. you know, i think is like, it took 40 years or 20 years, however long it took me a long time to figure this out, but this is what makes me happy. now, when everybody can get to play the food there and they're, they're smiling trapped jobs of them to me in there may the term, the dog you remember we me, he was the age of 1st. so the what are we the bid from? uh uh t c. uh huh. uh huh. i think opening day was new year's eve and oh,

to the rain. i don't make money. you know, if anything i spend my money. the reason i've kept at it for 20 years is the only thing i ever did that made a difference in the world. you know, if this wasn't here, the people that out would be quite a bit different. i think issue, you know, you look around our existence, things to check and look rather bleak. look, but this is the thing we're, that the humanity of the beauty of, of live comes out. the feeling of, of the art, the feeling of people feeling like they're an artist, as opposed to a vandal. if it is fixed or selective. the collective self image of everybody here can be part of this. you know,

even though it is adult play or the neg wrote yeah, really bad actually. so my friend screwed this piece of metal on and i read, i read poxy, did you say you say that the you wants to play get back to me. yeah, i learned like, uh, maybe 3 years ago now, maybe a little less than that and was a and wasn't inspiring when they were in the range. and yeah, yeah i, i said there for a year and a half or 2 years because i live like music, you know, so we sit in the front and i watch them and i love it. i did it in new york. you like watching music and like, i can't do that just like most people in the audience, you look in there and you like i can never do that right. i can learn how to play guitar in my fourties and they were, they, i know a single coil, you know, where they're had a thing to which, and the most thing i would do is like, i'm doesn't care, you'll be set after them. good. have picked them up and they will learn how to

write songs to and i'm going to a lot of the same time. and i'm going to stand a very nice to my heroes, you know, nice to be able to bill and all these amazing challenge people that view, you know, they're also my family, all those people. so they're letting me their instruments. and i was like, these, me another car getting to see it isn't. yeah, no, i know like 4050 songs though, and i wrote saves a phone with a carrier that i can do that was no, no, no, that's what brought me here was the public guard kept me here. it was brought to me when i got here ignorant. i didn't know nothing about swenson but it was the public car and some of the minerals out here. bloom. my my and this was that was something with inspire you to stay. yeah, cause is not a lot of places who are in america where you can do this and not be criminalized right here you cause any kind of art and it's not criminal. it's

appreciated and that's not in some phases. it becomes famous. so this is my original taxidermy dinner party that i did. i think it was 3 years ago when i set this up originally in there, so we've got young bucks. i'll go back in grandma bucks and young buck is here bragging about this guy. he's like, oh my gosh, humans are so stupid. i was just hiding behind a tree. i just lasted him right in his face while he was filling up this car with gas. it's got every years like, you know, we could add, think we research human some, you know, prostitution rings, drug rings, the homeless. there's so many places we can get people besides us and grandma, but slight, please to see me. i'm starting, see i will stay here as long as i'm happy here and right now, i mean, it's like a dream come true to be living here and having the amount of people that come through every day that i get to share this with and get some people

are like mortified, some people are excited, some people are like, oh my gosh, i love your brain and it's like, i didn't really get that kind of attention and feedback when i've been doing my artworks in my life. like even like the 1st post i did of like a baby at all. i put horns on the back to make it look like wings or something and i posted it on like some obscure, like not instagram, it's like google plus or somewhere. and i really, oh it's, it was one person to be like, oh, that's weird like delete the language. and so just even though it is a whole fish and i have it, that's the plague of christianity that it's not against christians. it's just the christianity crusades. and what not the propagation of one, religion type of thing and then the plague, i don't know, it's kind of open to interpretation just to put the name alone. the i'm not an atheist living here in the desert. you find, you find spirituality all over the place, so you get really connected to

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slavery, but also began to rule their state. no, living down here, i've seen since this guy too. okay. i couldn't get the picture of it. because uh i, i didn't pull my my phone out fast enough. time i got my phone. i'll take a picture of this thing i saw on this guy. that's what really tripped me out. this is one of the ships i saw in the sky. and that's what it looked like. it grabs and broke through his rebel scrub. those. this right here, i saw this and this guy is a useful data pipeline ship. that's what it looked like. this one was coming from the opposite way. it was like a big blow arrested green container, plugging this guy in a week towards that mountain right over there,