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[MUSIC PLAYS]
[UPBEAT POP MUSIC PLAYING]
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Hey!
That's my van!
[CAR WHIRRING]
[CAR SCREECHES]
[BANGS]
[INDISCERNIBLE SPEECH]
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[BICYCLE WHIRRING]
Coconut suntan oil.
Every time I smell it, it reminds
me of my first summer on the beach.
It was the mid-80s and my father
had just been transferred
from Chicago to California,
so out we went.
Hey, have you seen Davie Harris?
He was last seen walking
towards the water.
- No, I'm sorry.
- Keep an eye out, would you?
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It was like I won a lottery of some
sort, dodged a bullet of doom.
That move to the beach would affect me
in ways I never could have imagined.
[STUMBLES]
My first summer as a junior lifeguard
would spark a love affair with the ocean
that still burns bright today.
[SCREECHING]
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[BIRDS SQUAWKING IN DISTANCE]
Is that your Ripper?
Yeah.
[BIRDS SQUAWKING IN DISTANCE]
Man, it's real nice, bro!
Thanks.
[BIRDS SQUAWKING IN DISTANCE]
Kids from around here don't
really have bikes like this.
[BIRDS SQUAWKING IN DISTANCE]
Yeah, I'm not from around here.
[BIRDS SQUAWKING IN DISTANCE]
People call me "Minnesota".
[CHUCKLES]
Like the city?
Uh, kind of.
- Yeah, okay, Minnesota.
- Okay.
See you later.
[CHILDREN YELLING IN DISTANCE]
[CHUCKLES]
[WHIRRING]
[BIRDS SQUAWKING AND CHILDREN
YELLING IN DISTANCE]
Excuse me.
Making the cut by
the skin of his teeth.
Number 17, Doug Mills!
[CROWD CHEERING]
Ever since the principal mistakenly
said I was from Minnesota,
nobody calls me "Doug".
It's always "Minnesota".
[MID-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
[WHISPERING]
Yes!
- Yeah.
- That was awesome.
I really didn't think I was
gonna make it.
This is Woods.
Five months ago when I moved
here, we became fast friends.
You could even say best friends.
[MID-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
So what are you gonna do now?
I don't know.
You wanna go play
Lego at my house?
Um...
I think I was gonna stay out here, I
really like the... the weather and stuff.
Okay, cool, cool.
Yeah, I'm gonna go play Lego.
Alright, man.
- Brothers till the end.
- Brothers as we grow.
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[YELLING]
[LAUGHING]
Nice one.
See you, Woods.
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That's Brooke.
I mean not only is she beautiful, but
she is totally out of my league,
if I even have a league.
What do you say
to a girl like that?
Wait a minute!
Hey, sunshine.
You so sure you don't have
to check the list?
Am I wrong?
No, no, you right on top.
I'm always on top!
[CHUCKLING]
Hey, dude.
Hey.
That's Mathis with the glasses and
Terrance with the shaggy hair.
I don't know them,
but everybody knows of them.
See you out there.
Yes, you will.
[BIRDS SQUAWKING IN DISTANCE]
[SLOW-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
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[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
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[INDISTINCT YELLING
AND CHEERING]
[SMASHING]
[SCREAMING]
Oh yeah!
[LAUGHTER
AND INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[BLOWING WHISTLE]
Well.
Aren't we just as chockers
as a centipede's sock drawer?
Any boofhead can swim in a pool.
Any Flaming Galah
can want to do the right thing.
Cactus!
Piece of piss!
Not worth a Zack.
[WHISPERING]
What language is he speaking?
I don't know.
I think it's like Scottish or
something.
...out of their element,
up the creek,
and most often completely
a few roos loose
in the top paddock.
Only one of you know this.
Rest of you, bogan knob-ends,
who haven't pulled a poor
poo-pusher from the water,
I need you coming
like I need a third armpit.
This is making me wish
I didn't actually get in.
[SUSPENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
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[WHISTLES]
[SCRIBBLING]
I don't think that's
hypoallergenic.
[CONTINUES SCRIBBLING]
Right now, there are
15 of you norks.
By this time next week,
that number will dwindle.
Some of you will get the chop, some
of you will spit out the dummy.
But some of you
will dig deep enough
and discover the man or woman
that you always wanna be,
was waiting inside you.
It's my job to scare that out of
you mutt polecats.
And I'll tell you what,
I'm as mad as a meat axe.
[WHISTLING]
[CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]
[UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]
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Uh, Sir?
Who in a buzzard's dingly bitch
are you calling "Sir",
you little bum bandit?
I just wanted to ask if you could maybe
abstain from writing on my back.
I have very sensitive skin and
break out frequently in hives
all over my hands...
Oh, sensitivity?
Oh, crikey!
That's terrible, mate!
Hey!
Is this flamin' gash
of a peckerwood your friend?
Yeah, Woods is my friend.
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[WHISTLES]
Welcome to hard times, mate.
[SCRIBBLING]
Bonzer!
[WHISPERING]
What does it say?
It says "peckerwood's friend".
- What does that mean?
- And go.
[TIMER CLICKS]
You're as dumb
as a bag of rocks.
Go!
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The Pacific Ocean
is cold, dark, and deep.
Those first few buoy swims
were terrifying.
[INDISTINCT YELLING IN DISTANCE]
I was slow, but Woods?
He was a whole another level.
[INDISTINCT YELLING IN DISTANCE]
I think our embarrassment
is what kept us afloat.
No, no, no, mate!
- You're with me.
- What?
Your friend is still not back.
That's your buddy out there.
Give your blood's worth.
Now!
[UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]
[BIRDS SQUAWKING]
[CHANTING]
Tell my mama not to cry!
Tell my mama not to cry!
Junior guards, we do or die!
Junior guards, we do or die!
Write my time upon my chest!
Write my time upon my chest!
Junior guards, I did my best!
[WHISTLING]
Up, up, up!
Come on now!
Formation!
Help your buddy!
Help your buddy!
Peckerwood, I'm watching you!
And go!
[INDISTINCT SPEECH]
Come on, come on, come on,
come on, come on!
[INDISTINCT SPEECH]
Keep going! Keep going,
I'm watching you!
Alright, alright!
Close race, whose got it? Come on, Scootch!
Dig in, Scootch!
Is it swelling or showing
signs of irritation?
Mathis, watch your form.
Hands behind your head.
Hands behind your head.
Get up, get up!
Champ, you like you're
having a seizure, mate?
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30, 31 that a boy, man!
33!
[LAUGHING]
[APPLAUSE]
Yeah! Yeah!
You can do it,
Minnesota, come on.
Just jump on... yeah!
Got this dude!
You got this, Minnesota.
Yeah, Minnesota,
don't blow a head gasket.
[CHUCKLING]
Back off, man.
- You comin' on strong?
- No.
'Cause I'm ready when you are.
I'm just standing here.
No, back that fuck.
- Okay.
- Hey.
Hold on, I'm leaning in here.
- Hey bro, I think you wanna see this...
- What?
Right here.
Holy shit.
And there it was.
My first glimpse of pubic hair
swaying in the wind.
It was those five pull-ups that taught
me Felice wasn't like the others.
She was a woman among girls.
[MID-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
Alright, alright,
we're moving on!
Come on, get out of here.
[YELLS]
I call that the "Bruce Lee".
The Bruce Lee?
Minnesota, that looks like a duck or...
that was like Donald Duck.
Wait, do a... do He-Man or
something?
- He-Man surfing?
- Yeah, surfing.
He-Man's like a better...
[HUMMING]
- He-Man!
- He-Man!
And the Masters of the Universe!
Universe!
- Uh...
- Oh!
- Hey so...
- Hey.
[BIRDS SQUAWKING AND INDISTINC CHATTER IN BACKGROUND]
Ew! Gross!
It's beach tar.
Yeah, I know.
It's pissing me off.
Well, WD-40 gets it off.
That's right.
That's a chemical reaction.
Uh, yeah.
Yeah, whatever.
Uh, hey man, Terrance can be
a bit of a dick sometimes,
but he's cool, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah, so don't sweat that thing
back there.
Okay.
Thanks.
[GRUNTS]
Hey, you're doing that wrong.
Oh!
First of all, you're too far
back on this board.
[GRUNTS]
Right here.
[MATHIS TAKES A DEEP BREATH]
So this back, pop up...
[POP MUSIC PLAYING]
- Back foot back and you balance.
- Yeah.
You try it.
Yeah.
Dude, that was totally Jedi!
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, something like that, man.
You're goofy-footed,
but uh, keep practicing.
You'll get it.
Yeah.
Uh...
Cool.
[BIRDS SQUAWKING IN DISTANCE]
Mathis!
Let's do it.
[INDISTINCT SPEECH]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN DISTANCE]
These guys aren't so great.
- Hey.
- Yeah?
- Hold on a second.
- Um....
- You see that?
- Pshew!
[YELLING]
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Hey, you uh, dropped this.
Thanks.
Oh, uh, all the rules for a
beach...
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Do you know this guy?
No.
You're Peckerwood's friend,
right?
Uh, yeah.
It's actually Minnesota.
[INDISTINCT YELLING IN DISTANCE]
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[WOODS YELLING IN DISTANCE]
Stop!
Asshole, stop!
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Let's bury him.
Leave him alone!
[GRUNTS]
Here to save your girlfriend?
Why you guys
gotta be such jerks?
Tough guy, huh?
Come on, Woods.
Thanks.
It was sort of awful.
See you around, ladies!
You need to get your shit
together, Woods.
We're not little kids anymore.
Okay.
Yeah, I get it.
Okay, good.
I want you to be okay.
Thanks, man.
No, no, no, no.
No!
No, no, no!
No!
No, not my Ripper!
- Are you sure you didn't...
- Oh!
Lock it up somewhere else?
This is my chain!
Shit!
- It's okay, it's okay.
- Trust people!
Oh shit!
Who is that?
Minnesota, don't talk to him.
- Minnesota!
- Hello?
Dude, no!
It's a box, not a cave!
Hey, I didn't ask you to check
me out, you pervert!
- Oh, okay.
- Listen this time.
Rock people, you little shit!
Um, thank you.
That was mildly frightening.
- Dude?
- Yeah?
You need a new bike.
At least, I can keep
track of mine.
Point taken.
Here, you can have it.
No, I don't...
It's warm.
Dude, it's warm.
That's what I said.
Hey, what are you looking at?
[ENGINE WHIRRING IN DISTANCE]
[VEHICLE HONKING IN DISTANCE]
Dude, do you like her?
Look, I think you're good at
fighting,
but I'm pretty sure
Terrance can beat you up.
So maybe you should stop.
I don't know.
What do you know about her?
A lot actually.
For starters, I was in 4th grade
when her brother died.
Oh, man.
Yeah, rip tide.
[SKATEBOARD WHIRRING]
Her dad disappeared after that.
- Ve...
- Shh!
- What?
- Well, what did you just say?
I said her dad
disappeared after that.
I think like he went to Las
Vegas or something.
Then rumor has it that
he just took off after that.
[CHANTING] Push-ups,
sit-ups, jumping jacks, too!
Push-ups, sit-ups, jumping
jacks, too!
You never leave the tower to
take a poo!
You never leave the tower to
take a poo!
Runnin' all day
in the scorching sand!
- Runnin' all day in the scorching sand!
- Hey, that really hurts.
Sweatin' all day
just like we planned!
- Sweatin' all day just like we planned!
- Not what I planned.
Swimmin' in the surf
till my eyes bawl out!
Swimmin' in the surf
till my eyes bawl out!
That's what the junior guard
is all about!
That's what the junior guard
is all about!
- Hoorah!
- Hoorah!
Oh God!
There you go.
Yeah?
Oh my God!
I can talk to him.
Come on, man.
- Dude, the bag's got...
- Hey!
[MATHIS WHISTLING]
Sweetly.
Hey.
Man, uh, I wanna show you
something.
What is it?
[DOOR OPENS AND SQUEAKS]
Hey.
So Mathis says we can trust you.
Oh, yeah.
I mean... listen, I would say I'm solid
unless I have to like kill anybody.
[SLOW SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
[GRILL SQUEAKING AND SHUTTING]
Holy shit!
"Meet Mindy.
"She likes posing and kittens."
- And I think that mean "pussy."
- Yeah.
Called a "sexual innuendo".
It makes you think, doesn't it?
[CHUCKLING]
Why are you guys
showing me this?
'Cause it's... you don't want to
see it, man.
- No, I mean... I--
- Really?
I do.
It's naked chicks, man.
Guys like to look
at boobs and shit.
Yeah!
Just thought you'd
want to see it.
Yeah, I... I-- I do.
Thank you.
Just uh, familiarize yourself
with the material.
[DOOR OPENS AND SQUEAKS]
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
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Boobs!
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[DOOR BANGING]
Uh, one second!
[GRILL SQUEAKS]
Uh, yeah, one second!
- What?
- I was getting...
- You scared the shit out of me.
- Sorry.
What... what are you doing in
there?
- Weren't you...
- Nothing, just...
- Ooh!
- Just give me your towel, okay?
- Why?
- Give it.
Ow, my neck!
[SCREAMING IN DISTANCE]
I'll be back.
Okay, bye!
Your turn now.
[UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]
The only thing that's gonna make
this boner disappear is cold water.
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[CLAPPING]
That was for sure
my fastest buoy swim yet.
Let's go again.
[SLOW-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
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As the summer wore on, I felt like
I was learning to read the ocean,
knowing what to expect,
how to read her face.
I was learning how to talk with
her, how to exist within her,
how to stay afloat when all
she wanted to do was sink me.
[TAKING DEEP BREATHS]
Girls on the other hand, that
was gonna take quite a while
to figure out.
[SLOW-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
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[WHIRRING]
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
What do you think that homeless
guy meant by "rock people"?
I think you should just forget
about that, man.
I mean the reality of you actually
getting your bike back...
What about rock people?
Uh, my Ripper got... got ripped...
ripped off.
Some hobo said something
about rock people.
You think they have your bike?
It's a good place to start.
I don't know.
They're dangerous dudes.
What do you think?
Tell him?
It could be funny.
Alright.
I know these guys.
They buy us beers.
[CHUCKLING]
Come by the pier tonight.
- I think they can help you out.
- Really?
But please, don't...
don't blame this on me,
'cause you never know, man.
[CHUCKLING]
Okay, what time?
- Mm, about midnight.
- Yeah.
The pier's closed
at midnight, guys.
Come on.
- Thank you.
- No, but...
- Thanks.
- Isn't that illegal?
[LAUGHING]
Later.
[INDISTINCT YELLING]
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I was able to get closer to
Brooke in the water than on land.
But strangely,
I felt even more invisible.
Without saying anything,
she made it very clear
that we wouldn't
be talkin' out there,
at least not until I'd caught a
wave worth talking about.
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[INDISTINCT YELLING]
Come on man, I spent
a fortune on that.
No!
[SCREAMS]
Stop!
Yeah.
No!
No, Minnesota!
Dude?
Minnesota?
Dude, you okay?
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Hey, thanks for saving me.
[GRUNTING]
[WAVES CRASHING]
- Come on!
- Yeah.
Yeah, I... I-- I'm coming.
[WAVES CRASHING]
[TICKS]
[MID-TEMPO ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]
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[WHIRRING]
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Let me out of here!
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Look at this rebel.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
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Hey.
Hey.
Are you okay?
Yeah.
Yeah, just uh, lost in thought.
[CHEERING AND INDISTINCT YELLING
IN DISTANCE]
You can talk to me if you want.
About you know, your brother.
- I know you miss him.
- Minnesota.
No.
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Hey.
This... this is mine now.
Trade.
See you later, Minnesota.
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[UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]
[SIZZLING]
[EXPLOSION]
[LAUGHING]
Wakey-wakey!
You having a little bit of a
moment there.
Who are you?
We uh... we met down on the...
on The Strand.
We did?
I don't remember that.
Yeah, you... you liked my uh... my
Ripper.
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
- Fancy bike.
- Mmhmm.
I recognize you now.
- Yeah.
- Mmhmm.
This is my brother, Pans.
Right, Pots and Pans.
Yeah.
[SKATEBOARD WHIRRING]
Tell P and P about your problem.
You got a problem?
What kind of problem?
You need someone knocked around?
- Stabbed?
- Capped?
Are you guys serious?
[LAUGHING]
Who's fucking with you, bro,
huh?
I heard something
about uh, rock people.
Fuck you.
Rock people?
Who the fuck is goin' around here
talking to you about rock people?
Was it the fuck who
lives in the box?
He was in a box
at the time, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, alright.
He would know.
Yeah.
Alright, look.
There is this guy, alright?
He lives way, way,
way, way out there.
He's like the head of the whole
thing, right?
[POTS SNIFFLES]
He knows about everything that
comes in and out of this town.
- Everything.
- Everything.
Murderers, drugs, sex slaves.
Do you like sex slaves?
I just wanna find my bike.
Hmm.
Alright, well, the Rock God
would know.
The Rock God would know.
So uh, can you help me out then?
I mean... [INDISTINCT SPEECH]
- Listen, listen...
- Mmhmm
[INDISTINCT SPEECH]
We could get that ship out.
Alright.
[SIGHS]
- We'll help you.
- Yeah, mmhmm.
You just gotta do one more
favor for us first, alright?
[WHISPERING]
Just a little.
There's this house down
on The Strand, alright?
You can't miss it.
- It's huge, it's beautiful.
- Epic place.
This the guy, The Yiz, lives
there.
Sleaze ball.
Super famous in the music
industry, he's good loaded.
Anyway, on the second deck of
his house, he's got a pot on it.
My fuckin' pot,
which he never paid me for.
Just grab the plant
and bring it back to us.
You do that,
we take you to see the Rock God.
So yeah, I've got a question.
This guy has your bike, right?
No, this guy has
a marijuana plant.
Wait, marijuana?
It's not for me, it's for Pots.
The kid who will take me to the guy
who probably knows where my bike is.
Give me that for a sec.
Got sand in it, dude.
Dude, this guy looks
like he can kill you!
- So what?
- So what, dude!
I don't think this is ethical!
It's not, Woods.
It's illegal.
Dude, my dad will kill me
if I get busted.
You're not gonna
get busted, okay?
You're just gonna stand
out here and watch.
And if it looks like they see
me, you'll make a sound.
Wait a second.
By me making a sound
to indicate to you
the pending discovery
of your lawlessness
would make me...
would make me an accessory,
so that means that if you get
caught, then I get caught.
I can't believe you.
All the times I stood up for
you, man.
Okay.
[METAL MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT SPEECH]
[PHONE RINGING]
[MAN SIGHS]
Yeah?
Yeah, I can't really talk
business right now,
I'm walking into a recording
session.
I'm about to pull out the mic.
[CHUCKLING]
Oh Barry, it's not even a good
time to pop over.
I'm looking for a mnage trois,
buddy, not a jazz quartet.
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[WATER SPLASHING]
Yiz!
Where's Yiz?
Looking hot, ladies.
[SHATTERING]
What the hell was that?
- Oh!
- Hey there, cutie.
Yiz is gonna kill you.
[YELLING]
You better get those nasty feet
off my bed, you punk.
Hey!
I'm getting my bike back.
[YIZ SCREAMING]
Kid!
Hey, stop!
I will find you
and I will kill you!
I'm sorry for this!
Oh!
- My towel!
- Little turd!
Nothing to see here.
[METAL MUSIC PLAYING]
Hey, look, it's pretty
hot out here.
I was just thinking
maybe you need some sunscreen.
Oh, yeah, sure.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
It's really important than that, like
the sun is exceptionally hot out here.
Cannot be too careful.
That's right, I'll take a cut.
Pain in the ass.
You know, my brother here Pans
is a great masseuse.
- Really?
- Would you like a massage?
- Oh, sure.
- We'll take turns.
You're gonna get tan lines
with these.
Oh my God!
Get up, get up, get up!
- We gotta go. We gotta go.
- Bye.
Thank you, Mackenzie.
Thank you so much.
Come on, walk.
Let's go home.
Bye, Mackenzie.
Nice to meet you.
Holy shit!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
- Are you out of your mind?
- I did it.
Are you out of your mind?
I got it. Yeah.
In broad daylight?
You guys asked me to get the
plant, right?
- Yes, not bring it to the beach!
- I... I got it.
I held up... I held up my end of
the deal.
Are you serious?
- Here.
- Take off your shirt.
- Here.
- Take your shirt off.
Hide this.
Where?
I don't care if you smoke the whole
thing, get it off the beach.
[DUSTING HANDS]
So are we going to see Rock God?
You've lost your nut,
kid, over a bike.
- You're taking me or not?
- Yeah, come on.
- Right now?
- Yeah, no time like the present.
[BIRDS SQUAWKING AND WAVES
CRASHING]
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Oh, this is about
as far as I go.
You'll be alright though.
What?
You said I could...
you'd take me to the Rock God.
This is just you know,
as far as I go.
He's out there.
How am I supposed to find him?
You got it.
Okay.
Just stay focused, alright?
Don't fall off the rocks.
Good luck.
I'll see you around, Minnesota.
Man!
Just keep going
that way, you know.
[SLOW-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
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Excuse me!
Hey.
Uh, I'm looking for someone.
These guys sent me out here.
Not too many people out here,
just the way I like it.
Right.
Uh, this guy would probably
stand out.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Uh, they call him
the "Rock God".
What?
The Rock God!
[LAUGHING]
The Rock God?
Well, from what I've heard
nobody has ever really
seen the Rock God!
So you... you've heard of him?
Heard of him, yeah.
Whispers, here and there, yeah.
Travel with wind and
ride on the waves.
[WAVES CRASHING IN DISTANCE]
Think you could uh,
talk to him for me?
Rock God?
I lost my bike.
I think it got stolen or
something.
My name's Minnesota.
Mmm!
I'm placing you in my head.
Yeah, getting
a bigger picture.
Minnesota.
Minnesota?
You know, that's a Lakota word and
people full of shit will tell you
it means "the land of the
sky-blue waters."
That's all some bullshit
to sell real estate.
What it really means is
"the land of murky water".
You feel like murky water.
Um, I'm really not
following you.
Your name, Minnesota.
Minnesota.
Oh yeah, that...
that's not really my name.
But you gotta filter that water.
It's important.
Let it run through the stream, down
the waterfalls, out to the ions,
and into the sea.
- Are you cold?
- Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh, thanks.
Yeah.
So uh...
- Hey.
- My... my bike.
We knew we were
gonna meet, right?
It's written in the stars.
Wait, wait, wait.
Look at me.
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
I can see your path
much clearer now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're struggling
to understand, right?
Listen, you gotta understand
there's nothing to understand.
It's all some testosterone
mixing with social pressure.
But you do have the chance
of a cosmic do-over.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
Check it, over there.
My bike?
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
This?
Yep!
Like it?
Well, it's not a bike.
But it's something to get around
on until the planets align
and the universe reveals itself
upon you.
[SIGHS]
Thanks.
Anytime, anywhere, anyhow.
We'll meet again, Minnesota.
Don't lose that.
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
[]
[WHIRRING]
[]
Hey, Minnesota.
Not gonna come
over and say "hi"?
Hi.
Hey.
It was a... a gift, I guess,
along with the skateboard.
It's from the Rock God.
Rock God?
Yeah.
I've never met anyone
who's met the Rock God.
Yeah, well, it's mostly just
confusing.
[CHUCKLING]
What are you...
what are you doing?
You know, just wasting my youth.
You afraid, Minnesota?
Of what?
What comes next?
All these choices we have?
I just wanna get through...
today, honestly.
Come on.
Let's get into some trouble.
Now?
I'm afraid it's a
limited time offer.
Who knows who
I'll be in an hour?
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
You mean "where".
No.
No, I don't.
What?
Just making sure you know,
what you're doing.
[DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE]
[VEHICLE WHIRRING IN DISTANCE]
[SKATEBOARD WHIRRING]
What's going on?
Hey.
Let's get out of here.
Alright.
[VEHICLE WHIRRING IN DISTANCE]
[SKATEBOARD WHIRRING]
[SLOW-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
[SIGHING]
[MID-TEMPO POP MUSIC PLAYING]
[]
[PANTING]
There's no answers
down there, mate.
Look at me.
Oh-ho, there he is.
The big heavy rocks.
I'm not quitting!
We'll see.
Get in line.
[GRUNTS]
Today, Friday, holiday weekend!
Happy birthday, America!
So let's have some two-pot screamers and
a whole heap of out-of-control idiots
completely off their tits.
Lucky Tony.
Where did you get the board?
[WHISPERING]
The guy in the rocks.
He said he was
gonna find my bike.
Now we, the junior lifeguards, are
going to prepare our CPR skill!
The Rock God?
He's actually real?
Yeah.
The board is mine until the
universe reveals itself to me.
You don't make sense anymore.
What?
What does that mean?
Alcohol and water do not mix.
You're running drugs,
you're breaking...
I'm running with drugs!
Important difference.
Now we are going to talk
about a little situation.
What do you want from me, man?
Say you're still in there.
Say you're my best friend.
Bros as we grows.
A situation involving
a flowery little girl.
[CHUCKLING]
This is not any girl.
No, no, no, no!
This particular girl
is a preggy Sheila.
[LAUGHING]
Now, shirt off, assume the posy.
[SLOW-TEMPO DRAMATIC MUSIC
PLAYING]
[]
Today, we are saving two lives.
Without oxygen,
a woman and her baby will die.
Here it is.
Now, it's very important
that we don't smash up
the poor little
bugger inside, yes?
So we take our time and we apply
the pressure above the baby.
Good, right.
Now, Champ, Peckerwood demonstrate,
break off into groups, back in five.
- Who wants to go first?
- I will.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Let's get on with this.
Yeah.
[TAPPING]
What?
[TAPPING]
Hey man, you got a problem?
Yes, I'm mad!
I'm mad as hell.
Yeah, I can see that.
You don't have to
take it out on me.
It's because of you!
Well, what you want me to do
about it, huh?
I don't know. I just want things
to go back to normal.
Well, that's never
gonna happen, alright?
And that's normal.
Normal people grow up, Woods.
Normal people notice girls,
okay?
Normal people
get fucking normal!
You don't think I'm normal?
[SLOW-TEMPO SOFT PIANO MUSIC
PLAYING]
[]
Screw you!
[SLOW-TEMPO SOF PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
[]
[BIRDS SQUAWKING]
[SLOW-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
[]
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
[]
[THUMP]
[MINNESOTA GRUNTING]
Come here!
[MINNESOTA GRUNTING]
Hey, what you got
my board for, huh?
You fucking prick.
Nice glasses.
Yeah.
It makes yous
look good, brudda.
Feels good.
What are you doing here?
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]
[GUN COCKING]
Say cheese, dickhead.
[FIRES]
[INDISTINCT YELLING]
Ha-ha!
Minnesota! Come on!
[LAUGHING]
High five.
Outrage.
- That was crazy!
- Outrage.
You got me crazy.
Oh, you are a lucky boy.
Those guys are humungous.
They can just... they'll just sit
on you.
It's happened to Pans.
- Do you remember?
- It's true.
Yeah.
Worst day in my life.
It wasn't a good day.
You stole the wrong board,
buddy.
I didn't steal it.
It was given to me.
Well, look, you gotta straighten
somebody up,
because people are tryin'
to have you killed now.
You gotta get street-smart.
[SIGHS]
Thanks for saving my ass.
[CHUCKLING]
Look, we just
hate those guys, alright?
You're not so bad,
but we go way back with them.
- It had nothing to do with you really.
- Honestly.
We're just defending our
country.
They're Hawaiians, right?
- Shut up!
- No.
Alright!
[SLOW-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
[]
Come on!
There's the start,
there's the start!
The ocean had warmed up.
My mind was now
at ease swimming
and I could feel the water glide
across my body.
It felt fast.
I wasn't scared of the depth
anymore.
Yes, yes, yes. Heave!
It felt like I belonged.
[SLOW-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
The ocean is about
peace and strength.
It's about focus and clarity in
your head.
It's about strength and
fortitude in your body.
Am I right?
[TOGETHER]
Yes, Tony!
You know that I'm right.
Now, and sometimes the ocean just flat
out goes Vegas Baby and pays you.
- [LAUGHING]
- Alright?
Now, how about
you little wannabes dive down,
get your good old Uncle Tony, a
fistful of sand dollars, alright?
Yeah.
And then you get to
enjoy your afternoon.
[LAUGHING]
Alright?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So why are we still here?
Come on, go, go, go!
[SPLASHING]
[SLOW-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
[]
Now, here's a gopher.
Nice one, Brookie, good girl.
Alright.
[TAKING DEEP BREATHS]
Alright, nice.
Nice, I like it.
Lovely.
Everyone take turns,
everyone on the boards.
[SPLASHING]
Nice, breath control, Mathis!
- Easy money, right?
- Yeah, jackpot.
Go Vegas.
Alright, hand 'em over!
The money of your lives.
Here it is.
What about you, champ?
I guess I just don't have it.
Well, regardless,
enjoy your afternoon all.
[INDISCERNIBLE SPEECH]
Get out of here.
[TAKING DEEP BREATHS]
[SLOW-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
[SPLASHING]
[]
Hey!
Come here.
Here, sit in my office.
Saw you out there.
Looked like you were having fun.
Something like that.
Yeah, well, fun is overrated.
Nothing good is ever easy.
Take my job.
They hand me a bunch of
pre-pubescent, knob-jockey seppos
that I would literally rather drag my
clangy sac through infected glass.
Than teach how to be men and women,
much less unleash these dingbats
in the billabong
to save some drowning sook.
You started this
with the right boofhead.
[WHISTLES]
[SCRUBBING]
[SCRIBBLING]
Yeah.
I think that is more fitting!
Dinky-di!
[MINNESOTA CHUCKLES]
[SLOW-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
Alright, mate.
[SLOW-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHILD YELLING IN DISTANCE]
[SKATEBOARD WHIRRING]
You got it bad, man.
[SIGHS]
How do you get the girl, Mathis?
You don't, dude.
But you learn.
Find a better one later.
You know I if the boat doesn't
come to shore, swim to it.
Hey, if you're ever in the mood though,
I'll have to whoop to your ass.
Loyalty, you know, right?
[INDISTINCT SPEECH]
[GRUNTING]
Shit!
Hey, kid's gotta learn
to fight his own battles.
Ow!
Come on, Woods.
Fight back.
[SLOW-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
[SQUAWKING]
It may have been wrong to take
Mathis' advice, but I did.
And I never saw Woods on the
beach again.
Yeah, I would see him around
school and in the neighborhood,
but I never imagined that our
saying "bros as we grows"
would end up meaning
"as we grow apart".
[WAVES CRASHING AND BIRDS
SQUAWKING IN DISTANCE]
What are you looking for?
Oh.
I guess I was just...
I don't know, I thought there
was something out here,
I guess it was just in my head.
Oh yeah, everything is in our
heads.
Okay, I see.
Real neat.
What do you see?
Tell me.
You're tryin' to make me think
I imagined all that.
Tryin' to cover your tracks,
huh?
I stopped covering my tracks
years ago.
It's okay to leave footprints,
okay?
I'm kinda pissed, dude.
Everybody in this town has been running
my ass off for their own amusement.
Running?
Why do you run?
You know, first of all,
to save my life.
Remember that skateboard you
gave me?
- Doorway to the universe or whatever.
- Yeah.
Yeah, you could have told me it belonged
to some giant, angry Hawaiian dudes.
You tryin' to get me murdered?
I have some news.
Okay!
I have defeated the dark.
I think we all can.
Does the dark have my bike?
The dark has a hold of
everything if you let it.
But you can decide whether the
darkness has a hold on you or not.
You with me?
It's so easy that it's
difficult.
But when you find the key,
it's very easy.
Yeah, I guess it doesn't really
matter anyway.
It's just a bike.
I'm kind of in deeper now
anyways.
That's it.
You got it.
What?
You got what it takes and you
always did.
[CHUCKLES]
Yeah, California knocks you down,
but you bounce right back up.
Right?
It's a beautiful lady.
Tough perhaps,
but she's full of love.
If you can take it in.
Let the light in.
Minnesota.
Great.
So I came all the way out here for you
to tell me I already have what I needed.
No, you came here for this.
The magic.
[CHUCKLES]
Look at my finger.
[BIRDS SQUAWKING AND WAVES
CRASHING IN DISTANCE]
Hey!
- What are you doing?
- Just lookin' for some friends.
What are you doing?
Uh, I don't know.
What are you doing, tonight?
- T... tonight?
- Yeah.
I don't know.
Just uh... nothin' actually.
Okay, well,
why don't you come with me?
[FELICE CHUCKLING]
[LAUGHTER AND INDISTINC CHATTER]
- Hey mate, you found your bike?
- Uh, no.
I just kinda gave up.
What's the problem, man?
I don't need it.
You guys ready?
Oh yeah.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
Uh, what?
Ready for what?
[CHUCKLES]
Spin the bottle.
One of us shouts
"seven minutes in heaven"...
[GIGGLES]
Well, you have to
go with that person.
Go... go where?
Bathroom.
What do you do in the bathroom?
[LAUGHING]
Whatever your
imagination can handle.
I can imagine a lot.
[LAUGHING]
Shut up, man!
[CHEERING AND LAUGHTER]
Alright, let's get this party
started.
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
You start.
- [FELICE GASPS]
- Oh!
[GIGGLES]
[KISSING]
[MATHIS WHISTLING]
It's your turn, Minnesota.
[]
Alright, big boy.
Let's go.
I'm gonna kiss you, man.
Is that alright?
Spin again, dude.
[LAUGHING]
[GIRLS CHANTING]
Seven minutes in heaven.
Oh!
Oh, you guys leaving so early.
You just got here!
[CHUCKLING]
Hey, Minnesota.
[LAUGHING]
[LAUGHING]
Where are we going?
We're almost there.
[DOOR SHUTS AND LOCK CLICKS]
[LAUGHING]
Well?
Um, what are we gonna do?
What do you wanna do?
Everything.
I don't know.
[FELICE LAUGHS]
You uh, ever make out with
anyone?
I don't know.
I guess.
[CHUCKLES]
Let me steer.
[KISSING]
[SLOW-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
[]
It's nice, just a
little less spit.
[CHUCKLES]
[KISSING]
[FELICE CHUCKLING]
You're so cute.
Not bad for your first time.
[CHUCKLING]
[MID-TEMPO POP MUSIC PLAYING]
[]
[WHISTLING]
Well, who's next?
Ah, the two shark biscuits!
Now get it.
[DISPATCHER ON RADIO]
Rescue 3, rescue 3.
Oh!
[DISPATCHER ON RADIO]
This is HQ.
[STATIC]
Copy, Tony.
[DISPATCHER ON RADIO]
Tony, just got a call
about a floating piece of debris
outside the cove.
What's you're 20?
[STATIC]
That's right,
we're about five minutes out.
[DISPATCHER ON RADIO] Swing
over there and check it out.
[STATIC]
Copy that. On the move.
Lisa, get those kids back to
shore!
Alright, Brooke, Minnesota,
ready to go work?
Back in the boat.
[ENGINE WHIRRING]
[MID-TEMPO POP MUSIC PLAYING]
[]
[SLOW-TEMPO DRAMATIC MUSIC
PLAYING]
There he was.
It was the missing
boy from the flyers.
Somehow the picture
had made him look old,
but in reality maybe
he was in college.
Be careful with him!
[DISPATCHER ON RADIO]
South Bay at 1, South Bay at 2.
[INDISCERNIBLE SPEECH]
And assist vessel 3, over.
Every day...
[SNIFFLES]
I miss him every day.
[SOBS]
It's okay.
I got you.
Okay.
[BROOKE SOBBING]
Let's get you kids back to
shore, eh?
[SLOW-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
[]
[WHIRRING]
For as much joy as the ocean
gave me that summer,
the discovery of the body proved
it could be cruel as well.
But it wasn't the body that
changed me.
Nor Brooke's embrace.
Her reliving
her brother's long-ago death?
No.
It was watching Tony deal
with the situation
and reveal his true colors.
As scared as I was of his
attention that summer,
I was lucky to have had it.
He made us strong,
so that he could trust us.
For the first time, I understood the
true meaning of the word "lifeguard".
[WAVES CRASHING]
[BIRDS SQUAWKING IN DISTANCE]
[SLOW-TEMPO SOF PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
[CAR DOOR SHUTS IN BACKGROUND]
[ENGINE WHIRRING]
[CAR VROOMING IN BACKGROUND]
[SLOW-TEMPO SOF PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
[]
Well, my little brown sea
pickles, you made it!
Bonzer.
Look around you.
Lot of hard yakka.
Some of you surprised me.
Some of you didn't have to.
But overall, I have to say that
I am...
[CLEARS THROAT]
Proud of all of you complete
knob-ends.
But as in the job of life-guarding,
there can be no bludgers.
And today is no exception!
Sand work.
[LAUGHING]
Give me a lap around
the south tower.
[WHISTLING]
Have a go, you mutts!
[TAPPING]
[GLASS CLINKING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Yeah.
[LAUGHING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
No way.
Where the hell did you get
these?
Oh, sick!
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- [POPS]
- Yeah!
- Clean stroke.
- Nice!
- I'd like to propose a toast.
- Yes.
To Minnesota for
making it this far.
Yeah.
[CLINKING]
[GRUNTS]
Dude, these are warm.
This is the shit.
Let me feel.
Oh, you're right, it's hot to
the touch.
Didn't those old guys
have any ice?
We didn't exactly chat.
Just drink it quick.
I'll drink it.
[FELICE CHUCKLES]
Oh!
[CHUCKLING]
[SPUTTERING]
[LAUGHING]
[SPUTTERING]
[]
Hey.
Hey.
Looks awesome, huh?
Yeah.
You're gonna talk
to me out there?
Probably not.
Why?
'Cause I'm not a local?
Something like that.
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]
[]
I was wrong to think I had to
say something to get the girl.
And at that age,
what is getting the girl?
What I was really looking for
was a friend.
I didn't have to say anything,
I just had to be there
to put in the time
and to continue to try.
And if it was meant to be,
she'd notice me.
[]
[SLOW-TEMPO SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
[]