Slab City, California: Last Free Place in America? (Extraordinary Place Documentary) | Real Stories 

Until he's intoxicated.

@@jedidiah5131 how do you know that?

Dude shut up

Yeah that would be my guy! I don't think I could take the flys!

@@swapmeetsheriffdonknottexp3046 Yes the fly’s are bad there & the smaller the fly the harder they bite!

Mate he said 50 and I melt at 27. Jeezus lol

He is clearly the brains behind this little community and the glue that holds it together, quite remarkable guy and he chose this lifestyle too. It's what Charlie Manson was doing also in the California desert, but at least these are decent people.

I wish more people would be willing to do it the other way around. When someone says "50 degrees" to me, I think that's quite cool. I don't understand celcius.

@@zendyk don't expect it. They are not very reasonable people and consider everyone on F instead of C to be retarded. They hate it so much they won't even learn conversion nor even swing by Google to get exacts. The funny thing is the C system 0 is freezing temps of water and 50 is our 115. We go from 32-115 in the same span meaning we have more close and relative temp's.

😃

Same!

… and the cat.

Why does that make you happy? The dog and cat don't care.

@@Arthurian. because I find it cute and wholesome and I'm not a cold, unfeeling robot.

@@leestaggers2583 you're emotionally broken if you think that makes you caring 😆

I wonder if rickets caused his lower limbs to form wrong.

I agree I wish them the same

@@Christina-cm8ze Humans are not nice animals, never have been, never will be.

that and the fact his best friend there is a racist and a big story teller. When they were wrestling and his friend called him the N word. you can see soo many bad things in zack sad thats all the other dude has

@@carculturenation2166 Dude that was phenom saying that to Zack not the other way around. Their voices aren't even remotely similar.

For real, i bet he's secretly a millionaire or something 😄

❤️

@@cyrusthevirus3175 Have fun with the flies.

@@marcelinoperez2926 no problem

@@ashiacameron ,

Sounds awesome. So I was back in winter of last year and it was weird.. There weren't as many people as June of last year. Usually they said more people in winter, but not this time, unless people were indoors hanging out. I got a few games of Magic on their borrowed cards.. I collect baseball cards, pokemon, and used to collect magic before selling them. The lady had some AWESOME cards, but they were all played. The card collector in me was crying inside, seeing that if they were PSA rated 10 cards she had that would have went for 2k-10k easily. She had about 30k or more worth of cards if they were graded 10s. A lot of junk, but I told her that she needs to stop playing with the Mox Ruby ect ect.

Must have some stories

Sure he was.

@@ritzharris1303 uh what

Stop.lying bro

Good glue! I truly would love to meet this man! Not enough of people like Rob.

@@merrileelee7858 That's my dad and he's great people :)

Who was the Girl ?

@@maryannlane6393 which mam is your daddy? This is awesome id luv to visit this place:)

@@merrileelee7858 Imagine someone starting a gofundme for his trip to the moon x)

Well to some extent. I don't feel bad about judging Jeffery Epstein negatively for the way he lived his life.

That part !!!

joe smobody touché 😂😂

joe smobody well damn that’s a good point lol

Ah yes, yes it does.

I wonder if he is still there? I cannot find anything on him.

@@courtneykirk478 I think that's the point.

@@VuULF Hhhmm, what is your point because it did not aid in my question?

@@courtneykirk478 I was curious also, but I do believe he is gone now. I've seen newer videos at the internet cafe and he's never there.

@@courtneykirk478 80jj hu hu joi unni

My grandpa,uncles& a few cousins were exactly like them,some of the best stories/history,they really were smart &definitely living off the grid,b4 their really was a grid😂,T Y 4 ur comment,has me remembering some true blue times 👍🏻👍🏻✌🏻

So absolutely true. The realest, rawest, most legitimate men. And usually so very wise. You can come to them with anything and get the raw honest truth. Every time I see a man like it’s, like the men in my family growing up, I get so emotional and nostalgic. I miss ‘em.

Kesha pretty much put this place on the map.

Yeah George looks like a cool old dude. I would totally kick it with him.

Naw some people are enlightened and strive for the betterment of us all with their indomitable will

#thereisnogod stupid

@@Automedon2 as a guy that lived like that you need to be someone a place needs you to go. You look at those people and see many of them living like they're worried about anyone? You can only help someone if you're beyond needing it, or they'll just drown each other.

These people are mostly drug using people. I had quite the experience. I ended up going back about 7 months ago because I was on the other side of the sea with the real RVers, but I went back to that side and nothing has really changed. It seems that there are travelers there that stop and stay there for a month here and a month there. The people I saw about 6 months prior weren't there anymore. The guy that runs the internet was still there though. But people don't really need the internet cafe anymore. Seems in the last 6 months everyone has the internet now out there. People were still dirty though and the residents in real homes seem to be bother3ed by the transients more than they had used to have been. More cops, so in the last 6 months something must have happened because I saw more police or security there. Sure sure if they were plain clothes or just wannabes. I only stayed one night the second time, and it was winter before christmas when I last went. I assume summer brings more people. The time before I was there in May of 21.

NO, we AREN’T ALL broken.

What is a solider?

@@davidbooker11 Oops typo

I'm sorry I read that wrong

@@davidbooker11 You were right, my spelling is off. I didn’t even notice it😂 Has been corrected.

@@simplenv4740 I'm so sorry for bothering you about that. I thought I was missing something. I hope your having a good weekend!!

@Loonytoones85 ooh, be careful with that edge kid. You'rea going to cut yourself with it.

@Tanya Mushaney true

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@@ceoofbrunestud5894m

No he’s a creeper in disguise. It’s my feeling His nice guy routine masks a very bad man. Someone who is incredibly manipulative and smart.

hug yo kids when they die. everything bad that happens to your kids is your fault

I hear you. I want to go adopt them all too ❤️

Tough people

From a film making perspective, I thought finding his dog should have been the last scene. After Rob's wisdom-laden monologue, finally finding Seika alive and well would leave the viewer with a sense of hope and optimism.

Way better than the mayor of Schitt's Creek 😆

Man thank you for telling us she came back, I was gonna have to watch something else

I said the exact same thing,mayor rob & yea I was worried about the dog.covid doesn't seem like a problem here,maybe they didn't get the news!

Same. Hate when those chirpy Vice reporters have to pander to us and try to re-word whatever someone just said because Vice thinks we’re as retarded as they are.

Below sea level.

@@handelivan9124 thanks for the tip

...Also an out of work BUM...

How's the condition now with the covid situation, if I may ask ?

Hi

Same!

I couldn't even. I waited for that moment for what seemed forever.

Genuine, like me. Are you?

I am selling my Redding, California ranch style home with a large shop Fruit Trees as well as Irrigation every ten feet. I just may take a Trip down to Baker and then head out into Death Valley and squat on some land. I have a big Motor Home, two generators and do know how to make water with an artificial environment water savor. I was a Rain Maker working on a Resort program years ago in the Ozarks.

@@BitterDemo you have quite possibly the most valuable and unique skill set for shtf situations.

@@Arthurian. Thank You Jessica Stein. I wish at this time in my life I could find my last enjoyable place where I could breath without the smell of the City. I wish I was strong enough to live in Death Valley or up in Bodie, Ca. I would drive my Motor Home there towing my 1901 Oldsmobile and that would be where I would melt into the sand. I have one living daughter, and I married my wife 34 years ago and she was our Ring Bearer, and that was the last time she has ever came around. No matter how much money I have gave her and her kids. I am now all alone with the shell of the woman I married 34 years ago. I have to be alert every second of the day and night, She has no concept of time or anything. L was up with her until 01:15 this morning and got to sleep finally and she woke me up at 02:15 with Gun Smoke on the Living room TV going full blast and the Gun fire woke me up.

Eventually they will become an inbreed generation if they keep their circle small. Also it seems like it’s alot of ppl who have no care about reform. They rather live in such a way that shows it. They may seem kind of chill at first but eventually the gasket will blow off. That’s what happens when lawlessness takes over in a place where it’s do as you feel but don’t mess with me kind of attitude.

There's a guy there looking for a nice woman!

Are you still there?

Buzz Aldrin said in a interview sit in a interview with a nine-year-old I think that we didn't go to the Moon. Well he ought to know because he was one of those that supposedly went there.

How did you join the marines ? I would love to.

@@celiomorais6357 I went to my local Marine Recruiting Office! ☺️

Watching right here in Everett with ya! Cheers!

I’m the neighbor coming in from lake Steven’s.

I'm here in lake city way Seattle 🙂💜

NYC in da house 🏘️ Baby!...💯❤️💯❤️

I’m here in rural ARKANSAS ❤

Not crying about "micro aggressions", "misgendering", "marginalization" or other made up ways to pretend life is soooo much harder for them!.

I feel the same way.

I just feel sad looking at it. All kinds of questions are raised about the place, especially given the contradictory information coming from the residents.

Right on.

Lmao if you think kangaroo court out in the boonies is the way you wanna live you can go do it for free in jail. You even get 3 meals a day and a bed.

I love how I say my opinion and yall suddenly think I want to live there lol. I just said that there were sentimental parts of the documentary that I didn’t expect. Trolls are too funny these days haha

it seems like it is modern tribalism

@r laze Did you watch the video? The way they interact with the world says a lot. There is trash and filth every where.

@@ljvolpicelli That's irrelevant,I've been in a lot of nice houses that look worse than this place on the inside...

@@PandaCheeks and I would argue that if the inside of a nice house is kept in filth and decay, those people are also damaged in some way.

@@ljvolpicelli Depends who you ask I suppose...

facts

I like what he's doing,no hard drugs or alcohol.. Smart move.they need to form a haircut,makeshift government ,keep those tweakers in line it might be ok.

Absolutely

Seems these people are happy with what they've got. Unlike most of us who have a lot and are miserable. Maybe they have the answers🤔

@@SuV33358 when u don’t have much, you appreciate everything and all the other noise of the world is minor.

hope he's not there due to alcoholic-druggie father/mother. Yeah, I definitely felt like helping him out too. Give him a safe place to expand his understanding and maybe find some productive goal rather than run to the military. Maybe he could be a software developer, maybe he could be a small business owner, something other than the military option.

​@@vutEwa How can you start a business in that condition? I live in the town close to Slabs. Would love to know how to get out...

@@rubenrodriguez3164 how can I answer your question fully in a RU-vid comment space? Hmm.. are you in Salton Sea? Do you have dedicated high speed internet and a PC?

" normal" doesn't exist. I forgot we consider "normal" being bullied, told what we can and can not say even if it's being respectful just because someone feels offended and then people feel it's ok to attack them physically. A normal life of being told we need to spend all of our hard earned money on crap we don't need and work our lives away just to get a couple of days off of work a year and hope we have health insurance or you’ll be in thousands of dollars in debt or go to college and still continue to be in debt when you can’t get a job in your field to pay for all of it lol yeah let’s all strive to live this so called great “normal” life.

Mom should have hi sd eye operated on. Its sad! America is a third world country

This is sad. Totally disenfranchised. .

For good reason!!

At least there's somewhere for your ugly dog to go the druggies will eat it but

the way we live ours doesn't give us the right to judge other people's lives

I want to move there.

Thank you

Prayer does nothing. God doesn't exist.

Amen!

@@macmac169 Neither do you

@@cliffkonkle3467 actually, I'm quite a great person. I contribute something to this world unlike your sky daddy.

@Ray West And you can fish all nite. Love it.

at what time is this

Literally lol. I caught that too, wondered why Rob stated it as if it were an interesting point, lol. I didn’t feel we had to be informed of that issue ghm

@Ray West I was there in January 2019 when a meth lab blew up. I donated at the church on the hill. The police drove through twice a day, probably to be close in case of emergency.

😂😂😂

🎯

The flies and the lack of daily hot showers and or baths at my leisure.. Only available shower is at the older gentlemans trailer who they say is genereous with it which is lovely but just not nearly close to sufficent..

I hate flys

The flies and those feet🤢

😂😂

Omg. I had an old neighbor that tried to play drums.... the only song he knew was nightmare by avenged sevenfold 😐 thankfully, he moved to another state. Meth & 1 song for the drums 🤣

Lol

Have you looked at New York, Chicago, Portland etc recently - ya, thanks to the 'protestors' parts now look like Mad Max movie sets. Awesome job!

It felt like that. Initially, I'm sure this started out a beautiful ideal much like a commune or a freedom school from the 60's/70's but what it became is something else entirely.....

@@jamesdspaderf2883 not sure how this has anything to do with the comment or the video. Get your political BS outta here.

Get used to seeing this. 🙏

36 miles to the nearest Walmart

Hey maybe ill see you there! 😏

Yeah, you dont have to keep the place looking a dumpster....

Absolutely. This place has potential but at the moment it's barely living. If they got more organised and had some proper skilled people to help and a bit of State aid money, they could build proper residences from lumber, get more solar panels, build wells, water filtration and pump systems, grow foods etc. Just like the Native American's do on their reserve areas. It's like these people have become modern day nomad's, living just day to day. There's a certain irony there, that the Native American peoples actually live better in a more developed land by their own efforts, but they have State aid and resources given to them.

Don't you think that keeps county and city off them? It's a shithole. would you go there if you do not need to?@@Trikipum

Yuh.... in my pouya voice.

Amen Jo. I thought hippies were supposed to love the environment. Many in slab city seem to be trashing it.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Somebody prob rollin cigs all day bc those were def ryos

And weed

Somebody selling some punani

Probably the same person who sells the Meth !

You CRIED when dude found SHRIEKA??? YOU HAVE A LOT OF TIME ON YOUR HANDS, AND NOT MANY FRIENDS IM GUESSING??😂😅😂😅😂

@@justinstransky8668 not sure how you came to that conclusion based off of me having compassion for a man and his dog, but you couldn't be more wrong. Good try on degrading someone you don't know tho.

I didn't cry but I also thought he was looking for a long lost pet/wife......

@@justinstransky8668 obviously you dont have friends

@@juul6633 I would say your comment is probably accurate if that's the way he talks to strangers. Nobody wants a friend like that.

Me Too ☺️

I said the same thing to my friend when i heard that, and i was glad to see this comment saying the same thing!

Maybe we could all post this video on Twitter and tag Musk 🤷🏿‍♂️.

I'm surprised he doesnt think the moon landing was fake

Good on you for saying so

Gummo?

@@artg6700 It’s a 1997 film by Harmony Korine.

I immediately thought of Gummo when they started wrestling on the trampoline 😂😂😂

Behaves the same way, you can trade anything for some chems.

Lot of flies everywhere.

NewVegas Mojave vibes

wtf

you sound like a discord mod😂😂😂😂😂

Lol….your name is a clue….Maybe you were meant to be a Sixties generation person. 😀

@@bridgetlyons876I think so! Lol when I'm done fixing my van for #vanlife I'm definitely stopping through some of these ghost towns!

That's what I was thinking. why do they choose to live in squalor, where is their creativity , their sense of hope, their sense of respect for one another their violence is out of control VIDEO GAMES ARE THEIR TEACHERS...STOP ALLOW THEM TO GROW UP WITH VIOLENT GAMES..EDUCATE THEM WITH RU-vid HISTORY AND SCIENCE AND NATURE AND ART..BE SMART..DONT BECOME WHAT THE SOCIETY YOUR PARENT LEFT. LET NOT THEM JUDGE YOU , YOU ARE NOT FAILURES. WHERE ARE THE TEACHERS AMOUNG THE YOUTH, WHER ARE THE LEADERS? PEACE AND LOVE WAS THE GAOL OF HIPPIES. RESPECT EACH OTHER...PARTIES SHOULD BE HELD 5 MILES FROM A SLEEPING COMMUNITY, love Rodney.. YOU HAVE THE POWER TO STOP IT! He is so right, you have the power to stop any drug including tobacco which causes cancer! Where are the artist I don't see any???? PEACE PEACE. NO ITS NOT BETTER TO SCREAM, ITS BETTER TO HAVE A "TALKING CIRCLE" NATIVE AMERICAN STYLE. GET A STICK THAT HAS BEEN CARVED AND DECORATED WITH SPECIAL BONES OF THE DOGS AND WILD ANIMALS BRING IT INTO A DARK CAVE OR SPECIAL PLACE, EACH HOLDS THE SICK AND SPEAKS THEN PASSES IT ON TO THE NEXT PERSON UNTIL THE CIRCLE IS COMPLETE......PEACE..LOVE...NO WAR,, SMOKE CANNABIS, EAT MAGIC MUSHROOMS...INVITE A PSYCHOLOGIST TO LIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY. PEACE AND LOVE BROTHERS AND SISTERS .... GOOD LUCK...

Ya sounds like a great place.I wonder who the judge I'd when all those different personalities are together an drinking!!

Hahaha that's what I was saying. Who,s the judge when shi t goes down!! Haha

TheGschultz They have lawyers, dentists, doctors, vets at Slab City 🙄

I think there is propane delivery in Slab

That's something you know if you know anything about... well, any animal species out there. With exemption of few where they don't live in packs, all social animals will have a hierarchy, roles etc.. and humans have had that even before we were humans

Well duh, it’s called a country or state. 🙄

@@KafanskaTV “ exemption “

more than ever before people now have chances to educate themselves, cross barriers. lock downs show some that they are more capable than they thought.

that's called confidence lol

😂😂😂

Think of the endless possibilities for her.

@@Madskills-hw2ox there's no where left but up from there. but damn that place looked like a scene out of the Mad Max movie

Joe Flint Which one 😂

That was beautiful. And true.

gridcaster I agree with you on most levels , happiness is what the person defines as happy or just stuck with what they got to be happy , like somebody said you can live in a tent and be happy , I agree you can live in a mansion , and be happy , it also very unhappy on both sides , you can’t see happiness or even feel it ,, of a person , it’s inside yourself , when you are content , with the situation you are in , that’s what I call happiness , and I’m glad to say that’s how I feel is contentment and at peace , I don’t expect every body to agree with me everybody got they’re own happiness and how it’s expressed , theses people for what ever reason , got or like living there , no place on earth 🌎 is the perfect paradise , only inside you will you find that

I like the way you think

Well stated.

Totally agree with uou sir. What i’m looking for may or not be there, but i still wanna visit it someday.

That is me

R.I.P. Jaylyn Harris

@havecharacternow checkout Mary Star's comment under this video. It said he was murdered.

@havecharacternow thank you! I checked it out, watched the video from the news, and I believe you are right!!

Omg really it can't be him

@davidoffon it is him... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5605779/Virginia-killing-suspect-town-known-lawlessness.html

This whole thing needs to be a series 😂

You should visit and it's almost a good time of the year to go. Fall, Winter, and Spring is it. I'd like to visit too, but not really make it a year round stay. I'm definitely keeping the Slabs in mind if the housing situation gets so terrible I have no options. I could do fine going to Slab City with $900 a month and a big car whiteouts a backseat loaded up. I wonder what is around there for resources like fishing and huntin? I could be valuable to the group to bring us fish and game charging them nothing more asking for donation to help e pay for gas, bait, a nd bullets. big car whiteout a backseat loaded up\

exactly

Considering the Flies: I wish rob would have had a general knowledge of weather. always set up west of the town dump/shithole pit and upriver too...cmon that's basic civil engineering. We love him but for a guy that percolates 700 gal. of coffee every 2 weeks he should know a bit about sanitation. haha we love you man. We know the State bird of slab city tho too. Big supporter, I will get on that marketing thing "good coffee, good concerts, good schools in a close knit community" I have been in that area of the desert you are pioneers doing good work. creating art, please live long. I'm pretty hyped that this series can help you teach others the virtues.

They were saying people hate the heat in the summer. It would suck but not as bad as those flies on u constantly.

Facts lol

This would drive me insane. Like for fuck's sake we have nets and some solar powered electric devices to keep them away.

"The range"has a utube channel on Sat nights 🌙

Are you sad?

@@lenny5456 I am not, but thank you for asking haha

Well said! 💯

You wouldnt want to be their friend, they would steal from you to buy drugs in a second.

Sure, but there's better ways to help the mentally ill and those suffering from addiction than sticking them out in the middle of a desert and forgetting about them.

So true,God bless them!

Nathan Witus From what I can tell Slab City residents are there by choice. I don’t think they want anyone to “help” them. Self determination is their right.

@@BillyWitchDoctorDotCom There are, but at this time the .gov has seen fit to ignore the problem. At least on the slabs they are not hurting anyone else, and I would dare say learning to live in a society. Maybe not our "normalized" society, but they are learning, and may one day rejoin and be able to function in our "normalized" society. No matter where you go there is a social contract of behavior, maybe the slabs give them a chance to succeed in a "normal" society. Note the liberal use of quotes, not everything is "normal" nor is everyone, but we all do have to get along. In the end I wish them all well, and was very happy he found his dog, mine help me "get along" every day. Nothing like pure love to make your life better, and dogs have that, thats why I like them better than people.

@@AmandalaRoo This

Don't piss them off or they will burn you're house down apparently. 😒

You just got back home or what

Wait what

I'd love to here some of your story! I don't know how much more I can take of the life I'm living right now

Don't drink when it's summer cause alcohol causes dehydration....it was summer when he was drinking...lmao 😂😂

And he's looking for a nice woman 👍 best of luck with that bud🤔

Lmao he said he doesn't drink in the summer 🤣

Johann Labertaler word!

2017

I would love to see an update

Google is great for information like that! 👍

@@RachelDex Yeah I know, but surely it would benefit viewers and the channel itself if they'd put it in the description! It was just a little constructive criticism (the only one I had really), not being helpless :)

that option should be forests and nature, not just a barren desert full of drug addicts and mentally unstable people.

@@-Oclock Yes, unfortunately, the rich have bought up all the good land. Slab City exists because no one else can make anything useful of the place.

hahahaha

Lame

Was just thinking the same thing ....damn meth hit slab city hard 😆

“stab city”

Not enough meth😆

Trevor??