I don't give a fuck. I'm 78 fucking years old. Why should I put up with this shit?
I'm gonna make no difference whatsoever because the only thing that will ultimately come to is
that, well, this guy's been fucking crazy all his life. Definitely when I first saw it, I never
imagined that I would make a film about it, you know, but it came into my life the way that I have
passed it to many other people in my life, which is, you know, after a couple drinks out at the
bar, somebody's like, hey, you got to see this clip, and they show you the clip, and I got it on
VHS tape way back in, I think, 2001. And sure enough, it came on, and it was the funniest thing
I'd ever, I just couldn't believe how funny it was. There were so many elements to it that were
hilarious, that it seemed fake, it seemed false for that reason. You know, it's an old guy with
a mustache and a Winnebago swearing a blue streak, but it's in this way that's so eloquent, and it
just is nonstop. My introduction to Jack Redmay came in the form of a VHS tape, a bootleg compilation
of outtakes from a Winnebago sales video made in 1989. All right, here we go. What do you mean?
I've got to be able to move. That's crazy. Here we go. The Winnebago concepts and engineering
departments have developed a multifunctional bathroom, privacy, I don't even know what the
fuck I'm reading. It wasn't until our second trip up to to meet Jack that it was clear that it was
becoming about me as a character, and I work with this great cinematographer named Barrett
Mater, who's my business partner in Austin, and as we were filming, he would just sort of,
he just kind of kept filming me. You know, it'd be like if your cameraman here just sort of started,
it became about you and I sort of fighting it out in an interview, and we never really talked
about it, and I could feel it happening, and it just was one of those things where I was like,
okay, this is the story, and we have to follow the story, and this is where it's going. I got to
read it again, because my mind is just a piece of shit. Oh, I've seen this before. Uh-huh. Oh,
I've seen this like hundreds of times, and this guy's, I mean, this guy's like a legend, basically.
Soon after I got the tape, I found out that I wasn't the only one fascinated with Jack Rebney.
I don't think I can remember the first time I've seen it, because I've seen it, you know,
several hundred times, so it sort of all blurs together. I just started like bringing it everywhere
in my backpack just to like put it on. Like I'd show it to someone, and then I wouldn't see them
for a year, and I'd see them, and they'd go, no more. You come upon someone that's seen it,
and you speak the same language. You just start quoting my mind is piece of shit this morning,
blinded by this hot light. I'm blinded by that fucking hot light. You know, a lot of people
say that that's their favorite moment, that that's when, when, when I get the phone call,
and I actually, I guess I don't want to give this away in the interview because I want people to
see the film, but, but yeah, certainly there's a huge twist in the middle of the movie that throws
people for a loop and, and through me for a loop, and I would hope that some of the appeal of
watching our film is that you really go on this journey with me. You know, you feel like you
experience all the twists and turns that I experienced making it, and I think that's a
large part of the fun of watching it. Tony, do me a favor. We please. We, we, we do me a kindness.
Yeah. I think I want to be walking in and out. I don't make any difference to me at this juncture.
Thank you very much. I appreciate that, Tony. Don't slam the fucking door.
No more. In the other six short documentaries that I've made, I have no problem, as I'm sure you
don't, with your camera right now and your cameraman, and when you interview somebody,
you ask them personal questions about themselves. And just like I'm blabbering here, you know,
I'll tell you anything you want to know about me, you know, like now that I have your attention,
I'll tell you a lot, right? And especially in, with our generation, with Facebook and YouTube,
and we, we post and upload things that are very personal without thinking about it. And, and now
Jack, from being, from a generation that made media in the fifties and sixties, that idea that you
would share your personal life on this sort of global scale, and that you would want to be
known for things that happen in your personal life is very foreign and very, you know, that's
very unusual. And that's not something that's attractive to him, particularly because he's been,
you know, he's, he's already had media take advantage of him to some degree.
Don't, don't, don't, don't, come on, don't, don't, don't.
You know what this is? This is about who you are and what your past experiences have been.
No, no. And what you've learned. Oh, well, like, sure, you want to talk about me?
Yeah. Oh, wonderful. I'm trying to talk about you. You're not letting me talk to you.
Yeah, well, I don't. Why not? That's what I'm asking you. That's what I don't understand.
Ben, if you don't like it, pack up, get the fuck out.
