 We just showed up in a place called East Jesus. I want to get Jake's first impressions on East Jesus in Slap City. What do you think so far? Like I belong because I don't have an apartment because I've been living in a vehicle for almost about a year on the road that is. Coming to places like this where it's like no man's land. I don't know. I could maybe see myself like hanging out of the spot like this if I continued the bus life you know. Look at what you could do with your creativity. You could turn garbage into art. Dude what do you find right here? That's my machine. That's so amazing. Sorry I just got a cold out of space. Guys I just met the creator of the TV wall is that correct? Yes sir. Alright flip. Flip Cassidy. That's sweet. So what exactly is the TV wall and how did this all come about? So several years ago I thought it would be funny to paint over one TV screen and then paint over some things never change on it because the channel will never change again. And then once I saw one I was like oh I want to see more and I started collecting TVs and then for the first incarnation of it was actually the backdrop for a show that my band was putting on. So it was like maybe 14 of them and it was the backdrop that we played in front of and then that was before I even knew about this place. So my buddy Joe had built the tire mammoth over here in the garden and Joe comes back from Slap City one weekend and goes dude I found where we can take the mammoth and I'm like covering the TVs out there too and we come out here we organize our mammoth erection fest through a big party brought out a bunch of bands from LA and we installed the mammoth and the first TVs here we got to meet Charlie Russell who started this whole place and you know from there a lot of our lives changed forever and you know I've been coming out here for seven years been building this thing up the whole time and that's amazing all right so are you a full-time resident now I am right now yeah I am right now I have been for the two months and I'm here through this whole season yeah so like May June all kind of reassess what I'm doing next yeah and would you consider yourself a squatter and also is that like a like a insulting word to use like um I well a I wouldn't consider myself a squatter okay you know we there is a nonprofit called the Chastarus Foundation in Charlie's memory that we incorporated as so that we could buy the land from the state make sure East Jesus never went anywhere you know nobody can ever sell it out from under us and come with bulldozers yeah you know it's I think it depends on who you ask you know whether to say you know squatting is negative or not yeah there's a really you know there's a large culture of travel and squatters yeah just cool nomadic people there's actually a gathering out here this past weekend organized by a website called squat the planet how cool squat the planet is a resource for you know for traveling hitchhiking connecting with people you know just all these kind of different kind of punk nomadic DIY lifestyle kind of people who you know don't want to stay in one place yeah you know so that's like a resource for those people to connect with each other and it's amazing that now like here we are in this future we live in where you know there's literally like an entire websites and online communities dedicated to squatting and DIY travel so it's really it's really kind of become a whole other thing now like there's a whole scene and community to it and yeah got to hang out with a lot of those folks and our good good fun people that's cool and by the way guys I am a squatter I squat different place places every single night in the bus as you know I've not paid for one campsite or one place to stay overnight and over a year travel so we're on the same page in different ways that's impressive I'm just always on them on the move so tell me why should somebody come out here and what's so special about East Jesus what's special about East Jesus is you know we're we're a weird outdoor art museum we're the only museum art museum in Imperial County and you know a lot of people come here and they get to experience you know looking at the trash from society in a different way you know how easily this could be a pile in a landfill of broken TVs that are never gonna work again you know or anything else around here it'll it challenges your mind to look at waste in a different way and you know hopefully inspire people cool that's really that's really ultimately what it is we're we're a museum in a community and we exist to inspire artists that's really the bottom line yeah you guys if you haven't checked it out already you definitely should come out here it's an amazing place and be nice to the guys who take care of this place throw a little donation in the box just to support the cause all right so we had a great fun day at the slabs but I want to share with you something looking I pulled off the road not too far away well you can't see it but Salvation Mountains right over there I just pulled like off the road and you can't really see from this you can't really see from the outside tire but the inside tire is kind of stuck so we've got to figure out a way to get out of here tomorrow because we're in a soft spot right here and I felt it kind of hesitating I just didn't want to bury the tires like I did in Utah see so it right there was kind of hesitating you can see the soft sand so we'll figure that out tomorrow so I thank all of you guys for watching I want to thank Jake for coming with me on this fun trip it's gonna be a blast rough to a great start there he is he's vlogging and we'll see you guys on the road tomorrow