Tina, Jon and others in “Into the Unknown”

Why does America have to be so big?

Because it’s got 260 million people in it.

Oh. So where are they all?

It’s got about many people you’re thinking they have a few more loose.

Paul, what are you doing?

Look. (pointing to the sign saying Loo in British)

Oh, yes!

Howdy, folks.

Hi.

What’s up?

‘Scuse me. Can I use your loo please?

Sure, for $50.

What?

You don’t have to use it, but the next bathroom’s about 300 miles down the road.

Here, 10. Is that enough?

I’m sorry, but I gotta make a living out here. There’s nothing else to do. Make it $20.

Guys, can you help me out? Please, please unburst him! Guys, I’ll pay you back. I’ll be your friend.

Hannah, you are our friend.

I’ll be even more of a friend. I’ll do anything. I’ll make you cups of teas in the mornings.

And make us toast to marmite.

Yes!

And tidy our veggies for us.

Yes! Anything!

All right.

There we go. Enjoy.

So you’re all going to Hollywood to act in the movies.

Yeah. Well, maybe if we get lucky.

I don’t like acting. Don’t seem real to me.

Well, actually, we’re in a band. We’re hoping to get some work in a club and maybe get a record deal.

You mean you sing songs?

We try.

I don’t like songs. I like the music of the desert. Rattlesnake rattling across the sand. Sound of a bats’ swing squeaking in the night air. Gopher sitting on a flat top rock, breaking wind in the key of B-flat minor.

That’s Nature’s music.

Somehow, um, I don’t think that’ll get in the charts.

You want to make money? Get out of pop music. Get into bathrooms. I got a chain of bathrooms across every desert in this country. Arizona, Texas, Utah. Not everybody wants to listen to music, but everybody sure wants to take a whiz.

It’s a good thought, actually.

What is taking her so long?

Hannah!

That’s better. Come on then! What are you waiting for?