[MUSIC] A documentary series about NJ.

Can we ask you a couple of questions about New Jersey?

No history, just, like, what Jersey is to you.

I guess some of my roots is in Jersey.

>> You're going to be blurry.

>> Come over in the light.

Let's get some light on your face.

All right.

So, what we're asking people to do is just finish the sentence, "Jersey is."

How do you look at the camera and say, "Jersey is?"

>> Jersey is crazy.

What else?

More?

>> When we first started Driving Jersey, this is what we did and how we did it.

We didn't want to be stuck behind a computer screen, endlessly researching potential subjects.

We were eager to get started, to discover the greatest unknown, the private lives and thoughts of regular people.

We wanted to meet them where they lived, wandered, and wondered, to listen to what they longed for, what they feared, what made them laugh or lose sleep.

So, we went out to street corners and boardwalks, parks and parking lots, and we listened.

We heard their truths, reveled in their unfiltered banter, and were moved by their pure, often profound expressions.

>> I've been here my whole life, like I said, just to see children that they're happy in life.

That's the most important thing.

You know, and um, To me, that's what else is there.

Look at all these people that have everything and they're so miserable.

Right?

>> I consider myself a faithful person.

I believe in God.

I believe in a purpose for being.

I have faith that we have power beyond our knowing.

I have faith that anything is possible.

>> I've lived a dream.

I lived in a rock and roll dream, and I commented to myself, "My goodness, it's real.

It is real."

>> Knowledge makes me happy.

Happiness is the 12th jewel.

If you can gain happiness, you can have anything you want.

Anything.

Food, clothing, shelter, knowledge, wisdom, understanding, you can have it all.

Happiness is the highest you can go.

What makes me happy?

Knowledge.

Knowledge makes me happy.

>> I have faith that there's something out there, how can I put it, that's smarter than us.

Something, someone, maybe, that's got it all figured out.

When I meet him or it or her, I mean, she sees it from my point of view, like the world, you know what I mean?

I hope, like, I hope there's no hatred in their heart as there are in, like, so many other people's.

>> No state, perhaps, has more of a gift for Gab than New Jersey.

So for this final episode of season 13 of "Here's the Story," we decided to get back out there, to tap once again into this rich vein of plain-spoken, democratic talk.

And we even invited some of our favorite subjects to join us for the conversation and to let them take a shot at asking the questions themselves.

This is Vox Pop NJ, the voice of the people and the people's places around the Garden State.

>> It's on.

Can you hear me?

>> Yes, I can.

>> All right.

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