((PKG))  RAGE ROOM    
((TRT:  04:10)) 
((Topic Banner:  Get Your Rage Out))  
((Reporter:  Marsha James))   
((Camera/Editor:  Philip Alexiou))  
((Map:  Laurel, Maryland))    
((Main characters:  3 male))  
((Sub characters:  3 female;  2 male)) 
((MUSIC/NATS)) 
((Shawn Estelle, Co-owner, Rage Room))   
This is what we do at the room of rage.  After a hard 
day, I like to come to the Rage Room and let some, let 
off some steam.  
((NATS))  
((Nala, Customer, Rage Room)) 
Yes, it’s my first time.  I’m here because my boyfriend 
bought tickets.  So, we just want to try something 
different.    
((Dean Yirenkyi, Customer, Rage Room)) 
I just decided to come out here, you know, to release 
some aggression, you know, smash some items and go 
from there. 
((NATS))  
((Shawn Estelle, Co-owner, Rage Room))   
Please don’t hit down on the table, but you can hit off of 
the table.  20 minutes on the clock.  These two items 
right here are sledgehammer items.  Okay?  
((NATS))  
((Dean Yirenkyi, Customer, Rage Room)) 
Yes, definitely.  It was definitely a great experience.  
Had fun knocking things out of the park, you know, 
bottles, washing machines, refrigerators.  Yes, definitely 
a great experience.  I would definitely come back.   
((Jamal Berry, Co-owner, Rage Room))   
So, this is the process.  Every weekend when we come 
in, we basically have to get the old stuff out until we can 
recycle it.  We try to recycle it and recycle the metal, but 
we have to take it out, get it outside, cover it up so it 
looks nice and then we get new materials that are 
donated inside the room.  
((NATS)) 
((Jamal Berry, Co-owner, Rage Room)) 
During the pandemic, we had a lot of conversations, 
especially when everything first shut down, and we 
started to think about people needed to be able to get 
out their rage.  They needed to be able to come to a 
place in a safe environment and be able to get out their 
anger or just decompress from the long workdays in 
their house, the now being teachers of their own 
children, even to thinking about everything that's going 
on in the country and how they felt.  And so, we said 
what better way to have a safe environment inside of 
four walls that was healthy and that they didn't have to 
do to clean up theirselves.  We did it for them.  
((Celeste, Customer, Rage Room))   
This is my first time here.  It’s for my birthday 
celebration and just because I wanted to break some 
stuff and I just get to do it.  
((NATS)) 
((Shawn Estelle, Co-owner, Rage Room)) 
Right now, we're at about 25 appointments today which 
is pretty much around our average on a Saturday.   
((NATS)) 
((Shawn Estelle, Co-owner, Rage Room)) 
One of the things that we're proud about is our artwork.  
As you can see around that we really took the time to 
think about different things that would generate a 
feeling of rage or excitement for our customers.  And 
we have, you know, this nice brick wall that they can 
throw items against and we make sure we protect our 
customers.  
((Matt, Customer, Rage Room)) 
It is our first time.  We've made it a Christmas present 
to ourselves.  We wanted to break some stuff after this 
year.  
((NATS)) 
((Roxanne, Customer, Rage Room)) 
Yes, I like to hear things break. 
((NATS)) 
((Linwood Cole, Co-owner, Rage Room)) 
As a business owner, this has truly contributed a lot to 
me as a person, being able to think logistically and 
theoretically about the different things that you do and 
the movements that you make, especially with the 
COVID-19, having all the restrictions that you have to 
take into thought with everything that you do.   
((MUSIC/NATS)) 
((Linwood Cole, Co-owner, Rage Room)) 
We’re now living in a place and a time where a lot of 
traumatic and tragedy is happening and affecting our 
community.  So, to be able to give our community and 
the people that we know personally the opportunity to 
come and do something that can relieve stress and can 
help them during this time when so many people are 
having mental health issues and things like that, it's a 
great feeling.  
((Nala, Customer, Rage Room)) 
I mean I would say it's all up to the person.  If people 
are kind of getting tired of doing the same thing, just 
normal exercising, running on a treadmill, walking 
outside, they want something different that, you know, 
is out of the box, then this would be probably a good 
idea.  There's nothing wrong with it.  You're not going to 
get hurt.  
((NATS))