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00:13Firstly, it's a Saturday night, and they're both smiling.
00:16Look how anxious he is.
00:18Yeah, but her smile is more...
00:19Polite?
00:20I say first date.
00:22She's got her elbows on the table, leaning in.
00:24Mini relaxed and open?
00:26Yeah, but her legs have bent and one's to the side a little.
00:29She's on edge.
00:30He's straight, head to toe.
00:32Excellent posture.
00:33Hands in his lap, very formal.
00:34Are we calling it first date?
00:36No, it's not a first date.
00:38I say three years.
00:39That's a jump.
00:40Well, look at her.
00:41She's bored.
00:42You're right.
00:43It's lived in.
00:44But not three years.
00:45She's sad, not bored.
00:46I say three months.
00:47Interesting.
00:48Explain.
00:48She gave him a shot, even though he's not her usual type.
00:51Yeah, he was confident at the start, but then he let his insecurity take over, and now he's
00:56trying too hard.
00:57But it's been ages since someone's treated her so well, so...
01:00Yeah, so she's been hoping for months that he'll turn it around or be the one to bail
01:05first.
01:06Mm-hmm.
01:06How long do you give them?
01:08Well, a few weeks, or 20 years.
01:11What?
01:12I've seen relationships built on much less go for much longer.
01:17Do you think they're looking at us?
01:19I think so.
01:20Do you think they're analysing us?
01:23Probably.
01:25What do you think they're saying?
01:26Who cares?
01:27That's their story.
01:29Oh, thank God.
01:31See, this is why it should stay a party trick.
01:34When you say the quiet parts out loud, the universe will hold a mirror up to you.
01:40Thanks.
01:40You're welcome.
01:41Can we get another round, please?
01:42No problem.
01:43Thanks.
01:45Well, you think I'm disgusting if I take my shoes off?
01:49Huh?
01:49Why?
01:52I thought I'd break in these shoes before tonight, so I wore them to the shops and then
01:56to vote, and then I got stuck at the polling place for an hour, and now I've got blisters.
02:01Again?
02:01Do I need to go and get you some more Band-Aids?
02:04Seriously, what do you think they were saying about us?
02:06Do you actually care?
02:06Yes, I don't like being judged.
02:09Well, yeah, but everybody's judging everybody all the time.
02:13I mean, people like to think they're unique and special, but we're mostly just the same,
02:16with a few degrees of difference.
02:17You don't think I'm special?
02:19I wasn't talking about you, of course.
02:21So what?
02:22We're all just porcelain dolls of different makeup.
02:25Hopefully not as creepy.
02:27Isn't that depressing, though?
02:29No, why would it be?
02:30It means we have more in common than not.
02:33It also means that people are interchangeable.
02:36In theory, but not in practice.
02:38You could put two virtually identical people in front of someone, they'll still gravitate
02:41towards the one.
02:42Why?
02:44Energy?
02:45Law of attraction?
02:46Whatever you want to call it.
02:47Hey, this is your theory.
02:51Well, when I was 17, my friends and I were in the city and we got off a bus.
02:55And there was this girl with her parents waiting to get on, probably 16, 15, I don't know.
02:59Perfect.
02:59I was 17.
03:01Well, now I'm going to need to see a photo of you at 17 because all I'm picturing is bearded
03:05you checking out some 15-year-old.
03:06You don't want to see me at 17.
03:09But anyway, we locked eyes and seriously locked eyes like we knew each other.
03:15Did you know each other?
03:15No, never seen her before or since.
03:18Took me by surprise.
03:19Her too.
03:20Oh, you spoke to her?
03:21No, but I could tell.
03:23You could always tell.
03:25Then what happened?
03:26Nothing.
03:27We just turned and looked at each other as we passed and then I stood there and watched
03:30and they all sat near the window and she looked at me and then the bus took off again.
03:37That's cute.
03:38No, that's the thing.
03:40It wasn't cute.
03:41It scared the shit out of me.
03:43Even the friends I was with were like, what the fuck was that?
03:48Maybe she was your soulmate.
03:50You blew it.
03:51Now you're stuck with me.
03:53You've never heard anything like that happen before?
03:58Yes.
04:00Now I'm trying to think, was I ever in the city with my parents when I was 15?
04:05That would be very cool and convenient, but you'd remember.
04:08Do you think she tells the same story?
04:12Yeah, I do.
04:13Close your eyes.
04:29Did you feel that?
04:31Yeah.
04:33I thought you were going to kiss me.
04:41Sorry to interrupt.
04:44Thanks.
04:47Cheers to us.
04:49Nice choice.
04:51This place is fancy.
04:52You didn't have to go all out.
04:53Yes, I did.
04:54I told you.
04:55Well, you know, I can get half if you need to go.
04:58No.
04:58No.
04:58Okay.
05:00Don't emasculate me.
05:01Besides, I've got money to burn.
05:03At least I will have anyway.
05:04Fake it till you make it.
05:05That's what they say, right?
05:08Yes, I forgot to tell you.
05:09I've got a job lined up.
05:11Amazing.
05:12What is it?
05:14Same shit.
05:15Different place, but I had to step up, kind of.
05:19It's slightly less money, but it puts me in the iPhone reviews league and some editorial
05:25responsibilities, etc.
05:26I thought you didn't want to review the iPhones.
05:28That's just what the people who don't review the iPhones say.
05:32Okay, I just thought you were going to take some time and work on your writing.
05:34I am.
05:35But I need a job eventually, and this one came up, so.
05:39Or you could be an instant literary hit and not need a job.
05:42It happens.
05:44Not to me.
05:46I know myself.
05:47I'm going to be out of my mind with anxiety while the clock and the money run down,
05:50and I won't be able to concentrate on anything until I have something.
05:53I need a safety net.
05:56And I am still going to write.
05:58But will you have the time?
05:59Isn't this more responsibility, more work?
06:01Yes.
06:02For less money?
06:03Okay.
06:04You hated your last job and you wanted to write then, but you didn't.
06:06How is this different?
06:07I don't have a savings like you do, Ryan.
06:09I don't have a buffer.
06:10It's kind of different.
06:14I feel like you're judging me.
06:16No, I'm not.
06:18Sorry.
06:20I am still going to write.
06:22Good.
06:22I know.
06:22I am.
06:23I know.
06:24I'm glad.
06:25I believe you.
06:28Hey, I'm sorry.
06:29Really.
06:30I'm in no position to judge you.
06:32I don't like my job either, so just tell me to fuck off.
06:34Baines will be here shortly.
06:36Can I get you anything in the meantime?
06:38No, thanks.
06:38Oh, good.
07:01We won the election.
07:05Congratulations.
07:08Congratulations.
07:12Congratulations.
07:13That's good.
07:15If you're happy, I'm happy.
07:17Wait, who'd you vote for?
07:18Didn't vote for anybody.
07:19You forgot to vote.
07:21No, I just didn't vote.
07:23But you'll get fined.
07:25I think they probably printed out my fine yesterday in anticipation.
07:27They know where I live.
07:31You didn't want to vote.
07:32No.
07:33I knew which way it was going to go, so I didn't see the point.
07:35Because you have to.
07:36Well, clearly not.
07:37I'm happy to pay the fine.
07:38I don't think it should be compulsory.
07:40But it is.
07:41So everybody gets to decide.
07:43That's kind of the point.
07:44Can we talk about something else?
07:45No, I'd like to keep talking about this.
07:48Okay.
07:50I just don't think elections matter.
07:52Well, if everyone thought that way, we could have lost.
07:54What do you mean by we?
07:58Wait.
08:00Are you, uh...
08:01I'm not a anything.
08:02But why would you assume that we're on the same side?
08:05Because you're kind and caring and empathetic and usually...
08:09And my grandparents are kind and caring and empathetic,
08:11but they're church-going boomers.
08:13Who do you think they voted for?
08:15And I'm from an upper-middle-class suburb,
08:17private boys' school,
08:18an accountant who deals with big corporations and finances,
08:21and...
08:22It doesn't matter.
08:23I'm not on any side.
08:24It does matter.
08:25Why?
08:26Because the people we elect make decisions
08:28that affect people's lives in real, tangible ways.
08:30In a perfect world that we don't live in.
08:32And I don't care about this.
08:34You don't care?
08:35No, not really.
08:36Not enough.
08:37Wow.
08:38Look, I don't...
08:39I don't...
08:40Not care.
08:41I just...
08:41It's by choice.
08:42Must be nice to have the choice not to care about other people.
08:45I care about other people.
08:46I just don't follow this shit enough to have an opinion, that's all.
08:48Seems like you do actually have an opinion.
08:50My opinion is I don't think it matters as much as you think it does.
08:53I just don't think anything really changes cycle to cycle,
08:56so why spend time getting worked up when it doesn't go your way?
08:58I'm not getting worked up.
09:00I'm just trying to see this from your point of view.
09:04You don't think things change?
09:07Not because of elections.
09:08We just went through an entire global pandemic
09:10that would have happened no matter who was at the wheel,
09:11and it's easier to blame once.
09:13Look, I'm sorry.
09:14This is stupid.
09:15It's not stupid.
09:16It's stupid.
09:17It's just drama and entertainment for bored people.
09:19It's just storylines.
09:20So I'm a bored person, easily amused by the shitty state of the world.
09:24No, I don't think you believe in any of it either.
09:27Okay, I believe in not going into debt to access medical care.
09:33I believe in subsidised childcare.
09:36I believe in First Nations reparations.
09:39I believe in public housing, and I believe in community programs.
09:43I don't know how much of that is belief
09:45and how much it's just the same kind of well-intentioned naivety.
09:47I'm naive.
09:48I didn't say that.
09:49You literally just did.
09:50I meant most people.
09:52But not me.
09:53You know what I mean.
09:54Most people don't give a shit.
09:55Seriously, how can you even say that?
09:58Most people vote against whatever's annoying them on that day.
10:01If you ask them going in what they don't like,
10:03and they say, well, I'm sick of the traffic lights in town,
10:04and you say, well, good news, our guy is going to fix that,
10:07then you've got their vote.
10:08No broader consideration for the complex state of world affairs.
10:11They just hate those fucking traffic lights.
10:12They don't care.
10:13And everyone else already made up their mind years ago,
10:15do or die, so I don't want to talk about this.
10:18No, this is really interesting.
10:21I'd like you to go back to the traffic lights.
10:24Start over.
10:25Okay, look, I said I just don't think things change for long enough,
10:27and I don't think they ever will.
10:29I think we've swung in balances of power from left to right
10:31since the political system became a thing,
10:33and I think that's how it's probably always going to be.
10:36Everyone keeps talking about a revolution
10:37that will finally come and solve everybody's shit,
10:39but I've never seen that happen.
10:42In reality, it's just one group of people are happy
10:44for three or four years,
10:45and then the other group complain about it
10:46until things go their way.
10:47It complains about the world going down the toilet.
10:50That's not valid enough to complain about.
10:52Of course it is.
10:53But then jump over to the other side for a second.
10:55You think they're not sitting in restaurants,
10:56miserable, complaining about all the things
10:57that you're now happy about?
10:58Who cares?
10:59They're wrong.
10:59You're being reductive, and that's my point.
11:01Everybody thinks they're right.
11:02That's the problem.
11:03Wow.
11:04This is the most privileged, upper-class shit
11:06I've ever heard you say.
11:08I didn't bring this up.
11:09I don't talk about this stuff.
11:10I talk about things that I care about.
11:11Oh, so you do care about stuff?
11:13Yeah, the important stuff.
11:16I care about me.
11:17I care about you.
11:17I care about my family.
11:18Everything in my circle I care about.
11:21Jeez, I'm not a bad guy.
11:23I recycle.
11:24I pull over and pick up lost dogs.
11:26I hold the elevator doors open
11:27for the guy in the wheelchair in my office building.
11:28I buy an extra slice of pizza
11:30for the homeless dude on the street.
11:31Well, that guy might not be homeless
11:32with the right people in power.
11:33I think he probably would.
11:35And maybe if there were less people
11:36talking grandiose bullshit
11:37and more people out there
11:38doing nice day-to-day things,
11:39then we wouldn't be treating each other
11:40like fucking enemies.
11:41We would actually be moving
11:41towards something meaningful.
11:43No, not like you.
11:44I didn't say you.
11:45We're all just people.
11:46We're all just trying to live our lives.
11:48What's the point in shoving opinions
11:49down everyone's throats?
11:50Is that what you think I'm doing?
11:51I didn't say that.
11:52But it's what you believe.
11:53I believe there's talking about change
11:55and actually making change.
11:57But all I hear are people
11:58that won't accept anything less
11:59than a complete revolution.
12:02I mean, I give a slice of pizza
12:04to the dude outside my office
12:05and I'm the bad guy
12:06because it's a frivolous gesture
12:07that doesn't solve
12:08the entire homeless epidemic.
12:10But you know what?
12:11That guy got a slice of pizza
12:12and he didn't have to sift
12:13through somebody's rubbish to get it.
12:14And that may not be meaningful
12:15in the broad strokes
12:16of bringing justice and equality to all,
12:17but at least I did something
12:18that meant something to him
12:19instead of talking about
12:20how great things could be
12:21if the tide changed.
12:22Okay, okay, okay.
12:24No one's calling you a bad guy
12:26for sharing your pizza, Ryan.
12:28It's just a fucking game.
12:28It's not a game.
12:29And it's a game?
12:30It's not a game.
12:31Acts of service
12:32towards people in need
12:33and positive systemic change
12:34are not mutually exclusive.
12:36You know,
12:36you can give a homeless man
12:37a slice
12:38and still vote
12:39in the fucking election.
12:43How come you never brought
12:44any of this up before?
12:45Why would I mention something
12:45that I don't care about?
12:46But you do.
12:47I don't.
12:48I don't.
12:49I did.
12:50Once upon a time.
12:52And now I don't.
12:53I couldn't care less, actually.
12:54That's clearly not true.
12:56Was I meant to give you
12:57a bullet point list
12:58of all my political beliefs?
13:02Were you like this with Sam?
13:04What?
13:05Why are you bringing her up?
13:06What's she got to do with it?
13:07Because it lasted five years.
13:09It didn't last for five years.
13:10It went on for five years.
13:11Did she see this side of you?
13:13Because this is the first time
13:15I've ever seen you fired up.
13:16I'm not fired up.
13:17You are fired up.
13:19You're usually so charming,
13:22so empathetic,
13:23so perfect.
13:25You have these great observations
13:26about everyone else,
13:27but I had no idea
13:29that you felt this way.
13:31I can't read you.
13:33Yes, you can.
13:33No, I can't.
13:36I feel like I
13:38don't even know you.
13:39Yes, you do.
13:39You're being antagonistic,
13:40and I don't know why.
13:41I thought you knew everything.
13:42Why are you doing this?
13:43I'm not doing anything.
13:45This is all you.
13:47I'm just feeding you the rope.
13:48Oh, I know that much.
13:50You know, maybe I'm just
13:51not as tuned in
13:53to the frequency
13:54as you are, Ryan.
13:55Maybe I need more.
13:56Was I supposed to give you
13:57a change my personality,
14:00become a new human being
14:02just to make you
14:02more comfortable
14:03in your own insecurities?
14:04Is that what you wanted for me?
14:08If I said things out loud,
14:10you'd think I was an asshole.
14:11Maybe you are an asshole.
14:13Oh, thank you.
14:13You're welcome.
14:16Thoughts aren't feelings.
14:17I process things in my head,
14:18I think, before I speak.
14:22Unlike me,
14:26so you've just been
14:28constantly judging me
14:29in your head.
14:30No.
14:30What would make you think that?
14:32One thing does not equal the other.
14:33It's called complexity of thought.
14:35So if you think
14:36before you speak,
14:37what do I do?
14:39You process things out loud,
14:41and that's fine.
14:42There's nothing wrong with that.
14:43Besides the lack of complexity.
14:44What am I allowed to say here?
14:45Give me the rules.
14:46There are no rules, Ryan.
14:48You can say whatever you want.
14:49You're a full-grown human being.
14:53It turns out neither of us
14:54like being judged.
14:58Party trick isn't as fun
15:00when it's turned on you, is it?
15:02Talk about the universe
15:03holding up a fucking mirror.
15:20We have something else.
15:22Something more.
15:24And you know it.
15:27There could be a million Emilys
15:28by my side,
15:29and I'd still pick you,
15:30I'd still know you.
15:32Do you think if this wasn't this
15:33and you weren't you,
15:34then I wouldn't have just bailed
15:35right from the start?
15:37So you did your charity after all.
15:39I fell in love with you
15:39before I found out
15:40how fucked up you are.
15:43Wow.
15:46Thanks.
15:46I didn't mean that.
15:48I'm sorry.
15:48I just,
15:48I'm not trying to change you, Emily.
15:51And I'm sorry I judged you
15:52with the job.
15:54That was shitty of me.
15:57But I love you.
15:59And I'm still here.
16:00And I'm not going anywhere.
16:03So that makes you
16:04this great fucking guy
16:05because you're willing
16:06to tolerate me?
16:09I'm not tolerating you.
16:11Not now, clearly.
16:12I'm not tolerating you.
16:16You use your privilege
16:17and optimism
16:18to shield you from reality.
16:19My privilege?
16:21You're not exactly
16:22a street orphan, Emily.
16:23You just play one really well.
16:25There is something
16:25as dark inside you
16:26as any of the bleak bullshit
16:28that comes out of my mouth
16:29so I don't sit here
16:29and act like I'm the only
16:30fucked up one at this table.
16:32Well, you see pessimism
16:33as a shield from what's possible.
16:34And if you keep it up,
16:35you'll end up alone again.
16:37You're not your fucking mother.
16:39I don't need saving.
16:49Is that what you think this is?
16:53You tell me.
16:58You want me to tell you
16:59to fuck off?
17:00Because that would be easier
17:01for you and you get to walk away
17:02and then I get to be
17:03just another guy
17:04in a long line
17:05of disappointing assholes
17:06that let you down?
17:08I'm not going to do that.
17:13Emily, if you want to go,
17:13you can go,
17:14but do it on your own.
17:15You tell me to fuck off.
17:17Because I'm not going to indulge
17:18in your self-destructive bullshit.
17:30Fuck off.
17:33I want to go.
17:41I want to go.
17:45I want to go.
18:00I want to go.
18:03I want to go.
18:28I don't know.
18:39I don't know.
19:32Is this taken?
19:35Sorry.
19:38Thanks.