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Oh. F***.

Sir, you were driving

erratically back there.

I'm gonna be honest with you, okay.

I kind of got swept up in the music and...

You know, I got swept up.

I was swept. I got swept up.

Sir, step out of the car.

Have you ever performed

a field sobriety test?

What?

- Just put one foot in front of the other.

- Yeah.

Heel-to-toe, for nine steps.

One foot and extend your arms to the side.

Can you do that?

I'm sober! I can't do it!

No shaking.

Look, this is not easy.

You can do it 'cause you've practiced.

- Come with me.

- What?

Sir, you are clearly intoxicated.

I'm not! I wasn't drinking.

I was just happy.

Is that the penalty for being happy?

The head, the head, the precious head.

Don't hurt the head.

- Hey, Nathan.

- Hey, Ben.

How are you, man?

What a f***ed up morning I had.

- Today? This morning?

- Yeah, this morning.

Unbelievable.

Hey, did you hear

Haney's gonna use one of my ideas

in the big presentation today.

- Is that right'?

- Yeah, how about that, huh?

- Congratulations.

- Thank you very much.

Your mother must be so proud of you.

- Well...

- "Ben got something in the presentation."

- "We're so proud of him."

- It's... Yeah.

- "Did you hear?"

- I hope Haney likes it.

Did you see? His son is

in the office today.

- Is that right?

- Yeah, Howard.

He named his son after Howard Roark

from Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.

- Howard Roark.

- I never read it.

As far as I'm concerned,

he's probably the biggest a**hole

in the history of literature,

and then you name your kid...

- Why would you do that?

- Oh, Jesus.

- Are you all right down there?

- This just drives me crazy.

What?

I'm sick of these outlets

always on the floor.

Every time I try and plug something in,

I have to move furniture,

and I strain my back.

Why can't outlets be up here?

- At eye level.

- Eye level?

What are they, like genitals?

We have to hide them?

Why are we hiding outlets?

- Think about it.

- Yeah. It's a...

- See you later.

- Okay.

Good to see you, boss. Good luck today.

Hey. Ben, how are you? Where you been?

I had a little problem

this morning.

- It's... Crazy.

- Big day today.

Sorry. Sorry I'm late.

Okay-

Is that new?

No. I've had it for a while.

That's a Plepler, he paints shopping carts.

As a kid, I was fascinated

by shopping carts

because you get to drive them

in the supermarket.

It's quite beautiful. I can't believe

I never noticed that before.

Something about the shopping cart

I find mesmerizing.

Hey, look who's here!

Hi, buddy. How ya doing?

How are you doing?

You wanna meet Mr. Flomm?

- Hello. Hi.

- Hi.

Nathan, this is my son, Howard.

- Hello.

- This is our nanny, Marina.

- Marina, this is Nathan Flomm.

- Marina?

- Nice to meet you.

- Hi, nice to meet you.

I like that, that swirl

you got on your hair there.

Thank you. It takes a few hours.

- Huh? It takes a few hours.

- It takes a few hours.

What do you do about the shampooing?

Once a week.

- You shampoo once a week.

- Once a week when I do it.

You may wanna consider

going twice, you know.

That's a long time to

go without shampooing.

But this takes two hours.

Try a second shampoo.

Take a little tip, little tip.

He's a full-time job.

She's a very valuable member of our family.

Wonderful caregiver.

Will you do me a favor and take Howard out

to the front desk and wait for me there.

You need to get in there.

I wanna say goodbye

before he goes to school.

I'm... Every day.

Okay, buddy. Will you

wait for me out there?

- Okay.

- All right.

- Bye. Nice to meet you.

- Love you.

Isn't he cute?

She's shampooing once a week,

are you kidding me?

Congratulations to Andy Matsin.

Good job.

Also to Mark and his aerodynamics team

for perfecting the exterior

profile of the car

and reducing the drag coefficient

to a very slippery 0.23.

Very good job, Mark.

So I've answered

all the tough questions about the car.

Is it safer? Is it more efficient?

Can it travel further on a single charge

than any other production

electric vehicle out there?

Yes, yes, and yes.

So there's probably one more question

that you all have.

What's the name?

What are we gonna call

this bold new vision?

It's a name that instantly

defines our product.

Ladies and gentlemen...

The Howard.

Brilliant.

- Are you kidding'?

- Thank you very much.

- The Howard? Honestly?

- The Howard. Yes.

- That's what we're calling this?

- Yes.

I'm sorry.

I got a real problem with this name, man.

- Oh, God, Nathan.

- Howard? You can't...

You can't call a car Howard.

Come on. Seriously.

I tell you what.

Everybody, let's reconvene in 15.

Nathan and I are gonna

have a quick discussion

about the marketing of this.

Let's move forward.

- Do you like this name?

- It's a great name, man.

Grab that door on your way out. Hey.

All right. Let me just say this, okay.

You brought me into this company

for my marketing expertise, correct?

- Yes.

- Okay.

I hate to toot my own horn,

but you know I was the brains

behind the Edible Arrangements.

1,030% growth in three fiscal quarters.

- I'm aware.

- I'm not making that up.

Call Patrick Lyons, he'll tell you...

Nathan, I'm aware of your success.

It's why we hired you.

Okay. You're making it impossible

for me to market this car. I can't do it.

Nobody's gonna buy a car named Howard.

It's like naming a restaurant Hepatitis.

- It's a name.

- It's not a good name.

Call it a Dewey. That's a good name.

A Duncan. Call it Duncan.

Nathan, your job

is to come up with the marketing.

Marketers market. Inventors invent.

It's a slam-dunk.

- By the way, what happened to the pee flap?

- The pee flap...

Nathan, are you still

on this horrible idea, the pee flap?

- I thought you were into it?

- It's an insane idea.

- Everybody wants to pee in their car.

- Nobody wants to pee in their car.

- I wanna pee in my car.

- You'd get pee all over yourself.

No, the tube comes up high enough

that it will catch everything.

Nathan, everybody's different.

How big is the tube?

You put your balls and your penis

in the tube and that's that.

And you have different size pee tubes

if you happen to have big genitals.

What about the liability?

What happens if you hit a bump

with your dick and balls in a tube

and you... It chops it off?

So people sign a little waiver

or something. Big deal.

Nathan, it's a... What do women do?

What do women do? Half of our market?

All right. So women don't have to use it.

You can't turn the interior of a car

into a urinal.

Bad idea. The car is perfect.

I'm sure I could've

worked something out for women.

Nathan, your job is to sell it,

and if you can't do that job,

we're gonna find somebody else that can.

You are invested in this company.

You have 10% of this company.

You wanna walk away from that?

Are you offering me my 10% back?

I will happily give you your 10% back.

You have a deal.

- You're making a huge mistake.

- I think you're making a mistake.

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