Come Worry with Us! Page #5

want things to end.

You know, now I want

to bring Ezra everywhere

and I want to go on tour with him.

I just want to work.

I just want to do it.

I just want to do

it while we can

'cause who knows

how long we can do it.

MENUCK:
Half my brain now was

occupied with the hustle, you know?

I'm on the hustle all the time.

I'm just always like,

"What's the next gig?" You know, like,

"When's the next tour?"

Every other tour our booker

will come out and say, you know,

"If you raised your ticket

price by three dollars

"you'd make this much more

on the tour," you know, and...

And we say,

"Yeah, we know."

It's obscene what people

charge for shows these days.

It's not right.

Especially when

people have to

work so hard for $50.

It's just... It's never going

to be right.

MOSS:
Okay.

EZRA:
Caught a piggy.

I caught a piggy!

MOSS:
Where's your band?

Oh, wait over there.

MOSS:
Okay, go for it.

-Caught a piggy.

Caught a piggy!

Caught a piggy!

(EZRA SPEAKING)

MOSS:
I'm just

looking for the plug.

EZRA:
What?

What are you looking for?

MOSS:
I'm looking

for the plug.

EZRA:
What are

you looking for?

MOSS:
There used to be

a part of my life where I did playing

with other people

and in other projects

and for other people's

records, and I

really haven't gotten a phone call

for that since Ezra was born.

(PLAYING HARMONICAS)

NADIA:
Ez, is that

my hair brush? -No.

Is it your hair brush?

It's...

It's boring.

It's boring?

-Yeah.

-Why is it boring?

MOSS:
For Ezra I want

a sibling.

I do think about that a lot.

-Mmm-hmm.

I had a conversation

with Dave actually,

while we were on tour.

He sort of like, "Yeah, I can imagine,

there's Ezra and there's another one."

He could actually... -On tour? -Yeah.

I can imagine it too.

I kind of understand why you

want to prepare yourself for

having to not be able to

do it, but I also feel like

maybe you shouldn't.

You mean I should be

doing the opposite?

I think you should

be doing the opposite.

I can't imagine him

not having somebody

to make fun of his

parents with, you know?

Like it's such a crucial

aspect, you know? -Yeah.

MOSS:
I'll blow

on it, okay?

Why you gonna

blow on that?

Why you gonna

blow on that?

'Cause it can help

make you feel better.

Ezra, here's some corn.

-Hello!

-Hello.

-Thank you.

-You're welcome.

Are we going eat two

cob on the corns?

Are we gonna eat two

corn on the cobs? -Yeah.

Well, first you're

gonna eat one,

and then you eat

the rest of your supper

and then you can

eat another one.

EZRA:
Why?

MOSS:
'Cause that's how it works.

(CLANKING)

(MUSIC PLAYING)

MOSS:
There was a lot

of people on the street that

wouldn't normally

be on the street,

protesting for

the first time,

and that's a beautiful thing.

It's like a momentary glimpse

of what it could be like

when you can know

your neighbors,

when we all march together.

MENUCK:
"We've been going

with Ezra to the park

"at the end of our street

at 8:
00 p.m. every night.

"I guess there's gonna be

a whole generation of kids

"raised in this ridiculous,

neglected jewel of a town

"who'll have fuzzy memories about

the month they got to go to the park

"that one summertime,

"when all the grownups

were making noise

"with pot lids and everyone

was serious,

"but everyone was smiling too.

"There's so many teary

moments in all of this.

"I'm crying all the time.

I'm smiling all the time.

"I know it's going to end.

I don't want it to end."

Whoo!

MOSS:
I find inspiration

from activists,

from people who work

to challenge and change.

MENUCK:
I actually think

I was a member of the last generation

that was promised

a better future,

and I think successive

generations have been

promised the opposite of that.

(TALKING INDISTINCTLY)

MOSS:
That last tour with

Ezra went like a million times

better and smoother

than I was worried it would,

and it made... Made the whole

thing seem more possible.

MENUCK:
He's growing so quickly

that it's different month by month.

He did great three

months ago.

I don't know how

he's going to do

four months from now.

But, for me, now that he's

an older kid, you know,

he's able to express himself

and say what he needs

and that's just going

to get more and better.

But that comes part and parcel

with he has opinions too,

and he has fears,

that's the biggest thing, you know?

You know?

He does talk a lot about wanting to go

on tour right now, that's for sure.

Mmm-hmm.

He talks a lot about wanting to go

to the doctor too, though.

If we have to figure out how to do it

without him, then...

I mean, we're about to try.

And we're about

to try an eight night...

He'll be on his

own for eight nights.

Um, I feel like right now

that's definitely the maximum

amount of days,

do you agree?

Yeah.

If we had to stop

touring with him,

but I don't want

to do that, so...

But at the same time we can't afford

to tour with him.

It's a real reality,

you know.

We make a little bit of money,

but not very much

because we have to pay for the nanny

and we have to pay for the tour bus.

(SIGHS)

I mean, the tension of all this

is being amplified 'cause there's

a microphone

and a camera in here.

Of course.

Of course.

Of course I want to keep going.

I just like, you know...

It gets into bigger

issues, you know.

It just mostly gets

into issues like

how do we keep

getting by, you know?

And I feel like most

of that falls on me.

Most of that worry

falls on me.

But it definitely harshes

my mellow in terms of, like,

"Oh, that's great, we did a tour

with Ezra, it worked out great,"

you know.

It's like, "Yeah,

it worked out great.

"We made a grand

and a half each, you know."

That's not...

That's not a viable plan

moving forward, you know.

Unless we allow

for the grants

that we didn't apply for

for ten years as a band until we...

I don't want to...

I don't want to be...

I want to be a band that

pays its own way, you know?

I don't want to take

government money.

On top of that you can't

count on it, you know?

On top of that there are bands

who need it more, you know?

Like who?

I don't know them, that's why

they need it more, you know?

I don't think it's a role of government

to subsidize a failing band, you know?

That's how I feel.

That's how I've always felt.

I think it would be suicide

to keep doing it as a full time thing.

'Cause even with the grants it's

not enough money, you know?

So...

We're still the luckiest

band in the world.

I mean, we'll be fine.

(SIGHS)

There's a romantic

part of me that thinks

that it's worth it

at whatever cost,

you know?

But I know that

that's not very practical.

But there are other

bands who share those...

That's the point.

We're just one of many, you know.

Like, that's okay.

If it all ended tomorrow

it'd be okay, you know?

I mean, we're just another

f***ing band, you know.

So...

Except, on other

days you say,

"We're the best

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