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Wow, aw, I forgot. All

these little pieces, it's so-

and the sand timer.

Well mom's had this game

for forever. I guess we kind of

grew out of it. We used

to play all the time.

With your dad?

Yeah. He loves board games.

Games in general.

Kate, enough.

Hmm, uh, what kind

of games did you play when

you guys were little?

Oh well, hmm, my big sisters

used to like to dress me up.

Really?

Yeah, we put pink

bows in his hair.

Pink bows.

'Cause he was always gay.

Always. And then Mom would

play those little, these like little

folk songs and we would dance.

'Cause she had this, um,

what was the, it was

like a little guitar?

- Ukulele.

- The ukulele.

Right. And, and she knew

maybe three chords. But she could play

a thousand songs with

these three chords. Like, uh -

Camp town races.

Doo-da, doo-da.

Doo-da.

And, um, the Clementine,

my darling Clementine.

Oh.

Are those like hippy songs?

No, they are old,

fun-LILLY:
Oww!

- campfire songs.

Wait, what's a campfire?

I'm kidding, I'm sorry.

Kate.

Oh yeah, shaky, shaky, shaky...

You can do it.

You can do it, come on. Oh, come

on you little fuckhead. Work.

Work, please work.

Bert,

Just f***, what the?

Who, who are you? How do you

know my real name?

You are having

another of your episodes. A moment of

psychosis brought on by

traumatic phone withdrawal.

What?

This is your superego

speaking. The part of your own mind

that is self-critical.

Oh. I always knew I had an ego.

I assumed it was super.

You must

begin an important change.

Change, change, change, change.

One that begins with a search.

Okay wait-what,

what, what search?

For tranquility. For

silence. And most of all for meaning.

Meaning what?

Well it's great

looking at you out here.

Hey, Granny.

I'm not disturbing you am I?

No, no, not at all.

Please sit down.

Okay.

How's auntie Kate?

She's drunk again.

That must be hard

for you to watch.

Mm. I suppose I should be used

to it after all these years. But

although the last time I really

thought it was the last time.

Hey guys, I'm trying

to find my friend Bert.

You haven't seen him, have you?

He probably took one

look at that torched turkey

and he headed straight for

Denny's.

Torched Turkey sounds

like an indie band.

Speaking of missing persons

I'm gonna go look for my wife.

Yeah, you do that, Rick.

See you, Dylan.

How'd your interview

with, uh, Jesse go?

Yeah, no, he's, he's,

uh, he's an interesting guy.

He kind of he wants to live

in a world of email. You know,

like, uh, Tron but more banal.

Want another

interview per chance?

Yeah, I need to

locate my friend Bert.

There are rumors that he's, uh,

he's acting like himself.

Well we can do it fast.

And, uh, I might be too

fat and stuffed after dinner to

have my picture taken, so.

Okay. Sure, yeah, if,

if you don't mind, uh,

doing a, a fast one.

Famous for fast ones.

It's an American thing.

Okay. Like, uh, fast food?

I wish that something or someone

would come along and she could

find some happiness.

Mm-hmm. Sometimes I worry

that it's all my fault.

No, no, Granny. Of course it's not.

It's like me worrying about

Mom's divorce. There's only

so much you can do.

You have taken

such good care of her.

I have had to learn

to set boundaries.

Believe me it's better that way.

But when it's your child,

it's so hard. Look at all of

mine. They're all unhappy.

Well unhappiness is just

part of the human condition.

It's like what I'm reading about

in French class. So much of life

is about waiting for something

to happen. And the sadness

when it doesn't happen.

Petra and I tried to have

a rule where we turned off our

phone one day a week. Technology

free day. Ironically it was

supposed to help us connect.

How did that go?

I kept catching her little

cheats as she'd call them.

But, um, they weren't

little cheats to me.

When I started I, I

wanted people to talk about

their past and, and how they

give thanks for their so-called

blessings. But all anyone seems

to want to talk about is

technology. So what comes to

mind when, when turkey and

technology and,

and family merge?

Um, okay wow, that's intense.

Um, I-I was a latch key kid.

Um, I was, you know, I'd come

home every day and just be alone

for four or five hours. And so

I'd just rely on myself.

Find ways to keep myself

entertained. To not, uh, feel

lonely. I guess the phone

reminds me of that.

Do you call the

phone mommy or daddy?

Well I guess it, it's a

little bit of both. I have these,

I have these strange

ideas of the future sometimes.

Um, like someday when we're born

we'll be handed a phone and it

becomes our, our nanny,

our teacher, our friend

and companion.

Well I suppose little

children are everywhere with

their phones now.

Totally.

Do you think that's a bad

development? To have people

brought up by phone

nannies, as you suggest?

I don't. There's some

piss poor parenting out there.

But a phone, a phone can

watch over you, make sure you

don't get lost. It can make

sure you get fed on time.

It can teach you new things.

But doesn't that take

away a, a human element? I mean

studies have shown there are,

that a bottle isn't the same as

the nipple, for example.

If a phone can teach you how

to play a chord, what's the need

for a music teacher? If, if a

phone can inspire me

to workout, what's the

need for a coach?

Yeah surely there's, there's

something missing? I mean-All

these jobs, they're not

just mechanical.

Or, well maybe they are

Don't worry about David

and Jennifer, they, they'll

just be fine. In fact I should

probably look on them.

Oh hey Kimmy.

Hi.

So, uh, have you seen David?

Wh-why, why do you suddenly

look like that?

What? Where is he?

He's chatting with Georgia.

With Georgia and Rick?

Just Georgia. Don't

shoot the messenger.

Why do I get the feeling

that I should suddenly look for

my husband? So what exactly

are they talking about?

Living life online.

Apparently Rick isn't-paying enough

attention to Georgia.

Oh that's classic. And I'm

sure David was complaining about

me in the same way. You know, I

know how and what that man

thinks at all times.

Well you do pay a lot of

attention to your online life.

No I don't.

Petra.

What? No, uh, excuse me.

I just believe that my online

persona is more influential and

more creative and more, you

know, maybe more vibrant

than my actual persona.

But it's not real.

Well I beg to differ.

I think there's very little

difference between real life and

online life. It's all life.

We're living it, right now.

Yeah, no actually what you're

talking about is actually more

typing than it is living.

Same diff. Wow. Whatever,

look, um, I think that this

situation here is beyond

salvation. So I'm gonna gather

up my little team and

head for a reservation.

Okay, Gutty is not a word.

It is, I'm telling you.

It means to have a large gut.

No way.

I don't buy it.

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