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But he's sent me a ton of stuff

in New York over the years.

And when I come home,

I... I bring it with me

and I leave it here.

Like the letters.

Are these postcards?

Yeah.

They're not places

he's ever been, but...

they're places he

wants to take me.

What's that?

This came two days

before my wedding.

Wow.

This must have

kind of f***ed with you, huh?

I sh*t you not,

I thought that Jason

was gonna show up

at the wedding and...

He was always that passionate,

throw-caution-to-the-wind

kind of person, you know?

That would have been terrible,

right?

If he showed up?

Em?

You have to promise that

you're not gonna say

anything about me, right?

I want it to be a surprise.

Just meet us there.

No! No, no,

no, no, no.

It has to be right.

It's got to be perfect.

I think he's here.

Huh.

Oh, no.

It's Grandma's boyfriend.

What is he like?

He looks like

80 million years old.

Why doesn't he drop her off

in the driveway?

I think he's blind.

Oh, sh*t.

What?

Jason.

Oh, my God.

Uh, hand me the shades.

Are you sure they're

not in the car?

No, I know I brought them in.

Hurry up and get them before

Mom and Dad see him! Go!

Okay, sorry, sorry. I'm trying.

Go, go, go!

I'm trying! F*** it.

You don't need 'em.

Yes, I do.

What if I start...?

Could you just suck it up

for once. Jesus.

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean it.

Brandon, I'm sorry.

I'm doing this for you.

I know. I'm sorry.

Okay...

Go, go, go.

Remember everything he says

so you can tell me, okay?

Is Emmie here, by any chance?

You didn't tell

us you were going out.

It's cool.

I'll be home soon.

Nice to see you, Mr. Carey.

Hey, guys.

Hey, fucknut, how's it going?

Hey, do you know Brandon, JP?

How's it going?

All right.

You're with that girl,

Shannon, right?

My bad, dude.

You guys were together

for a while,

practically married.

Yeah.

And he is also a poet.

Get you two artistes

a couple of brews?

Sure. Two darks.

I'd rather get...

Ay, yi...

What?

So embarrassing.

Look... on the wall

behind the register.

Oh, wow, that's cool.

They... they let you hang

your stuff here?

Well, I mean, it's not like

they let me, you know?

I gave him a discount,

but I gotta make a living.

Uh!

Tab?

Mm-hmm.

You know what?

I gotta take a leak.

# Your father had it right

when he laid his eyes #

# Upon the fabric woven

in my ties #

# Don't go

# Oh, don't go with him

# He'll make you poor

# He'll make you poor with him

# I know

Run it back?

What's with the shades, man?

# Your mother had it right

when she took my coat #

I won't be needing them.

# Wrinkles on the sleeves

and a pocket... #

You're making your

mom and me feel

pretty damn guilty.

Don't be disappointed in me.

Come on. We love you

no matter what.

And we love each

other very much.

You know that, right?

I don't see it.

I don't think

I've ever seen it.

Don't you ever wonder "What if?"

I mean...

No.

Well, yeah, yeah, I used to.

But you can live your whole life

with "what if's."

It'll make you crazy.

I mean, don't you sooner

or later have to start

to relish the choices

that you made?

Like the choice

that you and Graham made.

I have been 27 different people

in the last 35 years.

People change, that's all.

It's not about that.

It's about...

It's about expectations.

It's about... Isn't it?

It's about letting

your expectations change.

Your idea

of-of how thing should be.

When I was in

the air force, we had

these things called

cybernetic missiles, okay?

Now, when my dad was

in World War II,

he had ballistic missiles.

You know the difference?

Good,

'cause I'm gonna tell you.

Ballistic missile,

you know the target,

you fired the ammo,

and it never changes course,

right?

Once a that thing leaves

the ground,

it's going to hit the spot

that you aimed it at

no matter what.

Now, the problem with that is,

that the targets got smart.

The targets learned to move,

and the missile didn't.

So, you fire the missile,

and that's all folks.

I mean,

it's gonna hit something,

but it isn't gonna hit the thing

that you aimed it at

because that's

not there anymore.

So, they invented

cybernetic missiles.

Now, cybernetic missile,

you program it at launch,

you let it go,

but if the target moves,

the missile changes course.

And it's constantly calculating

and recalculating

and changing course

to stay with the target

no matter what.

It knows its ultimate goal.

It has no idea what it's going

to take to get there.

It has no idea how difficult

the target is going to make it.

All it knows is it's committed

to making whatever adjustments

are necessary

to reach that object.

Have you and Mom

always been faithful?

Yeah.

We've been lucky that way.

Neither of us ever crossed

that line.

How is that luck?

Here.

You're a chip off the old block.

Do you ever...

Do you ever wonder if things

are going to work out?

Your art stuff?

Not at all.

I- I know it will.

H- How-how do you know?

It has to.

I got nothing else.

I'm not like the other kids

I went to college with.

You know, the artists

and actors and sh*t.

They all grew up

thinking they had

some God-given right

to be famous or

successful or whatever.

Like, they saw it on the tube,

so, you know,

they just assumed that's what

their life would be like.

Well, I guess I did the same

thing at a certain point, but...

I don't know.

Everyone else just

eventually got depressed

and gave up.

But I realized

that it was gonna

take hard work and sacrifice,

and nothing was gonna

be handed to me.

Yeah, but that doesn't

necessarily...

Like, that doesn't mean

it's gonna happen.

F*** you, man.

Yeah, it does.

Sure, I figured it probably

would have happened by now,

but, you know, I felt that

way about a lot of things.

What the f*** are we doing here?

What the f*** is this place?

You ever been here?

No.

I don't think

I knew it was here.

Well, this is where

I come to...

think.

Think?

About what?

Sh*t.

Everything.

Your sister, for example.

My sister's married.

Really?

Yeah, my sister's married.

No sh*t.

Dude, come on, this is

the best you can do?

All the immaculate

coastline around here

and you come to this

shitty reservoir?

Look, everybody else,

they-they want the shore.

They can have it.

But this place...

This is me and Emmie's.

It's your special place?

Yeah, it is.

Dude, that, uh...

That, uh, parody

of The Graduat with the frogs,

that's some classic sh*t.

It's f***ing hilarious.

Let me ask you something.

Would you be willing

to give up frogs for her?

Well, I don't just paint frogs.

I mean, it's my primary subject,

but I, you know...

You'd give up your

life's work for her?

Well, she would never ask me

to give up my work.

No matter what age I am,

or-or how much money

I don't have or if...

I still lived in the same

shithole I lived in

when I graduated from school,

she would never do that.

She would encourage me

to keep at it

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