Do I Shock U Like Lightning (2024) Movie Script
1
(birds chirping)
- You know what I realized?
I'm such a cliche.
(Wardy sighs)
(children shouting)
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
- [Spectator] Play a real song!
- Thanks.
(microphone screeches)
Hmm.
A real song.
What does that even
mean, a real song?
What makes a song real?
I don't do real songs,
good people of Los Angeles.
I only do doo's.
(drum beats)
Thank you.
I do doo's because why do
we need more than that?
I don't need to make a hit.
Everyone's making hits.
In fact, if someone in
a suit is telling you
whether or not something's
even a hit in the first place,
then I don't believe in hits.
What I do believe in is
music is the soundtrack
of our lives.
I mean, you all walk
through this park every day
and you imagine like your
theme songs in your heads.
Am I right?
Right?
Yeah, you.
I'm just talking on my phone
Yeah, I'm just
talking on my phone
Because it helps me feel
like I'm not so alone
- Can you not?
Also, that's not true.
- Sorry.
Music is the soundtrack
of our lives.
So,
what happens when
the music stops?
(birds chirping)
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(soft ukulele music)
Do I shock you
like lightning
(Adam knocks)
- Sounds nice.
- Thanks. (chuckles)
What are you holding?
- Oh, I was just
cutting coupons.
- Mm hmm.
- Don't make fun of me.
You know how I like
to spend my Saturdays.
Okay.
Sorry, you were in
a zone, weren't you?
- It's fine.
- Well, I heard from
the Pittsburgh job.
I got it.
- Oh my god, congratulations.
- Thank you.
- When do you leave?
Oh.
Oh my god, you want
me to go with you?
- Yeah, that's what
I was gonna say next.
- I thought you were
gonna go at first
and try it out and
then come back?
- No, we talked about this.
- When do you have
to let them know by?
- In a week.
- In a week?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
I know we talked about it
but now that it's real,
I think I need more time.
- That's great.
Yeah, that's cool.
I need more time too, so.
- Do you wanna hear
what I have so far?
- [Adam] Sure.
(relaxed ukulele strum)
- All right. (sigh)
It's been a couple hours and
not one round of applause
because no one's here, so I
think I'm gonna call it a day.
Who's next?
Not all at once.
Bess, what about your
depressing slam poetry?
Wilson.
Wilson, gimme some of those
"Lord of the Rings"
songs and impressions.
- I just need to put
the finishing touches
on my Balrog horns.
- All right.
I guess this will be my
last song of the day.
- You know, Pittsburgh
is really nice.
Yeah, there's the
Incline and PNC Park
and oh, Primanti's sandwiches.
- Yeah, but we met here,
we have friends out here.
There are other
artists out here.
(phone buzzes)
(Adam sighs)
- It's work, I'm gonna
update them on everything.
I'll be right back.
- Okay.
(Adam exhales)
- [Adam] Hi, this is Adam.
You know, we're still
thinking about that move.
We're deciding, yeah,
but I'm excited.
- You know, you should
all really appreciate me
while I'm here.
This is my last week in LA
before I move back
to the pizza bagels
and pizza bagels of New Jersey
where my dad will ask me
what I've been up to and I'll
tell him, "Chasing my dream."
(relaxed guitar strum)
Actually since this is a
special encore performance,
I'm gonna make it a duet.
I just need a brave volunteer
from our studio audience.
I'm not exactly sure where
I might find that person.
Oh, hi.
Hi, yeah.
How about you?
You know, you're there, right?
And paying attention to me.
It looks like you're, yeah?
A little bit?
Okay, I'll take it.
Do you wanna come up?
Yeah?
All right, okay.
Come on down.
Okay.
- Did Adam put you up to this?
- Yeah, sure.
Does that mean you're gonna play
that wannabe guitar
and sing with me?
- You're lucky no
one's listening.
- Ah, I mean, it's not no one.
- Yeah, it is, actually.
- Wow, that's very
mean to that person.
(Ellie laughs)
- What are we playing?
- You're in?
- Sure.
- Okay.
Great.
I'm more of a melody
guy than a lyrics guy
but I'll just go
ahead, do some doo's
and then you can do some
doo's with me, all right?
I'll throw some harmonies on
top, should be pretty easy.
- Cool, ready when you are.
- Great, it goes like this.
(rhythmic guitar music)
Doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Copy?
- Yeah.
- Okay, here we go.
Five, six, seven and
(rhythmic guitar music).
Who are you
Who are you
What's your name,
little stranger
Who are you
Who are you
What's your name,
little stranger
Ellie
Eduardo
Ellie
Eduardo
Ellie
Eduardo
Ellie
Eduardo
Who are you
Who are you
What's your name,
little stranger
Who are you
Who are you
What's your name,
little stranger
Ellie
Eduardo
Ellie
Eduardo
Ellie
Eduardo
Ellie
Eduardo
(Ellie and Wardy chuckling)
See, that's why
lyrics are stupid
because I'm a
normal-sized stranger.
- Actually, that's why
lyrics are interpretive
and they're great. (laughs)
- Hmm.
(coins jingle)
(birds chirping)
- See?
Boom.
- I know I said
my name's Eduardo
but I actually prefer Wardy
'cause that's what a bunch
of kids called me in elementary
school and it kinda stuck.
(birds chirping)
(Wardy humming melodically)
Don't ruin it, that's right
(muffled hip hop music)
That's how we roll,
try to bring it cool
- Hmm.
(muffled hip hop music)
(phone buzzes)
- [Wardy] Shit.
Call from Pop
Pop, call from your Pop
Call from Pop
Pop, call from your Pop
Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop
Call from Pop, Pop
Yeah, you better pick up
Yeah, you better pick up
(phone buzzes)
- [Pop] Hey.
- Hi.
- You finished packing?
- No, because I
still have a week.
- [Pop] Well, the moving
trucks come before that.
- Yes, that's true but to
live, I still need stuff,
so I can't put that
stuff in boxes yet.
- Did you check
into your flight?
- You can't do that
until the day before.
- By the way, I forwarded
you an email from the bank,
some tax statement document.
- Are we really talking
about taxes right now?
- Well, it's all about mindset.
If you act normal, things
might go back to normal.
- Okay.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, come on now.
You gotta take
charge, Wardy, hmm?
You gotta get tough
to get through this.
- So I was actually
packing before you called
and now I'm not because
I'm talking to you, so.
- [Pop] No, you're
putting it off.
- I'm not putting it off.
I'm literally coming
home to deal with it.
- [Pop] Look, I'm asking
you all these questions
and you get mad at
me. Huh?
But I'm trying.
- This is you trying?
- [Pop] Yes, this is me
trying and you should too.
What are you doing?
Are you trying?
You tried with Mom, why
didn't you try with me?
- Okay.
- Huh? Tell me.
(muffled hip hop music)
(box clatters)
(muffled electronic
hip hop music)
(Wardy sighs)
(marker scribbles)
(marker squeaks)
(Wardy sighs)
- Fuck.
(rhythmic drumbeat)
Jalisa
Jalisa
Jalisa
Jalisa
(distant engine rumbles)
Hey.
- Hey.
- How's your day been?
- Good.
- Nice, nice.
My day's been
pretty good too, so.
Yeah, so thanks for
meeting with me.
- Yeah, what did you
wanna talk about?
- I'm moving back
to Jersey in a week.
- Oh.
How come?
- Lots of different
reasons but mainly
I wanted to see if you
wanted to say goodbye to me.
- I'm sorry, what?
- I wanted to give you the
floor to say goodbye to me
before I leave in a
week to New Jersey.
- Do you wanna
say goodbye to me?
- Of course, but I figured
just in case you did too,
I would help to, you
know, facilitate that.
- So you texted me
to meet you here
to give me the space
to say something
that you're not even
sure that I have to say?
- You know, there was a time
when I pictured my
life here with you.
We'd be driving together
through the Valley
and have kids who are vegans
and I'd be like "I
didn't grow up that way"
but I'd still love them
Of course, you know?
They're my kids,
I'm not a monster
and we'd be stuck in traffic
all the time together.
But it'd be okay
because we'd be together
and singing in hybrids.
- Wardy,
I don't get what this is.
- I don't know either, I'm just-
- Okay, this is the same
fucking conversation
we had a year ago.
Like why are we even doing this?
- Because I'm fucking leaving.
- So what?
We're not together anymore.
You didn't have to tell
me that you were leaving
and I'm not gonna fuck
you before you leave.
- Whoa, all right, that's not-
- Okay.
I really thought this is a
conversation that we finally had
where we could be friends
and move on but clearly,
you're not ready.
Shocking to no one, so.
- Fine.
That's great.
Yeah, see you later.
Oh, I like the new
look, by the way.
You look like every fucking
girl on Instagram ever, so.
- Fuck you, Wardy.
- Okay.
(rhythmic drumbeat)
Jalisa
Jalisa
(marker scribbles)
(church bell tolls)
- [Julia] So what'd you
guys think of the sermon?
(friends grumbling)
(friends laughing)
- You go.
- What?
She asked all of us.
- It's impossible to pay
attention with that pastor.
- It's always hard
to pay attention
and that dude just tanks it.
(friends laughing)
No, I'm sorry.
I promise we're good Christians.
I promise we're good Christians.
- Yeah.
- The thing is
if Jesus himself
came back to preach.
- Oh, I would listen.
- Yo, Jesus had
stage presence, okay?
- Jesus had fucking
stage presence.
- Right?
- You guys are so stupid.
- [Ellie] Actually though,
that's a good point.
(rhythmic drumbeat)
Soul
Black as night
Sucked from me
until I'm empty
(microphone screeches)
(Wardy claps)
- Nice.
Very uplifting.
- This is a song that I
wrote from Sam to Frodo,
you know, from
"Lord of the Rings."
It's called "Share the Load."
- What?
Hush. Mr. Frodo
Don't worry, it's me
It's your companion,
Samwise Gamgee
The Ring is so heavy,
you're losing your head
It's been many days since
we've had lembas bread
Share the load
On this dusty mortal road
Share the load
I can't carry it
but I'll carry you
The eagles are coming
to take you away
But I won't mind if they
leave us for just one more day
(birds chirping)
- Wow. (claps)
- Hey.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Woo.
- Y'all wanna move away
from the talent show?
- Nah, nah, here is good.
- Great job Wilson,
thank you, thank you.
So there's a melody I've
been playing with recently.
That's it, just a melody.
But I met someone who
sort of convinced me that
lyrics aren't evil.
So I added some in honor of
moving back to New Jersey.
This song is called "Armpit."
It's not very good.
Hope you like it.
Time to go back home again
A place I've built
up in my head
Time to sleep in my warm bed
With my old dad
keeping me nice and fed
And I won't forget
what everyone said
Everyone said that
Los Angeles is where all
my dreams would start
Just wait for the part
When I moved out of
that armpit, New Jersey
(Wilson laughs)
Guys, that hurts me
New Jersey's not an armpit
It's not a speck on the map
It's bigger than that
My little hometown
by the Hudson
Don't say nothing, no
It's not a wasteland filled
with factories and hacks
You better check your facts
My little hometown
by the Hudson
Let's go
New Jersey's not an armpit
It's not a speck on the map
It's bigger than that
My little hometown by Hudson
Don't say nothing, no
It's not a wasteland filled
with factories and hacks
You better check your facts
My little hometown
by the Hudson
Yes, my little
hometown by the Hudson
- Woo.
(spectators clapping)
- Yeah.
(birds chirping)
- Thank you, thanks, yeah.
All right.
(relaxed guitar music)
- [Ellie] What happened
to your eye? (giggles)
- [Wardy] I used to work for
Snarky Salads in cold prep.
Best kale cutter in
the county right here.
- [Ellie] Ah, impressive.
- [Wardy] We moved to this
new location a few weeks ago
and all the walls were made
of this perfectly clean glass.
- [Michael] Okay, we
got this, throw it here.
- [Wardy] It was
early and I was tired.
I wasn't used to
this new building yet
but I had to move this
box of kale, so yawning,
I grab it, turn around and
slam.
- Oh my god.
- Bleeding, stitches.
(Ellie laughs)
- Right here.
- Oh my god.
- Yeah.
And since I'm moving back
home, I quit that job.
But that's how I used
to pay rent and stuff.
Where'd you learn to sing?
- I grew up in a
church choir in Hawaii
but it wasn't just church.
In school at the end of
the year, they'd ask us all
to line up by ourselves
and sing for a grade.
It was so embarrassing
but it worked.
I moved to LA when I was 18
and went to school
for musical theater
and now I am in HR at
a trucking company.
So I'm not really
sure what I do.
- Hmm.
So,
you're like
mainstream.
- [Ellie] Oh, I'm mainstream
because I like
lyrics and emotions?
- Mm hmm. (laughs)
(Ellie laughs)
- [KoolKels] Are we getting it?
- [Ellie] How has your
music been for you?
- [Michael] Have him run a two.
- A couple years ago, it
was going pretty well.
I networked a ton, had some
exciting opportunities.
There was like a
brief moment in time
where I was actually
working on a single
and it was gonna come out
and I was gonna perform it
at small venues and stuff.
- Wow, that's impressive.
- Yeah, it was.
But then nothing really happened
and someone wrote
something similar.
People forgot, the world changed
and then (scoff) you
know, here we are.
Do you regret
taking a steady job?
- If I say yes, will that
make you feel better?
- Yeah, probably.
(Ellie laughs)
Is this just supposed
to be the time
in our lives where we give up?
Not saying you gave up.
- It's okay.
I think this is just the time
in our lives where we find
what we're supposed to do.
Can I hear your single one day?
(Wardy snorts)
- No.
- Why, is it a secret?
- No, basically every
suit in town has heard it.
I just don't want to show
you, it's embarrassing.
- What? Come on.
- Mm mm.
It has lyrics and everything.
Oh, I was almost as
mainstream as you are.
(Ellie laughs)
- Maybe we should
just go back in time.
I can quit my day job
and you can try your
luck with music again.
- You know, I read somewhere
that running backwards
reverses time.
I'll be right back.
(Ellie laughs)
- [Michael] What in the world?
- [Wardy] Watch it,
I'm coming through.
- Yeah.
- Don't mind me.
Just reversing time.
- What are you doing?
- [Wardy] You're
good, you're good.
(Wardy pants)
- Throw it here.
Stay focused.
(Wardy pants)
- Did it work?
- What happened to your?
- Oh my god.
We did it.
Oh.
Oh, it's exactly
five minutes ago.
(Ellie laughs)
Sorry.
(birds chirping)
I was wondering,
what are you up to this week?
- Probably something
with my boyfriend.
- Oof.
Fair enough.
Not hitting on you, just
looking for a friend.
- You don't have any friends?
- Not like you.
- [Michael] All right, this is
for 10, this is for 10, okay?
- Yeah.
- Hey, nice one.
(Ellie laughs)
(soft ukulele strums)
Eyes closed but
I hear you now
Do I shock you
like lightning
- [Adam] What'd you
end up doing today?
You got back later than usual.
- Rock climbing, space
adventure, pottery class.
- Oh, that last
one hurts the most.
I was always gifted
with Play-Doh.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
- Nice.
- Yeah.
(Ellie laughs)
We haven't done anything
like that in awhile.
Probably since the
Paradise Cove Luau.
- Oh no.
- I wanted to prove to
your parents I was cool.
- Right, so obviously
the only way to do that
was to set the lawn on fire.
- I blame grass skirts.
Fire, I can handle, okay?
It could have been worse.
Your parents have
loved me ever since.
- Yeah, well, so
have I. (giggles)
- I am so excited to move
to Pittsburgh with you.
I've been looking
at houses and I,
sorry, yeah, you're
still thinking about it.
- I didn't write today.
I always do that,
I say I'm gonna write my
song and then I don't.
I hate that.
- Well, don't beat yourself up.
Goodnight.
(Ellie sighs)
(crickets chirping)
(phone buzzes)
- Hello?
- Why do you need a friend?
- Ukulele?
- It's Ellie, why did
say you need a friend?
- Well, you see Ellie,
I have this list.
Doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
- Looks like you're doing
pretty well without me.
- Yeah, but it'll be
more fun with you.
- Sell kitchen shit?
- You need a rice cooker?
- No.
- Any of your friends
need a rice cooker?
- No.
- All right, well if y'all
change your mind, let me know.
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
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Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
- Okay, so as you guys know,
I have my makeup line
launching and I am so excited
and I just wanted to see, who
are you, what are you doing?
- WardyD,
#soundtrackofyourlives.
- Stop that.
- All right, what?
- Literally like don't do that.
It's so disgusting.
- Someone got angry quick.
- What are you doing? Oh my god!
- So good people of Los Angeles.
- Stop it.
- Every day,
I walk past these
Instagram spots
and I hate them, I hate them.
So I am gonna write
"Wardy was here"
and ruin all your
precious pictures.
- Oh my god, you wouldn't.
I was literally just attacked.
Thank God I was streaming.
Did you guys see that?
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
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doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
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doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
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Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo
- Oh, oh yeah.
(camera snaps)
Stunning, work it, oh
yeah, get it. (giggles)
- [Wardy] No, I can't.
- Stop moving around.
- No, no, this is so dumb.
- It was your idea.
- Yeah, well I thought
this would be funny
and that you would be a tripod
and I was wrong about both.
- Play a song to
get into character.
(relaxed guitar music)
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
When your legs are
as hairy as Wardy's
Then I promise you
there is no warning
When your legs are bare
I am aware that it
makes some kids scared
(Ellie laughs)
But who's gonna
shave me if not me
Boy, don't be
ashamed, be about it
Thanks, who's gonna shave me
Who's gonna shave me
when I am this hairy
But who's gonna
shave me if not me
Boy, don't be
ashamed, be about it
Who's gonna shave me
Who's gonna shave me
when I am this hairy
When I am this
Hairy
(upbeat guitar strum)
- You're really hairy.
- I'm really hairy.
All right, I think
we're done here.
- Okay.
I added something to the list
without your permission,
if that's okay.
- It's my list, why would
you need my permission?
- Exactly. (laughs)
- Is your husband
home or whatever?
- Adam's my boyfriend.
- Sick, I still have a chance.
- What is wrong with you?
- What? I'm joking.
- Do you think things happen
for a reason or that
they just happen?
- Well,
I think things just happen and
then we find a reason later.
- Look, hanging
out with you is fun
but I'm very happy as is.
So we're gonna do this
next thing on the list
and we're not gonna flirt
with each other, okay?
- So okay.
So where is your boyfriend?
- A work trip.
- Oh.
Does he work a lot?
- Okay, that's enough.
- Why?
- I'm locking your mouth.
- Excuse me?
- Locking it up.
Here it is.
- What? No, you can't do this.
No, my mouth is a
gold mine, you can't.
He tries again
(engine roars)
- So is this next
thing on the list,
is it like that you need me
to be your handyman
or something?
- What?
- To fix your TV?
It's upside down
and if you hadn't
noticed that yet,
then you're probably
a serial killer.
- We don't even use that one.
We watch the one
in the living room.
Adam's offered to fix
it a million times
but I kind of find it soothing.
I just leave it on.
- What do you mean
you find it soothing?
(Ellie laughs)
- Okay, so I sit on the bed,
then I lie in my back.
- What the fuck?
- I tilt my head back.
- No, you don't, why?
But you could just-
- It's so great.
- You could just fix it.
- Wow.
- [Wardy] It can't
be that hard to fix.
- It's just perfect
quality television.
(Wardy scoffs)
- Okay.
- I thought I locked your mouth.
When you're writing a song,
how do you motivate yourself?
Go ahead.
- Motivate myself, hmm.
Self-hatred.
A little OCD and
good time management.
I have good time
management skills.
- To me, finishing a song is
terrifying.
- That's how I feel
about not finishing one.
Oh shit.
Wait, are you writing
a song right now?
- I started one a few months ago
but it's been in
my head forever.
- Well, so what's the holdup?
We've already written like two
songs together by accident.
- Yeah, but this song, it's...
- What?
- It's been in my head
ever since I was 11.
I've also had writer's
block since I was 11.
It's like I can't
move on with my life
until I write this stupid song.
I don't know, I think sometimes
ideas aren't as special
as we think they are.
Anyone can come
up with anything.
No one's actually unique.
- Wow.
- You disagree?
- Well, (chuckles) it's
not that I disagree.
It's harder than ever
to be unique, you know?
Everything's so referential.
A TikTok is funny because it's
parroting an Instagram post
which is parroting a movie
which is based on a book.
We don't create anymore, we
just play word association.
But this thing, this thing
is dangerous, you know?
On its worst days,
it's a weapon, a bomb.
A reminder that
trying is painful.
But that's the
thing about bombs.
They might explode
but explosions are
pretty to look at.
(soft music)
- Enough chitchat, put
your songwriting hat on.
- How do you wanna start?
- [Ellie] Well,
I have a concept.
- [Wardy] Hit me.
- Okay, so I'm at
a point in my life
where I'm really starting
to like think about
the difference between
like love and lightning.
- Oof.
Say more of the
words that you say.
- Like me staying in LA trying
to be something I'm not.
It feels like love
but what if I'm wrong?
What if it's actually
chasing lightning?
- Hmm.
You know, there's
this Portuguese word
that reminds me of,
"saudade."
It means "longing for
something that isn't there."
- You're Portuguese?
- My mom was, Pop's
Puerto Rican, so I'm half.
- Yeah, I'm mixed, I know.
- You get it.
- So "saudade" is like
chasing lightning?
- Maybe.
Unless you think you'll
actually catch it.
- I think sometimes
seeing lightning is enough
and then we can move
on with our lives.
- Or maybe you can
catch the lightning
and keep it somewhere for
when you really need it.
Like in a bottle,
I hear that works.
- Yeah.
Do you wanna hear some lyrics?
- [Wardy] Come on.
(soft ukulele music)
Eyes closed but
I hear you now
Do I shock you
like lightning
I kinda need your help with
the rest of the melody.
- I can work with that.
Hmm.
(Wardy hums)
(soft guitar strums)
- You got something?
- Yep, yep, yep.
Chord progression incoming.
You're in C, right, C?
- Yeah.
- You like C?
- That's cool, okay.
- So I'm gonna do doo's
based on what you just did
and then you can just come in
with your lyrics and, yeah.
- Yeah, I'll keep
playing with the lyrics.
- Yeah, perfect.
- Okay.
- Yeah, I'll just loop it
and you come in whenever.
So (soft guitar strums)
Eyes closed, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo
- Start again.
Okay.
Eyes closed but
I hear you now
And I hear a sound, it
sounds like you, ooh
- Okay, so add the next measure
and then we'll do
the pre-chorus.
- Okay.
Eyes closed but
I hear you now
And I hear a sound, it
sounds like you, ooh
Small tambour, I hear it now
When it evens out and
it's time to choose, ooh
- Okay, so I have an
idea for the post-chorus,
sorry, pre-chorus,
something like
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
You can add some
flourishes in there, ready?
- Mm hmm, okay.
Do you love me,
do you like me
Is it cool or is
it frightening
Do I shock you like
lightning, like lightning
- Yeah, keep going.
If love is just timing, then
why is it that when I sing
I see a sky full
of lightning bolts
- Ooh, nice instinct
going up there.
'Cause now it's the chorus
Catchy chorus
making people cry
- Aww, that's so pretty.
- Well that's why
you hired me, lady.
Let's go, you got some
chorus lyrics for me?
- Play your instrument, boy.
Okay.
Thunder rumbles,
now we tumble
Down a broken road
- Next measure.
Clouds, they crumble
Humans stumble
Lightning shocks the soul
- Okay, now
controversial hot take.
I love a good post-chorus.
Not every song has a
post-chorus but this one,
it's just we're flying
high and it's emotional.
- Yeah, I trust you.
- Okay, so.
- Post-chorus.
- Yeah. (laughs)
You're just gonna sing
Do I shock you
like lightning
Just over and over again
but in your own way with
your beautiful voice.
- You think my
voice is beautiful?
- Fuck you, yes.
(Ellie laughs)
Do the post-chorus, six,
seven and (guitar strums).
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
- Yeah, bring us home.
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
- All right, one more
time from the chorus.
I'm gonna harmonize, go.
Thunder rumbles,
now we tumble
Down a broken road
Clouds, they crumble
Humans stumble
Lightning shocks the soul
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
- Then verse two chorus,
bridge chorus outro.
But we just did the hard part.
(phone buzzes)
Sorry.
Just my alarm.
- That's okay, I have some work
I should catch up on anyway.
I'm gonna be at
the park tomorrow
with my friends if we
wanna do more music stuff.
- Okay.
I'll be there performing for
my thousands of fans as usual.
- See you tomorrow.
- Yeah, see you.
Okay.
(Ellie sighs)
(birds chirping)
(bird caws)
(vehicle whooshes)
(relaxed guitar music)
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(off-kilter guitar strumming)
(no audio)
(Wardy grunts)
(distant vehicles whooshing)
(birds chirping)
- Ah, got ya.
- What's up, everyone?
- Hey.
- Courtesy of my former
employer, Snarky Salads.
- What?
Snarky Salads.
Them salads are snarky as fuck.
- So I didn't have time to ask,
so I just picked up whatever.
There's a buffalo chicken, a
roasted chicken with cashews.
- I actually have a nut allergy.
- Oh, oh yeah.
- That's my bad.
- This buffalo
chicken one though.
The spice, the sauce.
This shit is like muah. (laughs)
Yeah, I can't.
I can't, man. I'm sorry.
I get really bad acid reflux.
Really bad.
Really bad.
- Okay.
- All of these have
meat in them, right?
- Yeah.
- I'm vegan.
- Right.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I just like don't
really like salads, so.
- All right, well I guess
I'll order something else.
- You know what?
Nobody talks shit anymore.
- Here we go.
- You're making a hot
take out of nothing.
- Nah, no one stays up until
4:00 a.m. talking shit anymore
because we gotta get
home to feed the dog,
to wake up for work to go
to our next meeting
where we don't talk shit.
There's no such thing as
a spontaneous sleepover
where you get all personal
and intimate and tell secrets
and it's not because
we're old, no, no.
It's because the goal
of our generation
is to be as fucking
lonely as possible.
But yeah, man, this
burger was fire though.
- Man, y'all are
not very Christian.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- I don't know, I'm hanging
around with Ellie all day
and she's over
here talking about
not everything
happens for a reason.
- I don't believe
that shit either.
- Seriously?
- I don't.
I mean, we try to believe that.
- Like the only difference
between you and I,
Wardy, is that I pray before
I eat and go to sleep.
- You prayed before
eating just now?
- Yeah, you didn't see me?
I did like a mm,
quick, I whispered.
- That was pretty sneaky.
- Do you believe in God?
- Oh my god.
Julia is the queen
of asking that shit.
- It's all right.
(soft music)
I really don't know.
I didn't grow up with it.
I guess I never had to
believe in anything.
- You know, my favorite quote
I heard from this group,
it was actually something
Michael had said.
(friends laughing)
Whenever we pray, God gives
us one of three answers.
"Yes," "when you're ready"
or "here's something better."
But it's never a no.
- Damn, I said that?
- Yeah, I mean.
- Damn.
That's pretty good, yo.
- Ellie had a good one too.
- No.
- Yeah, it was.
Come on girl, come on.
- Well, I once
heard something like
find a little piece
of God in everyone.
I figured if there's a little
piece of Him in everyone
and we're loving that
little piece, then we need
to love every single person
we ever come in contact with.
- Mm.
- Okay.
(soft music)
(birds chirping)
- That's pretty good,
that's not bad. (chuckles)
- Ah, this place gave me one
of those impossible
to open bottles again.
- Oh yes.
- You know what that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Hey Ash, you gotta do it, man.
You know I can't rap, come on.
- Rap?
- You gotta do it.
- All right.
Hey, hey, hey, hey
We gonna rap this shit,
it's the bottle cap rap
Can you open it, hey
We gonna rap this shit,
it's the bottle cap rap
Can you open it, hey
- What is this?
- If you can't open the
bottle, you have to freestyle.
- You guys are so
weird, I love it.
- Wait, who? You gotta open it.
- You got it.
- Okay.
All right.
(Michael grunts)
- Oh!
- Yep, you gotta do it.
Come on, you gotta do it.
- All right, all right.
Hey, hey, hey, hey,
can't open this
I'm too high but at
least I'm too fly
If you can't do
it, you'd just sigh
Oh well, I'm a pass
it to the new guy, hey
Come on, come on.
- Oh shit, okay.
- Come on.
- You got it.
- What in the world?
- Yeah, I know.
- What is it?
Goddammit.
- Come on, come on.
- Sorry.
(Michael beatboxing)
Okay, all right.
It's a shame that I
can't open the bottle
I should have got a
soda from McDonald's
- Hey.
I won't baby you,
I won't call it
Don't need strength
to be a super model
- [Michael] Whoa!
He rapped it, all right.
He got a little bars,
you know what I mean?
- Oh, here we go.
- Okay.
- [Ash] Here we go.
- [Wardy] I hope you
can't open this. (laughs)
- Rude.
(friends exclaiming)
- Come on, come on.
- Okay.
- [Michael] Watch the
master work right now.
- The master?
Can't open this even
when I put my wrist in
Get defensive like the
old school Pitt did
F this, I'm a need
some assistance
You love Jesus, girl,
that's long distance
- Hey!
- Whoa.
(friends laughing)
(fizz hisses)
- What?
- Oh.
(friends cheering)
- Yes.
- Wow. (laughs)
Can I get that, can
I take a picture?
(crickets chirping)
- [Wardy] So, about yesterday.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
(Ellie giggle nervously)
Was I the only one
who felt something?
- Look, this week
has been fun but-
- What?
- You're lightning, Wardy.
I can't trust you.
- You can't trust me?
- Look, I've seen
the medicine bottles
in your room and the
reminders on your phone.
Maybe it's nothing, I don't know
but I just don't know why
you're being so guarded.
- It is nothing,
it's not a big deal.
- Okay.
- What?
I don't know what I have
to do to prove to you
that this doesn't
happen every day.
- I'm with Adam.
- No, you're literally
standing here with me.
- Well, real life partners
are different from
creative partners.
- Oh, I don't buy that.
So if you had to make a
choice, who would it be?
Me
or him?
- Him.
(vehicles whooshing)
(crickets chirping)
(rain pattering)
(soft ukulele music)
(thunder booms)
Eyes closed but
I hear you now
And I hear sound, it
sounds like you, ooh
Small tambour, I hear it now
When it evens out, then
it's time to choose, ooh
Do you love me,
do you like me
Is it cool or is
it frightening
Do I shock you like
lightning, like lightning
(lightning crackles)
If love is just timing, then
why is it that when I sing
I see a sky full
of lightning bolts
(thunder booms)
Thunder rumbles,
now we tumble
Down a broken road
Clouds, they crumble
Humans stumble
Lightning shocks the soul
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
Thunder rumbles,
now we tumble
Down a broken road
Clouds, they crumble
Humans stumble
Lightning shocks the soul
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
(soft ukulele strum)
(Ellie weeps softly)
(soft somber music)
- Ellie, that was amazing.
- Thanks.
- I heard the whole thing.
I'm your biggest fan.
Come here.
(rain pattering)
(distant horns blaring)
(distant horns blaring)
(distant horns blaring)
Call your Pop
You are calling your Pop
Call your Pop
You are calling your Pop
Pop, Pop, Pop
You are calling your Pop
Again, you're
calling your Pop top
Wait, why are
you calling your
(phone rings)
(Wardy sighs)
- Hey.
Well,
this is a nice surprise.
- I'm almost finished packing.
Before my flight tomorrow night,
I'm gonna just pack
some last-minute things
and that'll be that.
- Well,
you got through
it after all, huh?
You proved me wrong.
- It wasn't about
proving you wrong.
It was,
you know,
I thought about
Mom and
what she put you through when
she left and I just thought-
- Hey, hey, hey, hey.
You're not leaving me.
I'm right here.
You hear?
I'm right here.
You know, Mom,
she made her choices
and yeah, I was scared because
you remind me so much of her.
You both fell in love
with the same thing.
But her path,
her path was a one-way street.
Yours isn't.
Yours,
yours brings you home.
(vehicle whooshes)
Coming home is not the end.
It's the beginning.
Everything's gonna be okay.
You're gonna be fine.
- No, I'm not gonna be fine.
- Have you talked to
your therapist lately?
Well maybe you should
give him another chance.
He was nice, right?
- Yeah, hi, can you hear me?
- Yeah, I can hear you.
Where are you?
Ope, hi.
There you are, Eduardo,
good to see you.
What do you wanna
talk about today?
- Well first of all,
I'm leaving LA tomorrow.
- No, why?
- Lots of different reasons.
Career, life,
dating.
- Why is everybody leaving LA?
Seriously, it's making
me wonder if I should.
Oh shoot.
Well, go ahead.
- Yeah.
And you know,
because of all that,
my music has kinda
taken a backseat
and I'm pretty depressed.
- Ugh, depressed.
Seriously?
That sucks.
We gotta find a new word.
Even sad, you know?
Even sad, you're sad to leave.
- Yeah.
Are you
doing, do you need a minute, or?
- Oh, I'm good.
You keep going,
this is about you.
- Yeah, so I started
to fall for this girl
who was running around LA
with me playing ukulele.
- That's nice.
- Yeah.
But she actually
has a boyfriend.
(therapist gasps)
- No.
Oh, I can't.
- And you know, she actually
ended up choosing him over me.
(therapist gasps dramatically)
- No!
Are you serious?
Oh, good Lord.
Oh my god.
Oh, you're fucked.
- Therapist didn't help.
- Really?
(lips splat)
- Nah.
(lips sputtering)
No.
He can't be that bad.
- Oh, Pop.
Just think of the worst.
- Uh-huh?
- Worse than that.
(Pop laughs)
You have a session
with this guy.
- I'm not gonna have
a session with him.
- No Pop, hold on.
- Was it that bad? No?
- Yeah, Pop, I gotta go.
- Okay, okay, okay.
- Sorry.
- Call me later, I wanna
hear more about this guy.
- Yeah, yeah, okay, bye.
(person knocks)
(door creaks)
(fingers tap rhythmically)
Jalisa?
(rhythmic drumbeat)
Jalisa
(Wardy sighs)
- Thanks for that.
I was crying before
you came over, so.
- [Influencer 1] My daughter's
celebration is today.
- [Influencer 2] Being
a white chick that raps
was really like just banging
my head against the wall and-
- Why did you unfollow me?
- What?
- I got a notification
after our talk the other
day that you unfollowed me.
- How did you know that?
- I have an app that tells me.
- Well,
we had a fight.
I guess I was upset.
- So you unfollowed me?
- Ever since we broke up, even
though I was following you,
we didn't talk or text.
So how is this any different?
- You could have muted me.
Muting someone is when you
take them off of your newsfeed
but you don't go as far
as unfollowing them.
- What are we talking about?
- You fucking
unfollowed me, Wardy.
- You say that like it's the
worst thing I could have done.
- So you're just not gonna
follow me back right now?
- I could follow you back, yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then mute?
- Yeah, right there.
- Mm hmm.
- But you can watch my
Stories if you want.
- Sure.
Okay, got it.
Done.
- Thank you.
- Is that why you came
all the way out here?
- Excuse me?
(Wardy scoffs)
- When we first moved
here, you were so
different.
I'm glad I'm leaving LA.
I'm getting away
from people like you.
- You are so obsessed with
being different, Wardy.
Just grow up, please.
(keys jingling)
(phone buzzes)
- Jump out the window.
- What?
- [Wardy] You need to jump
out of the window now.
- You live on the second floor.
- Yeah, bend your knees.
- Bend my knees?
- Bend your knees to
lessen the impact.
- Why are you talking like this?
You're being like a fricking
weirdo right now, dude.
- Like can you roll?
Is that a thing where you
land and then you roll?
- I'm not gonna roll out
your fricking window, Wardy.
- I'm sure-
(Ellie knocks)
- It was open.
Did someone break in?
- Sort of.
- Hi, I'm Ellie.
(rhythmic drumbeat)
Jalisa
(Wardy sighs)
- How are you doing?
- How's it look like I'm doing?
- Please don't do this.
I was being honest, I
told you how I felt.
- Yeah, well your
words and your actions
are two very different things.
- Making songs together isn't-
- What?
Romantic?
Intimate?
- [Ellie] You're gonna make
me explain it, aren't you?
- Please do.
Yeah, break it down for me.
- You used me.
You built me up to
be this Manic Pixie
final fling before you leave
LA but I'm a whole person.
That's not me, I'm
not your fantasy.
- Well, I'm not yours either.
I'm not the tortured artist
who tells you how brilliant
you are and then finishes
your whole fucking song.
I deserve more than that.
- Well, I can't give you that.
I am your fan, Wardy,
but I don't love you.
How could I love you?
I barely know you.
- You know what?
That's not surprising
because that's how you live
your whole fucking life.
You don't actually
follow what you love.
You follow your past and
what's been set up for you
and what you have
fucking planned.
- At least I have a plan.
- Oh, what is it?
Daydreaming about
something for 20 years
and then not actually
fucking doing it?
(distant horns honking)
Sorry.
- Just because your
life is disappointing
and your plan is a list
doesn't mean you can
drag me down with you.
- Yeah, well it's hard to
have a real plan when...
- What?
(Wardy sighs)
(Wardy pants)
(Wardy sighs)
- When I got these stitches,
they decided to do some x-rays.
Turns out they found
something else.
It's kind of like ALS
meets Huntington's.
After awhile, my hands
stopped working and then
of course I got the
extremely rare version,
not the common one, it
had to be fucking rare.
Ellie, that's why I couldn't
tell you about any of this
because as soon as I say it,
as soon as I say it
out loud, it's over.
I become a cliche.
I mean, you're never gonna
hang out with me again
just because you want to.
You'll never sing with me
again just because you want to.
That's why I'm going
back home, for treatment.
The doctors say I
have six months.
How the fuck do you go
from trying to decide
what to eat for dinner
to six months to live?
The list isn't the
leaving LA list.
It's a bucket list.
- What do you need?
I can help you with something.
- No, no.
- You can't say no, you
leave tomorrow night.
- Now that you know what the
list is, it ruins everything.
I'm the dying musician now.
- That's what you're
concerned about right now?
Everyone dies.
If you're a cliche,
then we're all cliches.
- Can you please just go?
- No.
- Just go!
(Ellie sniffles)
- You're right, by the
way, about explosions.
Except it's not
music, it's people.
People can explode but
be amazing to watch.
Being that person
is not a cliche.
(birds chirping softly)
(Wardy weeps)
(Wardy sighs)
(crickets chirping)
(Wardy sighs)
(relaxed guitar music)
God, are you
real or a feeling
Or God, are you
just the ceiling
God, can you help
me, I'm reeling
That is unless
you're not real
This little moment
I'm stealing
As I look up at the ceiling
God, I would ask
you to heal me
But I'm not so sure
that you're real
Please be real
Please be real,
please be real
Please be real
Please be real,
please be real
God, are you
real or a feeling
Or God, are you
just the ceiling
God, can you help
me, I'm reeling
Give me a sign
that you're real
I wanna know
that you're real
I really hope
that you're real
(Wardy sighs)
(birds chirping)
- Is this the time in our lives
where we're supposed to give up?
- What?
- What does it mean to give up?
I've been thinking
about that a lot.
- Hmm.
Well, this calls for
the dictionary game.
- The dictionary game?
- For those of you
who don't know,
the dictionary game is
where we look up the literal
definition of whatever
we're struggling with
and our first
contestant today is?
- Deb.
- Deb.
Okay, let's play.
All right, so here we go.
It says here, the
definition of giving up
is "to cease making an effort,
resign oneself to failure."
Ooh. (chuckles)
We can't all be winners.
Hey, what's happening?
Are you okay?
We don't have to play
the game anymore.
- No, no, it's not.
I just,
if I give up on music, does
that mean I don't matter?
- No, you'll always have music
and you'll always have me.
You'll matter to me.
- Thanks.
- And hey, here's
definition number two.
A daily double. (chuckles)
"Giving up, to allow oneself
to be taken over by an emotion."
- To allow oneself to be
taken over by an emotion?
- Yeah, it doesn't
sound that bad
when you think of
it that way, right?
- No, that's not bad at all.
(Adam chuckles)
- Look,
if all this is about Pittsburgh,
I don't have to take the job.
- I wanna go.
- Really?
- Yeah, I'm not giving up.
I'm allowing myself to be
taken over by an emotion.
(Adam laughs)
- Yes, and hey, when we give up,
that means someone
else receives, right?
I don't know,
something like that.
(upbeat guitar music)
- Meet me at the park
in a couple of hours.
Love you.
- I love you too.
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
A day may come when the
courage of men fails
When we forsake our friends
And break all
bonds of fellowship
But it is not this day
This day, we fight
(birds chirping)
Thank you, that was a monologue
from "Lord of the Rings:
Return of the King."
(relaxed guitar music)
The maiden needs us.
- Okay.
Doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo
- Yeah.
- Oh.
Doo, doo, doo
- [Bess] Nice.
Oh yeah, maybe like,
yeah, that looks great.
- Just like if
you like twist it.
- [Bess] Okay, uh-huh, got it.
Doo, doo, doo
- Yeah, yeah.
I think we need more hands,
I'll be right back on.
- Yeah, okay.
- Everyone clear on the plan?
Got it, yeah?
Come on, come on.
(bird caws)
- Ha ha!
- I've got these flyers here.
- Yeah.
- I see a spot right there.
Free concert right over here!
Live music pronto.
- Just show up, all right?
- [Wilson] Either of you have
any interest in a concert?
Sorry, I didn't mean
to scare you like that.
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(ukulele strums)
Doo, doo, doo
- Okay, so last week's launch
was a little interrupted
but we're back.
This launch is going
to go flawlessly.
Everything is perfect, you guys.
This makeup line
is unbelievable.
- Free concert.
- If you're not subscribed.
How does this keep happening?
Everyone shut up!
- Yeah.
- Okay, yeah, how
can I help you?
Let's help these weird people.
What are we doing,
where are we going?
We're streaming and
we're helping people.
It's charity work,
let's go guys.
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(subwoofer screeches)
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(switch clicks)
Doo, doo, doo
(birds chirping)
(spectators chattering)
- What do you think?
- [Ellie] All right
everyone, quiet down.
I'm gonna call him, okay?
- [Ash] I don't
know where that is.
- [Michael] Hey, we didn't
pay for this, right?
(clips rattling)
(distant engines rumbling)
(distant horn honks)
(marker scribbles)
(marker scrapes)
(no audio)
(bandage peels)
(phone buzzes)
(Wardy sighs)
- Ugh.
I'll be right back.
(birds chirping)
- How are ya, mate?
- All right.
- LAX?
- Unfortunately.
- [Ellie] Wardy!
Wardy, Wardy, wait!
(tires screech)
(birds chirping)
(Ellie pants happily)
- I read that if a car
backs up around the block,
it reverses time.
- No, that's not
true, mate. (chuckles)
- Please don't go yet.
Please just get
out and talk to me.
- We already talked yesterday.
You don't have to say anything.
- That was different.
Look, I just need a few minutes.
- I don't know, I already
paid for the ride.
- Yeah, he did, that's true.
- I'll pay you back.
- Are you sure?
Rideshare's really
expensive now.
- Wardy.
- Sorry dude, I
guess I'm canceling.
- Ah, for fuck's sake.
(soft somber music)
(soft somber music continues)
- Well, you said a few minutes.
I'm listening.
- You can't leave LA.
- Ellie.
- It's people like you who
make the city what it is.
People who chase lightning.
- Yeah, well I
never caught it, so.
- You did.
Trying is catching lightning.
You belong here and when you,
it should be here.
(vehicle whooshes)
- You know, for 10 years, I
haven't seen my dad in person.
After my mom died, we kept
in touch here and there
but every time we
tried to make plans,
he tried to make plans...
(Wardy sighs)
If I'm gonna do my
treatment in LA,
then I guess his ass is
gonna have to come visit.
So great, thanks.
- Say more of the
words that you say.
- I told you, the
driver reversed time.
You made a heroic speech,
I changed my mind.
(Ellie laughs)
You know, the moving trucks
were pretty expensive too.
- Oh my god.
- I'm just saying
while you're paying me,
you should probably
also cover those.
- Shut up.
Follow me.
- And I'm holding
all this luggage.
- Come on.
- I actually don't
even have an apartment
to put everything into or
to even sleep in to tonight.
See, this is the problem
with big gestures.
I really didn't
think this through.
- Oh my god, don't make
me lock your mouth.
- Okay, I'm coming, I'm coming.
(crickets chirping)
Can I open yet?
- No, not yet.
- Ugh.
I think I stepped in dog shit.
- Probably.
(Wardy snorts)
- Oh my gosh.
Oh.
Concrete?
Are we?
- No, stop guessing.
- I feel like my
bag's on something.
(Ellie laughs)
- Okay.
And open.
(spectators cheering)
- [Wilson] Wardy!
- You know what?
I think I actually
did step in dog shit.
So I'm just gonna-
- No, come on.
- Look.
This is the concert and the
audience that you deserve.
- Yeah!
- Woo!
- Yeah, Wardy!
- Woo!
(spectators cheering)
- All right, let's do this.
- Woo!
- Woo!
- Presenting Wardy Gutierrez,
"The Soundtrack of Your Lives."
(spectators cheering)
- Thank you.
- Play a real song!
(Wilson laughs)
- Once Upon a time,
I had a single that
was almost released.
- Ooh.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Okay, okay.
- I vowed that I would never
perform this song again
but tonight, I'm
gonna break my oath
and punch my ticket
to music hell.
- Yeah!
- Woo!
- Okay, dude.
- Yeah.
(spectators cheering)
- This song is
called "Perfect Day."
It's not very good.
Hope you like it.
- Woo!
- Wardy!
- Yeah.
- Woo woo.
- I just need a brave volunteer
from our studio audience.
- [Spectator] Yeah!
- [Michael] Ellie.
- Woo!
(spectators clapping)
- You'll catch on,
it's pretty easy.
The chorus is really
repetitive, very mainstream.
- Gotcha.
- All right, let's do this.
Five, six, seven, eight.
I found you on a warm
night after a summer day
It astounds me that
you held my hand
And you touched my face
Some cool waves under a bright
moon and a summer breeze
I wake up for the first
time and I start to breathe
Today now wasn't a perfect
day but it almost was one
Maybe tomorrow will
be better, baby
Hey now, we had some fun
Maybe today now
wasn't a perfect day
But it almost was one
Maybe tomorrow will
be better, baby
But hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some
Any day can be a
perfect day now
Hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some
Any day can be a
perfect day now
I lost you that next
day after a summer night
I woke up, your pillow
empty, you were on the flight
You were on the flight
So I swam alone under a
half-moon in a lonely sea
I fell asleep for the last
time and remembered days
Today now wasn't a perfect
day but it almost was one
Maybe tomorrow will
be better, baby
Hey now, we had some fun
Maybe today now
wasn't a perfect day
but it almost was one
Maybe tomorrow will
be better, baby
Hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some
Any day can be a
perfect day now
Hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some
Any day can be a
perfect day now
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, any day can
be perfect day now
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Any day can be a
perfect day now
At least we had some fun
At least we had some fun
At least we had some fun
At least we had some fun
At least we had some fun
At least we had some fun
(relaxed guitar music ends)
(spectators cheering)
- Ellie, woo hoo!
- Woo!
- [Michael] Yeah, yeah, Wardy.
Yeah, Ellie.
Yeah!
Woo!
- Woo.
- Woo.
(crickets chirping)
(footsteps pattering)
(Ellie pants)
(crickets chirping)
(Ellie sniffles)
(footsteps pattering)
(soft somber music)
(Ellie weeps)
(birds chirping)
(birds chirping continues)
(Adam sighs)
- Hopefully this is the last
batch before it gets forwarded.
- What are you
complaining about?
More coupons for you.
(Adam chuckles)
- Oh, guess what
I signed us up for
when we get settled
in Pittsburgh?
Pottery class.
- Oh my god.
- Yeah.
Putting those Play-Doh
skills to use.
(Ellie chuckles)
Garbage.
It's for you.
(birds chirping)
I'm gonna go finish some
things up in the other room.
(letter crinkles)
(Ellie sighs)
(soft guitar strum)
- Hello, Ellie.
By the time you're
watching this video,
I will have perished.
(Ellie giggles)
Everything's probably
fallen into chaos
since I've been gone.
The world's
apocalyptic and stuff.
Everyone's realizing
how much they needed me.
Yeah, that's definitely
what's happening.
You know what I realized?
I'm such a cliche
but you know what?
I think that's a good thing.
Ellie, over these
past few months,
I've been working on a song
that I wanted to show you.
You know, that
single I wrote was
for everyone but
this one's just for you.
So feel free to,
you know, steal it,
pass it off as your own or
just keep it to yourself.
Maybe use it as lightning
in a bottle one day.
I don't know.
Here it goes.
I present to you,
"Everyone, Everything."
It's not very good.
Hope you like it.
(Ellie weeps)
(soft guitar music)
Mind feeling tired
I need to stop
Trying to fly
High as a spire
I aspire to stop
Trying to die
God, oh please,
I'm on my knees
Pleading I forget to breathe
Bleeding as I try
to be what they want
I want to choose
everyone, everything
Afraid to lose
everyone, everything
I have been loved but still
that's not enough somehow
I want to choose
everyone, everything
Sometimes I'm feeling
wired, every emotion pops
Then I feel inspired
when the beat drops
Body on fire, I'm
so cold and hot
Ignore the warning signs
and show you what I got
God, oh please,
I'm on my knees
Pleading I forget to breathe
Bleeding as I try
to be what they want
I want to choose
everyone, everything
Afraid to lose
everyone, everything
I have been loved but still
that's not enough somehow
I want to choose
everyone, everything
Why do I have these
thoughts in my mind
Tell me, how do I
make this life mine
Why do I have these
thoughts in my mind
Why do I feel I'm
running out of time
Why do I have these
thoughts in my mind
Tell me, how do I
make this life mine
Why do I have these
thoughts in my mind
Why do I feel I'm
running out of
I want to choose
everyone, everything
Afraid to lose
everyone, everything
I have been loved but still
that's not enough somehow
I want to choose
I want to choose
everyone, everything
Afraid to lose
everyone, everything
I have been loved but still
that's not enough somehow
I want to choose
Everyone
Everything
(Ellie laughs emotionally)
(upbeat guitar music)
(upbeat guitar music continues)
(upbeat guitar music continues)
(upbeat guitar music continues)
(upbeat guitar music continues)
(upbeat guitar music continues)
(upbeat guitar music continues)
(upbeat guitar music continues)
(upbeat guitar music continues)
(upbeat guitar music continues)
(upbeat guitar music continues)
(upbeat guitar music continues)
(upbeat guitar music continues)
(upbeat guitar music ends)
(birds chirping)
- You know what I realized?
I'm such a cliche.
(Wardy sighs)
(children shouting)
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
- [Spectator] Play a real song!
- Thanks.
(microphone screeches)
Hmm.
A real song.
What does that even
mean, a real song?
What makes a song real?
I don't do real songs,
good people of Los Angeles.
I only do doo's.
(drum beats)
Thank you.
I do doo's because why do
we need more than that?
I don't need to make a hit.
Everyone's making hits.
In fact, if someone in
a suit is telling you
whether or not something's
even a hit in the first place,
then I don't believe in hits.
What I do believe in is
music is the soundtrack
of our lives.
I mean, you all walk
through this park every day
and you imagine like your
theme songs in your heads.
Am I right?
Right?
Yeah, you.
I'm just talking on my phone
Yeah, I'm just
talking on my phone
Because it helps me feel
like I'm not so alone
- Can you not?
Also, that's not true.
- Sorry.
Music is the soundtrack
of our lives.
So,
what happens when
the music stops?
(birds chirping)
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(soft ukulele music)
Do I shock you
like lightning
(Adam knocks)
- Sounds nice.
- Thanks. (chuckles)
What are you holding?
- Oh, I was just
cutting coupons.
- Mm hmm.
- Don't make fun of me.
You know how I like
to spend my Saturdays.
Okay.
Sorry, you were in
a zone, weren't you?
- It's fine.
- Well, I heard from
the Pittsburgh job.
I got it.
- Oh my god, congratulations.
- Thank you.
- When do you leave?
Oh.
Oh my god, you want
me to go with you?
- Yeah, that's what
I was gonna say next.
- I thought you were
gonna go at first
and try it out and
then come back?
- No, we talked about this.
- When do you have
to let them know by?
- In a week.
- In a week?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
I know we talked about it
but now that it's real,
I think I need more time.
- That's great.
Yeah, that's cool.
I need more time too, so.
- Do you wanna hear
what I have so far?
- [Adam] Sure.
(relaxed ukulele strum)
- All right. (sigh)
It's been a couple hours and
not one round of applause
because no one's here, so I
think I'm gonna call it a day.
Who's next?
Not all at once.
Bess, what about your
depressing slam poetry?
Wilson.
Wilson, gimme some of those
"Lord of the Rings"
songs and impressions.
- I just need to put
the finishing touches
on my Balrog horns.
- All right.
I guess this will be my
last song of the day.
- You know, Pittsburgh
is really nice.
Yeah, there's the
Incline and PNC Park
and oh, Primanti's sandwiches.
- Yeah, but we met here,
we have friends out here.
There are other
artists out here.
(phone buzzes)
(Adam sighs)
- It's work, I'm gonna
update them on everything.
I'll be right back.
- Okay.
(Adam exhales)
- [Adam] Hi, this is Adam.
You know, we're still
thinking about that move.
We're deciding, yeah,
but I'm excited.
- You know, you should
all really appreciate me
while I'm here.
This is my last week in LA
before I move back
to the pizza bagels
and pizza bagels of New Jersey
where my dad will ask me
what I've been up to and I'll
tell him, "Chasing my dream."
(relaxed guitar strum)
Actually since this is a
special encore performance,
I'm gonna make it a duet.
I just need a brave volunteer
from our studio audience.
I'm not exactly sure where
I might find that person.
Oh, hi.
Hi, yeah.
How about you?
You know, you're there, right?
And paying attention to me.
It looks like you're, yeah?
A little bit?
Okay, I'll take it.
Do you wanna come up?
Yeah?
All right, okay.
Come on down.
Okay.
- Did Adam put you up to this?
- Yeah, sure.
Does that mean you're gonna play
that wannabe guitar
and sing with me?
- You're lucky no
one's listening.
- Ah, I mean, it's not no one.
- Yeah, it is, actually.
- Wow, that's very
mean to that person.
(Ellie laughs)
- What are we playing?
- You're in?
- Sure.
- Okay.
Great.
I'm more of a melody
guy than a lyrics guy
but I'll just go
ahead, do some doo's
and then you can do some
doo's with me, all right?
I'll throw some harmonies on
top, should be pretty easy.
- Cool, ready when you are.
- Great, it goes like this.
(rhythmic guitar music)
Doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Copy?
- Yeah.
- Okay, here we go.
Five, six, seven and
(rhythmic guitar music).
Who are you
Who are you
What's your name,
little stranger
Who are you
Who are you
What's your name,
little stranger
Ellie
Eduardo
Ellie
Eduardo
Ellie
Eduardo
Ellie
Eduardo
Who are you
Who are you
What's your name,
little stranger
Who are you
Who are you
What's your name,
little stranger
Ellie
Eduardo
Ellie
Eduardo
Ellie
Eduardo
Ellie
Eduardo
(Ellie and Wardy chuckling)
See, that's why
lyrics are stupid
because I'm a
normal-sized stranger.
- Actually, that's why
lyrics are interpretive
and they're great. (laughs)
- Hmm.
(coins jingle)
(birds chirping)
- See?
Boom.
- I know I said
my name's Eduardo
but I actually prefer Wardy
'cause that's what a bunch
of kids called me in elementary
school and it kinda stuck.
(birds chirping)
(Wardy humming melodically)
Don't ruin it, that's right
(muffled hip hop music)
That's how we roll,
try to bring it cool
- Hmm.
(muffled hip hop music)
(phone buzzes)
- [Wardy] Shit.
Call from Pop
Pop, call from your Pop
Call from Pop
Pop, call from your Pop
Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop
Call from Pop, Pop
Yeah, you better pick up
Yeah, you better pick up
(phone buzzes)
- [Pop] Hey.
- Hi.
- You finished packing?
- No, because I
still have a week.
- [Pop] Well, the moving
trucks come before that.
- Yes, that's true but to
live, I still need stuff,
so I can't put that
stuff in boxes yet.
- Did you check
into your flight?
- You can't do that
until the day before.
- By the way, I forwarded
you an email from the bank,
some tax statement document.
- Are we really talking
about taxes right now?
- Well, it's all about mindset.
If you act normal, things
might go back to normal.
- Okay.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, come on now.
You gotta take
charge, Wardy, hmm?
You gotta get tough
to get through this.
- So I was actually
packing before you called
and now I'm not because
I'm talking to you, so.
- [Pop] No, you're
putting it off.
- I'm not putting it off.
I'm literally coming
home to deal with it.
- [Pop] Look, I'm asking
you all these questions
and you get mad at
me. Huh?
But I'm trying.
- This is you trying?
- [Pop] Yes, this is me
trying and you should too.
What are you doing?
Are you trying?
You tried with Mom, why
didn't you try with me?
- Okay.
- Huh? Tell me.
(muffled hip hop music)
(box clatters)
(muffled electronic
hip hop music)
(Wardy sighs)
(marker scribbles)
(marker squeaks)
(Wardy sighs)
- Fuck.
(rhythmic drumbeat)
Jalisa
Jalisa
Jalisa
Jalisa
(distant engine rumbles)
Hey.
- Hey.
- How's your day been?
- Good.
- Nice, nice.
My day's been
pretty good too, so.
Yeah, so thanks for
meeting with me.
- Yeah, what did you
wanna talk about?
- I'm moving back
to Jersey in a week.
- Oh.
How come?
- Lots of different
reasons but mainly
I wanted to see if you
wanted to say goodbye to me.
- I'm sorry, what?
- I wanted to give you the
floor to say goodbye to me
before I leave in a
week to New Jersey.
- Do you wanna
say goodbye to me?
- Of course, but I figured
just in case you did too,
I would help to, you
know, facilitate that.
- So you texted me
to meet you here
to give me the space
to say something
that you're not even
sure that I have to say?
- You know, there was a time
when I pictured my
life here with you.
We'd be driving together
through the Valley
and have kids who are vegans
and I'd be like "I
didn't grow up that way"
but I'd still love them
Of course, you know?
They're my kids,
I'm not a monster
and we'd be stuck in traffic
all the time together.
But it'd be okay
because we'd be together
and singing in hybrids.
- Wardy,
I don't get what this is.
- I don't know either, I'm just-
- Okay, this is the same
fucking conversation
we had a year ago.
Like why are we even doing this?
- Because I'm fucking leaving.
- So what?
We're not together anymore.
You didn't have to tell
me that you were leaving
and I'm not gonna fuck
you before you leave.
- Whoa, all right, that's not-
- Okay.
I really thought this is a
conversation that we finally had
where we could be friends
and move on but clearly,
you're not ready.
Shocking to no one, so.
- Fine.
That's great.
Yeah, see you later.
Oh, I like the new
look, by the way.
You look like every fucking
girl on Instagram ever, so.
- Fuck you, Wardy.
- Okay.
(rhythmic drumbeat)
Jalisa
Jalisa
(marker scribbles)
(church bell tolls)
- [Julia] So what'd you
guys think of the sermon?
(friends grumbling)
(friends laughing)
- You go.
- What?
She asked all of us.
- It's impossible to pay
attention with that pastor.
- It's always hard
to pay attention
and that dude just tanks it.
(friends laughing)
No, I'm sorry.
I promise we're good Christians.
I promise we're good Christians.
- Yeah.
- The thing is
if Jesus himself
came back to preach.
- Oh, I would listen.
- Yo, Jesus had
stage presence, okay?
- Jesus had fucking
stage presence.
- Right?
- You guys are so stupid.
- [Ellie] Actually though,
that's a good point.
(rhythmic drumbeat)
Soul
Black as night
Sucked from me
until I'm empty
(microphone screeches)
(Wardy claps)
- Nice.
Very uplifting.
- This is a song that I
wrote from Sam to Frodo,
you know, from
"Lord of the Rings."
It's called "Share the Load."
- What?
Hush. Mr. Frodo
Don't worry, it's me
It's your companion,
Samwise Gamgee
The Ring is so heavy,
you're losing your head
It's been many days since
we've had lembas bread
Share the load
On this dusty mortal road
Share the load
I can't carry it
but I'll carry you
The eagles are coming
to take you away
But I won't mind if they
leave us for just one more day
(birds chirping)
- Wow. (claps)
- Hey.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Woo.
- Y'all wanna move away
from the talent show?
- Nah, nah, here is good.
- Great job Wilson,
thank you, thank you.
So there's a melody I've
been playing with recently.
That's it, just a melody.
But I met someone who
sort of convinced me that
lyrics aren't evil.
So I added some in honor of
moving back to New Jersey.
This song is called "Armpit."
It's not very good.
Hope you like it.
Time to go back home again
A place I've built
up in my head
Time to sleep in my warm bed
With my old dad
keeping me nice and fed
And I won't forget
what everyone said
Everyone said that
Los Angeles is where all
my dreams would start
Just wait for the part
When I moved out of
that armpit, New Jersey
(Wilson laughs)
Guys, that hurts me
New Jersey's not an armpit
It's not a speck on the map
It's bigger than that
My little hometown
by the Hudson
Don't say nothing, no
It's not a wasteland filled
with factories and hacks
You better check your facts
My little hometown
by the Hudson
Let's go
New Jersey's not an armpit
It's not a speck on the map
It's bigger than that
My little hometown by Hudson
Don't say nothing, no
It's not a wasteland filled
with factories and hacks
You better check your facts
My little hometown
by the Hudson
Yes, my little
hometown by the Hudson
- Woo.
(spectators clapping)
- Yeah.
(birds chirping)
- Thank you, thanks, yeah.
All right.
(relaxed guitar music)
- [Ellie] What happened
to your eye? (giggles)
- [Wardy] I used to work for
Snarky Salads in cold prep.
Best kale cutter in
the county right here.
- [Ellie] Ah, impressive.
- [Wardy] We moved to this
new location a few weeks ago
and all the walls were made
of this perfectly clean glass.
- [Michael] Okay, we
got this, throw it here.
- [Wardy] It was
early and I was tired.
I wasn't used to
this new building yet
but I had to move this
box of kale, so yawning,
I grab it, turn around and
slam.
- Oh my god.
- Bleeding, stitches.
(Ellie laughs)
- Right here.
- Oh my god.
- Yeah.
And since I'm moving back
home, I quit that job.
But that's how I used
to pay rent and stuff.
Where'd you learn to sing?
- I grew up in a
church choir in Hawaii
but it wasn't just church.
In school at the end of
the year, they'd ask us all
to line up by ourselves
and sing for a grade.
It was so embarrassing
but it worked.
I moved to LA when I was 18
and went to school
for musical theater
and now I am in HR at
a trucking company.
So I'm not really
sure what I do.
- Hmm.
So,
you're like
mainstream.
- [Ellie] Oh, I'm mainstream
because I like
lyrics and emotions?
- Mm hmm. (laughs)
(Ellie laughs)
- [KoolKels] Are we getting it?
- [Ellie] How has your
music been for you?
- [Michael] Have him run a two.
- A couple years ago, it
was going pretty well.
I networked a ton, had some
exciting opportunities.
There was like a
brief moment in time
where I was actually
working on a single
and it was gonna come out
and I was gonna perform it
at small venues and stuff.
- Wow, that's impressive.
- Yeah, it was.
But then nothing really happened
and someone wrote
something similar.
People forgot, the world changed
and then (scoff) you
know, here we are.
Do you regret
taking a steady job?
- If I say yes, will that
make you feel better?
- Yeah, probably.
(Ellie laughs)
Is this just supposed
to be the time
in our lives where we give up?
Not saying you gave up.
- It's okay.
I think this is just the time
in our lives where we find
what we're supposed to do.
Can I hear your single one day?
(Wardy snorts)
- No.
- Why, is it a secret?
- No, basically every
suit in town has heard it.
I just don't want to show
you, it's embarrassing.
- What? Come on.
- Mm mm.
It has lyrics and everything.
Oh, I was almost as
mainstream as you are.
(Ellie laughs)
- Maybe we should
just go back in time.
I can quit my day job
and you can try your
luck with music again.
- You know, I read somewhere
that running backwards
reverses time.
I'll be right back.
(Ellie laughs)
- [Michael] What in the world?
- [Wardy] Watch it,
I'm coming through.
- Yeah.
- Don't mind me.
Just reversing time.
- What are you doing?
- [Wardy] You're
good, you're good.
(Wardy pants)
- Throw it here.
Stay focused.
(Wardy pants)
- Did it work?
- What happened to your?
- Oh my god.
We did it.
Oh.
Oh, it's exactly
five minutes ago.
(Ellie laughs)
Sorry.
(birds chirping)
I was wondering,
what are you up to this week?
- Probably something
with my boyfriend.
- Oof.
Fair enough.
Not hitting on you, just
looking for a friend.
- You don't have any friends?
- Not like you.
- [Michael] All right, this is
for 10, this is for 10, okay?
- Yeah.
- Hey, nice one.
(Ellie laughs)
(soft ukulele strums)
Eyes closed but
I hear you now
Do I shock you
like lightning
- [Adam] What'd you
end up doing today?
You got back later than usual.
- Rock climbing, space
adventure, pottery class.
- Oh, that last
one hurts the most.
I was always gifted
with Play-Doh.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
- Nice.
- Yeah.
(Ellie laughs)
We haven't done anything
like that in awhile.
Probably since the
Paradise Cove Luau.
- Oh no.
- I wanted to prove to
your parents I was cool.
- Right, so obviously
the only way to do that
was to set the lawn on fire.
- I blame grass skirts.
Fire, I can handle, okay?
It could have been worse.
Your parents have
loved me ever since.
- Yeah, well, so
have I. (giggles)
- I am so excited to move
to Pittsburgh with you.
I've been looking
at houses and I,
sorry, yeah, you're
still thinking about it.
- I didn't write today.
I always do that,
I say I'm gonna write my
song and then I don't.
I hate that.
- Well, don't beat yourself up.
Goodnight.
(Ellie sighs)
(crickets chirping)
(phone buzzes)
- Hello?
- Why do you need a friend?
- Ukulele?
- It's Ellie, why did
say you need a friend?
- Well, you see Ellie,
I have this list.
Doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
- Looks like you're doing
pretty well without me.
- Yeah, but it'll be
more fun with you.
- Sell kitchen shit?
- You need a rice cooker?
- No.
- Any of your friends
need a rice cooker?
- No.
- All right, well if y'all
change your mind, let me know.
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
- Okay, so as you guys know,
I have my makeup line
launching and I am so excited
and I just wanted to see, who
are you, what are you doing?
- WardyD,
#soundtrackofyourlives.
- Stop that.
- All right, what?
- Literally like don't do that.
It's so disgusting.
- Someone got angry quick.
- What are you doing? Oh my god!
- So good people of Los Angeles.
- Stop it.
- Every day,
I walk past these
Instagram spots
and I hate them, I hate them.
So I am gonna write
"Wardy was here"
and ruin all your
precious pictures.
- Oh my god, you wouldn't.
I was literally just attacked.
Thank God I was streaming.
Did you guys see that?
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo
- Oh, oh yeah.
(camera snaps)
Stunning, work it, oh
yeah, get it. (giggles)
- [Wardy] No, I can't.
- Stop moving around.
- No, no, this is so dumb.
- It was your idea.
- Yeah, well I thought
this would be funny
and that you would be a tripod
and I was wrong about both.
- Play a song to
get into character.
(relaxed guitar music)
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
When your legs are
as hairy as Wardy's
Then I promise you
there is no warning
When your legs are bare
I am aware that it
makes some kids scared
(Ellie laughs)
But who's gonna
shave me if not me
Boy, don't be
ashamed, be about it
Thanks, who's gonna shave me
Who's gonna shave me
when I am this hairy
But who's gonna
shave me if not me
Boy, don't be
ashamed, be about it
Who's gonna shave me
Who's gonna shave me
when I am this hairy
When I am this
Hairy
(upbeat guitar strum)
- You're really hairy.
- I'm really hairy.
All right, I think
we're done here.
- Okay.
I added something to the list
without your permission,
if that's okay.
- It's my list, why would
you need my permission?
- Exactly. (laughs)
- Is your husband
home or whatever?
- Adam's my boyfriend.
- Sick, I still have a chance.
- What is wrong with you?
- What? I'm joking.
- Do you think things happen
for a reason or that
they just happen?
- Well,
I think things just happen and
then we find a reason later.
- Look, hanging
out with you is fun
but I'm very happy as is.
So we're gonna do this
next thing on the list
and we're not gonna flirt
with each other, okay?
- So okay.
So where is your boyfriend?
- A work trip.
- Oh.
Does he work a lot?
- Okay, that's enough.
- Why?
- I'm locking your mouth.
- Excuse me?
- Locking it up.
Here it is.
- What? No, you can't do this.
No, my mouth is a
gold mine, you can't.
He tries again
(engine roars)
- So is this next
thing on the list,
is it like that you need me
to be your handyman
or something?
- What?
- To fix your TV?
It's upside down
and if you hadn't
noticed that yet,
then you're probably
a serial killer.
- We don't even use that one.
We watch the one
in the living room.
Adam's offered to fix
it a million times
but I kind of find it soothing.
I just leave it on.
- What do you mean
you find it soothing?
(Ellie laughs)
- Okay, so I sit on the bed,
then I lie in my back.
- What the fuck?
- I tilt my head back.
- No, you don't, why?
But you could just-
- It's so great.
- You could just fix it.
- Wow.
- [Wardy] It can't
be that hard to fix.
- It's just perfect
quality television.
(Wardy scoffs)
- Okay.
- I thought I locked your mouth.
When you're writing a song,
how do you motivate yourself?
Go ahead.
- Motivate myself, hmm.
Self-hatred.
A little OCD and
good time management.
I have good time
management skills.
- To me, finishing a song is
terrifying.
- That's how I feel
about not finishing one.
Oh shit.
Wait, are you writing
a song right now?
- I started one a few months ago
but it's been in
my head forever.
- Well, so what's the holdup?
We've already written like two
songs together by accident.
- Yeah, but this song, it's...
- What?
- It's been in my head
ever since I was 11.
I've also had writer's
block since I was 11.
It's like I can't
move on with my life
until I write this stupid song.
I don't know, I think sometimes
ideas aren't as special
as we think they are.
Anyone can come
up with anything.
No one's actually unique.
- Wow.
- You disagree?
- Well, (chuckles) it's
not that I disagree.
It's harder than ever
to be unique, you know?
Everything's so referential.
A TikTok is funny because it's
parroting an Instagram post
which is parroting a movie
which is based on a book.
We don't create anymore, we
just play word association.
But this thing, this thing
is dangerous, you know?
On its worst days,
it's a weapon, a bomb.
A reminder that
trying is painful.
But that's the
thing about bombs.
They might explode
but explosions are
pretty to look at.
(soft music)
- Enough chitchat, put
your songwriting hat on.
- How do you wanna start?
- [Ellie] Well,
I have a concept.
- [Wardy] Hit me.
- Okay, so I'm at
a point in my life
where I'm really starting
to like think about
the difference between
like love and lightning.
- Oof.
Say more of the
words that you say.
- Like me staying in LA trying
to be something I'm not.
It feels like love
but what if I'm wrong?
What if it's actually
chasing lightning?
- Hmm.
You know, there's
this Portuguese word
that reminds me of,
"saudade."
It means "longing for
something that isn't there."
- You're Portuguese?
- My mom was, Pop's
Puerto Rican, so I'm half.
- Yeah, I'm mixed, I know.
- You get it.
- So "saudade" is like
chasing lightning?
- Maybe.
Unless you think you'll
actually catch it.
- I think sometimes
seeing lightning is enough
and then we can move
on with our lives.
- Or maybe you can
catch the lightning
and keep it somewhere for
when you really need it.
Like in a bottle,
I hear that works.
- Yeah.
Do you wanna hear some lyrics?
- [Wardy] Come on.
(soft ukulele music)
Eyes closed but
I hear you now
Do I shock you
like lightning
I kinda need your help with
the rest of the melody.
- I can work with that.
Hmm.
(Wardy hums)
(soft guitar strums)
- You got something?
- Yep, yep, yep.
Chord progression incoming.
You're in C, right, C?
- Yeah.
- You like C?
- That's cool, okay.
- So I'm gonna do doo's
based on what you just did
and then you can just come in
with your lyrics and, yeah.
- Yeah, I'll keep
playing with the lyrics.
- Yeah, perfect.
- Okay.
- Yeah, I'll just loop it
and you come in whenever.
So (soft guitar strums)
Eyes closed, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo
- Start again.
Okay.
Eyes closed but
I hear you now
And I hear a sound, it
sounds like you, ooh
- Okay, so add the next measure
and then we'll do
the pre-chorus.
- Okay.
Eyes closed but
I hear you now
And I hear a sound, it
sounds like you, ooh
Small tambour, I hear it now
When it evens out and
it's time to choose, ooh
- Okay, so I have an
idea for the post-chorus,
sorry, pre-chorus,
something like
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
You can add some
flourishes in there, ready?
- Mm hmm, okay.
Do you love me,
do you like me
Is it cool or is
it frightening
Do I shock you like
lightning, like lightning
- Yeah, keep going.
If love is just timing, then
why is it that when I sing
I see a sky full
of lightning bolts
- Ooh, nice instinct
going up there.
'Cause now it's the chorus
Catchy chorus
making people cry
- Aww, that's so pretty.
- Well that's why
you hired me, lady.
Let's go, you got some
chorus lyrics for me?
- Play your instrument, boy.
Okay.
Thunder rumbles,
now we tumble
Down a broken road
- Next measure.
Clouds, they crumble
Humans stumble
Lightning shocks the soul
- Okay, now
controversial hot take.
I love a good post-chorus.
Not every song has a
post-chorus but this one,
it's just we're flying
high and it's emotional.
- Yeah, I trust you.
- Okay, so.
- Post-chorus.
- Yeah. (laughs)
You're just gonna sing
Do I shock you
like lightning
Just over and over again
but in your own way with
your beautiful voice.
- You think my
voice is beautiful?
- Fuck you, yes.
(Ellie laughs)
Do the post-chorus, six,
seven and (guitar strums).
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
- Yeah, bring us home.
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
- All right, one more
time from the chorus.
I'm gonna harmonize, go.
Thunder rumbles,
now we tumble
Down a broken road
Clouds, they crumble
Humans stumble
Lightning shocks the soul
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
- Then verse two chorus,
bridge chorus outro.
But we just did the hard part.
(phone buzzes)
Sorry.
Just my alarm.
- That's okay, I have some work
I should catch up on anyway.
I'm gonna be at
the park tomorrow
with my friends if we
wanna do more music stuff.
- Okay.
I'll be there performing for
my thousands of fans as usual.
- See you tomorrow.
- Yeah, see you.
Okay.
(Ellie sighs)
(birds chirping)
(bird caws)
(vehicle whooshes)
(relaxed guitar music)
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(off-kilter guitar strumming)
(no audio)
(Wardy grunts)
(distant vehicles whooshing)
(birds chirping)
- Ah, got ya.
- What's up, everyone?
- Hey.
- Courtesy of my former
employer, Snarky Salads.
- What?
Snarky Salads.
Them salads are snarky as fuck.
- So I didn't have time to ask,
so I just picked up whatever.
There's a buffalo chicken, a
roasted chicken with cashews.
- I actually have a nut allergy.
- Oh, oh yeah.
- That's my bad.
- This buffalo
chicken one though.
The spice, the sauce.
This shit is like muah. (laughs)
Yeah, I can't.
I can't, man. I'm sorry.
I get really bad acid reflux.
Really bad.
Really bad.
- Okay.
- All of these have
meat in them, right?
- Yeah.
- I'm vegan.
- Right.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I just like don't
really like salads, so.
- All right, well I guess
I'll order something else.
- You know what?
Nobody talks shit anymore.
- Here we go.
- You're making a hot
take out of nothing.
- Nah, no one stays up until
4:00 a.m. talking shit anymore
because we gotta get
home to feed the dog,
to wake up for work to go
to our next meeting
where we don't talk shit.
There's no such thing as
a spontaneous sleepover
where you get all personal
and intimate and tell secrets
and it's not because
we're old, no, no.
It's because the goal
of our generation
is to be as fucking
lonely as possible.
But yeah, man, this
burger was fire though.
- Man, y'all are
not very Christian.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- I don't know, I'm hanging
around with Ellie all day
and she's over
here talking about
not everything
happens for a reason.
- I don't believe
that shit either.
- Seriously?
- I don't.
I mean, we try to believe that.
- Like the only difference
between you and I,
Wardy, is that I pray before
I eat and go to sleep.
- You prayed before
eating just now?
- Yeah, you didn't see me?
I did like a mm,
quick, I whispered.
- That was pretty sneaky.
- Do you believe in God?
- Oh my god.
Julia is the queen
of asking that shit.
- It's all right.
(soft music)
I really don't know.
I didn't grow up with it.
I guess I never had to
believe in anything.
- You know, my favorite quote
I heard from this group,
it was actually something
Michael had said.
(friends laughing)
Whenever we pray, God gives
us one of three answers.
"Yes," "when you're ready"
or "here's something better."
But it's never a no.
- Damn, I said that?
- Yeah, I mean.
- Damn.
That's pretty good, yo.
- Ellie had a good one too.
- No.
- Yeah, it was.
Come on girl, come on.
- Well, I once
heard something like
find a little piece
of God in everyone.
I figured if there's a little
piece of Him in everyone
and we're loving that
little piece, then we need
to love every single person
we ever come in contact with.
- Mm.
- Okay.
(soft music)
(birds chirping)
- That's pretty good,
that's not bad. (chuckles)
- Ah, this place gave me one
of those impossible
to open bottles again.
- Oh yes.
- You know what that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Hey Ash, you gotta do it, man.
You know I can't rap, come on.
- Rap?
- You gotta do it.
- All right.
Hey, hey, hey, hey
We gonna rap this shit,
it's the bottle cap rap
Can you open it, hey
We gonna rap this shit,
it's the bottle cap rap
Can you open it, hey
- What is this?
- If you can't open the
bottle, you have to freestyle.
- You guys are so
weird, I love it.
- Wait, who? You gotta open it.
- You got it.
- Okay.
All right.
(Michael grunts)
- Oh!
- Yep, you gotta do it.
Come on, you gotta do it.
- All right, all right.
Hey, hey, hey, hey,
can't open this
I'm too high but at
least I'm too fly
If you can't do
it, you'd just sigh
Oh well, I'm a pass
it to the new guy, hey
Come on, come on.
- Oh shit, okay.
- Come on.
- You got it.
- What in the world?
- Yeah, I know.
- What is it?
Goddammit.
- Come on, come on.
- Sorry.
(Michael beatboxing)
Okay, all right.
It's a shame that I
can't open the bottle
I should have got a
soda from McDonald's
- Hey.
I won't baby you,
I won't call it
Don't need strength
to be a super model
- [Michael] Whoa!
He rapped it, all right.
He got a little bars,
you know what I mean?
- Oh, here we go.
- Okay.
- [Ash] Here we go.
- [Wardy] I hope you
can't open this. (laughs)
- Rude.
(friends exclaiming)
- Come on, come on.
- Okay.
- [Michael] Watch the
master work right now.
- The master?
Can't open this even
when I put my wrist in
Get defensive like the
old school Pitt did
F this, I'm a need
some assistance
You love Jesus, girl,
that's long distance
- Hey!
- Whoa.
(friends laughing)
(fizz hisses)
- What?
- Oh.
(friends cheering)
- Yes.
- Wow. (laughs)
Can I get that, can
I take a picture?
(crickets chirping)
- [Wardy] So, about yesterday.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
(Ellie giggle nervously)
Was I the only one
who felt something?
- Look, this week
has been fun but-
- What?
- You're lightning, Wardy.
I can't trust you.
- You can't trust me?
- Look, I've seen
the medicine bottles
in your room and the
reminders on your phone.
Maybe it's nothing, I don't know
but I just don't know why
you're being so guarded.
- It is nothing,
it's not a big deal.
- Okay.
- What?
I don't know what I have
to do to prove to you
that this doesn't
happen every day.
- I'm with Adam.
- No, you're literally
standing here with me.
- Well, real life partners
are different from
creative partners.
- Oh, I don't buy that.
So if you had to make a
choice, who would it be?
Me
or him?
- Him.
(vehicles whooshing)
(crickets chirping)
(rain pattering)
(soft ukulele music)
(thunder booms)
Eyes closed but
I hear you now
And I hear sound, it
sounds like you, ooh
Small tambour, I hear it now
When it evens out, then
it's time to choose, ooh
Do you love me,
do you like me
Is it cool or is
it frightening
Do I shock you like
lightning, like lightning
(lightning crackles)
If love is just timing, then
why is it that when I sing
I see a sky full
of lightning bolts
(thunder booms)
Thunder rumbles,
now we tumble
Down a broken road
Clouds, they crumble
Humans stumble
Lightning shocks the soul
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
Thunder rumbles,
now we tumble
Down a broken road
Clouds, they crumble
Humans stumble
Lightning shocks the soul
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
Do I shock you
like lightning
(soft ukulele strum)
(Ellie weeps softly)
(soft somber music)
- Ellie, that was amazing.
- Thanks.
- I heard the whole thing.
I'm your biggest fan.
Come here.
(rain pattering)
(distant horns blaring)
(distant horns blaring)
(distant horns blaring)
Call your Pop
You are calling your Pop
Call your Pop
You are calling your Pop
Pop, Pop, Pop
You are calling your Pop
Again, you're
calling your Pop top
Wait, why are
you calling your
(phone rings)
(Wardy sighs)
- Hey.
Well,
this is a nice surprise.
- I'm almost finished packing.
Before my flight tomorrow night,
I'm gonna just pack
some last-minute things
and that'll be that.
- Well,
you got through
it after all, huh?
You proved me wrong.
- It wasn't about
proving you wrong.
It was,
you know,
I thought about
Mom and
what she put you through when
she left and I just thought-
- Hey, hey, hey, hey.
You're not leaving me.
I'm right here.
You hear?
I'm right here.
You know, Mom,
she made her choices
and yeah, I was scared because
you remind me so much of her.
You both fell in love
with the same thing.
But her path,
her path was a one-way street.
Yours isn't.
Yours,
yours brings you home.
(vehicle whooshes)
Coming home is not the end.
It's the beginning.
Everything's gonna be okay.
You're gonna be fine.
- No, I'm not gonna be fine.
- Have you talked to
your therapist lately?
Well maybe you should
give him another chance.
He was nice, right?
- Yeah, hi, can you hear me?
- Yeah, I can hear you.
Where are you?
Ope, hi.
There you are, Eduardo,
good to see you.
What do you wanna
talk about today?
- Well first of all,
I'm leaving LA tomorrow.
- No, why?
- Lots of different reasons.
Career, life,
dating.
- Why is everybody leaving LA?
Seriously, it's making
me wonder if I should.
Oh shoot.
Well, go ahead.
- Yeah.
And you know,
because of all that,
my music has kinda
taken a backseat
and I'm pretty depressed.
- Ugh, depressed.
Seriously?
That sucks.
We gotta find a new word.
Even sad, you know?
Even sad, you're sad to leave.
- Yeah.
Are you
doing, do you need a minute, or?
- Oh, I'm good.
You keep going,
this is about you.
- Yeah, so I started
to fall for this girl
who was running around LA
with me playing ukulele.
- That's nice.
- Yeah.
But she actually
has a boyfriend.
(therapist gasps)
- No.
Oh, I can't.
- And you know, she actually
ended up choosing him over me.
(therapist gasps dramatically)
- No!
Are you serious?
Oh, good Lord.
Oh my god.
Oh, you're fucked.
- Therapist didn't help.
- Really?
(lips splat)
- Nah.
(lips sputtering)
No.
He can't be that bad.
- Oh, Pop.
Just think of the worst.
- Uh-huh?
- Worse than that.
(Pop laughs)
You have a session
with this guy.
- I'm not gonna have
a session with him.
- No Pop, hold on.
- Was it that bad? No?
- Yeah, Pop, I gotta go.
- Okay, okay, okay.
- Sorry.
- Call me later, I wanna
hear more about this guy.
- Yeah, yeah, okay, bye.
(person knocks)
(door creaks)
(fingers tap rhythmically)
Jalisa?
(rhythmic drumbeat)
Jalisa
(Wardy sighs)
- Thanks for that.
I was crying before
you came over, so.
- [Influencer 1] My daughter's
celebration is today.
- [Influencer 2] Being
a white chick that raps
was really like just banging
my head against the wall and-
- Why did you unfollow me?
- What?
- I got a notification
after our talk the other
day that you unfollowed me.
- How did you know that?
- I have an app that tells me.
- Well,
we had a fight.
I guess I was upset.
- So you unfollowed me?
- Ever since we broke up, even
though I was following you,
we didn't talk or text.
So how is this any different?
- You could have muted me.
Muting someone is when you
take them off of your newsfeed
but you don't go as far
as unfollowing them.
- What are we talking about?
- You fucking
unfollowed me, Wardy.
- You say that like it's the
worst thing I could have done.
- So you're just not gonna
follow me back right now?
- I could follow you back, yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then mute?
- Yeah, right there.
- Mm hmm.
- But you can watch my
Stories if you want.
- Sure.
Okay, got it.
Done.
- Thank you.
- Is that why you came
all the way out here?
- Excuse me?
(Wardy scoffs)
- When we first moved
here, you were so
different.
I'm glad I'm leaving LA.
I'm getting away
from people like you.
- You are so obsessed with
being different, Wardy.
Just grow up, please.
(keys jingling)
(phone buzzes)
- Jump out the window.
- What?
- [Wardy] You need to jump
out of the window now.
- You live on the second floor.
- Yeah, bend your knees.
- Bend my knees?
- Bend your knees to
lessen the impact.
- Why are you talking like this?
You're being like a fricking
weirdo right now, dude.
- Like can you roll?
Is that a thing where you
land and then you roll?
- I'm not gonna roll out
your fricking window, Wardy.
- I'm sure-
(Ellie knocks)
- It was open.
Did someone break in?
- Sort of.
- Hi, I'm Ellie.
(rhythmic drumbeat)
Jalisa
(Wardy sighs)
- How are you doing?
- How's it look like I'm doing?
- Please don't do this.
I was being honest, I
told you how I felt.
- Yeah, well your
words and your actions
are two very different things.
- Making songs together isn't-
- What?
Romantic?
Intimate?
- [Ellie] You're gonna make
me explain it, aren't you?
- Please do.
Yeah, break it down for me.
- You used me.
You built me up to
be this Manic Pixie
final fling before you leave
LA but I'm a whole person.
That's not me, I'm
not your fantasy.
- Well, I'm not yours either.
I'm not the tortured artist
who tells you how brilliant
you are and then finishes
your whole fucking song.
I deserve more than that.
- Well, I can't give you that.
I am your fan, Wardy,
but I don't love you.
How could I love you?
I barely know you.
- You know what?
That's not surprising
because that's how you live
your whole fucking life.
You don't actually
follow what you love.
You follow your past and
what's been set up for you
and what you have
fucking planned.
- At least I have a plan.
- Oh, what is it?
Daydreaming about
something for 20 years
and then not actually
fucking doing it?
(distant horns honking)
Sorry.
- Just because your
life is disappointing
and your plan is a list
doesn't mean you can
drag me down with you.
- Yeah, well it's hard to
have a real plan when...
- What?
(Wardy sighs)
(Wardy pants)
(Wardy sighs)
- When I got these stitches,
they decided to do some x-rays.
Turns out they found
something else.
It's kind of like ALS
meets Huntington's.
After awhile, my hands
stopped working and then
of course I got the
extremely rare version,
not the common one, it
had to be fucking rare.
Ellie, that's why I couldn't
tell you about any of this
because as soon as I say it,
as soon as I say it
out loud, it's over.
I become a cliche.
I mean, you're never gonna
hang out with me again
just because you want to.
You'll never sing with me
again just because you want to.
That's why I'm going
back home, for treatment.
The doctors say I
have six months.
How the fuck do you go
from trying to decide
what to eat for dinner
to six months to live?
The list isn't the
leaving LA list.
It's a bucket list.
- What do you need?
I can help you with something.
- No, no.
- You can't say no, you
leave tomorrow night.
- Now that you know what the
list is, it ruins everything.
I'm the dying musician now.
- That's what you're
concerned about right now?
Everyone dies.
If you're a cliche,
then we're all cliches.
- Can you please just go?
- No.
- Just go!
(Ellie sniffles)
- You're right, by the
way, about explosions.
Except it's not
music, it's people.
People can explode but
be amazing to watch.
Being that person
is not a cliche.
(birds chirping softly)
(Wardy weeps)
(Wardy sighs)
(crickets chirping)
(Wardy sighs)
(relaxed guitar music)
God, are you
real or a feeling
Or God, are you
just the ceiling
God, can you help
me, I'm reeling
That is unless
you're not real
This little moment
I'm stealing
As I look up at the ceiling
God, I would ask
you to heal me
But I'm not so sure
that you're real
Please be real
Please be real,
please be real
Please be real
Please be real,
please be real
God, are you
real or a feeling
Or God, are you
just the ceiling
God, can you help
me, I'm reeling
Give me a sign
that you're real
I wanna know
that you're real
I really hope
that you're real
(Wardy sighs)
(birds chirping)
- Is this the time in our lives
where we're supposed to give up?
- What?
- What does it mean to give up?
I've been thinking
about that a lot.
- Hmm.
Well, this calls for
the dictionary game.
- The dictionary game?
- For those of you
who don't know,
the dictionary game is
where we look up the literal
definition of whatever
we're struggling with
and our first
contestant today is?
- Deb.
- Deb.
Okay, let's play.
All right, so here we go.
It says here, the
definition of giving up
is "to cease making an effort,
resign oneself to failure."
Ooh. (chuckles)
We can't all be winners.
Hey, what's happening?
Are you okay?
We don't have to play
the game anymore.
- No, no, it's not.
I just,
if I give up on music, does
that mean I don't matter?
- No, you'll always have music
and you'll always have me.
You'll matter to me.
- Thanks.
- And hey, here's
definition number two.
A daily double. (chuckles)
"Giving up, to allow oneself
to be taken over by an emotion."
- To allow oneself to be
taken over by an emotion?
- Yeah, it doesn't
sound that bad
when you think of
it that way, right?
- No, that's not bad at all.
(Adam chuckles)
- Look,
if all this is about Pittsburgh,
I don't have to take the job.
- I wanna go.
- Really?
- Yeah, I'm not giving up.
I'm allowing myself to be
taken over by an emotion.
(Adam laughs)
- Yes, and hey, when we give up,
that means someone
else receives, right?
I don't know,
something like that.
(upbeat guitar music)
- Meet me at the park
in a couple of hours.
Love you.
- I love you too.
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
A day may come when the
courage of men fails
When we forsake our friends
And break all
bonds of fellowship
But it is not this day
This day, we fight
(birds chirping)
Thank you, that was a monologue
from "Lord of the Rings:
Return of the King."
(relaxed guitar music)
The maiden needs us.
- Okay.
Doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo
- Yeah.
- Oh.
Doo, doo, doo
- [Bess] Nice.
Oh yeah, maybe like,
yeah, that looks great.
- Just like if
you like twist it.
- [Bess] Okay, uh-huh, got it.
Doo, doo, doo
- Yeah, yeah.
I think we need more hands,
I'll be right back on.
- Yeah, okay.
- Everyone clear on the plan?
Got it, yeah?
Come on, come on.
(bird caws)
- Ha ha!
- I've got these flyers here.
- Yeah.
- I see a spot right there.
Free concert right over here!
Live music pronto.
- Just show up, all right?
- [Wilson] Either of you have
any interest in a concert?
Sorry, I didn't mean
to scare you like that.
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(ukulele strums)
Doo, doo, doo
- Okay, so last week's launch
was a little interrupted
but we're back.
This launch is going
to go flawlessly.
Everything is perfect, you guys.
This makeup line
is unbelievable.
- Free concert.
- If you're not subscribed.
How does this keep happening?
Everyone shut up!
- Yeah.
- Okay, yeah, how
can I help you?
Let's help these weird people.
What are we doing,
where are we going?
We're streaming and
we're helping people.
It's charity work,
let's go guys.
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(subwoofer screeches)
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(switch clicks)
Doo, doo, doo
(birds chirping)
(spectators chattering)
- What do you think?
- [Ellie] All right
everyone, quiet down.
I'm gonna call him, okay?
- [Ash] I don't
know where that is.
- [Michael] Hey, we didn't
pay for this, right?
(clips rattling)
(distant engines rumbling)
(distant horn honks)
(marker scribbles)
(marker scrapes)
(no audio)
(bandage peels)
(phone buzzes)
(Wardy sighs)
- Ugh.
I'll be right back.
(birds chirping)
- How are ya, mate?
- All right.
- LAX?
- Unfortunately.
- [Ellie] Wardy!
Wardy, Wardy, wait!
(tires screech)
(birds chirping)
(Ellie pants happily)
- I read that if a car
backs up around the block,
it reverses time.
- No, that's not
true, mate. (chuckles)
- Please don't go yet.
Please just get
out and talk to me.
- We already talked yesterday.
You don't have to say anything.
- That was different.
Look, I just need a few minutes.
- I don't know, I already
paid for the ride.
- Yeah, he did, that's true.
- I'll pay you back.
- Are you sure?
Rideshare's really
expensive now.
- Wardy.
- Sorry dude, I
guess I'm canceling.
- Ah, for fuck's sake.
(soft somber music)
(soft somber music continues)
- Well, you said a few minutes.
I'm listening.
- You can't leave LA.
- Ellie.
- It's people like you who
make the city what it is.
People who chase lightning.
- Yeah, well I
never caught it, so.
- You did.
Trying is catching lightning.
You belong here and when you,
it should be here.
(vehicle whooshes)
- You know, for 10 years, I
haven't seen my dad in person.
After my mom died, we kept
in touch here and there
but every time we
tried to make plans,
he tried to make plans...
(Wardy sighs)
If I'm gonna do my
treatment in LA,
then I guess his ass is
gonna have to come visit.
So great, thanks.
- Say more of the
words that you say.
- I told you, the
driver reversed time.
You made a heroic speech,
I changed my mind.
(Ellie laughs)
You know, the moving trucks
were pretty expensive too.
- Oh my god.
- I'm just saying
while you're paying me,
you should probably
also cover those.
- Shut up.
Follow me.
- And I'm holding
all this luggage.
- Come on.
- I actually don't
even have an apartment
to put everything into or
to even sleep in to tonight.
See, this is the problem
with big gestures.
I really didn't
think this through.
- Oh my god, don't make
me lock your mouth.
- Okay, I'm coming, I'm coming.
(crickets chirping)
Can I open yet?
- No, not yet.
- Ugh.
I think I stepped in dog shit.
- Probably.
(Wardy snorts)
- Oh my gosh.
Oh.
Concrete?
Are we?
- No, stop guessing.
- I feel like my
bag's on something.
(Ellie laughs)
- Okay.
And open.
(spectators cheering)
- [Wilson] Wardy!
- You know what?
I think I actually
did step in dog shit.
So I'm just gonna-
- No, come on.
- Look.
This is the concert and the
audience that you deserve.
- Yeah!
- Woo!
- Yeah, Wardy!
- Woo!
(spectators cheering)
- All right, let's do this.
- Woo!
- Woo!
- Presenting Wardy Gutierrez,
"The Soundtrack of Your Lives."
(spectators cheering)
- Thank you.
- Play a real song!
(Wilson laughs)
- Once Upon a time,
I had a single that
was almost released.
- Ooh.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Okay, okay.
- I vowed that I would never
perform this song again
but tonight, I'm
gonna break my oath
and punch my ticket
to music hell.
- Yeah!
- Woo!
- Okay, dude.
- Yeah.
(spectators cheering)
- This song is
called "Perfect Day."
It's not very good.
Hope you like it.
- Woo!
- Wardy!
- Yeah.
- Woo woo.
- I just need a brave volunteer
from our studio audience.
- [Spectator] Yeah!
- [Michael] Ellie.
- Woo!
(spectators clapping)
- You'll catch on,
it's pretty easy.
The chorus is really
repetitive, very mainstream.
- Gotcha.
- All right, let's do this.
Five, six, seven, eight.
I found you on a warm
night after a summer day
It astounds me that
you held my hand
And you touched my face
Some cool waves under a bright
moon and a summer breeze
I wake up for the first
time and I start to breathe
Today now wasn't a perfect
day but it almost was one
Maybe tomorrow will
be better, baby
Hey now, we had some fun
Maybe today now
wasn't a perfect day
But it almost was one
Maybe tomorrow will
be better, baby
But hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some
Any day can be a
perfect day now
Hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some
Any day can be a
perfect day now
I lost you that next
day after a summer night
I woke up, your pillow
empty, you were on the flight
You were on the flight
So I swam alone under a
half-moon in a lonely sea
I fell asleep for the last
time and remembered days
Today now wasn't a perfect
day but it almost was one
Maybe tomorrow will
be better, baby
Hey now, we had some fun
Maybe today now
wasn't a perfect day
but it almost was one
Maybe tomorrow will
be better, baby
Hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some
Any day can be a
perfect day now
Hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some fun
Hey now, we had some
Any day can be a
perfect day now
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, any day can
be perfect day now
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Any day can be a
perfect day now
At least we had some fun
At least we had some fun
At least we had some fun
At least we had some fun
At least we had some fun
At least we had some fun
(relaxed guitar music ends)
(spectators cheering)
- Ellie, woo hoo!
- Woo!
- [Michael] Yeah, yeah, Wardy.
Yeah, Ellie.
Yeah!
Woo!
- Woo.
- Woo.
(crickets chirping)
(footsteps pattering)
(Ellie pants)
(crickets chirping)
(Ellie sniffles)
(footsteps pattering)
(soft somber music)
(Ellie weeps)
(birds chirping)
(birds chirping continues)
(Adam sighs)
- Hopefully this is the last
batch before it gets forwarded.
- What are you
complaining about?
More coupons for you.
(Adam chuckles)
- Oh, guess what
I signed us up for
when we get settled
in Pittsburgh?
Pottery class.
- Oh my god.
- Yeah.
Putting those Play-Doh
skills to use.
(Ellie chuckles)
Garbage.
It's for you.
(birds chirping)
I'm gonna go finish some
things up in the other room.
(letter crinkles)
(Ellie sighs)
(soft guitar strum)
- Hello, Ellie.
By the time you're
watching this video,
I will have perished.
(Ellie giggles)
Everything's probably
fallen into chaos
since I've been gone.
The world's
apocalyptic and stuff.
Everyone's realizing
how much they needed me.
Yeah, that's definitely
what's happening.
You know what I realized?
I'm such a cliche
but you know what?
I think that's a good thing.
Ellie, over these
past few months,
I've been working on a song
that I wanted to show you.
You know, that
single I wrote was
for everyone but
this one's just for you.
So feel free to,
you know, steal it,
pass it off as your own or
just keep it to yourself.
Maybe use it as lightning
in a bottle one day.
I don't know.
Here it goes.
I present to you,
"Everyone, Everything."
It's not very good.
Hope you like it.
(Ellie weeps)
(soft guitar music)
Mind feeling tired
I need to stop
Trying to fly
High as a spire
I aspire to stop
Trying to die
God, oh please,
I'm on my knees
Pleading I forget to breathe
Bleeding as I try
to be what they want
I want to choose
everyone, everything
Afraid to lose
everyone, everything
I have been loved but still
that's not enough somehow
I want to choose
everyone, everything
Sometimes I'm feeling
wired, every emotion pops
Then I feel inspired
when the beat drops
Body on fire, I'm
so cold and hot
Ignore the warning signs
and show you what I got
God, oh please,
I'm on my knees
Pleading I forget to breathe
Bleeding as I try
to be what they want
I want to choose
everyone, everything
Afraid to lose
everyone, everything
I have been loved but still
that's not enough somehow
I want to choose
everyone, everything
Why do I have these
thoughts in my mind
Tell me, how do I
make this life mine
Why do I have these
thoughts in my mind
Why do I feel I'm
running out of time
Why do I have these
thoughts in my mind
Tell me, how do I
make this life mine
Why do I have these
thoughts in my mind
Why do I feel I'm
running out of
I want to choose
everyone, everything
Afraid to lose
everyone, everything
I have been loved but still
that's not enough somehow
I want to choose
I want to choose
everyone, everything
Afraid to lose
everyone, everything
I have been loved but still
that's not enough somehow
I want to choose
Everyone
Everything
(Ellie laughs emotionally)
(upbeat guitar music)
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