Endless Cookie (2025) Movie Script

1
It is my pleasure to
personally...
...to personally announce
to you on behalf of the NFG...
...on behalf of the NFG Canada
that you and your brother Peter
are recipients of The Explore
and Create Grant
for your animation
proposal called, um,
Endless Cookie
Caca Nada.
Caca Nada? Caca Nada.
What's that
supposed to mean?
...on behalf of NFG Canada
that you and your brother
Peter are recipients
of the Explore and Create Grant
for the animation proposal
called, um,
Endless Cookie
Caca Nada.
Caca Nada?
Wow. This is great.
Look at the size of this cheque.
Hey, Koko. Koko.
- What?
- Seth: Koko, come here.
- Why?
- I wanted to introduce you
to this, um...
this is the NFG officer,
and this is
Koko, my wife.
Nice to meet you,
Officer.
Seth: And our little
baby Racco.
Racco, look at
the size of this cheque.
It's huge!
Now, I can fly up to Shamattawa
to visit your cousins
and your Uncle Pete,
one of the greatest
storytellers in the world.
Well, have fun driving
to visit your brother.
Oh, can we drive out there?
Oh, actually,
we can't drive there,
'cause there's no roads.
Uh, no roads go there.
- We have to-- I have to fly.
- Oh.
Oh. No roads go there.
Isn't that something?
Well, nice to meet you,
and see you in seven months
when this movie's all done.
Nice to meet you, Officer.
- Bye-bye.
- Damn.
I should have
said seven years.
I better call Pete and
tell him we got this dough.
Woman: Teepee's on
fire! Teepee's on fire!
Teepee's on fire!
Child: Teepee's on fire!
The teepee's on fire!
The teepee's on fire!
Teepee on fire!
Is someone going to answer
that phone ringing?
Hey, anybody got a light?
- What?
- What the hell?
- Hello.
- Hey, Pete.
It's your brother Seth.
Hey. I knew it was
going to be you.
- Um, uh--
- So, how's it going?
Uh, it's going good, man.
Oh, yeah. Okay.
- So, I, uh, I got good news.
- Pete: Yeah?
- So, we got that grant.
- Wow. That's fricking great.
So, yeah. We're going to make
a movie, I guess, but, uh--
- Yeah.
- Seth: Yeah. What did I write?
I wrote, "I want to make
a documentary animation,
record seven stories."
Uh, basically, it's like,
you're one of the best
storytellers I know, and...
...and, uh, I made
you director on it, too.
- Pete: Oh, okay.
- Because, obviously,
like, you know,
they're your stories, so...
- Yeah.
- It'll also allow you to,
like, veto anything you
don't like in the movie.
- Woman: Wah!
- Seth: Veto it all!
Anyhow, um, the goal is to make
something, uh, funny,
beautiful, spiritual, political,
complex, simple, and true.
- Pete: Oh, okay.
- Seth: And that should be easy,
right?
Anyhow, uh, I know
there's no room in the house,
and, um, I could help rebuild
the teepee that burned down
and, uh, and then stay there
if that seems like
a all right idea.
Yeah. I was-- Uh, it's not going
to take long to-- to build
once we get going.
Well, that'd be fun.
I could help you--
Pete: I was trying--
Yeah. I was trying to--
I was trying to get it up
before you got here.
Seth: Oh, me?
Well, I could always sleep
on the porch in a tent
for a couple days. Uh--
Problem's going to be the dogs.
Going crazy in the tent?
They're going
to want to move in.
Seth: Well, geez.
That's all right.
Whatever.
We'll play it by ear. Um...
Okay. That's cool.
You want to come up?
Yeah. Uh, awesome. Okay.
Well, I'll, uh--
I guess I'll be seeing you
soon, then.
Oh, okay. All right.
Take care.
Hey, get out of there.
Thanks. All right.
See you soon.
Okay. Hey, get out of there.
Get out of there.
Pete: So, it's set to go?
Okay.
I went out trapping one time
with those, um--
I was using those, um,
body-hold, um, Conibear traps.
And, um,
they're square steel traps,
and I had set it up.
And I set it up pretty good,
I thought, if, um--
So an animal wouldn't be able
to drag it away.
And then... and...
um.... and then I saw
the bait fell off,
so I thought, "Okay. I'll just
stick the bait back on."
And--
And I was just holding on
to the top part of the trap,
and I went to
stick the bait on.
Wait a sec. Uh, sorry...
- Hmm?
- ...to stop you,
but there's a toilet flush
in the middle of the story.
We'll just wait till, uh,
Antonio comes out.
What?
Machine:
What? What? What? What?
What? What? What? What? What?
What? What? What? What?
What? What? What? What?
What? What?
What? What?
Endless Cookie...
Machine:
Endless... Cookie.
Hey, Cookie. Can you, uh,
turn that thing--
Can you turn that thing down?
I'm recording in here.
Yeah. Sure. No problem.
Machine:
Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Sure...
No problem. No problem....
Antonio, I can--
I can hear the volume
on your, uh, video games.
Can you, um--
Can you maybe turn that down?
Oh, you can hear that?
Oh, sorry.
Let me turn that down.
Uh, Dez. Dez!
Hey, Dez! Dez!
Oh, bitch, shut the fuck up, please.
I'm trying to sleep.
I'm trying to sleep!
I just fucking got off work,
five in the morning.
Can you just let me
sleep, please?
Oh. Whoops. Sorry.
Um, Simone?
Dez: Banging,
banging, banging...
- Uh, yeah?
- Dez: Let me sleep...
Seth: Never mind.
Just keep being quiet. Thanks.
Uh, Ada.
- Ada.
- Oh, shit. Okay.
Wait, wait, wait. Hold on.
Hold on. Yeah. Boom.
Fucking turns off.
Uh, don't forget
about Aylen, Naz, and Chris.
Oh, yeah. I'll tell--
I'll tell them to be quiet when
I get back to Toronto.
Good idea.
Sylvester,
I can hear you chewing
and squeaking or something.
What the fuck is that noise?
It's not me. That's the noise
of the puppies under the stairs.
Machine: What? What? What?
What? What? What? What? What?
- Okay.
- Machine: What? What? What?
Cookie. Cookie,
can you turn that thing,
uh, down?
- Thanks.
- Machine: Turn that down.
Thanks...
Seth: Sterling, you're going
to have to turn the volume down
on the TV, uh, when, uh,
I start recording in a minute,
- okay, man?
- Oh, okay.
Seth: Oh, hey. This looks
like it was filmed in Toronto.
I thought everything
was filmed in Toronto.
No!
Yeah. Well, I guess lots
of things are filmed there,
but not everything.
When I first went to Toronto,
I was surprised, uh,
when I really thought about it.
Everybody has a toilet
in their house.
And it just-- I thought,
"What a...
what a thing to have."
Yeah. You can shit
in your own house.
Yeah.
When did, uh...
When did Pete move to Toronto?
Uh, he was 11,
and, uh, he was
on a school trip.
And we met up, and, uh,
he told his teacher:
I'm staying
with my dad now.
So, I called his, uh, his--
his grandmother Eliza,
and, uh, we talked,
and she said it was okay if,
uh, Pete stayed with me,
but I had to bring him
back before she died.
- And he did make it back.
- Seth: That's sweet.
Yeah. That's right.
That's right.
- Can you grab that?
- Okay.
Pete: Keep it there.
Just wait. Sh, sh.
Wait. Wait.
You hear that?
Just wait.
You hear that?
Wait, wait.
Voice on TV:
Tracker. Tracker.
Woman on radio:
More than 30 percent
of incarcerated people
in Canadian prisons
are First Nations,
despite First Nations making up
just five percent
of the country's population,
according to new statistics
released by a federal watchdog.
In a damning report
published on Wednesday,
the Correctional Investigator
of Canada, Dr. Ivan Zinger,
described First Nations'
overrepresentation
in the country's jails
and prisons
as nothing short
of a national travesty.
Multiple factors
that include poverty
and racism in policing
contribute to the imbalance
in convictions.
The figure is highest
in the provinces of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan, and--
Man on TV:
This behemoth-ic beast...
Pete: Someone's at the door.
Answer the door.
Man on TV:
...and astronomical appetite.
Hi. Pete home?
Hey, Pete.
Got any, uh-- you got
any green paint I can borrow?
Okay. Let me see
if I got that here.
- Oh, hi.
- Hey.
You RCMP?
No, uh, I'm not RCMP.
Oh, no. That's my brother.
Oh, yeah. You didn't know
I had a white brother?
I guess you never met our dad
when he lived and worked here.
Yeah. Last time our dad visited,
he was at the store.
Seth: And?
Pete: And somebody thought
he was the priest.
Oh. Hello.
Oh, Father. Oh, Father,
for I have sinned.
I've had impure thoughts.
Hey, that's not the priest.
That's my dad.
Okay. We need to stack
those like that.
Oh, hey.
That looks good.
Frickin' frick.
Frickin' frick.
See that little trophy
walking over there?
He's upset because
his dad died.
Frickin'. Frickin' frick.
Frickin'.
Frickin' frick.
Frickin' frick.
Frickin' frick!
Frickin' frick!
Frickin' frick!
Frickin' frick!
Frickin' frick!
Frickin' frick!
What?
What?
What was that?
Hello. We got shots fired down
here...
Doo-doo two. We got shots fired
down here.
I repeat, shots fired.
Calling for backup.
I repeat,
calling for backup.
Shots fired.
Shots fired at officer.
Listen here, you
pecker weasel.
This is the RCMP.
Drop your gun.
Drop it.
Lie down.
Face down now.
Slowly. Slowly.
Too slow. Come on now.
Put your hands out,
away from your body
where I can--
Keep them-- Keep them
where I can see them now.
Woman on radio:
Delta one five.
Put your hands
behind your back.
Not so smart now,
are you?
Shooting at a cop.
What were you thinking?
- That fucking hurts, man.
- Who do you think you are,
- shooting at police officers?
- Really fucking hurts.
I didn't do anything.
Just taking a walk, bro.
- Fuck you, man.
- Fuck you, man.
What the fuck is your problem?
I didn't do nothing.
Urn: I didn't do nothing.
So, you can go to jail
for 15 years
or plead guilty
and only go for three.
So, you can go to jail
for 15 years...
...or plead guilty...
...and only go for three.
If you want to plead innocent,
you'll have to wait in jail
until your trail date,
which would be at least
one year from now,
and then you still may go
to jail for 15 years
if you're found guilty.
What if I didn't do anything?
Can I just go home, then?
I'd like to go home.
Listen. You want to go to jail
for 15 years or three years?
Your Honour, the accused
wants to plead guilty
towards a lesser charge.
The court has found you guilty.
And you are sentenced
to three years
at Stony Mountain Penitentiary.
You will be eligible
for parole
in 1.5 years.
May God have mercy
upon your soul.
Do you know what BS
stands for?
Beaver shit.
So, that kid pleaded guilty.
He went right off to
Stony Mountain, three years,
and that kid never been
in jail in his life.
And then since then,
it's been...
like, the last 20 years,
been going back and forth,
back and forth,
jail, back to jail,
out again, back to jail.
Damn. That fucking sucks.
Man on TV:
Welcome back to Canada's
favourite show,
Who Doesn't Want To Be Poor?
Well, time's up.
What's it going to be?
Um...
Maybe I'll just use
my credit card?
Woman on radio:
Drinking water advisories
persist in First Nations
throughout Canada.
Currently,
more than 56 communities
go without clean drinking water.
What's this? They talking
about American--
What is this, American news?
Uh, no, no, no.
This is, uh, uh,
Canadian.
The guy said it was,
uh, Canadian.
Oh.
It's still worse down there, though.
Still worse down there.
Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Way worse down there.
Way worse down there.
Oh, there goes my little sis.
Check out this, uh,
little vid I made for, uh, Jess
after she, uh-- after she, uh,
took her life and passed on.
Ah, rest in peace, my late
sweet daughter Jessica.
RIP, my little sis.
That's what you've been up to.
That's what you wanted.
Riding the clouds
with her motorbike.
I, uh, heard she was saving up
for a motorcycle
before she, uh,
passed on.
Yeah. Jessica always talked
about getting a bike
of her-- of her own.
I wonder if Jessica
would have been
one of those crazy 401
motorcycle drivers,
you know, weaving
in and out of traffic.
I think-- I think--
I think they totally would.
Uh, they definitely--
they definitely seemed like
the type to get--
get kind of lost in the moment
and kind of enjoy the...
enjoy the ride.
Yeah. That's so sweet.
Okay. Someone nail those
boards around the outside.
Okay.
You gonna be in trouble
if you don't fix that toilet?
Well, it's impossible
to fix it today,
'cause, um, the dentist
has patients.
Yeah. Well, then...
How am I going to do it?
Probably have to go
on the weekend
or, uh, go in the evening.
Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah.
That makes sense.
It would have made more sense
if they would have sent me
the toilet I requested.
- Yeah. What the hell?
- Like, I wrote a--
Well, it's like that thing,
trying to get a picture
with my, uh-- for my ID,
like I explained
to the people
in Miramichi, New Brunswick,
where it comes from.
Holy cripe.
If I want to get--
if I want to get photo ID,
I have to fly to Thompson,
go to a place where you
get photo-- photo ID,
pay for a room to stay.
- Yeah.
- Come back next day.
Holy. It's like a--
Really?
They just don't do it here?
Well, there was nothing,
uh, available for printing.
- That's crazy.
- Everybody's got cameras.
- Millions of pictures.
- Yeah.
But nobody can print out, uh,
like, a, you know,
wallet-sized, uh, photo ID.
There's a guy in Toronto that--
that Photoshops the pictures.
Like, he just can't help
himself.
You're supposed
to take a picture
and then not--
not alter it in any way
for the-- for the passport
photos.
There's this one guy on
Spadina that's just, like--
He just can't help himself.
He always has to, like,
Photoshop it a little bit,
like, make your cheeks
a little rosy.
- Pete: Yeah.
- Seth: Like, get rid of a zit
or something.
Pete: Well, like,
with identification photos,
um, you can't wear a hat.
You can't wear glasses.
- Seth: And no smiling.
- Pete: No makeup.
No smiling.
I went to get my student ID
one time when I was going
to high school, like, for,
- a, like, the TTC pass.
- Yeah.
- Well, I-- I had you with me.
- Seth: Oh, really?
Pete: And I said, uh,
"I want my little
brother in the picture."
- And they said no.
- Seth: Oh.
I said, "Well, what do you
want me to do,
put him down over there,
like, on the floor?"
There was only one guy there,
and I said, "Look.
I'm just going to hold him.
They're going to know who
the picture is for."
- I said, "It's-- it's me."
- Seth: Yeah.
Pete: I said, "He's not old
enough to go to school yet."
Then they wouldn't, uh,
let you have--
- Seth: Oh, too bad.
- Pete: They wouldn't let you
in on the picture.
Actually, I took you
to school one time.
I was pushing you to school,
and, uh, all the girls
come running.
- Ah!
- So cute!
Pete: They said, uh,
"Whose baby?"
And I said,
"I found him in the subway,
so I just brought
him with me.
Um, I'm going to keep him."
And they tackled me,
and they tackled you.
There was, like, three girls.
Like, one of--
one of them had you already,
and the other one
started pulling, saying, "No!
I want him! I want him!
I'm going to look after him."
And finally, I had to shove
them all out of there saying,
"I'm just--" I said,
"I was just kidding.
That's my little brother."
And they said, "Yeah,
but you're-- you're an Indian.
How come he's blond hair and
blue eyes and white skin?
You're lying."
That's good.
Well, another time, there was
two young guys got sent in.
They got a call at
the other end of town,
like, in what they call
Little Russia.
And they get to the call
they were supposed to go on,
and they see this blood
all over the snow.
Oh-ho. Hey. Hey, now.
What do we got here?
Okay. What do we got? Hmm.
Blood!
Stay calm, now. Stay calm.
It's just blood.
It's just blood.
It's just a little blood.
What the--
What the...
What the what?
Oh, no! Oh, Bill!
I'm cool. I'm cool. I'm cool.
I'm a cool guy.
I'm a cool guy.
I'm cool. It's cool. It's cool.
It's cool. It's cool.
It's cool. It's cool.
You keep cool? You keep cool?
You all right? You got it?
Okay, guy.
You with me?
You ready?
You remember?
We got to...
We go on four,
on three.
You with me now?
Just get the door.
I'm going to get the doorknob.
Doorknob.
Freeze, motherf...
And there's a little old
lady sitting in there,
cutting up a caribou.
Fuck!
After, uh, they die,
all of a sudden,
they-- there's a tremendous
amount of, like,
fast gas buildup
in their stomach.
- Yeah.
- It's just gets really taut,
you know.
And you have to be careful
when you cut it,
so you don't cut into the...
the stomach.
So, it's just the outside fur
and then the body lining,
like, the stomach lining on
the outside of the stomach.
But anyway.
And when I was a little kid,
my granny used to, um,
take the stomach out
and um, empty half
the contents out
and get a cup,
pour the blood in there.
Then she...
she would throw sugar in it.
And then they would
shake it back and forth,
mix up the blood and the...
the green stuff
that's in the stomach.
And my granny would hang it,
hang it up--
hang it above the woodstove
and just let it dry
until it all went, you know,
basically dehydrated.
They used to call it seewatte,
which means, uh,
sweet stomach.
And that was the candy.
That was our candy.
So, my first candy was green
and kind of smelly
and kind of tasted awful.
I wonder what those dogs
are barking at.
Hey, shut up, stupid!
Didn't you have a dog
named Stupid?
Uh, think one of the wolves--
I think a wolf grabbed it.
The only thing I found
was his pelvis bone
and the very tip of his tail.
It was about
four inches long.
Whoa.
We lost six dogs
in one week
at that time when that
wolf was around.
Wow.
Yeah. They don't bother
people, though. They--
Hey, look.
Peanut butter.
Crunchy or smooth?
Yeah. You ever-- you ever hear
about, uh, pure collectors
from old England?
They had these, uh--
Like, in Victorian
times, I guess they--
these guys would go around
collecting, uh, dog shit,
which they called, uh, pure.
I guess it had some kind
of purifying quality
for, uh, tanning hides.
They're collecting it,
and the valuable stuff, like,
the prize-- the prize turds
were, um, those like kind
of dried-out white ones
that you see around.
So, uh, when they would find
wet, darker turds,
there was a trick that they
had where they would, uh,
you know, find loose
mortar in an old building
and kind of, like,
scrape it into their bucket
and kind of make them dry
and white-looking
so that they could get
a better dollar
for their-- their bucket
of turds at the tanner.
Simone: Uh, seven months
later...
- Pure collection?
- Yeah. Uh, yeah.
Pure collection is an actual
historical job,
believe it or not.
Is this what you were working on
with the money we gave you?
Oh, yeah. About that,
I might need to ask you
for a deadline extension.
Go out.
- What's this?
- Uh, it's a map
of the story arc
for the movie.
Whoa! Is this your guide
for making the movie?
Yeah. Actually,
sometimes,
I'm not sure if
it's following me
or if I'm following it.
It's true.
Um, how's drawing going?
You getting any drawing done?
I wanted to talk to
you about that, yeah,
but it's this--
this one thing.
- What one thing?
- I feel like--
Feels like I can't draw anymore.
Seth: Well, don't
psych yourself out.
Everyone has that happen.
Even, like, you know,
Leonardo da Vinci
- probably had that happen.
- Cookie: Yeah.
Seth: You work your
way through it,
and then you come out
the other side.
Oh, my dad's home.
Seth: Oh, sweet.
I want to talk to him.
Well, don't psych yourself out.
Just keep drawing.
That's the trick. All right.
You're awesome, Cookie.
- Hello?
- Seth: Hey, Pete.
Hey. How's it going?
It's going good, man.
I was-- I was going
to phone you this morning.
Oh, nice. Oh, hey,
I got to come back up
and record more audio
for the animation.
Yeah.
The stuff I recorded last time
is all messed up,
and everyone keeps interrupting
each other.
Anyhow--
Okay. Okay. That's cool.
You want to come up?
Seth: Yeah.
Uh, awesome. Okay.
Well, I'll, uh--
I guess I'll be seeing
you soon, then.
Sure is nice to see you kids
learning how to build stuff.
You know, I spent a lot
of time being a carpenter.
Uh, can you not take pictures
inside the sacred teepee zone?
Oh, fuck. I should
have asked first, man.
Oh, fuck. I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry. I should have
asked your permission first
before taking any pictures,
and I'm really sorry.
I'm-- I'm fucking stupid.
Just joking.
You can take pictures in here.
I was just kidding.
Oh.
But it is always a good idea
to ask first
before you take any pictures.
Oh, my head. What the--
Something's stuck
on my hat here.
Oh, come on off.
Come on off!
Just ignore him and
go back to sleep, Boris...
my son.
Oh, hey. It's that show.
What most people
don't realize...
is that this animal...
...doesn't only have...
...big feet.
You got to make sure...
the plaster mixture...
isn't too runny...
and it isn't too firm.
Like I said, they don't
only have big feet.
Whoa-ho-ho! Hey!
Those are some big buns.
My brother-in-law,
uh, Loren,
uh, built a cabin about
10 miles downriver.
So, when he was done,
uh, this couple,
this elderly couple, uh,
heard about it.
So, they went and told him
that, uh--
to be careful in that area
because at one time there were
some trappers that went missing,
some people that were,
uh, trapping beaver.
And other people had been
trapping in the area
kept on talking about, uh,
finding beaver dams
that were, like, ripped up
like something came
and ripped them apart.
There was a couple guys that
were trapping over there,
uh, went missing,
so people went
looking for them.
They-- they found them,
and they were hanging out with
this, uh, female sasquatch.
And they couldn't figure out
why those two guys
were just hanging around
with her.
They weren't-- They looked
like they weren't trying
to get away.
And once in a while,
that-- that thing
would grab them and tickle them.
So, when they found them,
they realized that--
that their eyes were missing.
Fuck.
Pete: That thing had
plucked out their eyes.
So, that was the reason why
they couldn't, uh...
they couldn't go anywhere,
because they were blind.
- They had no eyeballs.
- Jesus.
Years ago, when I was chief,
I-- I was at a meeting
in Winnipeg,
and I see the newspaper.
And I'm reading it,
there's, like, this land rush.
And I said, "How come nobody
ever told us?"
- Fuck.
- We're out in Shamattawa,
and the supposed leadership
didn't even know anything
about it.
Yeah, well, that
doesn't surprise me.
Ah, those assholes.
Uh, what's that?
What's that, man?
Oh, just, uh, just a second.
I'm just talking to
my son right now.
If you need anything, though,
then just let me know,
and, uh, we have
those penis piercings
in different sizes.
Oh, great. Yeah.
Thanks, man.
So, all the area's, like,
staked out.
Like, all of Gods River
right to Gods Lake
is all somebody's, uh,
mineral exploration area.
Like, there was, like, a big,
uh, diamond rush, and then, uh--
Diamonds may be pretty,
but I'm hot.
They found some other--
They found some other stuff,
but, uh, some places were--
weren't feasible
to try to extract.
Oh, yeah.
And I think we still have
a lot of, uh, unclaimed,
uh, like, land settlement.
We never finished with it.
We never--
we never, um--
But the government gave us
a choice. They're saying,
"This week, you got to sign.
We have to get it over
and done with.
After-- after this week,
you're on your own.
You can pay for your own lawyers
if you want to--
trying to have land
claims over here,
like, having a big,
uh, like, a reserve."
Right now, it's only two miles
by one mile.
- What?
- Yep.
That's how big Shamattawa
Reserve is.
Oh, those assholes.
Man, it's just normal.
They're just trying to stampede
you into signing.
It's so typical.
They just drew a line
around your houses
in the middle of your land.
Your land goes a long way
in every direction,
and they know it.
Yeah, and back then,
whoever, um, uh,
decided that,
to claim only one mile
by two mile--
And they were still told,
saying,
"No. You can't have it
any bigger.
This is, like, as much
as you can have."
Yeah. Unfortunately, uh,
that doesn't surprise me.
I'm saying, "Hey, uh,
your family used to trap where?"
Like, they'd say, "Oh, yeah,
way out there by Hudson Bay."
I said, "How many miles
is that?"
They're like, "Sixty miles."
I said, "Well, why are
we going to be stuck
in a little
two-mile-by-one mile?"
That's so rude.
I said, "After that,
we've lost, uh--
we lost any rights
outside the reserve."
We have to do something,
or something happens,
trying to, um--
Like, now, they're trying
to flood the--
This is the largest undammed
river left in Manitoba,
Gods River.
Every other large
river's been dammed up,
and Hydro's trying to
involve Shamattawa.
And we'll never benefit from it.
Whoa. Good one.
If they built a dam,
would that affect the fishing?
Uh, yep. It'll screw up
the fishing.
Damn. Is it Monday already?
Oh, God.
But they came up with,
uh, um...
Hydro was trying to involve
everybody to come to meetings,
and they were paying people.
Some people got as much as,
like, 80 bucks
to go to a meeting,
and there were door prizes.
What was the door prize?
Oh, a freezer pack, like, a box
of-- a box of frozen meat
that they-- they got, like,
at the Northern Store,
something like that.
Yeah, and then all of
a sudden, I-- I found out
I was in, uh, the sturgeon--
sturgeon committee,
sturgeon preservation committee.
I had no idea I was
in the committee,
and I was getting paid for it.
Well, Pete, if you're
on the sturgeon committee,
if they build a dam,
there won't be any
more sturgeon.
Well, like I said before,
you can pick your nose,
but you can't eat diamonds.
Hey, do you need any sound
effects for this movie?
I can do some sound effects
for you if you want.
It could be like-- like--
All right. Uh...
Pete: Next time
the cops chase you,
don't jump in the water.
Pete: "Fuck that.
I'm never going swimming again,
after I seen that in the water.
I'm never going back."
Yeah. Maybe we could use
some of those somewhere.
Pete: I don't think
she's gone back in the water
- ever since then.
- Oh, that's crazy.
Well, I wonder what
the hell that was.
Hey, Stew. Is that Pete
on the phone?
Is he telling you about
Antonio's dream?
One second, Pat.
Pete's talking in my other ear.
Holy doodle.
He told me about this dream,
and this plane had antlers.
It was totally made of antlers,
and it crashed.
Yeah? Amazing.
Well, I wonder what that was.
Well, that sort of reminds me
of something that happened
back, uh, a few years ago
on Wunnummin Lake.
So, um, I was going fishing
and, uh, drove out
onto the lake,
and I was heading west.
Uh, sorry. Heading east,
and, uh, then...
- Oh, hey!
- What the-- What? Hey!
Watch it, man.
Whoops. Sorry.
Yeah. So, um, driving the boat
in the lake,
and, uh, I felt this something
on my cheek, on my cheek.
And it was the same
as when I was in the air force
and there was a plane
breaking the sound barrier.
It's that pressure you feel
just before you hear the noise,
and I whipped my head around.
Hmm? Whoa!
Stewart: There was this hole
traveling through the air
with scenery on
the other side of it
that was-- looked like
a scenery from a desert.
It was these angular,
sort of cactus-like trees,
and the thing just whipped
by and just kept going east.
- Very odd.
- Pete: Huh.
Uh, sorry, Pete.
I got to hang up.
Uh, somebody's staring at me.
I got to sell somebody
something. Bye now.
- Hey, man.
- Stewart: Oh, sorry. Yeah.
I was just talking to my, uh,
my son, my older son.
My younger son Seth's visiting
him. He's, uh--
Wait. You saw a porthole
to another dimension?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, and it
wasn't the only time.
Yeah. According to a lot
of people,
they said that Stewart
was the first person to, uh--
first white person to come
back and visit his kid.
Damn. That's kind of fucked.
Machine:
Damn. That's kind of fucked.
Damn. That's-- Damn.
That's fucked. Damn.
That's fucked.
What the what? Damn.
What the what?
You know that, uh, trap we set
upriver, that square one?
Yeah?
Okay. That's the kind
I was using,
and um, I had that
all set up.
And...
Um, I was getting ready to go
back towards my Ski-Doo,
and I saw that the bait
wasn't on properly
and had fallen off.
So I went to put bait on,
and the thing slipped.
Simone: Hey. That's my balloon.
Pete: And then it just
slowly sunk into my hand,
and you couldn't even
see the steel.
It went down here, and it
was squishing it like this.
And then I'm trying to
break the stick,
and every time I made a move,
that trap just got tighter
and tighter.
It was just sinking
in deeper and deeper.
And all of a sudden,
I'm getting, like, really cold,
'cause the wind's blowing
and I didn't have my parka on.
Then I hear a Ski-Doo coming.
Oh, shit. I wonder
if that's Rusty.
Hey, Seth.
Take a picture of this.
I got a puppy on my head.
Okay. Hold it there.
Hold it there, Simone.
All right. Hold it.
Hold it.
Okay. Yeah.
Okay. Got it.
Hello?
Uh-huh.
Garbage bags.
Garbage bags?
Ah.
Boy, she thinks I have all
the time in the world.
She wants me to go get oranges
and garbage bags for her
at the store.
Oh, you're going
to the store?
Hey, little buddy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah!
You little cutie. Hey.
Whoa, Simone.
How many dogs you guys got?
Uh, wait.
Boris, Cheech,
Chong, Milk Jug,
Chappy, Sheldon, Langfur,
Ugly, and Nutty.
And... am I missing one?
Boris, Chappy, Cheech,
Chong, Nutty, Langfur,
Sheldon, Ugly, and...
I forgot two dogs.
Coconut and Dooney.
And what about the puppies
under the steps?
Yeah. Like, uh,
yeah. Shit.
Or, like, when I go
in the washroom,
and all the women look at me,
and then these women
look at me as I enter like I--
like I'm a guy,
like they're thinking--
I don't know. I just gotta
take a fucking shit, bitch.
Hey, look. There's my dad.
That's our dad.
Okay, Ada, settle down.
That's not your only dad.
Hey, look,
there's Ada and Dez!
Dad! Dad!
Hey, Dad.
Who's your favourite kid?
So, what should we get?
Some Bepsi, Depsi, Poopsie,
Toki, Jokie,
Diet Croke? Which one?
Bepsi?
Hey, mayochap,
that's what my mother-in-law
used to call me.
What is mayochap mean?
Shitty face.
Oh.
It's like, shit on
your face sort of, but...
Mayochap.
Means shitty face, like, yeah.
You didn't know?
No.
Now you know.
Oh, we need one of those big
boxes there. Can you grab that?
Yeah, I can grab this.
Whoops.
Pwkitostaw.
What's that?
"Pwkitow" means fart.
Pwkitow.
"Pwkitow" means fart.
And "Pwkitostaw" means,
you know,
"farting while you're
doing something," you know?
Like when you're lifting
something that's heavy and you--
Pwkitostaw. Pwkitostaw.
Pwkitostaw.
"Six pack. Toronto tap water."
What do you, uh...
Do you ever miss
anything about Toronto?
Uh, goat rotis.
What's that--
What was the name of that--
Patty King.
Patty King, yeah. Yeah.
Goat rotis from
Patty King and George.
Always a big smile.
All the whole family
was like that.
They were all very nice.
Yeah, they're cool.
Yeah, it's funny,
it was just one year.
It was a whole
bunch of us that just left.
We just all went
in different directions.
So, everybody that left
did good,
they went on doing things
that they wanted to do.
Once or twice a year
I'd get a call
from my family saying that,
uh, "Remember so-and-so,
one of your drinking buddies,
they found him
dead this morning."
Yeah.
And that would probably
would have been me
if I never left.
I remember one time I went
through, uh, my tequila phase,
and then all of a sudden one day
I realized
that it was making me more
unstable,
then I started to realize, um,
all the trouble I got into
or the grief I caused
to something like that,
it was if I was drinking
something really strong.
And if there was something
about you I didn't like
or it was almost like a snap.
Sometimes even, like,
over nothing.
Seth:
Uh-huh.
Pete: I would, like,
just start turning red
and steam coming
out of my ears just, uh...
It was just weird.
It was just--
Like there was--
there was a guarantee
I was going to try to kill you
when I got really smashed.
Oh, yeah. I kind
of remember you telling me
about some of those
misadventures.
You went back to
our old house that
we weren't living
in anymore and broke in.
I don't remember.
Pete: Apparently, I uh...
I think I used my bus pass
to open the door or something.
Like, put it in, jiggle it in
where the deadbolt was,
and then it opened.
Seth: And then the dog
ate the little kid that
lived there's birthday cake.
Pete: Oh, yeah.
All his birthday cake.
I have no memory of it at all.
Seth: What-- Didn't you grab,
like, a guy out of--
that was in your old bed
or something?
Pete: There was some guy
sleeping in my bed.
Apparently I dragged him out
of there.
"Get off my bed."
And my dog was with me
and my dog was keeping
everybody away.
Keeping everybody out
of the room.
Seth: While you were sleeping.
You know what was one of
the nice things about that,
uh, that story where you
went back to our old house?
Was that they
didn't call the police.
That they just called Stewart,
which is, like, nice.
Pete: Yeah,
that was embarrassing.
Holy shit! He did what?
Son of a...
I'll be right over.
But it's like, better than,
you know, the police like,
arresting you or something,
you know?
You kidding?
I'd rather the police.
Ah, you'd be surprised.
There's still a couple
stragglers kicking around
Toronto that remember you.
talk is cheap,
and so are you...
Go get screwed!
Seth: Also, I remember
another thing,
every time you'd get really,
really drunk,
you'd go, you know,
"I really love you, man,
but I fucking hate
white people."
You remember Peter
from Courage?
Yeah, I just-- Which Peter?
Peter East from Courage,
My Love.
Uh...
He's been gone for fucking,
like, 20 years.
Yeah, but I thought
the other Peter just went by.
Peter from, uh, Peterborough.
What a freak that guy is.
Yeah, Peter from Peterborough.
Yeah, Pizza Pizza Pizza used
to have this special where say
if it's not delivered to your
house in 30 minutes it's free,
so every payday we used
to order pizza from there.
Like, a large pizza
with everything on it.
Yeah, one of my roommates,
that's what he--
he worked at a pizza place,
and he says,
"No way it's gonna
cook in half an hour,"
but we always waited
till payday
so in case it came
we had the money.
Oh, hello. Um, I'd like to
order an extra large pizza.
Yeah, with everything on it.
Hey, Tony...
Extra sauce and anchovies.
Okay, what's the address?
That's-- So, uh,
that's 30 minutes or it's free?
Yeah, always.
Okay, my clock says it's--
it's 20 after 9:00.
Looks like free o'clock.
You're seven minutes late.
Free pizza. Thank you.
Too long.
Tell me, Seth, why is this
pizza scene going on so long?
Uh, well, you know, it's strange
because Pizza Pizza Pizza's
kind of like a cultural
thing for people that lived
in Toronto during
the '80s and '90s.
Oh, cultural. Interesting.
Yeah, terrible pizza,
but kind of thrilling to gamble
to see if you get it
for free or not.
Pete: What?
It was a pizza crust with
a pile of hamburger on it.
Well, 30 minutes or free,
you got a free one.
I love that story.
I remember thinking that was
the coolest thing I ever heard
when you told me that
when I was a little kid.
I was like, "That's the coolest
thing I ever heard."
Hey, guys. I'm gonna
get these chicken burgers.
You guys are talking so long.
Can we go now? I'm starving.
Back in the day we used
to trade hash for chickens
from the chicken truck driver.
Rats? Fucking' A, man.
Hey, Sal.
Hey, Pete.
How's it going, man?
Hey, c'est lui! C'est lui!
Hey.
Hey, habibi!
Help yourself to chicken.
This is a good trade.
Hey, what're you doing
with those chickens?
I hope it's not what I would
do with those chickens.
Pete: I didn't really know
what to do with them at first,
so then we, uh,
we processed them ourselves,
and we had 'em
hanging in the bathtub.
The neighbour upstairs,
we forgot to tell her
that we had chickens in
the bathtub.
And she came down
to shower and...
There was blood
all over the bathtub.
Speaking of chickens, uh,
can I get these chicken burgers
and also can we go soon?
You guys are taking forever.
Years ago I saw
one of Cece's friends, uh,
climbed up onto the top of one
of those live chicken trucks.
Good morning,
beautiful ladies.
And that's how I discovered
the chicken of the woods.
What's this guy up to?
Hey, tabarnak!
You might ask yourself what
the 'morel' of this story is,
and I'd say his nose
was less of a morel
and more of an amanita,
and don't forget to
count your chickens
before they're snatched.
Hey, so how's Cece doing?
How's Cece doing?
She's doing good.
She's basically just running
the shop and picking clothes.
Still finding some pretty good
stuff actually.
Driving lots,
fighting clowns,
and helping put out
the odd neighbourhood fire.
The firemen weren't there,
so she got a fire extinguisher
and ran in the house
and started like...
And then she had this thing
where she was like...
I never realized it
till right now
that I've always
wanted to be a fireman.
Ah.
Out of the way, fuckers.
Yo, Cece! Speak of the devil.
Hey, Cec.
Wow, it's been a long time.
Been a long time no see, holy.
Long time no Cece.
Long time no see Cece.
I gotta go to the store.
What're you guys doing?
Uh, yeah, we're just
time travelling back to
the '80s and '90s
and telling chicken stories.
Oh, yeah, back in the '90s
when I used to look like this?
And Seth was
a sideways sandwich?
You were a sideways sandwich?
Yes. Well, people used
to think I was.
It's probably actually
why I grew a mustache.
- What? Sideways sandwich?
- Cece: Idiot.
- I don't remember that.
- Too late now.
Man: Hey, lady!
Move your van! Move your van!
All right, I'm going.
Fuck off already!
You fuck off already, lady!
Okay, see you later, freaks!
- Okay, Cece. See you later.
- All right. See you later, Cec.
Um, what do you think
of the future?
What do I think of the future?
Like, what do you mean?
I don't know, like, what do you
think the future holds?
Mm, I'm not quite sure
about that.
I don't know, in the future,
I hope that Shamattawa
gets a little...
a little better,
a little healthier.
Yeah. Basically what I wish.
What I wish the future holds.
What about your future?
What do you want to do?
Like...
Mm, like, I wanna-- wanna, like,
accomplish these little things
in life that
people are supposed to do.
Like, I want to get a job,
and I want to get a house,
or at least somewhere to live.
But I don't want it to be here.
Yeah, I just want to work
and be happy.
Just, like, a little,
tiny, normal life.
When are those guys
getting back from the store?
They're taking forever.
Okay, I'm going for lunch,
pick a winner, Cece.
You beautiful,
sweet, little nail.
Please go in smoothly.
Not like that other
stupid nail.
Oh, my God, I found a Pucci!
Oh, my God, I love it!
Oh, my God,
the Pucci fits you perfectly.
I can't believe
you found that so quick.
I know, I found it so quick.
Yeah!
I'm going to take it.
- Oh.
- What's this?
Oh, that's the caribou hide
that my brother Pete mailed us.
It's beautiful.
Yeah, isn't it nice?
Ah, see, let's see.
Which button is it?
Uh, let's try this one.
Thank you so much.
Bye, Cece.
All right, see you later.
Thanks.
Finally we're leaving.
Hey, look, it's Ada and Dez!
Dad!
Oh, hey. There's Mom.
Hi, Mom.
Hi, my babies. Ada, my baby.
Mom, how about me?
Oh, Dez baby. My old baby.
You ate yesterday already!
All right, Mom.
I'll see you later.
Bye-bye, my babies.
I love you.
All right, see you later, Mom.
Love you.
Uh, I nailed a bunch
of boards at the bottom
so that they don't fall over.
Oh, hey. That looks good.
Yeah, it looks great, Simone.
Well, Pete found this
huge tarp at the dump.
Uh, yeah?
Yeah, that was, like,
just leftover stuff that
they had used to, uh, uh...
it was for the, uh,
soil remediation,
so that was the underlay.
Sweet score.
Hey, where are those guys going?
Kids: Let's smoke
this motherfucking weed!
I think I know
where they're going.
Yeah, I don't want to
encourage them to smoke weed,
but it's better than
sniffing lacquer or...
Yeah, that's not good for you.
...and other more
dangerous habits.
Yeah.
Yeah, those small toothpicks
are really expensive here.
It's just crazy.
It's, like, $20 to buy them.
Fucking Ada,
move your fucking cheek, man.
Fucking move! Fuck sakes.
Shut the fuck up bannock ass!
Aw, Ada, you dumb bitch.
Now we get to smoke
my motherfucking weed.
Oh, finally some weed.
- Let's go, bitch.
- I want to smoke this shit.
The fuck is that?
Sounds like somebody's dragging
a bunch of cans.
Jesus fuck.
Hey, did you see this?
Did you see this video?
Who? Who? Who?
- This--
- Fuck. Oh, my God. Okay.
Sylvester in the dark
Buck naked with
a knife in his hand
Tippy-toeing, tippy-toeing,
tippy-toeing, tippy-toeing
Go home!
Cookie?
Yeah?
You gotta sing?
Follow the beat.
You already know this beat.
Just say what Ada would say.
I forgot what part to sing.
Eh... Around here.
Right there.
No wait.
Sylvester in the dark
Buck naked with
a knife in his hand
Tippy-toe-toe-toe-toe-toe
Tippy-toe
Tippy-tippy-tippy-toe...
Sylvester in the dark
Buck naked with
a knife in his hand
Tippy-toeing, tippy-toeing,
tippy-toeing, tippy-toeing
Tippy-tippy-toe...
Sylvester buck naked
in the dark
With a knife in his hand
Tippy-toeing, tippy-toeing,
tippy-toeing, tippy-toeing
Oh
Fuck.
Oh, my God, okay.
Okay, do that thing again.
Buck naked with
a knife in his hand
Tippy-toeing, tippy-toeing
Ooh, shit.
Tippy-tippy-toeing
Fuck.
Young caribou.
Caribou?
Oh, yeah. Like, um--
- Caribou.
- Um...
Machine:
Caribou. Caribou.
It's almost like they know us.
Like, we wait for them here.
And it's-- And it's we miss them
when they're not around.
We expect them to be around,
and, uh, they're really--
they're really nice to watch,
they're really neat to watch.
Like, they don't know people,
so, when you-- when you hang
around with them for a while,
like, if you--
if a whole bunch of them go by
and you stand still
and you don't move and you stand
there for, like, about a minute,
then all of a sudden
they just go,
"Okay, he's, like, one of us,"
or something like that,
and they just go about
their business, and--
Until they hear
that loud bang.
Your gun.
Yeah, and they
taste pretty good.
This time of year they taste--
the flavour starts to change.
It's not so gamey.
Like, when all the green
stuff goes away in the fall,
the flavour becomes lighter,
more tastier.
I remember you just
reminded me of being here
and you were cooking moose
and your mom was here,
and she was like...
Game:
A.D. 2121.
War was beginning
Game character:
We got signal.
All your land,
your land, land
Land
All your land
are belong to us
All your land,
your land, land
b Land
All your land
are belong to us
All your land,
your land, land
Land
All your land
are belong to us
All your land,
your land, land
Land
All your land
are belong to us
All your land,
your land, land
Land
All your land
are belong to us
What were you saying?
I used to--
I used to hear, um,
elders talking about it when
I first came back to Shamattawa.
They couldn't wait
to go out in the bush,
like, go in their boat.
They were really
looking forward to it,
just, uh, clearing their minds,
clearing their mind out.
Just... it does something to you
when you go out in the bush.
And whatever stresses
or worries you have,
there's no use doing that when
you're up there,
'cause there's nothing
you can do about it.
So, you learn to relax
and uh, get the stress
out of your mind.
Which is great,
and it's, you know,
you're energized all over.
Just...
You come back
more positive. Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's what
I like about being here.
You don't have--
There's no use worrying about--
What do you worry about?
'Cause there's nothing you can
do about it from out there.
Seth: Is that a bear
sitting on a couch?
Pete: We set up the couch.
Like, I threw a couch out,
and next day when I drove by
there's a bear sitting there.
And it looked like
he was just, you know,
taking a-- taking a break,
putting his feet up,
'cause it's--
Seth: Uh, yeah,
this photo should win
the National Geographic award.
Pete:
It was just a neat shot.
It was very--
- Seth: It's so nice.
- Pete:
Oh, yeah, there's that--
that mud cake Simone made
for Sterling's birthday.
Simone: Oh, yeah.
I made it for Sterling.
Pete: Decorated with flowers.
And it looks--
Cookie: I had a slice of that.
Just kidding.
Aw, there's Chong.
Seth: And there's Antonio
with a whole bunch of puppies.
Cookie:
Oh, there's my dog Nutty!
Pete: Oh, there's Simone.
Pete: There's her missing tooth.
Simone: Oh, yeah, that's me.
Seth: Hey, there's Sylvester,
buck naked in the dark
with a knife in his hand.
Cookie:
Oh, my God.
Seth: Aw, there's Pete
and Lillian
and then Jeep and Antonio
and Dez there.
Ah, there's your neighbour,
Wayne.
- Seth: Oh, there's Chris.
- Pete: There's Chris' tipi.
Cookie: Oh, that's Chris.
- Cookie: Oh, I remember that.
- Seth: It was the first time
Cookie went on an escalator.
Cookie: Oh, my gosh.
I remember that.
Seth: Simone recording
a little puppy.
Cookie:
Oh, my God.
Seth: There's Stewart.
Seth: There's our dad
wearing three watches.
Hey, there's Stewart
and Pat and, uh,
and you, Pete,
at the old shop there.
There's Cece.
- There's Granny and Chris.
- Cookie: My Granny!
Seth: Chopping up some fish.
Hey, there's little
Ada and Naz there.
Hey, this one's nice.
Almost everyone's in this pic.
Christian, Simone, Cookie.
Little Sterling, Dez, Pete,
Antonio and then me
in the front there.
There's a dog biting me.
Cookie: Oh my God.
Seth: Heck? Hey.
- Cookie: His face is...
- Seth: What? There's a little--
Cookie: Oh my God. Is that me?
- Seth: That's you.
Oh, my God. That's li'l me.
Seth: That's Cookie.
Cookie: Oh, my God.
I remember that kid.
Seth: There's me as a teenager
with baby Antonio.
Anyway, that looks good.
There's Koko eating daifuku
with a little Racco.
There's Ada and Dez
at their 420 apartment.
Simone: Oh, yeah.
Seth: There's little
Simone pumping iron.
Cookie: Look, here's Pierrston
Facetiming Racco.
Simone: Aww, that's cute.
Cookie: Here's Pierrston
all smushed in his chair.
Simone: Aww. Oh, yeah.
Cookie: We, um--
we saw this big-ass crack
and I thought I could fit.
- Simone: Peace.
- Pete: Peace.
Seth: Oh, there's Pete
setting a trap.
Oh, yeah, okay.
Back to that trap story.
All of a sudden I'm getting,
like, really cold
because the wind's blowing and
I didn't have my knife with me.
I couldn't-- I couldn't cut
that stick to, um--
to release myself.
Then, I hear a Ski-Doo coming.
Hey, what's up?
I just had the craziest
fucking dream.
Look.
Hey, there's Rusty.
Cookie: Oh, Rusty.
Seth: Showing off his tattoo
he gave himself in jail.
Pete: Oh, there's Rusty
with his owl friend.
Cookie: Oh, there's that owl.
Pete: Because of encephalitis,
he couldn't pronounce
a lot of his words,
so he ended up sounding
like Marlon Brando
when he was recovering.
So, he sounded like the
Godfather for a while.
There's what's her name...
I forgot what year it was.
I was driving this old,
old lady to her son's house.
And, uh...
We look up,
this owl was circling.
And then I stuck my hand, put
it out so he could land on it.
Soon as it landed...
So, it's,
it's a surprising thing.
I tell the thing to leave,
it won't leave.
So, I said, pull my skidoo,
start it up.
I went to the Northern Store.
He's still on my arm,
I'm using, one,
one hand on the steering wheel.
We stop at the store
and he's still on there.
Walk through the aisles.
There's a whole bunch of people
taking pictures of it.
That's right, we went to
the manager's office there.
He took pictures of it too.
Then... I thought
he was gonna flew off,
he never flew off
and then I started my skidoo,
went to my late-brother's.
...and showed my mom.
She's seen it too.
Cookie: Kohkum!
Number one Kohkum!
Pete: Then I drove
which is about two miles
from my late brother's house.
It's still on my arm,
I'm using one hand on
the steering wheel,
all the way home.
Who-- who...?
What the what?!
Who's that?
Pete: When I found them
I said, let's go.
I said he won't leave me.
Hey, Racco, this part
of the story is by
your Uncle Pete's brother
Rusty Redhead.
He's not blood-related to you,
but we still call
him 'uncle' or 'brother'.
And he was abducted
when he was a kid.
And I heard he was at a store
buying smokes for his grandma,
and the RCMP and a nurse
just put him on a plane
and took him away
and brought him
to a residential school,
where he stayed there and stayed
away from his mom and grandma,
who had no idea where he went,
and he didn't return
until he was 19.
And the Canadian government...
...did this all over Canada.
What's the matter?
I'll tell you--
I'll tell you about that--
I'll tell you about
that another time.
Pete: And then my father
and I said, let's go.
So, I gave him a little peck
on the, on the beak.
And then, it wasn't listening,
tap my arm.
Then it flew off.
And people say I have special,
I have a special gift for that,
I don't know what
they mean by that.
Holy moly, that's wild.
All right, Rusty,
we heard you were
illegally keeping
a wild animal as a pet in here.
No.
Do you have an owl
inside the house?
Are you keeping an owl
as a pet in here?
Are you illegally
harbouring an owl
as a pet in your house
right now?
I said no.
Rusty!
- Go fuck yourself.
- Sorry. What'd you say?
- Oh.
- Go fuck yourself.
All right, Rusty.
Simone: Hey, Cookie.
That's my balloon.
Hey!
Hey, Cookie.
That's my balloon.
Yeah, Cookie,
give Simone her balloon back.
Holy moly.
Hey, let me tell you
my dream before I forget.
Oh, yeah.
Antonio: I was looking around,
it was like all foggy.
I can't see anything.
I could hear, like,
these chanting,
like these Native people
came outta nowhere.
Like the fog was started--
like, disappearing.
All of a sudden
they're standing around me,
and they're, like,
looking at me.
And they're all, like,
real, real old.
I saw this old lady
looking at me,
standing next to a--
it was like a tall guy.
And that's when I woke up
and I was like, "What the f...?
What the fuck was that?
Wow.
Wow, it sounds like
our ancestors
are trying to stay
in touch with you.
We just turned the fridge off
because we're recording,
just so you know, Antonio.
Antonio: All right.
Okay, so, what happened next
in that trap story?
Pete: It was hurting,
like really hurting a lot.
And I'm getting, like, really
cold, 'cause the wind's blowing,
and I didn't have my parka on.
And I hear a Ski-Doo coming.
And I'm really--
I'm sitting there,
really embarrassed that I'm--
I caught myself in my own trap.
And I sat there fooling
around with these twigs
and I was sticking
them in the snow,
trying to look
like I'm trapping.
I'm kind of covering
the trap where my hand is.
I'm like, I don't want them
to see me,
that I've trapped myself.
And whoever it was slowed down
and, I guess, looked at me
and then kept going.
And then I was sitting there
for about half an hour and
I'm starting to get really cold.
So, I couldn't press the one
side and get the latch on,
the safety latch,
to keep it closed.
And I didn't know what to do,
so I thought, "Okay,"
so I pulled the string off my,
uh, my sweatpants.
So, I tied it
on the spring part
and I pulled it tight,
then I held it with my teeth,
pulled it tight again.
And then, I leaned on it,
like, with my knee
and pulled it even tighter,
then I held the string with
my teeth,
and just kept pulling it.
And finally, I leaned on it
and I managed to wrap it
around and tie it.
Then, on the other side,
I just managed to--
I got a hold of the spring
and I just squeezed it enough
to get my hand out
of the trap.
And when I got my hand out
of it,
you could see these indents
right here
where it just, like,
sunk into my skin till...
like, the skin on the sides
were touching. It was like--
So, it was like that.
So...
I was really glad
after I got that out.
Holy moly.
Uh, you know what, Seth?
I've been learning
Russian for no reason.
What's this?
It's the Russian alphabet.
Seth: Oh, wow.
It's so neatly written.
Privet.
That means "hello" in Russian.
Seth: You ever think
about learning Cree?
Simone:
Oh, yeah.
Whoa. What's this drawing?
Simone: Oh, that's a drawing
I made.
I called it a Mawler.
Seth: Oh, so cool.
What kind of noise would
a thing like this make?
Oh, that's very nice.
Nice work, Simone.
What are you working on,
little Cookie?
So, I'm not a little
Cookie anymore.
I know, I always forget.
Yeah, this movie's taking
you so long,
my voice has changed.
Oh, yeah, and Antonio
and Avanis have a baby now,
little Pierrston.
It took you so long
to make this movie.
You started this movie
when I was ten, but now I'm 19.
So, anyway, I've been
working on my own animation.
Check it out.
So, my friend decided
to sleep over one night,
and it was just a normal
night like anything else.
But I went into sleep paralysis
and every time I let him know
that I was in sleep paralysis--
because, obviously, in sleep
paralysis you can't move
or you can't speak,
but you can only see.
Every time I'm in sleep
paralysis,
it feels like-- like--
like someone's holding me down
or pushing my face.
So, I let him know that
I was in sleep paralysis
by breathing harshly, like...
Or like, just making any kind
of weird sounds with my throat.
And he kept waking me up.
I didn't know that
he saw something
standing over my bed,
looking down at us.
And he realized that,
as it got bigger,
it was a smile
and it was looking at us.
It was probably seven feet tall,
just all black,
a black silhouette, and it had
white eyes staring at us,
and it had a huge white smile
looking down at us.
And I didn't know that
until this morning
and he told me that because
he didn't want to freak me out.
Simone: Well,
that's a scary story, Cookie.
That's totally scary.
Pretty cool, too, though.
Ain't that the truth.
I didn't know you
could speak Russian.
Da.
Why would I ever do that?
Oh.
Yeah, I--
I do not trust myself in front
of a wheel in real life,
but in video games,
I'm the best.
I can handle the wheel
no problem.
The driving wheel?
The driving, yeah.
Any vehicle.
So, you can drive...
I can drive the Ghost
from Halo,
the Wraith,
the Scorpion, any...
The Warthog from
Halo Reach is my specialty.
- You never crashed?
- Never crashed.
Really?
- Never.
- That's surprising.
Never.
I can drive no problem
in a video game,
but in real life,
that's a different story.
Seth: Uh...
Thank you, juicy fat rat,
for giving me your life.
I'm gonna use
every part of you.
Seth: Sweet.
Thank you for giving us your
life, you juicy, juicy fat rat.
Well, bon, bon appetit.
Yeah, I mean...
Yeah, not bad.
Mmm.
Yeah, not bad at all.
I was hoping I could record, um,
you sing a song, or I was
hoping I could record you
do a little drumming for that
animation I've been working on.
- You're still working on that?
- Yeah.
Even though it's
after the end of the world?
Yeah, I got a deadline
extension.
Cool.
Yeah, man, totally.
I know the perfect song
for it, too.
I can sing
the "Ancestor's Song"
Fand you know, this looks like
a perfect spot for it, too,
because this river looks
like it needs some healing.
Seth: Yeah.
And what is that
thing in there?
Kringle:
A shopping cart with a...
death-claw egg?
Does it usually glow
and smell like that?
Not naturally.
But you know what?
That smell reminds me
of that one time
I threw a stink bomb
inside of my grandmother's room
when I was little.
So, I hope she forgives me
for that.
Oh, yeah, she'd totally
forgive you for that.
She loved you.
Kringle: Yeah, I heard
she would look for visions
in her cigarette smoke.
Supposedly, she visited me
in the dream world
and told me to look after you
while you were in Toronto.
And Pete was telling me
that she was super proud
of her English in the dream.
Oh, not bad, not bad.
Okay, guys, dinner's ready.
Astam.
Oh, I think they're all
out of the teepee.
Pete: Hey, wow. Looks great.
Hey, wow. Looks like--
it looks like it's done.
We're finished.
Now, we can hang out in it.
Yeah, we're done.
This guy said
that our great-grandpa
built one exactly like this.
I found out my grandfather
was one of those people
who ran the shaking tent.
They called it the...
It means like where you went
and sat and concentrated
to have a vision.
They were able to pass messages
on to another person
that was operating
a shaking tent. It was, um...
It's like the way
the internet works now.
You can turn it on, dial up
somebody and talk to them.
But they used smoke
to sort of look into it.
It's like a screen to see where
all the animals would be,
you know,
where they would go to go hunt.
And my grandfather
mainly used it for hunting,
for providing food for his
community, his family.
Dinner's ready, guys.
Come on in.
Astam.
It's caribou.
Perfect timing.
I'm starving.
Eat this.
It's good for you.
My kids never believe me
when I say that.
"Eat this, it's good for you,"
and it's like...
they're really like
backing away.
Like, come on, eat this.
It's good for you.
It's caribou.
Caribou?
Oh, yeah. I love caribou.
Ooh, caribou soup.
Ooh, this tastes so good.
I missed this.
Yum. Caribou.
Mmm. Yum.
Yum. Caribou.
Mum-mum. Delicious.
Mmm... mum-mum.
Mmm...
Caribou soup!
I'm trying to say
something yummy...
...in Cree.
You say...
Yeah.
It means, "Meat tastes good."
Wait.
Can you say it again?
Seth: Oh.
I don't think your sound's on.
I don't think your sound--
I don't think my sound was on.
Yeah, we noticed.
Oh!
Um, so what do you
think of the future?
I like the idea of looking
after family and friends
and sticking together and taking
care of each other.
What Stuart said
is very personal.
What I think of is looking
in the past.
You can look in the past.
You can look in the past,
even 10,000 years ago,
and it can still help you.
The past is an endless...
An endless cookie?
Yeah, the past
is an endless cookie.
Just like you,
little Cookie.
Except for you're finite.
What do you think, Pete?
Well, it's just like
what Pat said.
This is something
my late mom said
about Native people.
She was talking about
her late father, who was,
I guess what you'd call
a medicine man,
but they called those people...
That sort of means like
'medicine man'.
But one day,
they stopped all that stuff.
And like, a lot of people
said, like, that stuff died.
And then, my mom had said
that those things have just been
put away for the time being.
But they'll rise up again,
at the very end,
before it's too late.
So, then, they don't-- and then,
there was a lot of people
who don't talk about
stuff like that because,
if you don't talk about it,
nobody will know about it.
So, that's sort of
my only idea
for everywhere, I guess,
and everyone that, yeah,
you look to the past, uh,
trying to make it easier
for the future.
Yum. Mum-mum.