- 3 months ago
Sean and Jessica followed different paths in high school but connected over a mixtape in theater class. A chance encounter at their twenty year reunion sends them on a night of self-discovery in this adult coming-of-age drama.
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00:00:00I can't stop thinking about it
00:00:24Being on my mind after all these years
00:00:28Can't stop my thoughts from racing toward it
00:00:33The time is drawing near
00:00:37I want to move forward but I keep jumping the track
00:00:48I'm trying my best to find the light through the cracks
00:00:53Scared I won't get there, there's no turning back
00:00:57Scene fades into black
00:01:02I can't stop thinking about it
00:01:11Being on my mind after all these years
00:01:16Can't stop my thoughts from racing toward it
00:01:20It's all becoming clear
00:01:25My heart is in motion, the energy flows
00:01:35Thoughts of yesterday stay with me wherever I go
00:01:39We're probing, we're chilling, we may never know
00:01:44I'm just trying my best to stay cold
00:01:49Class of 98
00:01:56Class of 98!
00:02:14No.
00:02:24Sorry.
00:02:29Jess?
00:02:30Yeah?
00:02:31Jessica Stella?
00:02:33Theater class?
00:02:34Theater class, junior year.
00:02:36Oh my god, Sean.
00:02:38Wow.
00:02:39It's been like...
00:02:4120 years?
00:02:43Exactly.
00:02:45You look different.
00:02:48Not like bad different, good different.
00:02:50You look good.
00:02:52I got rid of my eyebrow ring and my hair is not blue anymore.
00:02:57I thought that eyebrow ring was pretty cool back then.
00:03:00Yeah, it was the late 90s.
00:03:02We all participated in tragic fashion.
00:03:05I did make my mom go to Rivergate Mall and buy me a pair of JNCOs.
00:03:12Okay.
00:03:13Okay.
00:03:17What was that play we did junior year?
00:03:19The Wind in the Willows?
00:03:21The Wind in the Willows?
00:03:22I was a villager and you were a tree.
00:03:26I almost forgot about that.
00:03:28I will never forget standing next to Jason Giegax like this for two hours.
00:03:31Like why didn't we just build trees?
00:03:32Well then it wouldn't have been the magic of a living forest on stage.
00:03:34You sound like Mrs. Herman.
00:03:35She was one of the better ones we had junior year.
00:03:36I remember that year I had fourth block lunch and I would sit with you and all the
00:03:37kids who smoked clothes and would sit with you and all the kids who smoked clothes and
00:03:38you know what you're doing?
00:03:39I was a villager and I was a villager and you were a tree.
00:03:40You were a tree.
00:03:41I almost forgot about that.
00:03:42I will never forget standing next to Jason Giegax like this for two hours.
00:03:45Like why didn't we just build trees?
00:03:46Well then it wouldn't have been the magic of a living forest on stage.
00:03:51You sound like Mrs. Herman.
00:03:53She was one of the better ones we had junior year.
00:03:56I remember that year I had fourth block lunch and I would sit with you and all the
00:04:00kids who smoked clothes and you talk about all these bands I've never heard of.
00:04:03Yeah, I recall you visiting the alternative table.
00:04:07I thought you guys were so cool.
00:04:09You made me that mixtape.
00:04:11Yeah, you came up to me during theater class and you go, hey I made this for you and then
00:04:16you just walked off.
00:04:17You remember that?
00:04:19Yeah.
00:04:20I wore that tape out and you didn't put the name of any of the bands on the liner.
00:04:24That's because I wanted you to search them out on your own.
00:04:27Like go to the record store and listen until you figured out who they were.
00:04:35Goodbye, lay the blame on luck.
00:04:39Goodbye, lay the blame on luck.
00:04:44Love spit love.
00:04:45That's it.
00:04:46Yeah.
00:04:47I spent like a whole eight hours one Saturday at a media play listening station trying to figure out what band sang that song.
00:04:52When you did figure it out, didn't you feel like you were in a like special club?
00:04:57You know only certain people in this suburban wasteland are in the know.
00:05:01What?
00:05:04Nothing.
00:05:05What is it?
00:05:08I bet your book club is rad.
00:05:10It is, as a matter of fact.
00:05:13We're currently reading The Devil in the White City about H.H. Holes.
00:05:17While you enjoy a moderately priced Merlot and discuss.
00:05:20Actually, it is the Pinot Grigio and it is Trader Joe's brand.
00:05:25It's amazing.
00:05:27You're married, I see.
00:05:30I was, but this is actually the wrong hand.
00:05:35You?
00:05:37You know, I've been pretty work focused.
00:05:40Dated around, but nothing really serious.
00:05:42What do you do for work?
00:05:43Medical sales.
00:05:45You look like you sell medical equipment.
00:05:49What's that supposed to mean?
00:05:51You just look it.
00:05:52I mean, you look great.
00:05:53You look like a sharp dressed man with something to sell.
00:05:59But also like you still hit the bar scene wherever you live and date women a little too young for you.
00:06:09Florida.
00:06:12I live in Panama City, Florida.
00:06:14Mm-hmm.
00:06:16And I do probably go out with women a little too young for me.
00:06:19So I was right.
00:06:21Yeah, you're like Zoltar.
00:06:23If I wish for it, can you make us young again?
00:06:26I can only go forwards, not back.
00:06:28Sorry.
00:06:30That's okay.
00:06:32Sixteen was pretty awkward anyway.
00:06:34I was a 16-year-old sandwich artist.
00:06:37Oh, I remember because I worked at 31 Flavors and you traded me a foot-long cold-cut combo with extra pickles for a pint.
00:06:44A bubble gum ice cream.
00:06:46And then they fired me.
00:06:47Shit.
00:06:48I didn't know that happened.
00:06:49I'm sorry.
00:06:50It's not your fault.
00:06:51Listen, when you live a life of danger, you're bound to get burned.
00:06:53Or in my case, iced.
00:06:56You were always good at taking one for the team.
00:06:59So you got kids?
00:07:01No, not unless you count my dog.
00:07:03Oh, thank Christ you're not a cat lady.
00:07:05Cats are creepy.
00:07:06I know.
00:07:07My mother always said like a cat will smother a baby with its paw.
00:07:12Like Heathcliff or Garfield would kill your child.
00:07:15Bye y'all.
00:07:16What about you?
00:07:20Well, none that I know of, but I also travel a lot for work.
00:07:23So, you know, that's a joke.
00:07:27No kids, never.
00:07:28Hey Sean!
00:07:33What's up buddy?
00:07:35How's it going man?
00:07:37Oh, can't complain man.
00:07:39You know, my insurance company is killing it this year.
00:07:42So, decided to treat myself.
00:07:44Got a new boat.
00:07:45Whoa.
00:07:46Mastercraft X-22.
00:07:48That's awesome.
00:07:49Congratulations man.
00:07:50Yeah, just grinding man.
00:07:52Oh, who is this?
00:07:53Is this your girl?
00:07:54Hi.
00:07:56I'm Scott.
00:07:57Yeah, I know.
00:07:58We went to high school together.
00:08:00Did we?
00:08:01We did.
00:08:03Weird.
00:08:05I do not remember you at all.
00:08:09Did you used to be like really fat or something?
00:08:12Scotty!
00:08:13Go to the car.
00:08:14Oh shit, I gotta bounce.
00:08:15Hey, it was so good to see you buddy.
00:08:17And good to meet you again.
00:08:19Or, you know, congrats on your weight loss journey.
00:08:22Oh my god, I can't wait to do low.
00:08:25Do you want to get out of here?
00:08:27And go get a drink somewhere.
00:08:28So much.
00:08:29Let's go.
00:08:33If that happened before we went in, what?
00:08:35Once in a time.
00:08:36Yeah.
00:08:37I can't do it.
00:08:38It's like...
00:08:40It looks like the box in Hellraiser.
00:08:52Give me a third, I won't give you a dime with what I think about.
00:09:07How we gotta be free, and if we're gonna be free, it really must be.
00:09:11From the root of our essence.
00:09:21So...
00:09:22I...
00:09:23Sorry, go ahead.
00:09:26I forget what I was gonna say.
00:09:31So, what have you been up to since high school?
00:09:3520 years?
00:09:36Give me the greatest hits summary.
00:09:39I went to college, partied a lot, and then I started working.
00:09:45How did you land in sales?
00:09:47I sold candy.
00:09:49So, more Willy Wonka than Willy Loman.
00:09:53Oh, that's a good one.
00:09:55It's bad, I'm sorry.
00:09:58I actually sold chocolate bars with and without almonds.
00:10:01Mmm.
00:10:05Welcome to Moby Dickies.
00:10:08Are you guys good?
00:10:10Can I get you anything?
00:10:12Shots?
00:10:13Is it that kind of night?
00:10:1520 years of catching up.
00:10:16I feel like we could benefit from them.
00:10:19Two double shots of whiskey and two beers.
00:10:25Wow.
00:10:26You got it.
00:10:27So, what about you?
00:10:31Nothing exceptionally exciting.
00:10:34I thought you'd do something super cool like your own artisanal brand of soap that you sold for $20 a bar.
00:10:40Nope, not even close.
00:10:42Can I get some details?
00:10:45I took two years of art history classes at community college and I married my boyfriend.
00:10:51We moved away for a few years, got divorced, and I moved back home and now I manage a restaurant.
00:11:01That's cool.
00:11:04Just holler if you need anything.
00:11:09One, two, three.
00:11:15It burns.
00:11:17That was a good burn though.
00:11:19Tastes like Scott Brown's house.
00:11:20You know the liquor we used to steal from his parents' liquor cabinet?
00:11:23That you refilled with tea?
00:11:24Is there any other way?
00:11:26I always wondered why didn't parents ever say anything?
00:11:29I think it's one of those whole like it's better for them to party here rather than be driving around.
00:11:34I thought it was the age of boxed wine at my mom's house.
00:11:37I could always get a little bit out of that box without her noticing.
00:11:41Oh God, we did drive around drinking, didn't we?
00:11:44Yep.
00:11:46Whoever wasn't drinking would drive to Denim and Diamonds teen night and then just slam Everclear in the parking lot.
00:11:51I never went to Denim and Diamonds.
00:11:53No, you weren't missing much. Just teenagers chain smoking and line dancing.
00:11:57That sounds hilarious.
00:11:59They just like openly let a bunch of drunken teenagers just dance.
00:12:03It was the late 90s. Nobody cared.
00:12:06I guess so.
00:12:08It's a haunted house now. Denim and Diamonds. I mean.
00:12:11Really?
00:12:13It's nationally ranked top 10 and everything. It's a big deal.
00:12:17It is.
00:12:19No, I believe you. It's just, it's funny because it's this place that in my head was the place from high school and now it's just like a haunted house.
00:12:28You don't realize how much things are changing and then one day you look around and it is all different.
00:12:35Yeah, well lucky for me I'm leaving before you can destroy any more of my adolescent memories.
00:12:40When do you leave?
00:12:42Tomorrow morning.
00:12:43You came back for the reunion for one day? That's some school spirit.
00:12:49I felt like I needed to be here. Plus, we might not have another one.
00:12:52True.
00:12:54And I haven't been home since my parents moved.
00:12:56Well, allow me to be your tour guide.
00:12:57The, uh, the Pizza Inn is a hipster coffee shop. And the old grocery store is a trampoline park. And the, uh, oh, the old video rental slash tanning place has just been sitting empty for years.
00:13:12What? No Captain video and tanning?
00:13:16I know. It's like where we grew up is a ghost of itself.
00:13:20You know what hasn't changed at all? My bedroom.
00:13:26It's like a time capsule. Even the posters on the wall are the same. My mom didn't touch a thing.
00:13:35You want to see?
00:13:37Your childhood bedroom?
00:13:39Yeah. My mom lives a half mile from here.
00:13:45Sure.
00:13:48You ready?
00:13:50I am down for adventure.
00:13:58I'm just gonna put this in my pocket.
00:14:01It's called a roadie.
00:14:05I blocked you.
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00:14:33Oh, love.
00:14:41Where did you go?
00:14:48We're all lonelier.
00:14:51Sex.
00:14:52Nice.
00:14:53Shh.
00:14:54My mom probably fell asleep on the couch waiting up for me.
00:14:58We're just trying to get by.
00:15:04Take it a day at a time.
00:15:08Cause we're all lonelier.
00:15:12We're all lonelier.
00:15:15We're all lonelier.
00:15:19We're all lonelier.
00:15:22I'm gonna have to explain to her that I didn't even make it inside the reunion.
00:15:31Just make something up.
00:15:33Shayna Davis looked great, but she gained a little weight.
00:15:36And also, her kids just won the state tournament for the under 12 soccer team for the Hendersonville Fever.
00:15:40That's the real suburban gothic stuff.
00:15:44Does yours do the same?
00:15:45Nah.
00:15:46My mom's way into my sister's life.
00:15:48I think I'm kind of a lost cause at this point with the whole no marriage, no kids thing.
00:15:53Yeah, but most people get married before they even know who they are.
00:15:56And then they end up divorced.
00:15:59You waited it out.
00:16:01So when you do get hitched, it'll probably be for the long haul.
00:16:04Hitched?
00:16:05Tied down.
00:16:07Take the plunge.
00:16:08Betrothed.
00:16:09I never liked the slang of it all.
00:16:11What would you prefer?
00:16:12I don't know.
00:16:13It just all sounds so permanent.
00:16:16It's supposed to be.
00:16:17By design.
00:16:18Yeah, but I mean why does it have to be anything?
00:16:20Why do we have to have a label?
00:16:22Because it shows commitment.
00:16:24And most people our age want that kind of commitment.
00:16:28Otherwise, whenever the other person wants, they can just leave.
00:16:31Well, is that what happened to you?
00:16:33No.
00:16:34We just grew apart.
00:16:36Because that happens when you get married too young.
00:16:39I'm just saying, people get divorced at an alarming rate.
00:16:48People that see men for each other.
00:16:50Brad Pitt and Angelina.
00:16:52Johnny Depp and Winona.
00:16:54Guy Ritchie and Madonna.
00:16:56All divorced.
00:16:57They don't count.
00:16:59How's that?
00:17:00Because it's hard enough being married as a regular person,
00:17:02much less as a celebrity.
00:17:04What about Kurt and Goldie?
00:17:06What about them?
00:17:07Well, they've been together forever and they aren't married.
00:17:09Mm-mm.
00:17:10Exceptions to every rule.
00:17:11Also, they made Overboard together so they can never be apart.
00:17:15Arturo and Katarina.
00:17:17Exactly.
00:17:18That movie was on TBS the summer of 92 just continuously.
00:17:23That and Saved by the Bell reruns.
00:17:25Holy shit, that's a lot of collectibles.
00:17:28I was really into collecting stuff when I was a kid.
00:17:32Is there a Beanie Baby graveyard under this bed?
00:17:34No.
00:17:35There might be a Little Caesars Pizza Pizza Finger Puppet.
00:17:39Are those all the California Raisins?
00:17:42All the ones issued by Hardee's.
00:17:44I was a weird kid.
00:17:46I was really into figurines and collectible glasses.
00:17:49I mean, it's weird, but honestly, I'm impressed with you.
00:17:53Oh, that Alvin and the Chipmunks class I got when I was eight on my way to Chicago to visit my Gigi.
00:18:00Oh, and that Smurfs one my dad got me on a work trip to Vermont.
00:18:04Your dad went to Vermont and all he brought you was this amazing Smurfs class?
00:18:08Yeah, something like that.
00:18:10What's a Gigi?
00:18:11My grandma.
00:18:12What do you call yours?
00:18:13Memaw.
00:18:14Oh, that's very Southern of you.
00:18:17Oh.
00:18:18So, um, when did you go from avid collector of fast food memorabilia to the clove-smoking theater girl I met in high school?
00:18:291994.
00:18:32Reality Bites came out on VHS and I watched it all summer on repeat.
00:18:38He's so cheesy I can't watch him without crackers.
00:18:41That's everybody's favorite line.
00:18:43What's the best line?
00:18:44It's all about that soundtrack.
00:18:46I got that for my birthday and then that led to cloves and donut shop.
00:18:51Thanks.
00:18:52The donut shop.
00:18:53Yeah.
00:18:54I remember that place.
00:18:56Is it still there?
00:18:57Yeah, but they turned it into a vape shop.
00:19:01That's the most depressing circle of life I've ever heard.
00:19:04I know.
00:19:05If you're gonna smoke, just smoke.
00:19:07I agree.
00:19:10You wanna know what my favorite one is?
00:19:13More than anything.
00:19:15This guy, I found him behind the Hendersonville 8.
00:19:22You mean the movie theater where our parents used to drop us off but we really just were gonna go behind it and smoke cigarettes?
00:19:28It was the first moment where I remember feeling like I wasn't always gonna be some little kid.
00:19:38I had my first kiss that night with Mike Pope.
00:19:42He held my hand until my parents picked me up.
00:19:45And then what happened?
00:19:46We dated for two weeks and then he dumped me for Keely Masters because she already had boobs.
00:19:52But the kiss was nice.
00:19:55I felt special that night.
00:19:58Like I was going somewhere and someone had left this like a souvenir for me.
00:20:04I have an idea.
00:20:05What?
00:20:06You just have to trust me.
00:20:11You just have to trust me.
00:20:12You just have to trust me.
00:20:13You just have to trust me.
00:20:18I know my friend.
00:20:21She got to trust me.
00:20:22You just have to trust me.
00:20:23Welairacadense.
00:20:24Just me and make chủene killer on me.
00:20:26I tend to trust me.
00:20:27You'm only a guy.
00:20:29This big guy a steals man.
00:20:31This big guy a steals man.
00:20:32The sla果倣.
00:20:34The real guy a steal.
00:20:35The real guy always wanted me to promise you.
00:20:37Everything is easy for me.
00:20:38I can't believe I saw the devil's advocate at a megachurch.
00:21:05Yeah, now it's just a bunch of screens all broadcasting the word of God.
00:21:10Huh. Should we dare?
00:21:14What?
00:21:15Go run back. Rip a dart.
00:21:18A dart?
00:21:19A cigarette.
00:21:20I never heard that one before. And I would love to, but I don't smoke anymore, so I don't have any...
00:21:27Well, lucky for you, someone thought ahead.
00:21:30Are you a smoker?
00:21:31No, no, no. Only when I drink. But I figured with the awkwardness of a reunion, I might have a few.
00:21:37I shouldn't.
00:21:38I hate to peer pressure you, but we're here, and I have these, so...
00:21:46Okay. Yes.
00:21:48Man, I forgot how fun cigarettes are.
00:21:58I just got a buzz.
00:22:01This place was like a club in junior high. Everyone hung out here. No matter what clique you were in, on Friday nights, we all belonged here.
00:22:10I got in my first fight here.
00:22:12Eddie Scharf hit a kid from Beach with his skateboard.
00:22:16Whoa, like gleaming the cube?
00:22:18And Fran Lawrence drank a beer that some high school girl gave her, but it was just pee. It was somebody's pee.
00:22:25No way. Fran? Wasn't she the dance team captain?
00:22:29In high school. In junior high, we were the same. She was always mean to me. I hung on to her drinking that pee as a solid memory.
00:22:39Who was that kid who peed her pants during Candyman?
00:22:42Oh, that was my cousin Terry.
00:22:43Shut up.
00:22:44I can't. It's true.
00:22:46I never think about any of this stuff.
00:22:51Why? They were good times.
00:22:53They were. It's just, you grow up and you compartmentalize things, I guess.
00:23:01Well, you're smiling. Maybe you need to remember them.
00:23:06I couldn't tell you the difference in any of the last five Christmases I had, even though they were all so different.
00:23:12In different cities, with different people, I don't even know anymore. But now, I can picture everything that happened here.
00:23:21We used to not worry about anything except what movie we lied about seeing.
00:23:26Yeah. We used to be young. Now we gotta worry about dying.
00:23:30Or our parents dying.
00:23:32It's so weird watching our parents age. It's like they're going backwards to little children.
00:23:37We should get better as we get older, not worse.
00:23:41The other day, out of nowhere, my mom got super cold.
00:23:46Her blood pressure skyrocketed and her meds didn't kick in for like an hour.
00:23:50And all I could think while I was getting her a blanket and water was that I was just completely helpless.
00:23:56I couldn't fix it.
00:24:01She's okay now though, right?
00:24:03Yeah, as soon as her meds kicked in, she calmed down.
00:24:08I think I was even more freaked out than she was.
00:24:12I'm not ready to be the grown up.
00:24:15Last Christmas, for the first time, I had to help my dad set up the Christmas tree.
00:24:22I'm sitting here and I'm looking at this guy who was the biggest, strongest guy I ever knew.
00:24:27And he couldn't, he couldn't set up a 50 pound tree.
00:24:32That's good that you could help him.
00:24:35He didn't want me to.
00:24:37When we got done, he went and he sat down outside and he just looked like defeated by life.
00:24:42Like, like I embarrassed him or something.
00:24:48What if we have to put them at home someday?
00:24:50No, I can't do it.
00:24:51I'll just, I'll just hire someone.
00:24:54I'll take care of her myself.
00:24:56She would hate a stranger helping her.
00:24:59Maybe the whole not having kids thing makes us feel young.
00:25:03Like if we had kids, we'd feel more adult.
00:25:07Yeah, that seems to do the trick for most people.
00:25:10I could still have kids.
00:25:12I'm over 35.
00:25:13Mine would be a geriatric pregnancy.
00:25:16Wow, that's dark.
00:25:18Yeah, I know.
00:25:20God, it scares the shit out of me, Gold.
00:25:23Why?
00:25:24Cause one day I'm gonna wake up and I'm gonna be old and I won't even have anybody to help me set up a tree.
00:25:35Let's make tonight one of those go down in the books nights.
00:25:39Let's do something that we wanted to do more than anything when we were 14.
00:25:44I think we might have different definitions on that.
00:25:48What did you always want to do?
00:25:50I wanted to take Jesse Spano to the max.
00:25:52You?
00:25:53I wanted to host Alternative Nation and then I interview Gavin Rossdale and then he falls madly in love with me.
00:26:00The lead singer of Bush?
00:26:01Yes, yes he is.
00:26:04I checked that CD out from the public library and wore it out.
00:26:08Glycerine!
00:26:10What about the junior parking lot?
00:26:12The kids still hang out there?
00:26:14I don't know.
00:26:16I never did.
00:26:18Well then we should go.
00:26:19They might think we're someone's parents.
00:26:21Yeah.
00:26:22It'll be awesome.
00:26:24I can see you
00:26:28Sitting down talking about
00:26:32Crosstown Kids
00:26:39I can see you
00:26:43Sitting down talking about
00:26:46Are you excited?
00:26:48Beyond belief.
00:26:50It's smaller than I remember.
00:26:52What do we do?
00:26:54We just talked and sat on cars and occasionally someone looked old enough to buy beer.
00:26:58Basically dazed and confused.
00:27:01There was this one guy. He came junior year and he had like a full mustache and he always had beer.
00:27:06And then one day he was just gone.
00:27:08He sounds like a narc.
00:27:09That's what we thought.
00:27:11I wish we had a tailgate and then it would be the true junior parking lot experience.
00:27:29Done.
00:27:31Now all we're missing is the booze.
00:27:41You are full service tonight.
00:27:46Yeah well if I learned anything being an Eagle Scout it's always be prepared.
00:27:50You were an Eagle Scout.
00:27:51I was.
00:27:53With merit badges and all?
00:27:5521.
00:27:56Wow.
00:27:57Yeah I mean basically I'm MacGyver.
00:27:59Could you make me a splint if I broke my arm?
00:28:02Easy. Give me something hard.
00:28:04Birdhouse.
00:28:06I can do that without power tools like just my bare hands.
00:28:08Boating.
00:28:09I've had my boaters license since I was 15 years old.
00:28:13I am impressed.
00:28:15That might be the first time a female has ever been impressed by my Eagle Scouting.
00:28:19No way.
00:28:20It's hard to believe right?
00:28:29Are you like looking for someone?
00:28:33Like who?
00:28:35Like your kid?
00:28:37Why do you ask?
00:28:39Cause you're like... old?
00:28:43How old do you think we are?
00:28:45Like... 40?
00:28:48This kid's an asshole.
00:28:50Do we look 40?
00:28:52Yeah. Do we?
00:28:54Like you got a house and a dog and then called it adulting?
00:28:58Yeah, well we are not 40.
00:29:02Okay well you certainly fucking look like it.
00:29:07Are you... cops?
00:29:09Yeah.
00:29:11I'm a detective.
00:29:12She's my partner.
00:29:13We're on the beat to bust dickheads for smoking vape pens.
00:29:16Okay I actually just got back from wilderness camp and it was really hard for me to quit and this is just a momentary thing.
00:29:22It's just a little slip.
00:29:24What is your name?
00:29:26Apple.
00:29:28Like Coldplay's kid?
00:29:30No, like Fiona.
00:29:32That's pretty cool actually.
00:29:35If I ever had a kid that smoked out of a weed pen, I would be embarrassed.
00:29:39Yeah.
00:29:40Why don't you guys smoke weed like you're supposed to in high school?
00:29:44Out of an apple or like a can that you poke too many holes in and you suck some seeds through.
00:29:50Pleasure talking to you tonight.
00:29:53Um...
00:29:55Why don't you guys go?
00:29:56Go!
00:29:57Just get out of here.
00:29:59Go! Go! Go! You little island of misfit toys!
00:30:02Hey, guys?
00:30:05Fuck you guys.
00:30:09Fuck that guy. We are not 40.
00:30:13I still have like two and a half years.
00:30:15I only have two.
00:30:17Fuck. Is that real?
00:30:19Am I gonna be 40?
00:30:21It's happening.
00:30:23I don't feel 38.
00:30:25It feels like it took so long to grow up.
00:30:28Now it just flies by.
00:30:29I was gonna be editor of Jane magazine or like start a band. I did not dream of slinging chicken wings.
00:30:39I don't want to buy anything. I don't want to sell anything. And I don't want to, I don't want to process anything.
00:30:44What?
00:30:46Say anything. It's what Lloyd Dobler says to dad when he asks him what he wants to be when he grows up.
00:30:51And look at you now. Top salesman of insulin pumps and compression socks.
00:31:01So, uh, when are you gonna start that band?
00:31:06Can't fight this either. I can't see her till I'm foaming at the mouth.
00:31:13Side B track three.
00:31:14Veruca Salt.
00:31:15Yeah.
00:31:17Yeah, I'd actually pay to see that.
00:31:19Oh, yeah?
00:31:20Two dollars on a Tuesday. It'd be great.
00:31:23What about you?
00:31:24Oh, I can't sing for shit.
00:31:26Oh, dummy. I mean, what were you gonna be by 38?
00:31:30I don't think I had any idea what I wanted to do when I grew up.
00:31:34Successful sales guy. Could be worse.
00:31:38True.
00:31:39And you, you run like a whole restaurant. Is it an Applebee's?
00:31:46Nope. It's local. I'm a local working at a local restaurant. Kind of exactly where I was in high school.
00:31:54Although the only difference is that now, I have made it to the junior parking lot with the cool kids.
00:32:00I wish it wasn't Applebee's. Then we could have all-you-can-eat riblets.
00:32:09So, what's our next stop?
00:32:12How about your restaurant?
00:32:14Uh, what time is it?
00:32:17It's 11.30, 12.
00:32:19Sorry, sir. We're closed for business till Monday morning at 10.
00:32:24The thing is, I think I know someone who has the keys.
00:32:27Nope. She left those at the house.
00:32:28We could go back and get them. I want to see this chicken shack. Come on.
00:32:33I, yeah, I really don't want you to.
00:32:35What's the issue?
00:32:36Um, I don't, I don't go there on my days off, so.
00:32:39Come on, it'll be fun. We'll have a good time.
00:32:41It's a restaurant! Wait, why do you want to go? What are you, like, mocking me? I mean, what the fuck?
00:32:47Oh wait, of course not. I, I'm just interested. I'm sorry.
00:32:52We could go anywhere else. I mean, anywhere you want. In the whole town.
00:33:02DCAC.
00:33:04The batting cages?
00:33:06And putt-putt and go-karts and things.
00:33:08Really, that's, that's where you want to go?
00:33:10Yeah. I spent a lot of time there as a kid. We used to take our bikes from Art Art Cena's house. It was really cool.
00:33:14Alright, let's do it!
00:33:45Looks like it hadn't been touched since the 90s.
00:33:53We should go play.
00:33:58It's probably hot.
00:34:02What, what are you doing?
00:34:05You coming, or am I gonna play baseball by myself?
00:34:08Wait! Wait!
00:34:26Have you ever thrown a baseball?
00:34:28I played softball when I was 11, so I think I can handle it.
00:34:33Okay.
00:34:35Whoa!
00:34:37Oh, shit!
00:34:39A little tight there, wild thing.
00:34:41I was warming up.
00:34:47Ah!
00:34:49Woo!
00:34:51Still got it.
00:34:53Don't make me throw the good stuff.
00:34:55Just easy and down the middle.
00:34:59Ah! Walk-off homer!
00:35:01So you were pretty good.
00:35:03I was pretty average.
00:35:05How so?
00:35:06Well, I was always pretty good at everything.
00:35:08Ah!
00:35:10Shit.
00:35:12But I was never great at anything.
00:35:22What?
00:35:24You don't think you're great at anything?
00:35:26No.
00:35:27There has to be something.
00:35:29I'm good enough.
00:35:31I always made the team, made good enough grades, but I never hit the home run in the ninth, so I already disappoint.
00:35:37You're not disappointing.
00:35:40Thanks.
00:35:42You're welcome.
00:35:43I remember when I was 13.
00:35:45We had this pretty big tournament, and we got put out early, and I told my mom to pick me up here.
00:35:50See, my mom hated baseball, so she never came to any of the games.
00:35:53Even in high school?
00:35:55She came to the big ones.
00:35:56I'd run out of all the money I had by 5 p.m. that day.
00:35:59So I just kind of hung out until they closed at 7, and then I went outside, and I sat on the curb, and I waited for her.
00:36:05She was 30 minutes late.
00:36:07When she picked me up, I got in the car, and she said,
00:36:10Well, did you win?
00:36:12And I said, No.
00:36:13And she said,
00:36:15You're not great at baseball.
00:36:17You're okay.
00:36:19But you're not great.
00:36:21She didn't say that.
00:36:23She did.
00:36:25And a few Christmases ago, she said,
00:36:27Well, I just told you that because I didn't like baseball, and I didn't want to have to sit and watch it all the time.
00:36:33She told me that trying to get me to quit.
00:36:36But you didn't quit.
00:36:38Nope.
00:36:40But I never asked for a ride again, either.
00:36:42Rode my bike.
00:36:44Well, until I saved up enough money bagging groceries at HGLs to buy a car.
00:36:51I just didn't want to feel like a burden to her, you know?
00:36:54What do you mean?
00:36:57After she said that, I, um...
00:37:02I just didn't want to ask for anything from anyone, you know?
00:37:06Is that weird?
00:37:08No.
00:37:10You were just trying to figure it out.
00:37:12And you were 13.
00:37:14Which is maybe the most awkward point of adolescence.
00:37:17She's a good mom.
00:37:20She just didn't like baseball, you know?
00:37:23My mom was at everything.
00:37:25She made up for your mom.
00:37:27Every time I started anything new.
00:37:30Dance, music, painting, she was always there. She was front and center.
00:37:35That's pretty cool.
00:37:37Yeah.
00:37:39I didn't think so then.
00:37:40But I do know.
00:37:48You got one more ball.
00:37:50Bottom of the ninth?
00:37:52Yep. Bases are full.
00:37:54Loaded. Bases are loaded.
00:37:56You know what I mean!
00:37:58I do. I do.
00:38:00You ready?
00:38:02Almost.
00:38:11Oh!
00:38:13Oh!
00:38:17Oh!
00:38:19Oh!
00:38:21Second base!
00:38:22Woo!
00:38:23Third base!
00:38:25Oh!
00:38:26Yes!
00:38:27And he does it!
00:38:28The crowd goes wild!
00:38:30I'm a hero.
00:38:33So, uh...
00:38:35Was that my moment?
00:38:37I don't know.
00:38:38The night is young.
00:38:40It's like 11.
00:38:43The sun's not up.
00:38:45So we still have time.
00:38:47For what?
00:38:49Whatever we want.
00:38:52What do you want?
00:38:56This?
00:38:58Us in some rundown batting cages.
00:39:01Basically.
00:39:03I still have one place I want to see.
00:39:06And where would that be?
00:39:08We gotta cut through the woods.
00:39:10It's the first school I ever attended.
00:39:12Me and the whiskey.
00:39:15The whiskey is me.
00:39:18All the time.
00:39:21Keep with the drinking.
00:39:24Just to ease my mind.
00:39:27This time the whiskey.
00:39:30Put the poison right into me.
00:39:37Where are we?
00:39:39Everything I ever learned, I learned when I was six years old doing David Deaton karate.
00:39:47Can you break a board?
00:39:49You make a fun of me?
00:39:51No, not at all, karate kid.
00:39:53You wanna see what this place did for me?
00:39:56Show me.
00:40:00Is that you?
00:40:02That's me when I was six years old.
00:40:04You are not six in this picture.
00:40:06I am.
00:40:08You're the size of a ten year old.
00:40:10How much did you weigh?
00:40:12I don't know. A lot.
00:40:14It's like you stayed the same weight and you just got a foot taller.
00:40:18Pretty much.
00:40:19They trained you so hard you lost the weight.
00:40:23I guess when I was a little kid I was kind of a pain in the ass.
00:40:26So to get me to shut up after school my mom would take me to fast food and after a year of that I...
00:40:31I looked like that.
00:40:33Wow.
00:40:35That's my first day in training.
00:40:37I ended up becoming a brown belt.
00:40:39How close is that to black?
00:40:40It's one away.
00:40:42Why didn't you get the black belt?
00:40:44I don't know.
00:40:45You were so close you should go back and finish.
00:40:48There's a lot of things I never finished that I should go back and do.
00:40:51There's a lot I never started.
00:40:56This place gave me discipline.
00:40:58Well, that and you can only be called a fat ass so many times before you do something about it.
00:41:04All you needed was a strip mall dojo.
00:41:07And people say bullying is bad.
00:41:10I was a runner.
00:41:12Were you fast?
00:41:14The fastest.
00:41:16Then the boys caught up to me and it wasn't so cool to beat them anymore.
00:41:19Aw, that's horseshit.
00:41:21I felt like I could fly.
00:41:23I bet you could.
00:41:24You were fat.
00:41:25I was a gangly kid.
00:41:27And boys love to make fun of the tall girl.
00:41:29But it is hard to make fun of her if she can outrun you in every race.
00:41:33And I could beat all of them.
00:41:35Until one day, I couldn't.
00:41:37What happened?
00:41:39Sixth grade field day.
00:41:41We lined up for the hundred and for the first time ever I got beat by Joshy Mallard.
00:41:46What? No rematch?
00:41:48Never. I just stopped and tried really hard not to get noticed after that.
00:41:52It'll work?
00:41:57Maybe too well.
00:42:05So, you gonna break a board for me or what?
00:42:19You ready?
00:42:21These hands are lethal.
00:42:23They are lethal weapons.
00:42:25Okay.
00:42:30I missed it!
00:42:32Hold on.
00:42:33Are you ready?
00:42:34Yes.
00:42:41God, I love karate!
00:42:44That's badass!
00:42:46Why are there so many movies about karate in the 80's?
00:42:50Aside from the Karate Kid?
00:42:52You kidding me?
00:42:54Um, Best of the Best, American Ninja, The Last Dragon, all three Karate Kids?
00:42:59There's three?
00:43:00You know part one.
00:43:01Part two, Daniel-san goes with Mr. Miyagi to Okinawa and fights Chosen.
00:43:05Part three, a reluctant Daniel LaRusso fights karate bad boy Mike Barnes in the All Valley.
00:43:11Wow, you really love Karate Kid.
00:43:13It's the first movie I remember seeing.
00:43:15You know, I know like I had seen other movies before that, but it's the first one I vividly remember.
00:43:21Mine was Footloose.
00:43:23Oh, did you ever get like so angry that you drove your VW Beetle into like a grand silo blasting moving pictures?
00:43:29Aw, close. I had a Volvo station wagon and I was blasting Portishead.
00:43:36That tracks actually?
00:43:40You think one day we're gonna like romanticize all that alt rock and think it's the greatest thing ever like our parents did 70's music?
00:43:47Like the Eagles?
00:43:48Exactly.
00:43:49The Eagles suck.
00:43:50So does Steve Miller Band.
00:43:51I'll drink to that.
00:43:52You know who else is overrated? Radiohead.
00:43:55Shut your mouth!
00:43:56What? I'll give you the first three albums, but after that it's just noise.
00:44:00Kid A came out after OK Computer and it is magnificent.
00:44:05I'm just saying, I personally would much rather listen to Third Eye Blind.
00:44:09Now I'm annoyed.
00:44:11I said I liked the first three albums.
00:44:12I am dead.
00:44:13Okay, I'll give you the first four.
00:44:15Amnesiac is their fifth album and it is great.
00:44:19Okay, now I have clearly touched a nerve and I'm sorry.
00:44:23Truce.
00:44:25Truce.
00:44:40Should we go?
00:44:42Sunrise on the football field?
00:44:45You wanna Instagram it?
00:44:47It's a fitting end for the night.
00:44:51Okay.
00:44:53Let's go make a yearbook photo op.
00:44:56I had to take him back to the dojo.
00:45:11All this time there was never a girl that got you?
00:45:24Well there was one a long time ago I thought did.
00:45:27What happened?
00:45:29Did you ever see that movie The Mist?
00:45:31Never heard of it.
00:45:32This movie came out in 07 about this mist that comes through this small town and inside the mist are all these like humongous bugs.
00:45:38I don't do bugs.
00:45:40I hate them.
00:45:42Anyway, most of the movie takes place in the supermarket where all the townspeople have like held up and they're waiting for the army to get there and save them.
00:45:50But eventually they realize they have to fight and save themselves.
00:45:54So what, she didn't like bugs either?
00:45:55I don't know, but she didn't like the movie.
00:45:58And so we're riding home in the car and she's talking all about this like bougie new restaurant she wants to go to and I just like, I jokingly say I know this great place.
00:46:10This like real mom and pop place.
00:46:14And she asked me in all earnest, she says, well what is it?
00:46:17And I say, Outback.
00:46:21No rules, just right.
00:46:24Yeah.
00:46:26And then she pulled the car over and she looked at me with this like really disappointed look.
00:46:32And she said, I can't do this.
00:46:36And I said, well there's a Chili's.
00:46:38Good one.
00:46:39And then she said something that I just never quite been able to shake.
00:46:44What did she say?
00:46:47She said, it's not your fault.
00:46:49You're simple.
00:46:51And you remind me that I don't want to be.
00:46:58Who would want to be with someone as simple?
00:47:01Her loss.
00:47:04She did like pumpkin spice lattes.
00:47:06Ugh.
00:47:08I'd take simple over basic any day.
00:47:11Thanks.
00:47:27So are you nervous?
00:47:29See the school?
00:47:30Yeah.
00:47:31I see it every day.
00:47:32You, you, it's been like 20 years.
00:47:34I saw it today actually when I drove by.
00:47:38And I did get this nervous feeling, but I think it was just for the reunion.
00:47:42God, I was nervous too.
00:47:44Yeah?
00:47:45Yeah, I don't make it.
00:47:47Don't you see all these people all the time since you live here?
00:47:50No, I don't make it a habit of seeing these people.
00:47:52I don't make it a habit of having nights like this.
00:47:54Not, not since I moved back.
00:47:56How come?
00:47:57What am I going to talk to people about?
00:47:59What Netflix show I'm binging?
00:48:00Or maybe they can tell me about their kids' latest greatest achievement.
00:48:05Or explain loan refinancing to me.
00:48:08Or talk to me about whatever crap they sell.
00:48:11Ugh, boring.
00:48:13You don't get it because you moved away and stayed away.
00:48:16Living that pineapple willies life.
00:48:18When you come back and everyone you knew has turned into their parents, it sucks.
00:48:23Yeah, but you aren't one of those people.
00:48:27How would you know?
00:48:29You what?
00:48:32I married the first guy to put a ring on it.
00:48:35My ex ran off with a photography student, ten years younger than me.
00:48:41We didn't grow apart, he just upgraded to a younger version of who I was and took off to San Francisco.
00:48:48Well, he sounds like a poser.
00:48:53No, I'm the poser.
00:48:55I never did any of the things that you thought that cool theater girl would do with her life.
00:48:59I have a job, not a career.
00:49:03I'm divorced and I live at home with my mom.
00:49:09Why would anybody be interested in what I have going on?
00:49:18I should have told you that was where I live.
00:49:26I don't sell anything.
00:49:29I'm not a salesman, I...
00:49:32What?
00:49:34I'm a painter.
00:49:36I'm not like anything cool like art, just like drywall and windows and doors and cabinets.
00:49:42I never sold anything in my entire life except chocolate bars to get my little league uniform.
00:49:49I never even went to college.
00:49:52I don't have any money.
00:49:54Actually, I have $57 to my name because I spent the rest of it to come to this reunion.
00:50:00I don't even live in Florida.
00:50:02I live like an hour away in Bowling Green.
00:50:06And in my head Panama City sounded like really impressive but now that I think about it, like, not so much.
00:50:15I shouldn't have lied to you.
00:50:20I just didn't want to be me.
00:50:26I just wanted to seem impressive to you.
00:50:28Was the rest true?
00:50:32Karate, baseball, all that?
00:50:35Scouts on her.
00:50:38But are you really married with four kids and a 40-year mortgage?
00:50:45Never married.
00:50:47No kids, that's all true.
00:50:49Okay.
00:50:51Good.
00:50:55It was worth it to paint all those houses to have this night with you.
00:50:59You still want to see where I work?
00:51:04More than anything.
00:51:12You work at a lake bar?
00:51:14We were there earlier.
00:51:16This is the view from the back.
00:51:18You work at Moby Dickies?
00:51:21I'm the manager.
00:51:23We sat there for like 20 minutes and you never even let on.
00:51:26That server's new. She doesn't know me yet.
00:51:29You got any other secrets you're keeping from me?
00:51:32That was it.
00:51:34Anything else I should know about you?
00:51:37I drive the same car I did in high school, which is an 85 Bronco.
00:51:42And I live in a really shitty one-bedroom apartment.
00:51:46Yeah, but you don't live with your mom.
00:51:48Living with your mom doesn't bother me.
00:51:49It's the figurines that are the sign of a serial killer.
00:51:52Shut up.
00:51:53Did you bring me to this park so you could dispose of my remains?
00:51:56Is that what's happening here?
00:51:57I would never hurt you.
00:51:59Well that's good because I do believe someone owes me the Moby Dickies equivalent of riblets.
00:52:07Deal.
00:52:08I feel like my mom just dropped me off on the first day of school. Don't you?
00:52:26Yeah, except I just got off the bus after Todd Healey beat the shit out of me.
00:52:29I walked right in that door and all around me were older kids.
00:52:32And I just put my head down and looked for somebody I knew.
00:52:34I saw Sarah. I walked as fast as I could towards her.
00:52:37What happened?
00:52:39She's still my best friend. She lives in New York.
00:52:40I just remember it being like a sea of people. Like the whole first week was a blur.
00:52:41You couldn't look the juniors in the eye because they liked the fight and the seniors, they didn't even care we were there.
00:52:55I have to go inside.
00:52:57How am I gonna do that? It's locked up pretty tight.
00:52:59week was a blur. You couldn't look the juniors in the eye because they liked the fight and
00:53:02the seniors, they didn't even care we were there.
00:53:05I have to go inside.
00:53:06How am we going to do that? It's locked up pretty tight.
00:53:11I have an idea, but it is risky.
00:53:14Well, what is it?
00:53:16There's a trick to opening that side shop door. You push in a little softly and then
00:53:21you've got to pull really hard.
00:53:23How do you remember that?
00:53:25I don't know. It just came to me.
00:53:28I have to go in.
00:53:32Let's do it. Let's go.
00:53:49Maybe it's another door.
00:53:51You want me to try?
00:53:55Not into it.
00:54:01Here we go.
00:54:03guitar solo
00:54:33guitar solo
00:55:03guitar solo
00:55:06I miss this place.
00:55:09Yeah?
00:55:10Yeah, I didn't know it then, but we had it made in high school.
00:55:15We really did.
00:55:16Everything was so hopeful.
00:55:19We could be anything we wanted to be.
00:55:23Senior Manjun's class was right there.
00:55:26I love that class. It was so cool.
00:55:28That was Coach Harold's class. He taught geography.
00:55:32When we studied early America, he just put far and away on the TV.
00:55:36Why can't you say you like my heart shining?
00:55:44That's all we got.
00:55:45So what are we going to do now?
00:56:00I love it in here.
00:56:02I used to come in here anytime I got overwhelmed with all the shit that is high school.
00:56:08You never seemed to care about all that stuff.
00:56:14Are you kidding?
00:56:15I was a teenager.
00:56:17I cared so much what people thought about me.
00:56:21I felt like everybody could see all my insecurities.
00:56:24Me too.
00:56:26I still feel that way sometimes.
00:56:28It's like, did I dress right for tonight?
00:56:29It was a whole hour process of me trying to figure out what a wealthy person would dress like.
00:56:34Don't think I wasn't about to have a full-blown panic attack walking into that reunion.
00:56:40Why do we sound like scared teenagers?
00:56:42We're supposed to grow out of that.
00:56:44Instead, it just morphed into the adult version.
00:56:47Yeah, I think at our age that that's just what wine and antidepressants are for.
00:56:57What?
00:56:58You still take pictures?
00:57:01Not in a long time.
00:57:03It's not as cathartic now that everything's digital.
00:57:08I liked going in the darkroom.
00:57:10It was fun to watch things develop.
00:57:13You keep albums of your stuff?
00:57:15No, I ended up getting rid of all of them.
00:57:17You said your mother keeps everything.
00:57:20Yeah, I got rid of them.
00:57:21Except for one.
00:57:22It's really the most basic thing I've ever shot,
00:57:25but she has it hanging up in the entryway of the house.
00:57:28Well, what is it?
00:57:30It's a viewfinder.
00:57:31Like a red one from the 80s?
00:57:35Yep.
00:57:36Why that?
00:57:37I had one when I was a kid, and I just loved it so much.
00:57:42And no matter where I was, I could always be somewhere else whenever I wanted.
00:57:48I had this one wheel that I got at the Mountain Mall in Gatlinburg,
00:57:53and it had all of these different places from New York City.
00:57:56Like, it had the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty.
00:58:01Sounds cool.
00:58:02Yeah, and then when I was five for my fifth birthday, I got a light bright,
00:58:07and I didn't even care because I just loved my viewfinder so much.
00:58:10I carried it with me everywhere.
00:58:13And my mom hid it because she thought I was codependent on it.
00:58:18Did you find it?
00:58:19I didn't.
00:58:21But I saw one one day at the thrift store junior year.
00:58:25It didn't work.
00:58:26It was pretty beat up,
00:58:27but there was just something about it that was really beautiful to me,
00:58:31so I took a picture.
00:58:34Why did you keep that picture out of all of them?
00:58:36Because I won the photography award at the art fair,
00:58:39and then I gave it to her for Mother's Day,
00:58:43and she had to put it up.
00:58:45Savage.
00:58:46Bitch.
00:58:49You ever think about taking pictures again?
00:58:52Sometimes.
00:58:54If you're good at something, you should do it.
00:58:56It doesn't matter about the money.
00:58:59I think you're right.
00:59:01Take it from me.
00:59:02I am a painter.
00:59:07What?
00:59:10Let's get in.
00:59:12Now?
00:59:14Why not?
00:59:16Okay.
00:59:19If you've ever found connected to someone else.
00:59:33So much that you lose.
00:59:39All of your identity.
00:59:49Hang on to yourself.
00:59:55Don't let it...
00:59:57How do you feel?
00:59:59We broke into DCAC, the high school.
01:00:03We swam in the pool.
01:00:05I don't think I could be any more of a rebel if I tried.
01:00:08Oh, that's...
01:00:10That's good.
01:00:12How do you feel?
01:00:15Like I had a really good time,
01:00:17and I wish it wasn't going to be over.
01:00:20Yeah.
01:00:21Me too.
01:00:23It's too bad you don't live here.
01:00:24We could do this any time.
01:00:27I would really like that.
01:00:31You might get sick of hometown hangouts.
01:00:33Nah.
01:00:34I love parking lots and cheap liquor.
01:00:37What happens when we run into one of your old buddies,
01:00:39and they want to know why you're with me?
01:00:42I mean, we were in different circles.
01:00:44We never really hung out, except we're in theater class.
01:00:46We should have.
01:00:51I'm only like an hour away.
01:00:53We can hang.
01:00:57I could get you into my book club.
01:01:02That's worth the drive itself.
01:01:03I knew the book club would seal it.
01:01:11One more stop.
01:01:15Lead the way.
01:01:16I think I got it.
01:01:25Where it all began.
01:01:29Like this.
01:01:31For two hours.
01:01:36I can't believe my night ended up here.
01:01:43God, I haven't been in here since graduation.
01:01:45It feels like yesterday.
01:01:48It does tonight.
01:01:50All of this, everywhere we've been tonight, this has been perfect.
01:01:55The only thing that could have made this any better is if Fright Night was happening.
01:02:01I never went to that.
01:02:02Oh my God, it was the best.
01:02:05I had t-shirts and everything.
01:02:06I would literally kill for one of those t-shirts.
01:02:08Did you dance at Fright Night?
01:02:09Did you dance at Fright Night?
01:02:10Well, I, no.
01:02:12I dance a little.
01:02:14I don't think I even danced at prom.
01:02:16I went to prom with a 23-year-old who worked at the donut shop.
01:02:20Oh, I didn't dance at prom because my date got so wasted in the parking lot, she spent the
01:02:26whole night in the bathroom throwing up and I had her home at 10.30.
01:02:29A real gentleman.
01:02:32So, um, neither one of us even slow danced at prom?
01:02:39Or the reunion?
01:02:42Oh, wow.
01:02:51Whoa.
01:02:52Whoa.
01:02:52Whoa.
01:02:59Who is this?
01:03:07You have to go to media play to figure that out.
01:03:12Should we?
01:03:15Yeah.
01:03:17I'm really bad.
01:03:19Mm-hmm.
01:03:21Hey.
01:03:21I'm sorry.
01:03:23Fuck.
01:03:24I think it's like this.
01:03:25Hmm?
01:03:29Mmm-hmm.
01:03:40Yeah.
01:03:41You got it.
01:03:42Hmm-hmm.
01:03:44Woo.
01:03:45Woo!
01:03:46Woo!
01:03:47Woo!
01:03:48Woo!
01:03:52Woo!
01:03:53Woo.
01:03:53Woo!
01:03:54Woo!
01:03:54Woo!
01:03:55Woo!
01:03:56Woo!
01:03:56Woo!
01:03:57Woo!
01:03:58Woo!
01:03:58Woo!
01:03:58guitar solo
01:04:28You all can't be in here!
01:04:43Do you know how many laws you broke tonight?
01:04:46How many?
01:04:47A lot.
01:04:48Brenda?
01:04:49I got this.
01:04:50I'm being supportive.
01:04:52Look, we talked about this.
01:04:54Professionality at work.
01:04:56I just...
01:04:56I mean, look.
01:04:57We're really, really sorry.
01:05:00Hmm.
01:05:01Well, you broke into a public school.
01:05:03You had booze on school property.
01:05:05What the hell were you thinking?
01:05:06How did you even know we were in here?
01:05:09You set off a silent alarm.
01:05:11Okay.
01:05:13I don't remember that being here.
01:05:17What?
01:05:18You didn't think that maybe in the last 20 years, HHS would update their security system?
01:05:22Pickles.
01:05:24No one calls me that anymore, Sean.
01:05:26That's Interim Vice Principal Dewey to you.
01:05:29Don't you remember this guy?
01:05:30He wore, like, Big Johnson shirts every day to school?
01:05:33And he tried to break the Guinness World Record for most pickles eaten in one sitting.
01:05:38It is you.
01:05:39Didn't you have to go to the hospital?
01:05:44Yes.
01:05:45I did have some slight gastrointestinal issues that required a very brief hospital visit.
01:05:52Did you win?
01:05:53Win what?
01:05:55The pickle contest.
01:05:57The pickle record.
01:05:58No.
01:06:01I did not.
01:06:02And I haven't touched one since.
01:06:07You think this is funny?
01:06:09No.
01:06:09No, ma'am.
01:06:10No.
01:06:11Brenda, why don't you go out front and wait for the police to arrive?
01:06:15But I'm security.
01:06:16I'm supposed to maintain the perimeter.
01:06:18I think we'll be okay.
01:06:20Mm-hmm.
01:06:21Are you two a, like, a thing?
01:06:33Do you know how much trouble I could get you both in?
01:06:36Tonight was our reunion.
01:06:39I know.
01:06:40I was there.
01:06:42Oh.
01:06:42I mean, we didn't actually make it inside.
01:06:46Yeah.
01:06:47You missed a good time.
01:06:49I totally understand letting the emotions of a class reunion get to you.
01:06:56But you can't break into a school with alcohol.
01:07:00The HPD are sitting out of the unit to make sure you didn't vandalize any school property.
01:07:04And if you did, I'm going to press charges against both of you.
01:07:08We didn't.
01:07:11Okay.
01:07:12I'm going to walk around this entire school.
01:07:16So if there's anything you want to tell them, let's just come clean now, okay?
01:07:19This quick to do.
01:07:20Drop police are on the scene.
01:07:2310-4.
01:07:24Come on, Pickles.
01:07:26Aren't we blowing this whole thing out of proportion?
01:07:29You two kids stay here.
01:07:34I'm going to go greet the law enforcement.
01:07:42What's going to happen to us?
01:07:44Fine at most.
01:07:49Thanks again for tonight.
01:07:55Are you kidding me?
01:07:56I should be thanking you.
01:08:02And thank you for not judging me.
01:08:07For not being who you thought I was going to be.
01:08:11That's just you.
01:08:19That's always just you.
01:08:21Back then and tonight, I was just too scared to ask you out.
01:08:27And I've been thinking about what might have happened for 20 years.
01:08:34I didn't go to that reunion tonight to see anybody else.
01:08:38I went to see you.
01:08:40And you were exactly who I wanted you to be.
01:08:43I love this song.
01:09:03Side B, track three.
01:09:06What?
01:09:07This song is on side B and it's track three of that tape you made me junior year.
01:09:12How do you remember that?
01:09:17I told you I wore it out.
01:09:19You're not simple.
01:09:31I think you're perfect.
01:09:37You're always you.
01:09:54Always you.
01:09:56Be true.
01:09:58It was always you.
01:10:03Always you.
01:10:04My brain is wet
01:10:20I keep calling you
01:10:26I break a sweat
01:10:34I've been following you
01:10:38My brain is wet
01:10:43If I had to find someone
01:10:50I'd find someone like you
01:10:59If I had to find someone
01:11:02About someone like you
01:11:05Trying to win the battle
01:11:12When you're not sure
01:11:17What the game
01:11:22What the game is
01:11:25Maybe I'll just go home
01:11:34If I had to find someone
01:11:41I'd find someone like you
01:11:45If I had to find someone
01:11:52I'd find someone like you
01:11:56If I had to find someone
01:12:13I'd find someone like you
01:12:18If I had to find someone
01:12:25I'd find someone like you
01:12:29If I had to find someone
01:12:36I'd find someone like you
01:12:40I'd find someone like you