- Hi, I'm Bryce Shivers. - And I'm Lisa Eversman.
Are you a scientist?
- Are you a chemistry professor?
both: No?
- Then fill your room with...
both: Science Lab Furniture for Men.
- What is science?
You don't know. That's fine.
- Do you like microscopes and little beakers and...
Just fill your room with it. Put it on your shelves.
Guys like this kind of thing.
It's not sports. It's kind of smart.
Ooh, test tubes... what are they for?
Does he do experiments?
You want this? $400. - $1500.
- $800. How much is this one?
[glass shatters] - Christ.
- That's a little bit of money that we've just spent
that we don't really have anymore.
Where are we-- a dining room or a lab?
- I can't tell.
- Use this for desserts, even if you have some pud--
[glass shatters]
- Jesus! That's $600.
- Ugh.
both: Science Lab Furniture for Men.
- You can get something like an old dentist chair
and put it in your living room.
This is great.
Damn it.
What looks cooler than a periodic table?
- Or a flask? - Or a Petri dish?
- Or a beaker?
[glass shattering]
- How many beakers are there even?
[glass shattering]
- I didn't actually fall or break anything.
I just walked into that room,
and I saw one of those big metal shelves
just fall over into another one,
and it was like a domino effect,
'cause then it hit into another one
and another one and another one.
- That's science.
- Great, so I'm gonna take one of these beakers.
How much is it? - It's $400.
[Washed Out's "Feel It All Around" playing]
[dreamy chillwave music]
♪ ♪
[exciting music]
- Yes.
♪ ♪
- Almost there.
Sync up the app. - It is synced.
- Oh, there we go. - Wow.
- So, what does it do?
- It--it tells the time.
- It's very exact. 12:23.
- Hey Dave, there's a fitness app.
- Where, where, where? Oh, there, I got it.
- See it?
Dave, I just took a step, and it counted my step.
[upbeat music]
- 29, 30, 31. - Oh, I'm at 37.
- If you run in place, you get more numbers, look.
- Oh, really?
♪ ♪
- Wow, this thing's amazing.
- Dave, this makes me think we're not getting
enough steps in our life.
- There's gotta be a way to get more steps in faster.
[dramatic music]
- Runners, take your marks.
Get set.
[starter gun fires] Go!
- [muttering rhythmically]
Look how many steps we're doing.
- We're gonna set a world record.
[slide whistle] [crunch]
- Yah! - Ow! Ah!
- Ugh. - Ugh, I heard a snap.
- I can't move my foot.
- I'm gonna try to keep going. - Me too.
- Ow.
- We're still in the race, right?
- Yeah, and winning still. - No!
- Come on, guys. Hey, come on.
- Ow, Kath! - Come on.
- Ow. - I'm gonna just crawl, Dave.
- Gah! We're still in the race.
[grunts]
- I'll finish for the both of us.
- Kath, I'll cheer you on. Go!
- Aah!
Aah!
- I believe in you.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
[mellow pop in background]
- Hey. - Hey.
- You leaving? - Yeah, I'm trying to,
but Uber's saying it's gonna be
like an extra $20 'cause of surge pricing right now.
- Do you want a ride? - No, I'm okay.
You know-- I'm gonna call a cab.
- Good luck. - Mm.
[melancholy music]
♪ ♪
[menacing music] [phone rings]
♪ ♪
- Easy Cab. - Hi.
I would like to order a cab.
Can I do that still?
- Where are you now?
- Um, 2105 Killingsworth.
- 2105 Killingsworth.
You do a call? - Yeah.
I'm just standing here for a little bit before I leave.
- Cab should be pulling up right now.
- It's pulling up. Okay.
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
[car horn honking]
[engine clicking]
- Hey, I'm going to 4600 Northeast Fremont.
- Okay, well, sorry about the smell.
[sighs heavily]
- Could you turn the AC on? It's super-hot in here.
- AC's broken, actually. Uh, it's heat only in the car.
- The windows don't work either?
- No.
Uh, I do have some-- some reading material.
Would you--would you like to read the paper?
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
I'm getting sick, I think.
- I'm sorry, but, like, shouldn't--
shouldn't you have turned a while ago?
- What? - Like, where are you going?
- Let me call it in.
[radio static]
Dispatch. - Yeah?
- What street am I on? - Just look at the street signs.
- He's looking on the computer.
[static]
- You know what? I'm gonna go ahead
and just look-- look this up on, um--
on Waze on my app on my iPhone.
- Dispatch will tell us.
Can I get a location on my car?
[static]
- I don't know. - Copy that.
- You know what? Just anywhere is fine.
Just pull over-- - I just thought--
- No, this is fine. This is--
This is actually where I was going.
if you could just pull over.
[radio chatter] - Go ahead.
- Never mind. - Copy that.
- Let me out! - Uh, dropping passenger off.
- Here you go.
- Oh, uh, we don't take credit cards.
- Well, I don't have enough cash.
I have $5, so can you just take me to an ATM,
and I will get you cash?
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
- So, how much was it?
- Uh, it's $51.
- Seriously? - Mm-hmm.
Uh, I can't-- I can't break this.
Uh, sorry, do you have-- do you have smaller bills?
- You know what? Just, no--
just take all of it, actually, 'cause I feel sorry for you.
[menacing music]
♪ ♪
- I guess anywhere is fine, huh?
wherever we want. - There we go.
[tires screech] [horn honks]
- Show them your crutch. Show them your crutch.
Coming in. - Hello.
- Hello? - Hi, how can I help you?
- Uh, we'd like a booth please.
- Oh, a booth?
Actually, it looks like all of our booths are full.
But we have a table. It's got a lot of leg room--
um, a lot of space.
- For what? - Well--
- Speak. - For the--the scooter
and for the crutches.
- The scooter and the crutches.
You know that there's a person in the scooter?
- I have a name. I'm Kath.
- And I'm Dave. - Okay.
both: Hi. - Look at me.
I don't want you to see the scooter.
- Okay. - So, just look on there,
and see if there's an opening. - Okay.
- Um, you know what, a booth just opened up.
- Thank you very much. Was that so hard?
- Clear a path. [beeping]
Make a Kath path. - Keep staring, everybody.
We notice. - I'm not a spectacle.
[melancholy music]
[scooter beeping]
[thud]
I need this chair cleared.
- Someone clear the chair, please.
- Okay, I'm com--
- How many times does she have to say it?
- Coming in hot.
- It's all right. I'll put it back there for you.
- Get that foot up on the table. There you go.
- Whoo. - So much better.
- I guess if no one's gonna give us water...
you want some water? - Yes, please.
- Thanks, honey.
Yeah, this is what it's like.
- Thanks for helping.
- This is wet. - Can we get another menu?
- This is a wet menu. [scooter beeping]
- Hi. - Okay, it's a delicate balance
ignoring us and paying attention to us.
- Um-- - And you're not
hitting that balance.
- All we need is to order our food
and be treated like normal peo-ple!
- Well, I'm the host, and I don't usually take orders,
but I can go grab your waiter.
- Oh, so you need like a special waiter to, like,
roll up in a wheelchair or something like that?
- Um... - I can't even read this.
- Do you want me to get you a different menu?
- No, I don't need anything. I'm not a baby.
I'm not a little child. I don't need a highchair.
- There's not a problem with his brain or his eyes.
- I don't-- - He can read that menu.
- I'll do the-- - Uh, there's--
- The tuba. - Tuba--the tuna?
- Yes. - Okay.
- I'll have the lamb. - The lamb.
- And, no, you don't have to cut it up for us.
We can use our hands, okay? - Would you--
- We're like everybody else.
- All right, I'm gonna go find a waiter
and give him your order.
- Don't worry, we'll tip. - Okay.
- This is great. I'm having the time of my life.
- Dave, we're finally marginalized,
and people are just forced to care.
- They have to deal with this. - Yeah.
I don't have to yell. My scooter is yelling for me.
[scooter beeping]
- You hear that? That's music.
- Dave... [three beeps]
- I love you too.
- I'm sure that you've all found your spot.
My name is Micah. Welcome to the silent retreat.
You know that it's two days of complete silence.
So, thank you all for being here.
all: Thank you.
- Don't-- [laughs]
Don't answer me, because this is a silent retreat,
so it's the sound of the birds and the trees
and the ground that we are focusing on...
so we can focus on each other and ourselves, that's all.
And we're gonna begin in three, two--
[mouthing] one.
- [exhales]
- Okay, I can hear you exhaling.
- Sorry. - Why did you speak?
Okay, we're gonna start once again...
and reset.
[knuckles cracking]
You're doing that on purpose. - I'm sorry.
- You know very well that that's gonna drive me crazy.
I don't care, because it's outside of this jurisdiction.
God damn it.
Where was this? Here?
[banging] - Toby!
Come on, boy.
Oh, sorry, did you guys see a dog running through here?
- We haven't seen a dog. This is a silent retreat.
- Okay, good luck with you guys's retreat.
- Tobes!
- Stop looking in that direction.
This is the retreat is here.
[banging] - Toby!
- Any noise that she does... - Here, boy!
- Does not exist.
So if I'm a person coming through here like,
"Hey, hey, hey, what time is it?
What time is it?"
Good, this is great.
Hey, wow, there's a coyote and a wolf
coming right this way.
Great.
[imitates cat meowing]
- Are we gonna hear you for the next two days?
- No, well, I would like to know,
because we paid for a silent retreat.
- I should be able to talk to you...
and for you to stay like that.
Let's reset.
And--
[dog barking]
- Toby, what are you doing over there, boy?
Oh, my G-- Hey, no, no, no...
Toby, Toby, drop it.
[phone beeps] Drop it.
Toby, drop it, drop it. - [coughing]
[airplane engine rumbles] [dog barking]
- Toby, come here, hey, hey, hey.
Put that down.
- Welcome to the silent retreat, me.
I am not gonna make any sounds whatsoever.
Three, two, one.
[sniffles]
[laughs softly] And resetting.
[upbeat music]
- Is this is the American Disabilities Act
Portland coordinators meeting?
- It is. You found us.
- Wow, our family. Brothers and sisters.
- Hello. - Our ancestors.
[sentimental music]
- Um, we're actually right in the middle of a meeting.
- Well, let's, uh, continue the meeting by saying
we need to change things now!
- Uh, we actually have an agenda we need to get through.
- Yes, we do. Thank you for saying that.
- Right on, sister.
- I think it's about time we have special parking spots.
- Something close to the front maybe in blue or green.
Am I right? - Yeah!
Let's hear it!
- Yeah. - We have them.
They're blue.
- All in favor of blue, aye. - Aye.
Uh, we got one on the blue. We got two on the blue.
It passes.
- I have a suggestion for changing the world.
- Yes, in the gray.
- Ramps. - We have those too.
- No, no, no, no. I'm talking ramps.
I should be seeing ramps everywhere.
Ramps on lawns, ramps in the middle of the street.
It should be a ramp world. Why not?
And by the way, did you ever notice
they only go one direction?
They should go both directions.
[gavel banging]
- Sorry, we've got to get moving on.
- Yes, we do need to be moving forward...
as a people.
- Okay, any more suggestions for changing the world?
- Let's talk about beaches. - Oh, yes.
- Last time I went to a beach,
this got stuck in the sand.
- She wouldn't-- she wouldn't get 2 feet.
- If I put this thing in sand, it gets caught in the tires.
It comes up to my face. It gets caught in my pone.
Do you know what a sandy pone is like?
Dry as a bone.
both: Sand in the pone, dry as a bone.
- I think, and I'm gonna say it out loud,
let's pave the beach. Let's--
[inspirational music] Let's pave the beach.
- Pave the beach. Pave the beach.
[off-key notes]
That's right, drum along.
- Pave the-- - Sorry, stop, stop.
Our--our organization's been running for over 20 years.
We're dealing with more nuance issues now
than what you're talking about.
[somber music]
- Did you ever take a look at this?
- That's a temporary disability.
You're just-- you're not one of us.
You need to go.
- That sounds like discrimination to me.
Come on, Kath. We're not wanted here.
[scooter beeping]
- Okay, moving on.
[bangs piano keys]
- You know, I think, Joey,
that the reason we brought you in here
is because you expressed interest interning.
- Now, I can't be a lawyer, why?
'Cause I didn't go to school for it, right?
- It depends what kind of law you want to practice.
- So what kind of law is this?
- This is intellectual property law.
- Right, so someone's like, "I'm, uh, Cuckoo the Clown,"
and that guy's got another Cuckoo the Clown, uh, makeup on.
You know, "I-I thought of it."
The blue mouth and the white eyes and whatever.
That's my property, you know. You can't use my makeup.
- I haven't done a Cuckoo the Clown case.
- For this week, like, would I just sit here
and just, like, take notes?
- I assume that there are plenty of things for you to do,
whether it's filing, running errands, making coffee.
- Making coffee. - Making copies.
- Baking copies. - Making copies.
Making copies. - Uh-huh.
Refilling the copy machine with paper.
- Somebody's saying something wrong,
'cause I'm about to write down,
filling the copy machine with coffee.
- Don't worry about the coffee, Joey.
- See, I don't wanna--I don't want to [mouthing] fuck up.
You know what I mean? - Yeah.
You know what, I need you to file these testimonies.
- Okay, I-I don't-- I do not have my glasses today
'cause I wanted to appear, like, more professional.
- There's not a-- - I'm not handicapped
by my eyesight. You know, look.
If-- Let me show you something.
Hold that up.
See, I can't-- I know the "A."
You know, I don't know.
You know, pass on the next one.
It looks like-- - Joey, you wrote this.
Um, I have to go meet with a client.
- Do you want me to take notes on that?
- Well, that's not really part of your job
as an intern.
- I don't mind. I'm happy to do it.
I got your back.
- I-I would like to argue that the sample in the IP
is basically in public domain at this point.
- What is public domain?
Like, "Jack, Jack, the Happy Miner"?
- I don't know what that is.
- You know that song.
Jack, Jack, he goes about, he mines all he can.
He picks away at rocks and stones.
He is a mining man.
You know, the old-- they sing it in--in the mines.
- Well, w-we're talking about a specific case here.
- I'm sorry. Who is this?
- This is Joey. He's a--he's an intern.
- Oh, okay. - I'm here to serve you.
I'm the person non grata.
Does anyone want coffee in the meantime?
- We have coffee.
- Coffee? - I have--I'm good.
- I guess we could-- could order lunch soon.
- Sure. - I'll have a Reuben, please.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait. Reuben.
- You know what? Three Reubens.
Let's all do Reubens. - Three Reubens.
- I'm gonna get a salad. Do you want a side salad?
Side salad? - Yeah, side salad.
- So no more Reubens. You want a side salad instead.
- No. - In addition.
Plus the Reubens. - Plus the Reubens.
So am I canceling your salad? - No.
It's three Reuben sandwiches.
- And we'll do this-- what is this today or tomorrow?
- I'm gonna write out what you're gonna say.
- It's like a-- it's like a script.
- Okay. - Hi, I'm Joey.
- No, you're not. - Joey, please,
get in the elevator, get down to the deli,
and order our food.
- Now, I would like a cooked lasagna.
- So, just to review, no company shall be required
without its written consent to arbitrate any claim
or suit if, "A" it is not a signatory--
- You should have told me where the conference room was.
- You gotta be kidding me.
- Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
I got food here for them
that they had ordered before.
- We sent you downstairs to get our food 2 1/2 hours ago.
- Mr. Ted, they gave me fries.
- Just set it down.
- I'm new, and I'm learning as I go.
- You do see we are in the middle of the proceedings.
- Can you pass this down?
Thank you very much.
- This is not a time to have food with all these--
- Who's got a Reuben?
Who's--all right. Ted?
- Welcome to the first meeting to form the committee
for the Temporary American Disabilities Act
for those of us with temporary disabilities.
- Here, here, and voila.
- Ta-da! - Tada.
Look at us.
Burned your hand on a curling iron.
- You deserve beautiful hair.
Carpal tunnel man?
You think we're gonna stand by and watch you get judged?
- Just 'cause you're playing so many video games?
That's a real illness.
Frostbite from an Antarctic cruise?
- Man with lower back pain?
No, no, no, no, no!
- You know what's the most important thing about your back?
We have your back.
Tada.
Let's hear your stories.
- Sir? - I've had my, uh--
I've had my sunburn now for, uh, eight days.
- How does it feel? - It's--it's a little stingy.
Uncomfortable.
- Do people stare at you when you walk down the street?
- I just explain that I forgot to put on the sunscreen.
You know, most people are understanding.
- Sir, you are not a sunburn. - You're a human.
- Tada. - Tada.
- What about you, young lady?
- My LASEK's got 24 hours, then I'm back to normal.
Better, actually.
- Wow, 24 hours you're gonna be living with that.
Imagine. They're gonna hear your story.
Everyone is because we're gonna be retelling it
to everyone we see.
- We're here, tada, today, tada.
both: Hurrah.
- We're here tada today tada hurrah.
We're here tada today tada hurrah.
We're here tada today tada. both: Hurrah.
- And we have a lot to do today.
- Tada. - We need a chairman.
Someone who can speak for all of us as one voice.
I nominate...
- Where you going with this, Dave?
- I'm pointing at you. Kath!
My wife, the love of my life-- she is a natural leader.
She should be our chairman.
- Actually, I'd like to nominate her.
- Is he pointing at me?
- What? The LASEK girl?
- I'll be better tomorrow.
- "LASEK girl, for a better tomorrow."
- No, that-- that can't stand.
- Can I get a second?
- How's she gonna argue with Congress
and the Senator? Let's--let's hear it.
- Mr. Senator, Mr. Senator.
- That's beautiful.
- You all can go with LASEK girl,
but if you want somebody who's gonna take
your temporary condition and turn it into
a lifelong identity, follow me.
If you're tired of being ostracized
or tired of not being ostracized enough,
follow me.
If you want justice, you follow me.
- Kath-- - What?
You're--you're standing.
- Damn it.
It was fun while it lasted.
But the underdog status, that was--that was temporary.
You know? Gotta move on.
- Yeah, and hey, look how many steps we're getting.
- Wow.
- All that rolling around, we got, like, zero steps.
There was one day where I think I did ten.
- Also, we paved the beach.
- I mean, we complained, and someone else hired
someone else to pave the beach,
but we did it, Kath. - What do you think?
One last ride for old time's sake?
- Yes. - Oh, Dave, this is great.
Come sit here by me.
Dave! - Aah!
- Dave! Aah!
Dave, I'll save you!
I got you, hon.
[crack] Aah!
[cat meows]
- I'm hurt!
Are you okay? - No. Dave, we're back.
- Uh, yeah, my back too.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Audrey McCall is dead.
The beach was just named after her.
- I-I had no idea.
[off-key notes]
- Okay... ♪♪ ♪ ♪
Back--
[laughter]
- [imitating gunshots]
[scattered giggling] [imitating gunshots]