:59:01
Well, if you do wanna talk about it,
you know, I, I wanna be here for you.
:59:04
- Thank you.
- Want me to take care of the baby?
:59:06
He's fine. He's sleeping.
:59:09
- Um, do you mind if I take a shower?
- No, I don't care, but could I--
:59:13
- Could I just have a second?
- Okay.
:59:16
So, um, Fritz said you were
a scientist, Richard.
:59:19
Yeah, I was a-- I was a chemist
for Maple Brothers in the Bay Area
before we came out here.
:59:23
- Right, the aspirin company.
- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
:59:25
Decongestants, nasal sprays, all that,
uh, you know, that consumer crap.
I couldn't wait to quit.
:59:30
- Oh, he hated it.
- Mm-hmm. I'm a scientist too.
:59:32
- No, you're kidding!
- Yeah.
- Oh, you're kidding!
:59:34
- Oh, my God! What are you--
What's, what's your specialty?
What, what's your field?
- Entomology.
:59:37
- No! Isn't that incredible?
- I love it.
- Yeah.
:59:39
- A genetic connection!
- Yeah. See, that is wonderful.
- Oh, my God! That's incredible!
:59:43
- That is wonderful.
- Oh, that's amazing.
- For some reason, Lonnie never seemed
to have an interest in science.
:59:46
- Mm, what does that mean?
- Hey, she doesn't mean anything.
:59:49
It means something that you never
had-- an interest in science.
Look at the other things you do.
:59:53
Yeah, well, who knows? I might
have had an interest in sculpture
if these guys didn't give me away.
:59:56
- Yeah, who knows
what might have happened?
- Yeah, I know.
:59:58
- Give me a kiss.
- Yeah, wh-wh-wh-what did happen?
1:00:02
- About what?
- Well, why did you guys give me up?
1:00:06
Why did we give him away?
1:00:08
- The big question.
- That's the question.
1:00:10
Well, Fritz Boudreau said
that you were indisposed...
1:00:13
and so that's how he came
to bring Mel to the agency.
1:00:15
- ''Indisposed''? Is that what he said?
- Yeah, indisp--
1:00:17
- That's the word Fritz used?
- That's-- That would have been nice.
- Big word for the fellow, huh?
1:00:21
- I wouldn't mind being indisposed.
- Okay, I'm gonna tell the story.
1:00:24
Um, how, how much detail
do you have to go into here?
1:00:28
I want Mel to know what happened, or
he'll never believe we cared about him.
1:00:31
- What are you hanging onto that for?
- You're holding onto it.
1:00:34
- I'm not holding onto anything.
- I'm letting it go.
- Uh, you're holding onto these things.
1:00:37
Uh, tell him. Go ahead, tell him.
I don't care. Go ahead.
1:00:40
So, Mel, you know we were
living in San Francisco,
and it was the mid '60s, right?
1:00:43
- Uh-huh, yeah.
- And we were part of a very
progressive group of artists...
1:00:47
- and there was one band
at the centre of it.
- A band? Wh-Wh-What band?
1:00:52
Jerry Garcia, blah, blah, blah.
1:00:55
I am so sick of this fucking story!
1:00:57
It's so boring! You've been
telling it for years! Give it up!