:21:23
Nick?
:21:27
Uncle Roger.
How's it going?
:21:30
What are you doing here?
:21:33
What? Oh.
I wanted to see where you work.
:21:37
- Yes. No. What are you doing here?
- What?
:21:41
- You mean here in New York here?
- Yes.
:21:43
I had an interview at Columbia,
so Mom said I should look you up.
:21:47
- Sit down.
- Okay.
:21:50
That's what all the phone calls
were about.
:21:52
- The phone calls?
- Yeah. Your mom's been calling me.
:21:55
- Did you speak to her?
- We're playing phone tag.
:21:58
She said you could
show me what you do here.
:22:01
She did?
:22:03
Well, there's not a whole lot
to show you, Nick.
:22:06
Really? Like, what do you do all day?
:22:09
What do I do all day?
:22:12
I sit here and think of ways
to make people feel bad.
:22:17
- I thought you wrote for commercials.
- I do...
:22:19
but you can't sell a product
without fiirst making people feel bad.
:22:23
Why not?
:22:27
Because it's a substitution game.
:22:30
You have to remind them that they're
missing something from their lives.
:22:33
Everyone's missing something, right?
:22:35
- Well, yeah. I guess.
- Trust me.
:22:37
And when they're feeling
suffiiciently incomplete...
:22:40
you convince them that your product is
the only thing that can fiill the void.
:22:43
So, instead of taking steps
to deal with their lives...
:22:45
instead of working to root out
the real reason for their misery...
:22:49
they run out and buy
a stupid-looking pair of cargo pants.