I'm Thinking of Ending Things

00:40:41,458 --> 00:40:43,708 <i>and my friend and I</i> <i>found an empty table near him,</i> 838 00:40:43,791 --> 00:40:45,166 <i>and I was watching him.</i> 839 00:40:45,250 --> 00:40:48,541 <i>-Because you thought he was cute!</i> <i>-[young woman laughing] Yeah, I did.</i> 840 00:40:48,625 --> 00:40:52,791 <i>And he was very serious about the game,</i> <i>which I found, I don't know, charming.</i> 841 00:40:53,291 --> 00:40:55,416 <i>And... Oh, his team was called...</i> 842 00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:58,333 <i>-Brezhnev's Eyebrows. </i> <i>-Brezhnev's Eyebrows, right.</i> 843 00:40:58,416 --> 00:41:00,375 <i>-[inhales]</i> <i>-[young woman] I asked who Brezhnev was,</i> 844 00:41:00,458 --> 00:41:02,750 <i>basically so I could say something to him.</i> 845 00:41:02,833 --> 00:41:06,708 <i>And he told me</i> <i>that Brezhnev was a Soviet engineer.</i> 846 00:41:06,791 --> 00:41:10,958 <i>[stammering] And a general of the...</i> 847 00:41:11,041 --> 00:41:14,083 <i>-Uh, the section head of--</i> <i>-Secretary of the Communist Party.</i> 848 00:41:14,541 --> 00:41:15,875 <i>During the age of starvation.</i> 849 00:41:15,958 --> 00:41:17,458 <i>-Stagnation.</i> <i>-[young woman] Stagnation.</i> 850 00:41:17,541 --> 00:41:19,333 <i>Anyway, those team names</i> <i>drive me nuts usually.</i> 851 00:41:19,416 --> 00:41:21,583 <i>They all have the most teams show-offy.</i> 852 00:41:21,666 --> 00:41:24,458 <i>But I don't know, it didn't</i> <i>bother me so much with Jake.</i> 853 00:41:24,541 --> 00:41:26,708 <i>I guess I didn't let it</i> <i>because I thought he was cute.</i> 854 00:41:26,791 --> 00:41:30,000 <i>Aw, he is cute, isn't he? [laughs]</i> 855 00:41:30,083 --> 00:41:33,541 <i>So I-I-I was trying to get up the nerve</i> <i>to talk to him, because...</i> 856 00:41:33,625 --> 00:41:35,833 <i>even though he looked over at me</i> <i>more than once,</i> 857 00:41:35,916 --> 00:41:37,875 <i>it was clear he wasn't gonna say anything.</i> 858 00:41:37,958 --> 00:41:42,208 <i>[stammers] I thought you said</i> <i>you were talking about Brezhnev?</i> 859 00:41:42,916 --> 00:41:44,541 <i>[wind howling]</i> 860 00:41:48,666 --> 00:41:49,625 <i>Uh...</i> 861 00:41:52,833 --> 00:41:55,000 <i>Yes, that's true.</i> 862 00:41:55,833 --> 00:41:57,958 <i>But we didn't talk anymore after that,</i> 863 00:41:58,041 --> 00:41:59,291 <i>I guess is what I meant.</i> 864 00:41:59,375 --> 00:42:00,833 <i>Oh.</i> 865 00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:12,208 <i>So I said something stupid, like,</i> <i>"You guys seem to be doing well."</i> 866 00:42:12,291 --> 00:42:13,958 <i>[laughs]</i> 867 00:42:14,041 --> 00:42:14,916 <i>[giggles]</i> 868 00:42:16,250 --> 00:42:19,250 <i>And I had to practically yell it,</i> <i>it was so noisy.</i> 869 00:42:19,333 --> 00:42:22,750 <i>And Jake... Jake raised his glass</i> <i>and went, "Well, yeah,</i> 870 00:42:22,833 --> 00:42:24,458 <i>well, we're helpfully fortified."</i> 871 00:42:24,541 --> 00:42:26,666 <i>And I laughed, which broke the ice,</i> 872 00:42:26,750 --> 00:42:29,125 <i>and I think he was egged on</i> <i>by my laughing,</i> 873 00:42:29,208 --> 00:42:33,500 <i>'cause he went on to tell me</i> <i>that he was a cruc--</i> 874 00:42:33,583 --> 00:42:34,958 <i>-Verbalist.</i> <i>-[young woman] Verbalist.</i> 875 00:42:35,041 --> 00:42:36,583 <i>And I didn't know what that meant.</i> 876 00:42:36,666 --> 00:42:38,791 <i>But I-I didn't want to admit that,</i> <i>so I just said,</i> 877 00:42:38,875 --> 00:42:39,708 <i>-"Cool."</i> <i>-Cool.</i> 878 00:42:39,791 --> 00:42:42,208 <i>And he was showing off again,</i> <i>and poorly,</i> 879 00:42:42,291 --> 00:42:45,500 <i>and I thought, "This guy is awkward.</i> <i>He has no game at all."</i> 880 00:42:45,583 --> 00:42:49,041 <i>[inhales] And there was something</i> <i>sort of appealing about that.</i> 881 00:42:49,125 --> 00:42:50,666 <i>[wind whistling]</i> 882 00:42:50,750 --> 00:42:51,916 <i>But then he kept going.</i> 883 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:57,708 <i>And he told me that he wanted</i> <i>his team name to be Ipseity,</i> 884 00:42:58,166 --> 00:42:59,625 <i>and I was like, "Ugh."</i> 885 00:42:59,708 --> 00:43:01,125 <i>You didn't like him anymore?</i> 886 00:43:04,375 --> 00:43:05,250 <i>No.</i> 887 00:43:09,083 --> 00:43:10,041 <i>I did.</i> 888 00:43:10,625 --> 00:43:11,500 <i>[mother chuckles]</i> 889 00:43:12,250 --> 00:43:13,958 <i>I just wanted that stuff to stop.</i> 890 00:43:14,041 --> 00:43:14,875 <i>So I told him,</i> 891 00:43:14,958 --> 00:43:17,833 <i>"You know I don't know that word.</i> <i>Why don't you just cut the crap?"</i> 892 00:43:17,916 --> 00:43:19,750 <i>[laughs]</i> 893 00:43:19,833 --> 00:43:22,125 <i>And he said something like,</i> <i>"I'm an asshole."</i> 894 00:43:22,208 --> 00:43:23,916 <i>[laughs]</i> 895 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,041 <i>[laughing hysterically]</i> 896 00:43:29,708 --> 00:43:30,791 <i>[laughs]</i> 897 00:43:32,416 --> 00:43:34,333 <i>"I'm not very good at talking t