This is The Premise.
Take two marker.
Quite on the set.
Quiet, guys.
So we don't actually have this job open at the moment.
I understand that.
But we have this on file.
I can be an extremely effective, passionate advocate
for this cause.
I believe it's my calling.
We really appreciate that.
I was born to do this job.
And I admire that passion.
Again.
I moved here to do this job.
You moved here for this particular job
that you're applying for, in PR.
Yes ma'am.
Even though you have no prior PR experience?
Yes ma'am.
Did you look me up?
Just look up my name.
OK.
I see.
I see, I am so sorry.
Could you excuse me for just one moment.
I will be right back.
Thank you.
Welcome aboard.
Hey, new guy.
Chase right?
Figured you could use a friend.
Aaron, membership.
You’re the new PR guy, right?
Well it means we're on the same floor, also self‐appointed tour
guide around here.
Come on let me show you around.
Show you who to avoid, all the good stuff.
You met all the departments yet?
Not yet.
Been down to the cafeteria, get yourself a Yoo‐hoo?
Can't say that I have.
Everybody, this is Chase.
He's really great guy.
Look at me.
I'm doing PR for the PR guy, right?
Taking notes, Chase?
Hey, Marco.
Chase.
I'm sorry I missed the cookout.
I want you to meet these guys.
Accounting say hi to Chase.
Hey Pamela.
Hey.
Hey, Matt, say hi to Chase.
Hey.
Show the new guy the basement yet?
We're headed there now.
All right.
Welcome Chase.
Go ahead.
Hey.
What are you up to this weekend?
New CALL TO ACTION'‘s out.
I got it last night.
Beat me to it.
Perfect, I'll come by tomorrow, let's play.
My place isn't set up yet.
What's there to setup?
You got CALL TO ACTION.
Trust me I got a family to get away from
and it'll be like staying at a five star hotel.
I don't know.
Ah, give me a break.
You don't have any friends.
You definitely don't have anything to do on the weekend.
Me, I'm coming over tomorrow and you,
you're going to play video games with some guy at work
like a single lonely guy at a new job is supposed to.
See you there.
Dude, this game's been out like one day.
It's pretty much the same as the last one.
Yeah, how much you play the last one?
You know, dude your apartment's kind of like crazy sad.
But that's just because you lost.
Like 10% for the loss.
Let's go.
Boom.
Yeah, I've been here 10 years.
First and only job.
Second place I applied.
What was the first?
Well the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms,
my three favorite things.
Probably shouldn't have said that at the interview though.
The NGL though, that was the big deal for me.
Why is that?
You know, grew up in a big gun family?
We're all still really close.
My dad would go on these three week hunting trips,
there's something primal about that.
Your dad going out into the woods,
coming back with food for the family.
You ever had deer jerky?
No.
Let me tell you something, it's the worst.
There's a reason why people domesticated cows instead
but he stocked the pantry up with it.
It sounded cool it really did and it only
occurred to me as an adult, wait, that stuff sucked.
If you look up to your parents, you just
get psyched on what they're psyched on
without even questioning.
That type of parent bond nothing can break that.
What's it like to lose a child?
You’re the first person to ask me that.
No, it's OK.
You know what?
You don't have to answer.
Think that is my answer.
You ever bite into a bunny, a chocolate
Easter Bunny, when you were a kid?
I dream of her.
We're together on Easter and we bite into that bunny
but it's hollow.
I'm not sure that makes sense but that's wh...
That makes the right amount of sense.
I'm really glad you are here.
I would give anything for you not to be here
but people look at you.
They'll listen to you and you can have a really big impact.
That's the idea, right?
That's why I'm here.
PR is peripheral to most companies
but it's central to ours.
You know the old saying, the pen is mightier than the sword.
The sword has changed quite a bit
since they came up with that one.
So has the pen.
So give me your best arguments.
First of all, wouldn't start with anything
that you've already seen on a bumper sticker.
Guns don't kill people, people kill people.
No, I'd meet the other side and I
would do it on their territory.
Let's start with their values.
I'd look them in the eye and I'd ask them,
Are you at all concerned with the risk
of an authoritarian or fascist government?
Or are you really fine living in a country
where only the police and only the military
have access to weaponry?
What about mental health?
Do you believe it's a private matter?
Do you believe that it should be protected from discrimination
or are you fine and do you think it's fair
that the government just decide who is and who is not sane?
And then to give different rights to different people?
How about police bias?
In the history of this country have we ever
used drug laws as an unfair excuse
to disproportionately prosecute and imprison minorities
and do you think now it's wise that we add similar laws that
would give the courts the right to just imprison more
people in the exact same way.
How about factory farming?
Do we trust it enough to remove the right of the individual
to participate directly in the food chain?
If these things do concern you, if they bother you,
you can't possibly argue for more gun laws."
Yes.
Then I'd make it personal.
I'd ask them, "What would you do if there
was a threat against you, against your family?
If you knew for certain that someone was on their way
to kill you, to kill your kids, what would you
want more than anything else in the world?
Would you want another bill in your state legislature
or would you want a gun in your hand?
All right.
Here's the hard part.
Can you make the case for the other side?
The more guns you have, the more gun deaths you have.
Everywhere in the world it's a one for one correlation.
The closer a gun is to your loved one the more
their life is in danger, period.
That is a fact.
You'd think if an object where that directly
tied to the deaths of innocent people
that we wouldn't debate it.
You know something?
You'd be half right, it's not debated.
It's ignored.
And if I argued back about other causes,
the influence of violence in mass media, mental health.
I'd say those aren't arguments, those are distractions.
Proven by the fact that in the aftermath of a mass shooting,
the people that make those arguments they never actually
pursue them.
Look I play violent video games.
Am I a threat?
My daughter was taken from me, so am I
in a sane state of mind?
Great.
Far more people in this country like ice cream than guns,
correct?
But what if people used ice cream
to violently kill over 30,000 innocent Americans each year?
I guarantee we’d shut down every Dairy Queen in the country,
we'd do it overnight.
You know something?
It would be easy.
Why?
There's no National Ice Cream Lobby.
Here we are at the NGL itself, right?
The ground zero of the Second Amendment.
We have a total open carry policy
throughout this building.
We have armed guards at the front door.
There is a gun range in the basement.
If we believe our own hype, we're
in the safest place on Earth, right?
What's to stop a madman?
Someone determined in making a statement, someone with nothing
to lose, to infiltrate this office
and just shoot up the place.
Think about it.
Take out the headquarters and the entire enterprise
goes crumbling.
You’re just one determined person away aren't you?
So, how'd I do?
Do you have any notes?
No, it was great.
Morning.
All right.
Lost?
Just exercises.
She's kind of cute.
Yeah "kind of" is generous.
What about her?
What a ten world, no sevens.
You got any friends down here I mean besides?
Besides who.
Oh.
No Aaron.
Just you.
Yo.
I got something really weird to ask you.
You just tell me shut up if you want.
OK?
OK.
Have you ever been on a hot air balloon ride?
What?
Was that like your line?
Is that what you say at a bar, have you ever been
on a hot air balloon ride?
I mean, don't get me wrong, it's kind of working.
So look my birthday's coming up, 35.
My wife said she wanted me to get a new experience,
so I said, OK, how about threesomes?
She said "“Ha‐ha, never in a million years."
I said "Ha‐ha, I'm glad you knew that was a joke."
So my second choice.
I wanted to go on a hot air balloon ride.
She said I'm claustrophobic and afraid of heights,
I'd rather do the threesome, so.
I don't know why I'm so embarrassed to ask you‐‐
I would totally love to fuck you and your wife and I would‐‐
God no.
How about this, man?
Please try to avoid sudden shifts in weight.
Sorry.
Stop it.
See the river down there?
Hey.
Knock it off.
I've got something to live for.
Hey.
Hi.
I have something I want to run by you.
OK.
It's sensitive because it's personal
and it's using your life story.
It's why I'm here, right?
The anniversary is coming up of your daughter's school.
15th.
There's going to be a national moment of silence
that morning, as there should be,
and I was wondering if you would feel comfortable leading it?
We would set up a live feed of you
here at your desk during the moment of silence
as a statement.
As a statement.
I think it'd be quite a statement.
I do too.
I mean only if you're comfortable.
I'm comfortable.
Great.
Why are you so ticklish?
Heard you like to shoot?
These weapons have been in our family for a long time.
You know, Aaron told me about your background,
about what happened.
And I can't even express to you how sorry I am.
He's been a good friend.
So what do you usually like to shoot with?
AR‐15.
Oh, that's quite a weapon.
I have a personal connection with it.
And a 60 rounds sure fire mag with that
it is absolutely unbeatable.
60 round.
Is there an issue with that sir?
It's constitutionally guaranteed.
Oh, sure, you don't have to tell me that.
It's like aluminum bats in baseball to me,
I guess, for the sport.
I'm something of a purist.
Oh, uh, had this one since I was 13. My father took me on a trip.
Aaron tells me you're a monster on the range.
You shoot competitively for sport?
I do not.
You've been doing this your whole life, huh?
Since last September.
Last September?
That's right.
That's not even a year ago.
Must be training for something.
Usually when someone gets that good
that fast they're training for something, a tournament.
Excuse me, let me take that.
Thanks.
Of course.
Thank you.
You know, after the Vietnam War, a lot of us who came back
had been through not necessarily what you
went through but an awful lot.
And when we came back, some of us were OK, but some of us
were‐‐
There's help out there.
Sir, do you mind if I ask you a question about your service?
The soldiers in your unit, were any of them
a five‐year‐old girl?
This guy’s trying to tell me dinosaurs don't exist.
Who is this?
Really?
This guy beat us?
What's up?
Can want to talk to you about your buddy.
OK.
Why do you always bring your guns to work?
Because I can.
Right.
But you also could just leave them in your locker.
Like I said, because I can.
It's kind of what this place is all about, right?
Does it make you feel uncomfortable Aaron?
Oh no, no.
No?
I asked, you answered.
CALL TO ACTION this weekend?
Sunday.
Monday?
Still good?
How are you feeling about it?
It's all I'm thinking about.
Do you have a sec?
Sure.
Come on.
We've been playing a while, you want to take a break?
No.
Come on.
Hey.
Moment of silence.
You ever think about how fucked up this country is?
Loud as it gotten it was fucking noise.
The most extreme response that we can come up
with to the most extreme shit is to be silent, but hey
not for so long, right?
Just for a moment.
Moment of silence.
I don't think you should come into work tomorrow.
I know that was Trish's plan but with all due respect, fuck
Trish.
It's not Trish's plan, it's my plan.
I don't know if you're prepared‐‐
All I've been doing is preparing for this, OK?
OK.
I don't think you should come to work tomorrow.
Why not?
Look, both of us think the other shouldn't
come into work tomorrow, right?
That's a sign.
Let's both take it off, right?
Come on, I'll plan a day out for us.
It'll be great.
We head up to the mountains, get some air and some beer
and some perspective. I'll pick you up, OK?
No, I got to go to work.
I got to be there for the moment of silence.
Is there anything you want to talk about?
Because you can.
I'm your friend, aren’t I?
Yeah.
Yeah?
It's OK.
You're my friend.
Yeah.
Maybe you're right.
Maybe we just go to the mountains.
Just get out of here.
Yeah.
I could pick you up, all right.
Maybe 9 o'clock?
Sure.
I drive, you pack up.
Beer, lots of beer.
OK.
Don't be late.
Hey.
I thought we were going to go head up to the mountains?
Right.
I must have totally forgot.
I guess I packed my bag and then I forgot.
Right.
I get it.
What'd you pack?
You should still go.
Hey.
Listen, you know I'm not going anywhere.
OK.
Can I get you anything from the kitchen?
No, I'm good.
OK.
Hey, Matt.
OK, everyone.
We're about to go live.
Remember all eyes are on us.
Silence means silence.
No.
Get down.
OK.