Oh, my gosh.
First class is so nice.
I totally understand all the rich people in Titanic now.
Can I interest you in a glass of champagne?
-Oh, um, how much? -They're complimentary.
Shut. Up.
Mm. Hello.
Hi.
Oh, wow.
I would take Minor Celebrities for $200, Ken. (laughing)
Get it? It's a Jeopardy! joke.
-What is "not the first time I've heard it." -(laughs)
That's why you're my favorite host.
I mean, what else am I gonna say?
It's my first time in first class.
I got upgraded 'cause I racked up a buttload of miles
traveling around the world for the past four months.
I'm gonna need another one of these.
My tale begins in Madagascar.
And keep them coming.
Did you know that Madagascar is the original home of the lemur?
I did know that.
Of course, I kind of know everything.
(laughing)
It's gonna be such a fun 20 hours together.
I just got back from this amazing journey
of self-discovery.
Discovery number one--
I will never be a professional zip liner.
Am I supposed to be doing something?
Should I pedal?
Can I switch to tequila?
Whoa, get out your cell phones, folks.
Mr. Jeopardy is going for the "Potent Potables."
(laughing)
Okay, so next I spent some time at an ashram in India.
And I discovered that the answer
to all of my problems is acceptance.
You know, I used to try and control everything,
but now I'm at peace, you know, I just go with the flow.
I even got a tattoo.
It's in Sanskrit. It says "acceptance."
That says "garden salad."
What?
Oh.
Well, I guess I'll just have to accept it.
(chuckles) And that's how I'm gonna face
every single moment of every day for the rest of my life.
Seriously? Garden salad?
You know, I was really hoping to sleep on this flight.
(laughing): Yeah, me too, Ken.
I'm just too excited
to get back to my cat café and see my friends.
They don't even know I'm coming home.
In fact, I've got this crazy surprise planned.
What other kind would you have?
You seem stressed, Ken. Do you want to know my mantra?
I'm not supposed to tell anyone,
but I can't resist 'cause you're kind of famous.
It goes, "Om... shanti, shanti, shanti."
You want to give it a try?
I have my own mantra.
It goes, "I'm... gonna look for a seat in coach."
How crazy was that chemistry?
I'll make my move in baggage claim.
♪ ♪
♪ Me, oh, my, oh, my, oh, me ♪
♪ Nothin' wrong with you but I'd rather be me. ♪
Mmm. Look at all that sweetness.
I can't wait to get my hands on those honey buns.
Do you not see that I'm at work right now?
I meant the bear claw.
Don't be so thirsty.
But I could use 15 minutes alone with you.
I can't. The 10:00 a.m. Pilates class just ended,
and all of these Ashleys
are two minutes from turning into Karens.
Come on, babe.
Look, I know managing this place is a big job,
but we haven't been on a real date in weeks.
Can you two lovebirds move it along?
This place is backing up worse than Mama
at the cheese festival.
Ooh, that's a big one.
You sound like Mama two days after the cheese festival.
Oh, you can just put that over there. I'm a little busy.
I've heard that before.
I feel you, box. The nights are cold.
This seemed like such a good idea on the plane.
Of course, so did trying to kiss Ken Jennings.
What'd you order?
I didn't order anything. I thought you did.
I found a box like that in the woods once.
Full of '70s porn.
I didn't put it in there.
I wonder what it is.
(quietly): I know how to find out. Open it.
Ooh, it's really heavy.
It has to be like 300, 400 pounds.
Seriously?
All right, enough of this.
What the hell?
Uh-oh. Porn box ain't never did that.
(all screaming)
Surprise.
Geez, how many rings are you wearing?
What are you? Tom Brady?
You don't surprise a girl from Detroit.
You're lucky to be alive.
I just want y'all to know
I screamed like that to be funny.
Wow.
Look how different this place is.
Yeah, yeah, we made a lot of changes.
Hopefully good ones.
I learned on my travels that nothing is good or bad.
It just is.
Well, I'm so glad to hear you say that,
because this is a juice bar now.
Yeah, yeah, loving it.
Uh... so quick question. Why is it a juice bar?
Okay, hear me out. I noticed that
on this street there's a SoulCycle,
a gym and a yoga studio.
And I noticed if I agree with Randi,
she's nicer to me.
So I thought, "Why don't we cater to their customers?"
Yeah, that's-that's good.
Well, not good, but not bad.
It just is.
It really is.
Well, I-I named a lot of the smoothies.
You should try the Banana-Lama-Ding-Dong.
(chuckles)
Yeah, definitely.
So, um... where are the cats?
I told you she'd notice.
Look, cats just don't make sense for this business.
But it's a cat café.
Yeah, but then we thought--
get ready, this is exciting--
what if it wasn't?
And don't worry, they all went to really good homes.
But I always thought the cats were kind of the reason
people came here to hang out.
Exactly.
They would just sit there and pet them
and not buy anything.
We like to get people in and out.
That's why we shut off the Wi-Fi.
-Oh. -I don't need people taking up our tables
writing their damn screenplays.
It's gonna be so dope.
It's like Minions but they're orange.
W-What about all our regular customers?
Like the sweater bro? Toothpick girl?
That guy with all the Band-Aids?
Randi, my usual.
Hello, Mother.
Katharine! Oh, this is so great.
I had no idea you were coming back.
-Obviously, you ate well. -Oh.
Missed you, too.
We were just showing Kat
the changes we made while she was gone.
Aren't they wonderful?
I used to come here out of pity for you,
but now I actually like it.
♪ ♪
Darren, what do you think of this?
♪ You ripped through my heart like a tornado ♪
Whoa, I'm feeling things.
I just need something that rhymes with "tornado."
Lemonade, yo.
That guy is a poet. I am totally stealing that.
Hey.
Oh, my God! This is a surprise.
Whoa, so is this getup.
(laughs) Nice hat.
Oh, you mean Louise? I picked her up in Nashville.
Yeah, maybe she should've been a one-night stand.
-How was your trip? -Oh, it was so great.
Travel is the best therapy.
You learn-- Oh, really?
You're just gonna play while I'm talking?
Okay.
Sorry.
I guess I left Nashville, but Nashville won't leave me.
I had that with a stomach bug in Morocco.
Kind of the same thing but on a bus.
How was your summer?
The best. Music City was life-changing.
I wrote a ton of new songs. I even sold one.
You sold a song? That's amazing.
Ah, please, it's not that big a deal.
Just to Kacey.
-Kacey...? -Musgraves.
Yeah, I just call her Kacey. She's so great. (chuckles)
-Yeah, I love her... -She's just a person though, right?
Just-just a famous person. Who I know.
Did you see what Randi and Phil did to the café?
-Yeah, I like it. -Really?
-What do you like about it? -I don't know.
It's got a good energy. Okay, what do you think about this?
♪ You ripped through my heart like a tornado ♪
♪ But now I'm drowning my sorrows ♪
♪ With a hard lemonade, yo. ♪
I like it. It's got a good energy.
That's the hard part.
That, and making all the words rhyme.
Anyway, we should catch up soon.
Oh, okay. You're working.
It's not work if you love it.
But, yeah, you should go.
Right. Going.
(Max playing piano)
Is it me or did I bathe
in the river of light and compassion
while everyone here turned into total jackasses?
Here you go, two Kowabunga Kiwis,
made with Phil's special nut milk.
I squeezed the nuts myself.
So you, uh, like all the changes?
I do, I do.
We went from blueberry muffins to stud muffins.
What about those ladies
who used to come in here for book club?
Do they still do that?
Randi tossed them out.
She's like the preacher from Footloose,
but instead of dancing,
she thinks the devil's work is sitting.
Hey, hey, would you like to try a shot of wheatgrass?
Oh, sure.
Mm-mm.
Oh, if grass could vomit,
this is what it would taste like.
And we grow it in the backyard for free.
I am two summers away from buying a damn boat.
Hey, babe, how about some breakfast?
You know I don't have time to go out.
Well, I do know that, which is why I brought it with me.
Is there a burrito in this bag or am I just happy to see you?
I don't think you understand that joke.
Don't I?
No, you really don't. (chuckles)
Anyway, I'm busy.
No, Randi, go eat.
I can handle the blender.
I've been making my mother margaritas since I was nine.
Okay, five minutes.
Baby, you know five minutes is all I ever need.
Hi, welcome to Kat's Cat Café.
Oh-- Sorry. Just Kat's Café.
No cats. Well, one Kat.
Me. Yeow. (laughs)
That would've killed with the book club.
We'll have two extra large Glutes and Guavas, please.
Got it.
You sure you don't want to try a Flaxseed Capacitor?
(laughing) I just made that up.
It's from Back to the Future.
It's a movie.
About a time machine, which I would like to use
to go back to the beginning of this conversation.
Okay, two Glutes and Guavas, coming right up.
All right, let's get the, uh...
juice base.
That's how it works.
And can't forget the guava. (chuckles)
Can you add some flavonoids?
Yeah, I'll give you some Flava-flavonoids.
"Yeah, boi!"
(laughing)
Yeah, boi!
♪ ♪
Damn, slow down.
Did those tacos say something about your mama?
You know I don't like leaving somebody else in charge.
-Kat is the owner, so-- -Mmm.
Okay, baby, you got to breathe in between bites.
This was so nice of you.
Thank you. Give me a kiss.
-Mwah. -Okay, yeah.
Wow, I feel like I got a little baby bird action
-on that one. -Mm. Mmm.
Look, I'm so proud of what you did with the café,
but I never see you anymore.
Well, I'm running a business.
That's like 16, 18 hours a day.
I run my own business, too.
And I'm the general manager of the Indiana Pacers on NBA 2K.
But I still find time for my girlfriend.
Oh, baby, come on, you know I don't mean...
Randi, Kat is having some kind of allergic reaction
to the guava juice.
Her face is swelling up like a pumpkin
and it's time for my break, so...
-Okay, I got to go. -Wh-- I got to go, too.
I got to see if I can trade Tyrese Haliburton
to the Celtics.
♪ ♪
Okay, you just tell Kacey I got a killer idea.
You know how everybody does Christmas songs?
One word-- Fourth of July.
Yes, I know it's three words,
but it's one star-spangled good idea.
(laughing) All righty.
You just tell her I called.
Howdy, Kat.
Howdy, pardner.
You want I should fix you a drink?
Maybe you'd like a sarsapari-lee?
Am I doing it again?
It's just when I talk to people in the industry,
I pick up the accent.
It's this dadgum musical ear.
Whoa, why are you limping, Woody?
Is there a snake in your boot?
Kacey gave me these.
As a gift. To a friend.
From a famous friend.
Who doesn't know her friend's shoe size.
He's acting so weird.
Success went to his head,
and his head went straight up his ass.
And what an ass.
Excuse me.
Why do we have a cat tree?
I told you she'd notice.
Oh, that.
Yeah, I just thought it would be nice.
You know, in case any weary cats happen to wander by,
they have a nice place to relax.
And why would any cats be just wandering by?
Oh, I don't know. Um...
Maybe someone has cat treats.
Aw!
-(laughing) -(meowing)
Yeah.
Would you look at that.
Are you serious?
Oh, it feels so much happier in here already.
No, no. The cats freak out when we run the blenders.
It's true.
That poor man with the toupee was not amused.
Huh.
Here's an idea that I just thought of.
Maybe we don't need the blenders.
So, what?
You just want to change back everything I did?
Oh, don't think of it as changing back.
Think of it as-as changing forward the long way around.
No, Phil and I worked our asses off
to make this business work while you were off sightseeing.
Hey, I wasn't sightseeing.
I was on a journey of self-discovery.
(chuckling): I can't help if that happened
at some very Instagrammable places.
Randi's right, we worked our tails off.
-Phil. -But you're the boss,
so whatever makes you happy.
-Phil! -Uh...
Oh, I hate it when Mommy and Mommy fight.
Randi, I designed this place
for people to come together and hang out.
There was a real sense of community.
Yeah, well, now there's a real sense of making money.
I saved this place.
Saved it? (chuckling): I mean...
I think you ruined it!
Well, let me fix it then.
-(door opens) -I've been
on Team Kat from the beginning.
♪ ♪
I need two small Peanut Butter Power Blasters.
On it.
I need a large Get Up and ManGo.
Okay, I'm working as fast as I can.
I'm just one optimistic human woman.
And where is that large Pecs and Pomegranate?
Om, shanti, shanti, shanti.
Giddyup, Kat.
We're in pretty deep "shanti" here.
Does anyone else think this place has gone downhill lately?
Preach!
Where's Randi?
She got in a tussle with Gandhi here.
Well, I need my green juice.
You know what?
No more green juice, no more smoothies.
We have coffee,
cats and a ding-dang sense of community.
Now, who wants to join a book club?!
Did you fire Randi? (scoffs)
She's your best employee.
And really, like a daughter to me.
Another daughter.
Sure.
I didn't fire Randi.
She left because I didn't love
every single thing that she did to my café.
Oh, that poor girl.
You don't know how hard it is
to be a young woman running a business these days.
Are you serious right now?!
I'm just saying, Randi did a great job
and you know you can sometimes be difficult.
Like when?
Day one.
You came out of the womb sideways.
And I can't prove it, but I think you bit me.
Mother, that's ridiculous.
Yeah, I bit her.
♪ ♪
And then Kat said I ruined the business.
Me. Do you think I ruined the business?
Baby, you...
I was killing myself to keep that place open
while she was off for four months riding elephants
like some damn Kardashian.
You get what I'm saying, don't you?
-I think that... -And everything I did
to that place made it better, right?
So you're just gonna sit there and not say nothing?!
(boots squeaking)
Um... did you just shower in your boots?
I thought if I got them wet they might stretch a little.
Dude, water makes leather shrink.
Well, I know that now!
♪ ♪
♪ Families come from all around ♪
♪ To watch the fireworks ♪
Okay.
♪ Fireworks ♪
♪ Evil lurks ♪
♪ Bunch of jerks ♪
♪ Booty twerks ♪
Eh, twerks for me.
Max? What are you doing up here?
Oh, hey.
I've been coming up here for a quiet place to write.
I used to do it at the café, but now that Randi took over
it's gotten so busy-- How are you?
I'm great. I'm great. Remember?
I'm all about acceptance now.
Yeah, yeah. How's that working out?
Well, I came up here to scream into the void,
so draw your own conclusions.
(chuckling)
Randi and I got in a fight.
Yeah, she's been talking to your mom about it
on the phone all day.
You know,
I guess I thought I could just be this new person
and go with the flow, but...
obviously, I haven't really changed.
For what it's worth, the only one who thought
you needed to be different was you.
Personally, I like the Kat who cares about things.
Thanks.
No, I mean it.
We all know how much the café means to you.
I put my heart and soul into that place.
I think that's why Randi worked so hard to save it.
Yeah.
I'll let you get back to your writing.
Eh, please don't.
There's a reason nobody does Fourth of July songs.
I got an entire verse
just listing what meats are on the grill.
And nothing rhymes with kielbasa.
(chuckles) I thought Kacey was waiting on this song?
Eh, not exactly.
She's not returning my calls.
And I'm getting the sense that I'm annoying her assistant.
Why's that?
He said, "You're annoying me."
(sighs) The truth is,
in Nashville there's a thousand people like me writing songs.
But everyone's younger, more connected,
-had boots that fit. -(Kat laughs)
I guess this summer didn't turn out
the way either of us was hoping.
Yeah, I guess not.
But at least I didn't piss off Randi.
At least I can take off my shoes.
(both laughing)
(sighs) God, I missed you.
I missed you too, Max.
All right, jet lag.
I'm gonna hit the hay.
-Good night. -Good night.
Hey, Kat?
Yeah?
Please carry me down the stairs.
-Here, are you okay? -It hurts.
-I know. -(grunts)
♪ ♪
Hey, looking good.
Guess someone had Carter's Banana-Lama-Ding-Dong
this morning.
Who let you in here?
Oh, well, it turns out, I've been a member
since 2009.
(chuckling): I really have to check my credit card statements.
Um, can we talk?
Um, okay, okay. Well, I...
I know you're mad,
but I just want to tell you that, um...
you've done a...
really amazing job at-at the café.
Well, you have a funny way of showing it.
(exhales) Thank God you stopped.
I didn't know a lake could be uphill.
Look.
I was so upset about all the things that were gone that...
I couldn't see all the great things that you added.
Tell me more about how great I am.
Well...
You're definitely better at making money than I am.
But maybe I'm a little better at being nice to people.
That's 'cause people are stupid.
You know, Randi, I came back from this trip
as a person trying to accept things.
I think what I really need to accept is...
...I need your help.
So you want me to work for you again?
No.
I want you to be my partner.
Really?
Yes.
Like fifty-fifty?
Ish.
Well, if I had a partner,
I would have more time with Carter.
I do miss him.
And if you tell him that, you will taste the rings again.
So?
So what about the cats?
Oh, I spoke to them.
They're cool with you.
♪ ♪
-(grunting) -You're doing great.
Just focus on your breathing.
Just get them off me!
Does anyone have ice chips?
I don't want ice!
Oh, for me. My chardonnay is warm.
All right, all right, easy does it.
I can see some ankle.
Okay, just one more pull.
(all grunting)
Oh! Oh, thank God.
How do they look?
Well...
Oh, damn, dude, those toes are...
("Back Again" by L.O.U.D. playing)
♪ It's a new day, it's a new beat ♪
♪ Got some new tricks up my new sleeve ♪
♪ Got a new lease on a new life ♪
♪ Got a fresh start and it feels right, it's a new dawn ♪
♪ When the beat drops, yeah, it feels like ♪
♪ Uh-huh, we're winning ♪
♪ We're just beginning ♪
♪ Oh, can you feel it, feel it? ♪
♪ Back again. ♪
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