(people chatting)

(calm music)

- Evan?

- Ben.

- Hey, man. What's up? - What's up?

- Good to see you. - Good seeing you.

- Have a seat. Uh, some-some coffee? Desserts?

- Um. No, I'm good.

- You're good?

Oh ya, yours. Here's the paperwork for you.

I've already paid a deposit for the first month.

Just need your signature.

- Are you, uh, coming back from vacation or something?

- Uh, no. I just got here from Korea actually.

- So you were on vacation.

- No. No. No. No. No. It's my first day here.

- Oh, nice. I'm from up north.

- North? So is that Washington? Oregon?

- No, uh, the valley. Northridge.

- The valley. Yeah, yea. Yea. Yea.

- You don't know what that is? Doesn't matter.

Uh, should we get outta here?

(birds chirping)

Damn!

- Alright.

- Okay.

- Alright.

- Dude, this place is legit.

Fully furnished? Yes!

- Woahhh, bro.

- What?

- Why do you have your shoes on?

- What? What should I have on?

- Well, your feet or socks.

- Th-then My feet or socks will get dirty.

- Well, that's why you don't wear it in the first place.

So the floor won't get dirty.

- I see. This is one of those which came first,

the chicken or the egg scenarios.

- No. Doesn't matter what came first.

They both had their shoes off.

- Dude, these are clean, alright?

- Let me just refresh your memory.

- Upon leaving the coffee shop, you stepped on a puddle.

I noticed there was a dog near by,

(dog bark)

a really good chance that the liquid was from the dog.

When we were crossing the street,

you stepped on a dead squirrel and

a half eaten BLT, and questionable slime,

as we were walking by the barn.

Now imagine bringing all that into this house.

We can't have,

I know you went to a public restroom with that shoes on.

That is disgusting.

- I've lived my entire life wearing shoes indoors.

Nothing bad has ever happened to me.

No squirrel virus.

I feel naked without them.

It'd be like not wearing underwear.

Plus, I made really good use of the floor mat outside.

We're gonna be fine, man.

Come on, we're talking about shoes here.

(sweeping)

(mysterious music)

(spraying)

- Really?!

(scrubbing)

- In Korea, we clean the floors every single day.

And, wash our feet before bed.

It's a thing.

- So the whole country has OCD.

(car driving)

- [Ben] You ready?

- Aw, crap.

My phone.

- Car's here man.

(dramatic music)

(funky music)

What are you doing, dude?

- I don't want to lay-sim-a-book-it, man.

(chuckles)

- What?

I don't know if that's madness, or dedication.

- It's acceptance. Let's go.

(funky music)

(water bubbles)

- What is this?

- Oh, I'm making Korean food. I hope you like tofu.

- No, this, man. Wh-what is all this?

- Oh this. Well I went to E-kant today, and got inspired.

- E-what?

- E-kant, you know, the furniture store?

- Ikea.

- No, it's E-kant--

- Whatever dude, w-what did you, you divided the land?

You'd rather do that than have one unified policy here?

- The red lines are my shoe free zone,

the blue lines are your shoes on territory.

The entrance, is the common area. DMZ.

- It's like a giant game of twister.

I made sure everything was measured correctly so...

we have fair space.

- Did you say tofu?

- Yup.

(bouncy music)

My friend?

Due diligence.

- Okay.

I can't even reach the fridge, man.

(crickets chirping)

- What? You're building a wall?

- Just to be sure. You know to be fair,

this is a country of laws; it's nothing personal, man.

- I give up. Dude, this has gone too far.

You want me to take my shoes off? Here.

I give up, I surrender. You win. We're roommates,

we're not supposed to be living like enemies.

(book closes)

- You're right.

(sighs)

- I did take this a little too far, but, hey,

at the end of the day,

I'm glad we could come to an agreement, like roommates.

- Tear down that wall.

(hands slap)

(bouncy violin music)