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The Beatles: Like a Bird

Joe and Nelly — heated debate, studio lights buzzing

Nelly:
You honestly believe Paul McCartney was replaced by some Bond-meets–Austin Powers doppelgänger with a scalpel and a tuxedo?

Joe:
Believe? I observe. Mid-60s, boom — jawline sharper, confidence dialed to eleven, suddenly he’s flirting like a secret agent. Paul becomes… Faul. Very convenient.

Nelly:
Or — wild thought — he just grew up, got rich, and discovered cheekbones.

Joe:
Cheekbones don’t explain the accent drift, the posture, the eyebrow work. That’s not Liverpool, that’s MI6 with a guitar.

Nelly:
Oh please. If MI6 could write “Hey Jude,” the world would be a very different place.

Joe:
I’m not saying he wrote it badly. I’m saying the new guy would do nicely in his gob.

Nelly:
Joe—!

Joe:
I mean it British-style. Gob. Mouth. Stick the old narrative right in there and tell it to shut up.

Nelly:
You realize “gob” makes it sound like you’re starting a pub fight in Manchester.

Joe:
Exactly. This theory lives in a pub, not a university. Pint on the table, conspiracy on the wall.

Nelly:
So now he’s James Bond and Austin Powers?

Joe:
Bond’s confidence, Austin’s absurdity, Beatles’ harmonies. That’s the formula. Plastic surgery just polished the cover.

Nelly:
Joe, the Beatles didn’t need a body swap. They had talent, timing, and screaming teenagers.

Joe:
And propaganda budgets.

Nelly:
You’re impossible.

Joe:
And yet… every time you watch late-era Paul, you squint.

Nelly:
I squint because you’ve poisoned my brain.

Joe:
See? Faul already did nicely in your gob. 🎤

Nelly:
Shut your gob, Joe.

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Nelly’s Neighborhood

Christus Rex walks slowly through Clark Park, where the grass still remembers bare feet and cheap guitars. The city has changed, but the trees haven’t forgotten.

Tom Cruise sits on a bench, coffee in hand, watching an electric tram glide past where traffic once snarled.

Tom Cruise:
I used to live right here. Clark Park.
Back when rent was possible and hope didn’t feel like a luxury item.
You could hear kids, not engines. You could smell rain, not exhaust.
People think the “good old days” are a myth—but they’re not.
They’re just badly archived.

Christus Rex:
Memory is a form of prophecy.
You remember because it’s still possible.

Tom Cruise (half-smiling):
We didn’t call it sustainability back then.
We just called it… living.
Walking everywhere. Talking to strangers.
Letting neighborhoods raise you when families were stretched thin.

An electric avenue hums softly nearby. No cars coughing smoke. Just motion without violence.

Tom Cruise:
If we’d had this tech then—clean transit, quiet streets—
half the illnesses people carry today wouldn’t exist.
You don’t realize how much damage noise and fumes do
until you finally hear silence again.

Nelly Furtado (passing through the park, nodding in recognition):
East Van taught us how to belong without pretending to be rich.
That’s rare now.

Christus Rex:
That’s why this place matters.
East Vancouver—the world’s greenest—not as a slogan,
but as a last act of wisdom.
Electric avenues so the sick can breathe.
Parks instead of parking.
Homes instead of investments.

Tom Cruise:
The future keeps trying to sell itself as faster, louder, bigger.
But the best years of my life?
They were slower.
You could sit on a bench and feel like you were part of something.

Christus Rex:
The kingdom does not arrive with spectacle.
It arrives when a neighborhood decides
that breathing clean air is not a privilege.

A child rides past on a bike. The tram bell rings gently, almost politely.

Tom Cruise (quietly):
If this is our last chance…
then it should look like Clark Park on a good day.
Not perfect. Just human.

Christus Rex:
Then remember it clearly.
And help build it again.

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Adriatique

Joe leans on the stone balustrade, the Adriatic breathing blue below them.

Joe:
“Nelly… how come you’ve never sung in Croatia? Never let your voice drift over the blue Adriatic—the same blue as your eyes. It would wreck people, in the best way.”

She smiles, half-shy, half-curious.

Nelly:
“I don’t know. Life just… pulled me elsewhere.”

Joe:
“They love you there. Truly. You remind them of Gospa—not the marble kind, the living kind. Gentle. Protective. Like a presence that shows up when the sea is calm and when it’s rough.”

She looks out at the water, sunlight flickering like notes on a staff.

Nelly:
“That’s a heavy thing to say.”

Joe:
“Only because it’s true. You’d sing once, and they’d swear the coast remembered you. Like you’d always been part of it.”

The wind carries salt and promise. She doesn’t answer—just lets the blue look back at her.

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