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INT. LIVING ROOM

STEVEN and MARK are sitting on close couches. They are having a couples dinner with their wives who are in the kitchen. There is food on the table. The television is on CNN.

STEVEN
I’m so glad we could finally have you and Cindy over.

MARK
Yeah. Since we moved here you guys are the first people who we’ve found who aren’t weird.

They pause for a minute to drink their beers and stop to watch television. It is a story about health care related town halls. A person is yelling about Death Panels.

STEVEN
Can you believe all this death panel craziness.

MARK
I know. Look at how worked up that dude is. I blame Fox News.

STEVEN
I just thought we were a more progressed country then this.

MARK
I know. When are people going to realize it’s time for death panels.

STEVEN
Yeah, wait. What?

MARK
Death Panels. It’s natural evolution. It was like at one point women and blacks couldn’t vote. Now they can. Well will the conservatives learn that progress is inevitable. Just let the death panels happen now.

STEVEN
You support the death panels?

MARK
I voted for Obama didn’t I.

STEVEN
But the death panels aren’t real? It’s a way for the conservatives to scare us.

MARK
Initially it was. But then they idea started making the rounds. Let’s face it. Old people are wasting resources. You have to think of the children. Think of all those stuff we would have if got rid of old people. More open apartments in the city. A better representation in voting. We could take back programming on CBS.

STEVEN
But we all get older. That means eventually we would have to face a death panel.

MARK
Or Thunderdome?

STEVEN
I didn’t know Thunderdome was on the table.

MARK
Oh yeah. Not all old people should die. The strong and cunning ones should be allowed to live. So if they are getting up there in age they can enter the Thunderdome and if they win, they get to avoid the death panels. It’s natural.

STEVEN
How is that natural?

MARK
In nature the Lion eats the older, weaker zebra. Well we don’t have any Lions so instead, thunderdome.

STEVEN
You know. I just remembered I have a meeting in the morning. I need to get up really early. Maybe you guys should head out pretty soon.

MARK
Okay. But it’s only 7:45. You must need a lot of sleep. Is your health going?

STEVEN
That’s none of your business.

MARK
Two men enter. One man leaves.