Nick: Guys! Pepperwood's about way more than just a romance. It's... it's, uh, it's about life, you know? Race. The sexualization of the American handgun.
Jess: [whispers] Keep it clean.
Nick: Okay. It's a story about his ambiguous relationship with... with justice.
Gertie: But the romance is amazing. It made me realize it doesn't matter if I'm straight or gay; I'm just me.
Nick: You got that from my book? That's-- yeah. That was positive. Do you think that's because of the gay dog character?
Gertie: Yeah.
Nick: What I really respect about that is it's never mentioned that he's a gay dog. But you got that from the writing. And that's pretty dope.