1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:10,593 [ Dramatic music plays ] 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:10,635 --> 00:00:20,061 ** 5 00:00:20,103 --> 00:00:29,696 ** 6 00:00:29,738 --> 00:00:31,489 Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, 7 00:00:31,531 --> 00:00:34,075 I need you to make some noise for the hometown hero. 8 00:00:34,117 --> 00:00:38,747 Give it up for Sean Patton! 9 00:00:38,788 --> 00:00:42,375 [ Cheers and applause ] 10 00:01:03,938 --> 00:01:07,442 [ Cheers and applause continue ] 11 00:01:15,116 --> 00:01:17,452 Hello, everyone. How are you? 12 00:01:17,494 --> 00:01:19,746 [ Cheers and applause ] 13 00:01:19,788 --> 00:01:24,250 Thank you very much for being here...on a -- on a Thursday... 14 00:01:24,292 --> 00:01:25,460 [ Laughter ] 15 00:01:25,502 --> 00:01:28,797 ...during another torrential downpour. 16 00:01:28,838 --> 00:01:30,465 I love you all dearly. 17 00:01:30,507 --> 00:01:31,925 Thank you for coming. 18 00:01:31,966 --> 00:01:33,301 Before we get started, 19 00:01:33,343 --> 00:01:35,470 this -- just so I get to know you a little bit, 20 00:01:35,512 --> 00:01:38,598 how many of you, by round of applause, 21 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:43,144 have ever had an anxiety attack whilst high? 22 00:01:43,186 --> 00:01:46,981 [ Cheers and applause ] 23 00:01:47,023 --> 00:01:48,358 On marijuana specifically. 24 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:49,818 [ Cheers and applause ] 25 00:01:49,859 --> 00:01:51,611 Okay. 26 00:01:51,653 --> 00:01:55,365 I feel like other substances are designed to freak you out. 27 00:01:55,407 --> 00:01:56,825 Weed's supposed to mellow you out, 28 00:01:56,866 --> 00:01:58,326 so when you have -- 29 00:01:58,368 --> 00:02:00,829 if you've never had an anxiety attack whilst high, 30 00:02:00,870 --> 00:02:02,622 imagine something terrible, 31 00:02:02,664 --> 00:02:05,792 and then make it unexpectedly worse. 32 00:02:05,834 --> 00:02:07,085 [ Laughter ] 33 00:02:07,127 --> 00:02:10,213 So it's like -- it's like being bitten by a snake, 34 00:02:10,255 --> 00:02:11,673 which already sucks. 35 00:02:11,715 --> 00:02:14,342 You're already like, "Oh, God. Oh, no. Oh, no." 36 00:02:14,384 --> 00:02:16,261 And then as the snake slithers away, 37 00:02:16,302 --> 00:02:18,847 it hisses the name of your ex. 38 00:02:18,888 --> 00:02:20,765 [ Laughter ] 39 00:02:20,807 --> 00:02:24,853 "S-S-Samantha." Like...[ Groans ] 40 00:02:24,894 --> 00:02:26,312 [ Laughter ] 41 00:02:26,354 --> 00:02:30,233 "Fuck you, snake! Did she send you?! 42 00:02:30,275 --> 00:02:33,153 Tell her I died in another woman's arms. 43 00:02:33,194 --> 00:02:35,530 And tell her that woman begged you to bite her, as well, 44 00:02:35,572 --> 00:02:37,574 so she can join me in the afterlife. 45 00:02:37,615 --> 00:02:39,367 But -- But then tell her that I stopped you from biting her 46 00:02:39,409 --> 00:02:40,785 and let you bite me some more 47 00:02:40,827 --> 00:02:42,203 'cause I wanted you to live your best life. 48 00:02:42,245 --> 00:02:43,413 Tell her I'm not selfish! 49 00:02:43,455 --> 00:02:45,874 Tell her I'm not selfish!" 50 00:02:45,915 --> 00:02:47,542 [ Laughter ] 51 00:02:47,584 --> 00:02:50,920 I am so fucking bad at smoking weed. 52 00:02:50,962 --> 00:02:52,839 I want to be great at it. 53 00:02:52,881 --> 00:02:55,675 I want to be a great stoner. It's all I've ever wanted. 54 00:02:55,717 --> 00:02:59,429 I've tried for 25 years to be great at smoking weed. 55 00:02:59,471 --> 00:03:03,850 I'm terrible at it because I have OCD, right? 56 00:03:03,892 --> 00:03:08,605 In my experience, you cannot mix OCD with THC. 57 00:03:08,646 --> 00:03:12,192 OCD, it's a disorder -- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. 58 00:03:12,233 --> 00:03:15,403 THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, we all know, 59 00:03:15,445 --> 00:03:18,406 stands for Tetra Hydro Can I get an eighth? Right? 60 00:03:18,448 --> 00:03:21,576 [ Laughter ] 61 00:03:21,618 --> 00:03:23,703 In my experience, when you mix the two, 62 00:03:23,745 --> 00:03:27,082 you get an entirely new acronym, COCDTH. 63 00:03:27,123 --> 00:03:28,708 [ Laughter ] 64 00:03:28,750 --> 00:03:30,585 C-O-C-D-T-H -- 65 00:03:30,627 --> 00:03:32,879 stands for "constantly overanalyzing 66 00:03:32,921 --> 00:03:35,590 certain deviant traits of humanity." 67 00:03:35,632 --> 00:03:38,343 That's what happens to me, okay? 68 00:03:38,385 --> 00:03:39,594 [ Laughter ] 69 00:03:39,636 --> 00:03:41,805 If you know -- If you also have OCD, 70 00:03:41,846 --> 00:03:44,432 and statistically speaking, 30% of you do. 71 00:03:44,474 --> 00:03:49,312 So...you know our brains are like neverending parades 72 00:03:49,354 --> 00:03:51,314 of intrusive thought. 73 00:03:51,356 --> 00:03:52,732 It never ends. 74 00:03:52,774 --> 00:03:57,112 Can be anything from, "Throw shit at that baby! 75 00:03:57,153 --> 00:03:58,947 Throw shit at that baby!" 76 00:03:58,988 --> 00:04:01,116 to, "Join the Marines! 77 00:04:01,157 --> 00:04:03,076 Do it right now." 78 00:04:03,118 --> 00:04:04,452 [ Laughter ] 79 00:04:04,494 --> 00:04:06,371 Those were today! 80 00:04:06,413 --> 00:04:08,164 Those were today! 81 00:04:08,206 --> 00:04:09,749 I didn't act on them. 82 00:04:09,791 --> 00:04:12,293 I didn't -- I did not do those things. 83 00:04:12,335 --> 00:04:14,921 I didn't howler monkey a baby 84 00:04:14,963 --> 00:04:18,425 and then join the Corps to avoid prosecution. 85 00:04:18,466 --> 00:04:20,176 [ Laughter ] 86 00:04:20,218 --> 00:04:22,345 But I thought it. 87 00:04:22,387 --> 00:04:24,639 And those are mild, 88 00:04:24,681 --> 00:04:30,687 mild examples of intrusive though-- PG examples. 89 00:04:30,729 --> 00:04:33,565 Right? Like -- And I know, I know, I know. 90 00:04:33,606 --> 00:04:35,942 All thoughts are intrusive, right? 91 00:04:35,984 --> 00:04:39,279 They just pop into your head, but -- but a non-OCD brain 92 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:42,949 can scare away the twisted ones with logic and whatnot. 93 00:04:42,991 --> 00:04:45,368 Not -- An OCD brain invites those thoughts 94 00:04:45,410 --> 00:04:47,996 to squat for a while in your cerebrum 95 00:04:48,038 --> 00:04:50,665 and sets up a glory hole in our frontal lobe 96 00:04:50,707 --> 00:04:53,501 for other perverted thoughts, right? 97 00:04:53,543 --> 00:04:56,546 [ Laughter ] 98 00:04:56,588 --> 00:04:58,340 I -- And I keep doing it! 99 00:04:58,381 --> 00:05:01,009 I keep smoking weed. 100 00:05:01,051 --> 00:05:02,218 I just -- 101 00:05:02,260 --> 00:05:04,137 I shouldn't, but I keep doing it. 102 00:05:04,179 --> 00:05:07,349 There's a reason behind it, but it's hard. 103 00:05:07,390 --> 00:05:09,142 Like -- But first of all, here's the thing. 104 00:05:09,184 --> 00:05:12,520 Here's something you got to know about me before we go on here. 105 00:05:12,562 --> 00:05:15,523 I piss like this. 106 00:05:15,565 --> 00:05:20,362 [ Laughter ] 107 00:05:20,403 --> 00:05:22,697 You have to know this. 108 00:05:22,739 --> 00:05:25,742 Everywhere I piss, I'm pissing like this. 109 00:05:25,784 --> 00:05:30,413 For 20-something years now, I piss like this... 110 00:05:30,455 --> 00:05:33,708 because I spend all day, every day thinking about 111 00:05:33,750 --> 00:05:35,710 what makes strangers laugh, right? 112 00:05:35,752 --> 00:05:38,380 I need one for me, too, and this -- 113 00:05:38,421 --> 00:05:39,923 this one's for me. 114 00:05:39,964 --> 00:05:41,216 [ Laughter ] 115 00:05:41,257 --> 00:05:43,385 I find this hilarious. 116 00:05:43,426 --> 00:05:44,719 [ Laughter ] 117 00:05:44,761 --> 00:05:46,846 You can't be mad at the world... 118 00:05:46,888 --> 00:05:49,391 when you're pissing in this stance... 119 00:05:49,432 --> 00:05:51,518 like a coach... 120 00:05:51,559 --> 00:05:53,853 like a P.E. coach, 121 00:05:53,895 --> 00:05:55,855 like a P-E-E coach, like a pee coach. 122 00:05:55,897 --> 00:05:58,233 You can't be mad. 123 00:05:58,274 --> 00:06:02,070 [ Laughter ] 124 00:06:02,112 --> 00:06:03,571 See? 125 00:06:03,613 --> 00:06:06,032 Because even, like, even when I'm not high, 126 00:06:06,074 --> 00:06:09,411 just normally, I am in my head constantly, 127 00:06:09,452 --> 00:06:12,205 digging up things to stress out about. 128 00:06:12,247 --> 00:06:14,416 "Oh, my God, my album sucks. I haven't even released it yet. 129 00:06:14,457 --> 00:06:15,875 Jesus Christ, is COVID my fault? 130 00:06:15,917 --> 00:06:18,211 I did go to China that one time, and I did it bat. 131 00:06:18,253 --> 00:06:20,547 Did I bring it back? Is this all my fault? 132 00:06:20,588 --> 00:06:21,840 Did I vote for Kanye? 133 00:06:21,881 --> 00:06:24,259 I can't remember. I was drunk when I voted. 134 00:06:24,300 --> 00:06:25,677 Probably shouldn't vote drunk. 135 00:06:25,719 --> 00:06:27,387 Did I sell my soul to the Disney corporation? 136 00:06:27,429 --> 00:06:28,972 I can't prove I didn't. 137 00:06:29,014 --> 00:06:30,598 I can't prove I'm not owned by the Disney corporation. 138 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:32,809 My soul is just a corporate whore. I'm just... 139 00:06:32,851 --> 00:06:34,144 [ Laughs ] 140 00:06:34,185 --> 00:06:37,689 [ Laughter ] 141 00:06:42,819 --> 00:06:44,779 You can't take the world seriously 142 00:06:44,821 --> 00:06:47,282 when you got to bunny-hop shake! 143 00:06:47,323 --> 00:06:49,617 Hey. 144 00:06:49,659 --> 00:06:52,579 And so, being from here, here's -- 145 00:06:52,620 --> 00:06:54,497 So New Orleans, Louisiana... 146 00:06:54,539 --> 00:06:56,833 where we are, in case you forgot. 147 00:06:56,875 --> 00:06:58,501 [ Cheers and applause ] 148 00:06:58,543 --> 00:06:59,794 Okay. 149 00:06:59,836 --> 00:07:02,255 It's a fantastic city 150 00:07:02,297 --> 00:07:06,134 that people travel to from around the world... 151 00:07:06,176 --> 00:07:08,261 to piss all over. 152 00:07:08,303 --> 00:07:09,763 [ Laughter ] 153 00:07:09,804 --> 00:07:12,140 It's -- It's kind of fucking annoying, 154 00:07:12,182 --> 00:07:15,643 but I don't know, I mean, New Orleans is a kinky town. 155 00:07:15,685 --> 00:07:18,104 Maybe it's into it. I don't know. 156 00:07:18,146 --> 00:07:20,440 If corporations can be considered people, 157 00:07:20,482 --> 00:07:24,319 you know, I guess a municipality could be into golden showers. 158 00:07:24,361 --> 00:07:26,488 [ Laughter ] 159 00:07:26,529 --> 00:07:29,282 It's a very -- Like, it's world-famous. 160 00:07:29,324 --> 00:07:31,451 Make no mistake about it. Like, people know it fr-- 161 00:07:31,493 --> 00:07:34,662 You know, they know this city for its culture in general -- 162 00:07:34,704 --> 00:07:36,956 the music, the food, right? 163 00:07:36,998 --> 00:07:39,501 The nightlife, the -- the festivals, 164 00:07:39,542 --> 00:07:41,836 the ghosts, the architecture. 165 00:07:41,878 --> 00:07:44,964 Its -- Its inability to evacuate its citizens on time 166 00:07:45,006 --> 00:07:48,635 in the face of a Category 4 1/2 storm. 167 00:07:48,677 --> 00:07:49,844 [ Laughter ] 168 00:07:49,886 --> 00:07:52,138 Very famous for that, as well... 169 00:07:52,180 --> 00:07:55,517 but also, the resiliency to stay put and rebuild 170 00:07:55,558 --> 00:07:57,352 when the Bush administration was like, 171 00:07:57,394 --> 00:07:58,645 "What, they want help? 172 00:07:58,687 --> 00:08:01,189 Did they vote for us?" [ Chuckles ] 173 00:08:01,231 --> 00:08:02,524 And we were just like pbht! 174 00:08:02,565 --> 00:08:04,359 And rebuilt and here it is, 175 00:08:04,401 --> 00:08:08,488 one of the few cultural meccas left in this country. 176 00:08:08,530 --> 00:08:11,199 It's a fantastic place, right? 177 00:08:11,241 --> 00:08:13,201 [ Cheers and applause ] 178 00:08:13,243 --> 00:08:15,161 And it's not just drunkards. 179 00:08:15,203 --> 00:08:17,330 I've seen all kinds of people here -- 180 00:08:17,372 --> 00:08:19,290 Bible thumpers... 181 00:08:19,332 --> 00:08:20,875 holy rollers... 182 00:08:20,917 --> 00:08:22,711 scripture peddlers... 183 00:08:22,752 --> 00:08:25,547 proverb slingers... 184 00:08:25,588 --> 00:08:28,174 Jesus dealers. 185 00:08:28,216 --> 00:08:32,721 For what drug is more addictive than He upon high? 186 00:08:32,762 --> 00:08:34,889 [ Laughter ] 187 00:08:34,931 --> 00:08:36,349 Oh, they love New Orleans. 188 00:08:36,391 --> 00:08:40,353 I love seeing those fucking -- go get 'em! 189 00:08:40,395 --> 00:08:43,356 See them out there with their matching t-shirts 190 00:08:43,398 --> 00:08:45,775 with whatever scripture they're slinging that week -- 191 00:08:45,817 --> 00:08:48,403 "Jebediah 13:69." 192 00:08:48,445 --> 00:08:49,946 [ Laughter ] 193 00:08:49,988 --> 00:08:52,032 They all got their matching signs like, 194 00:08:52,073 --> 00:08:56,036 "Repent! Repent or burn in Hell!" 195 00:08:56,077 --> 00:09:00,915 Which I think those signs only make people want to go harder. 196 00:09:00,957 --> 00:09:05,128 Like, no one wants to be saved whilst they are sinning. 197 00:09:05,170 --> 00:09:06,463 [ Laughter ] 198 00:09:06,504 --> 00:09:08,381 You got to get to them just before or just after. 199 00:09:08,423 --> 00:09:11,926 In the moment, the reminder of what they're doing 200 00:09:11,968 --> 00:09:13,762 just makes them want to double down, I think. 201 00:09:13,803 --> 00:09:15,889 Like, I bet there's a guy who was just out 202 00:09:15,930 --> 00:09:17,390 for a couple of beers with friends 203 00:09:17,432 --> 00:09:19,768 and then saw all these signs about going to Hell 204 00:09:19,809 --> 00:09:23,772 and was like, "Fuck it. Fuck it. 205 00:09:23,813 --> 00:09:27,776 I'm-a cheat on my wife first. Gonna do that. 206 00:09:27,817 --> 00:09:29,277 I'm-a Google the Ten Commandments 207 00:09:29,319 --> 00:09:31,279 and break them all tonight! 208 00:09:31,321 --> 00:09:32,530 I don't give a shit! 209 00:09:32,572 --> 00:09:33,782 If I'm going to Hell, 210 00:09:33,823 --> 00:09:36,618 I want to arrive in a chariot, boy!" 211 00:09:36,659 --> 00:09:39,788 [ Laughter ] 212 00:09:39,829 --> 00:09:41,206 I -- They always have a cross. 213 00:09:41,247 --> 00:09:43,458 I love when they set up the giant cross 214 00:09:43,500 --> 00:09:45,085 in the middle of the street. 215 00:09:45,126 --> 00:09:46,795 I am disappointed that it's not a crucifix, 216 00:09:46,836 --> 00:09:49,547 which means someone would have to be nailed to it, 217 00:09:49,589 --> 00:09:53,802 and if they were true believers, they'd nail one of them to it. 218 00:09:53,843 --> 00:09:55,470 I would love to see it. 219 00:09:55,512 --> 00:09:57,806 That would be insane... 220 00:09:57,847 --> 00:10:01,226 but I would respect it... if that was their tactic, 221 00:10:01,267 --> 00:10:03,061 they were out on the streets like, 222 00:10:03,103 --> 00:10:07,816 "Jesus died for your sins, just like Stuart is right now." 223 00:10:07,857 --> 00:10:09,984 [ Laughter ] 224 00:10:10,026 --> 00:10:11,986 "Stuart, tell the people how much pain you're in. 225 00:10:12,028 --> 00:10:14,823 Tell them. Preach to the people, Stuart. 226 00:10:14,864 --> 00:10:17,826 Tell them what it's like saving their souls. 227 00:10:17,867 --> 00:10:22,330 Tell them the word of the -- Stu. 228 00:10:22,372 --> 00:10:24,332 Hey, Stu. 229 00:10:24,374 --> 00:10:26,376 Hey. 230 00:10:26,418 --> 00:10:29,504 Okay, shit, he bled out. 231 00:10:29,546 --> 00:10:30,755 He bled out. 232 00:10:30,797 --> 00:10:33,008 Now you need to meet Jesus personally, 233 00:10:33,049 --> 00:10:34,801 you lucky son of a gun! 234 00:10:34,843 --> 00:10:36,344 That ain't a martyr! 235 00:10:36,386 --> 00:10:38,680 The Lord took him!" 236 00:10:38,722 --> 00:10:43,977 [ Laughter ] 237 00:10:44,019 --> 00:10:45,687 Y'all felt that, too? 238 00:10:45,729 --> 00:10:47,313 See? 239 00:10:47,355 --> 00:10:53,695 Even here, even here on a Thursday during Carnival, 240 00:10:53,737 --> 00:10:55,530 you bring up Jesus... 241 00:10:55,572 --> 00:10:59,159 I felt it from a few of you... 242 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,746 a collective puckering of the ani. 243 00:11:02,787 --> 00:11:04,122 [ Laughter ] 244 00:11:04,164 --> 00:11:07,125 Come on, now. What y'all scared about, babies? 245 00:11:07,167 --> 00:11:09,919 Come on, now. Y'all got to trust Uncle Sean. 246 00:11:09,961 --> 00:11:11,171 I ain't gonna tell you no -- 247 00:11:11,212 --> 00:11:14,549 I ain't about to bash Jesus Christ. 248 00:11:14,591 --> 00:11:16,176 No, no, no. Unh-unh. 249 00:11:16,217 --> 00:11:18,845 Unpucker those collective ani. 250 00:11:18,887 --> 00:11:20,263 [ Laughter ] 251 00:11:20,305 --> 00:11:22,390 Come on. 252 00:11:22,432 --> 00:11:24,059 [ Laughter ] 253 00:11:24,100 --> 00:11:26,561 I'm a very spiritual person. 254 00:11:26,603 --> 00:11:27,896 Okay? 255 00:11:27,937 --> 00:11:31,399 On June 17, 2021... 256 00:11:31,441 --> 00:11:34,069 I'm very good with dates. 257 00:11:34,110 --> 00:11:35,904 I was back home here visiting. 258 00:11:35,945 --> 00:11:37,364 It was my first time home 259 00:11:37,405 --> 00:11:40,909 since this whole COVID situation kicked off. 260 00:11:40,950 --> 00:11:43,036 I'm visiting. I'm out at bars with friends. 261 00:11:43,078 --> 00:11:44,496 I leave this one bar. 262 00:11:44,537 --> 00:11:47,499 I'm crossing Bourbon Street, and there they are, 263 00:11:47,540 --> 00:11:49,376 the Jesus lovers in full regalia. 264 00:11:49,417 --> 00:11:53,088 They're back, and the leader has a megaphone 265 00:11:53,129 --> 00:11:54,756 and he's repeating this phrase. 266 00:11:54,798 --> 00:11:57,509 He's going, "Jesus loves you! 267 00:11:57,550 --> 00:11:59,177 But I love Jesus! 268 00:11:59,219 --> 00:12:02,889 Jesus loves you, but I love Jesus. 269 00:12:02,931 --> 00:12:04,557 Jesus loves you!" 270 00:12:04,599 --> 00:12:10,397 And then he stops and looks me directly in the eyes. 271 00:12:10,438 --> 00:12:14,609 I was just standing there 10 feet away, 272 00:12:14,651 --> 00:12:17,779 giggling like a lunatic... 273 00:12:17,821 --> 00:12:19,948 because I had thought of a response, 274 00:12:19,989 --> 00:12:26,246 and his silence invited me... to respond. 275 00:12:26,287 --> 00:12:30,625 So I simply shouted back, "Then you should marry him!" 276 00:12:30,667 --> 00:12:35,088 [ Laughter ] 277 00:12:35,130 --> 00:12:38,258 See? I wasn't being a dickhead. 278 00:12:38,299 --> 00:12:42,345 That was just -- That was just a playful little jab. 279 00:12:42,387 --> 00:12:43,638 Also a veiled shot 280 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:45,974 at the Catholic Church's stance on gay marriage, 281 00:12:46,016 --> 00:12:47,392 specifically in the South. 282 00:12:47,434 --> 00:12:48,810 According to them, 283 00:12:48,852 --> 00:12:51,271 that guy couldn't marry Jesus even if he wanted to. 284 00:12:51,312 --> 00:12:55,358 And that's fucked up because they're in love. 285 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:57,485 [ Laughter ] 286 00:12:57,527 --> 00:12:58,820 Telling me that's not love? 287 00:12:58,862 --> 00:13:01,156 You heard how much pain he was in, 288 00:13:01,197 --> 00:13:03,825 having to share Jesus with the rest of us. 289 00:13:03,867 --> 00:13:07,662 [ Voice breaking ] "Jesus loves you, but I love Jesus." 290 00:13:07,704 --> 00:13:11,624 [ Laughter ] 291 00:13:11,666 --> 00:13:13,126 And as me and this gentleman 292 00:13:13,168 --> 00:13:16,463 are just having this momentary awkward stare down, 293 00:13:16,504 --> 00:13:17,797 what happens next 294 00:13:17,839 --> 00:13:20,467 is why I will forever believe in a higher power, 295 00:13:20,508 --> 00:13:23,261 because it was just too good to be random. 296 00:13:23,303 --> 00:13:26,973 Right then and there, this woman comes stumbling... 297 00:13:27,015 --> 00:13:28,475 out of a bar, 298 00:13:28,516 --> 00:13:31,353 out of Johnny White's Saloon, just to give you some -- 299 00:13:31,394 --> 00:13:33,355 just to give you coordinates, right? 300 00:13:33,396 --> 00:13:36,858 She comes stumbling out, just hammered, 301 00:13:36,900 --> 00:13:41,529 as if shoved out by the hand of something divine. 302 00:13:41,571 --> 00:13:44,032 [ Laughter ] 303 00:13:44,074 --> 00:13:46,034 Or a bouncer, we'll never know. but... 304 00:13:46,076 --> 00:13:52,332 So hammered on the streets now, in high heels. 305 00:13:52,374 --> 00:13:55,043 The perfect drinking shoe, ladies. 306 00:13:55,085 --> 00:13:56,878 [ Laughter ] 307 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:58,254 Right? 308 00:13:58,296 --> 00:14:01,591 She's looking like a Bourbon Street gazelle. 309 00:14:01,633 --> 00:14:05,887 [ Laughter ] 310 00:14:05,929 --> 00:14:08,473 Like a rosé raptor. 311 00:14:08,515 --> 00:14:12,018 [ Laughter ] 312 00:14:17,565 --> 00:14:19,693 And she stares at this cross for a few seconds 313 00:14:19,734 --> 00:14:26,741 and then very loudly goes, "I would completely fuck Jesus!" 314 00:14:26,783 --> 00:14:29,911 [ Laughter ] 315 00:14:29,953 --> 00:14:34,082 And then stumbled on, and I laughed. 316 00:14:34,124 --> 00:14:37,085 I laughed a hearty, hearty laugh 317 00:14:37,127 --> 00:14:39,754 because I'd never heard it phrased that way before. 318 00:14:39,796 --> 00:14:42,882 How do you completely fuck someone? 319 00:14:42,924 --> 00:14:46,970 [ Laughter ] 320 00:14:47,012 --> 00:14:50,765 You make them come 10 times and then steal their identity? 321 00:14:50,807 --> 00:14:55,061 [ Laughter ] 322 00:14:55,103 --> 00:14:57,564 Does Jesus even have a credit score? 323 00:14:57,605 --> 00:15:00,233 If so, would you want it? It's probably not that good. 324 00:15:00,275 --> 00:15:03,194 He didn't come back when he said he was gonna. 325 00:15:03,236 --> 00:15:07,782 It's probably just average, like 666, you know? 326 00:15:07,824 --> 00:15:11,327 [ Laughter ] 327 00:15:14,330 --> 00:15:16,291 I laughed at those words, 328 00:15:16,332 --> 00:15:20,128 but those Jesus lovers were mortified! 329 00:15:20,170 --> 00:15:23,798 They reacted to her like what she actually said was, 330 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:27,260 [ Shouting in foreign language ] 331 00:15:29,596 --> 00:15:30,847 [ Growls ] 332 00:15:30,889 --> 00:15:32,599 [ Laughter ] 333 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:38,104 For she had lusted over the body of Jesus Christ! 334 00:15:38,146 --> 00:15:42,275 She lusted over the body of our savior, but where -- 335 00:15:42,317 --> 00:15:48,114 where does it say that you could not bang Jesus Christ? 336 00:15:48,156 --> 00:15:50,450 [ Laughter, applause ] 337 00:15:50,492 --> 00:15:52,619 Where in the good book is it written 338 00:15:52,660 --> 00:15:56,456 that thou shall not bestow our Lord and Savior 339 00:15:56,498 --> 00:15:59,000 with a healthy serving of some ass? 340 00:15:59,042 --> 00:16:00,335 [ Laughter ] 341 00:16:00,377 --> 00:16:05,423 He died for us and came back! 342 00:16:05,465 --> 00:16:10,679 I know people who have put out over far less than that. 343 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:14,224 [ Laughter, applause ] 344 00:16:15,517 --> 00:16:19,562 I know people who have fucked 'cause there was an Uber surge. 345 00:16:19,604 --> 00:16:23,108 [ Laughter ] 346 00:16:25,193 --> 00:16:27,487 Thank you. 347 00:16:27,529 --> 00:16:31,032 Don't know if the mics picked that up, but that was a snort. 348 00:16:31,074 --> 00:16:32,575 [ Laughter ] 349 00:16:32,617 --> 00:16:33,660 Thank you. 350 00:16:33,702 --> 00:16:35,203 Every time an audience member snorts, 351 00:16:35,245 --> 00:16:38,581 a comedian gets a wish, so... 352 00:16:38,623 --> 00:16:40,041 Thank you. 353 00:16:40,083 --> 00:16:41,876 [ Laughter ] 354 00:16:41,918 --> 00:16:43,378 It's Jesus I'm talking about. 355 00:16:43,420 --> 00:16:47,048 Everyone here would sleep with Jesus Christ. 356 00:16:47,090 --> 00:16:49,217 Need I remind -- Remember, Jesus. 357 00:16:49,259 --> 00:16:50,885 I'm not talking about Steve Bannon. 358 00:16:50,927 --> 00:16:53,179 I'm talking about...Jesus. 359 00:16:53,221 --> 00:16:54,389 [ Laughter ] 360 00:16:54,431 --> 00:16:55,849 We don't focus on the specs enough. 361 00:16:55,890 --> 00:16:59,853 He was probably like 6 foot 3, 170 pounds, 362 00:16:59,894 --> 00:17:02,522 all muscle, built like an Olympic swimmer, 363 00:17:02,564 --> 00:17:05,066 for Christ's sake -- for his sake. 364 00:17:05,108 --> 00:17:07,736 [ Laughter ] 365 00:17:07,777 --> 00:17:09,070 Limber, athletic. 366 00:17:09,112 --> 00:17:12,574 You know Jesus Christ was athletic. 367 00:17:12,615 --> 00:17:14,117 And I don't want to offend anyone. 368 00:17:14,159 --> 00:17:15,910 I'm not just saying that 'cause he was black. 369 00:17:15,952 --> 00:17:19,706 He was also the Son of God. 370 00:17:19,748 --> 00:17:21,416 That helps. 371 00:17:21,458 --> 00:17:23,626 [ Cheers and applause ] 372 00:17:23,668 --> 00:17:25,754 Exactly! 373 00:17:25,795 --> 00:17:27,172 Exactly, you heathens! 374 00:17:27,213 --> 00:17:28,715 You'd bang the shit out -- 375 00:17:28,757 --> 00:17:33,261 If Jesus had come back to New Orleans... 376 00:17:33,303 --> 00:17:35,221 and was like, "Let's not do this rapture thing. 377 00:17:35,263 --> 00:17:38,266 I want to just live for a few decades," 378 00:17:38,308 --> 00:17:41,436 moved here to -- move to the Marigny or the Bywater 379 00:17:41,478 --> 00:17:43,730 or whatever the Brooklyn of New Orleans is now. 380 00:17:43,772 --> 00:17:48,109 Right? Opened up a Krav Maga studio. 381 00:17:48,151 --> 00:17:49,569 [ Laughter ] 382 00:17:49,611 --> 00:17:51,821 And, like, a pourover coffee shop 383 00:17:51,863 --> 00:17:54,574 and, like, a shuffleboard bar, you know? 384 00:17:54,616 --> 00:17:57,660 He's already got that good Dr. John beard, you know? 385 00:17:57,702 --> 00:17:59,245 That good beard. 386 00:17:59,287 --> 00:18:02,749 Pulls his hair back in a man bun or cornrows, whatever, right? 387 00:18:02,791 --> 00:18:06,586 And...see him rocking a full Lululemon outfit, 388 00:18:06,628 --> 00:18:11,675 just walking -- walking his Shiba Inu pitbull mix. 389 00:18:11,716 --> 00:18:14,302 [ Laughter ] 390 00:18:14,344 --> 00:18:16,805 Off-leash? Duh. 391 00:18:16,846 --> 00:18:18,765 [ Laughter ] 392 00:18:18,807 --> 00:18:21,976 People are running up to pet it, like, "Is this a rescue?" 393 00:18:22,018 --> 00:18:24,813 "No, no, no. He's a resurrect." 394 00:18:24,854 --> 00:18:27,190 [ Laughter ] 395 00:18:27,232 --> 00:18:29,943 "Say hi, Lazarus. Say hi." 396 00:18:29,984 --> 00:18:31,528 [ Laughter ] 397 00:18:31,569 --> 00:18:32,987 What? 398 00:18:33,029 --> 00:18:37,325 Jesus would be laying more pipe than Local 188, baby! 399 00:18:37,367 --> 00:18:39,619 [ Cheers and applause ] 400 00:18:39,661 --> 00:18:42,997 Greenpeace would have to set up shop here 401 00:18:43,039 --> 00:18:45,333 to protest all that drilling. 402 00:18:45,375 --> 00:18:51,214 [ Laughter ] 403 00:18:54,968 --> 00:18:56,886 I live in Brooklyn now. 404 00:18:56,928 --> 00:18:59,597 Now, Brooklyn, in case you didn't know, 405 00:18:59,639 --> 00:19:02,892 is the number-one place in the world to raise a kid... 406 00:19:02,934 --> 00:19:06,438 based on how many kids I see being raised there. 407 00:19:06,479 --> 00:19:08,982 [ Laughter ] 408 00:19:09,024 --> 00:19:10,358 It's a lot. 409 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,611 There's a coffee shop I go to quite a bit 410 00:19:13,653 --> 00:19:15,655 in my neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, right? 411 00:19:15,697 --> 00:19:18,742 I go in there one day, and there's a cool dad, 412 00:19:18,783 --> 00:19:24,914 cool as shit, you know, very, very rugged motif, huh? 413 00:19:24,956 --> 00:19:28,293 Clearly, he had handled an axe before 414 00:19:28,335 --> 00:19:31,755 while throwing it at a target in a bar... 415 00:19:31,796 --> 00:19:35,300 where they were doing a corporate teambuilding exercise. 416 00:19:35,342 --> 00:19:37,844 And I bet he even picked up the tab, right? 417 00:19:37,886 --> 00:19:38,887 You could tell. 418 00:19:38,928 --> 00:19:41,306 He was just like, "Yeah, I'm a man." 419 00:19:41,348 --> 00:19:42,599 [ Laughter ] 420 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,226 And he's trying to be cool 421 00:19:45,268 --> 00:19:47,812 whilst also disciplining his kid, 422 00:19:47,854 --> 00:19:51,149 who is maybe 5 years old, maybe, right? 423 00:19:51,191 --> 00:19:52,442 So this dude's all, 424 00:19:52,484 --> 00:19:57,113 "Mason? Mason? Mason? Mason? Mason?" 425 00:19:57,155 --> 00:19:58,782 [ Laughter ] 426 00:19:58,823 --> 00:20:01,785 And you could tell he noticed then that people were watching, 427 00:20:01,826 --> 00:20:04,329 so the question mark becomes a period, right? 428 00:20:04,371 --> 00:20:08,792 "Mason. Mason. Mason. Mason?" 429 00:20:08,833 --> 00:20:10,919 I know, by the way, Mason, right? 430 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:12,504 I know. Strong name. 431 00:20:12,545 --> 00:20:14,798 You think of George Mason or Stone Masons. 432 00:20:14,839 --> 00:20:19,177 I guarantee you this fucking guy named him after the jar. 433 00:20:19,219 --> 00:20:21,971 100%. 434 00:20:22,013 --> 00:20:25,266 He likes drinking sour IPA out of them so much, 435 00:20:25,308 --> 00:20:27,435 named his kid after one. 436 00:20:27,477 --> 00:20:30,980 Kid's middle name is probably Brita. 437 00:20:31,022 --> 00:20:32,190 [ Laughter ] 438 00:20:32,232 --> 00:20:33,733 "Mason." 439 00:20:33,775 --> 00:20:37,195 And Mason was the coolest fucking kid I have ever seen. 440 00:20:37,237 --> 00:20:38,988 He did not give a shit. 441 00:20:39,030 --> 00:20:42,784 He earned my respect forever with one move. 442 00:20:42,826 --> 00:20:46,538 He walked over to a table and closed a laptop 443 00:20:46,579 --> 00:20:49,833 while the guy was on the laptop! 444 00:20:49,874 --> 00:20:51,084 [ Laughter ] 445 00:20:51,126 --> 00:20:54,004 It's the most hardcore shit I've ever seen. 446 00:20:54,045 --> 00:20:57,382 So this dude was there just typing away 447 00:20:57,424 --> 00:20:58,883 in a coffee shop in Brooklyn, 448 00:20:58,925 --> 00:21:03,722 so no doubt authoring the next great Vulture article... 449 00:21:03,763 --> 00:21:07,851 taking down the patriarchy from within... 450 00:21:07,892 --> 00:21:11,563 and then one of its youngest members comes over 451 00:21:11,604 --> 00:21:14,024 and just shatters everything about it. 452 00:21:14,065 --> 00:21:16,735 Like, jellyfishes him right there on the spot, 453 00:21:16,776 --> 00:21:18,737 'cause he has to move his hands away 454 00:21:18,778 --> 00:21:21,197 so Mason could slam the shit, 455 00:21:21,239 --> 00:21:24,576 and then this adult just sat there like he was in trouble. 456 00:21:24,617 --> 00:21:29,039 [ Laughter ] 457 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:32,834 And Mason just stared back at his dad like this. 458 00:21:32,876 --> 00:21:34,252 [ Laughter ] 459 00:21:34,294 --> 00:21:36,880 Just cold as ice. 460 00:21:36,921 --> 00:21:39,424 Like, he might as well have been like... 461 00:21:39,466 --> 00:21:41,593 [ Laughter ] 462 00:21:41,634 --> 00:21:44,095 "The fuck you gonna do, Gregory?" 463 00:21:44,137 --> 00:21:47,390 [ Laughter ] 464 00:21:47,432 --> 00:21:49,976 "I'll call you Dad when you earn it!" 465 00:21:50,018 --> 00:21:55,482 [ Laughter ] 466 00:21:55,523 --> 00:21:56,775 And the dad tried to flex. 467 00:21:56,816 --> 00:22:00,779 He like, "One...two...three." 468 00:22:00,820 --> 00:22:02,906 And Mason's response to three was 469 00:22:02,947 --> 00:22:05,992 just to start swaying, just like this. 470 00:22:06,034 --> 00:22:08,703 [ Laughter ] 471 00:22:08,745 --> 00:22:10,080 Like a video-game character 472 00:22:10,121 --> 00:22:13,124 whose player temporarily put down the controller. 473 00:22:13,166 --> 00:22:16,086 [ Laughter ] 474 00:22:16,127 --> 00:22:18,088 I don't know where this falls on the spectrum, 475 00:22:18,129 --> 00:22:20,298 but it is terrifying. 476 00:22:20,340 --> 00:22:21,966 [ Laughter ] 477 00:22:22,008 --> 00:22:24,302 And you could tell his dad was afraid of him 478 00:22:24,344 --> 00:22:28,264 but pushed on, like, "Four... 479 00:22:28,306 --> 00:22:29,808 Five. 480 00:22:29,849 --> 00:22:31,893 Do you want to sign a treaty before I get to six?" 481 00:22:31,935 --> 00:22:34,813 And at that moment, Mason turns his back 482 00:22:34,854 --> 00:22:37,607 and starts pulling napkins out of the dispenser, 483 00:22:37,649 --> 00:22:38,983 and I had to leave because 484 00:22:39,025 --> 00:22:40,985 I was about to start rooting for this kid. 485 00:22:41,027 --> 00:22:42,362 You understand? 486 00:22:42,404 --> 00:22:46,032 I was about to start, like, "Mason! Mason! Mason!" 487 00:22:46,074 --> 00:22:48,618 He was so badass. 488 00:22:48,660 --> 00:22:50,995 Like, I left with my coffee, 489 00:22:51,037 --> 00:22:53,665 made the block, and considered going back in 490 00:22:53,707 --> 00:22:55,667 'cause I know they still would have been there, 491 00:22:55,709 --> 00:22:57,961 but only now, his dad's balled up crying 492 00:22:58,003 --> 00:23:04,509 and Mason's counting like, "Eight...nine...ten. 493 00:23:04,551 --> 00:23:06,344 I don't know what comes after ten. 494 00:23:06,386 --> 00:23:08,346 I'm a child. 495 00:23:08,388 --> 00:23:10,223 Here, take a napkin, crybaby. 496 00:23:10,265 --> 00:23:12,517 What a little bitch." 497 00:23:12,559 --> 00:23:14,519 [ Laughter ] 498 00:23:14,561 --> 00:23:16,896 I bet he'll never respect his dad 499 00:23:16,938 --> 00:23:20,984 'cause that dad clearly cares entirely too much 500 00:23:21,026 --> 00:23:24,154 about the opinion of the strangers around him. 501 00:23:24,195 --> 00:23:27,699 Which is probably why he became a parent in the first place. 502 00:23:27,741 --> 00:23:32,203 [ Light laughter ] 503 00:23:32,245 --> 00:23:33,997 I know that's harsh. I know. 504 00:23:34,039 --> 00:23:35,999 And I don't mean for it to be. 505 00:23:36,041 --> 00:23:39,711 I simply grew up with a different type of parent, 506 00:23:39,753 --> 00:23:42,714 the parent that doesn't give a fuck! 507 00:23:42,756 --> 00:23:44,924 [ Laughter ] 508 00:23:44,966 --> 00:23:48,011 A fuck! 509 00:23:48,053 --> 00:23:51,014 Fuck! 510 00:23:51,056 --> 00:23:53,725 A fuck! 511 00:23:53,767 --> 00:23:58,396 About the opinion of the strangers around them... 512 00:23:58,438 --> 00:23:59,647 which is probably also why 513 00:23:59,689 --> 00:24:01,566 they had kids in the first place, too. 514 00:24:01,608 --> 00:24:03,568 Let's just be honest. 515 00:24:03,610 --> 00:24:05,528 [ Laughter ] 516 00:24:05,570 --> 00:24:11,868 But they also don't want those strangers to call the cops. 517 00:24:11,910 --> 00:24:15,580 So in public, it's a far harder parent to spot. 518 00:24:15,622 --> 00:24:18,249 They don't make a negotiation scene. 519 00:24:18,291 --> 00:24:20,210 They don't do a countdown... 520 00:24:20,251 --> 00:24:22,921 when the kid starts being a dickhead in public. 521 00:24:22,962 --> 00:24:24,756 They give him a few seconds to pull out of it, 522 00:24:24,798 --> 00:24:26,132 save their own skin, 523 00:24:26,174 --> 00:24:28,593 and if they don't, they just get drug off. 524 00:24:28,635 --> 00:24:30,095 "Listen to me right fucking now. 525 00:24:30,136 --> 00:24:32,764 If you do not shut the fuck up this fucking second, 526 00:24:32,806 --> 00:24:34,933 I promise you, the second we get home, 527 00:24:34,974 --> 00:24:37,769 I will break your goddamn neck in front of your fucking toys. 528 00:24:37,811 --> 00:24:40,605 Do you understand me? Do you understand me? 529 00:24:40,647 --> 00:24:42,065 I will line them up. 530 00:24:42,107 --> 00:24:45,151 You will say goodbye to each one individually. 531 00:24:45,193 --> 00:24:46,528 Yeah. 532 00:24:46,569 --> 00:24:48,571 And they will watch the life leave your fucking f-- 533 00:24:48,613 --> 00:24:51,783 Oh, oh, that's funny? Oh, that's funny? You're lau-- 534 00:24:51,825 --> 00:24:53,785 Oh, that's funny. You know what else is funny? 535 00:24:53,827 --> 00:24:55,620 I wished for it to be a miscarriage. 536 00:24:55,662 --> 00:24:57,455 I did. 537 00:24:57,497 --> 00:25:00,625 I flipped a coin into a fountain! 538 00:25:00,667 --> 00:25:03,253 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! 539 00:25:03,294 --> 00:25:04,963 No. Oh, you have something to say now? 540 00:25:05,005 --> 00:25:07,298 No, say it. Say it. I'm listening. Say it. 541 00:25:07,340 --> 00:25:09,092 No, say it. I'm listening. 542 00:25:09,134 --> 00:25:10,468 Exactly! 543 00:25:10,510 --> 00:25:13,304 Act tough, then back down! 544 00:25:13,346 --> 00:25:15,640 Just like your father. 545 00:25:15,682 --> 00:25:19,185 [ Cheers and applause ] 546 00:25:27,318 --> 00:25:30,822 Hi. No, just one, please. He's not eating. 547 00:25:30,864 --> 00:25:34,367 [ Laughter ] 548 00:25:39,706 --> 00:25:42,500 Am I reminding some of you of your mothers? 549 00:25:42,542 --> 00:25:44,836 [ Laughter, applause ] 550 00:25:44,878 --> 00:25:48,298 Or of yourselves? 551 00:25:48,340 --> 00:25:51,968 When my mom would get liftoff-level angry... 552 00:25:52,010 --> 00:25:53,470 she'd make threats. 553 00:25:53,511 --> 00:25:55,096 She'd say things that were supposed to frighten us, 554 00:25:55,138 --> 00:25:56,931 like, "Y'all need to calm down. 555 00:25:56,973 --> 00:25:58,350 Calm this shit down now. 556 00:25:58,391 --> 00:26:00,060 I'm gonna tell your daddy." 557 00:26:00,101 --> 00:26:03,646 And our response would be like, "Please tell Dad. 558 00:26:03,688 --> 00:26:05,315 Please immediately tell Dad 559 00:26:05,357 --> 00:26:08,777 so that someone else knows the whereabouts of our remains." 560 00:26:08,818 --> 00:26:11,863 [ Laughter ] 561 00:26:11,905 --> 00:26:14,699 "Please rope a third party into this." 562 00:26:14,741 --> 00:26:16,326 [ Laughter ] 563 00:26:16,368 --> 00:26:20,038 It was when she got cruising-altitude pissed off... 564 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,333 when it became terrifying. 565 00:26:23,375 --> 00:26:28,546 Terrified, because that was the moment she would begin praying. 566 00:26:28,588 --> 00:26:30,048 [ Laughter ] 567 00:26:30,090 --> 00:26:32,550 Some of you understand. 568 00:26:32,592 --> 00:26:33,885 [ Laughter ] 569 00:26:33,927 --> 00:26:35,512 The rest of you, 570 00:26:35,553 --> 00:26:37,514 I can hear the question burning on your minds. 571 00:26:37,555 --> 00:26:39,307 "Well, what's so terrifying about prayer?" 572 00:26:39,349 --> 00:26:42,352 How about the fact that we weren't raised religious? 573 00:26:42,394 --> 00:26:43,395 [ Laughter ] 574 00:26:43,436 --> 00:26:46,523 That'll get in your fucking head. 575 00:26:46,564 --> 00:26:49,192 I remember my brother and I were children 576 00:26:49,234 --> 00:26:51,403 at the grocery store with my mom, 577 00:26:51,444 --> 00:26:52,904 acting like children. 578 00:26:52,946 --> 00:26:55,365 What does that mean, obeying her every command? 579 00:26:55,407 --> 00:26:56,908 Fuck no. 580 00:26:56,950 --> 00:26:59,369 That's not your duty as a child. 581 00:26:59,411 --> 00:27:01,413 Our parents all brought us into this world 582 00:27:01,454 --> 00:27:03,206 without our permission. 583 00:27:03,248 --> 00:27:06,584 Your duty as a child is to push them to the edge, 584 00:27:06,626 --> 00:27:08,294 see what they're fucking made of, 585 00:27:08,336 --> 00:27:10,380 test their resolve. 586 00:27:10,422 --> 00:27:12,924 Have they earned the right to tell you what to do 587 00:27:12,966 --> 00:27:16,219 for the next 18 to 30 years of your life? 588 00:27:16,261 --> 00:27:18,596 Depending on whether or not you get your shit together later, 589 00:27:18,638 --> 00:27:20,390 and that's also kind of on them. 590 00:27:20,432 --> 00:27:21,850 [ Laughter ] 591 00:27:21,891 --> 00:27:25,770 It's your duty to see what they're made of at that age. 592 00:27:25,812 --> 00:27:27,397 And that's what we were doing. 593 00:27:27,439 --> 00:27:30,108 We were doing our duty as children, 594 00:27:30,150 --> 00:27:31,776 and we get out to the parking lot. 595 00:27:31,818 --> 00:27:34,612 And my mom just fucking snaps. 596 00:27:34,654 --> 00:27:35,905 Lets go of the basket. 597 00:27:35,947 --> 00:27:38,033 It rolls into a parked car, right? 598 00:27:38,074 --> 00:27:40,952 I remember the car, too -- a Lincoln Continental. 599 00:27:40,994 --> 00:27:42,912 I remember it because I wanted nothing more 600 00:27:42,954 --> 00:27:45,790 than to be locked inside of it at that moment 601 00:27:45,832 --> 00:27:48,251 'cause I knew what was about to happen. 602 00:27:48,293 --> 00:27:50,253 The alarm gets set off by the basket. 603 00:27:50,295 --> 00:27:52,630 Now people are looking. She doesn't care. 604 00:27:52,672 --> 00:27:55,258 She's not here anymore. 605 00:27:55,300 --> 00:27:56,634 [ Laughter ] 606 00:27:56,676 --> 00:27:58,636 I saw her eyes go black. 607 00:27:58,678 --> 00:28:00,638 I was terrified. 608 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,184 And right there, in broad daylight, 609 00:28:04,225 --> 00:28:08,146 in front of all these witnesses, she starts begging. 610 00:28:08,188 --> 00:28:10,440 "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph"... 611 00:28:10,482 --> 00:28:12,108 [ Laughter ] 612 00:28:12,150 --> 00:28:15,987 So not only a deity she'd never introduced in our lives before, 613 00:28:16,029 --> 00:28:22,494 but his parents, begging them...to stop her... 614 00:28:22,535 --> 00:28:25,497 [ Laughter ] 615 00:28:25,538 --> 00:28:27,999 ...to stop her. 616 00:28:28,041 --> 00:28:32,003 And my brother's like, "Stop her from what?" 617 00:28:32,045 --> 00:28:35,173 [ Laughter ] 618 00:28:35,215 --> 00:28:38,385 And that was the day I became the oldest. 619 00:28:38,426 --> 00:28:41,888 [ Laughter ] 620 00:28:41,930 --> 00:28:43,932 [ Cheers and applause ] 621 00:28:45,934 --> 00:28:48,478 Oh! Oh! 622 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:49,646 Brrr! 623 00:28:49,688 --> 00:28:51,648 Back to you. 624 00:28:51,690 --> 00:28:53,900 Peacock call. 625 00:28:57,987 --> 00:28:59,489 My fucking parents, man. 626 00:28:59,531 --> 00:29:01,574 They -- They -- 627 00:29:01,616 --> 00:29:03,827 Like, okay, I can give you so many stories, 628 00:29:03,868 --> 00:29:05,370 but we don't have time. 629 00:29:05,412 --> 00:29:07,747 Here's an example of how my parents did things, alright? 630 00:29:07,789 --> 00:29:11,292 When I was 18 years old, I borrowed their van, okay? 631 00:29:11,334 --> 00:29:12,752 Did I have my license yet? 632 00:29:12,794 --> 00:29:16,131 No, but that was their fucking issue, alright? 633 00:29:16,172 --> 00:29:18,091 They were the ones who wouldn't let me get it 634 00:29:18,133 --> 00:29:20,135 just because I had failed sophomore year -- 635 00:29:20,176 --> 00:29:21,344 again, alright? 636 00:29:21,386 --> 00:29:22,762 So they were projecting 637 00:29:22,804 --> 00:29:25,140 their bullshit onto me, and I needed the van 638 00:29:25,181 --> 00:29:27,767 'cause me and my boys had to go play mailbox baseball. 639 00:29:27,809 --> 00:29:29,019 Okay? 640 00:29:29,060 --> 00:29:32,188 We'd been planning it for hours, okay? 641 00:29:32,230 --> 00:29:34,607 And how were we supposed to know 642 00:29:34,649 --> 00:29:37,944 that there would be mail in the mailboxes at that hour, okay? 643 00:29:37,986 --> 00:29:42,115 We didn't, and the cops were total fuckin' dicks, per uge, 644 00:29:42,157 --> 00:29:43,283 and we get arrested. 645 00:29:43,324 --> 00:29:45,035 And instead of being cool 646 00:29:45,076 --> 00:29:47,287 and just bailing me out that day, 647 00:29:47,328 --> 00:29:50,457 my dad decides, no, they're gonna leave me in jail 648 00:29:50,498 --> 00:29:53,585 'til my arraignment three days later -- 649 00:29:53,626 --> 00:29:55,170 for 72 straight hours -- 650 00:29:55,211 --> 00:29:59,007 so I would learn a lesson, right? 651 00:29:59,049 --> 00:30:01,343 What a fucking genius. 652 00:30:01,384 --> 00:30:05,138 That's brilliant parenting across the board, really. 653 00:30:05,180 --> 00:30:08,183 That's a great strategy right there, you know? 654 00:30:08,224 --> 00:30:09,476 "Hey, boy, you made your bed. 655 00:30:09,517 --> 00:30:11,019 Now hide your cigarettes underneath it," 656 00:30:11,061 --> 00:30:12,854 you know what I'm saying? 657 00:30:12,896 --> 00:30:15,482 [ Laughter ] 658 00:30:15,523 --> 00:30:19,652 That probably would have worked on someone less stupid than me. 659 00:30:19,694 --> 00:30:25,700 Like, I am the reason why I am so pro-choice. 660 00:30:25,742 --> 00:30:28,036 [ Laughter ] 661 00:30:28,078 --> 00:30:29,496 It's all me. 662 00:30:29,537 --> 00:30:31,039 [ Applause ] 663 00:30:31,081 --> 00:30:35,377 Based on the hell I put my parents through as a youngster, 664 00:30:35,418 --> 00:30:38,213 I think every woman should consider 665 00:30:38,254 --> 00:30:41,716 terminating her first pregnancy just on principle. 666 00:30:41,758 --> 00:30:45,387 [ Laughter, applause ] 667 00:30:45,428 --> 00:30:47,472 Be like Texas Hold' Em dealers -- 668 00:30:47,514 --> 00:30:50,392 burn the first one so you can flop out the next three, right? 669 00:30:50,433 --> 00:30:52,644 [ Laughter, applause ] 670 00:30:52,686 --> 00:30:55,730 Makes the game move much smoother. 671 00:30:55,772 --> 00:30:59,234 [ Laughter ] 672 00:30:59,275 --> 00:31:00,819 There is no better time than now 673 00:31:00,860 --> 00:31:03,905 to make an abortion reference with Texas in the title, 674 00:31:03,947 --> 00:31:06,074 I'll tell you that. 675 00:31:06,116 --> 00:31:08,910 [ Cheers and applause ] 676 00:31:08,952 --> 00:31:11,246 Like, I was -- [ Chuckles ] 677 00:31:11,287 --> 00:31:14,082 But I think, like, the key to parenting -- 678 00:31:14,124 --> 00:31:15,917 like, my parents were not cool at all. 679 00:31:15,959 --> 00:31:17,419 They were t-- they were parents. 680 00:31:17,460 --> 00:31:19,421 Parenting is hard, right? 681 00:31:19,462 --> 00:31:21,423 It's not an activity. It's a lifestyle. 682 00:31:21,464 --> 00:31:23,008 It's not axe-throwing. 683 00:31:23,049 --> 00:31:24,426 It's being a lumberjack, 684 00:31:24,467 --> 00:31:27,762 and some people obviously can't hack it. 685 00:31:27,804 --> 00:31:29,389 But I -- Like -- 686 00:31:29,431 --> 00:31:34,102 I think the key to parenting is embracing the fact 687 00:31:34,144 --> 00:31:37,731 that you are going to fuck your kids up. 688 00:31:37,772 --> 00:31:40,066 Not just accepting, but embracing, 689 00:31:40,108 --> 00:31:43,570 and that is not a critique on anyone as an individual. 690 00:31:43,611 --> 00:31:46,239 It is a statement about the human condition. 691 00:31:46,281 --> 00:31:47,991 We are flawed. We will pass that shit on. 692 00:31:48,033 --> 00:31:51,119 And if you just thought, "I'm not gonna fuck my kids up," 693 00:31:51,161 --> 00:31:53,580 I guarantee that is exactly 694 00:31:53,621 --> 00:31:55,957 how you're gonna fuck your kids up. 695 00:31:55,999 --> 00:31:57,292 [ Laughter ] 696 00:31:57,334 --> 00:31:59,711 You're gonna try too hard. 697 00:31:59,753 --> 00:32:01,338 I don't think it matters your approach. 698 00:32:01,379 --> 00:32:02,756 You could be the cool parent. 699 00:32:02,797 --> 00:32:04,758 You could be the chill parent who, you know, 700 00:32:04,799 --> 00:32:06,634 the first time you catch him smoking weed, 701 00:32:06,676 --> 00:32:09,304 you smoke the weed with him and wait 'til you're both baked 702 00:32:09,346 --> 00:32:11,348 to decide on your disciplinary action. 703 00:32:11,389 --> 00:32:14,434 That's great. 704 00:32:14,476 --> 00:32:15,935 But now you're gonna raise a person 705 00:32:15,977 --> 00:32:18,938 who probably will think the world is fair. 706 00:32:18,980 --> 00:32:21,608 And once they're crushed by the sheer unfairness of it all, 707 00:32:21,649 --> 00:32:23,526 they're gonna have to move back home with you 708 00:32:23,568 --> 00:32:27,530 and start a podcast about monetizing one's victimhood. 709 00:32:27,572 --> 00:32:30,325 Right? 710 00:32:30,367 --> 00:32:32,494 And if you're the harsh parent that, you know, 711 00:32:32,535 --> 00:32:34,788 makes them have chores on the weekend 712 00:32:34,829 --> 00:32:36,539 and they have to get a job when they're 8 713 00:32:36,581 --> 00:32:37,791 and it's all about accountability 714 00:32:37,832 --> 00:32:40,168 and responsibility, that's amazing. 715 00:32:40,210 --> 00:32:41,628 You're raising a go-getter, 716 00:32:41,670 --> 00:32:43,797 but unfortunately, 60 years too late 717 00:32:43,838 --> 00:32:45,632 'cause the system's fucking rigged. 718 00:32:45,674 --> 00:32:48,218 So they're gonna get to the top, and then right then and there 719 00:32:48,259 --> 00:32:50,804 have an opportunity swiped away from them 720 00:32:50,845 --> 00:32:54,349 by the unqualified, coked-up son of the CEO, 721 00:32:54,391 --> 00:32:56,643 and then they're gonna be broken by that 722 00:32:56,685 --> 00:32:58,978 and have to move back home with you 723 00:32:59,020 --> 00:33:02,732 and start a podcast about murdering their boss' son -- 724 00:33:02,774 --> 00:33:05,860 a pre-murder podcast, first of its kind. 725 00:33:05,902 --> 00:33:07,529 So there you go. 726 00:33:07,570 --> 00:33:09,531 As young parents, ask yourselves, 727 00:33:09,572 --> 00:33:15,036 "What kind of podcast do I want my kids to start? 728 00:33:15,078 --> 00:33:17,747 And am I willing to produce it?" 729 00:33:17,789 --> 00:33:21,209 [ Laughter ] 730 00:33:21,251 --> 00:33:23,378 Like -- By round of applause, 731 00:33:23,420 --> 00:33:26,047 how many of you have divorced parents? 732 00:33:26,089 --> 00:33:28,550 [ Cheers and applause ] 733 00:33:32,137 --> 00:33:34,055 You're lucky. You're very lucky. 734 00:33:34,097 --> 00:33:35,390 [ Laughter ] 735 00:33:35,432 --> 00:33:36,850 Very, very lucky. 736 00:33:36,891 --> 00:33:39,519 I know -- I know their divorce fucked you up, 737 00:33:39,561 --> 00:33:41,187 but it fucked you up 738 00:33:41,229 --> 00:33:44,024 in a very cool, sexy, brooding way. 739 00:33:44,065 --> 00:33:47,193 You're all mysterious with your pain and shit. 740 00:33:47,235 --> 00:33:50,030 [ Laughter ] 741 00:33:50,071 --> 00:33:53,575 Like, when my mom was about to go nuclear, 742 00:33:53,616 --> 00:33:55,535 when she started sharpening her knives, 743 00:33:55,577 --> 00:33:59,289 and I mean that figuratively and literally, okay? 744 00:33:59,330 --> 00:34:02,542 My dad could distract her with one sentence. 745 00:34:02,584 --> 00:34:04,627 He'd say, "Woman, you need to calm it down 746 00:34:04,669 --> 00:34:07,255 or I'm gonna go live with my other wife." 747 00:34:07,297 --> 00:34:08,882 [ Laughter ] 748 00:34:08,923 --> 00:34:11,593 He didn't have no other wife. He wasn't that smooth. 749 00:34:11,634 --> 00:34:15,597 But that sentence would still make her jealous, 750 00:34:15,638 --> 00:34:17,015 and she'd go after him. 751 00:34:17,057 --> 00:34:21,311 Why? Because that is true love. Understand? 752 00:34:21,353 --> 00:34:22,604 [ Laughter ] 753 00:34:22,645 --> 00:34:24,647 My parents were born the same year 754 00:34:24,689 --> 00:34:27,067 next door to one another in the Lower Ninth. 755 00:34:27,108 --> 00:34:29,778 They grew up knowing each other since birth, 756 00:34:29,819 --> 00:34:32,447 and they started dating when they were like 14, okay? 757 00:34:32,489 --> 00:34:36,076 And it ruined me! Destroyed me! 758 00:34:36,117 --> 00:34:37,619 [ Laughter ] 759 00:34:37,660 --> 00:34:39,829 Their -- Their relationship turned me into 760 00:34:39,871 --> 00:34:42,248 a little romance bitch, you know? 761 00:34:42,290 --> 00:34:47,462 Just weeping all the time, like a fatter version of Cupid, 762 00:34:47,504 --> 00:34:50,924 just firing hot-dog darts that would just deflect 763 00:34:50,965 --> 00:34:53,134 off of every woman I fell in love with 764 00:34:53,176 --> 00:34:55,762 every 48 hours, you understand? 765 00:34:55,804 --> 00:34:58,098 You think being ghosted is bad? 766 00:34:58,139 --> 00:35:01,309 Try not getting a response to handwritten poetry 767 00:35:01,351 --> 00:35:04,145 over and over again. 768 00:35:04,187 --> 00:35:08,316 [ Laughter, applause ] 769 00:35:08,358 --> 00:35:12,320 That's how they fucked me up. 770 00:35:12,362 --> 00:35:13,780 That's all he had to say. 771 00:35:13,822 --> 00:35:16,491 "Woman, I'm gonna go live with my other wife," 772 00:35:16,533 --> 00:35:18,201 and that would make her jealous 773 00:35:18,243 --> 00:35:21,496 and she'd turn all her rage on him and go after him. 774 00:35:21,538 --> 00:35:22,956 And then he'd fart, 775 00:35:22,997 --> 00:35:26,292 and we'd all laugh and come together as a family. 776 00:35:26,334 --> 00:35:27,794 [ Laughter ] 777 00:35:27,836 --> 00:35:31,172 If you don't think farting is important to family, 778 00:35:31,214 --> 00:35:33,508 you're absolutely wrong. 779 00:35:33,550 --> 00:35:35,635 Someone should light a match near your logic. 780 00:35:35,677 --> 00:35:37,679 Farting is what -- 781 00:35:37,721 --> 00:35:39,431 Like, here's how powerful farting is. 782 00:35:39,472 --> 00:35:40,807 In a relationship, 783 00:35:40,849 --> 00:35:42,642 the moment you decide you love one another, 784 00:35:42,684 --> 00:35:44,352 you fart in front of each other. 785 00:35:44,394 --> 00:35:46,354 The first time, and even before that, 786 00:35:46,396 --> 00:35:48,148 it's when you know you truly trust someone, 787 00:35:48,189 --> 00:35:52,027 when you rip ass in front of them for the first time. 788 00:35:52,068 --> 00:35:53,319 Farting is important. 789 00:35:53,361 --> 00:35:54,487 It's also hilarious. 790 00:35:54,529 --> 00:35:56,364 If you don't think farting is funny, 791 00:35:56,406 --> 00:35:58,533 go walk into the Mississippi River, 792 00:35:58,575 --> 00:36:01,369 short yourself out, 'cause your simulation sucks, 793 00:36:01,411 --> 00:36:03,997 you understand? 794 00:36:04,039 --> 00:36:08,543 Like, we could be in an active- shooter situation right now, 795 00:36:08,585 --> 00:36:10,670 terrified for our lives, 796 00:36:10,712 --> 00:36:13,048 and if someone rips ass, we're all gonna be like, 797 00:36:13,089 --> 00:36:15,383 "Ha! Oh, man." 798 00:36:15,425 --> 00:36:16,843 [ Laughter ] 799 00:36:16,885 --> 00:36:19,220 The shooter might even laugh and be like, 800 00:36:19,262 --> 00:36:20,513 "What am I doing? I'm sorry. 801 00:36:20,555 --> 00:36:21,723 I got to chill out, y'all. 802 00:36:21,765 --> 00:36:24,059 I'm gonna take a walk." 803 00:36:24,100 --> 00:36:25,852 [ Laughter ] 804 00:36:25,894 --> 00:36:27,729 Like, farting -- he would fart, 805 00:36:27,771 --> 00:36:30,398 and my dad was so good at farting. 806 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,401 He was so -- He was great at it. 807 00:36:33,443 --> 00:36:35,028 No fart was ever wasted with him. 808 00:36:35,070 --> 00:36:38,031 He understood it was all about timing, okay? 809 00:36:38,073 --> 00:36:40,575 He knew when to fart to end an argument. 810 00:36:40,617 --> 00:36:42,702 He knew when to fart to start a conversation. 811 00:36:42,744 --> 00:36:45,413 He knew when to fart to raise morale. 812 00:36:45,455 --> 00:36:48,583 He knew when to fart to -- to celebrate. 813 00:36:48,625 --> 00:36:50,585 He knew when to fart to commiserate. 814 00:36:50,627 --> 00:36:53,463 He was the best I'd ever seen. 815 00:36:53,505 --> 00:36:56,049 And he could do all the farts, 816 00:36:56,091 --> 00:36:58,259 everything from a tap-dancing bullfrog 817 00:36:58,301 --> 00:36:59,469 to a screeching eagle. 818 00:36:59,511 --> 00:37:02,263 He could do them all. 819 00:37:02,305 --> 00:37:03,598 He was the best. 820 00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:04,808 [ Laughter ] 821 00:37:04,849 --> 00:37:07,102 Like, here's what he'd do -- 822 00:37:07,143 --> 00:37:09,062 when he'd ripped the ass, he give it a second, 823 00:37:09,104 --> 00:37:12,107 and then he'd go, "Y'all heard that baby wolf?" 824 00:37:12,148 --> 00:37:16,111 [ Laughter, applause ] 825 00:37:16,152 --> 00:37:20,990 And every time he said that, I would go, [Howls] 826 00:37:21,032 --> 00:37:23,451 [ Laughter ] 827 00:37:23,493 --> 00:37:26,287 That's how much I respected a fart. 828 00:37:26,329 --> 00:37:28,081 I howled at the baby wolf 829 00:37:28,123 --> 00:37:31,001 so it wouldn't feel like it was alone. 830 00:37:31,042 --> 00:37:33,086 [ Laughter ] 831 00:37:33,128 --> 00:37:36,297 Now, based on everything I just said, 832 00:37:36,339 --> 00:37:37,757 some of you probably assume 833 00:37:37,799 --> 00:37:41,636 I live my entire life neck-deep in poontang. 834 00:37:41,678 --> 00:37:45,598 [ Laughter ] 835 00:37:47,475 --> 00:37:50,145 The haters amongst you probably think I'm still a virgin. 836 00:37:50,186 --> 00:37:51,938 That's fine. 837 00:37:51,980 --> 00:37:57,694 I lost my virginity on March 7, 1998. 838 00:37:57,736 --> 00:38:00,655 I'm very good with dates. 839 00:38:00,697 --> 00:38:02,824 I don't so much remember the act itself. 840 00:38:02,866 --> 00:38:04,659 What I remember more about the sex 841 00:38:04,701 --> 00:38:06,119 was the morning after. 842 00:38:06,161 --> 00:38:08,496 I woke up first. She was still asleep. 843 00:38:08,538 --> 00:38:09,831 We were in the spooning position. 844 00:38:09,873 --> 00:38:11,791 I was big spoon. She was a little spoon. 845 00:38:11,833 --> 00:38:15,670 And the bed was like our own private silverware drawer. 846 00:38:15,712 --> 00:38:17,464 [ Laughter ] 847 00:38:17,505 --> 00:38:21,343 I was a man now, so I did what I thought men should do. 848 00:38:21,384 --> 00:38:23,345 I got up and went into the kitchen 849 00:38:23,386 --> 00:38:25,180 to make the woman breakfast in bed. 850 00:38:25,221 --> 00:38:26,514 [ Cheering ] 851 00:38:26,556 --> 00:38:28,641 Fuck yeah. 852 00:38:28,683 --> 00:38:30,977 [ Applause ] 853 00:38:31,019 --> 00:38:32,562 I found a big-ass punch bowl. 854 00:38:32,604 --> 00:38:35,190 I filled it full of an entire box of cereal... 855 00:38:35,231 --> 00:38:36,691 [ Laughter ] 856 00:38:36,733 --> 00:38:39,527 ...then added in an entire half-gallon of milk, 857 00:38:39,569 --> 00:38:41,237 two spoons. 858 00:38:41,279 --> 00:38:43,740 Casanova? Yes. 859 00:38:43,782 --> 00:38:46,868 Also still a teenager? Yes. 860 00:38:46,910 --> 00:38:48,995 I walked back into the bedroom, 861 00:38:49,037 --> 00:38:55,877 and there she was, my angel, fast asleep, and whoops! 862 00:38:55,919 --> 00:39:03,551 Dowsed her, direct hit, soaked from neck to ankle. 863 00:39:03,593 --> 00:39:06,554 "Oh, my God! I'm so sorry! 864 00:39:06,596 --> 00:39:08,390 I was just bringing you breakfast in bed, 865 00:39:08,431 --> 00:39:12,894 and I tripped over the...floor. 866 00:39:12,936 --> 00:39:16,106 I didn't realize how flat and level it was." 867 00:39:16,147 --> 00:39:18,942 [ Laughter ] 868 00:39:18,983 --> 00:39:23,238 But now, between you and I, that wasn't no accident. 869 00:39:23,279 --> 00:39:25,198 I did that on purpose. 870 00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:29,202 See, there's a little fact I left out earlier. 871 00:39:29,244 --> 00:39:31,579 I didn't tell you 'cause I didn't trust you yet, 872 00:39:31,621 --> 00:39:33,373 but now I do. 873 00:39:33,415 --> 00:39:37,419 The private silverware I had mentioned, the bed... 874 00:39:37,460 --> 00:39:39,754 was full of piss. 875 00:39:39,796 --> 00:39:43,299 [ Laughter ] 876 00:39:47,262 --> 00:39:50,432 I just want to make eye contact with everyone individually. 877 00:39:50,473 --> 00:39:52,225 [ Laughter ] 878 00:39:52,267 --> 00:39:58,314 'Cause you see, one of us... had pissed the bed. 879 00:39:58,356 --> 00:40:00,233 And the one of us that did it... 880 00:40:00,275 --> 00:40:03,153 you all paid money to watch perform tonight. 881 00:40:03,194 --> 00:40:07,615 [ Laughter ] 882 00:40:07,657 --> 00:40:11,161 Oh! Oh, I'm leaking. 883 00:40:16,166 --> 00:40:17,417 [ Laughs ] 884 00:40:17,459 --> 00:40:21,338 See, I...am a bedwetter. 885 00:40:21,379 --> 00:40:24,299 Now, when I say that, people want to ask, "Still?" 886 00:40:24,341 --> 00:40:26,926 Here's the thing about being a bedwetter -- 887 00:40:26,968 --> 00:40:29,512 once a bedwetter, always a bedwetter. 888 00:40:29,554 --> 00:40:32,057 But it's a lot like being a professional athlete. 889 00:40:32,098 --> 00:40:35,060 At a certain point, you can't do it anymore. 890 00:40:35,101 --> 00:40:38,521 You have to retire for your own health... 891 00:40:38,563 --> 00:40:42,442 but maybe every now and again, you do it for charity events. 892 00:40:42,484 --> 00:40:43,902 [ Laughter ] 893 00:40:43,943 --> 00:40:45,195 And at that point, 894 00:40:45,236 --> 00:40:47,781 I was the best that ever fucking did it. 895 00:40:47,822 --> 00:40:49,032 You understand? 896 00:40:49,074 --> 00:40:50,742 I was the GOAT of bedwetting, okay? 897 00:40:50,784 --> 00:40:52,202 By that point, I had done them all -- 898 00:40:52,243 --> 00:40:56,414 single beds, double beds, full size, king size, 899 00:40:56,456 --> 00:40:58,917 queen size, the entire monarchy of beds. 900 00:40:58,958 --> 00:41:00,543 I did those. 901 00:41:00,585 --> 00:41:04,589 Bunk beds? Fuck yeah, both north and south, done. 902 00:41:04,631 --> 00:41:07,217 Futons, couches? 903 00:41:07,258 --> 00:41:09,886 I could do those in my sleep. 904 00:41:09,928 --> 00:41:11,554 And I did. 905 00:41:11,596 --> 00:41:13,223 [ Laughter ] 906 00:41:13,264 --> 00:41:15,767 Murphy beds -- you ever even see a Murphy bed? 907 00:41:15,809 --> 00:41:17,602 That's the bed you pull out of the wall 908 00:41:17,644 --> 00:41:19,104 like you're an old private dick 909 00:41:19,145 --> 00:41:22,107 living in your office in Manhattan in 1922. 910 00:41:22,148 --> 00:41:24,317 There's a mystery for you to solve. 911 00:41:24,359 --> 00:41:26,945 Back in the wall. 912 00:41:26,986 --> 00:41:29,239 Water beds -- two of them! 913 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,449 How many people have ever even slept in a water bed, 914 00:41:31,491 --> 00:41:32,784 let alone pissed in? 915 00:41:32,826 --> 00:41:34,619 Two. 916 00:41:34,661 --> 00:41:36,079 You'd think pissing a water bed 917 00:41:36,121 --> 00:41:38,623 would magically open up a portal to Atlantis. 918 00:41:38,665 --> 00:41:40,959 It doesn't. 919 00:41:41,001 --> 00:41:42,627 [ Laughter ] 920 00:41:42,669 --> 00:41:45,422 Just remember that. 921 00:41:45,463 --> 00:41:47,424 I was the GOAT. 922 00:41:47,465 --> 00:41:49,134 Well, if GOAT stands for greatest of all time, 923 00:41:49,175 --> 00:41:51,636 we are talking about bedwetting here, so I'll -- 924 00:41:51,678 --> 00:41:54,305 I was the SHEEP -- 925 00:41:54,347 --> 00:41:58,810 Steadily Hosing Everything Everywhere...Piss. 926 00:41:58,852 --> 00:42:01,146 [ Laughter ] 927 00:42:01,187 --> 00:42:03,481 But this was my greatest accomplishment. 928 00:42:03,523 --> 00:42:04,941 This was my crown jewel. 929 00:42:04,983 --> 00:42:06,526 This was my Super Bowl trophy. 930 00:42:06,568 --> 00:42:10,864 I had pissed my girlfriend's parents' bed with her in it. 931 00:42:10,905 --> 00:42:12,532 [ Laughter, groans ] 932 00:42:12,574 --> 00:42:14,617 You know how it is in the south. 933 00:42:14,659 --> 00:42:16,286 Her parents were out of town, 934 00:42:16,327 --> 00:42:17,996 and she wanted to lose her virginity 935 00:42:18,038 --> 00:42:20,665 in the same place she was possibly conceived. 936 00:42:20,707 --> 00:42:22,292 Everybody kn-- 937 00:42:22,334 --> 00:42:25,003 That's that good luck, Jimbo! Everybody knows that! 938 00:42:25,045 --> 00:42:28,506 [ Laughter ] 939 00:42:28,548 --> 00:42:30,675 Direct hit. 940 00:42:30,717 --> 00:42:32,469 [ Laughter ] 941 00:42:32,510 --> 00:42:35,388 What kind of cereal was it, you ask? 942 00:42:35,430 --> 00:42:38,808 [ Laughter ] 943 00:42:38,850 --> 00:42:40,852 Life. 944 00:42:40,894 --> 00:42:46,191 [ Laughter, applause ] 945 00:42:46,232 --> 00:42:48,693 There's poetry everywhere. 946 00:42:48,735 --> 00:42:50,153 [ Laughter ] 947 00:42:50,195 --> 00:42:54,699 On January 13, 1999 -- good with dates -- 948 00:42:54,741 --> 00:42:56,159 she dumped me. 949 00:42:56,201 --> 00:42:59,788 Now, yes, for a split second, I was terrified. 950 00:42:59,829 --> 00:43:03,041 For a split second, I was like, "Did she figure it out, 951 00:43:03,083 --> 00:43:07,420 that it wasn't cows milk, but bladder milk?" 952 00:43:07,462 --> 00:43:09,214 [ Laughter ] 953 00:43:09,255 --> 00:43:12,717 "Which cleansed our sin from her loins?" 954 00:43:12,759 --> 00:43:16,262 [ Laughter ] 955 00:43:17,764 --> 00:43:20,058 No, she didn't figure it out. 956 00:43:20,100 --> 00:43:21,351 [ Laughter ] 957 00:43:21,393 --> 00:43:23,269 She broke up with me because, 958 00:43:23,311 --> 00:43:26,690 in her words, I was too emotional. 959 00:43:26,731 --> 00:43:29,192 That's ridiculous. It's a terrible excuse. 960 00:43:29,234 --> 00:43:30,610 Too emotional? Come on. 961 00:43:30,652 --> 00:43:32,904 I'm a Scorpio. 962 00:43:32,946 --> 00:43:35,448 I have master control over my emotions. 963 00:43:35,490 --> 00:43:36,741 You understand? 964 00:43:36,783 --> 00:43:38,326 No other person is gonna get those out of me. 965 00:43:38,368 --> 00:43:40,870 Sure, I was hurt. I had opened myself up to her. 966 00:43:40,912 --> 00:43:43,748 I did what people say they want you to do in a relationship. 967 00:43:43,790 --> 00:43:45,041 I was vulnerable. 968 00:43:45,083 --> 00:43:46,251 I opened my -- I said, "There's my -- 969 00:43:46,292 --> 00:43:48,420 There's me on the inside. That's my heart. 970 00:43:48,461 --> 00:43:50,964 Would you like to touch it?" And she said, "Uh-huh." 971 00:43:51,006 --> 00:43:52,549 Took it. 972 00:43:52,590 --> 00:43:54,926 Ripped it out of my ch-- I never saw it again. 973 00:43:54,968 --> 00:43:56,386 I don't know what she did with it. 974 00:43:56,428 --> 00:43:58,722 Probably used it around the house like a sponge, 975 00:43:58,763 --> 00:44:02,100 like a -- like a paperweight or a doorstop. 976 00:44:02,142 --> 00:44:03,727 Probably every time she met a guy 977 00:44:03,768 --> 00:44:05,395 she wanted to bang and he didn't have a condom, 978 00:44:05,437 --> 00:44:06,896 she was like, "Well, here, it's no big deal. 979 00:44:06,938 --> 00:44:09,482 Use Sean's heart as a condom." 980 00:44:09,524 --> 00:44:10,942 [ Laughter ] 981 00:44:10,984 --> 00:44:14,112 Unfortunate, it hurt, but, hey, life happens, alright? 982 00:44:14,154 --> 00:44:15,655 But I was still broken. 983 00:44:15,697 --> 00:44:17,741 I was still a sad little boy. 984 00:44:17,782 --> 00:44:20,785 And I decided after a couple of weeks in the doldrums 985 00:44:20,827 --> 00:44:22,287 that the best way to get over her 986 00:44:22,328 --> 00:44:27,292 and move on with life was to see some titties... 987 00:44:27,334 --> 00:44:31,296 go to a strip club for the first time. 988 00:44:31,338 --> 00:44:34,424 Now, there's no shortage of strip clubs here. 989 00:44:34,466 --> 00:44:37,135 Bourbon Street alone's got two or three. 990 00:44:37,177 --> 00:44:39,804 [ Laughter ] 991 00:44:39,846 --> 00:44:42,015 It's got eight, I believe. 992 00:44:42,057 --> 00:44:45,602 I think it's actually like 13. 993 00:44:45,643 --> 00:44:49,522 And there used to be off-Bourbon strip clubs. 994 00:44:49,564 --> 00:44:50,774 You remember those? 995 00:44:50,815 --> 00:44:52,317 Which were a lot like off-Broadway theaters, 996 00:44:52,359 --> 00:44:53,985 if you know what I'm saying. 997 00:44:54,027 --> 00:44:55,320 [ Laughter ] 998 00:44:55,362 --> 00:44:57,322 Like, yeah, you're gonna pay less to get in, 999 00:44:57,364 --> 00:44:58,990 but you're gonna be kind of confused 1000 00:44:59,032 --> 00:45:01,785 by what you're watching on the stage. 1001 00:45:01,826 --> 00:45:05,789 It's more experimental than you were hoping. 1002 00:45:05,830 --> 00:45:09,334 And there'll be a fog machine unnecessarily at full blast. 1003 00:45:09,376 --> 00:45:12,420 You can guarantee it. 1004 00:45:12,462 --> 00:45:14,464 And, like, you know, the Quarter has got world-famous 1005 00:45:14,506 --> 00:45:17,634 strip clubs, you know, like Rick's Cabaret, 1006 00:45:17,676 --> 00:45:20,470 you know, Stiletto's, Barely Legal -- 1007 00:45:20,512 --> 00:45:23,473 Larry Flynt's Barely Legal, Larry Flynt's Hustler Club. 1008 00:45:23,515 --> 00:45:25,642 They've got -- I didn't go to the Quarter, though. 1009 00:45:25,684 --> 00:45:27,644 I didn't go to any fancy strip clubs. 1010 00:45:27,686 --> 00:45:31,189 I went 33 miles north of the city... 1011 00:45:31,231 --> 00:45:34,317 to a suburb known as Slidell, Louisiana. 1012 00:45:34,359 --> 00:45:37,195 [ Cheers and applause ] 1013 00:45:37,237 --> 00:45:40,031 Where there's a gem of a gentlemen's club 1014 00:45:40,073 --> 00:45:41,700 called Scuttlebutt. 1015 00:45:41,741 --> 00:45:43,576 [ Cheers and applause ] 1016 00:45:43,618 --> 00:45:46,371 You know it. You -- Hey. 1017 00:45:46,413 --> 00:45:48,373 [ Cheers and applause continue ] 1018 00:45:48,415 --> 00:45:51,251 They should be paying me money for that response. 1019 00:45:51,292 --> 00:45:52,836 [ Laughter, applause ] 1020 00:45:52,877 --> 00:45:55,547 I don't know that anyone's ever cheered for Scuttlebutt, 1021 00:45:55,588 --> 00:45:58,800 but there -- you know, it's there. 1022 00:45:58,842 --> 00:46:00,385 [ Applause ] 1023 00:46:00,427 --> 00:46:04,681 Now, I grew up near that place, and for my entire life, 1024 00:46:04,723 --> 00:46:08,518 I thought it was just the dumbest-named strip club ever. 1025 00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:11,396 Such a -- Scuttlebutt, like the owner was just some meathead 1026 00:46:11,438 --> 00:46:12,772 who didn't understand English that well. 1027 00:46:12,814 --> 00:46:14,733 Was like, "Look, I want them to scuttle in 1028 00:46:14,774 --> 00:46:16,735 to see some butt. 1029 00:46:16,776 --> 00:46:18,903 Bam, names itself. 1030 00:46:18,945 --> 00:46:20,405 It's better than Scuttlegash. 1031 00:46:20,447 --> 00:46:23,241 It's better than Scuttletwat -- Scuttlebutt. 1032 00:46:23,283 --> 00:46:26,202 Put it on the fucking sign, dude." 1033 00:46:26,244 --> 00:46:27,829 [ Laughter ] 1034 00:46:27,871 --> 00:46:31,916 But later, I would learn that "scuttlebutt" is a real word 1035 00:46:31,958 --> 00:46:33,418 with an actual definition, 1036 00:46:33,460 --> 00:46:38,423 the definition of which is "a rumor or gossip." 1037 00:46:38,465 --> 00:46:40,884 So now that changes... right away. 1038 00:46:40,925 --> 00:46:44,262 Now I think the owner's just, like, a dude with a monocle 1039 00:46:44,304 --> 00:46:46,556 and a top hat twirling a cane. 1040 00:46:46,598 --> 00:46:50,018 "Pardon me, gentlemen and scholars alike. 1041 00:46:50,060 --> 00:46:51,436 Behind these doors 1042 00:46:51,478 --> 00:46:53,563 be scantily clad women of the night, 1043 00:46:53,605 --> 00:46:55,732 willing to polish the knob on your front side 1044 00:46:55,774 --> 00:46:59,778 for mere pennies on the dollar, or so that be the scuttlebutt." 1045 00:46:59,819 --> 00:47:03,323 [ Laughter ] 1046 00:47:06,785 --> 00:47:10,747 Now, at the time, I was only 20 years old. 1047 00:47:10,789 --> 00:47:14,834 That is technically too young to get in... 1048 00:47:14,876 --> 00:47:17,253 anywhere else in the country. 1049 00:47:17,295 --> 00:47:19,589 But I was also heartbroken, 1050 00:47:19,631 --> 00:47:22,801 so I walked into that place with the confidence of a vet. 1051 00:47:22,842 --> 00:47:24,302 You know what I mean? 1052 00:47:24,344 --> 00:47:25,762 Like the -- Like the -- 1053 00:47:25,804 --> 00:47:27,597 The bouncer didn't even look at me, 1054 00:47:27,639 --> 00:47:30,684 but I swear I heard him say, "Thank you for your service." 1055 00:47:30,725 --> 00:47:34,229 [ Laughter ] 1056 00:47:35,647 --> 00:47:39,275 I went to the bar, ordered a PBR... 1057 00:47:39,317 --> 00:47:41,986 off the imported-beer list. 1058 00:47:42,028 --> 00:47:44,614 [ Laughter ] 1059 00:47:44,656 --> 00:47:47,701 Imported from Milwaukee, bruh! 1060 00:47:47,742 --> 00:47:48,993 [ Laughter ] 1061 00:47:49,035 --> 00:47:50,954 And I sat at the stage 1062 00:47:50,995 --> 00:47:53,957 and just sort of flipped dollar bills at the strippers 1063 00:47:53,998 --> 00:47:55,500 while listening to them strip 1064 00:47:55,542 --> 00:47:57,002 'cause I was still that heartbroken 1065 00:47:57,043 --> 00:47:59,170 where I couldn't even look at another female form. 1066 00:47:59,212 --> 00:48:01,339 Like, "Oh, she had a stomach, too, man. 1067 00:48:01,381 --> 00:48:03,508 No, I'm just not ready." 1068 00:48:03,550 --> 00:48:05,969 And I was 20, so I was broke. 1069 00:48:06,011 --> 00:48:08,179 So, like, every third flick, there was nothing there. 1070 00:48:08,221 --> 00:48:10,724 I just did the motion. 1071 00:48:10,765 --> 00:48:11,808 [ Laughter ] 1072 00:48:11,850 --> 00:48:14,644 And I just listened to the cavalcade. 1073 00:48:14,686 --> 00:48:18,064 "Alright, fellas, here she comes, Crystal!" 1074 00:48:18,106 --> 00:48:23,153 "Alright, club favorite Cacophany." 1075 00:48:23,194 --> 00:48:26,740 "Sexiest woman in the southeast five years running, 1076 00:48:26,781 --> 00:48:28,867 it's Ebony!" 1077 00:48:28,908 --> 00:48:31,202 A white girl, by the way. 1078 00:48:31,244 --> 00:48:32,829 [ Laughter ] 1079 00:48:32,871 --> 00:48:34,039 You know? 1080 00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:35,665 Culturally appropriating before 1081 00:48:35,707 --> 00:48:39,210 "cultural appropriation" was a buzzword. 1082 00:48:39,252 --> 00:48:42,172 She was a real South African American, 1083 00:48:42,213 --> 00:48:44,382 if you know what I'm saying. 1084 00:48:44,424 --> 00:48:46,009 [ Laughter ] 1085 00:48:46,051 --> 00:48:50,263 "Alright, fellas, here she is, club favorite Jubilee." 1086 00:48:50,305 --> 00:48:51,681 [ Laughter ] 1087 00:48:51,723 --> 00:48:56,061 "Alright, late night. Here she comes, Nancy." 1088 00:48:56,102 --> 00:48:58,063 [ Laughter ] 1089 00:48:58,104 --> 00:48:59,564 That caught my attention. 1090 00:48:59,606 --> 00:49:01,566 Nancy -- that's not a stripper name. 1091 00:49:01,608 --> 00:49:02,859 That's a normal name. 1092 00:49:02,901 --> 00:49:05,028 The stripper's name-name might be Nancy, 1093 00:49:05,070 --> 00:49:09,074 but then her stripper name would be like Charcuterie. 1094 00:49:09,115 --> 00:49:11,034 [ Laughter ] 1095 00:49:11,076 --> 00:49:15,205 "She's a board full of meat, fellas," right? 1096 00:49:15,246 --> 00:49:16,414 [ Laughter ] 1097 00:49:16,456 --> 00:49:18,833 Nancy -- that caught my attention, 1098 00:49:18,875 --> 00:49:21,711 and unlike every stripper before her who came out 1099 00:49:21,753 --> 00:49:26,716 dancing to Ja Rule or Metallica or Pantera or DMX, 1100 00:49:26,758 --> 00:49:31,554 Nancy came out dancing to the Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris." 1101 00:49:31,596 --> 00:49:33,598 [ Laughter, applause ] 1102 00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:35,725 We all know that song. 1103 00:49:35,767 --> 00:49:38,103 And a lot of people tell themselves over and over again 1104 00:49:38,144 --> 00:49:39,771 that they hate that song. 1105 00:49:39,813 --> 00:49:41,606 And if you truly believe you hate that song, 1106 00:49:41,648 --> 00:49:45,443 then I guess the world saw you and it didn't understand. 1107 00:49:45,485 --> 00:49:48,446 [ Laughter ] 1108 00:49:48,488 --> 00:49:51,449 And Nancy and I make eye contact right then and there, 1109 00:49:51,491 --> 00:49:53,910 and it's obvious there's a bond. 1110 00:49:53,952 --> 00:49:55,537 It's strong between us. 1111 00:49:55,578 --> 00:49:57,789 I'm almost worried other people can see it, right? 1112 00:49:57,831 --> 00:49:59,749 I mean, she was looking right through me. 1113 00:49:59,791 --> 00:50:01,334 She could see right through me. 1114 00:50:01,376 --> 00:50:03,128 I was a broken little boy. 1115 00:50:03,169 --> 00:50:05,463 That's why I was in the strip club. 1116 00:50:05,505 --> 00:50:07,465 And -- But I could see right through her, as well. 1117 00:50:07,507 --> 00:50:09,300 She was also broken. 1118 00:50:09,342 --> 00:50:11,177 It's why she was stripping. 1119 00:50:11,219 --> 00:50:12,470 [ Light laughter ] 1120 00:50:12,512 --> 00:50:15,098 I know. I feel it from some of you, like, 1121 00:50:15,140 --> 00:50:17,267 "W-Well, Sean, are -- what are you saying? 1122 00:50:17,308 --> 00:50:19,936 Are you implying that all strippers are broken people?" 1123 00:50:19,978 --> 00:50:26,151 Yes, I absolutely fucking am, and you need to respect that... 1124 00:50:26,192 --> 00:50:27,444 'cause I don't give a shit. 1125 00:50:27,485 --> 00:50:28,653 If you're not broken, 1126 00:50:28,695 --> 00:50:30,321 go out there and live your life. 1127 00:50:30,363 --> 00:50:33,033 Get broken, then we can hang out. 1128 00:50:33,074 --> 00:50:34,784 Broken people are real, you understand? 1129 00:50:34,826 --> 00:50:37,120 Like, human beings, we're like glow sticks. 1130 00:50:37,162 --> 00:50:41,791 We can't truly shine 'til someone cracks us... 1131 00:50:41,833 --> 00:50:43,501 shakes us up. 1132 00:50:43,543 --> 00:50:46,963 [ Laughter, applause ] 1133 00:50:47,005 --> 00:50:48,340 Because she was broken, 1134 00:50:48,381 --> 00:50:51,760 Nancy was more human than human... 1135 00:50:51,801 --> 00:50:54,512 which is a White Zombie song 1136 00:50:54,554 --> 00:50:57,015 that Crystal had danced to earlier. 1137 00:50:57,057 --> 00:51:00,143 [ Laughter, applause ] 1138 00:51:00,185 --> 00:51:03,146 And she's dancing around now, and she's topless. 1139 00:51:03,188 --> 00:51:07,359 And there they are, those titties I came to see. 1140 00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,361 But now they were more than just titties. 1141 00:51:09,402 --> 00:51:11,988 They were breasts. 1142 00:51:12,030 --> 00:51:14,324 Those which nourish us as children 1143 00:51:14,366 --> 00:51:15,658 and please us as adults. 1144 00:51:15,700 --> 00:51:17,327 This was somewhere in between, right? 1145 00:51:17,369 --> 00:51:20,538 And we make eye contact again, and it's a bridge of light. 1146 00:51:20,580 --> 00:51:22,540 It's like I'm staring into the eyes of someone 1147 00:51:22,582 --> 00:51:24,542 I had known for centuries, 1148 00:51:24,584 --> 00:51:26,503 and our last words to one another were, 1149 00:51:26,544 --> 00:51:27,921 "Find me in the next life." 1150 00:51:27,962 --> 00:51:28,963 And here we were, 1151 00:51:29,005 --> 00:51:31,341 finding each other in the next life, 1152 00:51:31,383 --> 00:51:35,011 in a strip club in Slidell, Louisiana. 1153 00:51:35,053 --> 00:51:37,055 Who would've thunk it? 1154 00:51:37,097 --> 00:51:38,264 And she kept dancing around. 1155 00:51:38,306 --> 00:51:39,516 She had other people there, 1156 00:51:39,557 --> 00:51:42,435 but every second, she'd look back at me 1157 00:51:42,477 --> 00:51:45,271 and we'd make eye contact over and over again. 1158 00:51:45,313 --> 00:51:46,648 Our bond was so strong. 1159 00:51:46,690 --> 00:51:49,025 We're here, Nancy! We found each other! 1160 00:51:49,067 --> 00:51:51,986 How many lifetimes have we spent searching?! 1161 00:51:52,028 --> 00:51:54,406 Our journey can finally continue! 1162 00:51:54,447 --> 00:51:57,200 We can be together again and travel the world 1163 00:51:57,242 --> 00:52:00,078 and show the human race the possibilities of love 1164 00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:03,540 and how it's the only thing that will save us from doom! 1165 00:52:03,581 --> 00:52:05,417 Nancy and I would be together! 1166 00:52:05,458 --> 00:52:07,252 And then -- And then I'm in a headlock. 1167 00:52:07,293 --> 00:52:09,587 I'm in a headlock, right? 1168 00:52:09,629 --> 00:52:11,423 [ Laughter ] 1169 00:52:11,464 --> 00:52:12,757 Out of nowhere. 1170 00:52:12,799 --> 00:52:15,093 And I look up, and it's the bouncer. 1171 00:52:15,135 --> 00:52:16,428 He's got me in a headlock, 1172 00:52:16,469 --> 00:52:19,222 and he's walking me out because he saw -- 1173 00:52:19,264 --> 00:52:21,474 he saw the connection. 1174 00:52:21,516 --> 00:52:24,519 He knew the prophecy was true! 1175 00:52:24,561 --> 00:52:25,895 [ Laughter ] 1176 00:52:25,937 --> 00:52:29,607 He knew why I was there -- to free Nancy 1177 00:52:29,649 --> 00:52:31,776 so she could free others like her. 1178 00:52:31,818 --> 00:52:34,779 My heart was pounding at five times the rate it ever had, 1179 00:52:34,821 --> 00:52:36,614 pumping blood into this body 1180 00:52:36,656 --> 00:52:38,992 that was stronger than it has ever been. 1181 00:52:39,034 --> 00:52:41,244 I was more than a man because of her. 1182 00:52:41,286 --> 00:52:43,580 I almost felt sorry for this fucking fool. 1183 00:52:43,621 --> 00:52:47,083 He had no clue who he had just put his hands on. 1184 00:52:47,125 --> 00:52:48,793 And we got out to the parking lot, 1185 00:52:48,835 --> 00:52:51,629 and he makes the mistake of releasing me. 1186 00:52:51,671 --> 00:52:55,300 Me! A gladiator and warrior in one, 1187 00:52:55,342 --> 00:52:59,804 ready to destroy anyone that stood between Nancy and I, 1188 00:52:59,846 --> 00:53:02,640 starting with that fucking mortal. 1189 00:53:02,682 --> 00:53:05,268 [ Laughter ] 1190 00:53:05,310 --> 00:53:09,105 And he very calmly goes, "Hey, hey, man. Hey. 1191 00:53:09,147 --> 00:53:12,025 I can't have you in there crying, dude." 1192 00:53:12,067 --> 00:53:15,653 [ Laughter ] 1193 00:53:22,202 --> 00:53:25,914 Yeah, that makes sense. 1194 00:53:25,955 --> 00:53:28,166 That checks out. 1195 00:53:28,208 --> 00:53:31,711 [ Laughter ] 1196 00:53:36,716 --> 00:53:39,177 Maybe I am too emotional. 1197 00:53:39,219 --> 00:53:42,097 [ Laughter, applause ] 1198 00:53:47,310 --> 00:53:48,978 Years before that -- 1199 00:53:49,020 --> 00:53:51,356 Years and years before that, 1200 00:53:51,398 --> 00:53:54,275 whilst I was still an active bedwetter, 1201 00:53:54,317 --> 00:53:57,404 on November 17, 1991 -- I know that day. 1202 00:53:57,445 --> 00:53:58,780 I remember it 1203 00:53:58,822 --> 00:54:01,157 'cause it was the day after my 13th birthday, 1204 00:54:01,199 --> 00:54:02,242 and I was in a bad place 1205 00:54:02,283 --> 00:54:04,285 because I was still pissing the bed. 1206 00:54:04,327 --> 00:54:07,789 When you're still bedwetting at 13, it's an issue. 1207 00:54:07,831 --> 00:54:11,251 And my uncle -- he did what uncles do... 1208 00:54:11,292 --> 00:54:14,045 which is where they think your parents can't get the job done, 1209 00:54:14,087 --> 00:54:16,464 so they take a crack at it. 1210 00:54:16,506 --> 00:54:18,008 [ Light laughter ] 1211 00:54:18,049 --> 00:54:20,468 He sat me down, and he did the whole thing, was like, 1212 00:54:20,510 --> 00:54:21,928 "Look at me, boy! 1213 00:54:21,970 --> 00:54:23,596 Look at me when I'm talking to you, boy. 1214 00:54:23,638 --> 00:54:24,973 Look at me, boy. 1215 00:54:25,015 --> 00:54:27,475 Pissing the bed, like you do? 1216 00:54:27,517 --> 00:54:29,185 You know else does that? 1217 00:54:29,227 --> 00:54:31,312 Serial killers." 1218 00:54:31,354 --> 00:54:33,648 [ Laughter ] 1219 00:54:33,690 --> 00:54:36,651 Told me that at 13. 1220 00:54:36,693 --> 00:54:38,486 Like that is what was gonna wake me up 1221 00:54:38,528 --> 00:54:40,989 from my bedwetting nightmare 1222 00:54:41,031 --> 00:54:43,825 and I'd go take a piss in the toilet of maturity. 1223 00:54:43,867 --> 00:54:47,120 Like, that's a lot to tell a 13-year-old, 1224 00:54:47,162 --> 00:54:48,955 and if you didn't know that, yes. 1225 00:54:48,997 --> 00:54:50,832 A trait that a lot of serial killers share 1226 00:54:50,874 --> 00:54:53,585 is wetting the bed into their adult years. 1227 00:54:53,626 --> 00:54:56,671 It's also a trait that people with perfect pitch share, so... 1228 00:54:56,713 --> 00:54:59,674 take it as you will. 1229 00:54:59,716 --> 00:55:01,843 [ Laughter, applause ] 1230 00:55:01,885 --> 00:55:03,345 But that fucked with me. 1231 00:55:03,386 --> 00:55:05,805 That information was too much for my young mind, 1232 00:55:05,847 --> 00:55:10,352 and thus, my first OCD tic was born. 1233 00:55:10,393 --> 00:55:11,686 Every time I pissed the bed, 1234 00:55:11,728 --> 00:55:14,230 from then on out, the entire next day, 1235 00:55:14,272 --> 00:55:17,484 I had to avoid eye contact with anyone 1236 00:55:17,525 --> 00:55:19,861 or they would be murdered. 1237 00:55:19,903 --> 00:55:21,488 [ Laughter ] 1238 00:55:21,529 --> 00:55:23,323 And depending on what year we're talking about, 1239 00:55:23,365 --> 00:55:25,533 that was anywhere from one eight days a week, 1240 00:55:25,575 --> 00:55:27,243 you understand? 1241 00:55:27,285 --> 00:55:31,081 I spent a lot of time alone looking at the ground back then. 1242 00:55:31,122 --> 00:55:35,168 And yes, I suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder. 1243 00:55:35,210 --> 00:55:37,879 Obsessive compulsive disorder. 1244 00:55:37,921 --> 00:55:41,883 [ Laughter ] 1245 00:55:45,095 --> 00:55:48,056 A lot of people are under the impression 1246 00:55:48,098 --> 00:55:50,725 that these past two years have been like a dream come true 1247 00:55:50,767 --> 00:55:52,185 for those of us with OCD 1248 00:55:52,227 --> 00:55:54,396 because we get to wash our hands a lot. 1249 00:55:54,437 --> 00:55:55,689 [ Chuckles ] 1250 00:55:55,730 --> 00:55:57,065 Do you think we like washing our hands? 1251 00:55:57,107 --> 00:55:58,316 Is that what you think? 1252 00:55:58,358 --> 00:55:59,734 Do you think people like succumbing 1253 00:55:59,776 --> 00:56:00,944 to their mental illness? 1254 00:56:00,985 --> 00:56:02,195 Is that what you think? 1255 00:56:02,237 --> 00:56:03,571 Do you think schizophrenics are like, 1256 00:56:03,613 --> 00:56:05,198 "Oh, boy, the voices are back! 1257 00:56:05,240 --> 00:56:07,909 Can't wait to hear what they're up to. 1258 00:56:07,951 --> 00:56:11,371 Can't wait to hear what they got planned for me." 1259 00:56:11,413 --> 00:56:14,666 I think people project their weak bullshit 1260 00:56:14,708 --> 00:56:17,711 onto the mentally ill because they're afraid to admit 1261 00:56:17,752 --> 00:56:19,087 that they're mentally ill themselves. 1262 00:56:19,129 --> 00:56:20,714 We're all fucking mentally ill. 1263 00:56:20,755 --> 00:56:22,090 That should be the norm. 1264 00:56:22,132 --> 00:56:24,759 There's no such thing as mentally healthy. 1265 00:56:24,801 --> 00:56:26,761 [ Cheers and applause ] 1266 00:56:26,803 --> 00:56:28,221 Like, seriously. 1267 00:56:28,263 --> 00:56:31,933 We are all mentally under the weather at best. 1268 00:56:31,975 --> 00:56:33,768 [ Laughter ] 1269 00:56:33,810 --> 00:56:36,938 And that's what makes us interesting. 1270 00:56:36,980 --> 00:56:40,108 Like, yes, OCD is complex, very much so. 1271 00:56:40,150 --> 00:56:41,901 Do I wash my hands a lot? 1272 00:56:41,943 --> 00:56:43,236 Of course I do. 1273 00:56:43,278 --> 00:56:44,946 But not for the reasons you think. 1274 00:56:44,988 --> 00:56:47,157 I don't give a fuck about germs. 1275 00:56:47,198 --> 00:56:50,118 I wish I was afraid of germs. No. 1276 00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:52,245 Do I care about 90-degree angles 1277 00:56:52,287 --> 00:56:53,788 and things being put away properly? 1278 00:56:53,830 --> 00:56:55,415 Fuck no. 1279 00:56:55,457 --> 00:56:57,625 Do I have to hang up all the clothes in my closet 1280 00:56:57,667 --> 00:56:59,127 in a color-coordinated fashion? 1281 00:56:59,169 --> 00:57:01,796 I barely even hang them up half the time. 1282 00:57:01,838 --> 00:57:03,798 Can my food touch? 1283 00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:05,759 Obviously. 1284 00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:08,970 Obviously, my food can touch. 1285 00:57:09,012 --> 00:57:11,139 [ Laughter, applause ] 1286 00:57:11,181 --> 00:57:13,475 None of the OCD tropes apply to me. 1287 00:57:13,516 --> 00:57:15,101 However... 1288 00:57:15,143 --> 00:57:17,103 do I feel like in a past life, 1289 00:57:17,145 --> 00:57:20,648 I borrowed money from God and never paid God back, 1290 00:57:20,690 --> 00:57:22,609 so in this life, God taxes me 1291 00:57:22,650 --> 00:57:25,278 in the form of daily rituals I have to perform 1292 00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:27,822 and if I don't, God goes after my loved ones 1293 00:57:27,864 --> 00:57:30,992 like a Mafia boss would? 1294 00:57:31,034 --> 00:57:35,288 Yes, that's what it feels like, 1295 00:57:35,330 --> 00:57:40,001 like there's a God in heaven talking to his angels 1296 00:57:40,043 --> 00:57:44,297 who are like his fucking capos and shit, like, 1297 00:57:44,339 --> 00:57:48,301 "Hey, did Sean Patton remember to microwave absolutely nothing 1298 00:57:48,343 --> 00:57:51,012 for exactly 33 seconds last night?" 1299 00:57:51,054 --> 00:57:54,849 [ Laughter ] 1300 00:57:54,891 --> 00:57:56,518 "The fuck you mean, no? 1301 00:57:56,559 --> 00:58:00,021 He's got to do that every Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. 1302 00:58:00,063 --> 00:58:01,523 on the dot. 1303 00:58:01,564 --> 00:58:02,941 He didn't do it?! 1304 00:58:02,982 --> 00:58:04,317 Okay. Okay. 1305 00:58:04,359 --> 00:58:05,819 Well, then, I guess he don't like having 1306 00:58:05,860 --> 00:58:08,405 a cancer-free family, then, does he? 1307 00:58:08,446 --> 00:58:10,532 [ Laughter ] 1308 00:58:10,573 --> 00:58:12,826 "Do it! Do it! 1309 00:58:12,867 --> 00:58:15,537 His Uncle Billy, both lungs." 1310 00:58:15,578 --> 00:58:18,581 [ Laughter ] 1311 00:58:18,623 --> 00:58:20,750 [ Light laughter ] 1312 00:58:20,792 --> 00:58:22,919 What, are we all cousins here? 1313 00:58:22,961 --> 00:58:25,213 Guys got real weird on that one. 1314 00:58:25,255 --> 00:58:28,425 "Oh, my God. Is that what happened to Uncle Billy?" 1315 00:58:28,466 --> 00:58:30,343 [ Laughter ] 1316 00:58:30,385 --> 00:58:32,053 "I thought it was the 30-some odd years 1317 00:58:32,095 --> 00:58:35,515 of unfiltered Lucky Strikes." 1318 00:58:35,557 --> 00:58:37,726 It was. 1319 00:58:37,767 --> 00:58:39,686 That was the message. 1320 00:58:39,728 --> 00:58:43,857 So sometimes, God works in very obvious ways. 1321 00:58:43,898 --> 00:58:47,235 Like, this is why I have a beef with superstitious people, 1322 00:58:47,277 --> 00:58:49,362 because you know those aren't real. 1323 00:58:49,404 --> 00:58:53,700 You know those are OCD light at best, diet OCD. 1324 00:58:53,742 --> 00:58:55,243 [ Light laughter ] 1325 00:58:55,285 --> 00:58:57,912 I mean, superstitions were definitely started 1326 00:58:57,954 --> 00:58:59,205 by someone with OCD. 1327 00:58:59,247 --> 00:59:02,000 That's a fact. That's a fact. 1328 00:59:02,042 --> 00:59:05,712 There's -- There's a dialect of Spanish -- Castilian, right? 1329 00:59:05,754 --> 00:59:07,922 Where they make a sound that sounds like a lisp, 1330 00:59:07,964 --> 00:59:09,382 but do you know where that came from? 1331 00:59:09,424 --> 00:59:11,384 It was Spanish king hundreds of years ago 1332 00:59:11,426 --> 00:59:14,012 who himself had a lisp and was so insecure about it 1333 00:59:14,054 --> 00:59:16,556 that he made it the highborn way to speak 1334 00:59:16,598 --> 00:59:19,267 and the entire country followed suit, 1335 00:59:19,309 --> 00:59:23,104 and now it's built into the enunciation. 1336 00:59:23,146 --> 00:59:25,607 [ Lisping ] Or so that be the scuttlebutt. 1337 00:59:25,648 --> 00:59:30,111 [ Laughter ] 1338 00:59:30,153 --> 00:59:32,405 [ Normal voice ] Now, the same thing happened 1339 00:59:32,447 --> 00:59:34,449 with superstitions, I guarantee it. 1340 00:59:34,491 --> 00:59:37,410 There was a powerful king who himself had OCD 1341 00:59:37,452 --> 00:59:39,579 and was -- wanted everyone to have to deal with 1342 00:59:39,621 --> 00:59:42,123 the shit he dealt with, so one day was like, 1343 00:59:42,165 --> 00:59:45,960 "It is my decree that if thy see a tabby cat 1344 00:59:46,002 --> 00:59:48,672 in thy path, one must turn the other way 1345 00:59:48,713 --> 00:59:51,508 and walk away or face tidings of ill-doing. 1346 00:59:51,549 --> 00:59:54,094 Make it law!" 1347 00:59:54,135 --> 00:59:55,804 "Your Majesty, we can never enforce 1348 00:59:55,845 --> 00:59:58,139 such -- such a ridiculous law." 1349 00:59:58,181 --> 00:59:59,933 "Off with your head! 1350 00:59:59,974 --> 01:00:03,645 Do it in one stroke or three, but neither two nor four." 1351 01:00:03,687 --> 01:00:07,190 [ Laughter ] 1352 01:00:10,026 --> 01:00:12,612 And thus, superstitions were born. 1353 01:00:12,654 --> 01:00:14,447 They don't have any stakes involved. 1354 01:00:14,489 --> 01:00:17,158 Superstitions are about avoiding bad luck, 1355 01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:18,785 saving yourself, something you can't do. 1356 01:00:18,827 --> 01:00:20,995 Like, we can contrast and compare all day. 1357 01:00:21,037 --> 01:00:22,288 If you're superstitious, 1358 01:00:22,330 --> 01:00:23,456 you wouldn't want to walk under a ladder 1359 01:00:23,498 --> 01:00:25,000 'cause that'll bring you bad luck. 1360 01:00:25,041 --> 01:00:27,002 What does that even mean? That's life. 1361 01:00:27,043 --> 01:00:28,461 And what are you so afraid of bad luck for? 1362 01:00:28,503 --> 01:00:30,171 Bad luck brought us the blues. 1363 01:00:30,213 --> 01:00:32,841 Everybody loves the fucking blues. 1364 01:00:32,882 --> 01:00:35,176 [ Cheers and applause ] 1365 01:00:35,218 --> 01:00:36,553 Growing up with OCD, 1366 01:00:36,594 --> 01:00:40,473 every time I made a sandwich, which was a lot, 1367 01:00:40,515 --> 01:00:44,352 I had to kiss all four corners before I bit into it 1368 01:00:44,394 --> 01:00:46,187 so that my grandfather would never die 1369 01:00:46,229 --> 01:00:48,690 in a boating accident, you understand? 1370 01:00:48,732 --> 01:00:51,568 [ Laughter ] 1371 01:00:51,609 --> 01:00:53,486 And it worked. 1372 01:00:53,528 --> 01:00:55,030 [ Laughter ] 1373 01:00:55,071 --> 01:00:56,656 He's been dead for a quarter century, 1374 01:00:56,698 --> 01:00:59,200 but it happened on dry fucking land. 1375 01:00:59,242 --> 01:01:00,869 [ Laughter ] 1376 01:01:00,910 --> 01:01:02,245 If you're superstitious, 1377 01:01:02,287 --> 01:01:03,705 you wouldn't want to break a mirror 1378 01:01:03,747 --> 01:01:05,874 'cause that'll bring you seven years of bad luck. 1379 01:01:05,915 --> 01:01:07,375 Seven years of bad luck? 1380 01:01:07,417 --> 01:01:09,502 That sounds like the premise of a CBS sitcom 1381 01:01:09,544 --> 01:01:11,713 that's only gonna last two seasons anyway, 1382 01:01:11,755 --> 01:01:13,506 so what are you afraid of? 1383 01:01:13,548 --> 01:01:15,675 As a teenager, every Wednesday, 1384 01:01:15,717 --> 01:01:19,387 I had to wear my shoes on the opposite feet 1385 01:01:19,429 --> 01:01:22,515 until someone noticed, and then when they noticed, 1386 01:01:22,557 --> 01:01:27,395 I would then have to pretend like I just noticed 1387 01:01:27,437 --> 01:01:29,606 because that was the only thing 1388 01:01:29,647 --> 01:01:33,735 that stopped the HIV virus from going airborne, okay? 1389 01:01:33,777 --> 01:01:35,737 [ Laughter ] 1390 01:01:35,779 --> 01:01:37,530 You're welcome. 1391 01:01:37,572 --> 01:01:39,699 I'm sorry COVID slipped through the cracks, 1392 01:01:39,741 --> 01:01:42,077 but that clearly wasn't my assignment. 1393 01:01:42,118 --> 01:01:43,411 It was airborne already. 1394 01:01:43,453 --> 01:01:46,247 I was focused on blood-based virus. 1395 01:01:46,289 --> 01:01:49,626 [ Laughter ] 1396 01:01:49,668 --> 01:01:50,919 Do you see? 1397 01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:53,380 OCD is about saving lives! 1398 01:01:53,421 --> 01:01:55,048 [ Light laughter ] 1399 01:01:55,090 --> 01:01:59,219 But there is one superstition I respect, and only one, okay? 1400 01:01:59,260 --> 01:02:02,472 Step on a crack, break your mother's back. 1401 01:02:02,514 --> 01:02:05,100 That one is proof that life is pure chaos. 1402 01:02:05,141 --> 01:02:06,851 You never know. 1403 01:02:06,893 --> 01:02:08,687 You're walking down the street one day, like you do every day. 1404 01:02:08,728 --> 01:02:10,438 You step on a crack, not even thinking about it, 1405 01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:12,732 but in that crack was a little baby cockroach 1406 01:02:12,774 --> 01:02:15,568 that went scurrying down the block, passed the child. 1407 01:02:15,610 --> 01:02:17,737 That child saw it and screamed loud enough 1408 01:02:17,779 --> 01:02:20,573 to distract a cyclist, who blew through a traffic light 1409 01:02:20,615 --> 01:02:22,283 and got plowed by a dump truck, 1410 01:02:22,325 --> 01:02:24,744 and then that dump truck got plowed by a cement truck. 1411 01:02:24,786 --> 01:02:27,455 And then that cement truck, dump truck bike rider 1412 01:02:27,497 --> 01:02:29,124 got plowed by a postal van. 1413 01:02:29,165 --> 01:02:32,585 Now you've got the largest all-municipal-vehicle accident 1414 01:02:32,627 --> 01:02:35,130 since Jacksonville '76, right? 1415 01:02:35,171 --> 01:02:37,298 This causes a traffic jam, hours. 1416 01:02:37,340 --> 01:02:38,925 Cars are just sitting there idling, 1417 01:02:38,967 --> 01:02:42,262 their engines pumping more and more carbon dioxide 1418 01:02:42,303 --> 01:02:43,596 into the atmosphere, 1419 01:02:43,638 --> 01:02:45,306 strengthening the effects of climate change, 1420 01:02:45,348 --> 01:02:47,767 yielding more and more psychotic, 1421 01:02:47,809 --> 01:02:51,312 unpredictable weather patterns like a late-season nor'easter 1422 01:02:51,354 --> 01:02:54,482 that unleashes a 50-mile-an-hour gale of wind 1423 01:02:54,524 --> 01:02:57,610 with no conscience that crosses paths with your mother 1424 01:02:57,652 --> 01:03:00,321 while she's doing some roofing repairs. 1425 01:03:00,363 --> 01:03:03,783 [ Laughter ] 1426 01:03:03,825 --> 01:03:07,328 [ Applause ] 1427 01:03:12,375 --> 01:03:14,794 She'd never see it coming. 1428 01:03:14,836 --> 01:03:16,004 [ Laughter ] 1429 01:03:16,046 --> 01:03:18,340 'Cause it's wind. 1430 01:03:18,381 --> 01:03:20,508 [ Laughter ] 1431 01:03:20,550 --> 01:03:23,803 But her spine shatters in three places upon impact 1432 01:03:23,845 --> 01:03:25,513 right there in the damn driveway. 1433 01:03:25,555 --> 01:03:28,600 You broke your mother's back. 1434 01:03:28,641 --> 01:03:33,897 Poetically enough, her name was probably also Gail. 1435 01:03:33,938 --> 01:03:35,148 Chaos! 1436 01:03:35,190 --> 01:03:37,650 Now, listen, I didn't invite you out 1437 01:03:37,692 --> 01:03:40,862 to frighten you, and I can tell I've done that. 1438 01:03:40,904 --> 01:03:42,655 So hear my words. 1439 01:03:42,697 --> 01:03:45,992 There are others like me, and we're out there 1440 01:03:46,034 --> 01:03:49,829 doing what we can to protect us all, you understand? 1441 01:03:49,871 --> 01:03:52,832 I'm a grown man, and still to this day, 1442 01:03:52,874 --> 01:03:57,712 I have to touch my asshole twice a day, every day, 1443 01:03:57,754 --> 01:04:01,591 independent asshole touchings not while showering 1444 01:04:01,633 --> 01:04:03,093 and not while toileteering. 1445 01:04:03,134 --> 01:04:05,553 Those don't count. 1446 01:04:05,595 --> 01:04:07,389 Independent asshole touching. 1447 01:04:07,430 --> 01:04:10,558 It's quick and clean -- hand in the pants, 1448 01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:13,395 pop right on the button, get it right out of there. 1449 01:04:13,436 --> 01:04:15,021 You'd never know I was doing it. 1450 01:04:15,063 --> 01:04:16,648 You would never know. 1451 01:04:16,690 --> 01:04:18,858 I would demonstrate for you, 1452 01:04:18,900 --> 01:04:20,652 but I've already done it twice today. 1453 01:04:20,694 --> 01:04:24,239 I have no clue what happens if I go for it a third time. 1454 01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:25,907 [ Applause ] 1455 01:04:25,949 --> 01:04:28,076 I don't want to risk it. 1456 01:04:28,118 --> 01:04:30,412 [ Laughter ] 1457 01:04:30,453 --> 01:04:31,871 And I know -- I know the question 1458 01:04:31,913 --> 01:04:34,082 that's now burning in your minds, "Why? 1459 01:04:34,124 --> 01:04:35,542 Sean, why? 1460 01:04:35,583 --> 01:04:38,044 Why must you touch your asshole twice a day 1461 01:04:38,086 --> 01:04:41,881 and not while showering nor toileteering, why?" 1462 01:04:41,923 --> 01:04:43,258 [ Light laughter ] 1463 01:04:43,299 --> 01:04:45,427 Well, that's a very good question, 1464 01:04:45,468 --> 01:04:47,637 but it's the wrong question. 1465 01:04:47,679 --> 01:04:49,889 The right question would be, 1466 01:04:49,931 --> 01:04:52,475 "Sean, why hasn't there been a successful 1467 01:04:52,517 --> 01:04:55,437 presidential assassination in your lifetime?" 1468 01:04:55,478 --> 01:04:58,898 [ Laughter ] 1469 01:04:58,940 --> 01:05:02,777 [ Cheers and applause ] 1470 01:05:02,819 --> 01:05:07,282 Well, if you look at the word "assassination"... 1471 01:05:07,323 --> 01:05:09,617 [ Laughter ] 1472 01:05:09,659 --> 01:05:12,620 Go ahead. Spell it out. 1473 01:05:12,662 --> 01:05:17,292 A-S-S-A-S-S-I-N-A-T-I-O-N. 1474 01:05:17,334 --> 01:05:20,462 Now apply an OCD lens to that, 1475 01:05:20,503 --> 01:05:22,297 it breaks it up into four words -- 1476 01:05:22,339 --> 01:05:24,924 "ass," "ass," "I," "nation." 1477 01:05:24,966 --> 01:05:25,967 I nation. 1478 01:05:26,009 --> 01:05:27,427 That's how a leader should think. 1479 01:05:27,469 --> 01:05:29,304 "I am responsible for nation. 1480 01:05:29,346 --> 01:05:30,847 I serve nation." 1481 01:05:30,889 --> 01:05:32,307 But I'm no leader, 1482 01:05:32,349 --> 01:05:33,808 so there's nothing I can do about that. 1483 01:05:33,850 --> 01:05:38,146 However, "ass ass," got that covered all day. 1484 01:05:38,188 --> 01:05:40,065 I can serve my ass ass. 1485 01:05:40,106 --> 01:05:42,317 I can be responsible for that, 1486 01:05:42,359 --> 01:05:44,861 so as long as I touch my ass ass, 1487 01:05:44,903 --> 01:05:49,449 the leader can continue serving the nation. 1488 01:05:49,491 --> 01:05:51,493 Do you see? 1489 01:05:51,534 --> 01:05:55,121 [ Cheers and applause ] 1490 01:05:55,163 --> 01:05:59,668 As I said before, I wash my hands a lot, too, 1491 01:05:59,709 --> 01:06:01,670 but it has nothing to do with germs 1492 01:06:01,711 --> 01:06:05,173 and everything to do with national fucking security. 1493 01:06:14,974 --> 01:06:16,142 Oh, yeah, weed! That's why I can't smoke weed. 1494 01:06:17,310 --> 01:06:18,478 [ Laughter ] 1495 01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:21,147 I got sidetracked there. 1496 01:06:21,189 --> 01:06:23,608 I got sidetracked there. 1497 01:06:23,650 --> 01:06:25,777 [ Laughter ] 1498 01:06:25,819 --> 01:06:28,613 I want to smoke weed. I keep fucking trying. 1499 01:06:28,655 --> 01:06:31,116 Weed is like steroids for intrusive thought, 1500 01:06:31,157 --> 01:06:32,617 you understand? 1501 01:06:32,659 --> 01:06:33,910 The right amount and the right supervision is fine, 1502 01:06:33,952 --> 01:06:35,203 but what's the right amount 1503 01:06:35,245 --> 01:06:37,455 and what's the right supervision, okay? 1504 01:06:37,497 --> 01:06:41,292 Nobody I know personally. That's a fact. 1505 01:06:41,334 --> 01:06:42,752 I'll take it. I'll smoke one. 1506 01:06:42,794 --> 01:06:44,379 I'll smoke weed sometimes and my thoughts are great. 1507 01:06:44,421 --> 01:06:48,049 They're intrusive, but they knock, at least, you understand? 1508 01:06:48,091 --> 01:06:49,509 There I am, just like, 1509 01:06:49,551 --> 01:06:51,636 "Hey, man, just because I enjoy performing cunnilingus 1510 01:06:51,678 --> 01:06:54,097 does not mean I have cannibalism in my DNA. 1511 01:06:54,139 --> 01:06:55,974 No way, man. That's just a metaphor, right? 1512 01:06:56,016 --> 01:06:57,017 Eating pussy? 1513 01:06:57,058 --> 01:06:58,810 You're not literally devouring labia. 1514 01:06:58,852 --> 01:07:01,646 That's just a metaphor. I love metaphors. 1515 01:07:01,688 --> 01:07:03,106 Who doesn't love metaphors? 1516 01:07:03,148 --> 01:07:04,315 Metaphors are fantastic. 1517 01:07:04,357 --> 01:07:06,276 One time I met a four, and they were great. 1518 01:07:06,317 --> 01:07:07,610 She was cool as shit. 1519 01:07:07,652 --> 01:07:08,778 Damn right she was. I'm probably a four. 1520 01:07:08,820 --> 01:07:10,280 I should have said, 1521 01:07:10,321 --> 01:07:12,490 'Hey, fellow four, together we can make an eight.' 1522 01:07:12,532 --> 01:07:14,659 Oh, that's sexy. I'm glad I'm a Scorpio. 1523 01:07:14,701 --> 01:07:16,286 Wow, look at this cat. 1524 01:07:16,327 --> 01:07:18,496 I want to pet this cat, but what if it scratches me? 1525 01:07:18,538 --> 01:07:19,873 I've been through worse. 1526 01:07:19,914 --> 01:07:21,124 I got to live my life. I got to live. 1527 01:07:21,166 --> 01:07:22,625 Fuck it, let's do it. Here we are. 1528 01:07:22,667 --> 01:07:23,960 Listen to this cat purr. 1529 01:07:24,002 --> 01:07:26,713 It's awesome. Sounds like it's beatboxing. 1530 01:07:26,755 --> 01:07:28,298 I should drop some rhymes, be a cat rapper. 1531 01:07:28,340 --> 01:07:29,466 Hell, yeah. 1532 01:07:29,507 --> 01:07:31,509 This the only pussy I'll ever need." 1533 01:07:31,551 --> 01:07:33,678 Fun thoughts. 1534 01:07:33,720 --> 01:07:37,307 [ Laughter ] 1535 01:07:37,349 --> 01:07:41,853 However, then comes the moment when I look up 1536 01:07:41,895 --> 01:07:44,356 and see a stranger across the street 1537 01:07:44,397 --> 01:07:46,316 that resembles Jeffrey Dahmer. 1538 01:07:46,358 --> 01:07:47,817 [ Laughter ] 1539 01:07:47,859 --> 01:07:50,987 And that's all it takes, the reminder that evil exists, 1540 01:07:51,029 --> 01:07:52,739 and my thoughts go dark, like, 1541 01:07:52,781 --> 01:07:54,491 "I hope I don't put this cat in the microwave. 1542 01:07:54,532 --> 01:07:57,160 But what if I'm a serial killer? Why would I be a serial killer? 1543 01:07:57,202 --> 01:07:59,371 I mean, I guess I did piss my bed 'til I was 31. 1544 01:07:59,412 --> 01:08:01,706 Jesus, I hope I don't throw my brother out the window. 1545 01:08:01,748 --> 01:08:03,541 But what if I show my dick to my dad? 1546 01:08:03,583 --> 01:08:05,293 Why would I show my dad my dick? 1547 01:08:05,335 --> 01:08:07,545 Because I'm gonna be the first son to molest his father. 1548 01:08:07,587 --> 01:08:09,005 Oh, my God, I hope not. 1549 01:08:09,047 --> 01:08:11,675 I know I'm gonna see Grandma tomorrow. 1550 01:08:11,716 --> 01:08:13,218 I sure hope I don't grab her tits. 1551 01:08:13,259 --> 01:08:14,719 But what if I grab her tits? 1552 01:08:14,761 --> 01:08:16,429 But I would never grab her tits. 1553 01:08:16,471 --> 01:08:19,557 But maybe I will, right there at the wake in front of everyone, 1554 01:08:19,599 --> 01:08:21,726 just grab her big old, dead titties, 1555 01:08:21,768 --> 01:08:23,853 and everyone will just assume I'm grieving. 1556 01:08:23,895 --> 01:08:25,563 Like, 'That boy sure loves his Meemaw.' 1557 01:08:25,605 --> 01:08:27,857 But I would never grab Meemaw's tits! 1558 01:08:27,899 --> 01:08:30,193 Maybe that's why she died. I didn't love her enough." 1559 01:08:30,235 --> 01:08:34,572 But all this would look like to you is this. 1560 01:08:34,614 --> 01:08:37,867 [ Laughter ] 1561 01:08:55,719 --> 01:08:56,720 I almost stopped touching my asshole once. 1562 01:08:59,556 --> 01:09:00,849 [ Laughter ] 1563 01:09:00,890 --> 01:09:07,856 Once and only once on September 2, 2005. 1564 01:09:07,897 --> 01:09:10,400 Now, if you grew up in this area, 1565 01:09:10,442 --> 01:09:12,694 in the Gulf coastal region, 1566 01:09:12,736 --> 01:09:15,155 I probably shouldn't have to remind you 1567 01:09:15,196 --> 01:09:19,451 what happened four days before that, on August 29, 2005. 1568 01:09:20,910 --> 01:09:23,872 Yeah, Michael Jackson's 57th birthday? 1569 01:09:23,913 --> 01:09:25,540 [ Laughter ] 1570 01:09:25,582 --> 01:09:27,667 You were there?! I know. 1571 01:09:27,709 --> 01:09:29,169 We missed that 1572 01:09:29,210 --> 01:09:33,840 'cause we were busy evacuating from a fucking storm. 1573 01:09:33,882 --> 01:09:35,175 Hurricane Katrina makes landfall. 1574 01:09:35,216 --> 01:09:39,554 Now, I don't really remember that morning 1575 01:09:39,596 --> 01:09:41,681 because I woke up in the afternoon. 1576 01:09:41,723 --> 01:09:44,184 [ Laughter ] 1577 01:09:44,225 --> 01:09:47,062 I woke up because my phone had been ringing nonstop. 1578 01:09:47,103 --> 01:09:49,814 At that point, I had eight missed calls from my dad. 1579 01:09:49,856 --> 01:09:52,233 Now, my dad is a small-business owner. 1580 01:09:52,275 --> 01:09:54,235 All my life, I've only ever heard him 1581 01:09:54,277 --> 01:09:58,198 answer the phone one way and one way only -- like this. 1582 01:09:58,239 --> 01:09:59,407 "This is Tim." 1583 01:09:59,449 --> 01:10:01,743 Every time, everywhere. 1584 01:10:01,785 --> 01:10:03,536 Obviously in the office, but also at home. 1585 01:10:03,578 --> 01:10:04,913 "This is Tim." 1586 01:10:04,954 --> 01:10:06,206 At a relative's house, the phone's ringing. 1587 01:10:06,247 --> 01:10:08,208 He's like, "I'll get it. This is Tim." 1588 01:10:08,249 --> 01:10:10,210 We could walk past a payphone ringing. 1589 01:10:10,251 --> 01:10:12,921 He'd be like, "Excuse me. This is Tim." 1590 01:10:12,962 --> 01:10:14,923 [ Laughter ] 1591 01:10:14,964 --> 01:10:16,132 His name was Tim. 1592 01:10:16,174 --> 01:10:18,385 I mean, it's not -- it's not a joke. 1593 01:10:18,426 --> 01:10:21,054 It's not like his name's Gary, and it's just a prank 1594 01:10:21,096 --> 01:10:23,890 he's been playing for 30 years on strangers, 1595 01:10:23,932 --> 01:10:26,434 like, "This is Tim." 1596 01:10:26,476 --> 01:10:29,062 [ Laughter ] 1597 01:10:29,104 --> 01:10:31,356 "They think I'm Tim! It's hilarious. 1598 01:10:31,398 --> 01:10:33,733 Yeah, this is still Tim. 1599 01:10:33,775 --> 01:10:36,444 What a bunch of doofuses." 1600 01:10:36,486 --> 01:10:37,779 [ Laughter ] 1601 01:10:37,821 --> 01:10:39,239 And he never looked at caller ID. 1602 01:10:39,280 --> 01:10:40,573 It's something I always noticed. 1603 01:10:40,615 --> 01:10:42,951 When he got a cellphone, he would just answer. 1604 01:10:42,992 --> 01:10:44,953 And knowing my dad, he had a whole system worked out 1605 01:10:44,994 --> 01:10:47,080 as to why he would never look at caller ID. 1606 01:10:47,122 --> 01:10:49,040 Like, "Listen, every time you look at caller ID, 1607 01:10:49,082 --> 01:10:50,625 that's three seconds wasted. 1608 01:10:50,667 --> 01:10:53,586 Add that up over a full day, that's a whole minute gone. 1609 01:10:53,628 --> 01:10:56,423 Now add that up over a year. That's eight hours gone. 1610 01:10:56,464 --> 01:10:59,259 That's a whole day wasted checking caller ID. 1611 01:10:59,300 --> 01:11:01,469 I ain't got a whole day to waste checking caller ID, son. 1612 01:11:01,511 --> 01:11:02,804 I got a business to run. 1613 01:11:02,846 --> 01:11:05,348 Excuse me. This is Tim." 1614 01:11:05,390 --> 01:11:08,435 [ Laughter ] 1615 01:11:08,476 --> 01:11:13,356 So he calls again, and I would often answer and go, 1616 01:11:13,398 --> 01:11:14,441 "This is Sean." 1617 01:11:14,482 --> 01:11:16,484 But I didn't even get to that point. 1618 01:11:16,526 --> 01:11:17,819 The moment I answered the phone, 1619 01:11:17,861 --> 01:11:20,155 he goes, "Where the fuck are you?" 1620 01:11:20,196 --> 01:11:22,157 He was with my two youngest siblings, 1621 01:11:22,198 --> 01:11:25,952 heading to my other sister's house in Baton Rouge, right? 1622 01:11:25,994 --> 01:11:29,622 Which was strange to me because my dad -- we never evacuated. 1623 01:11:29,664 --> 01:11:32,083 My dad had been through every single hurricane 1624 01:11:32,125 --> 01:11:34,169 that hit this area since 1952. 1625 01:11:34,210 --> 01:11:35,628 The murderer's row, all of them. 1626 01:11:35,670 --> 01:11:38,840 Camille, Betsy, Andrew -- He'd been through -- 1627 01:11:38,882 --> 01:11:40,633 And, like, we were oftentimes there -- 1628 01:11:40,675 --> 01:11:44,679 Like, we never evacuated, man, ever, right? 1629 01:11:44,721 --> 01:11:46,639 I mean, hurricanes can be fun. 1630 01:11:46,681 --> 01:11:48,183 It's a Category 3 or less, 1631 01:11:48,224 --> 01:11:50,477 you know, you get all your snacks in there, 1632 01:11:50,518 --> 01:11:52,979 all your -- you know, if you're an adult, you get some booze. 1633 01:11:53,021 --> 01:11:54,189 If you're a child around here, 1634 01:11:54,230 --> 01:11:56,316 you get some booze, as well, you know? 1635 01:11:56,358 --> 01:11:57,567 [ Laughter ] 1636 01:11:57,609 --> 01:12:01,446 The power goes out, the rain's coming down, 1637 01:12:01,488 --> 01:12:02,739 the wind, the lightning. 1638 01:12:02,781 --> 01:12:04,032 You go out in the middle of it with your sister, 1639 01:12:04,074 --> 01:12:06,076 pretend like you're in a Creed video. 1640 01:12:06,117 --> 01:12:08,203 It's a great time. 1641 01:12:08,244 --> 01:12:11,706 [ Cheers and applause ] 1642 01:12:11,748 --> 01:12:14,167 We never left, 1643 01:12:14,209 --> 01:12:17,629 but something about Katrina terrified him. 1644 01:12:17,671 --> 01:12:18,922 He was out. 1645 01:12:18,963 --> 01:12:21,049 He says to me, "Get the fuck up now. 1646 01:12:21,091 --> 01:12:22,676 Pack up anything you care about. 1647 01:12:22,717 --> 01:12:26,554 Get to the hospital, get your mom, get to Erin's." 1648 01:12:26,596 --> 01:12:27,764 My mom was an RN, right? 1649 01:12:27,806 --> 01:12:29,557 She was at work. 1650 01:12:29,599 --> 01:12:31,851 So how did I respond? 1651 01:12:31,893 --> 01:12:34,062 I went back to sleep. 1652 01:12:34,104 --> 01:12:36,856 [ Laughter ] 1653 01:12:36,898 --> 01:12:40,527 I got to the hospital an hour later than I was supposed to, 1654 01:12:40,568 --> 01:12:44,114 and at that point, they were begging her to stay. 1655 01:12:44,155 --> 01:12:45,407 They had let too many people go already. 1656 01:12:45,448 --> 01:12:48,243 They were begging my mom to stay. 1657 01:12:48,284 --> 01:12:49,786 She had every right to leave. 1658 01:12:49,828 --> 01:12:52,497 The supervisor's there with tears in his eyes, 1659 01:12:52,539 --> 01:12:53,623 and she said yes. 1660 01:12:53,665 --> 01:12:56,501 She chose to stay to do her fucking job. 1661 01:12:56,543 --> 01:12:58,086 "Get the fuck out of here," to me. 1662 01:12:58,128 --> 01:13:00,547 "Go. Go now. You got to go." 1663 01:13:00,588 --> 01:13:03,466 I didn't even try. I was like, "Okay." 1664 01:13:03,508 --> 01:13:05,093 [ Laughter ] 1665 01:13:05,135 --> 01:13:07,762 By the time I got to Baton Rouge, right, 1666 01:13:07,804 --> 01:13:09,472 my dad was asleep when I walked in, 1667 01:13:09,514 --> 01:13:11,266 exhausted from getting everybody out of there. 1668 01:13:11,307 --> 01:13:13,768 I woke him up and expected him to bite my head off 1669 01:13:13,810 --> 01:13:15,103 and spit it back down my neck. 1670 01:13:15,145 --> 01:13:17,188 Clearly, my mom had called him 1671 01:13:17,230 --> 01:13:18,732 and told him that I was an hour late 1672 01:13:18,773 --> 01:13:21,401 and she couldn't leave because of me, but she didn't. 1673 01:13:21,443 --> 01:13:24,571 She was not a snitch, and he hadn't heard from her 1674 01:13:24,612 --> 01:13:29,159 since before...I had, since way earlier that day. 1675 01:13:29,200 --> 01:13:31,119 So I lied to him. 1676 01:13:31,161 --> 01:13:33,288 I lied and said they wouldn't let her go. 1677 01:13:33,329 --> 01:13:34,956 I lied and said, "I tried. 1678 01:13:34,998 --> 01:13:37,125 I tried to get her out of there, 1679 01:13:37,167 --> 01:13:40,253 and they wouldn't let her go, the bastards." 1680 01:13:40,295 --> 01:13:42,297 And my dad did what my dad do. 1681 01:13:42,339 --> 01:13:45,342 My -- My dad did what my dad do. 1682 01:13:45,383 --> 01:13:47,594 You know? 1683 01:13:47,635 --> 01:13:50,138 That alligator tongue coming out. 1684 01:13:50,180 --> 01:13:52,140 [ Laughter, applause ] 1685 01:13:52,182 --> 01:13:54,142 My dad did what my dad does. 1686 01:13:54,184 --> 01:13:56,561 My dad put his best foot forward. 1687 01:13:56,603 --> 01:13:58,605 That's something he taught me from the get-go. 1688 01:13:58,646 --> 01:13:59,981 Always put your best foot forward. 1689 01:14:00,023 --> 01:14:02,359 You have no clue what everybody else 1690 01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:03,985 in that situation is going through. 1691 01:14:04,027 --> 01:14:06,988 You got to be better than even you are. 1692 01:14:07,030 --> 01:14:08,490 And he did that in that moment. 1693 01:14:08,531 --> 01:14:09,574 His response was, 1694 01:14:09,616 --> 01:14:11,159 "Ah, don't worry about your mama, boy. 1695 01:14:11,201 --> 01:14:13,828 She's meaner than any damn hurricane. 1696 01:14:13,870 --> 01:14:15,330 [ Laughter ] 1697 01:14:15,372 --> 01:14:17,999 "Plus, I could just go live with my other wife." 1698 01:14:18,041 --> 01:14:21,002 [ Cheers and applause ] 1699 01:14:21,044 --> 01:14:23,338 He was being strong... 1700 01:14:23,380 --> 01:14:26,174 in case the rest of us were about to be weak, right? 1701 01:14:26,216 --> 01:14:28,301 Storm hits -- Storm hits. 1702 01:14:28,343 --> 01:14:31,513 A day or two goes by, every day, "She'll call," 1703 01:14:31,554 --> 01:14:33,640 and you remember the media back then, 1704 01:14:33,682 --> 01:14:37,477 they weren't exactly checking their facts, alright? 1705 01:14:37,519 --> 01:14:39,813 "Oh, the -- the prisoners of Orleans Parish Prison 1706 01:14:39,854 --> 01:14:43,191 have escaped and gotten custody of a nuclear warhead!" 1707 01:14:43,233 --> 01:14:45,485 Like, "Custody of a nuclear warhead?" 1708 01:14:45,527 --> 01:14:47,404 The fuck -- is anybody fact-checking 1709 01:14:47,445 --> 01:14:50,198 or grammar-checking these assholes?" 1710 01:14:50,240 --> 01:14:52,158 They were just putting everything out there. 1711 01:14:52,200 --> 01:14:54,869 "The city is overrun by mer-people!" 1712 01:14:54,911 --> 01:14:57,205 [ Laughter ] 1713 01:14:57,247 --> 01:14:59,040 It's fucking insane. 1714 01:14:59,082 --> 01:15:01,042 "There's a kraken!" 1715 01:15:01,084 --> 01:15:02,502 [ Laughter ] 1716 01:15:02,544 --> 01:15:04,671 That's why people, those of us from this area, 1717 01:15:04,713 --> 01:15:06,172 are not -- we're not very shocked 1718 01:15:06,214 --> 01:15:07,841 at what the media has become 1719 01:15:07,882 --> 01:15:10,719 because, like, "Oh, the media is full of shit all the time? 1720 01:15:10,760 --> 01:15:13,221 No duh. Gotcha." 1721 01:15:13,263 --> 01:15:14,681 [ Laughter ] 1722 01:15:14,723 --> 01:15:17,934 The national media, I mean, but like... 1723 01:15:17,976 --> 01:15:20,603 Every day was just going by. "She'll call. She'll call." 1724 01:15:20,645 --> 01:15:21,896 Not a goddamn word. 1725 01:15:21,938 --> 01:15:25,066 And I remember it was like 2:00 in the morning. 1726 01:15:25,108 --> 01:15:26,693 I'm stepping outside to have a cigarette, 1727 01:15:26,735 --> 01:15:29,154 and my dad's just wide awake, staring at the TV, 1728 01:15:29,195 --> 01:15:31,031 and I, just to make conversation, go, 1729 01:15:31,072 --> 01:15:32,365 "What you watching?" 1730 01:15:32,407 --> 01:15:35,326 And his response was, "She'll call." 1731 01:15:35,368 --> 01:15:39,039 Now, that moment, I started thinking about my mom, 1732 01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:42,375 and I hadn't thought about her in days at that point, right? 1733 01:15:42,417 --> 01:15:43,877 And the first thing I remember, 1734 01:15:43,918 --> 01:15:47,088 the first thing I think about, was the time... 1735 01:15:47,130 --> 01:15:49,466 she punched me in the jaw. 1736 01:15:49,507 --> 01:15:52,344 I know, that's a -- that's a -- 1737 01:15:52,385 --> 01:15:54,095 that opens up an entire new conversation. 1738 01:15:54,137 --> 01:15:57,098 Like, should you hit your kids? 1739 01:15:57,140 --> 01:16:00,810 All depends on your definition of "kid." 1740 01:16:00,852 --> 01:16:03,521 I was 21 when it happened. 1741 01:16:03,563 --> 01:16:05,273 [ Laughter ] 1742 01:16:05,315 --> 01:16:07,484 Her and I were in an argument that day, 1743 01:16:07,525 --> 01:16:08,735 and we were always in an argument. 1744 01:16:08,777 --> 01:16:10,945 My mom and I argued non-fucking-stop, 1745 01:16:10,987 --> 01:16:12,906 but on that day, I went too far. 1746 01:16:12,947 --> 01:16:14,949 I said things that couldn't be taken back, 1747 01:16:14,991 --> 01:16:16,368 and she made a mom threat. 1748 01:16:16,409 --> 01:16:17,827 Mom threats are obvious. 1749 01:16:17,869 --> 01:16:20,580 "Boy, do not raise your voice at me again!" 1750 01:16:20,622 --> 01:16:24,459 That's when you're supposed to back down, walk away... 1751 01:16:24,501 --> 01:16:28,129 get about a couch and a half's distance between you, 1752 01:16:28,171 --> 01:16:30,882 and then you go, "Bitch," and... 1753 01:16:30,924 --> 01:16:32,592 [ Laughter ] 1754 01:16:32,634 --> 01:16:36,304 ...if she hears you, you've got a couch and a half head start. 1755 01:16:36,346 --> 01:16:37,972 [ Laughter ] 1756 01:16:38,014 --> 01:16:40,141 Moms ain't that fast... 1757 01:16:40,183 --> 01:16:42,143 or so I thought. 1758 01:16:42,185 --> 01:16:43,937 I went the other way 1759 01:16:43,978 --> 01:16:46,940 because I was a little fucking monster back then. 1760 01:16:46,981 --> 01:16:48,483 I was taller than my mom, too, 1761 01:16:48,525 --> 01:16:50,777 so I got up on top of her, looking down on her, like, 1762 01:16:50,819 --> 01:16:52,487 "Why?! What the fuck you gonna do?! 1763 01:16:52,529 --> 01:16:54,698 I'll raise my voice whenever the fuck I please! 1764 01:16:54,739 --> 01:16:56,700 Hit me, bitch!" 1765 01:16:56,741 --> 01:16:59,119 [ Laughter ] 1766 01:16:59,160 --> 01:17:00,870 It was so fast. 1767 01:17:00,912 --> 01:17:03,498 Lightning would have blushed 1768 01:17:03,540 --> 01:17:07,711 and thunder would have fainted at the speed of this punch. 1769 01:17:07,752 --> 01:17:09,170 [ Laughter ] 1770 01:17:09,212 --> 01:17:10,880 And I saw it all too late. 1771 01:17:10,922 --> 01:17:12,507 She -- Her feet were planted. 1772 01:17:12,549 --> 01:17:17,220 She was in an "L" stance, and her knees got springy. 1773 01:17:17,262 --> 01:17:25,186 And the moment the word "bitch" left my mouth for its voyage 1774 01:17:25,228 --> 01:17:27,856 across my sister's birthday party... 1775 01:17:27,897 --> 01:17:30,525 [ Laughter ] 1776 01:17:30,567 --> 01:17:35,655 ...she threw that punch from the hips that birthed me. 1777 01:17:35,697 --> 01:17:36,865 [ Laughter ] 1778 01:17:36,906 --> 01:17:38,324 Whap! With a left. 1779 01:17:38,366 --> 01:17:40,535 That's what threw me off the most, the left. 1780 01:17:40,577 --> 01:17:43,371 All my life, I had known my mom to be right-handed. 1781 01:17:43,413 --> 01:17:46,416 I'd spent 15-plus years deflecting Mom rights, 1782 01:17:46,458 --> 01:17:47,959 but she adapted 1783 01:17:48,001 --> 01:17:51,588 and now came at me with this southpaw bullshit, 1784 01:17:51,629 --> 01:17:54,215 with this ambidextrous quality that I did not inherit. 1785 01:17:54,257 --> 01:17:56,885 Prah! Right across the jaw, right? 1786 01:17:56,926 --> 01:17:59,846 And I'll never forget, I went demonic right away. 1787 01:17:59,888 --> 01:18:03,391 My thought process, like, "I'm about to fuck this lady up. 1788 01:18:03,433 --> 01:18:06,227 I don't give a shit. I'm about to beat her ass. 1789 01:18:06,269 --> 01:18:07,937 I'm about to cause her more pain 1790 01:18:07,979 --> 01:18:11,024 than I did during childbirth, which until now, 1791 01:18:11,066 --> 01:18:14,194 was physically the most painful shit one could experience. 1792 01:18:14,235 --> 01:18:16,279 It's also emotionally and mentally the most painful thing 1793 01:18:16,321 --> 01:18:17,989 one could experience. 1794 01:18:18,031 --> 01:18:19,824 I mean, millions of women suffer from postpartum. 1795 01:18:19,866 --> 01:18:20,909 That's kind of fucked up. 1796 01:18:20,950 --> 01:18:22,702 Another million women die every year 1797 01:18:22,744 --> 01:18:25,580 just in the act of giving birth, even in first-world countries, 1798 01:18:25,622 --> 01:18:27,415 yet they do it year in and year out. 1799 01:18:27,457 --> 01:18:28,875 They take the risk, knowing it's a risk, 1800 01:18:28,917 --> 01:18:30,293 but they do it, because when you think about it, 1801 01:18:30,335 --> 01:18:31,628 it is a miracle. 1802 01:18:31,670 --> 01:18:33,046 She fucking did that for me. 1803 01:18:33,088 --> 01:18:35,340 I never even asked what her dreams were. Fuck. 1804 01:18:35,382 --> 01:18:37,425 I wonder what other sacrifices she's made 1805 01:18:37,467 --> 01:18:40,929 that I'm not even aware of." 1806 01:18:40,970 --> 01:18:45,433 [ Cheers and applause ] 1807 01:18:45,475 --> 01:18:48,061 And then I cried. 1808 01:18:48,103 --> 01:18:49,604 [ Laughter ] 1809 01:18:49,646 --> 01:18:52,107 And she made me a grilled cheese. 1810 01:18:52,148 --> 01:18:53,942 [ Laughter ] 1811 01:18:53,983 --> 01:18:56,736 That is good parenting! 1812 01:18:56,778 --> 01:19:00,448 Negotiations have broken down. 1813 01:19:00,490 --> 01:19:03,743 She took a leap of faith in me, her creation. 1814 01:19:03,785 --> 01:19:08,456 She believed in me enough to punch me in the fucking jaw... 1815 01:19:08,498 --> 01:19:11,418 knowing that could either turn me into a scumbag 1816 01:19:11,459 --> 01:19:14,129 or a decent human being. 1817 01:19:14,170 --> 01:19:16,423 And here I am... 1818 01:19:16,464 --> 01:19:19,259 a stand-up comedian. 1819 01:19:19,300 --> 01:19:22,804 [ Cheers and applause ] 1820 01:19:24,014 --> 01:19:26,599 But that's today. 1821 01:19:27,517 --> 01:19:30,603 On September 2, 2005. 1822 01:19:30,645 --> 01:19:34,482 I was just some dumb shit on my sister's front porch 1823 01:19:34,524 --> 01:19:36,943 halfway through an American Spirit. 1824 01:19:36,985 --> 01:19:40,155 So I'd been out there for like half an hour at least. 1825 01:19:40,196 --> 01:19:43,700 [ Laughter ] 1826 01:19:44,826 --> 01:19:50,999 And my dad's phone had been ringing for at least a drag... 1827 01:19:51,041 --> 01:19:53,168 [ Laughter ] 1828 01:19:53,209 --> 01:19:54,627 ...and he hadn't answered it yet. 1829 01:19:54,669 --> 01:19:56,129 So I turn and I look through the window, 1830 01:19:56,171 --> 01:19:57,672 and I can see him in there. 1831 01:19:57,714 --> 01:20:00,800 I can see him in there breathing heavier and heavier, 1832 01:20:00,842 --> 01:20:03,345 bracing himself for this call. 1833 01:20:03,386 --> 01:20:06,681 I could see that when he answered it... 1834 01:20:06,723 --> 01:20:08,808 it took everything for him to do that. 1835 01:20:08,850 --> 01:20:12,896 I could see...he didn't even get to identify himself 1836 01:20:12,937 --> 01:20:14,105 as he always did. 1837 01:20:14,147 --> 01:20:15,815 "This is..." 1838 01:20:18,568 --> 01:20:20,195 All I had to do was get there on time 1839 01:20:20,236 --> 01:20:21,488 and she could have came with me. 1840 01:20:21,529 --> 01:20:25,200 All I had to do was get there on time... 1841 01:20:25,241 --> 01:20:26,534 but I was a fucking piece of shit. 1842 01:20:26,576 --> 01:20:27,994 At that moment, 1843 01:20:28,036 --> 01:20:30,705 I stopped believing in a God and started wishing 1844 01:20:30,747 --> 01:20:34,000 there were gods, old-school-style fucking gods 1845 01:20:34,042 --> 01:20:36,169 that would take me as a sacrifice 1846 01:20:36,211 --> 01:20:38,046 and bring her back if need be. 1847 01:20:38,088 --> 01:20:41,007 All I had to do was not be this. 1848 01:20:41,049 --> 01:20:42,842 The world doesn't fucking need this. 1849 01:20:42,884 --> 01:20:46,554 The world doesn't need another fat, bearded, loud mouth 1850 01:20:46,596 --> 01:20:48,014 with some sob stories. 1851 01:20:48,056 --> 01:20:53,061 All I had to do was be a son for once... 1852 01:20:53,103 --> 01:20:58,900 and the world wouldn't be punishing them because of me. 1853 01:20:58,942 --> 01:21:01,695 Fuck me. 1854 01:21:05,073 --> 01:21:09,577 And then he answered... and crumbled. 1855 01:21:09,619 --> 01:21:13,081 And if you've never heard a grown man crumble, 1856 01:21:13,123 --> 01:21:15,417 it sounds a lot like this. 1857 01:21:15,458 --> 01:21:18,586 "Oh! Oh, baby. Oh. 1858 01:21:18,628 --> 01:21:21,381 Oh, baby, I'm so glad you called. 1859 01:21:21,423 --> 01:21:23,591 I'm so glad you called, baby." 1860 01:21:23,633 --> 01:21:26,594 [ Chuckles ] 1861 01:21:26,636 --> 01:21:28,680 It was her... 1862 01:21:28,722 --> 01:21:31,099 his other wife. 1863 01:21:31,141 --> 01:21:34,644 [ Laughter ] 1864 01:21:38,648 --> 01:21:40,442 I'm just fucking with you. I had to do it. 1865 01:21:40,483 --> 01:21:44,446 Listen, I had to bring you there with me then 1866 01:21:44,487 --> 01:21:47,574 so you could be here with me now. 1867 01:21:47,615 --> 01:21:50,577 It was her, my mother. 1868 01:21:50,618 --> 01:21:52,078 She lived. 1869 01:21:52,120 --> 01:21:55,915 And right then and there, I developed an OCD tic 1870 01:21:55,957 --> 01:21:58,626 that I carry with me forever, and it is this -- 1871 01:21:58,668 --> 01:22:02,756 I have to let go so that life can move on. 1872 01:22:02,797 --> 01:22:06,801 No matter what it is, let go and move on. 1873 01:22:06,843 --> 01:22:08,094 It's the only way to keep living. 1874 01:22:08,136 --> 01:22:09,804 Just like my father in that moment 1875 01:22:09,846 --> 01:22:11,431 had to let go of that phone call. 1876 01:22:11,473 --> 01:22:13,808 She was on a satellite phone, only had three minutes, 1877 01:22:13,850 --> 01:22:15,977 had to share it with the entire fucking hospital, okay? 1878 01:22:16,019 --> 01:22:20,482 Just like he then let go of a reservoir of emotion. 1879 01:22:20,523 --> 01:22:22,942 His soul mate was still alive! 1880 01:22:22,984 --> 01:22:28,156 Just like he then let go of the loudest... 1881 01:22:28,198 --> 01:22:30,283 [ Laughter ] 1882 01:22:30,325 --> 01:22:36,331 ...most emotional raspberry rim shot I have ever heard. 1883 01:22:36,373 --> 01:22:38,291 I mean, it was perfect. 1884 01:22:38,333 --> 01:22:39,959 [ Cheers and applause ] 1885 01:22:40,001 --> 01:22:44,673 A perfect fart, just [Imitates fart] right? 1886 01:22:44,714 --> 01:22:46,966 A full octave. 1887 01:22:47,008 --> 01:22:50,053 Like, I think it was in the key of G shart. 1888 01:22:50,095 --> 01:22:52,639 [ Laughter ] 1889 01:22:52,681 --> 01:22:56,518 I didn't know a fart to tell a story. 1890 01:22:56,559 --> 01:22:57,977 If a stranger had heard that fart, 1891 01:22:58,019 --> 01:23:02,315 they'd be like, "Well, that's quite the saga. 1892 01:23:02,357 --> 01:23:04,526 I'm glad she lived." 1893 01:23:04,567 --> 01:23:06,403 [ Laughter ] 1894 01:23:06,444 --> 01:23:09,322 And just like then and there from that front porch, 1895 01:23:09,364 --> 01:23:11,533 I let go of a [Howls] 1896 01:23:11,574 --> 01:23:14,828 [ Laughter ] 1897 01:23:14,869 --> 01:23:17,914 [ Cheers and applause ] 1898 01:23:17,956 --> 01:23:20,208 Let go. 1899 01:23:20,250 --> 01:23:21,710 [ Cheers and applause continue ] 1900 01:23:21,751 --> 01:23:25,714 Now, this is something I try to remember, 1901 01:23:25,755 --> 01:23:29,551 but she reminds me of as much as she possibly can. 1902 01:23:29,592 --> 01:23:34,180 On October 31, 2017, right? 1903 01:23:34,222 --> 01:23:36,558 On that day in New York, in Manhattan, on the west side, 1904 01:23:36,599 --> 01:23:38,268 there was a terrorist attack. 1905 01:23:38,309 --> 01:23:40,562 A guy got a van and ran eight people over, killed them, right? 1906 01:23:40,603 --> 01:23:41,855 And then it ended. 1907 01:23:41,896 --> 01:23:43,481 It was bad, and it ended. 1908 01:23:43,523 --> 01:23:45,900 And then for the next day, I was receiving phone calls, 1909 01:23:45,942 --> 01:23:47,902 texts, e-mails, direct messages -- 1910 01:23:47,944 --> 01:23:49,529 any way you could reach out to someone, 1911 01:23:49,571 --> 01:23:52,365 people were reaching out to me to make sure I was okay. 1912 01:23:52,407 --> 01:23:55,035 Everyone -- friends I hadn't spoken to in a decade, 1913 01:23:55,076 --> 01:23:56,578 family members I'd written off 1914 01:23:56,619 --> 01:23:58,413 after the last Bush administration. 1915 01:23:58,455 --> 01:23:59,873 Everyone. 1916 01:23:59,914 --> 01:24:03,209 Family members I liked, my immediate family -- 1917 01:24:03,251 --> 01:24:05,587 everyone was reaching out to me to make sure I was good, 1918 01:24:05,628 --> 01:24:09,132 everyone except...my mom. 1919 01:24:09,174 --> 01:24:10,550 [ Laughter ] 1920 01:24:10,592 --> 01:24:13,595 Radio silence from this woman. 1921 01:24:13,636 --> 01:24:16,056 And I just couldn't let it go. 1922 01:24:16,097 --> 01:24:18,016 I was just in my head about it, 1923 01:24:18,058 --> 01:24:19,559 like, "Who the fuck does she think she is? 1924 01:24:19,601 --> 01:24:20,727 I'm her firstborn son. 1925 01:24:20,769 --> 01:24:22,020 What the fuck is wrong with her? 1926 01:24:22,062 --> 01:24:23,396 Oh, is this how she wants to show me 1927 01:24:23,438 --> 01:24:24,814 she doesn't love me anymore? 1928 01:24:24,856 --> 01:24:26,107 She thinks she can get away with that shit? 1929 01:24:26,149 --> 01:24:28,443 This is crazy!" And I couldn't let it go. 1930 01:24:28,485 --> 01:24:29,778 And finally, nights later, 1931 01:24:29,819 --> 01:24:32,781 I'm at a bar, shitfaced out of my mind, 1932 01:24:32,822 --> 01:24:34,240 hammered, and I start sending her 1933 01:24:34,282 --> 01:24:37,452 a string of very passive-aggressive... 1934 01:24:37,494 --> 01:24:39,245 cunty texts. 1935 01:24:39,287 --> 01:24:41,456 That's the only way I can describe them, 1936 01:24:41,498 --> 01:24:43,083 I'm like, "Hi, Mom. 1937 01:24:43,124 --> 01:24:47,796 My name is Sean, in case you don't have this number saved. 1938 01:24:47,837 --> 01:24:49,255 It's spelled S-E-A-N. 1939 01:24:49,297 --> 01:24:52,801 It's me, your firstborn son, pride of the herd -- 1940 01:24:52,842 --> 01:24:54,636 your words, not mine." 1941 01:24:54,678 --> 01:24:56,262 [ Laughter ] 1942 01:24:56,304 --> 01:25:01,351 "And I was just reaching out to let you know that I am fine." 1943 01:25:01,393 --> 01:25:03,812 [ Laughter ] 1944 01:25:03,853 --> 01:25:06,272 And within a minute, she responded, 1945 01:25:06,314 --> 01:25:07,982 "Yeah, Sean, I assumed you were fine 1946 01:25:08,024 --> 01:25:10,819 'cause it all happened on a bike path." 1947 01:25:10,860 --> 01:25:14,364 [ Laughter ] 1948 01:25:21,162 --> 01:25:24,833 And then, "Love you. Got a grilled cheese waiting." 1949 01:25:24,874 --> 01:25:28,420 [ Chuckles ] 1950 01:25:28,461 --> 01:25:31,673 [ Laughter ] 1951 01:25:31,715 --> 01:25:37,220 [ Cheers and applause ] 1952 01:25:37,262 --> 01:25:38,555 Thank you all very much. 1953 01:25:38,596 --> 01:25:39,848 Thank you, New Orleans. 1954 01:25:39,889 --> 01:25:41,516 You're beautiful people. 1955 01:25:41,558 --> 01:25:43,852 I love you all. 1956 01:25:43,893 --> 01:25:46,146 Thank you! Thank you! 1957 01:25:46,187 --> 01:25:47,480 Thank you! 1958 01:25:47,522 --> 01:25:49,315 Thank you all! 1959 01:25:49,357 --> 01:25:50,692 Thank you! 1960 01:25:50,734 --> 01:25:53,403 [ Cheers and applause ] 1961 01:25:53,445 --> 01:25:55,655 Thank you all! Goodnight! 1962 01:25:55,697 --> 01:25:59,159 [ Cheers and applause continue ] 1963 01:25:59,200 --> 01:26:09,169 ** 1964 01:26:09,210 --> 01:26:19,179 ** 1965 01:26:19,220 --> 01:26:29,189 ** 1966 01:26:29,230 --> 01:26:39,199 ** 1967 01:26:39,240 --> 01:26:49,209 ** 1968 01:26:49,250 --> 01:26:54,381 ** 1969 01:26:54,422 --> 01:26:56,257 Thank you very much.