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00:00 (water splashing)
00:02 - Any change, man?
00:07 Spare some change, kid?
00:13 Excuse me, sir.
00:18 - It's all right, man, I got nothing.
00:19 - You wanna tell me you got nothing?
00:25 Take the jangling change out of your fucking pocket first.
00:28 And the ones that do stop to give you something,
00:30 they all got that self-satisfied grin
00:33 all over their smug faces,
00:35 like they've just confirmed that they really are
00:37 the most impressive fucking thing in the world.
00:40 And you just gotta bow your head and say, "God bless you,"
00:42 as if there isn't an actual exchange going on.
00:46 Your bloated sense of self-worth is equal to the hole
00:49 that's been ripped out of my dignity.
00:51 See ya, Jack!
00:52 You don't choose to be me.
00:54 You start off with dreams and optimism and hard work,
00:58 and then you realize that those qualities
01:00 were planted in you by the same force
01:02 that's been conniving to smash you apart
01:05 with a fucking sledgehammer.
01:07 And then when you're lying on the floor
01:09 begging that force for help, you notice,
01:11 my God, it's laughing.
01:13 And that's when it hits you
01:15 that this evil fuck has been laughing
01:17 the entire fucking time.
01:19 And the only way you're gonna shut it up
01:21 is to laugh right back in its face,
01:23 and twice as hard.
01:26 I sleep in that, as long as some asshole
01:28 doesn't sneak in there first.
01:30 The last prick I caught in there,
01:32 still picking the glass out of his face.
01:35 There's a place to piss out here, a place to shit,
01:37 a place to fuck, and a place to die.
01:40 And the only thing they got in common
01:43 is you wouldn't be caught dead near any of 'em.
01:46 But don't even think this shit can't happen to you.
01:49 I wasn't born in a puddle.
01:50 I used to be an executive.
01:52 I started in the mailroom underground
01:55 before I earned 19 raises and shot a 42 floors
01:59 to have my own personal view of this whole fucking cesspool.
02:03 I was also married to a wife,
02:07 a beautiful one in a dress.
02:09 She smelled like my mother,
02:11 she'd kiss me whenever I wanted,
02:13 and she cried when I was sad.
02:16 I even ran for mayor once a few years ago.
02:19 It wasn't my idea.
02:20 If it was up to me,
02:22 I'd just tell everybody to go fuck themselves.
02:24 But this gang of politicians insisted I was relatable
02:28 before they filled me full of drugs
02:30 and forced me onto their campaign.
02:32 He was in my cabinet.
02:38 The angle was I knew the streets,
02:41 so who better to clean 'em up?
02:43 I apparently was in the lead
02:44 because the other guy had a hair lip
02:46 and I told it like it was.
02:48 But then the opposition invited me
02:51 to this sort of debutante dinner party
02:53 where I was framed for fingering a bunch of animals.
02:57 The smear campaign was too much for my wife
03:01 and she blew herself up at a press conference.
03:03 Who the fuck's there, huh?
03:14 Oh, what, is this the part where you all jump out?
03:20 Is that your big fucking plan?
03:22 Fuck you, fuck you, bastard, you're dead.
03:25 Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you,
03:26 fuck you, fuck you, fuck you,
03:28 fuck you, fuck you, bastard!
03:30 I still have a list of my policies
03:32 for if I did or ever do win mayor.
03:34 I'd start by tearing down
03:36 every fucking billboard in the country
03:38 and the ones that are left standing
03:40 would say horrible, horrible shit
03:41 that would just make you puke.
03:44 Then I'd shut down every TV station,
03:46 make everyone live in the forest,
03:48 and every CEO of every corporate shithouse
03:51 would have to cut their heads off in front of everyone
03:54 and we'd still have a long fucking way to go.
03:57 I mean, look around and you think it's normal
04:00 because it's all you ever see,
04:01 but TV didn't exist 100 years ago.
04:04 Condoms didn't exist 100 years ago.
04:06 The fucking smartphone didn't exist 100 years ago.
04:10 But you just dive right in, nose first into the muck
04:13 and hide behind your stupid ignorance
04:15 as an excuse for abandoning nature and abandoning God.
04:19 And if you think I'm an asshole,
04:21 just flip open to any fucking page of the Bible,
04:24 then look up at the squalor you're boiling in
04:26 and you fucking tell me we're not living in Rome.
04:29 And don't get me started
04:30 on those fucking handheld idiot boxes.
04:32 You're all walking around like a bunch of sleepwalking morons
04:36 with your faces in your phones and your phones down here.
04:38 So really what you're looking at is the ground, man.
04:42 And they got you living your entire life
04:44 staring into this little mirror
04:46 where you just marvel at your own drooling reflection
04:49 and your ego bathes in itself
04:51 and your whole fucking life goes by in a meaningless blip.
04:55 And even that blip is shorter now
04:56 and it's because of that fucking phone.
04:58 Because it's pumping toxic waves
05:01 of DNA mutating crap into your body
05:04 and filling your prostate and your tits
05:07 and your brains with cancer.
05:08 And it's doing it at all times around the fucking clock,
05:12 even while you're asleep.
05:13 And why?
05:14 So you can delete your fucking email.
05:16 (phone ringing)
05:18 (phone thudding)
05:21 And don't even get me started on AIDS.
05:26 When I was 10, my uncle came to live with us
05:31 to sleep on the couch and hide from some pursuers
05:34 he wasn't allowed to talk about.
05:36 One night he was ranting about how some spooks
05:41 had replaced his normal hair
05:43 with electronic recording strands.
05:45 But when he tried to burn those strands out of his head,
05:49 his whole body caught fire
05:51 and spread to the house immediately
05:52 since he'd riddled the place with flammable booby traps.
05:56 My parents were sleeping upstairs and died in the blaze.
06:01 I was sleeping in my tree house that night,
06:05 which was right outside their window.
06:07 So I was at the perfect angle to hear the screams.
06:13 I'd earlier been diagnosed with the same disorder
06:16 as my uncle, but my prescription burned up in the fire.
06:20 So I forget.
06:23 I remember the pills were yellow.
06:30 And while they did lower the volume of everyone shouting,
06:34 they would also turn your teeth black
06:36 and make your dreams tell you to break things.
06:39 (birds chirping)
06:42 You know what Freud says about the nature of horror?
06:46 He says it's when the home becomes unhomelike, unheimlich.
06:52 And that's what this place has become.
06:55 This whole fucking time and country and everything else,
06:59 it's unheimlich.
07:01 And I want my life to mean something.
07:04 I wanna change things around
07:05 and make something beautiful out of all this shit.
07:09 Even now when I sleep,
07:10 I have dreams that would make you cry.
07:12 Big, colorful dreams where...
07:16 That's my daughter.
07:28 (wind blowing)
07:30 (wind blowing)
07:33 (wind blowing)
07:35 (wind blowing)
07:38 (wind blowing)
07:40 (wind blowing)
07:43 [BLANK_AUDIO]