| Anyway, I got two. |
| And the seven-year-old, she’s no trouble now. |
| That kid’s amazing. |
| She’s better
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| than me. |
| She’s smarter than me. |
| She’s more decent. |
| She’s cleaner. |
| Like, she comes out of her
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| room all dressed with a little bow. |
| She’s like, “Hi. |
| Good morning, daddy.” |
| And I’m in my
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| underwear, like, “uh, hi.” |
| I keep trying Not to screw her up, because she’s headed for a great life
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| unless I fuck it up. |
| That’s basically What’s going on. |
| I’m not-I’m not A father anymore. |
| I’m just a
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| fat landlord. |
| I don’t really matter. |
| Like, the other day, she was Asking me all these questions. |
| And
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| I totally hear- She’s asking me stuff, and I’m just trying to tell her what I know to be the truth. |
| But
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| you can’t just do that. |
| There’s some shit That’s true That you can’t tell your kids when they’re
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| certain ages. |
| I know that sounds simple, But you don’t know all the time Until you fuck up. |
| I’m
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| talking to her, And she goes, “Daddy, does the earth Go around the sun?” |
| And I was like, “yeah. |
| ”
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| She goes, “does it do it All the time?” |
| And I go, “yeah. |
| ” She says, “will the earth always Go
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| around the sun forever?” |
| And I was like, “Well, no, at some point, The sun’s gonna explode.”
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| She’s seven years old. |
| Do you understand how horrible that is? |
| She started crying immediately.
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| Crying bitter tears for the death of all humanity. |
| And here’s how I tried to save it. |
| I go, “oh,
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| honey, This isn’t gonna happen “Until you And everybody you know Has been dead For a very
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| long time.” |
| She didn’t know any of those things, and now she knows all of those things. |
| She’s
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| gonna die. |
| Everybody she knows is gonna die. |
| They’re gonna be dead for a very long time, And
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| then the sun’s gonna explode. |
| She learned all that in 12 seconds at the age of seven. |
| She took it
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| pretty well. |
| I was proud of her. |
| She’s like, “oh. |
| Dude.” |
| “Okay, well… I guess I’ll go play. |
| I don’t…”
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| She’s had a tough year, That kid. |
| I feel really bad. |
| Lot of bad things happened to her this year.
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| This summer, she got bit by a pony. |
| I’m not kidding. |
| A pony bit her. |
| How do you more break a
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| little girl’s heart? |
| Than a pony bi- that’s like being raped by Santa Claus. |
| It was the worst thing
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| that ever happened, And it was made worse by the fact that it followed the greatest moment of
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| her life, because she’d never seen a pony up close. |
| We just never were fucking- shitty parents.
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| We never gave her, like, a pony ride. |
| And last summer I took the kids to Italy. |
| I took my girls to
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| Italy For whatever reason. |
| I don’t know why. |
| And we’re in this farmhouse In the middle of
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| nowhere. |
| And I put ’em to bed, And I come outside, And there’s ponies. |
| They just showed up Out
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| of nowhere. |
| Just wild ponies. |
| Like 50 ponies. |
| I’m not fucking with you. |
| A huge amount of ponies.
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| And one donkey. |
| I don’t know why. |
| There was one donkey Hanging out with the ponies. |
| And
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| they’re just la- And I’m like- And I run downstairs, And I wake her up. |
| The little one, fuck her.
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| She’s not making memories. |
| Who cares? |
| It’s not worth it. |
| I take the seven-year-old, And I bring
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| her outside, And she’s standing barefoot In her pajamas. |
| And it’s dusk, And it’s ponies, And she’s
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| like- And I’m like, “I’m the best fucking father. |
| “I’m the best father. |
| Yeah! |
| “Yeah! |
| Look at that shit!
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| That’s right! |
| I gave that to you!” |
| And she starts walking out Towards the ponies. |
| She’s like, “Can I go near them? |
| I’m like, “yeah. |
| ” I’m an idiot. |
| I’m like, “yeah, totally. |
| “Go on out there, honey.
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| “You’re only outnumbered 50 to 1 “What could possibly happen In a sea of wild ponies?” |
| And
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| she walks out, And there’s this one, Beautiful, speckled pony, And as she’s walking towards it, I’m
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| an asshole, ‘Cause I don’t read- It’s going like- It’s totally going, “Dude, no. |
| “Not-I’m not one of-
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| Fuck it. |
| “Get her out. |
| Get her out. |
| “I’m a-dude, I’m a fucking Italian wild pony. |
| Get her out of
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| here.” |
| Can I go, daddy? |
| I’m like, “yes, totally. |
| Go up to the pony.” |
| She walks up to the pony, And
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| she turns to me and says, “He’s beautiful.” |
| And as she’s saying that, the pony bites her on the
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| fucking leg. |
| And she screams. |
| It didn’t break the skin, But it was an awful bruise. |
| And I grab her |
| and I run inside. |
| And she says, “why, daddy? |
| Why did the pony bite me?” |
| And I said, “I don’t
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| know. |
| ” And she said, “Do ponies bite a lot?” |
| And I’m like, “well, yeah,” ‘Cause I don’t want her
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| to think That she’s so horrible That the first pony ever Bit her. |
| I go, “yeah, honey, Ponies bite,”
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| And she goes, “well, Why did you let me near it?” |
| She’s like, “dude, Make a fucking effort. |
| ” And
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| then we’re in the house, And she says- This is how great this kid is. |
| She calms down, And she
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| goes, “I want to look up about ponies biting.” |
| Like, that’s how she thinks. |
| Something upsets her,
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| She wants to look it up and learn about it. |
| She says, “I want to find out Why they bite and what
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| people say about it. |
| ” So we go and we do look up about ponies, And it turns Out they’re
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| assholes. |
| They bite all the time. |
| And there’s all these websites that talk about what to do when
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| your pony bites, and it’s like everything else on the internet. |
| It’s just fighting. |
| Just people angry
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| at each other. |
| The first guy says, “you got to punch the pony right in the face.” |
| Just punch it right
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| in the face. |
| Then the next person says, “You’re a terrible person. |
| You should have your ponies
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| taken away from you.” |
| The next person was my favorite. |
| They go, “people who don’t punch their
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| ponies make me sick.” |
| So we really are a divided nation. |