Billy Crudup

The first payment came due.

He defaulted on the loan, declared bankruptcy, listed me as one of the creditors, and died six months later.

Oh my God, no.

And when I got that letter, he was like, that doesn't mean a thing.

Who gives a shit about the collectors?

Well, even when he was in hospice, I remember he was withered.

You could barely hear a whisper.

But if you could make it out, he was saying, I'm going to beat it.

And you're like, oh, buddy.

I mean, it's just whatever he needed to hold on to.

It's a great question because I was angry when I got to be an adult.

But when I was younger, the times that were scary were the drunk driving times.

My brother at 13 or 14 had to take over the wheel.

Those things were not fun.

But the guns and all and the colorful people and the new ventures.

I mean, we went to flea market after flea market.

We were always finding these new products.

There was constant optimism.

And occasionally he would be on the right side of the line as a bookie.

It was not a very good bookie, which is really bonkers because it seems like that's a lock to play the house in those.