Billy Eichner

meaning enough.

And he would, my dad would, he would say it occasionally.

And when he would say it the most often is when he would sit at the dinner table and eat and eat and eat.

We were Jews.

We like to eat a lot, a lot of carbs.

There was no talk about healthy eating ever or exercise when I was growing up.

When they finally opened a gym in my neighborhood in Queens, they opened like a Lucille Roberts.

And my parents and I walked past it on our way to the movies.

Of course, we went to the movies together every single Saturday night and on our way to the movie theater.

And they had windows to the gym so you could look inside.

My dad looked at these people exercising as if they were like he's he called them lonely weirdos.

They were like freakish aliens to him that they were on treadmills.

It was so foreign to him that someone would choose to do that with their time, right?

To exercise.

You know, again, this was the 80s.

Now we're all like fitness crazed.

But like, it was so funny to me.

So my dad, he wasn't hugely overweight, but he had the gut, you know, and he would eat and eat and eat.

And then every night, almost every night, he would have like two scoops of ice cream

for dessert but then i would watch him and he would almost like kind of gently throw the utensils down not in like a violent way but just like a put them down it with intent like intently and then mutter to himself meaning he was telling himself enough yeah that always stuck with me too you got to tell yourself that sometimes especially in our age of anxiety and constant