Dave Portnoy

And that's why I added this point, that poem in this book, which isn't a bad point, but it's a very self-serious poem of an 18 year old boy asking some big existential questions when you would think he would just be having a great fun time summer and under the sunshine.

And I added it because.

It was a time.

I gave a damn at 18.

I still give a damn.

I'm still working on trying to be a better man.

I'm still questioning what's going on in the world.

I'm still pointing out stuff that I think is mendacious and not fair in the world.

And I'm asking those questions and I still do.

So to see that I was doing that at 18,

I'll mind you, you could tell I had a thesaurus near.

I used some words in there that I'm like, you don't know what that meant.

And I still don't know what that word meant.

Give it a shot.

I had a thesaurus near me, you know what I mean?

So when I was in kindergarten, uh, I was standing on the street corner outside of the school and the, the, uh,

The head principal came out and I was I was looking up at the sky at this cloud.

And I said, Mr. Mayor, is that cloud as big as the world?

And he goes, yes, Matthew, it is.

So in my whatever kindergarten, however old I was, five year old mind, six year old mom was like, well, if I can see the edges of that cloud.