Kai Wright

And he...

tells the story of this moment as this long, drawn-out bit that becomes, like, one of his most famous bits.

And I just remember watching my family, my father particularly, just tears crying.

You know?

Like...

That tears-funny laugh you get when somebody's telling the truth that feels real to you.

Yeah, of that generation of, like, they got it, you know?

Like, why he would.

And I don't get it.

To this day, I don't get it.

Why this impulse to self-destruction?

You know, my father absolutely wasn't a drug addict, but he self-destructed with like he was a surgeon who treated people for diabetes and heart disease and preventable illnesses.

And he died at 58 of diabetes and heart disease.

Right.

And it just, you know, just constantly anything he could do to undermine his own health.

And every time I am in conversation with other Black Gen X people, we talk about this and that they've seen in their parents or someone in their family.

I don't understand it.

I don't understand why it went to self-destruction.

But I also want, you know, from someone from your generation, is this at all legible to you?

Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?