Matt Rife
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And he was like, you fucking know my mom.
And why was she at that show?
She was just a Ralphie fan.
Yeah, it was totally, totally random.
I was just taking pictures of people after the show and she was like, yeah, my son lives out there.
He said his mom still has like the piece of paper that I signed for her.
She kept it even after all those years.
Youngstown was so white.
But I mean, this was also when he was doing, Ralphie was doing this bit about the N-word.
And I think it made it into one of his specials where he was basically trying to make a point that if you desensitize the word and make it mean something different.
So he was like, I think we should name the most delicious flavored cookie ever.
You could say it more optimistically.
But this was like a mostly white room with a few black people, but it didn't matter.