Neal Brennan
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And my parents, for all of the, you know, not grief I've given them, but all of the sort of taking the task in these specials, you know, they were better than their parents.
That's something.
And it was hard.
They made it hard on themselves.
And also Catholicism made it hard on them.
Where, like, they couldn't โ I don't think my dad wanted kids at all.
I grew up in Chicago, grew up in Wilmette.
Grew up in Wilmette.
The funny thing is when you say your dad didn't even like Catholicism, I remember, uh,
Toward the end of his life, my dad, I said something about, he said something about I'm beating, I'm not beating cancer, cancer, I'm not fighting cancer, it's beating, it's whooping my ass or something.
I go, that's actually a Christopher Hitchens line.
And he goes, oh, I know, I loved his book, God is Not Great.
I was like, why did I, why was I an altar boy?
yeah man yeah what a what what a weird time like i i'm lucky to have avoided any mischievousness with yeah priests i have a joke where i say people everybody asks were you molested i'm like i didn't get molested i fucked a few people but i get molested um so so yeah i like i wasn't molested um
But it's just a weird... I don't know, man.