Steven Pope

This is not an ad for big toilet paper.

This is just my story.

And it is ridiculous.

And some of you I've lost a long time ago.

I get it.

For those that are still with me, you know why you're still with me.

Because you feel what I feel.

You know that life is a challenge, meant to be challenging in a good way.

But you also know that it can be easier if you just figure out the system.

Life is rigged against you.

And I want you to win despite that.

By the way, that's what I tell my kids all the time.

I tell my kid, life is rigged, but I want you to win despite that.

And I figure if they can learn that lesson, that they will not be resentful when they grow up.

I feel like if they can learn that lesson, that they're going to try really hard even when it sucks.

Even when they have a bad teacher.

even when they get cut, I was the last guy cut from the basketball team.

I was the last, I, you know, like I was athletic, but not enough.

I was, I was way nerdier than I was athletic.

You know, I won the Sterling scholar in my high school for, for speech and drama, by the way, I was not part of the drama team, but I was on debate.