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  • When I was a kid, I never understood how there's so many homeless people.

  • I never understood that.

  • I never understood how there's so many.

  • My dad's always like, oh, it's because they're lazy.

  • And I just believed that, because that's what I was taught.

  • But then as you grow, you start to pay bills every goddamn month.

  • And then your perspective change.

  • Now I'm like, how is there not more homeless people?

  • How are most of us not homeless?

  • Because I Googled this, too. 70% of Americans have under $1,000 in their savings account.

  • I was like, I did not know there's that many people have that much money.

  • I thought we're all just paying off credit card debt like regular human beings.

  • I didn't know people got extra money that they didn't have to use.

  • And at this part, usually, it's a little tight, because you can't really laugh and give away your financial situation.

  • Not me.

  • I am rich.

  • I am.

  • I pay for everything tonight.

  • Your perspective change.

  • When I was a kid, my dad's always like, if you want to be successful, all you got to do is you got to work hard.

  • I believe that.

  • And that is true, probably, for him.

  • But I'm like, well, everybody needs a little bit of luck.

  • Everybody needs a little bit of luck to dodge these surprises that life gives all of us.

  • Everybody gets the life surprises.

  • Everybody gets it.

  • Oh, you're on your way to work, and you're tired, pop.

  • Life's like, boo, surprise.

  • And you're also fired.

  • Oh, you like doing stand-up comedy and be successful at it?

  • Life's like, boo, surprise.

  • Pandemic.

  • And you're also fired.

  • Your perspective change with new information, new experiences.

  • Never understood why there's so many homeless people as a kid.

  • Now, I'm like, dude, homeless people are just us regular, hardworking people that got too many surprises at once.

  • Homeless people are just us people that hit the jackpot of surprises on accident.

  • You're like, oh my gosh, all for me?

  • I can't handle it.

  • What is this box of?

  • A box of mental illness.

  • How fancy.

  • I wonder who's it from.

  • Jesus Christ himself.

  • I guess I can't return that.

  • That would be rude.

  • Dark statistic.

  • With new information, experiences, your perspective change.

  • That's why I don't really have strong opinions.

  • This is kind of dark, so let's bring it up to a fun, happy statistic. 30,000 people die each year from guns.

  • Dark statistic.

  • The happy one and fun one, the bright one, is that more than half of those 30,000 shot themselves.

  • How positive is that?

  • Only in America we get to see Jesus when we want to.

When I was a kid, I never understood how there's so many homeless people.

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