- She got into the van, and I   had to go diarrhea right then,
  so I went--I went into her house and  had diarrhea
  while she was sitting in my  parents' car,
  and...  [laughter]
  This is the reality.
  [dark electronic music]
  [bell dinging]
  Oh.  [chuckles]
  Nicely done.
  Yes.
  Mmm.
  Mmm!
  [moaning]
  [piglet whining]
  ♪ ♪
  [fork clatters]
  ♪ ♪
  [whining]
  ♪ ♪
  [whining continues]
  ♪ ♪
  Your mama's delicious.
  [cheers and applause]
  He is the host of  the "Worst Birthday" podcast,
  my man, Michael Kosta.
  [cheers and applause]
  I have a story about my first   crush.
  Who was your first crush?
  Do you remember who your first  crush was?
  Cassie.  Yeah, she was cute, dude.
  I remember Cassie.
  [laughter]
  My first crush was Katie T.
  I--I still remember her.
  Short black hair.
  I've always liked short hair on  women.
  I think it's cool when women do  that.
  You've got to have a pretty  face, usually, but...
  [laughter]
  I like when, you know, a girl,  like,
  sees what all the other girls  are doing and is like,
  "No, I'm doing something  different."
  I like that.  She had a great smile.
  She had a great sense  of adventure.
  I know that, because  that's what I wrote in my diary
  in fourth grade.
  She has a great--  I don't even know--
  I still don't know  what the fuck that means.
  A great sense of adventure?
  And she had a great laugh.
  She had a booming laugh.
  And now--I'm 37 years old.
  I think about every woman I've  ever been in love with.
  They all had giant laughs.
  I think really what I need is  just somebody
  who thinks I'm funny.
  That's--or someone that can  pretend that I'm funny,
  and either way, I'm okay with  that,
  but I remember her laugh, and  she would screw up my stomach.
  I used to get diarrhea  when she would look at me,
  or she would twirl her hair,  or smile at me.
  I mean, now I know that  that usually means,
  you know, I like somebody,
  if I get  a little stomach thing.
  But when you're ten,  you're just like,
  what is this?  How come I have--
  have to take a shit  every time I see Katie?
  [laughter]
  And we would carpool.
  And on Monday--Monday,  Wednesday, Fridays,
  we would pick up Katie, and on  Tuesdays and Thursdays,
  they would pick me up, and we  would go to school together,
  Angel Elementary School,  and I remember one day
  she was looking really cute,  and we picked her up
  in our red Chevy Lumina, and  she got in--
  she got into the van, and I had  to go diarrhea right then,
  so I went--I went into her  house and had diarrhea
  while she was sitting in my  parents' car,
  and...  [laughter]
  This is the reality.
  She was just very sweet.
  She was very nice.
  I remember her mom was just a  bigger Katie.
  She had this big laugh, and she  was very generous and kind.
  She would drive 25 minutes to  the Asian market,
  and she would get these amazing  wasabi peas
  and sesame crackers, and Katie  would always offer me
  some of the sesame crackers,  and one day she handed me
  a whole bag, and I took one,  and I handed it back.
  She said, "No, this is from my  mother and I.
  This is--we just want you to  have your own bag."
  And why do I remember this?
  This was--this was 27 years  ago,
  and it affected me so much.
  I'm the youngest of four.  Nothing was my own.
  If you're from a big family,  nothing is yours.
  My winter jacket was, like, 23  years old by the time I got it.
  There was other--six cousins  and every sibling.
  There was other things in the  pockets when I got my jacket.
  And I remember that she gave me  my own bag of sesame crackers.
  This is how--this is how sweet  she was.
  And...  Saturdays, I played soccer.
  Now,  I'm a very competitive person.
  I've been fortunate  athletically.
  I played professional tennis  for four years.
  I'm not telling you this to  sound like an asshole.
  I'm telling you this because it  relates to the story.
  Sports is something I was good  at.
  And Katie shows up to  my soccer game with her mom.
  Saturday morning.  Here comes Katie.
  Here comes her mom.  This is--this is it.
  Here's the girl I like,
  and here's the thing  I'm good at.
  I scored six goals that day.
  I scored one goal as a goalie,  okay?
  Now...
  do you know how selfish  you have to be
  with the ball
  to score as a goalie?
  My father asked the coach to  take me out of the game.
  Dads ask the coach to put their  son in the game.
  But this was...you know,
  I was trying to impress Katie,  okay?
  Now, in my house, my mom  invented this thing
  called the special plate, okay?
  The special plate is a real  plate
  that you eat off of when you  achieve something
  or you have success.
  This is not a fucking joke.
  [laughter]
  It's a plate.  It has balloons on it.
  It say, "Hip, hip, hooray.
  We're proud of you for being in  our family."
  This is a real thing.
  And when you score six goals,  one as a goalie,
  you get to eat off the special  plate, okay?
  If you got an A on your  spelling test,
  you got to eat off the special  plate.
  And, you know, it sounds great,  but as you get older
  and you experience therapy, you  go,
  "Oh, this was kind of fucked  up."
  This was all outcome-based.
  This was all achievement and  success-based, right?
  And my dad used to just give  himself
  the special plate sometimes.
  Like, "Oh, work was tough,"  special plate.
  No, you can't just...
  Anyways, I scored six, one as a  goalie,
  and...
  did you guys hear that it was  six, one as a goalie,
  back here?
  And--hold on.  My mouth is dry.
  Talking about Katie affects me  physically.
  [laughter]
  So, Monday comes around,  school,
  and guess  who doesn't give a shit
  that I did six goals,  one as a goalie?
  Katie's not impressed.
  Didn't even realize it,  I don't think.
  You know, and this baffles me.
  I mean, as someone that's  coming from a family
  that's very focused on result  and outcome,
  it frustrated me, but now, you  know, you understand it.
  That wasn't what  her family was into.
  Her mom would go adopt the dogs
  and bring kids to the  children's hospital.
  This wasn't, like,
  their big focus.
  And I was bummed  that she wasn't into it.
  It was, you know, her loss,  as I saw it.
  And...now, science projects  were coming up.
  And this was--this was big,
  because I sat next diagonally  from Katie T.
  in Mrs. Kelce's fourth grade.
  Anyone else have Mrs. Kelce?
  [light cheering, laughter]
  Yeah.  And...
  Mrs. Kelce would pair you up
  with your science project  partner diagonally.
  That's just how  she always did it, okay?
  It was no guarantee, but I  felt like it was gonna happen,
  so once I got paired  with Katie,
  we'd have ample time together,  that's great.
  Now, I had weird Josh Barter  sitting to my right
  and then annoying Lindsay was  across from me, okay?
  And Mrs. Kelce says,
  "Someone has to make  an announcement in class."
  And Katie sheepishly walks
  up to the front of the class  and she says--
  she starts to talk,  but she can't talk.
  She's crying.  She's too sad.
  And she runs to Mrs. Kelce,  and Mrs. Kelce hugs her
  and says, "Katie's mom is sick,
  "and she's in the hospital,
  and Katie's gonna be  missing some school."
  And it was very sad.  And we were all sad.
  And we made  one of those giant cards
  that you make, you know--
  well, the Asian kid designs it,
  and then everyone else  kinda...signs it.
  And we sent it off  to Katie's mom.
  And...so the next day,
  Mrs. Kelce's assigning science  projects,
  but there's a wrinkle, okay?
  Weird Josh Barter isn't there,  okay?
  Turns out he left.
  Do you remember the kid that  just left...
  [laughter]
  And nobody gave a shit?
  There was--there was no cake.
  There was no card.
  And he was weird, Josh.
  He--one time I looked in his  backpack,
  and there was, like, a shotgun  shell in there,
  and you're like...
  So he's gone, so now what  happens?
  I--I should still be paired up  with Katie T.,
  but who's with annoying  Lindsay, right?
  Nobody.
  So Mrs. Kelce starts pairing  us off, okay?
  And she's doing it diagonally,  thank God.
  So this is gonna get me some  ample time with Katie T.
  Maybe I can figure out the  whole diarrhea thing.
  And she gets to Katie,
  and maybe it's 'cause  Katie's mom is sick--
  I don't know what it was--  but she says to Katie,
  "Katie, you can pick  who you wanna--
  you wanna be with Lindsay,  you wanna be with Michael."
  You know, and I'm like,  well, that's--that's...
  you know, pretty bullshit,  but...
  [laughter]
  But I'm still--  I'm still confident.
  You know, I scored six goals,  one as a goalie.
  Like, why would she not--  why would she not pick me?
  I'm from--I'm a Kosta.  Kostas are winners.
  That's how we've been--you  know.
  We'll eat off the special plate  together.
  And Katie--Katie is...
  very happy that she gets to  pick,
  'caused nobody else get to  pick.
  And she picks...  Lindsay.
  She picks fuckin' Lindsay...
  [laughter]
  To be  her science project partner.
  Annoying...
  short...
  fat Lindsay,  and you can't--
  you could say that then.
  This was 27 years ago, where  you were allowed to fat shame,
  so don't think of it from this  year.
  Put it through '89.
  And I was--I was broken.
  I mean, I...I can  actually feel it right now.
  And this is crazy to me, right,
  but it--it hurt.
  It--I felt vulnerable.
  I didn't even know what that  word meant, and I felt that.
  I felt a loss.
  I don't lose, you know.
  I scored six,  one as a goalie, and...
  [laughter]
  I didn't know what to do.
  I'm ten also.
  Don't forget that.
  I'm ten, and I'm feeling  rejected, and I'm feeling hurt.
  And I took that pain
  and I took that rejection
  and I took that feeling  that I did not like
  and was uncomfortable with  and I spoke.
  And I said as loud as I could  to her and everyone,
  I said, "I hope your mom dies  in the hospital."
  [crowd oohs]
  [laughter]
  Now...
  this...
  now...
  [laughter]
  Now I know,  but--but then,
  this was the first  of many times
  where my mouth would  get me in a lot of trouble.
  Okay?
  I mean, here I am at a strip  club telling a story
  to strangers, so...
  And it was  a terrible thing to say,
  and as soon as I  said it, Katie withered.
  And she became a speck.
  She--she started crying.
  She had--I had never seen  somebody so physically hurt.
  And...
  Mrs. Kelce sent her down to  the nurse's office.
  I was sent down to the  principal's office.
  I walked real slow down there.
  You know, now it makes me think  of when I tell my dog
  to go into the cage, and he  kind of, like....
  [laughter]
  You know, and we all remember  walking down to
  the principal's office, and  even I at ten
  remember thinking, like, "God,  that was--that was dick."
  You know?
  And I sat in the principal's  office,
  and I saw Katie with the nurse,  and she was broken.
  I had--I had broken her.
  I had taken my pain, and I had  multiplied it by a thousand,
  and I had dumped it on her,
  and it--  it's worse than that.
  Because three days later,  Katie's mother dies
  in the hospital.  [crowd groans]
  This is not a joke.  This is not written.
  This is real.
  This is a real story.
  And I have not spoken
  to Katie since then.
  I regret that I said that.
  I've never apologized to her  or her family.
  And I realize  it's a little self-indulgent
  to put pain on someone
  and then use it  as a performance piece...
  [laughter]
  To advance my comedy career.
  But that's not what this is.
  I'm publicly here to say  to Katie that I'm sorry,
  and to her family, I'm sorry.
  and I regret that  I ever said that.
  Thank you very much.
  - Michael Kosta, everybody.
  [cheers and applause]
     
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