My mom, it's just my mom now.
My dad passed away.
It was like one of the hardest
things.
If you've lost a parent,
you know how hard it is,
but it was really tough.
And we didn't see it coming.
It happened really fast.
And the thing about my dad,
the thing that made it extra hard,
my dad was just like the best guy
in the world.
I mean just the best guy you ever
met.
He was kind
and humble and quiet and selfless,
and he's always doing something
for other people.
He never complained, never bought
himself anything.
He never wanted for anything, just
like totally calm water.
I'm still winded.
And the only thing you ever
complained about.
Every once in a while when my mom
would leave the room
like in the holidays.
He would lean forward
and he would look at me
and my brother my sister
and he would make sure she was gone.
And he would go, "Y'all think we got
"enough knickknacks in here."
Because my mom's
a 75-year-old white lady who lives
at the beach, and she loves
knickknacks.
I mean just everywhere.
It's nice.
It's not hoarder-ish.
It's very clean.
But it's just seashells and pelicans
and lighthouses and sailboats
and flip-flops and bird baths.
It's live, life, love.
Dance like no one is watching.
It's a lot of that, and my dad,
I think he probably just sat back
in his recliner and looked around
the house.
It's like, "$50, $80, $150, $65.
"That was only a dollar because it's
" from Ross Dress for Less.
"$80," he just he's like we've got
$200,000 worth of nonsense
in this house.
It's the only thing that drove him
crazy.
He was still a good sport about it.
He would nudge me and be like,
"Think we've got enough items
"on every surface of the house?"
(audience laughing)
It's crazy.
It's like, if you're going to set
your lighthouse cup coaster down,
you're going to have to move
the Southern Living over
by the Coastal Living.
And then you've got to move
those mallard duck playing cards
over by the swan
with the fake flowers in it,
push those over by the sand dollars
in the middle of starfish.
And then you can put the lighthouse
cup down on the flip-flop coaster.
And it's nice.
It's all very cute and nice.
It's just a lot of it,
and I think my dad was like, "Why you
"got to put all this stuff
"on the table?
"It's already a dolphin, the table
"is a dolphin.
"Why do you have to decorate
"a decoration?"
(audience laughing)
But when my dad passed, my mom set
us down and she said, "Listen,
"it happened fast."
She was like, "you know,
"I don't know what to do.
"I just want to get him cremated so I
"can have time to think about what
"to do.
"I'm just overwhelmed."
And we said, mom, we support you
no matter what.
Whatever you need to do,
we have your back.
And she was like, "I want to get him
"a really beautiful urn."
I was like, well, mom,
dad was a simple guy.
He never spent money on anything
for himself.
He was really frugal and modest.
He would have wanted you to save
that money and get him a simple urn
and save that money for something
important,
like pelicans or sailboats.
(audience laughing)
She was like, "No, I want to get him
"a nice urn."
So we did.
We got him one
of these beautiful, beautiful urns,
very nautical.
(audience laughing)
It's this blue-green.
It's got some burlap kind of rope
around, and it's got a piece
of driftwood on the top of the lid.
And it's very coastal,
and it has little tiny--
it's clay.
It's a ceramics piece.
I has little baby sea turtles going
all the way up the urn,
beautiful piece.
And we have it sitting on a table
in the living room with a sailboat,
metal sailboat hanging behind it
and a conch shell to the left of it,
and this little palm tree
thing to the right of it.
He became a knickknack is what I'm
trying to tell you.
And it's like the only thing
he didn't want to be.
It's just circle of life.
I feel like he's up in Heaven like,
"Are you kidding me?"
Guys, thank you so much.
Y'all have been great.
I love you.
Have a good night.