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Sometimes you think you're talking to yourself.
(laughter)
But you know, you can get, sometimes you can really
get up against something where you really don't see
another way and you can get so fixated
and it's a matter of, I see people all the time
that, they'll just keep doing the same thing over and over.
They'll go out and they're like,
beating their heads against the wall.
And you gotta go up to them and say,
you know what's not working, right?
(laughter)
They go, yeah, and they just keep doing it.
But think about this,
sometimes if you have fixated on a reason or excuse
to be stuck or nonproductive, giving that excuse up
can be very scary because if you turn loose of that excuse
now you have no reason to not perform.
Now you have no reason to not stand on your own two feet.
Now you have no reason to not be self sufficient.
Now you have nobody to blame your life on but yourself
and so unconsciously you get in a comfort zone
of clinging to this excuse.
I can't be productive
because I have this misdemeanor on my record,
I can't be productive
because I didn't have a good childhood
and so that's my excuse so I can sit on the sidelines
and watch life go by.
And all of a sudden if those things get cured or healed
then, okay, now why are you sitting on the sidelines?
Well, because you're lazy.
Get up and get in the game.
And so, I don't know.
(applause)
And it's apparent that before this happened
his life wasn't working much better.
He was living at home at 28.
If you can't get a job then start a business.
I mean, I haven't had a job since.
(laughter)
No, really, I haven't had a job since I was
a junior in high school, I worked for Hallmark cards.
And since then I've been in business for myself.
I've never had a job.
I mean, I've always worked for myself.
Nobody's ever asked to see my diploma.
Hell, you don't even know if I got one.
(laughter)
I do.
(applause)
Actually, I do.
(laughter)
I have a bachelor's degree, a master's degree and a PhD
and post doctoral fellowship.
(applause)
I got my master's degree on August 14th, 1976.
Ask me what day I got married.
(laughter)
Robin wanted to get married, well I mean,
we wanted to get married.
(laughter)
Oh, I'm so glad that's on tape.
I said, at least let me finish a master's degree
so I can at least get a job where I could support us.
And she said, okay, when do you get that degree?
I said, August 14th.
She goes, alright.
We got married August 14th.
(laughter)
(applause)
While they were walking across the stage
I was walking up the aisle.
(laughter)
So, God, can you believe it's been 41 years?
No, I can't believe it.
(applause)
Sometimes I can.
What?
No, I cannot believe it, sweetheart, I cannot.
Sometimes I can.
(laughter)
She was 19 when we met.
We spent, what, that's over
two thirds of our lives together.
I know it, I'll be 64 in a few weeks.
(applause)
Wow, wow.
We're only 64, her birthday's three days
after Christmas so she thinks she gets cheated every year.
(laughter)
Three days after Christmas,
nobody wants to have a birthday then.
[Robin} Nobody wants to celebrate.