I Took a Pill, Now I'm Hot — Episode 32

A toast To the four of us I want to tell you something I have never told anyone When I was a young man, I was told I would die alone A doctor said it, with great confidence He used a number A year I outlived him by forty In those forty years, I built a house And then a company And then a system And then, I built each of you I found you in a room of women You were the only one who did not look afraid I found you sleeping I waited decades for you to become what you are And you A man on a train, looking at the floor I gave you a pill, and you became the answer to a question I had been asking my whole life People ask me what family means They say love They say blood They say choice They are all wrong Family is the name we give to people we have made necessary to one another That is what I have built here And that is why, no matter what any of you ever do, this table will always be permanent You may grieve You may resent You may plot But you will all be here tomorrow And so will I Now, eat