Colman Domingo lived in a Tenderloin District studio apartment in San Francisco in the 1990s, sharing it with three others and paying $625/month total — sleeping in a walk-in closet.
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Amy asks Colman about Edith, his late mother, and what she told him in his awkward years. The answer becomes one of the episode's most emotional sequences. Domingo recalls being hospitalized as a child with severe asthma, and when his mother picked him up at night and the city's Christmas lights were blazing, she said: 'They all put up their lights to welcome you back home.' [1] — Colman Domingo "Colman Domingo was hospitalized as a child with severe asthma. When his mother Edith picked him up at night, the city's Christmas lights we…" 23:43 That single sentence, he explains, is the key to everything — a mother who relentlessly told her son the world was set up to do him more good than harm. His sister's last memory of Edith, who died in 2006, is of her dancing in a Pathmark grocery aisle the week before she passed. Coming from a family that danced anywhere, without shame, was its own inheritance.
San Francisco's average rent rose 18% over the past two years to $3,728/month, surpassing New York City as the most expensive rental market in the country.
San Francisco's average monthly rent now stands at $3,728, surpassing New York City to become the most expensive rental city in the United States.
At a childhood sleepover, Bobby Lee's friends drew penises on his face and he walked 7 miles home on a dirt road before being picked up by Eric Purvis's mom.
In 1950, about 60% of the world lived in extreme poverty; today it's about 1 in 10, attributable to capitalist economic growth.
From 2021 to 2024, 6 million children fell below the poverty line in the US after the expanded child tax credit expired.
Private domestic infant and international adoptions typically cost $40,000 to $70,000, while foster care adoption is the most affordable route at $0 to $2,000.
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Robby Hoffman is the 7th of 10 children raised in a Hasidic household in Montreal, where the family was poor and comedy was a survival mechanism.
Robby's Hasidic community had no concept of 'too soon' in comedy — if it was funny, you threw it, and if you bombed, your sibling told you immediately.
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