Abusing Children is a Special Kind of Evil

But the guy behind him that's tattooing him has got... Has he got some... That's Mickey Rourke. Oh, that's that movie! Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, is that what that is? No, no, no, no, that's an old movie. What movie is this from? This is some new movie. Oh, it's another movie? Could be expendable scene or something. Mickey Rourke is an eccentric character. He's the kind of guy that would come over your house with like a full Indian jacket on, with like the tassels... My favorite actor of all time. And like he would have buck skin pants on and like legit cowboy boots and you couldn't say nothing. Nothing. And a big turquoise belt buckle and no shirt. No shirt. When he was younger, my favorite actor of all time. I fucking loved him. What are those ties called? This is just a string. Yeah, the Western ties. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about? What is that fucking thing? Yeah. That's a fake tie. That's what that is. That's whatever he wants. And carry around two small dogs in his hands. Oh yeah. Yeah, and maybe a gun. Maybe a gun, maybe a bow around his neck. Whatever the fuck he wants. Yeah. He walks through your house with a knife in his teeth. Yeah. And you're like, what's going on with Mickey? Shh. Just Mickey. Just leave him. Just leave him alone. Just leave him. Just leave him. That's regular Mickey. Yeah. The world of actors, my friend. They are out there. He was abused by his stepdad really badly. Oh, was he? Yeah. He did a great interview with Alec Baldwin on Baldwin's podcast called Here's the Thing. It was very heartbreaking. Very heartbreaking. He was abused by his stepfather was a cop and a brutal son of a bitch and really abused those two boys. Oh. His brother, Mickey's brother died in his arms. Oh. A drug addict because of his father. He blamed his stepfather. Then he saw his father, he'd never seen him. He's so heartbreaking to tell the story. He saw his father in New York. Father's coming out of a bar. His father goes, and then Mickey was standing there, and he goes, I'm your son. His father goes, I thought I'd run into you one day. Then his father died a week later of alcoholism. Ooh. Yeah. So he ran into him as a grown man. Yeah. Ooh. He tells you everything about someone. You know? Your heart's broken at a young age. Well, almost everyone that's fucked up in this life is fucked up because of something that someone did to them, whether it's a relative or abuse that they suffered or things throughout their life that have gone horribly wrong, especially for children. The big one, I mean, that's the most formative time of your life, right? When you meet people that were abused as children, everyone universally feels for them. You're like, oh no. When you have children especially. Oh, for sure. You realize what a catastrophe and an impossible thing to deal with. That's so terrible. To me, it's the special evil, you know? It is. Abusing children. You're ruining not just a moment, but the full potential of a child's life. They're never going to escape the fact that that was done to them, that someone used them. This child's psychologist, she was talking to her and I said, give me some advice with my children. You know what she said to me? She goes, just don't leave. Just be in their life. That's big. And I was like, that's true, right? Because when your dad's not there, your mom's not there, someone's not there, there's this like feeling of like displacement. Everything's wrong. The world's... I mean, I've heard that when these kids get abused. It's like, oh my God, you've compounded horror on top of sadness and loneliness. Horror on top of... And it's also, this is the really fucked up thing. It repeats itself. Like they say that people that are molested when they're children are much more likely to molest children, which is insane. It's like the thing that happened to you, the abuse that happened to you, it's almost like you want to put it on someone else. The fact that so many kids grew up in single parent households in this country is the problem. You can talk about racism, you talk to everybody else. You grew up without a father, you grew up in a single parent household, that's abuse. That is one problem. And men who have children and walk out on those kids, those are the people I have no time for. I hate them. I don't give a fuck what your excuse is. I would make it a law. I would make it very uncomfortable for you. But that's just one kind of abuse. There's also abuse by your actual biological parents. There's abuse by other biological relatives. There's abuse by stepfathers. And that's a very dangerous situation. Abuse by brothers and sisters. There's abuse by neighbors. There's abuse, man. But it all boils down to the same thing. It's like what happens during your developmental period when you're a really young person to becoming an adult. And if someone's abusing you and fucking you over, that just ruins most people's lives. Most people don't bounce back from that. And then you get caught up in this spiral of this cycle of crime and violence and prison and abuse. And you're done. You're done.