Ronaldo Mercado

Bucket Pull

Career avg·1.50 bits/set·3.50 beats/set·0.20 punch density·0.63 tag density·2 sets

This set·1 bit·4 beats·0.26 punch density·0.25 tag density

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Skips to 53:57 in the episode

[Bit 1]

I am a, I'm a Mexican guy.

I'm a half.

My mom is white.

My dad is missing.

I was like raised by a single mom.

My mom had to raise me herself.

So she had to be like a single mom.

She had to do both things at the same time, you know?

My mom had to fill my dad's shoes, which is hard, you know?

'Cause my mom had to be a mom and a Mexican dad.

Do you know how hard that is?

My mom had to take me to baseball practice

and then she had to mow the outfield afterwards, okay?

I'm serious, my mom had to put a roof over my head, literally.

She built it, she shingled it, okay?

My mom had to build a table so she could get paid underneath it, okay?

Alright, and I think if it was like that for me growing up, that means it's like that for

other kids who also have mixed-race parents but only have one parent in the house, right?

So that means that somewhere out there, there is a black mom who has to be a white dad.

And every day she has to go up to her kid and go,

"Hey, you ready, Freddy?"

Bit 1 · Beat 1

Beat Details

Beat Premise

“Mexican dads' absence is widely understood but rarely said aloud.”

Joke Type

elephant-in-the-room

Lines

setupI am a, I'm a Mexican guy.

setupI'm a half.

setupMy mom is white.

punchlineMy dad is missing.