233: Starting From Scratch
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Things are just starting to look up for Jorge when the thing with the TV happened. He'd just moved to a new town, started his life over, found some work, got a place. Years of searching around and vagueness were ending. - It's going well. Like the way that I'm procrastinating now is by doing work, you know? You know, I'm coming into my home. I'm like, I feel good. I'm paying bills relatively on time. - He'd moved to New York City, which was scary, and luck into an apartment that real New Yorkers told him was a find, a little studio in the East Village, one room, good location. Cheap. And then one night, he's sitting at his table, watching the Bachelorette on TV. And it's the episode where the Bachelorette has whittled it down to four guys that she's gonna pick one from eventually. And she's in New York City, visiting one of the potentials. - And, you know, so he goes out to dinner with his family and they eat and, you know, they've got the shifty-eyed sister and, you know, like, everybody's family acts the exact same way, you know? - Right. - And then they get in the limousine and they decide to go back to his apartment. Now, like, now I'm, now I'm on the edge of my seat. 'Cause, you know, I just moved, I moved to New York, like, it's an enormous city. And I would be so excited if I could recognize a street. I would be so excited. It would just make me so happy. And so I'm totally, I'm totally excited. So they get out of the limo and he hugs her in the street and they pan and they show a building, they show an awning. And it's my awning. - It's your building. - It's my building. It's the awning to my building. It says the address, it says the street. It's, you know, it's possibly the only place in New York I actually know. (laughing) And then he opens the door and she comes in and it's my lobby, you know? There's my lobby. There's the row of mailboxes, you know? And I'm just like, I'm out of my chair and I can't talk. I'm like, you know, like pointing at the TV.
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