When you're crafting a shank as a child to protect yourself from a parent, there might be a few bumps in the road as you transition to adulthood. His mother died when he was five, and his father died on his mother's birthday when he was in juvenile detention. "How have you not killed yourself?" is a question he answers by noting life's infinite possibility for improvement. This episode is rife with explicit mention of drugs, violence, and all manner of other trauma, which the interviewee has somehow survived.