Popeyed Mac puts a humanistic spin on family confessional material, recalling his brother walking away when their sister got in trouble with drugs, then generating a hilarious routine from the experiences he and his wife, who had thought themselves at an age beyond child-rearing, found themselves facing when the incarcerated sister's kids moved in with them.
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Another 20 minutes go by, and he tells us _ we whose faces are now turning ruddy and popeyed and whose lungs are starving for oxygen _ that we have the OK and now all we have to wait for is the fuel truck to show up so we can start loading on fuel _ " gas, " he called it.