"Let Me Introduce You to My Gay Dad..." - Roberta Colindrez

[00:00.874]JOAN: No, what!? Your Dad?
[00:05.466]Oh my God. Are you okay?
[00:07.815]MEDIUM ALISON: I'm fine
[00:09.110]JOAN: Are you, are you sure? Do you want to talk about it?
[00:12.522]MEDIUM ALISON: No, I don't want to talk about it.. I don't want to think about it. I want—
[00:16.643]I don't know
[00:19.262]C'mon, let's go see what's happening at the gay union
[00:22.651]JOAN: Do you want to go to my room? Smoke a joint?
[00:27.830]MEDIUM ALISON: Yes I do
[00:29.681]ALISON: Caption: My new found queerness wa— No
[00:34.801]Unable to process the tsunami-like revelation that my father wa— No
[00:42.098]Tsunami-like? No
[00:44.199]Caption: I leapt into my new life with both feet
[00:49.873]And I blocked out everything that was happening at home
[00:52.954]BRUCE: Oh, where the hell are John and Christian?
[00:55.551]HELEN: John's at Cosgrove's probably
[00:57.618]BRUCE: Why?
[00:58.145]HELEN: Because he works there
[01:00.451]ALISON: I should have been paying attent— Caption: I should have been paying attention
[01:04.369]BRUCE: Since when?
[01:04.899]HELEN: He's been working there for almost a month
[01:06.723]BRUCE: Ohf...
[01:07.235]ALISON: And I— Caption: I, I guess I was mad at you
[01:10.872]BRUCE: Oh, where's Christian?
[01:11.650]HELEN: At Doug's probably, what do you need?
[01:14.229]BRUCE: Nothing, nothing. I'll do it myself
[01:16.593]ALISON: My life had just started to open
[01:18.955]BRUCE: Ow! Damn it! Goddamn it!
[01:20.510]ALISON: I didn't know... Dad!
[01:22.274]I had no way of knowing my beginning would be your end!
[01:26.651]HELEN: Oh my god, the Brimley!
[01:29.001]Oh my god, what happened? Did it fall?
[01:32.241]Bruce, the painting— What happ—
[01:33.804]BRUCE: I threw it down the ****ing stairs!
[01:35.804]HELEN: Why?
[01:36.580]BRUCE: I don't know why...
[01:37.764]HELEN: I don't know why?
[01:38.814]BRUCE: Because no one ever ****ing helps me around here! Because—
[01:41.414]I cannot stand the sound of your hectoring, shrewd voice. You just—
[01:44.562]HELEN: You stop— You're blaming me for what we've been through?!?
[01:47.701]I'm on edge. Every single—
[01:49.271]BRUCE: Every single person in this town knows what kind of man I am!
[01:54.268]You're the one with the problem!
[01:58.349]HELEN: I have to be at school, I'll be at meetings until late
[02:08.041]ALISON: I'm drawing, I'm drawing, I'm just drawing
[02:12.438]I'm remembering something that's all...
[02:19.235]MEDIUM ALISON: Oh my god. I don't want to go in
[02:21.876]JOAN: It's going to be okay
[02:23.709]MEDIUM ALISON: How is it going to be okay? Everything's—
[02:28.096]Who knows?
[02:29.928]Who knows? C'mon in.
[02:32.784]Let me introduce you to my gay dad
[02:36.389]You know it's only been three months since I left.
[02:38.756]What happened in three months?
[02:50.982]MEDIUM ALISON: Hello?
[02:53.614]I don't know where they are
[02:55.438]Hey? We're here
[02:58.542]JOAN: Oh my god
[03:00.097]MEDIUM ALISON: What?
[03:01.139]JOAN: You described it but I had no idea
[03:04.464]MEDIUM ALISON: Oh. Yeah. I guess it's--
[03:07.748]HELEN: Oh, you're here
[03:10.544]MEDIUM ALISON: Hi mom