Bobby, 65, Abilene, Kansas - Unemployed

Where did you grow up?

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [Then I went to] Los Angeles, that’s how I ended up in the show business. I worked for Canvas Specialty. They did all the shows, all those fancy tents you see. Conrad Hilton, he was throwing a party up there, and you know them dumb Mexicans, I loaned them my cutters, fancy antique cutters, and they lost them in the bushes. And I never did find them.

Are you proud to be an American?

I’m a mongrel. Now see if I woulda been the Indians when they landed on Plymouth Rock I woulda told them to get back on that boat and float. Cause they didn’t even know how to pop corn. The Indians had to teach them about popcorn. And the rest of the country. It just got weirder. All the runaways from all these other countries come here. It’s getting’ worse. It ain’t getting better.