The New Yorker Presents

- I like that. - Yeah.

Is this the one in which all of them

- have already come in? - Yeah.

Okay, number 10.

Yeah.

"I didn't exactly plan for retirement."

- "What? You don't like my piercings?" -

"You should see what the sixth guy looks like."

- What's that? Oh, I see. - He's got five things in his back...

so he was beaten by five guys.

How many animal rights letters did we get about this one?

Um...

Oh, this is great.

- "This is not funny." - Yeah.

That's a really funny caption. We should have printed "This is not funny."

Okay. "This is not funny."

"I see nothing funny in this panel."

The top one was "I didn't mean your day wasn't hard, too."

I always wanted to start a band since I was in high school.

I grew up listening to what my older brother listened to,

so it was a lot of Nirvana and... and Guns N Roses,

Jimi Hendrix.

Figuring out what... what your purpose is in life

is... is just one of those big pressures of

what are you going to do with your life,

what are you going to do when you grow up.

That rock star thing... it's... I mean, it's bullshit...

well, from what I've experienced.

and I treat it... I treat it like a job but a job I really enjoy.

You know, I started my own record label and focusing on all that

'cause I hated working for someone else. I just wanted to work for myself

and make a living out of what I love doing.

I started the collection a little bit as a joke

'cause I had a bunch of disposable cameras on tour

to take, like, behind-the-scene wacky photos.

As a band, we joked a lot about how you kind of remember places

based on the green room or backstages,

and we always ended up coming back to comparing showers in different places.

So this one, it looks like I jumped in the shower

'cause the water's on, and then I was like,

"I'm going to take the photo now before I forget."

It was just making this beautiful kind of shape, and I just like that one.

You know, a postcard is normally like a beautiful landscape or whatever,

and it's like, "Wish you were here."

These are just kind of ugly, boring...

... showers.

But it conveys the same message.

Most of my work is kind of focusing on the smaller moment

like something that happens in the street.

There's a lot going on in the world.

It's kind of easy to ignore it, but I try to take note of it all.

Sometimes I... I'm kind of self-conscious...

and I think a lot of the time I prefer to kind of read a book.

I think I'm more of an introvert, but I can pull out the extravert

when I'm on stage.

I think a lot, but I feel like I-I don't understand

what I'm thinking a lot of the time,

so it's hard to convey how I'm feeling,

which is probably why I'm a songwriter.

Hey, Mom, want me to do your eyes?

I think this is how we always did it.

Okay.

Hey, Mom.

So you tell me what I told you last night on food.

Uh, you said at 01:00 I need to start the crock pot

on low heat, and then, when I get back from class,

I need to put the rice in, let it cook.

There are seasoning packets in there, so make sure those go in with the rice.

Okay.

And what's your plans for the day?

I will be in Groves this morning

and have a visit up in that area,

and then I will be back in Beaumont this afternoon,

but the day might go late.

- Okay. - So between you and Chris,

if y'all could kind of communicate

and figure out who's got Chloe from school,

how's Chloe's getting to church.

Awesome. I'll make sure it gets handled.

All right. Thank ya.

So let's talk about caseload for just a little bit.

Where are you caseload-wise? Nicole?

26, and 26 moms, 22 babies.

Um, people keep having babies,

- like one after the other. - Wow.

Yeah. Um, God, this last month has just been boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

In this type of setting,

yes, you're getting that nursing. You're getting that medical part,

but you're treating more than the body.

You're treating more than the mind.

You're treating this person that's got all these different dimensions.

The Nurse-Family Partnership Program has been one of the most important programs

in the health department...

a program that truly impacts young mothers.

The nurses go into their lives for that two years

and just get them some information

and encouragement that literally changes their lives, I believe, forever.

My name's Nancy Crooks, and I live in Orangefield.

I'll be 19 in October.

We have a lot of pets.

I'll show you Fiona.

Like to get back over here?

Hey, come here.

Come here. It's okay.

We've had her since she was an itty-bitty baby. She fell out of a tree.

She's not a typical raccoon.

I met Nicole when I was, like, two, three months pregnant.

I like Nicole. I do.

She's open. She's honest.

When I need somebody to talk to, she's there.

- - All right. Let's see.

His little soft spot... I felt it earlier. It felt fine, um, s...

but sometimes, when they get dehydrated, it can start to really sink in.

Have you... Have you felt his soft spot before?

- No. - No?

- I don't know even where it's at. - Okay. Well, I saw you rubbing,

so it you just... right up in here.

Right there? You feel that?

It's soft. You can feel, like, his little skull bones,

- but then you can feel that little... - It'll hurt him if I touch it?

No. I mean, if you're... if you're doing this,

you're going to cause some issues, but if you're just rubbing over it,

just trust your own instincts...

- Mm-hmm. - as a mom. Okay?

That was a very short little catnap.

Good morning, pig.

My name is Catalina.

I'm 16 years old.

My daughter's name is Kylie.

She's amazing.

When I got Catalina on my caseload, she was 15.

I knew she wasn't in school, like going to school,

but she was doing an online K-12 kind of thing.

- God. - (Nicole) She's a child, really,

and that's not something at 16 years old you are responsible for keeping up with.

You usually give that to your parents.

Um, but with her mom gone...

her mom, um, being in jail right now...

you know, there's...

nothing she can do.

Nicole's fun to be around.

At first I was shy to start,

but now I trust her, and so I tell her everything.

Okay. So fill me in on what's going on with you and Louis.

And now he's talking about moving to Atlanta,

- so... - For what...

- what's his plan? - He said he wants to start a new life.

That's a pretty faraway place to start a new life.

What's his thoughts about Kylie?

He did say he was going to take her, but I told him no.

My advice would be to go ahead

and... and just start working on custody.

I'm not saying taking custody from him.

- Yeah. - Working on a shared

- custody with each other - Mm-hmm.

so that both of you could be a part of her life

'cause she needs both of you.

- Oh, yeah? - So...

Your goal as a parent is to teach them what you expect

and what you want them to do

versus always telling them what not to do.

Macy, she's always kind of being told a lot of what she's doing wrong

and not a whole lot of what she's doing right.

I never knew what being a mom meant

till, like, I had and held this little girl,

and, like, there's not anything I wouldn't do for her.

Hey!

We're going to try to pay attention to how many times we use a negative on her.

And a lot of times, when you use the word "we" versus "you,"