Hardship.
So far I've been doing a whole lot of euphemizing, but it's time for a reality check. I wouldn't wish Tourette's Syndrome on anyone. It's painful, it's inhibiting, and it has destroyed lives. The videos never strayed from the lighter side of Danny's life, but if they did, we might not have laughed so hard.
But as it is, he's a real trooper, and he gives us something to laugh on even when life craps on him a little. He made sure to get in front of his modest television in time for the lottery program. Danny knows he's not going to win, but he seems to want to win so badly that the odds are irrelevant. I don't know whether it's the inflection in his voice or the furious stripping of his neck brace, but I get the feeling that he actually is disappointed this time.
As you may have gathered, Danny's Tourette's syndrome is compounded by alcoholism. For better or worse, this has slanted his behavior. A bird flies into his house, he breaks a few hundred dollars' worth of possessions in the process of clumsily and hopelessly trying to swat it with a broom, and at the end of the video he sits in an exhausted, defeated, angry heap as he watches his son scold him through crooked glasses.
His challenges read like a laundry list. On top of Tourette's and alcoholism, there were the financial difficulties implied when he fell far short of his total at the grocery store, among other instances. There was the fragmented pining for his ex-wife. There was the complicated, sometimes hostile, relationship with his son. And that was only what we saw through an hour or less of lossy, buffered video. And then, as the tragedy goes, he lost his life at the age of 43. Life was hard, and then it was over.