Connor Padgett, the Birmingham architect who got stuck in a vase at a New Year’s Eve party, doesn’t feel much like a genie.

“From what I’ve heard, the genie is able to come out of the (expletive),” Padgett said in an interview on the JortsCenter podcast about the incident. “I don’t have that superpower.”

Padgett said he got into the vase after two other people at the party had successfully gotten in, then out of it, as part of a game that someone thought up.

“One person had gotten into it,” he said. “I saw them get out of it beautifully. Another person who slightly had a bigger ass than I do (got in and back out).”

That convinced him to try the party trick that he would soon regret.

“If they can get into it and get out of it, I figure, hell, I can too,” Padgett said.

“My stupid ass got in it. It went beautifully. It did. I think I may have had just a little trouble getting my waist in it. But I got in there eventually. I was just sitting there being silly and talking to people and then was ready to get out of it. I need another drink. I need to get out. Well, I couldn’t. I don’t know how long this lasted – 30 minutes at least. Thirty minutes that I was stuck in that vase.”

Wearing boots complicated the situation, he said.

“I had boots on,” he said. “My boots were kind of like the heels of them were pushed up and pushing my knees … I think that’s what locked my knees into place.”

Padgett soon found out that a bartender at the party had taken video of his predicament and that it went viral, with more than 14 million views by Monday.

“Well, that’s fabulous,” Padgett said of his reaction.

Padgett said he has since tried to apologize to the people at the party.

“I’m saying the most foul things, cussing everybody out,” he said.

“I’ve tried my best to apologize to everybody that I talked ugly to that night. I felt so bad cussing everybody.”