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What's up, guys and gals. This is a new episode
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of Bulldog Unsetsored today. I have a special friend of
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mine with me. We just went online a few weeks ago,
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and uh, you've got a very interesting documentary coming out
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Ladies and gentlemen, Chad McDaniel, Yeah, what's up? How much man?
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Good to meet you, Josh. I don't get to hang
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out with our people very much.
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Yeah, our people hang out with more normies than anything.
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Yeah, no ship. So uh yeah, since we're just kind
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of getting to know each other a little bit more here,
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I was, well, I should say we both were born
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with osteogenesis in perspective, little bone disease doesn't get a
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whole lot of media coverage these days. But there's you know,
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now the internet's growing and moving along. We're getting a
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lot more exposure out there, and we're building a community,
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and and you know, I'm I'm used to building the community,
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getting the rock and roll world. Yeah, so it's it's
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nice to, you know, now that I'm older, kind of
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get in touch with people that have been through the
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thing kind of shit. So, uh, I guess we can
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kind of compare cripple notes here, buddy, So tell me. Yeah, Like,
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how did everything start for you? Were you diagnosed at birth?
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I was actually diagnosed a little bit before I was born,
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about seven. My mom was about seven months along. Oh no,
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and yeah, and uh just so happened a little hick
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town doctor that my mom had just happened to notice
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that my legs were curved. Yeah, and he diagnosed me
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with OLI and uh. I was born in June twenty fifth,
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nineteen seventy one.
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You're day after me, brother, No shit, Yeah.
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And uh, just a small town, seven thousand people in Mississippi. Uh,
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you know, I had small town life. I've never had
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I've only had one surgery in my entire life, and
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that was a hernia surgery when I was six weeks old.
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Actually, you don't have any rods or anything.
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Nope, I'm lucky. I'm very, very lucky in that regard.
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I grew up there till I was nineteen, moved away
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to college, didn't go back, didn't want to go back,
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And then after college, I kind of struggled to find
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a job. I really wanted to stay in the college town,
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but nobody'd pay you anything because they can always get
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student workers, and you know, they're not gonna pay you
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what you're worth and ended up spamming my resume and
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got lucky. Took a job down here, like almost thirteen
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hour drive away from my college town, and I've been
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here now over twenty eight years.
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I love it.
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I love it.
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That's fantastic. I'm still stuck in the town of Maryland's
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Little Lands, Sterling, Massachusetts. Oh okay, okay, yeah, okay. I
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grew up here.
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I was on eighty eight and I remember that year. Yeah,
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I was in high school.
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Yeah, I had a boy. Yeah you goes. I would
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have rather been in high school at that point, but
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uh yeah. So when my well, they didn't really find
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out I had anything wrong until my mother's water Boro
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because I was breech Oh okay. Then I had fourteen
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fractures in yu row oh wow, yeah wow, and they
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broke my collar room taking me out, so oh wow,
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oh wow. I had a start. You were born naturally, Well, no,
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they ended up doing the seat chicken because I would
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have yeah. Yeah, they did that with my mom too.
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Yeah yeah, so.
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They sent they sent me home in nineteen seventy one.
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They sent me home on a pillow and told my mom, well,
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if he lived six weeks, you know, great, whatever, you know.
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I mean, they just they just didn't know back then,
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you know.
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Yeah, they really didn't know much better. But by the
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time I came around either, I mean, they pretty much
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and told my parents that, you know, give them the
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best leg you can for as long as he's around.
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And here in thirty six doing shit that nobody ever exchanged.
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Oh brother, yeah, I'm I'm well beyond that. Yeah. I
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ended up going to college. I got the job, finally
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landed a good job, landed a better job, and then
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I got my master's degree, and I worked for over
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twenty seven years for defense contractors down here, and then
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I retired in February.
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I stepped away from.
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Yeah, thank you, I just stepped away from it. It
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was just too stressful. I was fifty three or well
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fifty two time, and just the stress of the job
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was just too much. Financially, financially I was able to
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work it, uh and you know, kind of kind of
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unfortunately I had to fall back on disability. But because
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I had worked so long and I had made so
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much money, my disability was a pretty good chunk of change.
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And uh, yeah, I have the opposite problem. I don't
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have enough work history on the books. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah,
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I'm just playing the game, bro.
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Yeah, and that's what you gotta do, you really, you
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truthfully just got to do it.
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You know. It was a game, you know, and I
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got out.
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And but what started about this movie thing, which was
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very much a trip. I play pool and I'm very
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I'm a very animated pool player. And so this guy.
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I was at the pool tournament Orlando, by an hour
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from my home and the regional tournament, big tournament, and
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I won the tournament. And this guy saw me play,
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and he had seen me play for a couple of years,
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but he really didn't know me. He didn't know if
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I was any good. He kind of was like, oh, oh,
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how cute this little guy in a wheelchair, you know, Oh.
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You know I get yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. He tries
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to play pool.
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When he saw me play, He's like, holy shit, this.
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Guy could play, you know.
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And I've won the tournament and I won a trip
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to Vegas and we it just so happens with a
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mutual friend and he said, hey, would would you be
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willing to make a documentary about your life?
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And I was like, well, okay, he said Oh, it's.
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Just gonna be a fifteen to twenty minute thing, you know,
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no big deal, you know, you know, we're just we're
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just gonna have fun with it. Well, come to find out,
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this guy was an award winning producer for Dateline NBC
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for CNN, and he knew people.
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I'm not gonna care, I'm not gonna play around.
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He knows people. He's trying to get me on Howard
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Stern right now. And I'm like, yeah, that was my reaction. No,
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no ship, you know, and I'm not a Howard Stern fan.
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That was the first thing. Hearn's got an ego than me.
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I don't know if I can handle that.
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So but but I mean, so we started, you know,
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we got to talking more and more, and this movie
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thing that grew and it came it's now an hour
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and twenty minute production. We ended up going back home
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to Mississippi and filmed me with my parents, thankfully, because
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my stepdad was dying with cancer. Uh he died a
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week after we filmed there, and then my mom died
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like two months later, three months later. Rather, and it's
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just been a rough year.
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I'm not I lost, you know, I quit my gup,
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I lost my stepdad. I lost my mom.
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My mom uh, and my stepdad left me their entire
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estate in Mississippi, and it was four hundred and eight
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acres of land. I'm like, what am I gonna do
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with that? You know?
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Well, right, I have a similar situation. Yeah, I grew
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up on a small vegetable farm up here in mass
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Oh wow, we're about four and a half acres of
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the of the main form, but family property is over
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one hundred and fifty Oh nice. Nice. Yeah, what I
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did is one of that I got. When I got married.
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I moved across town, so I'm only five minutes away.
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But you know, at least chance desire, I'll probably wind
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up going to my nephews at some point. Yeah. Yeah.
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My my parents are about, you know, late fifties, early sixties.
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Oh okay, okay, so they're not that old. Yeah, yeah,
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that'll be. They'll be around a while. Yeah. Yeah. My
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mom was a smoker. She was a fit okay. Yeah,
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my wife is unfortunately, yeah.
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and smoke, and so it's like, okay, there's no surprises there.
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They did, you know, I sold I sold the property
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to my brother, and uh, it's working out well for
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him and his family. Oh yeah, he's I have a
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large family, a lot of kids. His wife is really nice,
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and just it's working out well. You know, it's really
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working out well for them. And I'm I'm half to've
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done that, you know.
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I mean, something's just like that.
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Yeah, and that's that's the way this is then the
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last year. But it's just to me, it's like you
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couldn't have picked a more odd year to film my life.
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I mean, yeah, it's just I didn't even meant to
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mean drama, you know. Yeah, but I didn't go out
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to Vegas and played in that pool tournament and I
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did horrible. I just wait, I did. I thanked that
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was like two and out done, you know, man. And
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I think it just everything on my mind, you know,
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just I just lost my stepdad.
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I had all this pressure.
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The film was on my mind, you know, I mean,
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just everything is on my mind. And uh, the guy,
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I've seen the rough cut of the movie already. It
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should be out. We're hoping the first next year. And
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it's good. It doesn't it's not a pity party. But
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he does touch on some things that I went through.
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I don't know about you and your education, your childhood education,
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but I went through.
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A lot of ship for lack of a better work
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at you. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure we could swap
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stories that got.
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Oh yeah, yeah, I mean it's just small town in
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Mississippi that put me in a mentally handicapped class for
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the first two years.
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I was.
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I got stuck on the short bus. But I was
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the greatest one on the bus. I was. I wrote
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that bus to high school.
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Dude, you know it's amazing what they was, right, It's like,
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uh bo, you know I was.
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I'm not.
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Yeah, there you go. That's a good way. But yeah, yeah,
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that was six years old doing math. I was second
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grade math book, readA of a third grade reading book.
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You know, I was Sheldon before there was a Sheldon.
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But you know.
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What Mike goes on, and you know what I personal ear.
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You know, adapt and overcome. That's what I'm saying, adapting
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overcom You.
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Know same thing here, man, Like I I live every
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day like a Viking man. Just push through and yeah,
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that's all we do is adapt and overcome. It is
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I should have a tattooed on my forehead.
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Yeah, you're brave to see you tats or you're a
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lot braver than me. I'm getting I'm fifty three years old.
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I'm starting to have that it. Man, I want tattoos now.
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My mom's gone, she can't about it.
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Yeah, h ship. I can remember, you know, going through
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high school and telling my dad all when I get
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my ear peers and tattoos and ship and he was
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having a banana. Fitt used to it because, yeah, coming
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up with a lot of surgical scars that I had. Yeah,
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and that's that was kind of the mindset behind it. Yeah,
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that is a.
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Great thing about tats. I think, you know, talking about
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the ear piercing. That was the first thing I did
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when I went to college was got my ear peers.
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My dad said, you ever get your ear piers kicking
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you out of the house.
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Yeah, but when I left, I did you do? Yeah. Yeah.
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It's not so much inshion nowadays.
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But yeah, yeah, but it was a big deal when
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we were kids.
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You know. Oh yeah, yeah, you know, definitely. But everybody
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nine bolts in their faces.
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That no, no, no, that's not attractive. So and then
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you're gonna complain about I can't get the.
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Job I didn't know what to make it out whe
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her HI to the back of my truck. Yeah, luckily
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I didn't have to run into too much of that.
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But yeah, so tell me a little bit more about
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the defense contract stuff. I'm I'm huge in supporting the
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military and whatnot, and I'm actually thinking about when I
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I have a batchelort of science and freer science, but