I remember graduating getting ready to go into high school and I had a 3.8 GPA and I'm like

Yo, Pops, you know, I just want a car. You help me get a car.

And I'll never forget this day, he looked at the report card,

he ripped it in half, ripped it a few times.

Just laughing through it.

He's like, man.

No. just laughing through it. He's like, man, no, he said, this is how you get what you want.

And I never forget he came in with a half a brick or half a kilo, whatever you guys want to call it of cocaine.

And handed me my first pistol.

And he said, so if you want the car,

and you go out and you earn it and I remember from that day I never forget I was like wow who does that who says that to the to the you knowyear-old son.

But then there was a part of me that was excited

because I'm like for the first time,

I was like, shit, I get an opportunity

now to actually build this relationship with my dad.

Hey there, friends, it's Light Watkins, and you're listening to at the end of the

tunnel, which is the podcast about a lot of things hope

perseverance but if I had to name one thing that all of my guests have in common

is that at some point along their life path they said yes to what was in their

heart and that's when they discovered that the light at the end of that

metaphorical dark tunnel was inside of them all along. But sometimes they had to go through hell

in order to be able to see it. And this week I'm speaking to someone who had to

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