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Let's talk about something, Nick.

We have not talked about your dad and a little medical episode that he went through recently.

Yeah, he had a stroke.

And so that's the scary, shocking news.

The good news is that he's doing pretty well.

And when it happened, we were a little alarmed and it's a stroke, right? It's a real medical thing. And so he's in, my parents spent about half the year in Colorado. And he's doing better. He's actually home. We got home this weekend. Oh, he's home. At his house in Colorado out there. He was in a rehab center for a stretch. He's on the lower level now, right? Yeah, my brother. Probably a wise move. My brother and a friend moved everything from their second floor to their first floor so he could walk around and life is easier. But he was in this rehab center for a better part of a week. He was in the hospital first, and then it was discharged from the hospital, went to this rehab center. And first of all, people that do physical therapy and occupational therapists are godsends.

They are just incredible people.

Preston, you and I have been to Trinity many times.

And the work that they do to help you get your life back is really remarkable.

So he was getting great care at this rehab center and really made a lot of advancements very quickly. And when you have a stroke,

you also have to do a lot of things to get your brain working in. Right? So that's part of where

the sort of the occupational therapy comes in and you have to learn how to brush your teeth

again and comb your hair and remember words that you have forgotten. And so he was struggling

with a few things. He couldn't come up with a word for like turkey sandwich, for example. Right. He'd be sitting in front of him and he couldn't say those words. So one method of therapy that we've learned about a lot over the last couple of weeks is music therapy. And my dad is 75 years old. You know, he's a classic rock guy, loves the Beatles and the Stones,

and one artist that he was introduced to during music therapy is Metallica.

Now, my dad, I wouldn't qualify him as a Metallica fan, but for whatever reason,

the music therapist would start playing these Metallica songs, and my dad, the method, as far as I

understand it, is the woman would play guitar, she'd play nothing else matters. And so a few chords

of nothing else matters. And then my dad would have to repeat it on a, sort of like a xylophone,

right? And he'd be given instructions, play this chord and then this chord, or this and then this note. So he's actually asked to play it back to her. Yes, but he's not a musician, Steve. So it'd be like hit the red one and then hit the blue one and then hit the green one. And then you will be able to mimic the tones that she was doing. All right. He's not doing like advanced chords. Right. But that went well. And then they started to give him a guitar. And he played guitar when he was a much younger man. And he played a little bit of that as well. And then he had to play subdivisions on the drums. Yeah. You know, they busted out the Neil Peer drum. It took me a week to figure that one. But the reason that I bring this up is I'd love to learn more about music therapy because he responded so well to it. It had an immediate and positive effect. I like how he approached you about the Meteke. Can you say that? Yeah. So he goes, you know, he's telling us about the music therapy and that it's working and they were playing a few Beatles songs.

Like, here comes the sun.

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