Good afternoon, everyone.

It's Dr. Niagara again.

Our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

As always, one of the fun aspects of my week that I look forward to.

Had a really fun time with a lot of people who came from different parts of the country this week to do neuropsychiavals.

Really, it's an honor and a privilege, and I really appreciate all the comments and the

positive impact that this podcast is having on so many people.

And, like I said, Julie and I just always say it's a modest version of God's work.

But today being Father's Day, I did the episode of Mother's Day about my mother,

and I thought it would be fitting to talk about my father and his role in my life,

which was significant and influential, and were it not for him, this podcast probably would never have come to fruition

or started. So if you think about it, a lot of you guys who are benefiting from this podcast,

you really want to thank my father because he's the one that encouraged me to do it.

Now, I remember, see, I lost him two years ago.

So we were driving down, he was like Dunkin' Donuts Coffee when he came out to Massachusetts.

And we were driving down the street called Ocean Street and driving Dunkin' Donuts.

And he said, why don't you do a podcast? I'm huh he's like well you like to talk obviously you guys could probably pick that up that I'm the

extrovert Julie's the introvert and um he was really the one that kind of uh planted that in my brain

my response was a podcast like I don't know anything about technology

and really what podcasts are and stuff like that. So I would definitely give all the credit to him

for the etiology and the ontogenesis of this podcast psychology unplugged. But my father was one of the

most amazing individuals in my life and has had such a profound

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