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Well, I grew up in a really competitive household. I have an older brother, younger sister, both my parents, everywhere we went.

We engaged in competition. I played a lot of sports growing up, but also games at home. home I mean just about anything we could

turn into a competition we turn into a competition and in the summers when I was a

teenager we used to vacation at a place called the Thousand Islands. It really is a place.

It's not just a salad dressing.

There's a place on the northeast corner of Lake Ontario.

I'm making you go back to grade school geography.

But it's one of the great lakes.

The northeast corner of Lake Ontario,

there's a river that goes out of the St. Lawrence River.

And at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River

where it meets Lake Ontario, there's literally thousands of islands and

we had some really good friends the best kind of friends to have we had friends that

owned an island isn't that awesome so they owned an island't big, it was just a little over an acre,

but they would let us use it for a week in the summer. And so we would go there and, you know, we had a boat, so we'd take our boat,

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