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Like most kids, I really loved superheroes and comic books. Superman was one of my favorites.

I so enjoyed those movies, but I don't think I enjoyed them nearly as much as Christian and my brother did.

So much so that he watched the movie Superman 3

so often that he wore a whole in the VHS tapes. We're aging ourselves.

It was first grade and I watched Superman 3 every single day after school.

I was so obsessed with it that I would wear a Superman outfit as a little kid and

put my Clark Kent white button down shirt on top in my glasses and I would walk around my house and when I found someone

I would perform this transition from Clark Kent to Superman, but instead of I couldn't rip open my white button down shirt

so I had to very quickly unbutton all the buttons and

Open and obviously I grew up to be much more of a Clark Kent than a Superman, which is

Pretty big understatement. But I still feel like I have that seven-year-old Superman inside of me.

You're listening to Life is Short. I'm your host Justin Long.

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And I'm with another long younger long Christian. So the story that Christian just mentioned

Story can call it a story in the anecdotal and yeah that lasted for about a year that phase

I would say and only because the tape broke it could only last as long as that VHS lasted

That's true and the best part was why I remember my parents having to

Wait for your shirt to come off and be like oh what's gonna happen? You know they were really good about that

I remember it's singing the theme song as I did it

I was like and I was like done to done to done to done to done to done to done

And I would and I would have to keep looping that that melody because I couldn't get my shirt off at the time the light

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