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I think I have talked about this.

When I was young, I had a speech impediment.

I had in our, I couldn't say my R's properly, R for many years in my life.

There's still a part of me that now when I say that sound, when I make that sound, I

still have a little bit of trauma attached to it.

I used that word very lightly, but a childhood trauma where I was embarrassed because I couldn't

say, ah, I couldn't say, ah, ah, and I loved the football team, the Los Angeles Rams.

Whenever they play, my parents still call them the Hams, because that's how I said it,

the Lams.

I couldn't make that R sound.

I started going to, I had to go to speech class.

Once I got into third, fourth, fifth grade and I still was struggling with it to go to

speech.

And it was always, I remember when they call me out of class to go to speech, I was always

really embarrassing.

It was because I was the only one who was me and a girl named Katie, I'm not going to

say her last name, Katie and I both struggled with saying that making that sound are.

And so we would get called out of class and it was always a little embarrassing because

kids knew why we were being called, obviously.

Will Justin, Long and Katie, please report to speech therapy, the speech therapist, you

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