Hey everybody I just want to take a moment to talk about a new thing I'm doing.

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My dad was from a different generation and you know there weren't I mean he did

go to teacher parent conferences when he could he never saw me perform as a kid. He was always on the road.

And so there was this, I really got that it was like, and I'm not saying he is Picasso but I get it it's like people like that have to

kind of let the muse run their lives and I paid a price for it and he paid a huge price for it physically and

emotionally but if I if there's like if there is reincarnation in some sort of karma and you pick your parents or whatever

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