no matter how angry somebody is, no matter how sad they are, no matter how to depress, I won't

waver, and therefore they can rely on me because how they feel isn't going to change how I show up.

And I think that was like the best gift he could have given me, because to this day he does that.

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I'd love to start where you grew up, and especially for a British audience, like, how would you describe where you grew up? Like, I, you know, I didn't even know what Vegas was like until I was like 20 years old.

I didn't know what it would look like. So yeah, what was your childhood like?

Where did you grow up?

So I grew up in Portage, Michigan,

which is like a small Midwestern town.

Midwest, different from the West Coast,

in terms of like people are very friendly.

You all know all your neighbors.

Typically, if you grow up there, you end up staying there, getting a job there, starting a family there. Not as many people, I think, are venturing out and leaving and going to the coasts. And it's definitely a different kind of mentality. It's slow. It's much slower than where I live now. And so everything is

slower paced, more family focused, obviously also safer, less to do. And, you know,

it's funny is that I just remember my entire life when I lived there, always thinking I can't wait to leave. Because it's funny is that I just remember my entire life when I lived there, always thinking, I can't wait

to leave because it felt too slow for me. And out of all the amazing places that you could live

in the country, not even just that, but the world, I was like, why here? And I think I felt that

for a very long time, which is why I did

end up leaving. The thing that gets me, like, with your story, and this is what I'd like to try

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