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Johnny Mitchell. Yes, sir. Welcome to Lockton with Ian Bick, man. Thanks, Ian.

Great to have you here. Really excited for the interview. I remember seeing you on Flagrant and then I saw like the clips and stuff and I was like, we got to get this guy and really thankful like you answered because not everyone answers their emails nowadays. Well, I mean, you offered to fly me in and drove me up, you know, five hours north. I don't know where I am. I thought you were taking me to my death almost. Like you were driving on like a bumpy dirt road with some big tattooed convict. I was like, yeah, this might be where I get kidnapped and found later. Imagine if I picked you up in like a crappy car, like a little beat up Honda Civic. I kind of expected you to because you said Poughkeepsie and I know the reputation this area has. Okay. Well, thankfully Mark put in the good word for me. Yeah, yeah. Now, starting at the beginning of your story, I like to always start at someone's beginning. How did you grow up? Where are you from? What's your family like? Portland, Oregon Oregon solidly middle class really nice area you know

I'm from the city of Portland so I'm not from the suburbs I hate being labeled as a suburban kid

like we look down on that back in the day you know and and it wasn't hipster Portland Oregon like

it is now Portlandia you know what I? We didn't have goofy mustaches.

You know, we didn't know any trans people. Like, it was different. I grew up in the 90s where

it was diverse, if you could believe it. Like, I lived in a black, blackish neighborhood at the time.

It's all been gentrified now, right? If you go to Portland, you won't see

any of what it looked like when I grew up. But it was just a really good place to grow up.

Like it wasn't spoiled, but it was it was just affluent and it was real. And yeah, that's how I grew up.

My father was a lawyer. My mom worked in the hospital. So there was never any kind of deprivation, poverty, nothing like that.

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