Ali Sadiq

This is Ira Glass.

This is true.

Mysteries of every size, each week.

This American Life, wherever you get your podcasts.

My dad had a thing about how he dressed.

My dad always wore tailor-made suits.

This is when he was on his note, when he was on his note.

Because it's not a lot of men can say how they felt about their pops.

I really wanted to look like this man.

He was tall, dark, jet black, had a lot of charisma by himself.

But he just wasn't an ideal father.

My dad asked me one time, I'm sitting at his house, and my daddy said, man, why you don't never say nothing bad about your mama on stage?

He never actually felt any type of way about being in my act.

He just wanted to know when I was going to say something negative about somebody else and not just him.

You know, I get a lot of views, but it's definitely...

10 views, 15 views that I missed because my dad would go to the library and he would look me up on the computer and watch all of my stuff.

And he would call and tell me, I just seen something else.

I watched about 15, 10, 15 times.

So I'm always missing those 10 or 15 views that I know that I would get from him.

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