Anthony DeVito

Yeah, which is awesome.

I love that.

But yes, I think that was such a lighthearted title for what the show was going to be.

lose your dad and they go holy shit your father was involved with horrible people so we had to change the name to jersey boy just to give a like just to it's subtle but still gives like okay there there's there's something going on here other than the fact that like oh we're just going to see a lighthearted show about a guy who shares the same last name as a famous actor yeah as as frank yeah

So I was told, and I think this was kind of like the luxury that I had where it's like you, you, you, you,

I didn't know who my dad, like, my mom had good reason to keep exactly who he was from me.

Sure.

So she had this luxury of, like, he could be whoever she wanted him to be to sort of suit my wants.

Who was he originally was like, all I knew when I was a kid that he died in a car accident at seven months old.

That's what I was told.

And any sort of any question, I think the only thing she ever told me real about him was whenever she felt like maybe she needed to, like I hadn't grown since first grade.

So by the time I hit third grade, this dyslexic kid, Kenny, was picking on me.

And she made it a point to be like, your dad didn't take shit from anyone.

What a crazy preview to find out who your dad is.

Um, so what happened to Kenny and, um, a couple of moving parts of the story.

So he, um, he, for one day he decides to, we had a classroom suggestion box.

So he drops a note in the box and he goes, he called, he wrote down missing Gianni is a bitch.

And then he signed my name.

But, uh,

I knew it was him, his learning disability.