Jamie Mustard
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And he had gotten married and had kids.
And I love that kid.
And he couldn't live with the fact that he had the urge to do that.
He didn't want to bring shame to his wife and his children.
And he took his own life.
And there's so many stories like that.
I had been learning about my history.
My grandparents, my mom, my grandmother, my grandparents were freed slaves and they'd accomplished all these incredible things in America from 1865 to 1940, 75 years.
My grandfather was a physician and a Tuskegee airman.
And my great grandfather was a doctor in a black town where Alex Haley grew up.
And I'm learning about this larger world that I didn't even know I was connected to.
And I realized there was something bigger than me.
that I was plugging into it.
It just made me want to try and do the impossible.
I have a kid's book coming out on an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Jeez, man, you have been busy.
This is like the third, fourth book you're mentioning on the show.
Yeah, it'll be six books by April.
Take a vacation already.
Yeah, this book comes out at the end of fall of 2026, but it's called A Kid's Book About the Impossible, about how I did it.