Jeff Dye

I think that one thing that I do look backwards and think about, and this is a mushroom thought for sure.

This came to me, you know, where it's like,

My mom would go, why do you need these expensive shoes for school?

And I didn't have the intelligence at the time to explain it to her now, but now I look back and I wish I would have said, Mom, my whole social structure is based on this.

Because I don't have the internet, which would later come out.

I don't have these things.

At least in the 90s and the late 80s when I was growing up.

Amber Shoemaker was the hottest girl at our school, which meant Amber Shoemaker's the hottest woman in our universe.

I didn't go online and go, well, Amber's not.

I didn't have anyone else.

That's the hottest girl.

Do you know what I'm saying?

The coolest guy in our school, Anthony Medina, was the coolest guy in the world because that's our world.

Whereas kids now could go, who gives a shit about Anthony Medina?

I'm following LeBron.

So we had our own little realities.

So it's like I didn't give a shit about the bulls necessarily.

But if Mike Jensen from my school said the bulls are cool, I like the bulls.

I didn't have anywhere to escape to.

I need to do what I can.