Joe Loya

That LA op-ed piece got me on 48 Hours, Dan Rather, on bank robbery stuff.

Yeah, yeah.

So that's how it happened for me.

For some reason, we got the impression, you know, kids hear things they know things.

She'd already been in school.

A lot of the parents in school knew that I was, you know, I had been in prison or whatever.

So I suspect that she was hearing things from other kids or something, but she got the impression that I knew something about banks because we started, we hung out all the time, you know, we were very close.

And I was picking her up from taking her to school, picking her up.

And one day she was like, do you know anyone who's robbed armored cars?

What's a bank robbery?

And so I realized, okay, she's asking questions around the edge of what happened with me.

And I didn't know when I was going to tell her.

But I felt like I needed to introduce her to the concept of what happened.

Now, I was prepared for this because ever since she was little...

When there was a cartoon where some kid offended the group of people and he was shunned and then they had to figure out how to get back to him and absorb him back into the group, I would always highlight those.

You see, sometimes people do bad things, but we have to be willing to let them come back in their little society.

I was constantly hitting with those themes.

And they're in every show.

There's episodes in every show, you know, a little kid show.

And so I was preparing her for this.