Joe Loya

You think you were a terrible dad because you stopped dadding at the minute I stabbed you, but you're still my dad.

You can model an end game for me.

Show me how I'm supposed to leave this world.

I need you.

You're still my dad, man.

Be good.

Show me.

He took to that.

He was like, all right, I'm still your dad.

And so what I would do is when I was with my daughter, when she was born, she would do something that was something she would copy me.

We had little things I played with stuff and I was copying my dad, what he did to me when I was a kid.

And so she would do something.

I would call my dad, hey, man, look at that thing you did for us.

It's now third generation, man.

So I would constantly say lovely things about how he did a bunch of good things.

I want to always highlight the good things and how they rippled through me and were rippling into my daughter.

And that was helping him heal, too, because he only had a sense of himself as being a terrible father from zero to 16.

And I'm trying to let him know those spikes of bad behavior were small compared to all the good that you did for me and my brother.

I'm an artist because of my dad.

I have a good facility with language.