Mark Manson

He was very charismatic.

He was a year or two older.

So like...

He was a good friend, but I kind of looked up to him maybe as like an older brother type figure.

He really helped me get get out of my shell.

And so it was the summer after I decided to drop out of music school, but I didn't know what I was doing next.

And he and I were just hanging out all summer.

We were partying together.

He was inviting me to a bunch of cool stuff around Dallas and I would drive up there and I would stay with him.

And, you know, we were just having a really nice summer together.

And he invited me to this lake party.

It was kind of this apartment complex built on the side of a small lake just north of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

And we didn't know anybody there.

I think he knew like one person there.

But we just kind of showed up and I don't know, like Josh was always this guy.

He could just show up to any party and like immediately make friends with everybody.

So we just showed up and started talking to people and it was going well.

It was fun.

It was pretty cool.

And next to the swimming pool, this was like mid-July, so it was super hot.