Michael Chernow

It's an itch, right?

Like,

One of my favorite things to do with my sons in the summertime and the spring and in the fall too, is to like walk out into the woods and just lift up rocks and just see what's under there.

You know, snakes and salamanders and frogs.

And like, I'm just ferociously curious.

I can't tell you why, but I just haven't.

I always have been.

I'm a very curious dude.

Like, I just want to know about you.

I'm like, when it comes to people, you could put me anywhere.

My wife absolutely hates this.

But I am just making friends everywhere I go because I'm curious.

I want to know people.

I want to, you know, like I'm just very curious.

And so from an early age, you know, we grew up in a tiny little apartment.

My mom, my father, my sister and I, it was really, really tight quarters.

My father was, you know, he was physically sick and he was verbally and physically abusive and he was also mentally ill.

So I, you know,

It was a tough situation.

What that did for me, though, was it made me want to look elsewhere for the things that I was trying to get at home.