Mike Durant

Skied a lot.

You know, just all these amazing activities that...

Again, to me, this is just what everybody does, right?

And I look back very fondly on my time there.

Most of our family lived around.

So holidays, there'd be quite a few folks present.

And a lot of smartassery, I guess I would call it, which is part of where part of my personality comes from, is

At least the way my brain works is I'm almost always constantly trying to figure out how to make a joke out of something.

How can I get a one-liner in here and there?

I'm not a good joke teller.

Don't ask me to tell a joke because I'm okay.

There's maybe one or two I can pull off, but like some people, it's like a different one every day.

They just keep firing them.

And that's just because of the people I was around.

They were always trying to outdo each other with this one-liner.

I mean, laughter's great, right?

I mean, it's one of the things that makes life enjoyable.

So I always appreciated being around them, and it certainly had an effect on who I became.

I did pretty good in school when I was young.

But then I kind of lost motivation when I entered high school.