Mike Eruzione

I think we could use a 1980 now.

I didn't get my last name until I was in the fourth grade, so yeah, Mike's a lot easier.

Lots of family.

You know, I thought my life was like any other kid's life.

I grew up in a three-family house.

We lived on the second floor.

I have four sisters and a brother.

This kind of gets a little crazy.

Upstairs was my mother's brother, who married my father's sister.

Told you it was going to get crazy.

And there were five kids in that family.

And my father's other sister lived on the first floor.

And they were four in that family.

So I grew up in a house of about 15 kids and understood the importance of hard work.

I learned at a young age how important it was to be a good person, be a good brother, be a good friend, be a good neighbor.

Values that my mother and father taught me as a kid growing up in this three family.

I thought everybody lived in a three family.

I mean, I didn't know people had their own homes.

And as you know, fast forward, my wife grew up four houses from me and she's one of 13 kids.

And I lived next door to the house I grew up in.