Steve Bunting

Yeah, up until fourth grade.

You know, fourth grade, we gained some stability.

So from kind of kindergarten through fourth grade, I was in the inner city Birmingham area, which is kind of a rough place to kind of grow up.

A lot of fighting, just a lot of violence, just a lot of instability.

And then you're growing up around people that are in the very similar situations.

So I was kind of exposed to a lot of that type of stuff early on.

But in fourth grade, my mom's boss,

decided that he needed her to be stable as well to kind of be he wanted to make her a manager and he ended up buying us a trailer in a trailer park that's right on the edge of birmingham city next to a nice town so that kind of changed my life there by us getting to go into that trailer park it was still a trailer park it wasn't perfect but we were zoned for a different school and i had to say like that shifted everything for us damn dude i i uh

i just can't get over that um wow yeah do you know what happened to that guy yeah he uh ended up going to prison but i remember you know when me and my brother we'd always ask my mom like hey when when's he getting out because we knew it was like something like 10 years i think he got 10 years in prison and there was like a little timer in our heads where we were always scared

You know, I'd always ask my mom was like, hey, is he going to come hurt us when he gets out?

Like, are we safe?

And, you know, it's kind of slowly became the dirty secret of our family where we just didn't talk about it too much.

My mom would be like, what are you talking about?

Like, why are we talking about this again?

She's like, just stop.

It's okay.

Like, he's not going to hurt us.

You're okay.

But for a long time, me and my brother were scared that he was going to get out of prison and come and, you know, you know, um,

yeah try to pay us back for throwing him in jail how's your brother doing today yeah he didn't make it yeah he was a marine corps veteran you know and um he got blown up and uh one there was two 155s buried in the ground and he he got blown up but then he came back and um he actually survived that by the grace of god but uh got a traumatic brain injury ended up taking his life in uh 2017.