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Hey guys, big game weekend, February 8th, Shirts vs. Skins in New Orleans at the Uno Lakefront Arena. Me, Nikki Glaser, Tony Hinchcliffe, and Adam Reyes, Dr. Phil, and, dare I say, a very special guest who's been at all of these. Get your tickets at BurtBurtBurt.com.
Daddy's hand that she used to hold on to. God damn it, Burt. Did you hear me start crying? Did you hear me cry? I'm sorry. Pfft.
How do we get you? Shit. I was a product of a father's shadow, I think. Yeah. Big time. I'm a junior. And I wear my dad's name. My dad had a big personality. Is your dad still with us?
No, he passed away six years ago. And so I was very comfortable living in his shadow. Yeah. And so I was always a very quiet, nerdy kid. I had his eyes and his name, and that's about it. We were so different in so many other ways. And we actually had a lot of other similarities, but he worked on cars and... He hated school. And here I am like this little nerdy science kid.
And the one thing that we really had in common was a love for boxing. I think I inherited his passion for it. And I just, I think I, he showed me passion really young. He showed me like risk taking. And cause he was like a 24 year old guy raising three kids. on his own and like creating his own boxing career. He had nobody nurturing that. I just saw this wild man doing this.
And like I said, it was a really comfortable place to live. And he taught me how to fight. He threw me in a ring really young. Because I think he knew like I was always going to be really quiet and I was always going to have battles. And I don't think he really knew what to do with me because I was just so different and so weird. But throwing me in a ring, that was like my first stage really.
Kind of prepared me, I think, for so many boilerplates in life. And then eventually, I fought in all the Golden Gloves and we did all the boxing stuff growing up. I was a quiet kid hanging out in the woods, kind of taking notes of all of it. I had biology books that I would fill out and my own biology notebooks and drawings. My dad was concerned, to say the least.
And he got me a guitar for my 16th birthday because he saw that I was just watching these guitar players all the time. And he caught me picking out theme songs on one of those little Walmart Casio keyboards. It was like a theme song to a sitcom or something. And he was like, you just picked that out by ear? Yeah. And he's like, he taught you how to do that. And I was like, nobody.
It's just, this is how you play it. It goes like this. And, uh, he was like, that's weird. I couldn't do that. If you put a gun to my head right now. And, uh, he was like, and he, he, he saw my fascination with rock and roll. And, um, so he got me a guitar for my 16th birthday. And for some reason I felt like when I started playing it, like I always just knew how to play it. Like it was like a,
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