00:00I was 16 when my dad died. I was 37 when I had my first child, well, my only child.
00:05And so I have my son, and you start thinking about all of the lessons and all of the things that you're going to teach him,
00:11and then you start thinking, well, how was I taught that?
00:14And the more I thought about the lessons and the value system that I have as a man now,
00:18a lot of that was not taught to me by my father because he just wasn't here to give me that game.
00:23And so the more I reflected on that, the more I started coming up with just all of these people and all of these stories
00:29and I'm literally sitting there in the delivery room, and I'm like, damn, I got to write all this down for him.
00:36And, you know, I hate to say this as well, but as a black man, you also have a sense of mortality.
00:43And you don't know when you're going to be gone. We know the day is coming.
00:48And so the idea of my son having to exist with that same deficiency, if you will, in my absence,
00:57should I pass before he's old enough for me to give him the game personally?
01:01Let me figure out a way to put all of this down.
01:04And the more I started putting stuff down, the more it felt like a book.
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