thank you thank you thank you guys so much for being here i know it means a lot to you can we just get a little more laughter in the monitors can we get the lights dimmed down just a little bit great can we just bring those back up just so you guys know who s in control haha sorry i just told myself a joke it s gonna be a good show i m just gonna start from the beginning you know i was born young seattle washington as i grew up just uh got older you know life it was all kind of a blur up til seven when i was diagnosed with having bad vision things really cleared up at that point and that s when they start you know i remember i was fourteen years old i got my heart broken for the first time when i got home from school my dad sat be down he said nick if you let a bird go and it comes back then that s a carrier pigeon you gotta check that thing for notes ya know and i was like dad but what about the girl and he s like yeah she s not coming back it s uh she s an eagle you gotta get yourself a carrier pigeon seventeen years old got my first fake id fact about guess a week ago it would have been my fake id birthday i would have been forty and it s just like where d all the years go and i know you re looking at me and you re thinking nick you don t look forty but i did back then