I think a big part of his personal story is that he went to journalism school with Hugh Hefner and they knew each other in college. That really fucked with him his whole life, that if he had the same guts he could have had the same kind of life. It probably wasn’t true, but that’s what he believed. 

 I am in the Midwest for the next few years to put in work at a lucrative job. I think it's the right call at the moment, but I could have been somewhere warmer teaching martial arts in the sun too - was a tough choice.