This is the Moth Radio Hour.
I'm your guest host, Roy Wood Jr. You might know me from stand-up comedy, or more recently, CNN.
But most importantly, I'm a Moth alum.
For this show, our theme is about fathers.
Look, we all have a father.
But did we really know them?
I think the interesting thing about parents is whether they are present in your life or not,
they will have an effect on you.
And I think that's what a lot of these stories are about.
My father passed when I was 16.
I didn't get to learn everything I wanted to learn from him.
I didn't really realize it until I had my own son.
And I started reflecting upon the values and lessons that I've gleaned in life.
And I was in awe at how many of them I did not learn from my dad.
And I started, you know,
kind of writing down who these people were and what I learned and trying to give myself a little bit of a blueprint to how to raise my son or what to instill in him.
The longer I looked at the list,
the more I felt like that list and those stories needed to be a book for him.
And then I was like, if it's a book for him, it could be a book for everybody.
So I have a book now.