January 31, 2025 • 13 mins
The episode explores the journey of parenting a nonverbal child, focusing on the bond between the host and his son, Lucas, who has autism. It addresses the challenges of communication, the importance of establishing security and connection, and the host's reflections on his ongoing role as a father.
• Discussion on the gate as a symbol of security
• Reflection on eight years of blogging about autism
• Personal insights on the unique aspects of Lucas's relationship
• Exploration of communication beyond verbal language
• Questions of doing enough for a nonverbal child
• Importance of maintaining engagement and connection
• Encouragement to other parents navigating similar experiences
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I want apple juice.
Lucas wants apple juice.
I know I heard him say that.
Can I have apple juice?
Yeah, you can have apple juice.
Can I have soda?
Yes, you can have soda.
Can I press that button?
No, you can't press that button.
Why?
Because that's going to playthe theme song.
I'm not ready to start the pot.
(00:30):
Hi Pod, I am Dad.
He's not just Hi Dad, he's mydad.
James Gutman, folks, jamesGutman, hi Pod, I'm Dad.
You got it right, thank you.
It is Friday.
You have found me on anystreaming service, right here on
HiPod I'm Dad.
(00:50):
Perhaps.
Hipod I'm Dadcom Going since2019.
Killing it, folks.
I appreciate your support.
I appreciate you guys takingthe time to join me wherever you
found me.
Thank you, it is another weekdown.
It is closing out January.
We're almost in month two of2025, which is nuts.
But yeah, man, I appreciate youguys coming here and taking
(01:14):
time out of your day.
You might hear in the distantbackground my son Lucas.
My son Lucas is 13.
He is nonverbal.
He is a teenager, just like hissister, who is 16 and a
teenager.
She is neurotypical, but thetwo of them, as teenagers, both
love.
They love their rooms.
I don't know why it's not.
I mean, they're just rooms.
But Lucas now has started to gointo that room and he closes
(01:38):
the door.
He'll have me close the gate,which I've to this day.
Let me explain something to youguys because it's something
I've written about a little bitin the blog, but it's hard to
explain to people about his gatebecause it sounds like I don't
know if you guys saw MommyDearest, the famous movie Mommy
Dearest, where she chains theboy to the bed.
I always imagine that when Itell people that my son has a
(01:59):
gate on the door of his room.
And what you have to understandis when Lucas was little, he
would run out of his room.
He escaped like Alcatraz, andhe'd go through the house
looking for food, looking foranything he can grab, and he'd
wake up in the morning and therewould be, like you know, just
cool whip handprints on things.
He would wake you up.
He would run through the housescreaming.
So he put a gate on his roomand it's a gate that he put on
(02:20):
for toddlers and with Lucas itjust didn't come off his room.
But even as he got older andwas more trustworthy, I still
kept it on his room.
And in the very beginning.
When I first started writingthis blog around 2017, there
were a few blogs about takingthe gate off of his door and
trying to teach him independence.
And I'm going to show him andwell, back when I was still
(02:41):
trying to figure it out exactlywhat should be done and what
shouldn't be done, because to me, mentally, as his dad, it
bothered me that I put a gate onhis room.
He was getting older.
I looked at it like I'm lockinghim away, I'm locking him in.
Couldn't be further from thetruth.
My son sees that gate hassecurity, so now when he goes
into his room, he wants to be inthere.
(03:02):
He has me close the gate, and Igot to tell you I think it's
adorable because he is giganticnow, so he could easily close
that gate on his own, but hedoesn't really do it.
I don't know if he thinks he'snot allowed to or if he thinks
it's a really heavy gate, but hehas me close it.
And then he goes and he hangsout in his room and what I'll do
(03:31):
is before about shaving hismustache, which I do.
He's got this little peach fuzzmustache I have to shave.
Every time I see him, it blowsme away.
You know pictures of himstanding next to me.
He just looks like.
He looks like a dude, a littledude.
So that's my guy.
So you hear him in thebackground.
I write about Lucas every Monday, every Wednesday, on
highblogomdadcom.
(03:52):
I've been doing it since 2017.
Since February of 2017, we arecoming up on the eight-year God
help me anniversary of High Blogon Dad, and I love going back
and I love the fact that I'vehad this period of time to cover
in terms of watching my son'sgrowth, because it was pivotal
and I talked about it last week.
(04:13):
I'll talk about it this weektoo.
It's the kind of thing where Ilook at the issues that I faced
then, many of which are longgone, and now, today, I talk
about how far we've come, andwhen I talk about the old days
and how I used to think,typically I remember some of
those early times, you know.
But still, when I write aboutLucas, even with all of these
(04:35):
years gone by and even withautism appreciation and
different ways that I've learnedto accept him, I'm still
learning things every day as adad about you know what's
important and what works interms of our relationship, and I
look at autism as somethingthat you know.
(04:55):
My son has autism and it was astruggle for us to figure out
initially how autism was goingto fit into our family, because
people just say they just dropit in your lap, here's autism.
Well, what does this mean?
What's he going to do?
How's he going to?
They don't know.
No one ever knew.
Well, anything can happen.
But I hug him, he hugs me.
You know this two-year-old thatyou say has autism.
(05:22):
He likes to be hugged andkissed.
Some people with autism like tohug and kiss.
Okay, he doesn't line anythingup, he's not neat.
Well, some people with autism.
So it starts to feel like noneof the things they're telling
you really fit into what youknow autism to be.
And you have to realize how itfits into your family.
What does it mean?
What does it mean for my son?
What does it mean for us?
And it's the kind of thing that, as years go by, doesn't really
fade.
You're constantly trying tofigure out what autism means to
(05:44):
your life and what it means toyou specifically, and one of
those things that I covered on,at least on Monday this week, I
wrote Am I doing enough for mynonverbal son?
The question that never leavesme and this is important because
I think a lot of people theyread these blogs, they listen to
this podcast.
They hear about the life thatwe have together and they see
(06:04):
how happy we are and how I hateto use the word enlightened
because I'm almost using it in asarcastic way.
But I look at my son's quote,unquote disability very
differently than I think mostpeople would, and I don't know.
It's just the way I look atlife.
I guess I always try to find,you know well, what's positive
about it and I'm not going tolie to you.
Initially that's how this wentright.
(06:26):
When Lucas was little, I waslike, all right, well, he has
autism.
It can't just be like, oh,because I love this kid, he's
great, he's sweet and he's nice.
He's a handful right, he's likea tough, tough kid to corral,
but he's great.
There's got to be positives toit and I looked into it and I
worked on it and through theyears I don't convince myself of
it.
I'm not trying to find a silverlining.
My son is one of the sweetest,kindest, just lovable guys to
(06:51):
have.
I love Lucas.
If I'm ever having a rough time, like right now, right, if I
paused this podcast that I'mrecording and I went inside and
I grabbed him and I hugged him.
He'd let me hug him, he wouldsmile, he would laugh, I would
tickle him.
I can do that anytime I want,and he's 13 years old.
My daughter is 16 and we takecar rides sometimes and we don't
talk at all.
(07:11):
Oh, that's a lie.
We do talk, I talk and I go.
Are you mad at me?
What's wrong with you?
What is wrong?
I'm not?
What is wrong with you?
Are you all right?
Are you mad?
They did I do something.
Did I did I do something to you?
That that's our conversationsin the car with lucas.
No man, we talked the wholetime.
Just drive around.
Hey, lucas, look outside.
(07:31):
And it's funny that I bringthat up because that's actually
what I wrote about on Wednesday.
I wrote a blog called MakingSure.
Lucas Knows.
He's a Main Character in OurFamily and I talk about how,
being the dad to a nonverbal boy, it's easy for him to get lost
in the background, which allgoes back to the same thing of
am I doing enough for mynonverbal child?
Lucas will just sit in the backand play on his iPad and
(07:52):
quietly be by himself, if youlet him, and he will stay that
way forever.
He doesn't do that with me.
He doesn't do that with mebecause I don't do that with him
All the time.
With Lucas, I'm talking to him.
We're driving in the car, I'mtelling him about my day, I'm
telling him stories.
I'm looking out the window, I'mbabbling.
(08:12):
Are you going to have fun today, buddy?
Are you going to school?
What are you going to do atschool?
Let's go to school, lucas.
And that's pretty much just thewhole stream of consciousness
this kid gets from me.
Sometimes he's listening,sometimes he's not, sometimes
he's there, sometimes he's not,he doesn't.
And I'm not even saying that interms of autism.
(08:37):
I'm talking to him and he knowsthat when he's with me he's
kind of the star of my show.
We can be sitting on the couch,I'll be playing a video game,
he'll be on his iPad and I'lljust stop, I'll pause my thing,
I'll turn him and I go.
Excuse me, I love you, hey.
I love you.
Look at me.
I love you, hey.
Who does daddy love?
Who does your father?
Who does dad love who?
(08:58):
And he'll tap his chest and heknows.
He knows that like if he's in myvicinity, I'm never going to
fully just ignore him.
We're never going to be in acar ride and not say a word.
We're never going to be next toeach other on the couch and go
more than a few minutes withoutme acknowledging him, tapping
him, grabbing him, giving him anoogie, giving him a hug,
(09:18):
tickling him, doing something toshow him that he's a main
character in my life.
And because of that, lucas doesthe same thing with me.
He does.
We sit on the couch.
He'll jump up and he'll startjumping and clapping over his
show and come over to me and tapme on the head and I look up at
him and he'll smile or he'lllaugh.
(09:39):
The other day he was doing thisthing where he was like he's
jumping up and down and I'msitting on the couch and he
would just run over and he takeshis.
He likes to do this.
It's one of his favorite thingsto do to me.
He takes his hand, he puts itunder my chin and he lifts, do
it incessantly, like he'll keepcoming back and then thank you.
But I love, all right, I loveyou.
I look, can I please just what?
All right, I love you too.
I love you.
(09:59):
Hey, thank you.
Thank you, that was a wet one.
Thank you, I appreciate it, Ilove it, man, and I made that
happen.
I made that happen and Icreated that relationship with
this boy because I did then anddo now always take that leap of
faith of saying look, I might beannoying, I might've been
taught by you.
(10:19):
Know, in some ways my daughter,my daughter and I you know my
daughter's neurotypical, I'mneurotypical and I know that if
I was a 16 year old and I had anadult always be like hey there,
pal, what are you doing?
I'd be like get away.
So I know that kids aren't opento just constant streams of
like who does your dad love?
Hey there, who's a funny face?
You know nobody's.
(10:40):
Some people get annoyed by it.
Lucas doesn't get annoyed by it, so I do it.
I'm not saying he never getsannoyed.
Sometimes he gets annoyed.
And I'm not saying I never getannoyed.
Sometimes I get annoyed, likewhen he comes over to give me a
hug and his sleeve is soppingwet because he's been chewing on
it.
I don't know that.
Or like I've had times where,like he goes to give me a kiss
and I'll turn my head next thing.
(11:00):
I know I have his open lipsjust like over my face.
I'm like dude, can you justplease?
You're slobbering on me.
I thank you.
I love you very much, but Iwouldn't trade it for anything.
I wouldn't have him stop.
I wouldn't not let him do it.
And it's because I took thatleap of faith, it's because I
decided myself I don't care whatautism means to our family.
I don't care if autismsupposedly makes him closed off.
(11:23):
I don't care if people say thatautism makes him not loving,
and not always.
This is what I want to have inmy relationship with my son and
I'm going to make it happen.
And that's what we did.
And here we are, at 13.
And because of the fact that Idecided a long time ago I was
going to build this bond withthis kid, that's what we've done
(11:45):
.
And I got news for you, man.
If I started years ago tryingto build that bond with him and
it still didn't work, if hewould ignore me, if he never
looked at me, if he didn't wantto be a part of it, I'd probably
still be doing it.
Because why the hell not?
Who would want to just sitaround with their own child?
(12:11):
I just ignore him all the time,even if he wants me to ignore
him to hell with you.
I'm the dad.
I'll tell you when we ignoreeach other, pal.
So we don't.
We don't ignore each other, andI honest to God think that it
was the pushing and it was thedetermination on my part to make
sure that I didn't lose him inthe shuffle that allowed us to
have the relationship that wehave, and for that I'm so
grateful and I'm so happy, andit's one of the reasons why I
write this blog, it's one of thereasons why I do this podcast
and it's one of the reasons whyI was very proud of the two that
(12:32):
were written this week.
So, if you get a chance, go tohighblogomdadcom this past week
making sure Lucas knows he's themain character in our family.
That was one.
And am I doing enough for mynonverbal son?
The question that never wroteabout this week uh, meant a lot
to me.
You guys mean a lot to me and Iappreciate it.
Thank you, um.
I always end this by tellingyou guys, big things are on the
way, because big things are onthe way, but you'll find out.
(12:53):
It's 2025.
We're we're on the road to uh,to the big time, so I'm very
excited.
Thank you guys, so much foryour support.
Thank you for checking me outlike, subscribe, bookmark.
Follow me on social media.
Hi, james gutman.
Hi, james gutman, at, you'llfind me.
That does it for me Until nexttime, james Gutman, saying be
well, bye-bye, I'm back, I'llsee you next time.
I want apple juice.
Lucas wants apple juice.
I know I heard him say that.
Can I have apple juice?
Yeah, you can have apple juice.
Can I have soda?
Yes, you can have soda.
Can I press that button?
No, you can't press that button.
Why?
Because that's going to playthe theme song.
I'm not ready to start the pot.
(00:30):
Hi Pod, I am Dad.
He's not just Hi Dad, he's mydad.
James Gutman, folks, jamesGutman, hi Pod, I'm Dad.
You got it right, thank you.
It is Friday.
You have found me on anystreaming service, right here on
HiPod I'm Dad.
(00:50):
Perhaps.
Hipod I'm Dadcom Going since2019.
Killing it, folks.
I appreciate your support.
I appreciate you guys takingthe time to join me wherever you
found me.
Thank you, it is another weekdown.
It is closing out January.
We're almost in month two of2025, which is nuts.
But yeah, man, I appreciate youguys coming here and taking
(01:14):
time out of your day.
You might hear in the distantbackground my son Lucas.
My son Lucas is 13.
He is nonverbal.
He is a teenager, just like hissister, who is 16 and a
teenager.
She is neurotypical, but thetwo of them, as teenagers, both
love.
They love their rooms.
I don't know why it's not.
I mean, they're just rooms.
But Lucas now has started to gointo that room and he closes
(01:38):
the door.
He'll have me close the gate,which I've to this day.
Let me explain something to youguys because it's something
I've written about a little bitin the blog, but it's hard to
explain to people about his gatebecause it sounds like I don't
know if you guys saw MommyDearest, the famous movie Mommy
Dearest, where she chains theboy to the bed.
I always imagine that when Itell people that my son has a
(01:59):
gate on the door of his room.
And what you have to understandis when Lucas was little, he
would run out of his room.
He escaped like Alcatraz, andhe'd go through the house
looking for food, looking foranything he can grab, and he'd
wake up in the morning and therewould be, like you know, just
cool whip handprints on things.
He would wake you up.
He would run through the housescreaming.
So he put a gate on his roomand it's a gate that he put on
(02:20):
for toddlers and with Lucas itjust didn't come off his room.
But even as he got older andwas more trustworthy, I still
kept it on his room.
And in the very beginning.
When I first started writingthis blog around 2017, there
were a few blogs about takingthe gate off of his door and
trying to teach him independence.
And I'm going to show him andwell, back when I was still
(02:41):
trying to figure it out exactlywhat should be done and what
shouldn't be done, because to me, mentally, as his dad, it
bothered me that I put a gate onhis room.
He was getting older.
I looked at it like I'm lockinghim away, I'm locking him in.
Couldn't be further from thetruth.
My son sees that gate hassecurity, so now when he goes
into his room, he wants to be inthere.
(03:02):
He has me close the gate, and Igot to tell you I think it's
adorable because he is giganticnow, so he could easily close
that gate on his own, but hedoesn't really do it.
I don't know if he thinks he'snot allowed to or if he thinks
it's a really heavy gate, but hehas me close it.
And then he goes and he hangsout in his room and what I'll do
(03:31):
is before about shaving hismustache, which I do.
He's got this little peach fuzzmustache I have to shave.
Every time I see him, it blowsme away.
You know pictures of himstanding next to me.
He just looks like.
He looks like a dude, a littledude.
So that's my guy.
So you hear him in thebackground.
I write about Lucas every Monday, every Wednesday, on
highblogomdadcom.
(03:52):
I've been doing it since 2017.
Since February of 2017, we arecoming up on the eight-year God
help me anniversary of High Blogon Dad, and I love going back
and I love the fact that I'vehad this period of time to cover
in terms of watching my son'sgrowth, because it was pivotal
and I talked about it last week.
(04:13):
I'll talk about it this weektoo.
It's the kind of thing where Ilook at the issues that I faced
then, many of which are longgone, and now, today, I talk
about how far we've come, andwhen I talk about the old days
and how I used to think,typically I remember some of
those early times, you know.
But still, when I write aboutLucas, even with all of these
(04:35):
years gone by and even withautism appreciation and
different ways that I've learnedto accept him, I'm still
learning things every day as adad about you know what's
important and what works interms of our relationship, and I
look at autism as somethingthat you know.
(04:55):
My son has autism and it was astruggle for us to figure out
initially how autism was goingto fit into our family, because
people just say they just dropit in your lap, here's autism.
Well, what does this mean?
What's he going to do?
How's he going to?
They don't know.
No one ever knew.
Well, anything can happen.
But I hug him, he hugs me.
You know this two-year-old thatyou say has autism.
(05:22):
He likes to be hugged andkissed.
Some people with autism like tohug and kiss.
Okay, he doesn't line anythingup, he's not neat.
Well, some people with autism.
So it starts to feel like noneof the things they're telling
you really fit into what youknow autism to be.
And you have to realize how itfits into your family.
What does it mean?
What does it mean for my son?
What does it mean for us?
And it's the kind of thing that, as years go by, doesn't really
fade.
You're constantly trying tofigure out what autism means to
(05:44):
your life and what it means toyou specifically, and one of
those things that I covered on,at least on Monday this week, I
wrote Am I doing enough for mynonverbal son?
The question that never leavesme and this is important because
I think a lot of people theyread these blogs, they listen to
this podcast.
They hear about the life thatwe have together and they see
(06:04):
how happy we are and how I hateto use the word enlightened
because I'm almost using it in asarcastic way.
But I look at my son's quote,unquote disability very
differently than I think mostpeople would, and I don't know.
It's just the way I look atlife.
I guess I always try to find,you know well, what's positive
about it and I'm not going tolie to you.
Initially that's how this wentright.
(06:26):
When Lucas was little, I waslike, all right, well, he has
autism.
It can't just be like, oh,because I love this kid, he's
great, he's sweet and he's nice.
He's a handful right, he's likea tough, tough kid to corral,
but he's great.
There's got to be positives toit and I looked into it and I
worked on it and through theyears I don't convince myself of
it.
I'm not trying to find a silverlining.
My son is one of the sweetest,kindest, just lovable guys to
(06:51):
have.
I love Lucas.
If I'm ever having a rough time, like right now, right, if I
paused this podcast that I'mrecording and I went inside and
I grabbed him and I hugged him.
He'd let me hug him, he wouldsmile, he would laugh, I would
tickle him.
I can do that anytime I want,and he's 13 years old.
My daughter is 16 and we takecar rides sometimes and we don't
talk at all.
(07:11):
Oh, that's a lie.
We do talk, I talk and I go.
Are you mad at me?
What's wrong with you?
What is wrong?
I'm not?
What is wrong with you?
Are you all right?
Are you mad?
They did I do something.
Did I did I do something to you?
That that's our conversationsin the car with lucas.
No man, we talked the wholetime.
Just drive around.
Hey, lucas, look outside.
(07:31):
And it's funny that I bringthat up because that's actually
what I wrote about on Wednesday.
I wrote a blog called MakingSure.
Lucas Knows.
He's a Main Character in OurFamily and I talk about how,
being the dad to a nonverbal boy, it's easy for him to get lost
in the background, which allgoes back to the same thing of
am I doing enough for mynonverbal child?
Lucas will just sit in the backand play on his iPad and
(07:52):
quietly be by himself, if youlet him, and he will stay that
way forever.
He doesn't do that with me.
He doesn't do that with mebecause I don't do that with him
All the time.
With Lucas, I'm talking to him.
We're driving in the car, I'mtelling him about my day, I'm
telling him stories.
I'm looking out the window, I'mbabbling.
(08:12):
Are you going to have fun today, buddy?
Are you going to school?
What are you going to do atschool?
Let's go to school, lucas.
And that's pretty much just thewhole stream of consciousness
this kid gets from me.
Sometimes he's listening,sometimes he's not, sometimes
he's there, sometimes he's not,he doesn't.
And I'm not even saying that interms of autism.
(08:37):
I'm talking to him and he knowsthat when he's with me he's
kind of the star of my show.
We can be sitting on the couch,I'll be playing a video game,
he'll be on his iPad and I'lljust stop, I'll pause my thing,
I'll turn him and I go.
Excuse me, I love you, hey.
I love you.
Look at me.
I love you, hey.
Who does daddy love?
Who does your father?
Who does dad love who?
(08:58):
And he'll tap his chest and heknows.
He knows that like if he's in myvicinity, I'm never going to
fully just ignore him.
We're never going to be in acar ride and not say a word.
We're never going to be next toeach other on the couch and go
more than a few minutes withoutme acknowledging him, tapping
him, grabbing him, giving him anoogie, giving him a hug,
(09:18):
tickling him, doing something toshow him that he's a main
character in my life.
And because of that, lucas doesthe same thing with me.
He does.
We sit on the couch.
He'll jump up and he'll startjumping and clapping over his
show and come over to me and tapme on the head and I look up at
him and he'll smile or he'lllaugh.
(09:39):
The other day he was doing thisthing where he was like he's
jumping up and down and I'msitting on the couch and he
would just run over and he takeshis.
He likes to do this.
It's one of his favorite thingsto do to me.
He takes his hand, he puts itunder my chin and he lifts, do
it incessantly, like he'll keepcoming back and then thank you.
But I love, all right, I loveyou.
I look, can I please just what?
All right, I love you too.
I love you.
(09:59):
Hey, thank you.
Thank you, that was a wet one.
Thank you, I appreciate it, Ilove it, man, and I made that
happen.
I made that happen and Icreated that relationship with
this boy because I did then anddo now always take that leap of
faith of saying look, I might beannoying, I might've been
taught by you.
(10:19):
Know, in some ways my daughter,my daughter and I you know my
daughter's neurotypical, I'mneurotypical and I know that if
I was a 16 year old and I had anadult always be like hey there,
pal, what are you doing?
I'd be like get away.
So I know that kids aren't opento just constant streams of
like who does your dad love?
Hey there, who's a funny face?
You know nobody's.
(10:40):
Some people get annoyed by it.
Lucas doesn't get annoyed by it, so I do it.
I'm not saying he never getsannoyed.
Sometimes he gets annoyed.
And I'm not saying I never getannoyed.
Sometimes I get annoyed, likewhen he comes over to give me a
hug and his sleeve is soppingwet because he's been chewing on
it.
I don't know that.
Or like I've had times where,like he goes to give me a kiss
and I'll turn my head next thing.
(11:00):
I know I have his open lipsjust like over my face.
I'm like dude, can you justplease?
You're slobbering on me.
I thank you.
I love you very much, but Iwouldn't trade it for anything.
I wouldn't have him stop.
I wouldn't not let him do it.
And it's because I took thatleap of faith, it's because I
decided myself I don't care whatautism means to our family.
I don't care if autismsupposedly makes him closed off.
(11:23):
I don't care if people say thatautism makes him not loving,
and not always.
This is what I want to have inmy relationship with my son and
I'm going to make it happen.
And that's what we did.
And here we are, at 13.
And because of the fact that Idecided a long time ago I was
going to build this bond withthis kid, that's what we've done
(11:45):
.
And I got news for you, man.
If I started years ago tryingto build that bond with him and
it still didn't work, if hewould ignore me, if he never
looked at me, if he didn't wantto be a part of it, I'd probably
still be doing it.
Because why the hell not?
Who would want to just sitaround with their own child?
(12:11):
I just ignore him all the time,even if he wants me to ignore
him to hell with you.
I'm the dad.
I'll tell you when we ignoreeach other, pal.
So we don't.
We don't ignore each other, andI honest to God think that it
was the pushing and it was thedetermination on my part to make
sure that I didn't lose him inthe shuffle that allowed us to
have the relationship that wehave, and for that I'm so
grateful and I'm so happy, andit's one of the reasons why I
write this blog, it's one of thereasons why I do this podcast
and it's one of the reasons whyI was very proud of the two that
(12:32):
were written this week.
So, if you get a chance, go tohighblogomdadcom this past week
making sure Lucas knows he's themain character in our family.
That was one.
And am I doing enough for mynonverbal son?
The question that never wroteabout this week uh, meant a lot
to me.
You guys mean a lot to me and Iappreciate it.
Thank you, um.
I always end this by tellingyou guys, big things are on the
way, because big things are onthe way, but you'll find out.
(12:53):
It's 2025.
We're we're on the road to uh,to the big time, so I'm very
excited.
Thank you guys, so much foryour support.
Thank you for checking me outlike, subscribe, bookmark.
Follow me on social media.
Hi, james gutman.
Hi, james gutman, at, you'llfind me.
That does it for me Until nexttime, james Gutman, saying be
well, bye-bye, I'm back, I'llsee you next time.
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