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Hello again. I'm going to talk about the second part of "To Hell & Back Again: My Complete Story", an autobiography. And it is about my childhood. Because you can't really make an autobiography without having a chapter about your childhood or a part about your childhood. And I did, because. Not only because you should, but because, you know, it's kind of important to tell the truth in that context, too, because there's slander in that context, too. So I'm going to tell you a little bit about what's in here. A little bit about my family's background and where I grew up. This is not going to be very long. I'm going to be brief here. Where we lived, how life was like. Blah-blah-blah. Fishing, skating. Shooting rifles. Kindergarten, school, May festivals, you know, climbing these things. Maples(?). And, of course, the Iraq journey. Here we have my dad in Iraq, and he have me in Iraq with a Toyota. Not driving it, but. And, you know, a little bit about what happened in Iraq, why we were there, places we visited. Greece. We went to Cyprus on the way home. My dad was there when the war was raging. What else to say? I don't know. Snowy images. This is standard stuff, I think. It's not a particularly interesting, I guess, but I just had to include it because it's a biography. Life in Norway. Norway a special country in a sense that it's kind of communist and a monarchy and it has a state religion - Christianity. ... had. Don't think they have that anymore. And it's capitalist. So it's like a schizophrenic hybrid nation that more than anything resembles North Korea because of massive indoctrination of the population and totalitarianism. So a little bit about Norway. You can gain some insight into how it was like growing up in Norway in the 70s and 80s. School, which, of course, is a complete waste of time these days. You have AI. You can educate yourself using that and the internet. Karate training, more Iraq. It's not my favourite chapter In a sense that I'm just talking about my childhood. How my world view was back then. Voting, inspiration. Role playing games. That's an interesting part, isn't it? Yes, I talk about role playing games here. How they influenced my childhood. MERP, aDnD. I like that thought. Skipping classes, my own role playing game, that's interesting. That's it. My childhood story. Next part is the prison story, which of course, is a little bit more juicy. And if I recall correctly, there's also a little bit about black metal here, because the first part kind of overlaps with the black metal story. But I'll talk about that in another episode, another time. Again, I think it's important to write about my childhood because, if nothing else, to avoid having people spread lies. Because that's what people do today. They just make up stuff, they believe, slander, and spread it if they don't like you. And that's how it's like. And in this world, there's a lot of envy and envious people, and because of that, they lie. It's always nice to be an agent of truth, and that's what I am. And it's so easy to dispel the lies when you know the truth. And I do and others don't. So I kind of had to write this myself. And I did. And it's available from Amazon. Thank you for watching.