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He is very candid about his turbulent childhood and his rocky relationship with his father, Gary Burton.
Burton and Pennington’s mother, Yvonne Vickery, separated when Pennington was just three years old.
Since then, he’s met with his dad on rare occasions.
Unfortunately, those visits have left the home improv aficionado with feelings of disappointment toward his biological dad.
He and his older brother Wynn were having the time of their lives playing at an arcade center.
A man approached them without giving an introduction.
That’s when their mother returned from the next-door jazz club to get the boys.
“Is he someone on the news?”
he remembered asking her.
The answer hit much closer to home.
“That’s your father,” his mother stated.
“‘Cool,'” he recalls himself replying.
“Can I have more quarters?”
Most of those meetings failed to leave a good impression on him, he admitted in his book.
During the trip, the father and son made a stop at a gas station.
“I’m thinking, Are you kidding?
I’m fifteen,” Pennington wrote.
“I mow lawns.
But I just nod and tell him sure and give him the $5.
