This episode features a special guest star, jesse's oldest son, Taylor. He will regale us with all the wisdom that Gen Z can give us. With all this advice on being altruistic, the biggest surprise is that Oscar the Grouch was originally orange. Thank you for your service.
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All right, welcome to Dad's, our podcast where dad could be a dad. I'm Jesse, here with my good buddy Jimmy Me, also known as hey,
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and special guest in the studio today. 4s Tell me a quick little intro about yourself. I am his son. 1s I am in the Air Force. I've been in the Air Force two years. I do cybersecurity 2s pretty much into a lot of the stuff my dad's into. Apple didn't fall too far from the tree. So
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whether that's a good thing or bad thing, I guess we're yet to see.
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Yeah, time will tell.
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Well, thank you for your service there, young man. Thank
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you. Thank you for your support. I mean, couldn't do it without faithful patriot Americans like you. That's it. So many folks box. 1s Thank him for his service. It almost gets kind of awkward.
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Yeah, 1s I don't do that a lot. Yeah, so he's got kind of rehearsing stuff. So the reason why I got my son Taylor
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I just want leave the door open. Thank you. I'll have to cut that out.
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No, it's everyday like dude, 1s it's part of why we do this. I don't have those interruptions by a wife. Just a kid. Leave it in. That's what the people come for. 2s This isn't an interruption though, this is an interview.
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It is. But here's the thing. My son comes over to my home and here's the thing. This is where I'm fortunate. He is stationed 20 minutes down the road where most parents whose kids go off to military you don't see him for years. Yeah, I
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mean, that's awesome for crazy amounts of things that a lot of other parents can't. Now, the reason why my studio here, I'll call it office. The door was closed. My dog is going crazy because he used to feel like foam, man. Fear of missing out on what me and Taylor are doing. I'm like, just leave the. 1s Just leave the door open. Well, so, Taylor, you just said that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. So let me ask you, are you hoping to follow the same path as your dad? No. Like, as a lifer? No. Am I allowed to
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curse? Yeah, you're allowed to curse. That's a reflection of how good a parent I am, is how much my kids swear. Right. He's a dad of, I going to get in trouble. Am I going to get in trouble if I say the S word? Dad.
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You're grounded, Taylor, for saying shit.
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Yeah. No, but do you plan on doing the whole life thing like your
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father or you don't know yet? It's unlikely I might do it, but I think it would just take a really good opportunity to come up for me to be really on board. But the way things are kind of going right now, I think my opportunities kind of lie outside the military because of the experience the military has given me. So I'm fortunate for that. But as far as, like, a long term plan, when you end up being good computers in the cyber realm of the It, doesn't it's not really in your best interest to stay in the Air Force very long, because many people, even with a very beginner skill set, can get out of the military and make way more on the civilian side. Despite all the benefits the military provides, you can usually get reduced versions of those in a lot of companies. 2s Yeah. Your income would just go up dramatically.
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Well, that's good. I was just wondering know
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what the plan was. I mean, I know you're still young and there's time to still decide. When did you decide, Jesse, when your plan was to stay in the military? Was there
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a life change or was there, like, a man great
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opportunity 1s it as soon as his mom got pregnant, I was
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whoa, hold on. Your volume is way dude, you just blew my ears out. I'm
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too loud. Yeah, that's a good point. I guess I am too loud. Here's the thing. Whoa. I decided to stay in the military because I was about to have a kid. This guy right here. Okay, so because of you, Taylor, I have a plethora of experiences. But before I turn this into some sort of Air Force recruiting,
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I was listen, I was just letting a little bit into the Barnes story of life and see where it was headed and how you got there. So we're there. Let's get on the topic then. 1s If I was wondering, one of our ten listeners 1s one of our ten listeners would like to know that, too. 1s Yeah, good point, dude. Well, all right. Over the
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last few weeks,
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we took a little U turn. Now we're right back to our scheduled program.
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Jeez. So 1s the last two weeks, life changed in my house. Because of work. I bought a condo up in Chicago, so now I have a house here by St. Louis. St. Louis, Illinois. Otown. And then I got a cheap little apartment condo up in Chicago. But while I'm up there taking care of know with my wife and she's helping me settle that, I've counted on my adult son here to basically watch the dogs for a couple of days. He had to watch my Brody, who's 13, and I figure 24 year old can watch a 13 year old. And Taylor's been babysitting since he was even younger than 13 because he's the oldest kid, right? He's the leader. 2s And so here I am thinking, all right, 1s I have to take care of Taylor. I got to hook him up 1s for his time, his effort. He probably likes just using the house. He calls me up and says, dad, I need to check with your schedule. I wanted to do a surprise for your birthday, but I had to see your calendar, which is a good thing you did, because where it can travel, all sorts of setup. And you know what he tells me? I will let Taylor tell this story, what he's getting me for my next birthday. Next month, I will preface this is something. I mean, I got this idea probably like two or three years ago at this point, but I never really had the money to actually follow through with it. And even then, you just kind of have to decide when is a good time to pull the trigger. I was going to do it last year, but I ended up getting deployed to Kuwait. And then thank you for your service.
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Whatever. We already been there. Done. But it wasn't important work. Trust me on that. 3s And year before that wasn't in the military, didn't really have any money.
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You're really not
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setting a good
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example for people that want to join the military. 2s I'm broke. I'm broke. I'm just
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joking, folks. And then the year before that, I was in tech school learning my job them. So that was a no go. And the year before that? Yeah, well, I didn't have any it was COVID. It was COVID, right? So first year I felt like I could feasibly do it. I was like, I'm just going to do it. This is the year the lions go deep. You don't know what it is you're doing. So I was like, we're going to go and see a lions game, fly there the same day 1s and see the game. We're going to watch the game against the atlanta falcons and then fly back the same day. And I ended up getting the tickets for the flight and the game for me and my dad. And I had the idea for years at this point, but never could do it.
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That is absolutely terrific. And now, if it wasn't a dad and son thing, I'd say, hey, I'll join you. But that's an experience that you
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two should do.
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Yeah. That is awesome, though. There's some good seats, so I don't know if there'd be availability. All right.
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Who knows? This year
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lines look good. I know people.
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All right, fair enough. Fair enough.
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Yeah. No, but I wouldn't want to interfere in that. Anyway, that's something that you guys should do. And if you want to take it one step further, maybe you should, for a Christmas present, get them a painted picture of the 1s situation. Painted picture. 2s I can only imagine when you start talking about pictures. Yeah, like we're going to frame it or something. So it's funny because,
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like, this condo, I have no pictures, there's no decorations. Maybe I should like Father's Day in my office, I have this cartoon picture of us all holding samurai swords. I don't know if I can well, that's what I was referencing. Yeah,
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apparently it went over your head. 2s When is that when is that game? What day?
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24. September, I believe. Yeah. Sunday,
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September 24 1s Because we're
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late at the airport
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like an hour and a half before the kickoff, and I'm just going to take an Uber directly to Ford Field, get hammered as soon as the game's
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done. You're not going to get hammered. I
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probably won't. She will.
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I don't know about that. Hey,
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maybe, but we will try. We're going to do all the what's special about lions game with food. They do like Detroit dogs or something. I don't know. What do you call this? Coney's?
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No, I've never been to a Lions game at 2s of that's kind of 2s heard. Well, dude, I'll tell you what, that's a hell of a game, though, because they both have those two rookie new running backs, dude. So it'll be Robinson versus
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yeah. And also, I just got a feeling Lions are just going to stomp them, too. And I really want to watch the Lions win. I hate everything in Georgia. 1s It to include the falcon.
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Sorry,
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but, you know no, that's that's very awesome, man. One day, you know, hopefully my son does something like that. That's awesome. That is really cool, man. So we don't give yourself
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my level expectations at this point in his life. I'm just glad he doesn't live at home, you know? And now I'm like, we're getting plane tickets and Lions tickets. Like, let's
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go. 2s That being said, I'm very humble. I still want to throw out there. Very humble. I'm not the best parent, and there's a lot of mistakes I made. For instance, one of the things I failed short, I feel, in my opinion, is teaching Taylor how to take care of things around the house
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or the car. I probably didn't do that great a job of that, to
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do it yourself. Well,
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in your defense, though, you were. 2s At the point in your career where it kept you away from home a lot. Thank me for my
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service and thank you. Thank you for your service. Thank you for
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your support. All right, so granted, I'm an absentee dad. 2s Well, like I said, but you were providing for your family at the time, so 2s I wouldn't call yourself a bad dad for that. You were doing what you had to do to give
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to your 1s week. Okay, so I've been up in Chicago for weeks, and this is one of the times my wife was up there, too, with Brody, like helping out, painting and stuff, cleaning up back here. When you're gone from home, that's when everything goes wrong
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and 1s our a toilet basically broke. And I'm like, if I'm home, I'm just running to Home Depot, getting all the parts, changing it out. Do you know how to fix a toilet?
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I know how to YouTube things so 1s I could give it a good go.
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Did you ever put any thought into, hey, maybe I'm going to try fixing that myself.
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You know, one time not too long ago, my printer broke and I probably fucked with it for hours and just gave up.
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But you built your own computer. I feel if you can build your own computer, which you have
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now, here's the thing is, like, it does depend on your own personal investment in the thing that is broken. Right? So this printer is a printer I had since college that I didn't buy 3s and then shout out, dad,
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you're welcome.
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Thank you for your
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service. Thank you for your support. I also bought him a college pillow, too. Don't let that go untold.
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What
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pillow? I had to buy your pillows and bedding for your college
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dorm. All right. We didn't bring that over from Japan. Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah. And then the laptop
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you lost or someone took for to another
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someone first day of college and put it somewhere
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else. I didn't say they stole it. They just extra credit helpers.
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Yeah, we're just volunteers. Volunteering for Beta Sigma Chi?
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Yeah, dude, they
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have a plan. All set out. Hey, I took this laptop to room three. Go pick it up and we'll say we just put it somewhere else. And someone dude, it's such a well planned out.
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That's the Detroit him right there. I'm thinking, yeah, we're coming from Japan. Trust everybody. Are you considering rushing this year
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or are you going to take like a semester up? Either way, you should definitely consider it. It's a brotherhood. You'll never forget. Do
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you have regrets about not pledging or
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rushing? I have regrets not starting a fight with one of those guys.
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Honestly. Please don't do that. I hate them. He doesn't hate anybody. He dislikes lifestyles. Regardless, my toilet is broke. Since you don't use that toilet, you had no incentive to say, I'll just
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fix it with was it broke when I was here?
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Yeah,
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I didn't even know it was broken, to be honest. I didn't go downstairs at
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all. I was in the master
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bedroom. Oh, yeah, I did. Sorry. No
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worries. So what I had to
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do yeah. Wait, in his defense, how would he know the master? Oh, you know what?
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Actually, I will snitch on myself a little bit here,
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because
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there was the truth comes out. I heard
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running water coming from that bathroom, and I peeked into the bathroom and didn't see anything. I was like, that's weird.
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It was constantly running. Yeah, 1s so I did hear the running water, but I just figured
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I would just ignore it, I think. I don't know what I thought, honestly.
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That's what I'm talking about. 1s Something triggered, like, something's not right, but not enough incentive. And I'm not here to fix up a house. I'm just here to make sure the dogs are fed.
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I don't know if it's that. I think it's just lack of knowledge.
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Well, there's that, too. I failed you at
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that. Yeah. I don't think it was like, me not willing to help. If there was a problem, I would tell you guys about it.
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You were literally the most altruistic kid I've known. He tried to donate a kid, by the way. I'm not making that up. Little extreme.
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Well, you know what? He kind of reminds me. 2s Kind of reminds me of what my son is going to turn out to be. Because let me share a little story here. My son, he's eleven. He was staying the night at his cousin's house last weekend. And they have four kids, one's 14, one I think,
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let's go with nine.
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And the other one is four, maybe five, while the four, maybe five year old was running
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and he just right smacked into the corner of a wall. So it split him open from like here to there blood everywhere. Well, his brothers go running hysterically, like upstairs and in the basement. Well, my son went over to him, went to his aunt and how can I help you? He my shirt for the blood. He was holding bandages on his head and saying, you need me to go with you? Telling the kid to calm down, breathe, relax. I wasn't there to witness it, but I heard this story and I'm like, wow, for an eleven year old, that's fantastic. 1s So he might want to donate a kidney when he's whatever age you were when you wanted to donate a kidney.
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Maybe there are kids out there that need kidney donors. I don't know.
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No, but I mean, I was just proud of him that he didn't, like, freak out. Like, he stayed calm. 1s Usually blood gets people oh, no blood. But he was offering off, literally, the shirt off his back.
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Yeah. I mean, that is definitely like, a mature, emotionally mature thing for an eleven year old to do. I feel like I think that's, like, a good
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well, that's how I feel like you were at eleven. Kid fell off his bike. Get
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on my back. I'll get you home. Oh,
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my God, don't get me started on the bikes.
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It
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you talked to your little brother,
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Brody? Yeah. I mean, I also saw your tags, too.
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So get this, Jimmy. Last night, I just get into town from Chicago. 2s And my son, which is
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very 2s kind of weird, like, out of character, 1s decided to leave the basement and go outside and ride his bike. And I was like, I'll be back by 09:00. 1s 09:00 comes out, and I'm like, all right, well, about to go find him on his phone and be like, what the heck? He calls me up. Free out. He's called me bro, like, 19 times, so I know something's not right. His friend got hit by a car on his bike where the kid got kind of thrown from the bike, and by some miracle, he was okay. He was just shaken up. But the bike is mangled. And I go up there, and I'm seeing the situation. The driver had called 911. He had let two kids on bikes use the crosswalk at this roundabout, but he didn't see the third kid, and that's the kid he hit. And his parents are screaming and yelling at this driver. Oh,
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I would be, too. I'm mad.
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I'm like, because it could have been my kid. And I'm looking around. I'm like, 13. I'm like, you have no helmet. I'm like, Your clothes are kind of light. But I'm convincing them, like, on the way home, my son is trying so hard not to cry, and he's upset. 2s It was an easy way to say, hey, let's start wearing the helmets, and I want to deck your bike out like tron. I want to put LEDs lights all over it. And he goes, Right. It's mom's bike. I'm too big for my bike. And I'm like, oh, my God. I didn't even notice.
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Now you can call your dad a bad. Now you can call yourself a bad dad, dearly. I've never
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had those scares with my two older boys, and I was up shaking up man up late last night, I bet. I hope I don't have to experience anything like that. Gosh, thank God the kid was okay and your kid wasn't hurt. And
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now it's
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a new bike because he saved up all summer allowances chores to buy this bike, and it's just Mangled and the cops. I don't know what happened because I turned around and there's eight cop cars out there. Then there was two, and then the driver was gone. I didn't know they got a ticket. I don't know what happens there. Like, is this kid out of luck with his bike now? I don't know.
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Scarlett's starting to go fund me for a new bike.
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GoFundMe is getting out of control. And one of my greatest nightmares is my kids, like, dying before me. And then just in our neighbor close, our community 1s friends of ours, their daughter who just graduated high school, she just passed away into the Dominican Republican on Monday. She's 18. And they ran a GoFundMe because these parents have to go fly down to the Dominican Republic and then bring their child back, and they're know just drinking alcohol. We don't know what happened. And I'm like, that's just too many questions unanswered. And I'm just tired of seeing every parent lose a kid recently. I
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don't know. So, like I said, I'm sensitive to irresponsible drivers. After my neighbor ran into my house, and then I see a random driver run over a kid's bike, like, oh, my bad. I didn't see it. Like, no big deal. I'm like, oh, it just gets me up, man. Sets me I go nuclear, buddy. I hate it. Yeah. No. 2s Every parent's greatest fear is losing a child, and I hope none none of my friends or family have to ever deal with that because.
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Yeah. Taylor.
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Taylor, do not die. I'll try not to, or you're grounded. 2s There you go. Put the
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thread out there. It's horrible. 2s I don't know. Maybe I should cut that out. That seems so dark.
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Yeah, that was a little 2s all right, let me pivot. But because I haven't talked to this kid in forever. A couple of weeks, and then he surprised me with Lions tickets. How's
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the dating scene going? Audiences love to hear about those adventures.
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Dating scene? I don't have many interesting stories I feel are appropriate, but as of
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recently, probably dating more than Jimmy here. As of recently? Nothing's really. I've been quite infatuated with my computer. 1s What's her name?
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Beatrice. Computer
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love. 1s Hey, you got to put that song right there. Computer love.
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I'm not counting on. 2s For grandkids. I tell her I'm one mistake away from being a grandpa. It's just this kid. He's responsible. He's not going to be making the mistake.
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I'm historically the smartest kid out of my brothers. Which brody is. You know, he's got some time left, but it's not looking
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promising. No, he talked about that. He'll make a great plumber someday.
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Trade score. Hey,
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plumbers make good money. Good money.
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It's good money, Taylor. Obviously. Cybersecurity computer. What was your major in college?
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Physics. I did physics until I dropped out. So don't forget that part. I wasn't that smart. 1s That was still very difficult
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for me. You are smart. I would call it an effort issue.
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Possibly. We'll never know. I
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guess we'll never know. All right, 2s but you're telling me you're single? I can start throwing your name. But is that something you would want your dad and mom to do? 1s Setting you up. Oh, that sounds
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horrible. Is this relating to a text mom sent me the other day? I
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actually have no idea what she sent you.
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Oh, now you're tell me. Well, you know, sandra. Right. Like, her daughter is kind of around my age.
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I know Sandra, but I didn't know she had a
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daughter. Sandra is
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a neighbor. 1s She's married to one of my friends who's a city police, retired army, good dude, musician. Love him. So I know Sandra. She's a hairdresser. I
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know Sandra. Yeah. So, anyways, my mom was just like, hey, look who I thought the hairdresser today. And it was Sandra and her daughter. And I met her daughter previously when I think it was St. Patty's Day, actually, and we're at the little bike place and just drinking and having fun. I met her diet.
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So how do you respond to that? What do you tell your mom, like, a cool story or do you say,
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that's exactly what I said. Or do
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you say, I get her number, I'm interested. How's it work with the kids
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nowadays? Well, I think it's
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he just got a daughter that's in her. Twenty s? I think so, yeah. She's like 21 or 22, I believe.
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Oh, wow.
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But, yeah. I don't know how much personal information I should reveal, like, on a podcast, but it's not really relevant. 1s You're
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probably cybersecurity guy here. He's got my back
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to answer the question. 2s Yeah. I find it kind of uncomfortable, and here's why. I feel like I have a pretty good justification for this. It in that I respect you guys a lot and I want to be a side character in your guys'relationships with other people. Right. So I don't want to say get super invested emotionally in any of people that they're super emotionally invested into, and that way it doesn't risk the relationship you guys have been building up for years and
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years. Yeah. Because what would happen is you'd screw this up. Wow. Probably that relationship.
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Certainly. And then emotionally. And now your mom has to find a new hairdresser. She's going to kill you. Yes. Sorry, yelling, but. 1s These kids will find a way to fuck up my relationships with my friends. They will find it. So don't shit where you eat. So that means if that's the case, if that's the general rule,
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you will never date any of my friends
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kids. Probably not. Okay. Yeah.
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If they're out there listening sorry, you don't have a shot in hell. Because my dad respects my friendships too much?
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No, apparently he respects his parents more than his penis.
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Yeah, he respects his dad more than his wiener. 4s Have you guys been talking about my dick? And I just haven't listened to the podcast, so I haven't been able to yell at my dad for talking about my dick?
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No. But we can make that a recurring statement. 1s What's?
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I don't remember that conversation I was just making
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listen, there's a big difference, Jimmy, about seeing your kids wiener when they're little versus when they're that. Oh, okay. I didn't tell that
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story. Oh, you haven't told no. There was no stories about your.
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Dick. Last summer.
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Dick.
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So last summer, we're at a pool party, an 80s pool party, and this guy's going to town on red apples ales
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like on a neighbor. Yeah, it was the wicked. So they're about, I want to say
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9%, 10oz or something. 8%
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sound. All right, so 23 year old kid last summer, trying to hold his own. You drink in a pool all day, you don't realize we're dragging him out of there. It's still early, five, six in the evening, and he's got rubber legs. And we get him home, we're like, yeah, that's okay, because I'm not drinking. I'm going to drive him home, put him in our guest bed, sleep it off, because we're going to take care of our kids. But in the meantime, from the time you get into the car 1s inside the house,
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he ends up going to the bathroom, 1s our hallway bathroom, and shuts the door, blocks the door. 2s I'm actually amazed you had the coordination to do that, because we're talking it
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was probably an accident. No, it was probably an accident, dude.
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It probably was like, set the locky. All I had to do was shut the door. I go outside. I'm emptying coolers and stuff, unloading beach towels and all that. Joni runs out, and she goes, I heard a loud crash, and I got in the bathroom, and the door is locked. I got worried, and she goes, I unlocked the door, and I opened it, and all I saw is our son. He was crashed in the bathtub, wrapped in a shower curtain curtain. And there's shower curtain, like, the rods are everywhere, all over the floor, and his pants are around his ankles. 2s And she goes, I can't go in there, but I took a picture. But I won't go in there. I'm like, well, thank you for the picture. And I
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come in there. That'll be at my wedding. Yes,
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sure. I come in there and I'm like, oh, my gosh. He didn't even flush the toilet. They're still pee in the toilet. He's wrapped up in the shower curtain and his pants around his ankles. I'm like, all right, come on, buddy, let's get you up. And he looks at me and goes, stop looking at my dick. 2s And I'm like, how are you manicuring your balls?
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How much time do you
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spend on hair care down there, Taylor?
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Not much. 1s Listen, I'm
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with Taylor. I just got into best shape. I'm
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with Taylor on this one. Why are you looking so close at his balls to even notice that they're managed you're? That good. Is
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your eye level when I was helping him get out of the tub. And here's the thing.
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And you know what? Hey, Taylor, you made all the piss in the toilet. That's what I would be proud
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of. Can you imagine just sitting there peeing and then getting dizzy and then just grabbing the shower curtain, thinking that's going to hold you up?
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So I think I know what happened, though. I
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think because I
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was wearing a swimsuit upon trying to pull up my pants, 2s because I was done. I had done my business. When I tried pulling up, they got, like, caught my legs. And then in that motion of trying to get them up, I lost my balance and crashed into
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wait, hold on, Kit. 1s It. Why were your shorts all the way down for just taking a piss? Because
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I was drunk. I don't know. That's
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how I potty trained. My did
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you did you think you were a little kid 1s for the first time and and dropped your shorts all the way down
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and just did one of these things? Because I couldn't stand. I was like holding I don't know
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you I think he was sitting down to take a piss,
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actually, that's plausible, too.
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And he stood up, 1s grabbed the shower curtain rod and fell forward. That's
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also very plausible,
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I guess. I don't remember it. These Scooby Doo mysteries will never get solved. But I will say, though, when I tried to help you pull your shorts up, a wet bathing suit on dry skin, it was so hard. I'm trying to shimmy it up your legs. That's why I saw how manicured you were and you're like, stop looking at my you're like, I went to college, dad. I know what I'm doing. I drink. All I'm saying is I know, buddy. I'm so proud of you. You did such a good job. I'm giving all that pep talk and then I finally get into the bedroom and I don't care if the suit was wet. I'm like, boom, go to bed.
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Fun plot twist. He wakes up at one and two in the morning looking ready to go, walk 2 miles to get his car at this pool party. And I had already drove it back and I hid all the keys just in case. And we had a nice breakfast and he sobered up and got you on the road, my five, six in the morning.
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Oh, yeah. I felt like I was going to throw up for hours.
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And you know what? I made a nice little TikTok video about it and it's forever immortalized. That's a great memory. The only reason he wasn't actually pissed off with me is because he knew how good of a story it was going to be to tell later. He's like, oh, thank you for letting this story stumble upon me. I can't wait to tell this to anyone who will listen.
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Well, I mean, that's the first time I've actually heard the story.
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It was nice to get it firsthand about my moments of vulnerability in front of me, and then that way if I got a problem with it, I could stop them.
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Respect.
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I told our audience the last episode, a big piece of advice. When people go off college, I'm like, I'm not going to get mad when you come to me for help, because if I did that, you would never come to me for help. And would you rather have me helping you get your pants on, your bathing suit? Or would you rather have your mom? Or the
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other option where it's just leave me in the bathtub until I
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come to? 1s I don't know how long I can leave you bathtub wrapped in a shower. Hey. 1s I'll tell you what, man. I've slept in many bathtubs. 7s Hey.
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And there's nothing to be ashamed about. That cold. Porcelain feels so good when you
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are drunk. Different porcelain from the toilet hold. All right? I'm done embarrassing my kid. I just wanted to bring him on here and brag about him. Let's do some shout outs. Now, this is probably not what people are expecting to hear from the adult parenting stories, but, man,
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it's crazy.
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I'd like to shout out the big bird and snuffle up again.
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I actually have a friend whose name is F Bart, and I'm not making that up. It's not a call sign or anything. It's just a combination of his names. And I've always thought the name F bart. He's down in Florida. So shout out to F Bart. Thank you for your service. He's in the Air Force. Your name sounds like a Sesame Street character.
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Do you Know, speaking Of Sesame Street, 1s that Oscar The Grouch started out as
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disgusting.
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I'm just I heard it. I've never seen it.
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I don't know which, but I heard it in that whole Oscar.
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The grouch in the garbage can.
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Oh, bird's orange. Yeah. 6s Peace. 2s Bye.