This is fifty plus and Father's Day. By the time this airrs will have
passed, they will have It was a couple of days ago and someone asked
me, what does it feel like for me in my life Father's Day?
So I said, briefly, I will talk about it on my show because
it does kind of for many of us fifty plus. It's very different.
There are several things that are going on for me that many of you probably
can relate to. One, I am a father and a grandfather, so
I do have kids and grandkids who shower me with love and support as a
father and grandfather, and so that's wonderful. Need to have that. On
the flip side, my father who's alive, James, I see you and
I have no contact. You have a zero relationship. So it's always a
little sting. At this point, it's been so long. I don't think
it doesn't hurt that heavily anymore because I've got a lot of therapy and stuff.
But there's a little sting there. There's a little sting in there that
I don't have a father. I wish I had a father that was just
wonderful, loving and support. Everybody I can go to i'd love don't have
funny older I can go to your advice, but I don't. Not male,
I don't, so that sucks. I have females. I can go
to you that are older, but not males, and I wish I had
more males to go to you that were older. Everything anybody comes to me,
I know what it holds onto everything. It's kind of crazy. Also
another thing, I had two stepdads and both passed away the last two years.
So this is the second Father's Day without my last step father and the
third. Though before that I was not. I was not. I did
not view my last step father as a father. He's my mother's husband.
I care to my life way late in my forties, but I liked him,
I respected him, took care of my mother. His death was tragic,
So it's sad. My other step father, stepdad Larry, who I
loved to pieces grew up with. That one hurts the most because we were
just starting to get back into each other's lives, like I'm a little more,
we're talking, I'll try to hang out with them more, and then
he passed and away. Also, they both passed like just so quickly.
I'm one of the oldest people, oldest men in my family so to speak.
I have uncles who are not in my life. They don't really give
two shits about me. And that happens. It just this happens, and
this happens in life. I have no grandfathers, no no anybody, no
great nothing else. I have a few older cousins that they don't talk to
me. We don't talk to each other for there are reasons. So I
am the lead man. I have younger siblings, younger brothers, I have
grandsons, have younger cousins that I do talk to, colleagues, friends,
either my age or younger. So that's the one thing I will say.
For me being fifty plus, and many of you will understand this, I'm
missing that a lot of my mentors in my life that are older. It
starts your circle starts to get smaller and you start to lose them. That
part sucks. But Father's Day is just it's for me for the most part,
It's an okay day. It's never super exciting or super happy or super
sad and right now somewhere in the middle, few highs, few sadness moments,
but in the middle. But I like Father's day. I'm a father,
I'm proud of it. My grandfather, I'm proud of it. And
I think it's just part of life, isn't. As you get older and
give fifty plus, I'm James Lodd Junior. How many Father's Day to all
those who were fathers. And if you have a good father or grandfather or
a male figure that's older than you, are, hold on to them for
dear life.