Speaker 1: More importantly, justin Worsham.
Speaker 2: Who cares about all this real politics and acid blooms.
Speaker 3: Get out of his side note Curveball, Oh his father's
Speaker 3: they going to be weird for us. Do you consider
Speaker 3: father's they weird?
Speaker 4: Now? Yeah? Oh all three of us lost our dads. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I for me, I've chosen I could. I could tell
Speaker 2: subliminately because until you said that, I have purposely not
Speaker 2: like you know how like Freud says, there are no mistakes, right,
Speaker 2: I think I've purposely chose not to think about it dad.
Speaker 4: So that's yeah, but it's yeah, it's it is different.
Speaker 2: And to add to it, my dad at the cabin
Speaker 2: community he lived in, he they he found out that
Speaker 2: like forty some odd years ago, they used to do
Speaker 2: this fishing tournament on Father's Day weekend for kids, and
Speaker 2: he thought that was a cool idea, Like he found
Speaker 2: old photos of it from like forever ago, and so
Speaker 2: he was like, I want to bring this back. So
Speaker 2: he purposely got on the ho a board started the saying,
Speaker 2: my family would run it every year and they're naming
Speaker 2: it after him.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, are they doing it on father?
Speaker 4: Father? It's on Father's Day every year?
Speaker 2: And so On this Father's Day, I will be hosting
Speaker 2: a raffle that I used to co host with my dad,
Speaker 2: wearing a T shirt that says the Jesse Warship Fishing God,
Speaker 2: you are going to be.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be a mask. Can you imge?
Speaker 3: I've got to just ugly cr winner the Courtolet take
Speaker 3: a number two six zero one ninety three.
Speaker 4: That's two six zero one.
Speaker 1: Can I give you advice you didn't ask for?
Speaker 4: Yes, I don't know what's ever stopped you before.
Speaker 1: This is true, but at least I'm asking.
Speaker 4: I don't think that counts, but go for it.
Speaker 2: I mean, consider the time that you've given unsolicited advice
Speaker 2: in these segments to me, sometimes hurtful.
Speaker 4: I just don't think it. No, now I'm no, she
Speaker 4: did it. She did it, didn't me Gary, she did it.
Speaker 4: Now she's got me begging for it. Now she's good.
Speaker 4: She's got me begging for the.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say that to keep it together.
Speaker 3: Imagine your dad there, my looking like the green ghost
Speaker 3: at the end of Return of the Jedi when you've got.
Speaker 1: Zombi vers, but it's like he's still there, Like you
Speaker 1: wouldn't cry like that in front of your dad.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I would Lord, that's the advice and how
Speaker 2: it ends on the show's.
Speaker 3: There's a new survey that says a lot of kids
Speaker 3: believe that their dad is their top life mentor. Most
Speaker 3: for those who grew up with a dad, seventy percent
Speaker 3: said their dad was one of their greatest mentors in life.
Speaker 4: How could it not be?
Speaker 1: Well, and I say the same thing for moms as well,
Speaker 1: how could your parents not be a top life mentor.
Speaker 1: You're raised in the house, you think this is the
Speaker 1: way things are for some people have awful parents, but
Speaker 1: still mentor is not. I mean you're looking to your
Speaker 1: parent parents as an example of how to live.
Speaker 4: Good or bad.
Speaker 3: Well, there's I think maybe the difference would be top
Speaker 3: influence in your life versus mentor R mentor I meet
Speaker 3: somebody that you'd want to Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4: They also what I hear mentor.
Speaker 2: Is is also a person who gives you that life advice,
Speaker 2: like they guide you. And to me, this is I
Speaker 2: can only speak from my perspective, is that I believe
Speaker 2: my dad's secret power was this, like he was the
Speaker 2: one of the the This is going to sound so dumb,
Speaker 2: and maybe I will cry and I'm sorry. But the
Speaker 2: most cliche, like the poetic thing he ever said to
Speaker 2: me was I was in Alabama and I was having
Speaker 2: a rough week doing stand up and I had called
Speaker 2: him to just kind of vent and he gave me
Speaker 2: this advice. He said, listen, I've seen you do shows
Speaker 2: where if one little thing like isn't to your liking
Speaker 2: or doesn't go the way you think it will go,
Speaker 2: he said, you kind of just you lose it, like
Speaker 2: you kind of start to fall apart. He said, just
Speaker 2: go up there and have fun, and that's all you
Speaker 2: need to do, and that's normal advice. And then he
Speaker 2: ended it with saying, there is great this in you
Speaker 2: don't get in its way.
Speaker 4: And I like Star Wars right Skywalker, And I'm kind
Speaker 4: of like, yeah, but let.
Speaker 1: Me ask you, I mean the very similar.
Speaker 3: They give some examples in this in this survey cup.
Speaker 3: One one person said the most brogue thing my father
Speaker 3: has ever done for me was during Hurricane Harvey, trudged
Speaker 3: through the waters to come and get me. Another one said,
Speaker 3: he stopped working, Dad, You never did any He stopped
Speaker 3: working and took care of me when I had a car.
Speaker 4: Ex Some of us are morning. Differently, My dad taught.
Speaker 1: Me about money and keeping it and being smart with
Speaker 1: it and if you don't know what you're doing, hire
Speaker 1: someone who knows what they're doing and save it and
Speaker 1: those and I think that that is one of the
Speaker 1: most invaluable lessons because everybody needs it. I mean, I
Speaker 1: love the Star Wars stuff, and it's true, and everyone
Speaker 1: has greatness, not everyone. You have your own brand of greatness.
Speaker 1: I don't want to take away from your greatness. I
Speaker 1: think you look to dad's for that kind of like structure.
Speaker 1: You know, you can even throw in like a military
Speaker 1: vibe to of routine and structure that that is important
Speaker 1: for anybody to live their life.
Speaker 3: Expectation throw that word in there too. Yeah, I think
Speaker 3: not that moms don't have expectations, but that it might
Speaker 3: be received differently from the father.
Speaker 2: The thing, the thing that I'm most proud of so
Speaker 2: far in being a father is that both my kids
Speaker 2: both made this kind of comment about I made the
Speaker 2: joke about whenever they want something, they always go to
Speaker 2: their mother, and they both said, well, it's because you're
Speaker 2: more likely to say no. And then my older son said, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: like you talked to mom about stuff, but if you
Speaker 2: need like real life advice, you go to dad. And
Speaker 2: then my younger son was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 2: I almost cried right there, like I was like, to me,
Speaker 2: that was like mission accomplished that I feel for me,
Speaker 2: I feel like I've always tried to be the father
Speaker 2: that my father was to me, and to be that
Speaker 2: mentor to be somebody that because my dad knew stuff.
Speaker 2: My dad had no performance background whatsoever, but gave me
Speaker 2: so much life advice. When I told him I wanted
Speaker 2: to be a perform about money, he said, you're not
Speaker 2: going to know when your next paycheck is going to be,
Speaker 2: so your thing in life is going to be about
Speaker 2: minimizing your nut and keeping your expenses low so that
Speaker 2: you can be mobile and fluid. That's exactly what he
Speaker 2: told me when I was seventeen years old, and I
Speaker 2: said I wanted to be an actor like that, and
Speaker 2: he was right to and a thing that he had
Speaker 2: no clue about what he.
Speaker 1: Was talking about, And what great advice other that he
Speaker 1: gave you, because it's much easier to say, get a
Speaker 1: real job.
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly, which was also I think kind of what
Speaker 2: I would have expected from him.
Speaker 4: But he was not. He was not like that. He
Speaker 4: also said this.
Speaker 2: I interviewed him on the podcast one time, and I
Speaker 2: was like more of a stay at home dad, and
Speaker 2: I often thought that he kind of thought that that
Speaker 2: was silly or looked down on it. And when I
Speaker 2: talked to him about it, he said, he goes, No, honestly,
Speaker 2: I envy it, he goes, I grew up in a
Speaker 2: time where as a husband, you were expected to just
Speaker 2: go or make money, like that was your job.
Speaker 4: He goes. You live at a time, if you liked
Speaker 4: it or not, exactly that was what you did. He goes.
Speaker 2: You live in a time where you're as a couple
Speaker 2: you can decide what are your strengths, and as a couple,
Speaker 2: as a team, you could decide who's going to be
Speaker 2: the best person to do this job. He goes, I
Speaker 2: would have loved to just been home with the kids,
Speaker 2: like with you and even my stepbrother and.
Speaker 4: Stepsister, Like, how was that a shock to you? And
Speaker 4: it was very much a shock. It was.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 4: It was a big time shock.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry if I'm making this all about me,
Speaker 2: but I think it's in the same vein of what
Speaker 2: we're talking about in this survey is that even my grandfather,
Speaker 2: who did not graduate high school, barely finished middle school,
Speaker 2: was born in the Great Depression, and we were I
Speaker 2: did this Father's Day episode of the podcast where I
Speaker 2: was my grandfather, my dad, and me all talking about
Speaker 2: our experiences as dad's and my grandfather who was just
Speaker 2: this like stereotypical redneck character from Bonanza, like even went
Speaker 2: to high school with ass from Bonanza.
Speaker 4: My grandfather Kelly, and so he you were so funny.
Speaker 2: So anyway, he said, he goes, I said, what do
Speaker 2: you think about parentsing today? And I just threw out
Speaker 2: just this lame question and my grandfather, again not educated anything.
Speaker 2: He goes, I don't know how people today can raise
Speaker 2: their kids. When I grew up, we were on a
Speaker 2: farm and I didn't know what my neighbors had or
Speaker 2: what they did. He goes, Every child is constantly hit
Speaker 2: with what somebody else has and constantly confronted with a
Speaker 2: life that they want that could be better than theirs.
Speaker 2: And he's like, I don't, like, he's breaking down media theory. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he doesn't even have a high school diploma. Like, again,
Speaker 2: there's just this benefit that I think hopefully a lot
Speaker 2: of us and it seems like most of us get
Speaker 2: to have is these guys that are wise in our
Speaker 2: life beyond what you would expect them to be.
Speaker 4: And I don't know why that is. It's interesting part of.
Speaker 1: Its life experience. Sure you know.
Speaker 3: All right why parents are asking kids to help plan trips.
Speaker 3: This is an awful idea. Visit Anaheim commissioned to study
Speaker 3: then asked about letting kids help plan vacation.
Speaker 2: I like it when I could predict you, because I
Speaker 2: saw this and I was like, oh, this seems like fun.
Speaker 2: And then as soon as I thought that in my head,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I bet Gary's gonna hate this.
Speaker 1: Gary's house kids are lucky. They have air to breathe
Speaker 1: right before they are nineteen eighty four and every day
Speaker 1: that's great. I would have been the same freaking way
Speaker 1: I would have treated my house like it was a prison.
Speaker 2: I think I am pretty much the same way too.
Speaker 2: But I don't something about the vacation idea because and
Speaker 2: maybe it's because I'm in the teenage quagmire where my
Speaker 2: kids aren't jerks when we go on vacation. But I
Speaker 2: just thought, I imagine this is born from the idea
Speaker 2: that when you take a teenager and it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm just sitting there and there on their phone. If
Speaker 2: you let them have a buy in or some kind
Speaker 2: of steak in it, then.
Speaker 1: Maybe see them like, this is your money, you're going
Speaker 1: who works for it? They're lucky that they get to
Speaker 1: tag along. Well, I will say this in terms of
Speaker 1: in terms of planning a vacation, wouldn't say, when you
Speaker 1: take us to the casino, I'm savvy enough.
Speaker 3: I'm savvy enough to know stay on the walkway that
Speaker 3: I'm going to plan where we go, right, but I'm
Speaker 3: going to do it in a way that I'm conscious of.
Speaker 3: There's got to be something for them to enjoy. For example,
Speaker 3: people who take kids to Vegas I think should be
Speaker 3: arrested and thrown in jail for multiple presentdential terms.
Speaker 1: Like she just said, this is I know my parents
Speaker 1: would take us to Tahoe and my dad is again
Speaker 1: I would like to gamble, and my brother and I
Speaker 1: we would just go to the arcade. You know, but yes,
Speaker 1: stay on the walk.
Speaker 2: That's how That's how popular it was to take kids
Speaker 2: to casinos.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like at the gym. It didn't even occur
Speaker 4: to me as a child.
Speaker 1: That I would ever have any say and any sort
Speaker 1: of vacation, Like, that's so ridiculous.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't take a kid also to Mexico, although I
Speaker 3: say that now I took an eighteen month old on
Speaker 3: a cruise there, which is a huge miss.
Speaker 4: Did he get a tattoo, No, but he got dysentery.
Speaker 1: Everyone.
Speaker 3: But if you go to a place, you got to
Speaker 3: have something for them to do, right, And even a
Speaker 3: cruise ship can be kind of a hit and miss
Speaker 3: thing because some of them have they all have it.
Speaker 2: It's but to support your point, a lot of them
Speaker 2: said things that they would like to do on their
Speaker 2: vacation to be like meet a celebrity.
Speaker 4: Which like, that's not what a vacation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like most of were like, and then higher percentages
Speaker 2: were like they wanted to go to an amusement park
Speaker 2: or the beach, you know what I mean. Like it
Speaker 2: seems like very stereotype. If my kid was to like
Speaker 2: my older son, if he was to pick whatever we
Speaker 2: were going to do, he would want to just basically
Speaker 2: do a restaurant tour of whatever city we were in.
Speaker 2: He would want to try if they had a Michelin
Speaker 2: Star restaurant, he would want to try it.
Speaker 4: That's insane. Yeah, he should get a job, more jobs. Well, no,
Speaker 4: that's this one doesn't have a job. He's a junior.
Speaker 4: He's a junior.
Speaker 3: So next year, two years from now, you're going to
Speaker 3: start talking about senior trip of some kind, right, I
Speaker 3: don't know if you do that.
Speaker 4: I don't do that. I do not plan on providing
Speaker 4: a senior trip. Is this a failure to for your kids?
Speaker 4: Some people do that.
Speaker 3: No, No, not like get that at home in the
Speaker 3: South Padre Island. I mean like as a as a family,
Speaker 3: you guys would go to a place of his choosing. Oh,
Speaker 3: like we take a vacation because he graduated high school,
Speaker 3: which I mean is not a giant. It's not like
Speaker 3: he got a promotion to the C suite or anything.
Speaker 3: To me, I feel like you did what you should
Speaker 3: have done like that. Yeah, I don't know, Maybe that
Speaker 3: makes me a jerk.
Speaker 1: But graduated extravagant college and my mom and dad, but
Speaker 1: I think it was served by my mom paid for
Speaker 1: a trip for me to go to Hawaii with a girlfriend.
Speaker 1: And I remember being flabbergasted by that, Like you're doing
Speaker 1: what like and that was graduating college? You know, twenty
Speaker 1: two years old, you.
Speaker 2: Were taken aback because it's like, Wow, you're.
Speaker 4: On the trip going, am I gonna come home?
Speaker 2: And they're gonna go, great, here's all your stuff in
Speaker 2: the garage.
Speaker 4: There's a U haul.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean that happened too, but still, you know, it.
Speaker 3: Was really nice as they drive as she drives away,
Speaker 3: there just wife and there.
Speaker 1: I think it would be a fun exercise to ask
Speaker 1: your kids what they would do if they could plan
Speaker 1: their own vacation. That's a fun little dinner time exercise.
Speaker 1: But actually doing it, the thing that they're not tethered
Speaker 1: to is reality worse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you gave them a ram of hope only
Speaker 2: so you could take it away from.
Speaker 4: Them children before you go quick. Truly a question.
Speaker 3: By the way, you said that your grandfather went to
Speaker 3: high school Dan Blocker, the guy who played Bonanza. Do
Speaker 3: you know how old he was when he died? Dan
Speaker 3: Blocker sixty two, probably forty three. Dan Blocker was forty
Speaker 3: three when he died in the early seventies. I just
Speaker 3: in hit my mind that guy was in his sixties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was on show when you said that. I thought, well,
Speaker 2: it had to be on the show.
Speaker 4: Hard forty three. Yeah, he lived a full life. He
Speaker 4: really did his thing. We dedicate today's show to Dan Blocker.
Speaker 1: What did he eat?
Speaker 4: Everything? Clearly butter and steak.
Speaker 3: And he was a four pack of day smoker, probably
Speaker 3: because everybody.
Speaker 1: Was yeah, the good old he lost.
Speaker 3: Weight justin don't smoke. Oh all right, I did quit
Speaker 3: and you made it past forty three.
Speaker 4: Congrats to me. I'm gonna go on a trip and
Speaker 4: I'm going to plan that sucker.
Speaker 3: Thank you as always, big humongous twelve block hours coming up,
Speaker 3: one Gary, whenever I leave