Cure For "The Ick" | Episode #308 | NSFW

0:00 - It's you, Ted, folks. - But first, dad jokes. - "Frazing Kid" seems really hard, which is why I am all in favor of putting your kid on a leash if you want to. (audience laughs) Well, your kid on a leash! I don't care. I've never seen a kid on a leash who didn't need that leash. (audience laughs) - The leash has always pulled taught. (audience laughs) Boy, is reaching for a stranger's mouth? (audience laughs) Put your kid on a leash! I don't understand a single argument against it. People are like, "Well, I don't wanna put my kid on a leash "because I want him to explore, right? "I want him to be an explorer."

0:41 You guys remember explorers, histories, worst monsters? Why are we encouraging that? Maybe if Columbus' mom had put him on a leash as a kid, he wouldn't have spent his adulthood genociding everyone he met. (audience laughs) Maybe that's a boundary you need to teach young. (audience laughs) People are like, "Well, what happens "when you take the kid off the leash?" And then they go crazy. And to that, I say, "I'm not gonna be there then." (audience laughs) We're all at the airport now. (audience laughs) (audience laughs) - Wake up, daddy, shone. (upbeat music) - Good word.

1:24 Do you use in place of stuck in front of your kids? - Oh, good question. I use the word's bum, so, I don't need for more parenting kids. - Oh, shut up, fuck off! - I think you did make a black and beautiful. - Anytime we can start off a show with that. - Shut up, fuck off! - Is it gonna start to a show? - Whoa, man, oh, Bobcats. Episode number three, oh eight. And I just, I saw that today on Facebook and it just hit me as-- - What word do you use in place of stuck in front of your kids? - Oh, good question. I use the word's bum, so, follow me from my parenting tips.

2:06 - More parenting tips. (laughs) - There's a dad's home podcast and cheers to that. - Cheers, Chad. - Yes, cheers. - Both of us tonight. - Mmm. - You're straight up mine in the form of a Dequila sunrise. - What do you, what could be your drinkin' right there? - So, this is... Loose, Coneros, I think is the right way to say that. Long story short, a friend of mine is a minority investor in this Tequila brand here in central Texas. And it's basically like the horns in Spanish, so I think it's Loose Coneros.

2:47 All of you Spanish speakers, please correct me 'cause I'm sure I'm wrong. I'm gonna go look it up later. - Green goes just to drink us. - So we don't speak Tequila. - It's called the horns. - You know, speaking English, right? - No, they're right, he's right about that. It's in, anyway, we call it the horns. It's the Tequila horns, so good time. - But yeah, obvious connection right to the local sports teams here. - Sure, the local horns. - Yeah, anyway, so we were at a dinner party recently and we're gifted a bottle. And it's pretty damn good. - That's the idea, I feel like a dick. My wife was gifted a bottle for motor for clients and that's what I tapped into for tonight's, but I didn't even bother to look at the goddamn people.

3:33 (laughing) - It could be Quervo, you don't know. - So no, it's definitely not, and it's a great Tequila. And again, I don't wanna not Quervo if they wanted to sponsor the show, but we honestly are better Tequila's out there. No, no, no, no. - There could be, I mean, there's a lot better Tequila's out there. - There's the most, there's the keyless out there better than Quervo, let's just put that out there. Again, I'm open to hearing Quervo's side of the story, but that said, it's a stellar Tequila, and I wish I had the name and I wanna, happy to run upstairs and go grab it and just talk about it, but I'll say it and bring it up. Maybe I'll put it in the show notes and have that in the show notes for later on, but it's a fantastic Tequila as well, one of my favorites and I've had in recent weeks. So I'm enjoying it, I just don't know what the name is because it was gifted to my wife.

4:18 - Yeah, and Tequila sometimes is just Tequila, right? I mean, sometimes Margarita at a restaurant, and sometimes will ask me like, hey, what do you prefer? And I gotta make some shit up, right? Like, oh, I don't, Tebaba? - It's getting on the top shelf and then, - Yeah, that's my favorite, I'll have that. - That's right, that's right, that's the good stuff. - That's right there. - Yeah, well, we've got a good solid plan, I say stick with it. Welcome to the show, coming up on the show today. In fact, let's just kind of get the scroll going there. Coming up on the show today, we are going to talk about the IK, which I didn't know had a name, but it's got a name, and apparently not only does it have a name, it's spreading like COVID and it's spreading, - Oh shit.

5:08 - To married people, apparently. So we will talk a little bit about the IK as well as the parenting, 'cause if there's one thing every parent has experienced on some level. It's hearing from either another parent, the worst possible scenario here is that you hear from somebody who's not a parent that wants to give you parenting advice and you just shut the fuck up for all I can. - Wait, wait, cool, where's our sound effect? - Oh, the shut the fuck up. - Shut the fuck up. - Yeah, fuck up. - I mean, that's literally, if you're not a parent, - Shut the fuck up. - That's it. There's no reason to be giving parenting advice, but occasionally you'll get the school teacher or the church parishioner that decides it's time to explain to you the way parenting should be done, and then you're stuck hearing some parenting tips or worse yet trends, which we all just fucking hate from the phrase helicopter parents to, which it's moved on to snow, - Snow, cloud, bulldozer, tank, yeah, you name it, like pick a vehicle.

6:10 - We'll talk about some of the ones, and then, and I think freely one good thing to Chad and I do here in the dad's home podcast is we are more than willing to make fun of ourselves when we're like, yeah, I do that. I do that. - That is, amen, amen. - So yeah, there are definitely times and we're gonna talk about this list of trends, parenting trends that everybody hates. - Yes. - And I, and looking through the list, I was like, yeah, I do that, I do that. - No, no, no, no, no, we do. - We do. - Yeah, we do. - No, I do. And yeah, but there is really nothing worse than getting unsolicited parenting advice. - Right. - Really from anyone for that matter, 'cause it always feels like such a, like, - Well, first of all, they dig, it's a dig.

6:55 - It's not somebody who's like, hey, little known fact, there's no, again, okay, I'm gonna reference something that a lot of the younger parents, the younger dads aren't gonna get, but Cliff Clayvin was a character on cheers. - Oh, Cliff Clayvin was the postman on cheers. And one of the famous things for Cliff Clayvin was, hey, he's a little known fact. John Ratzonberger played Cliff Clayvin. Hey, yeah, these little known facts. None, zero of these parenting trends and tips that come from other parents came from nowhere. They didn't pull them out of their ass, like, oh, hey, did you know? Here's a little known fact. Nobody's doing that. It's all very judgy. So when somebody brings you one of these parenting tips, slash trends, it's because they're fucking judging you.

7:37 And that's, and you've done something that either put whatever your action was the way you treated your kid or, what way, the way you dressed at the park, I don't know, whatever the fuck it was, caused them to go instant judge on you. And they're about to let you know what you're doing wrong and that there's a right way to do it. And they somehow secretly know what that right way is. So that's right. That's when that's a threat to you. - I'm gonna throw this one on top of what you said. John Ratzonberger, folks who was not only Cliff Clayvin in cheers, he has been in every single, and I'm not making this app, Pixar movie. - That's true. - As a voice. - He has done some-- - For you younger parents, go watch any Pixar movie from, you know, Toy Story to Inside Out and that is, he's in there, so that's him.

8:29 - Yep, yep, it's what he does and does so well. So we'll get into some of that on the way. - I would take unsolicited parenting advice from Cliff Clavelin. - You would. - Cliff Clayvin's - Unsolicited parenting advice. He had such bad luck as a stand-up comic. Remember, is that, when you stand-up comedy is the postman, stand-up comic and the line at the end was, what's up with that? Like his whole thing was his punchline for every joke was, what's up with that? And then he goes, if I could be serious for a moment. World peace. What's up with that? (laughs) - Oh, it's unsolicited parenting advice. What's up with that? - Unsolicited parenting advice. - Look now, look, we will also, we will kind of counter that with a little bit of what it was like to be a parent in the 80s 'cause neither Chad or I were parents in the 80s, but we had parents in the 80s and for what it's worth.

9:15 - We were parented. - We were parented if that's what you wanna call it. It's stuff now that you look back on, you're like, how the fuck did they get away with that? How are they not cited for some of this stuff? But, but we will bring it up and we'll discuss that coming up a little bit later here in the dead, so much. - And to be fair, that was also back when the ash trays were in the armrest in the door and the back seat built the car. - They were built in everywhere. - And yet have you stumbled across a movie recently that was made, I'll just even say 30 years ago and you're just like, oh shit, they allowed that then. Like, so in going back and kind of bumping right up to this 80s parent thing, we talked my daughter, Charlie, my 17 year old, we were talking about movies here and then that we think she hasn't seen it yet, she should definitely check it out.

10:14 And one of the ones was on the heels of the death of Gene Hackman. This next week. - Oh yeah. - We were talking about Gene, she wanted to know who Gene Hackman was. So we're talking about Superman and I'm like, oh my God, one of the best Westerns ever made. And for those of you who love Westerns, you know what I'm talking for those who know, you know. You know what I'm talking about again, unforgiven with Clint Eastwood and he, he and Gene Hackman won the Oscar for his role as the sheriff in that and was one of my favorite movies, is one of my favorite Westerns of all time. But my favorite Gene Hackman movie is the Bird Cage. Robin Williams. And I'm talking to my daughter who, as we've talked about here, we've shared this before, my daughters love every Friday night were watching RuPaul's Drag Race.

11:01 It's their favorites, our family thing to do. Yes, this guy here, the same guy who... - What word do you use in place of fuck in front of your kids? - Oh, good question. I use the word fuck. So follow me for more parenting tips. - My soon to be 11 year old daughter knows what a Kooter slam is, which is thanks to RuPaul's Drag Race 'cause that's one of the dance moves that the drag racers will perform during the lip sync for your fucking life portion of the RuPaul's Drag Race. And so we've gone through that whole rig and we're all but my daughter has never seen the Bird Cage and so I'm trying to explain to her with the Bird Cage. I'm like, you know what, we should just watch it on the heels of Gene Hackman's death.

11:41 So we popped on the video on Friday night and we watched the Bird Cage. And it's just so amazing to me, A, to see somebody smoking in a restaurant or in a bar and going to holy, this was night, it was filmed, it was released in 1996. So we're not even talking the 70s into the 80s. We're talking almost Y2K and people were still fucking smoking in bars and smoking in restaurants. That smoking sections in restaurants that made little to no sense because it was just a few tables away, perhaps. - This is no kids, no. - No, it was perhaps separated by a little bit of lattice which the smoke just goes right through for those of you who are physics experts.

12:25 There was nothing that was stopping the smoke from going through. So to see people in the restaurants and in the bars smoking, you're like holy shitballs. I thought that was forever ago and it literally was happening in 1996, whatever. So there's that. But then also thinking about some of the parenting that went on in the movie and the thing that on the back end of that, my wife and I had a conversation saying, "I don't know that this movie could be made again. The way it was in 1996." - Oh shit. - "The movie made the lane arguably the only out gay character in the movie while Robin Williams, a straight guy in the kid's marriage."

13:10 - Heck, heck, heck, Zaria too though. - Right. - Not a gay guy and right, but in that movie, right, he was, yeah, in the movie, right? He was the gay botler in there who wanted to be in the show so bad, Spartacus. He was amazing. I don't think you can make that movie without gay characters in the starring roles. This day and age, the way they did in 1996. And again, that movie is so good and amazing. - It's the whole, like you got away the star power to bring in the audiences versus putting a realistic character in there, which is why Asians are unrepresented in Hollywood, blah, blah, blah, I can go on forever.

13:57 And the Oscars are going on, I think, maybe tonight, I don't know. So, but it seems like that shit's getting better, but you're not wrong. I mean, there's so much of that that is going on that in Hollywood. And, you know, just like parenting that happened in the 80s, we couldn't parent like that today. So you can make a movie like that. - And again, when you hear what our parents did in the 80s, and this article that's written specifically about all that, it'd be like, how is it possible? How are they not cuffed and hauled off? How are they? - How am I still alive? - Parents. - Right here. - Yeah. - How am I still alive? - So all of that is still on the way. Here at the dad's home podcast, we'll get to that all coming up in just a minute.

14:39 But first I wanna give everybody a heads up in a warning here that there is breaking news. - Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention? I've just been handed an urgent news story. - Get your masks on. Keep your socially distant selves away from the person behind you and in front of you because the ICC is out. It's not spread as widely as what we are seeing with COVID or even for what it's worth. - For the measles. - For the measles, yeah. - Yeah. - You guys have a problem there as well. I understand that polio is making a return. There's a lot of different things that are happening right now and there should be concerns. But the ICC is one, I don't know too many people who have ever, who haven't seen conversation about it.

15:24 I haven't seen a whole bunch of social media about it, but it is spreading. It is definitely something that we need to be concerned about. For those of you who don't know what the ICC is, I saw it on social media and my wife actually sent me, the same day I saw it, she's like, look at this. And I'm like, oh my God, she's telling me she's got the ICC. That's what she's trying to tell me. This is how I read into it, right? As soon as I get this, I'm like, oh, this is for sure. - I have all of it. - I have these symptoms. - I have these symptoms. - This is like she's wet indeed herself into, into believe, I Googled it, I've got it. She's totally got it, completely a hundred percent. And so with that, I'm like, well, what is this, I gotta figure out what this ICC is 'cause the ICC is something that sounds relatively scary and low and behold here, the ICC is a sudden feeling of disgust towards your partner often for minor things.

16:13 So again, if you're married, study showed physical appearance is a less frequent extrigger than behavior or personality. Okay, so it's not necessarily the extra weight you've put on or the crow's feet around your eyes or the wrinkles around the sides of your mouth or even your horrible 1990s goatee. - And you know, you're long toenails, right? - Thank you. - Any of those. It's not even my snoring apparently, which is clearly an ICC, I mean, that's a symptom of ICC if I've ever heard it. - It is. - Literally heard it. But they're saying that 64% of people, 64% of married people, I'm guessing, what they're saying, have felt the ICC toward their partner.

17:00 26% have ended their relationship right after feeling the ICC. So that's apparently a moment that for those of us who haven't been divorced, we've gotten over the ICC, I don't, your thoughts on that, Chad, can we, can one overcome the ICC? - Well, I think the question here is, can you build up an immunity to the ICC? Like you could come down with the ICC, right? Be sick with the ICC for a while. - Yeah. - And maybe in your antibodies, your ICC antibodies begin to build up a tolerance for the ICC. - Right. - And that's how marriage is done.

17:41 - You don't have it, right? It's definitely there. You've experienced it. It's somehow dulled? - I think it's like herpes. So if you have herpes, like I think like 70 or 80 or maybe even 90% of us have herpes, right? Like you get a cold sore, that's herpes. - Right. - It's hard, not to have herpes is from what I understand. - Right. - And so, - Do you think public toilets, your kids, your kids, your herpes, easily get herpes. - If you've ever shopped at pottery barn, you're probably got herpes. If your wife is ever, I don't even think this is a thing anymore. So I'm gonna say it, if your wife ever shopped at BB or baby, I don't know what they call that at the mall, the women always have the BB shirt, they probably got herpes.

18:26 They probably got the abstracts when you shop at the purchase of their baby shirt. - I'm sure, I'm sure that it. - And so, yeah, in my mind, I think that the ICC is like that where you catch it at some point, maybe you caught the ICC at baby while you were shopping with your spouse. And then you're like, "Oh, why do I feel like shit?" Are you realize it's the ICC and then you-- - It's the ICC. - It's the ICC. - You know, week or two goes by, you're like, "Hey, I'm feeling a little bit better." I mean, I think I maybe still have the ICC, but it feels like it's less. - I do, it makes a lot of sense. - What I don't see, and again, this is just based upon this article, and I believe it's psychology today, was one of the places that was talking about the ICC. They say that narcissism and perfectionism increase the ICC likelihood.

19:12 So if you're focused on yourself and only yourself, and or the perfection is like, you've gotta have everything down pat this way, and there's no other way to do it. In your partner, the ICC factor climbs up, like it jacks up when that happens, right? Which is why I am definitely not a perfectionist when it comes to getting a hand job, because I think that's the one that's the ICC. (laughs) - I think that's a good point. Like if you're complaining about that, you need that to be perfect. - Yeah. - That's, that's, that's ends in divorce. - I wanna say this, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, for a dude, and I'll just say this for the dad's home podcast, and correct me if I'm wrong, except that I do believe that for dads, for guys, one of the things that will cure the ICC, we are very, we're prone to catch the ICC, just like everybody else in America, just like our partners, like everybody else in America, we catch the same ICC that they've caught, maybe at a different time, different place, different, era, whatever. - They've passed it back and forth between each other.

20:08 But from the dude's perspective here, there's nothing that cures a case of the ICCs. It's like chicken soup for the ICC is a solid hand job or some form of dry-humping. I mean, that's really what it comes down to. Of course, the, you know, I can, - I can cure. - I can cure. The further you wanna go, absolutely. That will absolutely cure my ICC for a very long, I mean, perhaps even just get rid of it all together, may, may completely destroy that virus, the ICC. - Oh, it's, but I think like most medicines, right, with something that's a, you know, a prolonged disease, you know, something that sticks with your body, you need, you need medicine, you know, every, every so often, right?

20:54 To make sure that you keep the ICC away, right? Like, you know, Apple a day keeps the doctor away, well, right? - Right, hand job a day keeps the ICC away, so. - That's, hold on. We, I'm seeing a t-shirt right now. I'm here. (laughing) - Dad's on podcast. - There is a t-shirt. - Let's go. - Let's go. - Hand job a week keeps the ICC away. (laughing) I think that that, and again, I'm not saying it's a cure all, but I am saying that, you know, sometimes one's symptoms can be so bad and you need a little tamaflu or you need a little nightclub that just kind of gets you over that hump for the time being to be able to go back to work. And I'm saying when it comes to the ICC, sometimes the only hump is a dry hump. And that's not a bad thing. It's not a bad thing.

21:35 I'm just saying that that can alleviate symptoms. If you've got symptoms, you might want to try the dry hump for alleviating symptoms. - Beautifully put. - Yeah, beautifully put. - And again, and I'm, oh, I just want to be clear. I'm not saying go out and get a dry hump from a complete stranger. No, no, that's not the point I'm trying to make here. From the one that you love that is giving you the ICC, it's perfectly- - That's the only cure. - That's the only cure for the ICC. It's if you want to get over that ICC, it's if you don't want to end like the 26% ending the relationship right after the ICC signs have kicked in, dry hump, hand job, I'm just saying. It's a solid remedy initially for the situation. So now moving onward, the trends that make us absolutely sick as parents.

22:23 And again, if you've heard this, and my, I'm gonna say it, my daughter throws shit back in my face all the time when it comes to this. Does your daughter do this, your daughters do this to you where they're like, why are you such a hell, they take whatever the trend is, why are you such a helicopter parent? Why are you constantly, why hovering? Why are you such a snow plow? I don't even know what the fuck that parent is. I have no idea what a snow plow parent is. I'm like barreling through and just like pushing everything aside for your kid. I don't know, I'm just trying to guess here. But when you hear these trends for parenting, you're like, there's no way I do that.

23:04 And then you take a second to go, okay, maybe I just did that now. It's very good and possible that I just, I know me, not me, I would never do that. There's so many facets of ways to raise your children and literally changes from week to week. If I did a search right now on chat GPT, I'm sure to come up with the top five parenting trends or top 10 over the last 10 years and there's gonna be way more than that. There'll be like a hundred different parenting trends that are there. But you know, like everything from, do you get your kids plastic toys? Or is that not okay because the plastics could cause cancer so you've got to get them toys made of wood? Or gifts that you're getting for other kids because you've got to have naturally sourced gifts for people's kids.

23:47 What about this? For us, when my daughter was growing up, you had to be concerned, not just at school, with which kids had allergies and what you could provide in the school. Like how many times did birthdays at school get canceled or you could only bring something from the store that didn't contain anything that was cooked with nuts? Like it was, you know, it was all of, - It's all of those. - It's all of those. - Right, legitimate things that you have to have concerns about that started to shift the way you did things at your house or for your kid from when you were growing up. So, we're in a place right now as weird as this sound. I've got a dog, I've got a golden retriever.

24:27 We were feeding that golden retriever, you just run out of the local pet store get them like the Purina dog chow, put it in the bowl, whatever. Now we started doing fresh pet for a little bit. That's pricey shit, you know that? Fresh pet, by the way, we would absolutely accept your advertising. - Okay, and I will go you one better. - Yeah, we actually hand make our dogs food. We do the same thing. - Yes, we do the same thing. - All right, for our favorite food, ready? - It's cheap as shit when you make it yourself. - Totally, yes. I mean, it doesn't last very long, but that's okay 'cause it's fresh and they're eating good food 'cause we just, we get some of, we either do like a ground chicken, ground turkey, we brown that up. - Freezin' frozen. - Yeah, throw some vegetables in there, throw some keen wall or some rice in there, along with some broth, they can't keep that going, some sweet potatoes in there.

25:15 And that's what my dog gets to eat every week. And she loves it, it's the best thing going. And I'm like, well, at least it's not the shit that they put in the kibble that I have no idea what's in there. - That's right. - So, we started doing that. - And I see this, not a parenting trend. Why me think it is if you consider your pet. - It is not, we just talked about you're doing it, and I'm doing it, it's a trend. - Yes, it's, and I mean, we're parents to our pets, I guess. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - But I mean, like how many parents did you know? We went from getting jars of baby food, or not even jars, I'm sorry, I can't even say that anymore. The squeezable containers that you could give your kids the baby food in. - See, that's how we, - Let's go, we are adults.

25:55 - Should you do that or should you puree it yourself? Like, should you make your own shit for your kids? So, there's all of these kinds of different trends that come up. And if you're not doing whatever the trend is, you're going to hear about it from somebody who's doing that trend. Even for the longest time, as we now take a look at who's in charge of health in this country, there were concerns about vaccines, and whether or not that contact caused autism, and there were plenty of scientific studies to point out the facts, but that didn't stop people from going that complete other direction. Point being, that was a massive trend for a long period of time. I had a number of people, my age, with my daughter's age, they had kids, the same age as my daughter, there were questioning, should I even get my kid vaccinated for all these things?

26:37 I'm like, okay, that's a trend. That's certainly something that we've got to take a look at. And I knew a number of people that were staying away specifically from that, that I think that, you know, it became a very vast movement, which maybe, may have led to some of the chicken pox you're seeing right there in Texas right now. Could very well have led to a good portion of that. So, anyway, those are some of the trends, but let's dig into some of the ones that they say, are ones that parents are really pissed off about you. There's been a BuzzFeed has gone through, asked the parents that they have reading their website, what are some of the ones that are just annoying as fuck to you? And these are the ones that came back. So, number one, parents never let their children be bored.

27:17 When my daughter complained about boredom, I gave her some chores. She learned to embrace boredom, which is not entirely a bad thing. What did, I'll tell you what I did, I gave my daughter my phone. That's the wrong move. That's not the right move. That is, see, there you go, the very first one out of the gate, both you and I are guilty. We can't let our children be bored. Can't let our children be bored. I can't. I do like what this guy says, hey, okay, your bored, let's go outside and get him on the yard. Right. Oh, now you're not so bored. Oh, son, you're not bored anymore, right? You're raking leaves that boards you? Hey, all right, that's cool. Oh, that's cool. Oh, that's cool. That's fine.

27:57 We need to clean the garage out, we're going to organize the shelves, let's go. We got to fix the black top on the driveway. You want to start laying down some tar, we'll start pounding it out there and then do it overhauling. It'd be great. You can totally keep them getting bored. It's going to take like three or four days. Let's do this. We need to rebuild the carburetor on the car too. So, exactly. That's got to hang some new drywall. Let's do this. So, but that's certainly a thing that we can for a second. And our kids, like, I, what I was going up, Chad? First of all, I keep, and this is how old I am to my kids. I couldn't play enough baseball. I would do anything in the summertime. I would go out with a wiffle ball by myself and I would draw lines of chalk on the garage door and I'd hit the ball to those different lines to try to get points.

28:46 We'd play horse out with the basketball over the garage and the basketball hoop and we'd try to, but at the same time, my friends, I would get on our fake BMX dirt bikes and go down to the school yard. And if there were only two of us, we'd have one pitcher and one hitter and we would put trash cans down from second base, like home plate, down second base, all the way to center field. And you could only hit to the right side or the left side of those trash cans or we'd play tennis ball, baseball. And we were constantly finding things to do. And I feel like my kids can't do that now. - Well, I look, you know, say what you want about electronics, media, the internet, whatever. Our kids are digital natives from now on.

29:29 Most kids, you know, unless there's some giant magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity, this is, you know, it's here to stay, right? Is kids are gonna be digital natives and it's too easy for kids to jump on a device instead of, hey, let's go outside and be creative and come up with a game where I only have to hit it to the right side. That doesn't happen anymore. It should. I think it's a shame that we're not still doing that with our kids. You know, and I know in our house, we held that as long as we could, but we gave in. But there's something to be said for letting your kids have that imagination and play. Like I remember when my kids are, I don't know, eight, nine, 10 years old, we had a pet shop, pet shop, something anyway.

30:16 But like these little characters my kids would play with, they would play for hours and use their imagination. And I mean, you know, they would set up these elaborate, I still have videos on my phone of them like playing this, right? Hey, dad, can I borrow your phone? I'm gonna make a video of me playing. Like, yeah, cool, knock yourself out. And so that still existed and that's, you know, having that imagination, I think that's the, that's the anti, that's the serum to this, right? We used to have just Legos, like not a set of Legos, like not a from a Lego fronze, like, you just had fucking blocks of Legos and you had to make shit with them.

30:58 You didn't know what you were making. It was all discolored, it didn't match at all, but you're like, look at this goddamn castle that I made or the Empire State Building. Yes, it's 18 different colors and none of them match. Why is that floor yellow? I don't know, that's all I had for bricks where yellow bricks are right there. But that's how you made shit and you, and you kept busy doing it and you actually felt like you were like accomplishing stuff. But I feel like, you know, then move into the digital ages you pointed out, which again, my 17-year-old daughter at age three when she was on my phone was deleting contacts from my phone, like she knew how to, that just scan through stuff, but she's deleting contacts from my phone. Dad, dad doesn't need to talk to these people. No idea who they were, but all of a sudden they're gone.

31:39 I can't find them anymore. So I feel like that, you know, I, there's a plus and minus with all of that, the plus side is she's so fluent in all that. It's second nature, there's no intimidation when it comes to using computers or phones or any of that kind of stuff. And it's very helpful to my wife and I when it comes to social media and business and all of it's fantastic. But at the same time, remember Legos jumped on board for a little while there, where not only were your directions on how to build the kit through your phone, like you'd scan a QR code and that's where the directions where you'd slide through your phone to see how to build the Lego friends kit. But then you could also take snapshots and it would put like a total picture around your Lego kit, like a scene and then they came out with an app where you could film a movie with your own.

32:25 It was like, it was crazy stuff that we would never be able to do when we were kids. But it was all around not allowing your kids in this day and age to be bored. And I kind of feel like it's okay for them to be a little bored. It's all right. They don't need to constantly, I think they need a little downtime from the constant influx of stimulus that they see whether it's on the phone or on the TV or anywhere around them. It's all right to have a little downtime and be a little bored. It's okay for that. It's okay for parents to do that for a bit. - So what is the other toxic parenting trend that I am guilty of on the list? - Yes. Let's see. First of all, I will say when your kid doesn't go to sleep, it's the worst thing that you can go through as a parent.

33:12 When your kid is not sleeping and now you can't sleep and all you wanna do is sleep and you know you can sleep in a second as soon as your head hits the pillow. But they're not sleeping and you have a conversation with your other half like, can we give them better drill? 'Cause I mean, they're not sneezing right now. I thought I heard a little, it's kinda like she was a little stuffed up. - Yeah. - 'Cause it looks a little red, maybe I am. - So, yeah, no one is gonna make him go to sleep but is that kind of giving him drugs for no reason other than they try to get him to sleep? Well, and then welcome into melatonin and that became a thing for people to do is to hand off melatonin to their kids. But then you start to get, the kids get used to that and like any form of a drug, they become, you know, they build up a tolerance to it and so you need more and more.

33:57 That becomes certainly a scary situation going forward for some of the parts. I have tried so hard to stay away from that. I have given my kids melatonin before but it's on like the once in a generalized long time. If it's mainly about nightmares or if they're having some sort of a problem asleep that they can't even voice what the disturbance was in their fearful of something's in their room. It was when they were smaller. I've given like half of a melatonin for them to be able to take it, the kid's melatonin version of it. But largely as they got older, we'd stayed away from all that and didn't need to go there but that was one of the big trends that was happening for a while as well. So, this is weird. I have a question for the audience, I think here.

34:39 - Yeah, when my kids were little, we used to give them like half an ambion. - And so, all right. - Yeah. - I thought you were gonna be like, "Well, we used to dose them up on some heroin." - Yeah. - Yeah. - So, maybe-- - No, but it was asleep. - I know, right. (laughing) - Well, I didn't look like my mom talks and I thought it was jokes until I got older and realized she's not fucking joking about this but when she was younger and she'd have a cough, there'd be whiskey involved with some sort of honey that they would take to kind of suit them and make them go to sleep. - Sometimes those legit moms recipe, like, you know, yeah, that was legit. - No, not equal is basically pure alcohol.

35:19 So, let's just have that in fucking fall asleep and you'll be crashed out until the next day. Sometimes it's even hard to get up with that kind of a hangover. So, this is one that I have a problem with but I certainly tell my kids this. Telling your kids they can be literally anything. - Oh, sure. - They can go to an Ivy League university. They can be a movie star. They can be an NFL quarterback. They can be the president. All you have to do is dream big. The trouble is many talented people don't do those things because of bad luck, not wanting the stress or simply because there are too few professional football players. So teaching your kids to work hard and develop their talents is great but telling them they can do anything if they just wanted bad enough set some up for a major disappointment.

36:00 - So, yeah, the, yes. And I will add to this, you know, both of us have softball kids and I have seen over the years the drop off of kids. Like, a lot of kids play softball 12, 14 years old around the 16 new age up to the 18 new age where there's a drop off of kids who play. And it really comes down to, I think, this exact thing where parents are like, oh, you can totally play a D1 school, blah, blah, blah. You know, you're bound to play great softball, right? And the parents have a delusion about their kid and they tell them the shit and the kid gets it in their head but then the kid figures out, you know what, that's a lot of work.

36:44 I don't wanna do that work. And so the difference, the subtle difference here between telling your kids they can be whatever they want and doing it the right way as a parent, at least in my mind and how I've handled it with my kid is put in the work, put in the work, I can't put in the work for you but put in the work. If that is your dream, if that is your goal, put in your work and I'm happy to drive you to do the work, I'm happy to be there like catching you if you're gonna be pitching like my kid, I will be there to support that but you've gotta put in the work, you don't put in the work, you got no dream. It's just, it's air, it's nothing. And so, hey, you wanna do these things, put in the work.

37:26 That's the difference. And so yeah, just telling your kid that, making them think they can be that and then watching them fail because you set them up for failure, that sucks. - Yeah, and I think, and I think the other side of that, and I think this is equally as important to bring up as you talked about with the hard work. And I can say this because both my wife and I, in the good times and the bad times have followed our dreams to be what we've wanted to be professionally and sometimes that's come with a ton of sacrifice. It's come with not having roots for me working in radio, having to move all over the country, to find the next job, to pursue that job in the bigger market.

38:07 And so you don't really have friends or roots that you've set any place. But also, just the acknowledgement that not only is there the hard work that comes with that, sometimes the successes aren't always there. And sometimes you have to be prepared for the failures that come with that. And they can be overwhelming. So it's if you want to pursue that part of your life, if you want to pursue something that is your dream, I'm gonna be here to fully support you in whatever that is. But with it, I would always prepare for some sort of a backup plan and something that you can do when things aren't going well for whatever that profession is because there will be times.

38:53 There will be moments when those things happen. And so it's not just about putting in all the hard work 'cause you can put all the hard work in the world in and not get the break. So you've got to be prepared for what that's going to be and how you're going to move forward with that. 'Cause I'm all for following that dream. I'm all for being what you wanna be, but just realize that in order to do that, there's gonna be a number of other things that you have to do that other people, your friends, aren't going to have to do. - Yeah. - T-shirt, I can't. I have softball. - Yes. - 100%. Look at this. We're like what, half an hour into this and we've got two t-shirts already ready to go. (laughs) Now there's two different things that I, one I have a problem with and I'll bring that up secondly here, but the free-range parenting element that people had been doing like when my kids were little, which was just basically like let your kids do whatever the fuck they wanna do.

39:48 We grew up at a time when you didn't have to, you can go out and do whatever, we were latch key kids. You go out and you do whatever you wanna do as long as you're home before the street lights come on your end of your shape. If you've gotten your homework done and all that kind of stuff. But free-range parenting was kind of the, in my opinion was kind of the forced air to that. It was like, well, you know, look, if we did it when we were growing up, why can't we let our kids do it? So we'll just let them do anything that they wanna do. They will have free reign. You've seen some of the schools, like the Montessori schools, they're like, there's not a regimented program in place for them as to what they're going to learn. Whatever you want when you go in that day, you go and learn it and the teachers will be there for whatever you wanna focus on kind of until you're tired of it and move on to the next thing.

40:30 Which again, I don't have a problem with that. But I do think that there has to be guidelines in place and free-range parenting was sort of the anti-guide line portion of things. And I think we've seen, go ahead. - I just said the words you're looking for is structure. There is a ton of evidence scientific evidence. - Yes, kids need structure. - Period. - Hard-stopped period. Like, they thrive on it. And then that goes from everything from the theory of sleep to get sleep and letting your kid kind of cry it out. Which I always thought was the worst thing when you have a child. That's just has been born or is in the first year of their life and you're like, I can't stand all the crying when we need to get them to go down for their nap and the time that they're supposed to have their nap and you're like, just let them cry it out.

41:16 I'm like, that's so mean. But it works. And they cry it out and they go to sleep and they start to develop their patterns from there. That's how this all comes together. But it's part of that structure. It's part of realizing, there's discipline. There are things that you have. If you're constantly free-ranging, you don't necessarily get the ought of discipline as something that enters your mind. You're not getting punished for doing things. It's kind of like either a success or failure, but there's no punishment when you're looking at the way you interact with other people and how you interact in a society as the case may be. I always bring it back to work for my kids. I'm like, yeah, intellectually speaking here, do you think that this would work if you were at a job?

41:58 So if you were free-ranging at work, people, parents, and you had a very specific job, I don't know, say you're a nurse, right? And you're a free-range nurse. I'm pretty sure you're not going to be a nurse at whatever particular place you're working very long if you're free-range. Right, there's a specific set of things you have to do. You got a little patience, paper, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, that free-range, bad. You have free-range brain surgeon. That's not going to happen. That is not, that is. Yeah, let me just climb around in the sky's brain for a while so it's there. And I'm going to go eat a snack while I'm doing it. Who says I got to get this thing all stitched up and closed up quickly? We're having fun.

42:39 Let's get at this. Watch what I can make him do with his left hand. Let's check this out. Exactly, yeah, folks. So-- And then we'll arrange that. The last thing I want to put out there, and I've sort of tried to rally against this for the most part of my kids because I've seen other parents do this with their kids, which is the not making your kids do things because you didn't like to do them when you were their age. Like, I don't like to clean my room. I didn't like to do it when I was a kid. Well, you also have a messy fucking house right now. So I don't like walking into your stinky house because you don't like to clean because you had to clean when you were younger, when you were a kid. There's a reason why all that happened on just a basic health level, but sanitary functions being able to breathe in one's home, not walking in where there's mold.

43:27 I mean, there's all kinds of things in there. So if you didn't like it, I'm sorry. You didn't like cleaning. But there's a reason that people do it. There's a reason that when you go to a restaurant or you go to a dining establishment, they have to keep it placed clean. What if they were pissed that they had to keep it so clean? When their parents owned a restaurant, now they're like, "Fuck it, we're just going to keep this place filthy." That's what puts the guy who goes in and rescues the bars and rescues the restaurants. It's put him in business because he goes in there and he's like, "What's with the rats running around your kitchen?" "Oh, my parents made me get rid of the rats when I was a kid, so I don't like to do that anymore. I'm going to let the rats run around here." Well, you're fucking going to be closed down. So I think that there's a point where you didn't like it and I appreciate that, but I think you can still explain to your kids what it was you didn't like about it and how it can be done differently so that the same result is there.

44:15 The place is clean, it's tidy, it's sanitary, it's not, you know, there's no mold around the place. Those, I grew up with 16 fucking cats in my house, Chad. - Yeah. - 16 cats. It wasn't even a house. It was a kitty litter box with a chimney. That's what I grew up in. And you can't clean that. That's uncleanable. That's a, you fucking have to raise that building is what you have to do. So that's, I burn it. I, yeah, and I so like, I'm not gonna go tell my kids, hey, I hated having to clean up cat shit because my mom wouldn't do it. So I'm not gonna make you do it. Like, you have to be able to explain the situation and put it into terms where the result is still there.

44:57 You don't, you don't want to raise an entire generation of kids who think they don't have to do anything because they don't like it. That's not what this is about. Again, it goes back to work. It goes back to functioning in society but there's got to be a way that you're still going to interact with others at some point. And guess what? You're gonna have to do shit you don't like to do. - Oh, 1,000%. That's especially when those people become parents and then they realize, oh shit, I'm the only one who is here to change my kids a diaper. - Yes. (laughing) - God. - You've got to be honest. I'll fucking, I will tell everyone I'm pointing at the camera here. I will tell every one of you new dads right now is scared as you are about changing a shitty diaper for your kids.

45:41 As frightening as that seems, whatever it's gonna be, whatever you've built up to be in your imagination. There is not a better bonding moment with your child than cleaning that diaper. Looking at them in the face, singing to them, talking to them when they're tiny and they're giggling and they're kicking, there is not a better bonding moment. So for all your boys, I don't wanna have to clean a dirty diaper. Fuck off. So you've got a kid now and go enjoy it. That's a moment in all of that diaper changing. You're never going to get back. So go and be a parent and let that be a point where you've got the ability to bond with your kid instead of making it this.

46:23 - I refuse to do it because I don't wanna get my hands dirty. - Two things, one, preach it brother. Two, changing a diaper allows you when they're teenagers and/or at their wedding. (laughing) You have to tell them, hey, you know what, I used to wipe your ass. - Yes. - It's a grime in them. Fuck them, you can tell their new found us. - What friends? - Or you want to be a very dead wedding. - Yeah, you know, I'm a dad. I'm gonna make a speech and I'm gonna say in the speech, yes, I remember when I used to wipe your ass. I mean, that's-- - Remember when you had that time that the shit exploded out of your diaper, do you remember? 'Cause I remember that. I was there. I had to clean that up.

47:03 - Do you remember that time on the airplane where I caught all of your vomit in a blanket? Yeah, that was me. That was me. - Remember when you were running around on the water pad in your bathing suit and you just shit yourself right there in the middle of it? 'Cause I remember that. I was there for that. - I was there. - Yeah. - So those are great moments folks, is to be able to relive those later. So like my buddy here, Bauer San, absolutely 1,000% do it. Because later on, that's comedy gold, that's all I'm saying. It's comedy, but it's bonding too. And you're not-- - You're not, you're not-- - Guess what you're not serious. - That's the serious reason. - You're not gonna get that anyplace else. So take it for what it's worth and don't be such a Sally about the shit part of it.

47:46 Just deal with it. You're gonna be a grown, you're gonna have so much more to deal with. You're gonna have so much more now. - Oh, just like 'til they're teenagers. - Yes, yes. (laughing) Wait 'til you find out they've got a Snapchat account and what they're fucking putting out there. Then you can start to worry. But now, just clean a diaper or two, bro. - No, it's easy. - It's simple, it's simple, it's basic. - Clean it up. - Yeah, nothing wrong with that. All right, we're getting ready to take a break here when we come back. The things that our parents did in the 1980s when we were growing up, you can get away with now. I don't think you can get away with it now. I wouldn't suggest trying to get away with it now. And I would think that most people, I'm looking back on it, at least two or three of these things should have been illegal.

48:27 My dad should be-- - I'm sure. - On Alcatraz still, because-- - Honestly, I'm surprised. - You could find some, there's some serious, like the child protective services would have something to say about this shit. - Yeah, I'm surprised I'm not dead from lung cancer, to be honest. I mean-- - Right after that, the amount of times. Number one on the list, there must have been friends that we had that never survived because of this. There has to be, or are now like incapacitated. And you know what I mean? Like-- - Yeah, oh yeah. - All right, we'll talk about what those things were in the '80s and how they could never, absolutely never happen again these days when we were turning here on the dad's own podcasts.

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51:16 And you think the worst parent of the year, 20, 25 contests is getting ready to wrap up all notes is heating up my breath. We are officially in March. So when you start looking at bracketology, we're ready to get into the parenting that is the worst of 20, 25. And this may be, as I take a look at this chat, and I might be wrong, we'll have to discuss this further. I think we're getting pretty close to this being the end of the 20, 25 entries because we are, we are that close to starting the brackets in the comments. - Yeah, time to throw them in the brackets. - Yeah. - Yeah. We'll have to get the interns to create this little bracket chart with all the parents on it.

52:01 - Yes, yes, yes. And by interns, you mean the sweatshop kids? I had told that. - That's yeah. - 'Cause I think that that's, we're close. We're there. We're ready to start working on these brackets and formulating who's the worst of the worst. And so today may be one of the last entries that we have. So it'll be that important when you start thinking about who really gets cast as the worst parent of 20, 25. This entry could mean something that's desperately important, not just to the space available, but then who are they gonna be taking on down the road and really walk away as the champ of the worst parent of 20, 25. All right, that said, our parents, they didn't know, I'm gonna give them this, they didn't know any better.

52:43 The technology that they had wasn't nearly the technology that you and I have had while our kids, seniors in high school, our eldest, our, our, we've been growing up, right? The technology has been far and away improved for them compared to when we were growing up. And that is proven by some of the parenting techniques that we went through, we saw, we were a part of where we saw some friends go through, but understanding what the parenting life was like in the 80s and what we had to deal with as kids. How did we survive that, Chad the dad? I don't know, only your mustache can tell. But let's take a look at some of the things that we could never get away with now.

53:24 Not only could we never get away with it. In a lot of these cases, I'm gonna say in the handful of them, we could be cited and ticketed. We could, we could have, you know, we could have, - We could have a record, so I say, - We could have a record. - Yes, you could have in any given state, you could have people chasing you down for treating your kids poorly by doing some of these things. And this was just normal parenting in the 80s. This was every day, every kid on your block, on my block did this because their parents had them do this. So I'll start with the number one, which I don't know how I didn't die. I don't know how I didn't end up with more brain injury than I currently have, but we had seatbelts.

54:09 I mean, the seatbelts nowadays, you've got the strap that comes across the chest, it securely fits in there. It's got, you know, it's got a knife, you could adjust the height so that, you know, it comes across the shoulder at the right place and across your chest. You're not choking people out on the neck. There's all kinds of, we didn't have that in my dad's 1976 Ford Pinto wagon with the fake paneling on the side. We had one belt that strapped across your waist, and that, you had to cinch that up so that you could sit into place relatively safely, but dad and mom never really cared about it. It was not a big deal. - No. - Well, it was not law. - No. - Right.

54:49 - And God knows. - Yeah, we absolutely rode around like that without seatbelts. I mean, I can't tell you even, I remember very clearly like when the law changed and my parents were like, seatbelts, fuck that. I mean, like seriously, like I remember, like you know, as a kid, you're like, oh, well, they changed the law, I gotta wear seatbelts now, right? Like, I gotta be a rule follower and my parents are like, (blows raspberry) (blows raspberry) - Yes. - They're like shut the fuck up. That's what they wanted to say. That's what they wanted to say to you. (laughs) They wanted to go, hey, you know what? The seatbel thing? - Shut the fuck up. - Thank you. We haven't needed it. We didn't have it. We didn't even have seatbelts when we were kids. - Yeah. - So, look, that's right. - I'm alive. - Not only that, but if you had the family wagon, you didn't even have seatbelts in the back of the wagon.

55:37 Where everybody was supposed to sit, it was like built for the kids. There was bench seating, depending on how big the station wagon was, for you to sit with a bunch of your friends where everybody's knees were kind of knocking together in the center there, but it was like a u-shaped seating arrangement and there wasn't a damn belt in any of those places. Certainly no kind of a harness. It was just you, not only that, we're about riding in the back of a truck. - Oh, God. - People just used to ride in the back of a truck without any belts there. They had a fucking car called a Subaru Brat that had seats in the back of the truck. With no seat, they had handles. You could hold on to the handles like you were in a fucking circus ride, but they didn't have any seatbelts for you.

56:20 So any belts in the row, you're bumping out of the back of the truck, you're catching air. And that was like a selling point was that they had seats back there for you to sit in the back of the Subaru Brat. So Jesus, I don't know how more of us didn't die from that Chad than any of these. - Some of us did, but yeah, probably a lot less these days. You would guarantee it summertime. You would see at least, I would say once a week, if I try to average it out, one person driving around with, by the way, not obeying any speed limit whatsoever in a neighborhood, with their truck and a dog in the back of the truck, like just bouncing around as well.

57:04 Like you'd say, how did I- - I live in Texas, that should happen today. - Jesus, still that's happening, Texas is a good point. (laughing) - Not just a dog, like you got a family of dogs. - Look, they got the puppies in the back too, that's great. That's fun. I'll bring this up because I saw it again in the bird cage, the smoking around kids. That wasn't a problem. They didn't have a problem. You could get on a fucking plane, a tube in the air with very little ventilation and just light up a heater on the flight to across country with kids here. - I can't tell you how many, how many days, hours, months, weeks that I spent in a car. So I'm gripping Colorado, right?

57:45 Winter time, cold outside, windows are up. Parents smoking in the car, windows closed. Which, like why I haven't died of lung cancer at the point of my life is in mystery. But yeah, like I remember so clearly, like just being like, oh god damn it, you're gonna smoke again. I'm like, you're trying to hold my breath for as long as possible and like, you know, breathe like maybe there was fresh air under the seat for me, because I didn't wear a seatbelt so I could climb under the seat. - You could be right down the seat. - I'm gonna be trying to breathe some of that fresh air down there. - Just to add to that a little bit, and the way that the cars were built back then, not everybody had air conditioning.

58:25 Air conditioning was a luxury for a lot of people in the late 70s and early 80s. And so you would be lucky in my dad's board, Pinto, that he would roll down the window a little bit. Yeah, actually roll it down. You didn't have a button you pressed the roll down, you had to actually, with the crank, turn the crank to roll your window up or down depending on how it went, or if you were lucky enough to be a kid in the back seat, while mom and dad were smoking, they didn't even have a window that you could roll down that these little pop out windows, they would look like a lock, and it would give you about a maybe an inch and a half worth of space for air to come in. - Not even that. - Three quarters of an inch if you're lucky. - Yeah, so that was the fresh air that you were getting.

59:05 And what that actually did is, if they didn't roll their window down the front, it just blew the smoke that would go, the air would come in through the back windows, go to the front and blow the smoke right back to you. (laughing) - Yeah, the, what those were were vents for the smoke from the front of the car to come to the back of the car where you were to go out those windows. So as you're sitting there like trying to suck some fresh air out of that little three quarters of an inch, just like, you're basically all you're doing is just breathing the smoke that was killing, you know, exiting the vehicle. - And yet every year, as I watch planes, trains, and automobiles and John Candy like that car on fire with his cigarettes in, I never have stopped to think about God, that's exactly what, you know, it could have been that kind of danger that we were going in with our parents who were like, I love you, but I gotta have my Virginia Slim.

59:50 So. (laughing) - Yeah, I don't love you as much as I love my Virginia Slim. - I love my Virginia Slim. - Plants, like a lot more. I mean, like, you're, I'll see you when I go to put you to bed and we'll have time, but I gotta have this Virginia Slim, you know, because of you right now, that's what I have to do. - Right, I'm sure that's why. - Again, we, we grew up at a time where we were latch key kids. So our parents seemingly didn't give a shit, like as long as you could get to your house and open the door, or you maybe, you know, as I started to get older, they'd put a key hide it someplace, right? They'd have one of those fake rocks in the yard that had a key hidden in it, or they'd have the magnetized thing under the car, or wherever for you to be able to get the key, so you could open the door and get it.

1:00:32 But early on, it was just, everything was unlocked, good to go, just like getting the house, and then go do what you wanted to do. Logging's like, got your homework done, you're good to go. Just be back before the lights go out on the street. - You could do so much shit. We never did, like we just were playing baseball all the time, I never did. - It's, that's the 80s version of free range parenting, really, and it was just all pretty. - Yeah, it was, yeah, it was called parenting, like that. (laughing) But yeah, that unsupervised time really allowed us to have this level of creativity, and like, you know, making up the game, these around baseball, or like, I mean, I can't say how many hours we played, kicked the can, right?

1:01:14 Summer time, we're out of school, all the kids in the neighborhood get together, play that shit for hours. - Yeah, hours and hours and hours. - On you, it was like a stick and a rock, and I would hit that like it was a baseball. We would find shit to do. But that said, your parents were nowhere to be found. - Yeah. - They were working, they were doing something. They weren't following you, they weren't taking you to a park and watching you on a child-lay date. Like that didn't happen. - Child care was not an industry back then. (laughing) - No, the only time you had a sitter was when your parents were going out to like, you know, there was some sort of a Christmas party for the company or dad worked at, and you didn't have a sitter every day of the week, or you know what I mean?

1:01:56 Like there was nobody to take you and to make you, I had to make myself lunch or make myself on my brother lunch. There was nobody there to do any of that. We had to do all of that. So that was the thing that got me like, they could just, your parents could just fucking abandon you. And they felt like, all right, please not gonna kill himself will be in good shape. And I don't know what that test was. I don't know where it was. We're like, okay, seems like, I mean, we have a fire escape plan in place, and we're on a, I mean, it's a ranch, it's a one story. You're not going any place. We have a fire escape in place. He's had earthquake drills at school. He's good. Let's just let him do it. All good. I mean, there was so many things that could go wrong, but didn't. And somehow the fact that my parents were never around, and we could do whatever we wanted, that's, I don't think that could happen these days.

1:02:43 You would never see anything like that happen. We just got to play day. We just got to be at the park at some place with a nanny or somebody else's parents. And then you got to meet their parents there and you got to have coffee. And then you can only play for a certain amount of time before you get them to the next big event. I didn't have any of those events. I played little league and that was it. That's all that ever happened. So what I hear you saying, Bauer is that you were longing for the old days where you could just give your kid a key and just tell him to do whatever the fact they want. And you don't have to worry about it. It's so weird because when my kids were little, I couldn't even think about that. I couldn't be like, just come back with the lights. Come on. There's no way. You imagine saying that. You're seven.

1:03:23 You don't know what that means. I couldn't ever say that to Charlie. I couldn't say that to Lucky Noun. She's going to be 11 this week. I could never just be like, just come back with the lights. Come on. I don't care who's house. I don't know where you are. Don't even know. Try it. Just try it. Tell her, tell her. Just get out of the house. Don't come back to the lights. Come on. In the street. You imagine it. Holy shit. I don't need to know where you are. Who's house you're at. I don't give a fuck just as long as you come home. Or you've got to be close enough to hear me yell down the street. So that when you hear me, the dinners ready, then you know to come and be right here. That's all you, that was the only responsibility you had.

1:04:05 Oh, the ladies. How do we survive that? Spanking is a discipline. I don't even think we need to go in there. There's nobody who's doing anything like that. Wow. Okay, not, not disciplining my parent, my children, but, you know, between being Paula, we'll just-- Totally different scenario. That goes back to the it and how you cure the it. Just a little, a little spank here. And there's nothing bad. It's not, it's not. We see this a lot on the worst parents of the year when we bring those stories in here, but sitting on a kid sitting on a parent's lap while they're driving. That's how I learned how to drive. I mean, it's so much-- Oh, God. Well, I mean, exadurate. So, but I-- You were six.

1:04:47 I remember getting it. I was 16, said on my dad's lap. It was fun. No, but I mean, I remember being seven, eight, nine years old, like, you know, my dad let me drive. Like-- Yeah. I remember we lived on this, like, long road that was all uphill to our house. And I was maybe, I don't know, 11, 12, 13 years old. And I'd be like, yeah, come on, dad. And so, yeah, he'd let me sit on his lap. And I, you know, we drive up the hill. I get to drive, like, on the road. No, so-- Yeah, I was-- I mean, dangerous as fuck, I'm sure. Sure. I can't even think about it. And I will say, probably driving back then a little different than it is today, the vehicles weren't as sophisticated.

1:05:33 People didn't drive 75 miles an hour on a 25 mile an hour. It was a-- Good point. Well, I mean, like they do here in Texas, but-- Well, you couldn't drive 75 miles an hour anyway. Yeah, that's true. Like, car seat. Yeah, and cars really didn't ever go that fast. You couldn't, you know, you'd have to spend a lot of money on a core van or some shit. Or you'd have to have some really old-school big engine Mustang, anything to do. And it'd be able to make that work. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, that was never a-- Anyway, so yeah, that's how I-- I did that as a kid. Yeah. I will add just a couple of other quick ones here before move on, because we're going to have to get to some tweets or posts technically, because we're going to dive into a little bit of a blue sky to try to find some parenting posts that we think are good.

1:06:15 Helmets. You can't see kids without helmets doing anything these days. Be it skateboarding, skiing, riding bikes, they've got to have helmets for everything. And we-- If you had a helmet when we were growing up, it was because you were-- There was something wrong with you. There was something wrong with you. [LAUGHTER] I mean, wrong to say, but that's the truth. Like you do. It's the truth. That's how we knew those kids were. Because all the rest of us were all like, why does Dave have a helmet? Oh, shit, that's Dave? That's Dave. Oh, damn. OK. He must have been riding in the back of Dad's station, why are you going to get-- himself for trying to get the fresh air out of the seat.

1:06:58 Holy shit. There used to be a time. I know that's impossible to think of nowadays, because we've got television shows and movies, and I swear to God, I opened Instagram the other day, and just saw a woman breastfeeding her kid on Instagram. And I didn't turn away. I'm just saying, there used to be a time when people just fed their kids baby formula. My mom always talked about there was never the concern about breastfeeding, like there is nowadays. And it was just all baby formula exclusively, like not even-- and sometimes you barely got baby formula. As soon as you were able to eat solid foods, you were boom, you were transitioned right in there.

1:07:41 You were done with any kind of formula, which is, I think, why I love steak so much these days. Ribs. There was eating ribs at eight months. I don't know. But I do think that that is something that you would, again, you would get literally called out. You would be-- you would get yourself-- You're in top of-- Oh, my god. For real? You would get your address and socials put out there. If you weren't breastfeeding your kid, you would become the center of a commute. If they could burn you at a steak like a witch, because you weren't breastfeeding your kid, you would be burned at that steak. Truth. You would be Rebecca Nurse at the Salem Witch Trials, holy shit.

1:08:23 And then the last one was-- And again, I say it's because I'm definitely concerned about it. And we've seen so many bad stories that have happened since the time that my 17-year-old daughter's been born. But it used to be a time-- Chad, nobody cared if you left your kid in the car. Parked. Gross restored. Oh, come on. Yeah, I know that happened. I got left in the car, for sure. Yeah. I don't have any distinct memories of it. But yeah, if you left your kid in the car today, just sit there, the car running, or not, either way. Back then, people wouldn't blink at night. It's like, oh, yeah, I did that yesterday.

1:09:04 Yeah. Today? Yeah, the police would be there when you came out of the car. Someone in that-- someone had just pulled into that parking lot and saw the-- I mean, they do with dogs. They see an animal or something alive in that car. They will break the window to try to rescue them. Like, the kid was sleeping. I mean, there have been times, as a parent, I'm sure you have experiences, too, where you pull up. You get home from a long road trip, or maybe it's even just from the kids have gone jumping at the trampoline place and you're driving home in a few minutes. You know, when I go to the bar, then I let him leave him in the car. You at the casino? I know. You're going to be there for a minute. Yeah, leave him in the car and I come home and there are sleepers. I give him a bottle of melatonin to play with for a little bit.

1:09:45 We're all good. Who needs it? I mean, you can shake it around, right? What's the worst can happen? But you get home and they're asleep and you're like, they haven't nap. They need to nap. I'm going to let them sleep in the car. I'm going to-- if it's a summertime and leave in the AC, I'm going to go up in the house. I'm going to check on them every five minutes. I'll make them my way around, make sure they're still there. But I'm going to let them sleep in the car because they need to sleep. And I've done that numerous times. And even to the point where I've maybe even for an hour, they sleep in the car and then I go down. All right, I'm going to wake them up and bring them back in. And that's why you pull into the garage and shut the door, leaving with the car running. I mean, obviously, so evil. So evil.

1:10:27 You're really sure they're getting that down. You know they're getting their nap at that point. And they are. That's definitely getting that down. Definitely getting their nap at that point. And the last thing I'll just throw out there that I never took part in, never wanted to take part in. But when we were growing up, wasn't a problem? Go hitchhike. Give yourself a ride out there by thumbing it. The thumb out there, get yourself hitchhike, get yourself a ride to wherever you need to get to. No big deal. Somebody, I'm sure a nice person will drive by in their car and see you there on the side of the road and just pick you up and take you wherever you need to go for nothing. No gas money, no nothing. Just go ahead and hitchhike your way there. No, you would not. That doesn't happen now. It's gas, grass or ass. Nobody rides for free. Come on. I think I've seen that bumper sticker.

1:11:08 I think I did see that bumper sticker. It was very, very highlighted in the 1980s. So it was a different time. And these are all outdated practices. You would never see anybody do these days. And I think in most of those cases, like if you do call the police. That's good to say. Someone's getting cited. Child protective services will be called, you will be any one of those things you will be investigated for. Seriously investigated for. And then we'll come down and they will question you. They will question your kid and then we'll question your neighbors all about you. So good luck with that being there. Look Mark this episode folks. This is going to be valuable to you someday. Yeah. When we come back, we'll try to see if we can encapsulate the what it takes to be apparent here these days, these days, not in the 80s, but these days.

1:11:52 What it takes to be apparent by digging deep into what it's like to post on social media. And exactly what they share with us. And we talk about parenting next for the post parenting post of the week during the dad's home podcast. -Penic A channel. -What is up? -It's the second annual male group of the 4G competition. And he hits the hole right after Jesse opens it up. -What are your host, John Madden and Pat Summeral. -And then everyone's kind of slopping around down there and grunting and groaning. You know, you get mud and stuff flying and gang battles and scrums and quagmires. -No fems, fats, or herries. Just the hunkiest gay studs and wild group action competition.

1:12:33 -I like to pack that bear round too. -Don't get carried away, John. -There were all kinds of stuff flying around their body. -It's male group sex to die for, as described by the best play by play team in the biz. -Yeah, that was the right one. That one didn't come and didn't come and didn't come and finally they threw it out of there. -Woop. -I don't know where that one came from. Look at that big old boy. -What a meal. Those guys are having a good. That's a good group. -If you go nuts for tight bots. -You push, you push, you push. -Get gay purview today. -You just rode in backwards. -You just went right on his back. -Would pat some roll and John Madden. -That looked like it was the last shot out of the Roman candle.

1:13:13 -The second annual male group orgy competition on gay purview. -I like to pack that bear round too, boy. Yeah. -He's got a fire into his guy right here. -Call 1-800-Hey, cutie, the order today. -A naked man mingles freely in a locker room. It's the Onion Radio News. I'm Doyle Redland. Bali Total Fitness Patron Fred Lippman, age 42, took an after-shower stroll today. Casually greeting numerous men in the locker room. His flaccid penis and talcumputtered scrotum in plain view. He socialized for approximately 15 minutes in a state of total undress. The buck naked Lippman then went on to sit in the most visible spot in the locker room and apply anti-fungal cream to his feet before finally putting on a towel.

1:13:58 Doyle Redland for the Onion Radio News. Online at the Onion.com. You ever seen adults get a phone call from one of their parents? You think it was a debt collector? -That's my mom. -I know you took care of me for a quarter of a century, but now is not a good time.

1:14:54 -You know what, wasn't a good time giving up my dreams? -So you could be a general disappointment. -Back to episode number 308 of the Dad's Home Podcast. I'm Bauer. That is Chad the Dad. All right, so we've got to get to some selections here, Chad. I hope you're ready to make some decisions. I hope you're going decisive right now, unlike our parents in the 1980s. So we've got four possibilities for us to sort of encapsulate the parent post of the week, if you will. Are you ready to take a look at them? Let's go. Bring it. Here we go. The number one, the first one we're going to look at here comes to us from Pagan Drew Friend, a three-year-old daddy shoots people.

1:15:43 My husband, huh? Five-year-old? No, he gives them shots. My husband is the family medicine doctor. Daddy shoots people. Daddy shoots people. There's another T-shirt right there. It makes sense, right? He's giving shots and they get easy to see how a three-year-old could get kind of confused by that eye-short light. Shot being the past tense. Kids paying attention in school. Yeah. So there's our first entry. Second entry comes to us from Pagan. My son calls Donuts Happy Bagels and I will never refer to them as anything else now. I mean, they are Happy Bagels, right? Come on. Something about that. Happy stomach, Happy Bagels. Yes. Pagan knows. How about this one from Bacon Popsicle, which I just love the name?

1:16:25 My daughter just asked for nunchucks for her birthday and I have to say, "I'm 50% proud, 30% amused and 100% terrified." I mean, there's some truth in there. Those are not math. Those are not math, those are not math, those are not math, those are odd numbers to use. But it makes... I feel like, "Yeah, I could feel that way too." Especially she's excited about the nunchucks, so that's really going to get... Dad, I watched a Bruce Lee movie and I need some nunchucks for my birthday. Right. I can bring me a ninja star. That'd be awesome too. It's kind of falls in line. And then lastly, number four. So the woman in Old Navy who just whispered, "Are you fucking kidding me to her toddler laying on the floor screaming?

1:17:08 I see you. I am you." Oh, shit. Parenting, the honesty. I hate to go back to the... Good word. Do you use in place of fucking front of your kids? Oh, good question. I use the word "fuck." So follow me for more parenting tips. Yeah. Shucks, fuck off, fucking devil, make over, fucking devil, make. Yes. Yes. This one, I feel like is... Like, I get the donut happy bagel thing that works. I get that, I like that. The nunchucks is scary, but this one I think is the most relatable because even though not all of us have been in the woman's shoes whose whispering, "Are you fucking kidding me?"

1:17:56 To the toddler. We've all said that at some point when it comes to our kids. It didn't have to be an old day, if you didn't have to be on the floor, but we've said that, we've felt that before. But we've all seen that too. We've all... Yeah, thousands of people. ...in that place. And we're like, "Yeah, I see you. I am you." It is a parenting mantra. It most certainly. So do you feel like that's our winner or a fourth time? Yeah, but yeah, the by-a-large margin. That is... I see you, I am you. Yeah. You know what? I'm going with it. I did like the ninja star, I mean, the nunchucks. Nunchucks was solid, but... ...get a pass on the nunchucks. Gonna go with the I see you, I am you.

1:18:37 And again, just the... I imagine, because every old Navy looks the same on the inside, right? They got the concrete floor. Yeah, just seeing somebody kind of bend over and whisper, "Are you fucking kidding me?" You can picture it. And you can picture it in your head, absolutely. And I've got all the different levels of drama that come with it, like... Like this, this year exhaustion, like, "Are you fucking kidding me?" But then it also can be the drawn out, like... I've been trying to prevent... I tried to get you to eat lunch. You wouldn't eat anything. I knew there was going to be a low blood sugar. Are you fucking kidding me? Like you see every element of what that could be played out there in the old Navy. And mommy needs a life. Thank you very much for encapsulating that for us here.

1:19:19 Oh, the dad's own pockets. Chef's kiss. There it is. All right. Speaking of Chef's kiss, we've got three. Okay. I had a fourth, but I want to... It was more of somebody commenting on a video. I'm going to try to find the original video. Yes. Okay. That's what I wanted to see. The commenting was good, and it did have some still shots to it, but I want to find the actual video. And that might be our last entry. So I'm going to try to do that for next week's show. A play in. Sure. We've got three that I want to take a look at here today and find out from you who you think worst parent possibility for 2025, maybe. All right. All right. Here we go.

1:20:00 Let's start with Nappy Time and our first entry to today's... Look. It's a young couple passed out on the beach. Copsay, they had too much to drink. What's up, Ness? Cher's office. Time to wake up. But they don't budge. Beer cans are littered around them. Oh. Yep. Time to wake up, guys. Hey. Even shaking them doesn't help. Cher's office. Wake up. Finally, the two arise from their drunken stupor. But this isn't just a case of knucklehead spring breakers on Daytona Beach. These are parents, and their two young kids are missing. Do you guys have children with you? Neither seems too concerned about the kids. So cops ask again. Hey.

1:20:41 We're kids. We're right here. But the five and seven year olds are nowhere to be seen. The guy heads to the water's edge to take a look. It was a 911 caller who first alerted authorities. The lady, I guess her boyfriend gave her like four shots, and she passed out. And she asked the little kids, now they're both passed out. And it is about himself. They're over there. The city's placed the couple in handcuffs and charged them with child neglect. Mom swears up a storm. And the cops here are in the police. Send how we both go to the jail. And the guy makes a really stupid move. He takes off running with his hands, copped behind his back. He doesn't get very far, face planting right into the sand, and knocking himself out.

1:21:24 I thought, everyone's knocked him out. Really? And partly gets me out. He's really good. Is that he's like, is if your dad was not bad enough that he got drunk and let you guys just go away. But then after mom's handcuffed and put in which they had to keep air brushing her ass out, because apparently the phone is just riding there at the beach. They get her loaded, but did you notice that too as the sheriff? Because the sheriff's a kindhearted individual wants to make sure she's getting into the vehicle. As you see here, she's getting put in the vehicle. She's got her hand right on her ass. And she's helping her get into the vehicle. Right there. It's all happening right there. Yeah, so hey, look, usually they like to put it on your head so you're not banging your head into the top of the truck.

1:22:10 No, this woman's got to step up into a truck and she's pushing her with the ass into the vehicle. I just want to put that out here. So this the screenshot here too, like I think even more telling than the cops hand on the ass is the dude's tattoo on his chest. Yes. He's got a cross presumably. Yeah. And he's got those are like baby footprints on his chest. Yes. So dad here is like, oh, you know what? I'm a good Christian and I love my child. Right. I'm not the one who's in the car at the beach. Drunk off our ass to pass out and we let our kids wander off and I took like all of that. And then I'm wondering to myself, you know, we were talking about the eighties. Perhaps for these time travelers did they come from the eighties?

1:22:54 Just I'm asking for a friend. I don't know if anybody in the eighties had the barefoot print tattoo. Oh, good point. There. Okay, so that's the anyway good day. Good. Good. I would say even early why 2k was probably when that kind of made its popularity there. Get on. All right. But again, you're right. Because then he, you know, his move is to let me show you what kind of a good Christian father I am by movie. He takes off running with his hand, probably hiding back. He doesn't get very far face planting right into the sand and not dumb ass. All right. So that's it. Number one. Next. Next is it is going to get better than this? Let's swipe right and see what happens in street number two.

1:23:35 Here you see a family out in the yard looking up at their roof while you see a phone calling it's way down the roof. Look at that. That's not that's not even like a five year old like that. That's maybe a year old child at two tops tops. Able to walk in a diaper down the side of the roof. No parent, by the way, notice is no they're all waiting for the toddler to come to them. No one's running up to go to the roof to get the child and to get the roof. The eve of the roof is hanging over the parent's head. It's not, it's not, you know, low like it's at their chest or something like it just grabbed them up.

1:24:17 They have to go get a ladder to be able to get this toddler off the road chair to get the toddler off the roof of the tall guy going there like come to daddy, come to daddy. Let me grab you. How did you get on the roof in the first place? How did the toddler end up on the roof? There is. Oh, the saved them. Yeah. Well, and it's interesting. So, and no judgment here, but clearly this is a different culture based on the language. Right. Maybe, maybe babies on the roof in that particular culture is good luck. Oh, you know what you're saying? I see what you're saying. You know, right? Hey, look everybody, there is a toddler on the roof. We're going to have five years of good luck. Singing life to your family in that home is the toddler walking down, scaling down the side of a roof.

1:25:04 Or maybe it's a tradition, right? When the child becomes 18 months old, you throw them up on the roof and see if they can walk down. If they can't. And if they live, yes, if they stay up there, they're going to leave a normal, healthy life. If they die, they fall off and die and break their neck. Well, that was just meant to be. They weren't, yeah, survival of the fittest. Okay. Let's get to this. We have survival of the fittest. Let's get to number three here. Again, as parents, we've all had wagons, even I had one of the radio flyer wagons growing up when I was a kid. Am I brother and I? We have one that we haul shit to the top of the hills. Yes. We used to push each other around in that wagon just going down our driveway, not very hard all.

1:25:45 That's not an end Olympics. Kind of the same as this down a giant hill where the kids are in the wagon, dads, videoing. Watch out for that tree. What tree? This one right here. Boom. Oh, my God. I will. I will. I will. I will highlight this now. I've just listened. Try not to laugh over when you hear the crash. Listen to the dad's laugh. And again, I'll just point this out for everybody who's ever heard us talk about this. There is not a moment dad is running over to help these kids even after they smash them. They're coming down a gigantic hill in a park in a runaway.

1:26:25 collapsible wagon not even a good old fashioned radio flyer made a steal this is a collapsible that is and that legit that's the same one that we haul shit to the softball fields win listen dad laughs at the end there I mean okay so okay did the kids die this is my first question did the kids die okay so I don't believe so I think I'd be a different video we'd be watching right now this one is is truly comedy gold though like okay there's a lot of dumb assery happening in this video for sure yeah however like a couple good things happen one they all ask down this thing there is a road that they go over that slows their cart down so they're not going at like you know maximum velocity when they hit the right here right here yeah it's like it's like the road the gravel road is up above it's a little lifted so they have to hit this bump like the dukes of hazard first and then like they're jumping over a creek in hazard county they start to go over this thing and then that's when they land on the other side and boom hit the tree yeah and then the thing just goes up ends and then dad laughs I mean dad look I mean call me evil but dad's not wrong laughing at that that's

1:28:00 funny shit I've been looking this looking I will just say this look at his kids yeah there's no one the fun is little yeah they're four five I don't know maybe maybe I could I could be convinced the one in the middle might be one of the back might be four this could be like a three and four year old the other thing I love about this too and I'm not sure if that they're holding in the the bar that you haul the car around with yeah the hand yeah I'm not sure if they're thinking that that's something they can actually steer with or they know they right or they know if they let go it's gonna then catapult the cart right because it'll fall down the cart will stop suddenly and out they go yeah I don't that's now look in the good old days when I had my radio flyer the steel radio flyer that actually had like rubber tires on it it did and you turn you could turn with that handle you could use it to go left or right or whatever you want it if you made a real quick turn you could flip right over right sure you would have missed the tree is what this would right you would steer well again I didn't really I'm thinking it three years old I wasn't really the best driver coming down the hill at what appears to be called twenty miles an hour on a very heightened grass hill with a lot of bumps and then we're going straight into a tree so I don't know that I would have been able to avoid said tree I'd like to think I could but I'm not that skilled a driver but in this particular case it didn't matter that they were holding a handle because that hell is not doing anything the wheels are all wobbly to begin with that things going it's got a mind of its own frankly it does and again when the kids do grab the hit road like a duke the hazard and then

1:29:34 crash into the tree that is not running over to see if they're okay that is in for a second like did junior in the front separated break his arm break his arm do we know did he get a cut illustration over his eye we have no idea I mean he did go pretty he went ass over Sunday in the when the thick when the wagon hit the tree the back end went up because of course he he he front weighed it like the heavier kid was right towards the point nobody was so I got to say though of these three I do have a definite like you suck the most parent are you do you feel like you have a clear cut indication of which the which one of these would be the worst parent of twenty twenty five of these three for me it would be the eighties time traveler in the first video like the that guy that is that is that is girl yeah that guy call it is the drunk because here's the thing by the transition story we still don't know where the kids are we have no idea that's okay well we presumably they are we don't know they still could be missing that's good they could be on a milk carton right now for all we know they could be a part of Epstein's Island I don't know but here's the thing the part that gets me is that he like after she yells at him like we're all we're going to get arrested now his thought process is I'm too drunk to get I can't let my kids not have

1:31:07 both of their parents I've got to make a break for it he's placed the couple in handcuffs and charge them with child neglect mom swears up a storm but she's blaming it on him like she had nothing to do with it right yeah get zero to do with it and then she gets lifted by the guy makes a really stupid move are he takes off running with his hands cuff behind his back he doesn't get very far face planting right into the sand and knocking himself out I and and that's just a poor decision making on both of their parts the fact that they're both now basically probably putting their kids into literally child protective services right they're probably gonna go in there for a while because both of them are now going to have all this should to deal with that that's a mess that's those are some crazy parts I would say that it would be a great commercial for birth control right there second of all show this in high schools show that everyone you need to see that's all the guy with the tattoo and the woman with the bikini and how she's yelling at him and curse like all of that is just like that's that's a great birth control thing right there secondly even the sheriff ran after this due to see if he was okay like once you did a face plot he still went over to see was okay the fucking kids who ran head down into a tree after going down a hill at five miles an hour dad just laughed at them so I I I hear what you're saying and I tend to agree with you that these are I mean they still again those kids look if we have a split vote here if we have a split vote we can we can enter them both in

1:32:41 and let them fight it out I do I do feel like these are the bigger assholes I do feel like these parents are the ones that are jeopardized and I and I mean that on a on a historic like since the kids were born till probably they get to therapy later on this is going to be a more severe parenting for the kids that they're gonna have to deal with then then the other guy the other guy they're just gonna be like remember that time dad ran us into the tree yeah and and even the kid on the roof I mean that kid's probably not gonna remember that they were walking the roof so no damage no harm about there's video that will last forever on the internet but yeah but but in this case dad ran away a drunk idiot and and and knocked himself out trying to get away from authorities while he was drunk so I'm gonna say all of that living on inside addition is is what locks the vote up for you when it comes to the chicken dinner entry for the 2025 worst parent of the year award by far congratulations yeah good job buddy I'm gonna call this guy I mean it's just my name I go to name I'm a column hunter it looks like a hunter doesn't he he does is that I maybe that is that like a tanya I don't know how to hunt right there's no more there's the Chinese are made anymore right right right right right so I'm gonna say that's that's hunter in the hunter yeah that's the couple that passed out on the beach with clearly after getting the wonderful tattoos at some point in time they weren't matching necessarily but they the passing out of the beach part they even did you notice the sheriff had a check the pulse to make sure they were still breathing he was still

1:34:12 doing that's why they tried to make him up I love it did he come himself yeah right well and so there you go we have our answer we now know who the at least in this particular week who the worst parent is going to be going into and facing off against some pretty stiff competition for our worst parent of 2025 I think we'll have one more coming up this next week so it's gonna it's gonna be very important for us to recognize who's gonna be able to fight in that play in kind of a situation be a very important vote for us Chad coming into this next it will absolutely and if you've got any suggestions for bad parents that you think we should see that we should that should be included in at least the voting process please feel free to reach out to us the dad's own podcast you can find us at realguyradio.com that's one way about it you can also hit us up on Twitter at real guy pods those are the two ways they're easiest for you to get ahold of us and then we're working on our substaxi be able to reach out to us there as well but back to the I would have to say a very very solid selection process today and I think you know these are gonna get harder to vote pretty soon Chad we're gonna have a really drastic voting that needs to be done so it was good to see where we ended up on kind of opposite sides of this and then came to a conclusion can't see that happening in DC these days but everywhere else here are the dad's own podcast for myself and for mr. Chad until next week see ya people of my soul I know sometimes I'm in the guy makes a really stupid move he takes off running with his hands cuff behind his back he doesn't get very far face planting right into the

1:35:44 sand and knocking himself out all ambulance please