Dad's Home Podcast | Season 003 - Episode #301 | "College Recruiting" | NSFW

0:00 It's showtad, folks. But first dad jokes. I think I'm just gonna. Have one kid though in the bedroom, one because you have more than one. And then you got a side which when you like better, that's always me. Oh it's true, your parents lie about it. Oh, we like them all the same. No you don't. You love them all of course, But there's always that one kid. You know, if he got lost, you'll look for him. I'm not right away. Wake up, Daddy, shoul.

0:43 That's the sound of familiarity right there. That's the sound of home. That's the sound of Dad's home. This is the Dad's Home Podcast. I bower. That is Chad of For those of you who are only listening to the podcast right now, you don't see us, but we are also a we're recording this on streamyard, so you'll see it at YouTube for Dad's Home Podcast. Please feel free to check that out. Plus we posted at real guy radio dot com. But it sounds so good to hear the dad jokes and the music, mister Chad. Two long years, two long years since we last did a Dad's Home podcast. Well, you know, my time in prison was brief, and and you know I learned I learned a lot. I definitely was rehabilitated, so and you know.

1:29 I believe the letter I received from you behind bars also involved the word loving for your time there. I believe there was you did. There was some sensitivity what you weren't expecting on the sensitivity front for sure. Yeah, yeah, and I appreciate you sending me the lifstick. That helped a lot. You welcome anything that I could do to make that stay better for you. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was helpful. It's been two years since we've done a Dad's Home podcast, and things have changed over the past two years. For instance, for those of you who are watching this video on YouTube, you see the background behind me looks like I'm in a Tom Petty video or something. I don't know what it is. Maybe are you. In a moving van? Yes, we're we're driving across country.

2:10 I am trapped with John Candy getting getting back home. It's right. It doesn't holler like it right, I mean it's it's I got blue and black checkers behind me. Plus I've got moving blankets in a green screen, which just feels awful the whole way around. But over the past two years, I got a studio at my house down in the basement, and I'm doing the show from the studio. Last time we were doing the show, I was upstairs, shadows on the well. This is the basement. That'll be the I'm on the second floor upstairs, and now I'm in the basement doing the show in a studio down here. So that's one of the things that has changed. In the bed. You were on a higher planet and uh, yeah, as you can see behind me, I moved to the beach. You did. You got some waves behind you? Then I do, Yeah, I did.

2:51 I've I'm living on the coast now. I was not really, No, I still live in the same shithole I did before. I just got a background. You got water in text it's I get it. You got to get to it. It's not right, it's not immediate right there, but you've got water in texts. I just thought maybe you've got a beach house or something. Yeah. I wake up every day to this view. Nice, that's a view. Yeah, I mean it's it's just a painting in my bedroom. But it looks good. It looks good. Yeah, it's it's it's it's soothing. It's been two years. Mister Chad I see. First of all, I'll just open by saying what we used to do for Every Dad's Own podcast. I've got my vodka tonic to start the show with. And what is it that you're enjoying this? So?

3:34 Uh tis the season, it's the holidays, and one of my favorite holiday drinks is is this one right here? This is a apple cider margarita. Apple cider margarita. Yeah, you got you? All right? So it's basically is it just cider and tequila, is or anything else? It's cider, tequila, a little bit of orange liqueur, some lime juice. Right, So a little nave syrup, does it? Do you have a guy? Know? The apple syrup covers covers the diabetes portion of the drink. Yeah, well that's good. Yeah right, it's you get diabetes and a little buzz. It's really it's awesome. I mean, this is that time of year for me as we're as we're getting dangerously close for we're recording this right after Thanksgiving, so it's get dangerously close to December here, and for me, this is always white Russian time of year. This is tick into that. I love those this time of yere. But I'm gonna have to try me an apple cider margarita. That sounds I will, well, we can post the recipe for folks. Yeah, I will send it to you.

4:36 There are a million different recipes for this particular drink. I think the one that we we honed in on those super simple, super yummy. Yeah, I agree. Also, will throw this up on a poll right now where we still exist on X We still have a Dad's Home podcast on X although I'm very rarely there. Again two years things have certainly changed in the social media world, and X is I think on the way out at least for me is and paying attention there. But we'll post a poll there and find out, you know, is is the better drink for the holidays? A white Russian or an apple cider margarita? Which is? Which is? Which is more needed for the holidays? This time? I think, I think you and I need to bring you know, some flow charts and graphs and stuff to really kind of have a battle to side, you know, pros and cons on that one. That's that sounds like a future episode.

5:25 And maybe there's maybe there's something else. Maybe we'll even throw the vodkatonic in there, just for fun seas and see what the what the Dad's Home listeners are saying as we're kind of reintroducing because officially we're you know, the big news here, if we could get to a drum roll, is that we are going to have a twenty twenty five season number one, two, season three, Mister Chat, season three of the Dad's Home Podcast. So we're working on that diligently. This is the first one, just kind of catching up and kicking things back off to where we had been a couple of years ago. I see a hat a new hat from you on your nog in there as. A matter of fact, and that flows right nicely into the dad thing. So as uh fewer or previous listeners might know, both of us are softball dads. Yes, mine has grown up become quite large and now, as a senior in high school, large not not I mean tall like.

6:21 I just I hear Kate right now, going dad, don't those words god? Large? Come on? I mean, Okay, she's still wears a medium. Okay, let's let's be honest. Point take and yes, but she is. She's five foot ten now, dude. Oh that's I think. Well, here's what I used to if I look if you look at my driver's license, my driving's licenses, I'm five foot ten. Yeah, I saw again two years is a lot has happened. I saw a doctor recently for my physical. They came and told me I was five nine. I'm like, what, how did you shrink? How did I shrink? Osteoporosis? Baby, dude, that can't happen at this age. I'm not kidding. Sixty Yeah, well, yeah, welcome, welcome to the show.

7:05 Can I expect over the next couple of years, I'm going to lose another inch or two. That's not good? That's yeah. This is this is the major leagues of aging. That's what it is. So yeah, you and I are were in the bigs when it comes to getting old. Well, and I saw over the past two years for the junior slash senior years of Kate. I saw some home runs, some taters that were being hit by her high quality game and ship being played by Kate. Yep, pitch is like a star. Yep. She had a great, super great junior year playing high school ball and has had a couple of really nice select seasons. This fall, she had multiple offers from multiple schools, a couple two or three in the East Coast, and they were really exciting schools, except for they were on the East Coast.

7:59 There's this whole thing for those of you who have kids that haven't gotten to the point of college yet, there's this whole thing called out of state tuition you have to deal with at that time. Like, not only is there, you know, your normal run of the mill tuition that you have to pay for for college, unless of course you're getting a scholarship from the school, but even then it may only be a partial scholarship. But the out of state tuition, forget about it. It's mostly like double whatever it is for in state tuition. So to think, oh, my kid could go to NYU or yea whatever, good luck, it's going to be double the price for whatever it is that you're looking to. Pay unless you can skim off of people's cryptocurrency transactions, or are potentially a mobster or have a marijuana dispensary or any number of things, or are a straight up criminal like Robin Banks.

8:50 Yeah, pan for. College is like a legit impossible hill Piliclon. I've got you and I both have daughters who are seniors. They both know softball, they played softball together for a little bit in Texas there. I have watched Office Space again recently. I'm interested in trying to see if I can skim just a penny off of each transaction from somebody on cryptocurrency here to be able to pay for my daughter's school. That'd be fantastic. Yeah, I mean I've been working on it. Not a coder, not a hacker, so I'm not making any progress, but working on it, working on it. So this this hat, this school that's just going to go to. Yeah, this is so we we're super lucky, blessed that she decided to go to school about an hour and a half south of us in San Antonio, Trinity.

9:39 University, San Antonio. I love it. I love the she got got an offer to play down there, and the coach, the program, the school, everything is a great, great fit, especially the hour and a half away part. I mean, you know, get to watcher. She can come home on weekends. There's a boyfriend in the picture now he's probably going to be up the road at A and M. So I can only imagine that also was on the spreadsheet of things that she wanted to you know. Commutable, commutable to parents, to do laundry and have some food and then commutable to the boyfriends as well. Right right, yeah, all those all those things. So we're we're super excited. It has been a journey. If any parents out there, dad's out there, have a child who plays high school athletics or or hopes to or hopes to, the recruiting process is it's a grind and it has been a learning, huge learning curve because it's it's like parenting, right, you come home from the hospital, you get this little baby, and you're like, what the hell am I supposed to do with this?

10:45 Where's the directions letting me out of a hospital with this thing? I know? Yeah, no directions you know, And so you got to figure out while you go. Same thing with getting your kid recruited. Uh. And so it's been a great journey and it's finally over, which is super exciting. It takes a lot of pressure off the kid off, the pressure off of us. Now, Like I said, I'm working on scamming little little bits of off of top of cryptocurrency to pay for school. Although I'm also blessed she's a smart kid, so we get a couple of bucks for that. It's a private school too, so it's like no in state tuition break nothing, It's just like, okay, it costs a lot. That's one of the things that I found as well with this all is it like, I'm so my daughter played softball with Chad's daughter and and has been playing in high school and has been playing varsity for all the years, just like just like Kate had been. And yet she's making the decision now that she thinks she's done.

11:41 She's like, I've really I played for so long, practiced, went to tournaments, and going to do it obviously for well, we say obviously for the senior year, but I'm not even sure that they're going to have enough kids to have a full team. Ooh. It's one of these things. And I'm so I'll get into this in future episod as well, but I'm at a place where we don't know if she's gonna have enough players to man a team coming up here in the spring, where we won't know until we get closer to the spring. But right now it's not looking particularly good. They had five seniors that graduated last year, so it's at this point it's not looking particularly good as far as you know, we haven't seen through this high school, but they've had a fantastic football program in the state and all of that here in Michigan, but they don't have any sort of feeder program coming in from anywhere for softball. And I don't know if you've found this in Texas. It's totally different world in Texas. I will tell you that softball programs in Texas are so competitive and so amazing as far as the organizations go. I can't imagine you not being able to have enough students to have a varsity baseball team, let alone probably more often than not on some form of JV team for most of the schools as well. But in our school, we don't have a JV team. We don't have enough for that. We don't have enough for a varsity team quite possibly. So we don't know what's going to have going into this senior year as TV, if there's even going to be a team. So she's kind of like this place where I've been playing travel for so long, I've been playing fallball for so long, I'm done. And

13:11 so when she's looking at schools. While we did do initially the process through one of those sporting recruiting agency places that you pay monthly or whatever to help you and put you in touch with the coaches and you reach out and they reach out to you and you post videos and all of that kind of stuff. While we did do that and she did hear from some schools, largely, we ended up doing it probably later than most people would and didn't get any big schools that she'd wanted to. Any of the top schools that she wanted to get into weren't reaching out to her. They had already signed kids from a couple of years ago. So that's one of the things that you see as you're going through this process. Moreover, is I found that, at least for Charlie, for my daughter, was that she was just solely focused on the academic portion of things, Like she's got really good grades, honors classes, and National Honor Society, all of those kinds of things. And she's seen now as she did her early applications, those those are starting to pay off for her because she's getting colleges that are interested in her and that have accepted her based upon her application.

14:11 That are places that she wanted to go based upon academics and not based upon softball at all. So that's a big plus. And and and for her, like I said, I think she's she's like, this is my senior year. I'd love to just play ball my senior year and then the following summer and then be done with the whole thing. Yeah. Yeah, I Our experience has been interesting. You're right here in Texas, softball's nuts and I think a large that's largely due to the fact that the weather down here is playable basically ten months out of the year. And you know, some of it you have to play through either really cold or really hot, but you know, you're it's not snow on the ground, it's not ice, et cetera.

14:52 Occasionally there's a flood in the field is full of water. But besides that, but anyway, we I've seen sort of the same fall off despite the amount of kids that are playing softball down here, the fall off between the kids who are really into it, passionate, love the sport, want to play in college, and the kids who just you know, get into high school and they're like, I'm done. She's had four four kids on her team who are all seniors who quit this year. So four seniors who would have been on varsity would have been playing. All of them said we're done playing, not gonna play varsity softball.

15:40 So there's and that's a long way of saying this, kids who love the sport and want to keep playing for the love of the sport playing college, and there are multiple opportunities for kids to play in college. The thing that I look, we learned a lot of the process too, is if you really love the game and you care about softball and not really like, hey, you know what college is as a step to my career, going the JC route, going to a junior college. Playing softball at the junior college level gets you into this group of kids who all of a sudden, those elite D one schools are looking at because now with the transfer protocol, protal portal, you know, the teams are much more fluid in terms of what the roster looks like.

16:33 It's not just hey, we get these kids when they're freshmen. They follow us all the way for through you know, through four years. Duh. So that's one route for a lot of kids to go through. And that was on our list of things for Kate to do. Kate, like your kid, Charlie is, is you know academic smart? Can you know she could go to college and get scholarships based on that alone. She wanted to add the softball experience to that as well. So for every kid, it's it's different, right. A lot of kids are just like burnt out done, and you can tell, like those kids start to fall off around fifteen sixteen, and then it continues all the way till they're eighteen. And so you're left with these kids like my kid, who's just like and I love this, let's go. And but there are plenty of ways for kids to get into college if that's something they want to do. Our journey though, was academics first and then softball was second. And it's funny her catcher last year as a kid who's playing at Texas Tech this year catching for Nigerie Kennedy like the number one catcher for nigeram nice freshman like and she's a baller. She's so fun to watch. Anyways, that was kid's catcher last year. She you know, she had that D one route kind of kind of planned out, and she was recruited early, like as a junior. A lot of kids that Kate goes to school with and are talented get recruited. Kid on her high school teams going

18:04 to ut you know that that kind of stuff, right, But then you have the kids who are like Kate, who are like uber nerd smart kids. They get recruited late to all these you know M I. T s and you know, Northwestern they're they're a little bit more d one. But Harvard's all the you know, those kinds of schools. Trinity is another one of the schools, you know, highly academic school. So yeah, they all recruit late. They wait, they know, because you know, all the kids that are super smart tend to get recruited later. So we learned that early on too, like, don't worry, there's plenty of time for you to get recruited. Kate's current coach even said the same thing, like, hey, look, I've had kids recruited the summer before school started, like within weeks of starting.

18:52 So but man, we digress. That's a lot of talk about Well. I was gonna say it just to kind of offer that just a just a quick element to as well that that I when Kate, sorry, Charlie and I went to a Northwestern softball camp, uh, the softball coach there was very clear about how there's you know, all these predetermined times, like if you haven't heard by June of your junior year, blah blah blah, you're not going to get the recruiting that you're looking for. And and coach Doran had said it with Drown and said at one point in time that that they got one of their best players at Northwestern some three days before the start of the falls. That's crazy, I know.

19:33 So they had, you know, while they had a bunch of other people recruited. They ended up with one of those situations that that we've seen happen so often where a player go gets has committed to Northwestern in this case, and then uncommits and goes someplace else like takes you know, gigot, Ohio State or whatever, whatever the deal is. It opens up a door in Northwestern. They have been looking at this girl, this girl hadn't committed. They go out of their way, make a big pitch, and they get her literally just as school's about to start, and she ends up being one of the best players that that school has seen during her time there. So again it's it's not necessarily the way it usually gets done or the progress that you've heard from all of these different places if you are dealing with the recruiting process. But there are ways around that. And I think you and I have talked about this off the air as well. I think that's gonna happen more frequently. Oh yes, this portal and the NIL starts to work its way through. So I think there's gonna be opportunity there. And while my conversation with Charlie has been largely look, if you don't go in after your senior year, if you're not playing softball at a collegiate level after your senior year, it's gonna be next to impossible for you, like your sophomore year at college. Just go okay, well maybe I'm ready to play now. Not gonna happen. You aren't going to have that luxury to be able to do that.

20:48 So well, and look, and for kids that love the game, that going to the junior college route is so fantastic. That is like I've talked to D one coaches who said, we spend more time looking at JC kids than we do at kids who are juniors and seniors because we know that is a you know, they've had college experience at school, they've had college experience playing ball, and they're much more likely to be successful in college, you know, sophomore, junior, senior than like taking a taking a shot on a kid who's coming out as a senior. And so it's one of those things where the kids themselves have to decide.

21:30 And I've asked Kate. I ask Kate almost every time we go to a tournament, like you love this game? Still? You love this game? Right? Like we're doing the right thing, Like we can quit any time. The minute you stop loving this game, we quit. We stop. Yeah, And I think every parent the best advice I can give other parents in this situation is ask your kid that question a lot that is so important for them, and have an honest dialogue about it, Like don't push your kid into it, and don't let your kid think that that's what you want them to do. Let them lead you. And that's been a super important thing I learned early on, like don't push let her drive it, and if she says she still loves it, then let's go.

22:16 I'm all in, Like I'll drive you to hell and creation in Colorado and fucking Indiana and over. We got to go this summer. And I also, I also I wanted to share this with you. I like to quote Blue Dough on this one. You do you know, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, uh you know. It's it's never it's not over till we say it's over, right, right do we do? We quit when the Germans bomb World Harbor, right right? So I'm just saying, Blueto, he knows what he's talking about. He does, he does. He's got to hang on. It's not over till it's olf f over, it's over. And look with anything here, I mean, it would be virtually impossible for Charlie at this point to to jump into a softball program, like she's like, oh my god, this scene.

23:00 Your year was fantastic on the team and the summer travel team was amazing and she hit six hundred and whatever. You know, like, yeah, there's no way that that's gonna happen. You, there's always an opportunity that you could be a walk on at some whatever school you end up going to. You could certainly try, but likely not going to happen that you get certainly any starting position from that. Well not I mean not if you want to go to like a you know, four year D one school, that's absolutely true. But if the kids like hey, I'm not done playing, Like what I would say to Charlie. Not my kid, but if I was having this conress, if you me, Kate and Charlie were sitting around, Yeah, what I says, Charlie, are you done playing? Or do you love the game still? And if you love the game, there's a way there's a school out there that wants you to play for them, right. I mean, I can't tell you, honestly, how many junior colleges have reached out to Kate even after she's committed, like, hey, you want to come play with those please?

23:54 And Charlie and had those as well, and she said yeah. And the greatest thing about that too, that I found and I try to steer as many people dis direction as I possible. Can go get your school paid for it, like JC will pay for everything. The kid who is the pitcher for Kate's high school went to a junior college in Florida for two years, lived on the beach, went to the beach, played softball. They won the Junior College World Series. She's now at some D one school. I'm going to drop link on the name, but anyway, so, but they saw her play in that at that level and they're like, come on, let's go. And she's got a full ride now at a D one school. So it looks it just comes down of like do I want to go to college or do I want to play ball?

24:43 Well, and if you don't know, like if you're if you don't know what you want to do in college, to go to a junior college, shame money. Like my next my nephew right at COVID was accepted to a SUH lives in California. He was except accepted to Arizona State. COVID hit. He couldn't go to Arizona State. So for those two years of COVID, he did junior college, didn't He's he's coming out as a junior in a ton of debt, right, you know, it's home taking care of He's got all this stuff. He went down to as soon as he graduate. As soon as he left the two years of JC, he went down to UCSB and Santa Barbara. So he's going to school in Santa Barbara for junior A terrible school, right, terrible place too to be riding your bike around Santa Barbara. I have a really good friend of mine went to school there and I used to go visit her all the time.

25:24 I'm like, touch a beautiful So anyways, but that's the thing is that you you you you do JC, if you want to play ball, you give yourself the ability to compete on that level, still develop and become a star level athlete that D one schools are going to be looking at right there coming out of JC, and you might get two years of a free ride and that helps the school, it helps you out, and you've done two years of you know, your undergrad work relatively cheaply, so it's a huge plus that way, if that's the way you want to go. And I've had those conversations with my daughter as well, and I think I think. That do you need me to start texting her like little hints like. Look, I tried, Chad. I just think and this is one of those things like you said, this is this isn't about me, So I can't make that decision for her.

26:08 This is her decision. And as you know, she had quit softball before and then made her way back to it, and I think this is just I think she feels like she's ready to move into focusing on the career and the education and making sure that her grades were good enough to get her to a point where you know, she's gotten a couple of schools that are that have offered like sixty grand intuition through scholarships on an academic level. So there's like they're they're good happening. I know there are good things that are happening for her on that front. And I told her at the same time, like a couple of schools, like you haven't really reached out to them about softball. There's one's a D one school, but it's a lower level D one, you know, as far as where they compete. She could still go and reach out to them and talk with them. Because my thing is this, and this I believe this to be true.

26:57 Maybe you'll have a different you know, look of things for k maybe you'll be like, this is absolutely the truth. But I also think going to college where you've got, you know, a bunch of other students from all over the states that are coming together at that college, it's tough enough to find friends as it is sometimes going into college softball sisters, people that are playing softball together, Like I know when we went to Northwestern again, not to bring up Northwestern all the time, but it was one of the camps we went to where they talked about the girls on that team, how they welcome the new girls on day one. They take them as like a group of two or three of those players will walk that player, that new player freshman around the campus and take them to her classes, take her to, you know, wherever she needs to be and see things. They'll walk her through everything as just a group of friends would do as sisters would do, and they have become that tight from playing softball. So my concern for my daughter was, here's a chance for you to have sort of a built in friendship, which her closest friends right now are people that she's played softball with. Here's a chance for you to have that built in friendship as you are getting to this brand new sometimes overwhelming depending on how big the campus may be or how small it may be overwhelming situation where you want to meet new people and you think there'd be this opportunity because everybody's coming in as a freshman there, this would be an opportunity to have sort of built in friends. So that's that's kind of one of the pitches that I was trying to make a little easier for her. So there's no you know, there's no anxiety on the friend front when you're there, or hopefully less anxiety on the.

28:25 Front, you know. So it's only been three four weeks that we last visited Trinity and talked to the coach and met some of the players and did all that kind of stuff as like a as part of the process, and Kate in that process got to go to a class with a couple of the softball players and went to lunch with two or three other softball players, and so it was already a connection there happening before she even got there. And it was to add it to what you're saying, is it was clearly, very clear that there's a sisterhood there. And that was one of the things as a parent, like I look at that and I'm like, yeah, have some of that, Yes, get that because you know, when you pick a team that's not your high school team, like a select team, right, chemistry and team camaraderie and culture and all those things are so important. And I asked Kate after she went to the class and lunch with those girls and said, you know, how was it. She goes, Oh, those are my people?

29:42 Like I fit right, in there, and and that is that is one of the great things about like college athletics too, I think, is that there is the ability to have that instant family, the instant friends, the sisterhood, like you said. And as a parent, right when you send your kid off to school, like already I'm freaking out as a kid. Who I've got a kid who's a senior, right, who she's starting that like break, I'm becoming independent, Like hey dad, I'm going out. Okay, where are you going. I'm going with my boyfriend and my friends. Okay, when are you coming home later? Right? It's like it's like this, this is just weird, like you know used to like I remember when you were ten and anyway, as a senior, that's happening. And so it's preparing me for, you know, six months from now when I'm gonna cry like a baby.

30:38 When you drop when you ball like a little kid. Yeah, it's curl up in the back seat of the car. And start starting with prom and graduation and your way to dropping her off at school. Yeah, I'm I'm very much looking for But that thing. Being able to see that as a parent helps that anxiety. I have to drink less I have to take less Sanax. It's it's it helps, Yes, definitely helps. It definitely does help. So look at it's I think, uh, for parents that are going to go through this or have that process down the road for themselves, realize you're gonna get through it. It's there's a lot to pick up on. There's a lot to learn from, uh. Chad and I will go through more in greater detail of what those situations feel like, look like, what you could expect from it. To try to help you guys out and be a point of contact for questions that you may or may not have. You could always reach out to us at Real Guy radio dot com. That's the home for the Dad's Home podcast. I got videos there, we got emails, We've got any way that you need to get a hold of us, mailing list, all of that kind of stuff. We'll get into more of that as things start to develop into season number three for the Dad's Home Podcasts. Well, what we'll do is take a quick break when we come right back. We got a little dad vice that is going to be I don't want to say that this Tyson, and do exactly what you were just saying there, Chad because I don't want to. I don't want to lay this a case, but it does. But there's a there's this certain a question that we'll bring to the table here and I'm gonna look for one solid piece of advice from both of us, and then we'll go to the tape with a couple of different things to look at, including the

32:09 one reason if you were looking for any these days, if you were looking for a reason to not have an affair in your marriage, I've got one of them. For you, damn it, because I was looking for a reason. We're this is one that's not well. I'll I mean, I'll let you take a look at it and decide. I know, but I'll let you take a look at it and decide. But we will all get to view this in just a little bit here. I think it's definitely one of the but probably the number one reason right now why you would go yeah, thanks, but no thanks. Coming up here at the Dad's Home Podcast, Let's make a call to the bullpen. And it's your comic wely B Daniel Tosh. It's been at quarterbacks, Brett Farv. I love that everybody gave him so much grief to retire Brett Farv should retire?

32:56 Are you out of your mind? He makes twelve million dollars a year to play again. Yeah, I'm gonna keep playing. Hey, Brat, the whole world thinks she should retire. You said twelve million, right, Yeah, they can go themselves. I would never quit. Are you kidding me? What about four years? He's not good enough to be a starter, but he could be a backup in the NFL. Do you know what that pays? About four to five million? Oh, yep, I'm gonna do that. About ten years, not good enough to be a backup, but he could be on the practice squad. Do you know what that pays? About eight hundred and fifty thousand? Yep, I'm gonna do that as well. Play forever. It'd make the game more enjoyable if people weren't allowed to retire.

33:37 Athletes don't want to quit either. See some seventy year old return of punt. He gets hit, he explodes, He dies on the field with some honor, some comic relief. The Dollar Show. This is a song, ladies, But fellas. Don't always have to fuck her heart. In fact, sometimes that's not right to do. Some times you've got to make some lak and fucking give her some smoothes too. Sometimes you got to squeeze. Sometimes you got to see please, sometime you got to see.

34:27 I'm gonna fuck you shortly, I'm gonna screw you gently, i wonna harm you sweetly, harmona, ball you discreetly. And then you see here I've put your flowers. And then you say, wait a minute, Sally, I think I got something in my teeth, but you get it out for me. That's fucking team work. What's your favorite position? That's cool with me. It's I'm my favorite, but I'll do it for you.

35:10 What's your favorite dish. I'm not gonna cook your butt or order it from Sanzibar. And then I'm on love. You really, and I fucking fuck you. Discreetly, and then a fucking bone you can clearly, But then I'm on a bud.

35:54 Welcome back to the Dad's Whole Podcast. All right, mister Chad. Time to get some of the business that we usually take care of. The that's on podcasts. Dad Vice is one of them. On the way We've got to the tape, and probably what I'm gonna say is one of, if not the number one reason why you don't want to have that affair. If you've been thinking about it, if you were at the bar for a very busy pre Thanksgiving night and you've got approached by somebody, you're like, maybe no, this is gonna clearly set you up for failure. And I'll explain why coming up in just a minute. Here let's go. We've got video footage of it, just to highlight that for everybody. So that said, before we do, let's get to some dad device, which I think is something we like to do here and this one is definitely an important one. And I found a great little Reddit world where people are looking for advice from pars like maybe they don't have a father anymore, maybe their dad never spoke to them, or it goes back to my whole concept, mister Ted, I told you about one time where I wanted to have a business called rent a Dad for the soul mass of Like if you like you had to change the brakes on your car, but your dad never showed you how to do it, and you want to learn how to do it, but you don't have a father figure in a life and more, you could rend a dad that would come over. Who have you bought that yet I haven't yet, and I think, what are you doing? I think somebody's gonna steal the idea now, But I think that there's you know, a concept there that it could be any of that. It could be maybe you want to learn how to cook a steak on the grill, and you don't have a father figure, you can hire a dad to come over for an hour teach you all the prep work, how to cook

37:24 it what you suppose. So all that's that, that's my idea of concept, right. I mean dad jokes, you know of it, practical practical jokes where you're like, you know, fixing electricity in their house and pretend to get shocked. Absolutely, that kind of stuff. So this is where this is where we feel like this is an opportunity for us as dads to step up in somebody who doesn't have that dad in their life anymore. And in doing so, I brought one of the toughest questions to our table. So this says it's me again. As I said before, my dad or parents per se, never gave me the talk. Oh here I'm taking up the courage to ask, is there any advice from men to give me? Again? I am a fourteen year old boy. Now, first thing, I just want to he typed in. I am and fourteen year old boy. And my first concept is if you can't get that correct, don't worry about getting laid right now.

38:19 Proper grammar is going to is what's gonna attract the ladies to you. You know what, though, these days, bro, the grammar is on the outs. Like if you watch the way your kids text, sure Be's grammar doesn't exist anymore. No, look now does you? And I know it. I am a huge fan of grammar ly, so I'm all about the periods and the capitals and all that kind. Of I and I listen. I agree with you on and we all know how important pronouns are these days. But I would also say that that at the same time, while your six pack abs do look good and your zero percent body fat, when you go to speak, I am and fourteen year old boy, you're gonna turn some chicks off. They're not really the billion Sorry did you say?

39:01 And I'm and fourteen year old boy? Let's I mean hold on, like we need some context here. Maybe this is a Russian kid. I am, I'm fourteen year old. I am and fourteen year old boy. I'm looking to know insight on how what he's good in the talk? I mean, you don't know, so right, I figured, let's let's let's figure this out with each of us giving one just to this fourteen year old kid who's out there on Reddit and wants to he didn't have a talk with his parents for whatever reason. Maybe they died, maybe they don't speak the same language. I don't know, but he's looking for some insight. What what do you think your number one thing to tell the kid at the at the talk would be because I've got I've got I've got one that we we talk about and we play comedy from which I think is important to note.

39:48 And as a girl, dad, I think this is very important. So I'll start us off, which is simple. It's two simple words. Don't rain? Okay, sure, don't. That goes with us? That's yes, But look, I think it's common knowledge. But I also think so, so I based I'm a fourteen year old boy is common knowledge. So I'm gonna say it, and I'm sorry if this sounds do not do not follow through in the rape consent. You must get the consent, you must ask for yes, you must wait for yes before you move forward, not maybe a little beating between. You must wait for yes.

40:32 No that is not yet full throated yes, I am ready give it to me. That's what you have to wait for. You can't. This is not there's no gray area here, there's no in between. So if you think she's consented, guess what You've gotta wait and find out for sure. You gotta ask questions. And I know that that turns some people off. And there are plenty of women who are like I like an aggressive guy, yeah, but they also don't like to get raped. So I would make this suggestion to a fourteen year old boy, a don't rape, and what that means is get the consent. So if you haven't had the time, things are going well, maybe you guys have been dating for a while, maybe you feel like this is just the next natural step. Maybe she's coming on to you, any of that, and all of that could be happening in one date. I'm saying, don't rape, and the way you prevent that ask for consent.

41:18 That's what I say is one of the most important. If I had a boy, I would I would say that that is the number one thing to not do and make sure you get consent. Don't rape and get consent. God damn it, Bower, why'd you take my answer? I got another one if you wanted to. I felt like I had eight of these, but I don't want to take one for you. Just text it to me, so it sounds like I came up with it. Okay, I'll let me do that. Text you real quick. Hold on, here we go. Uh. I'm trying to figure out a way to not sound like a dick when I'm saying it, don't rape.

41:59 There you go. That's another don't rape was pretty dickish. You gotta admit that was a pretty dickish statement to make for me. But yeah, yeah, okay, So as a girl, dad, it's funny I had this conversation this morning with my wife. You did. Kate has a boyfriend and nothing ruins a softball career, uh, college, wanting to be a pregnancy, well right, all those things like a pregnancy and so and and not to get too political about this too, but man, you get pregnant in the state of Texas. Oh kind of fucked. Yeah.

42:41 So so yeah, birth control is okay? That that would be my other. Don't rape. Yeah, once you get the consent, put on the RAND code. That's the thing, and be okay with that, be prepared for that, be okay with that. Don't be one of those dudes. It's like, oh, but it feels so much better when we all know that, we all get it. But you know what's the best. The best is not ruining your life because your your significant other is giving birth to a child. That's those are that's two lives as probably three. I'm gonna go out and a limb and say, that's three lives you're saving talking about the child too, by just choosing to put the on. And I would multiply that by whatever the parents are involved in that situation. So let's say you're the Russian kid who doesn't have parents, so we'll erase those, but the girl might have a mom and a dad, so there's two more lives. You haven't fucked right.

43:35 And look and the team Kate softball team, they need her to pitch, they need take all those lives and fuck with that too. Because you didn't put a condom on because oh, just not feel as good. Stop it, grow up, put a rubber on, don't rape, consent. Those are the three things this kid needs to. Know as a as a as a you know, a girl, dad, I'm like, don't do it at all, but sure, I'm also a realist. I'm also a realist, and I know, I know that kids at this age will have sex. All let's get real for just a real quick second. Here, have you had this happen to you yet? Because this just happened to me a couple of weeks ago. Oh shit, here we go where Charlie was throwing up nauseous. It turns out it was just the stomach flu. But did I think about asking my wife?

44:28 She she could that be? Because I don't know what's happened? Is she not? What's going on? Because I'm that's my concern right at this point, She's it's her senior year. I don't want her to I don't want that to happen. I don't want that to happen to her senior year, freshman year of college. I don't need, no, she doesn't need any of that to happen right now. Look, and you and I are both boys, And I don't know how your high school was, your high school experience was, but mine was definitely there was some sexual activity that took place. Oh, yeah, oh yeah, Okay, you're just stretching that out there. Say look, for those you didn't see on the video, I'm vehemently agreeing with mister dad here, and. So I'm just saying that that we can only assume in this day and age, especially with the Internet, that that shit happens even more than it did when these old white haired dudes. So I'm a realist. I know that shit happens, and I tell my kids that all the time, right, I say, hey, look, I know that this is going to happen in some way, shape or form.

45:26 And as awkward as it is to hear from your dad talking to a girl to say these things, this is going to happen, we know it will. So don't get pregnant, right, so you know, talk to mom and dad about it, those kinds of things. Understand it a theorically out there, like it's it's just kind of all, well, somebody might get is pregnant out there. We just take steps to make sure it's not you. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, that's that is one hundred percent, hundred percent. That's the top to bottom left right. That is absolutely one great, great advice for a kid, who's a Russian who's obviously, you know, not in this country illegally, legally. Probably we get our applause from the judges on the don't and wear a condom? You're welcome fourteen year old boy.

46:09 You imagine that's all he gets, man, that's all he gets, is that? Well, I mean he's on Reddit. Maybe you should just chime in there, don't rape wear a condom? Yeah, I mean I could very well could. See what happens. What I'd love to see is what the other redditors are going to say to your response to that. You know, that's a very good point. I'm sure they're all like Kelly, Yeah, he's right, absolutely. Just to find out, it might be worth while adding that into there. So but that's again, feel free anytime. It doesn't have to be a fourteen year old kid looking for sex talk, but any parental advice. We're here for you at the Dad's Home podcast. And you know, if you're listening with your kids, which. You should be, Wow, I know, wow, you have an open type of family relationship. But maybe look, if you walk away learning something and they walk away learning something, here, let it be don't and wear a condom?

46:57 After this whole episode. All right, Chad, let's quickly go to the tape. Bring the absurd year holds. Let's go, let's go, and let's go to I can't do it. We'll do it live obviously. Loaded in there. We'll do it a lot. We apologize, we don't have that clip from the radio station. Do it live. I can all write it, and we'll do it a lot. And thank you. It sucks the tape. Don't lie the tape. Don't lie, mister Chad. We've got tape to prove it here. Now, I'm not saying that this is the only reason why you should rethink having that affair. Like, let's say, Thursday is Thanksgiving, right, we just had that happen. It's just Wednesday night, the biggest bar night of the year for anybody and.

47:47 Everybody, mostly college kids. But you know that's why I go, because sure those college girls like old dudes like me. They love the dad bought. The ladies love the dad bod. I don't even think that. I have too. I don't know it's in the dirty clothes, but I have that. You know. Yeah, he's loved to dad boy. Which I don't think has been a thing for the past two years. Frankly, I gotta be honest with you. I think we kind of died off two years ago. But that meant I am I'm a daily eight a dollar short. Then this is what one woman did when she found out that her husband was having an affair for the better part of two years. Uh and and this is how she had ter.

48:27 Look next year. Turn around for your fans, he had a two year affair while I had his second baby. Now it sounds a little weird because you're not you're not watching this on the video is not an airport. No, it's at a mall. It's at a shopping mall. Just imagine your local favorite shopping mall, and like an old school Popeye cartoons, and you're wearing the sandwich board saying I had an affair for two years, asked me to tell you about it, And you're walking through the mall with a sandwich board. Either side of the sandwich board says basically this same thing. You're there with your wife and she's got the baby in the stroller as you're walking through the mall, and she's not. It's not just that you see the guy with a sandwich boar because that's enough. She's pointing it out to everybody as you walk through the mall that you had an affair. That she again highlights exactly what was what she was doing while you were doing this.

49:24 He had a two your affair, while I had his second baby. We intentionally had a second baby, and he's having an affair. The whole time. So wow, I just want to say that, you know, there was a time, Chad, in perhaps everybody's younger days, where maybe if you were caught having an affair, you had to apologize to that individually, get to go through couple's therapy, maybe you had to apologize to friends, and maybe there was a divorce process or separation. Now with social media, fuck Matt, you are making a show, a show going to get hits when you have a life, it was like, how do I make this guy feel the worst for doing this and get a ton of hits and likes from it? Boom, You've got a camera and like seven different outlets to do this with and it will go viral as in this case. Look at this guy's face once again, Look at him walk there.

50:23 He's going like he's going to He says, to do you have to do that, and she stopped in the cart claps her hands. It's like, cheata there. This guy cheated for you fans. Look at his face for your fans. Look at his face. Oh my god, holy shit. Now, if that face and the sandwich board doesn't make you rethink having the affair, I don't know what will forget the hurt that she obviously felt and the concern about whether or not this relationship will have any trust in it down the road, because I'm gonna guess that's pretty indicative of not a lot of trust. And the infant is right there watching dad.

51:09 Here's what I'm concerned about now that you mentioned that where's the other kid with grandma? Or perhaps be said by the nanny that he had the affair with I don't know the old pair he was fucking. I'm not sure she put an end of the affair, but not to the o pair working there, because it's so tough to find an a pair these days, mister Chad. So just think about that when you guys are thinking about that affair possibility on that drunken night before U before. As we have athlete daughters, athlete children, and we have seen some crazier things that have happened at the ballpark when it comes to parents, when it fans, when it comes to stories umpires, uh and and and and some of the rules that have gone on at these ballparks for travel games and the like. Here's one where you see arrest event a school age wrestling event, and apparently one of the parents is not happy with the way not his son is wrestling or not wrestling as the case maybe, but more about the referee involved.

52:16 You see a little wrestling going on there at the school. Somebody's getting demolished by a did with long hairs. Referee calling something goes over and out of nowhere, Dad comes in, shoves the referee off the kids. He's yelling about something that the referee didn't do. The wife is also see this. You can see the wife right here. She starts yelling at the referee. Also as the rest trying to get away, he's kicking them out of the the gymnasium. The refs are saying I'll have you arrested, which is rightfully so that they have every right to say that. And that's an assocuation, that's an assault on the wrestling mat. You see the dad take off and run across the mat to tackle world, to take down. He's a big dude.

53:14 The dad is to take down the referee. He's definitely, he's definitely the referee in him. Are not in the same weight class, No, for sure. God, well I don't know that referee. Maybe again, I get it. You're pissed off. I get it. Your kid was getting crushed by what seemingly was a littler kid with longer hair. I get that. That's a girl or a girl as the case. Maybe I get you. There are awesome wrestlers, by the way, I'm just saying, like, yeah. They are. I've seen you crush a dude in wrestling. It happens a lot. But again, stay in your fucking seat. This is uh so for since we'll bring this full circle here, you know, since we were talking about my kid being recruited. Uh this right here, this video is the one oh one on how not to get your kid recruited. Yeah, the minute that everybody who your kid may like, some college that may be interested in your kid, sees this video and sees you, the parent, acting like this, your kid's done forget it. No matter how good they are, right, could be the best most world class Olympic wrestler on the planet. Right, you act like this as a parent.

54:24 Game over, folks, and. Seriously, no offense. I'll say this as you have done it before. I'm a coach for softball for both of my daughter's teams. I see that. What the fuck are you teaching your kid now? You're so if you're pissed because your kid wasn't wrestling well or was getting crushed by the competition, you don't charge out and take down the referee for a lack of ability on your son's part. Fuck you, your kid? What are you teaching your kid now? Now? Your kid go by the way, standing in the background, going dad, please don't do this. Please? Oh yeah, dad, Dad, Stop. That poor kid is going to have to live with that now. You don't think that he gets around an entire school district. Oh, that gets around a school district.

55:04 That's gonna be that kid's not going to wrestle again. Period. No, No, I wouldn't. No, I mean you can't. This is yeah there and there are thousands and thousands of examples of this. This is like a whole episode we can talk about about parenting. We will, I'm sure we will. We'll do it again. But this is uh yeah, this is the kind of stuff that drives me nuts. I see this at the ballpark all the time. If you're listening to the podcast now, you can see this at a Real guy radio dot com. Also a YouTube on the Dad's Home podcast. You can check it out there. And lastly, chat, I think we need to do more when it comes to teav do not our kids about finances now, specifically I suck at finances. My wife sucks at finances. It's one of those things that we know about each other one hundred percent, and we know that we are taking this and we're putting it onto our kids as they're My senior age daughter's about ready to hit freshmen in college. So I've found I'm trying to find. I found that I'm interested in getting my daughter into some sort of home financing class on her own that she can just you know, away from school, something she can do at night, whatever, some sort of a class that legitimately teaches her how to handle her finances.

56:12 Because this little kid has fucked this up big time for mom, which I think is all mom's fault. But let's listen to what mom has to say here about what this kid has done. You do not get to max out my debit cards? Okay, and Amelia. Two thousand, five hundred dollars, you literally max out my car. Well, look, so she's she's maxed out mom's credit card. And what this kid does? Who just rolled her eyes at her mind? And how old do you think this kids? Kids got to be like ten years old? Maybe eleven years old? Top? Yeah, she stuns over to get to the pile of stuff that's on the couch to show mom what she bought with the twenty five hundred dollars at the Crocks.

56:54 She's gonna bust out the nikes here in a minute. Those are acute, Lisa Frank cracks. But seriously, you needed three pairs of shoes, Amelia dah. That's right there, bus max out my damnit. You shouldn't be using my card. Okay, So I agree with that, mom, But why is she using your car? How did she get it in the first place? How's she doing that? Because I don't know about you, but it looks like she's about to. I know you did, I know you did. American Eagle jeans, shoes, Mark Jacobs sunglasses. You are seven, You should to use dude seven. First of all, she looks like she's a teenager. Uh seven seven?

57:40 What are we doing here? Who's doing that? Who's giving their kid at age seven full access? Because I'm guessing and I don't know. Maybe she did order it all online, but I saw shopping bags there. So if even if you were like, go ahead into my Amazon, shouldn't you be checking? Like, if you go ahead, put in the card on Amazon, I'll check it and get it all sent off. And Paige, so just let me see what you've got in there and make some decisions on it. I'll let you know if I think that's too much, not up your alley, not the right size, whatever it might be. You're just giving your seven year old free fucking rain as to purchasing anything anywhere. This is one of these times where I think one of our sponsors could be someone like green Light, which is a company that is basically a debit card for your kids where you get to control how much they spend. Yes, you can watch, which is what we use in our house.

58:28 You have control. You can shut that card down at a moment's notice if you need to. Or you know, you can take all the money out of their accounts. So when they go to try to buy one hundred and fifty dollars shoes, sorry. Decline right right a debit card, but this, look at this. That's why I just use it for all this stuff. You should you know what, You're not gonna be able to have your iPhone anymore because that that is why we're in this position. You better no, I'll just break it. Here's how I'm gonna get back at you, mom foring out your credit card. I'm gonna take my thousand dollars iPhone and break it. What are you gonna do about it? Bitch? What do you got going on there? What are you gonna do? Then?

59:10 Oh? Man? Is how? This is how America is gonna be great again? Right here? Folks? Oh Jesus, seriously, this is I mean, how do we So here's my question on this, Like I watched stuff like this online and and I'm like, okay, entertaining, But. How much of this is staged? I know? How much of this is? Like it's like I want to get clicks, right, I want to get people to pay attention to me, So I'm gonna pull shit like this. How much of it is that? And how much of this is actually really happening. It's a good rible and I got the vibe initially that maybe it seems a little fit, but the seven year old is either that good an actress, right, or it's or or or it's all real because she really the reactions to it, the eye rolling, all of that stuff leads me to maybe mom knew exactly what she was doing by setting this up in video recording it for that purpose. But Jesus, that kid sold it like and made me want to punch her in the throat.

1:00:02 She is just, Oh my god, have I got. Have I got an audition? Really, you're gonna break it. You're gonna do what? Look I am. I am not at all in favor of kids getting hit or any sort of spanking, but goddamn, that girl needs it. This is could be our first entry into the twenty twenty five Worst Parents. I think right there, Look we have too because technically we've got the dude who the charges, yeah, who's charging after the referee and knocks a referee down, And then we've got this wonderful woman. You better not. God, how much do I want that little kid that's like shot the.

1:00:50 Damn it? God, that's it. Damn it. Well. Look that is the first welcome back edition of this home podcast. Thank you very much for being here. We appreciate it. We're gonn have more of these to come, mister Chad. And and by the way, I like the sponsorship I did for Greenland or anybody else. And if you got classes that your kid took to help them personally finance, get themselves ready and not over and charge their cards, let us know at the Dad's Home Podcast. Until next time. See uh, sweet pea, keep of myself. I'm know sometimes I'm out of concho yoty. Only reason keep on coming, yo, reason I keep all coming.

1:01:34 Yeah, Yo, keep coming.